Except in the case of positions for which money-handling and -managing are primary job responsibilities (CFO, e.g.)
Your activities with company credit card or managing company purchasing will not be reflected on your credit check.
It's None Of Their Business! This is one more step along the path to the Panopticon. Everyone needs a job, this is not a purely voluntary act in the same way that buying something on credit is.
Ah, the jealous song twittered by the wretched when they see someone brought down towards their level.
I never understood this, or the notion that the chief joy of ascending to Heaven is the knowledge that others are in Hell. Then again, I just want to do what I do and be left alone.
Rajneeshpuram playbook..
Go down to the breakfast buffet, load the egg tray up with e coli, and all the voters will stay home with diarrhea on election day...
Heh, no kidding.
You can achieve this same effect in java if you just declare your object's private variables to be public.
But this breaks encapsulation, leading to crummy, hard to explain, understand, and maintain code. Everybody understands this, right?
Heh, no kidding..
You can achieve this same effect in java if you just declare your object's private variables to be public instead of using getters and setters.
We all know this is the wrong approach, since it makes for crusty unmaintainable code down the road, right??? Right???
While this is definitely unfortunate, Sun has been pouring resources into this marvelous free platform with little (cash-money profit) to show for it for years now. I would think paying even a $1 per download would be pretty much out of the question for them.. How low can the licensing fees be?
But I have found that these kind of blown schedules always result from:
(1) Misstatements of requirements (2) Misapplication of estimates (i.e. applying coding estimates blindly without thinking about what other overhead exists in your process).
If you are a project manager, it's your job to come up with good estimates. If your programmers estimate poorly, it's your job to track that and adjust their estimates.
The difference is, when you're getting carded, you're waiting to get in, many people would rather walk than wait at that point. At Radio Shack you already picked your stuff and they get you at the register.
Functionally equivalent to the argument that using a DNA scanner to compile a complete genetic record of a person from their breath and sloughed-off skin cells is 'just using publicly available information'..
No bar patron would go to a bar that made them wait while their personal data were entered by hand into a computer system...
Maybe we need to follow the lead of the Europeans and get some laws against this 'phone-home' garbage. Why is it legal for a company to do this without warning the end-user?
No, we don't need to do research on what the perfect 'binder' chemicals are to mix with spores to produce an optimally lethal anthrax mixture. There is no evidence anyone in the world except ourselves has done this research. We advanced the state of the art to such a degree that the research itself produced the threat. The profile the FBI is using for the post-9/11 anthrax letters is of a USA bio-weapons program scientist.
I'm talking about what is politically possible in the US due to majority opinion. You are talking about the narrow means by which those ends were achieved. In other words, your argument is non-responsive to mine. When it is politically impossible for the ~20% hardcore religious minority to stop stem cell research, some means will be used to override their influence and allow the research to proceed. It is unimportant what that means is.
Where are all these people when things like weaponized anthrax are being researched by our government?
No, it's only when research might legitimize abortion that it's ImmoralTM.
It would be funny, if it weren't so very important. Personally I want the doubled lifespan that fully realized stem-cell research may give us. Get your foot off the brake there, Mr. God-Fearin' Man!
The reason is: the majority of the people in the US want to allow abortion because it makes life so much better for women. Once there are clear benefits from stem cell research (dramatically lengthened lifespans, elimination of all manner of debilitating diseases), the people of the US will be riled up enough about the influence of the religious nuts to overrule them on this issue too.
You show that if you define a market similarly for Apple computers, then they also would be shown to have a monopoly on software for that hardware, which is correct. They do.
If you lumped in all of Apple's hardware, Windows would still be on something like 95% of all computers since PC compatible hardware is so much larger a market. So I don't see what you get by redrawing the market there.
As to 'Microsoft bad', you are making the assumption that 'monopoly == bad' which is not the case legally. in the eyes of the law, monopoly == extra responsibilities. If you fail to meet those responsibilities, then yes, you are breaking the law.
That's the real problem for Microsoft in this case. Not just that they have the monopoly. But that they operate the monopoly in a predatory way. If they would tone down their 'cut off the air supply' style of doing business, they would have no legal problems from an antitrust standpoint.
Microsoft competes with companies like IBM, HP, Sun for enterprise customers like the place I work. Microsoft's pitch is that costs will be lower.
But IBM and others have picked up on free software as a way to compete with Microsoft on price. Buy our big hardware, they say, and some of our expensive software, but fill in the rest with free software. And you can beat the prices listed by the Microsoft salespeople for their solution.
Microsoft can't compete with free. They don't sell the hardware! So they have to do what they can to slam free software in the minds of the decision-makers at enterprise customers.
What better way than to slam it as 'socialistic'... No big enterprises in the USA like 'socialistic'..
Are you saying that objections to Mundie's statements are purely the expression of bias? What a great way to disagree with someone without presenting any arguments to support yourself.
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Except in the case of positions for which money-handling and -managing are primary job responsibilities (CFO, e.g.)
Your activities with company credit card or managing company purchasing will not be reflected on your credit check.It's None Of Their Business! This is one more step along the path to the Panopticon. Everyone needs a job, this is not a purely voluntary act in the same way that buying something on credit is.
Ah, the jealous song twittered by the wretched when they see someone brought down towards their level.
I never understood this, or the notion that the chief joy of ascending to Heaven is the knowledge that others are in Hell. Then again, I just want to do what I do and be left alone.Rajneeshpuram playbook.. Go down to the breakfast buffet, load the egg tray up with e coli, and all the voters will stay home with diarrhea on election day...
Heh, no kidding. You can achieve this same effect in java if you just declare your object's private variables to be public. But this breaks encapsulation, leading to crummy, hard to explain, understand, and maintain code. Everybody understands this, right?
Heh, no kidding.. You can achieve this same effect in java if you just declare your object's private variables to be public instead of using getters and setters. We all know this is the wrong approach, since it makes for crusty unmaintainable code down the road, right??? Right???
While this is definitely unfortunate, Sun has been pouring resources into this marvelous free platform with little (cash-money profit) to show for it for years now. I would think paying even a $1 per download would be pretty much out of the question for them.. How low can the licensing fees be?
You know, that's just great.
But I have found that these kind of blown schedules always result from:
(1) Misstatements of requirements
(2) Misapplication of estimates (i.e. applying coding estimates blindly without thinking about what other overhead exists in your process).
If you are a project manager, it's your job to come up with good estimates. If your programmers estimate poorly, it's your job to track that and adjust their estimates.
This new policy of criticising Microsoft has got to stop, so Slashdot can go back to being useful again..
Gasp.. what a crock...
They can't possibly be paying her enough money to come up with this stuff, day after day..
The difference is, when you're getting carded, you're waiting to get in, many people would rather walk than wait at that point. At Radio Shack you already picked your stuff and they get you at the register.
Functionally equivalent to the argument that using a DNA scanner to compile a complete genetic record of a person from their breath and sloughed-off skin cells is 'just using publicly available information'..
No bar patron would go to a bar that made them wait while their personal data were entered by hand into a computer system...
Air force is part of the public sector. Any pressure they apply can be construed as 'political'. In this case, such a view is unfounded.
Maybe we need to follow the lead of the Europeans and get some laws against this 'phone-home' garbage. Why is it legal for a company to do this without warning the end-user?
At a pawnshop near you!
It will be interesting to see if, like the music industry, efforts to crack down on consumers will result in reduced sales numbers.
No, we don't need to do research on what the perfect 'binder' chemicals are to mix with spores to produce an optimally lethal anthrax mixture. There is no evidence anyone in the world except ourselves has done this research. We advanced the state of the art to such a degree that the research itself produced the threat. The profile the FBI is using for the post-9/11 anthrax letters is of a USA bio-weapons program scientist.
I'm talking about what is politically possible in the US due to majority opinion. You are talking about the narrow means by which those ends were achieved. In other words, your argument is non-responsive to mine. When it is politically impossible for the ~20% hardcore religious minority to stop stem cell research, some means will be used to override their influence and allow the research to proceed. It is unimportant what that means is.
No, it's only when research might legitimize abortion that it's ImmoralTM.
It would be funny, if it weren't so very important. Personally I want the doubled lifespan that fully realized stem-cell research may give us. Get your foot off the brake there, Mr. God-Fearin' Man!
Sucks to lose, huh?
If you lumped in all of Apple's hardware, Windows would still be on something like 95% of all computers since PC compatible hardware is so much larger a market. So I don't see what you get by redrawing the market there.
As to 'Microsoft bad', you are making the assumption that 'monopoly == bad' which is not the case legally. in the eyes of the law, monopoly == extra responsibilities. If you fail to meet those responsibilities, then yes, you are breaking the law.
That's the real problem for Microsoft in this case. Not just that they have the monopoly. But that they operate the monopoly in a predatory way. If they would tone down their 'cut off the air supply' style of doing business, they would have no legal problems from an antitrust standpoint.
A barefoot man exclaims "Damn! Time to cancel that insanely great Jolly Roger ad campaign..."
Oh, then your post is completely offtopic. Sorry for the confusion!
Microsoft can't compete with free. They don't sell the hardware! So they have to do what they can to slam free software in the minds of the decision-makers at enterprise customers.
What better way than to slam it as 'socialistic'... No big enterprises in the USA like 'socialistic'..
Are you saying that objections to Mundie's statements are purely the expression of bias? What a great way to disagree with someone without presenting any arguments to support yourself.
Man, I miss that Highlandtown accent!