Like everyone else is saying. maybe they don't want to market it at all.
It sounds like 'blue sky' development. I imagine someone wondering "What if I just..."
The more of that happens, the more things are tried out and the advantage od OSS is that everyone can find out how it is done and nobody can stop others from improving on it - apart from by saying it's a stupid idea.
Of course, it could also be the result of using mind altering chemicals - which is also not always a bad thing
I read a while back that it is actually harder to read all caps.
That explains to me why EULAs are in them. "They" want me to skim over them and agree - which we all do anyway...
How do I ask if my day-to-day work will be directed by someone who not only doesn't understand what I am to do, but also feels that this lack makes him a better person?
I don't need someone who can do my job, just understand my needs and explanations. I have seen cases where "professional managers" were in charge of stuff they didn't comprehend. It doesn't have to be this way. My last boss was a salesman by trade but when he didn't understand, he would ask. Then he would remember the answers.
That is what I am getting at. 1 day of insurance for a 5k/year driver should be far higher than 1 day for a 100k/year one because of the difference in experience.
My work Blackberry does not store its maps. Neither does Google Latitude. I have seen a couple of others and they seemed to be downloading maps from somewhere as when we were going fast we were going through blank spaces until the roads all appeared.
Do you mean like the veto that nixon would have had if they had impeached him?
If the USA was the subject of such a motion, it would have had to rely on the vetoes of its friends, like the UK - unless we were also facing the same motion...
I have seen so many users confused by this sort of setup!
They "know that C is their hard disc and D is the CD/DVD drive. They are not sure what the other drives are and I have seen a case where a user managed to delete the contents of additional partitions because they thought it was a virus.
Another problem is that you should keep your page file on C:\ anyway.
Keep it simple. If you want to keep some things separate, move My Documents to another drive. This helps when trying to fix things. I think I have managed to do this without even having it show up as another drive letter.
We tried it in the UK. Privately owned railway systems have proved much more expensive and not neccesarily any better than the fully nationalised British Rail that went before it.
They do have some prettier looking trains now though...
We have pretty good records going back a long way. My favourite is the core samples taken from the north & south poles etc. They contain atmospheric samples trapped in the ice going back a long way. They can be used to prove C14 CO2 and other stuff.
I am not from the US and cannot see a connection between freedom of speech for people and businesses having the right to say or do anything at all.
Freedom of speech for people is undoubtedly a cornerstone of a free (civilised) society. What has that got to do with the right of even a legitimate company to say something? Freedom for business is a good thing to but as soon as they trample on freedoms of human beings, that should be very closely examined!
I think many of my fellow Brits are not too keen on cameras but are very against being watched by companies.
From what I can see, it looks like the other way round in the US.
Why the difference? My 2pence worth is as follows...
In the US do you feel that everyone in positions of authority has worked to get there? This may well have involved getting people to vote for them. Politicians are not famed for their honesty in general. Succesful businesses, on the other hand are such because they are good at what they do and responsive to customer demmand.
In the UK, we may have once had a higher opinion of politicians than you. Above them waas the aristocracy who had been brought up to lead. There was the ethics of "fair play" fed to them when they were at Public School. If the politicians were bad, they could be removed by the Lords. Above them was the monarch who kept an eye on them. Unfortunately for this system, Tony Blair and his friends have spent a decade removing those checks & balances. Now our leaders will do whatever their rich friends want them to - just like yours!
I like >90% of the planet have never heard of Colbert.
This may be because he(?) is a US TV personality. Having the name of someone few people have heard of on an international project may make more people in the USA aware of something outside their borders. This has to be a good thing.
The opinions of people with political or social opinions are often fairly predictable.
Dream up a fictional idea that may affect the way we live. You can probably decide for yourself whether one side or the other will like or dislike it.
Here are a couple I have just dreamed up.
Banning CRT screens and monitors to save energy
"No representation without taxation"
The first one could some straight from California too. The second one could come from an ultra conservatives wish list.
Neither are true, I just made them up but I am fairly sure who would like and dislike each one. This is not a Straw Man argument. It may be caused by so many people living up to their stereotypes though...
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Scobilizer has been tweeting about the same problem this afternoon.
Like everyone else is saying. maybe they don't want to market it at all.
It sounds like 'blue sky' development. I imagine someone wondering "What if I just..."
The more of that happens, the more things are tried out and the advantage od OSS is that everyone can find out how it is done and nobody can stop others from improving on it - apart from by saying it's a stupid idea.
Of course, it could also be the result of using mind altering chemicals - which is also not always a bad thing
I read a while back that it is actually harder to read all caps.
That explains to me why EULAs are in them. "They" want me to skim over them and agree - which we all do anyway...
How do I ask if my day-to-day work will be directed by someone who not only doesn't understand what I am to do, but also feels that this lack makes him a better person?
I don't need someone who can do my job, just understand my needs and explanations. I have seen cases where "professional managers" were in charge of stuff they didn't comprehend. It doesn't have to be this way. My last boss was a salesman by trade but when he didn't understand, he would ask. Then he would remember the answers.
I just want to avoid ending up like Dilbert...
Perhaps this is another example of cultural imperialism but this is rare anywhere in the world and must be unheard of in China.
The only thing that seems to make most employers treat their staff that way is a legal requirement. Even that doesn't always work.
That is what I am getting at. 1 day of insurance for a 5k/year driver should be far higher than 1 day for a 100k/year one because of the difference in experience.
Sunday drivers have got to be the most dangerous people on the road.
Someone who drives 100K miles a year is going to have a lot more miles between accidents than someone who does 5K.
So this means that more than 10% of people identified ad scientists in the USA believe in the Flying Spagetti Monster or something?
My work Blackberry does not store its maps. Neither does Google Latitude. I have seen a couple of others and they seemed to be downloading maps from somewhere as when we were going fast we were going through blank spaces until the roads all appeared.
There were 2 purposes of the odd disc format
1. To save money on floppies
2. Do make it harder to back them up - an early anti-piracy method
PS the first floppy was a standard 1.44 MB one. It included a driver for the format of the rest.
if it weren't for the veto
Do you mean like the veto that nixon would have had if they had impeached him? If the USA was the subject of such a motion, it would have had to rely on the vetoes of its friends, like the UK - unless we were also facing the same motion...
you misspelled "determination"
"Intimidation" is the correct way to spell it. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intimidation for what it means.
It's an amazing success story
What do Iraqis think? The killing didn't stop just because GWB said it was all over.
Each pair of cylinders has it's own coil.
Not if it's a good Catholic one...
I have seen so many users confused by this sort of setup!
They "know that C is their hard disc and D is the CD/DVD drive. They are not sure what the other drives are and I have seen a case where a user managed to delete the contents of additional partitions because they thought it was a virus.
Another problem is that you should keep your page file on C:\ anyway.
Keep it simple. If you want to keep some things separate, move My Documents to another drive. This helps when trying to fix things. I think I have managed to do this without even having it show up as another drive letter.
We tried it in the UK. Privately owned railway systems have proved much more expensive and not neccesarily any better than the fully nationalised British Rail that went before it.
They do have some prettier looking trains now though...
Shroedinger stole it.
We have pretty good records going back a long way. My favourite is the core samples taken from the north & south poles etc. They contain atmospheric samples trapped in the ice going back a long way. They can be used to prove C14 CO2 and other stuff.
Familiarity breeds contempt
Some clever person once said "without some familiarity, there's not a lot of breeding anyway."
If there is, it is very discreet. I have just had a look around and can't see any.
Or do they mean stuff like link ins - like Amazon etc where you can order books etc?
I don't see anything 'round' about your distances of 1.8288222384784 and 3.0480370641307 metres.
I am not from the US and cannot see a connection between freedom of speech for people and businesses having the right to say or do anything at all.
Freedom of speech for people is undoubtedly a cornerstone of a free (civilised) society. What has that got to do with the right of even a legitimate company to say something? Freedom for business is a good thing to but as soon as they trample on freedoms of human beings, that should be very closely examined!
Also privacy, financial and freedom implications.
Then there are terrorist possibilities. They will get RFID readers too...
I think many of my fellow Brits are not too keen on cameras but are very against being watched by companies.
From what I can see, it looks like the other way round in the US.
Why the difference? My 2pence worth is as follows...
In the US do you feel that everyone in positions of authority has worked to get there? This may well have involved getting people to vote for them. Politicians are not famed for their honesty in general. Succesful businesses, on the other hand are such because they are good at what they do and responsive to customer demmand.
In the UK, we may have once had a higher opinion of politicians than you. Above them waas the aristocracy who had been brought up to lead. There was the ethics of "fair play" fed to them when they were at Public School. If the politicians were bad, they could be removed by the Lords. Above them was the monarch who kept an eye on them. Unfortunately for this system, Tony Blair and his friends have spent a decade removing those checks & balances. Now our leaders will do whatever their rich friends want them to - just like yours!
I like >90% of the planet have never heard of Colbert.
This may be because he(?) is a US TV personality. Having the name of someone few people have heard of on an international project may make more people in the USA aware of something outside their borders. This has to be a good thing.
Do Commandos go commando?
I used to know a Royal Marine Commando but I never had the nerve to ask him!
The opinions of people with political or social opinions are often fairly predictable.
Dream up a fictional idea that may affect the way we live. You can probably decide for yourself whether one side or the other will like or dislike it.
Here are a couple I have just dreamed up.
The first one could some straight from California too. The second one could come from an ultra conservatives wish list.
Neither are true, I just made them up but I am fairly sure who would like and dislike each one. This is not a Straw Man argument. It may be caused by so many people living up to their stereotypes though...