Who could actually compare collaborating with coworkers in an industry setting to copying (line for line) another student's code.
Frankly, as a student who doesn't copy other people's code, I have little or no time for those who do. They're undervaluing my degree, taking credit for other people's hard hours and, to be honest, should be strung up by the balls for it.
In industry, fine. The idea is to get a quality product out the door. In schools, the idea is for everybody to do their own work - that doesn't involve getting free credit for my code.
"All members of the cast have got a tattoo. When we had it done in a tattoo parlor in Wellington, New Zealand, we all swore never to tell anyone,' he told Reuters Television
What part of "swore never to tell anyone" did he not understand?
For god's sake - do you people ever pause to listen to yourselves?
The article's talking about a system that's being trialed on one small-time CD. To try to stop your whining whenever a new system's developed, the RIAA are labelling the disks, and offering returns if they don't work on your system.
You can just hear the whirring brains looking for some new way that this scheme makes the RIAA evil.
So what do we go with? "yeah, but the spotty kid at the front desk might not know about the system". Bear in mind that none of you have tried this, and had any resistance. But it might happen, so we've got a new enemy. Damn them for trying to make money from me. Those bastards, providing a product or service and wanting me to pay them for it.
So yes. Let's close down these stores. Make them loose their ability to take credit cards. After all, it's what they deserve for trying to make a buck by selling CDs.
Maybe, just maybe, these people are running fair businesses providing you with what is, at the end of the day, a luxury item. Who's the asshole here? The kid who doesn't know how the returns systems works? The manager who's trying to run his business? The RIAA, offering you your money back if the disk doesn't work? Or is it the one wanting to severely cripple someone's business because they don't like how things work?
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I'm fairly sure that it was Interesting Times, not The Last Continent that Cohen and Rincewind spent together.
Now, come on. Did you really read the article? Really truly?
From the first line:
repetitive stress injuries have left her unable to use a computer keyboard.
Even the judge agreed:
Her inability to type and write for extended periods of time
How, prey tell, did you read this and come away with the impression that she was perfectly fine physically?
For the record, she was able to type, then couldn't. It wasn't a case of learning to type. Oh yes, and her employer looked into speech recognition software for her.
I'd have to agree. My sympathy for this woman vanished as soon as it said that she'd sued for discrimination. It sounds like the newspaper did everything they could for her (including trying to reassign her), and then let her go when it became clear that she couldn't do the job. It seems like the only way they could avoid being sued would be to pay her a salary for doing nothing.
While it's clearly important that employers do as much as they can to support employees with disadvantages, such as this woman, there comes a point when they simply can't do the job any more. It's not their fault, but at the same time, it's not the employer's fault, and they certainly don't deserve to be taken to court over it.
I've seen companies bend over backwards to accommodate workers with disabilities. But at the end of the day, they need employees who can produce for them. It sucks, but there are some jobs that physically can't be done by some people. I for instance can't juggle, so I don't work in a circus.
But would that not leave companies dependant on one person for their products? Say that a team of researchers had worked five years to come up with a patentable idea. Who gets the patent? The team leader, one would assume.
Said team leader gets his name on the patent application, turns to his boss and suggests that a 200% pay increase would be a nice incentive for him not to leave and start his own company. Oh yes, and a corner office, a new car and a four-hour working week. Where does this leave the company that invested hundreds of man hours (from lots of people, not just this one) in developing a product.
The fact is that a company has to own some patents, no matter how unpopular that may be. It's either that or people have to start researching and developing on their own time and money, because it would be a dumb CEO who trusted his market winning product to the loyalty of one man.
But you make the point yourself that you don't know how wide the emittor itself it. You also don't know how scattered the beam is going to become, since photons won't deviate without reason (hitting atoms of hydrogen or some such in space) and the effects will be, if not totally random, then at least close enough that you can't predict it.
So if the emittor was a foot wide, and your assumption came from the idea that it was a meter (for all the nasa fans out there), any distance estimate is going to be lightyears off.
And I'm not sure that what you're talking about is triangulation, either. Triangulation is measuring the signal strength from a transmitter at three points, and calculating from that the grid coordinates. The signal strength is a measure of the distance. What you're trying to do is calculate the distance to the source from several points, and I'm not convinced that this method could work. Maybe something to do with redshift...
Either way, I agree that it's rather pointless (although the idea of our sublight missiles hitting this poor planet a thousand years after we've become allies is rather amusing). Still, I'd have to think that firing a laser of high enough power to get that far at a planet could be considered a bit rude ("We come in peace, sorry about vapourising your lab").
Either way, it'll be coming in straight to the Earth somewhere (apart from the short time when it's in the atmosphere at a tangent). As soon as the earth moves into the beam it'll be clear which direction it comes from.
But my point was that it's only going to one place, since it's essentially a line from 'them' to 'us'.
But you can't detect a laser beam in multiple points at once - it's not like it radiates outwards from a central source like radio. A laser beam is just that - a beam. It only goes in one direction, and by definition can only be picked up in one place.
You're also assuming that Lord High Master Gjo'rgW hasn't forseen your attack, and implemented the Son of GalacticWars program.
How would you propose that we triangulate the source using only one signal? And on that matter, why would you have to triangulate at all, given that it's a single coherent beam of light. Why not just look along it.
And then, since light takes considerable time to travel from AlienWorld, and that planets, systems etc. are all moving, the place that the laser was sent from is almost certainly not where the planet is now, and it's tough to accurately predict the current location of a planet when you can't be sure how far away it actually is.
No, I think that the Intergalactic Destructo Missiles(tm) would probably head off into space and hit some poor sap who was just looking for radio waves. And then wouldn't your face be red!
NOTE: Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
But the press release doesn't mention that Macromedia is a trademark. Adobe are clearly infringing on Macromedia's rights by using their name and should be sued for everything they own.
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Personally, I'm not sure how much I'd trust a computer named "Lola".
You'd think it was a PC until you got it home, only to discover that it was actually a Mac.
Well if it is a joke, it's a bit of a dumb one.
Who could actually compare collaborating with coworkers in an industry setting to copying (line for line) another student's code.
Frankly, as a student who doesn't copy other people's code, I have little or no time for those who do. They're undervaluing my degree, taking credit for other people's hard hours and, to be honest, should be strung up by the balls for it.
In industry, fine. The idea is to get a quality product out the door. In schools, the idea is for everybody to do their own work - that doesn't involve getting free credit for my code.
I'd have thought that a film called "Sharpe" wouldn't mind a blades tattoo.
"All members of the cast have got a tattoo. When we had it done in a tattoo parlor in Wellington, New Zealand, we all swore never to tell anyone,' he told Reuters Television
What part of "swore never to tell anyone" did he not understand?
For god's sake - do you people ever pause to listen to yourselves?
The article's talking about a system that's being trialed on one small-time CD. To try to stop your whining whenever a new system's developed, the RIAA are labelling the disks, and offering returns if they don't work on your system.
You can just hear the whirring brains looking for some new way that this scheme makes the RIAA evil.
So what do we go with? "yeah, but the spotty kid at the front desk might not know about the system". Bear in mind that none of you have tried this, and had any resistance. But it might happen, so we've got a new enemy. Damn them for trying to make money from me. Those bastards, providing a product or service and wanting me to pay them for it.
So yes. Let's close down these stores. Make them loose their ability to take credit cards. After all, it's what they deserve for trying to make a buck by selling CDs.
Maybe, just maybe, these people are running fair businesses providing you with what is, at the end of the day, a luxury item. Who's the asshole here? The kid who doesn't know how the returns systems works? The manager who's trying to run his business? The RIAA, offering you your money back if the disk doesn't work? Or is it the one wanting to severely cripple someone's business because they don't like how things work?
I'm fairly sure that it was Interesting Times, not The Last Continent that Cohen and Rincewind spent together.
Surely you're not implying that GWB is a great leader?
All this so a bunch of scientists get some new material for when they go to a party?
The search for a sense of humour continues...
Only on Slashdot would this be moderated up as "interesting" rather than "funny".
From the first line:
repetitive stress injuries have left her unable to use a computer keyboard.
Even the judge agreed:
Her inability to type and write for extended periods of time
How, prey tell, did you read this and come away with the impression that she was perfectly fine physically?
For the record, she was able to type, then couldn't. It wasn't a case of learning to type. Oh yes, and her employer looked into speech recognition software for her.
Other than that, spot on!
While it's clearly important that employers do as much as they can to support employees with disadvantages, such as this woman, there comes a point when they simply can't do the job any more. It's not their fault, but at the same time, it's not the employer's fault, and they certainly don't deserve to be taken to court over it.
I've seen companies bend over backwards to accommodate workers with disabilities. But at the end of the day, they need employees who can produce for them. It sucks, but there are some jobs that physically can't be done by some people. I for instance can't juggle, so I don't work in a circus.
Maybe it was him trying to make you think that it was someone else trying to make you think that it was him.
I'll stop now.
Said team leader gets his name on the patent application, turns to his boss and suggests that a 200% pay increase would be a nice incentive for him not to leave and start his own company. Oh yes, and a corner office, a new car and a four-hour working week. Where does this leave the company that invested hundreds of man hours (from lots of people, not just this one) in developing a product.
The fact is that a company has to own some patents, no matter how unpopular that may be. It's either that or people have to start researching and developing on their own time and money, because it would be a dumb CEO who trusted his market winning product to the loyalty of one man.
Sounds like just what you need after a long operation - a sponge bath from Robocop.
Shouldn't we now have Son Of Spacewar!
No-one did. They just rounded up his number of votes. It was easier that way.
So if the emittor was a foot wide, and your assumption came from the idea that it was a meter (for all the nasa fans out there), any distance estimate is going to be lightyears off.
And I'm not sure that what you're talking about is triangulation, either. Triangulation is measuring the signal strength from a transmitter at three points, and calculating from that the grid coordinates. The signal strength is a measure of the distance. What you're trying to do is calculate the distance to the source from several points, and I'm not convinced that this method could work. Maybe something to do with redshift...
Either way, I agree that it's rather pointless (although the idea of our sublight missiles hitting this poor planet a thousand years after we've become allies is rather amusing). Still, I'd have to think that firing a laser of high enough power to get that far at a planet could be considered a bit rude ("We come in peace, sorry about vapourising your lab").
But my point was that it's only going to one place, since it's essentially a line from 'them' to 'us'.
You're also assuming that Lord High Master Gjo'rgW hasn't forseen your attack, and implemented the Son of GalacticWars program.
And then, since light takes considerable time to travel from AlienWorld, and that planets, systems etc. are all moving, the place that the laser was sent from is almost certainly not where the planet is now, and it's tough to accurately predict the current location of a planet when you can't be sure how far away it actually is.
No, I think that the Intergalactic Destructo Missiles(tm) would probably head off into space and hit some poor sap who was just looking for radio waves. And then wouldn't your face be red!
They're looking for aliens firing lasers at Earth. I can see how that'd be useful.
Why are you testing if a boolean == true? What value are you expecting to get back?
Wouldn't you get chopped up?
But the press release doesn't mention that Macromedia is a trademark. Adobe are clearly infringing on Macromedia's rights by using their name and should be sued for everything they own.
Well, it makes as much sense as the Adobe case...