Journals are even less justified in expecting to be paid than newspapers are. At least newspapers tend to contribute something of value in exchange for asking to be paid. Journals contribute little to no value to society, in the past that wasn't the case, but at this point, the cost of actually distributing papers is pretty trivial to the point where a $20 a year fee should more than cover the cost and by quite a bit.
It's a good start. I can understand why they can't do it retroactively, but I really do wonder why it was ever the case. I guess, these rules were probably not needed when the primary way of publishing information was in a journal and the journals cost money to publish.
Indeed, but the salient point is really why government grants are being used for research which isn't available for free to the taxpayers. I can understand privately funded research not being available for free, and I can understand why the underlying data isn't available for free, but I don't see why government funded papers should be allowed to be hidden behind paywalls.
It's a real problem if you're going to a smaller school which can't afford to subscribe to the relevant journals placing such institutions at a significant disadvantage.
Indeed, options grants are supposed to be there to align the interests of the employee with the interests of the business, especially during the early stages when the business doesn't have enough cashflow to hire employees otherwise. If they want to retain employees with options, that's their right to do so, but they shouldn't be claiming that the options are vested if they can take them back in this fashion.
Personally, anybody that's working for options is a sucker. Now, if the options are on top of a decent salary doing something you like, it might be acceptable, but if you count on the options being of any particular value later on, you're going to be screwed eventually.
That's a common practice with 401k, and from what I'm reading, this sounds a lot more like fraud than any sort of legitimate method of retaining employees. They'll likely get away with it due to it technically being in the contract, but I'll continue to avoid Skype whenever I can.
Even in cases like Microsoft where the management team isn't trying to screw people over it can still happen. I remember a few years back they stopped granting options because they had so many options outstanding and most of them could never be exercised due to the strike price.
And really companies shouldn't be granting options, the fewer options there are the better. If a company wants to tie an employees benefits to the stock price, just give them actual shares in the company. Options themselves just muddy up the waters and make it much harder to figure out what the company is really worth.
For things like buying a house, you'd be an idiot not to have an attorney go through it. The amount of money that you can lose if there's something obnoxious in there can very easily make it a worthwhile investment. But unfortunately, for most other contracts there isn't such a clear cut reason to have an attorney review the materials. I don't think those people a few years ago who wound up being billed for thousands of dollars for cell phone charges were expecting that given that the companies don't inform you that they're going to set up a line of credit in that amount.
Both the user interface as well as the file format. I take it that you've never tried to interoperate different versions of MS Office, it's not pretty. They have done an epic job of trying to keep compatibility, but it's bad enough that you don't even want to consider that if the files are of any importance. You're generally safe going from an old version to a new one, but going from a new one to an old or back and forth has caused a lot of trouble in the past.
The user interface is something they regularly fuck with. Hopefully they've finally recognized that it shouldn't change that much.
And don't forget about Windows, the UI there regularly changes significantly between releases.
We could, the problem is that the Americans who are stupid aren't necessarily the Americans that are too lazy to show up and vote. Right now we're still in an anti-government period, when things really melt down because the GOP was so incredibly greedy as to demolish the middle class we'll get all sorts of new regulations on the upper class. The only thing stopping that now is the middle class is still deluded enough not to realize their true position in the country.
I definitely could be wrong, but I don't think that the city is under any legal obligation to permit Comcast or Qwest to put their wires on public property.
As an urban dweller, it doesn't bother me at all, but the purpose of the USPS is to ensure that you can send a package or envelope anywhere in the country for one fee. Regardless of how much it costs. I've been subsidizing those free loading rural residents for quite some time now, even as they vote to cut funding for things that I value.
It's the to benefit the same arrogant fools that continuously vote against government even as they collect their government provided farm subsidies.
Right and as private security they lack the legal authority to conduct the types of invasive searches they've been conducting. That's the domain of genuine LEOs.
I wouldn't count on Seattle getting anything done. I've lived there my entire life and it would be quicker to push through change at the federal level. Decisions don't get made until the courts step in and say no more discussion. Seriously, we were going to have a monorail, and it would've been done by now, but after about four redo elections the permits were eventually yanked killing the project. The tunnel is in the middle of the same process where the opponents are trying yet again to vote it down even though so far they've failed miserably to do so. This debate has been ongoing for over 20 years since we learned that the design could collapse in an earthquake. And even a couple earthquakes in the meantime hasn't pushed the debate much closer to conclusion.
In 2005, the mayor proposed building our own municipal fiber to cover the last mile from the local IXP to the individual homes. Comcast wouldn't comment and Qwest claimed that they were already on it. It's been 6 years now, and Qwest hasn't done shit. I'm still stuck at virtually the same connection speed I've had for over a decade. Having increased from 4mbps to 5mbps.
Which is why the US college system remains the gold standard when it comes to higher education. The only reason why colleges in most of the rest of the world don't have to teach those skills is that they've typically already weeded out the people that don't have them prior to being admitted to college. It's extremely dishonest to pretend like the status quo here for college education is worse when it's so handicapped. And even with the handicap it's still a highly valued degree.
It's quite a bit easier to educate people that have been specifically selected for that form of education, rather than having to take all comers like the US system demands.
How is it their fault? Seriously, I hear that a lot, and it's usually somebody that shouldn't have been in college to begin with. I personally learned a ton in college, because I put forth the effort to learn, to study and to discuss with my classmates what was going on and how it might be significant.
No teacher can force a student to learn, the student has to step up and take some responsibility. But, there's also the bit where you have "done time" in US universities, you don't learn simply by doing your time, you learn by engaging in the practice and taking responsibility for your education. Not all professors ought to be teaching, but if you're running into that many bad ones, it's probably not their fault.
It astonishes me how many people don't understand that college is about learning to be a life long learner rather than setting one up in a particular specialty. If one wishes to ignore the breadth requirements, there are always apprenticeships and vocational training schools out there.
A school that produces a bunch of simpering morons that can't be employed tends not to last very long, as it's hard to get endowment checks coming in or new applicants when folks that graduate can't find gainful employment.
Indeed, if only we could attach some sort of a mark which would let people know about the danger they face and how they should be audited. Obviously it should be a red A because of the threat they are to the business when auditors are on premises.
I don't think this is anything new. Corporations have been behaving like that for many decades now. What's changed is that you have fewer options and the corporations have much broader reach than they used to have. The places where you didn't have choices, the corporations were pretty transparent about ripping the customers off, and since there were no other options, there was little choice but to buy from them.
But, at least for folks living in cities, there was pretty much always a small business which one could go to buy things, and one probably knew the proprietor on a first name basis outside of the shop.
No, what it means is that you don't blindly trust anybody, but you do verify periodically that the trust hasn't been abused. It's like granting a business the right to take money out of your checking account to cover expenses, like say a CC company. You trust them not to put things on the bill which you didn't authorized. And you verify at least once a month that everything that's on the bill was authorized by you.
Same thing here, the problem with RSA was that people trusted them, but there was no particular manner of verifying that the trust was well placed.
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Journals are even less justified in expecting to be paid than newspapers are. At least newspapers tend to contribute something of value in exchange for asking to be paid. Journals contribute little to no value to society, in the past that wasn't the case, but at this point, the cost of actually distributing papers is pretty trivial to the point where a $20 a year fee should more than cover the cost and by quite a bit.
It's a good start. I can understand why they can't do it retroactively, but I really do wonder why it was ever the case. I guess, these rules were probably not needed when the primary way of publishing information was in a journal and the journals cost money to publish.
Indeed, but the salient point is really why government grants are being used for research which isn't available for free to the taxpayers. I can understand privately funded research not being available for free, and I can understand why the underlying data isn't available for free, but I don't see why government funded papers should be allowed to be hidden behind paywalls.
It's a real problem if you're going to a smaller school which can't afford to subscribe to the relevant journals placing such institutions at a significant disadvantage.
Indeed, options grants are supposed to be there to align the interests of the employee with the interests of the business, especially during the early stages when the business doesn't have enough cashflow to hire employees otherwise. If they want to retain employees with options, that's their right to do so, but they shouldn't be claiming that the options are vested if they can take them back in this fashion.
Personally, anybody that's working for options is a sucker. Now, if the options are on top of a decent salary doing something you like, it might be acceptable, but if you count on the options being of any particular value later on, you're going to be screwed eventually.
That's a common practice with 401k, and from what I'm reading, this sounds a lot more like fraud than any sort of legitimate method of retaining employees. They'll likely get away with it due to it technically being in the contract, but I'll continue to avoid Skype whenever I can.
Even in cases like Microsoft where the management team isn't trying to screw people over it can still happen. I remember a few years back they stopped granting options because they had so many options outstanding and most of them could never be exercised due to the strike price.
And really companies shouldn't be granting options, the fewer options there are the better. If a company wants to tie an employees benefits to the stock price, just give them actual shares in the company. Options themselves just muddy up the waters and make it much harder to figure out what the company is really worth.
For things like buying a house, you'd be an idiot not to have an attorney go through it. The amount of money that you can lose if there's something obnoxious in there can very easily make it a worthwhile investment. But unfortunately, for most other contracts there isn't such a clear cut reason to have an attorney review the materials. I don't think those people a few years ago who wound up being billed for thousands of dollars for cell phone charges were expecting that given that the companies don't inform you that they're going to set up a line of credit in that amount.
Both the user interface as well as the file format. I take it that you've never tried to interoperate different versions of MS Office, it's not pretty. They have done an epic job of trying to keep compatibility, but it's bad enough that you don't even want to consider that if the files are of any importance. You're generally safe going from an old version to a new one, but going from a new one to an old or back and forth has caused a lot of trouble in the past.
The user interface is something they regularly fuck with. Hopefully they've finally recognized that it shouldn't change that much.
And don't forget about Windows, the UI there regularly changes significantly between releases.
We could, the problem is that the Americans who are stupid aren't necessarily the Americans that are too lazy to show up and vote. Right now we're still in an anti-government period, when things really melt down because the GOP was so incredibly greedy as to demolish the middle class we'll get all sorts of new regulations on the upper class. The only thing stopping that now is the middle class is still deluded enough not to realize their true position in the country.
Possibly, but that sort of thinking doesn't seem to do much to hurt MS, so I'm wondering what about this would lead people to view it differently.
I definitely could be wrong, but I don't think that the city is under any legal obligation to permit Comcast or Qwest to put their wires on public property.
As an urban dweller, it doesn't bother me at all, but the purpose of the USPS is to ensure that you can send a package or envelope anywhere in the country for one fee. Regardless of how much it costs. I've been subsidizing those free loading rural residents for quite some time now, even as they vote to cut funding for things that I value.
It's the to benefit the same arrogant fools that continuously vote against government even as they collect their government provided farm subsidies.
Heh, screwed that up. This was in FL, not CA.
I had to look that up as well. Apparently in CA grand theft is for goods or labor valued over $400.
Right and as private security they lack the legal authority to conduct the types of invasive searches they've been conducting. That's the domain of genuine LEOs.
I wouldn't count on Seattle getting anything done. I've lived there my entire life and it would be quicker to push through change at the federal level. Decisions don't get made until the courts step in and say no more discussion. Seriously, we were going to have a monorail, and it would've been done by now, but after about four redo elections the permits were eventually yanked killing the project. The tunnel is in the middle of the same process where the opponents are trying yet again to vote it down even though so far they've failed miserably to do so. This debate has been ongoing for over 20 years since we learned that the design could collapse in an earthquake. And even a couple earthquakes in the meantime hasn't pushed the debate much closer to conclusion.
In 2005, the mayor proposed building our own municipal fiber to cover the last mile from the local IXP to the individual homes. Comcast wouldn't comment and Qwest claimed that they were already on it. It's been 6 years now, and Qwest hasn't done shit. I'm still stuck at virtually the same connection speed I've had for over a decade. Having increased from 4mbps to 5mbps.
Which is why the US college system remains the gold standard when it comes to higher education. The only reason why colleges in most of the rest of the world don't have to teach those skills is that they've typically already weeded out the people that don't have them prior to being admitted to college. It's extremely dishonest to pretend like the status quo here for college education is worse when it's so handicapped. And even with the handicap it's still a highly valued degree.
It's quite a bit easier to educate people that have been specifically selected for that form of education, rather than having to take all comers like the US system demands.
Well, they weren't a cult based around timekeeping in Texas in the 2000's, that's for damned sure.
How is it their fault? Seriously, I hear that a lot, and it's usually somebody that shouldn't have been in college to begin with. I personally learned a ton in college, because I put forth the effort to learn, to study and to discuss with my classmates what was going on and how it might be significant.
No teacher can force a student to learn, the student has to step up and take some responsibility. But, there's also the bit where you have "done time" in US universities, you don't learn simply by doing your time, you learn by engaging in the practice and taking responsibility for your education. Not all professors ought to be teaching, but if you're running into that many bad ones, it's probably not their fault.
Of course he does, the engineer is the guy that drives the train.
It astonishes me how many people don't understand that college is about learning to be a life long learner rather than setting one up in a particular specialty. If one wishes to ignore the breadth requirements, there are always apprenticeships and vocational training schools out there.
A school that produces a bunch of simpering morons that can't be employed tends not to last very long, as it's hard to get endowment checks coming in or new applicants when folks that graduate can't find gainful employment.
Indeed, if only we could attach some sort of a mark which would let people know about the danger they face and how they should be audited. Obviously it should be a red A because of the threat they are to the business when auditors are on premises.
I don't think this is anything new. Corporations have been behaving like that for many decades now. What's changed is that you have fewer options and the corporations have much broader reach than they used to have. The places where you didn't have choices, the corporations were pretty transparent about ripping the customers off, and since there were no other options, there was little choice but to buy from them.
But, at least for folks living in cities, there was pretty much always a small business which one could go to buy things, and one probably knew the proprietor on a first name basis outside of the shop.
No, what it means is that you don't blindly trust anybody, but you do verify periodically that the trust hasn't been abused. It's like granting a business the right to take money out of your checking account to cover expenses, like say a CC company. You trust them not to put things on the bill which you didn't authorized. And you verify at least once a month that everything that's on the bill was authorized by you.
Same thing here, the problem with RSA was that people trusted them, but there was no particular manner of verifying that the trust was well placed.
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with caps, provided the money raised from it is used to increase capacity and speed on the network.
Which is to say, that I'm completely opposed to American ISPs instituting caps on bandwidth.