I work at a nearly pure Java shop and last week attended a Java technology related conference (not run by Oracle/IBM). Not one single person there or at my work seems particularly concerned about the future of Java. If for some silly reason Java 6 was the last version of Java ever released I'm pretty sure I'd be writing code for the platform for the next 10 years and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
There was a video about this very subject a while back on SD. Essentially you can't patent/copyright a "look" or things that are too common like clothes. Therefore you have things like giant horrendous LVs all over Louis Vuitton clothing. You can still go after them for trademark infringement.
If you reasonably believe you will be able to collect the costs of bandwidth from the AWS customer that was chewed up by the DDOS, I don't see what difference it makes whether the bandwidth was legitimate or not. I'm not in a market where these decisions are made so I may be way off, but I considered AWS to be an interesting tool against DDOS because you could theoretically ramp up to overcome the attack. Apparently not.
I recall the day when Sun released a new patch for Java. Everyone auto-updated and all of a sudden the transparency of labels in our app was broken all over the place. Luckily for us there were only a hand full of people using our app on a Windows desktop OS (most are CE). So rather than going back and redoing the layout for all of our screens we just handed people a functioning JRE. That was an annoying day when a bug was introduced into our app by the platform vendor.
If I want to go to Mexico there will no doubt be a stopover somewhere Stateside. It doesn't seem fair that their airport security policy applies to me even if I'm only there for an hour inside the same airplane. Really, there should be another method to handle those flights if they are really concerned (segregrated runway, new terminal, etc).
While I agree with your distaste for these new regulations and with the existence of the TSA in general I would submit that if you want to be in our air space, you will have to submit to whatever stupid regulations we impose upon you. Actually wanting to LAND in our country makes the point even stronger. IMO eventually enough people will skip their vacations to the US that Disney and their ilk will petition the government to ease up and they will. No amount of personal bickering will help in any way. That's not the way modern governments work.
Right, so OP had crappy parents or something and therefore should take out his impotent rage on inanimate boxes he's being paid to take care of rather than showing a little initiative to improve his life and get out of the 4am shift. There's plenty of low-lifes who will work that 4am shift. Just a tiny bit of positive attitude and hard work will get you out of that place.
Let's face it, some people have work ethic and some people don't. If this person got a degree they'd have a bad attitude and crappy work ethic doing something more important. It's far better for them to be relegated to kicking boxes around. Those of us with a good work ethic busted our butts even when we had low paying jobs in high school and/or during college. Even without a degree a hard working person with a strong work ethic isn't going to have the crap shift working 4am kicking boxes. The GP has the cause and effect correct, just in reverse.
Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm writing webapps with jquery and JSF I'd rather have someone who took a JSF and JQuery class than random guy who can pontificate about the benefits of MVC and the intricacies of garbage collection. If the job requirement changes I'll expect my (usually cheaper) guy to take another class or replace him with someone else who did.
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that people who pirate games have gone out and paid for every single game they have ever pirated. You're just being dishonest here.
There's a HUGE difference between borrowing a game from a friend and downloading it. If you borrow a game from your friend he no longer has possession of it.
Here's a newsflash for you, things that are new to the market cost more. When flat screen TVs first hit the market they were crazy expensive and small in size. Now they're just a few hundred dollars for a 40" hi-def tv. If the price is "TOO DAMN HIGH" then just wait until market conditions improve (read: the game is older and they are no longer charging a premium price). The only difference between the TV and the game is that the manufacturing costs of duplicating a game is nominal (near-zero). The price of manufacturing those first TVs was high not because plastic and metal were expensive, but because a TON of intellectual property goes into making that TV. Same thing for the games. After a while you pay for the IP costs and the price can come down more in line with the cost of reproduction. That's why TVs are coming down in price, the same way older games cost less.
What does the price of renting a movie have to do with your ability to rent a game to try it before you drop significant money on it?
You shouldn't expect to eat your entire meal and then not pay for it, which is what you're talking about when you're downloading games. Sure, you might get away with it at restaurants from time to time but it's pretty poor ethics to eat the entire meal and then leave without paying and eventually the manager is going to stop you.
First of all, you're lying. You will never go back and buy the games you pirated and even if you did you'll pay the bargain discount price because it will be several years old. You won't pay the full retail price. And the other argument about the value of the game based on how long it engages you is complete garbage too. That's why there are game rentals at your local store or any of several netflix style game rental sites. If you pay to go to the movies you can't get your money back because you didn't like the movie. You generally don't get your money back for meals unless it was really atrocious. This idea of having your cake and eating it too. Most games are in the $50 range. If you can't be bothered to cut two lawns on a Saturday to get a newly released video game then you've got problems. And if you don't like the game? It only cost you the time you played + 2 hours and a bit of gas.
And then at the end of the day getting paid almost nothing because you are too slow to keep up with everyone. That's how it starts out. After a month or so you get a lot better at it, your stamina goes up, and if you are lucky, you'll get paid $8 an hour.
You've unknowingly hit on the single most important point. Americans are not willing to do that labor at that price. There's plenty of Americans in Florida laying pitch for roads, roofing, putting up fences, etc. All miserable jobs in the 100+ degree Florida heat. All pay more than $8/hr.
My workplace seeks the best qualified candidates, and we've hired many foreign nationals as well as US nationals. I've never seen a hiring decision come down to price, on either side.
The hiring decisions never come down to price because generally the price is decided ahead of time. Yes you will hire the best qualified candidate, but you will hire the best qualified candidate that is willing to accept the salary you're offering. Anything that artificially increases the labor supply will necessarily decrease wages over all. I don't necessarily disagree with this program, but you're just lying.
Imagine the extra revenue you could get with a pay option to improve your physique and package size in the image displayed. Think Old Spice: Look at me, now look at the scanner, now back to me.
The oppressors have already won by framing the discussion around what is the most intrusion/inconvenience the public is willing to accept vs. what is the least amount of intrusion needed to provide a reasonable amount of safety.
I'm sorry, when 1/3 of a large class like that is "cheating" there's something wrong on both ends. Here's a recent ethics example I had at work. We just discovered one of the consulting firms we hire people through was feeding people our typical initial interview questions. These questions had been amassed from several years of debriefing interviewees. Yes, it's a problem with the consulting firm being unethical. It's also kind of silly for the manager involved to have used the same hand full of questions in every interview for the last 5 years. This situation is still quite different though because the consulting firm new definitively what "tests" would be provided. It's unclear from the professor's lecture as to whether or not the students who studied the publisher's test bank "knew" they were "cheating". Generally speaking I wouldn't consider reading materials published by the book publisher for my class to be considered cheating. Of course, I wouldn't have studied ONLY that material either.
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Solving the puzzle doesn't seem nearly as difficult as having come up with it in the first place.
I translated it as "Oh dear god please let us create the next WoW! We'll give ANYTHING!!!"
Wouldn't be so bad if J2ME wasn't absolutely HORRIBLE on any platform I've coded for it on.
I work at a nearly pure Java shop and last week attended a Java technology related conference (not run by Oracle/IBM). Not one single person there or at my work seems particularly concerned about the future of Java. If for some silly reason Java 6 was the last version of Java ever released I'm pretty sure I'd be writing code for the platform for the next 10 years and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
There was a video about this very subject a while back on SD. Essentially you can't patent/copyright a "look" or things that are too common like clothes. Therefore you have things like giant horrendous LVs all over Louis Vuitton clothing. You can still go after them for trademark infringement.
If you reasonably believe you will be able to collect the costs of bandwidth from the AWS customer that was chewed up by the DDOS, I don't see what difference it makes whether the bandwidth was legitimate or not. I'm not in a market where these decisions are made so I may be way off, but I considered AWS to be an interesting tool against DDOS because you could theoretically ramp up to overcome the attack. Apparently not.
Because high bandwidth customers are likely quite profitable?
I recall the day when Sun released a new patch for Java. Everyone auto-updated and all of a sudden the transparency of labels in our app was broken all over the place. Luckily for us there were only a hand full of people using our app on a Windows desktop OS (most are CE). So rather than going back and redoing the layout for all of our screens we just handed people a functioning JRE. That was an annoying day when a bug was introduced into our app by the platform vendor.
If I want to go to Mexico there will no doubt be a stopover somewhere Stateside. It doesn't seem fair that their airport security policy applies to me even if I'm only there for an hour inside the same airplane. Really, there should be another method to handle those flights if they are really concerned (segregrated runway, new terminal, etc).
While I agree with your distaste for these new regulations and with the existence of the TSA in general I would submit that if you want to be in our air space, you will have to submit to whatever stupid regulations we impose upon you. Actually wanting to LAND in our country makes the point even stronger. IMO eventually enough people will skip their vacations to the US that Disney and their ilk will petition the government to ease up and they will. No amount of personal bickering will help in any way. That's not the way modern governments work.
Right, so OP had crappy parents or something and therefore should take out his impotent rage on inanimate boxes he's being paid to take care of rather than showing a little initiative to improve his life and get out of the 4am shift. There's plenty of low-lifes who will work that 4am shift. Just a tiny bit of positive attitude and hard work will get you out of that place.
Let's face it, some people have work ethic and some people don't. If this person got a degree they'd have a bad attitude and crappy work ethic doing something more important. It's far better for them to be relegated to kicking boxes around. Those of us with a good work ethic busted our butts even when we had low paying jobs in high school and/or during college. Even without a degree a hard working person with a strong work ethic isn't going to have the crap shift working 4am kicking boxes. The GP has the cause and effect correct, just in reverse.
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Depends on the type of art I need.
Age discrimination is illegal.
Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm writing webapps with jquery and JSF I'd rather have someone who took a JSF and JQuery class than random guy who can pontificate about the benefits of MVC and the intricacies of garbage collection. If the job requirement changes I'll expect my (usually cheaper) guy to take another class or replace him with someone else who did.
Yes, we do go back and buy.
You have bought a legitimate license for EVERY SINGLE GAME you've ever downloaded/copied illegally?
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that people who pirate games have gone out and paid for every single game they have ever pirated. You're just being dishonest here.
There's a HUGE difference between borrowing a game from a friend and downloading it. If you borrow a game from your friend he no longer has possession of it.
Here's a newsflash for you, things that are new to the market cost more. When flat screen TVs first hit the market they were crazy expensive and small in size. Now they're just a few hundred dollars for a 40" hi-def tv. If the price is "TOO DAMN HIGH" then just wait until market conditions improve (read: the game is older and they are no longer charging a premium price). The only difference between the TV and the game is that the manufacturing costs of duplicating a game is nominal (near-zero). The price of manufacturing those first TVs was high not because plastic and metal were expensive, but because a TON of intellectual property goes into making that TV. Same thing for the games. After a while you pay for the IP costs and the price can come down more in line with the cost of reproduction. That's why TVs are coming down in price, the same way older games cost less.
What does the price of renting a movie have to do with your ability to rent a game to try it before you drop significant money on it?
You shouldn't expect to eat your entire meal and then not pay for it, which is what you're talking about when you're downloading games. Sure, you might get away with it at restaurants from time to time but it's pretty poor ethics to eat the entire meal and then leave without paying and eventually the manager is going to stop you.
First of all, you're lying. You will never go back and buy the games you pirated and even if you did you'll pay the bargain discount price because it will be several years old. You won't pay the full retail price. And the other argument about the value of the game based on how long it engages you is complete garbage too. That's why there are game rentals at your local store or any of several netflix style game rental sites. If you pay to go to the movies you can't get your money back because you didn't like the movie. You generally don't get your money back for meals unless it was really atrocious. This idea of having your cake and eating it too. Most games are in the $50 range. If you can't be bothered to cut two lawns on a Saturday to get a newly released video game then you've got problems. And if you don't like the game? It only cost you the time you played + 2 hours and a bit of gas.
Meh, he was clearly under surveillance. They likely just watched him type in his password and/or had previously installed a keylogger.
And then at the end of the day getting paid almost nothing because you are too slow to keep up with everyone. That's how it starts out. After a month or so you get a lot better at it, your stamina goes up, and if you are lucky, you'll get paid $8 an hour.
You've unknowingly hit on the single most important point. Americans are not willing to do that labor at that price. There's plenty of Americans in Florida laying pitch for roads, roofing, putting up fences, etc. All miserable jobs in the 100+ degree Florida heat. All pay more than $8/hr.
My workplace seeks the best qualified candidates, and we've hired many foreign nationals as well as US nationals. I've never seen a hiring decision come down to price, on either side.
The hiring decisions never come down to price because generally the price is decided ahead of time. Yes you will hire the best qualified candidate, but you will hire the best qualified candidate that is willing to accept the salary you're offering. Anything that artificially increases the labor supply will necessarily decrease wages over all. I don't necessarily disagree with this program, but you're just lying.
If it weren't for air travel, my job (or at least this component of it) wouldn't exist.
More than likely if it weren't for air travel there would be other viable options.
Imagine the extra revenue you could get with a pay option to improve your physique and package size in the image displayed. Think Old Spice: Look at me, now look at the scanner, now back to me.
The oppressors have already won by framing the discussion around what is the most intrusion/inconvenience the public is willing to accept vs. what is the least amount of intrusion needed to provide a reasonable amount of safety.
I'm sorry, when 1/3 of a large class like that is "cheating" there's something wrong on both ends. Here's a recent ethics example I had at work. We just discovered one of the consulting firms we hire people through was feeding people our typical initial interview questions. These questions had been amassed from several years of debriefing interviewees. Yes, it's a problem with the consulting firm being unethical. It's also kind of silly for the manager involved to have used the same hand full of questions in every interview for the last 5 years. This situation is still quite different though because the consulting firm new definitively what "tests" would be provided. It's unclear from the professor's lecture as to whether or not the students who studied the publisher's test bank "knew" they were "cheating". Generally speaking I wouldn't consider reading materials published by the book publisher for my class to be considered cheating. Of course, I wouldn't have studied ONLY that material either.