Companies selling software can't just ignore US market. It's too big.
Of course if you sell via internet from an oversea country, you may imagine you can avoid legal risks from US.
However, your US customers will be wary of buying something from abroad without local legal recourse if anything goes wrong. I most cases, you also need to have local sale forces and support.
If you develop in Europe and sell in US, you are impacted by US patent laws.
There are also international treaties about patent, so if you fill a patent in your country, you have a year to fill it in another country. This is well known by companies, to use this to gain one additional year of protection.
Software patents are not supposed to be valid in Europe, but they are filled anyway just in case. An invention with both hardware and software parts can be patented, so the distinction on software patent and usual patent is not so clear.
Sure Agile when it's correctly done may give great results.
What I've observed is agile keyword used to rush things, getting rid of requirement management, going from hack to workaround. Quite the opposite of how agile is supposed to be actually.
And Q/A role is mostly to take the blame, as the software is not designed to be testable.
Well, if it force all daytraders out of the market, so they have to find a real productive job, then high frequency trading is useful and deserves the $21.10^9 it sucks each years.
Sure. A MMO needs many mechanics to keep players involved during thousands of hours. Transportation is one of them. The point is not to add artificial dead time, because just waiting is only boring. The point is to allow players to make correct choices to avoid to much transportation time, and this becomes part of the game. This also allows rewarding players with faster means of transportation.
I'll take wow as example:
- When leveling, if you perform the right quests together, you save a lot of time.
- getting 100po for my first character's level 40 mount was a challenge ( with tailoring and enchanting as crafts, I was very poor during leveling). I became an AH trader for that and this is a game in the game.
- paying 5000 po for the epic flying mount is an important part of Wow economy, to destroy money.
- Shortcuts ! Did you remember the old Molten Core raids ? There was always someone trying to save time jumping into lava and failing.
Which is the difference between scientists and engineers.... Sometimes the right decision is to listen to the engineers and not the scientists.
In this case, I would say neither scientist nor engineers have been listened.
If you listen to management, financial and administration, yes you can choose to stick to imperial units, for a "good" budget reason, even if everybody knows this is plain stupid.
Brief summary of article:
- DNS root means real political power, US wants to keep it.
- We use this power to defend our constitutional right in the entire world, this is good for the world as US constitution is good and universal.
- We have invented the internet, so we have control and should keep it.
Well, for people who already agree, it may sound very convincing. Actually, you can also argue this is exactly why DNS root control should be removed from the hand of a given government.
Of course, as in every field moderation and pleasure is the key. Nice runs as you practice are good.
I recall a discussion with a runner performing running short distance competition at fairly high amateur level. He was aware that his joints will be damaged over the time and faced quite a hurting future. Well, as long as it is his choice, why not?
For long distance running, a good part of reward runners perceive comes from pain and production of endorphin. They would better achieve the same result with a sane BDSM activity.
There is an overwhelming discourse pretending doing sport is important and good for health. What I see around me is people getting hurt because of sport. Either going to far their limit or because of intrinsic risk of their sport.
I think running among all sports, is one of the worst disparity between perception of doing something healthy and being dangerous in reality. How many people died of heart break in their 40ies, because they were told to do sport and started running after a period of inactivity.
Of course I agree you need exercise. Walking, climbing stairs instead of taking elevators, should be enough.
French can understand quebecers well, except if accent is exaggerated on purpose.
Vocabulary is only slightly different. It is interesting to see it differ primary on acceptance of English words. In Quebec, they tend to be very reluctant to using word derived from English. Most pedantic people from Quebec will avoid them as much as possible. On the other hand, young people often don't care at all and blatantly use a mix of French and English words.
- If you want a format ISO standardized. - If you need long term archiving, being sure that after several years your document will be the same even if your computer and your printer have changed. - If you don't need fancy new stuff, video, sounds. - But you still want wide support PDF has for reading and printing everywhere.
Then use PDF/A.
This is a subset of PDF. It can be produced by Acrobat, but also a wide range of other vendors applications and scanners, including OpenOffice.
I agree, current status of science can not state at all if life is common or not.
For now, we observe life only on earth. This observation is not objective at all : we can make it because there is intelligent life to make the observation.
Having earth like planet hosting life within 30 light years is a just a conjecture. We may have a telescope able to observe these kind of planets quite soon, say a few years. All we need is orienting a part of the space budget there.
I'm all in favor of not receiving a physical letter for each legal document not so interesting as an electricity bill.
But what I see currently is each company/organization storing the files for me, each of them requiring a logging. And I don't want to keep the file on my own computer that is not so a sure place.
What we need is a different company in charge of receiving all these documents and keeping them securely as long as I want.
The guild that have done that are not average players. They are not even average hard core gamers. Their goal is to obtain the worlds first kills and they do what must be done for that. They are pros.
Anyway, that is faster than usual. This time, Blizzard did not even tried to design the new content to slow down the best guilds. They obviously worked for the more casual players first.
Problem for them is: if they make an instance difficult enough to give an opposition to the top 5 guilds in the world, it is impossible for a normal player, even dedicated to the game.
This is not "way left of field". Slashdot reader are supposed to be interested in distributed computing.
I'm sure many of us participates (or has participated in the past) in one of distributed.net projects. It's true that there was no recent news from them since quite a long time.
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Companies selling software can't just ignore US market. It's too big.
Of course if you sell via internet from an oversea country, you may imagine you can avoid legal risks from US.
However, your US customers will be wary of buying something from abroad without local legal recourse if anything goes wrong. I most cases, you also need to have local sale forces and support.
If you develop in Europe and sell in US, you are impacted by US patent laws.
There are also international treaties about patent, so if you fill a patent in your country, you have a year to fill it in another country. This is well known by companies, to use this to gain one additional year of protection.
Software patents are not supposed to be valid in Europe, but they are filled anyway just in case. An invention with both hardware and software parts can be patented, so the distinction on software patent and usual patent is not so clear.
Sure. That's why we call them "no-life".
Sure Agile when it's correctly done may give great results.
What I've observed is agile keyword used to rush things, getting rid of requirement management, going from hack to workaround. Quite the opposite of how agile is supposed to be actually.
And Q/A role is mostly to take the blame, as the software is not designed to be testable.
Analyst, who ?
robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Sure. And that's the whole point of LGPL to allow that.
Well, if it force all daytraders out of the market, so they have to find a real productive job, then high frequency trading is useful and deserves the $21.10^9 it sucks each years.
They can be defeated by another trading software that start buying to send to HFT a wrong "buy" message, then sell.
I suppose that's the same guys that are always getting the "first post" on /.
Sure. A MMO needs many mechanics to keep players involved during thousands of hours. Transportation is one of them. The point is not to add artificial dead time, because just waiting is only boring. The point is to allow players to make correct choices to avoid to much transportation time, and this becomes part of the game. This also allows rewarding players with faster means of transportation.
I'll take wow as example:
- When leveling, if you perform the right quests together, you save a lot of time.
- getting 100po for my first character's level 40 mount was a challenge ( with tailoring and enchanting as crafts, I was very poor during leveling). I became an AH trader for that and this is a game in the game.
- paying 5000 po for the epic flying mount is an important part of Wow economy, to destroy money.
- Shortcuts ! Did you remember the old Molten Core raids ? There was always someone trying to save time jumping into lava and failing.
Which is the difference between scientists and engineers.... Sometimes the right decision is to listen to the engineers and not the scientists.
In this case, I would say neither scientist nor engineers have been listened.
If you listen to management, financial and administration, yes you can choose to stick to imperial units, for a "good" budget reason, even if everybody knows this is plain stupid.
Brief summary of article:
- DNS root means real political power, US wants to keep it.
- We use this power to defend our constitutional right in the entire world, this is good for the world as US constitution is good and universal.
- We have invented the internet, so we have control and should keep it.
Well, for people who already agree, it may sound very convincing. Actually, you can also argue this is exactly why DNS root control should be removed from the hand of a given government.
Tie breaker using opponent score in tournament exists from a while.
SOS: Sum Of Opponents' Scores.
SODOS: Sum Of Defeated Opponents' Scores.
http://senseis.xmp.net/?TieBreaker
I am using a software I have no control at all, on someone else server.
I'm still using it right now, so I have completely surrendered my liberty to this company called "SourceForge, Inc" running "Slashdot.org".
And all my little IP packets are going through routers running software I don't even know how they are licensed. Terrific.
Of course, as in every field moderation and pleasure is the key. Nice runs as you practice are good.
I recall a discussion with a runner performing running short distance competition at fairly high amateur level. He was aware that his joints will be damaged over the time and faced quite a hurting future. Well, as long as it is his choice, why not?
For long distance running, a good part of reward runners perceive comes from pain and production of endorphin. They would better achieve the same result with a sane BDSM activity.
The probability I get an injury running is zero.
There is an overwhelming discourse pretending doing sport is important and good for health. What I see around me is people getting hurt because of sport. Either going to far their limit or because of intrinsic risk of their sport.
I think running among all sports, is one of the worst disparity between perception of doing something healthy and being dangerous in reality.
How many people died of heart break in their 40ies, because they were told to do sport and started running after a period of inactivity.
Of course I agree you need exercise. Walking, climbing stairs instead of taking elevators, should be enough.
French can understand quebecers well, except if accent is exaggerated on purpose.
Vocabulary is only slightly different. It is interesting to see it differ primary on acceptance of English words. In Quebec, they tend to be very reluctant to using word derived from English. Most pedantic people from Quebec will avoid them as much as possible. On the other hand, young people often don't care at all and blatantly use a mix of French and English words.
My password actually is stars. Nobody would guess such an idiot idea, no ?
- If you want a format ISO standardized.
- If you need long term archiving, being sure that after several years your document will be the same even if your computer and your printer have changed.
- If you don't need fancy new stuff, video, sounds.
- But you still want wide support PDF has for reading and printing everywhere.
Then use PDF/A.
This is a subset of PDF. It can be produced by Acrobat, but also a wide range of other vendors applications and scanners, including OpenOffice.
I agree, current status of science can not state at all if life is common or not.
For now, we observe life only on earth. This observation is not objective at all : we can make it because there is intelligent life to make the observation.
Having earth like planet hosting life within 30 light years is a just a conjecture. We may have a telescope able to observe these kind of planets quite soon, say a few years. All we need is orienting a part of the space budget there.
I'm all in favor of not receiving a physical letter for each legal document not so interesting as an electricity bill.
But what I see currently is each company/organization storing the files for me, each of them requiring a logging. And I don't want to keep the file on my own computer that is not so a sure place.
What we need is a different company in charge of receiving all these documents and keeping them securely as long as I want.
The guild that have done that are not average players. They are not even average hard core gamers. Their goal is to obtain the worlds first kills and they do what must be done for that. They are pros.
Anyway, that is faster than usual. This time, Blizzard did not even tried to design the new content to slow down the best guilds. They obviously worked for the more casual players first.
Problem for them is: if they make an instance difficult enough to give an opposition to the top 5 guilds in the world, it is impossible for a normal player, even dedicated to the game.
Restoring a good relationship with foreign partners is USA's best interest.
This is not "way left of field". Slashdot reader are supposed to be interested in distributed computing.
I'm sure many of us participates (or has participated in the past) in one of distributed.net projects. It's true that there was no recent news from them since quite a long time.
And what does your mind do to be self-aware that a computer can't ?
Is it:
- magic ?
- supernatural ?
- fancy quantum "Penrose" stuff ?
Ok, you don't know and you prefer to pretend the burden of proof is for someone else. That's easy.