I really think IT workers missed the boat on this one, if they were represented by the Teamsters, for example, none of this would be happening. No individual restrictive contracts, and most would be employees, not sub contractors.
I think that the IT folks thought themselves above unionization because they were "smart" and did not need collective bargaining.
They were, and are wrong.
Imagine a Union Electrician being treated in this fashion?, I don't think so.
In the construction trades, the workers move around quite a bit just as in IT. Their health benefits, vacation pay, and pension are with the union, not this a myriad of companies, and are good plans.
It really is the answer to this treatment of IT workers.
I am what one may call a fonephreak. I have boxes of old cell phones , and even an Iridium. My N95 is far and away the greatest mobile device I have ever had. In combination with the SW-8U folding keyboard, I can even do online banking, and with Gizmo Project, I use is as my WiFi phone at home.
Yes the iPhone is pretty, but I use my N95 for business so much, it has not only replaced my POTS phone, but most of the functions of my laptop.
I even do my online banking on it.
Oh, and it runs putty as well , so when i need to fix something at home while away, I just pop open the folding keyboard and go at it.
This whole problem of corporate geed comes from the people allowing large corporations to totally control the distribution of , well everything. Twisting copyright, patents, and other laws into "IP ownership" that was never intended.
The end result of this is that all of us are no longer customers to be sold, but consumers to be culled.
The ( big evil companies ) really believe that we owe them money by simply existing.
Here we have an article about linux, and there is this post from an obvious Windows user. Where is the Slashdot of old when all we had to worry about was the occasional GNAA or goatse post.
In the story headline I saw
But others say Cupertino is well within its rights to control its own device. and was thinking that this must have been written by a younger person.
Some one my age would believe that if I bought something, it belonged to me. I bought it, I paid for it, it is mine to do with what I want.
I guess I must have a "customer" mentality being born in the middle 50's instead of the new in vouge "consumer" mentality.
Sad state of affairs, that "consumers" let themselves get pushed around in a way "customers" never ever would.
In the automotive world of the late 1950's Ford motor Company came out with their 'Vista'. Much ballyhoo'd and heavily promoted, it had all of the characteristics that Vista has.
Ladies and Gentlemen, let history repeat itself and meet, The first Vista
If there are 91 countries that signed that treaty, find a country that did not sign it, and launch from there.
I wonder if Sealand is large enough to be used as a launch platform.
Actually it is a little more complicated, if you want to use the equatorial slingshot to accelerate to the moon , then you need to find an equatorial country to launch from. You actually dont need that if your spacecraft has a different primary path, but you would be doing the cosmic equivalent of figure 8 racing with everyone else's satellites if you didn't.
Is this the United States that I grew up in, is the penalty for being a college student doing dumb things summary execution?
Isn't is the job of the police to collect evidence AFTER a crime is committed, not to kill people they think may commit a crime?
Boston over reacted with the Aqua Teen business, and wasted untold resources, then a few weeks later these same foolish officials shut down a street because a city of Boston traffic counter was attached to a lamp post.
Are the police to be excused for this scare tactic and grossly excessive use of force?
I so no, and I say it is about time to rein in stupidity.
Thinkpads are tanks. We used them for our field machines, to program PLC's at sewage treatment plants. The old ones are just indestructible. You can drop em, expose them to H2S gas, let them collect data in wet nasty environments for days, sit on them, they just don't break.
I have no idea if the new Lenovo ones are as rugged, but...... like I said the old ones are " Built like a Mack truck "
I am sorry, but there is no such thing as a reasonable 'software' patent. No software should have ever been offered this protection.
Copyrights, are enough. And even copyrights don't need to be life + 70 years.
This is insane.
Patents really should be limited to things like the Cotton Gin, or steam engine thrust arms. And , I think the patent office should go back to demanding scale models of those things.
I was just reading another article on Slashdot about Circuit City gestapo tactics, and thought that it is only a matter of time before large monopolistic retailers require their customers to be implanted with RFID tags.
The M68 was my favorite also. The IS-11 was another that I loved working with. It is great to see some one here has heard of SORD. SORD was really years ahead of any other computer company at the time and Mr. Takayoshi Shiina never seems to get the credit he deserves.
I remember when I got my 1st Radio Shack Model 1. I remember when I bought a Kaypro II. ( I still have it ). I remember how much I loved writing Z80 Assembler on CP/M.
I started out fooling around with these computers, sharing information on CP/M bulletin boards, learning how computers worked from the ground up.
I also remember having the opportunity to meet industry leaders like George Morrow, and work for Takioshi Shiina of SORD computer of Japan. I got to travel, and live in Japan working for SORD.
I remember COMDEX when there were competing operating systems and unique hardware before Microsoft got a strangle hold on innovation and creative thinking.
I remember a time where software patents were unheard of and the thought that ideas for software not the software itself could be owned by some one.
I think of how lucky I have been being able to work on projects where the ideas of creative people not the lawyers and accountants counted the most.
I have been lucky to have grown up in that time.
Thank you Mr Shiina
Cheers
Re:if ISO approves it, they become irrelevant.
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Patent Threats In OOXML
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Normally I would say that the above article is your typical GNAA type Slashdot troll. However since it is about Microsoft, and their evil OOXML, I think it should be modded up for being Insightful.
Good for you, I hope they sell a zillion clones world wide.
Cloning gives China real exciting commerce and innovation, that is so sadly lacking here in the USA because of corporate greed trying to sell things that only cost a few pennies to make for hundreds, or in the Pharma biz thousands of dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
I really think IT workers missed the boat on this one, if they were represented by the Teamsters, for example, none of this would be happening. No individual restrictive contracts, and most would be employees, not sub contractors.
I think that the IT folks thought themselves above unionization because they were "smart" and did not need collective bargaining.
They were, and are wrong.
Imagine a Union Electrician being treated in this fashion?, I don't think so.
In the construction trades, the workers move around quite a bit just as in IT. Their health benefits, vacation pay, and pension are with the union, not this a myriad of companies, and are good plans.
It really is the answer to this treatment of IT workers.
Think about it.
Cheers
I am what one may call a fonephreak. I have boxes of old cell phones , and even an Iridium. My N95 is far and away the greatest mobile device I have ever had. In combination with the SW-8U folding keyboard, I can even do online banking, and with Gizmo Project, I use is as my WiFi phone at home.
Yes the iPhone is pretty, but I use my N95 for business so much, it has not only replaced my POTS phone, but most of the functions of my laptop.
I even do my online banking on it.
Oh, and it runs putty as well , so when i need to fix something at home while away, I just pop open the folding keyboard and go at it.
N95 roolz
This whole problem of corporate geed comes from the people allowing large corporations to totally control the distribution of , well everything. Twisting copyright, patents, and other laws into "IP ownership" that was never intended.
The end result of this is that all of us are no longer customers to be sold, but consumers to be culled.
The ( big evil companies ) really believe that we owe them money by simply existing.
This is insanity.
Actually I do think that M$ has a troll department. Just check on Monster.com for the listings
Here we have an article about linux, and there is this post from an obvious Windows user. Where is the Slashdot of old when all we had to worry about was the occasional GNAA or goatse post.
Those were the days.
How did the Edsel / Vista thing get in this conversation?
AT&T has a number, and that number is 666
What more can be said.
In the automotive world of the late 1950's Ford motor Company came out with their 'Vista'. Much ballyhoo'd and heavily promoted, it had all of the characteristics that Vista has. Ladies and Gentlemen, let history repeat itself and meet, The first Vista
If there are 91 countries that signed that treaty, find a country that did not sign it, and launch from there.
I wonder if Sealand is large enough to be used as a launch platform.
Actually it is a little more complicated, if you want to use the equatorial slingshot to accelerate to the moon , then you need to find an equatorial country to launch from. You actually dont need that if your spacecraft has a different primary path, but you would be doing the cosmic equivalent of figure 8 racing with everyone else's satellites if you didn't.
Is this the United States that I grew up in, is the penalty for being a college student doing dumb things summary execution?
Isn't is the job of the police to collect evidence AFTER a crime is committed, not to kill people they think may commit a crime?
Boston over reacted with the Aqua Teen business, and wasted untold resources, then a few weeks later these same foolish officials shut down a street because a city of Boston traffic counter was attached to a lamp post.
Are the police to be excused for this scare tactic and grossly excessive use of force?
I so no, and I say it is about time to rein in stupidity.
I subscribe to 2600 , wow , and I 'was' planning to fly.
This truly is lunacy.
Thinkpads are tanks. We used them for our field machines, to program PLC's at sewage treatment plants. The old ones are just indestructible. You can drop em, expose them to H2S gas, let them collect data in wet nasty environments for days, sit on them, they just don't break.
...... like I said the old ones are " Built like a Mack truck "
I have no idea if the new Lenovo ones are as rugged, but
Cheers
Interesting, I have always said that it is easy to be a republican, all it requires is a small mind and a small heart.
Cheers
I now have the evil AT&T, and I actually think T-Mobile is less evil than the others, but....
...........
They only have service in large cities, so if you were flying from Chicago, to LA, you prolly only hit a few cell towers along the way.
God , I hate AT&T
I am sorry, but there is no such thing as a reasonable 'software' patent. No software should have ever been offered this protection.
Copyrights, are enough. And even copyrights don't need to be life + 70 years.
This is insane.
Patents really should be limited to things like the Cotton Gin, or steam engine thrust arms. And , I think the patent office should go back to demanding scale models of those things.
Ugh
the only way a "free" market could exist, would be a world free of patents, trademarks, copyrights, DRM, etc. It has never existed, and it never will.
I was just reading another article on Slashdot about Circuit City gestapo tactics, and thought that it is only a matter of time before large monopolistic retailers require their customers to be implanted with RFID tags.
Tin Foil hat alert? Maybe, maybe not.
Cheers
No, there is absolutely nothing wrong in my opinion
So there
" What has BROWN done for you lately? "
......
The internet
Cheers
The M68 was my favorite also. The IS-11 was another that I loved working with. It is great to see some one here has heard of SORD. SORD was really years ahead of any other computer company at the time and Mr. Takayoshi Shiina never seems to get the credit he deserves.
Any M68 Questions? , email me any time.
Cheers
I remember when I got my 1st Radio Shack Model 1. I remember when I bought a Kaypro II. ( I still have it ). I remember how much I loved writing Z80 Assembler on CP/M.
I started out fooling around with these computers, sharing information on CP/M bulletin boards, learning how computers worked from the ground up.
I also remember having the opportunity to meet industry leaders like George Morrow, and work for Takioshi Shiina of SORD computer of Japan. I got to travel, and live in Japan working for SORD.
I remember COMDEX when there were competing operating systems and unique hardware before Microsoft got a strangle hold on innovation and creative thinking.
I remember a time where software patents were unheard of and the thought that ideas for software not the software itself could be owned by some one.
I think of how lucky I have been being able to work on projects where the ideas of creative people not the lawyers and accountants counted the most.
I have been lucky to have grown up in that time.
Thank you Mr Shiina
Cheers
Normally I would say that the above article is your typical GNAA type Slashdot troll. However since it is about Microsoft, and their evil OOXML, I think it should be modded up for being Insightful.
Cheers
Good for you, I hope they sell a zillion clones world wide.
Cloning gives China real exciting commerce and innovation, that is so sadly lacking here in the USA because of corporate greed trying to sell things that only cost a few pennies to make for hundreds, or in the Pharma biz thousands of dollars.
3 cheers for the cloners!!
Because your M$ updates might have spyware, viri, trojans, etc, so it would be dangerous to notify you.