are really starting to sound a lot like gold/silver bugs do on the investment forums. I'm invested in uranium exploration, oil exploration and undersea exploration companies and I suspect they are no more safe an investment that Bitcoin, or (right now) gold and silver. But damn, you don't hear me frothing at the mouth every time someone starts talking about BP or Fukushima. Fact is, the value of my risky investments and Bitcoin can both flat-line - if you're not prepared to accept that, then you shouldn't be investing either real money, or your time and energy in it. But honestly, best of luck to Bitcoin - I find the experiment at turns fascinating and ridiculous, but it never fails to entertain.
I posted (back on December 26th last year) that Javascript would be a good choice for learning because every modern computer can work with it......much like BASIC back in the day.
The old "adventure" games like Colossal Cave adventure, are called "interactive fiction" these days, which says it all.
FWIW I think authors tend to be quite precious when it comes to their manuscripts - they have firms ideas how the plot should play out, so giving the reader a choice in the matter will only appeal to a particular kind of jobbing writer. It's probably for the best - imagine how confusing it would be discussing a story with your friend, when you both took entirely different choices during the process of reading it.
Despite off-site storage, automatic backups, the ability to auto-sync to multiple sites, and that there are ways to secure it, it's completely useless!
A business down the street? As I see it, off-site storage - cloud... whatever - and even hosted servers are fine technologies for disaster recovery. If your block or neighbourhood gets caught up in a big fire, earthquake or flood having your off-site back-up "down the street" might not be as helpful as you hoped. You even acknowledge this.
The SME company I work at is currently looking at new accounts software, and we've been investigating using hosted servers for just about everything. Our data is nothing special in the big scheme of things - emails, quotations, spreadsheets and the financial data - and I'm liking the idea of handing the care of it to somebody else. Over the past forty years two depots were gutted by fires (nope, not insurance fraud - terrorism) and this still colours our thinking. If the place were I work burns down, in theory I could be up and running from a hotel room, portakabin or home, sending email, checking accounts and playing with spreadsheets immediately.
It means that companies like Foxconn will be forced to pay better wages, shorten shifts, and generally treat their employees better. Shorter shifts also means more people need to be hired.
End result?
End result? A greater percentage of the profits being retained by Chinese companies, an increase in your trade deficit and an nice bump to the R&D budgets of your foreign competitors.
I think a lot of the media blather is fuelled less by concerns about mistreating developing world labour and more about a stealth approach to convincing people that foreign labour = bad, but retaining or increasing local jobs = good. Which has its merits. One nation worrying about the well-being of another nation's labour force out of pure altruism would be something of a historical anomaly.
There's weirder shit going down every day, but the lines about young artists having their careers ruined by illegal downloads, seems like a bold statement for normally bucolic UK police to make when nothing has yet been decided in a court of law. However, as I said weirder and weirder shit every day...
Google didn’t create the first search engine. Apple didn’t create the first mp3 player or tablet. And, Facebook didn’t create the first social network. But these companies have evolved products and categories in revolutionary ways. They are all internet treasures because they all have specific and broad missions to change the world.
100,000 workers in China represents, what? About 0.02% of the workforce. Anyway, how do you suppose a "middle class" starts? Just like this. Peasants move into cities and get jobs in manufacturing, and a whole class of middle-managers is born.
The crossover between Facebook users playing Zynga games or Tiny Tower and Slashdot is, hopefully, fairly small. Similarly, 99% of potential users will never read this story, anywhere. (Full disclosure - I did briefly play Tiny Tower on iOS but I didn't inhale and spent less than twenty bucks on it... I'll get my coat...)
You know, I think I've gotten my head around this now. If you happened upon the scene, post-processed it the same way (using standard Photoshop tools) and presented it as your own idea then you'd be perfectly okay to do so. What happened here was the two parties had a prior arrangement and an effort was made to deliberately copy the style of the original image to avoid paying licensing fees, in the opinion of the judge. I'm losing faith in copyright on a daily basis, but I actually get this decision. Don't agree with it so much, but I don't think it's as crazy as some people are making out.
I find your mention of advertising interesting. Isn't this going to open the door for a lot of artists to sue, should they choose to lower themselves to it, a bunch of advertising companies who have ripped off their style in the past? I found This site when Googling which compares a bunch of similar ideas. It's French so, ya know, NSFW if you're buttoned-up. Most of it is ad-men feeding off other ad-men, but the occasional artist or photographer does seem to be a victim too.
"Culture" is being removed as an expression of natural human interaction with the ideas around them and being replaced with something manufactured and protected by corporations. Less "culture" and more "cultured", the way you do with slime in a petri dish.
I think I'd sooner watch a chat show hosted by a j-horror child-ghost than Julian Assange.
That could work, couldn't it? Close-up of guest, finishing of his question, pull back the shot and there's the host crawling across the ceiling... ready with the next question. Hehe. Oh, and that would work for the ghost-host too!
Farkas is currently serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Williamsburg, a facility in South Carolina that holds minimum and medium security inmates, and is scheduled for release in 2037
Or it brings the developing nations up to the level of the developed nations. This has been happening for centuries. The US used to BE one of those developing nations, taking jobs away from the old world. Europe isn't exactly Africa poor, yet, and the US will be fine too when China get to the point economically where the Chinese are complaining about Chinese companies assembling their goods in India.
Slashdot Mirror
He joined the US army, of course he was mentally ill. Never volunteer for anything, as my Staff Sergeant used to remind me.
are really starting to sound a lot like gold/silver bugs do on the investment forums. I'm invested in uranium exploration, oil exploration and undersea exploration companies and I suspect they are no more safe an investment that Bitcoin, or (right now) gold and silver. But damn, you don't hear me frothing at the mouth every time someone starts talking about BP or Fukushima. Fact is, the value of my risky investments and Bitcoin can both flat-line - if you're not prepared to accept that, then you shouldn't be investing either real money, or your time and energy in it. But honestly, best of luck to Bitcoin - I find the experiment at turns fascinating and ridiculous, but it never fails to entertain.
I posted (back on December 26th last year) that Javascript would be a good choice for learning because every modern computer can work with it......much like BASIC back in the day.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2591756&cid=38499508
If a million monkeys are given a million typewriters...
Youtube? You mean "Google+ Video". 3 minutes? I think not.
The old "adventure" games like Colossal Cave adventure, are called "interactive fiction" these days, which says it all.
FWIW I think authors tend to be quite precious when it comes to their manuscripts - they have firms ideas how the plot should play out, so giving the reader a choice in the matter will only appeal to a particular kind of jobbing writer. It's probably for the best - imagine how confusing it would be discussing a story with your friend, when you both took entirely different choices during the process of reading it.
The cloud is the answer to NOTHING.
Despite off-site storage, automatic backups, the ability to auto-sync to multiple sites, and that there are ways to secure it, it's completely useless!
Don't forget the wine!
A business down the street? As I see it, off-site storage - cloud... whatever - and even hosted servers are fine technologies for disaster recovery. If your block or neighbourhood gets caught up in a big fire, earthquake or flood having your off-site back-up "down the street" might not be as helpful as you hoped. You even acknowledge this.
The SME company I work at is currently looking at new accounts software, and we've been investigating using hosted servers for just about everything. Our data is nothing special in the big scheme of things - emails, quotations, spreadsheets and the financial data - and I'm liking the idea of handing the care of it to somebody else. Over the past forty years two depots were gutted by fires (nope, not insurance fraud - terrorism) and this still colours our thinking. If the place were I work burns down, in theory I could be up and running from a hotel room, portakabin or home, sending email, checking accounts and playing with spreadsheets immediately.
Well yes, but I have better than perfect vision
Your command of etymology is, however, less than perfect.
It means that companies like Foxconn will be forced to pay better wages, shorten shifts, and generally treat their employees better. Shorter shifts also means more people need to be hired.
End result?
End result? A greater percentage of the profits being retained by Chinese companies, an increase in your trade deficit and an nice bump to the R&D budgets of your foreign competitors.
I think a lot of the media blather is fuelled less by concerns about mistreating developing world labour and more about a stealth approach to convincing people that foreign labour = bad, but retaining or increasing local jobs = good. Which has its merits. One nation worrying about the well-being of another nation's labour force out of pure altruism would be something of a historical anomaly.
It's just one of those javascript dealies you see in people's signatures on forums all the time. Nobody is tracking anybody.
There's weirder shit going down every day, but the lines about young artists having their careers ruined by illegal downloads, seems like a bold statement for normally bucolic UK police to make when nothing has yet been decided in a court of law. However, as I said weirder and weirder shit every day...
Google didn’t create the first search engine. Apple didn’t create the first mp3 player or tablet. And, Facebook didn’t create the first social network. But these companies have evolved products and categories in revolutionary ways. They are all internet treasures because they all have specific and broad missions to change the world.
There may have been other nations getting in the way of the Americans when World War 2 began in 1941.
100,000 workers in China represents, what? About 0.02% of the workforce. Anyway, how do you suppose a "middle class" starts? Just like this. Peasants move into cities and get jobs in manufacturing, and a whole class of middle-managers is born.
But not upset enough to stop buying Apple products.
And this is an early adopter price. It'll be under 200 bucks at retail within a matter of weeks and probably have shed a 100 bucks by Xmas 2012.
People waiting for the latest next gen card are lucky. They never have to buy anything. Just wait.
The crossover between Facebook users playing Zynga games or Tiny Tower and Slashdot is, hopefully, fairly small. Similarly, 99% of potential users will never read this story, anywhere. (Full disclosure - I did briefly play Tiny Tower on iOS but I didn't inhale and spent less than twenty bucks on it... I'll get my coat...)
You know, I think I've gotten my head around this now. If you happened upon the scene, post-processed it the same way (using standard Photoshop tools) and presented it as your own idea then you'd be perfectly okay to do so. What happened here was the two parties had a prior arrangement and an effort was made to deliberately copy the style of the original image to avoid paying licensing fees, in the opinion of the judge. I'm losing faith in copyright on a daily basis, but I actually get this decision. Don't agree with it so much, but I don't think it's as crazy as some people are making out.
I find your mention of advertising interesting. Isn't this going to open the door for a lot of artists to sue, should they choose to lower themselves to it, a bunch of advertising companies who have ripped off their style in the past? I found This site when Googling which compares a bunch of similar ideas. It's French so, ya know, NSFW if you're buttoned-up. Most of it is ad-men feeding off other ad-men, but the occasional artist or photographer does seem to be a victim too.
"Culture" is being removed as an expression of natural human interaction with the ideas around them and being replaced with something manufactured and protected by corporations. Less "culture" and more "cultured", the way you do with slime in a petri dish.
Also, Heathcliff/Garfield.
Yeah, creepy. So, not like Assange then?
I think I'd sooner watch a chat show hosted by a j-horror child-ghost than Julian Assange.
That could work, couldn't it? Close-up of guest, finishing of his question, pull back the shot and there's the host crawling across the ceiling... ready with the next question. Hehe. Oh, and that would work for the ghost-host too!
From Wikipedia:
Farkas is currently serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Williamsburg, a facility in South Carolina that holds minimum and medium security inmates, and is scheduled for release in 2037
Medical parole in a couple of years?
Or it brings the developing nations up to the level of the developed nations. This has been happening for centuries. The US used to BE one of those developing nations, taking jobs away from the old world. Europe isn't exactly Africa poor, yet, and the US will be fine too when China get to the point economically where the Chinese are complaining about Chinese companies assembling their goods in India.