One of the things I wonder about with online voting is the screen real estate. In paper ballots a LOT of attention is paid to where names are placed on the ballot and what the order is. In electronic voting when there is not enough space to show all the names/pictures on one page, there will be a huge outcry by "second page" candidates.
It's a vaild point too. Many voters might not realize theres another page of choices. You could force the voter to view both pages before voting but theres even more confusion oppurtunity with that tactic (ie. where'd my candidate go).
Electronic voting is stupid, stupid, stupid. It is primed for fraud, causes way more problems than it solves, is dependent on electricity and computer networking. But the media has turned it into the "magic bullet" that will solve all our voting problems.
Face it, pencil/pen and paper are still the best voting solution.
I get the GeForce cards specifically for the TV out specifically to play DVD's. I also use the output to record the DVDs to VHS (Fair USE!) to play them on my portable TV in the car.
Of course I'm using Xine/Mplayer which don't care a whit about macrovision, and I'm using some OTHER software just to be able to play the DVD's.
How come when theres a discussion on/. about imperial units, everyone shouts "METRIC is BETTER!!".
But let drive manufactures start using metric type conversions to talk about HD size, and people throw a fit.
Basically, don't argue about how bad inches, miles, or feet are as measurement units and then complain about Mega or Gigabytes not being truly 1000 or 1,000,000 K. It the kilobyte thats the strange measurement in this case (not so much strange, more just not base 10).
No for large companies its hundreds of dollars per machine. They just count up the PCs and send the bill. $100 per machine would be a steal (over a 50% discount) for large companies dealing with enterprise licensing from Microsoft.
Unfortunately, you're right. Capitalism requires companies to fail at outsourcing, before things will change.
As counterintuitive as it is these groups of laid off IT workers should be working with IT workers overseas to increase their wages.
The way the free market works, the huge savings should not be sustainable. The outsourcing companies should begin raising their prices because their services are in high demand. The will also have to raise their prices as their workers demand more money (with the high turnover rates talked about in the article, this is unaviodable).
Market forces have to move this back to a sustainable balance and will eventually. The only problem is the chaos happening right now and the econimic effects of all this. I fear that high employment will be the anchor around the recovery's neck so to speak. Consumer spending and confidence is the key to recovery. But companies keep cutting costs and jobs, which only decreases consumer spending and confidence, then I fear we may fall off the cliff and nothing will save us.
All in all corporations are all acting to cut costs to help themselves, but it is really at the expense of the American economy. And if the American economy doesn't turn around, all there cost savings will be for nothing, because there will be too few people employed to grow the economy. Corporations need to remember that though they now answer only to stockholders, if they don't have customers because their business practices have destroyed the economy, their stockholders will get nothing.
The customer used to come first, now they are last. Well, they're second to last in front of the employee, but every companies customer is someone else's employee.
Totally correct, and if silly putty (which has been around for ages) is patented, its patent has expired.
The only action that could be taken (outside of the name thing) would be if the recipie for silly putty was a trade secret. But as a trade secret, if some one discovers what the recipie is you can share it. You have to have a patent to get protection.
Corporations have WAY too much control over the legal process and society. They're wielding their greed-drunk power without any thought for anything except their profit.
What I find amazing is that there are regular people (and political taling heads) out there from both political parties who very adamantly support locking these corporate crooks up and throwing away the key. As yet our actual politicians are doing virtually nothing to stop these criminals. I mean someone who embezzles thousands of dollars from a company is almost always given significant jail time, but a CEO who robs all the shareholders of billions barley gets any punishment. And Martha Stewart is held up as a convienient scapegoat cause everyone hates her anyway.
It just goes to show you who the government really represents, regardless of party.
Remember before throwing flames about democrats being "pure" on this issue where Terry McCauliff (sp?) got a lot of his money.
If they want to still be your supplier, they won't be able to dictate it, you can demand that they send you the documents in the appropirate format for you.
I think we'll see more pdf's due to things like this.
As for your clients, well, there you're screwed, they will demand the new formats, but you can always try to send them pdfs. But in the end you will have to do what they want.
I keep finding more and more reasons to dislike Microsoft. I mean, how the hell are there people out on slashdot who can actually continue to stick up for them (M$ employees excluded).
I really didn't mind the change. I think the Sinclair/Valen thing was planned all along. But man, if Sinclair had to do all Sheridan ended up doing PLUS what Valen ends up doing, you'd think he'd burn out.
I like how they each played their part in each of the shadow wars, having Sinclair basically play his part twice would have been a lot for someone to be capable of.
He's not in trouble for speaking the truth. He's not in trouble for speaking anything. It's his actions that got him in trouble, but I'm sure you already know that and just want to spread more offtopic Church+State propoganda.
And there it is!!!
It wasn't offtopic it was a troll. I knew with that example I'd flag down somebody (sadly an Anonymous Coward), who would disagree with the "truth" from my example.
People with enough conviction will believe in their truth forever. McBride, I think, looked at SCO and saw that they write code, and hey Linux has code, so "they must have stolen it". All the examples being refuted in public don't matter to him, because his only goal is to get what SCO truly deserves. In his mind that's money for code "they" "own", but in reality what they really deserve is be driven out of business. (being really specific because a colorful metaphor, might be construed as a "threat";-) )
If you know more than the other guy and can only speak about the truth, what is there to fear?
Well, how about:
Huge Legal Fees
Legal technicalities being used against you
The truth being inadmissable in court
Their lies being heard by the court as truth
There are many many things to fear. There is currently a man in Alabama speaking what he truly believes to be the truth. As of now his career is in jeopardy, he is being charged with breaking laws , and will likely lose his fight.
The biggest thing with the 10 commandments case in Alabama is that both sides believe they have the truth on their side. I can very easily see that McBride and co. think that the "truth" is on their side. In fact it would be required that they think this way, otherwise the label of "delusional" wouldn't be appropriate. And I belive that they truly are delusional about this case.
One thing I have been wondering is that if IBM buys them, won't they also own all the documentation written to support the legal case?
In my opinion, there almost have to be documents (and backup tapes containing those documents) that detail their strategy. The way SCO is acting there HAS to be stuff in those documents that will prove that McBride and company are involved in a fradulent scam against the investment community.
I would love to see IBM buy SCO, rummage through all its documents and present the SEC with a truck filled with documentation of investment fraud on the part of McBride and his cronies.
Oh and IBM, no need to pay me for the idea, you can have it for free;-)
Or am I just reiterating something IBM told me to say, but doesn't want attributed to them. Yeah, riiiiight.
I have in fact written code. But in the contracts with customers, we never did seem to be able to get that, "we're not responsible for defects" clause in there.
We did have to provide support (for a price), and unlike Microsoft any defects were fixed and updated at our expense.
Secondly, you also open your company up to lawsuit.
My company may very well be opened up to lawsuits already.
I work at a plant location for a very large corporation. Both headquarters and many other plants had production schedules seriously affected by the virus. Customers could very well sue us or take other actions because of the effects of the virus.
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I'm becoming more afraid that lawyer is going to be the only true moneymaking profession in the future.
The way things are going now everyone in a profession other than lawyer, will be being sued by one.
Ok, you got me. That one would apply to me.
Well its not a town in Colorado, but Brookings, South Dakota is laid out exactly like this, with North and South streets. Yes, it is really annoying.
The Avenues, luckily, just go up in number going from west to east.
I think the reason so many folks chime in is that there are so many of us who don't fit this stereotype.
I don't know. With Wack-a-candidate I'd vote for the wrong person every time, espically if it really hurt ;-)
One of the things I wonder about with online voting is the screen real estate. In paper ballots a LOT of attention is paid to where names are placed on the ballot and what the order is. In electronic voting when there is not enough space to show all the names/pictures on one page, there will be a huge outcry by "second page" candidates.
It's a vaild point too. Many voters might not realize theres another page of choices. You could force the voter to view both pages before voting but theres even more confusion oppurtunity with that tactic (ie. where'd my candidate go).
Electronic voting is stupid, stupid, stupid. It is primed for fraud, causes way more problems than it solves, is dependent on electricity and computer networking. But the media has turned it into the "magic bullet" that will solve all our voting problems.
Face it, pencil/pen and paper are still the best voting solution.
Great post!! This should be modded up.
If (or when) Yellowstone has its next eruption you can put your global warming fears on the shelf for a good long time.
You've got to be kidding me.
I get the GeForce cards specifically for the TV out specifically to play DVD's. I also use the output to record the DVDs to VHS (Fair USE!) to play them on my portable TV in the car.
Of course I'm using Xine/Mplayer which don't care a whit about macrovision, and I'm using some OTHER software just to be able to play the DVD's.
Amen brother.
/. about imperial units, everyone shouts "METRIC is BETTER!!".
How come when theres a discussion on
But let drive manufactures start using metric type conversions to talk about HD size, and people throw a fit.
Basically, don't argue about how bad inches, miles, or feet are as measurement units and then complain about Mega or Gigabytes not being truly 1000 or 1,000,000 K. It the kilobyte thats the strange measurement in this case (not so much strange, more just not base 10).
No for large companies its hundreds of dollars per machine. They just count up the PCs and send the bill. $100 per machine would be a steal (over a 50% discount) for large companies dealing with enterprise licensing from Microsoft.
Unfortunately, you're right. Capitalism requires companies to fail at outsourcing, before things will change.
As counterintuitive as it is these groups of laid off IT workers should be working with IT workers overseas to increase their wages.
The way the free market works, the huge savings should not be sustainable. The outsourcing companies should begin raising their prices because their services are in high demand. The will also have to raise their prices as their workers demand more money (with the high turnover rates talked about in the article, this is unaviodable).
Market forces have to move this back to a sustainable balance and will eventually. The only problem is the chaos happening right now and the econimic effects of all this. I fear that high employment will be the anchor around the recovery's neck so to speak. Consumer spending and confidence is the key to recovery. But companies keep cutting costs and jobs, which only decreases consumer spending and confidence, then I fear we may fall off the cliff and nothing will save us.
All in all corporations are all acting to cut costs to help themselves, but it is really at the expense of the American economy. And if the American economy doesn't turn around, all there cost savings will be for nothing, because there will be too few people employed to grow the economy. Corporations need to remember that though they now answer only to stockholders, if they don't have customers because their business practices have destroyed the economy, their stockholders will get nothing.
The customer used to come first, now they are last. Well, they're second to last in front of the employee, but every companies customer is someone else's employee.
Totally correct, and if silly putty (which has been around for ages) is patented, its patent has expired.
The only action that could be taken (outside of the name thing) would be if the recipie for silly putty was a trade secret. But as a trade secret, if some one discovers what the recipie is you can share it. You have to have a patent to get protection.
No, "Ack! Thpppt!" can be as much a sign of affection as disgust. Basically it is pretty much Bill the Cats response to everything.
BTW love the user name, yes it is Possible to be both a fan of Bloom County _and_ B5.
I don't really know what that means, but I think people who think he's a prick would agree.
Your post is so clueless, why did you even read this story, much less comment on it?
I so much want to see Tux and Opus together!!
Hopefully that will be the subject of one of the strips.
Corporations have WAY too much control over the legal process and society. They're wielding their greed-drunk power without any thought for anything except their profit.
What I find amazing is that there are regular people (and political taling heads) out there from both political parties who very adamantly support locking these corporate crooks up and throwing away the key. As yet our actual politicians are doing virtually nothing to stop these criminals. I mean someone who embezzles thousands of dollars from a company is almost always given significant jail time, but a CEO who robs all the shareholders of billions barley gets any punishment. And Martha Stewart is held up as a convienient scapegoat cause everyone hates her anyway.
It just goes to show you who the government really represents, regardless of party.
Remember before throwing flames about democrats being "pure" on this issue where Terry McCauliff (sp?) got a lot of his money.
If they want to still be your supplier, they won't be able to dictate it, you can demand that they send you the documents in the appropirate format for you.
I think we'll see more pdf's due to things like this.
As for your clients, well, there you're screwed, they will demand the new formats, but you can always try to send them pdfs. But in the end you will have to do what they want.
I keep finding more and more reasons to dislike Microsoft. I mean, how the hell are there people out on slashdot who can actually continue to stick up for them (M$ employees excluded).
I really didn't mind the change. I think the Sinclair/Valen thing was planned all along. But man, if Sinclair had to do all Sheridan ended up doing PLUS what Valen ends up doing, you'd think he'd burn out.
I like how they each played their part in each of the shadow wars, having Sinclair basically play his part twice would have been a lot for someone to be capable of.
He's not in trouble for speaking the truth. He's not in trouble for speaking anything. It's his actions that got him in trouble, but I'm sure you already know that and just want to spread more offtopic Church+State propoganda.
;-) )
And there it is!!!
It wasn't offtopic it was a troll. I knew with that example I'd flag down somebody (sadly an Anonymous Coward), who would disagree with the "truth" from my example.
People with enough conviction will believe in their truth forever. McBride, I think, looked at SCO and saw that they write code, and hey Linux has code, so "they must have stolen it". All the examples being refuted in public don't matter to him, because his only goal is to get what SCO truly deserves. In his mind that's money for code "they" "own", but in reality what they really deserve is be driven out of business. (being really specific because a colorful metaphor, might be construed as a "threat"
If you know more than the other guy and can only speak about the truth, what is there to fear?
Well, how about:
Huge Legal Fees
Legal technicalities being used against you
The truth being inadmissable in court
Their lies being heard by the court as truth
There are many many things to fear. There is currently a man in Alabama speaking what he truly believes to be the truth. As of now his career is in jeopardy, he is being charged with breaking laws , and will likely lose his fight.
The biggest thing with the 10 commandments case in Alabama is that both sides believe they have the truth on their side. I can very easily see that McBride and co. think that the "truth" is on their side. In fact it would be required that they think this way, otherwise the label of "delusional" wouldn't be appropriate. And I belive that they truly are delusional about this case.
What, is using proper english proof that I must not be a developer?
You must have some incredible phsycic gift, or access to my resume (no wait, that would prove you wrong).
In short Fuck off, asshole.
One thing I have been wondering is that if IBM buys them, won't they also own all the documentation written to support the legal case?
;-)
In my opinion, there almost have to be documents (and backup tapes containing those documents) that detail their strategy. The way SCO is acting there HAS to be stuff in those documents that will prove that McBride and company are involved in a fradulent scam against the investment community.
I would love to see IBM buy SCO, rummage through all its documents and present the SEC with a truck filled with documentation of investment fraud on the part of McBride and his cronies.
Oh and IBM, no need to pay me for the idea, you can have it for free
Or am I just reiterating something IBM told me to say, but doesn't want attributed to them. Yeah, riiiiight.
If not for Unix, there would be no internet.
And it would not have been in Microsoft's interest to have created one.
I have in fact written code. But in the contracts with customers, we never did seem to be able to get that, "we're not responsible for defects" clause in there.
We did have to provide support (for a price), and unlike Microsoft any defects were fixed and updated at our expense.
Secondly, you also open your company up to lawsuit.
My company may very well be opened up to lawsuits already.
I work at a plant location for a very large corporation. Both headquarters and many other plants had production schedules seriously affected by the virus. Customers could very well sue us or take other actions because of the effects of the virus.