More otfen than not, when people try a different browser they like it better than IE after they get used to the fact that it's different.
Most people I know would therefore never use it, because they don't want to get used to something else. Nerds want to use a browser. Others just want to see a website. The people do not see the advantage of trying out something else, even when explained what the advantages are. If those people can see the websites in IE that they want to see, why would they change? Obviously they have no idea what they are missing. That also implies that they do not miss it.
Car example: Explain somebody the advantages of driving with stick, while all he has ever done is drive an automatic for 25 years.
I hear this excuse 'it is only a slap on the wrist' excuse all the time. Do understand that it is a fine, just like a fine for a speeding ticket. If you get one you don't go broke. However it will tell you to play by the rules. The second time it will be a bit more and the fines will go up. If you still go on, you will looses your license. If you go on, you will go to jail.
The same here. This is a slap, the next will be heftier and if they go on, they will see to it that they will follow the law.
The fine is not intended to bankrupt them it ios intended as a slap on the wrist and that is a good thing.
You should not surf on company time. That is it. There it should stop. Wether that is pr0n or/. should be irrelevant. And if you want to save the children, DON'T take them to the work space. Where I live we have a pretty good insurance system, but if you take your kid and something happens to the kid, the chances are very hight that the insurance will pull back and pay nothing.
What you are saying is that porn (you can say the word, we know what you mean) is bad, but looking at violence is OK. Or playing games is OK. The first I would think is more harmfull for your children (at least I hope you try to protect your children and not somebody elses) the second also will try to install a lot of extras.
By using "the children" to punish people who watch porn is to me like raping the future freedom of those same children you try to protect. Instead of protecting them, educate them. yeah that costs more time. Should have thought about that before you started with children.
Trademarks are not a bad thing. It makes it clear what you can expect. If I download firefox, I would like to know what I am getting (for better or for worse). Now If I would make a fork that has a completely different aproach and won't work with certain plugins (like Adblock), you will think that Firefox is bad. Well it is, but it is my version, not the one somebody else made.
So I do understand the need for trademarks. Now how do companies deal with trademarks is a different question.
It is e.g. perfectly possible to re-distribute openSUSE as it is. It is also extremely easy to make your own openSUSE distribution that includes e.g. MPlayer, the codecs and libdvdcss and some other stuff that might be illegal or forbidden.
So what they say is to be able to do that to either contact them (If you are a magazine, they will be very helpfull and have often a special distro just for you) or to remove all the branding. I contacted them and their legal department where very appologetic in saying that they could not change anything about it due to the fact that they MUST react to any trademark issue.
So instead they made a toold that makes it easy to remove those trademarks, so it is now even easier to make something like CentOS but from SLE or openSUSE and even get the help from Novell to do so.
OTOH I do not see why teachers would be an exception. They should teaching us stuff, including what is right and what is wrong. Where did I do my first copyright violations? Yep, many many years before the Internet was available. I did it by making copies of books.
Not only did I do that, my teacher told me to do so. Even then I knew something wrong was going on, as the first copy I was sure to make was the copyright notice. I thought it was pretty ironic. I also thought that it was allowed, because my teacher told me to do so.
So if making copies is legal, what is all the fuzz about? In my mind if I do not make money of it by selling the copies, it s OK. (Luckily my government things about the same).
So the teachers taught me wrong and as everybody knows, making copies is a stepping stone thing. One day you make a copy of your CD so it won't scratch and before you know it, you sell crack to kids to finance the terrorists.
If it is a business, it is about money. Otherwise it would be a hobby.
Also if they buy you and employ you, you would be an employee and can be fired. The moment you sell it, it isn't your baby anymore. If there is a potential of big money, perhaps selling is not the way forward, but rather selling part of it. Think Dragons Den. The advantage for you is that you get the power of the big company. The advantage of the big company is that you still be financialy comited to the product so you will work harder and won't quit if something else comes along.
You also say it is a group of friends. Realize that in the long run working with more then 3 people will be very unlikely and even 2 won't be always easy.
What also could be possible is that the company wants to buy you to put it on a shelf and let you rot there.
Depending how many people are involved, I would look at selling shares and if there are more then 3 friends, sell the whole thing, take the money and then see if the offer to work there is good as an employee. I would realize that I should be making a LOT of money, as I would be one of the experts on the product.
And also look at how the shares are now devided compared to the workload and what ig corp has to offer. Are you all geeks and no sales people? Is everybody developing and nobody reasearching? Is everybody pulling their weight? If the latter is also not true, sell, because it won't change and it will be much more frustrating along the line then now.
And one last word. If you sold it, it isn't yours anymore. It will be Big Corp who owns the next Google or Playboy, although I am sure they will never let it grow that big. What makes things grow big most often is one individual behind it. (Microsoft is an exeption, but that is a marketing company)
At home I use a wireless trackball. At work I use a wired trackball. The reason is that at one point or another, the batteries go flat and you can't work anymore. Obviously at just that moment you will need to finish a report and there are no other batteries available.
At home I just stop doing what I was doing on the computer and do something else while the batteries recharge.
So whatever you decide, keep that in mind as well.
Concerning the use of an extra USB port you should look how often it happens that you don't have enough or use them all. Also look at how your ports are positioned and how large the USB dongle is. I have three ports on my portable, but often can only use 2, because the USB keys overlap the middle one.
It is still much more dangerous to cross the street for lunch, how about a banner to Stop for Pedestrians:(
The active word is still and we must see that it stays that way. When a person gets killed while crossing the road, he does not let 8 others cross the road to get killed and who then force others to get killed crossing the road.
The problem is that we do not know how dangerous it could become. 1 or even 100 cases (or more?) cases can be easily controlled and if that means 100 or 1000 people dying, that means nothing.
Look what happend in 1918 It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide. 20 million (when looking at the low numbers and not calculating a higher world population) would be a tad more then people who get killed crossing the road.
So we must not look at what happend, but what might happen. We just do not know how dangerous the wolf is and if we should cry wolf.
It is the whole "opt out" that makes this a bad thing. Google approaches everything with "but you can opt out". When Google does it is is good, when spammers do it, it is bad. Or that seems to be the general idea.
I would like to see "opt in" on everything. Going from the robot.txt that should be an opt-in and not an opt-out to anything else.
"But I won't be able to find webpage XYZ" I hear you moan. Well, if they did not add an opt-in, perhaps they don't WANT to be found.
I do realize that it is way too late for this and that there is a difference between what I want and what actually happens.
Yet "Opt out" is not a good thing, be it Spammers or Google.
Unfortunately for people who experienced the collapse of the WTC towers first hand, low flying planes crashing into buildings is something that could reasonably happen, and one could argue that it is not sane to wait and see if an unusually low flying plane is actually going to crash into a building before taking steps to save one's life.
I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.
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Most people I know would therefore never use it, because they don't want to get used to something else.
Nerds want to use a browser. Others just want to see a website.
The people do not see the advantage of trying out something else, even when explained what the advantages are.
If those people can see the websites in IE that they want to see, why would they change? Obviously they have no idea what they are missing. That also implies that they do not miss it.
Car example: Explain somebody the advantages of driving with stick, while all he has ever done is drive an automatic for 25 years.
Any I missed?
About all the Linux distributions.
The Greek people beg to differ.
I hear this excuse 'it is only a slap on the wrist' excuse all the time. Do understand that it is a fine, just like a fine for a speeding ticket. If you get one you don't go broke. However it will tell you to play by the rules.
The second time it will be a bit more and the fines will go up. If you still go on, you will looses your license. If you go on, you will go to jail.
The same here. This is a slap, the next will be heftier and if they go on, they will see to it that they will follow the law.
The fine is not intended to bankrupt them it ios intended as a slap on the wrist and that is a good thing.
Sucks to be you. Even this remark got a +5 insightful instead of a funny.
OTOH if you start doing this, you would loose the thing you wanted to protect in the first place.
... you should not make the law stricter, you should change the law.
You should not surf on company time. That is it. There it should stop. Wether that is pr0n or /. should be irrelevant. And if you want to save the children, DON'T take them to the work space. Where I live we have a pretty good insurance system, but if you take your kid and something happens to the kid, the chances are very hight that the insurance will pull back and pay nothing.
What you are saying is that porn (you can say the word, we know what you mean) is bad, but looking at violence is OK. Or playing games is OK. The first I would think is more harmfull for your children (at least I hope you try to protect your children and not somebody elses) the second also will try to install a lot of extras.
By using "the children" to punish people who watch porn is to me like raping the future freedom of those same children you try to protect. Instead of protecting them, educate them. yeah that costs more time. Should have thought about that before you started with children.
Who mod this funny? If you think about it, it should be modded "truthfully scary".
I agree, just look at OJ Simpson.
Well, You can watch Wolverine online already at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYSyvIbTAJA and decide for yourself.
Trademarks are not a bad thing. It makes it clear what you can expect. If I download firefox, I would like to know what I am getting (for better or for worse). Now If I would make a fork that has a completely different aproach and won't work with certain plugins (like Adblock), you will think that Firefox is bad. Well it is, but it is my version, not the one somebody else made.
So I do understand the need for trademarks. Now how do companies deal with trademarks is a different question.
It is e.g. perfectly possible to re-distribute openSUSE as it is. It is also extremely easy to make your own openSUSE distribution that includes e.g. MPlayer, the codecs and libdvdcss and some other stuff that might be illegal or forbidden.
So what they say is to be able to do that to either contact them (If you are a magazine, they will be very helpfull and have often a special distro just for you) or to remove all the branding. I contacted them and their legal department where very appologetic in saying that they could not change anything about it due to the fact that they MUST react to any trademark issue.
So instead they made a toold that makes it easy to remove those trademarks, so it is now even easier to make something like CentOS but from SLE or openSUSE and even get the help from Novell to do so.
I doubt something will be done anytime soon.
OTOH I do not see why teachers would be an exception. They should teaching us stuff, including what is right and what is wrong. Where did I do my first copyright violations? Yep, many many years before the Internet was available. I did it by making copies of books.
Not only did I do that, my teacher told me to do so. Even then I knew something wrong was going on, as the first copy I was sure to make was the copyright notice. I thought it was pretty ironic. I also thought that it was allowed, because my teacher told me to do so.
So if making copies is legal, what is all the fuzz about? In my mind if I do not make money of it by selling the copies, it s OK. (Luckily my government things about the same).
So the teachers taught me wrong and as everybody knows, making copies is a stepping stone thing. One day you make a copy of your CD so it won't scratch and before you know it, you sell crack to kids to finance the terrorists.
If I do not allow anybody to see what I do, then surely I am alone responsible for the code.
If I let the person see the code, they they would be responsible for accepting the code.
If it is a business, it is about money. Otherwise it would be a hobby.
Also if they buy you and employ you, you would be an employee and can be fired. The moment you sell it, it isn't your baby anymore. If there is a potential of big money, perhaps selling is not the way forward, but rather selling part of it. Think Dragons Den.
The advantage for you is that you get the power of the big company. The advantage of the big company is that you still be financialy comited to the product so you will work harder and won't quit if something else comes along.
You also say it is a group of friends. Realize that in the long run working with more then 3 people will be very unlikely and even 2 won't be always easy.
What also could be possible is that the company wants to buy you to put it on a shelf and let you rot there.
Depending how many people are involved, I would look at selling shares and if there are more then 3 friends, sell the whole thing, take the money and then see if the offer to work there is good as an employee. I would realize that I should be making a LOT of money, as I would be one of the experts on the product.
And also look at how the shares are now devided compared to the workload and what ig corp has to offer. Are you all geeks and no sales people? Is everybody developing and nobody reasearching? Is everybody pulling their weight? If the latter is also not true, sell, because it won't change and it will be much more frustrating along the line then now.
And one last word. If you sold it, it isn't yours anymore. It will be Big Corp who owns the next Google or Playboy, although I am sure they will never let it grow that big. What makes things grow big most often is one individual behind it. (Microsoft is an exeption, but that is a marketing company)
I had almost the same idea. I just used facebook instead of text messaging and twitter. Productivity dropped by 140%.
... a date which will live in infamy.
I agree, but sending them Celine Dion is cruel and unusual punishment.
Please ask her to document it. ;-)
At home I use a wireless trackball. At work I use a wired trackball. The reason is that at one point or another, the batteries go flat and you can't work anymore. Obviously at just that moment you will need to finish a report and there are no other batteries available.
At home I just stop doing what I was doing on the computer and do something else while the batteries recharge.
So whatever you decide, keep that in mind as well.
Concerning the use of an extra USB port you should look how often it happens that you don't have enough or use them all. Also look at how your ports are positioned and how large the USB dongle is. I have three ports on my portable, but often can only use 2, because the USB keys overlap the middle one.
The active word is still and we must see that it stays that way. When a person gets killed while crossing the road, he does not let 8 others cross the road to get killed and who then force others to get killed crossing the road.
The problem is that we do not know how dangerous it could become. 1 or even 100 cases (or more?) cases can be easily controlled and if that means 100 or 1000 people dying, that means nothing.
Look what happend in 1918 It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide. 20 million (when looking at the low numbers and not calculating a higher world population) would be a tad more then people who get killed crossing the road.
So we must not look at what happend, but what might happen. We just do not know how dangerous the wolf is and if we should cry wolf.
The pinball wizard?
It is the whole "opt out" that makes this a bad thing. Google approaches everything with "but you can opt out". When Google does it is is good, when spammers do it, it is bad. Or that seems to be the general idea.
I would like to see "opt in" on everything. Going from the robot.txt that should be an opt-in and not an opt-out to anything else.
"But I won't be able to find webpage XYZ" I hear you moan. Well, if they did not add an opt-in, perhaps they don't WANT to be found.
I do realize that it is way too late for this and that there is a difference between what I want and what actually happens.
Yet "Opt out" is not a good thing, be it Spammers or Google.
You are a funny man.
I just re-read this 5 times and realized that the terrorists have won.