Oh come off it. Some company has someone this immature, who can't even admit that they were unclear - not even wrong, just that one sentence wasn't totally clear - doing their hiring?
A tip: If you'd like to come off as less of a jackass in the future, the proper response to this situation is "Oh wow, I totally didn't notice that that could be read two ways! Sorry for the confusion, no, I'm definitely not dumb enough to reject someone just because they're not googlable."
My school email addresses are all my first name @school.edu or alum.school.edu. Googling my name definitely won't get you anywhere towards finding me, but those are the email addresses I'd use to apply for jobs. So you wouldn't give me a job just because I wasn't easily googlable enough?
which is exactly the type of secondary work she has been encouraging people to do these past years
Yes, note that she has mostly ENCOURAGED this type of work and during the trial even cited other such works that she has no problem with and even really likes. It wasn't the fact that he was making a derivative work, or even that he was selling it - it was that his work was almost entirely made up of uncited direct quotes from her work, on top of otherwise shoddy scholarship. In addition, her (well, Scholastic's and Warner Brothers') lawyers had made many efforts to contact the author (or his publisher) and try to get the book into a form that would be acceptable, and all of those attempts were outright ignored.
NYCL, you do a lot of good work and are well-respected on slashdot, but it's not this judge that was wrong in this case.
Living purely on interest might not quite be within everyone's reach, but for the most part you're right on target. It's amazing how many people can't conceive of waiting to buy an expensive item until they've saved up for it, instead of putting it on credit and paying it off over the same (or longer) period of time. I've even seen people in my own family who could have easily afforded health insurance if they canceled their cable or didn't buy such expensive clothing, but didn't bother and then of course got screwed over by one trip to the hospital.
You've obviously never ACTUALLY tried living on a budget, without credit card debt. It doesn't suck as much as your imagination thinks. No, you might not have as big a TV or as shiny a car, but the TV and car you DO have will be much more enjoyable because you won't be so stressed out about your finances all the time.
I would be very, very surprised if they actually recognize themselves in a mirror, because there have been many studies showing that dogs cannot do this. What, specifically, do they do that indicates that they know the image is themselves?
Here is the most common test: put something on their head/face that they can't see or feel, but could see if they looked in a mirror. A dot with a marker, say. When they look in the mirror, do they try to get it off of themselves? I've seen videos of this done on monkeys who fail (they try to interact with the mirror image) and elephants who get really, really, annoyed that they can't get the paint off their head with their trunk.
I thought this difference was incredibly obvious with some of the Chinese girls. Not the top couple, but there were a few that just seemed totally zoned out and were obviously just going through the motions that their coach told them to go through without registering the magnitude or the stress of the event. For them, this is what they've done all day every day since they were 3, and the fact that it's the olympics doesn't even register as a concern.
However, I don't think that's part of the reasoning for the rule - but it does increase the unfairness when the rule is broken.
Yes, the fact that he made the error (many times) while specifically writing about stupid people is definitely what made it annoying enough to actually say something.
You misread - we'd been planning to go to Arkansas, which is a 12+ hour trip. We wound up changing destinations and going to Wisconsin, which is much, much closer.
Those top 5 do serve most major airports, and if you'd kept reading beyond that sentence you'd see me mention that matching the region to the airline was a factor (one that just complicates things, b/c I might not know exactly which airlines fly to the city I'm going to, so that's just a point FOR the consolidating sites).
Now, if the only thing you have access to is a tiny regional airport that only flies to three cities on two different airlines, then of course your job will be a lot easier. But for anyone with access to a large metropolitan airport, searching 2-3 airlines' sites is pretty much a waste of time - you'd probably get just as good prices, averaged over time, picking one of those airlines and sticking to them for simplicity's sake.
Some will also cancel your return ticket if you don't go all the way to your destination. That particular quirk of airline pricing is the single greatest mystery of modern society. I thought it had gone away b/c I hadn't seen it in a while, but just a few months ago my husband and I wanted to take a trip to Arkansas to stay at a bed & breakfast - it was cheaper to fly to Little Rock through Memphis than to fly to Memphis (which was closer to the B&Bs we were looking at).
Yeah, we wound up driving to Wisconsin instead. That's what happens when you make it too hard to buy your product. The gas for the 3-hour drive was WAY cheaper than the tickets anyhow!
Two or three? You must not like your money much. I can think of five major national airlines and four regional or low-cost airlines right off the top of my head that I would search (depending on the regional match, of course, but I probably don't know that for sure without checking them) to try to find the best price. If you just search Delta, United, and American, you're likely to get royally screwed half the time. Plus, if you're flying between cities you don't fly in very often, there might be airlines that you wouldn't even know of to check their websites.
Luckily, that's not too likely - as soon as one airline pulls itself out of these sites, its sales are going to plummet in such a frightening manner that no one else will be willing to follow suit.
I mean, once I've found the best price on travelocity or orbitz, I'll often go to the airline's site to see if I can get it without the $5 fee. But if one airline just didn't show up on those searches? The odds of me remembering to go to their site every time and search separately are next to none, and I'm probably more anal about comparison shopping than most people (as evidenced by the fact that I'll go to the airline site to try and avoid the $5 fee).
Well, I'm a grad student right now. So if I did anything directly related to my research, the university would want it. But they can't lay claim to things I do on my own time, with my own resources, just b/c I got the idea from an article I read in Science Education.
The homebrew scene is a good idea, though. I wonder if anything actually ever makes it out of there to a publisher - I could care less about making big money off my ideas, but I have the feeling a homebrew DS game isn't going to make it into the hands of very many kids. But then, I have no clue how popular the homebrew scene is with 10-year-olds!:)
Yes, they can and do. Like I said, some places give the drivers a quarter out of the $1-2 delivery fee, but most places do not give them anything. They get an hourly wage plus tips, and are responsible for gas and car wear and tear. So remember, if you don't want to tip your pizza delivery guy (on top of the delivery fee), then pick it up yourself!
But see, I would say that a video game programmer saying "I want to make an educational video game, but I know nothing about designing educational products" would also be equivalent to that. We both want to make something, but we both have only half the expertise required - there must be some way for us to find each other.
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A tip: If you'd like to come off as less of a jackass in the future, the proper response to this situation is "Oh wow, I totally didn't notice that that could be read two ways! Sorry for the confusion, no, I'm definitely not dumb enough to reject someone just because they're not googlable."
Yes, this is exactly how I read it. I'm obviously not the only one!
My school email addresses are all my first name @school.edu or alum.school.edu. Googling my name definitely won't get you anywhere towards finding me, but those are the email addresses I'd use to apply for jobs. So you wouldn't give me a job just because I wasn't easily googlable enough?
Yes, note that she has mostly ENCOURAGED this type of work and during the trial even cited other such works that she has no problem with and even really likes. It wasn't the fact that he was making a derivative work, or even that he was selling it - it was that his work was almost entirely made up of uncited direct quotes from her work, on top of otherwise shoddy scholarship. In addition, her (well, Scholastic's and Warner Brothers') lawyers had made many efforts to contact the author (or his publisher) and try to get the book into a form that would be acceptable, and all of those attempts were outright ignored.
NYCL, you do a lot of good work and are well-respected on slashdot, but it's not this judge that was wrong in this case.
I doubt your ass will be thanking him.
Firefly, Emeril Live and Stargate SG-1, to say nothing of Jericho, Babylon 5, Futurama, Family Guy, and The Office,
... One of these things is not like the others?
Living purely on interest might not quite be within everyone's reach, but for the most part you're right on target. It's amazing how many people can't conceive of waiting to buy an expensive item until they've saved up for it, instead of putting it on credit and paying it off over the same (or longer) period of time. I've even seen people in my own family who could have easily afforded health insurance if they canceled their cable or didn't buy such expensive clothing, but didn't bother and then of course got screwed over by one trip to the hospital.
You've obviously never ACTUALLY tried living on a budget, without credit card debt. It doesn't suck as much as your imagination thinks. No, you might not have as big a TV or as shiny a car, but the TV and car you DO have will be much more enjoyable because you won't be so stressed out about your finances all the time.
I was less than a page into it before that analogy came to mind. The "good little girl" being raised by grandma who falls into a "bad crowd"...
I would be very, very surprised if they actually recognize themselves in a mirror, because there have been many studies showing that dogs cannot do this. What, specifically, do they do that indicates that they know the image is themselves?
Here is the most common test: put something on their head/face that they can't see or feel, but could see if they looked in a mirror. A dot with a marker, say. When they look in the mirror, do they try to get it off of themselves? I've seen videos of this done on monkeys who fail (they try to interact with the mirror image) and elephants who get really, really, annoyed that they can't get the paint off their head with their trunk.
Water sports do not put nearly the strain on growing bones that gymnastics does.
I thought this difference was incredibly obvious with some of the Chinese girls. Not the top couple, but there were a few that just seemed totally zoned out and were obviously just going through the motions that their coach told them to go through without registering the magnitude or the stress of the event. For them, this is what they've done all day every day since they were 3, and the fact that it's the olympics doesn't even register as a concern.
However, I don't think that's part of the reasoning for the rule - but it does increase the unfairness when the rule is broken.
Yes, the fact that he made the error (many times) while specifically writing about stupid people is definitely what made it annoying enough to actually say something.
Come on. The day is Sunday. The ice cream dish is a SUNDAE. Don't let the editors write things without someone else editing them!
Forget it. I'm not going to be extorted by people who claim it is my responsibility to make up for their employer's failure to pay them a living wage.
It's not called "extortion," it's called "paying for convenience." Go pick the damn pizza up yourself.
You misread - we'd been planning to go to Arkansas, which is a 12+ hour trip. We wound up changing destinations and going to Wisconsin, which is much, much closer.
Those top 5 do serve most major airports, and if you'd kept reading beyond that sentence you'd see me mention that matching the region to the airline was a factor (one that just complicates things, b/c I might not know exactly which airlines fly to the city I'm going to, so that's just a point FOR the consolidating sites).
Now, if the only thing you have access to is a tiny regional airport that only flies to three cities on two different airlines, then of course your job will be a lot easier. But for anyone with access to a large metropolitan airport, searching 2-3 airlines' sites is pretty much a waste of time - you'd probably get just as good prices, averaged over time, picking one of those airlines and sticking to them for simplicity's sake.
Some will also cancel your return ticket if you don't go all the way to your destination. That particular quirk of airline pricing is the single greatest mystery of modern society. I thought it had gone away b/c I hadn't seen it in a while, but just a few months ago my husband and I wanted to take a trip to Arkansas to stay at a bed & breakfast - it was cheaper to fly to Little Rock through Memphis than to fly to Memphis (which was closer to the B&Bs we were looking at).
Yeah, we wound up driving to Wisconsin instead. That's what happens when you make it too hard to buy your product. The gas for the 3-hour drive was WAY cheaper than the tickets anyhow!
Two or three? You must not like your money much. I can think of five major national airlines and four regional or low-cost airlines right off the top of my head that I would search (depending on the regional match, of course, but I probably don't know that for sure without checking them) to try to find the best price. If you just search Delta, United, and American, you're likely to get royally screwed half the time. Plus, if you're flying between cities you don't fly in very often, there might be airlines that you wouldn't even know of to check their websites.
Luckily, that's not too likely - as soon as one airline pulls itself out of these sites, its sales are going to plummet in such a frightening manner that no one else will be willing to follow suit.
I mean, once I've found the best price on travelocity or orbitz, I'll often go to the airline's site to see if I can get it without the $5 fee. But if one airline just didn't show up on those searches? The odds of me remembering to go to their site every time and search separately are next to none, and I'm probably more anal about comparison shopping than most people (as evidenced by the fact that I'll go to the airline site to try and avoid the $5 fee).
Somehow I doubt that the lower-level IT jobs are "specialized" enough to qualify for an H1B visa.
Thanks, I will look into those!
Well, I'm a grad student right now. So if I did anything directly related to my research, the university would want it. But they can't lay claim to things I do on my own time, with my own resources, just b/c I got the idea from an article I read in Science Education.
:)
The homebrew scene is a good idea, though. I wonder if anything actually ever makes it out of there to a publisher - I could care less about making big money off my ideas, but I have the feeling a homebrew DS game isn't going to make it into the hands of very many kids. But then, I have no clue how popular the homebrew scene is with 10-year-olds!
Yes, they can and do. Like I said, some places give the drivers a quarter out of the $1-2 delivery fee, but most places do not give them anything. They get an hourly wage plus tips, and are responsible for gas and car wear and tear. So remember, if you don't want to tip your pizza delivery guy (on top of the delivery fee), then pick it up yourself!
But see, I would say that a video game programmer saying "I want to make an educational video game, but I know nothing about designing educational products" would also be equivalent to that. We both want to make something, but we both have only half the expertise required - there must be some way for us to find each other.