So, Software Freedom means that you can't do what you want with your software? Is this one of those Richard Stalin - I mean, Stallman - groups or something?
If you didn't write it, it's not your software. You can acquire the right to use it in exchange for your agreement to the terms of the license. The freedom part comes in where the terms of the license say that you get to modify and distribute it without anyone's permission. Again, in exchange for your agreement to the terms of the license.
"Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla?" is different from "Do you support Falun Gong?" Opinion surveys always have to account for the confounding factor that each respondent may be more likely to provide the socially acceptable answer than their true opinion. The stronger the social stigma associated with the question, the more likely this will be a problem.
This new test is a useful addition to the data analysis process, but doesn't "prove" anything. The challenge is how to refine the technique. If you want to eliminate "false positives" you would need some way to identify "true positives". And if we had a way to do that, we wouldn't need to do surveys.
Bottom line: Surveys don't prove anything. At best they point to interesting ideas for future study.
My point is that this private experiment is too small to cause the changes to the employers. The individuals in the experiment will change their behavior, but if the employers don't have to care there's a chance everything goes back to "normal" when the experiment ends. Then opponents get to say, "See, I told you it wouldn't work."
Of course it would affect your habits! People would in a better position to be selective about what jobs you take, forcing employers to stop the race to the bottom.
That only works if employers know that enough of their desired employees have that option that they (the employers) lose their leverage. When Ford started paying workers twice what other manufacturers did, they were a large enough employer that other companies had to compete for the same people. Y Combinator's experiment will only be 300 people. That's not enough to change the behavior of employers who lose out on those 300 people.
Google Maps has a feature where, when your battery gets low, it will ask if you want to dim the screen except when coming up to turns. I'd love the option to enable that behavior full time. Just going back to the home screen is a decent second choice, I suppose.
I'd rather let the car handle the freeway time. That's the most boring kind of driving there is. And since the most reasonable objection to self-driving cars is they don't handle difficult conditions as well - construction zones, city traffic, poorly-marked secondary roads - this mode lets people handle the "hard" parts and AI handle the boring, routine parts.
It was solved in Demolition Man. Human drives from home to the freeway on-ramp. Engages auto-pilot and the wheel stows itself. Coming up to the exit the wheel comes back out and the human disengages auto-pilot.
A two-day pumping operation has left the cable vault mostly dry, but it doesn’t look right. Cable insulation has been stripped back in areas, cords are cut, chunks of cables lie on the ground, and splice boxes have been torn open. Levendos explains to me that before crews could even begin removing water, they needed to repair ground-level fuel pumps to feed backup diesel generators on the upper floors.
* Ads that IAB members send to my browser are expression of free speech, and by blocking them I am violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. * Real people from AB+ attending a conference are... umm, not sure what their speech counts as... and by blocking them from attending the IAB is... umm... not violating something something?
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So, Software Freedom means that you can't do what you want with your software? Is this one of those Richard Stalin - I mean, Stallman - groups or something?
If you didn't write it, it's not your software. You can acquire the right to use it in exchange for your agreement to the terms of the license. The freedom part comes in where the terms of the license say that you get to modify and distribute it without anyone's permission. Again, in exchange for your agreement to the terms of the license.
Similarly, a survey would probably tell you that 0% of the population had ever been arrested.
"We surveyed a thousand prison inmates. 99.9% reported they were actually innocent. The exception was some guy named 'Andy'."
"Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla?" is different from "Do you support Falun Gong?" Opinion surveys always have to account for the confounding factor that each respondent may be more likely to provide the socially acceptable answer than their true opinion. The stronger the social stigma associated with the question, the more likely this will be a problem.
This new test is a useful addition to the data analysis process, but doesn't "prove" anything. The challenge is how to refine the technique. If you want to eliminate "false positives" you would need some way to identify "true positives". And if we had a way to do that, we wouldn't need to do surveys.
Bottom line: Surveys don't prove anything. At best they point to interesting ideas for future study.
So we need pushing robots? And shoving robots?
Sure? What could go wrong?
"RAID array" is ... redundant.
Mind. Blown.
Will this also replace PIN numbers at ATM machines? /grammar
Repeating it again and again doesn't make it true, but it does make it "true". Which is close enough for government work.
The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
My point is that this private experiment is too small to cause the changes to the employers. The individuals in the experiment will change their behavior, but if the employers don't have to care there's a chance everything goes back to "normal" when the experiment ends. Then opponents get to say, "See, I told you it wouldn't work."
Of course it would affect your habits! People would in a better position to be selective about what jobs you take, forcing employers to stop the race to the bottom.
That only works if employers know that enough of their desired employees have that option that they (the employers) lose their leverage. When Ford started paying workers twice what other manufacturers did, they were a large enough employer that other companies had to compete for the same people. Y Combinator's experiment will only be 300 people. That's not enough to change the behavior of employers who lose out on those 300 people.
That's a really good point.
Google Maps has a feature where, when your battery gets low, it will ask if you want to dim the screen except when coming up to turns. I'd love the option to enable that behavior full time. Just going back to the home screen is a decent second choice, I suppose.
Was this modded +5 because the Berniacs missed the sarcasm or did everyone get it and find the news link I cited informative?
Yes.
Do new satellites drop into the existing network but with improved accuracy? Or will you need an updated device to take advantage of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
First the guy from NewEgg with the best response to a patent troll ever, now this. It's almost like they're becoming ... human.
I'd rather let the car handle the freeway time. That's the most boring kind of driving there is. And since the most reasonable objection to self-driving cars is they don't handle difficult conditions as well - construction zones, city traffic, poorly-marked secondary roads - this mode lets people handle the "hard" parts and AI handle the boring, routine parts.
It was solved in Demolition Man. Human drives from home to the freeway on-ramp. Engages auto-pilot and the wheel stows itself. Coming up to the exit the wheel comes back out and the human disengages auto-pilot.
We don't have the ability to block HTM5 animation.
Yet.
It's still the HTML title for the home page, but I don't see it anywhere within the page itself.
I guess you missed this
Imagine trying to deal with this.
To make sure I understand this:
* Ads that IAB members send to my browser are expression of free speech, and by blocking them I am violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... umm, not sure what their speech counts as ... and by blocking them from attending the IAB is ... umm ... not violating something something?
* Real people from AB+ attending a conference are
No, I guess I don't understand after all.
You can see a screencap and a preview on the page. I'm not sure which is which.
AC wins the internet for today.
That's pretty close, actually. Hmm ... are there languages with syntax sufficiently different from Romance languages to overcome this?