You're right on so many levels it cannot be argued that you are "wrong". I think the thing I don't like about it is they are providing a forum that an average person would believe is supposed to be made of general opinion, and then they delete what is not in their interest. This is fine as you point out....sort of.
With that, it should be mandatory their content is labeled an advertisement like magazine articles that try and play like an article.
Holy shit, you should be a cell phone consultant =)! Good data, thanx.
Personally, I don't use them much and even though many places provide them nicely as you pointed out, it appears they charge more for the pool they give you. In then end, when I have free min. on the weekends (and this is when I usually use a phone) I'd rather just talk if possible and maybe not send them a few more dollars for something I don't understand a valid purpose for.
What plan do you have? Text Messaging always costs a lot more than talking. Not to mention many plans have free weekend talking where as the text message will still cost way too much for using the exact same technology that simply has a branded name to trick consumers into paying more.
It does however provide a nice service if in a bar and want to let someone know where you are. Then again, you could always call them first but that's not always possible for various reasons.
"He suggests this hasn't been the case for many years and goes on to claim that of the top 25 core developers, more than 90% of them are fully employed with some of the largest technology companies in the world"
Given that, we all know they still live in their parents basement.
Where I work I made sure this was not the case before hand. If I work on anything at home that is not related to what the company does, they don't get any of it. Everywhere I interviewed had the same "policy".
I've heard of people being in situations where anything they make at home becomes property of their work, but I don't think it is too common. Everyone I know that codes has an environment where they can do as they please on their own time and so long as the software doesn't compete directly with what their company does, it's ok.
"you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service"
Cars don't crash cars, wheels crash cars! We must, if we want to end accidents, simply take the wheels off the cars. These dangerous devices claim the lives of thousands every year.
Hopefully as a requirement of this badge, they are letting the little scouts know that their ip is in their pants and that their leaders are not allowed to have any piece of it.
"It's time we send Slashdot the message that we don't like being taken advantage of in this manner."
How are you being taken advantage of? He, like this site and numerous others, gather news they find interesting and aggregate it.
"Roland Piquepaille contributes none of his own work (it's ALL derivative of others' efforts), and Slashdot is more than willing to sell their readers out to this character."
I've heard he used to never document who he got his information from which is wrong, but so long as he is documenting this now, I don't see a problem with it. He gathers information and posts it to slashdot who in turn accepts it. He makes money, slashdot makes money and the readership gets amused for a little while. This guys not doing anything morally or ethically wrong.
Taken out of context that's a pretty funny statement. It makes us sound like pathetic, capitalist pigs. To wonder, the first thing that comes to our minds is our credit rating. I hope it's only a troll.
Probably one of the better points I have seen. the main problem with Christianity and most other religions, is that the nut cases are the loudest, the ones making the fuss, the ones in control now. Modern day corporate religion is just impossible to take seriously. Just too many know-it-all, ignorant, fear mongering jack asses taking the ship over. But you have to expect this in something that is based in fear anyways. The above poster is right though, these people (Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Christian Coalition, The Falwell's, etc) have taken your beliefs over and will not give them back without a fight.
We still use human excrement for fertiliser actually. It's called Milorganite and you'll pay a pretty penny for it. It's good stuff! Of course it is made "safe" I suppose...in that it's not just a bag of shit you dump (no pun intended) on your plants and vegetables.
Once oil goes over something like $100.00/barrel it becomes cost efficient to refine shale oil, which we have loads and loads of. Not to mention geological surveys that point to the Gulf of Mexico having more oil than the Saudis ever could dream of. It costs more to get at this oil, but as the cost/barrel rises, it become efficient to drill this and refine it. So in this regard, America is in fact in a great future position in regards to oil as a primary source of power. However, I would agree we should reduce our consumption if possible and seek other methods for generating power. Oil rising to a high price is probably the natural way to make people consume less.
Sure as well as other functional languages such as ML, but these are very different form what I was mainly implying. I guess I was directing my argument at your typical general purpose imperative language. Although I admit I haven't used LISP enough to know much of its extended library except for that it's large.
Slashdot Mirror
"Then you're perfectly qualified to work for the RIAA."
No they still have their brains, but their souls are gone....vampires I think they call them.
You're right on so many levels it cannot be argued that you are "wrong". I think the thing I don't like about it is they are providing a forum that an average person would believe is supposed to be made of general opinion, and then they delete what is not in their interest. This is fine as you point out....sort of.
With that, it should be mandatory their content is labeled an advertisement like magazine articles that try and play like an article.
"All your base are belong to us"
Zing!
Holy shit, you should be a cell phone consultant =)! Good data, thanx.
Personally, I don't use them much and even though many places provide them nicely as you pointed out, it appears they charge more for the pool they give you. In then end, when I have free min. on the weekends (and this is when I usually use a phone) I'd rather just talk if possible and maybe not send them a few more dollars for something I don't understand a valid purpose for.
What plan do you have? Text Messaging always costs a lot more than talking. Not to mention many plans have free weekend talking where as the text message will still cost way too much for using the exact same technology that simply has a branded name to trick consumers into paying more.
It does however provide a nice service if in a bar and want to let someone know where you are. Then again, you could always call them first but that's not always possible for various reasons.
"He suggests this hasn't been the case for many years and goes on to claim that of the top 25 core developers, more than 90% of them are fully employed with some of the largest technology companies in the world"
Given that, we all know they still live in their parents basement.
Where I work I made sure this was not the case before hand. If I work on anything at home that is not related to what the company does, they don't get any of it. Everywhere I interviewed had the same "policy".
I've heard of people being in situations where anything they make at home becomes property of their work, but I don't think it is too common. Everyone I know that codes has an environment where they can do as they please on their own time and so long as the software doesn't compete directly with what their company does, it's ok.
"you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service"
So I can still use my passport?
"Believe it or not, not everyone thought Star Wars was more than just "a nice scifi film from the 70's"."
Dude, it's way more than that. It's a way of life!
"the only times I've seen it have been when absolutely nothing else was on TV"
When Star Wars is on, nothing else can possible be on. Remember, this is Star Wars we're talking about. Star Wars!
We really need to do something about them as they are obviously out of control. Don't they know who pays for their appointers election?!
rofl.
"How long until they can get it working ..."
That's the beauty of OSS! You can get it to work with the touch screen. Go sign up today!
Well, you know what they say; "One mans junk is another mans treasure."
"Apple is abusing the hospitality of the OSS community and giving back little more than crap
in return."
Like an optimized compiler, modern kernel, etc? Apple spends a lot of R&D on Darwin and they give much of this work back.
Besides, what have you given back to the so called "OSS Community"?
Cars don't crash cars, wheels crash cars! We must, if we want to end accidents, simply take the wheels off the cars. These dangerous devices claim the lives of thousands every year.
Hopefully as a requirement of this badge, they are letting the little scouts know that their ip is in their pants and that their leaders are not allowed to have any piece of it.
"It's time we send Slashdot the message that we don't like being taken advantage of in this manner."
:)
How are you being taken advantage of? He, like this site and numerous others, gather news they find interesting and aggregate it.
"Roland Piquepaille contributes none of his own work (it's ALL derivative of others' efforts), and Slashdot is more than willing to sell their readers out to this character."
Again, see here
I've heard he used to never document who he got his information from which is wrong, but so long as he is documenting this now, I don't see a problem with it. He gathers information and posts it to slashdot who in turn accepts it. He makes money, slashdot makes money and the readership gets amused for a little while. This guys not doing anything morally or ethically wrong.
Like anyone on Slashdot RTFA anyways.
awesome.
"Not when my credit rating is at stake!"
Taken out of context that's a pretty funny statement. It makes us sound like pathetic, capitalist pigs. To wonder, the first thing that comes to our minds is our credit rating. I hope it's only a troll.
Probably one of the better points I have seen. the main problem with Christianity and most other religions, is that the nut cases are the loudest, the ones making the fuss, the ones in control now. Modern day corporate religion is just impossible to take seriously. Just too many know-it-all, ignorant, fear mongering jack asses taking the ship over. But you have to expect this in something that is based in fear anyways. The above poster is right though, these people (Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Christian Coalition, The Falwell's, etc) have taken your beliefs over and will not give them back without a fight.
We still use human excrement for fertiliser actually. It's called Milorganite and you'll pay a pretty penny for it. It's good stuff! Of course it is made "safe" I suppose...in that it's not just a bag of shit you dump (no pun intended) on your plants and vegetables.
Once oil goes over something like $100.00/barrel it becomes cost efficient to refine shale oil, which we have loads and loads of. Not to mention geological surveys that point to the Gulf of Mexico having more oil than the Saudis ever could dream of. It costs more to get at this oil, but as the cost/barrel rises, it become efficient to drill this and refine it. So in this regard, America is in fact in a great future position in regards to oil as a primary source of power. However, I would agree we should reduce our consumption if possible and seek other methods for generating power. Oil rising to a high price is probably the natural way to make people consume less.
"to Create Unhackable Code"
I'll stop reading right about there.
"it's just been a while since I wrote any suitable for Slashdot..."
So you've been writing literate reviews?
Sure as well as other functional languages such as ML, but these are very different form what I was mainly implying. I guess I was directing my argument at your typical general purpose imperative language. Although I admit I haven't used LISP enough to know much of its extended library except for that it's large.