If the oracle users can't be bothered to scratch their itch, then let them languish with an old version. Maybe they'll fork that and learn how much effort the contributing users have been making on their behalf.
Ah, the joys of being overqualified in desperate times...
If you can get an interview, you should be able to overcome this handicap. Normally, one would refuse to disclose a salary expectation on an application, but putting an appropriate one here should help you past such discrimination. If you play your cards right, your masters should increase your rate of advancement once you have the job.
And if you're applying for a menial job, feel free to leave off any irrelevant education.
Somebody has to do basic research. Somebody has to teach the next generation. Both of these require advanced studies, of which graduate school is the standard means. If you're smart enough and dedicated enough and masochistic enough to hack a PhD, go for it.
With a masters degree on the other hand you will have specialized somewhat and be ready for independent work in your field, whereas with a bachelors you will be well prepared for entry level work.
Another reason is that with the economy perpetually on the verge of collapse, your investment in a masters degree will stand you in good stead when competing for nearly any job.
To answer your secondary question, I went to graduate school because I was afraid of the real world. I don't recommend that reason. It turns out nobody out here has much more clue than I do.
Why do they get to use technological measures to circumvent a long established principle of fair use?
They have right of first sale only. Any interference with that should be grounds for civil damages. In this political climate, it won't be of course, but it should be.
Fair use is a limited monopoly. One of the limits is fair use. Fair use is as much a part of copyright as the part the enforce so vigorously.
The director of the National Gang Crime Research Center has stated "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.'
This sort of pseudo-anthropology is leading us down a sad road.
The director of the National Gang Crime Research Center has stated "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.'
What a nice demonstration of ignorance and intolerance. To lump the christian
boogeymen in with (semi-)organized criminals is irresponsible
and unprofessional. Oooh, be afraid of the boogeyman, oooh oooh ooh.
Boo!
If the movie publishing/distribution industry would just let the market decide, the problem would take care of itself.
Remember that this is all suplemental to theatres, rentals, tv, and merchandising revenues; and will allow movies to not go out of print. The business model argument is just so much malarkey.
Don't force the poor MS-Windows users to suffer a pure lock-in environment. Show them a glimpse of Freedom and they'll know where to come when they eventually get fed up.
Just avoid NFL trademarks and make a real football video game. You'll lose a few players to hero-worship, but you'll make up for it in licensing costs.
Most parents have faith in their kids' ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. It's just that the barrier starts to decay when the kid is later elected to public office.
Why isn't there a sanity test required to hold public office?
If true, all that does is demonstrate further that everybody does it, and harsher laws will in the end only provoke a harsher backlash when the law finally catches up to reality.
When everybody violates a law through natural action, that just means the law is out of step with reality. The law either reflects an extreme ideology or serves a special interest out of proportion to concern for general welfare.
They're saying that to dampen the adoption of firefox. They don't want people writing code that supports alternative browsers, code that puts other browsers on an equal footing with ie, code that follows a standard that ms has shuned.
Don't expect truth out of these people. Just because they're admitting to stupidity doesn't mean they're actually stupid.
I'm far more productive in linux than in anything else I've tried. Linux (unices in general, but to a lesser extent) is the only one that's customizable enough. What other windowed system can you configure to be useful without titlebars and with a minimum of mousing (repetitive stress injuries from high-mousing guis)? For example, I run fvwm2 with no titlebars; I use ctl-alt-arrows to change desktops (contexts); I have a panel to monitor status of mail, xmms, phone, ram, load and the like; and I have a few buttons to set up common contexts.
Most of my work is in terminal windows, editing code.
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You shouldn't be using consumer-grade anything for business-critical functions.
Did you learn your lesson from this incident? Did your boss?
If the oracle users can't be bothered to scratch their itch, then let them languish with an old version. Maybe they'll fork that and learn how much effort the contributing users have been making on their behalf.
Same goes for all databases, not just oracle.
Ah, the joys of being overqualified in desperate times...
If you can get an interview, you should be able to overcome this handicap. Normally, one would refuse to disclose a salary expectation on an application, but putting an appropriate one here should help you past such discrimination. If you play your cards right, your masters should increase your rate of advancement once you have the job.
And if you're applying for a menial job, feel free to leave off any irrelevant education.
Somebody has to do basic research. Somebody has to teach the next generation. Both of these require advanced studies, of which graduate school is the standard means. If you're smart enough and dedicated enough and masochistic enough to hack a PhD, go for it.
With a masters degree on the other hand you will have specialized somewhat and be ready for independent work in your field, whereas with a bachelors you will be well prepared for entry level work.
Another reason is that with the economy perpetually on the verge of collapse, your investment in a masters degree will stand you in good stead when competing for nearly any job.
To answer your secondary question, I went to graduate school because I was afraid of the real world. I don't recommend that reason. It turns out nobody out here has much more clue than I do.
Why do they get to use technological measures to circumvent a long established principle of fair use?
They have right of first sale only. Any interference with that should be grounds for civil damages. In this political climate, it won't be of course, but it should be.
Fair use is a limited monopoly. One of the limits is fair use. Fair use is as much a part of copyright as the part the enforce so vigorously.
Just goes to show you how limited their imagination is.
Filtering is a straw man. It's less effective than anything else.
I think "scheme" is the operative word here.
FOSS is mutualism applied to software.
Mutualism -- you know, "Do unto other as you would have others do unto you."
Don't you just love entertainment cartels...
If the movie publishing/distribution industry would just let the market decide, the problem would take care of itself.
Remember that this is all suplemental to theatres, rentals, tv, and merchandising revenues; and will allow movies to not go out of print. The business model argument is just so much malarkey.
Attack the problem from all angles.
Don't force the poor MS-Windows users to suffer a pure lock-in environment. Show them a glimpse of Freedom and they'll know where to come when they eventually get fed up.
This is major how?
Who says football means NFL?
Just avoid NFL trademarks and make a real football video game. You'll lose a few players to hero-worship, but you'll make up for it in licensing costs.
The recordable media "problem" was solved years ago by bands such as the Grateful Dead.
That means p2p as a problem is a joke, and old-guard music distributors are so self-absorbed they pay attention to only themselves.
(IOW, just because a narcissist has a bullhorn doesn't mean he's right.)
Most parents have faith in their kids' ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. It's just that the barrier starts to decay when the kid is later elected to public office.
Why isn't there a sanity test required to hold public office?
If true, all that does is demonstrate further that everybody does it, and harsher laws will in the end only provoke a harsher backlash when the law finally catches up to reality.
When everybody violates a law through natural action, that just means the law is out of step with reality. The law either reflects an extreme ideology or serves a special interest out of proportion to concern for general welfare.
Unfortunately, government is at the mercy of politics of the moment. Take for example Bush calling the lawyers off MS when he was elected.
Software patents are a grave threat regardless of whether the software is Free or not.
You mean like a core dump, or kernel crash dump?
They're saying that to dampen the adoption of firefox. They don't want people writing code that supports alternative browsers, code that puts other browsers on an equal footing with ie, code that follows a standard that ms has shuned.
Don't expect truth out of these people. Just because they're admitting to stupidity doesn't mean they're actually stupid.
Let's all demonize the new guy for all the social ills.
This is why parenthood should require a license.
What if we left the violence, the blood and the gore, out of video games?
Would that give gamers the false idea that shooting or stabbing or hitting a person has no violent consequence?
If so, then violence in video games should NOT be masked at all.
I'm far more productive in linux than in anything else I've tried. Linux (unices in general, but to a lesser extent) is the only one that's customizable enough. What other windowed system can you configure to be useful without titlebars and with a minimum of mousing (repetitive stress injuries from high-mousing guis)? For example, I run fvwm2 with no titlebars; I use ctl-alt-arrows to change desktops (contexts); I have a panel to monitor status of mail, xmms, phone, ram, load and the like; and I have a few buttons to set up common contexts.
Most of my work is in terminal windows, editing code.