The travesty here isn't that someone is writing sequels to the original series. The travesty is that his heirs still have a monopoly on the series, 57 years later.
I agree. It isn't sad that a person writes a follow up. It is sad that only one person is allowed to do so. We are not allowed to stand on the shoulders of giants anymore.
When I was young, an ongoing joke was the question 'Is fertility passed on by the parents." Now you could start asking that question. Also there is a trend of finding slimmer women more attractive. In the past this ment that those would be having more children.
However with the pill and other contraceptives, it looks as if the most attractive (in a biological way) females have LESS babies.
The result of this all will be that we have a lot of ugly kids. Perhaps the division becomes so great that we will separate as species and become two.
You decided to live in another country. Or take a job that would very likely make you live in another country.
It is not as if illegal Canadians living in the USofA are blocked. It would be silly that one person who lives in Belgium can see it and the other not, solely on nationality.
I hope there is an 'opt out' for people who do not want it. It is my data and I would like to do with it as I please. But most likely it won't be my data anyway to start with.
I can imagine the geek that found out that the date was wrong: "Mmm. Either I can have sex for the first time, or I can tell the whole world they are wrong."
The more efficient models are then pushed down the replacement path through different social stratums, while every 'wealth level' gets an upgrade and a more fuel efficient car.
This goes on with those who have NO car at this moment and will then be able to buy one. So no reduction of fuel, but instead addition of the fuel efficient cars at the top.
If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources.
Instead of trowing it away, you could not prepare it in the first place. From an environmental point of view what this means is less food produced and processed with all the extra things we do to get that food on our plate (and then give to the animals) I buy in general enough food to not go hungry, but if I would have a dog and that should live from the leftovers, I am sure I will be arrested for animal cruelty.
Your dog does not give back in fertilizer all the extra energy used to get that food on your plate.
And although I think the idea is far fetched, It will come to some very nice discussions in the pub when somebody attacks me for not taking public transport and drive around for fun in the weekend, while he has 2 dogs.:-D
Everyone knows that news outlets are 95% of time totally correct. The other 5% of the time, its stuff I know about.
I once asked a internet magazine in Belgium why they would print all the wrong information. Their asnwer was that the people who knew the right answers would not read it and people who don't would not mind. They also 'tested' speed to and from providers while they had only one single account they recieved for free from a provider.
Strangely enough that provider was always the fastest. What they did was just a ping to the providers website. Uncompetent!
The hardware tests they did were basicaly copy and paste from the press releases.
A newspaper I once contacted to pint out that the story they published was untrue was answerd by 'we can not release the source of our information'.
In all honesty that same newspaper interviewed me once. They re-read the interview, did the changes I requested and almost verbatim placed it in their newspaper. The trick with talking to journmalists is that you must know what you want to say and then say it as if you were talking to a 6 year old. Short centences. Not using the word 'no' also helps.
Just say what you want. I did not ignore the question, but looked at it not as something I needed to answer, but rather take the subject and comment on that subject.
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
They might not care how others think of them in other dimensions such as clothing, hygiene, sociability, etc. but [...]
Yesterday I saw a compilation of beaty and the geek. All of them wanted to be accepted in a social enviroment in some way or another. And all where amazed when they had their makeover done.
If all these geeks are so smart, could they not figure that out themselves?
If you want to be accepted by another social group, you will need to 'fit in'. That means you will need to go take a haircut, shave and take a shower once in a while. Also buy some differnt clothes to wear once in a while. Analyze, if you will, what other people wear and why and just copy that.
Looking good does not mean you can't remember how to write perl.
Yes, I do think about what clothes I am wearing each day and what I want to bring across. During my work I wear something else then during my evenings out or to a Linux convention. To me it the clothes and such are just a tool to achieve what I want to achieve. Even my facial hair is influenced by what other people think and say. It is not importand to me, but apparently it is to others. As it is not importand to me, why should I care wether I shave, have a goatie or a long beard?
Scandinavian languages have three words for "yes" and "no", the last one only when replying to negated sentences.
Same with French where you have Oui, Non and Si. The klast one is used when disagreeing with a negative question. "Don't you have a degree? Si. (Yes, I have a degree.)".
Actually, yes. Well-preserved printed books can and do last for centuries.
Well, there you have the reason why publishing houses are so against it. What clearly must happen is that the lifespan of books must be shorter AND extend the copyright on them much longer.
That way you and the people after you will have to buy a new version every time. Imagine that you are able to read a book in a few hundred years without buying the book. That would mean the writer would not get his share. This is all just for protecting the writers. Seriously.
Now you see that Shakespear does not get any money any more because he is not protected by copyright and as a result he has stopped writing. As a result of not having an income he DIED. Not having unlimited copyright kills people.
HR is not worthless, it is just that they should not do the shifting of the jobs. They think it is a service and an obligation to do this for the rest of the company.
The ideal solution is: 1) selection by the department. Get down to e.g. 10 people you want to see) 2) First interview by the department and somebody from HR.
HR do have people (or should have people) who can ask better questions about personality and notice often better if that are any holes in their story. They do not know what kind of skills that person needs and won't know what kind of person you are looking for. No matter how often you explain it to them. Not their fold they can not look into your head.
It is as if you say that you like blondes and the one you marry is a brunette. Sometimes you see a combination of things that makes it overrule the things you said before and it would be a pitty if that one you would never meet, because somebody says "he does not like brunettes".
Same with the shifting by HR. You might find the ideal person in the pile that they trow away.
Sell this to HR as doing them a favour by taking some workload of their back without costing them money or budget.
I will skim the first pages to look at the work experiences and the line of interest. I am very interested in jobs outside their expertise, as that means they are either willing to work or they can do more then just one thing.
People can change their interests and I rather have somebody who has experience in sales and then went into then somebody who only knows coding. The first might understand our customers need and how to react to it, the second might not.
As we generally ask several people to come to the job interview, they will both have an equal chance, but I will see to it that there is at least one that has a mixed working experience and (from memory) they have a higher chance of actually being hired.
But then we want to hire people who are also able to fit in the group and are able to communicate. We are not offended by people who just want to do their job and not communicate with anybody and just code. It is just that you won't like it with us.
I agree that anybody could be in front of it. A better way might be using just your bluetooth to detect if your phone is at your desk. For me that works as I seldom leave without my phone.
I was thinking that this was about the "live CD" part. What if there excisted a "Live Windows" Would that be OK to use? Would a "real Linux" so not via live CD be OK?
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I agree. It isn't sad that a person writes a follow up. It is sad that only one person is allowed to do so.
We are not allowed to stand on the shoulders of giants anymore.
The idea is to get things posted on /. and then see what ideas WE can come up with as to why anybody would do this.
Kind of a brainstorming on a grand scale.
When I was young, an ongoing joke was the question 'Is fertility passed on by the parents." Now you could start asking that question. Also there is a trend of finding slimmer women more attractive. In the past this ment that those would be having more children.
However with the pill and other contraceptives, it looks as if the most attractive (in a biological way) females have LESS babies.
The result of this all will be that we have a lot of ugly kids. Perhaps the division becomes so great that we will separate as species and become two.
You decided to live in another country. Or take a job that would very likely make you live in another country.
It is not as if illegal Canadians living in the USofA are blocked. It would be silly that one person who lives in Belgium can see it and the other not, solely on nationality.
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I hope there is an 'opt out' for people who do not want it. It is my data and I would like to do with it as I please. But most likely it won't be my data anyway to start with.
I personally would hate that if people did that with me. OTOH I will be dead so it won't bother me.
I can imagine the geek that found out that the date was wrong: "Mmm. Either I can have sex for the first time, or I can tell the whole world they are wrong."
Well, the URL was in the summery. Wait! What?
The problem with protecting against the next way of attacking is that the protection is more harmfull then the (possible) attack itself.
Instead of trowing it away, you could not prepare it in the first place.
From an environmental point of view what this means is less food produced and processed with all the extra things we do to get that food on our plate (and then give to the animals)
I buy in general enough food to not go hungry, but if I would have a dog and that should live from the leftovers, I am sure I will be arrested for animal cruelty.
Your dog does not give back in fertilizer all the extra energy used to get that food on your plate.
And although I think the idea is far fetched, It will come to some very nice discussions in the pub when somebody attacks me for not taking public transport and drive around for fun in the weekend, while he has 2 dogs. :-D
I once asked a internet magazine in Belgium why they would print all the wrong information. Their asnwer was that the people who knew the right answers would not read it and people who don't would not mind.
They also 'tested' speed to and from providers while they had only one single account they recieved for free from a provider.
Strangely enough that provider was always the fastest. What they did was just a ping to the providers website. Uncompetent!
The hardware tests they did were basicaly copy and paste from the press releases.
A newspaper I once contacted to pint out that the story they published was untrue was answerd by 'we can not release the source of our information'.
In all honesty that same newspaper interviewed me once. They re-read the interview, did the changes I requested and almost verbatim placed it in their newspaper. The trick with talking to journmalists is that you must know what you want to say and then say it as if you were talking to a 6 year old. Short centences. Not using the word 'no' also helps.
Just say what you want. I did not ignore the question, but looked at it not as something I needed to answer, but rather take the subject and comment on that subject.
Can you pay 0? Or even negative numbers?
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything.
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe
anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
Yesterday I saw a compilation of beaty and the geek. All of them wanted to be accepted in a social enviroment in some way or another. And all where amazed when they had their makeover done.
If all these geeks are so smart, could they not figure that out themselves?
If you want to be accepted by another social group, you will need to 'fit in'. That means you will need to go take a haircut, shave and take a shower once in a while. Also buy some differnt clothes to wear once in a while. Analyze, if you will, what other people wear and why and just copy that.
Looking good does not mean you can't remember how to write perl.
Yes, I do think about what clothes I am wearing each day and what I want to bring across. During my work I wear something else then during my evenings out or to a Linux convention. To me it the clothes and such are just a tool to achieve what I want to achieve. Even my facial hair is influenced by what other people think and say. It is not importand to me, but apparently it is to others. As it is not importand to me, why should I care wether I shave, have a goatie or a long beard?
Same with French where you have Oui, Non and Si. The klast one is used when disagreeing with a negative question. "Don't you have a degree? Si. (Yes, I have a degree.)".
Well, there you have the reason why publishing houses are so against it. What clearly must happen is that the lifespan of books must be shorter AND extend the copyright on them much longer.
That way you and the people after you will have to buy a new version every time. Imagine that you are able to read a book in a few hundred years without buying the book. That would mean the writer would not get his share. This is all just for protecting the writers. Seriously.
Now you see that Shakespear does not get any money any more because he is not protected by copyright and as a result he has stopped writing. As a result of not having an income he DIED. Not having unlimited copyright kills people.
HR is not worthless, it is just that they should not do the shifting of the jobs. They think it is a service and an obligation to do this for the rest of the company.
The ideal solution is:
1) selection by the department. Get down to e.g. 10 people you want to see)
2) First interview by the department and somebody from HR.
HR do have people (or should have people) who can ask better questions about personality and notice often better if that are any holes in their story. They do not know what kind of skills that person needs and won't know what kind of person you are looking for. No matter how often you explain it to them. Not their fold they can not look into your head.
It is as if you say that you like blondes and the one you marry is a brunette. Sometimes you see a combination of things that makes it overrule the things you said before and it would be a pitty if that one you would never meet, because somebody says "he does not like brunettes".
Same with the shifting by HR. You might find the ideal person in the pile that they trow away.
Sell this to HR as doing them a favour by taking some workload of their back without costing them money or budget.
I will skim the first pages to look at the work experiences and the line of interest. I am very interested in jobs outside their expertise, as that means they are either willing to work or they can do more then just one thing.
People can change their interests and I rather have somebody who has experience in sales and then went into then somebody who only knows coding. The first might understand our customers need and how to react to it, the second might not.
As we generally ask several people to come to the job interview, they will both have an equal chance, but I will see to it that there is at least one that has a mixed working experience and (from memory) they have a higher chance of actually being hired.
But then we want to hire people who are also able to fit in the group and are able to communicate. We are not offended by people who just want to do their job and not communicate with anybody and just code. It is just that you won't like it with us.
This begs for an "except for , what did the governments ever did for us" joke.
Capitalism does not route around the damage, it INSTALLS the damage. A monopoly is damage.
I agree that anybody could be in front of it. A better way might be using just your bluetooth to detect if your phone is at your desk. For me that works as I seldom leave without my phone.
I was thinking that this was about the "live CD" part. What if there excisted a "Live Windows" Would that be OK to use? Would a "real Linux" so not via live CD be OK?