Independent contractors should able to set independent rates.
They can. If it is a rate that Uber agrees with, Uber will award a contract. If not, they will use another contractor.
Where Uber is going wrong is forbidding drivers (contractors) supplying services to other service operators. THIS is what truly prevents a contractor from setting their own rate.
They can modify it all they want but it is no longer Ubuntu. It has a different kernel, different drivers, and handles virtualisation very differently.
If a user had scripts running on Ubuntu and then migrated over to the new service provider, those scripts would likely stop working. These companies are using the Ubuntu name because the experience will be similar, however, there will be confusion where the user expects the experience to be identical.
Better would be to call it "Based on Ubuntu" or "Ubuntu-esque" or "VPSbuntu".
... the race of the person being advertised to should not be a criteria that is even available for selection by the advertiser.
Okay. I'll bite.
If I am selling tickets to the BET Awards, I could save considerable money by excluding Caucasians in the marketing campaign.
If I am selling holiday packages to Vietnam, I would want to not advertise to the Vietnamese.
If I am selling flights to Thailand, I know the main markets are White-Americans, White-Australians and Asian-Australians, and Russians
And in this case, if I was advertising a property in a neighbourhood that is not popular with Hispanic people according to the demographic study conducted, why would I spend hundreds or thousands of dollars advertising to them?
Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.
That is more an indictment of the shortcomings of the VPN provider you chose.
Streaming is a 1:Many relationship which is prohibitively costly. For media: This may be subsidized by advertising, tracking, or malware. A 'capture' of a stream will not yield a unique hash so services such as cover art scrapers and subtitle-downloaders will yield non-optimal results. The file is also unlikely to be compressed in a way that maximizes quality while efficiently using disc space and processing power. For applications/OSes: This can become unsustainable for a small company or result in overloaded and slow servers for a large company (ie: ASUS).
Torrents allow for leeching (Many:1) and seeding (Many:Many) which takes the burden off the host, allows redundancy, and achieves far greater speeds than having a single point from which to obtain the files.
Without copyright you couldn't monetise your knowledge
There are many individuals and organizations that place their work in the public domain, use a lesser form of copyright (CC, GPL), or otherwise give their rights away. They monetise their knowledge by being proficient or pioneering. Then there are people who want to control the knowledge but fail to monetise it.
... and so wouldn't publish publicly.
Money is not the sole reason for publishing. I would also say that it isn't even a top reason for publishing. Recognition, fame, sharing, sense of achievement, and sense of community are all great reasons why one would publish. I publish comments without payment. I publish blogs without advertising revenue. I publish source code without a licencing fee. Why? Because I value the betterment of society higher than having the freedom to have someone else water my lawn.
The second hit is a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
The piece mentions nothing of immigrants, Muslims, or anyone else filing a petition or calling for a ban. It does mention that Christian Conservatives want to exclude all immigrants from festivities and Bavaria in general.
Having read ALL the first 20 links, it appears that the petition to ban Oktoberfest was submitted by the same Christian Conservatives and that all names and signatures were fraudulent. But I guess since these fraudsters aren't brown, we can now pretend the petition never happened.
Salem Witch Trials, Mass Murder of Scientists, Islamophobia, 2007 Boston Bomb Scare, and now this.
The teacher confiscated the "bomb" which sat in their drawer until the end of class when it was taken to administration. If the teacher truly believed that the device could have even remotely been a bomb, they would not have touched it, would have evacuated the school, and would have called bomb squad. The teacher, the administration, and the police are complicit in perpetuating a fraud - a fraud against a child.
Even in the case that the clock resembled a "movie bomb" or was purposely contracted to do so, the child did nothing wrong as long as he didn't hint at it being a bomb or use it to threaten anyone. There are plenty of clocks on the market that resemble a bomb. Yes, it may have been a lark. Yes, it may have been a protest to create awareness. No, it wasn't malicious. No, it wasn't threatening. And no, it obviously wasn't convincing.
I seriously hope that he follows in his father's footsteps and keeps challenging the status quo.
it's perfectly valid for a filename to start with two dashes.
It is also perfectly valid for a filename to start with a single dash. But that is irrelevant to the issue.
The issue is with the parameters / command line options / arguments. This is the part AFTER the program name. $args contains an array of everything after the filename, delimited by breaking space (and a few other scenarios). Single hyphen parameters within these arguments can be automatically parsed and set. Double hyphen parameters are not a documented feature, are unsupported, and may exhibit behaviour that the user does not expect.
That's even more stupid - any author of any system could at any time change the rules and break existing programs. In fact, Unix is more prone to this than Windows, going by your earlier statement.
My post is not about changing existing rules, but leaving room to add more features. A single hyphen is to be used for command line arguments. This leaves a double hyphen available for a future use; whether that be implementing GNU-like syntax, some new security paradigm, a switch to set a flag, or any number of uses.
There's no guarantee Microsoft won't decide to break programs using their established conventions too - except that it would be bloody stupid to do so. Not to mention that even their own "conventions" vary significantly from tool to tool.
Standards, conventions, guidelines, and rules are all there for a reason. It is one method of future proofing and is vital to follow for a program to exhibit expected behaviour. Why be a maverick and use double hyphen when there is no need whatsoever other than to be different. That is hipster-coding.
I don't think I'm going to worry about the possibility that Microsoft might stop passing command line options to programs. It's a ridiculous fear, and the fact that you got even one mod point for this shows how far Slashdot has fallen.
Microsoft won't stop passing command line options to programs - that would break every program. What Microsoft MIGHT do, and it would be both safe and fair for them to do so, is have the shell examine the parameter string, cut out double hyphen parameters, pass the remaining string to ARGV, then act on those cut parameters separately prior to or simultaneously with program execution. If developers have acted competently and followed the conventions, this will not cause any issues.
This is not a fear - it is just common sense. I got a single +1 Informative as someone has either learned something, has thought about something they haven't put their mind to before, or thinks that someone else may benefit from the information. I am not a developer. I am not a Windows user. But I read, and I absorb. It is called listening. That more people don't do it shows how far society has fallen.
-h? Next time, use all three of these: -?, -help, --help. I'm probably not going to try throwing -h at a program without having a clue what it might do.
For non-Windows systems: -h is Valid
-? is Invalid as '?' is a special parameter that may be expanded by the shell
-help is Invalid on GNU/Linux (though used often by ported applications)
--help is Invalid on older Unix systems.
For newer Windows systems:
-? is Valid (and mandatory)
-Help is Valid (and mandatory)
--help is Invalid
-help is Valid -h is Valid
I think this is a story about a guy who logs into some banking/trading platform only to leave it idle and proceed to random web browsing in other tabs of the same browser instance.
Slashdot Mirror
US Military were too late to the game.
On the 4th of January I watched the announcement of a seed gun.
You can see the video here.
What are you talking about? They aren't forbidden. Lots of drivers work for Lyft AND Uber.
Not independent
Independent contractors should able to set independent rates.
They can. If it is a rate that Uber agrees with, Uber will award a contract. If not, they will use another contractor.
Where Uber is going wrong is forbidding drivers (contractors) supplying services to other service operators. THIS is what truly prevents a contractor from setting their own rate.
They can modify it all they want but it is no longer Ubuntu. It has a different kernel, different drivers, and handles virtualisation very differently.
If a user had scripts running on Ubuntu and then migrated over to the new service provider, those scripts would likely stop working. These companies are using the Ubuntu name because the experience will be similar, however, there will be confusion where the user expects the experience to be identical.
Better would be to call it "Based on Ubuntu" or "Ubuntu-esque" or "VPSbuntu".
What if they removed all of the Ubuntu names on the exterior, the webpage, the file name, etc? Ubuntu still has their name all over the interior, no?
What about my 5C?
The battery slowly swelled up and busted the case.
No, no. That's a feature.
James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned
And nothing of value was lost.
... the race of the person being advertised to should not be a criteria that is even available for selection by the advertiser.
Okay. I'll bite.
If I am selling tickets to the BET Awards, I could save considerable money by excluding Caucasians in the marketing campaign.
If I am selling holiday packages to Vietnam, I would want to not advertise to the Vietnamese.
If I am selling flights to Thailand, I know the main markets are White-Americans, White-Australians and Asian-Australians, and Russians
And in this case, if I was advertising a property in a neighbourhood that is not popular with Hispanic people according to the demographic study conducted, why would I spend hundreds or thousands of dollars advertising to them?
Marketing 101: Identify your target market
Epic
Well played.
Could we please get everyone to implement RFC3514?
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
Also, could we please get everyone to implement hyperlinks
Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.
That is more an indictment of the shortcomings of the VPN provider you chose.
Streaming is a 1:Many relationship which is prohibitively costly. For media: This may be subsidized by advertising, tracking, or malware. A 'capture' of a stream will not yield a unique hash so services such as cover art scrapers and subtitle-downloaders will yield non-optimal results. The file is also unlikely to be compressed in a way that maximizes quality while efficiently using disc space and processing power. For applications/OSes: This can become unsustainable for a small company or result in overloaded and slow servers for a large company (ie: ASUS).
Torrents allow for leeching (Many:1) and seeding (Many:Many) which takes the burden off the host, allows redundancy, and achieves far greater speeds than having a single point from which to obtain the files.
I can't exchange BitCoin for a real house either.
Oh, really?
I pray you get "+5 Flamebait".
Without copyright you couldn't monetise your knowledge
There are many individuals and organizations that place their work in the public domain, use a lesser form of copyright (CC, GPL), or otherwise give their rights away. They monetise their knowledge by being proficient or pioneering. Then there are people who want to control the knowledge but fail to monetise it.
... and so wouldn't publish publicly.
Money is not the sole reason for publishing. I would also say that it isn't even a top reason for publishing. Recognition, fame, sharing, sense of achievement, and sense of community are all great reasons why one would publish. I publish comments without payment. I publish blogs without advertising revenue. I publish source code without a licencing fee. Why? Because I value the betterment of society higher than having the freedom to have someone else water my lawn.
Why don't they flee to other Muslim countries?
Because many of those countries have the same regimes that they are fleeing from.
The second hit is a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
The piece mentions nothing of immigrants, Muslims, or anyone else filing a petition or calling for a ban.
It does mention that Christian Conservatives want to exclude all immigrants from festivities and Bavaria in general.
Having read ALL the first 20 links, it appears that the petition to ban Oktoberfest was submitted by the same Christian Conservatives and that all names and signatures were fraudulent. But I guess since these fraudsters aren't brown, we can now pretend the petition never happened.
Salem Witch Trials, Mass Murder of Scientists, Islamophobia, 2007 Boston Bomb Scare, and now this.
The teacher confiscated the "bomb" which sat in their drawer until the end of class when it was taken to administration. If the teacher truly believed that the device could have even remotely been a bomb, they would not have touched it, would have evacuated the school, and would have called bomb squad. The teacher, the administration, and the police are complicit in perpetuating a fraud - a fraud against a child.
Even in the case that the clock resembled a "movie bomb" or was purposely contracted to do so, the child did nothing wrong as long as he didn't hint at it being a bomb or use it to threaten anyone. There are plenty of clocks on the market that resemble a bomb. Yes, it may have been a lark. Yes, it may have been a protest to create awareness. No, it wasn't malicious. No, it wasn't threatening. And no, it obviously wasn't convincing.
I seriously hope that he follows in his father's footsteps and keeps challenging the status quo.
Sometimes, I love the mods.
it's perfectly valid for a filename to start with two dashes.
It is also perfectly valid for a filename to start with a single dash. But that is irrelevant to the issue.
The issue is with the parameters / command line options / arguments. This is the part AFTER the program name. $args contains an array of everything after the filename, delimited by breaking space (and a few other scenarios). Single hyphen parameters within these arguments can be automatically parsed and set. Double hyphen parameters are not a documented feature, are unsupported, and may exhibit behaviour that the user does not expect.
The term 'Best Practice' exists for a reason.
That's even more stupid - any author of any system could at any time change the rules and break existing programs. In fact, Unix is more prone to this than Windows, going by your earlier statement.
My post is not about changing existing rules, but leaving room to add more features. A single hyphen is to be used for command line arguments. This leaves a double hyphen available for a future use; whether that be implementing GNU-like syntax, some new security paradigm, a switch to set a flag, or any number of uses.
There's no guarantee Microsoft won't decide to break programs using their established conventions too - except that it would be bloody stupid to do so. Not to mention that even their own "conventions" vary significantly from tool to tool.
Standards, conventions, guidelines, and rules are all there for a reason. It is one method of future proofing and is vital to follow for a program to exhibit expected behaviour. Why be a maverick and use double hyphen when there is no need whatsoever other than to be different. That is hipster-coding.
I don't think I'm going to worry about the possibility that Microsoft might stop passing command line options to programs. It's a ridiculous fear, and the fact that you got even one mod point for this shows how far Slashdot has fallen.
Microsoft won't stop passing command line options to programs - that would break every program. What Microsoft MIGHT do, and it would be both safe and fair for them to do so, is have the shell examine the parameter string, cut out double hyphen parameters, pass the remaining string to ARGV, then act on those cut parameters separately prior to or simultaneously with program execution. If developers have acted competently and followed the conventions, this will not cause any issues.
This is not a fear - it is just common sense. I got a single +1 Informative as someone has either learned something, has thought about something they haven't put their mind to before, or thinks that someone else may benefit from the information. I am not a developer. I am not a Windows user. But I read, and I absorb. It is called listening. That more people don't do it shows how far society has fallen.
Why do you claim --help is invalid on Windows?
It will work (at the moment) but goes against the conventions set by Microsoft.
Microsoft could, at any time, change the way it interprets a double hyphen, breaking your program.
It is safe at the moment because Windows passes the entire parameter string via ARGV
-h? Next time, use all three of these: -?, -help, --help. I'm probably not going to try throwing -h at a program without having a clue what it might do.
For non-Windows systems:
-h is Valid
-? is Invalid as '?' is a special parameter that may be expanded by the shell
-help is Invalid on GNU/Linux (though used often by ported applications)
--help is Invalid on older Unix systems.
For newer Windows systems:
-? is Valid (and mandatory)
-Help is Valid (and mandatory)
--help is Invalid
-help is Valid
-h is Valid
-h is the safest option
Thirded. No clue what this is actually about.
I think this is a story about a guy who logs into some banking/trading platform only to leave it idle and proceed to random web browsing in other tabs of the same browser instance.
I'm sure the story doesn't end well.
Fifty Shades of Grey