A fact of life in the global community is that people from other places aren't going to call things/places by the same name you do.
Of course you have every right to call a location what you'd like, and by virtue of the same right, everybody else can call that same place something else.
Did I miss something? Has research stopped? Is anyone even advocating that we stop researching climate change?
Given the story you are commenting in the context of, you'd have to be amazingly, passionately, non-objective to not see how moronic you sound for asking this (rhetorical?) question.
You're right that there are very few business that start / finish times matter. But your statement wasn't that it didn't matter. Your statement was "Only a few government departments run on an 8-5 schedule. DST makes no difference to the majority of people - they go to work when they feel like it." and that's just not true.
Actually, if you look back you'll see that it wasn't me who said that.
Around here there are about 70% fewer banks than there were 15 years ago, and they've been replaced with ATMs. A few branches that still exist may keep longer hours a few days a week, sure... But open on Sunday? That is a rare bank indeed.
Technically, I said that the agent was overpaid, and not that you paid the agent, but...
You pay the agent if you buy through the agent. You write a big check, and some percentage or flat fee comes out of that money and goes to the agent. I don't care how they word it in the agreement (they can word it either way, depending on locality, whether they are a buyer's agent or seller's agent, or whatever) the fact of the matter is that money goes from you to the agent. The seller knows how much the agent is getting paid, and factors that in to the price.
There are very very few businesses where start / finish times really matter, though there are more where they are enforced. Service oriented you say? Contractors (carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sanitation, maintenance) not only can choose their hours as they please (with the exception of emergency calls), but the frequently do. Consumer banking keeps retail hours, so you need to be there when the storefront opens, but they have no regard for their customer's schedules; after all, the term "Banker's Hours" exists for a reason. Construction and manufacturing require their workers to keep strict hours, but there is no reason they couldn't change those hours throughout the year to work during daylight...
How many jobs have you had? And I'm not talking employers... How many different jobs have you worked? I'd venture to guess that the answer is one or two.
That isn't the problem at all. The vendor of each OS has to deal with that problem, not the carrier.
The problem is that carriers want to develop features they can charge for on a recurring revenue (pay-per-use) basis. In a multiple OS, high flexibility world, features exist on the handset, not on the network. That means the customer gets to use music, video, voice dialing, games, photos, VNC, SSH, instant messaging, e-mail, etc, and it all looks like data to the network, or doesn't even use the network. This stops them from charging you per message/photo/song/minute of video, because messages become tiny bits of inexpensive data, photos get transferred to the user's PC via a memory card reader or data cable instead of through the high priced photo service (or as a message that is indistinguishable from a tiny amount of data), etc...
Developers don't write for mobile platforms because they aren't welcome there, not because there are too many OSs. When the carriers say that the number of OSs limits new applications, what they really mean is that it limits their ability to lock down applications as a service.
Recently gone completely nuts? You let the guy stand at the plate for long enough, and of course he's going to get a few hits, but the fact that you can enumerate the number of good things he's done over his 17 year career should tell you something about the guy.
If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can prosecute corrupt government employees. No? How about racketeering housing developers? No? Well surely he could do something about embezzling highway contractors? Again, no. Enforcing contract terms to keep a professional sports team around? Is this starting to look like a pattern?
Really, what good is this guy? He's just another member of a corrupt, incompetent state government with only one marketable skill (buying votes), and helping to give Massachusetts a run for its money.
Managers are under the mistaken impression that if i just use spring or Jakarta Commons, the company MUST open up the whole project in which it is used (like a proprietrary trading system) to Open Source. Many managers don't realize that just "using" Spring does NOT force you to open up your systems.
It doesn't help that they have salespeople from BlackDuck Software reinforcing their fears. Theys guys come knocking telling CEOs, and CFOs (they're very careful not to make initial contact with the technical guys) that if they don't run the BlackDuck product against their source code, they're going to end up getting caught with a line of GPL'ed code in their product and be forced to open up the whole thing. They do this despite the facts that accidentally including GPL'ed code wouldn't force the company to open their code (though they may be forced to remove the GPL'ed part), the Black Duck product produces more false positives and false negatives than valid results, their product provides no guarantees at all, and the BlackDuck software itself is almost certainly violating the copyrights of GPL software authors everywhere.
The open source community has little to no PR to educate businesses about their product, and at the same time IP Lawyers and predatory companies like BlackDuck are spreading false information to maximize billable hours and license fees.
I don't think that your reason #3 is so much of an issue. If it were, companies wouldn't be so willing to outsource. Rather, they'd be afraid that the outsourcing company would use their code in other customer's products as well. I simply don't think that the typical executive manager or investor today is educated enough to even consider that, much less be afraid of it.
6137869: Have a fixed/flat rate for all of your customers/calls, thus negating the need to store rates in a database at all. 6104711: Refer to all endpoints by IP address 6282574: Same 6298062: Enable voicemail for all customers. Don't allow them to turn it off. 6359880: Stop selling cordless VOIP phones. Customers can buy them from third parties anyway.
I can't help but notice that you could replace "Sony" with "Microsoft" in your first paragraph and still be completely correct. Yet somehow the gaming section of Slashdot is an alternate universe where nobody cares when Microsoft does those things...
You must be confused. Elections are those things where every 2, 4, or 6 years (depending on the office) we go out an re-affirm our position on abortion.
If politicians stopped running solely on polarizing issues and instead pushed for consensus building, elections wouldn't be close enough to be fixed easily, and none of this would really matter.
Unfortunately, the "frontrunners" in recent national elections seem to care more about gaining power than the welfare of our society, and the media benefits from playing up the polarizing positions as much as the politicians do, so there's likely no change in site.
What I'd really like to see instead of all this debate about voting machines, is some real work on campaign finance (not the worthless crap they've been proposing over the last six months). If we fixed campaign funding, these issues would be driven by fact and not by lobbying and campaign dollars. The best thing we could do in this country would be to disallow campaign contributions to representatives from any individual who is not registered to vote in that representative's district, or from companies who are not incorporated in and/or employ people in that representative's district. The same should be true for senators, but replace 'district' with 'state'.
Oops... I thought you were replying in the other thread I'm posting to in context of this story... You'll have to go read that thread for the firmware comment to make sense.
Slow down there... Who said anything about all that stuff? All I said was you need the firmware. If you use a reasonably modern distribution, this should be a simple as putting the firmware file in the appropriate location on the disk. If you're using a Debian based distribution it is typically as easy as installing a package these days. I don't see that as any different or any more difficult than downloading a manufacturer's driver for your Windows box.
This isn't about data loss, it's about cost. No smart is taking their chances and playing the odds. They are protecting their data with redundancy and backups. You're going to run the drive until it dies, has performance impacting error rates, or needs to be upgraded for some other reason. This isn't about knowing when you need to buy a new drive to save your stuff. It's about knowing how much budget to allocate to drive replacements in your organization that has 50,000 drives. Tolerance for failure is not measured in data lost. It is measured in dollars.
What is your point? Are you under the mistaken impression that you can't get almost every wireless adapter working under Linux? Or perhaps that something about ALSA means you're unlikely to have sound? Perhaps you are posting through a time warp from 2003?
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How about five years?
I know I'm going to get modded "Troll" for this even though I don't deserve it, however...
We're talking about Europe. Don't these guys remember the original Xbox? Or did it sell so few over there that it slipped their mind?
A fact of life in the global community is that people from other places aren't going to call things/places by the same name you do.
Of course you have every right to call a location what you'd like, and by virtue of the same right, everybody else can call that same place something else.
Wouldn't that be "YouTube LOL Beta"?
In technical terms, that stigma is called "Zero marketing budget".
Given the story you are commenting in the context of, you'd have to be amazingly, passionately, non-objective to not see how moronic you sound for asking this (rhetorical?) question.
Actually, if you look back you'll see that it wasn't me who said that.
You must live in an alternate reality.
Around here there are about 70% fewer banks than there were 15 years ago, and they've been replaced with ATMs. A few branches that still exist may keep longer hours a few days a week, sure... But open on Sunday? That is a rare bank indeed.
Technically, I said that the agent was overpaid, and not that you paid the agent, but...
You pay the agent if you buy through the agent. You write a big check, and some percentage or flat fee comes out of that money and goes to the agent. I don't care how they word it in the agreement (they can word it either way, depending on locality, whether they are a buyer's agent or seller's agent, or whatever) the fact of the matter is that money goes from you to the agent. The seller knows how much the agent is getting paid, and factors that in to the price.
Ideally, the agent could tell you so you wouldn't have to go there with a compass if it wasn't what you wanted....
Google maps, however, can tell you from the comfort of your desk. No overpaid estate agent required.
That's a pretty snarky comment.
There are very very few businesses where start / finish times really matter, though there are more where they are enforced. Service oriented you say? Contractors (carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sanitation, maintenance) not only can choose their hours as they please (with the exception of emergency calls), but the frequently do. Consumer banking keeps retail hours, so you need to be there when the storefront opens, but they have no regard for their customer's schedules; after all, the term "Banker's Hours" exists for a reason. Construction and manufacturing require their workers to keep strict hours, but there is no reason they couldn't change those hours throughout the year to work during daylight...
How many jobs have you had? And I'm not talking employers... How many different jobs have you worked? I'd venture to guess that the answer is one or two.
That isn't the problem at all. The vendor of each OS has to deal with that problem, not the carrier.
The problem is that carriers want to develop features they can charge for on a recurring revenue (pay-per-use) basis. In a multiple OS, high flexibility world, features exist on the handset, not on the network. That means the customer gets to use music, video, voice dialing, games, photos, VNC, SSH, instant messaging, e-mail, etc, and it all looks like data to the network, or doesn't even use the network. This stops them from charging you per message/photo/song/minute of video, because messages become tiny bits of inexpensive data, photos get transferred to the user's PC via a memory card reader or data cable instead of through the high priced photo service (or as a message that is indistinguishable from a tiny amount of data), etc...
Developers don't write for mobile platforms because they aren't welcome there, not because there are too many OSs. When the carriers say that the number of OSs limits new applications, what they really mean is that it limits their ability to lock down applications as a service.
Recently gone completely nuts? You let the guy stand at the plate for long enough, and of course he's going to get a few hits, but the fact that you can enumerate the number of good things he's done over his 17 year career should tell you something about the guy.
If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can prosecute corrupt government employees. No? How about racketeering housing developers? No? Well surely he could do something about embezzling highway contractors? Again, no. Enforcing contract terms to keep a professional sports team around? Is this starting to look like a pattern?
Really, what good is this guy? He's just another member of a corrupt, incompetent state government with only one marketable skill (buying votes), and helping to give Massachusetts a run for its money.
It doesn't help that they have salespeople from BlackDuck Software reinforcing their fears. Theys guys come knocking telling CEOs, and CFOs (they're very careful not to make initial contact with the technical guys) that if they don't run the BlackDuck product against their source code, they're going to end up getting caught with a line of GPL'ed code in their product and be forced to open up the whole thing. They do this despite the facts that accidentally including GPL'ed code wouldn't force the company to open their code (though they may be forced to remove the GPL'ed part), the Black Duck product produces more false positives and false negatives than valid results, their product provides no guarantees at all, and the BlackDuck software itself is almost certainly violating the copyrights of GPL software authors everywhere.
The open source community has little to no PR to educate businesses about their product, and at the same time IP Lawyers and predatory companies like BlackDuck are spreading false information to maximize billable hours and license fees.
I don't think that your reason #3 is so much of an issue. If it were, companies wouldn't be so willing to outsource. Rather, they'd be afraid that the outsourcing company would use their code in other customer's products as well. I simply don't think that the typical executive manager or investor today is educated enough to even consider that, much less be afraid of it.
Easy to work around...
6137869: Have a fixed/flat rate for all of your customers/calls, thus negating the need to store rates in a database at all.
6104711: Refer to all endpoints by IP address
6282574: Same
6298062: Enable voicemail for all customers. Don't allow them to turn it off.
6359880: Stop selling cordless VOIP phones. Customers can buy them from third parties anyway.
I can't help but notice that you could replace "Sony" with "Microsoft" in your first paragraph and still be completely correct. Yet somehow the gaming section of Slashdot is an alternate universe where nobody cares when Microsoft does those things...
You must be confused. Elections are those things where every 2, 4, or 6 years (depending on the office) we go out an re-affirm our position on abortion.
I don't want to do any research to figure out which of you is right, so I'm not going to take sides, however...
The parent mentioned greenhouse gases, including water vapor, and you are only talking about CO2.
If politicians stopped running solely on polarizing issues and instead pushed for consensus building, elections wouldn't be close enough to be fixed easily, and none of this would really matter.
Unfortunately, the "frontrunners" in recent national elections seem to care more about gaining power than the welfare of our society, and the media benefits from playing up the polarizing positions as much as the politicians do, so there's likely no change in site.
What I'd really like to see instead of all this debate about voting machines, is some real work on campaign finance (not the worthless crap they've been proposing over the last six months). If we fixed campaign funding, these issues would be driven by fact and not by lobbying and campaign dollars. The best thing we could do in this country would be to disallow campaign contributions to representatives from any individual who is not registered to vote in that representative's district, or from companies who are not incorporated in and/or employ people in that representative's district. The same should be true for senators, but replace 'district' with 'state'.
Oops... I thought you were replying in the other thread I'm posting to in context of this story... You'll have to go read that thread for the firmware comment to make sense.
Slow down there... Who said anything about all that stuff? All I said was you need the firmware. If you use a reasonably modern distribution, this should be a simple as putting the firmware file in the appropriate location on the disk. If you're using a Debian based distribution it is typically as easy as installing a package these days. I don't see that as any different or any more difficult than downloading a manufacturer's driver for your Windows box.
Let me guess. You run a video editing company that does a lot of digital overlays?
This isn't about data loss, it's about cost. No smart is taking their chances and playing the odds. They are protecting their data with redundancy and backups. You're going to run the drive until it dies, has performance impacting error rates, or needs to be upgraded for some other reason. This isn't about knowing when you need to buy a new drive to save your stuff. It's about knowing how much budget to allocate to drive replacements in your organization that has 50,000 drives. Tolerance for failure is not measured in data lost. It is measured in dollars.
The big spike is at the beginning.
What is your point? Are you under the mistaken impression that you can't get almost every wireless adapter working under Linux? Or perhaps that something about ALSA means you're unlikely to have sound? Perhaps you are posting through a time warp from 2003?
Works fine on my bronze powerbook G3, which I believe uses the same airport card...
You just need to find yourself some firmware.