So you would be fine with me orchestrating a campaign to convince people you are a child molester?
Defamation is not protected speech; neither is incitement to riot/violence/panic. You can say it, since prior restraint is even worse than these things, but you won't get off easy.
No, MS got in trouble for leveraging a monopoly into other areas. They have a monopoly in desktop PCs because they can charge monopoly rents. They then used that monopoly to force IE on the world, killing netscape. Being a monopoly has everything to do with price, but it's only illegal if you use a monopoly to force your way into other markets.
class action lawsuits are there to make it hard to screw a million people out of $5 each. Without a class action, there's no way you're going to pursue action.
Well ok, but back to the first point: monopolies aren't about products, they're about how much you can charge for them. Apple has competitors and there are alternatives to OSX on a macbook. Sure, apple owns the college market, but they can't jack up their prices without consequences.
Intel is not a company I see as a monopoly, but as something very close to one. That's my whole thing about the sliding scale - they can't dictate prices, but they have a lot of influence, and they have gotten their hand slapped for the exclusivity deals they did. Without AMD, there would be no credible alternative to intel (so they'd have to make one to get gov't contracts), but right now, so long as they don't demand specific behavior wrt chips running AMD, I don't see them as a monopoly. Just a very big gorilla.
Monopolies aren't about products at all. They're about the ability of a company to charge monopoly rents - if apple didn't have to worry about losing marketshare due to alternate products, they'd have a monopoly. Note that this is a progressive scale - intel isn't a monopoly, but they have a whole lot of clout and, if not for AMD, they could do pretty much what they like.
that's the idea - ask what they use and run away if too many come back as nothing. Source control is always a big deal - it's available for free, so there's no excuse to not use it. How else do you plan to coordinate more than 2 devs?
Restricting trade under the argument that the Chinese and Indians are willing to do it for a lower salary than people in your country? (Which is still, even today, extremely rich, and rather powerful...)
My country is rich and powerful, but I'm not. Someone making $100k in SF may be about the same as the guy in bangalore making $15k - you have to normalize for economies, and that ain't easy.
If you want to make a case that "protectionism is good for the American economy" then that's one thing, but at least call a spade a spade, wouldya?
Nobody's saying that. They're saying that protectionism is good for the worker while ignoring the fact that it's bad for the economy, but really, so what? If we sold out to china or whomever, are the middle class going to see any of the rewards? Probably not - it'll all go to the rich. Since we far outnumber them, shouldn't national policy favor us?
Information Technology does not "poison us and fill our air, water, and land with toxins".
Yes it does. How else does silly valley have all those superfund sites?
I can only propose to you that the sooner the Chinese and the Indians reach a level of wealth comparable to that available to the United States, they will find themselves with people who care about as much about the United States.
And those people will be shot or put in camps because it's cheaper than possibly embarrassing China.
"What desktop hardware/software will I be using?" could be interpreted as "I'm a hardware bigot and will whine if I don't have a huge display and four white-hot cores."
It can also mean "will I get someone's castoff crap and be expected to deal?". What bugs me here is why demanding huge displays is a bad thing - dual 22" costs about $500 and lasts 3-5 years. Finally, it's perfectly reasonable to run away from lotus notes.
"Are there team get-togethers?" == "I expect us to spend time screwing off under the guise of 'team building'. How close is the nearest bar?"
How about me wanting to actually know my coworkers as something other than the GUI guy or whatever?
"What are the typical hours?" == "I am concerned about working too hard."
Is this a 9-5 shop, 11-7, freeform whackadoodle? The actual hours worked have little to do with how hard you work.
AKA "I want to socialise, waste time, claim that I'm team-building". If you want a team lunch, you'll have one.
AKA do the people here eat luch together or go back to their desks?
"Do you have separate build/stage/QA/etc. environments?"
You will know this by the end of the interview/tour or you haven't done your research properly. It probably tells you in the job description.
I have never seen this in a job description. It certainly wouldn't have let on that my current job spends absurd amounts of effort building and tearing down dev environments.
"How do you keep track of documentation?"
See hardware/software question and the above. If they say "we don't", you should already know that and will come across as superior. If they say, we use X, it feels like you're questioning their choice.
This doesn't make sense; if they say "we don't", run away, and if they give you an answer (almost any will do) then that's a good thing.
Too many people are afraid to shut up and just say things like "Well, I think I've already answered that with my answer to X",
Becuase that's a red flag over here. You'd better be at least somewhat interested in what you'll be doing 40 hours/week for years on end.
If you asked "what software would I be using" and you were going into a C# job, you'd look like a complete fool
Really. This after telling us you always ask about source control. Where I am (not a C# shop), we use eclipse, source insight, beyond compare, p4, and msdev. Compiling is done with a make script. How would asking about tools make someone looke like a fool here?
Sure, I have a point. Firstly, you supporting the right to have hunting rifles is irrelevant to the discussion. Secondly, you will find that violence is largely independent of access to guns - if people are determined to kill each other, they will, with whatever tools they can find. Places like japan are culturally fairly homogenous and the criminal element tends to keep to killing each other; also, they underreport crime due to the cops' determination to close all cases - if all they have is a complaining witness, they will try and pin it on them.
Now, if you go over to europe, you will find that a lot of the places with decent safety nets have a relatively low rate of crime (at least, it helps), while those intent on violence (say, in the UK) do so without guns. I'm sure it's somehow reassuring that hooligans use bats and knives instead of guns, while cops seem to take offense when people actually defend themselves. I don't understand it, but it is clear that they are quite happy to carry on in all sorts of stupid ways without guns.
Meanwhile, over here in the US, the violent crime rate is on a down trend the past 10-20 years (uptick recently, I'm sure), with violence mostly in the ghetto areas. Stay out of there and it's safe; would be nice to build some places like amsterdam over here, but the barriers are more to do with culture than guns.
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yeah, I was wondering about that.
To be fair, you can't get the really interesting crazy without also being really smart.
So you would be fine with me orchestrating a campaign to convince people you are a child molester?
Defamation is not protected speech; neither is incitement to riot/violence/panic. You can say it, since prior restraint is even worse than these things, but you won't get off easy.
So Chrome has to be THAT GOOD in order to make people switch from Windows since stuff like Gmail already runs well in browsers.
No, it just has to make MS irrelevant.
Their opinions are valid
Those aren't their opinions, those are course requirements. Or are you saying that the course requires a set of opinions?
well, we don't have loser pays, so the tradeoff is different. we have a lot of problems over here, but class action is necessary at the moment.
No, MS got in trouble for leveraging a monopoly into other areas. They have a monopoly in desktop PCs because they can charge monopoly rents. They then used that monopoly to force IE on the world, killing netscape. Being a monopoly has everything to do with price, but it's only illegal if you use a monopoly to force your way into other markets.
class action lawsuits are there to make it hard to screw a million people out of $5 each. Without a class action, there's no way you're going to pursue action.
Well ok, but back to the first point: monopolies aren't about products, they're about how much you can charge for them. Apple has competitors and there are alternatives to OSX on a macbook. Sure, apple owns the college market, but they can't jack up their prices without consequences.
Intel is not a company I see as a monopoly, but as something very close to one. That's my whole thing about the sliding scale - they can't dictate prices, but they have a lot of influence, and they have gotten their hand slapped for the exclusivity deals they did. Without AMD, there would be no credible alternative to intel (so they'd have to make one to get gov't contracts), but right now, so long as they don't demand specific behavior wrt chips running AMD, I don't see them as a monopoly. Just a very big gorilla.
again, you said the same thing twice. cui bono, followed by the preferred method of finding out.
Okay, what's your other observation?
Monopolies aren't about products at all. They're about the ability of a company to charge monopoly rents - if apple didn't have to worry about losing marketshare due to alternate products, they'd have a monopoly. Note that this is a progressive scale - intel isn't a monopoly, but they have a whole lot of clout and, if not for AMD, they could do pretty much what they like.
that's the idea - ask what they use and run away if too many come back as nothing. Source control is always a big deal - it's available for free, so there's no excuse to not use it. How else do you plan to coordinate more than 2 devs?
Or, you know, we could build nuke plants.
Restricting trade under the argument that the Chinese and Indians are willing to do it for a lower salary than people in your country? (Which is still, even today, extremely rich, and rather powerful...)
My country is rich and powerful, but I'm not. Someone making $100k in SF may be about the same as the guy in bangalore making $15k - you have to normalize for economies, and that ain't easy.
If you want to make a case that "protectionism is good for the American economy" then that's one thing, but at least call a spade a spade, wouldya?
Nobody's saying that. They're saying that protectionism is good for the worker while ignoring the fact that it's bad for the economy, but really, so what? If we sold out to china or whomever, are the middle class going to see any of the rewards? Probably not - it'll all go to the rich. Since we far outnumber them, shouldn't national policy favor us?
Information Technology does not "poison us and fill our air, water, and land with toxins".
Yes it does. How else does silly valley have all those superfund sites?
I can only propose to you that the sooner the Chinese and the Indians reach a level of wealth comparable to that available to the United States, they will find themselves with people who care about as much about the United States.
And those people will be shot or put in camps because it's cheaper than possibly embarrassing China.
Well of course you'll be using msdev. You'll also be using other stuff, like source control, bug trackers, and wikis. Sort of important, right?
"What desktop hardware/software will I be using?" could be interpreted as "I'm a hardware bigot and will whine if I don't have a huge display and four white-hot cores."
It can also mean "will I get someone's castoff crap and be expected to deal?". What bugs me here is why demanding huge displays is a bad thing - dual 22" costs about $500 and lasts 3-5 years. Finally, it's perfectly reasonable to run away from lotus notes.
"Are there team get-togethers?" == "I expect us to spend time screwing off under the guise of 'team building'. How close is the nearest bar?"
How about me wanting to actually know my coworkers as something other than the GUI guy or whatever?
"What are the typical hours?" == "I am concerned about working too hard."
Is this a 9-5 shop, 11-7, freeform whackadoodle? The actual hours worked have little to do with how hard you work.
AKA "I want to socialise, waste time, claim that I'm team-building". If you want a team lunch, you'll have one.
AKA do the people here eat luch together or go back to their desks?
"Do you have separate build/stage/QA/etc. environments?" You will know this by the end of the interview/tour or you haven't done your research properly. It probably tells you in the job description.
I have never seen this in a job description. It certainly wouldn't have let on that my current job spends absurd amounts of effort building and tearing down dev environments.
"How do you keep track of documentation?" See hardware/software question and the above. If they say "we don't", you should already know that and will come across as superior. If they say, we use X, it feels like you're questioning their choice.
This doesn't make sense; if they say "we don't", run away, and if they give you an answer (almost any will do) then that's a good thing.
Too many people are afraid to shut up and just say things like "Well, I think I've already answered that with my answer to X",
Becuase that's a red flag over here. You'd better be at least somewhat interested in what you'll be doing 40 hours/week for years on end.
Then tell them what you would've asked and thank them for having already covered those topics.
If you asked "what software would I be using" and you were going into a C# job, you'd look like a complete fool
Really. This after telling us you always ask about source control. Where I am (not a C# shop), we use eclipse, source insight, beyond compare, p4, and msdev. Compiling is done with a make script. How would asking about tools make someone looke like a fool here?
So sue amazon. You have proof of sale and delivery, so it should be easy. Besides, it's not like amazon has the time to spend in court.
that same argument would have doomed cable television, and cable is alive and well.
Back in the day, cable offered more channels with less advertising and focused content. The current mess took 20+ years to happen.
Sure, once you post the real one. The, erm, CC verification service I used rejected that one.
I'm not saying that it will turn an ordinary person into a killer, but there is an argument to be made, and it does get stronger in this case.
So building a shootout simulator using a FPS makes the murder simulator argument stronger? I don't think so.
Sure, I have a point. Firstly, you supporting the right to have hunting rifles is irrelevant to the discussion. Secondly, you will find that violence is largely independent of access to guns - if people are determined to kill each other, they will, with whatever tools they can find. Places like japan are culturally fairly homogenous and the criminal element tends to keep to killing each other; also, they underreport crime due to the cops' determination to close all cases - if all they have is a complaining witness, they will try and pin it on them.
Now, if you go over to europe, you will find that a lot of the places with decent safety nets have a relatively low rate of crime (at least, it helps), while those intent on violence (say, in the UK) do so without guns. I'm sure it's somehow reassuring that hooligans use bats and knives instead of guns, while cops seem to take offense when people actually defend themselves. I don't understand it, but it is clear that they are quite happy to carry on in all sorts of stupid ways without guns.
Meanwhile, over here in the US, the violent crime rate is on a down trend the past 10-20 years (uptick recently, I'm sure), with violence mostly in the ghetto areas. Stay out of there and it's safe; would be nice to build some places like amsterdam over here, but the barriers are more to do with culture than guns.