Since the article refers to "working on the premises" it's not at all clear that a volunteer who on his own time in his own house translates some text is an employee. I've also heard about "unpaid intern" positions which do occur in many companies. So pretty clearly the law is not so black & white as people would make it.
The FLSA says that EMPLOYEES can't volunteer their time. In other words, I work for company X, I can't then "volunteer" an extra few hours to the company. Could someone please point to the point of the FLSA that refers to non-employees of Valve?
And yet, when you go to a decently designed web page that isn't crawling with video, popups, images, javascript, and other crap, you enjoy the experience, unlike the typical experience where everything your cursor happens to hover over goes off and fetches something off the web. There's value in using the web properly instead of thinking that javascript / video / images / etc are the end all and be all of the web.
If you want a single player game, buy a single player game. The whole point of an MMO is to be on line in a persistent world. Complaining that an MMO requires an Internet connection is like complaining that a computer game requires a computer.
Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: 'the artist is merely the medium for his or her work.'
That sounds like something someone non-creative person would say..
Since the parent got modded to oblivion, and I don't have mod points, I'll just quote it, because it's absolutely right. I'm a (very) amateur artist. My work isn't all that good, but it is MY hand that creates it and gives it value, regardless of who else sees it. The idea that it somehow doesn't have value till it goes before an audience is utterly absurd. It's true that someone else may notice something in the art that I wasn't conscious of when I created it, but that's very different from the art somehow being "created" or "owned" by the audience.
Yeah. I mean, it's not like Google would send out trucks on every street scooping up all the wireless traffic they could. Only a government would do that.
But yeah, other than Mars Rovers... oh, and orbiting Saturn.
Yeah, but other than Mars rovers and orbiting Saturn... oh, and orbiting Mercury. And ongoing missions to interstellar space. And a mission to Pluto. And orbiting an asteroid. And private space travel. And starting work on manned trips to asteroids...
But yeah, other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Well, if you LOOK out the window, you can see not just what is right in front of you, but traffic lights a block or two down the street. I don't know if this is still true but the city I grew up in timed the lights such that if you just drove the speed limit, you would correctly hit each light. You don't need a smart phone, you just need some intelligence.
This really does sounds like FUD to push GPL v3. I've seen several articles that discussed a vendor being contacted about using GPL v2 code w/o distributing the source, and they've all been of the form "after X amount of discussion / lawyer flexing / etc the company backed down and is now in compliance". Can anyone cite any article that talks about the difficulty of giving rights back to a company after a GPL violation?
I strongly disagree. In C you can "see" what is going on. In C++ you have ALL the same problems as in C, plus many more cute little traps (default assignment operators, etc). The traps are carefully hidden away under the covers, but they are still there. For example, what C++ laughingly calls a reference isn't what anyone else would call a reference, it's a pointer with a little syntactic sugar layered on top, and it can become invalid, just a like a pointer can become invalid. And don't get me started on templates...
As I recall, the old CRT keyboards did have a backspace key, it was just a lot easier to hit ctrl-H. The ctrl key was just to the left of "A" (somehow that got morphed into caps lock, which seems really stupid). So you could hit ctrl-H w/o ever leaving the home row. I think the backspace key was less conveniently located.
But this goes back a few years... it might well be that the first CRTs I used didn't have a backspace.
This one sounds pretty advanced: "What is different here is that this is a submarine. It has a ballast system. It can go down. This one can only go to a depth of 62 feet, which is not very far and really doesn't give them much of a margin of error. However, if you need to go underwater, you can ride underwater for 18 hours at a clip, and it has a range of 6,800 nautical miles, which is, you know, pretty incredible. " (from http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135574444/ecuador-seizes-drug-running-super-sub)
Actually the drug cartels now have fairly sophisticated subs for smuggling. I don't know that they are bothering to arm them with torpedoes or they would care about some self-proclaimed ocean nation, but it's not just nations that have subs anymore.
By the way, Medicare is NOT "free" once you start receiving it. It's cheaper than a private plan, but it still costs a fair bit, as long as you still have assets to pay for it.
Following too closely isn't dangerous. Speeding isn't either. You don't care about crashes either. You just want laws enforced in a manner to force those around you to drive in a manner you find more comfortable.
Conversely, if you're doing any of those things and driving perfectly safely, then good for you.
Because if they can't do them safely, then they are impaired. So you really are interested in impairment. You just have an issue with my wording. You are right that I'm not interested in impairment. I'm personally interested in risk level. Society has made a conscious choice that absolute risk is irrelevant and that impairment is a more important metric, so I addressed that. I'm much rather society abandon the Prohibition attitude toward drinking and the focus on "impairment" and instead focus on absolute risk. 75% of those with licenses shouldn't have them. But that includes most people, so they are against that because they don't like being told they are incompetent drivers (even if they are). So anyone focusing on real risk will get voted out.
Based on your post, I'd say you fall into the 75%.
So a couple of morons who don't pay attention while driving are going to ruin it for the other morons who don't pay attention while driving?
When you are piloting a ton of metal at 70 mph a couple of feet from a bunch of other piloted missiles, you need to PAY ATTENTION to what you are doing. Not be looking at the latest text message you just received. And yes, studies have shown that it's different from talking to people in the same car.
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Since the article refers to "working on the premises" it's not at all clear that a volunteer who on his own time in his own house translates some text is an employee. I've also heard about "unpaid intern" positions which do occur in many companies. So pretty clearly the law is not so black & white as people would make it.
The FLSA says that EMPLOYEES can't volunteer their time. In other words, I work for company X, I can't then "volunteer" an extra few hours to the company. Could someone please point to the point of the FLSA that refers to non-employees of Valve?
You might want to read the summary: "Millions could be saved by Steam by making the community work for free." Notice the word "making".
And yet, when you go to a decently designed web page that isn't crawling with video, popups, images, javascript, and other crap, you enjoy the experience, unlike the typical experience where everything your cursor happens to hover over goes off and fetches something off the web. There's value in using the web properly instead of thinking that javascript / video / images / etc are the end all and be all of the web.
No please, do it quickly. Programming in javascript is like being dragged over fishhooks and broken glass.
Right. Because 2012 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
If you want a single player game, buy a single player game. The whole point of an MMO is to be on line in a persistent world. Complaining that an MMO requires an Internet connection is like complaining that a computer game requires a computer.
That sounds like something someone non-creative person would say..
Since the parent got modded to oblivion, and I don't have mod points, I'll just quote it, because it's absolutely right. I'm a (very) amateur artist. My work isn't all that good, but it is MY hand that creates it and gives it value, regardless of who else sees it. The idea that it somehow doesn't have value till it goes before an audience is utterly absurd. It's true that someone else may notice something in the art that I wasn't conscious of when I created it, but that's very different from the art somehow being "created" or "owned" by the audience.
What this really reminds me of is that people feel way too entitled and have way, way too much time on their hands.
Yeah. I mean, it's not like Google would send out trucks on every street scooping up all the wireless traffic they could. Only a government would do that.
Yeah, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Except roving around for kilometers on Mars.
But yeah, other than Mars Rovers... oh, and orbiting Saturn.
Yeah, but other than Mars rovers and orbiting Saturn... oh, and orbiting Mercury. And ongoing missions to interstellar space. And a mission to Pluto. And orbiting an asteroid. And private space travel. And starting work on manned trips to asteroids...
But yeah, other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
If only I had mod points I could mod this "Funny".
Well, if you LOOK out the window, you can see not just what is right in front of you, but traffic lights a block or two down the street. I don't know if this is still true but the city I grew up in timed the lights such that if you just drove the speed limit, you would correctly hit each light. You don't need a smart phone, you just need some intelligence.
This really does sounds like FUD to push GPL v3. I've seen several articles that discussed a vendor being contacted about using GPL v2 code w/o distributing the source, and they've all been of the form "after X amount of discussion / lawyer flexing / etc the company backed down and is now in compliance". Can anyone cite any article that talks about the difficulty of giving rights back to a company after a GPL violation?
Where "ripoff" is defined as someone using the open source code according to the license?
I strongly disagree. In C you can "see" what is going on. In C++ you have ALL the same problems as in C, plus many more cute little traps (default assignment operators, etc). The traps are carefully hidden away under the covers, but they are still there. For example, what C++ laughingly calls a reference isn't what anyone else would call a reference, it's a pointer with a little syntactic sugar layered on top, and it can become invalid, just a like a pointer can become invalid. And don't get me started on templates...
Having read the article... other than being laid off, what makes you think that the guy was treated poorly?
As I recall, the old CRT keyboards did have a backspace key, it was just a lot easier to hit ctrl-H. The ctrl key was just to the left of "A" (somehow that got morphed into caps lock, which seems really stupid). So you could hit ctrl-H w/o ever leaving the home row. I think the backspace key was less conveniently located.
But this goes back a few years... it might well be that the first CRTs I used didn't have a backspace.
This one sounds pretty advanced: "What is different here is that this is a submarine. It has a ballast system. It can go down. This one can only go to a depth of 62 feet, which is not very far and really doesn't give them much of a margin of error. However, if you need to go underwater, you can ride underwater for 18 hours at a clip, and it has a range of 6,800 nautical miles, which is, you know, pretty incredible. " (from http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135574444/ecuador-seizes-drug-running-super-sub)
Actually the drug cartels now have fairly sophisticated subs for smuggling. I don't know that they are bothering to arm them with torpedoes or they would care about some self-proclaimed ocean nation, but it's not just nations that have subs anymore.
By the way, Medicare is NOT "free" once you start receiving it. It's cheaper than a private plan, but it still costs a fair bit, as long as you still have assets to pay for it.
Following too closely isn't dangerous. Speeding isn't either. You don't care about crashes either. You just want laws enforced in a manner to force those around you to drive in a manner you find more comfortable.
Conversely, if you're doing any of those things and driving perfectly safely, then good for you.
Because if they can't do them safely, then they are impaired. So you really are interested in impairment. You just have an issue with my wording. You are right that I'm not interested in impairment. I'm personally interested in risk level. Society has made a conscious choice that absolute risk is irrelevant and that impairment is a more important metric, so I addressed that. I'm much rather society abandon the Prohibition attitude toward drinking and the focus on "impairment" and instead focus on absolute risk. 75% of those with licenses shouldn't have them. But that includes most people, so they are against that because they don't like being told they are incompetent drivers (even if they are). So anyone focusing on real risk will get voted out.
Based on your post, I'd say you fall into the 75%.
Really?
No, the studies that I've seen cited say that cell phone usage is NOT the same as talking to other people in the car.
So a couple of morons who don't pay attention while driving are going to ruin it for the other morons who don't pay attention while driving?
When you are piloting a ton of metal at 70 mph a couple of feet from a bunch of other piloted missiles, you need to PAY ATTENTION to what you are doing. Not be looking at the latest text message you just received. And yes, studies have shown that it's different from talking to people in the same car.