Nothing like being guilty until proven innocent is there?
A criminal background check, ok, not a big deal for the most part and can save a company a lot of potential headaches and/or liability.
A credit check though? What good does that do for a company? Actually, wouldn't most companies prefer employees with less than good credit ratings as they would likely be less able to leave the job?
Piss test too you say. And why can't this be left to law enforcement? Pretty serious invasion of privacy, and if there's not a damned good reason for it how can it possibly be justified?
Actually, companies doing these things could be opening themselves up for lawsuits. A lot of places have laws in place to disallow discriminatory hiring practices, which these in most cases would be. There would have to be a darned good reason for discriminating based on credit rating for the job to use that as a reason not to hire someone.
Anyways, there are probably more reasons than just this as to why you _don't_ own your own company. But should you ever make the leap, could you just post a notice on/. so we all know _not_ to bother applying? Mmkay, thanks.
Agreed. VB.Net is not VB. Still a tad behind C# for language features, but barely. Worked in C# for the last 4 years at my last job, and dreaded having to use VB.Net at my new place of work. But now that I have been for a year, other than syntax, there's really zero difference between the two. Catch is to turn off the 'features' that let you write more vb6ish bastardized code. Make sure Option Strict and Option Explicit are on, and throwout the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace, and you're good to go. One great benefit over it is that the 'perceived' challenge for a VB6 developer in switching to.Net is greatly removed when they can be introduced to VB.Net rather than C#. I've mentored people that would never have attempted anything in C# in moving to VB.Net with great success.
I still prefer the syntax of C#, but that's mostly just personal preference.
Was I arguing that it will, or bitching that it hasn't, beaten mp3? Get off it already. It has a niche, it fits that niche very well, and that niche isn't going anywhere any time soon. It wouldn't 'beat mp3' even if it could deliver true lossless at mp3 sizes...the masses don't care. Chances are very slim that it would ever become the standard end format for the masses. Kinda like DAT or other formats that have very valid uses and are/were heavily used in their niche.
I happen to like ogg vorbis myself, but I certainly don't claim some higher ground or expect everyone to demand a switch to it. I'll happily use it where it makes sense for me, and enjoy seeing it used in the niches it fills, thank you very much.
Er, big difference. If you aren't found guilty, you get your boat and other confiscated things back.
This specifically entails skipping the due process involved. Basically, they can write you a spurious ticket and take your hardware...and never give it back, irregardless of whether you're guilty or not.
This crap really has to stop. Someone has to draw a line. No, actually, the whole country needs to draw a line, and demand that everything that has already crossed that line be revoked. Things in the US are starting to cross over into the land of the surreal. Jumped the shark is an understatement, and I KNOW that this is not the kind of thing your average American citizen wants to see happen.
Yep, agreed, Ogg, Vorbis, doomed to failure. Been doomed to failure for most of a decade. Any moment now, it'll be nothing but a memory. Here it goes...going...going...Hmm...not gone yet. Interesting. But it will I tell you! It'll be dead in no time now!
Hint: Have you any idea at all how many video games use Ogg? And can you think of why that might be?
No one used DAT tapes for their media collections...and yet, it was most certainly not a failure. You know, sometimes there's room for more than one technology. There's these things called niches. There are internal, closed systems. Not everything is a consumer end product.
We do not have to discuss Ogg in terms of being an end user accepted format for it to be a viable format. And it has most certainly proven itself and become very entrenched in certain areas.
But hey, you just go on and argue for the sake of arguing mmkay?
Yes, every product is indeed an advertisement for itself. But there are ads, and there are products. I wouldn't classify demos as products myself though. I won't pay for an ad, though an ad might entice me to buy a product. IE: The purpose of demos, and why traditionally they are free.
When was the last time you had to pay for a test drive?
Trust me, it's advertising. Just because people have been suckered into paying for various types of advertising doesn't mean it makes any sense to do so. Remember, there's a sucker born every minute!
Newsflash: Upgrade to XBox Live Gold NOW and you'll get to pay for demos which you will get a whole week earlier than Silver subscribers! Yes! That's right! Only $50 dollars a year and you will get our advertisements a whole week earlier!!!
When did people forget that that is what demos are: nothing but advertisements, plain and simple.
Yet another instance of the biggest lie going in media.
Remember when TV was paid for by the advertisements? Yeah, and then we got suckered into paying to be fed MORE advertisements.
What is XBox Live except an advertising stream that generates revenue for MS? And to get the highest level of advertising on your plate...you get to pay for it!
Bandwidth costs money, but that is most certainly not the only part of the equation here. That bandwidth cost is simply the cost of spoon feeding you advertising, which generates revenue.
That would be why it shouldn't be considered a gift.
Try that in a schooner. He was referring to traditional masted ships, being the reasonable comparison to the topic at hand. Not a small sailboat. Numbers were a bit arbitrary, but the point is sound.
As others have mentioned, this is simply not true, tacking is extremely easy with a modern kite, NOTHING like in a sailboat. I've kited a number of times, and have a bunch of friends that do very regularly. It's a joke to maneuver upwind with them, and kite designs are getting better all the time.
Problem is, almost no studies are done on this particular subject...good luck getting government funding to do so.
Common sense states that your average pot smoker smokes a lot less pot than your average cigarette smoker smokes cigarettes, so there's a starting point. Further, a LOT of chemicals are used in the manufacture of your typical cigarette.
There are a ton of starting points for reasonable research to be done, but alas, it won't be any time soon. Without doing research unfortunately, we simply can not know what affects the compounds in cannabis have on the human body.
That money gets paid to the **AA, who is in charge of dispersing the funds from there. Thus the theory involved in the artists actually seeing any of it.
It is legal in Canada to make copies of media for personal use. Not so clear cut in the states. Paying that subsidy to the **AA basically means that the **AA agrees to this, and thus can not take legal action against people in Canada that choose to do so. In other words, if the **AA were to try to take legal action in Canada, our government can, and does, tell them to take a flying leap. That would be 'since when'.
It's not perfect, but it's no where near what you make it out to be.
No one is taking funds for 'illegal acts I'm not committing', as this is perfectly legal in Canada. However, the **AA are American entities, and control most of the mass media market. It's really not a bad situation considering this. We pay a pittance to support our legal copying of media for personal use.
Not even going to touch the assumption you're making on your side of the border as to the legality involved here other than to say that the situation is all shades of grey. Copying media that you own most assuredly should be legal. But do not try to tell me that there are no people blatantly stealing media. Don't try to make this black and white, because it is not.
Last, I threw no rocks Mr. Hypocrite. You quite obviously were the one throwing the rocks, and I merely clarified the misinformation you presented.
Don't want advice? Then I'd highly suggest you don't give it in the first place.
Couple points: It's not a subsidy on all blank media, data media is exempt. And in many cases, exactly the same media is sold with and without the subsidy, so you can easily circumvent paying.
Having said that, it's a meager token, one that I happily pay as it allows our government to tell the **AA to take a flying leap on our behalf. Also knowing that, in theory at least, that money does get distributed to the artists. I really don't have a problem with an artist getting paid a pittance when a copy of their work is made. (Of course, the chance that the particular artist that I copied a work of gets any of that is, er, difficult to determine, but that's another story)
Point being, this is not even remotely the same thing. Please refrain from throwing our government under the bus with that of the US;) While not perfect...I'll take what I've got any day thank you!
This is the beginning of yet another very slippery slope. Students, stand up for your rights as citizens of the country you live in! You are not second class citizens, and yet they'd like you to be.
More legislation for the sake of big business. This is so sad on so many levels.
Just a minor nit to pick: necessity != right, and that's assuming what you describe is actually a necessity...I'd call it a desire. Millions of people do just fine with blue-collar jobs. Many people desire a white collar life. It's all about what you want and what you're willing to do to get it. None of that is a right, it's all up to you, the individual.
Lots of people still pay their way through post secondary education without racking up student loans.
I'm not being an apologist of any sort. I'm merely discussing what are known and agreed upon facts. I'm also very open to the idea that a lot of these facts may indeed be wrong and am always interested in information showing different points of view.
Not sure where you're trying to go with that...perhaps you're of the opinion that everyone should have just stopped fighting and gone their separate ways? And ideally, I'd have to agree with that...however, that's not what happened and there is nothing that can change what did happen. All we can do is learn from what did happen and do everything we can to ensure it does not happen again.
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Nothing like being guilty until proven innocent is there?
/. so we all know _not_ to bother applying? Mmkay, thanks.
A criminal background check, ok, not a big deal for the most part and can save a company a lot of potential headaches and/or liability.
A credit check though? What good does that do for a company? Actually, wouldn't most companies prefer employees with less than good credit ratings as they would likely be less able to leave the job?
Piss test too you say. And why can't this be left to law enforcement? Pretty serious invasion of privacy, and if there's not a damned good reason for it how can it possibly be justified?
Actually, companies doing these things could be opening themselves up for lawsuits. A lot of places have laws in place to disallow discriminatory hiring practices, which these in most cases would be. There would have to be a darned good reason for discriminating based on credit rating for the job to use that as a reason not to hire someone.
Anyways, there are probably more reasons than just this as to why you _don't_ own your own company. But should you ever make the leap, could you just post a notice on
I don't know, but for me, I'm actually very likely to drive drunk in a game, whether the game supports it or not ;)
Agreed. VB.Net is not VB. Still a tad behind C# for language features, but barely. Worked in C# for the last 4 years at my last job, and dreaded having to use VB.Net at my new place of work. But now that I have been for a year, other than syntax, there's really zero difference between the two. Catch is to turn off the 'features' that let you write more vb6ish bastardized code. Make sure Option Strict and Option Explicit are on, and throwout the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace, and you're good to go. One great benefit over it is that the 'perceived' challenge for a VB6 developer in switching to .Net is greatly removed when they can be introduced to VB.Net rather than C#. I've mentored people that would never have attempted anything in C# in moving to VB.Net with great success.
I still prefer the syntax of C#, but that's mostly just personal preference.
Was I arguing that it will, or bitching that it hasn't, beaten mp3? Get off it already. It has a niche, it fits that niche very well, and that niche isn't going anywhere any time soon. It wouldn't 'beat mp3' even if it could deliver true lossless at mp3 sizes...the masses don't care. Chances are very slim that it would ever become the standard end format for the masses. Kinda like DAT or other formats that have very valid uses and are/were heavily used in their niche.
I happen to like ogg vorbis myself, but I certainly don't claim some higher ground or expect everyone to demand a switch to it. I'll happily use it where it makes sense for me, and enjoy seeing it used in the niches it fills, thank you very much.
Er, big difference. If you aren't found guilty, you get your boat and other confiscated things back.
This specifically entails skipping the due process involved. Basically, they can write you a spurious ticket and take your hardware...and never give it back, irregardless of whether you're guilty or not.
This crap really has to stop. Someone has to draw a line. No, actually, the whole country needs to draw a line, and demand that everything that has already crossed that line be revoked. Things in the US are starting to cross over into the land of the surreal. Jumped the shark is an understatement, and I KNOW that this is not the kind of thing your average American citizen wants to see happen.
Yep, agreed, Ogg, Vorbis, doomed to failure. Been doomed to failure for most of a decade. Any moment now, it'll be nothing but a memory. Here it goes...going...going...Hmm...not gone yet. Interesting. But it will I tell you! It'll be dead in no time now!
Hint: Have you any idea at all how many video games use Ogg? And can you think of why that might be?
No one used DAT tapes for their media collections...and yet, it was most certainly not a failure. You know, sometimes there's room for more than one technology. There's these things called niches. There are internal, closed systems. Not everything is a consumer end product.
We do not have to discuss Ogg in terms of being an end user accepted format for it to be a viable format. And it has most certainly proven itself and become very entrenched in certain areas.
But hey, you just go on and argue for the sake of arguing mmkay?
The masses have apparently convinced themselves otherwise ;)
And people keep forgetting that before they had to pay for that service on XBox, that was par for the course and free for PC games for ages.
;)
Just sayin
Yes, every product is indeed an advertisement for itself. But there are ads, and there are products. I wouldn't classify demos as products myself though. I won't pay for an ad, though an ad might entice me to buy a product. IE: The purpose of demos, and why traditionally they are free.
And some people watch the shopping channel just for entertainment, your point being?
That doesn't make them not advertisements.
When was the last time you had to pay for a test drive?
Trust me, it's advertising. Just because people have been suckered into paying for various types of advertising doesn't mean it makes any sense to do so. Remember, there's a sucker born every minute!
Newsflash: Upgrade to XBox Live Gold NOW and you'll get to pay for demos which you will get a whole week earlier than Silver subscribers! Yes! That's right! Only $50 dollars a year and you will get our advertisements a whole week earlier!!!
When did people forget that that is what demos are: nothing but advertisements, plain and simple.
Yet another instance of the biggest lie going in media.
Remember when TV was paid for by the advertisements? Yeah, and then we got suckered into paying to be fed MORE advertisements.
What is XBox Live except an advertising stream that generates revenue for MS? And to get the highest level of advertising on your plate...you get to pay for it!
Bandwidth costs money, but that is most certainly not the only part of the equation here. That bandwidth cost is simply the cost of spoon feeding you advertising, which generates revenue.
That would be why it shouldn't be considered a gift.
Heh, doesn't matter what spell checker you use, it wouldn't catch cases like that. Statues is certainly a legitimate word, just not the right one ;)
Try that in a schooner.
He was referring to traditional masted ships, being the reasonable comparison to the topic at hand. Not a small sailboat. Numbers were a bit arbitrary, but the point is sound.
As others have mentioned, this is simply not true, tacking is extremely easy with a modern kite, NOTHING like in a sailboat. I've kited a number of times, and have a bunch of friends that do very regularly. It's a joke to maneuver upwind with them, and kite designs are getting better all the time.
Minor nitpick, the term is 'statute', not 'statue'.
Can't disagree with what you have to say.
Problem is, almost no studies are done on this particular subject...good luck getting government funding to do so.
Common sense states that your average pot smoker smokes a lot less pot than your average cigarette smoker smokes cigarettes, so there's a starting point. Further, a LOT of chemicals are used in the manufacture of your typical cigarette.
There are a ton of starting points for reasonable research to be done, but alas, it won't be any time soon. Without doing research unfortunately, we simply can not know what affects the compounds in cannabis have on the human body.
Then how come I can buy vitamin C, calcium etc etc just about anywhere?
Yes, the big pharmaceutical companies are scum sucking patent feeders. But that's not the only way to go.
Wow, who pissed in your cereal this morning?
That money gets paid to the **AA, who is in charge of dispersing the funds from there. Thus the theory involved in the artists actually seeing any of it.
It is legal in Canada to make copies of media for personal use. Not so clear cut in the states. Paying that subsidy to the **AA basically means that the **AA agrees to this, and thus can not take legal action against people in Canada that choose to do so. In other words, if the **AA were to try to take legal action in Canada, our government can, and does, tell them to take a flying leap. That would be 'since when'.
It's not perfect, but it's no where near what you make it out to be.
No one is taking funds for 'illegal acts I'm not committing', as this is perfectly legal in Canada. However, the **AA are American entities, and control most of the mass media market. It's really not a bad situation considering this. We pay a pittance to support our legal copying of media for personal use.
Not even going to touch the assumption you're making on your side of the border as to the legality involved here other than to say that the situation is all shades of grey. Copying media that you own most assuredly should be legal. But do not try to tell me that there are no people blatantly stealing media. Don't try to make this black and white, because it is not.
Last, I threw no rocks Mr. Hypocrite. You quite obviously were the one throwing the rocks, and I merely clarified the misinformation you presented.
Don't want advice? Then I'd highly suggest you don't give it in the first place.
Canuck here.
;) While not perfect...I'll take what I've got any day thank you!
Couple points: It's not a subsidy on all blank media, data media is exempt. And in many cases, exactly the same media is sold with and without the subsidy, so you can easily circumvent paying.
Having said that, it's a meager token, one that I happily pay as it allows our government to tell the **AA to take a flying leap on our behalf. Also knowing that, in theory at least, that money does get distributed to the artists. I really don't have a problem with an artist getting paid a pittance when a copy of their work is made. (Of course, the chance that the particular artist that I copied a work of gets any of that is, er, difficult to determine, but that's another story)
Point being, this is not even remotely the same thing. Please refrain from throwing our government under the bus with that of the US
Welcome to Post-Secondary Daycare!
This is the beginning of yet another very slippery slope. Students, stand up for your rights as citizens of the country you live in! You are not second class citizens, and yet they'd like you to be.
More legislation for the sake of big business. This is so sad on so many levels.
You've never met anyone that didn't take a student loan for their post-secondary education?
;)
Do you seriously believe that everyone does so?
I know tonnes of people that haven't.
Where's your proof that everyone does? Sheesh. Get out of the dorm already!
Just a minor nit to pick: necessity != right, and that's assuming what you describe is actually a necessity...I'd call it a desire. Millions of people do just fine with blue-collar jobs. Many people desire a white collar life. It's all about what you want and what you're willing to do to get it. None of that is a right, it's all up to you, the individual.
Lots of people still pay their way through post secondary education without racking up student loans.
If you don't care, then why do you care?
I'm not being an apologist of any sort. I'm merely discussing what are known and agreed upon facts. I'm also very open to the idea that a lot of these facts may indeed be wrong and am always interested in information showing different points of view.
Not sure where you're trying to go with that...perhaps you're of the opinion that everyone should have just stopped fighting and gone their separate ways? And ideally, I'd have to agree with that...however, that's not what happened and there is nothing that can change what did happen. All we can do is learn from what did happen and do everything we can to ensure it does not happen again.