I'd be more impressed with someone who can be flexible, adaptable, and inventive than someone who stormed off a job because the boss wanted to use.Net.
So maybe this company wants developers who are truly committed to open source, or cross-platform solutions, vs. just committed to pulling down a paycheck.
That's not right or wrong, just one value choice among many. I've left a job because the wrong technology was selected by managers - in that case, a potentially deadly choice (life-critical application). Most of the others stayed on because the salary and benefits were quite good, but it's not an impossible task to leave if that's what your values tell you.
Many kids coming to colleges these days do not have any programming experience or a very shaky one at best.
This is quite a unique and interesting problem for computer science and engineering.
Imagine coming to College and planning to major in English but having never written any papers. Or Mathematics and having only a background in basic arithmetic. Biology, chemistry, physics, etc.
Perhaps this illustrates a failing of the secondary education level, or a need for a pre-freshman year for certain remedial (even if brilliant) students.
Don't get me wrong, there's a place for teaching basic programing to majors from other fields where they need that sort of instruction, but to have a kid show up and enroll for a major with no experience at all really limits what can be accomplished in the major. This isn't 1968 - somebody showing up for a CS major ought to have already spent some time hacking up some python or ruby (etc.) in his spare time (and therefore probably already gets OOP).
New Media Strategies to sent armies of astroturfers here to post comments and disrupt our discussions on a daily basis? And by "armies" I mean most of the UIDs from 1900000 to 2000000
Baloney. That's what the people 'granting' you the right want you to think.
Driving is travel, travel is required for assembly, the right of assembly is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. You can't very well assemble in most places if a driver's license is revoked.
The 5th Amendment says, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The 'right to travel' is a liberty, there can't be prior restraint on it. This is incorporated against the States by the 14th Amendment.
That seems to be the core of the disagreement here. You think it's fine for Google to be allowed to be the guardian of our written culture, without any copyright or oversight, and I don't.
I agree about the disagreement. You think it's fine for The USA Federal Government to be allowed to be the guardian of our written culture, and I find that's proven to be an utter failure. Anything that can put a chink in that armor is OK by me.
The only fair option would be to push for the same kind of deal to apply to anyone (i.e. so long as you pay the same as what Google does, you can redistribute books under the same rules).
Sure, that's fair. Is there something exclusionary in the Google contract? I sort of figured this is like when Apple did the deal with the record labels. iTunes was exclusive at first, but it cracked open the vault for all the subsequent competitors.
Not really - the settlement would allow Google to distribute them to you, but it would not allow you to redistribute them further (as you're not a party to that settlement).
But redistribution isn't necessary here, if everybody can get them from Google.
We're not looking to the future as to how to license some new software - these are old works, forever trapped by copyright to benefit the Disney Corporation. Without the Google solution, we get nothing. I'd love to hear about any other options.
If you think you have a way to vanquish copyright, I'm 100% behind you.
But I think that the alternative to this Google solution is the status-quo, where abandoned works are locked away forever for the benefit of Mickey Mouse.
One law for Google, one law for everyone else. Of course, it's okay because Google isn't evil...
I get your point, but if Google was making these available for free, the evils of copyright would have been averted.
Unfortunately it costs more than $125M to buy a law lessening restrictions. Disney bought Fritz Hollings for much cheaper, but they were increasing restrictions.
The only passage I see that references our President is "Orion and the companion Ares heavy-lift rocket were part of Constellation, a program cancelled under President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal."
There you go. It seems odd that people think fueling at home is a requirement for electric. Fueling at home is a benefit, sure, but if fueling stations can charge your electric car as fast as they can fuel your gas car, you have reached parity on convenience.
The barrier isn't even that high.
I expect this will be a concession service, like those 75 cent air pumps at gas stations or the Blue Rhino propane tank rentals at big-box stores.
A business (say a restaurant) signs a deal with a concession company to maintain charging stations on its premises for some cut, maybe 1/3 or profits. The concession company takes care of all of the infrastructure and payment.
The customer, parks his car at the restaurant, plugs in, either runs his credit card, or more likely something like EZPass gets in on the action as a payment processor, or a cell phone is bumped - whatever - and the customer then goes to eat dinner. When he's done, he unplugs at whatever level of charge he's got in that time. Give it a few years, the cars will automatically dock and exchange billing information.
The kinds of workplaces that have juice bars for their employees will have charging stations as well. You just always charge at work, rarely elsewhere.
In short, you don't need a very-quick-charge battery to replace gas-station fuelings, because going somewhere special to fuel your vehicle will become a cute anachronism of the 20th/21st centuries.
The Apple App Store opened in March 2008. If you do an Internet search for the term "App Store" prior to that you have a very hard time finding any legitimate results. (Google really needs to fix their date search, and Bing and Yahoo! were worse) I didn't find any, but going through lots of results manually is problematic. It is entirely possible that they actually did coin the term - so yes, seriously.
There are no EB's allowed in AZ, the one store we have was forced to change their name (not kidding, it's true). The EB is named "shop-n-go software", and while they do have some limited videogames, it's basically a PC app store.
(EB = Electronics Boutique, a brick-and-mortar computer software store)
This is from back in 2000 - the term "app store" was already in use as a generic. Just to make this post Slashdot-complete, this is like GM trademarking The 2012 Chevy Pickup Truck(tm).
That's what an FCC 5-year permitting process will get 'ya. Prices will go up, the FCC will protect the status quo, and the politicians will get nice campaign contributions.
The duopoly that results (sorry, Sprint and Clearwire are dying)
Now that AT&T will be the largest carrier, by subscriber count, it's a no-brainer for Verizon to buy out Sprint (1:10 market-cap ratio). Then they're on top again, and their phones are already compatible.
I'm an integrator and I will NOT touch Samsung and LG. Samsung plasmas and LCD's are utter garbage, more returns on those than anything else.
Returns because of image quality or returns because of mechanical failure?
I've still got a-rather-expensive-at-the-time CRT because all of the LCD's I've seen to date have had garbage image quality. I started to see a couple Samsungs in the $2500 range this past autumn that I actually thought might be worthwhile.
The problem is: T-Mobile's 3G sites are all in the 1700 MHz band. No AT&T handset supports UMTS1700 to my knowledge
My first thought, when I heard about the merger, is that AT&T must have access to some new radio parts that also include the 1700MHz band. This must have been in the works for some time; I wouldn't be surprised if new AT&T phones by summer supported the T-Mobile bands, at least in hardware if not enabled.
How do people get doses of Tamiflu? Is it through "back channels"?
One way you could do it would be to get the flu, beg your physician for a prescription, get it filled, pop it in the freezer, then stick it out like everybody else does. Perhaps wise, if you're worried about a deadly bird flu.
t doesn't even notate which score a note should be on. This means, for example, that piano music would be just about impossible to play from a raw midi dump.
I've run a few.mid's through Lilypond where no music was available for purchase. It does get the staffs right (MIDI has 'instruments' or channels), but it is ridiculously hard to play. It's best to use the score to get the music into your head, base the dynamics on your memory of the song, then just play it from memory.
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I'd be more impressed with someone who can be flexible, adaptable, and inventive than someone who stormed off a job because the boss wanted to use .Net.
So maybe this company wants developers who are truly committed to open source, or cross-platform solutions, vs. just committed to pulling down a paycheck.
That's not right or wrong, just one value choice among many. I've left a job because the wrong technology was selected by managers - in that case, a potentially deadly choice (life-critical application). Most of the others stayed on because the salary and benefits were quite good, but it's not an impossible task to leave if that's what your values tell you.
As a matter of fact, if you're using anything other than a magnetized needle to right to your hard drive, quit calling yourself a computer user.
Hard drive? If they're not playing Doom on Jacquard's loom, they're just wannabes. Sure the frame rate sucks, but this is about keeping it reel [sic].
Many kids coming to colleges these days do not have any programming experience or a very shaky one at best.
This is quite a unique and interesting problem for computer science and engineering.
Imagine coming to College and planning to major in English but having never written any papers. Or Mathematics and having only a background in basic arithmetic. Biology, chemistry, physics, etc.
Perhaps this illustrates a failing of the secondary education level, or a need for a pre-freshman year for certain remedial (even if brilliant) students.
Don't get me wrong, there's a place for teaching basic programing to majors from other fields where they need that sort of instruction, but to have a kid show up and enroll for a major with no experience at all really limits what can be accomplished in the major. This isn't 1968 - somebody showing up for a CS major ought to have already spent some time hacking up some python or ruby (etc.) in his spare time (and therefore probably already gets OOP).
"Buy this expensive tablet device from us and we'll provide feature and/or security updates for the life of the product."
"These are real users of our products."
See, when you can't trust a company you're going to be less likely to do business with them.
New Media Strategies to sent armies of astroturfers here to post comments and disrupt our discussions on a daily basis? And by "armies" I mean most of the UIDs from 1900000 to 2000000
And... I hit submit before I added the 9th Amendment, the most obvious of them.
Driving is not a right, but rather a privilege.
Baloney. That's what the people 'granting' you the right want you to think.
Driving is travel, travel is required for assembly, the right of assembly is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. You can't very well assemble in most places if a driver's license is revoked.
The 5th Amendment says, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The 'right to travel' is a liberty, there can't be prior restraint on it. This is incorporated against the States by the 14th Amendment.
it's not a contract, it's a settlement
That's a great point. I guess since it's the government that's created this abandoned-works black hole, there is no contract option.
Still, the mechanism Google used is available to all.
That seems to be the core of the disagreement here. You think it's fine for Google to be allowed to be the guardian of our written culture, without any copyright or oversight, and I don't.
I agree about the disagreement. You think it's fine for The USA Federal Government to be allowed to be the guardian of our written culture, and I find that's proven to be an utter failure. Anything that can put a chink in that armor is OK by me.
The only fair option would be to push for the same kind of deal to apply to anyone (i.e. so long as you pay the same as what Google does, you can redistribute books under the same rules).
Sure, that's fair. Is there something exclusionary in the Google contract? I sort of figured this is like when Apple did the deal with the record labels. iTunes was exclusive at first, but it cracked open the vault for all the subsequent competitors.
Not really - the settlement would allow Google to distribute them to you, but it would not allow you to redistribute them further (as you're not a party to that settlement).
But redistribution isn't necessary here, if everybody can get them from Google.
We're not looking to the future as to how to license some new software - these are old works, forever trapped by copyright to benefit the Disney Corporation. Without the Google solution, we get nothing. I'd love to hear about any other options.
Kinda like how open source runs on free beer
If you think you have a way to vanquish copyright, I'm 100% behind you.
But I think that the alternative to this Google solution is the status-quo, where abandoned works are locked away forever for the benefit of Mickey Mouse.
One law for Google, one law for everyone else. Of course, it's okay because Google isn't evil...
I get your point, but if Google was making these available for free, the evils of copyright would have been averted.
Unfortunately it costs more than $125M to buy a law lessening restrictions. Disney bought Fritz Hollings for much cheaper, but they were increasing restrictions.
The only passage I see that references our President is "Orion and the companion Ares heavy-lift rocket were part of Constellation, a program cancelled under President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal."
Dude, enough with the racism already.
There you go. It seems odd that people think fueling at home is a requirement for electric. Fueling at home is a benefit, sure, but if fueling stations can charge your electric car as fast as they can fuel your gas car, you have reached parity on convenience.
The barrier isn't even that high.
I expect this will be a concession service, like those 75 cent air pumps at gas stations or the Blue Rhino propane tank rentals at big-box stores.
A business (say a restaurant) signs a deal with a concession company to maintain charging stations on its premises for some cut, maybe 1/3 or profits. The concession company takes care of all of the infrastructure and payment.
The customer, parks his car at the restaurant, plugs in, either runs his credit card, or more likely something like EZPass gets in on the action as a payment processor, or a cell phone is bumped - whatever - and the customer then goes to eat dinner. When he's done, he unplugs at whatever level of charge he's got in that time. Give it a few years, the cars will automatically dock and exchange billing information.
The kinds of workplaces that have juice bars for their employees will have charging stations as well. You just always charge at work, rarely elsewhere.
In short, you don't need a very-quick-charge battery to replace gas-station fuelings, because going somewhere special to fuel your vehicle will become a cute anachronism of the 20th/21st centuries.
The Apple App Store opened in March 2008. If you do an Internet search for the term "App Store" prior to that you have a very hard time finding any legitimate results. (Google really needs to fix their date search, and Bing and Yahoo! were worse) I didn't find any, but going through lots of results manually is problematic. It is entirely possible that they actually did coin the term - so yes, seriously.
This took me one minute to find:
(EB = Electronics Boutique, a brick-and-mortar computer software store)
This is from back in 2000 - the term "app store" was already in use as a generic. Just to make this post Slashdot-complete, this is like GM trademarking The 2012 Chevy Pickup Truck(tm).
Mmmmm. Then we're down to one GSM, and one CDMA.
Which will benefit them both.
Insane.
That's what an FCC 5-year permitting process will get 'ya. Prices will go up, the FCC will protect the status quo, and the politicians will get nice campaign contributions.
Thanks for the data. I'll hold onto my wallet until things improve.
(I pay $40/month for 1200 minutes and unlimited data)
And... how do they defined 'unlimited'?
The duopoly that results (sorry, Sprint and Clearwire are dying)
Now that AT&T will be the largest carrier, by subscriber count, it's a no-brainer for Verizon to buy out Sprint (1:10 market-cap ratio). Then they're on top again, and their phones are already compatible.
I'm an integrator and I will NOT touch Samsung and LG. Samsung plasmas and LCD's are utter garbage, more returns on those than anything else.
Returns because of image quality or returns because of mechanical failure?
I've still got a-rather-expensive-at-the-time CRT because all of the LCD's I've seen to date have had garbage image quality. I started to see a couple Samsungs in the $2500 range this past autumn that I actually thought might be worthwhile.
The problem is: T-Mobile's 3G sites are all in the 1700 MHz band. No AT&T handset supports UMTS1700 to my knowledge
My first thought, when I heard about the merger, is that AT&T must have access to some new radio parts that also include the 1700MHz band. This must have been in the works for some time; I wouldn't be surprised if new AT&T phones by summer supported the T-Mobile bands, at least in hardware if not enabled.
How do people get doses of Tamiflu? Is it through "back channels"?
One way you could do it would be to get the flu, beg your physician for a prescription, get it filled, pop it in the freezer, then stick it out like everybody else does. Perhaps wise, if you're worried about a deadly bird flu.
US Army $167,820
US Dept of Defense $144,105
Wait, WHAT?
t doesn't even notate which score a note should be on. This means, for example, that piano music would be just about impossible to play from a raw midi dump.
I've run a few .mid's through Lilypond where no music was available for purchase. It does get the staffs right (MIDI has 'instruments' or channels), but it is ridiculously hard to play. It's best to use the score to get the music into your head, base the dynamics on your memory of the song, then just play it from memory.