but couldn't get any further until the glaciers had sufficiently receded somewhere around 12,000 years ago
The Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Clovis: I think so, Brain, but where are we gonna get two sticks to rub together?
(a generation passes)
Thag, son of Clovis: What are we gonna do this generation? The Brain, son of The Brain: The same thing we do every generation, Thag. Try to take over the New World.
What's the answer? I don't know. But we need something that works for us, and something that requires a monopoly we can't obtain is not it.
Well, here's a thought.
You're right that mobility makes it hard to leverage your strength, assuming you have any. I propose another way to empower workers: quit, and form a worker-owned company. Seriously, what better way to get rid of the tension between workers and management than to get rid of the distinction entirely? Then, suddenly, mobility is on your side, because you can work from anywhere, for employers anywhere. Without the overhead most places have (like management salaries), you can still charge competitive prices.
If you own the company as workers -- and I don't mean through an ESOP -- then you have all the advantages of a union, and none of the foolishness that goes on when unions get fossilized.
I realize you're not actually advocating this kind of thinking, but I'd like to answer it just the same... in case others out there come across it.
If you KNOW your state is going to go one way or another (e.g., Massachusetts or Wyoming), vote third party. If the Libertarian or Green candidate gets 5% this year, their party will get matching funds in 2012. Then they'll have something like one half of 1% of the money the big two have, instead of 1% of 1%.
This is counted nationwide, not by state, so this is a good way to make a difference, wherever you live.
I'm not a programmer, I'm a translator, so my work is automatically telecommuting.
The price you pay for your work hours not detracting from your home hours is your home hours not detracting from your work hours. The clock doesn't get to watch you, but you don't get to watch the clock, either. When those people finally get you that work you've been waiting for, suddenly the pressure's on you, and no one's interested if it's already nine at night (and you've already had a coupla beers).
If gas and dust get blown away, what's to say that rocky planets weren't originally gas giants? It could be that the gases were (mostly) stripped away, leaving the core. Perhaps our rocky planets formed further out, migrated in, but found steady orbits as they lost mass.
Frankly, I'd rather see Microsoft in that position -- humbled, force-fed a fresh perspective, and one player among many -- than totally ground out of existence.
Precisely. Patent abuse is both a cause and effect of corporate power. Money speaks, and I think I can hear it clearing its throat even now.
Somebody post on this after it's happened, and a long list of major technology corporations has not only acknowledged it, but acted on it. Until then, I'm not getting my hopes up.
I actually WTFV, too. The moon swung around in an orbit nearly on a plane with the observer and continued merrily on its way. Given that the sun also appeared to be even with the observer, shouldn't that have caused a shadow (lunar eclipse) on the Earth?
(Insert obligatory Patsy quote: "It's only a model.")
And don't forget the difficult in finding a steady, evenly-spaced series of dastardly but colorful villains to fight, each time managing to defeat them in a way that results in their death without actually killing them outright.
Then there's the several bit players who provide moral guidance to Batman, and also provide key bits of help at certain plot points, which makes up for their propensity to put themselves in danger on a regular basis.
And don't get me started on how hard it is to find a good sidekick!
None of them are all that great. Do Google Apps do everything Office does? No, clearly not. But frankly, I think Office is overrated. Granted, my copy is a couple of years old, but I just don't have much use for it. I open most things in OpenOffice, but even then, I'm converting a lot of it to text. I find all office suites ponderous and bloated, more by feature creep than any particular flaw in coding. Send me text, and I'll put it in Scribus or LaTeX.
Google Docs should be thought of as a highly-collaborative text editing environment, not a word processor. It looks exceptionally good when you look at it that way.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot has chapters? How can I join one?
I think I speak for us all when I say...
No.
but couldn't get any further until the glaciers had sufficiently receded somewhere around 12,000 years ago
The Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Clovis: I think so, Brain, but where are we gonna get two sticks to rub together?
(a generation passes)
Thag, son of Clovis: What are we gonna do this generation?
The Brain, son of The Brain: The same thing we do every generation, Thag. Try to take over the New World.
What's the answer? I don't know. But we need something that works for us, and something that requires a monopoly we can't obtain is not it.
Well, here's a thought.
You're right that mobility makes it hard to leverage your strength, assuming you have any. I propose another way to empower workers: quit, and form a worker-owned company. Seriously, what better way to get rid of the tension between workers and management than to get rid of the distinction entirely? Then, suddenly, mobility is on your side, because you can work from anywhere, for employers anywhere. Without the overhead most places have (like management salaries), you can still charge competitive prices.
If you own the company as workers -- and I don't mean through an ESOP -- then you have all the advantages of a union, and none of the foolishness that goes on when unions get fossilized.
I realize you're not actually advocating this kind of thinking, but I'd like to answer it just the same... in case others out there come across it.
If you KNOW your state is going to go one way or another (e.g., Massachusetts or Wyoming), vote third party. If the Libertarian or Green candidate gets 5% this year, their party will get matching funds in 2012. Then they'll have something like one half of 1% of the money the big two have, instead of 1% of 1%.
This is counted nationwide, not by state, so this is a good way to make a difference, wherever you live.
I'm not a programmer, I'm a translator, so my work is automatically telecommuting.
The price you pay for your work hours not detracting from your home hours is your home hours not detracting from your work hours. The clock doesn't get to watch you, but you don't get to watch the clock, either. When those people finally get you that work you've been waiting for, suddenly the pressure's on you, and no one's interested if it's already nine at night (and you've already had a coupla beers).
Well, if this sentence was in a book in the Library of Congress, IPv6 usage would represent its adoption lev
A good analogy is like a car.
No. A good analogy is like a metaphor.
If gas and dust get blown away, what's to say that rocky planets weren't originally gas giants? It could be that the gases were (mostly) stripped away, leaving the core. Perhaps our rocky planets formed further out, migrated in, but found steady orbits as they lost mass.
Sadly, the killer was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Who in their right mind would get in their car just to drive across the street?
Frankly, I'd rather see Microsoft in that position -- humbled, force-fed a fresh perspective, and one player among many -- than totally ground out of existence.
Yeah, me neither.
Hey! It's "not" amusing to make "fun" of quotation marks. They even have their own "blog!"
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere.... Wet nature... Drop into the oven... Got to think... Lemme get another beer.
You've missed the whole point. The question here is not what to do with it, but how do we do anything with it.
Precisely. Patent abuse is both a cause and effect of corporate power. Money speaks, and I think I can hear it clearing its throat even now.
Somebody post on this after it's happened, and a long list of major technology corporations has not only acknowledged it, but acted on it. Until then, I'm not getting my hopes up.
I can't wait to see the Howitzer that leaves a bruise.
Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt would like to thank you for making this point. Also, they wanted to mention that they all hated pirates.
I actually WTFV, too. The moon swung around in an orbit nearly on a plane with the observer and continued merrily on its way. Given that the sun also appeared to be even with the observer, shouldn't that have caused a shadow (lunar eclipse) on the Earth?
(Insert obligatory Patsy quote: "It's only a model.")
And don't forget the difficult in finding a steady, evenly-spaced series of dastardly but colorful villains to fight, each time managing to defeat them in a way that results in their death without actually killing them outright.
Then there's the several bit players who provide moral guidance to Batman, and also provide key bits of help at certain plot points, which makes up for their propensity to put themselves in danger on a regular basis.
And don't get me started on how hard it is to find a good sidekick!
None of them are all that great. Do Google Apps do everything Office does? No, clearly not. But frankly, I think Office is overrated. Granted, my copy is a couple of years old, but I just don't have much use for it. I open most things in OpenOffice, but even then, I'm converting a lot of it to text. I find all office suites ponderous and bloated, more by feature creep than any particular flaw in coding. Send me text, and I'll put it in Scribus or LaTeX.
Google Docs should be thought of as a highly-collaborative text editing environment, not a word processor. It looks exceptionally good when you look at it that way.
If only there was some way to get inside Steve's brain. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be.
...Steve Jobs called a "suit."
And, it's half of 42!
No, wait. Um, never mind...
Yes, yes. But this is going to revolutionize it! Which is good, because nobody's come along and revolutionized the Internet in weeks!