What's the difference? Who owns the business. Management can screw themselves over by making the job suck. There's no reason that employees should be able to make the job suck for other employees.
More like a huge amount of obscurity. Let's say you install Windows 2000 on a computer and don't install any patches or service packs. Connect it directly to a cable modem and you'll have viruses instantly. Do the same install on another computer and put it behind a router and you'll find that even without any patches you're fine. And my point isn't that patches aren't necessary, it's that the obscurity of being hidden behind a router protects you from threats that haven't been discovered yet, and that's the hardest ones to protect against.
You're still assuming that a benefit from the union. Can you consider for even a moment that maybe I don't want the union? It's not just about losing money, it's about who the money goes to. Pro union people seem completely unable to understand that people could possibly disagree with them.
Or Wine. As soon as Photoshop runs decently in Wine, I'll be ditching Windows completely. Right now I just keep it around for those times when the GIMP bothers me.
Even if the majority vote to join a union, how does that make it in any way fair to force everyone to join? I've heard the argument that non-members get the "benefits" of being in the union without paying for it, but have you ever considered that people might not WANT a union? Oh wait, how could they possibly disagree with you? You're probably much better at running their lives than they are..
Unions in a lot of businesses are just there to make sure that incompetent people can't get fired, which just makes it harder for competent people to do their jobs (because they have to pick up the slack). They also make sure that good employees who've worked somewhere for a short time make less money than employees who don't do anything but have worked there for a long time.
Not that all unions are bad neccessarily, but in most cases now, working conditions aren't nearly bad enough for a union to do anything useful, so they exist anyone to waste their members money and make working conditions worse (by keeping bad employees around).
Ok so the internet is this series of tubes. It makes a lot of sense for ISPs to send some liquids through different tubes and at different speeds (if a senator is sending an internet to someone, you want to put it in the fattest tubes so it gets there this week). The problem with Comcast is that the "P2P" tube drains into your garden, mixing eye patches and peg legs with your vegetables, instead of sending your delicious internet liquids to other people.
I'm not trying to attack Linux. Other browsers work perfectly fine. I frequently use the dev release of chrome and Epiphany (I think this is Gnome's browser) and they work great. The problem is that Firefox for Linux is nowhere near the quality that Firefox for Windows is. And I'm using Ubuntu.
Seems like php would be the same way. I don't think I've ever asked a php question on a message board since I can just do a google search with "site:php.net".
I guess that's true. Everyone tries so hard to make their emails look fancy instead of just saying "Attention Students: Classes will begin on August 24th." It's got to be an HTML email that looks exactly like their website and has like 30 pictures... But as a person sending emails, switching to Twitter isn't necessary, all you need to do is stop sending such massive emails.
I doubt anyone that uses Chrome cares about how it looks. The reason I use it is because it's as fast as Firefox 1.0 was. Now that Firefox 3.5 takes 30 seconds to start and crashes constantly (on Linux at least), I'd rather use a browser that's fast and stable (and yes, Chrome on Linux is still pre-alpha and it's more stable than Firefox).
The least they could do is update the calculator.. I mean, why can't I put in "2 pounds of chocolate in cups" and get an answer? I realize that finding out the density of chocolate may be difficult for Google to do, but why not team up with Wikipedia (have people add things like densities to articles, and then Google can crawl that and use it for calculator results). Or even easier, things that can be found on the periodic table, like "10 kg of lithium in moles" or "atomic weight of calcium".
There seems to be so many things that it could be much more helpful with, and it can't be that hard since it already can answer questions like "What is the mass of the earth times the speed of light squared?", so why can't I ask for the "mass of the earth expressed as energy" (or possible "mass of the earth in joules")?
I guess it's probably just that Google doesn't get many ad clicks when people ask the calculator questions:(
The problem is requiring people to argue for a position that has no support. The best you could do is use arguments that have already been proven to be fallacies or just wrong, and that would be trolling.
Yeah I feel the same way about Midori. I read that it's significantly faster than Chrome, but I installed it and it crashes constantly. I'm sure it's easier to make a fast browser if you don't bother to make sure it works..
On the other hand, they're helping to support a new technology that will hopefully one day be cheap enough to worthwhile. Early adopters with too much money are helpful for supporting research..
I wouldn't mind paying for the military to protect us. What I don't want is to pay for our constant invasions of other countries. And saying "You could always vote for someone else [with no chance of winning because they don't have corporate sponsors]" doesn't change the fact that the government steals your money to waste on things that you may directly oppose.
Destroying the company wouldn't be helpful. I think a better solution would be to fine the board of directors (and anyone else in on this) for 100% of the money they've ever made while working there + all of their shares in the company + jail time.
Would anyone use it even if it was free? I hear a lot about SCO suing people but I don't think I've ever heard someone say they were buying a SCO product..
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Slashdot probably has to pay credit card fees anyway, and I think Paypal's fee is pretty close. From a business perspective, Paypal works pretty well.
What's the difference? Who owns the business. Management can screw themselves over by making the job suck. There's no reason that employees should be able to make the job suck for other employees.
Saying that a question is silly is hardly an insult, especially if you're talking to someone who didn't come up with it..
More like a huge amount of obscurity. Let's say you install Windows 2000 on a computer and don't install any patches or service packs. Connect it directly to a cable modem and you'll have viruses instantly. Do the same install on another computer and put it behind a router and you'll find that even without any patches you're fine. And my point isn't that patches aren't necessary, it's that the obscurity of being hidden behind a router protects you from threats that haven't been discovered yet, and that's the hardest ones to protect against.
You're still assuming that a benefit from the union. Can you consider for even a moment that maybe I don't want the union? It's not just about losing money, it's about who the money goes to. Pro union people seem completely unable to understand that people could possibly disagree with them.
Or Wine. As soon as Photoshop runs decently in Wine, I'll be ditching Windows completely. Right now I just keep it around for those times when the GIMP bothers me.
Even if the majority vote to join a union, how does that make it in any way fair to force everyone to join? I've heard the argument that non-members get the "benefits" of being in the union without paying for it, but have you ever considered that people might not WANT a union? Oh wait, how could they possibly disagree with you? You're probably much better at running their lives than they are..
Unions in a lot of businesses are just there to make sure that incompetent people can't get fired, which just makes it harder for competent people to do their jobs (because they have to pick up the slack). They also make sure that good employees who've worked somewhere for a short time make less money than employees who don't do anything but have worked there for a long time.
Not that all unions are bad neccessarily, but in most cases now, working conditions aren't nearly bad enough for a union to do anything useful, so they exist anyone to waste their members money and make working conditions worse (by keeping bad employees around).
Ok so the internet is this series of tubes. It makes a lot of sense for ISPs to send some liquids through different tubes and at different speeds (if a senator is sending an internet to someone, you want to put it in the fattest tubes so it gets there this week). The problem with Comcast is that the "P2P" tube drains into your garden, mixing eye patches and peg legs with your vegetables, instead of sending your delicious internet liquids to other people.
Wikipedia is a good/reliable encyclopedia. Problem is you shouldn't be using encyclopedias as sources.
I'm not trying to attack Linux. Other browsers work perfectly fine. I frequently use the dev release of chrome and Epiphany (I think this is Gnome's browser) and they work great. The problem is that Firefox for Linux is nowhere near the quality that Firefox for Windows is. And I'm using Ubuntu.
Seems like php would be the same way. I don't think I've ever asked a php question on a message board since I can just do a google search with "site:php.net".
I guess that's true. Everyone tries so hard to make their emails look fancy instead of just saying "Attention Students: Classes will begin on August 24th." It's got to be an HTML email that looks exactly like their website and has like 30 pictures... But as a person sending emails, switching to Twitter isn't necessary, all you need to do is stop sending such massive emails.
I doubt anyone that uses Chrome cares about how it looks. The reason I use it is because it's as fast as Firefox 1.0 was. Now that Firefox 3.5 takes 30 seconds to start and crashes constantly (on Linux at least), I'd rather use a browser that's fast and stable (and yes, Chrome on Linux is still pre-alpha and it's more stable than Firefox).
So basically we need email, but with a 150 character limit?
Wow.. that's actually exactly what I was looking for. I suddenly understand why Wolfram Alpha is useful.
Well with chocolate I would assume we're packing the volume of a cup with 100% pure chocolate (no air).
The least they could do is update the calculator.. I mean, why can't I put in "2 pounds of chocolate in cups" and get an answer? I realize that finding out the density of chocolate may be difficult for Google to do, but why not team up with Wikipedia (have people add things like densities to articles, and then Google can crawl that and use it for calculator results). Or even easier, things that can be found on the periodic table, like "10 kg of lithium in moles" or "atomic weight of calcium".
There seems to be so many things that it could be much more helpful with, and it can't be that hard since it already can answer questions like "What is the mass of the earth times the speed of light squared?", so why can't I ask for the "mass of the earth expressed as energy" (or possible "mass of the earth in joules")?
I guess it's probably just that Google doesn't get many ad clicks when people ask the calculator questions :(
The problem is requiring people to argue for a position that has no support. The best you could do is use arguments that have already been proven to be fallacies or just wrong, and that would be trolling.
Yeah I feel the same way about Midori. I read that it's significantly faster than Chrome, but I installed it and it crashes constantly. I'm sure it's easier to make a fast browser if you don't bother to make sure it works..
On the other hand, they're helping to support a new technology that will hopefully one day be cheap enough to worthwhile. Early adopters with too much money are helpful for supporting research..
Is this really necessary? If it's just an extension, you can remove it like normal..
I wouldn't mind paying for the military to protect us. What I don't want is to pay for our constant invasions of other countries. And saying "You could always vote for someone else [with no chance of winning because they don't have corporate sponsors]" doesn't change the fact that the government steals your money to waste on things that you may directly oppose.
And why don't companies have to pay a fine when they get caught?
Destroying the company wouldn't be helpful. I think a better solution would be to fine the board of directors (and anyone else in on this) for 100% of the money they've ever made while working there + all of their shares in the company + jail time.
Would anyone use it even if it was free? I hear a lot about SCO suing people but I don't think I've ever heard someone say they were buying a SCO product..