Comment Re:Nice strawman (Score 1) 326
You are free, to do what we tell you.
- Bill Hicks
Submission + - Anti-piracy group fined for stealing music (bgr.com)
zacharye writes: Oh, the irony. A musicians’ rights group in the Netherlands was fined this week for stealing music from a client, using it without his permission and failing to pay royalties. Music royalty collection agency Buma/Stemra approached Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt in 2006 and asked him to create a composition that would be used in an anti-piracy advertisement, which the group said would be shown exclusively at a local film festival. One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission...
Comment A tool for the programmers themselves? (Score 1) 5
I immediately thought of programmers being able to analyze their own coding habits, and make adjustments to help improve efficiency, accuracy, and readability.
Any code review is a good code review, in my book.
Submission + - IBM Seeks Patent on Judging Programmers by Commits 5
theodp writes: How'd you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That's what proposed in a newly-published IBM patent application for Automated Analysis of Code Developer's Profile, which proposes weeding out developer candidates for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one typically makes with each commit, how frequently and regularly one makes commits, what hours of the day one makes commits, the percentage of commits with conflicts that one resolves, and the 'depth' of one's commit comments ('shallow', 'mid-range' or 'deep'). Big Blue explains that commit or repository interactions can be used to produce a 'conclusion report' that compares a developer to others who have profiles on the repository, which helps management 'avoid wasted time with ineffective developers.
Comment Re:Microsoft updates before Google and Oracle? (Score 1) 156
It's precisely because it affects different platforms that MS is rolling out the update before others.
Uh, what are you trying to say here? I thought trolls had to make some sense in order to be effective.
Maybe times are a-changing.
Comment Taking lessons from TM? (Score 2) 562
Did I miss Ticketmaster buying out Verizon or something?
Or maybe companies just don't hire competent marketing/planning folks anymore...
Comment 2012: End of Days (Score 1) 1
At least the end of a free internet.
First, they wanted to stop it. Then they wanted to section it off into paid tiers. Now, we're at the mercy of technological dunces who are bowing to their corporate overlords.
Comment Originality (Score 1, Insightful) 99
Application essays were becoming "unoriginal," and yet they expect *more* originality in 140 characters or less?
Comment OWS? (Score 1) 1
"One commonly espoused view is that if we keep more foreigners out of the U.S., employment will rise and the economy will rebound. "
Wait, who's saying this? Granted, OWS has a lot of interests, but I doubt keeping out foreigners is high on their collective list.
Wait, who's saying this? Granted, OWS has a lot of interests, but I doubt keeping out foreigners is high on their collective list.
Comment Re:Is this something the market forces are demandi (Score 3, Informative) 148
Some estimates have mainframes processing 80% of the world's data.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/08/western-civilization-runs-on-mainframe.html
Now I'm not sure how accurate that percentage is, but if you run an enterprise business and have thousands of servers to maintain, a mainframe still makes a lot of sense.
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