You aren't supposed to use a phone in a theater. It's courtesy not to use a phone in lots of cases.. in the line while waiting for your sandwich, in a meeting or conference with lots of other people, etc.
Most theaters aren't packed like an airplane and that's why some people do talk on the phone in theaters. But that would be unacceptable in a packed plane.
Your wife is 9 months pregnant and you get a call from her doctor, do you answer it?
As another poster wrote, each plane needs several soundproof booths to handle emergency or non-emergency calls.
When a bricklayer who is an EMPLOYEE builds the wall, even if it's defective, he fixes it on the company's time. If he's a contractor, then yes, he fixes it (depending on the contract) on his own time.
This analogy shows how non-software developers view developers -- same as every other skilled labor. Except a developer is beyond that -- not only is the wall he is building a different shape each time (not flat), the bricks needed also have to be designed specific for each construction. In other words, even after gaining programming skills, it's not a repetitive job, unlike real wall building.
When you're creating a new type of wall with a new type of brick, it's bound to fail and will need additional time to fix the defects -- paid of course by the boss/company of the employee.
Whereas private schools exist solely for the benefit of the kids, and have no need to make money or pay employees?
But to make that money, they have to prove to the kids' parents that they provide value for that money, i.e., good education. There's no such requirement for public schools, so they can provide the bare minimum education because they have no competition. Yet another example where capitalism trumps communism.
slashdot beta has completely ruined the connotations associated with the word beta. Now beta will be associated with "half-assed, really bad, terrible abomination" etc. Thanks for ruining a word,/.
Graphical programming is slow and tedious. Imagine a simple 20-50 line algorithm written in text. Now convert that to a flow chart. That's gonna take 10-20 times longer to write and edit that, it's not going to easily fit in a screen.
Although graphical programming may be suitable for simple things like automation in a tool where you do taskA then taskB then optionally taskC.
How about not implementing anything at all, and just keep fixing the existing site?
If they did nothing but fix bugs and add minor changes, why would Dice pay them a salary? The issue is political as the slashdot development department would be cut down in size (lost jobs) by a big margin. That's why, even though the new site design sucks both visually and from a usability point, they're gonna shove it down our throats anyway.
It would very hard to improve the current spartan design of a slashdot comment. But I'm okay with new slashdot being deployed as the default front, as long as I have the option to permanently view classic slashdot. Current web designers must suck bad, because I've had similar experiences with yahoo's redesign (soulless corporate design) or google's redesign of google groups (extremely hard to use compared to the classic groups).
Please don't shove this poor web design down our throats. If you do, I'll be leaving. There are many problems with the new design:
Fixed Frame: There's a fixed frame/horizontal bar on the top of the page that you cannot scroll away from and it cannot be disabled. I can't express why, but it makes scrolling unpleasant. It seems all major site have copied this horrid design: yahoo, google etc.. Worst of all it serves no real purpose: what user can't scroll to the top of the page and perform the actions it provides?
The Load More Button: Pressing this button loads less than a dozen comments vs the hundreds of comments you get from selecting a classic slashdot page. Ugly, not to mention the delay between pressing the button and getting comments. What about the case where a story has 1000 comments? Do we have to tap "Load more" hundred times to load all the comments? Won't that cause a lot of RAM to be consumed in the browser? There's no way to read the last 100 comments. This is yet another idiotic "feature" copied from other major websites
Jumbo right margin: White space margin to the right side of comments is huge. This makes comments vertically longer and difficult to read without scrolling. It also increases amount of scrolling required even for shorter comments. This style of margin is suitable for sites that have 1-line comment, like youtube, not text-heavy sites like/.
You remind me of my boss, who pays you below the minimum rate allowed but keeps demanding MORE! MORE! MORE! from each of his employees. When we ask about being paid for it, he simply states "We don't pay overtime, your breaks are your responsibility to take."
That's funny, because you sound exactly like that your boss: "I want you to write games for me! For FREE!" At least your stingy boss pays a salary. You want to pay nothing.
TLDR: Copyright is your chance to make some money. It's meant to expire after a given period.
Why is it meant to expire? That's just a rule that benefits the business class who raked in billions by publishing books whose copyright had expired. Why can't authors hold infinite ownership of their work? After all, they created it... it's theirs to keep or share without someone using it for personal gain. When people (and their heirs) can hold perpetual ownership of land, business etc., why can't authors/publishers hold intellectual property indefinitely? Why should the public or govt have the right to seize that work and redistribute to their own advantage after an arbitrary number of years?
When open-source was first taking off, the GPL was necessary because only a small group of die-hard believers thought it would work. Having the work "stolen" into a proprietary product that successfully hijacks the userbase was entirely possible, and so a protective license was necessary.
The issue is quite the opposite: it's GPL that's trying to steal proprietary code. Why should proprietary code linking to GPL code transform the proprietary code into GPLed code (viral)? Linking is not stealing, just using. The GPL is not, as you claim, created to protect against hijacking free software, but to go far beyond that goal and force/trick developers into opening their source code.
One unfortunate side-effect of opening the source is few, if any, developers can make money once source is available for free, therefore destroying that niche of software ecosystem. The situation is worsened because most open source products are just clones of commercial products -- there is no real innovation. Once they drive commercial companies out of business, the whole innovation in that area comes to a standstill.
Why don't laptops have a physical shutter so the user can block both camera and mic? I don't like these hackable electronic switches for mic and camera. And I have to wonder whether not having a physical shutter is a feature or a bug?
Back in the day, software was not patentable as it was treated akin to a mathematical formula.
Why can't electronics hardware be treated as math formulas too since it is mostly full of mathematical expressions comprising of +, -, and, or, xor operators.
They patented the circuit and tucked a sentence into the patent that said they also claimed any implementation in software as well but the primary patent was for the circuit.
Math is abstract and not a machine. Software and hardware are machines that use math so the above claim in the patent is valid. Software is just the slower, flexible version of an algorithm, whereas hardware is mostly suitable for the faster, less flexible version of an algorithm. Since both are sooo similar, why should electronics hardware be patentable and software not?
That's an ignorant and idiotic statement. Products ideas cannot be protected by copyright if a competitor re-implements the ideas using different source code.
No, it's not solved. Insurance company claim payout comes from the (collective) car owner's pocket. Why should the car owner be liable for accidents he did not cause?
And trust me, it's not because it's "uncool", its because the little shits are afraid of getting caught.
Wouldn't this problem be solved if facebook allowed pseudonyms (like email), instead of requiring you to provide your real name? The teens would then have one account for family and another for friends.
If Google were to open source all the above mentioned products/services, any company having money will create clones and host these services thereby driving down google's profits by order or two in magnitude.
Why is that so, if all of the equipment the ads are served from is not in Italy?
That's only one half of the equation -- ad server equipment. The other half is the infrastructure (roads, internet, electricity, etc) built by the Italian govt. that makes it possible for an Italian to purchase something from the internet. How is Italian govt being compensated for this cost?
It makes no sense that someone operating in a totally different state should have to pay any taxes at all based only on where someone is browsing from, or who buys services from them.
If the customer were physically present in Bermuda, that statement would be correct. However, in this case, the buyer is physically in Italy. So any commercial transaction should attract a sales tax, if such a tax exists in the city.
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That's just ridiculously unfair that $1m earners should fund education for 10 or 20 student-years. It's another anti-rich tax.
Most theaters aren't packed like an airplane and that's why some people do talk on the phone in theaters. But that would be unacceptable in a packed plane.
As another poster wrote, each plane needs several soundproof booths to handle emergency or non-emergency calls.
This analogy shows how non-software developers view developers -- same as every other skilled labor. Except a developer is beyond that -- not only is the wall he is building a different shape each time (not flat), the bricks needed also have to be designed specific for each construction. In other words, even after gaining programming skills, it's not a repetitive job, unlike real wall building.
When you're creating a new type of wall with a new type of brick, it's bound to fail and will need additional time to fix the defects -- paid of course by the boss/company of the employee.
But to make that money, they have to prove to the kids' parents that they provide value for that money, i.e., good education. There's no such requirement for public schools, so they can provide the bare minimum education because they have no competition. Yet another example where capitalism trumps communism.
slashdot beta has completely ruined the connotations associated with the word beta. Now beta will be associated with "half-assed, really bad, terrible abomination" etc. Thanks for ruining a word, /.
Graphical programming is slow and tedious. Imagine a simple 20-50 line algorithm written in text. Now convert that to a flow chart. That's gonna take 10-20 times longer to write and edit that, it's not going to easily fit in a screen.
Although graphical programming may be suitable for simple things like automation in a tool where you do taskA then taskB then optionally taskC.
If they did nothing but fix bugs and add minor changes, why would Dice pay them a salary? The issue is political as the slashdot development department would be cut down in size (lost jobs) by a big margin. That's why, even though the new site design sucks both visually and from a usability point, they're gonna shove it down our throats anyway.
It would very hard to improve the current spartan design of a slashdot comment. But I'm okay with new slashdot being deployed as the default front, as long as I have the option to permanently view classic slashdot. Current web designers must suck bad, because I've had similar experiences with yahoo's redesign (soulless corporate design) or google's redesign of google groups (extremely hard to use compared to the classic groups).
How is wanting to keep control and profit from what's yours greed? It's righteous anger against being robbed by a mob of freeloaders.
That's funny, because you sound exactly like that your boss: "I want you to write games for me! For FREE!" At least your stingy boss pays a salary. You want to pay nothing.
Why is it meant to expire? That's just a rule that benefits the business class who raked in billions by publishing books whose copyright had expired. Why can't authors hold infinite ownership of their work? After all, they created it... it's theirs to keep or share without someone using it for personal gain. When people (and their heirs) can hold perpetual ownership of land, business etc., why can't authors/publishers hold intellectual property indefinitely? Why should the public or govt have the right to seize that work and redistribute to their own advantage after an arbitrary number of years?
Translation: if it doesn't affect me, why should I care?
The issue is quite the opposite: it's GPL that's trying to steal proprietary code. Why should proprietary code linking to GPL code transform the proprietary code into GPLed code (viral)? Linking is not stealing, just using. The GPL is not, as you claim, created to protect against hijacking free software, but to go far beyond that goal and force/trick developers into opening their source code.
One unfortunate side-effect of opening the source is few, if any, developers can make money once source is available for free, therefore destroying that niche of software ecosystem. The situation is worsened because most open source products are just clones of commercial products -- there is no real innovation. Once they drive commercial companies out of business, the whole innovation in that area comes to a standstill.
Why don't laptops have a physical shutter so the user can block both camera and mic? I don't like these hackable electronic switches for mic and camera. And I have to wonder whether not having a physical shutter is a feature or a bug?
This would sell the most
The model M is overrated...depressing the keys requires too much force.
A tiny GPS unit blocks maybe 2 degrees of your view most of which is not important. Glass blocks 15-30 degrees of the right side view.
Why can't electronics hardware be treated as math formulas too since it is mostly full of mathematical expressions comprising of +, -, and, or, xor operators.
Math is abstract and not a machine. Software and hardware are machines that use math so the above claim in the patent is valid. Software is just the slower, flexible version of an algorithm, whereas hardware is mostly suitable for the faster, less flexible version of an algorithm. Since both are sooo similar, why should electronics hardware be patentable and software not?
That's an ignorant and idiotic statement. Products ideas cannot be protected by copyright if a competitor re-implements the ideas using different source code.
He and many others are Nintendo wannabes... they want something for nothing.
... by the bad guyz
No, it's not solved. Insurance company claim payout comes from the (collective) car owner's pocket. Why should the car owner be liable for accidents he did not cause?
Wouldn't this problem be solved if facebook allowed pseudonyms (like email), instead of requiring you to provide your real name? The teens would then have one account for family and another for friends.
If Google were to open source all the above mentioned products/services, any company having money will create clones and host these services thereby driving down google's profits by order or two in magnitude.
They didn't have anti-patent troll legislation that was passed recently. Let's see how that law works in Google's favor.
That's only one half of the equation -- ad server equipment. The other half is the infrastructure (roads, internet, electricity, etc) built by the Italian govt. that makes it possible for an Italian to purchase something from the internet. How is Italian govt being compensated for this cost?
If the customer were physically present in Bermuda, that statement would be correct. However, in this case, the buyer is physically in Italy. So any commercial transaction should attract a sales tax, if such a tax exists in the city.