That would be a tiny bit difficult to do considering that any change to the way votes are tallied would have to be introduced on voted on by the very same people who benefit who benefit from the current system.
Such a thing will have to come from a grassroots movement who could actually propel representatives who think of more than themselves and the special intrests in their districts - and it won't happen tomorrow or the next day - it will take much time, effort, and resources... something the parties in power have tons of already.
It's up to them to decide their future. If their future consisted solely of the condition, ebb and flow that is Sun Microsystems (or $XYZ inc.) then that would be a bleak future indeed.
In a modern capitalist society such as the US, everyone has the ability to own something. It's the choice of these workers if they decide not to own anything that can make money for them and depend solely on the pay of an employer to subside on. As such, they shouldn't cry when said employer lays them off and no one else should cry for them.
Ok, so the seller just gave the buyer the property of a laptop in exchange for money. So now the laptop is owned by the buyer. Does not the buyer now own all uncopyrighted material on the laptop's harddrive and is free to use it how he/shee sees fit within the bounds of the law?
I am going to have to politely disagree with you on point 5 regarding PE being phased down/removed because of budget cuts. All increased budgets will do for schools is purchase new facilities, materials, and provide better compenstation for teachers. I am all for these things. But this is not the root of the problem with PE.
The problem is just a lack of instruction or initiative from school administrators. All you need for PE is a ball and field... or just a field for running. You don't need state of art basketball gymnasiums and brand spanking new equipment from Dick's Sporting Goods for physical education time. What needs to be done is forcing the kids to be active and actually impose it on them by assigning a grade to their PE class based on effort/performance (you know, like regular classes) as opposed to just giving everyone high marks for showing up. I find, in my own experience through school and speaking with others (my best friend teaches 4th grade) that this is never the case. PE is just a circle jerk period in which everyone recieves an automatic A for showing up. Add that on to the fact that administrators begin phasing out PE from required coursework as the student grows older.
The quality of physical education is not tied to money received and personally, I think a lack of money is poor excuse for having little to no physical education in schools. If school administrators and physical education teachers cared enough, they would make PE happen in schools the right way. Unfortunately, they don't.
Ya know, I think making the net non-neutral in this case, inherently, is not a bad thing. I honestly would not be upset at all if the isp or carriers directed me to specific content if I subscribed to their service IF (and this is a big if) they did not possess local monopolies. As such, my only choice where I live for broadband is timewarner/road runner. Thus, if this bill passes, I'm subject to whatever content timewarner decides to push to me instead of me having a choice.
Again, I don't think on the face of it this is a bad thing, but the current infrastucture makes it a bad thing. Remove local monopolies first before this is considered.
"The car is one meter wide and less polluting than normal vehicles. It has a top speed of 100 km/h (60mph) and uses a novel tilting chassis to make it safe and maneuverable."
Yes, I will feel really safe driving a 1 meter-wide vehicle around on the road alongside teenagers in SUV's talking on cell phones.
Every product, service and share price is only worth what others will pay for it.
Negative. Do you receive dividends from owning your stocks? If so then you must realize that owning your stock means more than just being able to sell it to the next schmoe willing to speculate later.
Good to see my comment on dividends wasn't completely lost. If I had mod points, you'd be receiving them.
While that's a suprising bit of information given the love affair with Google's stock, a 6-month trend hardly ever tells the whole story of a company's stock price. Over 6 months, the price has only kept up with indexes, but over the past year it has trampled them. But what's going to be even more important is the trend over the next five years.
Personally, it's entirely too unpredictable of a stock and is extremely risky given its absurd valuation and no prospect of ever offering a dividend for owning a share of the company.
A) Being added to the S&P doesn't affect me as a practitioner of IT B) Their stock price is inflated beyond belief and worth only as much as someone will pay me. Google isn't paying a dividend and never will. You're better off trading baseball cards than Google stock.
The private sector does not have the ability to interrogate/arrest me for owning a copy of _________ (insert any controversial book here), or the ability to interrogate/arrest me by querying a search engine for something like "join jihad" (if I were insterested in how militant muslims would go about doing so).
Your version of mal-intent by coroporations is one thing - they want to brainwash me into buying their products so their wallets become fatter. That doesn't even hold a candle to the mal-intent a government could achieve by possessing the same info.
I can only defend football since that is a domain I'm familiar and I'm not fond of the other sports
But tell me this: why should "professional" athletes get paid these millions when their college counterparts get paid nothing.
College players are paid scholarships. Obviously this is vastly lower than pro sports pay, but they are getting one of the highest costs most of us incur in our young life subsidized or completely paid for by working 20 max hours a week (NCAA restriction). And I can tell you from personal experience that the number of players playing college football simply for scholarship is way more than any outsider would guess - for anectodal evidence I was one of them and am friends with many others. Football, in particular, is entirely too difficult to do for free (there are exceptions, like Jerry Rice for instance, who I think would really play for free if he could).
In the case of football, the average salary for an NFL player, is right at $1million dollars and an average NFL career is less than 3 years. Blockbuster deals and endosements signed by the superstars are the exception, not the rule. When you consider salary and length of career with a) earning income in this tax bracket results in major tax penalties b) 10% of contracts go to agents c) their is a high risk of career ending or altering injury d) there is an enormous wear on the body by playing even a short number of years - I believe that NFL players are actually underpaid.
If that's so, then why isn't a top-notch programmer worth a few million? Is it simply because there are so many programmers and so few "professional" athletes? Is the ability to play baseball or football worth more than the ability to program? Maybe it's apples and oranges to some, but you have to admit that professional sports figures have an opportunity to make money at the magnitude that we blue- and white-collar individuals can't even hope to match in a lifetime of work.
If top-notch programmers could fill 3-6 hour TV time slots on weekends to attract millions of viewers and fill 50,000-80,000 seat capacity stadiums, then they would paid this much too:) Unfortunately this isn't the case. But seriously, when you consider the length of a career of a professional athlete to a top-notch programmer over a long length of time, the programmer actually has the higher potential to make more money. Assuming moderate inflation, the ~$1.5 million the average NFL athlete netted is not going to be around by the time he is 50. The programmer however, can continue his trade for as long as his mind is able.
This is a troll and off-topic, but what exactly do "overblown" contracts have to do with sports integrity? The first word in "professional sports" is professional. Making as much money as you can in a profession is something every human being in an open market wishes to do (excluding entreprenuership). How do you make more money in professional sports - you play well and prove that to the organization you are playing for that you are worth the dollar amount that you are asking. How exactly does this effect the integrity of the sport they are playing?
As someone who can code in python, but not in C++, I found the GoF Design Patterns book to be a bit of pain to try and read. I would not recommend reading this before learning C++ or Smalltalk (the other language the book uses for examples).
How can a Java IDE be one of the most important Open Source projects when there is no usable Open Source Java implementation available?
Well, although its just a JRE, I find that Eclipse runs fine using the blackdown JRE. I haven't developed using the blackdown sdk, but I'd consider running eclipse just fine at least one point in favor of blackdown's usabiliy as a Java environment.
Secondly, Eclipse is more than a Java IDE. It has so many damn plugins it literally is a swiss army knife, albeit a bloated one. I personally use pydev for eclipse as my python editor.
Uhmmm, JSP is Java and Java is a dynamic web server technology - see here. JSP's, upon being accessed, are transformed into servlet classes, compiled into bytecode, and processed by whatever servlet engine is handling them. JSP's appear like HTML with java code sprinkled throughout, but in reality, they are still Java classes.
. The initial bill's detractors who pushed for this amendment want a tax for author rights to be paid by everyone on the ISP fees.
If this happened in America I would have a shitfit. As someone who is online frequently but does not trade music or swap files online, I couldn't fathom the government taxing me through the service I use on the pretense that I might optionally do something the service allows, in this case sharing files that are copyrighted by others.
Then again, I'm willing to wager the American government is already doing something similar to me through another commercial service that I'm not aware of at the moment.
When there is serious competition and code quality becomes a competative advantage they'll fix it.
Has Microsoft not stated that Linux is indeed a threat to its business model?
Has Firefox not taken a ~10% share of the browser market?
Has Apple not royally kicked Microsoft's tail recently in the area of multimedia?
Has the State of Massechusetts not just bit the their thumb at Microsoft and told them "we don't need your office products nor your document standards, we would rather use the open source competition"?
Microsoft has competition now. The type of competition it faces presently isn't an imminent threat, but it is a threat nonetheless. The point however is that MS better start thinking about its code quality or it risks surrending its position as the 800lb in the next decade or two.
She also recommends looking through magazines to get a feel for what suits you. "This is about thinking about what suits you instead of following trends," she said.
Someone please explain to me how looking through everyday magazines for clothing advice is *not* following a trend. I honestly fail to see what the article writer is talking about here. I can think of nothing more trendy than browsing magazines to gain fashion advice of any kind.
In place of getting help from as many people as possible, delegating responsibility to solve a problem, the CIO should go around himself interviewing people. Give me a fucking brake.
I would give you a fucking brake but I'm sure it would be much more convenient if you went to NAPA or Advanced Auto to get one. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
I honestly wonder some times how some guys come with such impractical and bizarre ideas like this with a straight face and can go to sleep without feeling any shame.
I came up with the idea after watching committee after committee at my previous organization do absolutely nothing but create a report and report it back only to have the CIO and the other top managers in IT fruitlessly debate on it. I should also say, however, that I lost scope of the original AskSlashdot question in that my previous organization was a midsized one with an IT department of ~80 people. In hindsight, what I suggested possibly would be impractical for a very large organization. Nonetheless, is it really asking too much for a top level manager to actually take time to interview 7-10 various key people in the organization for 10 minutes a piece to collect their thoughts on a particular key subject? That's not even 2 hours of a CIO's time. Who says those key people can't be other managers throughout other rungs of department who can survey their workers?
The rest of your post I do agree with however. Thanks for your insight.
do people simply not want an all-in-one for mobile media... BINGO.
This might comparing be apples to oranges, but if this were true, then why does virtually everyone cell phone on the market come with so much more functionality than what a phone should ever be used for: pictures, video games, music, text messaging, etc. etc.
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That would be a tiny bit difficult to do considering that any change to the way votes are tallied would have to be introduced on voted on by the very same people who benefit who benefit from the current system. Such a thing will have to come from a grassroots movement who could actually propel representatives who think of more than themselves and the special intrests in their districts - and it won't happen tomorrow or the next day - it will take much time, effort, and resources... something the parties in power have tons of already.
It's up to them to decide their future. If their future consisted solely of the condition, ebb and flow that is Sun Microsystems (or $XYZ inc.) then that would be a bleak future indeed.
In a modern capitalist society such as the US, everyone has the ability to own something. It's the choice of these workers if they decide not to own anything that can make money for them and depend solely on the pay of an employer to subside on. As such, they shouldn't cry when said employer lays them off and no one else should cry for them.
Ok, so the seller just gave the buyer the property of a laptop in exchange for money. So now the laptop is owned by the buyer. Does not the buyer now own all uncopyrighted material on the laptop's harddrive and is free to use it how he/shee sees fit within the bounds of the law?
I am going to have to politely disagree with you on point 5 regarding PE being phased down/removed because of budget cuts. All increased budgets will do for schools is purchase new facilities, materials, and provide better compenstation for teachers. I am all for these things. But this is not the root of the problem with PE.
The problem is just a lack of instruction or initiative from school administrators. All you need for PE is a ball and field... or just a field for running. You don't need state of art basketball gymnasiums and brand spanking new equipment from Dick's Sporting Goods for physical education time. What needs to be done is forcing the kids to be active and actually impose it on them by assigning a grade to their PE class based on effort/performance (you know, like regular classes) as opposed to just giving everyone high marks for showing up. I find, in my own experience through school and speaking with others (my best friend teaches 4th grade) that this is never the case. PE is just a circle jerk period in which everyone recieves an automatic A for showing up. Add that on to the fact that administrators begin phasing out PE from required coursework as the student grows older.
The quality of physical education is not tied to money received and personally, I think a lack of money is poor excuse for having little to no physical education in schools. If school administrators and physical education teachers cared enough, they would make PE happen in schools the right way. Unfortunately, they don't.
Ya know, I think making the net non-neutral in this case, inherently, is not a bad thing. I honestly would not be upset at all if the isp or carriers directed me to specific content if I subscribed to their service IF (and this is a big if) they did not possess local monopolies. As such, my only choice where I live for broadband is timewarner/road runner. Thus, if this bill passes, I'm subject to whatever content timewarner decides to push to me instead of me having a choice. Again, I don't think on the face of it this is a bad thing, but the current infrastucture makes it a bad thing. Remove local monopolies first before this is considered.
"The car is one meter wide and less polluting than normal vehicles. It has a top speed of 100 km/h (60mph) and uses a novel tilting chassis to make it safe and maneuverable."
Yes, I will feel really safe driving a 1 meter-wide vehicle around on the road alongside teenagers in SUV's talking on cell phones.
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." --Frederick Brooks
Negative. Do you receive dividends from owning your stocks? If so then you must realize that owning your stock means more than just being able to sell it to the next schmoe willing to speculate later.
Good to see my comment on dividends wasn't completely lost. If I had mod points, you'd be receiving them. While that's a suprising bit of information given the love affair with Google's stock, a 6-month trend hardly ever tells the whole story of a company's stock price. Over 6 months, the price has only kept up with indexes, but over the past year it has trampled them. But what's going to be even more important is the trend over the next five years. Personally, it's entirely too unpredictable of a stock and is extremely risky given its absurd valuation and no prospect of ever offering a dividend for owning a share of the company.
A) Being added to the S&P doesn't affect me as a practitioner of IT
B) Their stock price is inflated beyond belief and worth only as much as someone will pay me. Google isn't paying a dividend and never will. You're better off trading baseball cards than Google stock.
The private sector does not have the ability to interrogate/arrest me for owning a copy of _________ (insert any controversial book here), or the ability to interrogate/arrest me by querying a search engine for something like "join jihad" (if I were insterested in how militant muslims would go about doing so).
Your version of mal-intent by coroporations is one thing - they want to brainwash me into buying their products so their wallets become fatter. That doesn't even hold a candle to the mal-intent a government could achieve by possessing the same info.
But tell me this: why should "professional" athletes get paid these millions when their college counterparts get paid nothing.
College players are paid scholarships. Obviously this is vastly lower than pro sports pay, but they are getting one of the highest costs most of us incur in our young life subsidized or completely paid for by working 20 max hours a week (NCAA restriction). And I can tell you from personal experience that the number of players playing college football simply for scholarship is way more than any outsider would guess - for anectodal evidence I was one of them and am friends with many others. Football, in particular, is entirely too difficult to do for free (there are exceptions, like Jerry Rice for instance, who I think would really play for free if he could).
In the case of football, the average salary for an NFL player, is right at $1million dollars and an average NFL career is less than 3 years. Blockbuster deals and endosements signed by the superstars are the exception, not the rule. When you consider salary and length of career with a) earning income in this tax bracket results in major tax penalties b) 10% of contracts go to agents c) their is a high risk of career ending or altering injury d) there is an enormous wear on the body by playing even a short number of years - I believe that NFL players are actually underpaid.
If that's so, then why isn't a top-notch programmer worth a few million? Is it simply because there are so many programmers and so few "professional" athletes? Is the ability to play baseball or football worth more than the ability to program? Maybe it's apples and oranges to some, but you have to admit that professional sports figures have an opportunity to make money at the magnitude that we blue- and white-collar individuals can't even hope to match in a lifetime of work.
If top-notch programmers could fill 3-6 hour TV time slots on weekends to attract millions of viewers and fill 50,000-80,000 seat capacity stadiums, then they would paid this much too :) Unfortunately this isn't the case. But seriously, when you consider the length of a career of a professional athlete to a top-notch programmer over a long length of time, the programmer actually has the higher potential to make more money. Assuming moderate inflation, the ~$1.5 million the average NFL athlete netted is not going to be around by the time he is 50. The programmer however, can continue his trade for as long as his mind is able.
This is a troll and off-topic, but what exactly do "overblown" contracts have to do with sports integrity? The first word in "professional sports" is professional. Making as much money as you can in a profession is something every human being in an open market wishes to do (excluding entreprenuership). How do you make more money in professional sports - you play well and prove that to the organization you are playing for that you are worth the dollar amount that you are asking. How exactly does this effect the integrity of the sport they are playing?
Cause we know the CDC spending money and worker time on video game research is just as important as bird flu research.....
That google doesn't provide guidance and the share price plummets as a result. This means I can finally buy Google at a reasonable P/E ratio.
As someone who can code in python, but not in C++, I found the GoF Design Patterns book to be a bit of pain to try and read. I would not recommend reading this before learning C++ or Smalltalk (the other language the book uses for examples).
I stand corrected :)
Well, although its just a JRE, I find that Eclipse runs fine using the blackdown JRE. I haven't developed using the blackdown sdk, but I'd consider running eclipse just fine at least one point in favor of blackdown's usabiliy as a Java environment.
Secondly, Eclipse is more than a Java IDE. It has so many damn plugins it literally is a swiss army knife, albeit a bloated one. I personally use pydev for eclipse as my python editor.
Uhmmm, JSP is Java and Java is a dynamic web server technology - see here. JSP's, upon being accessed, are transformed into servlet classes, compiled into bytecode, and processed by whatever servlet engine is handling them. JSP's appear like HTML with java code sprinkled throughout, but in reality, they are still Java classes.
If this happened in America I would have a shitfit. As someone who is online frequently but does not trade music or swap files online, I couldn't fathom the government taxing me through the service I use on the pretense that I might optionally do something the service allows, in this case sharing files that are copyrighted by others.
Then again, I'm willing to wager the American government is already doing something similar to me through another commercial service that I'm not aware of at the moment.
Has Microsoft not stated that Linux is indeed a threat to its business model?
Has Firefox not taken a ~10% share of the browser market?
Has Apple not royally kicked Microsoft's tail recently in the area of multimedia?
Has the State of Massechusetts not just bit the their thumb at Microsoft and told them "we don't need your office products nor your document standards, we would rather use the open source competition"?
Microsoft has competition now. The type of competition it faces presently isn't an imminent threat, but it is a threat nonetheless. The point however is that MS better start thinking about its code quality or it risks surrending its position as the 800lb in the next decade or two.
She also recommends looking through magazines to get a feel for what suits you. "This is about thinking about what suits you instead of following trends," she said. Someone please explain to me how looking through everyday magazines for clothing advice is *not* following a trend. I honestly fail to see what the article writer is talking about here. I can think of nothing more trendy than browsing magazines to gain fashion advice of any kind.
I would give you a fucking brake but I'm sure it would be much more convenient if you went to NAPA or Advanced Auto to get one. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
I honestly wonder some times how some guys come with such impractical and bizarre ideas like this with a straight face and can go to sleep without feeling any shame.
I came up with the idea after watching committee after committee at my previous organization do absolutely nothing but create a report and report it back only to have the CIO and the other top managers in IT fruitlessly debate on it. I should also say, however, that I lost scope of the original AskSlashdot question in that my previous organization was a midsized one with an IT department of ~80 people. In hindsight, what I suggested possibly would be impractical for a very large organization. Nonetheless, is it really asking too much for a top level manager to actually take time to interview 7-10 various key people in the organization for 10 minutes a piece to collect their thoughts on a particular key subject? That's not even 2 hours of a CIO's time. Who says those key people can't be other managers throughout other rungs of department who can survey their workers?The rest of your post I do agree with however. Thanks for your insight.
This might comparing be apples to oranges, but if this were true, then why does virtually everyone cell phone on the market come with so much more functionality than what a phone should ever be used for: pictures, video games, music, text messaging, etc. etc.