Revolutions changed the names of those in power. The common man is only interested in feeding and housing his family. Only when that is a threat to that are they willing to risk anything as they will not have anything to loose.
For now the risks are too high. In general we still have a reasonable comfortable lifestyle.
These revolutions also did not happen over night. There are many years of abuse of the people before anything really happens. So give it another 25-50 years or so and then we might see a serious revolution of the people. Now? Not so much.
There are not that many providers in Belgium. Skynet, Telenet, VOO and Scarlet are the biggest ones. I am at Dommel and they do not block. Evonet is a smaller one. Curious which ones are blocking piraatbaai.be
I also run my own DNS, so enough ways around it for me. If nothing else out of principle.
I agree. What I dislike about the majority of SF is that it treats each planet as a country. perhaps this is a copy of a US centric view of our own world. Perhaps it is because writers are lazy and don't want to bother with that kind of realism.
A more realistic situation would be that an other planet also has different political views spread around the planet. It will have tribes or countries with different points of view and inhabitants with different believes or at least grades of belief.
Instead it is most of the time "All of the planet are farmers" or "They all live like in the 16th century" or "all following one belief that is not Christian" and especially nice is the fact that all wear the same clothing all around the planet.
Walk around a city and you will see this is not true for humans. Even each individual will wear different clothing at different times as well, depending on what he will be doing. That is also the obvious reason they are all military. It gives a nice structure, which is much easier to handle for the story teller.
Try it with a company where people get replaced half way through or budget cuts don't allow things to happen anymore half way in a mission. "Sorry. We were ready to receive the cure for cancer from you in change of 100 tonnes of sand, but management have done a better deal to increase their profit margin, so tada and sorry that your species will be extinct in 2 weeks."
I have used metrics to show how BAD we were doing. The reason was under staffing. Management understands numbers, so if you can provide proof that your numbers are bad because of under staffing they can do something about it.
I one place they reduced the expectations. In another they increased the staffing. The latter because there were more things that needed to be done. Company that had grown and tasks that had been added.
You should however give numbers as team numbers, not as individual numbers. The team is too small for that.
Comparing it to other companies is not a good thing. What s importand is what the perception in your company is. Do you get feedback from people and if so, what is it? Do people sound frustrated if they forgot their password, because it means 4 hours before you answer a ticket?
Even those 4 hours could be a reason for showing you are understaffed and under performing. In Europe 3 people means there is almost every other week somebody on holiday. Add one person sick and you will have serious issues if the third has a flat tire.
Metrics as with statistics is a way to proove your point, so look at what YOU want to achieve and back that up with numbers. If possible with financial numbers as well. e.g. a fourth person would cost X but would gain the company Y.
Managers love that shit. It does not mean you would get that 4rth person, but if people complain, you can show them the numbers and blame management. If the right people see it, they will start pushing management and a year later it will be included in the new budget.
My parents do not have a computer. If they want cash, they go to the bank. That is what they pay with. If they have bills, they go to the bank. If they want to transfer money to the grand kids who live in another country, they go to the bank.
the problem is the opening hours of banks. I could not do it. Not because I can't pay with cash, but because banking hours are during the time most people work.
I know a LOT of people who have no idea how this internet stuff should work. Especially not for paying things. (What is a login? What password must I choose?)
The fact that you (or I) do not have a problem does not mean nobody has a problem. Plenty of people still fall for the scam to click here to verify their credit card is still valid and secure.
Some call these people stupid. I don't. The fact that there are still mails going around like that means that there are plenty of people who have no idea how things work.
and we have a beta version available for all the staff to use
First you seek key users. These will be the people who should be testing your software. See that they are a good mix of people of technical knowledge and level of command, depending on who must work with it.
That key group must be already availble to you at the beginning, naming demands. This will mean actual meetings. In the beginning you will hear all the complaints about the current sftware, so you have to dilute what all want. Show mockups to them at later meetings. That way they will see that you listen to them.
Once they notice that AND they are sure it will be an improvement, they will WANT to betatest for you. Not only that, they will be your advocates who will make people also WANT to use it.
As this is a small group of people it is easy to explain them how to file bug reports. Next you do a tryout on one department where your most energetic test member is located who also. Ask (not tell) them to do the test. Still small enough to do an explanation on how bugreports should be done and what you are looking for.
Once that is done, and you are ready for the whole rollout, have a webpage set up that is easy to use. SOme simple technical questions and some fields with likes and dislikes.
Ask the test members to see that as many people have answerd and publish the result and also do something if major issues arise. Especially in the beginning. This will make more people aware that you listen and will be more willing to help with the next project.
The downside is that suddenly YOU are the one that requests meetings and have social contact.
You mean if I delete my/. account all my comments will be gone? What about the quoted comments? Is it actually possible to delete my content on Slashdot?
I do not have an account with Facebook, because I do not like what they are, but in their defence, once I have shared my data willingly with others, then it will becomes their data as well. Sort of What has been seen can not be unseen.
If I give you a copy of my work, then I should not be able to ask it back and that is what people are doing.
advertisers are only going to want to advertise where it's effective.
They, just like spammers, do not look at the individual. They look at the whole campaign. Adding more people to those who see it will increase the amount of buyers. So as long as the income from one buyer exceeds the cost, they will go for it.
As you stated you are no customer of them, they don't care about you. Why should they? The price of not showing it to you is higher then showing it to you and not getting any revenue.
All people on the internet are monitored all the time. I am not paranoia, I KNOW that I am being followed. Look at the amount of cameras in the UK.
Verification is not needed as they will not allow us to verify them so the numbers will not be correct.
They tell us that they need more police money because people FEEL less safe, not because they ARE. We now FEEL that we must have more insight into what is going on, so give it.
That's your problem right there. Short term thinking. At some point the companies will charge you for whatever it is you sell from them. Unless you never buy anything from any company, you will be paying for it.
A tip: Another way of paying for your heating is just by taking all the wood from your neighbors house: win for you.
I also dislike the handing out of samples in the supermarket (and as I live in Europe, this includes alcoholic beverages). Supermarkets are the worst. All they want to do is cross sell.
The only defense is to make up a shopping list and stick to it. If you forgot to write toilet paper on the list. Go home, write a new list and go back. Very soon you will see you are buying less shit to trow away and you won't forget things to write down.
Writing a list is not hard. Sticking to it is. That will show you how easy you are lured into buying stuff you thought you did not need.
From what I understand, once the police tries to arrest somebody, they will almost always say "presumed armed and dangerous" so that they can use any force they like to use. Even handcuffed people sitting on the ground are "presumed armed and dangerous".
Using over the top measures is not a cool thing.for society.
And then they buy a law that copyrights will not be lawful for individuals or new businesses or anybody except the select few. They will change the laws to what they want it to be.
Your idea might work if all were equal by the law. As we know, some are more equal then others.
It would be fun if ALL decide to first quit their job and then sell their stock. It would be fun for me. No more facebook anymore as well as no millionaires.
The generally accepted way of doing this is to charge for piecework, not hours.
Another name for this would be Hollywood Accounting.
If the book says it takes 3 hours to change out the brake calipers on your car and they do it while you wait in 60 minutes but charge you the three hours, are you going to complain?
Hell yes. If you charge me for three hours and you did not do three hours, I would complain. If I asked you to do my brake calipers and you only did half of them as the other half did not need to be changed out, and you still charged for all of them I would also complain.
Now what you can do is indeed charge per piecework. But then you must also take the losses if it doesn't take 3 hours like the book says, but 6 hours.
So the problem with TFA is that he charged something that he then did not deliver. Be it piecework, be it work hours, be it actual code. If you charge for something that you did not deliver then yes, I would complain.
I go to my doctor. If it is not during standard visiting hours, I go to the doctor on duty. If my doctor is not in, I go to a different one.
I once went there with a sprained ankle and he told me to go to the hospital immediately. The time I would have won if I would have gone directly to the hospital is about 30 minutes.
All of them take my insurance. I am not even sure the hospital takes cash.
Hospitals will let me wait for much longer to deal with people who actually need hospital care. They will not send you away, but explain that the next time to please not waste their time but contact a doctor first. This can also mean just calling him and explaining the situation. He will know you and will be able to decide if coming over is a good idea or directly going to the hospital is better.
So the solution would be to contact your doctor and ask HIM what you must do. Oh yeah, I am from communist Europe, so we don't bother that much about insured or non-insured.
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Revolutions changed the names of those in power. The common man is only interested in feeding and housing his family. Only when that is a threat to that are they willing to risk anything as they will not have anything to loose.
For now the risks are too high. In general we still have a reasonable comfortable lifestyle.
These revolutions also did not happen over night. There are many years of abuse of the people before anything really happens. So give it another 25-50 years or so and then we might see a serious revolution of the people. Now? Not so much.
There are not that many providers in Belgium.
Skynet, Telenet, VOO and Scarlet are the biggest ones.
I am at Dommel and they do not block. Evonet is a smaller one.
Curious which ones are blocking piraatbaai.be
I also run my own DNS, so enough ways around it for me. If nothing else out of principle.
I agree. What I dislike about the majority of SF is that it treats each planet as a country. perhaps this is a copy of a US centric view of our own world. Perhaps it is because writers are lazy and don't want to bother with that kind of realism.
A more realistic situation would be that an other planet also has different political views spread around the planet. It will have tribes or countries with different points of view and inhabitants with different believes or at least grades of belief.
Instead it is most of the time "All of the planet are farmers" or "They all live like in the 16th century" or "all following one belief that is not Christian" and especially nice is the fact that all wear the same clothing all around the planet.
Walk around a city and you will see this is not true for humans. Even each individual will wear different clothing at different times as well, depending on what he will be doing. That is also the obvious reason they are all military. It gives a nice structure, which is much easier to handle for the story teller.
Try it with a company where people get replaced half way through or budget cuts don't allow things to happen anymore half way in a mission. "Sorry. We were ready to receive the cure for cancer from you in change of 100 tonnes of sand, but management have done a better deal to increase their profit margin, so tada and sorry that your species will be extinct in 2 weeks."
Basicaly each TOS is: You don't have any rights unless you are a big company, so shut up.
I have used metrics to show how BAD we were doing. The reason was under staffing. Management understands numbers, so if you can provide proof that your numbers are bad because of under staffing they can do something about it.
I one place they reduced the expectations. In another they increased the staffing. The latter because there were more things that needed to be done. Company that had grown and tasks that had been added.
You should however give numbers as team numbers, not as individual numbers. The team is too small for that.
Comparing it to other companies is not a good thing. What s importand is what the perception in your company is. Do you get feedback from people and if so, what is it? Do people sound frustrated if they forgot their password, because it means 4 hours before you answer a ticket?
Even those 4 hours could be a reason for showing you are understaffed and under performing. In Europe 3 people means there is almost every other week somebody on holiday. Add one person sick and you will have serious issues if the third has a flat tire.
Metrics as with statistics is a way to proove your point, so look at what YOU want to achieve and back that up with numbers. If possible with financial numbers as well. e.g. a fourth person would cost X but would gain the company Y.
Managers love that shit. It does not mean you would get that 4rth person, but if people complain, you can show them the numbers and blame management. If the right people see it, they will start pushing management and a year later it will be included in the new budget.
That is your problem right there, because there is no difference.
My parents do not have a computer. If they want cash, they go to the bank. That is what they pay with. If they have bills, they go to the bank. If they want to transfer money to the grand kids who live in another country, they go to the bank.
the problem is the opening hours of banks. I could not do it. Not because I can't pay with cash, but because banking hours are during the time most people work.
I know a LOT of people who have no idea how this internet stuff should work. Especially not for paying things. (What is a login? What password must I choose?)
The fact that you (or I) do not have a problem does not mean nobody has a problem. Plenty of people still fall for the scam to click here to verify their credit card is still valid and secure.
Some call these people stupid. I don't. The fact that there are still mails going around like that means that there are plenty of people who have no idea how things work.
First you seek key users. These will be the people who should be testing your software. See that they are a good mix of people of technical knowledge and level of command, depending on who must work with it.
That key group must be already availble to you at the beginning, naming demands. This will mean actual meetings. In the beginning you will hear all the complaints about the current sftware, so you have to dilute what all want. Show mockups to them at later meetings. That way they will see that you listen to them.
Once they notice that AND they are sure it will be an improvement, they will WANT to betatest for you. Not only that, they will be your advocates who will make people also WANT to use it.
As this is a small group of people it is easy to explain them how to file bug reports. Next you do a tryout on one department where your most energetic test member is located who also. Ask (not tell) them to do the test. Still small enough to do an explanation on how bugreports should be done and what you are looking for.
Once that is done, and you are ready for the whole rollout, have a webpage set up that is easy to use. SOme simple technical questions and some fields with likes and dislikes.
Ask the test members to see that as many people have answerd and publish the result and also do something if major issues arise. Especially in the beginning. This will make more people aware that you listen and will be more willing to help with the next project.
The downside is that suddenly YOU are the one that requests meetings and have social contact.
It is easy to ensure. Don't have a facebook account.
My opinion is personal to me. I voice them on /. How am I am able to destroy this or all messages I posted?
It starts earlier. The standard option should be opt-out. In fact anything and everything should be opt-out by default.
You mean if I delete my /. account all my comments will be gone? What about the quoted comments?
Is it actually possible to delete my content on Slashdot?
I do not have an account with Facebook, because I do not like what they are, but in their defence, once I have shared my data willingly with others, then it will becomes their data as well. Sort of What has been seen can not be unseen.
If I give you a copy of my work, then I should not be able to ask it back and that is what people are doing.
They, just like spammers, do not look at the individual. They look at the whole campaign.
Adding more people to those who see it will increase the amount of buyers.
So as long as the income from one buyer exceeds the cost, they will go for it.
As you stated you are no customer of them, they don't care about you. Why should they? The price of not showing it to you is higher then showing it to you and not getting any revenue.
We are the government, we can't work that fast, but we are working on it.
All people on the internet are monitored all the time. I am not paranoia, I KNOW that I am being followed.
Look at the amount of cameras in the UK.
Verification is not needed as they will not allow us to verify them so the numbers will not be correct.
They tell us that they need more police money because people FEEL less safe, not because they ARE. We now FEEL that we must have more insight into what is going on, so give it.
That's your problem right there. Short term thinking. At some point the companies will charge you for whatever it is you sell from them.
Unless you never buy anything from any company, you will be paying for it.
A tip: Another way of paying for your heating is just by taking all the wood from your neighbors house: win for you.
I also dislike the handing out of samples in the supermarket (and as I live in Europe, this includes alcoholic beverages).
Supermarkets are the worst. All they want to do is cross sell.
The only defense is to make up a shopping list and stick to it. If you forgot to write toilet paper on the list. Go home, write a new list and go back. Very soon you will see you are buying less shit to trow away and you won't forget things to write down.
Writing a list is not hard. Sticking to it is. That will show you how easy you are lured into buying stuff you thought you did not need.
And those that did not know that Google Ads was suddenly allowed.
If anything, it should be opt-out as standard.
From what I understand, once the police tries to arrest somebody, they will almost always say "presumed armed and dangerous" so that they can use any force they like to use.
Even handcuffed people sitting on the ground are "presumed armed and dangerous".
Using over the top measures is not a cool thing.for society.
And then they buy a law that copyrights will not be lawful for individuals or new businesses or anybody except the select few.
They will change the laws to what they want it to be.
Your idea might work if all were equal by the law. As we know, some are more equal then others.
It would be fun if ALL decide to first quit their job and then sell their stock.
It would be fun for me. No more facebook anymore as well as no millionaires.
Another name for this would be Hollywood Accounting.
Hell yes. If you charge me for three hours and you did not do three hours, I would complain. If I asked you to do my brake calipers and you only did half of them as the other half did not need to be changed out, and you still charged for all of them I would also complain.
Now what you can do is indeed charge per piecework. But then you must also take the losses if it doesn't take 3 hours like the book says, but 6 hours.
So the problem with TFA is that he charged something that he then did not deliver. Be it piecework, be it work hours, be it actual code. If you charge for something that you did not deliver then yes, I would complain.
I go to my doctor. If it is not during standard visiting hours, I go to the doctor on duty. If my doctor is not in, I go to a different one.
I once went there with a sprained ankle and he told me to go to the hospital immediately. The time I would have won if I would have gone directly to the hospital is about 30 minutes.
All of them take my insurance. I am not even sure the hospital takes cash.
Hospitals will let me wait for much longer to deal with people who actually need hospital care. They will not send you away, but explain that the next time to please not waste their time but contact a doctor first. This can also mean just calling him and explaining the situation.
He will know you and will be able to decide if coming over is a good idea or directly going to the hospital is better.
So the solution would be to contact your doctor and ask HIM what you must do. Oh yeah, I am from communist Europe, so we don't bother that much about insured or non-insured.
You know the world is fucked up if "groups of companies sharing patents" is seen as a good alternative.
"No patents" should be the alternative.
They are not the copyright holders. They get raped by the copyright holders.
Don't blame the devil for doing bad things with your sole after you sold it to him.