"now I simply have to wait for andriod 3.0 to come out, along with some decently assembled hardware and i will finally have what I wanted when Bill gates annouced windows for tablets 8 years ago."
This is why iPad is popular... because it is FOR SALE right now, as you have pointed out Win Mobile 7 and Android 3 ARE NOT out, and won't run on most of the hardware out now. Not only that, Apple is making changes on a relatively reasonable schedule so that developers can recompile for new features at a reasonable schedule.
Except large parts of Debian are thrown out and rewritten all the time, and often not compatible with the old stuff. In fact the success of Linux distros is proof enough that rewriting from scratch when needed is more important than "executable" compatibility.
Nobody complained when Xbox 360 junked nearly every original Xbox game for most of it's first year. Nobody is complaining new PS3s have completely dropped PS2 compatibility they originally had. Jobs understands that being able to have small developers redevelop apps every 5-7 years is much better than keeping old apps around for no good reason.
I say this, and I work on Midrange systems with non-edited code going back to 1992 and 1985... still in use unaltered! The problem is that every 7 years or so business changes so much that you really need new people working on new ways of business, this is where open data and documentation is more important than code compatibility. It is the same reason companies build NEW factories for less money than trying to update 30 year-old companies while they're trying to use them.
they FIRED somebody with special knowledge and CRIMINALLY charged HIM for not helping them out. That is the big problem here. What is the "statute of limitations" on turning over passwords? I know one of my former employers kept a password I set in place at least a year after I was "escorted to the door", and I expressly told my boss all my work was documented in my computer and office paperwork. In less than 3 months they were asking for help and they had not even reviewed the material I left them. Would I be "liable" for not disclosing in that case? Once they announce I'm terminated, that's it, they stop paying, I don't owe them anything.
All the city really needed to do was to schedule some downtime and plan a router reset once they knew what was configured. Like other posters have said, they would have had the same "damages" if he would have quit and left the state, or if he had been "hit by a bus". The manager's lack of planning for firing this person (and it was planned for months) is at fault, not the employee's cooperation. It's a "cost of doing business" that you have to rework your security.... after this case, your boss can claim that cost is "hacking" on your part and a criminal act.. very, very scary considering they can "police escort" you in on criminal charges for an employment dispute.
exactly! He DID give the passwords to the network's "owner" that was the Mayor within "reasonable" time, less than a week after being locked in jail. And he did so without any kind of civil court order to turn over the "property" so the city never actually established in court that they OWNED the property they accused him of "stealing". The PROPER procedure to follow would have been to get a judge to issue an order for Childs to turn over the "property", then they would have easily had him for contempt of court and could have sweated him in jail for as long as it took. As the DA and IT manager never LEGALLY ASKED for the passwords in any kind of binding manner his prosecution was literally under false pretexts, a waste of money, and abuse of official power.
really, it's only two more... that's why they had to make it so long. Had they followed normal sentencing he would have been convicted and still walked out the door for time served while he was waiting to be tried, they had to have the judge extend the sentencing to prove a point.
they're the government.... they also enforce your "right" to charge them per copy in the first place!!!
There is nothing stopping government agencies from installing as many copies as they want... what are you going to do? Sue them?
GSA contracts are a sweet deal. They make your product "industry standard" by default, more importantly, the government makes OTHER agencies use your software too. That's a pretty sweet deal, even if you have to lower your price from time-to-time
exactly, why wasn't the FTC involved to hold up the purchase of SUN until Oracle had settled with the government. Essentially Oracle "got away with it" because they got to use the extra money to buy out competition that might have scored one of those cushy government contracts because Oracle was too expensive and didn't keep their contracts.
not really, they could keep an extra plane or two and do proper maintenance on them rather then cutting every repair to the wire. That is what causes unnecessary "mechanical" delays when they purposefully go over their fight hours for maintenance and PLAN to make the passengers wait... then a repair person takes a sick day, gets stuck in traffic, would go into OT and the airline's schedule is "unexpectedly" held up.. or more importantly, don't plan to make the passengers NOT wait.
honestly that looks like an off-duty cop because they flashed the gun first not he badge before the uniformed officer even left his vehicle. That is essentially assault with a deadly weapon as it is obvious since his hands were on the handles that he wasn't going to pull a weapon on them. 127 mph is being a dangerous jerk, but I see plenty of BMW and Lexus drivers do that too and they sure as hell wouldn't get a gun pulled on them. I suppose we don't know how long the officers followed him with the lights on, that could have pissed them off.
yet you get the AAA plan for the towing because you KNOW your car has pretty good chances of breaking down in a full year. By paying for the tow package you are reducing your inconvenience later, maybe even a dangerous situation for you and your passengers like being stuck where you don't belong over a flat tire.
of course if you can plan for "acts of god" in a contract, then they're not really "acts of god" are they?
In reality the problem is not the plane missing it's flight, it happens and most folks would understand. The real problem is that the managers of these companies are bastards that don't pay attention to their planes, their employees, or their customers. They KNOW there are going to be delays, people shouldn't have to rebook flights at moment's notice, there should be a plan for that at the airline level, at the terminal level, and at the airport level to get folks where they need to go, even if that means OT for the crew, or keeping the airport open extra hours to get the last fights connected. That people are left for 8 hours in a plane is petty cruelty... people that allow that to happen are psychopaths that tortured small animals as children.
because replacement parts for planes should be something planned for. I know for my servers at work they have 4 hour contracted terms to turn around the part...they're an airline for god's sake, they should be able to move parts inventory between airports in less than one hop, putting your flight no more than 1-2 hours behind tops. If they're flying with problems that can't be fixed in just a few hours, then they're negligent for not keeping some kind of spare plane around... they're selling TRANSPORTATION... wings in the air is their BUSINESS, if they can't do that, they shouldn't be in business.
Airlines don't want to keep requisite staff around that any manufacturing company would, many manufactures lose an entire plane's worth of income in an HOUR of downtime and they manage to do just fine. There is positively no excuse for keeping passengers standing around more than a few hours... those incidents are PEOPLE problems, cold callous bastards at every level that simply don't give a damn. Not having a plan to properly handle people when a plane can't fly IS negligent and cruel.
but realize all the big automakers own large shares of production in Chinese automakers. The Americans set up the factories to make cars the Chinese would buy... and now the Chinese want to cut them out of the next generation.
no, the ACCOUNTANTS are losing the money they lawfully swindled! After all, the studios and labels already have their swindling done... they won't have to pay out any more to actual artists or workers... piracy is taking away their "free money" and nobody likes their free lunch taken away.
What OS are they going to run on it? All PCs come with MICROSOFT Windows and while Microsoft would love to sell more copies of Windows 7 I can't see them backstabbing Xbox 360 & Live, they are making money hand over fist and growing much faster than on the PC which they spent the last 7+ years undermining buying up every promising PC game and making it console only. Activision made plenty of their games console only when the bandwagon was going their way... they helped with the problem, they can now suffer with it.
because they are based on Adobe Flash! That's why people are so vocal about iPhone not having Flash because it's the leading platform for "low spec" PC games... sure the graphics are simple, but it's the same game everywhere. There are far more people playing Scrabble, Farmville, or Bejewled for 15-30 minutes at a time than playing the "AAA" console games.
People that "blame the hardware" hold back games!!!
I quit buying PC games because the upgrade mill was terrible. PC gaming is not FUN unless you like spending all your time bragging about your "rig". Games with shit coding like Crysis that NEVER seem to have enough hardware thrown at them (it's many years old and no PC runs it perfectly... still) are just plain bad programming and design. The best selling games are all games that graphics matter least in. This is why consoles and iPhones are mopping the floor now. Activision, EA, etc. all sold out PC gamers years ago with bad, second class ports and "console first" policies. PC gaming is back to being a niche, it's not mass market, even Electronics stores don't stock PC software or games anymore beyond the "top 10".
McDonald's had a training model "green is growing" and that's probably the effect Google is seeing. If you ace every single area, then you might be really smart and motivated... but you're probably not reaching far ENOUGH for challenging work. From an employment point of view, somebody reaching "over their head" is more likely to TRY harder to make themselves better. It would be like paying somebody good in the 100 yd dash to walk your dog.... they could probably DO the job quite well, but they wouldn't better themselves with the job and shortly after boredom would set in and they would do worse than hiring a chubby girl that really likes dogs and benefits from the daily exercise.
The issue with Microsoft on startups is that their licensing doesn't scale well. You simply couldn't start up and then pay for all the licensing of something like Twitter.... it hasn't even been around for a whole "licensing term" yet, and the cost of their setup would be far more than they take in as revenue quite quickly. Microsoft licensing is not adaptable or flexible enough for startups, it's the first thing you learn in college CS/CIS programs.
I find the whole "we didn't have access to college kids..." as bullocks. Most college programs are heavily based in Microsoft products... college IT is just like business IT where Microsoft is crammed down your throat at every step.... people CHOOSE to reject Microsoft because Microsoft IS "the man".
the problem with property tax was that too many people live in urban areas where they pay a landlord and don't "own" anything. So they jack property tax way, way up so landholders wanted more people paying in (especially when land ownership was dropped to qualify for voting) Sales tax has the opposite problem because it depends solely on spending... and the rich don't have to spend as much of their income as poor...most importantly they don't have to spend their CAPITAL which keeps them WAY ahead of everybody else.
it would be like a VAT tax, or a tax on the "value added" or the difference in what you pay versus what you can get paid. VAT works perfectly in this situation because when an offshore laborer does work for $10 instead of $100 and the company turns around and still sells that work for $200 they have to pay tax similar to capital gains on the increase in value... not merely the "profits", because most companies will never make "profit" for tax purposes but still enjoy the cost savings. VAT "levels" the field a bit.
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"now I simply have to wait for andriod 3.0 to come out, along with some decently assembled hardware and i will finally have what I wanted when Bill gates annouced windows for tablets 8 years ago."
This is why iPad is popular... because it is FOR SALE right now, as you have pointed out Win Mobile 7 and Android 3 ARE NOT out, and won't run on most of the hardware out now. Not only that, Apple is making changes on a relatively reasonable schedule so that developers can recompile for new features at a reasonable schedule.
Except large parts of Debian are thrown out and rewritten all the time, and often not compatible with the old stuff. In fact the success of Linux distros is proof enough that rewriting from scratch when needed is more important than "executable" compatibility.
except it wont.. that's the issue.
Nobody complained when Xbox 360 junked nearly every original Xbox game for most of it's first year. Nobody is complaining new PS3s have completely dropped PS2 compatibility they originally had. Jobs understands that being able to have small developers redevelop apps every 5-7 years is much better than keeping old apps around for no good reason.
I say this, and I work on Midrange systems with non-edited code going back to 1992 and 1985... still in use unaltered! The problem is that every 7 years or so business changes so much that you really need new people working on new ways of business, this is where open data and documentation is more important than code compatibility. It is the same reason companies build NEW factories for less money than trying to update 30 year-old companies while they're trying to use them.
they FIRED somebody with special knowledge and CRIMINALLY charged HIM for not helping them out. That is the big problem here. What is the "statute of limitations" on turning over passwords? I know one of my former employers kept a password I set in place at least a year after I was "escorted to the door", and I expressly told my boss all my work was documented in my computer and office paperwork. In less than 3 months they were asking for help and they had not even reviewed the material I left them. Would I be "liable" for not disclosing in that case? Once they announce I'm terminated, that's it, they stop paying, I don't owe them anything.
All the city really needed to do was to schedule some downtime and plan a router reset once they knew what was configured. Like other posters have said, they would have had the same "damages" if he would have quit and left the state, or if he had been "hit by a bus". The manager's lack of planning for firing this person (and it was planned for months) is at fault, not the employee's cooperation. It's a "cost of doing business" that you have to rework your security.... after this case, your boss can claim that cost is "hacking" on your part and a criminal act.. very, very scary considering they can "police escort" you in on criminal charges for an employment dispute.
exactly! He DID give the passwords to the network's "owner" that was the Mayor within "reasonable" time, less than a week after being locked in jail. And he did so without any kind of civil court order to turn over the "property" so the city never actually established in court that they OWNED the property they accused him of "stealing". The PROPER procedure to follow would have been to get a judge to issue an order for Childs to turn over the "property", then they would have easily had him for contempt of court and could have sweated him in jail for as long as it took. As the DA and IT manager never LEGALLY ASKED for the passwords in any kind of binding manner his prosecution was literally under false pretexts, a waste of money, and abuse of official power.
really, it's only two more... that's why they had to make it so long. Had they followed normal sentencing he would have been convicted and still walked out the door for time served while he was waiting to be tried, they had to have the judge extend the sentencing to prove a point.
they're the government.... they also enforce your "right" to charge them per copy in the first place!!!
There is nothing stopping government agencies from installing as many copies as they want... what are you going to do? Sue them?
GSA contracts are a sweet deal. They make your product "industry standard" by default, more importantly, the government makes OTHER agencies use your software too. That's a pretty sweet deal, even if you have to lower your price from time-to-time
exactly, why wasn't the FTC involved to hold up the purchase of SUN until Oracle had settled with the government. Essentially Oracle "got away with it" because they got to use the extra money to buy out competition that might have scored one of those cushy government contracts because Oracle was too expensive and didn't keep their contracts.
not really, they could keep an extra plane or two and do proper maintenance on them rather then cutting every repair to the wire. That is what causes unnecessary "mechanical" delays when they purposefully go over their fight hours for maintenance and PLAN to make the passengers wait... then a repair person takes a sick day, gets stuck in traffic, would go into OT and the airline's schedule is "unexpectedly" held up.. or more importantly, don't plan to make the passengers NOT wait.
honestly that looks like an off-duty cop because they flashed the gun first not he badge before the uniformed officer even left his vehicle. That is essentially assault with a deadly weapon as it is obvious since his hands were on the handles that he wasn't going to pull a weapon on them. 127 mph is being a dangerous jerk, but I see plenty of BMW and Lexus drivers do that too and they sure as hell wouldn't get a gun pulled on them. I suppose we don't know how long the officers followed him with the lights on, that could have pissed them off.
yet you get the AAA plan for the towing because you KNOW your car has pretty good chances of breaking down in a full year. By paying for the tow package you are reducing your inconvenience later, maybe even a dangerous situation for you and your passengers like being stuck where you don't belong over a flat tire.
of course if you can plan for "acts of god" in a contract, then they're not really "acts of god" are they?
In reality the problem is not the plane missing it's flight, it happens and most folks would understand. The real problem is that the managers of these companies are bastards that don't pay attention to their planes, their employees, or their customers. They KNOW there are going to be delays, people shouldn't have to rebook flights at moment's notice, there should be a plan for that at the airline level, at the terminal level, and at the airport level to get folks where they need to go, even if that means OT for the crew, or keeping the airport open extra hours to get the last fights connected. That people are left for 8 hours in a plane is petty cruelty... people that allow that to happen are psychopaths that tortured small animals as children.
I think we should change it to "evolutionary opportunities" to be more PC.
because replacement parts for planes should be something planned for. I know for my servers at work they have 4 hour contracted terms to turn around the part...they're an airline for god's sake, they should be able to move parts inventory between airports in less than one hop, putting your flight no more than 1-2 hours behind tops. If they're flying with problems that can't be fixed in just a few hours, then they're negligent for not keeping some kind of spare plane around... they're selling TRANSPORTATION... wings in the air is their BUSINESS, if they can't do that, they shouldn't be in business.
Airlines don't want to keep requisite staff around that any manufacturing company would, many manufactures lose an entire plane's worth of income in an HOUR of downtime and they manage to do just fine. There is positively no excuse for keeping passengers standing around more than a few hours... those incidents are PEOPLE problems, cold callous bastards at every level that simply don't give a damn. Not having a plan to properly handle people when a plane can't fly IS negligent and cruel.
but realize all the big automakers own large shares of production in Chinese automakers. The Americans set up the factories to make cars the Chinese would buy... and now the Chinese want to cut them out of the next generation.
That's the thing in New York Harbor right...
no, the ACCOUNTANTS are losing the money they lawfully swindled!
After all, the studios and labels already have their swindling done... they won't have to pay out any more to actual artists or workers... piracy is taking away their "free money" and nobody likes their free lunch taken away.
it's called Adobe Flash.
What OS are they going to run on it? All PCs come with MICROSOFT Windows and while Microsoft would love to sell more copies of Windows 7 I can't see them backstabbing Xbox 360 & Live, they are making money hand over fist and growing much faster than on the PC which they spent the last 7+ years undermining buying up every promising PC game and making it console only. Activision made plenty of their games console only when the bandwagon was going their way... they helped with the problem, they can now suffer with it.
because they are based on Adobe Flash! That's why people are so vocal about iPhone not having Flash because it's the leading platform for "low spec" PC games... sure the graphics are simple, but it's the same game everywhere. There are far more people playing Scrabble, Farmville, or Bejewled for 15-30 minutes at a time than playing the "AAA" console games.
People that "blame the hardware" hold back games!!!
I quit buying PC games because the upgrade mill was terrible. PC gaming is not FUN unless you like spending all your time bragging about your "rig". Games with shit coding like Crysis that NEVER seem to have enough hardware thrown at them (it's many years old and no PC runs it perfectly... still) are just plain bad programming and design. The best selling games are all games that graphics matter least in. This is why consoles and iPhones are mopping the floor now. Activision, EA, etc. all sold out PC gamers years ago with bad, second class ports and "console first" policies. PC gaming is back to being a niche, it's not mass market, even Electronics stores don't stock PC software or games anymore beyond the "top 10".
McDonald's had a training model "green is growing" and that's probably the effect Google is seeing. If you ace every single area, then you might be really smart and motivated... but you're probably not reaching far ENOUGH for challenging work. From an employment point of view, somebody reaching "over their head" is more likely to TRY harder to make themselves better. It would be like paying somebody good in the 100 yd dash to walk your dog.... they could probably DO the job quite well, but they wouldn't better themselves with the job and shortly after boredom would set in and they would do worse than hiring a chubby girl that really likes dogs and benefits from the daily exercise.
The issue with Microsoft on startups is that their licensing doesn't scale well. You simply couldn't start up and then pay for all the licensing of something like Twitter.... it hasn't even been around for a whole "licensing term" yet, and the cost of their setup would be far more than they take in as revenue quite quickly. Microsoft licensing is not adaptable or flexible enough for startups, it's the first thing you learn in college CS/CIS programs.
I find the whole "we didn't have access to college kids..." as bullocks. Most college programs are heavily based in Microsoft products... college IT is just like business IT where Microsoft is crammed down your throat at every step.... people CHOOSE to reject Microsoft because Microsoft IS "the man".
the problem with property tax was that too many people live in urban areas where they pay a landlord and don't "own" anything. So they jack property tax way, way up so landholders wanted more people paying in (especially when land ownership was dropped to qualify for voting) Sales tax has the opposite problem because it depends solely on spending... and the rich don't have to spend as much of their income as poor...most importantly they don't have to spend their CAPITAL which keeps them WAY ahead of everybody else.
it would be like a VAT tax, or a tax on the "value added" or the difference in what you pay versus what you can get paid. VAT works perfectly in this situation because when an offshore laborer does work for $10 instead of $100 and the company turns around and still sells that work for $200 they have to pay tax similar to capital gains on the increase in value... not merely the "profits", because most companies will never make "profit" for tax purposes but still enjoy the cost savings. VAT "levels" the field a bit.