I ended up replacing it with request policy as half the time I ended up having to enable all the javascript to get the page to load anyways. I mostly just wish it provided a method of blacklisting things like Facebook that never add any value to the site.
Coding practices shouldn't be an issue. If an opensource project like FreeBSD can make people adhere to a style, then I don't personally see any reason why an employer couldn't do the same. Other than the obvious incompetent management trying to save a buck.
The employer definitely can enforce style requirements, but generally doesn't due to lack of interest in paying for it to be done legibly the first time. A bit like spackling over junction boxes because it's cheaper only to find later that a repair needs to be done and you have no idea where that dern box is.
Vietnam's a bad example. It was being run almost entirely by President Johnson with very little input from actual experts. There were kill limits and supply problems. It's hard to say what would have happened if the President had divested most of his power to generals to use or if there had been a similar commitment to supplies as there was to ordnance.
We could have won the war in Afghanistan if not for incompetent planning and lack of commitment. Also, pissing off all the neighboring countries really didn't help thing.
Ultimately, the Bush administration lost interest in the war and kept fighting it purely out of habit. You're not going to have success fighting multiple wars at the same time, while refusing to draft or make the decision to put your economic resources to guns rather than butter. Also, there was never a particularly meaningful commitment to the logistics necessary to win.
But, that's how it's been since WWII, the hawks that demand the wars don't seem to ever think about the logistical and practical aspects of doing these things, and certainly never ask the citizenry to make the necessary sacrifices.
Iran has a history of expandable borders when they want something that's just slightly over the border. Very much like North Korea in that respect. It's definitely possible that the drone was in their airspace, but it's also possible that there was no drone or that it wasn't in their airspace. Given the credibility that Iran has, I wouldn't necessarily assume that they're being above the board without more information.
Which is all well and good until you decide you want to watch a DVD or play a DRMed file for which the gardener didn't feel support was acceptable. Granted these days DVDs wouldn't likely be a problem, but in the past it definitely was an issue. And given Apple's history, I see no reason to assume that it's going to be restricted to niche applications that most people don't want or need either. It remains to be seen if that continues or if it spreads to other gardens, but there is precedence for it.
And precisely how does that explain FreeBSD, Haiku OS or any number of other OSes that are tiny in terms of the desktop market, yet still attract enough following to be viable?
A lot of these projects are driven by precisely what you say is a fallacy. A lot of them are driven because a few developers dislike the status quo or for whom the status quo doesn't work. Firefox is probably the best example of that.
On what grounds? Receiving of stolen goods is presumably illegal in Australia the way it is in pretty much all other countries and I doubt very much that they're bricking phones that haven't been reported stolen by the owner.
Yeah, the timing on this could hardly be better. I'm getting a new camera on Monday and it should allow me to get a really close look at things. I know I'll hate myself for getting up that early, but something like this is way too good to pass up.
Of course it's possible, and yet there are tons of jobs that pay minimum wage or near minimum wage. People don't typically take those jobs because they can get ones that pay more.
I know, the context of all of this was federal in nature. Most states have a minimum wage law that provides for a higher pay rate, but not all. And in many states there are exemptions for it. A small number of states have no minimum wage at all, so if you don't qualify for the federal minimum wage you can get even less.
IIRC the federal minimum wage doesn't apply to everybody, mostly just people that are engaged in interstate commerce and assisting those that are.
That's because the minimum wage is so low that workers often times can't afford to work for it. It might be fine in the deep south or rural areas, but you're not going to be subsisting in a major metropolitan area on the federal minimum wage. I know that I couldn't afford to do that, at least not without relying heavily upon government assistance.
It's not necessarily that they suck at it; it's that there's a much larger number of job seekers that the employers can play off each other. Plus they can refuse to raise their offers knowing that none of their competitors wants to do so either.
These days things are getting to be more like they were prior to unionization. They aren't as bad, there are still workplace rights that unions fought for, but there's always a lot of GOP pressure to undo as many workplace rights as possible.
But, those things ultimately were broken, or at least had a compelling downside that needed to be addressed. It's one thing to experiment with how to better solve a problem and quite another to create one that has already been tried elsewhere and found to suck.
The Windows tools work well, until you want to do something that MS hasn't specifically foreseen or doesn't want you to do. It's been decades and MS still fails to provide a convenient way of installing user profiles to a different partition. There are 3rd party tools that will do it and one can use a custom install disc, but MS still doesn't allow it.
I've also found myself in situations where I need another Windows install in order to run the 3rd party tools that are required to figure out why the install went tits up. Something I don't typically have to do with Linux or *BSD as I can just grab the logs with a livecd typically and inspect them on virtually any machine.
I've never seen a drunk driver slam into a pedestrian at a crosswalk either, doesn't mean that we should be granting more lenience than we already do.
The point is that "almost" missing a light isn't a binary option. There are degrees by which one can miss a light and for traffic engineering reasons not all yellow lights are equally long. By lengthening the duration of the yellow light you do run the risk of training drivers to take it as optional rather than mandatory. The yellow light means stop unless one is unable to safely do so. It's also very clear that you must clear the intersection by the time it turns red.
I don't accept your premise, the point of the red light is to direct traffic in one direction to stop so the other direction can continue. As for the bit about police funding, police departments don't generally get to keep the citation money for that very reason.
That's what we do around here as well. I remember them talking about that during drivers' ed. These days they've even gone a step beyond that in most of the newer lights by giving a countdown for the pedestrians to clear the crossing by.
Unfortunately, there are some lights where the walk signal only appears if a pedestrian presses the button.
Not really, that presupposes that there are no other uses for that land. The reality is that there are other uses even if those uses are just leaving the land to grow trees. There's value to trees even if it's just filtering out the air.
It's a hard problem, just because a photo looks photoshopped doesn't necessarily mean that it was. These days one can shoot in RAW or TIF which makes the compression artifacts that used to be helpful non-existent. And ultimately somebody that's willing to put the time and effort into the work is probably going to be able to make it so that it fools the software most of the time.
We largely solved that by implementing a tailgating law. Basically if you run into somebody's tailgate you're responsible unless you can prove that it's their fault. It does have issues from time to time like when somebody swerves in front of you and slams on the brakes, but ultimately most of those problems aren't there if you keep adequate space ahead of you.
Delaying the light because somebody's likely to run it has it's own problems. Every day around here I'd be surprised if there weren't hundreds or even thousands of cases where people ran red lights and nobody was hurt or killed.
I do personally support efforts to keep people from running red lights, it is important to keep things in perspective. Is further gridlock across the city and an incentive to run red lights more or less harmful than the status quo? Personally, I suspect that it isn't, at least around here.
But, if they use the information to more accurately crack down on people that are running red lights and stick them with a penalty that's painful enough to act as a deterrent, that might be worthwhile.
Slashdot Mirror
I ended up replacing it with request policy as half the time I ended up having to enable all the javascript to get the page to load anyways. I mostly just wish it provided a method of blacklisting things like Facebook that never add any value to the site.
Coding practices shouldn't be an issue. If an opensource project like FreeBSD can make people adhere to a style, then I don't personally see any reason why an employer couldn't do the same. Other than the obvious incompetent management trying to save a buck.
The employer definitely can enforce style requirements, but generally doesn't due to lack of interest in paying for it to be done legibly the first time. A bit like spackling over junction boxes because it's cheaper only to find later that a repair needs to be done and you have no idea where that dern box is.
Vietnam's a bad example. It was being run almost entirely by President Johnson with very little input from actual experts. There were kill limits and supply problems. It's hard to say what would have happened if the President had divested most of his power to generals to use or if there had been a similar commitment to supplies as there was to ordnance.
We could have won the war in Afghanistan if not for incompetent planning and lack of commitment. Also, pissing off all the neighboring countries really didn't help thing.
Ultimately, the Bush administration lost interest in the war and kept fighting it purely out of habit. You're not going to have success fighting multiple wars at the same time, while refusing to draft or make the decision to put your economic resources to guns rather than butter. Also, there was never a particularly meaningful commitment to the logistics necessary to win.
But, that's how it's been since WWII, the hawks that demand the wars don't seem to ever think about the logistical and practical aspects of doing these things, and certainly never ask the citizenry to make the necessary sacrifices.
Iran has a history of expandable borders when they want something that's just slightly over the border. Very much like North Korea in that respect. It's definitely possible that the drone was in their airspace, but it's also possible that there was no drone or that it wasn't in their airspace. Given the credibility that Iran has, I wouldn't necessarily assume that they're being above the board without more information.
Which is all well and good until you decide you want to watch a DVD or play a DRMed file for which the gardener didn't feel support was acceptable. Granted these days DVDs wouldn't likely be a problem, but in the past it definitely was an issue. And given Apple's history, I see no reason to assume that it's going to be restricted to niche applications that most people don't want or need either. It remains to be seen if that continues or if it spreads to other gardens, but there is precedence for it.
And precisely how does that explain FreeBSD, Haiku OS or any number of other OSes that are tiny in terms of the desktop market, yet still attract enough following to be viable?
A lot of these projects are driven by precisely what you say is a fallacy. A lot of them are driven because a few developers dislike the status quo or for whom the status quo doesn't work. Firefox is probably the best example of that.
On what grounds? Receiving of stolen goods is presumably illegal in Australia the way it is in pretty much all other countries and I doubt very much that they're bricking phones that haven't been reported stolen by the owner.
Yeah, the timing on this could hardly be better. I'm getting a new camera on Monday and it should allow me to get a really close look at things. I know I'll hate myself for getting up that early, but something like this is way too good to pass up.
Cool, wanna go hack the Gibson?
Of course it's possible, and yet there are tons of jobs that pay minimum wage or near minimum wage. People don't typically take those jobs because they can get ones that pay more.
I know, the context of all of this was federal in nature. Most states have a minimum wage law that provides for a higher pay rate, but not all. And in many states there are exemptions for it. A small number of states have no minimum wage at all, so if you don't qualify for the federal minimum wage you can get even less.
IIRC the federal minimum wage doesn't apply to everybody, mostly just people that are engaged in interstate commerce and assisting those that are.
That's because the minimum wage is so low that workers often times can't afford to work for it. It might be fine in the deep south or rural areas, but you're not going to be subsisting in a major metropolitan area on the federal minimum wage. I know that I couldn't afford to do that, at least not without relying heavily upon government assistance.
It's not necessarily that they suck at it; it's that there's a much larger number of job seekers that the employers can play off each other. Plus they can refuse to raise their offers knowing that none of their competitors wants to do so either.
These days things are getting to be more like they were prior to unionization. They aren't as bad, there are still workplace rights that unions fought for, but there's always a lot of GOP pressure to undo as many workplace rights as possible.
Better yet, appoint Arnold to be the CEO. He can do to AT&T what he did to California.
Won't somebody please think of the children?
Precisely why shouldn't they have a twitter feed? By that logic they probably shouldn't have a website or phone number either.
I was really worried that we were going to run out of 'T's.
But, those things ultimately were broken, or at least had a compelling downside that needed to be addressed. It's one thing to experiment with how to better solve a problem and quite another to create one that has already been tried elsewhere and found to suck.
The Windows tools work well, until you want to do something that MS hasn't specifically foreseen or doesn't want you to do. It's been decades and MS still fails to provide a convenient way of installing user profiles to a different partition. There are 3rd party tools that will do it and one can use a custom install disc, but MS still doesn't allow it.
I've also found myself in situations where I need another Windows install in order to run the 3rd party tools that are required to figure out why the install went tits up. Something I don't typically have to do with Linux or *BSD as I can just grab the logs with a livecd typically and inspect them on virtually any machine.
I've never seen a drunk driver slam into a pedestrian at a crosswalk either, doesn't mean that we should be granting more lenience than we already do.
The point is that "almost" missing a light isn't a binary option. There are degrees by which one can miss a light and for traffic engineering reasons not all yellow lights are equally long. By lengthening the duration of the yellow light you do run the risk of training drivers to take it as optional rather than mandatory. The yellow light means stop unless one is unable to safely do so. It's also very clear that you must clear the intersection by the time it turns red.
I don't accept your premise, the point of the red light is to direct traffic in one direction to stop so the other direction can continue. As for the bit about police funding, police departments don't generally get to keep the citation money for that very reason.
That's what we do around here as well. I remember them talking about that during drivers' ed. These days they've even gone a step beyond that in most of the newer lights by giving a countdown for the pedestrians to clear the crossing by.
Unfortunately, there are some lights where the walk signal only appears if a pedestrian presses the button.
Not really, that presupposes that there are no other uses for that land. The reality is that there are other uses even if those uses are just leaving the land to grow trees. There's value to trees even if it's just filtering out the air.
It's a hard problem, just because a photo looks photoshopped doesn't necessarily mean that it was. These days one can shoot in RAW or TIF which makes the compression artifacts that used to be helpful non-existent. And ultimately somebody that's willing to put the time and effort into the work is probably going to be able to make it so that it fools the software most of the time.
We largely solved that by implementing a tailgating law. Basically if you run into somebody's tailgate you're responsible unless you can prove that it's their fault. It does have issues from time to time like when somebody swerves in front of you and slams on the brakes, but ultimately most of those problems aren't there if you keep adequate space ahead of you.
Delaying the light because somebody's likely to run it has it's own problems. Every day around here I'd be surprised if there weren't hundreds or even thousands of cases where people ran red lights and nobody was hurt or killed.
I do personally support efforts to keep people from running red lights, it is important to keep things in perspective. Is further gridlock across the city and an incentive to run red lights more or less harmful than the status quo? Personally, I suspect that it isn't, at least around here.
But, if they use the information to more accurately crack down on people that are running red lights and stick them with a penalty that's painful enough to act as a deterrent, that might be worthwhile.