I disagree, I've listened to and read some very reasoned arguments both for and against abortion that completely avoided the topic of relation and were entirely secular arguments.
That's only because you can't recognize a religion-based point of view when you see it -- you perceive religion as a "background".
Religion or spiritual belief is fine when it's individual and personal.
A person would never develop anything even remotely approaching anything comparable to any religion. Religion is a social phenomenon, and it can not exist in a non-organized form.
Abortion is only "controversial" because religious nuts are against it. Even worship of rich and powerful people is mostly based on the belief that rich and powerful people are rewarded by a divine force for being better than everyone else. To think of it, religion is deeply involved in every horrible thing I can name, from fucking up US healthcare reform to Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The original posts seems to completely omit anything that would explain, if this "application" is actually deployed and used.
If yes, asking for any payment would mean holding data and established processes hostage. That's about as unprofessional as it gets.
If no, you are in exactly the same position as anyone else offering a product that performs the same function. If they didn't buy a product from someone else, it's very unlikely they will want to buy it from you.
Yeah, it would be SO DIFFICULT to switch the profile to a network device and have a Samba server there. What, by the way, also applies to cameras and GPS devices.
I double dog dare Microsoft to mess with that, considering that they pretend to co-operate with Samba developers.
You can't create anything worthwhile if you don't have the knowledge. And you can't obtain such knowledge by chasing a goal that is both narrow and unoriginal. How much accomplishment was provoked by hundreds of millions of kids' dream to become an astronaut? And what kind of people ended up developing spaceships, or even flying on them? Not ones who thought it would be cool to float around in a spacesuit.
'Bigger innovation labs and companies are holding back on numerous innovations until they can properly monetize them.'
lol conspiracy. There is no innovation because military and entertainment, the only two areas where any innovation was done recently in US (and mostly in the world) are already completely saturated with awful ideas being implemented at ridiculously high cost.
Game programming is a very complex kind of software development, prone to errors (all professional game programmers write hideous, insecure, unportable code with utterly broken networking), and requires massive amount of effort placed into non-programming-related parts of the project (art, music, story).
Teaching something that complex in high school will inevitably degenerate into mucking around with pre-made templates, with no educational value whatsoever. If someone really wants to teach kids programming, he first has to give them an idea about true breadth of software. Most people, including adults, do not realize that there is software other than games, MS Office, Photoshop, web browser, and whatever hideous custom-made crap they use at work. I am not sure if they even know that web sites run on servers.
No, because that isn't fun and will just drive them away from programming. Nobody picks up a hobby or starts learning about something because of the technical details of it. They start doing it to accomplish or make something they want.
Good!
Then people who should not program would not program.
Actually yes, freedom of speech (a.k.a. freedom to lie to the public with impunity) is not held by everyone in the same regard as Americans. There are things more important than someone's right to pay a team of shills and liars to scream at crowds to drown out everyone else. And sometimes nothing but censorship can keep society from being derailed by people like Rupert Murdoch.
So.. why DO so many families need two full-time incomes just to make ends meet, or even to live in a modest amount of comfort?
Everyone is busy stuffing themselves into distribution/maintenance overhead (management, import/export, retail, marketing, finance) on production of something everyone needs. Production mostly happens elsewhere, or requires appropriately tiny amount of local resources.
the value of that labour is trivial: 2% or so of the cost of the machine.
Labor and natural resources are THE ONLY costs of production -- everything can be traced down to either of those, including development (divided by the number of units produced). Basically, whatever does not grow on trees (natural resource) is made by a human (labor). It is not necessarily a human working for the company that sells the product, but if someone is paid for it, there has to be a human.
The price, of course, may be higher than cost -- and that can be used to calculate the "profit" that I have mentioned in my previous comment if not the mandatory reinvestment part (company like Apple would not be able to produce anything if it stopped investing in future development and production).
I seriously do not recognize the existence of such concept as "profit" in an environment where all revenue is always reinvested in future production. "Profit" can be clearly defined when someone places money into something, gets more money out of it, destroys it and runs away. This works very well for kids' lemonade stand (complete with "destroys and runs away" part), or a company that pays dividends while keeping its stock value constant, however it's completely meaningless in anything more complex.
In US words are worthless because no one believes anything but 419 scams and whatever seems to match the reader's expectations, and search engines make things worse by filtering results to show something a person may agree with.
In many other countries, public-accessible speech is assumed to be somewhat verified BECAUSE it is censored. People see censorship as a filtering service.
As for various protest movements, it MUST BE HARD to be heard for protesters. It's a barrier to entry that everyone who wants to be heard has to overcome, a minimal test of persistence and willingness to make sacrifices for a cause -- for a meaningful protest to be noticed, thousands of meaningless ones have to give up. In US, Occupy Wall Street is on the same footing with run of the mill abortion protesters, and this is why no one hears them.
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Because not only you ask stupid questions, you also accept stupid answers.
I disagree, I've listened to and read some very reasoned arguments both for and against abortion that completely avoided the topic of relation and were entirely secular arguments.
That's only because you can't recognize a religion-based point of view when you see it -- you perceive religion as a "background".
Religion or spiritual belief is fine when it's individual and personal.
A person would never develop anything even remotely approaching anything comparable to any religion. Religion is a social phenomenon, and it can not exist in a non-organized form.
Abortion is only "controversial" because religious nuts are against it. Even worship of rich and powerful people is mostly based on the belief that rich and powerful people are rewarded by a divine force for being better than everyone else. To think of it, religion is deeply involved in every horrible thing I can name, from fucking up US healthcare reform to Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Who am I?
An idiot.
The original posts seems to completely omit anything that would explain, if this "application" is actually deployed and used.
If yes, asking for any payment would mean holding data and established processes hostage. That's about as unprofessional as it gets.
If no, you are in exactly the same position as anyone else offering a product that performs the same function. If they didn't buy a product from someone else, it's very unlikely they will want to buy it from you.
Either way, this is stupid, and you are stupid.
awareness of the tools
That's just marketing and seeding the biases, not education.
More likely, because having a satellite over someone else's territory is not an act of war.
like submarines tracking other submarines or executing SIGINT missions.
No, those were very much visible, too. Corresponding programs on each side seen each other.
Yeah, it would be SO DIFFICULT to switch the profile to a network device and have a Samba server there.
What, by the way, also applies to cameras and GPS devices.
I double dog dare Microsoft to mess with that, considering that they pretend to co-operate with Samba developers.
You can't create anything worthwhile if you don't have the knowledge. And you can't obtain such knowledge by chasing a goal that is both narrow and unoriginal. How much accomplishment was provoked by hundreds of millions of kids' dream to become an astronaut? And what kind of people ended up developing spaceships, or even flying on them? Not ones who thought it would be cool to float around in a spacesuit.
'Bigger innovation labs and companies are holding back on numerous innovations until they can properly monetize them.'
lol conspiracy. There is no innovation because military and entertainment, the only two areas where any innovation was done recently in US (and mostly in the world) are already completely saturated with awful ideas being implemented at ridiculously high cost.
Game programming is a very complex kind of software development, prone to errors (all professional game programmers write hideous, insecure, unportable code with utterly broken networking), and requires massive amount of effort placed into non-programming-related parts of the project (art, music, story).
Teaching something that complex in high school will inevitably degenerate into mucking around with pre-made templates, with no educational value whatsoever. If someone really wants to teach kids programming, he first has to give them an idea about true breadth of software. Most people, including adults, do not realize that there is software other than games, MS Office, Photoshop, web browser, and whatever hideous custom-made crap they use at work. I am not sure if they even know that web sites run on servers.
No, because that isn't fun and will just drive them away from programming. Nobody picks up a hobby or starts learning about something because of the technical details of it. They start doing it to accomplish or make something they want.
Good!
Then people who should not program would not program.
Wait, so censorship is good now?
It can be.
Oh I see. It's for the good of the people.
Actually yes, freedom of speech (a.k.a. freedom to lie to the public with impunity) is not held by everyone in the same regard as Americans. There are things more important than someone's right to pay a team of shills and liars to scream at crowds to drown out everyone else. And sometimes nothing but censorship can keep society from being derailed by people like Rupert Murdoch.
So.. why DO so many families need two full-time incomes just to make ends meet, or even to live in a modest amount of comfort?
Everyone is busy stuffing themselves into distribution/maintenance overhead (management, import/export, retail, marketing, finance) on production of something everyone needs. Production mostly happens elsewhere, or requires appropriately tiny amount of local resources.
Then why there is no right to be escorted by French military?
the value of that labour is trivial: 2% or so of the cost of the machine.
Labor and natural resources are THE ONLY costs of production -- everything can be traced down to either of those, including development (divided by the number of units produced). Basically, whatever does not grow on trees (natural resource) is made by a human (labor). It is not necessarily a human working for the company that sells the product, but if someone is paid for it, there has to be a human.
The price, of course, may be higher than cost -- and that can be used to calculate the "profit" that I have mentioned in my previous comment if not the mandatory reinvestment part (company like Apple would not be able to produce anything if it stopped investing in future development and production).
I seriously do not recognize the existence of such concept as "profit" in an environment where all revenue is always reinvested in future production. "Profit" can be clearly defined when someone places money into something, gets more money out of it, destroys it and runs away. This works very well for kids' lemonade stand (complete with "destroys and runs away" part), or a company that pays dividends while keeping its stock value constant, however it's completely meaningless in anything more complex.
While I am sure, there are plenty of corporate shills on Slashdot, most randroids look like genuine idiots to me.
It seems that no one outside of China wants to cover Chinese "bad news" other than the economic issues.
Protests in China are only covered if it's possible to [mis]represent them as demands for US-style "freedom".
I'll go so far as to offer this article as evidence that people - HUMANS - have an innate desire to be free even under repressive controls.
I don't. As long as my enemies aren't "free", either.
In US words are worthless because no one believes anything but 419 scams and whatever seems to match the reader's expectations, and search engines make things worse by filtering results to show something a person may agree with.
In many other countries, public-accessible speech is assumed to be somewhat verified BECAUSE it is censored. People see censorship as a filtering service.
As for various protest movements, it MUST BE HARD to be heard for protesters. It's a barrier to entry that everyone who wants to be heard has to overcome, a minimal test of persistence and willingness to make sacrifices for a cause -- for a meaningful protest to be noticed, thousands of meaningless ones have to give up. In US, Occupy Wall Street is on the same footing with run of the mill abortion protesters, and this is why no one hears them.
Citrix
Fuck you!
lol wut