Read the bait and switch article. Its not too much of a stretch to apply it to online activities. Target Tells me they have great prices on Morg Keyboards, but when I go to their site they only sell other inferior keyboards. Bait : Morg; Switch: Casio.
If they don't have any products they advertised they do have, then they could be liable for bait and switch. ( which is against the law in some parts). Plus, it doesn't help them. Target is the biggest violator of this principle I've seen. I'd like to see them taken down, but there are enough consumer protection laws on the book already to deal with it. Adding another one that can't be enforced any better won't help anything.
No, you're right. Slashdot doesn't care. Because its supposed to work that way. No velvet gloves here. No sir -e. Ham fists not only solve problems, but can be turned into delicious sandwiches. If you want something done right the first time, you do it right the first time with hands of pork.
Well, First things first. Freakanomics copied Gladwell's style not visa versa. Gladwell pretty much started the genre back in 2002 with the tipping point.
No, I don't think thats any more dramatic than reducing your electricity bill, recycling, or buying a car with better gas millage. Perhaps a small sacrifice that can, if everyone were to act likewise, have a big impact.
The rest of your reply wasn't worth responding to.
One thing is for certain: you live in a far more frightening world than I do.
No doubt that is true. Have you violated the same patents that Microsoft is now suing over? I have. My pockets aren't big enough for them to worry about, but if everyone who has small pockets makes something an industry standard, then they'll go after those with bigger pockets who use the standard, just because its a standard. And we'll all end up paying more for anything that uses it. So for us with small pockets, its in our own long term interest to not use it. Unless of course, the short term benefit outweighs the long term penalty.
Don't want to get sued. If they can sue over the marvelous innovative genius that is Long file name support, they can and will most likely sue over Moonlight as well. Do you really think that they wouldn't have added that to the list of charges against Tom Tom?
Oh they did have limits, but you could still break them. With turbo pascal 7 you could read a line of input from a file into a fix length string that went over the limit you had set for the string. Allowing you to write into areas of memory you weren't supposed to have access to.
Its a matter of degrees. Planet -> moon. Mono is a second implementation of a spec. Not the first, which means that there are going to be some discrepancies from the first implementation which may cause compatible issues. Take a look at WINE. Another pseudo reverse engineering of a Microsoft product. IT still isn't compatible with everything that runs on windows, even though its free. So I guess the point is its freeness ( while good) does not mean that the thing its trying to replicate is 100% supported on different platforms. Which means win32 is still tied to windows, and.NET is as well.
Its adhering to a standard it does not itself control ( or really have full access to in some cases) . Changing it could cause it work in incompatible behavior compared to.NET Which may cause third party libraries/applications to not work as expected. Its like a moon of a planet, rather than a planet of its own. Its orbit, is therefore more complex than a simple two body problem.
Very good point. At the time of the Novell - Microsoft pact, I was arguing with Bruce here on Slashdot over how evil/ not evil it was and I generally sided with Microsoft. Well, not anymore. I've replaced Suse with another distro that does not have a pact with Microsoft, and am no longer convinced that microsoft is a gentle giant. It is clear that they are abusing their monopoly in this act. And I was a defender of Microsoft (at times) in the anti trust case in the late 90's. This is much much worse in my eyes than bundling IE with windows ever was.
No, but since I've reimplemented fat from scratch on an alternative ( unfortunately non-free) platform, I have some understanding in the technical underpinnings of Fat. By your logic, I can't comment on the legal side because I'm not a lawyer. Then how can a lawyer comment on the technical difference between say fat 12 and fat 16 ? When a legal issue touches on something that involves something other that pure law, there has to be a communication between the experts in that field and the lawyers. The layers might not understand all of the technical details, and the experts might not understand all of the legalities, but they have to come be able to understand and discuss some of the stuff outside their expertise if a fair judgment is to be reached.
Depends on the scope of the feature and what you consider to be a feature. If user feed back indicates that having a cancel button on a dialog, That really doesn't need to wait for the next release. With out getting into specifics and a through knowledge of the windows code base, its tough to judge.
I was looking for the correct response. There it is right above this post. Quantum is normally smarter than that reply, I hope you won't judge him too harshly. We all have our own blind spots.
Are you talking about a good taste bubble, or a financial one? I don't think investors have been as stupid with their backing of companies back in the day. The difference is the little girl doesn't drive a Lambo home.
Its not too late.
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With a little work we can get rid of Huffington Post, Digg,Twitter and Myspace. The rest can stay, but only if they behave themselves.
I'm sorry, my mistake. I apologize completely. Say there my good chap, would you also happen to know where I might find the crab people? I'm feeling a right bit peckish.
What does that even mean "increase expectations"? Don't you really mean "raise the bar for not getting fired"? People work best when they want to work their best out of their own free will. That will only come in an environment that they feel comfortable in, and they feel they have some measure of trust with the employer. If I'm going to pour out my heart and soul working for a company, I have to be reasonably sure that they will care for my heart & soul in a similar manner. If I was her coworker, and I would start looking for a new job pronto.
Yes, they should. If you treat people like robots, that's what you'll get: soulless lifeless automotrons that will work just hard enough to not get fired.
Well, the simplest is actually a straight form submission, rather than ajax. But this is a mashup with google maps and everything. Making it anything less than ajax makes the developer look bad. ( I also do not have a local mail client set)
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I'd agree its usually less funny than it thinks it is, sometimes more poetically clever than you think, and often more profane than necessary.
Oh yeah, I'd love to see them try and apprehend Batman. I mean come on, the cops never catch him.
Read the bait and switch article. Its not too much of a stretch to apply it to online activities. Target Tells me they have great prices on Morg Keyboards, but when I go to their site they only sell other inferior keyboards. Bait : Morg; Switch: Casio.
If they don't have any products they advertised they do have, then they could be liable for bait and switch. ( which is against the law in some parts). Plus, it doesn't help them. Target is the biggest violator of this principle I've seen. I'd like to see them taken down, but there are enough consumer protection laws on the book already to deal with it. Adding another one that can't be enforced any better won't help anything.
No, you're right. Slashdot doesn't care. Because its supposed to work that way. No velvet gloves here. No sir -e. Ham fists not only solve problems, but can be turned into delicious sandwiches. If you want something done right the first time, you do it right the first time with hands of pork.
Well, First things first. Freakanomics copied Gladwell's style not visa versa. Gladwell pretty much started the genre back in 2002 with the tipping point.
Freakanomics came much later debuting in 2005.
Being sad is no excuse for not taking over the world.
No, I don't think thats any more dramatic than reducing your electricity bill, recycling, or buying a car with better gas millage. Perhaps a small sacrifice that can, if everyone were to act likewise, have a big impact.
The rest of your reply wasn't worth responding to.
No doubt that is true. Have you violated the same patents that Microsoft is now suing over? I have. My pockets aren't big enough for them to worry about, but if everyone who has small pockets makes something an industry standard, then they'll go after those with bigger pockets who use the standard, just because its a standard. And we'll all end up paying more for anything that uses it. So for us with small pockets, its in our own long term interest to not use it. Unless of course, the short term benefit outweighs the long term penalty.
Don't want to get sued. If they can sue over the marvelous innovative genius that is Long file name support, they can and will most likely sue over Moonlight as well. Do you really think that they wouldn't have added that to the list of charges against Tom Tom?
Oh they did have limits, but you could still break them. With turbo pascal 7 you could read a line of input from a file into a fix length string that went over the limit you had set for the string. Allowing you to write into areas of memory you weren't supposed to have access to.
Its a matter of degrees. Planet -> moon. Mono is a second implementation of a spec. Not the first, which means that there are going to be some discrepancies from the first implementation which may cause compatible issues. Take a look at WINE. Another pseudo reverse engineering of a Microsoft product. IT still isn't compatible with everything that runs on windows, even though its free. So I guess the point is its freeness ( while good) does not mean that the thing its trying to replicate is 100% supported on different platforms. Which means win32 is still tied to windows, and .NET is as well.
Its adhering to a standard it does not itself control ( or really have full access to in some cases) . Changing it could cause it work in incompatible behavior compared to .NET Which may cause third party libraries/applications to not work as expected. Its like a moon of a planet, rather than a planet of its own. Its orbit, is therefore more complex than a simple two body problem.
It the thought that counts.
Very good point. At the time of the Novell - Microsoft pact, I was arguing with Bruce here on Slashdot over how evil/ not evil it was and I generally sided with Microsoft. Well, not anymore. I've replaced Suse with another distro that does not have a pact with Microsoft, and am no longer convinced that microsoft is a gentle giant. It is clear that they are abusing their monopoly in this act. And I was a defender of Microsoft (at times) in the anti trust case in the late 90's. This is much much worse in my eyes than bundling IE with windows ever was.
No, but since I've reimplemented fat from scratch on an alternative ( unfortunately non-free) platform, I have some understanding in the technical underpinnings of Fat. By your logic, I can't comment on the legal side because I'm not a lawyer. Then how can a lawyer comment on the technical difference between say fat 12 and fat 16 ? When a legal issue touches on something that involves something other that pure law, there has to be a communication between the experts in that field and the lawyers. The layers might not understand all of the technical details, and the experts might not understand all of the legalities, but they have to come be able to understand and discuss some of the stuff outside their expertise if a fair judgment is to be reached.
That's a troll right? Or do you not see how a analysis by people with a technological background in a case involving technology would be insightful?
Depends on the scope of the feature and what you consider to be a feature. If user feed back indicates that having a cancel button on a dialog, That really doesn't need to wait for the next release. With out getting into specifics and a through knowledge of the windows code base, its tough to judge.
I was looking for the correct response. There it is right above this post. Quantum is normally smarter than that reply, I hope you won't judge him too harshly. We all have our own blind spots.
Are you talking about a good taste bubble, or a financial one? I don't think investors have been as stupid with their backing of companies back in the day. The difference is the little girl doesn't drive a Lambo home.
With a little work we can get rid of Huffington Post, Digg,Twitter and Myspace. The rest can stay, but only if they behave themselves.
I'm sorry, my mistake. I apologize completely. Say there my good chap, would you also happen to know where I might find the crab people? I'm feeling a right bit peckish.
What does that even mean "increase expectations"? Don't you really mean "raise the bar for not getting fired"? People work best when they want to work their best out of their own free will. That will only come in an environment that they feel comfortable in, and they feel they have some measure of trust with the employer. If I'm going to pour out my heart and soul working for a company, I have to be reasonably sure that they will care for my heart & soul in a similar manner. If I was her coworker, and I would start looking for a new job pronto.
Yes, they should. If you treat people like robots, that's what you'll get: soulless lifeless automotrons that will work just hard enough to not get fired.
Well, the simplest is actually a straight form submission, rather than ajax. But this is a mashup with google maps and everything. Making it anything less than ajax makes the developer look bad. ( I also do not have a local mail client set)