People on Slashdot constantly complain about how corporations these days tend to value the short-term stock increase over the long-term investment. A 4 billion investment is absolutely worth it if they manage to gain dominance of the living room. It doesn't look like it's working out so far, but only time will tell.
If we as technology workers unionize, there will be far less incentive to keep the jobs here rather than say India.
Unions are not the answer. If you are truly good at your job, either demand better treatment or find a new job. If you're that good, you shouldn't have a problem.
If you're not good enough to find a different job, get out of the industry, please. A union won't save you. Those of us with talent will continue to receive our benefits and fair treatment the old fashioned way, through merit. I for one will not be joining any union.
Apple isn't "evil" for not supporting other music stores on the iPod. They clearly have no obligation to do all of the work necessary to allow other music stored to store music on the iPod.
But if someone else wants to do the work, then the "evil" is in trying to stop them.
Letters like this can help. However, if you're going to send an email purporting to be CTO, can we at least get some decent grammar in a letter written as a professional?
Contrary seem to open yourself up... weaving nothing but lies and decept in fear that your going to have
Maybe there are something to those college degrees after all...
Did you even RTFA? It's not a sample. It's a cover. One would also think from your post that his copyright holds less merit simply because you don't like rap music.
Mod parent down, this isn't insightful, it's offtopic.
I agree that it's almost impossible to make software flawless. However, flawless standards, created with an eye for future extensibility while still maintaining compatibility with old versions (think XML or HTML) can be made. Standards can be made unexploitable. However, the programmers that code to these standards will never be perfect.
You miss his point entirely.
Yes, a CD will play in devices made by ALL of those vendors.
But if someone came up with a way to make a special CD that caused the laser drive unit to burn itself out, it would also affect all of those devices.
The real question is, can we make standards that prevent exploitation of the standard itself, regardless of the implementation.
Monoculture is a bad thing if only because it leads (quite often) to questionable standards developed by a single entity.
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People on Slashdot constantly complain about how corporations these days tend to value the short-term stock increase over the long-term investment. A 4 billion investment is absolutely worth it if they manage to gain dominance of the living room. It doesn't look like it's working out so far, but only time will tell.
And with me we could do it 30 SECONDS AGO!
Hack the planet!
Wow, that's the ugliest web application I've seen in awhile, and that's saying something
If we as technology workers unionize, there will be far less incentive to keep the jobs here rather than say India.
Unions are not the answer. If you are truly good at your job, either demand better treatment or find a new job. If you're that good, you shouldn't have a problem.
If you're not good enough to find a different job, get out of the industry, please. A union won't save you. Those of us with talent will continue to receive our benefits and fair treatment the old fashioned way, through merit. I for one will not be joining any union.
Apple isn't "evil" for not supporting other music stores on the iPod. They clearly have no obligation to do all of the work necessary to allow other music stored to store music on the iPod.
But if someone else wants to do the work, then the "evil" is in trying to stop them.
Don't be an idiot. If you give someone a piece of paper that verifies who they voted for, people can start buying votes.
"Bring me your proof of having voted for XYZ candidate, and I'll give you 100 bucks"
Guys,
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Letters like this can help. However, if you're going to send an email purporting to be CTO, can we at least get some decent grammar in a letter written as a professional?
Contrary seem to open yourself up
weaving nothing but lies and decept in
fear that your going to have
Maybe there are something to those college degrees after all...
Did you even RTFA? It's not a sample. It's a cover. One would also think from your post that his copyright holds less merit simply because you don't like rap music. Mod parent down, this isn't insightful, it's offtopic.
Free speech only applies to the government stopping you from doing something. Copyright infringement has nothing to do with the first amendment.
RTFA.
Ma, who also is developing the same device for shoes, is the founder of MU's Research Consortium for Innovative Thermal Management
I agree that it's almost impossible to make software flawless. However, flawless standards, created with an eye for future extensibility while still maintaining compatibility with old versions (think XML or HTML) can be made. Standards can be made unexploitable. However, the programmers that code to these standards will never be perfect.
You miss his point entirely. Yes, a CD will play in devices made by ALL of those vendors. But if someone came up with a way to make a special CD that caused the laser drive unit to burn itself out, it would also affect all of those devices. The real question is, can we make standards that prevent exploitation of the standard itself, regardless of the implementation. Monoculture is a bad thing if only because it leads (quite often) to questionable standards developed by a single entity.