Not going to bother to look up your other claims... but your final one about the STQ is certianly wrong.
The reason the STQ is required under the criminal code has nothing to do with making the winner of a prize "do work". It is so that companies can turn contests a game of skill.
Games of skill and games of chance are treated differently under the criminal code, with games of chance falling under provincial gaming regulations, games of skill or of mixed chance and skill are not.
It has nothing to do with exchange of work for services.
The reason for corporate person hood is so that if you are working at your $5 / hour minimum wage job at McDonalds and serve someone coffee and they burn their face off, they don't sue YOU for negligence.
Without corporate person-hood there would be no way for anyone to sue corporations in civil suits.
A university's job is not to "spit out" "ready for market" individuals whatever the hell that means.
A university's job is to educate someone in the field of computer science so that when they are trying to write an application they know WTF they are actually doing, as opposed to some graduate from a tech school who can whip together a VB7 app but doesn't know what a Thread even is let alone how to properly mutex.
You want people "ready for market", hire from a technical school. But don't come crying to me when your application is behind schedule and full of bugs in 6 months because it was not designed properly by this "ready for market" individual who was better at power point presentations than software engineering.
I would not expect someone getting a computer science degree to take a course on writing functional specifications or using bugzilla and Eclipse, just like I would not expect a medical doctor to take a course on filling out patient charts.
These are things you learn ON THE JOB. Lawyers clerk, doctors have residency. Heck even McDonalds employees have WEEKS of training. I don't understand why people think someone can graduate from computer science and instantly integrate into a workplace and start coding, it is ridiculous.
The innovations needed to make people be able to survive on Mars would very likely be applicable on Earth. I am talking about innovations in recycling efficiency, re-use of materials, etc.
This is a common clause in employments contracts, but it has been found by the court to be invalid in many states and made ruled illegal/unenforcable in others with legislation (such as California).
No idea on if it is still valid in Microsoft's home state of Washington, but knowing it's influence on local politics, it likely is.
...all the tens of thousands of people that would be employed to make this happen... I guess none of they money spent by them would go back into the country? They would spend it all offshore right? Riiiiiight...
Yeah and the same CFL uses 1/4 of that to give the same light. And lasts about 5 times longer.
So unless a 4 pack of CFLs are $20 in your area, you are spending more with incandescents. Around here they would be about 5 or 6 bucks. So you are basically flushing $15 down the toilet every 5 years in the name of your principals.
..is needed. Just let capitalism take care of the issue.
The idiots want to keep buying low efficiency incandescents because they are "cheaper", let them. Smart consumers realize that the "cheaper" bulb costs them 5 times to 10 times as much over 5 years. Eventually as the price of electricy keeps doubling every 4-5 years and the message trickles down to idiot consumers as well, the old crappy bulbs will rapidly die off for most uses, while people will still be able to use them outside and in their easy-bake ovens etc. when needed.
Besides, when you already have big companies like Walmart who have basically near eliminated low-efficiency incandescents from their stores (they still sell incandescents, they are just the higher-efficiency kind), the problem is 3/4 solved. In many parts of the US if it is not being sold at Walmart you are simply not going to be able to buy it.
I really don't see what a ban accomplishes, the market is going to take care of it anyway.
QRadar has native support for hundreds and hundreds of log types, and even if it doesn't you can extract whatever custom data out of it you want, on demand.
And Splunk is not a SIEM it's a simple log indexer solution. SIEM is a lot more than a log indexer, it is breaking down the millions upon millions of logs you get today into a data set size that is actionable.
This is the exact same BS reason that the US screwed around daylight savings time, with the misguided idea that it would somehow save energy.
These kinds of things might have mattered 50 years ago, but they simply do not in today's 24/7 economy. If people want to shop, they will go out and shop, they won't stay home because it is dark outside.... heck they would just shop online anyway.
The idea that somehow giving an extra our of daylight is going to have any noticeable impact on a national economy is ridiculous.
It's a conference call... why can't you just leave work at 16:00 or 16:30 to pick up your kids, and join the call from your house at 17:00 or 17:30 ? What difference is it if you join from your home or office?
I am not sure what you mean by Microsoft "lost" HTC. HTC is one of the Windows Phone 7 launch partners and is very much behind the platform.
Sure they still also push their Android devices, they simply are not putting all their eggs in one basket. The same can be said of all of the Windows Phone 7 partners, they all also make Android phones.
Phones run on a 3-4 year life cycle, because that is what people's contracts on North American plans run at. 3 years ago Android was a pile of crap and the iPhone was quite expensive.
3 years from now everyone in that 75% will have a smartphone, if for no other reason than the fact that "dumb phones" won't even exist anymore. Android is shipping on bargain-basement $99 and under phones nowadays.
QT was a profitable company with a large number of employees BEFORE Nokia bought it.
Not everyone realizes - QT is licensed by companies not just to develop applications that run on both Windows and UNIX, but also Windows and Mac OS. This is where they make a lot of money.
QT is not going anywhere, it has a huge install base. If anything it would be sold by Nokia or spun-off into it's own company again.
Bloatware is not going away, it is getting worse. Try to buy an Android phone that is not riddled with the manufacturers own crapware throughout it.
Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Acer, Dell - you name it, every one has their own version of crap they layer on top of Android in the name of "branding". Sure, some of it is actually decent (IE HTC Sense), but even that which *IS* - wouldn't it be better if that was a) pushed into the Android core, or b) made an optional installable app? There is no reason most of this stuff should not be optional apps - but the fact is that unless you root your phone, most of it is impossible to remove.
Heck Verizon even goes to the level of replacing Google with Bing!
The one thing I will give Apple about iPhone is that they at least ENFORCE that companies can not touch the OS. You buy an iPhone from Verizon, ATT, Orange, or retail - it will be 100% identical. Any "customizations" have to be done in stand-alone app, none of them mess with things like email, or dialers, or other junk.
Video calls are very important to the netbook and laptop market. Saying they are "not important to everyone" is like saying "ebook reading is not important to everyone", certainly a true statement but a pretty ridiculous statement to make if you were making it about a tablet PC.
The same goes for USB ports.
The very fact that Apple is including these in the iPad 2 is plain evidence that the market told them that they were lacking in the iPad.
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Not going to bother to look up your other claims... but your final one about the STQ is certianly wrong.
The reason the STQ is required under the criminal code has nothing to do with making the winner of a prize "do work". It is so that companies can turn contests a game of skill.
Games of skill and games of chance are treated differently under the criminal code, with games of chance falling under provincial gaming regulations, games of skill or of mixed chance and skill are not.
It has nothing to do with exchange of work for services.
The reason for corporate person hood is so that if you are working at your $5 / hour minimum wage job at McDonalds and serve someone coffee and they burn their face off, they don't sue YOU for negligence.
Without corporate person-hood there would be no way for anyone to sue corporations in civil suits.
This might actually work if it was done for the Android platform, if it was marketed correctly.
That was a pretty fundamental part of software engineering 1 and 2 when I took CS 10 years ago.
I think either the school this guy was from was a very poor school, or this guy was a very poor student, or some combination thereof.
A university's job is not to "spit out" "ready for market" individuals whatever the hell that means.
A university's job is to educate someone in the field of computer science so that when they are trying to write an application they know WTF they are actually doing, as opposed to some graduate from a tech school who can whip together a VB7 app but doesn't know what a Thread even is let alone how to properly mutex.
You want people "ready for market", hire from a technical school. But don't come crying to me when your application is behind schedule and full of bugs in 6 months because it was not designed properly by this "ready for market" individual who was better at power point presentations than software engineering.
Not sure where you work, but an attitude like the above would get you fired where I work.
If the development manager doesn't care about how a project is constructed then that project is not going to last very long.
Yes, and they also don't know the difference between a Vector and a List and when to use which, not to mention simple ideas like thread locking.
I would not expect someone getting a computer science degree to take a course on writing functional specifications or using bugzilla and Eclipse, just like I would not expect a medical doctor to take a course on filling out patient charts.
These are things you learn ON THE JOB. Lawyers clerk, doctors have residency. Heck even McDonalds employees have WEEKS of training. I don't understand why people think someone can graduate from computer science and instantly integrate into a workplace and start coding, it is ridiculous.
The innovations needed to make people be able to survive on Mars would very likely be applicable on Earth. I am talking about innovations in recycling efficiency, re-use of materials, etc.
This is a common clause in employments contracts, but it has been found by the court to be invalid in many states and made ruled illegal/unenforcable in others with legislation (such as California).
No idea on if it is still valid in Microsoft's home state of Washington, but knowing it's influence on local politics, it likely is.
...all the tens of thousands of people that would be employed to make this happen... I guess none of they money spent by them would go back into the country? They would spend it all offshore right? Riiiiiight...
Yeah and the same CFL uses 1/4 of that to give the same light. And lasts about 5 times longer.
So unless a 4 pack of CFLs are $20 in your area, you are spending more with incandescents. Around here they would be about 5 or 6 bucks. So you are basically flushing $15 down the toilet every 5 years in the name of your principals.
..is needed. Just let capitalism take care of the issue.
The idiots want to keep buying low efficiency incandescents because they are "cheaper", let them. Smart consumers realize that the "cheaper" bulb costs them 5 times to 10 times as much over 5 years. Eventually as the price of electricy keeps doubling every 4-5 years and the message trickles down to idiot consumers as well, the old crappy bulbs will rapidly die off for most uses, while people will still be able to use them outside and in their easy-bake ovens etc. when needed.
Besides, when you already have big companies like Walmart who have basically near eliminated low-efficiency incandescents from their stores (they still sell incandescents, they are just the higher-efficiency kind), the problem is 3/4 solved. In many parts of the US if it is not being sold at Walmart you are simply not going to be able to buy it.
I really don't see what a ban accomplishes, the market is going to take care of it anyway.
QRadar has native support for hundreds and hundreds of log types, and even if it doesn't you can extract whatever custom data out of it you want, on demand.
And Splunk is not a SIEM it's a simple log indexer solution. SIEM is a lot more than a log indexer, it is breaking down the millions upon millions of logs you get today into a data set size that is actionable.
Someone who runs 10 - 20 miles / week is supposed to replace their shoes at least twice / year
This is the exact same BS reason that the US screwed around daylight savings time, with the misguided idea that it would somehow save energy.
These kinds of things might have mattered 50 years ago, but they simply do not in today's 24/7 economy. If people want to shop, they will go out and shop, they won't stay home because it is dark outside.... heck they would just shop online anyway.
The idea that somehow giving an extra our of daylight is going to have any noticeable impact on a national economy is ridiculous.
It's a conference call... why can't you just leave work at 16:00 or 16:30 to pick up your kids, and join the call from your house at 17:00 or 17:30 ? What difference is it if you join from your home or office?
Do you think the majority of facebook users know about this hidden option? It should be enabled BY DEFAULT, just like Google does with GMail.
I am not sure what you mean by Microsoft "lost" HTC. HTC is one of the Windows Phone 7 launch partners and is very much behind the platform.
Sure they still also push their Android devices, they simply are not putting all their eggs in one basket. The same can be said of all of the Windows Phone 7 partners, they all also make Android phones.
Phones run on a 3-4 year life cycle, because that is what people's contracts on North American plans run at. 3 years ago Android was a pile of crap and the iPhone was quite expensive.
3 years from now everyone in that 75% will have a smartphone, if for no other reason than the fact that "dumb phones" won't even exist anymore. Android is shipping on bargain-basement $99 and under phones nowadays.
QT was a profitable company with a large number of employees BEFORE Nokia bought it.
Not everyone realizes - QT is licensed by companies not just to develop applications that run on both Windows and UNIX, but also Windows and Mac OS. This is where they make a lot of money.
QT is not going anywhere, it has a huge install base. If anything it would be sold by Nokia or spun-off into it's own company again.
All of the members of the MPAA combined have a market cap barely more than Google itself
Disney - 82 billion
Viacom - 26 billion
News corp. - 44 billion
Time Warner - 40 billion
NBC Universal - 35 billion estimated
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Total = 227 billion
Google - 196 billion
Bloatware is not going away, it is getting worse. Try to buy an Android phone that is not riddled with the manufacturers own crapware throughout it.
Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Acer, Dell - you name it, every one has their own version of crap they layer on top of Android in the name of "branding". Sure, some of it is actually decent (IE HTC Sense), but even that which *IS* - wouldn't it be better if that was a) pushed into the Android core, or b) made an optional installable app? There is no reason most of this stuff should not be optional apps - but the fact is that unless you root your phone, most of it is impossible to remove.
Heck Verizon even goes to the level of replacing Google with Bing!
The one thing I will give Apple about iPhone is that they at least ENFORCE that companies can not touch the OS. You buy an iPhone from Verizon, ATT, Orange, or retail - it will be 100% identical. Any "customizations" have to be done in stand-alone app, none of them mess with things like email, or dialers, or other junk.
Video calls are very important to the netbook and laptop market. Saying they are "not important to everyone" is like saying "ebook reading is not important to everyone", certainly a true statement but a pretty ridiculous statement to make if you were making it about a tablet PC.
The same goes for USB ports.
The very fact that Apple is including these in the iPad 2 is plain evidence that the market told them that they were lacking in the iPad.
It has no front or back camera and thus is a non-starter as a netbook replacement, since you can't do video calls with it.
The lack of normal, mini, or micro USB without a giant dongle is also a big problem.
The fact that these things are going to be addressed in the iPad 2 just points to the fact that they should have been included in the iPad 1.
You can point out the same kinds of batently obvious things (like video recording and cut / paste) lacking from the first iPhone OS.
No V1 product is really ready, the difference is that Apple has the marketing and fan-base to sell a V 1.0 product before it actually is.