You know, you have a point regarding the analogy, but saying it in such a dickish way does not help.
As for my analogy, there is part of it that still holds. I was addressing the claim that "his business had better not hinge on myspace". That is a false dichotomy. He can and probably does promote his business in several different ways. The fact that it is popular to bitch about MySpace is not in any way relevant to the discussion.
So, using that logic, it is ok, if I show up at your workplace and start stealing pictures from the wall...If your boss' business depends entirely on him having those pictures, he's doing something wrong.
86% of Slashdot readers shown to not care about random statistics. 14% of those said to absolutely not give a shit, with 25% just shrugging and moving on to other topics.
67% responded correlation!=causation, and 12% refused to accept the story on the grounds that (86 + 14 + 25 + 67 > 100)
But they were also able to create Stargates that could last kajillians of years, without having to recharge the batteries, but they chose to skimp on the space ship.
Yeah. My six year old taught me how to send pictures via email. You may have seen the commercials. all you do is plug in your camera, click "accept", install the software, reboot, run the software, click "accept", open your web browser, and if a message pops up telling you that you have a virus, just click "accept". Then go to aol.com, type "holly06" in the username box, and "hunter2" in the password box, then click "accept", then "compose", then "granny236743@aol.com", and attach the image.
There is a fairly significant gap in the fossil record. Absent an explanation for this gap, an external party modifying our ancestors to create us is not unreasonable. There is no evidence for your sequence of events either, and it seems rather odd to me that we could've had a significant population of ancestors that failed to leave a fossil record.
Others have addressed this, but I think, from a practical standpoint, it would be more fair to ask, for each given time period, how many fossils that resemble modern day humans have been found?
You find a single human, who resembles a modern human in every way, and who lived in that time, and congrats! You have just proven scientists wrong.
Ah, the Fox news standard. You find every African American that agrees with you, and put them all on The Sean Hannity show to dispell the myth that your group is mostly white.
>as the country has now become a communist dictatorship
You pretty well nailed it with your definition. However, you left out the part where we are not only a communist dictatorship, but Obama is also the reincarnation of Hitler.
And the Joker...But I think that's just because he's anti-christian (bale).
The world where they think it's OK to use up 1/3 of my TV screen with an ad while I'm actually watching a show
Normally, I consider advertising as a precondition to getting free content, but that did annoy me last night.
I was watching south park, and some of the characters were speaking Somali. Comedy Central covered the subtitles with a big ad to promote the new episodes. If only these decisions were made up of human being smart enough to not use advertisements in a way that degrades the product they are trying to promote...
Step One. Propose a law that would hurt an industry. Step Two. Receive large campaign donations to stop that law. Step Three. ??? Step Four. Re-election!
I never thought of it that way. So they are extorting big business while simultaneously cock-teasing the little guy...That's depressing.
I suspect that region locking is the big fish, but you could put several emulators on a hacked wii. This could cut down on the money they make from people buying classic games from the Wii store.
I'm not defending them, but I think they could argue that, because software makes you explicitly take action, that it is a stronger contract, and something written within a book cover.
Of course, there should also be a burden of proof that the EULA was agreed to. If I had never owned a computer before in my life, and bought one today, then it would be perfectly reasonable for me to assume that a software transaction works in the following way:
1. I go to my local store 2. I grab a product from the shelves 3. I pay for it, and take my receipt.
But, the software industry slips in a few complications.
I go to my local store
I grab a product from the shelves
I pay for it, and take my receipt.
Then when I try to use the product, I find that the terms have changed.
I have to give up consumer protection rights. I am given a lengthy contract that denies any claim that the software is effective, or safe.
If I do not agree to these new terms (which I feel should be illegal, UNLESS they are given to you as part of the transaction, at the store), then I cannot get a refund from the store. In effect, I just paid for the privilege of seeing a contract.
I may be able to get a refund from the developer, but don't count on it. Even if the law says you can, it costs enough to get it enforced, that it is ultimately up to the company.
If I refuse the terms of the agreement, this leaves me with one resort; sell the software, which I can legally do, because I never agreed to anything.
So, can AutoDesk prove that the original owner agreed to the EULA? Or are they just assuming this because they know that it isn't really "agreed to", so much as "dictated from the company to it's customers"?
I personally believe they should have three options:
Go to the cell phone model. If you want a copy of Halo 3, the person running the register is required to hand you the contract, and make you sign it, before the purchase is completed. If this is really a contract negotiation, treat it like one.
Place the EULA on the packaging. If the current EULAs are too long for you to do this, then you need to rethink your EULA.
Someone mentioned server consolidation. Another purpose is that you can have each application run in it's dedicated environment. This reduces compatibility issues, provides flexibility, and has been used in one business for better load balancing in the event of equipment failure.
Let's say you have an email server and a web server on a single machine (small organization). If you need a new server, and had set this up without virtualization, then it may be difficult and time consuming to rebuild the new machine to have the exact same settings as the old one, and to move all of the email functionality to this new machine. With virtualization, it is as simple as having the new machine access the old email server image.
As another example, there is a large corporation near my home town. They use virtualization within their data center, and brag about the following:
You can ping one of their "servers", and unplug the machine. The image that was loaded on this server will automatically be loaded on another system, and this other system will respond. One single packet will be lost, in the amount of time it takes to do this.
So who was whining? The article points out something that not everybody realizes, and provides the math to back it up. Should something like that be censored, simply so people like you don't bitch and moan about "whining and bitching"?
No Way! When i pulled that bad drive from the 3140c, and replaced it with the replacement that had arrived this morning, the clouds overhead parted as the Valkyries sang and I rose to my rightful place, occupying the throne of Odin. As the gods before me gasped and awed at my most masterful replacement and saving of the data, 72 virgins were laid before me and I now rule in GLORY!!!!
So, 72 of your coworkers were impressed by your l33t $k!llz. Stop showboating about it, already.
Job satisfaction has some value.I wouldn't do this job for minimum wage, but if every job paid $10 per hour, I would choose this one (or blow job critic, depending on availability).
Since people typically judge the truthfullness of other people based on the confidence that they seem to have in what they are saying, you end up with a pack of know-nothing liars who make any kind of bullshit... with confidence.
That has always been my problem. Sometimes I do not have the confidence to say "screw you, I know what I'm talking about" (in a more diplomatic way of course), or if I do, then I know that it is not black and white, and I have to throw out a few overly-technical sounding qualifiers that turn people away.
The guy who says "This product is 50 pounds of whoop-ass in an orgasm-flavored package", seems to do better in the world, because he doesn't care enough about the truth to be shaken by the fact that he could be wrong, or to worry the customer with details that may confuse them, or make them rethink their purchase.
Of course, I never worked at Best Buy, but my first job did involve business consulting, where you were expected to have similar traits. And I was very bad at it.
I am not an economist, but I believe this is known as the broken window fallacy. The basic premise is that the economy works, as long as people are working. It doesn't matter if they are creating something of value, or simply acting as middlemen, con artists, or salesmen for useless products.
Now, if you want to argue that the trillion dollars is going toward research, which fuels tomorrow's economy, then that would be different. But, as it stands, much of the the trillion dollars would probably be spent either to pay developers to improve upon the free software they're getting. (I'm sure that some would be used to give the CEO a bigger bonus, to pay dividends to stockholders, and some would be channeled to third world countries where labor is reprehensibly cheap, but it would seem dishonest to say "don't tell the world's employers about FOSS, we want them doing things inefficiently so more of us can stay in business".
Slashdot Mirror
Critical thinking FAIL.
You know, you have a point regarding the analogy, but saying it in such a dickish way does not help.
As for my analogy, there is part of it that still holds. I was addressing the claim that "his business had better not hinge on myspace". That is a false dichotomy. He can and probably does promote his business in several different ways. The fact that it is popular to bitch about MySpace is not in any way relevant to the discussion.
So, using that logic, it is ok, if I show up at your workplace and start stealing pictures from the wall...If your boss' business depends entirely on him having those pictures, he's doing something wrong.
Bazinga!
Is that yiddish for "whoosh!"
86% of Slashdot readers shown to not care about random statistics. 14% of those said to absolutely not give a shit, with 25% just shrugging and moving on to other topics.
67% responded correlation!=causation, and 12% refused to accept the story on the grounds that (86 + 14 + 25 + 67 > 100)
But they were also able to create Stargates that could last kajillians of years, without having to recharge the batteries, but they chose to skimp on the space ship.
Yeah. My six year old taught me how to send pictures via email. You may have seen the commercials. all you do is plug in your camera, click "accept", install the software, reboot, run the software, click "accept", open your web browser, and if a message pops up telling you that you have a virus, just click "accept". Then go to aol.com, type "holly06" in the username box, and "hunter2" in the password box, then click "accept", then "compose", then "granny236743@aol.com", and attach the image.
It's so easy a six year old can do it.
Please don't open your source.
There is a fairly significant gap in the fossil record. Absent an explanation for this gap, an external party modifying our ancestors to create us is not unreasonable. There is no evidence for your sequence of events either, and it seems rather odd to me that we could've had a significant population of ancestors that failed to leave a fossil record.
Others have addressed this, but I think, from a practical standpoint, it would be more fair to ask, for each given time period, how many fossils that resemble modern day humans have been found?
You find a single human, who resembles a modern human in every way, and who lived in that time, and congrats! You have just proven scientists wrong.
So what is the IQ of an anonymous coward?
Ah, the Fox news standard. You find every African American that agrees with you, and put them all on The Sean Hannity show to dispell the myth that your group is mostly white.
>as the country has now become a communist dictatorship
You pretty well nailed it with your definition. However, you left out the part where we are not only a communist dictatorship, but Obama is also the reincarnation of Hitler.
And the Joker...But I think that's just because he's anti-christian (bale).
Tell her you used to work with a guy named Harry Milfporn, and damn that gmail!
The world where they think it's OK to use up 1/3 of my TV screen with an ad while I'm actually watching a show
Normally, I consider advertising as a precondition to getting free content, but that did annoy me last night.
I was watching south park, and some of the characters were speaking Somali. Comedy Central covered the subtitles with a big ad to promote the new episodes. If only these decisions were made up of human being smart enough to not use advertisements in a way that degrades the product they are trying to promote...
I noticed a pattern here with Congress.
Step One. Propose a law that would hurt an industry.
Step Two. Receive large campaign donations to stop that law.
Step Three. ???
Step Four. Re-election!
I never thought of it that way. So they are extorting big business while simultaneously cock-teasing the little guy...That's depressing.
That and Ghost Hunters...
When collapsed that reads as "In other news comcast also set to purchase...
NEW YORK"
If you thought your rent was high before, wait until Comcast is your landlord.
I suspect that region locking is the big fish, but you could put several emulators on a hacked wii. This could cut down on the money they make from people buying classic games from the Wii store.
I'm not defending them, but I think they could argue that, because software makes you explicitly take action, that it is a stronger contract, and something written within a book cover.
Of course, there should also be a burden of proof that the EULA was agreed to. If I had never owned a computer before in my life, and bought one today, then it would be perfectly reasonable for me to assume that a software transaction works in the following way:
1. I go to my local store
2. I grab a product from the shelves
3. I pay for it, and take my receipt.
But, the software industry slips in a few complications.
So, can AutoDesk prove that the original owner agreed to the EULA? Or are they just assuming this because they know that it isn't really "agreed to", so much as "dictated from the company to it's customers"?
I personally believe they should have three options:
Do Not Resuscitate!
Change Batteries.
Someone mentioned server consolidation. Another purpose is that you can have each application run in it's dedicated environment. This reduces compatibility issues, provides flexibility, and has been used in one business for better load balancing in the event of equipment failure.
Let's say you have an email server and a web server on a single machine (small organization). If you need a new server, and had set this up without virtualization, then it may be difficult and time consuming to rebuild the new machine to have the exact same settings as the old one, and to move all of the email functionality to this new machine. With virtualization, it is as simple as having the new machine access the old email server image.
As another example, there is a large corporation near my home town. They use virtualization within their data center, and brag about the following:
You can ping one of their "servers", and unplug the machine.
The image that was loaded on this server will automatically be loaded on another system, and this other system will respond. One single packet will be lost, in the amount of time it takes to do this.
So who was whining? The article points out something that not everybody realizes, and provides the math to back it up. Should something like that be censored, simply so people like you don't bitch and moan about "whining and bitching"?
No Way! When i pulled that bad drive from the 3140c, and replaced it with the replacement that had arrived this morning, the clouds overhead parted as the Valkyries sang and I rose to my rightful place, occupying the throne of Odin. As the gods before me gasped and awed at my most masterful replacement and saving of the data, 72 virgins were laid before me and I now rule in GLORY!!!!
So, 72 of your coworkers were impressed by your l33t $k!llz. Stop showboating about it, already.
Job satisfaction has some value.I wouldn't do this job for minimum wage, but if every job paid $10 per hour, I would choose this one (or blow job critic, depending on availability).
Since people typically judge the truthfullness of other people based on the confidence that they seem to have in what they are saying, you end up with a pack of know-nothing liars who make any kind of bullshit... with confidence.
That has always been my problem. Sometimes I do not have the confidence to say "screw you, I know what I'm talking about" (in a more diplomatic way of course), or if I do, then I know that it is not black and white, and I have to throw out a few overly-technical sounding qualifiers that turn people away.
The guy who says "This product is 50 pounds of whoop-ass in an orgasm-flavored package", seems to do better in the world, because he doesn't care enough about the truth to be shaken by the fact that he could be wrong, or to worry the customer with details that may confuse them, or make them rethink their purchase.
Of course, I never worked at Best Buy, but my first job did involve business consulting, where you were expected to have similar traits. And I was very bad at it.
I am not an economist, but I believe this is known as the broken window fallacy. The basic premise is that the economy works, as long as people are working. It doesn't matter if they are creating something of value, or simply acting as middlemen, con artists, or salesmen for useless products.
Now, if you want to argue that the trillion dollars is going toward research, which fuels tomorrow's economy, then that would be different. But, as it stands, much of the the trillion dollars would probably be spent either to pay developers to improve upon the free software they're getting. (I'm sure that some would be used to give the CEO a bigger bonus, to pay dividends to stockholders, and some would be channeled to third world countries where labor is reprehensibly cheap, but it would seem dishonest to say "don't tell the world's employers about FOSS, we want them doing things inefficiently so more of us can stay in business".