Instead of paying people based on their self-inflicted stress levels, imagine paying people based on value delivered to other human beings.
Or we could just pay them based on supply and demand. There's just something screwed up with the supply/demand ratio, because these fraudsters, gamblers, and self-deluded financial geniuses aren't in short supply.
You'd have a point if content distributors were stopping content creators from putting out content on their own, but they aren't. This is all about content that was created under contract, and distributors don't like sites that give it away without their consent.
In fact, if creators really don't want this, they have as a class the power to never do business with any of the old gateways. The thing is, many content creators like to get paid for their work and have dreams of money and fame, and see the old gateways as a means to an end.
Just ask yourself, with all the resources and talent available to Microsoft, why they couldn't have simply made.Net cross-platform from the start and released their own Linux version at the same time each Windows version was released?
They should have. I think it was a strategic blunder not to, from a Machiavellian viewpoint, because all they needed to do was pretend to play nice with multi-platform and then yank the rug out once they achieved marketshare. They did this with IE.
One of the biggest problems is these people refuse to provide the chemicals they are using in their operations. How are we supposed to monitor for spills, or emergency crews respond, when they won't even give you that information?
You should know that the industry cares more about money than people, and will engage in propaganda, bribes, and secret settlements to make money.
You think it can be done safely? Fine, but take every damn precaution, monitor it religiously, and prove it out. No bullshit secrets. Also force them to hold back a percentage of profits for funds in case something goes wrong, as it inevitably does despite claims of safety.
The only class you'd be justified to cheat in would be one that didn't matter at all to your degree. In which case- why are you taking it?
Colleges require you to take a lot of classes that either aren't related to your degree or while related, may be in a field that you're never going to work in. The other reason to cheat is when the class forces you to memorize lots of stuff. I spent a lot of time in college memorizing crap.
I once complained about this in a class, and suggested an open book exam would be more useful, but the professor resisted because he didn't have a test designed for this, and the other students were pissed because they were happy with memorizing stuff for tests.
environmentalists are in the process of trying to block natural gas extraction in NY state right now
Those crazy environmentalists, who are concerned about the drinking water for millions of people. I'm all for drilling, as long as it's responsible, but the industry has not show itself to be and the politicians are too corrupt to make them be.
When scientists come down so consistently on the same side of a set of questions as they do in climate science, this is a most unusual circumstance. One we should take seriously. They're going against the normal pattern of scientists; we usually love to accentuate our disputes.
There are two ways to argue this. One, the scientists are really sure about this and there is no dispute. Two, climate science has become highly politicized and group think has taken over.
There's also a third way, that your "97%" figure is bogus.
This is insane. Seriously, you guys of the USA have been great. It makes me sad seeing you on the verge of falling into a Kafkaesque fiasco. And I fully understand what's happening to you may as well strike us someday.
Where is "us"? Because there are many places well ahead of the United States. At least in the United States you don't get your Internet shut off. As for the DMCA, it's not the worst thing in the world. There are standard procedures to get content re-instated, though if the content violates copyright then obviously it may not be.
what happened to having an industry standard language?
We'd all be programming in FORTRAN or COBOL if we stuck with that mentality.
my head wants to explode
I sympathize. There's more technology than you can shake a stick at. I just don't see any way out of this mess. Technology is always going to churn while chasing improvements.
What I don't get is that Japan - with incredibly high labor costs and costs of living - manages to continue to be a manufacturer. As does Germany. Yet the US seems to be completely incapable of doing this.
"A relative handful of countries -- led by the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan --have borne almost all of the losses. Between 1990 and 2005, Britain lost 43.5 percent of its manufacturing jobs (2.6 million); Germany lost 31 percent of its manufacturing jobs (3.6 million); the United States lost 24 percent (5.09 million); and Japan lost 22 percent of its manufacturing jobs (3.36 million)."
OK, that was an article from 2007, but have things really improved since then? I know a lot of Japanese companies, just like Apple does, offshores a lot of their manufacturing jobs. For example, I looked up where Sony's PS3 is manufactured and I found ASUS and Foxconn.
In this case, marketing assholes try to co-opt what's good about a term and apply it to what they are doing instead of coming up with their own term that is accurate. In this case, the word "collaborative" or one of it's derivatives was used 5 times in the article. So they just could have just called it a "collaborative design".
The people I pay my rent to aren't a big complex, just private owners. I also use checks to pay small-time contractors like plumbers or the guy that mows my lawn.
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Then sue companies like Red Hat. I'm sure the folks here would be OK with that, right?
Living up to your handle, I see.
What conservative was for a bailout?
You can start with the Bush administration.
The conservative approach mirrors the liberal approach in this case. Limit government intervention and let free market rule.
I think you mean Libertarian. "liberal" is used in the US for left-leaning politicians in support of government intervention regarding social welfare.
Instead of paying people based on their self-inflicted stress levels, imagine paying people based on value delivered to other human beings.
Or we could just pay them based on supply and demand. There's just something screwed up with the supply/demand ratio, because these fraudsters, gamblers, and self-deluded financial geniuses aren't in short supply.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there are (a few - I'm not going to tar all with the same brush) people on slashdot who don't get that.
I definitely get it, and I still think you're a smarmy toady.
You'd have a point if content distributors were stopping content creators from putting out content on their own, but they aren't. This is all about content that was created under contract, and distributors don't like sites that give it away without their consent.
In fact, if creators really don't want this, they have as a class the power to never do business with any of the old gateways. The thing is, many content creators like to get paid for their work and have dreams of money and fame, and see the old gateways as a means to an end.
If you act like a sheep then don't complain that everybody else is acting like a sheep too.
Both parties interested in talking want the NDA.
If you feel you're being shaken down for money, signing an NDA doesn't benefit you. Would you sign an NDA with an extortionist?
Einstein himself was out of the game by quantum mechanics because he refuse to accept it.
Which is kind of ironic, because he was one of it's earliest founders. It's what he got his Nobel Prize for.
Just ask yourself, with all the resources and talent available to Microsoft, why they couldn't have simply made .Net cross-platform from the start and released their own Linux version at the same time each Windows version was released?
They should have. I think it was a strategic blunder not to, from a Machiavellian viewpoint, because all they needed to do was pretend to play nice with multi-platform and then yank the rug out once they achieved marketshare. They did this with IE.
Having a language ratified as an ECMA standard is fairly binding I find.
Mono, and the .NET framework they seek to implement, is much more than what was standardized in ECMA. Windows Forms is one example.
under certain specified conditions.
Yeah, exactly. Don't follow Microsoft's lead unless you want to get burned. Everything they do revolves around their desktop monopoly.
Is there some reason you don't support OpenID?
Except having worked with things like this, i know that facebook does no such thing.
"Worked" in what capacity? Do you have an insiders view of the business deals that goes on in Facebook, as in do you actually work for Facebook?
Facebook gives you nothing at all in return for using their services.
Then why would it benefit Answers.com to exclusively rely on Facebook? Such exclusivity is often driven by bribes, err, business relationships.
drinking water wont be affected by anything
Try reading this article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=drill-for-natural-gas-pollute-water
One of the biggest problems is these people refuse to provide the chemicals they are using in their operations. How are we supposed to monitor for spills, or emergency crews respond, when they won't even give you that information?
You should know that the industry cares more about money than people, and will engage in propaganda, bribes, and secret settlements to make money.
You think it can be done safely? Fine, but take every damn precaution, monitor it religiously, and prove it out. No bullshit secrets. Also force them to hold back a percentage of profits for funds in case something goes wrong, as it inevitably does despite claims of safety.
The only class you'd be justified to cheat in would be one that didn't matter at all to your degree. In which case- why are you taking it?
Colleges require you to take a lot of classes that either aren't related to your degree or while related, may be in a field that you're never going to work in. The other reason to cheat is when the class forces you to memorize lots of stuff. I spent a lot of time in college memorizing crap.
I once complained about this in a class, and suggested an open book exam would be more useful, but the professor resisted because he didn't have a test designed for this, and the other students were pissed because they were happy with memorizing stuff for tests.
environmentalists are in the process of trying to block natural gas extraction in NY state right now
Those crazy environmentalists, who are concerned about the drinking water for millions of people. I'm all for drilling, as long as it's responsible, but the industry has not show itself to be and the politicians are too corrupt to make them be.
When scientists come down so consistently on the same side of a set of questions as they do in climate science, this is a most unusual circumstance. One we should take seriously. They're going against the normal pattern of scientists; we usually love to accentuate our disputes.
There are two ways to argue this. One, the scientists are really sure about this and there is no dispute. Two, climate science has become highly politicized and group think has taken over.
There's also a third way, that your "97%" figure is bogus.
Exhibition-grade booth displays and paraphernalia cost thousands of dollars
Are booth babes really that expensive? :)
This is insane. Seriously, you guys of the USA have been great. It makes me sad seeing you on the verge of falling into a Kafkaesque fiasco. And I fully understand what's happening to you may as well strike us someday.
Where is "us"? Because there are many places well ahead of the United States. At least in the United States you don't get your Internet shut off. As for the DMCA, it's not the worst thing in the world. There are standard procedures to get content re-instated, though if the content violates copyright then obviously it may not be.
what happened to having an industry standard language?
We'd all be programming in FORTRAN or COBOL if we stuck with that mentality.
my head wants to explode
I sympathize. There's more technology than you can shake a stick at. I just don't see any way out of this mess. Technology is always going to churn while chasing improvements.
What I don't get is that Japan - with incredibly high labor costs and costs of living - manages to continue to be a manufacturer. As does Germany. Yet the US seems to be completely incapable of doing this.
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/07/1017/art2.html
"A relative handful of countries -- led by the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan --have borne almost all of the losses. Between 1990 and 2005, Britain lost 43.5 percent of its manufacturing jobs (2.6 million); Germany lost 31 percent of its manufacturing jobs (3.6 million); the United States lost 24 percent (5.09 million); and Japan lost 22 percent of its manufacturing jobs (3.36 million)."
OK, that was an article from 2007, but have things really improved since then? I know a lot of Japanese companies, just like Apple does, offshores a lot of their manufacturing jobs. For example, I looked up where Sony's PS3 is manufactured and I found ASUS and Foxconn.
Language changes.
In this case, marketing assholes try to co-opt what's good about a term and apply it to what they are doing instead of coming up with their own term that is accurate. In this case, the word "collaborative" or one of it's derivatives was used 5 times in the article. So they just could have just called it a "collaborative design".
Oh, go ahead, mod me down
I wish people would for your karma whoring. The "mod me down" is a standard trick to get modded up on Slashdot.
The people I pay my rent to aren't a big complex, just private owners. I also use checks to pay small-time contractors like plumbers or the guy that mows my lawn.