If you invent a 3 legged chair, and patent it, someone else can use your prior art, and invent a 4 legged chair, and patent it. Another person can use that, and invent a 4 legged chair with a back, and patent it.
Someone building chairs will pay the 3 legged person if they build a 3 leg chair. Pay 3 and 4 legged person for a 4 leg chair, and if the chair has a back, pay all of them.
Judges are also majority voted in, and they can be voted out. I, by principle, vote the non-incumbent for judges. If they were good, sorry. If they were bad, thats good they're out. And I think they need a "break" anyways.
I think that's a stupid idea. Voting a bad judge in means you can potentially break the system and create a situation where they cannot be forced out.
Pull your head out of the sand -- humans are animals and are slaves to the animal urges. Predation(and higher-level instincts on top of it such as competition and greed) is a part of life as much as sex is. If that's too much for you, then there's always the monastery, and why not? It's not like humans need nice cars and fancy houses to be happy.
And this is why we always need to have good regulations in place, instead of deregulation, because the ones who fight the way to the top are inherently the top predators.
I don't think your analysis is correct. If it's so simple, why did Bernanke had to go to a special class to learn more about derivatives?
ps: Yes, I'm joking for the humor impaired mods. Unfortunately, this particular situation is not funny. Like I tell everyone here, of course we need more deregulation. After all, it worked so well for the phone companies, the airlines, the energy companies, and now banks. We definitely need more deregulation.
You are wrong. No matter how badly anyone screws up on firefox on linux, there's no way these people will run IE. The people who run it through wine are already doing it anyways.
Lets all campaign and ask Linus to add a EULA to the linux kernel without onerous terms, exerting his trademark rights and such things!
After all, we can't have people mistaking the linux os for some other shitty os like windows.
We must exert our trademarks!! For eleventeen hundred years! And really, we should make it a law so that every piece of software has an EULA so that the authors can exert their rights and such things!
He was made to work alone. He asked for qualified help a number of times, and they refused to provide it. Someone else previously mentioned that they downsized from 600+ IT folks down to 200 or so.
BTW, did you miss the part of the case where for _years_ the admin in question begged, _BEGGED_ for someone else who was competent to be hired so he wasn't a single point of failure? That he continually pointed out that there was no DR plan whatsoever?
You say that like it would mean anything to the slashdot masses. No, they just want to make their decisions based on not RTFA.
Sheesh. We had a NotWork Engineer at my last place. 3000+ nodes, 42 remote sites, and a 10/8 network. The dumb ass did not understand layer 3 at all. Some of his neat tricks:
1) root bridge on his 2950 under his desk, when we had 2 6509s sitting in the data center. The moment our consultant removed it, users started spontaneously saying "hey, the network's faster, what changed?"
2) goes around saying "we have 4 10GB trunks in our backbone" yet, copying a cd from one computer to the next computer, on the same blade in the 6509, on gig links, would take up to 4 hours.
3) "lost" the password to the external routers. Took him 2 days to find it, and then he changed it to the name of his favorite football team.
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*snort* Yes, there are dumb moderators who have no humor.
If you invent a 3 legged chair, and patent it, someone else can use your prior art, and invent a 4 legged chair, and patent it. Another person can use that, and invent a 4 legged chair with a back, and patent it.
Someone building chairs will pay the 3 legged person if they build a 3 leg chair. Pay 3 and 4 legged person for a 4 leg chair, and if the chair has a back, pay all of them.
Judges are also majority voted in, and they can be voted out. I, by principle, vote the non-incumbent for judges. If they were good, sorry. If they were bad, thats good they're out. And I think they need a "break" anyways.
I think that's a stupid idea. Voting a bad judge in means you can potentially break the system and create a situation where they cannot be forced out.
WTF?! Parent has no humor, and moderators mod him up?!
Pull your head out of the sand -- humans are animals and are slaves to the animal urges. Predation(and higher-level instincts on top of it such as competition and greed) is a part of life as much as sex is. If that's too much for you, then there's always the monastery, and why not? It's not like humans need nice cars and fancy houses to be happy.
And this is why we always need to have good regulations in place, instead of deregulation, because the ones who fight the way to the top are inherently the top predators.
I don't think your analysis is correct. If it's so simple, why did Bernanke had to go to a special class to learn more about derivatives?
ps: Yes, I'm joking for the humor impaired mods. Unfortunately, this particular situation is not funny. Like I tell everyone here, of course we need more deregulation. After all, it worked so well for the phone companies, the airlines, the energy companies, and now banks. We definitely need more deregulation.
Gopher?! How do I find that on BitNET?
Apparently there are modders who can't read and understand a joke. Do we really have to write for a 4th grade audience here?
You know, I keep telling everyone here I'll still too competent. Please Peter Principle me so that I can make lots more $$ and have bigger bonuses.
It's called "a joke", hence the self reference to PDP-11. But I'm still on usenet. I miss Archie and Veronica sometimes.
And my GF is a nympho
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Somehow, that picture just makes me shudder! :)
You are wrong. No matter how badly anyone screws up on firefox on linux, there's no way these people will run IE. The people who run it through wine are already doing it anyways.
Well, maybe they can preauthorize the EULA.
******
YOU HAVE ALREADY AGREED TO THIS EULA...blah blah blah
******
What makes it more interesting, everytime you use Knoppix, you have to go through 500 EULAs.
Lets all campaign and ask Linus to add a EULA to the linux kernel without onerous terms, exerting his trademark rights and such things!
After all, we can't have people mistaking the linux os for some other shitty os like windows.
We must exert our trademarks!! For eleventeen hundred years! And really, we should make it a law so that every piece of software has an EULA so that the authors can exert their rights and such things!
Sorry, your uid is not small enough for you to reminisce about days that far back, just as mine won't let me reminisce about PDP-11.
The other theories will have to fight it out, and the winner will be taught just as soon as there's a viable 3rd party in US.
"we're not fight to take away firefox's market share, we're fighting to take away IE's market share"
Look at it in that light, and it makes sense not to make it for osx and linux.
The decision to include ActiveX plugin was still *DAMN* *FUCKING* *STUPID*
Dude, they freaking bought GreenBorder, one of the original companies that does sandboxing for normal Winblows executables.
What makes you think they have to rip off anyone?
He was made to work alone. He asked for qualified help a number of times, and they refused to provide it. Someone else previously mentioned that they downsized from 600+ IT folks down to 200 or so.
It is entirely the management's fault.
You may want to stop reading what the city says, and find out what really happened.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=960957&cid=24963255
How the hell is this modded insightful, when someone else already wrote:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=960957&cid=24963255
Parent needs to be modded up up up.
BTW, did you miss the part of the case where for _years_ the admin in question begged, _BEGGED_ for someone else who was competent to be hired so he wasn't a single point of failure? That he continually pointed out that there was no DR plan whatsoever?
You say that like it would mean anything to the slashdot masses. No, they just want to make their decisions based on not RTFA.
Sheesh. We had a NotWork Engineer at my last place. 3000+ nodes, 42 remote sites, and a 10/8 network. The dumb ass did not understand layer 3 at all. Some of his neat tricks:
1) root bridge on his 2950 under his desk, when we had 2 6509s sitting in the data center. The moment our consultant removed it, users started spontaneously saying "hey, the network's faster, what changed?"
2) goes around saying "we have 4 10GB trunks in our backbone" yet, copying a cd from one computer to the next computer, on the same blade in the 6509, on gig links, would take up to 4 hours.
3) "lost" the password to the external routers. Took him 2 days to find it, and then he changed it to the name of his favorite football team.
4) lots and lots more adventures.
Apparently this was why he refused to give out the admin passwords - he thought, and so far, it appears that he is correct, that they are all morons.