Another factor in the discrimination against older job applicants: people want to hire applicants with no experience because there is always the chance that the untested applicant will be fantastic. The experienced applicant, on the other hand, is boringly predictable.
So, in this new world, the ideal is that every bit of information is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Free. So you can track the minute-by-minute value of my stock portfolio and I can track the minute-by-minute value of your blood pressure. OK? If not, where/how do we draw a line? Or, we decide that this is coming, like it or not. Now what?
As a related question, what is the bandwidth of a 'standard' conscious human adult? And, dividing this by the bandwidth of a neuron, how many neurons do we each have, devoted to input?
Another example of the Open Source model - and one that corporate management is quite comfortable with - is the model called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. In an annual report, you don't see references to GAAP with a trademark from the AICPA. The standards are maintained by a community of people who think the principles and problems of Accounting are fascinating and worth spending time on. The business community seems to be able to support this.
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Another factor in the discrimination against older job applicants: people want to hire applicants with no experience because there is always the chance that the untested applicant will be fantastic. The experienced applicant, on the other hand, is boringly predictable.
To DeepDarkSky
Your use of agism to make this otherwise valid point is unfortunate. Arrogance and Luddism are hardly unknown among the young.
- a 50+-year-old reader of Slashdot.
OK it's a great age or Science, but not so much for some other fields of human endeavor - say Music, Art, Literature?
So, in this new world, the ideal is that every bit of information is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Free.
So you can track the minute-by-minute value of my stock portfolio and I can track the minute-by-minute value of your blood pressure.
OK? If not, where/how do we draw a line?
Or, we decide that this is coming, like it or not. Now what?
As a related question, what is the bandwidth of a 'standard' conscious human adult? And, dividing this by the bandwidth of a neuron, how many neurons do we each have, devoted to input?
Rather than Microsoft as a business model, Red Hat may well become like AOL - achieving brand identification as the easy access to a technical area.
Another example of the Open Source model - and one that corporate management is quite comfortable with - is the model called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. In an annual report, you don't see references to GAAP with a trademark from the AICPA. The standards are maintained by a community of people who think the principles and problems of Accounting are fascinating and worth spending time on. The business community seems to be able to support this.
As a Linux newbie, I managed to load Slackware Linux on my Toshiba Tecra 700CT (cheating a bit by using Partition Magic to set up the dual boot with the pre-installed Windows 95). The current sticking point is figuring out the XF86 file to get my mouse to work. But I truly believe I will get this to work!
Don Knutson, diknutson@cbs.com