I hate the spin on this story. The word "billionaire" is thrown in to describe Ballmer for no reason other than wealth envy. Dublin subsidiaries aren't "secretive" unless you're trying to get us to dislike and distrust them. Microsoft isn't "threatening", they are announcing - unless you're trying to intentionally pick words with negative connotations. Whatever happened to news trying not to have a point of view?
Ireland attracts businesses through tax breaks. It's a fantastic idea. America punishes businesses through wealth envy tax-the-fat-cats policies because they cost little in votes. But it's a horrible idea for the country. It just has the effect of encouraging valuable billionaires to pack up and move and go generate wealth (and taxes) somewhere that is more friendly to them.
You get hugely screwed if you accept receipt of the shares but don't cash them out, then the stock drops. You might choose to do this if you think the company will continue to rise in value. You can argue that it's not the best choice, but it looks like a good idea if you think the stock will go up and lots of people lost their shirts in this way.
I also like their explanation for "why": "Imagine that you deposit $1,000 in a bank at 10 percent compound interest per year. Next year you'll have $1,100, the year after that $1,210, then $1,331, and so on. The first digit of your bank account remains a "1" for a long time.
When your account grows to more than $2,000, the first digit will remain a "2" for a shorter period as your interest increases. And when your deposit finally grows to more than $9,000, the 10 percent growth will result in more than $10,000 in your account the following year and a long return to "1" as the first digit. "
Car companies actually tried essentially that with their warranty repairs, invalidating warranties if somebody else had been given repair business for anything at any point. Congress had to pass laws against it. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/usc_sec_15_00002302----000-.html
I wish Congress would do something useful and pass a law clearly stating that people have the right to resell things they buy, and no company can establish practices that interfere with that. I know it's already common law with the doctrine of first sale, but that doesn't seem to be doing much in these new digital restrictions days.
I like the current times better, because I can't afford a steam engine, and it's truly amazing what happens when every tom, dick and harry can afford to make stuff.
I can't put GPL code into a BSD project, GPL is intentionally incompatible. Interestingly, in almost exactly the same way that MS-PL is incompatible - both require that you not switch licensing terms when you reuse the code. Gnu seems to take the position that they are the only license in the world that should have any form of "copyleft" restriction, which is odd since they spend a lot of time pointing out the importance and benefit of copyleft restrictions. Copyleft licenses essentially require people who benefit from your licensed work to repay you by agreeing to continue your philosophy, which strikes me as a good idea. If it doesn't strike you as a good idea, you shouldn't be using GPL anyway, BSD is the "copyleft is bad" license.
The GPL is also deliberately incompatible with their competition, particularly including other open licenses. So what's your point? If you think "Open" means "You can do whatever you want", then you're restricting yourself to pretty much just bsd, which is an entirely separate holy war.
I have had a client nix a deal done on an open source platform because they erroneously believed that the code being open source required their data to also be open source. I've seen actual legal briefs from practicing lawyers who somehow really thought that. Don't even joke about it.
Some versions of noscript badly screw up Firefox. The next version a few days later usually works, then the next upgrade a few days after that breaks it again. I'm at the point now where I've just shut off the noscript updates.
It's not "stupid" to value some things more than money, like honoring the dying wishes of a family member even if I don't agree with those wishes. And it's not "stupid" to want to avoid putting a price on a service that was freely given; paying her for the 6 years of care could diminish the act from freely given sacrifice to nothing more than hired help. I will do things for my family for free that I would never agree to do as a job, and this isn't "stupid". By your logic, it's "stupid" to serve Thanksgiving dinner to your family without charging admission. Not a world I'd care to live in.
Just trying to provide a different perspective, it can still be rational even if it isn't about taking money.
Thanks for pointing me to that option, I didn't even realize it existed. The normal interface focuses so much on allowing you to whitelist things that whitelists were all I had used before.
No, the idea is to get the script to the client faster, because most web browsers will only initiate two connections per site you're talking to. Serving different things off multiple different sites lets you download more than two things at once. See for example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110
Sounds a lot more like rabid fans than actual shills. One fan mailing list could easily account for the observation. Is it actually news to anybody that fans of stuff will go and encourage other people to check out the thing they are a fan of, without waiting to really review the new thing objectively?
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They can easily be accessed both from server-side code and from client-side Javascript code, allowing you to do more complicated and responsive UIs in web browsers without a lot of need to explicitly re-code things for that approach.
This basically can't be done well. Read the books "The Mythical Man Month" and "Why Does Software Cost So Much" (both have been reviewed on Slashdot's books section before), then do the best you can and just accept that there will be some friction.
Make sure the front right corner of the box is clear of obstructions. Elevate it and get it outside of an enclosed cabinet if you can. When I moved my PS3 to the left side of a shelf instead of having it up against the right side of the shelf, my fan noise suddenly got bearable.
As a CS major at Georgia Tech, I spent a term during my senior year at the university of Edinburgh in Scotland. I picked it basically because they spoke English and had an excellent CS reputation. I was able to arrange to have the credit for my Edinburgh courses count towards my CS degree (as some necessary 4th-year CS courses), although Georgia Tech wasn't absolutely thrilled with honoring the credit as being CS classes toward my degree, they made it quite clear they would prefer to award just general elective credit. I recommend working this out in advance in writing; I had a verbal discussion before I left and it became clear when it was time for me to petition for my degree that we had some misunderstandings during the conversation, luckily I was able to get them sorted out via e-mail but it very nearly delayed my graduation. Bring in a course catalog for both schools and sit down with an advisor in your college and get them to agree about what will count for what.
It was a very interesting experience for me. I quite simply didn't learn as much in the classes in general, and my classmates knew less about computer programming. I took one very good course there which got me thinking and taught me a lot, but it was the exception rather than the norm, my other courses were more disappointing. I distinctly recall one homework assignment in one of my AI classes where some senior level students were simply unable to complete the homework because the only language they knew was Prolog while the language pretty much required an imperative language of some sort. The professor apologized to the students for setting them a task some of them couldn't complete, instead of lecturing them for studying computers for years without learning the tools available to them. I'm sure there are students who don't really "learn" at Georgia Tech too, but it definitely isn't as common.
My first week was "welcome to Uni, time to go drinking." There was a lot more drinking and partying, and a lot less homework and studying. One professor apologized for assigning more than 2 hours of homework one week, which blew my mind.
In general, I enjoyed the experience tremendously, but I simply wouldn't count on really getting as much out of the actual courses as you would at home. Definitely study abroad to knock out some electives if you can, but I would be a bit wary of counting on getting really important classes done. If I had tried to get a key prerequisite done that I later needed to build on that knowledge when I came back to Georgia Tech, I probably would have been in real trouble due to not having really learned as much. If in the end you can't study abroad, you could still learn a lot just travelling for a month or two one summer or after you graduate. It's a fantastic experience and worth a bit of sacrifice and effort to pull it off somehow.
Motorola POS = ~$50/month * 24 months = ~$1200. Sounds reasonably accurate. What, exactly, is wrong with the logic? Why would you not want to talk about the actual price of the thing people are buying? You don't say your house cost $1000 because that's all the monthly payment is, why should you with your phone?
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I hate the spin on this story. The word "billionaire" is thrown in to describe Ballmer for no reason other than wealth envy. Dublin subsidiaries aren't "secretive" unless you're trying to get us to dislike and distrust them. Microsoft isn't "threatening", they are announcing - unless you're trying to intentionally pick words with negative connotations. Whatever happened to news trying not to have a point of view?
Ireland attracts businesses through tax breaks. It's a fantastic idea. America punishes businesses through wealth envy tax-the-fat-cats policies because they cost little in votes. But it's a horrible idea for the country. It just has the effect of encouraging valuable billionaires to pack up and move and go generate wealth (and taxes) somewhere that is more friendly to them.
My PS3 can watch videos at 1.5x speed while keeping the sound. This show was perfect for that. Which says something sad about a show...
You get hugely screwed if you accept receipt of the shares but don't cash them out, then the stock drops. You might choose to do this if you think the company will continue to rise in value. You can argue that it's not the best choice, but it looks like a good idea if you think the stock will go up and lots of people lost their shirts in this way.
Have you just tried asking Google to delist them?
"Removing information from Google: Reporting copyright infringement" http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58
Your exact concern appears to be directly addressed in this way.
Great example. Here's a pretty good article on it: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=98043
I also like their explanation for "why":
"Imagine that you deposit $1,000 in a bank at 10 percent compound interest per year. Next year you'll have $1,100, the year after that $1,210, then $1,331, and so on. The first digit of your bank account remains a "1" for a long time.
When your account grows to more than $2,000, the first digit will remain a "2" for a shorter period as your interest increases. And when your deposit finally grows to more than $9,000, the 10 percent growth will result in more than $10,000 in your account the following year and a long return to "1" as the first digit. "
Car companies actually tried essentially that with their warranty repairs, invalidating warranties if somebody else had been given repair business for anything at any point. Congress had to pass laws against it. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/usc_sec_15_00002302----000-.html
I wish Congress would do something useful and pass a law clearly stating that people have the right to resell things they buy, and no company can establish practices that interfere with that. I know it's already common law with the doctrine of first sale, but that doesn't seem to be doing much in these new digital restrictions days.
I like the current times better, because I can't afford a steam engine, and it's truly amazing what happens when every tom, dick and harry can afford to make stuff.
I can't put GPL code into a BSD project, GPL is intentionally incompatible. Interestingly, in almost exactly the same way that MS-PL is incompatible - both require that you not switch licensing terms when you reuse the code. Gnu seems to take the position that they are the only license in the world that should have any form of "copyleft" restriction, which is odd since they spend a lot of time pointing out the importance and benefit of copyleft restrictions. Copyleft licenses essentially require people who benefit from your licensed work to repay you by agreeing to continue your philosophy, which strikes me as a good idea. If it doesn't strike you as a good idea, you shouldn't be using GPL anyway, BSD is the "copyleft is bad" license.
The GPL is also deliberately incompatible with their competition, particularly including other open licenses. So what's your point? If you think "Open" means "You can do whatever you want", then you're restricting yourself to pretty much just bsd, which is an entirely separate holy war.
I have had a client nix a deal done on an open source platform because they erroneously believed that the code being open source required their data to also be open source. I've seen actual legal briefs from practicing lawyers who somehow really thought that. Don't even joke about it.
Some versions of noscript badly screw up Firefox. The next version a few days later usually works, then the next upgrade a few days after that breaks it again. I'm at the point now where I've just shut off the noscript updates.
It's not "stupid" to value some things more than money, like honoring the dying wishes of a family member even if I don't agree with those wishes. And it's not "stupid" to want to avoid putting a price on a service that was freely given; paying her for the 6 years of care could diminish the act from freely given sacrifice to nothing more than hired help. I will do things for my family for free that I would never agree to do as a job, and this isn't "stupid". By your logic, it's "stupid" to serve Thanksgiving dinner to your family without charging admission. Not a world I'd care to live in.
Just trying to provide a different perspective, it can still be rational even if it isn't about taking money.
Thanks for pointing me to that option, I didn't even realize it existed. The normal interface focuses so much on allowing you to whitelist things that whitelists were all I had used before.
No, the idea is to get the script to the client faster, because most web browsers will only initiate two connections per site you're talking to. Serving different things off multiple different sites lets you download more than two things at once. See for example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110
Sounds a lot more like rabid fans than actual shills. One fan mailing list could easily account for the observation. Is it actually news to anybody that fans of stuff will go and encourage other people to check out the thing they are a fan of, without waiting to really review the new thing objectively?
They can easily be accessed both from server-side code and from client-side Javascript code, allowing you to do more complicated and responsive UIs in web browsers without a lot of need to explicitly re-code things for that approach.
Do you really think it's necessary to do a research project and become an expert in everything before making any decisions? Why?
This basically can't be done well. Read the books "The Mythical Man Month" and "Why Does Software Cost So Much" (both have been reviewed on Slashdot's books section before), then do the best you can and just accept that there will be some friction.
"Home" is out, but painfully horribly bad, so the guy is clearly a shill.
Easy, but a felony. Physical mail has legal protection that e-mail just doesn't enjoy.
Make sure the front right corner of the box is clear of obstructions. Elevate it and get it outside of an enclosed cabinet if you can. When I moved my PS3 to the left side of a shelf instead of having it up against the right side of the shelf, my fan noise suddenly got bearable.
As a CS major at Georgia Tech, I spent a term during my senior year at the university of Edinburgh in Scotland. I picked it basically because they spoke English and had an excellent CS reputation. I was able to arrange to have the credit for my Edinburgh courses count towards my CS degree (as some necessary 4th-year CS courses), although Georgia Tech wasn't absolutely thrilled with honoring the credit as being CS classes toward my degree, they made it quite clear they would prefer to award just general elective credit. I recommend working this out in advance in writing; I had a verbal discussion before I left and it became clear when it was time for me to petition for my degree that we had some misunderstandings during the conversation, luckily I was able to get them sorted out via e-mail but it very nearly delayed my graduation. Bring in a course catalog for both schools and sit down with an advisor in your college and get them to agree about what will count for what.
It was a very interesting experience for me. I quite simply didn't learn as much in the classes in general, and my classmates knew less about computer programming. I took one very good course there which got me thinking and taught me a lot, but it was the exception rather than the norm, my other courses were more disappointing. I distinctly recall one homework assignment in one of my AI classes where some senior level students were simply unable to complete the homework because the only language they knew was Prolog while the language pretty much required an imperative language of some sort. The professor apologized to the students for setting them a task some of them couldn't complete, instead of lecturing them for studying computers for years without learning the tools available to them. I'm sure there are students who don't really "learn" at Georgia Tech too, but it definitely isn't as common.
My first week was "welcome to Uni, time to go drinking." There was a lot more drinking and partying, and a lot less homework and studying. One professor apologized for assigning more than 2 hours of homework one week, which blew my mind.
In general, I enjoyed the experience tremendously, but I simply wouldn't count on really getting as much out of the actual courses as you would at home. Definitely study abroad to knock out some electives if you can, but I would be a bit wary of counting on getting really important classes done. If I had tried to get a key prerequisite done that I later needed to build on that knowledge when I came back to Georgia Tech, I probably would have been in real trouble due to not having really learned as much. If in the end you can't study abroad, you could still learn a lot just travelling for a month or two one summer or after you graduate. It's a fantastic experience and worth a bit of sacrifice and effort to pull it off somehow.
Motorola POS = ~$50/month * 24 months = ~$1200. Sounds reasonably accurate. What, exactly, is wrong with the logic? Why would you not want to talk about the actual price of the thing people are buying? You don't say your house cost $1000 because that's all the monthly payment is, why should you with your phone?
Believe it was a U.S. patent problem that the various patent owners have finally sorted out. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16014
Easy. Cut them in on a part, say as an administration/oversight fee. Universities will do amazingly horrible things for money.