I really, really hope they loose due to that element. I utterly loath these car dealers, and their 'but we invested money! we should have the law protect us!' argument just doesn't do it for me....
There are times and places where regulation is useful, but this type of protectionism that forces companies and consumers to go through some cartel of private businesses simply because they got a special law just.. it doesn't do the population any good.
And order in the universe was (or will be) restored. Apple has a long and pathetic history of loosing lawsuits from both sides, a big victory like this left an imbalance that needed to be corrected.
One of the best ways to think of yourself as 'normal' and 'moral' is to create a well defined group that you can say you are not a part of.
Just look at the 80s and associating pedophilia with homosexuality. I have met heterosexual pedophiles that were truly convinced that they were not child molesters because they were strait, and often their churches supported them in this assertion. I saw churches overlook fathers molesting their daughters because the strength of the idea that it was purely a gay thing, thus whatever they WERE doing couldn't possibility be raping their kid. Pointing this out could often get you ostracized....
Yeah, but laws like this do not cover just sexual predators, but the much broader group of 'sexual offenders', which means pretty much any crime where a naughty bit is somehow vaguely involved.
And yet women are still paid less and are poorly represented in most high paying field.
And the idea that you stand almost no chance of landing a federal contract if you are a white male owned company is pure BS. It is often touted as an excuse if someone who isn't white and male gets it, but the bulk of government money still does to companies owned by dumpy white guys.
Not sure where you are getting the idea that male graduation rates are going 'badly', unless you are specifically looking at black male graduation rates which are kinda in the crapper right now. White male ones are still pretty good. Even if they are a little higher, oh no, white males are not on top, the horror!
I see that as the problem with the 'get a job' solution. If one is working while going to school, they are not able to utilize the educational experience as well as someone who can dedicate full time to it... which means one does not get as good of an education. One can make all sorts of individual oriented arguments about why this is 'ok', but at the macro level it means that we are not maximizing our industrial capability.. it means fewer skilled workers, and workers who are less skilled then they could have been, as well as workers with higher starting skills who are not as bright (and thus worse long term employees) but could afford to focus more.... thus people with more ability end up in lower positions, and that is bad for the company.
But... but... they might make less money then, which slows their development! How dare you protect your children from their 'useful apps'! They have their own children to feed! Or at least boats to buy.....
Personally my complaint against EvE was it was too combat focused and industrial players were always kinda treated as second class players by the devs.
EvE is exactly why I think we need products like this. CCP has kinda rested on having no real competition within its particular niche and I think it is really showing. Such a project would obviously start from a significant disadvantage since so much of such a game's appeal is the player base.. but it would still be nice to see some companies at least trying.
Well, for starters, there is a significant difference between spending money to by commercials to convince people of things, and offering direct cash for a particular vote.
As for the 3rd party candidate element... no, that would just be a scattering of anecdotal evidence that true believers would then shows that the votes were rigged. Completely useless except for getting a small group of people who are bad at math riled up.
Eh, I have seen it in brogrammer environments. It isn't just older workers though, anyone who did not learn the exact development culture snapshot that was in when they were in school 'can't program'. It ends up impacting older ones the most though since they did learn at a different time and have used multiple methods over the years.
That was my thought.. it seems like this group is ignoring work already done in this domain.
Though I take the tone with a bit of a grain of salt since it really feels like the journalist went in with a 'damn hippies, why can't they be MBAs?' attitude, thus I would not be surprised if the piece had a bit of a selection bias to it.
That is probably a big part of it. Something many governments find frustrating about dealing with the US is how rapidly our politics can shift as we swap out leaders every 4 or 8 years, it makes getting a consistent behavior difficult. It does not help that the US has a long (though obviously not unique) history of going back on deals made by previous presidents.. not that even within a term or party they are that good at keeping their word.
Regardless, diplomatically, a consistent administration, even if it is not ideal to their interests, is better then a swap out. It is one of the reasons the US state department has such a long history of propping up dictators... even if they are crummy, they represent a diplomatically consistent element to deal with.
People have a 'business' configuring things if they have a job to do and the thing is needed to do the job. If the needs are too complex then yeah they should hire someone with more domain knowledge, but tools that can solve specific problems so people can get back to work with minimal configuration or training time.. good tools ^_^
For instance I have a NAS sitting across the room for me, configuring it for my level of needs was very simple. I have seen complex ones that require specialized knowledge that can do a lot more, but they still require the specialized knowledge even if you just want them to do what my little appliance one does.
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I really, really hope they loose due to that element. I utterly loath these car dealers, and their 'but we invested money! we should have the law protect us!' argument just doesn't do it for me....
There are times and places where regulation is useful, but this type of protectionism that forces companies and consumers to go through some cartel of private businesses simply because they got a special law just.. it doesn't do the population any good.
VMWare is probably the best beginner VM package due to its documentation, support, and polish. But as others have said, they are all pretty good.
And order in the universe was (or will be) restored. Apple has a long and pathetic history of loosing lawsuits from both sides, a big victory like this left an imbalance that needed to be corrected.
One that are very concerned with looking 'adult' and being noisy about how they eschew all those 'kiddy' things, being all grown up they are.
One of the best ways to think of yourself as 'normal' and 'moral' is to create a well defined group that you can say you are not a part of.
Just look at the 80s and associating pedophilia with homosexuality. I have met heterosexual pedophiles that were truly convinced that they were not child molesters because they were strait, and often their churches supported them in this assertion. I saw churches overlook fathers molesting their daughters because the strength of the idea that it was purely a gay thing, thus whatever they WERE doing couldn't possibility be raping their kid. Pointing this out could often get you ostracized....
Yeah, but laws like this do not cover just sexual predators, but the much broader group of 'sexual offenders', which means pretty much any crime where a naughty bit is somehow vaguely involved.
Yeah, but it could provide a pretext for arrest when someone on the record hasn't actually done anything, but someone wants to get their numbers up.
Loosing end 'enough'? Have you seen Apple's litigation history? Apple couldn't litigate themselves out of a wet paper bag 99% of the time.
And yet women are still paid less and are poorly represented in most high paying field.
And the idea that you stand almost no chance of landing a federal contract if you are a white male owned company is pure BS. It is often touted as an excuse if someone who isn't white and male gets it, but the bulk of government money still does to companies owned by dumpy white guys.
Not sure where you are getting the idea that male graduation rates are going 'badly', unless you are specifically looking at black male graduation rates which are kinda in the crapper right now. White male ones are still pretty good. Even if they are a little higher, oh no, white males are not on top, the horror!
Doesn't higher pay already pretty much serve that function?
I see that as the problem with the 'get a job' solution. If one is working while going to school, they are not able to utilize the educational experience as well as someone who can dedicate full time to it... which means one does not get as good of an education. One can make all sorts of individual oriented arguments about why this is 'ok', but at the macro level it means that we are not maximizing our industrial capability.. it means fewer skilled workers, and workers who are less skilled then they could have been, as well as workers with higher starting skills who are not as bright (and thus worse long term employees) but could afford to focus more.... thus people with more ability end up in lower positions, and that is bad for the company.
Given how much of a disadvantage not being white and male start of as, I think, at the macro level, it evens out.. .maybe....
The best engineers are lazy.... ones that want to create more work then necessary complicate things that could be kept simple ^_^
Two online identities... one for general use, one for cases where you need to be an adult....
But... but... they might make less money then, which slows their development! How dare you protect your children from their 'useful apps'! They have their own children to feed! Or at least boats to buy.....
*smirk* that was something that always drives me crazy about EvE.. it feels like a submarine simulation rather then a space one.
Well, fun is relative ^_^
Personally my complaint against EvE was it was too combat focused and industrial players were always kinda treated as second class players by the devs.
EvE is exactly why I think we need products like this. CCP has kinda rested on having no real competition within its particular niche and I think it is really showing. Such a project would obviously start from a significant disadvantage since so much of such a game's appeal is the player base.. but it would still be nice to see some companies at least trying.
Well, for starters, there is a significant difference between spending money to by commercials to convince people of things, and offering direct cash for a particular vote.
As for the 3rd party candidate element... no, that would just be a scattering of anecdotal evidence that true believers would then shows that the votes were rigged. Completely useless except for getting a small group of people who are bad at math riled up.
Not only does it go uphill both ways, but my processor runs so cold it is snowing.
Eh, I have seen it in brogrammer environments. It isn't just older workers though, anyone who did not learn the exact development culture snapshot that was in when they were in school 'can't program'. It ends up impacting older ones the most though since they did learn at a different time and have used multiple methods over the years.
That was my thought.. it seems like this group is ignoring work already done in this domain.
Though I take the tone with a bit of a grain of salt since it really feels like the journalist went in with a 'damn hippies, why can't they be MBAs?' attitude, thus I would not be surprised if the piece had a bit of a selection bias to it.
That is probably a big part of it. Something many governments find frustrating about dealing with the US is how rapidly our politics can shift as we swap out leaders every 4 or 8 years, it makes getting a consistent behavior difficult. It does not help that the US has a long (though obviously not unique) history of going back on deals made by previous presidents.. not that even within a term or party they are that good at keeping their word.
Regardless, diplomatically, a consistent administration, even if it is not ideal to their interests, is better then a swap out. It is one of the reasons the US state department has such a long history of propping up dictators... even if they are crummy, they represent a diplomatically consistent element to deal with.
That is pretty circular.
People have a 'business' configuring things if they have a job to do and the thing is needed to do the job. If the needs are too complex then yeah they should hire someone with more domain knowledge, but tools that can solve specific problems so people can get back to work with minimal configuration or training time.. good tools ^_^
For instance I have a NAS sitting across the room for me, configuring it for my level of needs was very simple. I have seen complex ones that require specialized knowledge that can do a lot more, but they still require the specialized knowledge even if you just want them to do what my little appliance one does.
Never worked with them, so I have no sense of how reliable they are.