Then isn't what you're asking for something along the lines of the eff? There are already consumer watchdogs, et al around that try to keep companies inline so what would yet another one add?
Handshakes are much more complicated then just strength and what the 'flickr' image covers (the formula does have mention of strength (s) is strength "(1= weak; 5=strong) 3;") especially depending on which country you're in. A good rule of thumb is to squeeze firmly and if they squeeze stronger you just try to match. If you squeeze stronger then them then it's all sorts of body language issues/power plays. There are different ways to hold the hand depending on the image you want to portray and if you shake someones hand vigourously, as suggested, in Australia you'll either come across like an over-excited dog or you'll just wear the other person out and you'll lose face. Alan Pease has a book simply called "Body Language" (I can't find it on amazon easily unfortunately) that covers hand shakes in great detail
"but then I'd waste my vote!"/sarcasm
seriously though. I never understood why people don't vote for other parties or why people vote for the prime minister. We vote for our local candidates, not the party leader. If the party gets enough seats then their leader takes the prime ministers job but we still have to think of ourselves locally. Sometimes it's just a bit frustrating
And those that think they're throwing the vote away, vote for your favourite party and then put your "non-waste" vote as first preference.
Can anyone offer real insight into why people vote this way? Is it how the parties advertise themselves, or maybe it's because the local candidates align themselves so closely with the leader. I don't get it.
I can definitely understand that. I also understand that even though sites like rentacoder and 99designs exist my job will continue. In the foreseeable future there will still be a call for local developers with X years experience and a proven track record for quality. When globalisation and technology removes the need for local talent and X years experience then I'll adapt or retire. Whichever is first.
A system like this has already been in effect for years
RentACoder (now vworker) is a site where people post projects and then people bid on how cheaply they can do the work. I use to look at the site and people were bidding in the $teens for developing a CMS
One issue that I know has come up for me is how the GPL applies in situations where I'm using GPL software but I'm not actually modifying it. For example, I write a Java application, and it is reliant on a JAR that is GPL'd. Do I then need to GPL my software? I haven't changed the JAR in anyway, I'm just redistributing it with my software. The end user could just as easily download the JAR themselves, it's just a convenience for me to offer it in my package.
Eben:
The language or programming paradigm in use doesn't determine the rules of compliance, nor does whether the GPL'd code has been modified. The situation is no different than the one where your code depends on static or dynamic linking of a GPL'd library, say GNU readline. Your code, in order to operate, must be combined with the GPL'd code, forming a new combined work, which under GPL section 2(b) must be distributed under the terms of the GPL and only the GPL. If the author of the other code had chosen to release his JAR under the Lesser GPL, your contribution to the combined work could be released under any license of your choosing, but by releasing under GPL he or she chose to invoke the principle of "share and share alike."
Not at first but once he starts to franchise his world is ending speech he will be able to. Hell if the speech is so good perhaps a joint venture with one of the big fast food chains will be able to supply the extra workers to help promote it! "End of the world happy meal! Limited time only! *expires when the world ends"
Or better yet. Chances are one of the franchisees could be christs second coming and once he says the world is ending you'll have the attention of most of the world. He'll have people coming right upto him, giving him all of their details like age, gender, health concerns, bank details and all the details of their family members and he'll not have to employ a heartless billboard or trawl any social networks.
But don't imap and pop standards require a user to fetch the data? To poll the server for new mail? Just like polling for tweets which is what the suggestion was trying to avoid. How does email avoid that problem and be comparable to the issue at hand?
It use to be the same across Australia. Right until we had a very long drought and those in the know didn't expect water to last until 2010 in our capital cities. Some small towns were closed due to the drought... Then they finally offered rebates for when people bought tanks and removed a lot of the red tape to make installing water tanks appealing. So just wait until you get no rain for a few years and they might change, they'll start to wonder how they can tax rainfall though but I haven't seen talks about that in au in years.
Ever? Not even teenagers that are in drama class who also excel in English? Teenagers that are going through drama talent shows? A teenager that has hit 17, still lives at home and is at that frustrating age of being too young to do anything but old enough to understand some responsibility? Just because you have only ever encountered teenagers that can't string a handful of words together into a coherent sentence doesn't mean they don't exist. Of course there's a chance that you're right and this guy has done some of the best viral advertising in a long time, but I don't think it's as definitive as you make it.
Funny? That should definitely be insightful. As the music changes to adapt to the current generation the last generation always says it's gotten worse. My parents did it, their parents did and I'm sure the parents before said exactly the same thing.
And I do apologise for stoking the fire:) I haven't had a good flame war in many years and your first post just hit me and got me in the mood to see how rusty I am
That is also some very good points. I've gotten sick and tired of ads on tv so I have never plugged it in to the antenna but I do miss documentaries and other informative shows. On the radio I listen to a station with zero ads but I have to put up with crap music. And xbox live ads are just fail when you pay through the nose for everything. Paying for a service and then getting ads on top, like cable tv, I'd say exactly the same as you. Get the fuck off my "insert device here"
Damn it's bad enough being nickle and dimed for games and in apps but ads... As soon as ads leave the third party app and become standard on the phone I'm dropping that phone and looking for another. I do hope it doesn't happen but I'm not holding my breath.
And you're exactly right. You can get what you want by being a concientious consumer so why don't you? You don't have to buy a phone or get apps that are ad supported like you don't have to watch tv that has ads. It's your choice to use a platform that has ads so why bitch about it?
And the pedophile comment? Man that does beat socialist and racist comments hands down. You win the internets.
I went the intelligence move because it appears that you struggled to get your point across without swearing. What was your point anyways? I failed to see anything but a little screaming rant of a toddler with a foul mouth. And I felt like feeding the trolls. Someone has to as this is/. afterall. And yay for dropping the hitler quote in. I haven't seen a hitler reference in weeks. Didn't you know that calling racist doesn't win these days? You damn socialist/communist usually does the trick so try again
You still didn't answer my question about an adequate business model just more trolling. Yay!
Then don't be such a tight arse whiny bitch and pay for the app. Unless you have a better business model in mind? In fact I'm sure you do. With such obvious superior command of English I'm sure you're a very intelligent person that can enlighten us all.
I use chrome 5 on mac osx... To me the description of the test describes what's happening in the text box. Ie. Some text is highlighted but it says 'fail'
The other select tests do select the text as well.
Yeah we all knew that already but when I went to the site a few days ago, when hackernews showed it, it claimed chrome was failing tests where you could see with your own eyes it was succeeding. Fuck Microsoft and their bashing other browsers when theres still falls flat on all other tests/rant
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Then isn't what you're asking for something along the lines of the eff? There are already consumer watchdogs, et al around that try to keep companies inline so what would yet another one add?
hahaha. It might be wrong but I sure hope at least one of his disciples asked that
Handshakes are much more complicated then just strength and what the 'flickr' image covers (the formula does have mention of strength (s) is strength "(1= weak; 5=strong) 3;") especially depending on which country you're in. A good rule of thumb is to squeeze firmly and if they squeeze stronger you just try to match. If you squeeze stronger then them then it's all sorts of body language issues/power plays. There are different ways to hold the hand depending on the image you want to portray and if you shake someones hand vigourously, as suggested, in Australia you'll either come across like an over-excited dog or you'll just wear the other person out and you'll lose face. Alan Pease has a book simply called "Body Language" (I can't find it on amazon easily unfortunately) that covers hand shakes in great detail
"but then I'd waste my vote!" /sarcasm
seriously though. I never understood why people don't vote for other parties or why people vote for the prime minister. We vote for our local candidates, not the party leader. If the party gets enough seats then their leader takes the prime ministers job but we still have to think of ourselves locally. Sometimes it's just a bit frustrating
And those that think they're throwing the vote away, vote for your favourite party and then put your "non-waste" vote as first preference.
Can anyone offer real insight into why people vote this way? Is it how the parties advertise themselves, or maybe it's because the local candidates align themselves so closely with the leader. I don't get it.
I can definitely understand that. I also understand that even though sites like rentacoder and 99designs exist my job will continue. In the foreseeable future there will still be a call for local developers with X years experience and a proven track record for quality. When globalisation and technology removes the need for local talent and X years experience then I'll adapt or retire. Whichever is first.
A system like this has already been in effect for years
RentACoder (now vworker) is a site where people post projects and then people bid on how cheaply they can do the work. I use to look at the site and people were bidding in the $teens for developing a CMS
2) Clarifying the GPL
by sterno
One issue that I know has come up for me is how the GPL applies in situations where I'm using GPL software but I'm not actually modifying it. For example, I write a Java application, and it is reliant on a JAR that is GPL'd. Do I then need to GPL my software? I haven't changed the JAR in anyway, I'm just redistributing it with my software. The end user could just as easily download the JAR themselves, it's just a convenience for me to offer it in my package.
Eben:
The language or programming paradigm in use doesn't determine the rules of compliance, nor does whether the GPL'd code has been modified. The situation is no different than the one where your code depends on static or dynamic linking of a GPL'd library, say GNU readline. Your code, in order to operate, must be combined with the GPL'd code, forming a new combined work, which under GPL section 2(b) must be distributed under the terms of the GPL and only the GPL. If the author of the other code had chosen to release his JAR under the Lesser GPL, your contribution to the combined work could be released under any license of your choosing, but by releasing under GPL he or she chose to invoke the principle of "share and share alike."
It was more of a warning. Think of kdawsons or timothys articles always filtering to the top and you have digg.
Or to have people by cars from Mike Hunt
Not at first but once he starts to franchise his world is ending speech he will be able to. Hell if the speech is so good perhaps a joint venture with one of the big fast food chains will be able to supply the extra workers to help promote it! "End of the world happy meal! Limited time only! *expires when the world ends"
Or better yet. Chances are one of the franchisees could be christs second coming and once he says the world is ending you'll have the attention of most of the world. He'll have people coming right upto him, giving him all of their details like age, gender, health concerns, bank details and all the details of their family members and he'll not have to employ a heartless billboard or trawl any social networks.
But don't imap and pop standards require a user to fetch the data? To poll the server for new mail? Just like polling for tweets which is what the suggestion was trying to avoid. How does email avoid that problem and be comparable to the issue at hand?
It use to be the same across Australia. Right until we had a very long drought and those in the know didn't expect water to last until 2010 in our capital cities. Some small towns were closed due to the drought... Then they finally offered rebates for when people bought tanks and removed a lot of the red tape to make installing water tanks appealing. So just wait until you get no rain for a few years and they might change, they'll start to wonder how they can tax rainfall though but I haven't seen talks about that in au in years.
Ever? Not even teenagers that are in drama class who also excel in English? Teenagers that are going through drama talent shows? A teenager that has hit 17, still lives at home and is at that frustrating age of being too young to do anything but old enough to understand some responsibility? Just because you have only ever encountered teenagers that can't string a handful of words together into a coherent sentence doesn't mean they don't exist. Of course there's a chance that you're right and this guy has done some of the best viral advertising in a long time, but I don't think it's as definitive as you make it.
Cheers
I'd like to read more about that. No joke, just curious. Do you have a link or cite?
The great thing about dickloads is it keeps refilling itself
Funny? That should definitely be insightful. As the music changes to adapt to the current generation the last generation always says it's gotten worse. My parents did it, their parents did and I'm sure the parents before said exactly the same thing.
And I do apologise for stoking the fire :) I haven't had a good flame war in many years and your first post just hit me and got me in the mood to see how rusty I am ... As soon as ads leave the third party app and become standard on the phone I'm dropping that phone and looking for another. I do hope it doesn't happen but I'm not holding my breath.
That is also some very good points. I've gotten sick and tired of ads on tv so I have never plugged it in to the antenna but I do miss documentaries and other informative shows. On the radio I listen to a station with zero ads but I have to put up with crap music. And xbox live ads are just fail when you pay through the nose for everything. Paying for a service and then getting ads on top, like cable tv, I'd say exactly the same as you. Get the fuck off my "insert device here"
Damn it's bad enough being nickle and dimed for games and in apps but ads
And you're exactly right. You can get what you want by being a concientious consumer so why don't you? You don't have to buy a phone or get apps that are ad supported like you don't have to watch tv that has ads. It's your choice to use a platform that has ads so why bitch about it?
And the pedophile comment? Man that does beat socialist and racist comments hands down. You win the internets.
I went the intelligence move because it appears that you struggled to get your point across without swearing. What was your point anyways? I failed to see anything but a little screaming rant of a toddler with a foul mouth. And I felt like feeding the trolls. Someone has to as this is /. afterall. And yay for dropping the hitler quote in. I haven't seen a hitler reference in weeks. Didn't you know that calling racist doesn't win these days? You damn socialist/communist usually does the trick so try again
You still didn't answer my question about an adequate business model just more trolling. Yay!
Then don't be such a tight arse whiny bitch and pay for the app. Unless you have a better business model in mind? In fact I'm sure you do. With such obvious superior command of English I'm sure you're a very intelligent person that can enlighten us all.
I use chrome 5 on mac osx... To me the description of the test describes what's happening in the text box. Ie. Some text is highlighted but it says 'fail'
The other select tests do select the text as well.
This was one http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5/selection_harness.htm?url=selectionStartEnd
fails on the iPhone but it worked in chrome Wednesday
Yeah we all knew that already but when I went to the site a few days ago, when hackernews showed it, it claimed chrome was failing tests where you could see with your own eyes it was succeeding. Fuck Microsoft and their bashing other browsers when theres still falls flat on all other tests /rant
Because hiding behind a paywall that can only be passed by an ipad app is just too damn hard right?