Well , with the appropriate training , they can certainly become good managers.
The idea that your have to be an MBA in order to be able to manage something , is ridiculous. There are a few management skills you need to learn , but most of it is build up from experience.
You are not defined by your studies . You are defined by what you want to accomplish.
Yes , i recognize that . The scary people is some people actually take them seriously. Which is hard for me , because i just can't stop laughing when someone goes on like that.
You are forgetting that people might not like companies that deny people based on a certain letter of the alphabet. In particular if those people happen to have a large group of friends , who will all read the outrage on that persons wall.
I wonder if anyone made a statistical analysis of how many potential customers they could lose this way.
Pulling the advertisements I can agree with, maybe even putting the game behind the counter out of sight, but how can you justify making the game completely unavailable to them?
It's not a matter of "trust," it's a matter of respect. Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
The argument of the parent still stands : if you respect them , than they have the right to make that decision themselves . By treating them like children ( in this case , protecting them from hurting themselves ) , you are not treating them respectfully .
True , but there is a selection process , to ensure you are not biased. So , if you want to get out of jury duty , just behave very biased when they interview you . You should never get selected.
However , it doesn't work perfectly , as you can see in this case.
In fact , i wouldn't have thought about going to wikipedia in the first place to find out. So by protesting it , they actually make more people go to wikipedia to find out , and as such spoil there experience.
Offcourse , if wikipedia wanted to be nice, they could add a feature with a 'spoiler warning' , making sure you can't accidentally read the spoilers. A bit like imdb does.
"Tyranny of the majority" is actually just democracy :
The reason is simply : a majority is made out of many people , who are all a minority in some way . Because the majority is so big , it will represent all these minorities , and result in a globally balanced view on things.
For example : it's not because you are a minority because of your race , that you can't be part of a majority of people who like football ( just an example ).
So any legislation that involves football , you are part of the majority , and so you will have impact ( to the detriment of the people that don't like football ).
I don't want to turn on Sponge Bob at 2pm and see Sandy with a strap on fucking Patrick up the Ass while Squidward cums on his face.
If that would ever be the case , then don't let your childeren watch Sponge Bob .
You should decide what your child watches , not the broadcast network. But there's the real problem : people just park their children in front of the tv , because it's easy .
Personally , i'm more concerned about the violence in some cartoons for children.
But the same applies there : don't let them watch it , if you don't think they can handle it.
Living in Belgium , and having telenet as ISP , i have to say it's not all sunshine :
It depends on what package you are buying : you have different packages , for different prizes : if i recall correctly there's 40gb , 60 gb , 80 gb a month and 'unlimited' , each of them more expensive.
However , this 'unlimited' , is not really unlimited : you have a gauge which shows you how much you use in comparison with other users . If you download to much , telenet will charge you extra.
But with unlimited , it's impossible to see the exactly how much you downloaded this month ( something you can see with the other packages ) , which means you never know how you can actually download ( i solved that by installing a bandwidth meter myself )
If you mod someone flamebait for using the word gay , it means you consider it an insult.
Because it means you considered that Mac users might be offended by being called gay. Which they shouldn't be , as there is nothing wrong with it.
On the other hand , maybe you considered that gays might be offended by being associated with Apple ( implying that they have no problem with Apple anti-jailbreak policy ). In that case , they have reason to be offended.
What troubles me in this is where the line between use and abuse is : who draws it ?
I mean , if you want a site to be moderated by the users , then don't be surprised if people get together to do exactly that , in a more effective way. What's abuse for 1 person , might seems legitimate for others ( certainly in politics ).
The outrage against the banning of posts containing the HDTV key , shows this clearly .
Still , to solve this problem , there is a simple solution : start your own brigade , which diggs up everything the other brigade buries . If you do it exactly like that , the articles they bury will end up eventually with higher ratings , thus effectively punishing the other brigade.
So , the net generation IS , it's just a little older than what they expected.
Also , it depends on what you mean with 'Net generation' . Kids today do know how to work with a pc automatically , there's no one who has to explain them . But they aren't going to know assembler , because that's past technology , and they don't need it.
They learn what they need to know , and this they can use better and faster than anyone before them.
"Tell me how someone giving their own code the BSD license makes them money that doing under the GPL doesn't?"
Simple : say there is GPL'ed software that allows you to use an editor in html ( like CKEditor ) . Now , say that i create blogging software , and sell this to users , and i want to add this editor to it , so users can easily add content for their blogs.
To make it work correctly , i rewrite some aspects of the editor , so that it works perfectly. If i do want to sell my product , in this case GPL requires me to publish the changes i made to the editor.
My competitors could then use the code i wrote , thus gaining an advantage on me ( as it didn't cost them anything , but it did cost me).
With BSD license , i don't have to publish the changes that i made to it , so i don't have the disadvantage.
From a user perspective , GPL is better , as it ensures changes to the code are also free From a business perspective , BSD is better , as it allows you to keep your changes hidden from the competition.
This is the reason many GPL projects also allow you to purchase a BSD license.
Surely thats a joke. I could believe hydroelectric storage: pump water against gravity
That is a way to do it , though it's not very efficient ( but then again , otherwise it's wasted completely ).
Still , as someone pointed out , statistically , it's very likely that electric cars will charge at night , as most people will be working in the day , and will have to recharge there cars when they get home in the evening.
Also , as electricity is cheaper at night than in the day , most people would prefer charging there cars at night.
I didn't say it was impossible to check at all, but it's not possible from a PDF. You might as well create a PDF that only says " I'm right , you are wrong " , it would basically be the same thing , if you couldn't check it anywhere else .
If you would be able to check the repository ( with all changes and timestamps ) of UNIX , and compared it to the repository of Linux , then , by checking the timestamps , it might be possible to verify who copied what. (if version management existed at that time )
And offcourse, that's assuming no one altered the repository to make it look like they were the first to implement it.
Since we have to rely on this PDF , and there is no way to prove that that code was actually in UNIX at the moment ( as it's closed , there's no way to check ) .
I am left to conclude that it's much easier to copy from Linux (which is open ) , than from UNIX ( which is closed ). In other words , using this PDF , i could also claim to SCO stole from Linux , and then implemented it in their commercial product , thus violating the GPL .
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Well , with the appropriate training , they can certainly become good managers.
The idea that your have to be an MBA in order to be able to manage something , is ridiculous.
There are a few management skills you need to learn , but most of it is build up from experience.
You are not defined by your studies . You are defined by what you want to accomplish.
Yes , i recognize that . The scary people is some people actually take them seriously.
Which is hard for me , because i just can't stop laughing when someone goes on like that.
You are forgetting that people might not like companies that deny people based on a certain letter of the alphabet.
In particular if those people happen to have a large group of friends , who will all read the outrage on that persons wall.
I wonder if anyone made a statistical analysis of how many potential customers they could lose this way.
filesharing is not stealing.
Pulling the advertisements I can agree with, maybe even putting the game behind the counter out of sight, but how can you justify making the game completely unavailable to them?
It's not a matter of "trust," it's a matter of respect. Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
The argument of the parent still stands : if you respect them , than they have the right to make that decision themselves .
By treating them like children ( in this case , protecting them from hurting themselves ) , you are not treating them respectfully .
True , but there is a selection process , to ensure you are not biased.
So , if you want to get out of jury duty , just behave very biased when they interview you . You should never get selected.
However , it doesn't work perfectly , as you can see in this case.
In fact , i wouldn't have thought about going to wikipedia in the first place to find out.
So by protesting it , they actually make more people go to wikipedia to find out , and as such spoil there experience.
Offcourse , if wikipedia wanted to be nice, they could add a feature with a 'spoiler warning' , making sure you can't accidentally read the spoilers. A bit like imdb does.
Yeah , they really should make a -1 , Disagree .
- Powerpoint is not the problem , the people using them are
That about covers it.
"Tyranny of the majority" is actually just democracy :
The reason is simply : a majority is made out of many people , who are all a minority in some way .
Because the majority is so big , it will represent all these minorities , and result in a globally balanced view on things.
For example : it's not because you are a minority because of your race , that you can't be part of a majority of people who like football ( just an example ).
So any legislation that involves football , you are part of the majority , and so you will have impact ( to the detriment of the people that don't like football ).
I don't want to turn on Sponge Bob at 2pm and see Sandy with a strap on fucking Patrick up the Ass while Squidward cums on his face.
If that would ever be the case , then don't let your childeren watch Sponge Bob .
You should decide what your child watches , not the broadcast network.
But there's the real problem : people just park their children in front of the tv , because it's easy .
Personally , i'm more concerned about the violence in some cartoons for children.
But the same applies there : don't let them watch it , if you don't think they can handle it.
Living in Belgium , and having telenet as ISP , i have to say it's not all sunshine :
It depends on what package you are buying : you have different packages , for different prizes : if i recall correctly there's 40gb , 60 gb , 80 gb a month and 'unlimited' , each of them more expensive.
However , this 'unlimited' , is not really unlimited : you have a gauge which shows you how much you use in comparison with other users . If you download to much , telenet will charge you extra.
But with unlimited , it's impossible to see the exactly how much you downloaded this month ( something you can see with the other packages ) , which means you never know how you can actually download ( i solved that by installing a bandwidth meter myself )
Because otherwise they will have no developers left.
If it's not about money , they should indeed reimburse it.
This basically means you have to pay in order to be allowed to work on something Google would otherwise have to pay developers for.
True , but then they should say that , rather than someone else answering in their place ( by modding down ) , thus not even giving them the option.
Actually no , he's right.
If you mod someone flamebait for using the word gay , it means you consider it an insult.
Because it means you considered that Mac users might be offended by being called gay. Which they shouldn't be , as there is nothing wrong with it.
On the other hand , maybe you considered that gays might be offended by being associated with Apple ( implying that they have no problem with Apple anti-jailbreak policy ).
In that case , they have reason to be offended.
What troubles me in this is where the line between use and abuse is : who draws it ?
I mean , if you want a site to be moderated by the users , then don't be surprised if people get together to do exactly that , in a more effective way.
What's abuse for 1 person , might seems legitimate for others ( certainly in politics ).
The outrage against the banning of posts containing the HDTV key , shows this clearly .
Still , to solve this problem , there is a simple solution : start your own brigade , which diggs up everything the other brigade buries .
If you do it exactly like that , the articles they bury will end up eventually with higher ratings , thus effectively punishing the other brigade.
So , the net generation IS , it's just a little older than what they expected.
Also , it depends on what you mean with 'Net generation' . Kids today do know how to work with a pc automatically , there's no one who has to explain them . But they aren't going to know assembler , because that's past technology , and they don't need it.
They learn what they need to know , and this they can use better and faster than anyone before them.
"Tell me how someone giving their own code the BSD license makes them money that doing under the GPL doesn't?"
Simple : say there is GPL'ed software that allows you to use an editor in html ( like CKEditor ) .
Now , say that i create blogging software , and sell this to users , and i want to add this editor to it , so users can easily add content for their blogs.
To make it work correctly , i rewrite some aspects of the editor , so that it works perfectly.
If i do want to sell my product , in this case GPL requires me to publish the changes i made to the editor.
My competitors could then use the code i wrote , thus gaining an advantage on me ( as it didn't cost them anything , but it did cost me).
With BSD license , i don't have to publish the changes that i made to it , so i don't have the disadvantage.
From a user perspective , GPL is better , as it ensures changes to the code are also free
From a business perspective , BSD is better , as it allows you to keep your changes hidden from the competition.
This is the reason many GPL projects also allow you to purchase a BSD license.
Yes , but who would have heard about Ipood , without Apple suing them.
And what about : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Going outside doesn't really help : plenty of ads there , and adblock doesn't work on them .
So on one side , kids need to play less video games ,and play outside more often .
On the other side , it's not safe for them to go outside ?
I want an autograph.
Surely thats a joke. I could believe hydroelectric storage: pump water against gravity
That is a way to do it , though it's not very efficient ( but then again , otherwise it's wasted completely ).
Still , as someone pointed out , statistically , it's very likely that electric cars will charge at night , as most people will be working in the day , and will have to recharge there cars when they get home in the evening.
Also , as electricity is cheaper at night than in the day , most people would prefer charging there cars at night.
I didn't say it was impossible to check at all, but it's not possible from a PDF.
You might as well create a PDF that only says " I'm right , you are wrong " , it would basically be the same thing , if you couldn't check it anywhere else .
If you would be able to check the repository ( with all changes and timestamps ) of UNIX , and compared it to the repository of Linux , then , by checking the timestamps , it might be possible to verify who copied what.
(if version management existed at that time )
And offcourse, that's assuming no one altered the repository to make it look like they were the first to implement it.
Since we have to rely on this PDF , and there is no way to prove that that code was actually in UNIX at the moment ( as it's closed , there's no way to check ) .
I am left to conclude that it's much easier to copy from Linux (which is open ) , than from UNIX ( which is closed ).
In other words , using this PDF , i could also claim to SCO stole from Linux , and then implemented it in their commercial product , thus violating the GPL .