you assume the hardware / OS is sufficient for the function you described. How many hacked up versions of Windows CE do you know that can be properly software secured? I still remember bypassing whitelists by renaming Netscape to Notepad.:)
"Second-hand trade contributes nothing to the funds of developers." nor should they. Used car sales don't support the auto-makers. (apart from replacement parts, which is a separate market). Used book sales don't support the writers or publishers. Used appliance sales don't support the manufacturers. Used home sales don't support the home builders. Nor should they. Used product markets represent the fact that there is still value in used goods, and that value can be monetized until the value has diminished to nothing. Artificially boosting demand for new goods by eliminating used markets removes a significant amount of value from the new item. If they're going to do this, they had better lower prices to reflect this diminished value. If we pretend that piracy issues don't exist, then the used market leaves the same number of goods out there as were transferred via first sale. The same number of people would be using online multiplayer as they initially got money from to support multiplayer. Now, did they price multiplayer with the idea that people would get bored, stop using it after a year, and the secondary market keeps usage higher than expected long after a year? well, then they priced multiplayer badly. Nothing wrong with them deciding that they need to charge periodically to support online services. But they should price the initial software to reflect any aspect of reduced or transferred value that they're artificially imposing.
actually, no. we're talking about health care that markets itself under the name 'insurance' in the US even though it goes way beyond insurance. My homeowners insurance doesn't negotiate for me a set cost to install better door locks. They give me a discount on insurance if I show them I have installed better door locks, because it means decreased risk to them. Same with having passive restraint devices in your car. My auto insurance doesn't incentivize regular tune ups and oil changes, as they don't do much to directly change my collision risk. Of course they also don't incentivize me getting a regular brake inspection, which would.
Current health insurance covers health care. or manages health care. It could be argued that not all medical care is unexpected, so not all care should be managed as a risk/insurance asset. Insurance is about financial protection from extreme unknowns. Not managing costs from more-or-less reasonably expected costs. That's what the thing we call health insurance currently does. At the moment, health care and health insurance are one in the same in the US, whether or not they should be.
ok, so under that law what's the penalty for non-compliance? I'm sure they could petition for a waiver if they are demonstrating good will and intent to get all the info out. and many laws have some stipulation about unduly burdensome requests...
I have yet to have met a GS14 or 15 who isn't regularly donating time to the government. You can claim up to a certain amount in 'credit hours' as long as its during core working hours (limited to banking ~24hours I think). Outside that, you usually need supervisory approval to claim either comp or overtime, and that needs to be approved the pay period before you want to claim it. So if something comes up that day, and people are working until 7-8pm when their normal hours end at 5pm, odds are they're working some of those hours for free. Just like any other business. Sure every GS employee is still 'paid hourly', but at a certain level its expected you'll get the work done, whenever. Just like in the private sector.
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. # The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
# If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
# If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
Sailing West to get to the East: a risky proposition, but with a potentially huge and practically realizable commercial payoff. The discovery of a New World was the result of a lack of knowledge about what was really out that way.
Putting humans into space: a risky proposition, with no current model for commercial payoff. Sufficient knowledge of what's out there, and our ability to get further knowledge sans manned spaceflight, reduce or even eliminate the need to get people out there until some aspect of the aforementioned situation changes.
hmmm.... so, company hires copyright troll. copyright troll creates quite a fuss, creates a bunch of lawsuits, causes a number of other groups to spend lots of money on the suits.
company loses all of the lawsuits, declares bankruptcy before they can be forced to pay back any of the costs their lawsuits created.
way too many steps, but... ???, PROFIT?
should defendants be able to sue MediaNews Group for those costs?
and that means that within the contractual arrangement with the ISP, they are able to hold me responsible for things that happen on my connection. They can ask me to pay when there are costs as a result. They can disconnect the connection at my expense if nefarious things happen over it.
But that contract has nothing to do with my legal liability with a 3rd party. If the 3rd party sues the ISP, and the ISP, through my contractual relationship, holds me responsible, that's one thing. But that's not what they are doing. If they're going to try to prove that I'm legally liable for what they think went on, for damages they think I did to them, they're going to have to show enough proof of that.
I heard something very similar about going in for a job interview.
If you say, "I'm willing to do anything, and learn what I don't know!" you've just created more work for everyone else (very likely the person interviewing you) as they will need to spend time figuring out what to have you work on.
If you say, "I have an interest/experience in X, and based on what your group does, I'd be interested in starting to try something with Y, unless you have something else pressing for me to start with" you've just showed that you have the ability to find things to do independently, saved them time and effort in getting you started up in something, and showed flexibility and a desire to help them out.
Similar to contacting a developer. A pointed question, or specific request will get them help with less effort required on their part. A general, "hey, I'm here" means they need to spend time getting you set up. they'll brush you off until you come back with the pointed question.
I find we have the same issues with summer interns. We always bring some in, or are told to bring some in. When we have a couple specific projects, its great. when we don't, someone has to waste half of their summer managing/handholding the interns. fun fun.
that idea comes up a lot in the different engineering professional societies. make it like a doctor or lawyer, you don't get called one until you're cert'd. But, that would mean everyone who has been earning a 4-5 year engineering degree wouldn't be able to call themselves an engineer when they're done, even though the work they are doing is actual engineering work (as opposed to not being able to argue a case in a courtroom as a paralegal...).
"but are you suggesting that someone who codes something clever and effective for either is not an engineer...But the DeVry insult really takes the biscuit"
(1) yes, and correctly so. (2) well, insulting, but correct.
there are software engineers. there are computer engineers. but not all coders are software engineers. and not all computer techs are computer engineers. there are mechanical and electrical technicians just as there are mechanical and electrical engineers.
and the guy's credentials are pretty pathetic. what the heck is Computing studies.
"he holds an MBA from New York University and a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia."
wow. I would have asked them to leave that line off the list. rather deflating after that initial list. 'Computing Studies' ?? really??? and an MBA? wow.
no, that was about older people in IT. and it seemed to focus on programmers. those in the software world who can be considered engineers make up a tiny subset of what this article is talking about. Then again, as the GP states rather well, it's rather hard to figure out what Wadhwa actually IS talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
no, it's iCare
you could say.... Second Post.
you assume the hardware / OS is sufficient for the function you described. How many hacked up versions of Windows CE do you know that can be properly software secured? I still remember bypassing whitelists by renaming Netscape to Notepad. :)
but that wouldn't make slashdot, now would it?
better yet, don't.
thank you for the clarification.
"Second-hand trade contributes nothing to the funds of developers." nor should they. Used car sales don't support the auto-makers. (apart from replacement parts, which is a separate market). Used book sales don't support the writers or publishers. Used appliance sales don't support the manufacturers. Used home sales don't support the home builders. Nor should they. Used product markets represent the fact that there is still value in used goods, and that value can be monetized until the value has diminished to nothing. Artificially boosting demand for new goods by eliminating used markets removes a significant amount of value from the new item. If they're going to do this, they had better lower prices to reflect this diminished value. If we pretend that piracy issues don't exist, then the used market leaves the same number of goods out there as were transferred via first sale. The same number of people would be using online multiplayer as they initially got money from to support multiplayer. Now, did they price multiplayer with the idea that people would get bored, stop using it after a year, and the secondary market keeps usage higher than expected long after a year? well, then they priced multiplayer badly. Nothing wrong with them deciding that they need to charge periodically to support online services. But they should price the initial software to reflect any aspect of reduced or transferred value that they're artificially imposing.
maybe theirs do too. via... a car.
crap. if it delete's my saved Angry Birds chrome app levels, I'm gonna be pissed.
actually, no. we're talking about health care that markets itself under the name 'insurance' in the US even though it goes way beyond insurance. My homeowners insurance doesn't negotiate for me a set cost to install better door locks. They give me a discount on insurance if I show them I have installed better door locks, because it means decreased risk to them. Same with having passive restraint devices in your car. My auto insurance doesn't incentivize regular tune ups and oil changes, as they don't do much to directly change my collision risk. Of course they also don't incentivize me getting a regular brake inspection, which would.
Current health insurance covers health care. or manages health care. It could be argued that not all medical care is unexpected, so not all care should be managed as a risk/insurance asset. Insurance is about financial protection from extreme unknowns. Not managing costs from more-or-less reasonably expected costs. That's what the thing we call health insurance currently does. At the moment, health care and health insurance are one in the same in the US, whether or not they should be.
It appears you are in an area without a cable monopoly. Let us now introduce you to the rest of the country...
ok, so under that law what's the penalty for non-compliance? I'm sure they could petition for a waiver if they are demonstrating good will and intent to get all the info out. and many laws have some stipulation about unduly burdensome requests...
I have yet to have met a GS14 or 15 who isn't regularly donating time to the government. You can claim up to a certain amount in 'credit hours' as long as its during core working hours (limited to banking ~24hours I think). Outside that, you usually need supervisory approval to claim either comp or overtime, and that needs to be approved the pay period before you want to claim it. So if something comes up that day, and people are working until 7-8pm when their normal hours end at 5pm, odds are they're working some of those hours for free. Just like any other business. Sure every GS employee is still 'paid hourly', but at a certain level its expected you'll get the work done, whenever. Just like in the private sector.
anyone remember Flooz? they did the same thing. and since people used it as a purchase buffer, i imagine t had juicier purchase history info.
Problem loading page
The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
# The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
# If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
# If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
Sailing West to get to the East: a risky proposition, but with a potentially huge and practically realizable commercial payoff. The discovery of a New World was the result of a lack of knowledge about what was really out that way.
Putting humans into space: a risky proposition, with no current model for commercial payoff. Sufficient knowledge of what's out there, and our ability to get further knowledge sans manned spaceflight, reduce or even eliminate the need to get people out there until some aspect of the aforementioned situation changes.
well, Q was hired by company X to do Y. Y incurred lots of costs to other people that Q can't make good on because they go bankrupt. Can people sue X?
hmmm.... so, company hires copyright troll. copyright troll creates quite a fuss, creates a bunch of lawsuits, causes a number of other groups to spend lots of money on the suits.
company loses all of the lawsuits, declares bankruptcy before they can be forced to pay back any of the costs their lawsuits created.
way too many steps, but... ???, PROFIT?
should defendants be able to sue MediaNews Group for those costs?
and that means that within the contractual arrangement with the ISP, they are able to hold me responsible for things that happen on my connection. They can ask me to pay when there are costs as a result. They can disconnect the connection at my expense if nefarious things happen over it.
But that contract has nothing to do with my legal liability with a 3rd party. If the 3rd party sues the ISP, and the ISP, through my contractual relationship, holds me responsible, that's one thing. But that's not what they are doing. If they're going to try to prove that I'm legally liable for what they think went on, for damages they think I did to them, they're going to have to show enough proof of that.
I heard something very similar about going in for a job interview.
If you say, "I'm willing to do anything, and learn what I don't know!" you've just created more work for everyone else (very likely the person interviewing you) as they will need to spend time figuring out what to have you work on.
If you say, "I have an interest/experience in X, and based on what your group does, I'd be interested in starting to try something with Y, unless you have something else pressing for me to start with" you've just showed that you have the ability to find things to do independently, saved them time and effort in getting you started up in something, and showed flexibility and a desire to help them out.
Similar to contacting a developer. A pointed question, or specific request will get them help with less effort required on their part. A general, "hey, I'm here" means they need to spend time getting you set up. they'll brush you off until you come back with the pointed question.
I find we have the same issues with summer interns. We always bring some in, or are told to bring some in. When we have a couple specific projects, its great. when we don't, someone has to waste half of their summer managing/handholding the interns. fun fun.
that idea comes up a lot in the different engineering professional societies. make it like a doctor or lawyer, you don't get called one until you're cert'd. But, that would mean everyone who has been earning a 4-5 year engineering degree wouldn't be able to call themselves an engineer when they're done, even though the work they are doing is actual engineering work (as opposed to not being able to argue a case in a courtroom as a paralegal...).
"but are you suggesting that someone who codes something clever and effective for either is not an engineer...But the DeVry insult really takes the biscuit"
(1) yes, and correctly so.
(2) well, insulting, but correct.
there are software engineers. there are computer engineers. but not all coders are software engineers. and not all computer techs are computer engineers. there are mechanical and electrical technicians just as there are mechanical and electrical engineers.
and the guy's credentials are pretty pathetic. what the heck is Computing studies.
"he holds an MBA from New York University and a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia."
wow. I would have asked them to leave that line off the list. rather deflating after that initial list. 'Computing Studies' ?? really??? and an MBA? wow.
you're proving his point. they were awesome because they also worked in the real sciences. :)
no, that was about older people in IT. and it seemed to focus on programmers. those in the software world who can be considered engineers make up a tiny subset of what this article is talking about. Then again, as the GP states rather well, it's rather hard to figure out what Wadhwa actually IS talking about.