While I'm sure there's a lot to mental maturity, what is happening to the body I can't call anything but decay. Loss of sight, loss of hearing, loss of smell, loss of motor function, all sorts of aches and pains, wrinkles, sagging and hair loss there's absolutely nothing there I'd consider physically or aesthetically positive. Some age gracefully but that's just saying they look less shitty than the rest, if I could keep/regain the body of a 20yo I'd take that in a heartbeat. And judging by all the people who desperately try to cling to their youth, I'd wager 99%+ of the population would gladly avoid this "gift".
Don't you also pay a 25% VAT on most goods and services? And even the lower rate for food is 12%? According to the Wikipedia, roughly 45-50% of your GDP goes into taxes and output government services. Total effective tax rates in the US are under 30%, even with our utterly ridiculous levels of military spending. We pay a *lot* less than you do.
I'm from Norway, not Sweden but I think your description is pretty accurate, on the other hand:
0-18: The state pays my parents for having me + free education. 19-24: Got a master's degree for free, just cost of living 25-62: Work, get taxed the shit out of but don't need health insurance, saving for my kids' college fund etc. 62-67: Potential forms of early pension, but will affect later pension 67-: Public pension, which is quite good if you've worked and paid taxes.
If you take the lifespan view you're probably not that bad off, you pay in a lot of taxes in the middle but overall the government pays for many years before and after that. Not everything goes into public services, a lot is also simply redistribution taxed one place and paid (or given tax breaks) another place. Cue the obvious commie comments, but it seems to be working rather well.
And on top of that the people most likely to respond in an adult fashion are those with least time to talk to you. A lot of the people you find trolling the net are fourteen, unemployed, unemployable or have some kind of mental condition or personality disorder which lead to them not having much better to do than to spread bile. That great developer who'd know the answer? He's probably busy designing and writing code after he got home from work while the bastard with no social life who can't figure out why he got fired is the one idling on IRC talking to n00bs, showing off his l33tness by rubbing in just how n00b they are. At least I'd have to be seriously bored to start engaging in trolling, which is usually cured by getting a life. That's really my thought every time, "Really? You really got nothing better to do? Pathetic..."
Web apps are the world's biggest inner-platform effect, create an OS-like environment except you're tied to HTML and CSS for rendering and JavaScript and XML (AJAX) as your client-server protocol. Every website tries to reinvent every standard desktop UI component (menus, dialogs, tabs etc.) and poorly I might add. Don't get me wrong, a lot of business and administration applications, online banking and whatnot that only need a standard toolkit are better off as web apps but no, turning everything into a "web app" is a horrible idea.
as with most satellite missions gone wrong -- its was the gyroscope
Actually the gyroscopes lasted the original 3.5 year mission, but due to more noise than anticipated they collected less data than planned - which was why the mission was extended to 7.5 years. Now they won't be able to finish that, but that was really the backup plan failing. Oh well, not everything can be a Mars Rover exceeding all design specs by leaps and bounds.
It's been a widely open secret for a long time. Everyone who wasn't a UFO kook has known that the place was used for testing experimental aircraft for decades now.
The UFO kooks say the same, only that the experimental aircraft are based on alien technology from Roswell and/or other contact/cooperation with aliens. Nobody except the US government denies that part.
Go ahead and Google search "nsa spying corporate espionage" if you want citation, you will find more links than you can read this week.
Not that it may or may not have happened, but that'll give you links of the same quality as "9/11 false flag demolition" and "moon landing faked" - an awful lot of speculation and conspiracy theories but actual proof is pretty hard to come by. Counting hits on Google isn't exactly a reliable way to measure truth,
In Norway, we have 3 months notice (both ways). By law. If you have worked for a long time (10+ years) at the same place, it's even more.
Not really, but it's very common. The legal requirements are:
Tryout period (max 6 months): 14 days Default: 1 month More than 5 years: 2 months More than 10 years: 3 months More than 10 years & age > 50: 4 months More than 10 years & age > 55: 5 months More than 10 years & age > 60: 6 months
In practice I've never had a job with shorter than 3 months though, but they all usually have the full tryout period first. If you've had someone on payroll for half a year you probably know if an employee is a keeper or not. And I don't think most Americans know what working 10+ years at the same company is...
Far be it from me to paint rosy pictures in these economic times... BUT... to be fair, the majority of that change you note is due to demographic changes, e.g. the leading edge of the Boomers retiring... which will continue to cause the ratio you mention to decline for some time.
Data.
Your own data contradict your claims.
"...over the 2008-2011 period...only one-quarter of the...decline of actual LFPR...can be attributed to demographic factors."
This conclusion - that three-quarters of the decline in the LFPR since the beginning of the Great Recession can be attributed to cyclical factors - is supported by other research.
Yes, the demographics are one factor but it dropped like a rock over the span of a little over a year, so drastically the composition of the population doesn't change.
If they are looking a way to "shut it down" then they're being way naive. This is happening (among other reasons) because of Moore's Law and you aren't going to change it.
"Big Data" is more of a legal issue than an technical issue, where are all these sources of data coming from and is the subject really aware of how much they're being profiled "behind the scenes" by putting together what appears to the customer like disjoint data sets? It's one thing that the baker knows what bread I like and the butcher what meat, another to find out the whole town has been comparing notes on me. Sadly I probably signed away my soul or at least the right to control that information deep down in some terms of service, though I probably had no choice in the matter as it seems rather standard these days.
People can weather bad times for a while, many have nest eggs, live off ramen noodles and stay with their parents longer, don't start a family, take more education instead and whatnot to live a subsistence life but those options tend to run out and eventually what they desperately need is a job and an income so they can get on with their lives. That the economy isn't tanking even more is great, but unless there's real growth and people getting back into the labor force it's still going to be a train wreck in progress. The same is happening in the US, before the financial crisis the employment-population ratio was about 63% now it's hovering between 58% and 59%, despite what the unemployment rate says. The US would need another 10 million jobs to return to 2008 levels.
So far I must say that despite everything it has been very calm so far, when you're looking at 27.6% unemployment and 64.9% youth unemployment like Greece does right now many countries would be at "fuck it, communism can't get any worse" conditions. And fat fucking luck if you're going to get a job after years of unemployment, most places will see you as damaged goods and rather hire someone straight out of school. The economy is one thing, it will survive somehow but the people are getting royally screwed. It's a generation almost certain to have it much worse than their parents, despite all the technological advances. And somehow I have the feeling it's just one bad domino away from becoming something much worse, so many look ready to fall.
If the hardness assumption holds, then RSA as such will never be insecure. Why? Suppose you say "here is a computer capable of factoring a number n with b bits." I'll say "OK, fine; I'll use 100*b bits (or something)"; because multiplying is so much easier than factoring, your computer will still be able to carry out that task but it won't be able to crack my key.
Except for the reason that we aren't using 100*b bits today, which is that the whole encryption/decryption process (not just the multiplication, which is trivial) also gets a lot slower. You want to be able to access your online bank securely on your cell phone in a very performance, power and time-constrained environment while it still being secure against someone who could throw a botnet or beowulf cluster or rack of custom ASICs at it for a long period of time. Your phone has to do the math every time, while they can pick one in thousand key exchanges to crack. In short, the practical security of RSA depends on there being a massive difference in difficulty so you can use it trivially while withstanding the most committed of adversaries. If 1 second encrypting = 1 year decrypting on a supercomputer, is it then secure? How long would you wait to log in to your bank?
Can the mythos that there's still tons of dark fiber laid down in the dotcom boom please soon die? It was thirteen years and at least an order of magnitude of traffic ago. Personally I'd like higher burst speeds, I don't need 1 Gbps 24x7 but when you buy a new game on Steam and is waiting for 20GB to download then having it in 3 minutes instead of 30 minutes or 3 hours has an instant gratification but I don't need to push >10 TB/day. Mobile data plans here generally still have caps but I don't see them as a big issue, if you go over you get slow speed (and may buy extra high-speed quotas, but that's entirely optional) and I wouldn't really have a problem with a 1 Gbps service capping me to say 50 Mbps after X GB/month. I guess to me that's more of a "glass is half-full" than "glass is half-empty" situation.
In all fairness it's pretty hard to review what you can reveal about your secret programs in the open since that'd implicitly reveal them already. You can't first tell all your secrets and then choose which to keep, the panel will review and recommend, higher-ups will decide and then they'll make some kind of public statement. Of course the NSA's whole credibility that there aren't more ultra top secret programs is shot anyway, they can disclose as much as they like and people will assume there is much more anyway.
I think the stock price will take a real beating since everyone seems to assume Apple will come up with the next must-have iDevice with huge margins. But they're by no means unprofitable and will probably transition into yet another faceless megacorporation, it's not like Sony or Microsoft is "cool" but they still sell PlayStations and Xboxes. Yes, we know Apple currently wants to sell to people who can afford a $1000 Mac Air, $650 iPhone and $500 iPad (ok so there's a mini for "only" $330) but people also buy $500 laptops, $325 phones and $250 tablets. Who is not to say Apple could transition into more of a "middle to upper class" company like Audi and BMW instead of Ferrari and Lamborghini. While they might not make as much per sale, they can make up for it in volume if only Apple wants to bet on it.
But that company probably have no legal requirement to deal with you either, they'll just insist you submit it their way and if you don't then stop processing your case. Good luck trying to find a lawyer who'll take on non-delivery of a product or service or job application or payout or whatever because you insisted on delivering it in some weird format. The government is in theory better, in practice nobody cares if you don't get your building permit or driver's license or social security number either.
Well, depending on how strictly you define keyword I'd say it mostly answers "what?", as in what is the topic of the document. Tagging I just consider way more free form answering what, who, where, when, metatags and whatnot in a highly unstructured fashion, with keywords acting more like entries in an index while tags are more like hyperlinks linking the oddest pages together. They're both a form of applying labels, but I feel they're not entirely for the same purpose.
There's a lot of things that'll never be properly described by tagging, a few examples I can think of:
1. "cats", what if I want just real cats? Usually you end up with something like "cats -cartoon -cgi -anime -drawing" etc. 2. Things that usually have one meaning but in a few contexts don't, like cats the musical and cats the animals. In the domain nature photography just tagging it "cats" is as natural as doing the same in the domain of musicals, but globally it's a mess. 3. Does "nude" imply "topless" or does "topless" imply not nude? People disagree. 4. Mixed tags, for example find pictures with one person nude and one person non-nude, tagging it with both is a big no-no.
Besides, people aren't generally interested in the tedium of tagging and tagging rules, most people just type up some keywords they think fit in a mingle of personal opinion and adjectives together with fact-based tagging.
The court opinion is six pages, Im guessing three of those are boilerplate. Are there any fluent speakers of German who can read through it and tell us the facts as expressed by the court?
The court didn't really go into much of anything, in short it concluded that the source was incomplete which means no rights were granted by the GPLv2 which means their distribution was a copyright violation. That they didn't know about it seems entirely irrelevant to the ruling. In fact it's so totally absent that going by this ruling you might think that if your copyright is violated, you can sue every mirror and every one of them would be guilty, no matter how much good faith belief they might have it's legally distributed.
Sure you can, just keep reading analogies until you get it. Though more than five rounds and I'll have to ask for your "intelligent being" card back (your geek card was already forfeit when you needed an analogy to UNIX).
But business has been burned before by vaporware and a nearly year-long, (if everything goes according to plan), wait to get any return on the investment is a very, very hard sell.
Vapor isn't really the biggest problem in the cell phone industry these days, it's that many decent phones sell like complete turds. Either you're a phone that's catching on or you're like totally out and you couldn't even move them at fire sale prices. See Nokia and Blackberry for two large players who suddenly found their phones unsellable. So you have a rather low upside (what can you actually retail them for? $999?) and potentially a huge downside ($399 maybe to get rid of a flop? You can't move flops at $500+ no matter how good the hardware). As a reseller it would look like a huge and poor gamble to me.
I've no idea why this urban legend continues to flourish when it's so clearly retarded. If he'd paid them more so they could afford his cars, they were at least as likely to spend the money with a competitor
Highly unlikely, a few years back I was doing some work for Volvo and in the parking lot there was a rather overwhelming share of Volvos. Sure, nobody expects you to sell or scrap an existing car that works well but somehow I don't think a Ford worker arriving in a new non-Ford car would get very well received by neither coworkers nor management, it's a pretty clear message you wouldn't want to eat your own dog food. That they could use the money for other things sure, but if they bought a car I'd say it was a very safe bet it'd be a Ford.
May I cordially ask which country is it? (Germany is my 1st bet...)
From his posting history I'd say Australia is a safe bet - but same here in Norway. Currently they don't have a wall clock where I work so I'm awarded five minutes on the online check-in to compensate me for the time to take the elevator, get to my office, log in to my computer and sign in. So if I check in at 8:05 AM wall time, it registers as if I arrived at 8 AM sharp. First place I've worked that actually have a clock system though, usually I've just filled out time sheets manually.
No sympathy whatsoever. As an airline pilot I do not get paid while I wait in line and am checked by the TSA. I do not get paid while I wait in line for customs. I do not get paid while I get the flight paperwork and verify it is safe and legal. I do not get paid while preparing and inspecting the airplane for flight. I do not get paid while I wait for everyone to get on the plane and coordinate with gate, ramp, fuel, maintenance and catering to ensure an on-time departure.
With all due respect, it's the flight industry that's got this backwards not the other way around. Is it your fault if the plane has a problem and you're grounded for half an hour extra? No, you're on the job, in your job uniform, ready to do your job but the risk is now transferred to you so now you're working half an hour "overtime" for free. That's not how it should be. I'm a strict believer in the "any time spent at work is work" principle, you should be able to clock in when you walk in the door (or paid from the required attendance time to pass that door) and clock out when you walk out the door. And for a pilot I consider that to be entering the airport, the time required to get to your pilot's seat and from your pilot's seat to the exit and any part you spend idling in your seat is downtime at work, plain and simple.
Obviously the hourly compensation would change to reflect that, in itself the pay might be the same. But now it's the employer's job to minimize the whole time you spend on your job, not just the "active" time. They take the risk of any delays, now they're wasting their money instead of your time. That is how it should be, but being such an international business as it is they've been able to evade many regulations simply by moving crew to work from whatever jurisdiction offers the least worker protection and is thus cheaper.
Maybe if they paid them better they wouldn't have to worry about this.
You expect people in a jewelry store to afford all the jewelry in the store? If you handle one of Intel's E7-8870 processors it sells for $4616 in bulk, a pretty solid post-tax income if you could say it broke and sell it on eBay instead. Sure bring out the Apple hate but I'm thinking they DO have to worry about this almost regardless of how much they pay them. Never mind that I've had a friend that's been a grocery store manager, even for absurdly small sums you have employee theft. As long as they think they can get away with it, it seems some have no problem making themselves a crook over petty change.
Slashdot Mirror
Aging isn't a disease; it's a gift.
I pity the people who can't see this.
While I'm sure there's a lot to mental maturity, what is happening to the body I can't call anything but decay. Loss of sight, loss of hearing, loss of smell, loss of motor function, all sorts of aches and pains, wrinkles, sagging and hair loss there's absolutely nothing there I'd consider physically or aesthetically positive. Some age gracefully but that's just saying they look less shitty than the rest, if I could keep/regain the body of a 20yo I'd take that in a heartbeat. And judging by all the people who desperately try to cling to their youth, I'd wager 99%+ of the population would gladly avoid this "gift".
Don't you also pay a 25% VAT on most goods and services? And even the lower rate for food is 12%? According to the Wikipedia, roughly 45-50% of your GDP goes into taxes and output government services. Total effective tax rates in the US are under 30%, even with our utterly ridiculous levels of military spending. We pay a *lot* less than you do.
I'm from Norway, not Sweden but I think your description is pretty accurate, on the other hand:
0-18: The state pays my parents for having me + free education.
19-24: Got a master's degree for free, just cost of living
25-62: Work, get taxed the shit out of but don't need health insurance, saving for my kids' college fund etc.
62-67: Potential forms of early pension, but will affect later pension
67-: Public pension, which is quite good if you've worked and paid taxes.
If you take the lifespan view you're probably not that bad off, you pay in a lot of taxes in the middle but overall the government pays for many years before and after that. Not everything goes into public services, a lot is also simply redistribution taxed one place and paid (or given tax breaks) another place. Cue the obvious commie comments, but it seems to be working rather well.
And on top of that the people most likely to respond in an adult fashion are those with least time to talk to you. A lot of the people you find trolling the net are fourteen, unemployed, unemployable or have some kind of mental condition or personality disorder which lead to them not having much better to do than to spread bile. That great developer who'd know the answer? He's probably busy designing and writing code after he got home from work while the bastard with no social life who can't figure out why he got fired is the one idling on IRC talking to n00bs, showing off his l33tness by rubbing in just how n00b they are. At least I'd have to be seriously bored to start engaging in trolling, which is usually cured by getting a life. That's really my thought every time, "Really? You really got nothing better to do? Pathetic..."
Web apps are the world's biggest inner-platform effect, create an OS-like environment except you're tied to HTML and CSS for rendering and JavaScript and XML (AJAX) as your client-server protocol. Every website tries to reinvent every standard desktop UI component (menus, dialogs, tabs etc.) and poorly I might add. Don't get me wrong, a lot of business and administration applications, online banking and whatnot that only need a standard toolkit are better off as web apps but no, turning everything into a "web app" is a horrible idea.
as with most satellite missions gone wrong -- its was the gyroscope
Actually the gyroscopes lasted the original 3.5 year mission, but due to more noise than anticipated they collected less data than planned - which was why the mission was extended to 7.5 years. Now they won't be able to finish that, but that was really the backup plan failing. Oh well, not everything can be a Mars Rover exceeding all design specs by leaps and bounds.
It's been a widely open secret for a long time. Everyone who wasn't a UFO kook has known that the place was used for testing experimental aircraft for decades now.
The UFO kooks say the same, only that the experimental aircraft are based on alien technology from Roswell and/or other contact/cooperation with aliens. Nobody except the US government denies that part.
Go ahead and Google search "nsa spying corporate espionage" if you want citation, you will find more links than you can read this week.
Not that it may or may not have happened, but that'll give you links of the same quality as "9/11 false flag demolition" and "moon landing faked" - an awful lot of speculation and conspiracy theories but actual proof is pretty hard to come by. Counting hits on Google isn't exactly a reliable way to measure truth,
In Norway, we have 3 months notice (both ways). By law. If you have worked for a long time (10+ years) at the same place, it's even more.
Not really, but it's very common. The legal requirements are:
Tryout period (max 6 months): 14 days
Default: 1 month
More than 5 years: 2 months
More than 10 years: 3 months
More than 10 years & age > 50: 4 months
More than 10 years & age > 55: 5 months
More than 10 years & age > 60: 6 months
In practice I've never had a job with shorter than 3 months though, but they all usually have the full tryout period first. If you've had someone on payroll for half a year you probably know if an employee is a keeper or not. And I don't think most Americans know what working 10+ years at the same company is...
Far be it from me to paint rosy pictures in these economic times ... BUT ... to be fair, the majority of that change you note is due to demographic changes, e.g. the leading edge of the Boomers retiring ... which will continue to cause the ratio you mention to decline for some time.
Data.
Your own data contradict your claims.
"...over the 2008-2011 period...only one-quarter of the...decline of actual LFPR...can be attributed to demographic factors."
This conclusion - that three-quarters of the decline in the LFPR since the beginning of the Great Recession can be attributed to cyclical factors - is supported by other research.
Yes, the demographics are one factor but it dropped like a rock over the span of a little over a year, so drastically the composition of the population doesn't change.
If they are looking a way to "shut it down" then they're being way naive. This is happening (among other reasons) because of Moore's Law and you aren't going to change it.
"Big Data" is more of a legal issue than an technical issue, where are all these sources of data coming from and is the subject really aware of how much they're being profiled "behind the scenes" by putting together what appears to the customer like disjoint data sets? It's one thing that the baker knows what bread I like and the butcher what meat, another to find out the whole town has been comparing notes on me. Sadly I probably signed away my soul or at least the right to control that information deep down in some terms of service, though I probably had no choice in the matter as it seems rather standard these days.
People can weather bad times for a while, many have nest eggs, live off ramen noodles and stay with their parents longer, don't start a family, take more education instead and whatnot to live a subsistence life but those options tend to run out and eventually what they desperately need is a job and an income so they can get on with their lives. That the economy isn't tanking even more is great, but unless there's real growth and people getting back into the labor force it's still going to be a train wreck in progress. The same is happening in the US, before the financial crisis the employment-population ratio was about 63% now it's hovering between 58% and 59%, despite what the unemployment rate says. The US would need another 10 million jobs to return to 2008 levels.
So far I must say that despite everything it has been very calm so far, when you're looking at 27.6% unemployment and 64.9% youth unemployment like Greece does right now many countries would be at "fuck it, communism can't get any worse" conditions. And fat fucking luck if you're going to get a job after years of unemployment, most places will see you as damaged goods and rather hire someone straight out of school. The economy is one thing, it will survive somehow but the people are getting royally screwed. It's a generation almost certain to have it much worse than their parents, despite all the technological advances. And somehow I have the feeling it's just one bad domino away from becoming something much worse, so many look ready to fall.
If the hardness assumption holds, then RSA as such will never be insecure. Why? Suppose you say "here is a computer capable of factoring a number n with b bits." I'll say "OK, fine; I'll use 100*b bits (or something)"; because multiplying is so much easier than factoring, your computer will still be able to carry out that task but it won't be able to crack my key.
Except for the reason that we aren't using 100*b bits today, which is that the whole encryption/decryption process (not just the multiplication, which is trivial) also gets a lot slower. You want to be able to access your online bank securely on your cell phone in a very performance, power and time-constrained environment while it still being secure against someone who could throw a botnet or beowulf cluster or rack of custom ASICs at it for a long period of time. Your phone has to do the math every time, while they can pick one in thousand key exchanges to crack. In short, the practical security of RSA depends on there being a massive difference in difficulty so you can use it trivially while withstanding the most committed of adversaries. If 1 second encrypting = 1 year decrypting on a supercomputer, is it then secure? How long would you wait to log in to your bank?
Can the mythos that there's still tons of dark fiber laid down in the dotcom boom please soon die? It was thirteen years and at least an order of magnitude of traffic ago. Personally I'd like higher burst speeds, I don't need 1 Gbps 24x7 but when you buy a new game on Steam and is waiting for 20GB to download then having it in 3 minutes instead of 30 minutes or 3 hours has an instant gratification but I don't need to push >10 TB/day. Mobile data plans here generally still have caps but I don't see them as a big issue, if you go over you get slow speed (and may buy extra high-speed quotas, but that's entirely optional) and I wouldn't really have a problem with a 1 Gbps service capping me to say 50 Mbps after X GB/month. I guess to me that's more of a "glass is half-full" than "glass is half-empty" situation.
In all fairness it's pretty hard to review what you can reveal about your secret programs in the open since that'd implicitly reveal them already. You can't first tell all your secrets and then choose which to keep, the panel will review and recommend, higher-ups will decide and then they'll make some kind of public statement. Of course the NSA's whole credibility that there aren't more ultra top secret programs is shot anyway, they can disclose as much as they like and people will assume there is much more anyway.
I think the stock price will take a real beating since everyone seems to assume Apple will come up with the next must-have iDevice with huge margins. But they're by no means unprofitable and will probably transition into yet another faceless megacorporation, it's not like Sony or Microsoft is "cool" but they still sell PlayStations and Xboxes. Yes, we know Apple currently wants to sell to people who can afford a $1000 Mac Air, $650 iPhone and $500 iPad (ok so there's a mini for "only" $330) but people also buy $500 laptops, $325 phones and $250 tablets. Who is not to say Apple could transition into more of a "middle to upper class" company like Audi and BMW instead of Ferrari and Lamborghini. While they might not make as much per sale, they can make up for it in volume if only Apple wants to bet on it.
But that company probably have no legal requirement to deal with you either, they'll just insist you submit it their way and if you don't then stop processing your case. Good luck trying to find a lawyer who'll take on non-delivery of a product or service or job application or payout or whatever because you insisted on delivering it in some weird format. The government is in theory better, in practice nobody cares if you don't get your building permit or driver's license or social security number either.
Well, depending on how strictly you define keyword I'd say it mostly answers "what?", as in what is the topic of the document. Tagging I just consider way more free form answering what, who, where, when, metatags and whatnot in a highly unstructured fashion, with keywords acting more like entries in an index while tags are more like hyperlinks linking the oddest pages together. They're both a form of applying labels, but I feel they're not entirely for the same purpose.
There's a lot of things that'll never be properly described by tagging, a few examples I can think of:
1. "cats", what if I want just real cats? Usually you end up with something like "cats -cartoon -cgi -anime -drawing" etc.
2. Things that usually have one meaning but in a few contexts don't, like cats the musical and cats the animals. In the domain nature photography just tagging it "cats" is as natural as doing the same in the domain of musicals, but globally it's a mess.
3. Does "nude" imply "topless" or does "topless" imply not nude? People disagree.
4. Mixed tags, for example find pictures with one person nude and one person non-nude, tagging it with both is a big no-no.
Besides, people aren't generally interested in the tedium of tagging and tagging rules, most people just type up some keywords they think fit in a mingle of personal opinion and adjectives together with fact-based tagging.
The court opinion is six pages, Im guessing three of those are boilerplate. Are there any fluent speakers of German who can read through it and tell us the facts as expressed by the court?
The court didn't really go into much of anything, in short it concluded that the source was incomplete which means no rights were granted by the GPLv2 which means their distribution was a copyright violation. That they didn't know about it seems entirely irrelevant to the ruling. In fact it's so totally absent that going by this ruling you might think that if your copyright is violated, you can sue every mirror and every one of them would be guilty, no matter how much good faith belief they might have it's legally distributed.
Could I get a car analogy for this?
Sure you can, just keep reading analogies until you get it. Though more than five rounds and I'll have to ask for your "intelligent being" card back (your geek card was already forfeit when you needed an analogy to UNIX).
But business has been burned before by vaporware and a nearly year-long, (if everything goes according to plan), wait to get any return on the investment is a very, very hard sell.
Vapor isn't really the biggest problem in the cell phone industry these days, it's that many decent phones sell like complete turds. Either you're a phone that's catching on or you're like totally out and you couldn't even move them at fire sale prices. See Nokia and Blackberry for two large players who suddenly found their phones unsellable. So you have a rather low upside (what can you actually retail them for? $999?) and potentially a huge downside ($399 maybe to get rid of a flop? You can't move flops at $500+ no matter how good the hardware). As a reseller it would look like a huge and poor gamble to me.
I've no idea why this urban legend continues to flourish when it's so clearly retarded. If he'd paid them more so they could afford his cars, they were at least as likely to spend the money with a competitor
Highly unlikely, a few years back I was doing some work for Volvo and in the parking lot there was a rather overwhelming share of Volvos. Sure, nobody expects you to sell or scrap an existing car that works well but somehow I don't think a Ford worker arriving in a new non-Ford car would get very well received by neither coworkers nor management, it's a pretty clear message you wouldn't want to eat your own dog food. That they could use the money for other things sure, but if they bought a car I'd say it was a very safe bet it'd be a Ford.
May I cordially ask which country is it? (Germany is my 1st bet...)
From his posting history I'd say Australia is a safe bet - but same here in Norway. Currently they don't have a wall clock where I work so I'm awarded five minutes on the online check-in to compensate me for the time to take the elevator, get to my office, log in to my computer and sign in. So if I check in at 8:05 AM wall time, it registers as if I arrived at 8 AM sharp. First place I've worked that actually have a clock system though, usually I've just filled out time sheets manually.
No sympathy whatsoever. As an airline pilot I do not get paid while I wait in line and am checked by the TSA. I do not get paid while I wait in line for customs. I do not get paid while I get the flight paperwork and verify it is safe and legal. I do not get paid while preparing and inspecting the airplane for flight. I do not get paid while I wait for everyone to get on the plane and coordinate with gate, ramp, fuel, maintenance and catering to ensure an on-time departure.
With all due respect, it's the flight industry that's got this backwards not the other way around. Is it your fault if the plane has a problem and you're grounded for half an hour extra? No, you're on the job, in your job uniform, ready to do your job but the risk is now transferred to you so now you're working half an hour "overtime" for free. That's not how it should be. I'm a strict believer in the "any time spent at work is work" principle, you should be able to clock in when you walk in the door (or paid from the required attendance time to pass that door) and clock out when you walk out the door. And for a pilot I consider that to be entering the airport, the time required to get to your pilot's seat and from your pilot's seat to the exit and any part you spend idling in your seat is downtime at work, plain and simple.
Obviously the hourly compensation would change to reflect that, in itself the pay might be the same. But now it's the employer's job to minimize the whole time you spend on your job, not just the "active" time. They take the risk of any delays, now they're wasting their money instead of your time. That is how it should be, but being such an international business as it is they've been able to evade many regulations simply by moving crew to work from whatever jurisdiction offers the least worker protection and is thus cheaper.
Maybe if they paid them better they wouldn't have to worry about this.
You expect people in a jewelry store to afford all the jewelry in the store? If you handle one of Intel's E7-8870 processors it sells for $4616 in bulk, a pretty solid post-tax income if you could say it broke and sell it on eBay instead. Sure bring out the Apple hate but I'm thinking they DO have to worry about this almost regardless of how much they pay them. Never mind that I've had a friend that's been a grocery store manager, even for absurdly small sums you have employee theft. As long as they think they can get away with it, it seems some have no problem making themselves a crook over petty change.