I don't know if you could patent suits. There's a lot of prior art. And besides, shouldn't it be the textile industry or something going for that patent?
But seriously, so long as someone is over 18 I don't see the harm in them risking their own lives by not wearing a belt, bike helmet, etc. New Hampshire is the one state that doesn't require seatbelts. They also don't require motorcycle or bicycle helmets. Part of freedom is the freedom to make a stupid choice so long as it only affects you.
Most open source developers will do this. If you want a feature, we'll quite happily give you a quote for implementing it. I usually work on a fixed price, so I estimate how long it will take, multiply that by my daily rate, and will do it for that amount. Even if projects don't advertise it, a mail to the list saying 'I want this feature, what will it cost' will usually get some replies...
Consider my ignorance of the fact a hint that maybe you guys should advertise it a bit. Think of all the people who are not taking advantage of something they otherwise would had they known it exists.
I really wish they would make something closer to the size of the TNG PADD. I think there's one or two tablets out there around that size but I can't be sure.
I'd go by the data that every potential form of abuse that exists has been used by a lot of politicians at every point in history.
The only way to ensure a minimum of a bad practice is to outright make it illegal or impossible via the law.
Example: Using eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to land developers on the basis that the higher property taxes collected would be for the good of the people overall.
I've actually heard of some people who refuse to be an organ donor in the states on account of the fear of some hospitals or their families being all too ready to pull the plug on them and get those delicious organs. Organ donation is a huge business in any country.
I guess I just don't understand how people can let their lives be manipulated by people or things that they dislike. Or by people that they like for that matter.
Well, here's a good example. Governer Rick Perry's "Strong" video. It was homophobic and hateful in every way. 26,404 likes, 764,362 dislikes. If there were such a thing as god I'd say he has a healthy sense of irony as well.
This one video was Perry's last stand, his last chance at being a contender. He decided to go all out and appeal to the Christian bigotry vote.
It's usually much cheaper for them to pay me to add a few features to an existing project than to pay a team of people to recreate it.
Hurm...
My dad's a master carpenter. If you asked him to, say, add in a bay window to the front of your house he'd be able to estimate what it would cost including materials, time, and potential cost overruns. Contractors pretty much always pocket the difference.
I really like the whole "bug bounty" thing as it provides an economic incentive to find bugs... so why aren't there more software developers that do the same thing? "Want me to add a feature to this program? Ask me. If enough people ask me I might do it for free. If it's something you really want, I may very well do it for a fair price."
There are more than a few programs out there that I wish had certain functionality and I'd be more than glad to pay for it.
And there's the problem. Nearly everyone working for that company has been looking for work elsewhere. Had the found it, they wouldn't be working for him anymore.
I can take the hit when it's just me. I'd be fine being jobless. But it affects other people who have families to support. I also know the guy in charge pretty well - he'd be fine saying "fuck it" and letting the company fold before the fines are even issued. It's a bad situation all around.
It's, unfortunately, one of those situations where it's bad no matter what you do.
I can't stand that he's breaking the law in such a blatant manner, but I can't ruin the lives of my friends, either. And I can't have any of that "but this will be better for them in the long run". In the age of bureacracy denying unemployment and barely making the bills, there is no long run. There is making sure there is food on the table and the rent gets paid.
'mandatory saturdays' is not the same as 'chinese hours', so to speak; but we're inching our way there, aren't we!
When Occupy Wall St. was just starting up, there was this marine who was proud of the fact that he was working 60-70 hour weeks and it took him 8 years to get a degree.
While a lot of people clamped onto his work ethic and said it was an example of what's great with America, a lot of people also said he's an example of just exactly what's wrong with America.
I can't write as well this early (relatively, for me) in the day, so I'll just quote from the above article:
I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished, but I want to ask you something.
Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?
Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that’s not going to be as easy when you’re 50 as it was when you were 20.
And what happens if you get sick? You say you don’t have health insurance, but since you’re a veteran I assume you have some government-provided health care through the VA system. I know my father, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, still gets most of his medical needs met through the VA, but I don’t know what your situation is. But even if you have access to health care, it doesn’t mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.
Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?
I worked at a job - worked, as in past tense - for a month as a manager. My first job as manager, no less. The company was running all of their employees 70-90 hours a week (a lot of that was driving time on the road), sometimes more. Overtime was non-existant. The boss would keep taking more and more jobs while refusing to either slow the pace or hire more people to handle the workload.
The boss would bitch about the (rare) new hire being unexperienced, yet he wouldn't invest in even minimal training other than "Here's how you do this particular job - now go repeat this process 5,000 times over the next 12 hours." He would bitch about payroll, yet not take either solution to solve the problem (cut down on the work, or hire more people). He would blow up at me and try to get me to act as a vehicle for his anger towards the employees (to which I adamantly refused).
I tried to act as a buffer by... translating diplomatically. People were "fired" three or four times in my entire month there. "Tell him to get the fuck to the job in the next 15 minutes or he's fucking fired!" would translate to, "Hey, the boss is getting a bit mad, could you try to hurry it up a bit? I know you've been on the road for 12 hours but I'm getting a lot of shit dropped on my head." I felt like a Sergeant getting retarded orders from some idiotic general higher up in the chain of command - all I could really do is try to protect my guys (one of whom was my best friend) and keep the cash flow going.
I eventually quit. Boss's sweet-talk aside, the above things unsettled me too much. I was working 80 hours a week and literally not getting paid (not even straight time) for half of that. Violation of OSHA and federal law was rampant. I suppose I could have reported them to some government agency who may or may not have taken action, but that would have likely just ended up with the people I liked there (literally everybody but the boss) jobl
Kinda makes me wonder what will happen when most of these unsavory websites wisen up and stop using.coms.
I'm starting to see more domain hacks (made-up example, "funga.me") and outright foreign domains for stuff that might be considered illegal or unsavory content. It's a smart move, really, all things considered. There's not really anything all that special about.com anymore.
I also wonder... well, let's say a site has a.com and they buy, Idunno, a.it domain. The.com now only contains a redirect to the.it. Does the US have any standing over the contents of the stuff hosted on the.it domain simply because the.com links to it?
.com may very well end up being abandoned altogether by any websites doing stuff the States doesn't like.
Sounds like Dwarf Fortress - you can't really control the Dwarves, just designate orders and hope they don't get distracted by a shiny barrel of Dwarven Rum.
Actually, your game sounds like one I'd like to play.
I agree that Minecraft is missing a lot. When jeb took over, however, the game has been noticeably improving. Patches are coming pretty consistently now and they're really changing the game for the better.
I think Notch is better at the initial idea than the long-term execution. He's like a Stage 1 rocket booster - he gets the idea off the ground and pretty far, but don't depend on him to make it all the way to the end.
For the reasons above, I doubt his ability to finish something good. Start it? Sure. But put out a finished, quality product? He seems to have a hard time doing that.
Wild caught will stay pink as it cooks where farm raised will not. But they look the same when raw.
What's the difference between the two, aside from whether they were caught in the wild or raised on a farm? Salmon happens to be a type of sushi I enjoy very much.
An angry group of foreign citizens have surrounded the American Embassy in Egypt. All hope is lost. Suddenly, a flash of light from the roof - and everyone falls over vomiting and crying as they think about that one time they saw their parents fucking.
Slashdot Mirror
Patent suits!
I don't know if you could patent suits. There's a lot of prior art. And besides, shouldn't it be the textile industry or something going for that patent?
Well, to be fair, a lot of us are stupid.
But seriously, so long as someone is over 18 I don't see the harm in them risking their own lives by not wearing a belt, bike helmet, etc. New Hampshire is the one state that doesn't require seatbelts. They also don't require motorcycle or bicycle helmets. Part of freedom is the freedom to make a stupid choice so long as it only affects you.
Does that kind of stuff factor in when you're very tall?
I'm 6'5". Don't like driving in tiny cars very much.
Most open source developers will do this. If you want a feature, we'll quite happily give you a quote for implementing it. I usually work on a fixed price, so I estimate how long it will take, multiply that by my daily rate, and will do it for that amount. Even if projects don't advertise it, a mail to the list saying 'I want this feature, what will it cost' will usually get some replies...
Consider my ignorance of the fact a hint that maybe you guys should advertise it a bit. Think of all the people who are not taking advantage of something they otherwise would had they known it exists.
I really wish they would make something closer to the size of the TNG PADD. I think there's one or two tablets out there around that size but I can't be sure.
I'd go by the data that every potential form of abuse that exists has been used by a lot of politicians at every point in history.
The only way to ensure a minimum of a bad practice is to outright make it illegal or impossible via the law.
Example: Using eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to land developers on the basis that the higher property taxes collected would be for the good of the people overall.
the afterlife.
But I thought they were a bunch of godless communists!
That's too complicated for people who have to look up strategy guides for Farmville. Farmville!
I've actually heard of some people who refuse to be an organ donor in the states on account of the fear of some hospitals or their families being all too ready to pull the plug on them and get those delicious organs. Organ donation is a huge business in any country.
I've got an unusual protrusion in my southern hemisphere, if you know what I mean.
Jans Midgaard and Bjorn Vyrdden are now in a blood feud.
I guess I just don't understand how people can let their lives be manipulated by people or things that they dislike. Or by people that they like for that matter.
Well, here's a good example. Governer Rick Perry's "Strong" video. It was homophobic and hateful in every way. 26,404 likes, 764,362 dislikes. If there were such a thing as god I'd say he has a healthy sense of irony as well.
This one video was Perry's last stand, his last chance at being a contender. He decided to go all out and appeal to the Christian bigotry vote.
It didn't exactly work.
It's usually much cheaper for them to pay me to add a few features to an existing project than to pay a team of people to recreate it.
Hurm...
My dad's a master carpenter. If you asked him to, say, add in a bay window to the front of your house he'd be able to estimate what it would cost including materials, time, and potential cost overruns. Contractors pretty much always pocket the difference.
I really like the whole "bug bounty" thing as it provides an economic incentive to find bugs... so why aren't there more software developers that do the same thing? "Want me to add a feature to this program? Ask me. If enough people ask me I might do it for free. If it's something you really want, I may very well do it for a fair price."
There are more than a few programs out there that I wish had certain functionality and I'd be more than glad to pay for it.
Astronauts only depressurize after taco night.
Quite impressive, considering that Japanese look all the same...
Yeah, sometimes you can't even tell which ones are women.
In effect putting him out of business.
And there's the problem. Nearly everyone working for that company has been looking for work elsewhere. Had the found it, they wouldn't be working for him anymore.
I can take the hit when it's just me. I'd be fine being jobless. But it affects other people who have families to support. I also know the guy in charge pretty well - he'd be fine saying "fuck it" and letting the company fold before the fines are even issued. It's a bad situation all around.
It's, unfortunately, one of those situations where it's bad no matter what you do.
I can't stand that he's breaking the law in such a blatant manner, but I can't ruin the lives of my friends, either. And I can't have any of that "but this will be better for them in the long run". In the age of bureacracy denying unemployment and barely making the bills, there is no long run. There is making sure there is food on the table and the rent gets paid.
'mandatory saturdays' is not the same as 'chinese hours', so to speak; but we're inching our way there, aren't we!
When Occupy Wall St. was just starting up, there was this marine who was proud of the fact that he was working 60-70 hour weeks and it took him 8 years to get a degree.
While a lot of people clamped onto his work ethic and said it was an example of what's great with America, a lot of people also said he's an example of just exactly what's wrong with America.
I can't write as well this early (relatively, for me) in the day, so I'll just quote from the above article:
I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished, but I want to ask you something.
Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?
Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that’s not going to be as easy when you’re 50 as it was when you were 20.
And what happens if you get sick? You say you don’t have health insurance, but since you’re a veteran I assume you have some government-provided health care through the VA system. I know my father, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, still gets most of his medical needs met through the VA, but I don’t know what your situation is. But even if you have access to health care, it doesn’t mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.
Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?
I worked at a job - worked, as in past tense - for a month as a manager. My first job as manager, no less. The company was running all of their employees 70-90 hours a week (a lot of that was driving time on the road), sometimes more. Overtime was non-existant. The boss would keep taking more and more jobs while refusing to either slow the pace or hire more people to handle the workload.
The boss would bitch about the (rare) new hire being unexperienced, yet he wouldn't invest in even minimal training other than "Here's how you do this particular job - now go repeat this process 5,000 times over the next 12 hours." He would bitch about payroll, yet not take either solution to solve the problem (cut down on the work, or hire more people). He would blow up at me and try to get me to act as a vehicle for his anger towards the employees (to which I adamantly refused).
I tried to act as a buffer by... translating diplomatically. People were "fired" three or four times in my entire month there. "Tell him to get the fuck to the job in the next 15 minutes or he's fucking fired!" would translate to, "Hey, the boss is getting a bit mad, could you try to hurry it up a bit? I know you've been on the road for 12 hours but I'm getting a lot of shit dropped on my head." I felt like a Sergeant getting retarded orders from some idiotic general higher up in the chain of command - all I could really do is try to protect my guys (one of whom was my best friend) and keep the cash flow going.
I eventually quit. Boss's sweet-talk aside, the above things unsettled me too much. I was working 80 hours a week and literally not getting paid (not even straight time) for half of that. Violation of OSHA and federal law was rampant. I suppose I could have reported them to some government agency who may or may not have taken action, but that would have likely just ended up with the people I liked there (literally everybody but the boss) jobl
Damn, that's pretty much Embrace, Extend, Extinguish but with entire global markets. It's like Microsoft is running a country. *shudder*
Kinda makes me wonder what will happen when most of these unsavory websites wisen up and stop using .coms.
I'm starting to see more domain hacks (made-up example, "funga.me") and outright foreign domains for stuff that might be considered illegal or unsavory content. It's a smart move, really, all things considered. There's not really anything all that special about .com anymore.
I also wonder... well, let's say a site has a .com and they buy, Idunno, a .it domain. The .com now only contains a redirect to the .it. Does the US have any standing over the contents of the stuff hosted on the .it domain simply because the .com links to it?
.com may very well end up being abandoned altogether by any websites doing stuff the States doesn't like.
Sounds like Dwarf Fortress - you can't really control the Dwarves, just designate orders and hope they don't get distracted by a shiny barrel of Dwarven Rum.
Actually, your game sounds like one I'd like to play.
I agree that Minecraft is missing a lot. When jeb took over, however, the game has been noticeably improving. Patches are coming pretty consistently now and they're really changing the game for the better.
I think Notch is better at the initial idea than the long-term execution. He's like a Stage 1 rocket booster - he gets the idea off the ground and pretty far, but don't depend on him to make it all the way to the end.
For the reasons above, I doubt his ability to finish something good. Start it? Sure. But put out a finished, quality product? He seems to have a hard time doing that.
Los Alamos can't say. For some reason all of the hard drives storing the data were wiped.
Wild caught will stay pink as it cooks where farm raised will not. But they look the same when raw.
What's the difference between the two, aside from whether they were caught in the wild or raised on a farm? Salmon happens to be a type of sushi I enjoy very much.
Think of the defense applications!
An angry group of foreign citizens have surrounded the American Embassy in Egypt. All hope is lost. Suddenly, a flash of light from the roof - and everyone falls over vomiting and crying as they think about that one time they saw their parents fucking.
How do you prove they actually asked these questions?
"Nope, never asked him for his Facebook password. We found a candidate who was more suited to the corporate culture and declined to hire Mr. Jenkins."