I am sure they are "Crying" all the way to the bank. Get over it, there are way too many people who enjoy professional sports and a large market that I am sure Albert is just whining about some Anonymous Coward hates that he is making 22 million a year playing a sport where he bashes a ball past a fence.
If you paid to go see your local chess masters at work, or paid to see a slashdotter present, then maybe they will get the 22 million instead of someone else.
Btw, are you also saying Performance Drugs should be disallowed? How many of you drink Caffeine or do some 5 hour energy drink just to pass some test in school. Should we ban you from doing your chosen profession?
What studies, please reference? Please do not label someone Anti-science when you have no clue who they are. Also, asking questions is NOT anti-science but is SCIENCE, and suppressing questions by attacking the questioner is Anti-Science as that is how studies are suppressed.
Conversations in cars have caused crashes, just like radios, and other distractions. When new functions (GPS, Radios, Mirrors) are placed into cars there is an initial round of studies and then there it becomes a Social issuehttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2572516&cid=38382626#. Take for example, fiddling with the radio. This has been linked to crashes too, do we ban radios in cars?
All distractions are shown to have some affect on driving, so should ALL things be banned? This is NOT a scientific discussion but a SOCIAL discussion.
A shop needs to at least have a version control system. I would consider that if you are in a Unix environment (linux etc) you are working in an older development arena and you are looking at a minimum you should have subversion.
Requirements Tracking, Use Cases, Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, and Validation are all buzzwords for making sure the PROCESS is correct. Tools are just in support of the process. If your company is doing the previous then what you are looking at is pushing a technology refresh on your tools.
If the previous is not done, push the processes first. You can show how taking a strong model can improve the system and then you can show that tools enhance. Its all about proving the cost savings.
If its a small company, its HARD to prove the cost savings as an overall group since you probably are looking at a few "super stars" who do not take direction well but will produce greatly in the short terms. Short Term development (small products, products that have short shelf life) tends to push towards quick development and cheap processes.
First to file contradicts prior art. Would not prior art have to be invalidated because X filed a patent and didnt know about it being out 10 years ago. X gets the patent and then sees people using it. X sues.. how can X lose if its first to file?
Are you arguing that as a Business I can do whatever I want to do?
- sure. If you don't overstep the boundaries of criminal law and if you don't lose in the court of contract law.
Who sets what is criminal Law and what is Contract Law? Who or what decides these things?
That in the end the Love Canal will continue to exist?
- if it's in private hands and the neighbors are all private entities, it's their business.
Ouch, so if they all agree murder is fun, we should do nothing?
From Monty Python in Life of Brian: âoeAll right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?â
- in the fight between governments and individual entrepreneurs any government victory is a loss to the economy and society.
Depends on the entrepreneurs. I would argue that Patents are horrible but supposedly they exist to help the individual entrepreneurs. Whats to stop a larger business eat the individual entrepreneurs? The problem is that people have defined this as a fight between government and business and its actually a partnership. Some businesses get more out of the government (See Goldman Sachs) than others.
Are you arguing that as a Business I can do whatever I want to do? That all government does is defense and nothing internal? That in the end the Love Canal will continue to exist? Without the Laws and regulations provided by the Constitution our lives would be worse.
From Monty Python in Life of Brian: “All right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
I am not sure who and what it is you suppose must 'keep its middle class' and in which way this must be achieved, but 19 century USA created the middle class - small business owner and professional worker, and it was done purely via market forces, not by government regulations.
The Market forces of the Pinkerton's used in Smashing workers heads? The Sherman Anti-trust Act? The government has always had to regulate Free Market. If we do not regulate then we end up with... oh.. Enron, junk bonds, Mortgage back securities, monopolies, etc. The problem with government regulation is NOT that there has to be regulation is that a lot of the regulation is either written poorly and harms the company unduly, or is written poorly and basically meaningless. I, for one, love that my food is regulated, my water is regulated, I can breathe better air, my kids get schooling, I can worship at my Church of choice, and I can own a Gun.
So I have presented that regulations are not bad in and of themselves, now can we discuss which regulations are harming companies? What about our incredible regulations on export of any product? Thats for Defense.. so we should keep it as is? Should we leave the current system in place where Companies have to now prove they are fully funding the contracts they made with their own employees (called pensions)? What about road regulations, where Trucks have to be weighed going down highways? What about the incredibly shrinking Nuclear safety regulations: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/1540233/AP-Investigation-Concludes-US-Nuke-Regulators-Weakening-Safety-Rules? Should we remove the Superfund cleanup regulation because some companies get caught buying land with old waste on it? Should we remove regulations on driving? I know I for one HATE having to renew my Drivers License when I have not had an accident/ticket since the LAST time I renewed it.
Okay for solutions (some simple starts): Lets start with Medicare - Let Medicare negotiate prescription pricing to lower the cost. Lets limit the use of HR-1 Visa's by forcing companies to truly prove (by a panel of government/peers) that they have to HAVE these specific jobs. Any new law cannot be larger than the constitution in pages. Create Law categories that every item in a bill has to pertain to a single category (No more added extra crap to bills). Add a line item veto for the president. All Wars shall be endorsed by congress within 90 days... wait wasnt that already a law... oh... lets clarify this: -- All use of the military where engaged in active combat included direct support of combatants shall be deemed a "War". Raise the Age of Social Security gradually to 70. End Oil Subsidies End Ethanol Subsidies End Farm subsidies End estate taxes Call any increase in capital from one year to the next as "Income" (meaning no such thing as Capital Gains Taxes). Increase Small Business Loan investments with tax incentives etc. Do not pay someone in tax refund more than what they have paid in taxes. Increase Tax Rates to the last time the US had a balanced budget (Yep, I get a Tax increase).
These are just starting point to recover the Middle Class. The small business owner is the middle class.
The issue with Slavery is that it was never economical to own a slave. An owner had to pay for a slave, his family, health, food, etc 12 months of a year. The Cotton Gin was supposed to end slavery in the US but what it did was make it more economical to keep the slaves as they could now produce more. Pay for a worker, small wage, and you only have to pay 5 months (planting and harvesting), etc. Thus the overall cost of your labor force goes way down as you can hire "On-Demand" workers (Migrant Workers, Carpenters, etc) and not have to worry over the Hassle of Housing, Feeding, Health. Slavery would exist purely for Control and Carnal style human existences. Economically, it really does not make sense to have a slave.
Workers who worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in steel mills in Pittsburgh, etc and had to work a 24 hour shift every other Sunday. That was what the American worker was facing with early monopolies and forced the Unions to come about. It was the economic lifting of the Workers that allowed for the US to economically fight and win Wars and make the US the marketplace of the world. The US is hurting because the Workers are hurting and so you see the effects. Lift up the ones who wish to work and reward them (Middle Class) and you will get a stronger economy and country. Destroy them through Taxes, removal of safety nets (which keep them lifted), and systemic downward Wage pressures and the US will fall back into history. It was not Moral decay that destroyed Rome it was through a system where the Rich get richer and the Poor get poorer until there is no Middle class and nothing to prevent a total collapse. No matter how much the rich have, they have to have people willing to "service" them. When the poor can't afford to service the Rich they move elsewhere or revolt.
Bottom Line in this discussion: If the US does nothing to keep its middle class, it does not matter what will happen with China as the US will fade away as we know it.
You know.. NYT probably switched Computer languages each time a new magazine touted the best to use for WEB developing. Reminds me of when ADA was pushed on developers for the US Government. Sink hole. (NOTE: Not degrading ADA or any language, just the constant Man from authority causes much agony).
Anyone remember the PMRC? They are responsible for putting warning labels on CD's. They also were responsible for the huge rise in sales of Warning Labeled CD's.
I am a major sports fan and love to play sports. I pay more for my entertainment because I want it. Cutting sports is an attempt at taking away competition in society and society without competition is a society where smart people lose. Yes, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were competitors. Do not attack sports because the MEDIA hypes them as a game is easier to understand.
Science Channel is my TV favorite channel, then comes ESPN, and NBA/NFL channels, then Crap Drama Channels.
Who really wants to jump up and down and say "Look at me, I put a semi-colon at the end of this line and the program now compiles!!!!" That may seem really cool for some, but its not really entertaining to me to see that (its great when I nail a major issue).
If you think you get to be stupid playing professional sports, you really need to look again. There is a reason so few do it.
Now pay me 250 an hour to figure out you forgot to plug in your USB mouse and thats why your computer don't work!
And now? We get Every bit of Fake Criminal Investigative Technology... shine a light and you can see everything. Budgets for cities to spend millions per case. Detectives arrive on every speeding ticket.
Science is not about cool tech, never has been. Cool tech is a side effect.
I found MUD, still have one running (www.mageslair.net) years later. However I was lucky, I graduated and got married and then I found out this lovely thing called a MUD.
Dr. OneEye: "We have a match on the Genome of the DNA we found and its a HUMAN"
Detective BRassBalls: "How did you find it that fast?"
Dr. OneEye: "With this new Instant Genome from As Seen on TV". "We can solve cases in minutes instead of 40 minutes with commercials and it only cost 19.95 with S&H".
Detective BRassBalls: "You total NERD. Do you know what you have done?"
Dr. OneEye: "No What?"
---- Later ----
Detective BRassBalls: "Now we solve cases in 5 minutes with 55 minutes worth of commercials and make 1/10th the pay we once did"
Dr OneEye, just learning his pay cut, just stares into nothingness and you hear the Instant Genome whirring in the background....
So as revenge for the Nuns? I always find that when someone cannot figure out a way to get power one way, they try another.
If you are born a 200th child of a Kings House and you want power but are blocked, that is where religion comes in. It is why Osama got his power from Religion, why Kings from middle ages gave up children to the Church (not first born males) etc. I just wish people would actually follow the Peace of the majority of the Religions instead of the Anger of the Power of the Human Flesh.
Sell in the USA a Widget at 200 dollars. Sell the same Widget in Mexico for 100 dollars. Widget Made in Mexico.
So Company A does this. Company B comes along and buys X number of Widgets in Mexico for 100 dollars, then sells them in US for 150 dollars, 50 dollars cheaper than Company A. This is NOW illegal.
If you MADE the item in the USA, this would not apply and would still be legal... its more incentive for companies to move jobs out of the USA.
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I am sure they are "Crying" all the way to the bank. Get over it, there are way too many people who enjoy professional sports and a large market that I am sure Albert is just whining about some Anonymous Coward hates that he is making 22 million a year playing a sport where he bashes a ball past a fence.
If you paid to go see your local chess masters at work, or paid to see a slashdotter present, then maybe they will get the 22 million instead of someone else.
Btw, are you also saying Performance Drugs should be disallowed? How many of you drink Caffeine or do some 5 hour energy drink just to pass some test in school. Should we ban you from doing your chosen profession?
Nope, not an Anonymous coward here.
Hey, how did you get my ATM PIN number?
What studies, please reference? Please do not label someone Anti-science when you have no clue who they are. Also, asking questions is NOT anti-science but is SCIENCE, and suppressing questions by attacking the questioner is Anti-Science as that is how studies are suppressed.
Conversations in cars have caused crashes, just like radios, and other distractions. When new functions (GPS, Radios, Mirrors) are placed into cars there is an initial round of studies and then there it becomes a Social issuehttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2572516&cid=38382626#. Take for example, fiddling with the radio. This has been linked to crashes too, do we ban radios in cars?
Here is a fact sheet: http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/brochures/fast_facts/ffdl28.htm
All distractions are shown to have some affect on driving, so should ALL things be banned? This is NOT a scientific discussion but a SOCIAL discussion.
Explain how then we should not ban all TALKING and CONVERSATION and RADIO in a car as well?
A shop needs to at least have a version control system. I would consider that if you are in a Unix environment (linux etc) you are working in an older development arena and you are looking at a minimum you should have subversion.
Requirements Tracking, Use Cases, Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, and Validation are all buzzwords for making sure the PROCESS is correct. Tools are just in support of the process. If your company is doing the previous then what you are looking at is pushing a technology refresh on your tools.
If the previous is not done, push the processes first. You can show how taking a strong model can improve the system and then you can show that tools enhance. Its all about proving the cost savings.
If its a small company, its HARD to prove the cost savings as an overall group since you probably are looking at a few "super stars" who do not take direction well but will produce greatly in the short terms. Short Term development (small products, products that have short shelf life) tends to push towards quick development and cheap processes.
The top 1% have 40% of the wealth in the US, hey.. the top 1% of the developers of iOS are getting a Bum deal, they are 7 percent behind the times!!
First to file contradicts prior art. Would not prior art have to be invalidated because X filed a patent and didnt know about it being out 10 years ago. X gets the patent and then sees people using it. X sues.. how can X lose if its first to file?
Are you arguing that as a Business I can do whatever I want to do?
- sure. If you don't overstep the boundaries of criminal law and if you don't lose in the court of contract law.
Who sets what is criminal Law and what is Contract Law? Who or what decides these things?
That in the end the Love Canal will continue to exist?
- if it's in private hands and the neighbors are all private entities, it's their business.
Ouch, so if they all agree murder is fun, we should do nothing?
From Monty Python in Life of Brian: âoeAll right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?â
- in the fight between governments and individual entrepreneurs any government victory is a loss to the economy and society.
Depends on the entrepreneurs. I would argue that Patents are horrible but supposedly they exist to help the individual entrepreneurs. Whats to stop a larger business eat the individual entrepreneurs? The problem is that people have defined this as a fight between government and business and its actually a partnership. Some businesses get more out of the government (See Goldman Sachs) than others.
Are you arguing that as a Business I can do whatever I want to do? That all government does is defense and nothing internal? That in the end the Love Canal will continue to exist? Without the Laws and regulations provided by the Constitution our lives would be worse.
From Monty Python in Life of Brian: “All right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
I am not sure who and what it is you suppose must 'keep its middle class' and in which way this must be achieved, but 19 century USA created the middle class - small business owner and professional worker, and it was done purely via market forces, not by government regulations.
The Market forces of the Pinkerton's used in Smashing workers heads? The Sherman Anti-trust Act? The government has always had to regulate Free Market. If we do not regulate then we end up with ... oh.. Enron, junk bonds, Mortgage back securities, monopolies, etc. The problem with government regulation is NOT that there has to be regulation is that a lot of the regulation is either written poorly and harms the company unduly, or is written poorly and basically meaningless. I, for one, love that my food is regulated, my water is regulated, I can breathe better air, my kids get schooling, I can worship at my Church of choice, and I can own a Gun.
So I have presented that regulations are not bad in and of themselves, now can we discuss which regulations are harming companies? What about our incredible regulations on export of any product? Thats for Defense.. so we should keep it as is? Should we leave the current system in place where Companies have to now prove they are fully funding the contracts they made with their own employees (called pensions)? What about road regulations, where Trucks have to be weighed going down highways? What about the incredibly shrinking Nuclear safety regulations: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/1540233/AP-Investigation-Concludes-US-Nuke-Regulators-Weakening-Safety-Rules? Should we remove the Superfund cleanup regulation because some companies get caught buying land with old waste on it? Should we remove regulations on driving? I know I for one HATE having to renew my Drivers License when I have not had an accident/ticket since the LAST time I renewed it.
Okay for solutions (some simple starts):
Lets start with Medicare - Let Medicare negotiate prescription pricing to lower the cost.
Lets limit the use of HR-1 Visa's by forcing companies to truly prove (by a panel of government/peers) that they have to HAVE these specific jobs.
Any new law cannot be larger than the constitution in pages.
Create Law categories that every item in a bill has to pertain to a single category (No more added extra crap to bills).
Add a line item veto for the president.
All Wars shall be endorsed by congress within 90 days... wait wasnt that already a law... oh... lets clarify this:
-- All use of the military where engaged in active combat included direct support of combatants shall be deemed a "War".
Raise the Age of Social Security gradually to 70.
End Oil Subsidies
End Ethanol Subsidies
End Farm subsidies
End estate taxes
Call any increase in capital from one year to the next as "Income" (meaning no such thing as Capital Gains Taxes).
Increase Small Business Loan investments with tax incentives etc.
Do not pay someone in tax refund more than what they have paid in taxes.
Increase Tax Rates to the last time the US had a balanced budget (Yep, I get a Tax increase).
These are just starting point to recover the Middle Class. The small business owner is the middle class.
The issue with Slavery is that it was never economical to own a slave. An owner had to pay for a slave, his family, health, food, etc 12 months of a year. The Cotton Gin was supposed to end slavery in the US but what it did was make it more economical to keep the slaves as they could now produce more. Pay for a worker, small wage, and you only have to pay 5 months (planting and harvesting), etc. Thus the overall cost of your labor force goes way down as you can hire "On-Demand" workers (Migrant Workers, Carpenters, etc) and not have to worry over the Hassle of Housing, Feeding, Health. Slavery would exist purely for Control and Carnal style human existences. Economically, it really does not make sense to have a slave.
Workers who worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in steel mills in Pittsburgh, etc and had to work a 24 hour shift every other Sunday. That was what the American worker was facing with early monopolies and forced the Unions to come about. It was the economic lifting of the Workers that allowed for the US to economically fight and win Wars and make the US the marketplace of the world. The US is hurting because the Workers are hurting and so you see the effects. Lift up the ones who wish to work and reward them (Middle Class) and you will get a stronger economy and country. Destroy them through Taxes, removal of safety nets (which keep them lifted), and systemic downward Wage pressures and the US will fall back into history. It was not Moral decay that destroyed Rome it was through a system where the Rich get richer and the Poor get poorer until there is no Middle class and nothing to prevent a total collapse. No matter how much the rich have, they have to have people willing to "service" them. When the poor can't afford to service the Rich they move elsewhere or revolt.
Bottom Line in this discussion: If the US does nothing to keep its middle class, it does not matter what will happen with China as the US will fade away as we know it.
Science Channel is running Firefly. Funny isn't it?
You know.. NYT probably switched Computer languages each time a new magazine touted the best to use for WEB developing. Reminds me of when ADA was pushed on developers for the US Government. Sink hole. (NOTE: Not degrading ADA or any language, just the constant Man from authority causes much agony).
So, can I still auto give "Funny" an additional +2 comments for me? so I can keep my threshhold high and still see the stupid funny stuff?
Anyone remember the PMRC? They are responsible for putting warning labels on CD's. They also were responsible for the huge rise in sales of Warning Labeled CD's.
I am a major sports fan and love to play sports. I pay more for my entertainment because I want it. Cutting sports is an attempt at taking away competition in society and society without competition is a society where smart people lose. Yes, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were competitors. Do not attack sports because the MEDIA hypes them as a game is easier to understand.
Science Channel is my TV favorite channel, then comes ESPN, and NBA/NFL channels, then Crap Drama Channels.
Who really wants to jump up and down and say "Look at me, I put a semi-colon at the end of this line and the program now compiles!!!!" That may seem really cool for some, but its not really entertaining to me to see that (its great when I nail a major issue).
If you think you get to be stupid playing professional sports, you really need to look again. There is a reason so few do it.
Now pay me 250 an hour to figure out you forgot to plug in your USB mouse and thats why your computer don't work!
And now? We get Every bit of Fake Criminal Investigative Technology... shine a light and you can see everything. Budgets for cities to spend millions per case. Detectives arrive on every speeding ticket.
Science is not about cool tech, never has been. Cool tech is a side effect.
A Conspiracy of Fact, does not need to have one hand knowing what the other is doing, or even a central control. Mob Rules.
I found MUD, still have one running (www.mageslair.net) years later. However I was lucky, I graduated and got married and then I found out this lovely thing called a MUD.
I am showing my age. Doh!
I was gonna say this but you global emoted it first.!!
Dr. OneEye: "We have a match on the Genome of the DNA we found and its a HUMAN"
Detective BRassBalls: "How did you find it that fast?"
Dr. OneEye: "With this new Instant Genome from As Seen on TV". "We can solve cases in minutes instead of 40 minutes with commercials and it only cost 19.95 with S&H".
Detective BRassBalls: "You total NERD. Do you know what you have done?"
Dr. OneEye: "No What?"
---- Later ----
Detective BRassBalls: "Now we solve cases in 5 minutes with 55 minutes worth of commercials and make 1/10th the pay we once did"
Dr OneEye, just learning his pay cut, just stares into nothingness and you hear the Instant Genome whirring in the background....
So as revenge for the Nuns? I always find that when someone cannot figure out a way to get power one way, they try another.
If you are born a 200th child of a Kings House and you want power but are blocked, that is where religion comes in. It is why Osama got his power from Religion, why Kings from middle ages gave up children to the Church (not first born males) etc. I just wish people would actually follow the Peace of the majority of the Religions instead of the Anger of the Power of the Human Flesh.
So... Who is the worst mass murderer in history?
I will try.. Stalin for 25 million. Not religious.
That said, Stop trying to start fights. Its how people get hurt.
Of Course this is just it. The older you get, the more kids you have, the more you like playing CO-OP with your kids, or split screen.
I love Metal Arms on old Xbox, so much fun. 4 player split screen and everyone can actually enjoy it.
DW Gundam is pretty cool on 360.
I suppose the Wii shows that COOP, PEOPLE SITTING IN SAME ROOM is a dead art form. (Sarcastically I wrote this for those humor impaired).
So a company can now do this:
Sell in the USA a Widget at 200 dollars. Sell the same Widget in Mexico for 100 dollars. Widget Made in Mexico.
So Company A does this.
Company B comes along and buys X number of Widgets in Mexico for 100 dollars, then sells them in US for 150 dollars, 50 dollars cheaper than Company A.
This is NOW illegal.
If you MADE the item in the USA, this would not apply and would still be legal... its more incentive for companies to move jobs out of the USA.
WTG.