You are given free access so they can make a billion dollars a year off advertising. The argument was about a company making money off someone else's work.
If I design a website for somebody and retain the copyrights, they are still licensed to use the website, including deleting the robots.txt file if they want. Eventhough I am the copyright holder, I would not be able to stop Google from using and profiting off my work in this instance. This is very similar to Turnitin.
If somebody contracts me to design a webpage, even if I do not transfer the copyright to them, they still have licence to use the webpage, including the right to have it listed in Google's index and cache, unless I specifically indicate otherwise in the contract before hand. I am limited in my ability to opt out of Google in this case. I do believe Turnitin does haves some options for your paper not to be stored.
What would the real world performance be like compared to a 10000 RPM drive? I think their read and write speeds are comparable to WD Raptor, but I'm supposing solid state would have quicker random access. How would this compare in terms of real world performance?
One of the key advantages of night-vision is that you can see in the dark. And only you. The opposition presumably would not have this advantage.
I always wondered if it would be possible to have an "artificial sun" broadcast in a spectrum not visible to the unassisted human eye but one that could also be viewed with special googles. At night a battle field could be blanketed with this artificial "light", but only the good guys with proper goggles would benefit.
I was 20 before I found out I was color blind. If I had not taken one of those "pick the number out of the dots" tests during a general medical screening for a new job, I would have never known.
I can use it as an excuse though if my wife thinks I dressed my daughter funny.
I haven't detected a virus on my home computer in over 5 years as well. McAfee has become so bloated, I'm trying to decide whether to just remove it totally or just keep it turned off except for the occasional scan. It also seemed like in the past it was a lot easier to disable McAfee temporarily (right clicking the icon in the quick start toolbar), while now it is a lot more trouble to toggle it on or off.
I wonder what the ratio is between IT professional and hobbyist on Slashdot. I imagine there are a fair number of hobbyists here that wonder what a real IT career is like.
But if they could get their act together and all the major media companies get togeather to form a central site for play on demand from their entire catalog in high quality, full screen format...that would not be a youtube clone, but it would be cool.
Often times in instances such as this, some hourly workers realize they are legally entitled to overtime pay and start thinking that the perks don't compensate them at the same level. Google is probably instituting these policies to avoid hassles with the labor board (or whatever it is called in California).
I've worked at several companies where they made everybody "salary" to avoid paying overtime, even though legally they were in the wrong. Some employee waits until he has a new job, then reports the former company and often recovers quite a bit of money as well as forcing the company to start paying overtime to everybody else entitled to it.
There's a 50% chance that it will happen tomorrow. Either it does... or it doesn't. I love quantum theory.
I don't see how that is modded insightful. Just because there is two possibilities, erupting and non-erupting, it does not mean there is equal chance of either, assuming that erupting was even a quantum event. You could say that it was erupting right now, in some universe.
All those MS Access and VB applications cobbled together are an intrinsic part of a lot of small to medium size companies. The is one reason why Linux will have a hard time ever making much traction at the desktop level. A focused IT program will benefit Linux as well as moving a lot of the support to a true IT department, not whoever happens to be "good with computers." A lot of these MS Access and VB applications are put together by "power-users" (instead of IT) because that is what that they know.
So why don't we all just keep the clocks an hour ahead, and get that "extra hour" all year round?
It has something do with school kids going to school in the dark and being more likely to be killed by traffic. I think they tried it one year back in the '70s.
Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
From this statement it is painfully obvious that you have never had to take a class that was taught by a professor that can barely speak English. If anything, this would discourage kids from Math and Science even more.
It will prepare them for the real world. If you major in math or science, accents and broken English is a way of life. You get used to it.
If H-1Bs are supposed to be the solution to the questionable shortage of science and technology people, maybe they could also be a solution to the real problem of a shortage of math and science teachers.
You could go even further and require that H-1B applicants that are not offered a job making over $80K or so (the real best and brightest) must spend 3-5 years teaching first before obtaining a work visa for something other than teaching.
I saw some show recently where some guy was making a lot of money finding and selling meteor fragments left over from impact in Kansas. I think in that case it exploded in air, but I don't know whether that means more fragments or not.
I personally did not get a science degree so that I could spend my days trying to coax disinterested teens into learning very basic stuff over and over every year. Everybody I knew was taking science (physics) because they wanted to do something cool when they graduated. They wanted to constantly learn new things. In the sciences, research assistant positions at college are always the preferred positions over teaching assistant positions.
Teaching teenagers is a particular aptitude that I don't believe is that wide spread among science and math majors. Maybe it would be better to find good teachers first, then teach them science, but I'm not sure about that either.
I think a lot of math and science people are not that well-suited (introverts, aspergers, etc..) for teaching to begin with, and a lot of these people have no desire to teach no matter what the pay is. The shortage may not just be about pay.
Too many companies run specialized Windows-only apps, often custom written. It could be something as simple as a custom timeclock program, or something more critical like a specialized ordering platform. It would be expensive and take forever to re-write all of these, and I think it would be hard to justify.
It seems to me that often people who build their own computers and worry about overclocking are doing so to get the most bang for their buck for gaming purposes. This would not be necessarily be a target audience for Linux.
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You are given free access so they can make a billion dollars a year off advertising. The argument was about a company making money off someone else's work.
If I design a website for somebody and retain the copyrights, they are still licensed to use the website, including deleting the robots.txt file if they want. Eventhough I am the copyright holder, I would not be able to stop Google from using and profiting off my work in this instance. This is very similar to Turnitin.
If somebody contracts me to design a webpage, even if I do not transfer the copyright to them, they still have licence to use the webpage, including the right to have it listed in Google's index and cache, unless I specifically indicate otherwise in the contract before hand. I am limited in my ability to opt out of Google in this case. I do believe Turnitin does haves some options for your paper not to be stored.
Kind of how Google uses everbody else's work (web pages) and makes a good deal of profit.
What would the real world performance be like compared to a 10000 RPM drive? I think their read and write speeds are comparable to WD Raptor, but I'm supposing solid state would have quicker random access. How would this compare in terms of real world performance?
I always wondered if it would be possible to have an "artificial sun" broadcast in a spectrum not visible to the unassisted human eye but one that could also be viewed with special googles. At night a battle field could be blanketed with this artificial "light", but only the good guys with proper goggles would benefit.
I was 20 before I found out I was color blind. If I had not taken one of those "pick the number out of the dots" tests during a general medical screening for a new job, I would have never known.
I can use it as an excuse though if my wife thinks I dressed my daughter funny.
I haven't detected a virus on my home computer in over 5 years as well. McAfee has become so bloated, I'm trying to decide whether to just remove it totally or just keep it turned off except for the occasional scan. It also seemed like in the past it was a lot easier to disable McAfee temporarily (right clicking the icon in the quick start toolbar), while now it is a lot more trouble to toggle it on or off.
I wonder what the ratio is between IT professional and hobbyist on Slashdot. I imagine there are a fair number of hobbyists here that wonder what a real IT career is like.
But if they could get their act together and all the major media companies get togeather to form a central site for play on demand from their entire catalog in high quality, full screen format...that would not be a youtube clone, but it would be cool.
I think this goes back to the mandatory overtime pay issue. They don't want to pay overtime AND pay them to eat lunch.
Often times in instances such as this, some hourly workers realize they are legally entitled to overtime pay and start thinking that the perks don't compensate them at the same level. Google is probably instituting these policies to avoid hassles with the labor board (or whatever it is called in California).
I've worked at several companies where they made everybody "salary" to avoid paying overtime, even though legally they were in the wrong. Some employee waits until he has a new job, then reports the former company and often recovers quite a bit of money as well as forcing the company to start paying overtime to everybody else entitled to it.
I don't see how that is modded insightful. Just because there is two possibilities, erupting and non-erupting, it does not mean there is equal chance of either, assuming that erupting was even a quantum event. You could say that it was erupting right now, in some universe.
How much warning will it likely give before it does erupt? Years, months, or days?
All those MS Access and VB applications cobbled together are an intrinsic part of a lot of small to medium size companies. The is one reason why Linux will have a hard time ever making much traction at the desktop level. A focused IT program will benefit Linux as well as moving a lot of the support to a true IT department, not whoever happens to be "good with computers." A lot of these MS Access and VB applications are put together by "power-users" (instead of IT) because that is what that they know.
It has something do with school kids going to school in the dark and being more likely to be killed by traffic. I think they tried it one year back in the '70s.
VERY COOL
It will prepare them for the real world. If you major in math or science, accents and broken English is a way of life. You get used to it.
If H-1Bs are supposed to be the solution to the questionable shortage of science and technology people, maybe they could also be a solution to the real problem of a shortage of math and science teachers.
You could go even further and require that H-1B applicants that are not offered a job making over $80K or so (the real best and brightest) must spend 3-5 years teaching first before obtaining a work visa for something other than teaching.
I saw some show recently where some guy was making a lot of money finding and selling meteor fragments left over from impact in Kansas. I think in that case it exploded in air, but I don't know whether that means more fragments or not.
I personally did not get a science degree so that I could spend my days trying to coax disinterested teens into learning very basic stuff over and over every year. Everybody I knew was taking science (physics) because they wanted to do something cool when they graduated. They wanted to constantly learn new things. In the sciences, research assistant positions at college are always the preferred positions over teaching assistant positions.
Teaching teenagers is a particular aptitude that I don't believe is that wide spread among science and math majors. Maybe it would be better to find good teachers first, then teach them science, but I'm not sure about that either.
I think a lot of math and science people are not that well-suited (introverts, aspergers, etc..) for teaching to begin with, and a lot of these people have no desire to teach no matter what the pay is. The shortage may not just be about pay.
Dual booting kind of defeats the purpose of a free OS.
Too many companies run specialized Windows-only apps, often custom written. It could be something as simple as a custom timeclock program, or something more critical like a specialized ordering platform. It would be expensive and take forever to re-write all of these, and I think it would be hard to justify.
It seems to me that often people who build their own computers and worry about overclocking are doing so to get the most bang for their buck for gaming purposes. This would not be necessarily be a target audience for Linux.