The argument might stand on a rhetorical level, but in all the police states of the XXth century I could remember, most of the population didn't considered itself safe. OTOH, althouth I consider I live in a fairly free society, the only time in my life I came close to the risk of real physical violence, the threat was a policeman (who seemed to be a fan of Judge Dread).
Being a child sure doesn't help, but I would tend to beleive that being innocent is the worst possible defense strategy: you don't have any aliby (moreover can anyone remember what he was doing just two weeks ago if he had no reason to in the first place?) and you don't know what they are talking about, so whatever you say cannot match what they are expecting from you and sounds like a lie.
For universities, it could be easy to implement. Since paying is legally admitting having having commited the crime, even the football players could understand a sentence like "If you pay the RIAA, we will treat you like criminals and you can kiss your degree goodbye. If you receive a letter from them, please contact Mr. xxx"
I would say it all depends on the motive more than the method, are you talking about non-conventional warfare against a stronger ennemy or random killing there?
Does that also mean that "bringing the democracy" and "invade a country out of a lie and without UN mandate then let the place fall into chaos because unilateral decisions calls for adverse reactions" are the same thing?
I totaly agree. One of my grand-grandfather was killed during a post D-Day bombing over normandy and it doesn't prevent me to think it was the right thing to do. What I was trying to point is the essential difference between freedom fighters (who of course always have to face the "necessary evil" situations and the eternal risk of facing monsters from too close and becoming one too (betrayal of initial ideals, lure of power...)) and the terrorists who deliberately attack random civilian to create the most terror with the least risk of someone firing back at them.
One risks everything he has to make things better, the other makes things worse to gain some advantage (I'm not talking about the kamikase, who I see as another victim, but about the ones who are manipulation them), but of course, because of bad faith, everyone of them is usually called by both names depending of the point of view.
I think the hardest part of using lego for that kind of work is to have the beancounters accept the expense as work related. Usually, I had to use my own personnal stock when I needed to hold prototype boards together.
Whatever they say, the large majority of the terrorists cannot be seriously called "freedom fighters". People who used terrorism agains nazi occupation in several european countries and to a certain extend some of the intifada fighters may claim that title as long as they only attacked military or police targets of a brutal occupation force or dictatorship in their homeland. Tamil tigers might have fallen in that category, but they really have too much innocent blood on their hands. But on the other hand, although I hate GWB as much as any other non-US citizen, I refuse that title to people who, for example, come from Iran or Syria (or any other place) to Irak and blindly kill civilian because bringing chaos to Irak serves the political agenda of the country that funds them.
I'd try to avoid the "sucks part", but yesterday, while filling my frigde from my local (french) supermarket, I took a look at the console row, there were about a dozen PSP & DS lite and a couple of PS2 & 360 in a locked cabinet with a bell to call a seller and a 3m wide*1.5m tall PS3 wall (not a single one seemed to be missing, the wall was perfectly rectangular) for immediate pick up, but I couldn't see any Wii. BTW, I'm not anti-Sony, to me the best console of the moment (read: the one with the best new games) is the PS2.
I know it was a joke, but I fear that, by replacing air by oil, the weight of a server rack might be a problem if it is not located in the basement.
Anyhow, even by reducing the power requirements by using efficient passive cooling to evacuate heat from the chips to the room, you still need to evacuate heat from the room.
Although what you are talking about about is a real phenomena (and a good reason not to outsource because you can't compete on either cost or quality in that case), there are also lots of workshops that produce totally fake products, usualy using materials that can barely look like the real product but are really cheap.
If your 0.49$ screwdriver bends, it is not a disaster, if those brakes you got for a tenth of normal price with no invoice do not work after 50 miles, it can be.
Entertainment could be an economic advantage, but I don't really see the advantage of declaring economic warfare with the country where most of the blockbuster DVD are made. What if they forget to ship some of them on time, introduce "errors" or sell copies to the pirate scene weeks before the release date (oops, my mistake, they are already doing that last part).
China and other countries produce and export lots of low quality counterfeit products, including drugs and mecanical parts that can endanger consumers health but the US Gov. is only mad about copies of overpriced products (usually made in China for dirt cheap BTW) to protect the profit of a few cartels.
That's exactly the point. Someone steals 100$, he risks prison (or being beaten up if he is spoted by the victim). On the other hand, if a corporation steals millions from thousands of victims using malwares, should it be OK to simply fine them for a fraction of their benefit? One of the problem of modern capitalism is that corporations have more rights than average people and far less liabilities, so the best way to maximise shareholders gains is to act like a criminal. Anything that helps balance that is welcome.
I disagree, wasted time is a cost, but it is not visible one, I would even say it is the best example of hidden cost since it has a real effect on your productivity but doesn't show on beancounter's charts because it doesn't change your salary.
Wrong, when audited, you can't compare a hidden benefit with a visible cost, no matter how positive it might eventually be. An old french playwritter, Molière, has one of its characters say it is better to die according to the medecine than to live against it. You can also check todays post about outsourcing for more examples.
I never touched POSIX, Java or any web or network thing, but rely heavily on machine code and C, does that mean I'm not a developer, or simply that my job is to code drivers on embeded devices?
I've seen first hand a total waste in the name of cost saving.
I worked in a development team split across several sites in USA, Europa and India. Due to the relative costs of Labor, only the indian site was allowed to recruit (and did a lot), but they chosed to rely on their famous name to offer only dirt cheap salaries, so we ended up getting dozens of young indian engineers who stayed there only long enough to make it look like a good first experience then left for greener pastures (usually at the time they more or less ended their rampup and would have been fully productive) and a large proportion of work of the seasoned engineers (from both indian and western sites) wasted to continually train those passers-by (I personally spent up to 50% of my workload helping one of them because I needed the part he was reponsible for and had to took a little blame for my low productivity).
I have nothing against those people (after all, they were smart enough to see how to get the best from that situation and usualy worked seriously), but the joke no one dared to tell the big boss was that the indian site produced more CV than code.
Anbd as a sidenote, cultural difference can cause a few troubles. Depending of who you are talking to, "OK" may not mean he agrees with what you say, only that he understood it.
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The argument might stand on a rhetorical level, but in all the police states of the XXth century I could remember, most of the population didn't considered itself safe. OTOH, althouth I consider I live in a fairly free society, the only time in my life I came close to the risk of real physical violence, the threat was a policeman (who seemed to be a fan of Judge Dread).
Being a child sure doesn't help, but I would tend to beleive that being innocent is the worst possible defense strategy: you don't have any aliby (moreover can anyone remember what he was doing just two weeks ago if he had no reason to in the first place?) and you don't know what they are talking about, so whatever you say cannot match what they are expecting from you and sounds like a lie.
For universities, it could be easy to implement. Since paying is legally admitting having having commited the crime, even the football players could understand a sentence like "If you pay the RIAA, we will treat you like criminals and you can kiss your degree goodbye. If you receive a letter from them, please contact Mr. xxx"
I would say it all depends on the motive more than the method, are you talking about non-conventional warfare against a stronger ennemy or random killing there?
Does that also mean that "bringing the democracy" and "invade a country out of a lie and without UN mandate then let the place fall into chaos because unilateral decisions calls for adverse reactions" are the same thing?
I totaly agree. One of my grand-grandfather was killed during a post D-Day bombing over normandy and it doesn't prevent me to think it was the right thing to do. What I was trying to point is the essential difference between freedom fighters (who of course always have to face the "necessary evil" situations and the eternal risk of facing monsters from too close and becoming one too (betrayal of initial ideals, lure of power...)) and the terrorists who deliberately attack random civilian to create the most terror with the least risk of someone firing back at them.
One risks everything he has to make things better, the other makes things worse to gain some advantage (I'm not talking about the kamikase, who I see as another victim, but about the ones who are manipulation them), but of course, because of bad faith, everyone of them is usually called by both names depending of the point of view.
It's simple, once you're OK with the prototype, simply superglue it and it will be almost unbreakable.
I think the hardest part of using lego for that kind of work is to have the beancounters accept the expense as work related. Usually, I had to use my own personnal stock when I needed to hold prototype boards together.
Whatever they say, the large majority of the terrorists cannot be seriously called "freedom fighters".
People who used terrorism agains nazi occupation in several european countries and to a certain extend some of the intifada fighters may claim that title as long as they only attacked military or police targets of a brutal occupation force or dictatorship in their homeland. Tamil tigers might have fallen in that category, but they really have too much innocent blood on their hands.
But on the other hand, although I hate GWB as much as any other non-US citizen, I refuse that title to people who, for example, come from Iran or Syria (or any other place) to Irak and blindly kill civilian because bringing chaos to Irak serves the political agenda of the country that funds them.
And yes, propaganda can be a tool of terrorism.
The one with the biggest breasts?
Since they bought ATI, they are really short on cash, so maybe their idea was simply to do whatever is needed to avoid a big suit for a while.
I'd try to avoid the "sucks part", but yesterday, while filling my frigde from my local (french) supermarket, I took a look at the console row, there were about a dozen PSP & DS lite and a couple of PS2 & 360 in a locked cabinet with a bell to call a seller and a 3m wide*1.5m tall PS3 wall (not a single one seemed to be missing, the wall was perfectly rectangular) for immediate pick up, but I couldn't see any Wii.
BTW, I'm not anti-Sony, to me the best console of the moment (read: the one with the best new games) is the PS2.
I know it was a joke, but I fear that, by replacing air by oil, the weight of a server rack might be a problem if it is not located in the basement.
Anyhow, even by reducing the power requirements by using efficient passive cooling to evacuate heat from the chips to the room, you still need to evacuate heat from the room.
So, is there anything above "Excellent" karma? It's been mounthes since it changed for the last time.
My GP was pretty lame, but this is exactly the kind of joke I would have loved to find.
It might give the BSOD a whole new meaning.
Although what you are talking about about is a real phenomena (and a good reason not to outsource because you can't compete on either cost or quality in that case), there are also lots of workshops that produce totally fake products, usualy using materials that can barely look like the real product but are really cheap.
If your 0.49$ screwdriver bends, it is not a disaster, if those brakes you got for a tenth of normal price with no invoice do not work after 50 miles, it can be.
Entertainment could be an economic advantage, but I don't really see the advantage of declaring economic warfare with the country where most of the blockbuster DVD are made. What if they forget to ship some of them on time, introduce "errors" or sell copies to the pirate scene weeks before the release date (oops, my mistake, they are already doing that last part).
China and other countries produce and export lots of low quality counterfeit products, including drugs and mecanical parts that can endanger consumers health but the US Gov. is only mad about copies of overpriced products (usually made in China for dirt cheap BTW) to protect the profit of a few cartels.
That's exactly the point. Someone steals 100$, he risks prison (or being beaten up if he is spoted by the victim). On the other hand, if a corporation steals millions from thousands of victims using malwares, should it be OK to simply fine them for a fraction of their benefit?
One of the problem of modern capitalism is that corporations have more rights than average people and far less liabilities, so the best way to maximise shareholders gains is to act like a criminal. Anything that helps balance that is welcome.
Because, contrary to normal citizens, corporations still have rights.
I disagree, wasted time is a cost, but it is not visible one, I would even say it is the best example of hidden cost since it has a real effect on your productivity but doesn't show on beancounter's charts because it doesn't change your salary.
Wrong, when audited, you can't compare a hidden benefit with a visible cost, no matter how positive it might eventually be.
An old french playwritter, Molière, has one of its characters say it is better to die according to the medecine than to live against it. You can also check todays post about outsourcing for more examples.
I never touched POSIX, Java or any web or network thing, but rely heavily on machine code and C, does that mean I'm not a developer, or simply that my job is to code drivers on embeded devices?
I've seen first hand a total waste in the name of cost saving.
I worked in a development team split across several sites in USA, Europa and India. Due to the relative costs of Labor, only the indian site was allowed to recruit (and did a lot), but they chosed to rely on their famous name to offer only dirt cheap salaries, so we ended up getting dozens of young indian engineers who stayed there only long enough to make it look like a good first experience then left for greener pastures (usually at the time they more or less ended their rampup and would have been fully productive) and a large proportion of work of the seasoned engineers (from both indian and western sites) wasted to continually train those passers-by (I personally spent up to 50% of my workload helping one of them because I needed the part he was reponsible for and had to took a little blame for my low productivity).
I have nothing against those people (after all, they were smart enough to see how to get the best from that situation and usualy worked seriously), but the joke no one dared to tell the big boss was that the indian site produced more CV than code.
Anbd as a sidenote, cultural difference can cause a few troubles. Depending of who you are talking to, "OK" may not mean he agrees with what you say, only that he understood it.