Don't take any position that offers no path to owning all or part of the business. Directors and C-suite execs don't get there by promotion; they get there through investment -- taking an ownership stake.
Any other labor situation just makes you a wage slave.
"They SHOULD be making volt-style plugin series hybrids instead of Prius style parallel hybrids that have a direct connection between the gasoline engine and the wheels"
Well, are you in a position of authority in an auto company's R&D or Engineering division, or not? If not, with your superior understanding of what the automakers "should" do, why not?
>If they don't have a definition for "beta" then why was it there in the first place?
They don't need a definition. If you were going to sue Google, they'd be able to say "Not only did it have no warranty, but it was also marked 'beta' which is common vernacular in the software industry for 'in testing' or 'if it breaks you get both pieces.'"
It would not be hard to get an expert witness to say that to a judge. I would.
>> do you really want to argue based on such an obvious deliberate selection bias?
. Microsoft is #1 in desktop software, Dell is #1 in desktop hardware, . google is #1 in search, . ebay (Pierre Omidyar) is #1 in auctions, . facebook is #1 in social networking, . Apple must be #1 in something:),
Amazing. You respond to a challenge of selection bias with an even narrower bias.
>When something isn't in the Constitution, it then falls to the states to decide.
And the states cannot decide who does and who does not have a right to privacy.
My opinion doesn't rely on Roe v. Wade. I do not believe that a law proscribing abortion can be legal, because it applies only to women and therefore cannot provide equal protection to all genders.
AA Batteries are available in some of the most remote parts of the world too. It's a hard requirement for a whole lot of journalists, researchers, missionaries, etc.
If Panasonic knows of a manufacturing making unsafe batteries, they should get the proper authorities involved. Refusing to allow the unsafe batteries in their product protects them, but doesn't protect the public, and if they are keeping this information secret, they are potentially an accessory to a crime.
There are other issues. A machine setup that can make a.5 inch bore to ten-thousandths of an inch precision, cannot necessarily be changed to make a 1.27cm bore with the same precision. Many of the machine tools used in aerospace are calibrated in SAE units, and the machines cannot be replaced economically, if at all -- lathes, milling machines, grinders etc., still in service since the 1960s or even 1940s, refit for CNC, still turning out high-precision work, and some of these cannot really be replaced.
Yes, you can calibrate a CNC milling machine to work in metric units, but precision in one system is not equivalent to precision in another system, especially when you're talking about a screw-calibrated device that is extremely accurate at whole units in its reference scale.
I'm only considering linear measurement here. When you're talking about rocket engines, I can only wonder how many physical equations have to change if you change the reference units of all the components.
In an ideal world, changing between measurement scales creates an equivalence set, but in the real world this is not such a foregone conclusion.
>But since I purchased a Wii, I have an instance that is now MY hardware, and I should be able to develop open source applications for it.
You can. You just have to do it without the SDK and without using any Nintendo trademarks. If there's some cryptographic control that tries to stop your bootloader from working, it's a grey area as to whether you can distribute a circumvention device.
Solar panels where I live (Arizona) have to withstand the Arizona summers, and also 50km/h winds that drive sandstorms, fierce hail storms, torrential monsoon rains, and snow.
The solar panels that the previous owner of my house installed didn't work for ten years, and they were not neglected or abused.
This is enterprise fileserver level, not home directories, but I have about 1.5TB of data, in about 4 million files, that I replicate between two sites.
rsync totally breaks (runs out of memory) on a set of files this large.
I handled it by taking LTO-4 tapes to the location for the initial dump, and then using "find" to make incremental tars. Syncing deletions is still a problem. I don't have the budget for even the maintenance costs for netapp or EMC solutions.
>How are you going to tax me on a plant I can grow in my closet?
When you can go to the farmers market and buy four pounds for five dollars, the fifth dollar being the tax, you're not going to bother with closet horticulture.
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Thanks for the netbsd link. There is something in there that I might be able to plug into along with others from my shop.
Ownership Stake.
Don't take any position that offers no path to owning all or part of the business.
Directors and C-suite execs don't get there by promotion; they get there through investment -- taking an ownership stake.
Any other labor situation just makes you a wage slave.
"This is exactly what patents *should* be used for: secure rewards for innovators who take the risk of bringing out a future-leading product."
Using them as a weapon against your competition who *laughed at you* all the way into *bankruptcy* is just a bonus, a coup de grace.
"They SHOULD be making volt-style plugin series hybrids instead of Prius style parallel hybrids that have a direct connection between the gasoline engine and the wheels"
Well, are you in a position of authority in an auto company's R&D or Engineering division, or not? If not, with your superior understanding of what the automakers "should" do, why not?
I don't know how that's anything but a win-win situation.
They don't want to hire you (they don't want you to exist!), and you don't want to work for them. FTW, twice.
>If they don't have a definition for "beta" then why was it there in the first place?
They don't need a definition. If you were going to sue Google, they'd be able to say "Not only did it have no warranty, but it was also marked 'beta' which is common vernacular in the software industry for 'in testing' or 'if it breaks you get both pieces.'"
It would not be hard to get an expert witness to say that to a judge. I would.
I wish more projects were as well-organized as KDE.
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/KMail_Junior_Jobs#KMail_Junior_Jobs
Would you have been able to estimate the fine before this trial?
>I don't see how information presented in court is somehow private information.
There are situations where disclosures can obstruct justice, harm individuals, or violate rights.
"Other than the content background which I can get from reading novels, playing RPG's is about as exciting as moving numbers around a spreadsheet."
Because you said "reading novels" and not "writing novels", it's pretty clear why you don't get it.
>> do you really want to argue based on such an obvious deliberate selection bias?
. Microsoft is #1 in desktop software, Dell is #1 in desktop hardware, :),
. google is #1 in search,
. ebay (Pierre Omidyar) is #1 in auctions,
. facebook is #1 in social networking,
. Apple must be #1 in something
Amazing. You respond to a challenge of selection bias with an even narrower bias.
>Ah, but trademark rights do not protect against parody in the first place.
I always wondered about Wacky Packages, and my guess is that the advertisers paid to be parodied by them.
I still have a book that I stuck "Band-Ache" on in 1973. I still think it's hilarious.
>When something isn't in the Constitution, it then falls to the states to decide.
And the states cannot decide who does and who does not have a right to privacy.
My opinion doesn't rely on Roe v. Wade. I do not believe that a law proscribing abortion can be legal, because it applies only to women and therefore cannot provide equal protection to all genders.
>To this day, I have stuff that lasts 10 years, easily. I'm amazed (and envious) of US people being able to buy new clothing every year.
And they envy your retro wardrobe that doesn't even cost anything.
>None of these offer much better performance. None.
There are IBM and Sun systems that are in an entirely different league, in terms of IO and memory bandwidth, than any Intel- or AMD-flavored system.
>The Bible does mention specifically that these were brothers, the sons of the same father.
How many mothers?
>No, like how a Panasonic DVD burner would stifle your ability to burn non-Panasonic discs, if one did that.
Correction: if you *bought* one that did that.
The expression "caveat emptor" predates "electronics" by at least a thousand years.
The responsibility is on you to not buy a Panasonic camera.
AA Batteries are available in some of the most remote parts of the world too. It's a hard requirement for a whole lot of journalists, researchers, missionaries, etc.
If Panasonic knows of a manufacturing making unsafe batteries, they should get the proper authorities involved. Refusing to allow the unsafe batteries in their product protects them, but doesn't protect the public, and if they are keeping this information secret, they are potentially an accessory to a crime.
That *is* the lesson learned, and being followed.
There are other issues. A machine setup that can make a .5 inch bore to ten-thousandths of an inch precision, cannot necessarily be changed to make a 1.27cm bore with the same precision. Many of the machine tools used in aerospace are calibrated in SAE units, and the machines cannot be replaced economically, if at all -- lathes, milling machines, grinders etc., still in service since the 1960s or even 1940s, refit for CNC, still turning out high-precision work, and some of these cannot really be replaced.
Yes, you can calibrate a CNC milling machine to work in metric units, but precision in one system is not equivalent to precision in another system, especially when you're talking about a screw-calibrated device that is extremely accurate at whole units in its reference scale.
I'm only considering linear measurement here. When you're talking about rocket engines, I can only wonder how many physical equations have to change if you change the reference units of all the components.
In an ideal world, changing between measurement scales creates an equivalence set, but in the real world this is not such a foregone conclusion.
>But since I purchased a Wii, I have an instance that is now MY hardware, and I should be able to develop open source applications for it.
You can. You just have to do it without the SDK and without using any Nintendo trademarks. If there's some cryptographic control that tries to stop your bootloader from working, it's a grey area as to whether you can distribute a circumvention device.
Solar panels where I live (Arizona) have to withstand the Arizona summers, and also 50km/h winds that drive sandstorms, fierce hail storms, torrential monsoon rains, and snow.
The solar panels that the previous owner of my house installed didn't work for ten years, and they were not neglected or abused.
This is enterprise fileserver level, not home directories, but I have about 1.5TB of data, in about 4 million files, that I replicate between two sites.
rsync totally breaks (runs out of memory) on a set of files this large.
I handled it by taking LTO-4 tapes to the location for the initial dump, and then using "find" to make incremental tars. Syncing deletions is still a problem. I don't have the budget for even the maintenance costs for netapp or EMC solutions.
>How are you going to tax me on a plant I can grow in my closet?
When you can go to the farmers market and buy four pounds for five dollars, the fifth dollar being the tax, you're not going to bother with closet horticulture.
>Too many of US no longer understand the power inherent in the idea of inalienable rights but every despot does, witness how they hate us so.
Few people with your kind of idealism ever get anywhere in politics.