Medical research should be entirely funded by the public, and all patents and treatments that result made available to the public for free.
So, you'd ban any privately funded medical research then? That doesn't sound like a society I'd want to live in. In that case the government has a monopoly on medical research and if you had some disease that the government didn't feel like researching then you won't get treated. If you had piles of money that you'd be willing to spend on a cure for your own disease, or donate to someone with a similar goal of finding a cure, then the government would bar you from doing so.
No need to ban it. Just need to stop enforcing the monopolies. If government paid for it, everyone can have it. If you paid for it, you can either share it, or not, but the government doesn't prevent others from using it, it's your problem.
That's what I mean by "braindead". A big deadline should not translate to OT, and OT is never a good fix for bad planning. The fact that you don't realize that is what makes you braindead.
A better thing to value is people that get the work done, regardless the means. If I have a lazy sysadmin, that writes scripts in the morning so they can play videogames all afternoon, I'll value that, because that is what drives value . Effort is worth nothing. Results are.
What you say has some truth, but has nothing to do with the post you replied to. I was saying that for a certain kind of management, appearances are more important than success, so you need to look the part they expect in order to get ahead.
Of course, there are several different ways of creating value for a company. Looks like you take pride in being a firefighter. I personally don't like that line of work, and prefer to not have a need for those. Same thing for planning. If your company meets deadlines by working OT, then all managers involved are incompetent and unreliable.
Long hours mean lower productivity, but it also means you are there, in the office, pushing hard.
That is misread as "work ethic", and hard work, and productivity.
Braindead managers will think they are getting more bang for their buck by getting more than 40 hours a week, so you will be seen as more valuable than someone doing their 40 hours, no matter the results.
The thing is that braindead managers do exist, and it may be the case that you need to appeal to them to get ahead.
It happens more in large companies, old fashioned ones, or any organization not strictly focused on success, or at least where productivity is hard to measure.
Linux os not full of innovation. It's full of great work, executed properly.
I was not a believer. I hated the fact that he was pushing such an outdated design for a kernel. Yet he proved that great execution of an existing idea is much more valuable and has a much greater impact (worldwide, long lasting impact) than a beautiful, innovative design.
Mozilla's raison d'être is political. The project had tthe mission of keeping the web open. Software is the tool to push the politics forward. It did succeed for a few years, and now it's over.
It's no surprise that now that Firefox is becoming irrelevant, Chrome is becoming more closed, forcing DRM down your throat and all.
It doesn matter. When you run a server room, and a consultancy _firm_ makes that recommendation, it's not your business to do their HR work for them. A consulting firm that allows this kind of shit is a liability for the health of your systems, and a waste of resources. You need to get rid of them, and put a higher bar if any other company wants your money or attention. That's the safest bet.
It's why on the Android side other than a few top selling phones, cases are non-existent and you either deal with it caseless, use an ill-fitting generic case, or use whatever crappy one the manufacturer supplies.
Remove your goggles. You don't "deal with it" caseless. It's not a problem you have to deal with, it's the expected case. A phone doesn't need a case for regular use, including being dropped from time to time. That's why they are made of plastic, and they try to make them very light, which helps with damade. Some specific phones do expose their glass a bit more, and have a fragile design, like iPhones. Those do definitely need cases, but a phone without a case is not something you have to "deal with", it's the most reasonable scenario.
... The other issue is security. You're broadcasting everything whether you think the connection is secure or not. It's a possible exploit vector. I'll stick with wires and my iPhone 6....
Analog wires (you can also call them antennas) are very easy to eavesdrop on. Bluetooth is much harder, even though it's still not _that_ hard. Security in your audio shouldn't be a reason to choose analog wires over BT.
Pretty much exactly this. Apple is and always has been a HARDWARE company. Removing these things and creating a walled garden on even the equipment that is usable with their devices just feeds right into that model, but goes against the rest of the industry giants (mostly anyway). Problem is this will eventually kill them if they can't keep coming up with revolutionary ideas (and be first to market with them), because everyone can do it cheaper while still making money and being compatible with everything else.
You haven't been paying attention. This is Apple. They don't come up with revolutionary ideas, at least not regarding their products. They don't have to be first to market. Let HTC/Samsung, or even some guy on Kickstarter be first to market.
They take new stuff that already exists, make it better, package it well, market it well, charge a premium. Nothing revolutionary about that.
As long as their competitors keep producing inferior quality products, they can keep pulling this kind of stuff on their customers. They only need to keep the quality bar very high, and they are safe.
I think the discussion in this post is great, and this is why I come back to Slashdot.
The problem itself is nothing. From and engineering standpoint, locating a plane is no big deal. We all know that if we want to find a fallen plane, the best approach is to track it all the time. It's expensive, takes time, but also has a lot of advantages for regulating traffic.
The fact that this is such an obvious idea and is not being done yet, explains how hard it is to make changes to this kind of thing. It's not for lack of ideas. As always, it's execution that counts.
Dilma's impeachment is not about alleged corruption. They accuse her of making government number look better than they are, by moving money around. You can call that bad government, or even hiding the truth from the people, whatever, they are not impeaching her for corruption.
If you want to know further, her party has many officials involved in corruption. The trigger for the impeachment was that they accused some guys that were part of the governing coalition, of corruption. The guys felt betrayed, and hit back by trying to overturn Dilma.
The president, again, is not being accused of corruption.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
Also, the president is not involved in any corruption issue, so the scandals did trigger the impeachment, but they are not the cause or excuse for it. They accuse her of misreporting public finances, not a crime, just something they don't like.
Well, that's the thing. If you work for an outsourcing company, they get to fire you on a whim, but you don't get to care, and you can leave some clients yourself, without big harm for you, if you manage your timing. If your project is scrapped, you just go to the bench for a couple of weeks, and then go to a different project, maybe for a different client. In my job, I got "laid off" at least once, only to go back to the same client after a month. I also managed to leave assignments I just didn't like, without having to take drastic measures like change jobs. If they paid a bit more, I could keep doing this for a long time.
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Medical research should be entirely funded by the public, and all patents and treatments that result made available to the public for free.
So, you'd ban any privately funded medical research then? That doesn't sound like a society I'd want to live in. In that case the government has a monopoly on medical research and if you had some disease that the government didn't feel like researching then you won't get treated. If you had piles of money that you'd be willing to spend on a cure for your own disease, or donate to someone with a similar goal of finding a cure, then the government would bar you from doing so.
No need to ban it. Just need to stop enforcing the monopolies.
If government paid for it, everyone can have it.
If you paid for it, you can either share it, or not, but the government doesn't prevent others from using it, it's your problem.
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Pied Piper compression works pretty well on gay porn video.
I've heard it's specially suited for dual jerk off material.
Well, to be honest, I believe Elon Musk is boring now.
"when there's really a need (ie big deadline ..."
That's what I mean by "braindead". A big deadline should not translate to OT, and OT is never a good fix for bad planning.
The fact that you don't realize that is what makes you braindead.
A better thing to value is people that get the work done, regardless the means. If I have a lazy sysadmin, that writes scripts in the morning so they can play videogames all afternoon, I'll value that, because that is what drives value . Effort is worth nothing. Results are.
What you say has some truth, but has nothing to do with the post you replied to.
I was saying that for a certain kind of management, appearances are more important than success, so you need to look the part they expect in order to get ahead.
Of course, there are several different ways of creating value for a company. Looks like you take pride in being a firefighter. I personally don't like that line of work, and prefer to not have a need for those.
Same thing for planning. If your company meets deadlines by working OT, then all managers involved are incompetent and unreliable.
May be both, but not in the obvious way.
Long hours mean lower productivity, but it also means you are there, in the office, pushing hard.
That is misread as "work ethic", and hard work, and productivity.
Braindead managers will think they are getting more bang for their buck by getting more than 40 hours a week, so you will be seen as more valuable than someone doing their 40 hours, no matter the results.
The thing is that braindead managers do exist, and it may be the case that you need to appeal to them to get ahead.
It happens more in large companies, old fashioned ones, or any organization not strictly focused on success, or at least where productivity is hard to measure.
Think about your breathing?!
No mod points, but this is insightful.
That's not a scrum meeting.
It's probably a daily meeting, but you are not doing scrum.
If you were doing scrum, you would quickly identify that as an obstacle, and get it out of the way. That's what retros are for.
Maybe go with the original this time? Get William Gibson to adapt it for them?
Linux os not full of innovation.
It's full of great work, executed properly.
I was not a believer. I hated the fact that he was pushing such an outdated design for a kernel.
Yet he proved that great execution of an existing idea is much more valuable and has a much greater impact (worldwide, long lasting impact) than a beautiful, innovative design.
Mozilla's raison d'être is political. The project had tthe mission of keeping the web open.
Software is the tool to push the politics forward.
It did succeed for a few years, and now it's over.
It's no surprise that now that Firefox is becoming irrelevant, Chrome is becoming more closed, forcing DRM down your throat and all.
As a matter of fact, "setting a high bar" was my euphemistic way of saying "do not accept them"
It doesn matter. When you run a server room, and a consultancy _firm_ makes that recommendation, it's not your business to do their HR work for them.
A consulting firm that allows this kind of shit is a liability for the health of your systems, and a waste of resources. You need to get rid of them, and put a higher bar if any other company wants your money or attention. That's the safest bet.
It's why on the Android side other than a few top selling phones, cases are non-existent and you either deal with it caseless, use an ill-fitting generic case, or use whatever crappy one the manufacturer supplies.
Remove your goggles.
You don't "deal with it" caseless. It's not a problem you have to deal with, it's the expected case. A phone doesn't need a case for regular use, including being dropped from time to time. That's why they are made of plastic, and they try to make them very light, which helps with damade. Some specific phones do expose their glass a bit more, and have a fragile design, like iPhones. Those do definitely need cases, but a phone without a case is not something you have to "deal with", it's the most reasonable scenario.
... The other issue is security. You're broadcasting everything whether you think the connection is secure or not. It's a possible exploit vector. I'll stick with wires and my iPhone 6. ...
Analog wires (you can also call them antennas) are very easy to eavesdrop on. Bluetooth is much harder, even though it's still not _that_ hard. Security in your audio shouldn't be a reason to choose analog wires over BT.
Pretty much exactly this. Apple is and always has been a HARDWARE company. Removing these things and creating a walled garden on even the equipment that is usable with their devices just feeds right into that model, but goes against the rest of the industry giants (mostly anyway). Problem is this will eventually kill them if they can't keep coming up with revolutionary ideas (and be first to market with them), because everyone can do it cheaper while still making money and being compatible with everything else.
You haven't been paying attention. This is Apple.
They don't come up with revolutionary ideas, at least not regarding their products. They don't have to be first to market. Let HTC/Samsung, or even some guy on Kickstarter be first to market.
They take new stuff that already exists, make it better, package it well, market it well, charge a premium. Nothing revolutionary about that.
As long as their competitors keep producing inferior quality products, they can keep pulling this kind of stuff on their customers. They only need to keep the quality bar very high, and they are safe.
I think the discussion in this post is great, and this is why I come back to Slashdot.
The problem itself is nothing.
From and engineering standpoint, locating a plane is no big deal. We all know that if we want to find a fallen plane, the best approach is to track it all the time. It's expensive, takes time, but also has a lot of advantages for regulating traffic.
The fact that this is such an obvious idea and is not being done yet, explains how hard it is to make changes to this kind of thing. It's not for lack of ideas. As always, it's execution that counts.
Posted from my Android phone.
OK, read the news.
Dilma's impeachment is not about alleged corruption.
They accuse her of making government number look better than they are, by moving money around.
You can call that bad government, or even hiding the truth from the people, whatever, they are not impeaching her for corruption.
If you want to know further, her party has many officials involved in corruption. The trigger for the impeachment was that they accused some guys that were part of the governing coalition, of corruption. The guys felt betrayed, and hit back by trying to overturn Dilma.
The president, again, is not being accused of corruption.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
"The other guy does it too" is a terrible excuse for corruption. Impeach em all, says me.
Read again. I never said that. I'll say it differently:
Dilma is clean. The ones that impeach her are corrupt, she is not even been accused of corruption.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
Also, the president is not involved in any corruption issue, so the scandals did trigger the impeachment, but they are not the cause or excuse for it. They accuse her of misreporting public finances, not a crime, just something they don't like.
Higher taxes.
Well, that's the thing. If you work for an outsourcing company, they get to fire you on a whim, but you don't get to care, and you can leave some clients yourself, without big harm for you, if you manage your timing. If your project is scrapped, you just go to the bench for a couple of weeks, and then go to a different project, maybe for a different client. In my job, I got "laid off" at least once, only to go back to the same client after a month. I also managed to leave assignments I just didn't like, without having to take drastic measures like change jobs. If they paid a bit more, I could keep doing this for a long time.