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Is there actual case law supporting the notion that I can be party to a contract on the basis of a bunch of legalese buried in a manual I'll never read, for a product I purchased through a third party?

I paid for a product, I own it. If Sony wants ridiculously extended protections that turn the arrangement into some kind of conditional rental, they'd damned well better force the Walmarts of the world to have us sign documents to that effect at the point of purchase. This implicit agreement stuff is nonsense.
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I know an engineer who was working in a failing company in post-communist Eastern Europe. The decline of the company took more than a year, in which time salaries were cut, sometimes pay was delayed for months or not given at all, the owners were visibly transferring their personal wealth abroad (as well as moving their family members). This engineer stayed at the company, despite some good offers from elsewhere, to the point when heating was cut off from the company and he had to sit in office in winter jacket, and in the last weeks he brought printing paper from home. Finally the company went bankrupt and he took the earlier job offer at a salary lower than what was offered before.

Morale: watch out for signs of Stockholm syndrome, because it can be real.
I think the monkey problem is not a mathematical problem at all but a metaphor to the set of all authors excluding Shakespeare.
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I don't think that's true for Vista or Windows 7. I have B:\ as a Backup partition from my second HD on both.
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Looks like our house will miss the flood waters. Was out filling sandbags till 230am last night.
The fact that Apple and Google generate about $1.2 million in revenue per employee is amazing.
This seems fascinating. I followed your link to the source and it seems that original article is Open Access and people interested can find it at the Journal's website

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7007-8-30.pdf
Their data connection will still work on the train or out and about. Obviously. It'll be like a mobile phone now, works everywhere (more or less).
Thanks Ed. Yes, I'd started looking at eg Cafe Press for a way to produce physical goods like cards, mugs, mouse mats etc.

I hadn't thought of letters or the 16x16 versions. Also I guess if I do word-search and other puzzles then there's potentially enough to print a custom book(let) of puzzles.

Thanks again for the feedback.
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Unless your $7K expenditure calculation includes putting away quite a bit of savings (Which, unless there's a massive early repayment fine on your loans, it shouldn't), you'll also need to pretty much halve that optimistic 4% to ensure that your capital doesn't decline in real terms. That's assuming inflation remains as stable as it currently is.

I did some back-of-envelope calculations, a few years ago, based on the inflation common savings interest rates of the time, and median salaries where I lived. Basically, given £1M in a savings account and no other income, someone who lives as though earning the median salary (including reinvesting about 30% after tax), could expect to start eating into their capital (in real terms) within about 3 years. I can't remember how long it would take for their capital sum to actually drop below £1M, but I do remember it taking about 30 years to drop to 0.

Now, you're obviously a bit more frugal than the average bear, but you're talking about having a tenth of that capital, and a sixth of that expenditure, which already doesn't add up. Also, my calculations above were made when even a risk-free savings account would score you nearly 5% APR.
Same for when the demo of Quake came out, loved it.
I just used the CD trick when playing multiplayer. You start the game with the disc in one computer and then eject and run into the next room to start the game on that computer.

I think 9/10ths of the games I played with my brother were exploited with this trick until the warez scenes started developing proper and timely released nocd cracks.
Friend of mine was trying to fix an ancient computer that had a 5¼" floppy drive. He thought it was a slot loading CD drive. The CD is stuck in there now.
"The growing use of Ruby on Rails, a Web application framework, in recent years has created developer shortages everywhere, said Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson...Many developers who were trained in Java or PHP simply need to be retrained, he said."

=== "Hmm, PHP and Java are out, so what does someone with vested interests in Rails think I should learn? Hang on, Rails isn't mentioned as out of date by its creator so I'll retrain in that!"

I can't remember the exact articles from HN but there were two recently: one was about a sysadmin that went for an interview at Facebook or Google and was surprised that they wanted knowledge on low-level, performance critical features rather than advanced bash programming; another was an example of why it's often more cost effective to get twice the performance out of one server (by investing more development time i.e. C/C++ over PHP) rather than buying another server.

YMMV but I switched from PHP to C++ for my personal web projects and haven't noticed it taking me exponentially more time to develop.
It depends... most of what's translated is understandable for a native speaker, but it will be clear that it wasn't written by one. If you need to communicate with a Spanish speaker, it will work quite well. If you need to write a brochure or something formal... better get someone to translate for you.
Sony doesn't get a cut when people play games they've made themselves. If people play their own games, then they have less time to play games where Sony does get a cut, so it hurts them in just the same way that pirated games do. This is going to be a problem one way or another as long as the cost of the hardware is subsidised.
Why does that make us snobs?
Translate fail already... user won't understand that 'joya' means a Ruby gem :)
I saw that at (and there is where we could continue the discussion if you find it interesting and have the opinion of any experts among us)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095622

I looked up the original source and it happens to be Open Access. It seems fascinating and I thought it can be useful to have the technical article here too.
At Last.fm we used PHP+Smarty with a gettext-esque pre-compilation step (a bit like IntSmarty) for templates that allowed translators to embed smarty templating code, so you could write this in smarty:

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and the replacement for each language could have its own switch on $d to decide how to translate it.

One (unavoidable?) downside is that the translators have to know some basic if/then/smarty syntax, and if they mess it up your template won't compile. Also you have to trust them somewhat, since they essentially get to execute PHP on your webserver.
On the wifi access point side, its nice and all that one of the us carriers have infrastructure in place and maybe the other doesn't. What about the rest of the world? My carrier was built from the ground up to use 3G can I share an access point over wifi?
Can't remember where I read it but the good developers are hiding in good jobs and not actively searching...
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Put like that, I agree - I had a different meaning of "rule-consequentialist" in mind than you, apparently. (I'm not too familiar with the vocabulary of such discussions, sorry!) Thanks for clarifying.
There needs to be balance. God knows we don't have that in the U.S.A these days. But maybe we only have ourselves to blame.

My grandfather, with no education, came from Italy had 3 kids a stay at home wife and a home. I on the hand am very educated and skilled and can barely afford a two bedroom apartment.

Somethings changed.
Exactly. I get a lot of job offers which insist on me moving to London. Since I have (for a number of personal and practical reasons) no intention of ever moving to London, I won't work for them, period.

On the other hand, I would be readily available as a remote worker - in the same country. So what's exactly stopping these companies ?
I've met lots and lots of programmers who have no personal interest in programming or computers. To them it's just a skill they've learnt well enough to get paid for. It's not a hobby or interest and certainly not a passion. It's just a job like any other.
The lack of unions is due to culture rather than labour laws.

I've spent a lot of time trying to convince IT people to start a voluntary union for their own benefit. In a word, they are too competitive and naieve to make it happen.

IT employees in general could double their average salaries without resorting to labour laws just by starting voluntary unions and doing a modicum of collective bargaining.

Instead they allow themselves to be divided and conquered and they even hide their salaries from co-workers which benefits no one aside from management.

Ideologically, I am against government-enforced unions.

However I am very much in favour of voluntary unions and there is lots of evidence that they can work especially when they behave in reasonable ways that don't threaten the existence of companies. Some corporations will prefer to hire from unions for a variety of reasons including less variability in work quality and higher morale.

Anyway collective bargaining does not have to be enforced in law to be effective.

The real issue is that the most talented and resourceful people in society tend to be the ones who become owners, and they use their talent and influence to convince IT employees that unions are bad.

The average programmer is stubbornly anti-union for no logical reason - the reason is that he's brainwashed by the strong opinions of industry leaders who don't want to pay him what he's worth.
GNU gettext dispatches on a single number, i.e. it can handle cases like "Scanned %u directories", but not "Scanned %u files in %u directories".
You don't need an infinite number of monkeys, you can do it as well with some infinite string that is not recurring.

If you take an irrational number like pi, for example, you are guaranteed that the decimal digits are not repeating but infinite. Chose any encoding to turn those digits into a string and at some point you will be able to find the book you are looking for.
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What I can see is that most companies and especially these where software developement is viewed as a necessary evil rather than a business model are very bad at telling bad candidates from the good ones and don't really hire based on merit. They might believe they do, but the outcome of the hiring process is usually erratic as far as it comes to the actual abilities.

However once a developer is hired even a company with a flaky interviewing process tends to recognise the actual worth of a given programmer fairly quickly. Then an intresting thing happens - even though the developers might be explicitly treated as a commodity resource the very same managers would go far beyond the declared rules to retain the best: regularly up the package, give a lot of slack, turn a blind eye on minor "breaches of established rules".

As a result most good programmers I know after about five years in the industry end up enjoying a package far in excess of what is being declared on the job sites.

It's not uncommon for a hiring manager to moan about the lack of good candidates whilst paying the best developers on their team 50% more than they advertise when publishing the same job. What the management don't seem to realise is that just about every other company does that: actually paying more to the existing programmers than the declared range they would be prepared to pay for the new hires.

As a result after a while there is little or no incentive for good developers to put their CV's on a market. They're well above the market rates.

As a workaround sometimes companies hire good programmers as independent contractors and carry on extending the contracts forever - paying double or triple the rate they would pay their permanent staff. It's a funny game when becoming "an independent" consultant with a single customer is one of the few options for an experienced developer to help company management justify paying them the true market worth.

There is no lack of good programmers, they just cost much more than most companies are prepared to admit.
Hum, because they're showing the latest HTML features that Safari supports? Not all browsers support the same range of features for a particular HTML standard.
I remember playing Quake on a 486 at 66 MHz.

Performance was terrible, but this was real 3D with a cool atmosphere.
My Quake came on a CD though ... which I loved because of the included Nine Inch Nails soundtrack.
This is the point the article seems to make. The difference between a good candidate and an excellent one is huge. Like it was mentioned before, a good programmer can do in a day what a team of mediocre programmers can do in a week.

You say that companies should train mediocre programmers to be excellent programmers. This is not as straight-forward as it sounds, (a) the mediocre programmers might have already reached the limit of their capability (i.e no matter how much time they'll spend learning, the improvements will only be marginal), (b) it could take long time and as we all know, time is money.

I like to think of it as a simple exponential graph. Programming Skill on X-axis vs Time Spent Learning on Y-axis. In the beginning the progress will be fast for everybody, but at some point the progress will slow down indefinitely (i.e you've reached your maximum capacity). The point at which this will happen varies from person to person and there is unfortunately no way you can determine where that is. The only hint of the maximum capacity you can get is to compare how long the guy has been programming for and how skilled he is at given time.

As a result, it is more cost-effective to search for very good candidates for longer than to take handful on mediocre ones, take the risks, and train them.

It should be noted that a programming is without exceptions self-thought. Therefore there is no need for training per se, you will just need to take your time and do it yourself, as programming can not be taught, it can only be learned.
22 Million uniques a month, making it the 157th largest site on the internet.

2 Billion responses in total, and over 10 million a day.

This isn't an investment people should look at and think "this colludes to a bubble" because this is already a valuable site. This is a site that can easily monetize. This is a site that has traction.

You'll know a bubble when people are raising tens of millions of dollars for nonsense ideas for products that haven't even got a prototype (let alone traction) yet.

Also you don't know the valuation so you have no idea if this deal is under or over priced, nor do you know the companies plans to decide what is the correct price.
Well windows 1.0 were only [1] 5 5.25" floppies and [2] 2 for MS-DOS and another one for write (the grandfather of word). I think i need a drive to try them again ;-) .

[1] http://twitpic.com/39kbjz
[2] http://twitpic.com/39kaxd
They make it a condition of licensing you the ability to encode or decode the video — contract law.

If you read the EULAs and such on even a piece of 'professional' software like Final Cut Studio or Avid, it'll describe how the encoder is only licensed for personal use and that someone else in your distribution chain needs a different contractual arrangement with them, along with whoever's on the playback end.
because General Electric or Disney would never do such a thing!
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Another reason for job-hobbing, especially among hackers, is that they don't want to be pigeon-holed into a single job for too long. You can become too complacent, too specialized, and too tied down to a specific system. After 5 years of maintaining a legacy ERP application how do you get a job working at the hot new social networking company ?
Makes you wonder, when will the floppy be discarded as the icon for 'save'?
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Ah, but in your analogy, salaried employment would be like walking, since it moves you forward more slowly (in terms of money) and is more continuous.

If you're running, you can stop every once in a while, sometimes for long enough to get a cup of coffee, and still stay ahead of the guy who set off walking at the same time as you.
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In my long career, I have yet to meet anyone with a title anywhere in the neighborhood of "HR" with the ability to tell the difference.
Does your computer have a floppy drive?
These things are intentionally made unreadable though. I'd be surprised if even people that spend a lot of time reading and encountering legal terms could sit through one unless they were trying to do something unusual and what to cover themselves.
why do questions about life seem pointless? or perhaps you mean best avoided? ;)
Via the Internet, but not necessarily in web browsers.
Well, I still call bullshit. Especially if this is the best you can come up with. Let's see:

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codec...

We have exactly two references to "security" :

And I want that not only altruistically, but also because I want the crazy awesome video (animation, peer-to-peer, *security*, etc.) ideas that will come from having more people, with more perspectives, fully participating in the internet.

and

(about 60% of our users are on Windows XP, which provides no H.264 codec), *to security* (exposure of arbitrary codecs to hostile content), and to user experience

None of them even slightly imply that the Mozilla team thinks H.264 is insecure.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_fr...

This is an FAQ or rant if you will, which goes on and on about why Mozilla does not want to implement H.264. Oh yes, not one single word about security

This one:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2009/06/directsh...

indeed discusses security. It is however not geared towards H.264, but towards Microsoft's DirectShow. Using this article as a reference regarding Mozilla's stand on security on H.264 is at best a stretch and at worst intellectually dishonest.

I'm calling "do your homework, lest you look like a badly-informed fanboy".

I never thought of myself as a fanboy, but be my guest to dive into ad-hominem, when you're out of arguments.

In addition. I'm rather an uninformed fanboy then an intellectually dishonest fanboy, which surprises me looking at your Kharma.
A lot of this will go to help poorer people unable to insure their homes and/or contents, or to help relief efforts feed, clothe, and house evacuees. It may not be a poor country but there are still poor people. Just like Hurricane Katrina in the US -- though our government seems to do a better job than the US when it comes to disaster response.
Hey Patio,
Thanks for your insight... indeed you are correct, I do not have enough data to actually conclude that the Google Accounts is what actually hurting the conversion. I have less than 100 visits a day. However what I do know is that I can see in the raw logs people forwarded to the Google Accounts signin and never come back... which is a bit frustrating.. however it is possible that they are reluctant anyhow, any would probably fail to convert in just the next step.

Indeed I agree that OpenID is confusing for most users.

I guess I will follow your advice and implement an on-site registration.

Thank you
I'm not going to try and push the analogy too far, but in good jobs (I think they're rarer, but do exist), you can take vacations, get sick, and things like that. With consulting, the minute you're not working or hustling to find new gigs, you're not going anywhere.
I'm stubbornly anti-union for this reason:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=QpfonhAfJ6Q_2b96Izwz...

Chart 16 is a breakdown of salaries for StackOverflow users, nearly all of which are so low that a good developer should be insulted to be offered it. Where, on that chart, do you suppose the Union would decide to set my fair salary based on my experience in the trade? 60k? 80k? 100k?

No thanks. I'll stick to the free market.
I'm not sure, it might have the fact the entire 120+ comment thread is about video on the internet.

Sorry, should I have used VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray as examples instead? 35, 15, and 7 years ago respectively.
That's not what I said. Of course there are things that can't be contractually agreed. I hope you see the difference in moral weight that contracts to commit murder or be someone's slave have when compared to contracts that stipulate certain restrictions on the use of objects, restrictions that don't influence the normal, primary use case of the object.
I also had a home computer featuring a Z80 CPU, compatible with the Sinclair.

But this one also featured a 3.5" floppy drive: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=...

Sadly I sold it to a friend at some point.
Polish has the great advantage of being highly regular: you learn a few rules, you shape your mouth innards the right way, and you can read out anything.

Compare that to french, chinese or english...
It's still a data point to take. How else do you propose to measure the popularity of one thing on internet (in a quick way) ?
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How about a title in English?
What I get from here:

They have a codec that performs like this other one, but open for everybody to use without paying royalties.
They have an agreement with most browsers to support this codec.
None of the other browsers want to pay royalties for these codecs.

Well... the plan is clear
A few years ago I went back to school for a bit. One day I was sitting with my classmates, average age about 18, discussing our first computers. I mentioned I got started on a Vic 20 with a tape drive. Suggested someone, "Was that so you could listen to music while you coded?". Took some effort to convince them I wasn't pulling their leg when I told them that it was used to save programmes to
One main one.