Sharing parental leave is a massive step forward on so many levels.
It would stop employers discriminating against women of childbearing age, because the risk would then apply equally to men. Such discrimination might be illegal now, but it won't actually stop until the economic incentive is removed.
If men are paid more (due to historical sexism or whatever) they are actually likely to take a GREATER share of paid parental leave so that their partner can be the one to take an unpaid career break when the leave runs out. So it will have the effect of reducing any existing pay gap between the sexes.
It also sends a clear message that men are - or can be - equal partners in raising children. How to trade career vs childcare (and which partner does it) is a decision for couples, not the state. Some men might want to scurry back to work after two weeks - and that's fine - but it should be a decision rather than a social norm.
Simplifies everything for gay couples too. There's really nothing not to like. Thank you Sweden for taking a risk and showing us how it can be done, you've earned the right to be smug on this one:-)
Aw crap. I just wrote exactly these 4 points in reply to the GP & then saw your answer before submitting.
I would just add: I consider it to be the 'silver lining' of getting type 1 (aged 35) that I think a bit more about what I eat and whether I need to eat it. My diet was already quite good, but it's improved since.
Yes. Fast forward far enough and we're either extinct or running off renewables. Non-renewables are temporary, pretty much by definition.
Stupid question.
when it gets to the stage where you have a dedicated checkbox in KDE which allows you to toggle between a tick or a cross for the Checkbox style, I think it becomes a bit too much.
Can't wait until Ubuntu starts altering grep and find to start using libcurl to report search terms to amazon. Maybe even return ads to a new IO stream: stdadvert.
Not only is the poor design true, it was very intentional. This is why we need the LLVM project. KDevelop and such shouldn't have to write their own compiler front ends to get feature parity with Visual Studio; but right now they do.
I suspect that he's making retrospective excuses for poor design; I doubt it's as intentional as he claims. A GPL'd shared library would give the idealogical results he appears to want. (Which I support, incidentally)
it would be better if they were to collaborate with projects such as Open Street Map and really share data.
... like Microsoft have been, for example. Open Street Map contributors have been given permission to trace features from Bing's areal photographs since 2010. No such goodwill from Google.
misdemeanors typically fall under a 7-year statute of limitation, and so if you downloaded stuff from Napster's heyday, more than 10 years ago, could those mp3s even be used to legally prosecute you?
Probably not now, but if you upload those files (to which you are still not entitled) to a cloud service, then you have just committed a brand new civil offence.
Just because you can't be prosecuted, it doesn't mean you now have a license to redistribute that music.
Haven't used ATI's open source driver on their newer hardware, but I can tell you at the rate they are making progress nVidia is going to be in a world of hurt on the Linux front pretty soon.
There have been promises of decent ATI drivers "just around the corner" for many, many years now.
ATI's new documentation effort is fantastic and my last-but-one card was a 4780 based on a desire to reward OSS-friendliness and the promise of decent drivers. I struggled with driver hell for 2 years, unable to do decent compositing, watch tear-free video or even play UT2004 (yes a 7-year-old game) at a smooth frame rate. It was a truly shoddy experience and I understand that the ATI Linux drivers had improved massively to even get to that point.
At that time I think nVidia were having some 2D performance issues of their own but I'm not aware of ANY point in time where their drivers have been less than 'excellent' in comparison to the ATI ones.
So if I learned anything from that experience, it was to make your purchasing decisions based on NOW, not on "pretty soon" or "maybe". I gave that ATI card to a Windows-using friend and will continue with nVidia until they either get bought out by Microsoft or finally get some competition on Linux. It'd be great but I'm not holding my breath.
SSDs (such as the one in this study) are quite capable of examining the filesystem stored on the drive, independently, and the concept of 'dutifully' and ignorantly maintaining deleted data goes out of the window as a result.
Is there a list of SSDs that do this? I want to be sure I never accidentally buy one, or even get misled by marketing material based on such a terrifying 'optimisation'.
I already got burned with a Corsair Flash Voyager USB stick whose controller would slow down to the point of timing out out if you modified the pre-formatted partition table (this bug). Annoying, but at least it's not trashing parts of the disk because it thinks it's seen an NTFS partition.
How is this different from running any kind of decentralised P2P software?
Have you ever been "helpfully upgraded" by your ISP for using BitTorrent?
I doubt it.
The battle against H.264 will end up costing them even more market share too
Don't be ridiculous. There are sound legal (not idealogical) reasons why Mozilla cannot implement H.264. Patent law, basically. For you to portray that as Mozilla fighting a 'battle' is downright disingenuous.
What IS unrealistic to to blame ONLY man to the exclusion of all other contributing factors, which is what the A in AGW and all the real debate is about.
Straw man weasel alert! No-one (NO-ONE) is saying that man is the only factor in climate change.
You are pointing at the relatively small (natural) variation in climate that you could expect to occur over a couple of centuries and using it to spread FUD over the much larger anthropogenic variation.
How long did Mac users have to wait to get a version of BBC iPlayer that even remotely came close to working?
BBC finally shows Apple some love after years of neglect, and they get pounded.
The iPlayer is a Flash app. Plenty of other computers & mobile devices can use the iPlayer without the BBC having to specifically "show them some love".
Lack of Flash is Apple's choice and iPhone users are lucky that the BBC went out of its way to accommodate them. Not hard-done-by that it took until 2008.
Finally, it's not the BBC being 'pounded' here: they were simply reporting on pointless iPhone app development by various government departments.
but don't the standard criticisms still apply: that it only hurts paying customers (though it hurts fewer of them than worse DRM) and is ineffective against pirates?
And that you're screwed when their activation server is eventually switched off.
To applaud blizzard for this stance is like the frogs being grateful that the pot hasn't got any hotter recently (reference)
This is the first time I've wished that moderation went above +5. Spot on. We need to show that hateful thoughts and rhetoric, where wrong, can be defeated by exposure and open discussion. We can't legislate our way to the truth! Why do so many people think that we can?
So Fred Phelps thinks that God hates fags? Fuck him. Let him say what he wants. Let more enlightened Christians point out his doctrinal shortcomings, and let the general public ridicule him.
So David Irving wants to sue against claims that he's a Holocaust denier? Fuck him. Let the courts decide on the facts, not the motive. Truth wins. When we begin criminalising unpopular speech, however wrong, we begin to rally support for these obnoxious little fucktards even from people (like me) who oppose pretty much everything they say. And more importantly, we deny them a fundamental freedom that we assume for ourselves.
What's next? Publishing a paper with a flawed methodology is a criminal offence? Should Climate Change deniers (or proponents) be outlawed? Is this really the kind of society we want to live in?
Most Linux users ARE truly ignorant when it comes to Windows.
Rubbish. Every Linux user I know personally (ok, only a dozen or so) is required to use Windows as their primary desktop OS at their place of work. This even includes some people who are primarily Linux developers.
This daily familiarity, combined with a general technical aptitude that you can still assume from Linux users, means that very few of them are going to be "truly ignorant" of Windows. Ignorant of some internal Win32 APIs perhaps, but not ignorant in the sense that you are claiming. Most people with a passing acquaintance of computers are going to be familiar with Windows to some degree.
You're right... I get a warning: "You've Already Moderated this Discussion. If you continue to post this comment, all moderations done to this discussion will be undone! Are you sure you want to post?"
"The arrest Tuesday of a 27-year-old man in Connecticut on charges of illegal sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl he met through MySpace underlines the risks of the fast-growing Internet site... "
Well it also underlines that the police, FBI and MySpace admins are doing their jobs and keeping their eyes on the ball. This kind of predation is a risk in any kind of communal space, online or not. The answer is to be careful, and let your friends know where you're going & who you talk to.
The answer is NOT to outlaw communal spaces, or ban younger people. The idea that under 18s should be banned from public parks would immediately be seen for the stupid overprotective reactionism that it is. But because this is about "the internet"... ooh, scary! Suddenly no amount of legislation is enough.
>> I believe health care is a right, not a privilege for the rich, and I'm proud to pay my taxes towards the NHS that provides top notch treatment to EVERYBODY.
Hear Hear! And don't forget food. What good is the right to health care without food? While we're at this, how about a right to guaranteed housing, a good job, and happiness!
I agree with you on the guaranteed food and housing, Mr sarcastic social darwinist. A good job and happiness are things that you can take at your own pace once you know you're not going to die of hunger or exposure.
But the fact is that the NHS provides free treatment to ALL UK citizens, not just those who can afford it. In America you can be seen quickly as long as you're willing to pay.
Well spoken. As a Brit doing a year's study in the US, I had an accident which partially knocked out a couple of teeth at the beginning of a weekend. My insurance didn't cover the work, so I had it done as cheaply as I could by trainee dental students. Plus, if I wanted it done outside of normal working hours then there was a massive surcharge that I couldn't nearly afford. So I spent all weekend with two teeth dangling by their roots, in pain and unable to eat.
Now I know that's hardly the end of the world, but many people have it a lot tougher. It certainly makes the US appear less civilised to someone who's used to nationalised healthcare.
I don't know where you've tried to get Linux help. But whenever I hang out in #linux on the Freenode IRC channel, I see plenty of newbies getting helped out in a friendly manner. Even a silly question like "what argument to 'ls' gives me detailed output?" is more likely to receive a response like "man 1 ls" than "RTFM".
Generally it is only arrogance and bad attitude that gets flamed, not ignorance per se. This is broadly true of any forum or OS community. If you want sympathy, post an IRC transcript or a link to a forum where you got flamed. It does sometimes happen, and if it happened to you then I'm sorry. But it is much more common for people to waltz in demanding a quick answer and get then shirty with people who are trying to volunteer their help (and even *that* is by far not the norm). Certainly if you are getting systematic flames from the whole spectrum of Linux users, I would suspect that you are approaching them with a demanding or confrontational attitude.
I have been getting friendly and (usually) helpful advice on Linux-related topics at all levels for a few years now. It's possible that I've been getting lucky while you've been meeting all the assholes... but I suspect there's a simpler explanation.
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Sharing parental leave is a massive step forward on so many levels.
:-)
It would stop employers discriminating against women of childbearing age, because the risk would then apply equally to men. Such discrimination might be illegal now, but it won't actually stop until the economic incentive is removed.
If men are paid more (due to historical sexism or whatever) they are actually likely to take a GREATER share of paid parental leave so that their partner can be the one to take an unpaid career break when the leave runs out. So it will have the effect of reducing any existing pay gap between the sexes.
It also sends a clear message that men are - or can be - equal partners in raising children. How to trade career vs childcare (and which partner does it) is a decision for couples, not the state. Some men might want to scurry back to work after two weeks - and that's fine - but it should be a decision rather than a social norm.
Simplifies everything for gay couples too. There's really nothing not to like. Thank you Sweden for taking a risk and showing us how it can be done, you've earned the right to be smug on this one
If you switch from using carbs, to using Fats (such as the ketogenic diet), suddenly your blood sugar isn't changing very much
What could possibly go wrong?
Aw crap. I just wrote exactly these 4 points in reply to the GP & then saw your answer before submitting.
I would just add: I consider it to be the 'silver lining' of getting type 1 (aged 35) that I think a bit more about what I eat and whether I need to eat it. My diet was already quite good, but it's improved since.
RIANZ will be weighing $250,000 against the deterrent effect this will have on filesharers. NOT the return they get in fines.
Perhaps that's money well spent from their point of view. It doesn't seem like it, but I'm in no position to judge.
Yes. Fast forward far enough and we're either extinct or running off renewables. Non-renewables are temporary, pretty much by definition. Stupid question.
when it gets to the stage where you have a dedicated checkbox in KDE which allows you to toggle between a tick or a cross for the Checkbox style, I think it becomes a bit too much.
Maybe, but that's a problem I'm happy to have.
Can't wait until Ubuntu starts altering grep and find to start using libcurl to report search terms to amazon. Maybe even return ads to a new IO stream: stdadvert.
Then keep your eye on Bug #1055766
Not only is the poor design true, it was very intentional. This is why we need the LLVM project. KDevelop and such shouldn't have to write their own compiler front ends to get feature parity with Visual Studio; but right now they do.
I suspect that he's making retrospective excuses for poor design; I doubt it's as intentional as he claims. A GPL'd shared library would give the idealogical results he appears to want. (Which I support, incidentally)
it would be better if they were to collaborate with projects such as Open Street Map and really share data.
... like Microsoft have been, for example. Open Street Map contributors have been given permission to trace features from Bing's areal photographs since 2010. No such goodwill from Google.
WDS did not disclose how many support calls in general technicians fielded for each platform
So without saying that android phones are more or less reliable in general, what they are really saying is:
Android phones less prone to software problems.
misdemeanors typically fall under a 7-year statute of limitation, and so if you downloaded stuff from Napster's heyday, more than 10 years ago, could those mp3s even be used to legally prosecute you?
Probably not now, but if you upload those files (to which you are still not entitled) to a cloud service, then you have just committed a brand new civil offence.
Just because you can't be prosecuted, it doesn't mean you now have a license to redistribute that music.
Haven't used ATI's open source driver on their newer hardware, but I can tell you at the rate they are making progress nVidia is going to be in a world of hurt on the Linux front pretty soon.
There have been promises of decent ATI drivers "just around the corner" for many, many years now.
ATI's new documentation effort is fantastic and my last-but-one card was a 4780 based on a desire to reward OSS-friendliness and the promise of decent drivers. I struggled with driver hell for 2 years, unable to do decent compositing, watch tear-free video or even play UT2004 (yes a 7-year-old game) at a smooth frame rate. It was a truly shoddy experience and I understand that the ATI Linux drivers had improved massively to even get to that point.
At that time I think nVidia were having some 2D performance issues of their own but I'm not aware of ANY point in time where their drivers have been less than 'excellent' in comparison to the ATI ones.
So if I learned anything from that experience, it was to make your purchasing decisions based on NOW, not on "pretty soon" or "maybe". I gave that ATI card to a Windows-using friend and will continue with nVidia until they either get bought out by Microsoft or finally get some competition on Linux. It'd be great but I'm not holding my breath.
SSDs (such as the one in this study) are quite capable of examining the filesystem stored on the drive, independently, and the concept of 'dutifully' and ignorantly maintaining deleted data goes out of the window as a result.
Is there a list of SSDs that do this? I want to be sure I never accidentally buy one, or even get misled by marketing material based on such a terrifying 'optimisation'.
I already got burned with a Corsair Flash Voyager USB stick whose controller would slow down to the point of timing out out if you modified the pre-formatted partition table (this bug). Annoying, but at least it's not trashing parts of the disk because it thinks it's seen an NTFS partition.
How is this different from running any kind of decentralised P2P software?
Have you ever been "helpfully upgraded" by your ISP for using BitTorrent?
I doubt it.
The battle against H.264 will end up costing them even more market share too
Don't be ridiculous. There are sound legal (not idealogical) reasons why Mozilla cannot implement H.264. Patent law, basically. For you to portray that as Mozilla fighting a 'battle' is downright disingenuous.
What IS unrealistic to to blame ONLY man to the exclusion of all other contributing factors, which is what the A in AGW and all the real debate is about.
Straw man weasel alert! No-one (NO-ONE) is saying that man is the only factor in climate change. You are pointing at the relatively small (natural) variation in climate that you could expect to occur over a couple of centuries and using it to spread FUD over the much larger anthropogenic variation.
How long did Mac users have to wait to get a version of BBC iPlayer that even remotely came close to working?
BBC finally shows Apple some love after years of neglect, and they get pounded.
The iPlayer is a Flash app. Plenty of other computers & mobile devices can use the iPlayer without the BBC having to specifically "show them some love".
Lack of Flash is Apple's choice and iPhone users are lucky that the BBC went out of its way to accommodate them. Not hard-done-by that it took until 2008.
Finally, it's not the BBC being 'pounded' here: they were simply reporting on pointless iPhone app development by various government departments.
but don't the standard criticisms still apply: that it only hurts paying customers (though it hurts fewer of them than worse DRM) and is ineffective against pirates?
And that you're screwed when their activation server is eventually switched off.
To applaud blizzard for this stance is like the frogs being grateful that the pot hasn't got any hotter recently (reference)
This is the first time I've wished that moderation went above +5. Spot on. We need to show that hateful thoughts and rhetoric, where wrong, can be defeated by exposure and open discussion. We can't legislate our way to the truth! Why do so many people think that we can?
So Fred Phelps thinks that God hates fags? Fuck him. Let him say what he wants. Let more enlightened Christians point out his doctrinal shortcomings, and let the general public ridicule him.
So David Irving wants to sue against claims that he's a Holocaust denier? Fuck him. Let the courts decide on the facts, not the motive. Truth wins. When we begin criminalising unpopular speech, however wrong, we begin to rally support for these obnoxious little fucktards even from people (like me) who oppose pretty much everything they say. And more importantly, we deny them a fundamental freedom that we assume for ourselves.
What's next? Publishing a paper with a flawed methodology is a criminal offence? Should Climate Change deniers (or proponents) be outlawed? Is this really the kind of society we want to live in?
Generally I'm proud to be European. Not today.
Most Linux users ARE truly ignorant when it comes to Windows.
Rubbish. Every Linux user I know personally (ok, only a dozen or so) is required to use Windows as their primary desktop OS at their place of work. This even includes some people who are primarily Linux developers.
This daily familiarity, combined with a general technical aptitude that you can still assume from Linux users, means that very few of them are going to be "truly ignorant" of Windows. Ignorant of some internal Win32 APIs perhaps, but not ignorant in the sense that you are claiming. Most people with a passing acquaintance of computers are going to be familiar with Windows to some degree.
You're right... I get a warning: "You've Already Moderated this Discussion. If you continue to post this comment, all moderations done to this discussion will be undone! Are you sure you want to post?"
Thanks for the tip.
"The arrest Tuesday of a 27-year-old man in Connecticut on charges of illegal sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl he met through MySpace underlines the risks of the fast-growing Internet site... "
Well it also underlines that the police, FBI and MySpace admins are doing their jobs and keeping their eyes on the ball. This kind of predation is a risk in any kind of communal space, online or not. The answer is to be careful, and let your friends know where you're going & who you talk to.
The answer is NOT to outlaw communal spaces, or ban younger people. The idea that under 18s should be banned from public parks would immediately be seen for the stupid overprotective reactionism that it is. But because this is about "the internet"... ooh, scary! Suddenly no amount of legislation is enough.
>> I believe health care is a right, not a privilege for the rich, and I'm proud to pay my taxes towards the NHS that provides top notch treatment to EVERYBODY.
Hear Hear! And don't forget food. What good is the right to health care without food? While we're at this, how about a right to guaranteed housing, a good job, and happiness!
I agree with you on the guaranteed food and housing, Mr sarcastic social darwinist. A good job and happiness are things that you can take at your own pace once you know you're not going to die of hunger or exposure.
But the fact is that the NHS provides free treatment to ALL UK citizens, not just those who can afford it. In America you can be seen quickly as long as you're willing to pay.
Well spoken. As a Brit doing a year's study in the US, I had an accident which partially knocked out a couple of teeth at the beginning of a weekend. My insurance didn't cover the work, so I had it done as cheaply as I could by trainee dental students. Plus, if I wanted it done outside of normal working hours then there was a massive surcharge that I couldn't nearly afford. So I spent all weekend with two teeth dangling by their roots, in pain and unable to eat.
Now I know that's hardly the end of the world, but many people have it a lot tougher. It certainly makes the US appear less civilised to someone who's used to nationalised healthcare.
I don't know where you've tried to get Linux help. But whenever I hang out in #linux on the Freenode IRC channel, I see plenty of newbies getting helped out in a friendly manner. Even a silly question like "what argument to 'ls' gives me detailed output?" is more likely to receive a response like "man 1 ls" than "RTFM".
Generally it is only arrogance and bad attitude that gets flamed, not ignorance per se. This is broadly true of any forum or OS community. If you want sympathy, post an IRC transcript or a link to a forum where you got flamed. It does sometimes happen, and if it happened to you then I'm sorry. But it is much more common for people to waltz in demanding a quick answer and get then shirty with people who are trying to volunteer their help (and even *that* is by far not the norm). Certainly if you are getting systematic flames from the whole spectrum of Linux users, I would suspect that you are approaching them with a demanding or confrontational attitude.
I have been getting friendly and (usually) helpful advice on Linux-related topics at all levels for a few years now. It's possible that I've been getting lucky while you've been meeting all the assholes... but I suspect there's a simpler explanation.