If they had any creativity (music industry) or software acumen, they'd be better off now than ever. Yeah, copying songs for free is probably just going to be the way things are, but incorporating them into activities or games is not as easy as clicking a button. Maybe they'll get a clue one day?
I dunno. If you read the limited context provided...
"If this response seems particularly emotional, perhaps an associate 's emotional vulnerability after a recent miscarriage is a factor you should consider the next time you fire or lay someone off..."
I personally interpreted it as her addressing her emotional state as though it had been an issue before. In my little (admittedly completely made up bullshit) interpretation, she had been emotional in the office, her supervisors told her to stop it, but she couldn't. Then she told everyone why she had been such a biatch lately in a final 'f' you gesture to management who didn't have the empathy to deal with her recent troubles.
Her response could be due to a lot of things, really, not just "I've had this terrible event and now I get laid off in a completely unrelated event type of thing"
If your job relies on you knowing only current information and not the ability to apply it to new situations, odds are your job isn't secure to begin with.
Some EULA's employ a large, editable textbox with their EULAs contained in it. I've often wondered what happens when I (as I always do) modify the agreement to say 'I agree to use this product as I see fit'. This is tantamount to striking through a contract and writing something in pen. By law, handwritten language takes precedent over boilerplate language, so legally it is my opinion that I have modified the agreement.
If a state does not have a right to secede, than the 13 States that eventually united to form the U.S. are illegitimate and properly belong to the United Kingdom.
Yep. That's what the British said, and according to their laws, they were correct. They went as far as sending troops over to what would become the United States to fight for it. The same rule applies to the civil war. The legal fact is that neither group of states had the right to secede; the only difference is one rebellion succeeded, while the other failed. You cannot have a viable country without a strong central government - people don't like this fact, but it is a fact. There are no examples of working countries where the central government does not have ultimate authority over the separate states (obviously allowing for personal liberties, privacy, etc). In terms of running a "country", the concept of federalism won, the concept of confederacy has lost.
I also wonder - Do France, Germany, Italy have a right to leave the European Union? They joined voluntarily - surely they have a right to leave just as peaceably.
Interesting question, and although I'm not 100% sure of the answer, I'm about 95% sure the answer is no. I recall reading an analysis of the financial crisis recently where something to the effect of this was said: "Should Italy or Greece stray outside of mandatory debt maximums, they would be in violation of their terms of Euro membership. However, since there is no process for removal of a member, no one would really know what to do" (paraphrasing - no idea of source, sorry).
The United Nations and European Union are current examples of confederate models. Though I think we are better off for having a United Nations, I think their performance has been far from a rousing endorsement of the confederate model. The EU I'm much more impressed with, but the model is getting its first real stress test right now, so we'll see how it does over the course of the next few years - but of course, EU members cannot just up and leave when the going gets tough. The famous economist Milton Friedman said the EU would not survive the first real test. The current economic environment certainly constitutes a first real test. I for one wish our Euro friends all the success in the world - I think the EU makes the world a better place (even though they annoy my American sensibilities once in a while).
Interesting point. It is certainly true that history is written by the victors. Of course, I'd never poke fun at the/. audience for their/our freethinking and discriminatory non-discrimination with loads of irony... never...
I didn't read TFA (of course), so I find it really hard to believe anyone of any kind of intelligence and access to state funds could've fallen for a 419.
It was probably either 1) More elaborate than a simple 419, or 2) if they did fall for it, I'd say odds are that it's an inside job.
I mean, really, people can't be THAT stupid, can they?
I suppose reasonable minds can probably disagree, but I vehemently say... no.
Does a city have a right to secede from the union? How about an individual person... can I say my house is now named bigboobsville and there is no US authority in my country? Where do you draw the line?
It doesn't work for a variety of reasons in a modern society, not the least of which would be financing of the debt we have incurred as a nation. Currency issues, foreign policy, water rights, etc, etc. We would become Balkanized, or at least "Europeanized". Once you're in, you're in - otherwise, you're not a true country.
I use "rabbit ears" because I'm a cheapass, and because if I had a wide variety of things to passively watch on TV, I'd slowly waste my life away... but I still enjoy PBS because it's got a good mix of very interesting shows and very bad British comedy which I have no interest in watching.
However, the DTV transmissions are terrible, absolutely horrible, and pretty close to unwatchable. The picture is crystal clear, but has a very bad habit of breaking apart. I'll tell you, I'm excited that the opening of spectrum will enable great tech advances, the purchase by private industry has led to some badly needed revenues by our government, and there are now three PBS channels instead of one, but I wish they'd have done a little more planning around how much extra power it would take to get the same quality of service out to all current viewers.
Funny story: I thought I did, but it turned out to just be a really weird Amish dude. I finally figured it out when Lincoln didn't even know how to use a button. Gay Lincoln marriage... what a waste of 15 years... but thanks for the suggestion.
Well, no. That why I put the qualifiers "probably" and "one of the" in there... so you caught me. I base my statement off of my own readings and studies of Lincoln, which are not up to a scholarship level, just casual. But at least a couple of the scholars I've read or listened to have said he was among the brightest of any US president.
So in terms of hard, scientific validity, there is no basis for that statement - just a subjective assessment of him by myself, and of the true Lincoln scholars.
If you're to believe this link (which I don't), he was NOT among the very brightest, but I think these folks are just guessing as much as I am; they just put a few more numbers behind it.
However, I personally still believe the statement I made to be true, given the qualifiers I put around it. Lincoln was undeniably an intelligent person, and despite what some of the cave dweller respondents to my comment have to say about him "destroying civil liberties", or whatever, navigating a civil war, preserving the Union, etc, etc, was not an easy task. Add to that his clear and insatiable curiosity to learn and explore above other presidents, and I think there is a pretty reasonable preponderance of evidence for the statement I made. But that is just my own subjective conclusion.
President Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed
I doubt any serious Lincoln scholar would ever say Lincoln was a "log-splitting bumpkin". He was a brilliant, self educated man with a ferocious curiosity and probably one of the highest IQs of any president we've ever had. The guy who managed to end slavery, preserve the Union, AND assist in ushering in modern medical techniques on the battlefield a log-splitting bumpkin? Yeah, sure.
It's been said that because he was such a deep and complex personality, our society sees Lincoln not necessarily as who he was, but he is a reflection of our current state of mind as a nation. When we began to focus on racial issues, he was an obvious focal point, when depression became more widely known, he was thought to have been depressed, gay rights bring him up as possibly being our first gay president... and slashdot calls him an early adopter.
He was probably our greatest American president ever.
I couldn't agree more. I suspect these folks are in the minority Luddite contingent of/. These blocks were amazing, and are a great UI, especially for kids.
I look forward to being able to buy these blocks in a store one day.
Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned they killed Sonic when they turned him into a monstrous, slow werewolf and killed everything that made Sonic good. Why should I have to play a slow, sub-par action game to get to the good, fast Sonic levels?
What else do these guys even make? It's kind of a shame to see them in such shape since they were a pioneer, but they need to make better decisions.
They've done the same thing going all the way back to Windows 3.1 upgrade to Win95... that's as far as my memory goes, but the practice may be even older than that.
Damn, reading the headline I thought I'd finally get my hands on Vista SP{working edition}. Guess I'll have to pay for it.
In agreement is shareholder Mike McDonald. McDonald owns 118,000 shares of Microsoft, bought in 2000 at an average price of $36 share (adjusted for splits and dividend payouts).
118K shares huh? Well, that's certainly a lot of money to me and probably most people reading this, but considering the fact that 8.89BILLION shares are outstanding, Bill Gates owns ~766MM, institutions (which are generally very passive owners) own over a billion shares, and mutual funds (mostly owned indirectly by you and me through 401k plans - also very passive owners) own a substantial amount, I'm thinking MS is not too worried about this.
Personally, I'm a little more concerned with the bank stocks I own (a small pittance of, also through my 401k) and what they're doing. If there's a fight to be picked on Wall Street these days, it's with the management at banks which is currently raping us for our money, not with a company that is unsuccessfully trying to conduct R&D.
If you dislike where MS is going so much, don't be an idiot and complain that they should stop their R&D... just sell your stock! If I've got a problem with the banks insisting on hundreds of billions of dollars AND billions in bonuses, THAT'S a problem worth complaining about.
When a company cannot capitalize on its R&D spending, shareholders insist on cutbacks, and the company eventually falls behind and becomes irrelevant.
Since Mr. Gates owns so much of MS, I personally doubt this will happen, but if MS concedes and then begins to cut back on R&D, I'll start to believe those that say that the days of MS are numbered.
This whole summary is based on the supposition that people haven't even bothered to understand evolutionary theory, and view it through a lens of "belief".
There's no reason to waste time on trying to convince people when they won't take 5 minutes to understand the underlying fundamentals of your argument.
Is this happening more often than it used to? I mean, it's tech and this is a non-paying site for most of us... it's going to break. But I swear, I remember we used to go over a year w/o seeing/. downtime, now it seems like it happens every few months.
Or have I just become more of a/. junkie than I used to be?
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Late '90s cost was usually ~12 - 15 dollars, IIRC.
If they had any creativity (music industry) or software acumen, they'd be better off now than ever. Yeah, copying songs for free is probably just going to be the way things are, but incorporating them into activities or games is not as easy as clicking a button. Maybe they'll get a clue one day?
Very well stated. Bravo
"If this response seems particularly emotional, perhaps an associate 's emotional vulnerability after a recent miscarriage is a factor you should consider the next time you fire or lay someone off..."
I personally interpreted it as her addressing her emotional state as though it had been an issue before. In my little (admittedly completely made up bullshit) interpretation, she had been emotional in the office, her supervisors told her to stop it, but she couldn't. Then she told everyone why she had been such a biatch lately in a final 'f' you gesture to management who didn't have the empathy to deal with her recent troubles.
Her response could be due to a lot of things, really, not just "I've had this terrible event and now I get laid off in a completely unrelated event type of thing"
What is the context of this picture? I've never seen it before. Is it after he pulled out of the primaries?
p.s. This is a pretty awesome idle article IMHO. !idleispants
If your job relies on you knowing only current information and not the ability to apply it to new situations, odds are your job isn't secure to begin with.
Some EULA's employ a large, editable textbox with their EULAs contained in it. I've often wondered what happens when I (as I always do) modify the agreement to say 'I agree to use this product as I see fit'. This is tantamount to striking through a contract and writing something in pen. By law, handwritten language takes precedent over boilerplate language, so legally it is my opinion that I have modified the agreement.
And I haven't received a complaint back yet.
If a state does not have a right to secede, than the 13 States that eventually united to form the U.S. are illegitimate and properly belong to the United Kingdom.
Yep. That's what the British said, and according to their laws, they were correct. They went as far as sending troops over to what would become the United States to fight for it. The same rule applies to the civil war. The legal fact is that neither group of states had the right to secede; the only difference is one rebellion succeeded, while the other failed. You cannot have a viable country without a strong central government - people don't like this fact, but it is a fact. There are no examples of working countries where the central government does not have ultimate authority over the separate states (obviously allowing for personal liberties, privacy, etc). In terms of running a "country", the concept of federalism won, the concept of confederacy has lost.
I also wonder - Do France, Germany, Italy have a right to leave the European Union? They joined voluntarily - surely they have a right to leave just as peaceably.
Interesting question, and although I'm not 100% sure of the answer, I'm about 95% sure the answer is no. I recall reading an analysis of the financial crisis recently where something to the effect of this was said: "Should Italy or Greece stray outside of mandatory debt maximums, they would be in violation of their terms of Euro membership. However, since there is no process for removal of a member, no one would really know what to do" (paraphrasing - no idea of source, sorry).
The United Nations and European Union are current examples of confederate models. Though I think we are better off for having a United Nations, I think their performance has been far from a rousing endorsement of the confederate model. The EU I'm much more impressed with, but the model is getting its first real stress test right now, so we'll see how it does over the course of the next few years - but of course, EU members cannot just up and leave when the going gets tough. The famous economist Milton Friedman said the EU would not survive the first real test. The current economic environment certainly constitutes a first real test. I for one wish our Euro friends all the success in the world - I think the EU makes the world a better place (even though they annoy my American sensibilities once in a while).
Interesting point. It is certainly true that history is written by the victors. Of course, I'd never poke fun at the /. audience for their/our freethinking and discriminatory non-discrimination with loads of irony... never...
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Religious Freak
I didn't read TFA (of course), so I find it really hard to believe anyone of any kind of intelligence and access to state funds could've fallen for a 419.
It was probably either 1) More elaborate than a simple 419, or 2) if they did fall for it, I'd say odds are that it's an inside job.
I mean, really, people can't be THAT stupid, can they?
set it on a path of dilution and eventual dissolution
How do you figure? I'd call secession a cause of eventual dissolution.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
This is the one I'm really curious about, because I've seen it quite a few times here... how do you figure this is true?
Isn't it a state's right to secede?
I suppose reasonable minds can probably disagree, but I vehemently say... no.
Does a city have a right to secede from the union? How about an individual person... can I say my house is now named bigboobsville and there is no US authority in my country? Where do you draw the line?
It doesn't work for a variety of reasons in a modern society, not the least of which would be financing of the debt we have incurred as a nation. Currency issues, foreign policy, water rights, etc, etc. We would become Balkanized, or at least "Europeanized". Once you're in, you're in - otherwise, you're not a true country.
I use "rabbit ears" because I'm a cheapass, and because if I had a wide variety of things to passively watch on TV, I'd slowly waste my life away... but I still enjoy PBS because it's got a good mix of very interesting shows and very bad British comedy which I have no interest in watching.
However, the DTV transmissions are terrible, absolutely horrible, and pretty close to unwatchable. The picture is crystal clear, but has a very bad habit of breaking apart. I'll tell you, I'm excited that the opening of spectrum will enable great tech advances, the purchase by private industry has led to some badly needed revenues by our government, and there are now three PBS channels instead of one, but I wish they'd have done a little more planning around how much extra power it would take to get the same quality of service out to all current viewers.
Now, get off my lawn!
Funny story: I thought I did, but it turned out to just be a really weird Amish dude. I finally figured it out when Lincoln didn't even know how to use a button. Gay Lincoln marriage... what a waste of 15 years... but thanks for the suggestion.
Well, no. That why I put the qualifiers "probably" and "one of the" in there... so you caught me. I base my statement off of my own readings and studies of Lincoln, which are not up to a scholarship level, just casual. But at least a couple of the scholars I've read or listened to have said he was among the brightest of any US president.
So in terms of hard, scientific validity, there is no basis for that statement - just a subjective assessment of him by myself, and of the true Lincoln scholars.
If you're to believe this link (which I don't), he was NOT among the very brightest, but I think these folks are just guessing as much as I am; they just put a few more numbers behind it.
However, I personally still believe the statement I made to be true, given the qualifiers I put around it. Lincoln was undeniably an intelligent person, and despite what some of the cave dweller respondents to my comment have to say about him "destroying civil liberties", or whatever, navigating a civil war, preserving the Union, etc, etc, was not an easy task. Add to that his clear and insatiable curiosity to learn and explore above other presidents, and I think there is a pretty reasonable preponderance of evidence for the statement I made. But that is just my own subjective conclusion.
President Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed
I doubt any serious Lincoln scholar would ever say Lincoln was a "log-splitting bumpkin". He was a brilliant, self educated man with a ferocious curiosity and probably one of the highest IQs of any president we've ever had. The guy who managed to end slavery, preserve the Union, AND assist in ushering in modern medical techniques on the battlefield a log-splitting bumpkin? Yeah, sure.
It's been said that because he was such a deep and complex personality, our society sees Lincoln not necessarily as who he was, but he is a reflection of our current state of mind as a nation. When we began to focus on racial issues, he was an obvious focal point, when depression became more widely known, he was thought to have been depressed, gay rights bring him up as possibly being our first gay president... and slashdot calls him an early adopter.
He was probably our greatest American president ever.
I couldn't agree more. I suspect these folks are in the minority Luddite contingent of /. These blocks were amazing, and are a great UI, especially for kids.
I look forward to being able to buy these blocks in a store one day.
Sounds pretty unconstitutional to me...
Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned they killed Sonic when they turned him into a monstrous, slow werewolf and killed everything that made Sonic good. Why should I have to play a slow, sub-par action game to get to the good, fast Sonic levels?
What else do these guys even make? It's kind of a shame to see them in such shape since they were a pioneer, but they need to make better decisions.
They've done the same thing going all the way back to Windows 3.1 upgrade to Win95... that's as far as my memory goes, but the practice may be even older than that.
Damn, reading the headline I thought I'd finally get my hands on Vista SP{working edition}. Guess I'll have to pay for it.
In agreement is shareholder Mike McDonald. McDonald owns 118,000 shares of Microsoft, bought in 2000 at an average price of $36 share (adjusted for splits and dividend payouts).
118K shares huh? Well, that's certainly a lot of money to me and probably most people reading this, but considering the fact that 8.89BILLION shares are outstanding, Bill Gates owns ~766MM, institutions (which are generally very passive owners) own over a billion shares, and mutual funds (mostly owned indirectly by you and me through 401k plans - also very passive owners) own a substantial amount, I'm thinking MS is not too worried about this.
Personally, I'm a little more concerned with the bank stocks I own (a small pittance of, also through my 401k) and what they're doing. If there's a fight to be picked on Wall Street these days, it's with the management at banks which is currently raping us for our money, not with a company that is unsuccessfully trying to conduct R&D.
If you dislike where MS is going so much, don't be an idiot and complain that they should stop their R&D... just sell your stock! If I've got a problem with the banks insisting on hundreds of billions of dollars AND billions in bonuses, THAT'S a problem worth complaining about.
When a company cannot capitalize on its R&D spending, shareholders insist on cutbacks, and the company eventually falls behind and becomes irrelevant.
Since Mr. Gates owns so much of MS, I personally doubt this will happen, but if MS concedes and then begins to cut back on R&D, I'll start to believe those that say that the days of MS are numbered.
This whole summary is based on the supposition that people haven't even bothered to understand evolutionary theory, and view it through a lens of "belief".
There's no reason to waste time on trying to convince people when they won't take 5 minutes to understand the underlying fundamentals of your argument.
Is this happening more often than it used to? I mean, it's tech and this is a non-paying site for most of us... it's going to break. But I swear, I remember we used to go over a year w/o seeing /. downtime, now it seems like it happens every few months.
/. junkie than I used to be?
Or have I just become more of a
Open source? Nope. But Pointsec is an impressive product. I've been using it for years and have noticed zero performance impact.