More competency-based hiring has to be a good thing for employers vis a vis demonstrating compliance with equal-opportunity regulation.
Given the demonstrable bias towards hiring people for reasons completely unrelated to ability (e.g. "attractiveness"), I would think that potential employees must favor this sort of thing as well.
No nation with a slave labor force has ever outproduced a nation of free men.
History seems to record that ancient Greece and ancient Rome regularly took slaves as an important part of their economies; those two gave us the foundation of our notions of democracy and a free citizenry.
The south wasn't built on slaves. While the south had slavery it was an un-industrialized backwater incapable of defending itself from the Yankees.
We could argue over how much to credit the use of slave labor in the southern US for the domestic economy, but it seems inarguable that the major benefits of that slavery ran to England and Europe, generally through financial institutions in the northern US.
People seem to forget that when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson first became slave-owners they were British citizens. It was England and the rest of Europe that brought slavery (often including enslavement of the native people) to the Americas and they reaped the largest economic benefits from it; it is likely, given the way capitalism works, that they still do.
Actually, I would call your point more "reverse-cultural-relativism" more than anything else.
What you're really saying is that it was all right for the Europeans who came to the Americas and robbed the native people of their land, to build a rich nation on slavery and, later, on an abusive labor system, because those same folks established some legal principles that, now that's all over with, allow us to feel entitled to look down our noses at others who do the same.
Slavery built every bit of western civilization; should we really be surprised that the "next generation" is emulating us?
In this case it's pretty obvious that Zynga game is essentially a knock-off, but how "different" do 2 games have to be to satisfy you in a legal sense for you to consider it not copying?
Because that's the question of fact that courts get to decide, it's also where the actual law gets "made".
It's also why it's important, at least in the US system, that all of our federal judges–particularly obvious on the Supreme Court–come from such a limited pool in terms of political party affiliation (2), law schools (2 or 3), regional background (1), etc., etc.
If you want different law you're going to have to elect different people to appoint different judges.
I think the thing is that people generally don't buy a phone, dumb or smart, just because it plays music.
In that same way, people don't buy a laptop just to watch DVD's, or buy a car just to listen to the stereo.
But if you do listen to the stereo in your car, it's a lot simpler and more convenient to use an MP3 that has 2 weeks of battery life and a relatively low replacement cost.
Certainly when compared to using a phone that you need to remove every time you stop, the battery of which is consumed in about 1 hour of music playback, and the loss of which incurs much greater replacement costs (on top of whatever losses/exposure of personal information might also be implied; remember that cool Facebook app button?).
the time Apple redesigned the iPhone's screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
How is this anecdote NOT just about "workers [being] cheaper abroad"?
If they were, then, with full inter-web access, the protesters on Wall Street would have been as successful at bringing about change as were the protesters in Tahrir Square (sometimes without it).
Somehow this seems a little irrelevant, considering the boon of gaming on mobile phones and an economy that makes people think twice of buying a separate portable gaming system.
I have to agree that "gaming" is becoming a redundant function.
The first reaction to something like the Vita has to be, "What else does it do?"
With MacPorts, OSX is like FreeBSD, but frankly there's nothing like the real thing.
I often get modded down for posting this (probably partly b/c I post it too often), but . . .
Apple's hardware is tops, but OSX is a lesser-BSD and it would be the best of all possible worlds if a user could replace it (easily and completely) with a real one (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, or Desktop BSD).
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More competency-based hiring has to be a good thing for employers vis a vis demonstrating compliance with equal-opportunity regulation.
Given the demonstrable bias towards hiring people for reasons completely unrelated to ability (e.g. "attractiveness"), I would think that potential employees must favor this sort of thing as well.
No nation with a slave labor force has ever outproduced a nation of free men.
History seems to record that ancient Greece and ancient Rome regularly took slaves as an important part of their economies; those two gave us the foundation of our notions of democracy and a free citizenry.
The south wasn't built on slaves. While the south had slavery it was an un-industrialized backwater incapable of defending itself from the Yankees.
We could argue over how much to credit the use of slave labor in the southern US for the domestic economy, but it seems inarguable that the major benefits of that slavery ran to England and Europe, generally through financial institutions in the northern US.
People seem to forget that when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson first became slave-owners they were British citizens. It was England and the rest of Europe that brought slavery (often including enslavement of the native people) to the Americas and they reaped the largest economic benefits from it; it is likely, given the way capitalism works, that they still do.
Actually, I would call your point more "reverse-cultural-relativism" more than anything else.
What you're really saying is that it was all right for the Europeans who came to the Americas and robbed the native people of their land, to build a rich nation on slavery and, later, on an abusive labor system, because those same folks established some legal principles that, now that's all over with, allow us to feel entitled to look down our noses at others who do the same.
Slavery built every bit of western civilization; should we really be surprised that the "next generation" is emulating us?
In this case it's pretty obvious that Zynga game is essentially a knock-off, but how "different" do 2 games have to be to satisfy you in a legal sense for you to consider it not copying?
Because that's the question of fact that courts get to decide, it's also where the actual law gets "made".
It's also why it's important, at least in the US system, that all of our federal judges–particularly obvious on the Supreme Court–come from such a limited pool in terms of political party affiliation (2), law schools (2 or 3), regional background (1), etc., etc.
If you want different law you're going to have to elect different people to appoint different judges.
. . . hard cord porn.
FYI, that's actually the effect the stuff has, not so much its name.
Right now, Apple-(and Steve Jobs-)bashing seems to have the fashionable appeal of . . . well, of a new iPhone or iPad.
. . . that fat guy in the one man Broadway show about Foxconn, appear to be the same person.
Just sayin' . . .
They're enough to make you smash Apple products you own.
And replace them with "untainted" electronic products from . . . which company?
I think the thing is that people generally don't buy a phone, dumb or smart, just because it plays music.
In that same way, people don't buy a laptop just to watch DVD's, or buy a car just to listen to the stereo.
But if you do listen to the stereo in your car, it's a lot simpler and more convenient to use an MP3 that has 2 weeks of battery life and a relatively low replacement cost.
Certainly when compared to using a phone that you need to remove every time you stop, the battery of which is consumed in about 1 hour of music playback, and the loss of which incurs much greater replacement costs (on top of whatever losses/exposure of personal information might also be implied; remember that cool Facebook app button?).
. . . for "It's Pretty much Over", isn't it?
Aging U-2 Will Rock On Into the Next Decade
Udacity seems to have been over-whelmed as of the time of this post: 9:11p EST (maybe apropos?).
the time Apple redesigned the iPhone's screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
How is this anecdote NOT just about "workers [being] cheaper abroad"?
I think if you read TFA, it's actually making a point about the (short-term) employment prospects for graduates holding different degree majors.
It doesn't really say anything about the more amorphous concept of "education".
Mom always said that you should look inside the box before buying anything.
What about thinking before opening your mouth in the future? And why not bitch at Apple for locking down OS X and iPhone's too?
Have you met /.?
Think about it: all the McCrap you can eat, yet your blood sugar level remains normal (although you still grow fat).
I think about how closely the description of "McCrap" and HFCS resemble the grain that starved the Tribbles to death on Star Trek.
Sorry for the double-post, but I got signed out somehow:
I have a question which is somewhat related here and about which I have always wondered:
How much of a sudoku, once filled in, must be "checked" in order to be certain that the whole thing is correct?
. . . "social change".
If they were, then, with full inter-web access, the protesters on Wall Street would have been as successful at bringing about change as were the protesters in Tahrir Square (sometimes without it).
Looks like a "let's see if they'll jump again" trial balloon from HP . . .
Though I have to admit that it's pretty good bait.
. . . watch achievement return to what it was in the '50s and '60s.
What evidence do you have of high achievement during those decades?
I'm not being argumentative, I am just interested in what evidence there might be towards proving that point.
. . . a practical use for that 3 Tb drive I've been hearing so much about.
Somehow this seems a little irrelevant, considering the boon of gaming on mobile phones and an economy that makes people think twice of buying a separate portable gaming system.
I have to agree that "gaming" is becoming a redundant function.
The first reaction to something like the Vita has to be, "What else does it do?"
Arduin of Ivrea too, and she even has light brown hair.
With MacPorts, OSX is like FreeBSD, but frankly there's nothing like the real thing.
I often get modded down for posting this (probably partly b/c I post it too often), but . . .
Apple's hardware is tops, but OSX is a lesser-BSD and it would be the best of all possible worlds if a user could replace it (easily and completely) with a real one (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, or Desktop BSD).