Because the average voter is dumber than a box of rocks and twice as lazy. The only voting process that would not be considered a 'hard concept' would be one that involved a telepathic interface.
You are asking quite a bit from voters (actually check their ballot) in this day an age of microwave popcorn taking too long to prepare.
If McDonald's or any other private corp wants to spend its money on biometric scanners for its minimum wage workers, let them. Whether it's cost effective or not is not the issue. It's their money.
If the corp begins to lose money (or make less) as a result of foolish expenditures, then the shareholders will respond accordingly.
Thank you Captain Obvious! Effective Communication is key to the success of any project.
Language barriers are a factor that must be considered when outsourcing (details may get 'lost in translation').
Another oft neglected factor is physical distance (timezones) between the mothership and the outsourced programmers (no matter what language they speak). At the companies I've worked for, it was hard enough to communicate/coordinate with a group on another floor in the same building much less 1/2 way around the world.
How dare you presume to rob the Martian culture of the Joy of the Christmas season.
Imagine the elation that one lucky Martian child experienced when s/he found the nice, new, solar powered RC car land under the tree on Christmas morning.
I for one think that we should shower more gifts upon these needy Martian children.
The basic gyst is that the warming melts Greenland. This diverts the gulf stream; plunging Europe into an Ice Age. [It also cools the NE of North America, but Europe really gets it.]
Now that you've caught onto the USA's plan to really stick it to the French for being so obnoxious and uncooperative, we will have to kill you.
You know what the weather is going to be? Look for some extreme shit, like flooding and more earthquakes, huge temperature swings and drought, coastline erosion, and crazy shit like that.
Oh great, now global warming is the cause for earthquakes too!!!
Actually, you can. You file a suit against "John Doe". You then use a court order (signed by a judge this time) to compel the ISP to reveal the IP address holder's identity.
Keep in mind, the ruling did not prevent the RIAA from sueing your arse for making files available for download. It just got a lot more expensive (for the RIAA). They need to file an actual suit as opposed to the simple blackmail scheme they had going until now.
but they fired all 120 workers in the store just to be safe and replaced them will mexicans willing to work for minimum wage.
If the job can be done by someone without a good command of the English Language and willing to work for minimum wage. They probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
Free as in free roads, a free police force, free health care, and all of the other free government services you can think of.
Please do tell, what magical money machine do the Canadians possess so that they can provide all of these free services? Why are you evil Canadians keeping this machine for yourselves when it could be used to end poverty in the world?
They offer a "cash discount" if you pay with anything other than a credit card.
I believe that in the US, VISA/MX/Discover/Etc. all prohibit stores from such practices in their Merchant Agreements. If the merchant wants to accept the card, they can't offer discounts for cash.
Today the RIAA sued the Roman Catholic, United Methodist, and Southern Baptist Churches for copyright violations.
An RIAA spokesperson stated, "We hold God responsible for granting mankind the mental capability to unlawfully copy and distribute copyrighted works. These churches, being an earthly representative of the Creator, are responsible for the actions of those He created.
The RIAA spokeperson also stated that all of the world's other major religions can expect similar lawsuits "just to make sure we are suing the the 'real' God."
You can still use the GPL, but you should distribute it only in exchange for a payment which is significantly higher than half your development costs
A high/prohibitive distro fee is not functionally different from a closed source solution (binary license fees with an optional expensive source license).
Maybe I just don't get this whole Open Source model thing, but one major thing was not addressed in the atricle.
Suppose I am a for-profit business that offers some non-unique service. I need some software to provide my core business services to my customers.
I need the software and I need it now (so I can't just wait for 'someone else' to develop it and realease it into the wild). My only alternative is to commission (aka pay IT consultants to develop the software).
Since I am paying for the development costs (even code monkeys need to be fed), why should I develop the software under the GPL and release it to my competitors as soon as it is complete?
Would I not essentially be subsidizing my competitors businesses?
If you could operate them in vacuum (doesnt need to be perfect to achieve great power and friction savings), you could easily accelerate to mach speeds
Of course it is easy to reach mach speeds in a vacuum. The speed of sound in a vacuum in 0.
Everybody is calling for an Open Source alternative to Diebold and their brethren, but is anyone bothering to actually write it?
Everyone is waiting for someone else to write it, so they can get the OS code 'for free' and market their own voting machines.
This illustrates one problem with the OS movement in general. It is slowwwww to react to the market. Diebold saw a market opportunity and jumped at it. Capitalism 101
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>>Why is this concept so hard?
Because the average voter is dumber than a box of rocks and twice as lazy. The only voting process that would not be considered a 'hard concept' would be one that involved a telepathic interface.
You are asking quite a bit from voters (actually check their ballot) in this day an age of microwave popcorn taking too long to prepare.
Try one of these locations to live if you don't like ads in the sky.
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>>People will get it as they get older.
Anyone who is not a Liberal in their youth has no heart.
Anyone who is not a Conservative as they get older has no brain.
Sounds exactly like the argument MS makes with respect to Linux.
If McDonald's or any other private corp wants to spend its money on biometric scanners for its minimum wage workers, let them. Whether it's cost effective or not is not the issue. It's their money.
If the corp begins to lose money (or make less) as a result of foolish expenditures, then the shareholders will respond accordingly.
Yeah, the Beagle landed in a crater alright...
The one it made itself when the rentry systems failed.
Thank you Captain Obvious! Effective Communication is key to the success of any project.
Language barriers are a factor that must be considered when outsourcing (details may get 'lost in translation').
Another oft neglected factor is physical distance (timezones) between the mothership and the outsourced programmers (no matter what language they speak). At the companies I've worked for, it was hard enough to communicate/coordinate with a group on another floor in the same building much less 1/2 way around the world.
Imagine the elation that one lucky Martian child experienced when s/he found the nice, new, solar powered RC car land under the tree on Christmas morning.
I for one think that we should shower more gifts upon these needy Martian children.
The only crater Beagle2 landed in was the one it created when it's airbags failed. The ESA is still in denial over this.
Now that you've caught onto the USA's plan to really stick it to the French for being so obnoxious and uncooperative, we will have to kill you.
Oh great, now global warming is the cause for earthquakes too!!!
Is there no end to this madness!?!
The last time I checked, my kids weren't doing the food shopping for themselves during their habit forming years (0-5 years old).
If cute little Jimmy sits in the cart and screams for more Twinkies, here's a novel idea... Say no!
Keep in mind, the ruling did not prevent the RIAA from sueing your arse for making files available for download. It just got a lot more expensive (for the RIAA). They need to file an actual suit as opposed to the simple blackmail scheme they had going until now.
If the job can be done by someone without a good command of the English Language and willing to work for minimum wage. They probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
Appologies to despair.com
My salary has dropped by about 23% since 1999. Does this mean I can sue P2P users as well?
Free as in free roads, a free police force, free health care, and all of the other free government services you can think of.
Please do tell, what magical money machine do the Canadians possess so that they can provide all of these free services? Why are you evil Canadians keeping this machine for yourselves when it could be used to end poverty in the world?
Step 1 in release cycle: Pick the release date. Not just at your company, but in every company I've ever worked at this was the case.
Does anyone besides me think that this is back-asswards?
I believe that in the US, VISA/MX/Discover/Etc. all prohibit stores from such practices in their Merchant Agreements. If the merchant wants to accept the card, they can't offer discounts for cash.
Today the RIAA sued the Roman Catholic, United Methodist, and Southern Baptist Churches for copyright violations.
An RIAA spokesperson stated, "We hold God responsible for granting mankind the mental capability to unlawfully copy and distribute copyrighted works. These churches, being an earthly representative of the Creator, are responsible for the actions of those He created.
The RIAA spokeperson also stated that all of the world's other major religions can expect similar lawsuits "just to make sure we are suing the the 'real' God."
A high/prohibitive distro fee is not functionally different from a closed source solution (binary license fees with an optional expensive source license).
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Maybe I just don't get this whole Open Source model thing, but one major thing was not addressed in the atricle.
Suppose I am a for-profit business that offers some non-unique service. I need some software to provide my core business services to my customers.
I need the software and I need it now (so I can't just wait for 'someone else' to develop it and realease it into the wild). My only alternative is to commission (aka pay IT consultants to develop the software).
Since I am paying for the development costs (even code monkeys need to be fed), why should I develop the software under the GPL and release it to my competitors as soon as it is complete?
Would I not essentially be subsidizing my competitors businesses?
Of course it is easy to reach mach speeds in a vacuum. The speed of sound in a vacuum in 0.
For those of us who had sadistic science/physics teachers in HS who denied the use of calculators.
Sure! Send me $10 and I'll give you information on how to raise thousands of dollars on the Internet.
Everyone is waiting for someone else to write it, so they can get the OS code 'for free' and market their own voting machines.
This illustrates one problem with the OS movement in general. It is slowwwww to react to the market. Diebold saw a market opportunity and jumped at it. Capitalism 101