I would assume that you established a contract before starting work with this agency. If they are now in violation of that contract, you have grounds to sue them, correct?
So what? You planning to sue some Chinese/Indian company in their own country? Good luck with that - you'll have better luck sending pictures of their CEO's kids.
Our (in the US and most other western countries) society depends on inheritance and the associated taxes, dividing of estates, etc, to redistribute wealth, and this would immediately negate that effect.
As I recall, the number of estates subject to tax each year is numbered in the low thousands. I doubt it's that big a deal, especially with the current SUV culture.
I'm a little stunned 16 thousand gun deaths per year, that is HUGE. I've just googled about for some Australian stats - about 100 per state, per year!
So, that's about 500 total? On the flip side, you have more katana deaths than we do;). But wait, cars kill about as many people in AU as guns do here:
"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's Annual Road Fatalities Report for 1997 lists 1,768 fatalities in motor vehicle accidents". cite
The P2P developers need gun lobbyists on their side! Since when was a gun developed that took "reasonable care" in preventing accidental death? The gun should be able to detect human presence and not fire a round! Yeah, it might cost a lot of money and time to develop that feature but we have to make sure that people don't use it the wrong way!
Even worse, we'll need to add a feature to unlock it when in the presence of Bad Guys (tm).
Seriously, what does this offer over current stuff? If I want to extend my application, I'll embed a script host. Extending the language just aadds the potential for the same code doing different things and giving rise to a whole new raft of bugs.
If only M$ had been listening. I know I'm not the only one here who hates that damn auto-tabbing IP address entry box!
I liked the IP thingy - type in an address with all the dots and it shows up just right. It is a little funky, but an IP address is one data field, right?
BTW, anyone interested should read M$'s HIG sometime. I hope they've started following it recently, because there were many sections I found where the HIG said one thing and their Office suite did something completely different.
Office always does their own thing. Good luck changing that.
When I use SSH and FTP, downloading and uploading to varying folders is much, much harder without a split-frame interface that represents the server on one side and my home, client computer on the other. I'd like an easy way to download into nested directories aside from the home folder, which I've never been able to do.
Have you used scp? it's an ssh-based file copier that supports recursion. I can't help you on the home folder thing, though.
It depends heavily on what you're doing. rm *.jpg is fast, but removing half the JPEGs in a folder based on "I don't need this file any more" would be much faster in a GUI.
Depends on what you want - a simple log expunger would be a one line 'find | xargs rm -f' cron job, whereas choosing jpgs based on content is inherently graphical.
Every woman I know is far better at handling money than either I am or their significant others are.
Damn, I was just going to say that. I spent part of yesterday listening to a friend complain about her spendthrift husband. She's even taken his credit cards away.
THAT is sexist. The idea that the women in these roles are fragile and need the approval of the man in charge, not even approval of them but of their general classification.
You're misinterpreting the statement. It's more a lament on working under someone who doesn't take you seriously. You do need the approval of the guy in charge to get tenure, for instance.
Sure. But you know the signer. And you agree to install it.
I'd rather have the Java model, where it requests specific permissions. I actually don't know the author, unless it's MS or Macromedia or someplace similar. Real security is proactive, not reactive. Besides, most software absolves itself of all responsibility, so what could you really do? Show up at their door with a baseball bat?
You were wrong in your assumption about only considering companies producing a product as opposed to also including companies that produce services. That they mentioned lawyers (who only produce "services") is prior proof of that.
You also failed to address the poster's argument that engineers are less likely to start a business than law students.
No, I was pointing out that most people don't include professional practices when they considered companies.
You don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "service industry" in an economic context - it's much more than just "billable hours". It includes "providing a service for a fee".
You don't seem to understand that I was clarifying my position regarding companies versus professional practices. And why couldnt you link that crap instead of spewing it into your comment?
So Google isn't a "company"? Yahoo! isn't a "company"? H&R Block isn't a "company"? Citibank isn't a "company"? Mastercard and Visa aren't "companies"? EBay isn't a "company"?
H&R block is the exception here, all those other examples produce products and are not primarily selling billable hours. Google has a search engine that you can use and also sells ads and appliances, Citibank issues credit cards, Mastercard and visa are clearing houses for credit services, and EBay has an auction marketplace. Good luck going to any of those places and hiring 3 guys to do billable work.
So, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, then?
Something like that. It is to our advantage to have an educated populace. Also, regarding your ham-handed allusion, we have yet to experience an actual Communist state. The recent crop have been dictatorships with a coat of paint.
You could have the most brilliant CEO in the world running those companies and they still would have failed.
I don't see why - any decent CEO in such a situation would have either led the company into something that had a chance in hell or, if he didn't have that power, would have given the finger and bailed.
I think law students tent to start their own companies much moreso. Look in any phone book.
By company, I believe were talking about the ones that produce a product, rather than provide a service. Lawyers and Doctors have a professional practice, but those rarely make it onto the NASDAQ.
The individual in the communist society is going to say, "Why should I go to school and learn to program when I will receive nothing more than what the garbage man gets in compensation?
What if the garbageman got $150k/yr? The point of OSS is that every time you improve the product, everybody else got the same benefit. To use your analogy, the garbageman empties one can and everything is done. The whole point of digital stuff is that you can copy it - if you want his Lexus, make a copy and drive off.
The purpose of the sticker was to pacify a couple hundred parents who complained about this textbook 2 years ago because it presented evolution as a proven fact.
Why would that be an issue? High school textbooks present lots of shaky stuff as fact. If evolution is going to hack you off, surely some of the stuff that passes for history will, too.
Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring.
Just to pick a nit, Evolution is not a fact. It is a theory that accounts for the observed evidence. Creationism and its half brother ID are not even theories, as you can't make meaningful predictions or falsify them.
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I would assume that you established a contract before starting work with this agency. If they are now in violation of that contract, you have grounds to sue them, correct?
So what? You planning to sue some Chinese/Indian company in their own country? Good luck with that - you'll have better luck sending pictures of their CEO's kids.
If I can view the EULA online, for example, as with GPL'd software, then why shouldn't it be legal?
(GPL is not an EULA) Because there's no gaurantee that you've been presented with the EULA nore is agreement a condition of sale.
We're not talking pennies here. I don't have current data, but in 1998 the estate tax brought in $23 billion in revenue to the government.
Isn't our budget around $1.5T? That would put reaper tax between 1 and 2 percent of revenue. Not chump change, but not much over all.
Our (in the US and most other western countries) society depends on inheritance and the associated taxes, dividing of estates, etc, to redistribute wealth, and this would immediately negate that effect.
As I recall, the number of estates subject to tax each year is numbered in the low thousands. I doubt it's that big a deal, especially with the current SUV culture.
We will see if Kurt Vonnegut was really right in that "wear sunscreen" thing.
Vonnegut?! Why the hell would he say something like that? Now go read 'Cat's Cradle' and think about what you've done.
I'm a little stunned 16 thousand gun deaths per year, that is HUGE. I've just googled about for some Australian stats - about 100 per state, per year!
So, that's about 500 total? On the flip side, you have more katana deaths than we do ;). But wait, cars kill about as many people in AU as guns do here:
"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's Annual Road Fatalities Report for 1997 lists 1,768 fatalities in motor vehicle accidents". cite
The P2P developers need gun lobbyists on their side! Since when was a gun developed that took "reasonable care" in preventing accidental death? The gun should be able to detect human presence and not fire a round! Yeah, it might cost a lot of money and time to develop that feature but we have to make sure that people don't use it the wrong way!
Even worse, we'll need to add a feature to unlock it when in the presence of Bad Guys (tm).
Unfortunately, the laws they reference have to do with computer controlled radio stations, not wireless networks.
A computer with a wireless card is a computer controlled radio station.
Seriously, what does this offer over current stuff? If I want to extend my application, I'll embed a script host. Extending the language just aadds the potential for the same code doing different things and giving rise to a whole new raft of bugs.
If only M$ had been listening. I know I'm not the only one here who hates that damn auto-tabbing IP address entry box!
I liked the IP thingy - type in an address with all the dots and it shows up just right. It is a little funky, but an IP address is one data field, right?
BTW, anyone interested should read M$'s HIG sometime. I hope they've started following it recently, because there were many sections I found where the HIG said one thing and their Office suite did something completely different.
Office always does their own thing. Good luck changing that.
When I use SSH and FTP, downloading and uploading to varying folders is much, much harder without a split-frame interface that represents the server on one side and my home, client computer on the other. I'd like an easy way to download into nested directories aside from the home folder, which I've never been able to do.
Have you used scp? it's an ssh-based file copier that supports recursion. I can't help you on the home folder thing, though.
It depends heavily on what you're doing. rm *.jpg is fast, but removing half the JPEGs in a folder based on "I don't need this file any more" would be much faster in a GUI.
Depends on what you want - a simple log expunger would be a one line 'find | xargs rm -f' cron job, whereas choosing jpgs based on content is inherently graphical.
Every woman I know is far better at handling money than either I am or their significant others are.
Damn, I was just going to say that. I spent part of yesterday listening to a friend complain about her spendthrift husband. She's even taken his credit cards away.
THAT is sexist. The idea that the women in these roles are fragile and need the approval of the man in charge, not even approval of them but of their general classification.
You're misinterpreting the statement. It's more a lament on working under someone who doesn't take you seriously. You do need the approval of the guy in charge to get tenure, for instance.
Sure. But you know the signer. And you agree to install it.
I'd rather have the Java model, where it requests specific permissions. I actually don't know the author, unless it's MS or Macromedia or someplace similar. Real security is proactive, not reactive. Besides, most software absolves itself of all responsibility, so what could you really do? Show up at their door with a baseball bat?
You were wrong in your assumption about only considering companies producing a product as opposed to also including companies that produce services. That they mentioned lawyers (who only produce "services") is prior proof of that. You also failed to address the poster's argument that engineers are less likely to start a business than law students.
No, I was pointing out that most people don't include professional practices when they considered companies.
You don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "service industry" in an economic context - it's much more than just "billable hours". It includes "providing a service for a fee".
You don't seem to understand that I was clarifying my position regarding companies versus professional practices. And why couldnt you link that crap instead of spewing it into your comment?
So Google isn't a "company"? Yahoo! isn't a "company"? H&R Block isn't a "company"? Citibank isn't a "company"? Mastercard and Visa aren't "companies"? EBay isn't a "company"?
H&R block is the exception here, all those other examples produce products and are not primarily selling billable hours. Google has a search engine that you can use and also sells ads and appliances, Citibank issues credit cards, Mastercard and visa are clearing houses for credit services, and EBay has an auction marketplace. Good luck going to any of those places and hiring 3 guys to do billable work.
So, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, then?
Something like that. It is to our advantage to have an educated populace. Also, regarding your ham-handed allusion, we have yet to experience an actual Communist state. The recent crop have been dictatorships with a coat of paint.
You could have the most brilliant CEO in the world running those companies and they still would have failed.
I don't see why - any decent CEO in such a situation would have either led the company into something that had a chance in hell or, if he didn't have that power, would have given the finger and bailed.
I think law students tent to start their own companies much moreso. Look in any phone book.
By company, I believe were talking about the ones that produce a product, rather than provide a service. Lawyers and Doctors have a professional practice, but those rarely make it onto the NASDAQ.
The individual in the communist society is going to say, "Why should I go to school and learn to program when I will receive nothing more than what the garbage man gets in compensation?
What if the garbageman got $150k/yr? The point of OSS is that every time you improve the product, everybody else got the same benefit. To use your analogy, the garbageman empties one can and everything is done. The whole point of digital stuff is that you can copy it - if you want his Lexus, make a copy and drive off.
The purpose of the sticker was to pacify a couple hundred parents who complained about this textbook 2 years ago because it presented evolution as a proven fact.
Why would that be an issue? High school textbooks present lots of shaky stuff as fact. If evolution is going to hack you off, surely some of the stuff that passes for history will, too.
So now a prereq to be a doctor is to give up one's ability to go out and enjoy a movie?
I don't see why - there's always a cinema/drafthouse, where a certain amount of chatter is expected and they serve a nice dinner to boot.
Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring.
Just to pick a nit, Evolution is not a fact. It is a theory that accounts for the observed evidence. Creationism and its half brother ID are not even theories, as you can't make meaningful predictions or falsify them.