In other words: "Don't give a shit and just cash your paycheck."
That's a nice sociopathic attitude to have in corporate America but not everyone believes in that bullshit. Some people have things like pride, integrity, or a sense of honor.
> Your assumption is that they were brought in for technical expertise.
That much should be obvious by the context. You can judge the situation by what's actually happening. There's likely no real opportunity for confusion there.
Actual judges will side against you if you are the one writting the contract. So if you think you can commit fraud by writing a sh*tty contract then you are due for a rude awakening.
> What part of "trends that some say have been accelerated by increasingly strict federal regulations" don't you understand? Big government strikes again . . .
He just just might not buy into the mindless Conservative drivel.
If incomes remain stagnant while inflation continues, EVERYTHING becomes more expensive. This includes any expensive esoteric hobbies. The cost of a pilot's license and an airplane is going to steadily become more and more out of reach even without the Tea Bagger rantings.
Reading the media nonsense and taking it completely at face value are two entirely different things.
It's not a 20 cent part, it's a $500 laptop. Those are the damages. Dell is refusing to honor it's warranty and it's legal obligations on the entire product as a unit. The cost to replace the entire laptop is the damages. You can also add some extra costs for the overhead of the replacement.
The cost of the non-user-serviceable part is not the damages. It's not even the total damages if you just want to fixate on the single failed part.
Well I do have to admit that when I took my Mac into the shop the guy at the Genius Bar didn't even blink when I told him it was running Linux. So none of this "you are running the wrong software" shenanigans there.
On the other hand, that's the only brand name machine I've never needed to get warranty work done on.
> No, it's not. You can find example [humanevents.com] after example [crimeinthesuites.com] of the EPA and other agencies falsifying information and distorting data to get to a political-based outcome.
Sounds like Bush II's EPA.
He took the independent organization created by NIXON and made a mockery out of it.
...except afterwards it was published widely while it was being approved by the states. It was a matter of wide public knowledge for YEARS while it was being approved.
The current batch of secret treaties are nothing like that.
Then there's the Patriot Act that people voted on without even reading...
> What it is, is a "blatant" attempt to force EPA to user responsible and reproducible science.
These are the same people that are trying to get an extremist interpretation of the Jewish creation myth taught as science in public schools. Whatever goals they claim for marketing purposes, we can be pretty certain that those aren't their real goals.
Clearly they want to place barriers in the way of EPA. They will happily abuse the government for their culture wars but otherwise they are mindlessly anti-government.
You know it's sad when a faction of the GOP makes you nostalgiiac for Nixon.
I had good luck with my Sony laptops. However, that's been a long time. I tried the "laptop as desktop replacement" thing and entirely got over it long before it became a trendy thing in general.
> Apple? They sell PCs. They can even run Windows.
Apple sells overpriced novelty form factors.
PC vendors on the other hand all sell machines with components that are interchangeable with one another. This is even a factor in their undoing as it is far easier to keep an old PC running than a Mac. I can put a standard aftermarket video card or SSD in an old craptacular PC and it can be as useful as a new Mac (or PC).
I remember my old Vaios. Both of them were tweaked with aftermarket RAM and hard drives because it was simply cheaper that way. It was also a trivial thing to do.
> Because only a tiny percentage of PC users want to use (or have even heard of) Linux. Like it or not, we are in the minority.
Plenty of people want to use Linux. Plenty of people want to use something else. They just can't get beyond this "it must be DOS compatible" mental block on tends to associate with PCs.
The entire PC platform is a victim of decades of pervasive FUD. The whole thing may go down because people can't separate PCs from the crapulence that is Microsoft.
> Why? *nix has been reimplemented or ported many times in many computer languages
Even most of Linux was written by someone else.
That's what the whole "GNU/Linux" thing has always been about. Linus only took care of the last piece of the puzzle that the FSF couldn't quite get done. The rest was done by others.
The "free executable" is what can get people jailed over something that really should have no consequences. It's also what actually has the theoretically limited copyright protection.
Requiring source code for a software copyright is a wonderfully subversive idea and one that I suspect that you aren't really willing to advocate.
Brand protection? Who cares? This is simply not an area where "how does this impact profits" should even come into the discussion. That it's even being brought up just shows how much the law has been corrupted by corporate lobbying.
If you are Nolan Bushnell, you shouldn't be in a position to care about what is being done with 20 or 30 year old works.
It's rather amazing that anyone on a tech site would be defending the idea of stagnation imposed in terms of DECADES.
A 20 year copyright is not the idea of "freeloaders". It's simply how things used to work.
If it's been 20 or 30 years since you published something, then your time has passed already and it's time for you to step aside and allow the next generation a chance.
In the intervening period, a work has either become too important to hoard or too worthless to justify being a burden on anyone.
After 20 years, it's time for you to allow the next group of people to have the advantages that you were allowed.
> A lot of those European social democracies are pretty nice places to live and have been for decades.
They would suck me dry worse than American insurance companies do now.
The real problem is that people think that there is a free lunch. Eurotrash won't honestly acknowledge this and American wannabes will happily ignore any practical considerations.
> But at least you're getting a group-policy rate that the employer had negotiated, rather than an open-market individual/family rate. It's better than (pre-ACA) open-market plans, I suspect.
No. Not really. There is this prevailing myth that you need to be dependent on your employer for health insurance coverage. It's pretty bogus really.
It appears to generate completely meaningless metrics that have no real value in evaluating employees or their contributions.
On the other hand, it's the sort of soul crushing nonsense that you would hope that none of your professional (or even just legal) workers would tolerate. It seems more like something for your illegal sub-minimum wage part time menial laborers.
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In other words: "Don't give a shit and just cash your paycheck."
That's a nice sociopathic attitude to have in corporate America but not everyone believes in that bullshit. Some people have things like pride, integrity, or a sense of honor.
> Your assumption is that they were brought in for technical expertise.
That much should be obvious by the context. You can judge the situation by what's actually happening. There's likely no real opportunity for confusion there.
Actual judges will side against you if you are the one writting the contract. So if you think you can commit fraud by writing a sh*tty contract then you are due for a rude awakening.
> What part of "trends that some say have been accelerated by increasingly strict federal regulations" don't you understand? Big government strikes again . . .
He just just might not buy into the mindless Conservative drivel.
If incomes remain stagnant while inflation continues, EVERYTHING becomes more expensive. This includes any expensive esoteric hobbies. The cost of a pilot's license and an airplane is going to steadily become more and more out of reach even without the Tea Bagger rantings.
Reading the media nonsense and taking it completely at face value are two entirely different things.
> iOS succeeds because it doesn't require anything but your fingers. No damned stylus,
My ex-ifan loves the stylus on her Android tablet. It eliminates a lot of the crudeness of the usual tablet interface.
Pushing something crippled and calling it superior just because it looks trendy and fashionable doesn't make it so.
It's not a 20 cent part, it's a $500 laptop. Those are the damages. Dell is refusing to honor it's warranty and it's legal obligations on the entire product as a unit. The cost to replace the entire laptop is the damages. You can also add some extra costs for the overhead of the replacement.
The cost of the non-user-serviceable part is not the damages. It's not even the total damages if you just want to fixate on the single failed part.
Well I do have to admit that when I took my Mac into the shop the guy at the Genius Bar didn't even blink when I told him it was running Linux. So none of this "you are running the wrong software" shenanigans there.
On the other hand, that's the only brand name machine I've never needed to get warranty work done on.
> No, it's not. You can find example [humanevents.com] after example [crimeinthesuites.com] of the EPA and other agencies falsifying information and distorting data to get to a political-based outcome.
Sounds like Bush II's EPA.
He took the independent organization created by NIXON and made a mockery out of it.
...except afterwards it was published widely while it was being approved by the states. It was a matter of wide public knowledge for YEARS while it was being approved.
The current batch of secret treaties are nothing like that.
Then there's the Patriot Act that people voted on without even reading...
> What it is, is a "blatant" attempt to force EPA to user responsible and reproducible science.
These are the same people that are trying to get an extremist interpretation of the Jewish creation myth taught as science in public schools. Whatever goals they claim for marketing purposes, we can be pretty certain that those aren't their real goals.
Clearly they want to place barriers in the way of EPA. They will happily abuse the government for their culture wars but otherwise they are mindlessly anti-government.
You know it's sad when a faction of the GOP makes you nostalgiiac for Nixon.
> They have a large consulting arm - IBM Global Services. (Not sure if that is still the name.)
Yeah. It's full of 3rd party contractors.
I had good luck with my Sony laptops. However, that's been a long time. I tried the "laptop as desktop replacement" thing and entirely got over it long before it became a trendy thing in general.
Perhaps they tried to be too much like Apple.
You think it's absurd but I actually remember when the Microsoft hegemony started. It wasn't with Windows 95. It was long before.
People like to pretend that something other than the biggest turd available won the market. It hurts their brains to contemplate it.
> Apple? They sell PCs. They can even run Windows.
Apple sells overpriced novelty form factors.
PC vendors on the other hand all sell machines with components that are interchangeable with one another. This is even a factor in their undoing as it is far easier to keep an old PC running than a Mac. I can put a standard aftermarket video card or SSD in an old craptacular PC and it can be as useful as a new Mac (or PC).
I remember my old Vaios. Both of them were tweaked with aftermarket RAM and hard drives because it was simply cheaper that way. It was also a trivial thing to do.
> Although I agree with you about not wanting to buy such a PC, it's mostly neckbeards who care about that kind of stuff.
Except it's really only Apple fanbois that care one way or the other about firewire in general.
> Because only a tiny percentage of PC users want to use (or have even heard of) Linux. Like it or not, we are in the minority.
Plenty of people want to use Linux. Plenty of people want to use something else. They just can't get beyond this "it must be DOS compatible" mental block on tends to associate with PCs.
The entire PC platform is a victim of decades of pervasive FUD. The whole thing may go down because people can't separate PCs from the crapulence that is Microsoft.
No. They just have a strange and fascist definition of "hack".
Panasonic seems to be the ones deficient communications skills.
> Why? *nix has been reimplemented or ported many times in many computer languages
Even most of Linux was written by someone else.
That's what the whole "GNU/Linux" thing has always been about. Linus only took care of the last piece of the puzzle that the FSF couldn't quite get done. The rest was done by others.
The "free executable" is what can get people jailed over something that really should have no consequences. It's also what actually has the theoretically limited copyright protection.
Requiring source code for a software copyright is a wonderfully subversive idea and one that I suspect that you aren't really willing to advocate.
Brand protection? Who cares? This is simply not an area where "how does this impact profits" should even come into the discussion. That it's even being brought up just shows how much the law has been corrupted by corporate lobbying.
If you are Nolan Bushnell, you shouldn't be in a position to care about what is being done with 20 or 30 year old works.
It's rather amazing that anyone on a tech site would be defending the idea of stagnation imposed in terms of DECADES.
A 20 year copyright is not the idea of "freeloaders". It's simply how things used to work.
...and I don't really care about his excuses.
If it's been 20 or 30 years since you published something, then your time has passed already and it's time for you to step aside and allow the next generation a chance.
In the intervening period, a work has either become too important to hoard or too worthless to justify being a burden on anyone.
After 20 years, it's time for you to allow the next group of people to have the advantages that you were allowed.
> It's almost like this has been on Intel's CPUs for years...
Oh really?
So what build of ffmpeg on Linux supports this?
Having some weaker-than-everyone-elses GPU feature and actually having libre support for that feature are two entirely different things.
> A lot of those European social democracies are pretty nice places to live and have been for decades.
They would suck me dry worse than American insurance companies do now.
The real problem is that people think that there is a free lunch. Eurotrash won't honestly acknowledge this and American wannabes will happily ignore any practical considerations.
> But at least you're getting a group-policy rate that the employer had negotiated, rather than an open-market individual/family rate. It's better than (pre-ACA) open-market plans, I suspect.
No. Not really. There is this prevailing myth that you need to be dependent on your employer for health insurance coverage. It's pretty bogus really.
The ACA does not improve the state of things.
It appears to generate completely meaningless metrics that have no real value in evaluating employees or their contributions.
On the other hand, it's the sort of soul crushing nonsense that you would hope that none of your professional (or even just legal) workers would tolerate. It seems more like something for your illegal sub-minimum wage part time menial laborers.