No, not for doing the same work, for doing different work. That's the entire point of the parable. One guy agrees to work for X, then complains about another person getting paid X for less work. That's the same as this situation.
And the guy in this story didn't pay everyone the same, he just set a minimum wage.
The gist: fuck you, stop complaining about others getting a little nip. You get your nip so be happy.
I tried. I got the book and started reading. When I got page 100 I stopped and thought about what I had read, which was nothing. Whatever story she tried to tell in that book, she took her sweet time in getting the plot going. I threw the book away. Any author who can't start a story within 100 pages is a shit author who needs a better editor.
Maybe I'll try again someday. I'll start halfway through the book and see if maybe the story starts by then.
It's not binary. It's not "tracked" vs "untracked". It's a question of how expensive it is to track you and how reliable the data is. Raise the cost and fewer advertisers will bother. Raise it high enough and maybe we can substantially damage the ad industry.
Seriously. I grew up with cable TV and then one day I was at a friend's house and he turned on cable. An ad came on and, even as a young child, I couldn't figure it out. I asked him, don't you pay for cable? So why are there ads?
I never outgrew that, and I've never paid for cable in my adult life.
Any degradation of the quality of the 'signal' is good, and more is better but the noise doesn't have to really completely overwhelm the signal. Reducing the advertising value of the data by any amount would be progress, at least.
I always hear that question -- don't you want to see ads that interest you? Yeah, sure, and I've never seen one of those in my entire life, so I'm willing to go on assuming that I won't. It's not theoretically impossible but I have better things to do than worry about it.
I'm surprised people still have printers. I graduated college in 2002 and I've never owned a printer in my adult life. I work on computers for a living. I know some people have special needs, but what the heck do most people need with a printer?
Ha ha I had that happen. I wrote some code one day, it worked great, no problem, so I deleted my debug statements and turned it in. I got an angry email saying my code was broken, and when I ran it, sure enough it was broken. During debugging I realized that my debug statements were keeping a multi-threaded problem hidden. That was an early lesson in synchronization.
Almost all bugs turn out to be my bugs, but the one that still stays with me to this day was when I tried to implement drag-and-drop in a Java application on a Mac back in 2003. I spent a solid month trying to get it to work and it just didn't behave the way the APIs said it should. Finally I mentioned it to another programmer, a friend, and he said oh yeah he'd noticed the same thing.
Apple's impl of the drag-and-drop library had a bug in it. A user *must* support String type DnD in order for other data types to work. Even though I didn't need to support String for my app, even though the String support did nothing, as soon as I added String to the list of types I claimed to support, all the rest of my code immediately worked as expected.
Eight years ago it had been in development for seven years, which was already five and a half too many. We're so far past the due date for Perl 6 that its high school photos show it wearing bell bottoms.
Larry, let's get real, fifteen years is a stupid amount of time to work on a single point release of a piece of software. People forgot about you and Perl 6 in 2003. I sure did. I've used a little Perl since then, but I haven't given any consideration to release 6.
I don't think so. I use JavaScript on pretty much every webpage I visit. But I have plugins disabled (click-to-play) so I know when I'm dealing with content that requires a plugin. I can't think of the last time I clicked-to-play without it being a video. If I ever use Java at all it is showing me a moving picture.
That's a weird take on it. As if all laws are void, unless they appear in the Constitution? That's not how it works.
The Constitution says that some things must happen and other things can't happen; everything else is left up to statutes. There is nothing in the Constitution that says you must be able to procure weapons, nor does it prohibit the legislatures from restricting procurement of weapons.
Now, I don't think that would fly politically or in most courtrooms, nor would I support it myself. I bring it up merely to shit on the asshats who try to claim they are "textualists". Those people are hypocrites and jackasses unless they agree that there is no right to procure or manufacture arms, and if they did agree then they would be ridiculous. Because textualism is ridiculous.
Electricity sockets on Overground trains are clearly marked with the words: “cleaners use only and not for public use”.
On a forum dedicated to the London Underground, members have pointed out that plug sockets on the trains are for cleaning equipment deployed when trains are in depots. They recommend not charging electronic equipment as there is a risk of power surge: “If something was directly plugged into it (for example a standard computer, or a laptop without a battery in) the equipment would probably be damaged at any section gaps where the power supply changes from one substation to another!”
Not in the USA. I haven't used a Java plugin for a long time, certainly not for banking. The only time I'm confronted with plugins at all is when I try to watch videos of... um... of cats, yeah definitely cats.
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No, not for doing the same work, for doing different work. That's the entire point of the parable. One guy agrees to work for X, then complains about another person getting paid X for less work. That's the same as this situation.
And the guy in this story didn't pay everyone the same, he just set a minimum wage.
The gist: fuck you, stop complaining about others getting a little nip. You get your nip so be happy.
"Is it wrong that someone gets ahead due to study and hard work?"
This is a canard. It happens sometimes but it's the rare exception.
I tried. I got the book and started reading. When I got page 100 I stopped and thought about what I had read, which was nothing. Whatever story she tried to tell in that book, she took her sweet time in getting the plot going. I threw the book away. Any author who can't start a story within 100 pages is a shit author who needs a better editor.
Maybe I'll try again someday. I'll start halfway through the book and see if maybe the story starts by then.
There is an entire parable about this in the Bible, in Matthew 20.
The gist is: fuck you, you earn plenty, stop griping about others getting a slice of pie.
Oh for fuck's sake not this guy again. Why can't Slashdot filter this bozo out?
It's not binary. It's not "tracked" vs "untracked". It's a question of how expensive it is to track you and how reliable the data is. Raise the cost and fewer advertisers will bother. Raise it high enough and maybe we can substantially damage the ad industry.
Seriously. I grew up with cable TV and then one day I was at a friend's house and he turned on cable. An ad came on and, even as a young child, I couldn't figure it out. I asked him, don't you pay for cable? So why are there ads?
I never outgrew that, and I've never paid for cable in my adult life.
Any degradation of the quality of the 'signal' is good, and more is better but the noise doesn't have to really completely overwhelm the signal. Reducing the advertising value of the data by any amount would be progress, at least.
What ads? I don't see any ads.
I always hear that question -- don't you want to see ads that interest you? Yeah, sure, and I've never seen one of those in my entire life, so I'm willing to go on assuming that I won't. It's not theoretically impossible but I have better things to do than worry about it.
Yep. My Ghostery says 7.
No it's not. Here's you you do it:
"Previously the rules didn't ban your odious behavior. We've fixed the rules."
I only came to this article to post a comment disdaining Microsoft and hoping for their demise. I'm still mad about Internet Explorer in 1999.
I'm surprised people still have printers. I graduated college in 2002 and I've never owned a printer in my adult life. I work on computers for a living. I know some people have special needs, but what the heck do most people need with a printer?
Ha ha I had that happen. I wrote some code one day, it worked great, no problem, so I deleted my debug statements and turned it in. I got an angry email saying my code was broken, and when I ran it, sure enough it was broken. During debugging I realized that my debug statements were keeping a multi-threaded problem hidden. That was an early lesson in synchronization.
Almost all bugs turn out to be my bugs, but the one that still stays with me to this day was when I tried to implement drag-and-drop in a Java application on a Mac back in 2003. I spent a solid month trying to get it to work and it just didn't behave the way the APIs said it should. Finally I mentioned it to another programmer, a friend, and he said oh yeah he'd noticed the same thing.
Apple's impl of the drag-and-drop library had a bug in it. A user *must* support String type DnD in order for other data types to work. Even though I didn't need to support String for my app, even though the String support did nothing, as soon as I added String to the list of types I claimed to support, all the rest of my code immediately worked as expected.
Fuck you, Apple!
Eight years ago it had been in development for seven years, which was already five and a half too many. We're so far past the due date for Perl 6 that its high school photos show it wearing bell bottoms.
" I learned Perl just a few years ago, right before the anti-Perl fad hit its fever pitch."
When exactly? Perl has been dead for more than a decade. George W Bush hadn't even been re-elected when Perl was already comatose.
And by twelve years ago I mean so many years ago that it's even more than twelve years.
Perl 6 was announced in 2000. Your argument made sense in 2001. By 2002, this whole "Perl 6" thing was starting to sound ridiculous.
And 2002 was twelve years ago.
Hating Perl isn't trendy -- it's retro, super retro.
Larry, let's get real, fifteen years is a stupid amount of time to work on a single point release of a piece of software. People forgot about you and Perl 6 in 2003. I sure did. I've used a little Perl since then, but I haven't given any consideration to release 6.
Size doesn't matter if it hasn't swept out its orbit. Pluto will never sweep out its orbit.
I don't think so. I use JavaScript on pretty much every webpage I visit. But I have plugins disabled (click-to-play) so I know when I'm dealing with content that requires a plugin. I can't think of the last time I clicked-to-play without it being a video. If I ever use Java at all it is showing me a moving picture.
That's a weird take on it. As if all laws are void, unless they appear in the Constitution? That's not how it works.
The Constitution says that some things must happen and other things can't happen; everything else is left up to statutes. There is nothing in the Constitution that says you must be able to procure weapons, nor does it prohibit the legislatures from restricting procurement of weapons.
Now, I don't think that would fly politically or in most courtrooms, nor would I support it myself. I bring it up merely to shit on the asshats who try to claim they are "textualists". Those people are hypocrites and jackasses unless they agree that there is no right to procure or manufacture arms, and if they did agree then they would be ridiculous. Because textualism is ridiculous.
Indeed:
Electricity sockets on Overground trains are clearly marked with the words: “cleaners use only and not for public use”.
On a forum dedicated to the London Underground, members have pointed out that plug sockets on the trains are for cleaning equipment deployed when trains are in depots. They recommend not charging electronic equipment as there is a risk of power surge: “If something was directly plugged into it (for example a standard computer, or a laptop without a battery in) the equipment would probably be damaged at any section gaps where the power supply changes from one substation to another!”
Not in the USA. I haven't used a Java plugin for a long time, certainly not for banking. The only time I'm confronted with plugins at all is when I try to watch videos of... um... of cats, yeah definitely cats.