I am suspicious, and the next logical step would be to introduce a RFID-like device in the tooth. But, would this be practical? Not everyone gets caps and crowns, and there are simply better ways of keeping track of citizenry than implanting a bug at the dentist.
However, this type of development is important to watch. Ignore those who disagree, as they are sceptical of sceptics and contribute to society in a different manner which isn't pertinent to subjects like this.
If you haven't read 1984, or haven't read it in a long time, I encourage a visit.
Some people just can't distinguish between what they want and reality.
Speaking of reality..."A new survey that Bush supporters choose to keep faith in their leader than face reality."
It's amazing, but is it surprising? Faith is the foundation of loyalty. As it happens, Bush Jr is supported most vociferously by fundamentalists and others of varying degrees of religious fidelity. Religion is the most commonly visible example of faith (others are sports, the stock market, and other forms of gambling), and loyalty to something unseen or even proven false is its hallmark.
It goes to show that blind faith doesn't lead to wise choices.
"The "man in the street" in China can spill their own blood if they want to live in another way. They should not rely on Google, USA inc or any other outside force to do thier dirty work for them. If they want a revolution they can have it. If not, then they have to live in the system that they have inherited."
Oh yeah? And, if Marquis La Fayette and the rest of the French held your warped viewpoint when we needed them 300 years ago, we'd be speaking..er, English. Fuck, you know what I mean! We'd have funny accents!
Excellent point, and if I had any I'd give 'em to you. Pointing out hypocrisy is one of the few pleasures in life. Someone, please mod-parent up; eloquence in argument should be rewarded.
An assumption that the degree determines future occupation is a commonly mistaken one. I believe if you look carefully, the majority of people with degrees are not in their stereotypical occupation. For example, I have an aunt who has several degrees in Chemistry. Is she mixing potions to develop the latest transparent aluminum? No, she's happily making a killing in realestate. I reported to a director at a large entertainment company. His degree was in Petroleum Engineering. Also, as far as I can remember, Bill Gates and Michael Dell don't have degrees.
No, I don't believe simply being a product of a particular educational background predetermines your future path or career. Higher education is just for picking up new ideas, learning how to form your own, and developing the discipline to bring them to action.
So, while your theory sounds interesting on the surface, a little deeper digging unearths the question: why shouldn't anyone be allowed to be called a programmer if that's what they want and can do? Why shouldn't they be paid for it within the standard of living where the work originates from? It's always fascinated me that middle management begrudges labor their due, while providing little in the way of true value themselves at the same time taking credit, and pay, for labor's work. Funny logic that.
I think the only "balance corrected" can be found in accounts belonging to upper management.
"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 106-43 BC
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The submitter offered the wrong quote...they should've put this one in instead:
"My second real job was with DEC. DEC was a great place to work. Near total anarchy. I put out a very successful product called Datatrieve, which, due to a stupid political ploy by a manager, got cancelled. It didn't mean a thing. I got to write a monthly report saying "Problems: The project has been cancelled. If this isn't rectified, it could affect the schedule." It really didn't make any difference. The second version shipped on schedule, still cancelled. You've got to admire a company that succeeds despite the best efforts of its management."
Using Eclipse as a basis and embedding Cloudscape, someone who knew you what they were doing could build a FileMaker clone. Sounds like a project waiting to happen.
"The design is loosely based upon FileMaker Pro, with the added advantage of separation between interface and data. It attempts to provide a simple generic framework sufficient to implement most database applications. These systems normally consists of lots of repetitive, unmaintainable code."
This family of easy to use GUI painting reporting/form tools is missing in the Open Source world. If there are some light-weight alternatives, they're often not as powerful/flexible, or they're platform bound and may not be readily accessable.
It may be a while before a project is available that can replace FileMaker or Access.
Actually, you don't know that I don't know that. In other words, don't assume what other people don't know, and just stick to what you do.
It's not clear how hard it is to make that watermark work out.
There's at least one company that knows how hard it is, as they've already done it: Alias. They don't have to reinvent the wheel, they only need to apply what they've already spent money on to as wide a product base as they can. This will leverage the money already spent should there be people fleeing IRIX or Windows to Linux.
They'll have to perform more tech support on an even harder platform to use than Mac or Windows
As they already have Irix and Linux versions, I doubt tech-support is going to be any harder for them if a cripple-ware version (which often don't come with anything more than e-mail support) is made available.
What WOULD be silly is to go through the BS to make Maya PLE work in Linux, then have virtually nobody use it.
Actually, what's silly is your argument that they would make the initial tremendous effort of porting a fully working version for a platform where "virtually nobody" would use it. But, not apply the same marketing technique of cripple-ware to drum up business as they do in Windows. Where's the logic in that? Why do you think the PLE version was created for Windows or Mac anyhow?
In any case, the point is moot, as there's little doubt if they want to drum up business in the Linux, they'll have to make it available as a free download for Linux. How do I know they want to do business in Linux? Why else take the expensive effort of porting their product over? Ipso facto.
How much more costly would it be to put a watermark on the Linux version's output, and tweak the downloads page to add another file to download? Negligible. They're just being silly and will eventually get around to it as Blenderevolves.
Does anyone else find the fact that Bin-Ladel can now train his teenage suicide squads in tactics and teamwork without leaving their sleeper-cells a little disturbing? Not that they couldn't have done it with Quake, but this brings some realism to the matter.
This wouldn't even reach trial if it were brought to California. California is a right to work state. What's in your head belongs to you. Your experience is inseparably a part of you, and presumably was crucial in your original hire. If the company that hired you fails to retain you, they cannot stop you from working. The next company that hires you will benefit from your experience, just as the prior one did.
If the next company that hires you is foolish enough to fabricate a product that too closely resembles patented, copyrighted, or trademarked items from your prior company, they will simply have to resolve it through various legal means. Those companies that rely of "trade secret" rules fear this sort of thing as they have little protection against the migration of knowledge from one company to another.
Everyone has the right to work, and it is not likely that any jury would see stopping a citizen from working as a viable solution. And, if they did, the Supreme Court sure wouldn't as it clearly wouldn't stand a test against the Constitution.
I understand. But, the point is that undesirable behavior is part of being human. You won't find any area of human endeavor absent of undesirable behavior. To expect it to be absent from online activities is to put the bar higher than we do for the Vatican, the White House, the military, corporations, and families. Not really fair or even rational.
Existance is the climate to encourage illegal activity. It also happens to be the climate to encourage innocent acitivity. In America, if you are accused of breaking the law, the state assumes you're innocent until proven guilty. If the state assumes everyone is guilty until proven innocent, you may be living in some banana republic.
Anonymity can be irradicated by implanting an RFID-like chip/LoJack device at birth and tatooing everyone's foreheads with barcodes. Should we? I hope not.
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However, this type of development is important to watch. Ignore those who disagree, as they are sceptical of sceptics and contribute to society in a different manner which isn't pertinent to subjects like this.
If you haven't read 1984, or haven't read it in a long time, I encourage a visit.
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Speaking of reality..."A new survey that Bush supporters choose to keep faith in their leader than face reality."
It's amazing, but is it surprising? Faith is the foundation of loyalty. As it happens, Bush Jr is supported most vociferously by fundamentalists and others of varying degrees of religious fidelity. Religion is the most commonly visible example of faith (others are sports, the stock market, and other forms of gambling), and loyalty to something unseen or even proven false is its hallmark.
It goes to show that blind faith doesn't lead to wise choices.
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But it's a great way to think. And, since it's advisable to think when designing a program, OO becomes appreciably sensible.
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Oh yeah? And, if Marquis La Fayette and the rest of the French held your warped viewpoint when we needed them 300 years ago, we'd be speaking..er, English. Fuck, you know what I mean! We'd have funny accents!
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No, I don't believe simply being a product of a particular educational background predetermines your future path or career. Higher education is just for picking up new ideas, learning how to form your own, and developing the discipline to bring them to action.
So, while your theory sounds interesting on the surface, a little deeper digging unearths the question: why shouldn't anyone be allowed to be called a programmer if that's what they want and can do? Why shouldn't they be paid for it within the standard of living where the work originates from? It's always fascinated me that middle management begrudges labor their due, while providing little in the way of true value themselves at the same time taking credit, and pay, for labor's work. Funny logic that.
I think the only "balance corrected" can be found in accounts belonging to upper management.
"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 106-43 BC
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"My second real job was with DEC. DEC was a great place to work. Near total anarchy. I put out a very successful product called Datatrieve, which, due to a stupid political ploy by a manager, got cancelled. It didn't mean a thing. I got to write a monthly report saying "Problems: The project has been cancelled. If this isn't rectified, it could affect the schedule." It really didn't make any difference. The second version shipped on schedule, still cancelled. You've got to admire a company that succeeds despite the best efforts of its management."
Classic.
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Oh, so true it hurts.
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It may be a while before a project is available that can replace FileMaker or Access.
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I've been accused of being tone-deaf, particularly while yowling in the shower. No offense intended, and none taken.
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Actually, you don't know that I don't know that. In other words, don't assume what other people don't know, and just stick to what you do.
It's not clear how hard it is to make that watermark work out.
There's at least one company that knows how hard it is, as they've already done it: Alias. They don't have to reinvent the wheel, they only need to apply what they've already spent money on to as wide a product base as they can. This will leverage the money already spent should there be people fleeing IRIX or Windows to Linux.
They'll have to perform more tech support on an even harder platform to use than Mac or Windows
As they already have Irix and Linux versions, I doubt tech-support is going to be any harder for them if a cripple-ware version (which often don't come with anything more than e-mail support) is made available.
What WOULD be silly is to go through the BS to make Maya PLE work in Linux, then have virtually nobody use it.
Actually, what's silly is your argument that they would make the initial tremendous effort of porting a fully working version for a platform where "virtually nobody" would use it. But, not apply the same marketing technique of cripple-ware to drum up business as they do in Windows. Where's the logic in that? Why do you think the PLE version was created for Windows or Mac anyhow?
In any case, the point is moot, as there's little doubt if they want to drum up business in the Linux, they'll have to make it available as a free download for Linux. How do I know they want to do business in Linux? Why else take the expensive effort of porting their product over? Ipso facto.
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If the next company that hires you is foolish enough to fabricate a product that too closely resembles patented, copyrighted, or trademarked items from your prior company, they will simply have to resolve it through various legal means. Those companies that rely of "trade secret" rules fear this sort of thing as they have little protection against the migration of knowledge from one company to another.
Everyone has the right to work, and it is not likely that any jury would see stopping a citizen from working as a viable solution. And, if they did, the Supreme Court sure wouldn't as it clearly wouldn't stand a test against the Constitution.
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Anonymity can be irradicated by implanting an RFID-like chip/LoJack device at birth and tatooing everyone's foreheads with barcodes. Should we? I hope not.
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You mean, the tri-corder.
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It seemed promising.
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