There are wonderful teachers who avoid teaching because of sentiments like this. I'm sorry, I'm not interested in entering a toxic work culture where I am demonized by the press, politicians, and parents. Where people on the outside lust over taking away my job security, and where my salary is a race to the bottom of supply and demand. Listen, if you want to restrict pay raises for public school teachers, great, go for it. Divide the country even further along class lines and support private charter schools without the salary restrictions, who snap up the most passionate, brilliant instructors.
Many police officers find civil liberties frustrating, and some officers take out their rage on citizens. But now there's a new solution: cameras to watch the police.
That's the problem. I've been thinking of switching to Sprint, but I hear their coverage is pretty awful. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone.
Carriers are going to milk this. The iphone on 3G is already responsible for a ton of bandwidth. When the LTE enabled iphone 5 hits, that will go up. That means further strained networks, and customers burning up their puny data plans faster. I'd love to get a real smart phone, but with most carriers colluding on data pricing, a smart phone is an increasingly expensive luxury item.
Lead the way with software people expect to pay for. Get solid tax software on linux, and they will come? If TurboTax won't migrate to Linux, then a competitor must arise...
Why not do both? At the same time, the real problem is the passengers. If on average we were dealing with passengers who weighed even 5 lbs less, that might translate to 150 lbs on a smaller 30 passenger plane, or 1250 lbs on a larger 250 passenger plane. Using the 30 lbs = 1.2 mil figure, that's 6 million to 50 mil annual savings in fuel (not to mention the environmental benefit). A national weight loss campaign would lower flight costs and the environmental footprint of flights, while also helping us all get a bit healthier. Win win. (And pilots can still use ipads).
Same happened to me. Plus you have to wonder about what working for a company like this would be like if you did get hired. I don't think guessing "a stressful work environment with an unhealthy division between work life and home life" with higher than average unpaid overtime is that much of a stretch.
Does it matter? To prove the critical point - that Bain under Romney was involved in predatory investing - a single example suffices. It happens that there are several.
Rolling Stone - Why Bain is the Worst.
Nowhere in the post does the word performance even come up. As computers become faster, there are those of us who want to use that increased speed and power for the applications we run (whether it is video processing, video games, or just a ton of youtube tabs open in our bulky web browser of choice). Don't get me wrong, we want a desktop environment that is aesthetically pleasing and intuitive to our workflow. I just don't see why we need to keep significantly bumping up the performance cost of the desktop to get there.
Can anyone provide data for a non mainstream artist actually making a significant amount of money off a "pay what you want/donate" campaign? Not a kickstarter type of campaign, with specific prizes for different funding levels. But an ongoing "here is a bucket, take my art for free, pay what you want" campaign.
The time is right to announce my kickstarter for "Linus Takes the World" series of Cage Matches. First up, Miguel, followed by a "rumble on the desktop" group fight between the kernel developers and everyone responsible for Gnome 3.
They won't even see the shiny thing. When I get a new phone, I just log onto verizon's website and see what's available. If I looked on amazon.com, or headed to a local store (either a verizon outlet or a staples), I'd just see what's available. I wouldn't see what was banned.
Adorable. The Republicans and the Democrats both want the government in your wallet. They just differ on how they take the money out, and what they want to spend it on (though mostly they agree on what to spent it on - the only big difference is Republicans now want to eradicate the social safety net. Dems and Reps both love military spending).
Then that's ambiguous. I'm saying there exist distinctly noncommercial uses of work. Creating a work that is used for free in a public classroom is one such usage. Sharing it with a friend for fun (and for free) is another.
That's patently false. Creating a work that is used in a classroom for free is noncommercial. In fact, as long as you aren't charging people for the use of the work (or a derivative work) - it is clearly non commercial.
A good counter example would be knowing elderly people who still find excitement in life. I've known a few professors who, up until the day they died, lectured, taught, and traveled (loving every minute of it). For myself, the idea of being 500 and still being able to write, teach, or travel, sounds delightful.
The NC clause is vague and survives entirely on two even more misinformed ideas. First is rightsholders’ fear of giving up their copy monopolies on commercial use, but what would be considered commercial use is necessarily ambiguous. Is distributing the file on a website which profits from ads a commercial use? Where is the line drawn between commercial and non-commercial use? In the end, it really isn’t.
Essentially the argument is "because there are some instances where commercial use is not well defined, all instances ought considered vague. Very poor logic there. There exist distinctly commercial uses of work (putting something I wrote under a CC license with a NC clause in a book and selling it) against which the NC clause protects. The NC clause is absolutely a useful option to have.
I must strongly disagree. In my analysis, strong AI doesn't exist outside of science fiction novellas, and thus furthermore and therefore is a ridiculous accusation to make. I urge you my dear and wonderful readers, to ignore the implausible and outlandish statements made by the anonymous coward in the parent comment. Every nuance of his or her preposterous claims only further their own inherent absurdity.
If apps make claims to have a certain medical benefit, and do not provide that benefit, then of course there is a good reason to regulate. Medicine isn't all about markets. I'd say the litmus test ought to be - if the app fills a similar role to medicine - it is a part of a patient's treatment plan with medically significant impact - then it needs to be regulated. If the app is purely for convenience, entertainment, or education - then there is no need.
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There are wonderful teachers who avoid teaching because of sentiments like this. I'm sorry, I'm not interested in entering a toxic work culture where I am demonized by the press, politicians, and parents. Where people on the outside lust over taking away my job security, and where my salary is a race to the bottom of supply and demand. Listen, if you want to restrict pay raises for public school teachers, great, go for it. Divide the country even further along class lines and support private charter schools without the salary restrictions, who snap up the most passionate, brilliant instructors.
That is a foul harvest to reap.
Who do you have for a carrier? Verizon requires you to have a data plan if you have a smartphone on their network.
Many police officers find civil liberties frustrating, and some officers take out their rage on citizens. But now there's a new solution: cameras to watch the police.
Being against using the technologies personally make sense. Being against those technologies being available for others isn't quite defensible.
That's the problem. I've been thinking of switching to Sprint, but I hear their coverage is pretty awful. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone.
Carriers are going to milk this. The iphone on 3G is already responsible for a ton of bandwidth. When the LTE enabled iphone 5 hits, that will go up. That means further strained networks, and customers burning up their puny data plans faster. I'd love to get a real smart phone, but with most carriers colluding on data pricing, a smart phone is an increasingly expensive luxury item.
Lead the way with software people expect to pay for. Get solid tax software on linux, and they will come? If TurboTax won't migrate to Linux, then a competitor must arise...
Why not do both? At the same time, the real problem is the passengers. If on average we were dealing with passengers who weighed even 5 lbs less, that might translate to 150 lbs on a smaller 30 passenger plane, or 1250 lbs on a larger 250 passenger plane. Using the 30 lbs = 1.2 mil figure, that's 6 million to 50 mil annual savings in fuel (not to mention the environmental benefit). A national weight loss campaign would lower flight costs and the environmental footprint of flights, while also helping us all get a bit healthier. Win win. (And pilots can still use ipads).
Same happened to me. Plus you have to wonder about what working for a company like this would be like if you did get hired. I don't think guessing "a stressful work environment with an unhealthy division between work life and home life" with higher than average unpaid overtime is that much of a stretch.
Whether or not it is, this feels like a scam. What an insulting, manipulative way to take advantage of people looking for a job.
It is fraud, and the idea of it being ID is probably just a misleading title conjured up to snag page views.
That said: Corporations are not the victim here. The investors who end up buying worthless stock are.
Does it matter? To prove the critical point - that Bain under Romney was involved in predatory investing - a single example suffices. It happens that there are several. Rolling Stone - Why Bain is the Worst.
He'll be the Hobbit movie's Jar Jar. I foresee him finding Smaug's famous "desolation speech" nuanced and persuasive.
Nowhere in the post does the word performance even come up. As computers become faster, there are those of us who want to use that increased speed and power for the applications we run (whether it is video processing, video games, or just a ton of youtube tabs open in our bulky web browser of choice). Don't get me wrong, we want a desktop environment that is aesthetically pleasing and intuitive to our workflow. I just don't see why we need to keep significantly bumping up the performance cost of the desktop to get there.
Can anyone provide data for a non mainstream artist actually making a significant amount of money off a "pay what you want/donate" campaign? Not a kickstarter type of campaign, with specific prizes for different funding levels. But an ongoing "here is a bucket, take my art for free, pay what you want" campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKpnZ7cwWuY
The time is right to announce my kickstarter for "Linus Takes the World" series of Cage Matches. First up, Miguel, followed by a "rumble on the desktop" group fight between the kernel developers and everyone responsible for Gnome 3.
They won't even see the shiny thing. When I get a new phone, I just log onto verizon's website and see what's available. If I looked on amazon.com, or headed to a local store (either a verizon outlet or a staples), I'd just see what's available. I wouldn't see what was banned.
Adorable. The Republicans and the Democrats both want the government in your wallet. They just differ on how they take the money out, and what they want to spend it on (though mostly they agree on what to spent it on - the only big difference is Republicans now want to eradicate the social safety net. Dems and Reps both love military spending).
Then that's ambiguous. I'm saying there exist distinctly noncommercial uses of work. Creating a work that is used for free in a public classroom is one such usage. Sharing it with a friend for fun (and for free) is another.
That's patently false. Creating a work that is used in a classroom for free is noncommercial. In fact, as long as you aren't charging people for the use of the work (or a derivative work) - it is clearly non commercial.
I think the survey's results would be illuminated by also asking the following two questions:
1. Do you believe in an afterlife?
2. Are you assuming you'd live your extended lifespan in excellent, good, decent, poor, or horrible health?
If it was an extra 100 years of old age, vs an extra 100 years of being 20, I bet the answers would differ significantly.
A good counter example would be knowing elderly people who still find excitement in life. I've known a few professors who, up until the day they died, lectured, taught, and traveled (loving every minute of it). For myself, the idea of being 500 and still being able to write, teach, or travel, sounds delightful.
Essentially the argument is "because there are some instances where commercial use is not well defined, all instances ought considered vague. Very poor logic there. There exist distinctly commercial uses of work (putting something I wrote under a CC license with a NC clause in a book and selling it) against which the NC clause protects. The NC clause is absolutely a useful option to have.
I must strongly disagree. In my analysis, strong AI doesn't exist outside of science fiction novellas, and thus furthermore and therefore is a ridiculous accusation to make. I urge you my dear and wonderful readers, to ignore the implausible and outlandish statements made by the anonymous coward in the parent comment. Every nuance of his or her preposterous claims only further their own inherent absurdity.
If apps make claims to have a certain medical benefit, and do not provide that benefit, then of course there is a good reason to regulate. Medicine isn't all about markets. I'd say the litmus test ought to be - if the app fills a similar role to medicine - it is a part of a patient's treatment plan with medically significant impact - then it needs to be regulated. If the app is purely for convenience, entertainment, or education - then there is no need.