seriously, if you believe that something can be solely used for copyright infringement, then shut the business down. on the other hand if there is a 1% use of that software that can be deemed lawful, then I don't see any reason to punish the whole technology and declare that it always infringes on copyright...
I'm not going to make any silly comparison, but hey, cars kill more than anything...
just tell this to the US developers who have recently been tried in France, only because people were using their freely distributed software over there...
the really ironic thing is that a couple of years earlier, all personal use of that type of software was deemed perfectly legal in France...
so is this like closing down a cinema for showing a libelous advert ?
normally when I walk up the street and make a comment about something - I mean anything - it's not like I risk having my identity verified and my mouth taped... is it ?
why is a blog or any personal website still considered a sort of publication like if made by a professional journalist or media company ? there's gazilion of preachers (all sort of them) telling their stories on the streets of London but I don't see them censored...
forgive my ignorance of the law, but isn't defamation something that has to be ascertained by a court/judge and is otherwise simply a subjective statement until enough evidence is provided to support or dismiss the claims ?
and I think that after being able to drink your own recycled urine in space, you could breath your own words... oh wait, there isn't any sound in vacuum...
I still don't get why so many web devs are so interested in the exact layout of their web pages... as long as it's formally correct and not missing any relevant bits, I don't really mind how precise it looks compared to a bitmap that the dev had in mind... given the fact that their web layouts are supposed to be displayed on a variety of devices / screen resolutions / windows sizes, does it really matter ? (or are you from the Microsoft school where it's acceptable to use autoSpaceLikeWord95 in your web page ?)
why should I install this bloatware that only works for Internet Explorer when only one copy of IE can be installed on a Windows computer at any time ?! (and that's the only browser it works with at the moment..)
and no, I don't believe in "announcements" of future feature by Microsoft, they're usually vapourware
the resulting pages are saved on the server for your own (and other's) pleasure to be browsed at a later time... surely you are only going to submit your final work and not every single change that you make to your WIP
you have to add to that the money that they got paid by the customers for their services, let's assume $500/year for 10 years = $5000 (per customer), so the grand total would be $7363 per customer thrown in the air (the money, not the customer)
if By turning off unused machines and practicing proper PC power management, companies stand to save more than $36 per desktop PC per year., then I guess that by simply going to work with public transportation and leaving the car at home (or simply not having one) will allow you to leave the computer on (and that of your colleague too)...
I find TFA rather silly given that most modern computers (especially laptops, which are becoming de-facto desktop replacements) consume very little power when left idle...
this is just another excuse by company management or IT admins to force policies on the users...
fair enough...
- USA has 80% of urban dwellers, so that 300mln becomes 240mln;
- China has (my estimate of) 33% of them (given a 42% average for Asia), so that 1300mln becomes 430mln;
therefore
- 3120mln units by USA gives 13 units per person;
- 2802mln units by China gives 6.5 units per person;
the best reference that I can find is a tagline that I saw a while ago here on slashdot along the lines of "to those who don't believe that car emissions are deadly, leave them for a couple of hours in their (indoor) car park with the door shut and the engine running..."
surely you can easily admit that the USA has had plenty of cars doing 15mpg for decades and this (together with silly things like NASCAR and useful things like Space Shuttles) has made it worse for the rest of the world
if they cannot give a hair for the others, why the others should stay bald forever ?
what you say is probably FUD, including the "per capita" reference that you provide where a 1st grader could point out that 3.1bln units produced by 1.5bln people in China is much less than the 2.8bln units produced by 350mln people in the USA.
hey, with those two you just waived your rights to free physical exercise while driving and to an excuse that while putting on your make-up you bumped into the car ahead to make-out with the guy driving it... (because I statistically know that slashdot has a huge female fanbase)
the world's most polluting country - per capita (meaning based on the population) - is the USA... and once the technological advancements will make it possible for everyone to afford an electrical vehicle with all the bells and whistles that have put them off buying one so far, then the whole climate change argument will take a whole new dimension... and I wouldn't be in a cow's shoes for any price...
p.s.: I'm not fishing for flames...
the London transport company has also just ditched the project to bring mobile communications in underground trains... that gives you an idea how things are moving...
well, if your neighbours all start using 40Mb/s at night to watch BBS programs, I can only imagine the congestion during those oh-so-lovely cricket games...
say a couple of new blocks of flats are built and 50% of the new tenants get the new wideband BT lines, how big has the pipe got to be back to the mothership ?
40Mb/s * 25 families = 1Gb/s for each pair of new buildings !! (that's roughly an OC-24 line...)
what, you haven't heard ?
after Dell patented the "Adamo" name, Microsoft settled for the "Snake" one to use in its next Netbook line (complete with 7 sins)...
who modded me down ?
this is documented history, check your facts before sending other people away...
it's easy for someone who had a nice (financial) headstart like Dr. "I can cure AIDS" Gates to say that the world is unfair... he's been one of the major contributors to that...
he's maybe forgotten that what drives college graduates to excel (not MS, the other meaning) is ambition and surely educational institutions have a great deal to say in that area, or otherwise there would be a Nobel price for salesmen...
wrong and wrong
the Linux's kernel is mostly written in (plain) C, and most of multi-threaded banking apps are written in Visual Basic (I'm serious, I receive dozens of offers a day...)
sadly enough, C# is ever changing (some would say "evolving", but I doubt there is much evolution in things that break backwards compatability)
as others have said in their replies, learn to learn and wherever you end-up working (nobody will consider graduate self-training as serious, so save your time and take a deserved holiday instead) just do your assigned tasks and ask around when you want to know or do more
if you graduated with top marks you should be able to find something rather soon, otherwise count at least 6 months in the current turmoil (and I wouldn't go in a financial institution for now, or you might find the grocery store refusing to sell food to you or calling you names...) &smiley;
Slashdot Mirror
welcome to our subjective-laws overlord...
STOP SELLING ALL THE XEROX COPIERS !
seriously, if you believe that something can be solely used for copyright infringement, then shut the business down. on the other hand if there is a 1% use of that software that can be deemed lawful, then I don't see any reason to punish the whole technology and declare that it always infringes on copyright...
I'm not going to make any silly comparison, but hey, cars kill more than anything...
just tell this to the US developers who have recently been tried in France, only because people were using their freely distributed software over there...
the really ironic thing is that a couple of years earlier, all personal use of that type of software was deemed perfectly legal in France...
so is this like closing down a cinema for showing a libelous advert ?
normally when I walk up the street and make a comment about something - I mean anything - it's not like I risk having my identity verified and my mouth taped... is it ?
why is a blog or any personal website still considered a sort of publication like if made by a professional journalist or media company ?
there's gazilion of preachers (all sort of them) telling their stories on the streets of London but I don't see them censored...
forgive my ignorance of the law, but isn't defamation something that has to be ascertained by a court/judge and is otherwise simply a subjective statement until enough evidence is provided to support or dismiss the claims ?
and I think that after being able to drink your own recycled urine in space, you could breath your own words... oh wait, there isn't any sound in vacuum...
I still don't get why so many web devs are so interested in the exact layout of their web pages... as long as it's formally correct and not missing any relevant bits, I don't really mind how precise it looks compared to a bitmap that the dev had in mind... given the fact that their web layouts are supposed to be displayed on a variety of devices / screen resolutions / windows sizes, does it really matter ? (or are you from the Microsoft school where it's acceptable to use autoSpaceLikeWord95 in your web page ?)
why should I install this bloatware that only works for Internet Explorer when only one copy of IE can be installed on a Windows computer at any time ?! (and that's the only browser it works with at the moment..)
and no, I don't believe in "announcements" of future feature by Microsoft, they're usually vapourware
the resulting pages are saved on the server for your own (and other's) pleasure to be browsed at a later time... surely you are only going to submit your final work and not every single change that you make to your WIP
you have to add to that the money that they got paid by the customers for their services, let's assume $500/year for 10 years = $5000 (per customer), so the grand total would be $7363 per customer thrown in the air (the money, not the customer)
will save even more...
if By turning off unused machines and practicing proper PC power management, companies stand to save more than $36 per desktop PC per year., then I guess that by simply going to work with public transportation and leaving the car at home (or simply not having one) will allow you to leave the computer on (and that of your colleague too)...
I find TFA rather silly given that most modern computers (especially laptops, which are becoming de-facto desktop replacements) consume very little power when left idle...
this is just another excuse by company management or IT admins to force policies on the users...
oh, and there I thought they were "extending" their constitutional rights to Afghanistan and Iraq...
your tagline is out of date...
fair enough...
- USA has 80% of urban dwellers, so that 300mln becomes 240mln;
- China has (my estimate of) 33% of them (given a 42% average for Asia), so that 1300mln becomes 430mln;
therefore
- 3120mln units by USA gives 13 units per person;
- 2802mln units by China gives 6.5 units per person;
any further comments now, on the proportions ??
the best reference that I can find is a tagline that I saw a while ago here on slashdot along the lines of "to those who don't believe that car emissions are deadly, leave them for a couple of hours in their (indoor) car park with the door shut and the engine running..."
surely you can easily admit that the USA has had plenty of cars doing 15mpg for decades and this (together with silly things like NASCAR and useful things like Space Shuttles) has made it worse for the rest of the world
if they cannot give a hair for the others, why the others should stay bald forever ?
Dear 997083,
what you say is probably FUD, including the "per capita" reference that you provide where a 1st grader could point out that 3.1bln units produced by 1.5bln people in China is much less than the 2.8bln units produced by 350mln people in the USA.
Citations wanted ? here...
- Comment 5 on this page (not the main article)
- This answer
- waste too
hey, with those two you just waived your rights to free physical exercise while driving and to an excuse that while putting on your make-up you bumped into the car ahead to make-out with the guy driving it... (because I statistically know that slashdot has a huge female fanbase)
the world's most polluting country - per capita (meaning based on the population) - is the USA... and once the technological advancements will make it possible for everyone to afford an electrical vehicle with all the bells and whistles that have put them off buying one so far, then the whole climate change argument will take a whole new dimension... and I wouldn't be in a cow's shoes for any price...
p.s.: I'm not fishing for flames...
the London transport company has also just ditched the project to bring mobile communications in underground trains... that gives you an idea how things are moving...
well, if your neighbours all start using 40Mb/s at night to watch BBS programs, I can only imagine the congestion during those oh-so-lovely cricket games...
say a couple of new blocks of flats are built and 50% of the new tenants get the new wideband BT lines, how big has the pipe got to be back to the mothership ?
40Mb/s * 25 families = 1Gb/s for each pair of new buildings !! (that's roughly an OC-24 line...)
what, you haven't heard ?
after Dell patented the "Adamo" name, Microsoft settled for the "Snake" one to use in its next Netbook line (complete with 7 sins)...
Lilliput ?
who modded me down ?
this is documented history, check your facts before sending other people away...
it's easy for someone who had a nice (financial) headstart like Dr. "I can cure AIDS" Gates to say that the world is unfair... he's been one of the major contributors to that...
he's maybe forgotten that what drives college graduates to excel (not MS, the other meaning) is ambition and surely educational institutions have a great deal to say in that area, or otherwise there would be a Nobel price for salesmen...
wrong and wrong
the Linux's kernel is mostly written in (plain) C, and most of multi-threaded banking apps are written in Visual Basic (I'm serious, I receive dozens of offers a day...)
sadly enough, C# is ever changing (some would say "evolving", but I doubt there is much evolution in things that break backwards compatability)
as others have said in their replies, learn to learn and wherever you end-up working (nobody will consider graduate self-training as serious, so save your time and take a deserved holiday instead) just do your assigned tasks and ask around when you want to know or do more
if you graduated with top marks you should be able to find something rather soon, otherwise count at least 6 months in the current turmoil (and I wouldn't go in a financial institution for now, or you might find the grocery store refusing to sell food to you or calling you names...) &smiley;
well, if the R-I-A-A figures were ever right, we could have avoided this recession altogether... go, lawyers, go !
(hey, that was funny)