> misuse of company funds is also serious but not on the level of sexual harassment.
I'm sorry ? You find that behaviour that is damaging to the company as a whole is not as serious as behaviour that, while inappropriate, harms only one employee who can't stand up for herself ?
Your not allowing me to put up a tasteful poster of a beautiful, if scantily clad, woman is clearly a sexual issue, and I see it as harrasment. The victim defines the crime, right ?
A difficult one, that. If I did so for humourous purposes, it might be protected under fair use. If I did so to gain members for my vegetarian cult, it will probably be unlawful.
While the good father may well believe that he's saving souls, any organised religion or group is in the end little more that a corporation selling an idea, and deserves to be treated as such.
The priest has every right to try and convince people of his faith, within some boundaries. However, he does not have the right to rip off someone's trademark any more than another company has. Not even because it is for spreading the "good word" - that means nothing to anyone who isn't part of his particular sect.
No, I wasn't being ironic, so thank you for that. I'm happily set in the EU, where we still mostly resist GM stuff, so I haven't been into much contact with Monsanto yet.
I'm on a few tech mailing lists, and I see quite a few self-learners go by. While it does work for some, I have the subjective impression that it spawns mostly people who think they understand how everything works, but who in reality try to get water to flow upstream.
I hardly ever game on PC anymore - last thing I played was HL2 ep 1. I have, in the past, pirated quite a bit, though, and tbh I still have a nice collection of rather ancient DOS games. The few new games I play on PC tend to be indies (only if heavily recommende by various sources, and usually way after they've been released), but I do have the tendency to pay for those, then - mostly because I play them with full gusto, and not just because they're the thing of the moment.
Console-wise, having a PS3 and a Wii (and darling BF just having gotten a refurbished 360 today, because he's dying for fable), I do pay for pretty much everything I play - although again, few games are good enough to interest me, and I tend to buy late and usually secondhand. Incidentally, I just got Little King's Story for the Wii - a little-known but very excellent cross-genre game.
Not that my anecdote is in any way significant, but I just wanted to point out that there are those who aren't afraid of pirating - and know how to - but are very willing to pay for good games, indie or not.
Monsanto (apparently) claims that a) their seeds are infertile and b) cross-pollination can thus not happen. And yet, they sue people who either have Monsanto genes in their non-monsanto crop, and people who harvest and reseed from Monsanto crop - not sure the latter has actually happened, but you can bet they would sue.
Their actions clearly indicate that they know full well that b) is possible, and if the second happened, that a) is also possible. The only resonable conclusion is that they're knowingly and willingly lying for all they're worth.
Even if there weren't (although, yes, I also believe that the evidence indicates that there is), it is insanity to help someone using a method that you know full well will put you in jeopardy afterwards.
While a long life full of interesting things does appeal to me, I suspect that I will, at some point, tire from it and will deliberately want to make an ending. Everything that has a beginning, must eventually have an ending, too. Such is the universe, and it is good.
For examples of the misery that ensues when things keep going after they should have met their end, look at myspace, geocities, and so on.
No, that is not the reason you have those instructions on packaging. The reason you have those instructions on packaging is that some people honestly believe that if nature designs a better idiot, it is somehow beneficial to keep it in the genepool.
You would not have the pirate bay, any movie or music you would ever want to watch, online banking and most other things you see as convenient.
You would, however, still have a place that is populated by mostly intelligent, computer-literate people, and that serves as a haven for any kind of information and exchange of ideas that geeks could possibly conceive.
Look at what happened to OLPC. It was gonna be a cheap, linux-only, open platform to enable learning in disadvantaged locations. Suddenly MS got scared, and decided to <i>magnanimously</i> offer free Windows licences, and even hacked a version that would run on the low-end hardware.
How long will it be until they make India an offer they can't refuse, based on <i>charitably</i> offfering free licences for a suitable Windows version; and, you know, we should really stick a date on that price renegotiation meeting for all your gubment servers.
Had I gods, I'd pray for them to give the Indian government the balls they're gonna need in the near future.
While I'm as happy with Steam as you seem to be, I wouldn't be so sure that they'll be unlocking their games should they go under. The typical scenario involves finding someone who's willing to buy your business, and you're gonna get a much better price if your games are still included and under control. Release your games and you might not even *find* a buyer.
They provide good games, and they provide good service, but in the end, they're still a business.
Agreed on your observations about web developers, but the ability to configure a server is still useful only for a sysadmin - what you need to test is their ability to program, within both security, memory and performance constraints. They could perfectly well be able to set up a highly-tuned server, and never have heard of, say, SQL parameter binding.
What you're saying here, is that in order to verify if they can fly an Apache chopper, you will see how they do in a Cessna. Same underlying thought patterns, entirely different skillset.
Well, I'm Belgian, where Stella Artois^W^WInterbrew^WInbev^WAnheuser-Busch InBev originated.
From where we're standing, they're mostly a brazillian company by now, and the quality of their beers has steadily worsened, McDonalds-style.
At some time, they tried to move production of Hoegaarden, our most famous (though not best) white beer to another brewery in Jupille, totally disregarding how local ingredients make up the character of your beer. The attempt miserably failed, of course, with roughly half of the batches they brewed being simply undrinkable, while the rest was way below par as well; and this lead to a shortage of the beer in shops for months on end. In the end they had no choice but to return to the original site.
The people in charge have absolutely no clue about what it takes to make a beer, or what factors influence the brew. Bad though Bud may already be, expect it to get worse in the coming years.
Replying to undo my original Troll mod, because I feel that that may have been a bit harsh.
* Internet Explorer is a browser, not a TCP/IP stack. * There were several stacks before, but Winsock was the first common stack for windows. It predates IE4 by two years, and is not the work of Microsoft. * MS should have implemented proper networking from the get-go, and arguably already in their DOS offerings, instead of peddling their proprietary crap on top of what they always, and short-sightedly, looked at as just a standalone system
* Lastly, and arguably, "hampering the growth of the internet" by keeping MS users off it might have saved the rest of us quite a few headaches.
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Neh, that would mean there's finally something Jack D is good for.
> misuse of company funds is also serious but not on the level of sexual harassment.
I'm sorry ? You find that behaviour that is damaging to the company as a whole is not as serious as behaviour that, while inappropriate, harms only one employee who can't stand up for herself ?
Peculiar.
Your not allowing me to put up a tasteful poster of a beautiful, if scantily clad, woman is clearly a sexual issue, and I see it as harrasment. The victim defines the crime, right ?
A difficult one, that. If I did so for humourous purposes, it might be protected under fair use. If I did so to gain members for my vegetarian cult, it will probably be unlawful.
While the good father may well believe that he's saving souls, any organised religion or group is in the end little more that a corporation selling an idea, and deserves to be treated as such.
The priest has every right to try and convince people of his faith, within some boundaries. However, he does not have the right to rip off someone's trademark any more than another company has. Not even because it is for spreading the "good word" - that means nothing to anyone who isn't part of his particular sect.
No, I wasn't being ironic, so thank you for that. I'm happily set in the EU, where we still mostly resist GM stuff, so I haven't been into much contact with Monsanto yet.
I'm on a few tech mailing lists, and I see quite a few self-learners go by. While it does work for some, I have the subjective impression that it spawns mostly people who think they understand how everything works, but who in reality try to get water to flow upstream.
I hardly ever game on PC anymore - last thing I played was HL2 ep 1. I have, in the past, pirated quite a bit, though, and tbh I still have a nice collection of rather ancient DOS games. The few new games I play on PC tend to be indies (only if heavily recommende by various sources, and usually way after they've been released), but I do have the tendency to pay for those, then - mostly because I play them with full gusto, and not just because they're the thing of the moment.
Console-wise, having a PS3 and a Wii (and darling BF just having gotten a refurbished 360 today, because he's dying for fable), I do pay for pretty much everything I play - although again, few games are good enough to interest me, and I tend to buy late and usually secondhand. Incidentally, I just got Little King's Story for the Wii - a little-known but very excellent cross-genre game.
Not that my anecdote is in any way significant, but I just wanted to point out that there are those who aren't afraid of pirating - and know how to - but are very willing to pay for good games, indie or not.
Hmm. The weed killer one is particularly nasty. Does anyone know if Monsanto (or maybe another GM corp) has part in any herbicide manufacturers ?
Monsanto (apparently) claims that a) their seeds are infertile and b) cross-pollination can thus not happen. And yet, they sue people who either have Monsanto genes in their non-monsanto crop, and people who harvest and reseed from Monsanto crop - not sure the latter has actually happened, but you can bet they would sue.
Their actions clearly indicate that they know full well that b) is possible, and if the second happened, that a) is also possible. The only resonable conclusion is that they're knowingly and willingly lying for all they're worth.
Even if there weren't (although, yes, I also believe that the evidence indicates that there is), it is insanity to help someone using a method that you know full well will put you in jeopardy afterwards.
Yeah, straight onto the busy highway :-p
While a long life full of interesting things does appeal to me, I suspect that I will, at some point, tire from it and will deliberately want to make an ending. Everything that has a beginning, must eventually have an ending, too. Such is the universe, and it is good.
For examples of the misery that ensues when things keep going after they should have met their end, look at myspace, geocities, and so on.
No, that is not the reason you have those instructions on packaging. The reason you have those instructions on packaging is that some people honestly believe that if nature designs a better idiot, it is somehow beneficial to keep it in the genepool.
You *wonder* about this ? Silly man.
You would not have the pirate bay, any movie or music you would ever want to watch, online banking and most other things you see as convenient.
You would, however, still have a place that is populated by mostly intelligent, computer-literate people, and that serves as a haven for any kind of information and exchange of ideas that geeks could possibly conceive.
Of course it would have been better that way.
It's called marketing and advertising, and it's got one of the biggest budgets you're likely to find.
Not funny, Insightful.
Look at what happened to OLPC. It was gonna be a cheap, linux-only, open platform to enable learning in disadvantaged locations. Suddenly MS got scared, and decided to <i>magnanimously</i> offer free Windows licences, and even hacked a version that would run on the low-end hardware.
How long will it be until they make India an offer they can't refuse, based on <i>charitably</i> offfering free licences for a suitable Windows version; and, you know, we should really stick a date on that price renegotiation meeting for all your gubment servers.
Had I gods, I'd pray for them to give the Indian government the balls they're gonna need in the near future.
While I'm as happy with Steam as you seem to be, I wouldn't be so sure that they'll be unlocking their games should they go under. The typical scenario involves finding someone who's willing to buy your business, and you're gonna get a much better price if your games are still included and under control. Release your games and you might not even *find* a buyer.
They provide good games, and they provide good service, but in the end, they're still a business.
Got a good tutorial somewhere for binary arithmetic ? I'm familiar with the notation, but blisfully unaware of how to do actual maths :-)
You just volunteered for the, erm, showers. That's it, they're showers.
Agreed on your observations about web developers, but the ability to configure a server is still useful only for a sysadmin - what you need to test is their ability to program, within both security, memory and performance constraints. They could perfectly well be able to set up a highly-tuned server, and never have heard of, say, SQL parameter binding.
What you're saying here, is that in order to verify if they can fly an Apache chopper, you will see how they do in a Cessna. Same underlying thought patterns, entirely different skillset.
Well, I'm Belgian, where Stella Artois^W^WInterbrew^WInbev^WAnheuser-Busch InBev originated.
From where we're standing, they're mostly a brazillian company by now, and the quality of their beers has steadily worsened, McDonalds-style.
At some time, they tried to move production of Hoegaarden, our most famous (though not best) white beer to another brewery in Jupille, totally disregarding how local ingredients make up the character of your beer. The attempt miserably failed, of course, with roughly half of the batches they brewed being simply undrinkable, while the rest was way below par as well; and this lead to a shortage of the beer in shops for months on end. In the end they had no choice but to return to the original site.
The people in charge have absolutely no clue about what it takes to make a beer, or what factors influence the brew. Bad though Bud may already be, expect it to get worse in the coming years.
Like that ever stopped them from trying.
You keep well away of all the other inferior products, and then you go for american 'beer' ?
Replying to undo my original Troll mod, because I feel that that may have been a bit harsh.
* Internet Explorer is a browser, not a TCP/IP stack.
* There were several stacks before, but Winsock was the first common stack for windows. It predates IE4 by two years, and is not the work of Microsoft.
* MS should have implemented proper networking from the get-go, and arguably already in their DOS offerings, instead of peddling their proprietary crap on top of what they always, and short-sightedly, looked at as just a standalone system
* Lastly, and arguably, "hampering the growth of the internet" by keeping MS users off it might have saved the rest of us quite a few headaches.