If a work is "transforative" merely because it is displayed in a new context, thus giving it new meaning, then copying a $90k work and selling it for $90 to make a point about how much bullshit this whole "transformative" thing is is therefore also transformative, and thus should be allowed. If some random person was just selling cheap copies to make a quick buck, then this wouldn't apply. But, because it is the original owner of the image selling said transformations-twice-removed (or meta transformations), then fair use should apply.
I got out of networking because it is too high stress. All you do is put out fires all day. None of the network equipment I ever used actually did everything the vendor said. All of the software you will have to support is crap, and you can't rewrite it.
Networking is an entirely different skill set. Almost none of your current skills, other than management, will transfer. So that may be your best path. Go for a job as a CIO. You can manage big projects, help them avoid crappy software purchases, and not have to learn a thing about actual networking.
OK. Good point. In this context, if they really believe that the version of history espoused on their web sites IS the accurate version of what really happened, then you are right. They aren't lying. Nor are they doing anything anyone else wouldn't do to "help more people find their websites."
So, in this context, I take back what I said about them being hypocrites.
A) Everybody is "allowed" to lie. Research shows that most everybody lies dozens of times per day, just as part of social interactions. Plus, I really don't care who lies amongst their own group. Christians can tell each other just about anything they want.
B) My point is that christians have, as one of their Ten Most Important Things Not To Do, an edict against lying. However they do it all the time and pretty major ways. So that makes them hypocrites. Even if you say that The Ten Commandments are in the "Old Testament" and therefore only apply to jews, then there is still your Golden Rule, which was supposedly espoused by their supposed messiah. So, by lying, are christians saying that they think it is OK for others to lie to them in such a way. Is it OK to trick them into seeing something they weren't looking for? Porn, for instance? (Yes, hyperbole. Get over it.)
Personally, I lie as little as possible. However, I don't go overboard with the "honesty" by telling people exactly what I think of them all the time either. Every so-called "christian" I have ever met has been a major hypocrite. And I was a pretty involved christian for a while. That hypocrisy is one of the main things that started turning me off to the whole thing. (Now don't anybody start in with the "nobody's perfect, we're just forgiven" BS. I know, you are only forgiven if you are repentant. All of these people were unrepentant hypocrites so, by their own book, they aren't forgiven and aren't really christians. Plus, that wasn't the only thing that convinced me that it is all BS.)
I'm all for this solution, but only AFTER having done everything we possibly can to change the education system from one that makes learning as painful as possible for most kids into one that actually makes learning enjoyable.
Till then, I think we should ship all the dropouts to your neighborhood.
for that system of education. Much research (which I can't cite) supports the techniques he is using. Perhaps all Musk is doing is to lend his name and fame to the promotion of the idea itself. Many people in the upper echelons of the education community, as well as the politicians who make the big direction decisions, are fad followers. If Musk can turn this well established education technique into "The Latest Thing" then maybe it will be adopted and accepted more widely.
That's $15,000 more than I paid for my used car that gets 22 mpg. Poor nerds like me can't afford that extra 15k any more than than they can afford a Hummer.
So: No, it isn't easy for poor people to have fuel efficient cars.
Everyone is assuming that all "older" workers are experienced, have more family obligations, and are unwilling to learn new things.
What about all the people who are getting into development as a second or third career? I STARTED my CS degree at 45. Before that I had 12 years of experience as a network manager supporting hundreds of users. I was top in almost all of my classes and was often asked to tutor other students. Yes, the 22 year-olds asked me to tutor them, both because I knew it better AND because I could explain it better.
I have mature attitudes about writing clean code while still being creative in what I think can be done. One can be creative without being chaotic. I also have twelve years of experience helping users figure out how to use crappy user interfaces, so I also know what not do do UI-wise. My son is 34 years old and I am not in a relationship. I would love to just be able to hang out at the office all day working on code, eating catered meals, and talking with other developers. I am even willing to work cheap because it beats doing any other job for even less pay. So, I don't fit hardly any of the stereotypes.
There are going to be a lot more people like me coming into the development workforce. Hopefully, companies will be able to figure out what to do with us.
So Tim O'Reilly can sell books, magazines, and conference tickets. He invented the term as a way to rebrand making shit yourself.
But, if you read the magazine (don't but it, just read some of it at the library) you will see that most of the projects are really nothing more than taking expensive pieces that someone else has prepared for you and spending a few minutes putting them together. There are very few explanations as to how it really works. You just buy the parts, download some prewritten code, put it together, and call yourself a "Maker."
1) Why nerdy men/boys don't want to be around more women. 2) Why more women don't have the imagination to see that any/all engineering can be turned toward a socially conscious purpose.
Have all these nerdy men just gotten bitter and given up on ever "getting" a woman? Do they now not want to even be around women so they won't be reminded of what they can't have. Maybe, just maybe, if more women "went into" STEM then more would eventually "be _into_" STEM. Then they would appreciate the nerdy guy's interest in it.
When I was young, I was interested in tech mostly because it was interesting in and of itself. As I got older, and even more liberal, I came to see how tech could be used for the good of humankind. Perhaps it would be good for both women _and_ men to be introduced to all the ways tech can help humanity (and still be hugely profitable) rather than see it as either just a nerdy hobby you can get paid for or just a way to make lots of money.
That "weird hyperdimensional shut" is the kind of innovation he is talking about. That stuff doesn't just fall from the sky. Lots of people have to innovate the he'll out of that stuff for years or decades. What website do you think you are reading, anyway?
And, when every single one of those job descriptions list "excellent communication skills" among the top priorities, there is one requirement that almost no foreign workers can meet. I used to have a pretty good eat for understanding foreign accents. But these days it takes two or three times as long to pry any meaning out of what a lot of these guys are saying. And they don't seem to be putting any effort into improving either.
Yeah, the only American jobs these H-1B workers create are low-paying jobs like baristas to serve the H-1B dudes coffee and warehouse workers to ship the product.
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If a work is "transforative" merely because it is displayed in a new context, thus giving it new meaning, then copying a $90k work and selling it for $90 to make a point about how much bullshit this whole "transformative" thing is is therefore also transformative, and thus should be allowed. If some random person was just selling cheap copies to make a quick buck, then this wouldn't apply. But, because it is the original owner of the image selling said transformations-twice-removed (or meta transformations), then fair use should apply.
I got out of networking because it is too high stress. All you do is put out fires all day. None of the network equipment I ever used actually did everything the vendor said. All of the software you will have to support is crap, and you can't rewrite it.
Networking is an entirely different skill set. Almost none of your current skills, other than management, will transfer. So that may be your best path. Go for a job as a CIO. You can manage big projects, help them avoid crappy software purchases, and not have to learn a thing about actual networking.
When was it ever not? This article just moved it up one notch from first post to the zeroth post.
I like your last idea. It comes off as less punitive and more about "freedom."
OK. Good point. In this context, if they really believe that the version of history espoused on their web sites IS the accurate version of what really happened, then you are right. They aren't lying. Nor are they doing anything anyone else wouldn't do to "help more people find their websites."
So, in this context, I take back what I said about them being hypocrites.
A) Everybody is "allowed" to lie. Research shows that most everybody lies dozens of times per day, just as part of social interactions. Plus, I really don't care who lies amongst their own group. Christians can tell each other just about anything they want.
B) My point is that christians have, as one of their Ten Most Important Things Not To Do, an edict against lying. However they do it all the time and pretty major ways. So that makes them hypocrites. Even if you say that The Ten Commandments are in the "Old Testament" and therefore only apply to jews, then there is still your Golden Rule, which was supposedly espoused by their supposed messiah. So, by lying, are christians saying that they think it is OK for others to lie to them in such a way. Is it OK to trick them into seeing something they weren't looking for? Porn, for instance? (Yes, hyperbole. Get over it.)
Personally, I lie as little as possible. However, I don't go overboard with the "honesty" by telling people exactly what I think of them all the time either. Every so-called "christian" I have ever met has been a major hypocrite. And I was a pretty involved christian for a while. That hypocrisy is one of the main things that started turning me off to the whole thing. (Now don't anybody start in with the "nobody's perfect, we're just forgiven" BS. I know, you are only forgiven if you are repentant. All of these people were unrepentant hypocrites so, by their own book, they aren't forgiven and aren't really christians. Plus, that wasn't the only thing that convinced me that it is all BS.)
Yep. But christians are supposedly not supposed to lie. SEO of that sort is a form of lying.
I'm all for this solution, but only AFTER having done everything we possibly can to change the education system from one that makes learning as painful as possible for most kids into one that actually makes learning enjoyable.
Till then, I think we should ship all the dropouts to your neighborhood.
for that system of education. Much research (which I can't cite) supports the techniques he is using. Perhaps all Musk is doing is to lend his name and fame to the promotion of the idea itself. Many people in the upper echelons of the education community, as well as the politicians who make the big direction decisions, are fad followers. If Musk can turn this well established education technique into "The Latest Thing" then maybe it will be adopted and accepted more widely.
Exactly. It would be a dereliction of duty to NOT be working on such a contingency plan right now.
I believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster because s/he appeared to me in a pile of my dirty clothes. I could post the picture. It's really cool.
That's $15,000 more than I paid for my used car that gets 22 mpg. Poor nerds like me can't afford that extra 15k any more than than they can afford a Hummer.
So: No, it isn't easy for poor people to have fuel efficient cars.
A competent, helpful answer in the third post.
Doesn't meet the OP's requirements. It has to be functional and still functioning even with grid power off.
Everyone is assuming that all "older" workers are experienced, have more family obligations, and are unwilling to learn new things.
What about all the people who are getting into development as a second or third career? I STARTED my CS degree at 45. Before that I had 12 years of experience as a network manager supporting hundreds of users. I was top in almost all of my classes and was often asked to tutor other students. Yes, the 22 year-olds asked me to tutor them, both because I knew it better AND because I could explain it better.
I have mature attitudes about writing clean code while still being creative in what I think can be done. One can be creative without being chaotic. I also have twelve years of experience helping users figure out how to use crappy user interfaces, so I also know what not do do UI-wise. My son is 34 years old and I am not in a relationship. I would love to just be able to hang out at the office all day working on code, eating catered meals, and talking with other developers. I am even willing to work cheap because it beats doing any other job for even less pay. So, I don't fit hardly any of the stereotypes.
There are going to be a lot more people like me coming into the development workforce. Hopefully, companies will be able to figure out what to do with us.
I have attended CS programs in two universities (started at one, transferred to another). Neither had a single course in secure software development.
So Tim O'Reilly can sell books, magazines, and conference tickets. He invented the term as a way to rebrand making shit yourself.
But, if you read the magazine (don't but it, just read some of it at the library) you will see that most of the projects are really nothing more than taking expensive pieces that someone else has prepared for you and spending a few minutes putting them together. There are very few explanations as to how it really works. You just buy the parts, download some prewritten code, put it together, and call yourself a "Maker."
... about this "debate":
1) Why nerdy men/boys don't want to be around more women.
2) Why more women don't have the imagination to see that any/all engineering can be turned toward a socially conscious purpose.
Have all these nerdy men just gotten bitter and given up on ever "getting" a woman? Do they now not want to even be around women so they won't be reminded of what they can't have. Maybe, just maybe, if more women "went into" STEM then more would eventually "be _into_" STEM. Then they would appreciate the nerdy guy's interest in it.
When I was young, I was interested in tech mostly because it was interesting in and of itself. As I got older, and even more liberal, I came to see how tech could be used for the good of humankind. Perhaps it would be good for both women _and_ men to be introduced to all the ways tech can help humanity (and still be hugely profitable) rather than see it as either just a nerdy hobby you can get paid for or just a way to make lots of money.
... only because they made up new laws (or executive orders) to make it legal.
Yeah, I voted for the guy, but I am a e seriously disappointed.
That "weird hyperdimensional shut" is the kind of innovation he is talking about. That stuff doesn't just fall from the sky. Lots of people have to innovate the he'll out of that stuff for years or decades. What website do you think you are reading, anyway?
This.
I have advocated for a tech apprenticeship program many times. I've seen others advocate for it right here on /.
And, when every single one of those job descriptions list "excellent communication skills" among the top priorities, there is one requirement that almost no foreign workers can meet. I used to have a pretty good eat for understanding foreign accents. But these days it takes two or three times as long to pry any meaning out of what a lot of these guys are saying. And they don't seem to be putting any effort into improving either.
Hey, that just "creates" more jobs, because when a worker gets sick of one employer he can't move on to another employer, thus freeing up two jobs.
Yeah, the only American jobs these H-1B workers create are low-paying jobs like baristas to serve the H-1B dudes coffee and warehouse workers to ship the product.