Your employer absolutely should be entitled to any IP you produce... *if* they're paying you for 168/hours a week.
Pretty much every employment contract I ever signed included a clause saying "and any other extra hours as the business requires" after the standard 9am - 5:30pm Monday to Friday. This is to cover things like out of hours software releases and disaster recovery overtime in things go utterly tits up with a server or something.
This could probably be used by a cunning lawyer to claim that work you did in your own time was actually on company time. Especially if you boss develops a suddent recolection of having verbally asked you to do it for them after the fact.
These clauses are really only used if the company feel you have utterly shafted them in some way. In my experience, if a reasonable person (like your boss, if hes not reasonable then get another job) feel that way then chances are you probably did something you knew was going to piss them off but did it anyway.
The fact is that if you want to work on something in your own time it is not a problem to talk to your boss first and mention what you are going to do upfront and make sure if he gives you permision to keep the works copyright in writing. If you are worried your boss will not let you do the work then try and look at it from his perspective and think if he is being reasonable or a dork. If he is being a dork then just get another job and ask them.
I often think about things related to my current work in the e-learning industry at home in the shower as this is where I have best ideas. If I came up with a genius idea and didnt share it with my employer I would feel guitly about that as I would not be thinking about e-learning in the shower if I did not work in that industry and have the benefit of several years experience working for them. That is not to say I would automatically give them something I worked on in my own time but I would certainly discuss it with them first and give them the opportunity to ask me to do it at work instead.
If you've invented this on your own time, money, and resources there is no way in the shady side of hell that your employer should have any ownership of it. If you did this while being compensated by your employer, the situation is different. If you've used your employer's money and resources, then it is fair.
So what if I go home at night and come up with and idea that is a natural extension of what I was doing at work but my imediate line manager did not consider so they did not ask me to work on? The line becomes somewhat blurry when you consider that as an employee you have access to what is often the most valuable resource at a company: insider information of future products.
I am not saying you are entirely wrong but it is not as clear cut as you make out.
Why can't web developers compile the javascript and provide that?
The whole point of the web and the reason javascript has become what it has is because we can write things now as websites that once would have been native applications that only worked on a single platform. If we had to go to the effort of compiling the web application before shipping it we might as well use something like Java, C or C++ and then ship native applications with all the increased flexibility that provides.
Instead we now use websites for very complicated applications using AJAX interactions and such that are often hosted on intranets in order to keep latencies low. The main driver to this has been the cross platform support that the modern web provides for the end user. Even stand alone applications that require no interaction with anything outside themselves are often now shipped as web based apps if there are not IP issues to do with protecting the code (most of the time there is an issue with distributing the code which is why Java is so popular).
The biggest issue though is probably that if a browser vendor suggested an approach like you suggest they would be shooting themselves in the foot as it would increase the workload for each additional browser a web application needed to support far more than at present. If I had to produce a compiled version of the JS libraries for opera then there is no way I could justify that cost to management based on their browser share. It might even be that things like Opera and Firefox started falling off the supported list for many clients since they might be only interested in the corporate space where IE is still dominant. I think I could just about make a case for supporting Safari based for Macs but in other cases I would have to work impossibly hard too justify multiple browsers supported on a single platform when considering the increased costs for each.
"In the event that you change your stance on wearing the ID with the battery and chip removed as has been offered to you on two occasions, we will be more than willing to rescind this withdrawal notice."
"In response to public outcry and pressure from rights groups, the school has offered to remove the battery and chip, but wouldn’t budge on mandating the ID. Their offer would also require the Hernandez family to end their criticism and agree to comply with and even tout the policy,"
On the condition that her and her father say the sh*t sandwich tastes great and everyone should try some. It seems you left the most important part out.
I feel really sorry for this kid, it sounds like her father is screwing her over with his shity advice.
There is no way that a kid has come up with this tirade against an ID card all by herself. I remember getting given loads of ID's when I went to schools or colleges so you could prove you were allowed on campus and to use IT equipment and such. If I got given one that included an RFID chip or whatever I just would have accepted it as something you have to wear. I think the same is true for most people. If I had refused to wear it my parents were both too busy getting on with life (and earning money for me to eat) so probably just would have asked me to put up with it as a large part of life of putting up with things you do not like.
Her parents must have invented this crazy excuse to try and cause a fuss or at the very least are not giving her the guidance she needs. Instead they are encouraging this stance that may well backfire and get her expelled or at the very least labelled a troublemaker for as long
In 5 years when she is applying for a job and the prospective employer does a cursory google search on her name and high school this story is going to come up and they will just hire someone else instead.
Yes, he probably has. A large part of innovating is coming up with new ideas.
Metro in Windows 8 is certainly a new idea in terms of trying to come up with a user interface that is interchangeable between phone and desktop. It might be the MS have made an utter hash of it, but learning to innovate well takes time and MS has probably forgotten how. The fact that they are trying to find a new user interface (Metro) that is a radical departure from Windows7 is very gutsy though.
I am not entirely convinced Metro will every work in terms of combining a desktop OS with the portable device OS though since the screens on desktop PC's are just getting bigger and bigger and I do not want to sit that close to it. I can barely touch my desktop screen if I am a comfortable viewing distance away and it would simply not be comfortable for me to sit like that all day long with my arm fully outstretched.
In terms of laptops and tablets though I can say a place for windows 8. That fact is that most portable pointing devices on laptops are shit in one way or another apart from just carrying around a mouse or using a touchscreen. The problem with touchscreens is that people like me with big clompy fingers still have trouble getting the same level of precision you can get with a mouse.
The idea of a new wave of devices that are tablet based and useable in that form but can scale up to a laptop if needed is very appealing. Maybe what is needed to make this possible is to throw away the idea that we use the same OS on desktops and laptops as mice might be a great fit for a desktop, but any attempt to make it work on a portable device has never been perfect.
If you have a portable device OS that is geared much more around larger icons that can actually display information as well (ie: tiles) or a single full screen app being visible at once that strikes me as being a good idea that can work, even on a laptop that has traditionally shared the desktop OS. Just trying to do this is actually quite innovative, even if you utterly fuck it up.
Do you want to know just how innovative Windows 8 is? (at the risk of getting a little off topic)
Had a difficult time getting the upgrade to run. Got the informative error message "Windows 8 installation has failed". That helped tremendously. Then, finally got it installed and thought that running "Windows Update" might me a good idea (I was wrong on that one). I installed a few updates and needed to reboot (no surprise there). During this reboot it said somethings like "upgrade failed, restoring old OS". Back to Windows 7. Whoopee!
Nobody in their right mind does upgrade installs. Sorry, they might make them possible but they are just not a good idea, even if only from the point of software that does not work in a brand new OS.
I'd love to hear both sides, but if one side just says "The other side is wrong" without telling me what happened in their view, I kinda doubt said side.
He's just blocking people on Twitter now (myself included.) I usually find 'you don't understand what's going on' with no attempt to educate to be an excuse used by the guilty party. The fact that he later said on said twitter feed that 'he owns the domain name' seems to solidly imply that he is guilty of this dick move, and he thought he's morally in the right to do what he did because of it.
Actually when I read his post I thought he was just claiming to be legally right, not morally.
His basic premise seemed to be that since what he was doing was legal, morals did not come into (believe me I certainly don't agree with this). The domain name was his, so he could do what he liked with it. The fact that he registered it on behalf of a community didn't come into it as there was no legally enforceable contract between them.
My personal opinion is that he is clearly a devout capitalist who felt he should be able to monetise his community work freely. The people in the community who objected to this were probably just naive little kids and so there opinion can be freely ignored. I think if that is really what he thought though then he should go and look up what "community work" actually means and where it differs from "investment".
Interesting, so you do consider it theft if they are making money but not if they are doing it altruistically.
Yes. The money he made on the counterfeits is money that would have been spent on legit copies had the counterfeiter not been there, quite unlike a download.
Do you not think that some of the people who download stuff for free would have bought it had they been unable to download it?
I have had this debate with you before but that seems to be the main point we differ on as I think some of the people who download stuff would actually pay for it if they were forced to. It is probably a much smaller percentage though than if they bought it illegally.
Who cares? It's a free source of individual patches. Enjoy it while it lasts.
That sort of attitude is incredibly short sited.
Red Hat have contributed a HUGE amount to the open source community over the years. If they were pushed under by Oracle taking all their work and selling it at half the price (this is effectively what Oracle do) then these patches will dry up forever and Linux will lose its largest and most open source friendly commercial distributor. At that point Oracle may well pick up the majority market for commercially supported Linux and they will be far worse to the open source community than Red hat are.
I RTFA this morning. This isn't Joe Blow getting a few movies from the pirate bay, this is a counterfeiter. Copyright infringement isn't theft, but I'd say this is, as the criminal is getting the money that should have gone to the movies' producers.
Interesting, so you do consider it theft if they are making money but not if they are doing it altruistically.
So in Mississippi, 5 DVD's and 1 CD is approximately equivalent to 1.5 rape victims in the eyes of the justice system. That's real good to know.
Sorry but it is a little more complicated than that. The ratio changes between 1.3 and 2.0 depending on the length of the womans skirt and whether she was dressed as a "slut" at the time she was raped.
Lack of debris? Lack of airplane? If you believe that, I'd seek a second opinion if you said the sky is blue.
Do you know of any footage or photograph showing airplane debris, particularly the tail which is hardly ever destroyed in plane crashes also showing the pentagon or the plane on its approach. It is fairly obvious that it really was two planes that were flown into the WTC but the pentagon being hit was always a bit suspect to many people since there were very few casualties (it hit an empty part of the building which was closed for renovations). Also, there was a well known conspiracy video at the time showing what appeared to be a small missile on approach to the pentagon.
For me the suspicious thing was always the lack of a visible air plane tail though afterwards and the fact that it helped the US military secure some budget increases that would never have happened without it (they were due some serious budget cuts instead).
Iraq had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden and 9/11. It was all about the imaginary weapons of mass destruction.
And the long term plan to get rid of Saddam to that US companies could finally get at the oil under Iraq again. That embargo on the place was hurting us too.
And the GP does not have to provide a citation for his own dubious claim?
Someone else in this thread further up has posted that rates of 0.8% to 3% for LTE tech are pretty typical with lots of references. 0.2% is way off the bottom of the scale.
Based on what 5 minutes of googling turned up, Apple is going to lose this, and lose it badly.
That depends on someone actually doing any research like you did. This may just be about planting a seed in the public's mind that FRAND patents are a big scam used to beat Apple with by the big foreign players in the mobile phone market who got there first.
Win or Lose in that case does not really matter, the people who think Apple are great will latch on to this as a reason to go on loving them despite them running around the planet suing all their competitors. After all, they HAVE to sure their competitors don't they because they are trying extort them with FRAND patents (I do not agree with this, but know plenty of people who do).
Those of us who follow these things might know this is not true as Apple are not using their patents in a purely defensive manner like some companies do but these cases are about PR, not facts.
If they can win a battle for hearts and minds now then in a few months when they get embroiled in another case where it is design patents on Apple's side versus technology patents on Google or whoever else's then the jury will just throw out all the FRAND stuff like they did recently.
My feeling: Apple has a bunch of junk patents but is skilled at gaming the courts.
There's not much gaming necessary in the US providing the people they are suing are someone like Samsung or Motorola. They just portray themselves as the US company in the dispute and the nationalistic US public on the jury immediately jumps on side shouting "USA, USA, USA".
Most other countries I have visited are far less nationalist in this regard in my experience. I am not really sure why, but the only time you hear most other countries chanting their name over and over again is at sports events when the country is playing. It just comes across as very weird to us foreign types in some contexts.
Yeah, I would argue that taking 35% of the income off the backs of the middle class is thievery. Good point.
Then vote for a candidate today that will give you a tax cut. If none is promising a sufficient tax cut you think you deserve then stand for office yourself.
Trying to make sure you pay less on the sly while everyone else around you has to pay full whack is both criminal and antisocial.
You are missing one of the greatest upsides of cash - you can keep a healthy percentage of your income totally off the books. Using cash means taking money out of Uncle Sam's wallet, which I think many can agree is a good thing.
Actually, some of us think that makes you a thief with no regard for the society you live in.
Dude, you have no freaking idea what you're talking about. As a businessman, I'll take cash any day.
Yup, it lets you not declare the sale and keep any tax that would have been due. This is not just sales tax, it could also keep profits down so you pay less tax on your profits (corporation tax). If you put the cash straight in your pocket it means you also get to not pay any earnings tax too. Of course doing this is basically the same as stealing money out of fort knox (theft from the state is still theft) if you could get away with it.
Some businessmen do not do this at all, but everyone I know is a little creative in this regard so you probably are too. The only variable is how much bending of the rules you are comfortable with.
They are not widescreen, they are reduced height. When you look at them in this way you understand the complaints.
Which actually makes them easier to use on planes.
If you make the screen full height, ie 4:3 ratio then as soon as the guy in front of you gets some sleep and reclines his seat back, it nicely crushes your laptop screen against your seat table (which makes a horrendous cracking noise and wakes him up). This can still happen with any laptop if you have it right up against the seat back in front of you but a smaller screen vertically makes it much easier to not do this.
In my opinion closely matching the screen shape to the shape of the keyboard and trackpad on the bottom half is actually a good idea.
I used to have a huge laptop but I definitely prefer my smaller lenovo I have now. Is it 1200*800 in a 12inch form factor and includes a DVD drive and decent CPU so it is not a netbook. Unfortunately it is a few years old now and I can't seem to find a decent replacement without shelling out a grand or two. Even then the current equivalent model to my old 3000 v100 does not seem to share the same resolution.
The euro isn't threatened by Greece staying or going, they're too small to actually matter much. The Euro is threatened by what caused Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain to be in serious messes, which is the same problem that will eventually chip away at all of the countries that aren't germany - germany is the strongest economy in the Euro area, and the biggest, so they will be dragged down by everyone else eventually, but Euro policy rests on german exports.
I mostly agree with you, apart from the last bit. Devaluing the Euro a little may actually HELP German exports by making their end products cheaper to foreign markets.
Germany is scared of printing money because they were forced to do it 70 years ago before the 2nd world war and it was a complete disaster for them where people needed a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Since this is all tied up with how Hitler came to power there are substantial difficulties preventing them from having too much rational debate on the subject. That is the main reason they refuse to even consider any financial policy that might result in the euro devaluing.
I can remember a few years ago when it was cheap for me (I am in the UK) to go to Europe on holiday. I could go to France and drink like a fish because it was 2 Euro's to the pound. Recently it went closer to 1 euro to the pound and had made my holidays to Europe a crap load more expensive.
I am quite young though and have very little money saved up so it matter very little to me if the sterling devalues. If I was much older and had a more substantial pension pot and was closer to needing it I would be just as worried about it too as if the currency devalues sooner or later that will hurt you in the pocket as we import so much food and oil from other countries.
This is probably another reason germany are scared of inflation. In Germany far fewer people buy their own home so they are more reliant on the pension to carry on paying their accommodation costs in old age.
Us in Britain mostly buy our homes so buy the time we get old we can carry on living there rent free. Although I am probably one of the last generations who will be able to do this (I am 37) as someone in their twenties now will have far greater difficulties getting the deposit together to buy anything larger than a shoebox.
It is your "other priorities" (and this is really a euphemism for "cutting corners" based upon some arbitrary desire to reduce time-scale, cost or other resource) that creates such "awful legacy code" in the first place!
Keeping costs down is not really arbitrary though is it. You are getting paid to produce a commercial product, not a work of art. If the market will not stand for cost of making out of gold then you simple produce it out of lead with gold plating then tell the customer that is what they are getting for the price they paid, the solid gold option costs extra.
If you refuse to do this chances are you just lose work to people who do. We might not like doing it as developers but sometimes we have no choice in the matter, that is just a fact of life.
Does that mean that in addition to enduring stupid unskippable Nvidia clips playing when games start we can look forward to the same from AMD?
Nope, the games company will have to choose either AMD or Nvidia to jump into bed with for each title probably. Otherwise there would just be an almighty argument over who got to have their splash screen first.
Wake me up when their linux drivers work as well as nvidia's please:)
Please leave slashdot immediately.
ATI have opened the specs on their card up so are clearly the better product. Nvidia are mean, secretive and nasty so you must therefore hate them, drawing any attention to them having actually produced a better working product (ie- including software bit) under Linux immediately forfeits your geek card and hence all slashdot posting rights.:-)
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Your employer absolutely should be entitled to any IP you produce ... *if* they're paying you for 168/hours a week.
Pretty much every employment contract I ever signed included a clause saying "and any other extra hours as the business requires" after the standard 9am - 5:30pm Monday to Friday. This is to cover things like out of hours software releases and disaster recovery overtime in things go utterly tits up with a server or something.
This could probably be used by a cunning lawyer to claim that work you did in your own time was actually on company time. Especially if you boss develops a suddent recolection of having verbally asked you to do it for them after the fact.
These clauses are really only used if the company feel you have utterly shafted them in some way. In my experience, if a reasonable person (like your boss, if hes not reasonable then get another job) feel that way then chances are you probably did something you knew was going to piss them off but did it anyway.
The fact is that if you want to work on something in your own time it is not a problem to talk to your boss first and mention what you are going to do upfront and make sure if he gives you permision to keep the works copyright in writing. If you are worried your boss will not let you do the work then try and look at it from his perspective and think if he is being reasonable or a dork. If he is being a dork then just get another job and ask them.
I often think about things related to my current work in the e-learning industry at home in the shower as this is where I have best ideas. If I came up with a genius idea and didnt share it with my employer I would feel guitly about that as I would not be thinking about e-learning in the shower if I did not work in that industry and have the benefit of several years experience working for them. That is not to say I would automatically give them something I worked on in my own time but I would certainly discuss it with them first and give them the opportunity to ask me to do it at work instead.
If you've invented this on your own time, money, and resources there is no way in the shady side of hell that your employer should have any ownership of it. If you did this while being compensated by your employer, the situation is different. If you've used your employer's money and resources, then it is fair.
So what if I go home at night and come up with and idea that is a natural extension of what I was doing at work but my imediate line manager did not consider so they did not ask me to work on? The line becomes somewhat blurry when you consider that as an employee you have access to what is often the most valuable resource at a company: insider information of future products.
I am not saying you are entirely wrong but it is not as clear cut as you make out.
Why can't web developers compile the javascript and provide that?
The whole point of the web and the reason javascript has become what it has is because we can write things now as websites that once would have been native applications that only worked on a single platform. If we had to go to the effort of compiling the web application before shipping it we might as well use something like Java, C or C++ and then ship native applications with all the increased flexibility that provides.
Instead we now use websites for very complicated applications using AJAX interactions and such that are often hosted on intranets in order to keep latencies low. The main driver to this has been the cross platform support that the modern web provides for the end user. Even stand alone applications that require no interaction with anything outside themselves are often now shipped as web based apps if there are not IP issues to do with protecting the code (most of the time there is an issue with distributing the code which is why Java is so popular).
The biggest issue though is probably that if a browser vendor suggested an approach like you suggest they would be shooting themselves in the foot as it would increase the workload for each additional browser a web application needed to support far more than at present. If I had to produce a compiled version of the JS libraries for opera then there is no way I could justify that cost to management based on their browser share. It might even be that things like Opera and Firefox started falling off the supported list for many clients since they might be only interested in the corporate space where IE is still dominant. I think I could just about make a case for supporting Safari based for Macs but in other cases I would have to work impossibly hard too justify multiple browsers supported on a single platform when considering the increased costs for each.
Read the letter linked from infowars:
"In the event that you change your stance on wearing the ID with the battery and chip removed as has been offered to you on two occasions, we will be more than willing to rescind this withdrawal notice."
"In response to public outcry and pressure from rights groups, the school has offered to remove the battery and chip, but wouldn’t budge on mandating the ID. Their offer would also require the Hernandez family to end their criticism and agree to comply with and even tout the policy,"
On the condition that her and her father say the sh*t sandwich tastes great and everyone should try some. It seems you left the most important part out.
I feel really sorry for this kid, it sounds like her father is screwing her over with his shity advice.
There is no way that a kid has come up with this tirade against an ID card all by herself. I remember getting given loads of ID's when I went to schools or colleges so you could prove you were allowed on campus and to use IT equipment and such. If I got given one that included an RFID chip or whatever I just would have accepted it as something you have to wear. I think the same is true for most people. If I had refused to wear it my parents were both too busy getting on with life (and earning money for me to eat) so probably just would have asked me to put up with it as a large part of life of putting up with things you do not like.
Her parents must have invented this crazy excuse to try and cause a fuss or at the very least are not giving her the guidance she needs. Instead they are encouraging this stance that may well backfire and get her expelled or at the very least labelled a troublemaker for as long
In 5 years when she is applying for a job and the prospective employer does a cursory google search on her name and high school this story is going to come up and they will just hire someone else instead.
Have you seen Windows 8?
Yes, he probably has. A large part of innovating is coming up with new ideas.
Metro in Windows 8 is certainly a new idea in terms of trying to come up with a user interface that is interchangeable between phone and desktop. It might be the MS have made an utter hash of it, but learning to innovate well takes time and MS has probably forgotten how. The fact that they are trying to find a new user interface (Metro) that is a radical departure from Windows7 is very gutsy though.
I am not entirely convinced Metro will every work in terms of combining a desktop OS with the portable device OS though since the screens on desktop PC's are just getting bigger and bigger and I do not want to sit that close to it. I can barely touch my desktop screen if I am a comfortable viewing distance away and it would simply not be comfortable for me to sit like that all day long with my arm fully outstretched.
In terms of laptops and tablets though I can say a place for windows 8. That fact is that most portable pointing devices on laptops are shit in one way or another apart from just carrying around a mouse or using a touchscreen. The problem with touchscreens is that people like me with big clompy fingers still have trouble getting the same level of precision you can get with a mouse.
The idea of a new wave of devices that are tablet based and useable in that form but can scale up to a laptop if needed is very appealing. Maybe what is needed to make this possible is to throw away the idea that we use the same OS on desktops and laptops as mice might be a great fit for a desktop, but any attempt to make it work on a portable device has never been perfect.
If you have a portable device OS that is geared much more around larger icons that can actually display information as well (ie: tiles) or a single full screen app being visible at once that strikes me as being a good idea that can work, even on a laptop that has traditionally shared the desktop OS. Just trying to do this is actually quite innovative, even if you utterly fuck it up.
Do you want to know just how innovative Windows 8 is? (at the risk of getting a little off topic)
Had a difficult time getting the upgrade to run. Got the informative error message "Windows 8 installation has failed". That helped tremendously. Then, finally got it installed and thought that running "Windows Update" might me a good idea (I was wrong on that one). I installed a few updates and needed to reboot (no surprise there). During this reboot it said somethings like "upgrade failed, restoring old OS". Back to Windows 7. Whoopee!
Nobody in their right mind does upgrade installs. Sorry, they might make them possible but they are just not a good idea, even if only from the point of software that does not work in a brand new OS.
I'd love to hear both sides, but if one side just says "The other side is wrong" without telling me what happened in their view, I kinda doubt said side.
Here's his side:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116028512018932696380/posts
It didn't take too long to find once someone named him further up this thread.
He's just blocking people on Twitter now (myself included.) I usually find 'you don't understand what's going on' with no attempt to educate to be an excuse used by the guilty party. The fact that he later said on said twitter feed that 'he owns the domain name' seems to solidly imply that he is guilty of this dick move, and he thought he's morally in the right to do what he did because of it.
Actually when I read his post I thought he was just claiming to be legally right, not morally.
His basic premise seemed to be that since what he was doing was legal, morals did not come into (believe me I certainly don't agree with this). The domain name was his, so he could do what he liked with it. The fact that he registered it on behalf of a community didn't come into it as there was no legally enforceable contract between them.
My personal opinion is that he is clearly a devout capitalist who felt he should be able to monetise his community work freely. The people in the community who objected to this were probably just naive little kids and so there opinion can be freely ignored. I think if that is really what he thought though then he should go and look up what "community work" actually means and where it differs from "investment".
Interesting, so you do consider it theft if they are making money but not if they are doing it altruistically.
Yes. The money he made on the counterfeits is money that would have been spent on legit copies had the counterfeiter not been there, quite unlike a download.
Do you not think that some of the people who download stuff for free would have bought it had they been unable to download it?
I have had this debate with you before but that seems to be the main point we differ on as I think some of the people who download stuff would actually pay for it if they were forced to. It is probably a much smaller percentage though than if they bought it illegally.
Who cares? It's a free source of individual patches. Enjoy it while it lasts.
That sort of attitude is incredibly short sited.
Red Hat have contributed a HUGE amount to the open source community over the years. If they were pushed under by Oracle taking all their work and selling it at half the price (this is effectively what Oracle do) then these patches will dry up forever and Linux will lose its largest and most open source friendly commercial distributor. At that point Oracle may well pick up the majority market for commercially supported Linux and they will be far worse to the open source community than Red hat are.
I RTFA this morning. This isn't Joe Blow getting a few movies from the pirate bay, this is a counterfeiter. Copyright infringement isn't theft, but I'd say this is, as the criminal is getting the money that should have gone to the movies' producers.
Interesting, so you do consider it theft if they are making money but not if they are doing it altruistically.
And who says there are no lefties in america? :)
So in Mississippi, 5 DVD's and 1 CD is approximately equivalent to 1.5 rape victims in the eyes of the justice system. That's real good to know.
Sorry but it is a little more complicated than that. The ratio changes between 1.3 and 2.0 depending on the length of the womans skirt and whether she was dressed as a "slut" at the time she was raped.
Lack of debris? Lack of airplane? If you believe that, I'd seek a second opinion if you said the sky is blue.
Do you know of any footage or photograph showing airplane debris, particularly the tail which is hardly ever destroyed in plane crashes also showing the pentagon or the plane on its approach. It is fairly obvious that it really was two planes that were flown into the WTC but the pentagon being hit was always a bit suspect to many people since there were very few casualties (it hit an empty part of the building which was closed for renovations). Also, there was a well known conspiracy video at the time showing what appeared to be a small missile on approach to the pentagon.
For me the suspicious thing was always the lack of a visible air plane tail though afterwards and the fact that it helped the US military secure some budget increases that would never have happened without it (they were due some serious budget cuts instead).
Iraq had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden and 9/11. It was all about the imaginary weapons of mass destruction.
And the long term plan to get rid of Saddam to that US companies could finally get at the oil under Iraq again. That embargo on the place was hurting us too.
And the GP does not have to provide a citation for his own dubious claim?
Someone else in this thread further up has posted that rates of 0.8% to 3% for LTE tech are pretty typical with lots of references. 0.2% is way off the bottom of the scale.
https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3232667&cid=41890215
Based on what 5 minutes of googling turned up, Apple is going to lose this, and lose it badly.
That depends on someone actually doing any research like you did. This may just be about planting a seed in the public's mind that FRAND patents are a big scam used to beat Apple with by the big foreign players in the mobile phone market who got there first.
Win or Lose in that case does not really matter, the people who think Apple are great will latch on to this as a reason to go on loving them despite them running around the planet suing all their competitors. After all, they HAVE to sure their competitors don't they because they are trying extort them with FRAND patents (I do not agree with this, but know plenty of people who do).
Those of us who follow these things might know this is not true as Apple are not using their patents in a purely defensive manner like some companies do but these cases are about PR, not facts.
If they can win a battle for hearts and minds now then in a few months when they get embroiled in another case where it is design patents on Apple's side versus technology patents on Google or whoever else's then the jury will just throw out all the FRAND stuff like they did recently.
My feeling: Apple has a bunch of junk patents but is skilled at gaming the courts.
There's not much gaming necessary in the US providing the people they are suing are someone like Samsung or Motorola. They just portray themselves as the US company in the dispute and the nationalistic US public on the jury immediately jumps on side shouting "USA, USA, USA".
Most other countries I have visited are far less nationalist in this regard in my experience. I am not really sure why, but the only time you hear most other countries chanting their name over and over again is at sports events when the country is playing. It just comes across as very weird to us foreign types in some contexts.
Yeah, I would argue that taking 35% of the income off the backs of the middle class is thievery. Good point.
Then vote for a candidate today that will give you a tax cut. If none is promising a sufficient tax cut you think you deserve then stand for office yourself.
Trying to make sure you pay less on the sly while everyone else around you has to pay full whack is both criminal and antisocial.
You are missing one of the greatest upsides of cash - you can keep a healthy percentage of your income totally off the books. Using cash means taking money out of Uncle Sam's wallet, which I think many can agree is a good thing.
Actually, some of us think that makes you a thief with no regard for the society you live in.
Dude, you have no freaking idea what you're talking about. As a businessman, I'll take cash any day.
Yup, it lets you not declare the sale and keep any tax that would have been due. This is not just sales tax, it could also keep profits down so you pay less tax on your profits (corporation tax). If you put the cash straight in your pocket it means you also get to not pay any earnings tax too. Of course doing this is basically the same as stealing money out of fort knox (theft from the state is still theft) if you could get away with it.
Some businessmen do not do this at all, but everyone I know is a little creative in this regard so you probably are too. The only variable is how much bending of the rules you are comfortable with.
They are not widescreen, they are reduced height. When you look at them in this way you understand the complaints.
Which actually makes them easier to use on planes.
If you make the screen full height, ie 4:3 ratio then as soon as the guy in front of you gets some sleep and reclines his seat back, it nicely crushes your laptop screen against your seat table (which makes a horrendous cracking noise and wakes him up). This can still happen with any laptop if you have it right up against the seat back in front of you but a smaller screen vertically makes it much easier to not do this.
In my opinion closely matching the screen shape to the shape of the keyboard and trackpad on the bottom half is actually a good idea.
I used to have a huge laptop but I definitely prefer my smaller lenovo I have now. Is it 1200*800 in a 12inch form factor and includes a DVD drive and decent CPU so it is not a netbook. Unfortunately it is a few years old now and I can't seem to find a decent replacement without shelling out a grand or two. Even then the current equivalent model to my old 3000 v100 does not seem to share the same resolution.
The euro isn't threatened by Greece staying or going, they're too small to actually matter much. The Euro is threatened by what caused Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain to be in serious messes, which is the same problem that will eventually chip away at all of the countries that aren't germany - germany is the strongest economy in the Euro area, and the biggest, so they will be dragged down by everyone else eventually, but Euro policy rests on german exports.
I mostly agree with you, apart from the last bit. Devaluing the Euro a little may actually HELP German exports by making their end products cheaper to foreign markets.
Germany is scared of printing money because they were forced to do it 70 years ago before the 2nd world war and it was a complete disaster for them where people needed a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Since this is all tied up with how Hitler came to power there are substantial difficulties preventing them from having too much rational debate on the subject. That is the main reason they refuse to even consider any financial policy that might result in the euro devaluing.
I can remember a few years ago when it was cheap for me (I am in the UK) to go to Europe on holiday. I could go to France and drink like a fish because it was 2 Euro's to the pound. Recently it went closer to 1 euro to the pound and had made my holidays to Europe a crap load more expensive.
I am quite young though and have very little money saved up so it matter very little to me if the sterling devalues. If I was much older and had a more substantial pension pot and was closer to needing it I would be just as worried about it too as if the currency devalues sooner or later that will hurt you in the pocket as we import so much food and oil from other countries.
This is probably another reason germany are scared of inflation. In Germany far fewer people buy their own home so they are more reliant on the pension to carry on paying their accommodation costs in old age.
Us in Britain mostly buy our homes so buy the time we get old we can carry on living there rent free. Although I am probably one of the last generations who will be able to do this (I am 37) as someone in their twenties now will have far greater difficulties getting the deposit together to buy anything larger than a shoebox.
It is your "other priorities" (and this is really a euphemism for "cutting corners" based upon some arbitrary desire to reduce time-scale, cost or other resource) that creates such "awful legacy code" in the first place!
Keeping costs down is not really arbitrary though is it. You are getting paid to produce a commercial product, not a work of art. If the market will not stand for cost of making out of gold then you simple produce it out of lead with gold plating then tell the customer that is what they are getting for the price they paid, the solid gold option costs extra.
If you refuse to do this chances are you just lose work to people who do. We might not like doing it as developers but sometimes we have no choice in the matter, that is just a fact of life.
Does that mean that in addition to enduring stupid unskippable Nvidia clips playing when games start we can look forward to the same from AMD?
Nope, the games company will have to choose either AMD or Nvidia to jump into bed with for each title probably. Otherwise there would just be an almighty argument over who got to have their splash screen first.
Wake me up when their linux drivers work as well as nvidia's please :)
Please leave slashdot immediately.
ATI have opened the specs on their card up so are clearly the better product. Nvidia are mean, secretive and nasty so you must therefore hate them, drawing any attention to them having actually produced a better working product (ie- including software bit) under Linux immediately forfeits your geek card and hence all slashdot posting rights. :-)