so, gizmodo paid for property that they knew didn't belong to the seller. isn't that illegal? knowingly purchasing stolen goods? it doesn't matter if the phone was "lost" or "stolen" from the get-go, the second you decide to keep something that is not yours, that's stealing.
that being said, if he liked his job, why would he ever use a top-secret prototype as his day to day phone? these things do happen. did apple have a rule against taking the proto off property? out in public?
unless there was a rule to never bring the phone out in public, then i can't see how they could fire him. simple state the phone was stolen. could he be help accountable for that? there are many ways a phone could be stolen that doesn't involve negligence by the user. i.e., you get jumped outside the bar.
yes okay they *can* fire him for anything they want, but it doesn't do wonders for moral when management goes around firing people because they were attacked outside of a bar.
course work should be designed to test if a student understands the material, not if they are memorized (or copied) code. if a student turns in a complex program but can't explain how or why it works then it doesn't matter if they copied it or not they should fail.
i chock this up to lazy professors. it's oh-so easy to ask students to turn in a compiled program + the source code. the professors then just needs to run the program and see if it gets the right output, and churn the source through their favorite plagiarism checker. all of that can be scripted so they probably don't need to do anything at all to get the papers graded.
Open source isn't about profit, it's about savings! You don't have to create every bit of code, or licence it with high price, when programs are open sourced.
to actually benefit from a community takes a lot resources. in many cases a company ends up paying in-house engineers to review contributor code... when it would have been faster to just have to in-house engineers do it in the first place. not to mention the people you pay to support the community answering questions and troubleshooting problems.it's quite wrong to think that you can just throw code over the fence and brilliant engineers will flock to it spending their nights and weekends slaving away for you for free.
not really. like anyone else oracle is free to fork the project and take it internal. they rightly know that most OSS projects aren't viable if you peel off the paid employees that are doing 95% of the work. the fact that the software was open source when they bought sun is irrelevant.
around 5 years before their demise, sun mandated that all* their software would be open source. they were almost there at the time of their demise. sun software was the last thing you would call closed source. as much as it hurts, sun was open source in a way unparalleled in the industry. it didn't work.
"The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties"
yeah, 230 billion dollars is a lot of money. that's the estimated cost of sending man (again) to the moon.
if you split that up evenly among the states, you could give each each state 4.6 billion dollars... only a small percentage of that would be needed to get them out of debt. they could use another very small percentage to stimulate jobs. they'd still have billions left over. maybe we use that to start paying off the national debt.
i don't know about you, but having our country on a strong financial standing, being out of debt, and having a job are pretty important things.
okay by your reasoning then we should approve any project that falls under say 1% of the total US budget because it's insignificant compared to the total? this argument is used a lot to justify all sorts of spending and is of course invalid.
it reminds my of trying to cut the weight of my pack planning for backpacking trips. my pack might weight 40 pounds, but nothing in the pack weighs over.5 pounds. it's tempting to just leave that portable coffee maker and electric shaver in there because heck removing them isn't going to make that much of a difference... but obviously if i need to reduce the weight i need to start taking some things out.
anyone over the age of 10 or so realizes that money is not infinite. we (the US) made a choice. we elected leaders that engaged us in an expensive pointless war. we elected leaders that let big business run amok with our finances then cut and run away with the profits.
every heard of a little thing called consequences? you don't get to fight a inconceivably expensive war in iraq and then have massive funds left over to pump into a space program. remember when you were 6 and you had the realization that if you spent your allowance on a new model car you couldn't buy the candy bar also?
no one is saying we shouldn't support extra-terrestrial exploration - they are saying manned space flight is not a cost effective way to do so. we aren't living in the pre- and cold war era where we can spend seemingly infinite $ simply to say "we did it first".
the real science is in robotic missions. on the bang for the buck scale, there's no comparison. let china, russia starve their populations in order to put a man on mars, while we benefit from the real science being done through robotic missions.
that being said, no one is even close to making this happen. putting a man on mars is orders of magnitude harder than putting a man on the moon. i'd suggest you let someone else get even close to putting a man on the moon, then start worrying.
gaming is one segment of the market. if that's all you care about then you'd be better off getting a dedicated gaming handheld anyway. and, it's not like there are no games. there are quite a few good ones, but i agree the app store has a much better selection.
for every other type of app, the android market contains high quality rivals to anything in the app store. maybe there are only 50 notepad apps on the android market vs. 1500 in the app store, but i can live with that.
the reason you don't see as many high-quality games on android is because those games take a lot of resources to produce and the companies that make them are as of yet not seeing their efforts on android translate to big $, like on the iphone.
get a second laptop for $~400 that has HDMI out. get a wireless keyboard and mouse for ~$30. you are done. i say laptop just because it's quiet and energy efficient. could also be a mini-style desktop. you might even be able to find a slightly out of date desktop gathering dust in the corner of a friend or family's house that could do the job.
the problem with any other solution is that it's going to cost more, and it's not going to cover everything you want to do. a PC, by it's very nature is generic. it can run flash sites like hulu. you can do youtube. netflix. otherwise browse the web. play music. CDs. DVDs. plug in external storage. access remote media drives. and so on. plus, if you really need a second computer, it's there.
tivo is probably the best dedicated device. it's DVR, plus netflix, youtube, amazon video, rhapsody. can play media from remote file servers. and of course it's a cable TV tuner (mine has dual cable cards). you cannot arbitrarily browse the web with it, you can't access hulu, and it can't play DVDs.
read your article. the problem isn't that there aren't enough people to do the jobs, it's that the people aren't where the jobs are. in other words, an infrastructure problem, not a shortage.
china can always build thousands of crappy apts to bring more workers from the provinces in to do their telemarketing jobs every day. not a problem.
never happen. china has an infinite supply of workers ready to grind themselves into the ground to put $ on the pockets of execs back in the US. that's just too sweet a deal for US corporations to pass up.
google and friends are pulling out for no other reason than it's costing them more to do business there than they are saving. don't kid yourself into thinking that they took some sort of moral high ground.
communism really has nothing to do with low wages or anything else you mention. in fact, communism is contrary to those things. china isn't anything close to communist, except in it's internally directed rhetoric.
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so, gizmodo paid for property that they knew didn't belong to the seller. isn't that illegal? knowingly purchasing stolen goods? it doesn't matter if the phone was "lost" or "stolen" from the get-go, the second you decide to keep something that is not yours, that's stealing.
that being said, if he liked his job, why would he ever use a top-secret prototype as his day to day phone? these things do happen. did apple have a rule against taking the proto off property? out in public?
unless there was a rule to never bring the phone out in public, then i can't see how they could fire him. simple state the phone was stolen. could he be help accountable for that? there are many ways a phone could be stolen that doesn't involve negligence by the user. i.e., you get jumped outside the bar.
yes okay they *can* fire him for anything they want, but it doesn't do wonders for moral when management goes around firing people because they were attacked outside of a bar.
course work should be designed to test if a student understands the material, not if they are memorized (or copied) code. if a student turns in a complex program but can't explain how or why it works then it doesn't matter if they copied it or not they should fail.
i chock this up to lazy professors. it's oh-so easy to ask students to turn in a compiled program + the source code. the professors then just needs to run the program and see if it gets the right output, and churn the source through their favorite plagiarism checker. all of that can be scripted so they probably don't need to do anything at all to get the papers graded.
Open source isn't about profit, it's about savings! You don't have to create every bit of code, or licence it with high price, when programs are open sourced.
to actually benefit from a community takes a lot resources. in many cases a company ends up paying in-house engineers to review contributor code ... when it would have been faster to just have to in-house engineers do it in the first place. not to mention the people you pay to support the community answering questions and troubleshooting problems.it's quite wrong to think that you can just throw code over the fence and brilliant engineers will flock to it spending their nights and weekends slaving away for you for free.
talk to me in 5 years my young man.
not really. like anyone else oracle is free to fork the project and take it internal. they rightly know that most OSS projects aren't viable if you peel off the paid employees that are doing 95% of the work. the fact that the software was open source when they bought sun is irrelevant.
around 5 years before their demise, sun mandated that all* their software would be open source. they were almost there at the time of their demise. sun software was the last thing you would call closed source. as much as it hurts, sun was open source in a way unparalleled in the industry. it didn't work.
*there are of course exceptions
there is no company or organization called "sun" ... there is only oracle now.
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so what? addiction is only a problem if it affects other parts of your life negatively.
"The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
yeah, 230 billion dollars is a lot of money. that's the estimated cost of sending man (again) to the moon.
if you split that up evenly among the states, you could give each each state 4.6 billion dollars ... only a small percentage of that would be needed to get them out of debt. they could use another very small percentage to stimulate jobs. they'd still have billions left over. maybe we use that to start paying off the national debt.
i don't know about you, but having our country on a strong financial standing, being out of debt, and having a job are pretty important things.
okay by your reasoning then we should approve any project that falls under say 1% of the total US budget because it's insignificant compared to the total? this argument is used a lot to justify all sorts of spending and is of course invalid.
it reminds my of trying to cut the weight of my pack planning for backpacking trips. my pack might weight 40 pounds, but nothing in the pack weighs over .5 pounds. it's tempting to just leave that portable coffee maker and electric shaver in there because heck removing them isn't going to make that much of a difference ... but obviously if i need to reduce the weight i need to start taking some things out.
anyone over the age of 10 or so realizes that money is not infinite. we (the US) made a choice. we elected leaders that engaged us in an expensive pointless war. we elected leaders that let big business run amok with our finances then cut and run away with the profits.
every heard of a little thing called consequences? you don't get to fight a inconceivably expensive war in iraq and then have massive funds left over to pump into a space program. remember when you were 6 and you had the realization that if you spent your allowance on a new model car you couldn't buy the candy bar also?
no one is saying we shouldn't support extra-terrestrial exploration - they are saying manned space flight is not a cost effective way to do so. we aren't living in the pre- and cold war era where we can spend seemingly infinite $ simply to say "we did it first".
the real science is in robotic missions. on the bang for the buck scale, there's no comparison. let china, russia starve their populations in order to put a man on mars, while we benefit from the real science being done through robotic missions.
that being said, no one is even close to making this happen. putting a man on mars is orders of magnitude harder than putting a man on the moon. i'd suggest you let someone else get even close to putting a man on the moon, then start worrying.
in 2009, 99.4% of all smartphone app sales were apple app store based. that's a monopoly. your problem is that you are looking at the wrong market.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars
except you are looking at the wrong market. it's not the smartphones, it's smartphone apps. according to this,
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars
apple had 99.4% of all app sales in 2009. that my friend is a monopoly.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/comscore-android-market-share-continues-to-gain-on-the-iphone/
"But the most interesting story is the rapid rise of Android, whose share grew 5.2%. Apple’s share has remained stable, with a .1% drop."
gaming is one segment of the market. if that's all you care about then you'd be better off getting a dedicated gaming handheld anyway. and, it's not like there are no games. there are quite a few good ones, but i agree the app store has a much better selection.
for every other type of app, the android market contains high quality rivals to anything in the app store. maybe there are only 50 notepad apps on the android market vs. 1500 in the app store, but i can live with that.
the reason you don't see as many high-quality games on android is because those games take a lot of resources to produce and the companies that make them are as of yet not seeing their efforts on android translate to big $, like on the iphone.
does apple get a cut of the ads revenue from the "approved" add service?
get a second laptop for $~400 that has HDMI out. get a wireless keyboard and mouse for ~$30. you are done. i say laptop just because it's quiet and energy efficient. could also be a mini-style desktop. you might even be able to find a slightly out of date desktop gathering dust in the corner of a friend or family's house that could do the job.
the problem with any other solution is that it's going to cost more, and it's not going to cover everything you want to do. a PC, by it's very nature is generic. it can run flash sites like hulu. you can do youtube. netflix. otherwise browse the web. play music. CDs. DVDs. plug in external storage. access remote media drives. and so on. plus, if you really need a second computer, it's there.
tivo is probably the best dedicated device. it's DVR, plus netflix, youtube, amazon video, rhapsody. can play media from remote file servers. and of course it's a cable TV tuner (mine has dual cable cards). you cannot arbitrarily browse the web with it, you can't access hulu, and it can't play DVDs.
read your article. the problem isn't that there aren't enough people to do the jobs, it's that the people aren't where the jobs are. in other words, an infrastructure problem, not a shortage.
china can always build thousands of crappy apts to bring more workers from the provinces in to do their telemarketing jobs every day. not a problem.
never happen. china has an infinite supply of workers ready to grind themselves into the ground to put $ on the pockets of execs back in the US. that's just too sweet a deal for US corporations to pass up.
google and friends are pulling out for no other reason than it's costing them more to do business there than they are saving. don't kid yourself into thinking that they took some sort of moral high ground.
communism really has nothing to do with low wages or anything else you mention. in fact, communism is contrary to those things. china isn't anything close to communist, except in it's internally directed rhetoric.