This is something that Google needs to work on. They really need to add a feature that requires you to authorize things like that when they come up. At least for the first time. It's seemed to me for some time that it's irresponsible not giving users more control over a function which they might only use once in a while. Directory applications shouldn't have to be given permanent permission to place calls just because once in a long while the user might want that.
Ultimately, it makes little sense to require apps to be completely uninstalled to remove permissions for something which might be legitimately useful on occasion.
The bigger issue is that it makes for more confusion for the users. If you're creating a major version with only changes warranting a minor revision increment, you're making it a lot harder for end users to know when to worry about an update and when not to. If it's just a minor revision then there should be little if anything to worry about, but if it's a major revision those are supposed to be limited to more substantial changes. Jackasses like Google opting to eliminate minor revisions completely in terms of numbering are just making it more confusing for end users, who might not know much to begin with.
Are you sure it's FF4 and not your extensions? I had to use FF3.6 for a bit a while back and couldn't believe how slow it was compared with FF4, and I think FF4 actually had a few extensions where the 3.6 install had just the default ones.
And yet they're the top of the product placement charts. Products don't accidentally wind up on film very often, if at all. There's entire departments dedicated to making sure that no products are in a film without the permission of the trademark owner. It's gotten absurd, but at this point you can't make a film and assume that because a product logo is out of focus and not recognizable that it's going to be OK to include the prop.
Consequently, they might deny it, but I wouldn't trust them, they're not that ignorant as to not notice how many of their products are being used in these films.
Depends, there are some protections from individuals trading on somebody else's fame, but I'm not really sure that it applies in this case. The name is used as a minor character in historical fiction. I'm not sure how this would be any different than say: Young Einstein
That's actually a really good idea, I had a tough time making the transition from college to work because while I have a strong work ethic and skills to draw on, I didn't have a degree that was specific to whatever they were looking for, meaning that I wouldn't even get an interview because I'd be screened out for not having the qualifications necessary to be interviewed.
With some experience, I might have been able to make something more quickly without having to work jobs that had nothing at all to do with my career plans and weren't adding up to them. I finally more or less gave up and went back to school to get a master's level certificate in something else.
And if you've got money to start out with it works quite well. But what about those people who can't afford to go to school without a job? Where are they going to find the time to get work experience relevant to the field, if in order to get even a starting level position companies are asking for years of experience?
One of the big problems is that most job postings I've seen aren't realistic, and tend to weed out those sorts of workers that you're hoping to hire. Don't know how your firm handles those. But the degree requirements and experience requirements tend to discourage the people who have the ability to apply themselves across multiple disciplines from even applying. Which is a shame, back in the old days one could show up at a physical location and drop off a resume, and chat up the receptionist a bit to make an impression. Unfortunately in those days it was a lot easier to refuse to hire somebody that wasn't the right race or gender, but at least you had some clue who was applying.
Instantly no, but when companies won't hire anybody without months to years of experience just to work a help desk. where exactly are they supposed to go to get the experience? I don't think that people in their 20s are solely complaining about needing experience, a lot of them are complaining because it's very, very hard to get the experience because employers won't hire anybody without any.
That's definitely an issue. A shocking number of employers want to have a person with both a degree and experience, but good luck getting experience without having to volunteer. If you look at the job postings for jobs it's more or less impossible to find any that are listed without requiring several years of relevant experience.
It's also a compelling reason not to have work study positions in college. I remember when I was in college virtually all the jobs on campus were exclusives for work study students, and it was in the middle of nowhere so good luck getting a job off campus without a car, at which point you'd have to work a ton of hours just to be able to afford to work. But, without a job during the school year, it's that much harder to get the experience needed to be able to land a job after college without volunteering. Which if you didn't have extensive financial aid you probably can't afford to do anyways.
Typically that's work for hire and as a result the company would own the work unless there was a contract stipulating otherwise. In practice the terms of the contract tend to specify precisely who owns the work just to clear that up without having to go to trial in the case of a disagreement.
It depends where you're working and what you're doing. I used to be a security officer and the restriction on moonlighting was limited to not working for a competitor or for somebody that was either a tenant in the building or reasonable ties to a tenant in the building. Beyond that whatever I chose to do to supplement my pay was completely up to me.
Had I been in a field where I wasn't driven entirely by the environment as far as working goes, that might have been different. As it was, there was little point in thinking about work outside of work hours as everything was situation and location driven anyways.
As long as it's written into the agreement that you're paying the individual to provide the rights and it's a salaried position, it's a perfectly legitimate position to take. It is dickish, but if you're paying on that basis and it's made clear ahead of time, then it's legitimate. Plus, I'm assuming that in this scenario that the individual is using company time to code and present the games to the company.
I'd recommend not having their updates fail 10% of the time as a good place to start. I don't personally have one of their phones, but I'd be pissed if Google managed to fail so epically with 10% of their devices, even if you restrict it to the Nexus line.
That was essentially my though. While it's getting a little better than that, because of the way the legal system works it's hard sometimes to get the word out that you're employer is stealing from employees. And even harder for things like this which have at least some reasonable basis.
One of the issues is that if you don't like it you can take you work elsewhere, and likely they'll be pulling the same crap because there isn't anybody regulating the labor market in the US anymore. And the burden of proof is sufficient that you probably don't know what you're rights are or have the ability to hand over the evidence to the appropriate agency.
Doesn't matter, it's still a status symbol. Or haven't you ever seen a Steve Jobs keynote speech when he launches a product? Apple has spent many years developing the brand so as to be a status symbol. To argue that it's not is just dishonest.
Both of the low end Dells my parents bought ended up making it 4 years. Not that it's enough to say that low end computers last, but I suspect that a lot of the problems people have could be fixed relatively efficiently. I also tend to make sure that the computers are treated well, you'd be surprised how much of a difference a simple UPS can make for the longevity of bargain hardware. But then again, if it's anything more than the HDD or optical drive you're probably better off buying a new one.
You're arguing semantics. Whether or not we do that, we're still going to have to have our ambulance crews and first responders be able to handle tourists without a good grasp of English that might fall ill while on holiday here. Do you really think it's going to be good for our standing in the world if it gets around that our arrogant need to self aggrandize just cost one of their citizens' lives?
Because they have to get the translations right. If you're fine with the translations being close you can go with cheep technology, but in cases like this being close isn't really that much better than not knowing anything, in fact it might be better not to have a bad translation. A relatively minor glitch in the translation might very well give you a much worse picture of what's going on than a bit of ad hoc sign language would.
Plus, you can also have a set of cards asking for the most common questions that's a lot less expensive and a lot more likely to get you a proper answer. Beyond that people in that sort of a circumstance aren't necessarily going to be speaking particularly clearly.
Fanbois much? Apple didn't invent the organization scheme that they used on the iPod, they straight up ripped that off from Creative, who both patented and implemented it well before the iPod debut. The rest of the things you cite are polish things, it's a bit like pointing to the warmed seats in a car and saying that you've innovated, after you ripped somebody else off for all the important bits of the car.
That's bullshit and you know it. He had a veto proof majority in the Senate for what less than a month? And not if you recognize that the blue dog coalition is every bit as ready to sell us out for national security as the opposing party is.
I realize this may come as a shock, but there's significantly less party unity with the Democrats than there is with the Republicans.
Obama is deeply disappointing on some issues, but he's hardly a second Bush. Or did I miss Bush deciding to push for comprehensive healthcare reform, banking regulation, ending DADT and stop defending DOMA? The President is hardly perfect, but claiming that he's a second Bush is just plain dishonest.
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This is something that Google needs to work on. They really need to add a feature that requires you to authorize things like that when they come up. At least for the first time. It's seemed to me for some time that it's irresponsible not giving users more control over a function which they might only use once in a while. Directory applications shouldn't have to be given permanent permission to place calls just because once in a long while the user might want that.
Ultimately, it makes little sense to require apps to be completely uninstalled to remove permissions for something which might be legitimately useful on occasion.
The bigger issue is that it makes for more confusion for the users. If you're creating a major version with only changes warranting a minor revision increment, you're making it a lot harder for end users to know when to worry about an update and when not to. If it's just a minor revision then there should be little if anything to worry about, but if it's a major revision those are supposed to be limited to more substantial changes. Jackasses like Google opting to eliminate minor revisions completely in terms of numbering are just making it more confusing for end users, who might not know much to begin with.
Are you sure it's FF4 and not your extensions? I had to use FF3.6 for a bit a while back and couldn't believe how slow it was compared with FF4, and I think FF4 actually had a few extensions where the 3.6 install had just the default ones.
And yet they're the top of the product placement charts. Products don't accidentally wind up on film very often, if at all. There's entire departments dedicated to making sure that no products are in a film without the permission of the trademark owner. It's gotten absurd, but at this point you can't make a film and assume that because a product logo is out of focus and not recognizable that it's going to be OK to include the prop.
Consequently, they might deny it, but I wouldn't trust them, they're not that ignorant as to not notice how many of their products are being used in these films.
Depends, there are some protections from individuals trading on somebody else's fame, but I'm not really sure that it applies in this case. The name is used as a minor character in historical fiction. I'm not sure how this would be any different than say: Young Einstein
That's actually a really good idea, I had a tough time making the transition from college to work because while I have a strong work ethic and skills to draw on, I didn't have a degree that was specific to whatever they were looking for, meaning that I wouldn't even get an interview because I'd be screened out for not having the qualifications necessary to be interviewed.
With some experience, I might have been able to make something more quickly without having to work jobs that had nothing at all to do with my career plans and weren't adding up to them. I finally more or less gave up and went back to school to get a master's level certificate in something else.
And if you've got money to start out with it works quite well. But what about those people who can't afford to go to school without a job? Where are they going to find the time to get work experience relevant to the field, if in order to get even a starting level position companies are asking for years of experience?
One of the big problems is that most job postings I've seen aren't realistic, and tend to weed out those sorts of workers that you're hoping to hire. Don't know how your firm handles those. But the degree requirements and experience requirements tend to discourage the people who have the ability to apply themselves across multiple disciplines from even applying. Which is a shame, back in the old days one could show up at a physical location and drop off a resume, and chat up the receptionist a bit to make an impression. Unfortunately in those days it was a lot easier to refuse to hire somebody that wasn't the right race or gender, but at least you had some clue who was applying.
Instantly no, but when companies won't hire anybody without months to years of experience just to work a help desk. where exactly are they supposed to go to get the experience? I don't think that people in their 20s are solely complaining about needing experience, a lot of them are complaining because it's very, very hard to get the experience because employers won't hire anybody without any.
That's definitely an issue. A shocking number of employers want to have a person with both a degree and experience, but good luck getting experience without having to volunteer. If you look at the job postings for jobs it's more or less impossible to find any that are listed without requiring several years of relevant experience.
It's also a compelling reason not to have work study positions in college. I remember when I was in college virtually all the jobs on campus were exclusives for work study students, and it was in the middle of nowhere so good luck getting a job off campus without a car, at which point you'd have to work a ton of hours just to be able to afford to work. But, without a job during the school year, it's that much harder to get the experience needed to be able to land a job after college without volunteering. Which if you didn't have extensive financial aid you probably can't afford to do anyways.
Typically that's work for hire and as a result the company would own the work unless there was a contract stipulating otherwise. In practice the terms of the contract tend to specify precisely who owns the work just to clear that up without having to go to trial in the case of a disagreement.
It depends where you're working and what you're doing. I used to be a security officer and the restriction on moonlighting was limited to not working for a competitor or for somebody that was either a tenant in the building or reasonable ties to a tenant in the building. Beyond that whatever I chose to do to supplement my pay was completely up to me.
Had I been in a field where I wasn't driven entirely by the environment as far as working goes, that might have been different. As it was, there was little point in thinking about work outside of work hours as everything was situation and location driven anyways.
As long as it's written into the agreement that you're paying the individual to provide the rights and it's a salaried position, it's a perfectly legitimate position to take. It is dickish, but if you're paying on that basis and it's made clear ahead of time, then it's legitimate. Plus, I'm assuming that in this scenario that the individual is using company time to code and present the games to the company.
I'd recommend not having their updates fail 10% of the time as a good place to start. I don't personally have one of their phones, but I'd be pissed if Google managed to fail so epically with 10% of their devices, even if you restrict it to the Nexus line.
That was essentially my though. While it's getting a little better than that, because of the way the legal system works it's hard sometimes to get the word out that you're employer is stealing from employees. And even harder for things like this which have at least some reasonable basis.
One of the issues is that if you don't like it you can take you work elsewhere, and likely they'll be pulling the same crap because there isn't anybody regulating the labor market in the US anymore. And the burden of proof is sufficient that you probably don't know what you're rights are or have the ability to hand over the evidence to the appropriate agency.
Doesn't matter, it's still a status symbol. Or haven't you ever seen a Steve Jobs keynote speech when he launches a product? Apple has spent many years developing the brand so as to be a status symbol. To argue that it's not is just dishonest.
Perhaps if you weren't so sensitive it wouldn't be an issue. Or do you never buy anything?
Both of the low end Dells my parents bought ended up making it 4 years. Not that it's enough to say that low end computers last, but I suspect that a lot of the problems people have could be fixed relatively efficiently. I also tend to make sure that the computers are treated well, you'd be surprised how much of a difference a simple UPS can make for the longevity of bargain hardware. But then again, if it's anything more than the HDD or optical drive you're probably better off buying a new one.
Frequently that's either a bad batch of HDD or more likely dirty power. The failure rate of my HDD took a nose dive when I put my computers on UPSes.
You're arguing semantics. Whether or not we do that, we're still going to have to have our ambulance crews and first responders be able to handle tourists without a good grasp of English that might fall ill while on holiday here. Do you really think it's going to be good for our standing in the world if it gets around that our arrogant need to self aggrandize just cost one of their citizens' lives?
Because they have to get the translations right. If you're fine with the translations being close you can go with cheep technology, but in cases like this being close isn't really that much better than not knowing anything, in fact it might be better not to have a bad translation. A relatively minor glitch in the translation might very well give you a much worse picture of what's going on than a bit of ad hoc sign language would.
Plus, you can also have a set of cards asking for the most common questions that's a lot less expensive and a lot more likely to get you a proper answer. Beyond that people in that sort of a circumstance aren't necessarily going to be speaking particularly clearly.
Fanbois much? Apple didn't invent the organization scheme that they used on the iPod, they straight up ripped that off from Creative, who both patented and implemented it well before the iPod debut. The rest of the things you cite are polish things, it's a bit like pointing to the warmed seats in a car and saying that you've innovated, after you ripped somebody else off for all the important bits of the car.
I suggest Jamaica or perhaps Tahiti, plenty of beaches and sun.
That's bullshit and you know it. He had a veto proof majority in the Senate for what less than a month? And not if you recognize that the blue dog coalition is every bit as ready to sell us out for national security as the opposing party is.
I realize this may come as a shock, but there's significantly less party unity with the Democrats than there is with the Republicans.
Obama is deeply disappointing on some issues, but he's hardly a second Bush. Or did I miss Bush deciding to push for comprehensive healthcare reform, banking regulation, ending DADT and stop defending DOMA? The President is hardly perfect, but claiming that he's a second Bush is just plain dishonest.