I'm curious what you think about the concept of a community driven tv guide.
Most people care passionately about 1 or two shows a week. If those people care enough to look in a guide (printed, internet, whatever) and type in the names and times of the shows that week, and submit that to a web site (basically a specialized wiki), then is not the skill and labor question moot?
The resulting guide will be a work of the contributors having gathered facts from multiple sources and compiling them into a new work that is not "copied" as a work from any original source. It seems like it would be a rather simple thing to set up, and fairly immune to attack.
It exists. It's unreliable though. The Australian commercial TV stations like to change their schedule with very short notice, and the community-driven guides just can't keep up. A page-scraper (or better still, authorized API) would be so much more effective.
So... no kid should ever get their license? Because how do you expect them to learn unless THEY ARE DRIVING?
And don't give me that baloney about being on a learner permit until they are perfect drivers. It takes a year of very regular driving to be a decent driver.
Or to keep them alive, for that matter. When I was at uni my (now) husband was almost killed by an idiot kid running a red light at a speed too fast for any of the 20 people at the crossing to get his number plate. That boy is damn lucky that he didn't have to swerve to avoid someone, because if he had there's no way he would have survived the accident.
But is it OK if the government decided that police can help enforce a parent's discipline on their dependent minor? Because that's what this is. It's a KEY, people! If you think your kid is a good enough driver to judge when going faster is the more appropriate course of action, give them the unlimited key.
This empowers parents, not the government. I'll have it, thanks!
If they hadn't bailed them out, your entire economy would have collapsed. That's why the Great Depression happened in the 30s - the governments of the world *didn't* bail them out due to political pressure. The result was mass unemployment.
It is your nation's laws that allowed this to happen. You live in a democracy. If you don't like it, vote for a different party. Like one that doesn't sell its integrity in exchange for election funding.
*yawn* The Horde aren't evil... (though some of the undead and Blood Elf warlocks/paladins are an exception). Warlocks are evil... you have them on the Alliance side too.
The "head villians" are the Scourge and Arthas. And don't you forget it.;)
Which means that instead of people playing for, say, 4 hours a day, now they're playing for 24. That's 6 times the load on the servers. Meaning they have to buy 6 times the servers. Meaning they have to raise prices. Meaning that more people can't play at all.
If you have to grind money, you're playing the game wrong. And yes, I played WoW.
I had a similar problem getting work when I wanted to move out of my cadetship (and I *was* a systems admin). It turned out in my case I interviewed fine, but my resume was terrible - it was good enough to get me the interview, but when it came down to me or one other person the other person always got the job. I eventually got hired by a different department in an organisation that I had applied for. I was told flat out by the manager of the unit I *wanted* to be in that I could not write a resume to save myself. Once she got to know me she stole me from the other department.
Anyway, the moral is, every time you are knocked back, ask them what you could have done to your resume and during your interview that would have helped your application. If they're decent they'll tell you, and you'll know what to do next time. If they won't tell you, did you really want to work for them anyway?
Here's an example from the other side. My husband's work offers free alcoholic drinks (they have an entire fridge full) on Friday afternoons. The single workers often hang around on Friday night for games of table tennis and go through a heap of wine and beer. My husband has a wife and kids who need him at home, so he misses out. Do I say this is unfair, that $20 worth of alcohol is going to his workmates every week but not him? No! Because on the other hand, he has a boss who understands that when he has to leave to pick our kids up at daycare it's not negotiable, and he LEAVES. It balances out at the end. People who haven't had kids may say "but he has the OPTION of drinking" but I say that no, he doesn't. Or rather, he does in the same way that they have the OPTION of breeding, but choose not to.
That's only true if everyone is being paid the same salary. I assure you - when hiring, a company considers the entire package, not just the base salary. If you're not good value for money (say, you have 5 kids in subsidised care and don't work any harder than anyone else) you'll miss out on a pay rise when everyone else gets it.
I agree. Our workstation is a couple of years old and running Vista beautifully. I'm not sure what all the whinging is about. I actually prefer Vista - partly for the better UI, but mostly because at least they're making a genuine effort to improve security (and add DRM, which I'll admit sucks).
It's a bit rich when people complain about every little flaw that Vista has, but when something doesn't run on Linux it's a vendor's fault, or out comes the "but it's open source, fix it yourself" line (hint: most of the world aren't software developers).
Yes, Vista needs some performance improvements, but my Vista box is at home right now recording the Olympics for me and I wouldn't go back to XP.
In case you're wondering, here at work I am a systems admin sitting on an Ubuntu box.
In your opinion. In the USA. I haven't found that to be true here in Australia, and I bet it's not true in large sections of Europe either. And I hate to tell you this, but the USA is less than 5% of the world's population. India and China alone have 35%. So to say that China failed is a rather massive assumption to be making.
Actually, suburbs are fine - what we need are more satellite cities and hubs. Clusters of CBDs about 20 kilometres (yes, I'm Australian dammit) apart rather than one massive one. And build suburbs along transit corridors and massive carparks at major commuter hubs so people can drive where public transport is inefficient and take trains the rest of the way.
Or it would leave the children with long term depression. They tried that in Australia with the Aboriginal population. The result - lower life expectancies, alcoholism in the communities, poverty. Those families where the entire family was included in society rather than broken up are doing a heck of a lot better. The Australian government recently apologized formally for the "Stolen Generation". Google it - breaking up families is very very wrong.
Africa was doing okay until the rest of the world waltzed in and suddenly handed them the ability to kill each other en masse - the rest of the world developed that more slowly, and society evolved with the technology. Star Trek's Prime Directive has it right - why couldn't we just leave them all alone? How do unarmed people overthrow an army that has modern weaponry including tanks and cluster bombs?
You say "social rules" but what you mean is "our rules" - you're talking about eliminating their culture. Education is the answer, yes, but as part of their culture not to replace it. And not just the children - educate the adults! Grant interest-free loans to get a business off the ground, they can pay it back once they're established. There are charities out there doing this already, and it genuinely does help. Help them to help themselves. Provide FREE contraception and FREE healthcare and FREE shelters to get women off the streets so they're not raped. The First World can certainly afford it. Teach THEM to be teachers, and then let them teach themselves.
In general I agree that handouts don't help, but if it was my baby starving to death I would be looking in utter rage at the wastefulness of the rest of the world.
Then the education system really is flawed - if it's not interesting and the students can see how it's going to be useful why SHOULD they learn it?
I agree with Sparr0 below too - rewards are far more effective for most children than punishment. At the end of year 9 my school does a camp for all the students who they felt made a good effort that year. It's optional, but lots of free activities for the students and heaps of fun because it's a "fun" camp not an "educational" camp. The students who slacked off aren't invited. It is a great incentive to work harder. "Watch a movie" might not be a big reward. "Go on a trip instead of staying at school for two days" is.
Correct me if I am wrong, or feel free to clairify:
If I use GPL code, I must provide the GPL code that I use.
If I code my own stuff using GPL, my code isn't automatically GPL too.
So if I make an game with security through obscurity, but use GPL code, I'm fine right?
Or am I wrong, and all code I write using GPL code suddenly becomes GPL too?
Not quite. If you modify GPL code, or use GPL code as part of your program (say, by linking against a GPL library) then YES your code becomes GPL. If you distribute it in any way, in order to use the GPL parts you must also GPL your code. That's the point of the GPL. You can still license your code in other ways too, so that doesn't stop you selling your code. You are only required to distribute your code if you distribute the software. So if you run it on your own web-server only, for example, you can keep it to yourself. If you give it to a mate, you have to GPL license it to him.
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Depends on how they did it - if it was OCR then it's infringement.
I'm curious what you think about the concept of a community driven tv guide.
Most people care passionately about 1 or two shows a week. If those people care enough to look in a guide (printed, internet, whatever) and type in the names and times of the shows that week, and submit that to a web site (basically a specialized wiki), then is not the skill and labor question moot?
The resulting guide will be a work of the contributors having gathered facts from multiple sources and compiling them into a new work that is not "copied" as a work from any original source. It seems like it would be a rather simple thing to set up, and fairly immune to attack.
It exists. It's unreliable though. The Australian commercial TV stations like to change their schedule with very short notice, and the community-driven guides just can't keep up. A page-scraper (or better still, authorized API) would be so much more effective.
The alternative was worse. Go read about the Great Depression. The US government had no choice once it got thi.
The idiocy is that they let it get this bad in the first place - and THERE I agree with your statement about lobbyist funding.
Not my intention to troll. I may not have understood, but I did read.
At every single traffic light? This was a suburban street, speed limit 60 km/h (37 mph).
So ... no kid should ever get their license? Because how do you expect them to learn unless THEY ARE DRIVING?
And don't give me that baloney about being on a learner permit until they are perfect drivers. It takes a year of very regular driving to be a decent driver.
Someone in a teenager's camp gets injured, they have to rush to hospital, and all the car occupants die because they're rushing and hit a tree.
Let's tell three parents that their kid is dead because one of them gave an inexperienced kid a powerful car.
*grin* You totally deserve a +1 Funny for that :)
Or to keep them alive, for that matter. When I was at uni my (now) husband was almost killed by an idiot kid running a red light at a speed too fast for any of the 20 people at the crossing to get his number plate. That boy is damn lucky that he didn't have to swerve to avoid someone, because if he had there's no way he would have survived the accident.
If it bothers you so much, move. Or vote.
But is it OK if the government decided that police can help enforce a parent's discipline on their dependent minor? Because that's what this is. It's a KEY, people! If you think your kid is a good enough driver to judge when going faster is the more appropriate course of action, give them the unlimited key.
This empowers parents, not the government. I'll have it, thanks!
If they hadn't bailed them out, your entire economy would have collapsed. That's why the Great Depression happened in the 30s - the governments of the world *didn't* bail them out due to political pressure. The result was mass unemployment.
It is your nation's laws that allowed this to happen. You live in a democracy. If you don't like it, vote for a different party. Like one that doesn't sell its integrity in exchange for election funding.
Then there's ex-subscribers, who still paid the up-front cost of the game. Balances out methinks.
*yawn* The Horde aren't evil ... (though some of the undead and Blood Elf warlocks/paladins are an exception). Warlocks are evil ... you have them on the Alliance side too.
The "head villians" are the Scourge and Arthas. And don't you forget it. ;)
Which means that instead of people playing for, say, 4 hours a day, now they're playing for 24. That's 6 times the load on the servers. Meaning they have to buy 6 times the servers. Meaning they have to raise prices. Meaning that more people can't play at all.
If you have to grind money, you're playing the game wrong. And yes, I played WoW.
I had a similar problem getting work when I wanted to move out of my cadetship (and I *was* a systems admin). It turned out in my case I interviewed fine, but my resume was terrible - it was good enough to get me the interview, but when it came down to me or one other person the other person always got the job. I eventually got hired by a different department in an organisation that I had applied for. I was told flat out by the manager of the unit I *wanted* to be in that I could not write a resume to save myself. Once she got to know me she stole me from the other department.
Anyway, the moral is, every time you are knocked back, ask them what you could have done to your resume and during your interview that would have helped your application. If they're decent they'll tell you, and you'll know what to do next time. If they won't tell you, did you really want to work for them anyway?
3 cases, vs Australia's ZERO cases. Do the math. :P
There's a reason restaurants advertise that their steaks are Australian beef.
A well thought-out comment.
Here's an example from the other side. My husband's work offers free alcoholic drinks (they have an entire fridge full) on Friday afternoons. The single workers often hang around on Friday night for games of table tennis and go through a heap of wine and beer. My husband has a wife and kids who need him at home, so he misses out. Do I say this is unfair, that $20 worth of alcohol is going to his workmates every week but not him? No! Because on the other hand, he has a boss who understands that when he has to leave to pick our kids up at daycare it's not negotiable, and he LEAVES. It balances out at the end. People who haven't had kids may say "but he has the OPTION of drinking" but I say that no, he doesn't. Or rather, he does in the same way that they have the OPTION of breeding, but choose not to.
That's only true if everyone is being paid the same salary. I assure you - when hiring, a company considers the entire package, not just the base salary. If you're not good value for money (say, you have 5 kids in subsidised care and don't work any harder than anyone else) you'll miss out on a pay rise when everyone else gets it.
I agree. Our workstation is a couple of years old and running Vista beautifully. I'm not sure what all the whinging is about. I actually prefer Vista - partly for the better UI, but mostly because at least they're making a genuine effort to improve security (and add DRM, which I'll admit sucks).
It's a bit rich when people complain about every little flaw that Vista has, but when something doesn't run on Linux it's a vendor's fault, or out comes the "but it's open source, fix it yourself" line (hint: most of the world aren't software developers).
Yes, Vista needs some performance improvements, but my Vista box is at home right now recording the Olympics for me and I wouldn't go back to XP.
In case you're wondering, here at work I am a systems admin sitting on an Ubuntu box.
In your opinion. In the USA. I haven't found that to be true here in Australia, and I bet it's not true in large sections of Europe either. And I hate to tell you this, but the USA is less than 5% of the world's population. India and China alone have 35%. So to say that China failed is a rather massive assumption to be making.
Actually, suburbs are fine - what we need are more satellite cities and hubs. Clusters of CBDs about 20 kilometres (yes, I'm Australian dammit) apart rather than one massive one. And build suburbs along transit corridors and massive carparks at major commuter hubs so people can drive where public transport is inefficient and take trains the rest of the way.
Or it would leave the children with long term depression. They tried that in Australia with the Aboriginal population. The result - lower life expectancies, alcoholism in the communities, poverty. Those families where the entire family was included in society rather than broken up are doing a heck of a lot better. The Australian government recently apologized formally for the "Stolen Generation". Google it - breaking up families is very very wrong.
Africa was doing okay until the rest of the world waltzed in and suddenly handed them the ability to kill each other en masse - the rest of the world developed that more slowly, and society evolved with the technology. Star Trek's Prime Directive has it right - why couldn't we just leave them all alone? How do unarmed people overthrow an army that has modern weaponry including tanks and cluster bombs?
You say "social rules" but what you mean is "our rules" - you're talking about eliminating their culture. Education is the answer, yes, but as part of their culture not to replace it. And not just the children - educate the adults! Grant interest-free loans to get a business off the ground, they can pay it back once they're established. There are charities out there doing this already, and it genuinely does help. Help them to help themselves. Provide FREE contraception and FREE healthcare and FREE shelters to get women off the streets so they're not raped. The First World can certainly afford it. Teach THEM to be teachers, and then let them teach themselves.
In general I agree that handouts don't help, but if it was my baby starving to death I would be looking in utter rage at the wastefulness of the rest of the world.
Then the education system really is flawed - if it's not interesting and the students can see how it's going to be useful why SHOULD they learn it?
I agree with Sparr0 below too - rewards are far more effective for most children than punishment. At the end of year 9 my school does a camp for all the students who they felt made a good effort that year. It's optional, but lots of free activities for the students and heaps of fun because it's a "fun" camp not an "educational" camp. The students who slacked off aren't invited. It is a great incentive to work harder. "Watch a movie" might not be a big reward. "Go on a trip instead of staying at school for two days" is.
If I use GPL code, I must provide the GPL code that I use.
If I code my own stuff using GPL, my code isn't automatically GPL too.
So if I make an game with security through obscurity, but use GPL code, I'm fine right?
Or am I wrong, and all code I write using GPL code suddenly becomes GPL too?
Not quite. If you modify GPL code, or use GPL code as part of your program (say, by linking against a GPL library) then YES your code becomes GPL. If you distribute it in any way, in order to use the GPL parts you must also GPL your code. That's the point of the GPL. You can still license your code in other ways too, so that doesn't stop you selling your code. You are only required to distribute your code if you distribute the software. So if you run it on your own web-server only, for example, you can keep it to yourself. If you give it to a mate, you have to GPL license it to him.