Do you really believe the DMCA is about copyright? Its about having a stick to poke when anybody says anything you don't like on the Internet. The people that created and passed it don't care if others use it as well, as long as *they* get to use it
1.) Make a random survey, asking insightful questions
2.) Have several emails go around the company stating how important it is for everybodies voice to be heard
3.) Pull metrics that make you look good out of your ass and use those instead of the answers
4.) profit!!
It doesn't have to be as black and white like that, and stating your argument in that way is a fallacy. We can look for ways to keep them honest (like, freedom to criticise, exactly what is going here) and ways to ensure that they keep doing the right thing. You are pulling assumptions out of thin air that are in no way related to my statement.
RTFA, but I guess thats just asking too much. The dirty trick is that the Obama crowd wrested control of the guy's myspace account without his consent. What if I put up a myspace page stating Obama should *never* become president, and they don't like it. Will that get taken over as well?
The guy wants to be president. He's a politician. And now some guy is surprised he is up to dirty tricks? Politicians are all scum, no matter which flag they wave. Remeber: Poly = many, tick = small bloodsucking parasite.
To be honest I would not be averse to having some mechanisms in place that allow you to level an alt faster - XP bonus or whatever, however, that in turn would open the door for more goldfarmers
Furthermore, the game does allow programmable keystrokes - the Logitech G15 is fully supported by Blizzard (bespite much FUD to the contrary) - Blizzards stance is not against automation per-se, its against unattended play. The tweaks and changes they make to the macro system reflects this attitude - for example, you used to be able to automate hunter kiting with auto-jumps-shots, but the macro system has been changed to prevent this.
Blizzard doesn't really want to own you system, they just don't want you to play unattended. The whole point of WoWGlider is to set your toon to run around somewhere, and kill the same mobs over and over again, grinding for you. At the end of the day, the experience is much the same as buying a lvl 70 toon of EBay: a whole bunch of clueless players running around in end-game content that requires a lot of detailed knowledge about your game and class mechanics. Blizz would much rather have you do quests and actually consume the content they designed for you - if everyone sits on end-game content, you'd get bored pretty soon.
Well, Scam may be harsh - there simply isn't enough information to determine that - burglars use crowbars - does that make everyone that uses a crowbar a burglar? However, SOX is right on the money, although it doesn't apply to all organisations. Nevertheless, outside of SOX there is pretty good whistleblower protection anyway.
The question is, do you *want* to be a whistleblower? I just recently found myself in a similar situation where I was "asked to leave" because I insistently pointed out serious issues with the integrity of some significant financial datasets my (now previous) employer was processing. Subsequent discussions with my solicitor (who was very keen on running with a major whistleblower case) and a lot of discussions with my wife and other close friends made me decide to simply take some hush money and go away - your career will be ruined, your life will be a disaster for many years, and there is simply to much aggrevation, with no little payback for being some idealistic flag-bearer in what is -essentially- no longer your problem. I am on record as bringing these issues up, and these records are non-repudiable. My ass is covered. So is my mortage and my the education funds for my kids.
I make no personal statement about what people should or should not be able to access from work. From a professional POV, if the customer asks for it I discuss the pro's and con's of filtering vs. log auditing (the vast majority of actual employees i spoke to prefer filtering - they feel auditing is too invasive), and usually the customer goes for filtering. It is important to point out that there is no fool-proof solution, and filtering has significant limitations. Having said that, if your customers insists on going the filtering route, try Surfcontrol or Websense.
I agree - +1 great answer. I played a Summoner for a long time in EQ2, took a break from MMO's and cracked (heh) open the WoW box. Dallied with some classes, then settled on a Hunter. I found both classes to be very similar in playstyle, especially in terms of strategies. Although the Summoner, mainly DoT based, is also a lot like a Warlock with a pet that can tank. I am, however, continuously learning to play the class better (long way to go heh), and will most certainly not apply whatever WoW skills I have to another character real quick.
So what was you opening shot, and what is it now?
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If we do send an ark, and it arrives an odd 70 years later, the crew will be thoroughly pissed off. Because in the meantime, here on earth we would have invented Star Trek Physics (tm) and can get there in half an hour. So they would arrive at a fully colonised Holiday Inn Resort Planet.
That reasoning is, initself, flawed. Calling somebody names is hardly a constructive way to begin a discussion. Moreover, as you say yourself, it's an opinion. His opinion. As such, it's hard to see where the flaw is. The OP states his preference for BSD licensing. I read his post as saying "The GPL places restrictions on what you can do with the software under its license. BSD doesn't" as such, I see no flaw in that argument, even if you feel it is important to safeguard the continued access to the sourcecode. As you say yourself, Contributors are free to choose the license they prefer.
"It is a moron who tries to ridicule the free choice people make.
Huh? So first you ridicule somebodies preference for a certain type of license, the you go on to state that people who do that are morons? I don't get it.
A tosh DLP that is. It sees very heavy usage in our household, and the lamp has been going for about 2 years now. It will probably die soon, the bulb that is, but hey, I knew bulbs were going to be consumables when I bought it. Most people that run short bulblives forget to switch on the "quick restart" feature that keeps the bulb on for about 10 minutes after you switch off the telly, and its the frequent on/off cycles that do more damage to the bulb then anything else.
That you quit. Right now. They may promise you more money, more women, more booze, anything to make you accept the offer while look for someone else that is "less trouble". Trust me, you don't want to work for them. If they screw you around before you even start, then they will be even worse when you actually turn up. You will probably be miserable there anyway. If you are still unsure what to do, go out for a beer with you new co-workers. After a few drinks, you will be in a much better position to gauge the mood of the workforce. Something tells me it won't be positive.
Why? What did I say to offend you? Or make me smug? All I did was quote your National Anthem, and link to it's history. I am happy to be European, always have been - I am as proud of my heritage as you no doubt are about yours. As for handling things better or worse, well, that remains to be seen - in Europe we have our own share of issues, note my comment about being jailed before committing a crime. The UK (I only live here, I'm Dutch myself) has certainly got some things wrong, as does Holland. I will probably be relocating to Scandinavia or Canada at some point in the future.
The fact you are so touchy about my comment say enough in itself.
I for one, am happy to be a European right now - although the Blair Government is currently contemplating putting people predispositioned to crime in jail before they actually commit a crime. Nice.... Anyway, some people in Washington may need a reminder of what they claim the USA is about:
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
You must be 12 years old. The world is populated by people who cant afford anything. The global distribution of wealth is so unequal, 10 percent of the population (mainly here in the "west") owns 85 percent of the worlds assets. So for pretty much 90 percent of the global population, any kind of advanced treatment is inaccessible. Moreover, even the very rich can be financially devastated through a medical issue in the family. I know a texan family myself - oil money - that were rendered broke due to the son of the family suffering a heart attack. He was brough back from the brink of death, massive braindamage, required an insane amount of money to keep alive, and when the money ran out, he died.
Big Pharma is seriously fucked up - everywhere you look, there is evidence that they are not interested in curing disease, only treating symptoms - you make more money that way. everywhere you look, there is evidence they are not interested in making people better, only in making more money. Cancer, for example, is really not an interesting marketplace for big pharma, because most cancers are rather "personalised" - i.e. successful treatment depends on the genetic makeup of the sick individual, so pharma doesn't really look into that, they prefer blanket chemo because that has a higher return on investment.
you are a dick, and you really have no idea what you are talking about.
Another reason you'll never get a better position is because you don't speak proper english - it's hoard, not horde. although, your own observation on this is pretty spot on as well. What will happen when they make you manager and you will fire everybody around you? I have some people on my team i'd rather see leave, but sacking them isn't the solution.
Slashdot Mirror
F5 mainly uses DNS for its Global Traffic Management solution. There are other bits and pieces, but that is the core, really.
Do you really believe the DMCA is about copyright? Its about having a stick to poke when anybody says anything you don't like on the Internet. The people that created and passed it don't care if others use it as well, as long as *they* get to use it
1.) Make a random survey, asking insightful questions 2.) Have several emails go around the company stating how important it is for everybodies voice to be heard 3.) Pull metrics that make you look good out of your ass and use those instead of the answers 4.) profit!!
It doesn't have to be as black and white like that, and stating your argument in that way is a fallacy. We can look for ways to keep them honest (like, freedom to criticise, exactly what is going here) and ways to ensure that they keep doing the right thing. You are pulling assumptions out of thin air that are in no way related to my statement.
RTFA, but I guess thats just asking too much. The dirty trick is that the Obama crowd wrested control of the guy's myspace account without his consent. What if I put up a myspace page stating Obama should *never* become president, and they don't like it. Will that get taken over as well?
The guy wants to be president. He's a politician. And now some guy is surprised he is up to dirty tricks? Politicians are all scum, no matter which flag they wave. Remeber: Poly = many, tick = small bloodsucking parasite.
hahahahaha - thanks that made me laugh out loud
hmm i think the article you linked to would be the one that got wikipedia banned from that school....
To be honest I would not be averse to having some mechanisms in place that allow you to level an alt faster - XP bonus or whatever, however, that in turn would open the door for more goldfarmers
Furthermore, the game does allow programmable keystrokes - the Logitech G15 is fully supported by Blizzard (bespite much FUD to the contrary) - Blizzards stance is not against automation per-se, its against unattended play. The tweaks and changes they make to the macro system reflects this attitude - for example, you used to be able to automate hunter kiting with auto-jumps-shots, but the macro system has been changed to prevent this.
Blizzard doesn't really want to own you system, they just don't want you to play unattended. The whole point of WoWGlider is to set your toon to run around somewhere, and kill the same mobs over and over again, grinding for you. At the end of the day, the experience is much the same as buying a lvl 70 toon of EBay: a whole bunch of clueless players running around in end-game content that requires a lot of detailed knowledge about your game and class mechanics. Blizz would much rather have you do quests and actually consume the content they designed for you - if everyone sits on end-game content, you'd get bored pretty soon.
Well, Scam may be harsh - there simply isn't enough information to determine that - burglars use crowbars - does that make everyone that uses a crowbar a burglar? However, SOX is right on the money, although it doesn't apply to all organisations. Nevertheless, outside of SOX there is pretty good whistleblower protection anyway.
The question is, do you *want* to be a whistleblower? I just recently found myself in a similar situation where I was "asked to leave" because I insistently pointed out serious issues with the integrity of some significant financial datasets my (now previous) employer was processing. Subsequent discussions with my solicitor (who was very keen on running with a major whistleblower case) and a lot of discussions with my wife and other close friends made me decide to simply take some hush money and go away - your career will be ruined, your life will be a disaster for many years, and there is simply to much aggrevation, with no little payback for being some idealistic flag-bearer in what is -essentially- no longer your problem. I am on record as bringing these issues up, and these records are non-repudiable. My ass is covered. So is my mortage and my the education funds for my kids.
I make no personal statement about what people should or should not be able to access from work. From a professional POV, if the customer asks for it I discuss the pro's and con's of filtering vs. log auditing (the vast majority of actual employees i spoke to prefer filtering - they feel auditing is too invasive), and usually the customer goes for filtering. It is important to point out that there is no fool-proof solution, and filtering has significant limitations. Having said that, if your customers insists on going the filtering route, try Surfcontrol or Websense.
I agree - +1 great answer. I played a Summoner for a long time in EQ2, took a break from MMO's and cracked (heh) open the WoW box. Dallied with some classes, then settled on a Hunter. I found both classes to be very similar in playstyle, especially in terms of strategies. Although the Summoner, mainly DoT based, is also a lot like a Warlock with a pet that can tank. I am, however, continuously learning to play the class better (long way to go heh), and will most certainly not apply whatever WoW skills I have to another character real quick.
So what was you opening shot, and what is it now?
If we do send an ark, and it arrives an odd 70 years later, the crew will be thoroughly pissed off. Because in the meantime, here on earth we would have invented Star Trek Physics (tm) and can get there in half an hour. So they would arrive at a fully colonised Holiday Inn Resort Planet.
hahaha - and the best bit about his patches *must* be this one:
m less-cut-and-paste-errors.patch
src/metacity-2.17.5/0005-Fix-some-obvious-and-har
Unless you use a large antenna (several centimetres squared) you are talking about a range of millimetres.
I think you will find that is pretty much standard OS design.
"You are a moron because your opinion is flawed."
That reasoning is, initself, flawed. Calling somebody names is hardly a constructive way to begin a discussion. Moreover, as you say yourself, it's an opinion. His opinion. As such, it's hard to see where the flaw is. The OP states his preference for BSD licensing. I read his post as saying "The GPL places restrictions on what you can do with the software under its license. BSD doesn't" as such, I see no flaw in that argument, even if you feel it is important to safeguard the continued access to the sourcecode. As you say yourself, Contributors are free to choose the license they prefer.
"It is a moron who tries to ridicule the free choice people make.
Huh? So first you ridicule somebodies preference for a certain type of license, the you go on to state that people who do that are morons? I don't get it.
A tosh DLP that is. It sees very heavy usage in our household, and the lamp has been going for about 2 years now. It will probably die soon, the bulb that is, but hey, I knew bulbs were going to be consumables when I bought it. Most people that run short bulblives forget to switch on the "quick restart" feature that keeps the bulb on for about 10 minutes after you switch off the telly, and its the frequent on/off cycles that do more damage to the bulb then anything else.
That you quit. Right now. They may promise you more money, more women, more booze, anything to make you accept the offer while look for someone else that is "less trouble". Trust me, you don't want to work for them. If they screw you around before you even start, then they will be even worse when you actually turn up. You will probably be miserable there anyway. If you are still unsure what to do, go out for a beer with you new co-workers. After a few drinks, you will be in a much better position to gauge the mood of the workforce. Something tells me it won't be positive.
And what do you think most DSL runs on? Those engineers had a point.
Why? What did I say to offend you? Or make me smug? All I did was quote your National Anthem, and link to it's history. I am happy to be European, always have been - I am as proud of my heritage as you no doubt are about yours. As for handling things better or worse, well, that remains to be seen - in Europe we have our own share of issues, note my comment about being jailed before committing a crime. The UK (I only live here, I'm Dutch myself) has certainly got some things wrong, as does Holland. I will probably be relocating to Scandinavia or Canada at some point in the future.
The fact you are so touchy about my comment say enough in itself.
I for one, am happy to be a European right now - although the Blair Government is currently contemplating putting people predispositioned to crime in jail before they actually commit a crime. Nice....
Anyway, some people in Washington may need a reminder of what they claim the USA is about:
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
You must be 12 years old. The world is populated by people who cant afford anything. The global distribution of wealth is so unequal, 10 percent of the population (mainly here in the "west") owns 85 percent of the worlds assets. So for pretty much 90 percent of the global population, any kind of advanced treatment is inaccessible. Moreover, even the very rich can be financially devastated through a medical issue in the family. I know a texan family myself - oil money - that were rendered broke due to the son of the family suffering a heart attack. He was brough back from the brink of death, massive braindamage, required an insane amount of money to keep alive, and when the money ran out, he died.
Big Pharma is seriously fucked up - everywhere you look, there is evidence that they are not interested in curing disease, only treating symptoms - you make more money that way. everywhere you look, there is evidence they are not interested in making people better, only in making more money. Cancer, for example, is really not an interesting marketplace for big pharma, because most cancers are rather "personalised" - i.e. successful treatment depends on the genetic makeup of the sick individual, so pharma doesn't really look into that, they prefer blanket chemo because that has a higher return on investment.
you are a dick, and you really have no idea what you are talking about.
Another reason you'll never get a better position is because you don't speak proper english - it's hoard, not horde. although, your own observation on this is pretty spot on as well. What will happen when they make you manager and you will fire everybody around you? I have some people on my team i'd rather see leave, but sacking them isn't the solution.