Supporting the community is one thing, but letting anyone who wants to use the exact same name of your company for the name of a piece of software only with differing capitalization of the letters is a bad idea, even if it is a good piece of software written and maintained by people who love your products. If the developers had half a brain about that sort of thing they wouldn't have named it that in the first place. What educated person in this modern world doesn't understand trademark dilution?
Self checkout lines are never any faster than regular checkout lanes.
Of the 5 times I have tried to use self checkout, I made it through without needing assistance exactly zero times. Items won't scan, the item doesn't come up in the database, the sensor won't recognize that you've put it in the bag, the touch screen is so far out of alignment that the bottom buttons won't work, the money thing won't read a nearly perfect bill. There's so much that can go wrong or not meet the system's expectations that this is possibly the worst application for self-service technology one could imagine.
Yeah it only takes one checker to manage 4 stations, but in the same time he or she has managed to get one person through each station, he or she could have checked all four through a traditional register setup.
Here is an experiment you can do in the comfort of your own home. It won't work with any of the established "serious" dating sites liek yahoo, Match.com, eHarmony... but try it with one of the newer, agressively marketted sites, like... i don't know... true.com, basically any place that does not allow you to reply to "winks" with a self-written email unless you pay will work:
1. Create a free profile. Do not accept the offer for a "free trial period", just join, put in your age and city, etc. Fill out as much of the rest of the form as you like, but to get the most out of this experiment, I recommend that you do not upload a photo.
2. Wait.
3. After about a week, you will start getting "winks" or "smiles" or whatever they call them on your chosen website. They will all be from women at or near the minimum age you put in your "who I'm looking for" criteria, they will have cute but not unbelievable pictures, and may or may not have their profile information filled out. Occasionally, despite not having your own picture uploaded, you will get a wink that says, "I liked your photo" or something similar.
In order to reply to these "winks", you have to join the site. Sound fishy?
Because every resource can be "next to" hundreds of other resources with are all "next to" hundreds of non-overlapping resources of their own....and all of those relationships can be changes instantly.
"I'm currently working as a Microsoft Systems Administrator. Through a series of bungled management decisions, have found myself responsible for a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory network, that I know nothing about. The person who was sent for training was not the Microsoft point person. I was. The person who received the training left the company soon after the domain upgrade.
It doesn't look as though training will be forthcoming, and I've just been moved from the lab, where I was training myself while handling the domain. I've got the MCSA/MCSE Training Kit, but I've found numerous errors, and submitted so many of them that I was sent a free Press Kit book.
Between management's reluctance to shell out for training, and being moved from the lab, I'm getting the distinct sense that training is something I'm expected to take care of on my own time. Is this the standard within IT?
How do you Slashdot readers keep up with your continuing education, while still maintaining a personal life? Is it naive to try to leave my work at work?"
I like the mozilla browsers better than ie, but there's so much surrounding suckage, i'm on the verge of switching back.
How do I migrate my Mozilla mail and settings to Thunderbird?
Thunderbird includes an auto migration tool that imports your Mozilla 1.x or Netscape 7.x profile directly into Thunderbird without you having to do anything.
Lies! Not only did it not "auto migrate", clicking import doesn't give any options for Mozilla 1.x or Netscape as sources.
Spending $20+ on a full sized DVD that you can watch on your widescreen television once or twice in your life is absurd enough... Trading less than an hour's work for 4+ hours of entertainment is well within reason.
Besides, do you really think that most people watch most DVDs that they buy only 1 or 2 times?
... when a Washington State Judge can tell someone in California that they cannot pursue their career in full accordance with California law.
That is not to say that a California Judge could not have made the same ruling based on the contract signed in Washington. However, the California Judge should place equal if not greater weight in the Will of the People of California.
Some people would say that the contract trumps everything, and that being able to nullify a contract by moving out of the State harms Microsoft. I say, Microsoft should have thought of that when they drafted the contract. They are a World-wide company, and need to think outside the bounds of Washignton State law.
Corporations are granted their very existence by the People only because We believe that their existence benefits Us. When Corporations take actions that benefit only themselves and in fact harm the People (such as preventing Us from benefitting fully from the abilities people whom a Corporation wants to put out of work for spite), We as a Rebublic and as individual States have the right to bitchslap them back into proper behavior.
States as well, have the right to not be bound by the rulings of other States, especially when those other States may be influenced by the wealth of giant world-spanning Corporations that happen to reside within their boundaries.
California is being harmed by Washington's enforcement of this contract, and California should take this dispute to the Federal Courts.
Aside from the battle probably being in the upper atmosphere, as others have said, the ships are also under constant acceleration throughout the sequence.
BSD code they can legally steal, GPL code they can not.
If I put a sign on my lemon tree that says "free lemons" it is not stealing to take some lemons, even if you strip the tree bare and set up a stand nearby to sell them for 5 cents each.
Microsoft can use BSD licensed code in their closed source products, and the author who released the code under the BSD license is/was/should be aware that this is the whole point of choosing to release code under the BSD license over the GPL.
SCRABBLE, or any board game could be patented, but it wasn't, and if it had been, it's patent protection would be over by now, the game having been invented in the 30's.
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Supporting the community is one thing, but letting anyone who wants to use the exact same name of your company for the name of a piece of software only with differing capitalization of the letters is a bad idea, even if it is a good piece of software written and maintained by people who love your products. If the developers had half a brain about that sort of thing they wouldn't have named it that in the first place. What educated person in this modern world doesn't understand trademark dilution?
... this one was squid percent lumpy pudding.
Self checkout lines are never any faster than regular checkout lanes.
Of the 5 times I have tried to use self checkout, I made it through without needing assistance exactly zero times. Items won't scan, the item doesn't come up in the database, the sensor won't recognize that you've put it in the bag, the touch screen is so far out of alignment that the bottom buttons won't work, the money thing won't read a nearly perfect bill. There's so much that can go wrong or not meet the system's expectations that this is possibly the worst application for self-service technology one could imagine.
Yeah it only takes one checker to manage 4 stations, but in the same time he or she has managed to get one person through each station, he or she could have checked all four through a traditional register setup.
It uses technlogy developed from "tree falling in the forest" research.
Here is an experiment you can do in the comfort of your own home. It won't work with any of the established "serious" dating sites liek yahoo, Match.com, eHarmony... but try it with one of the newer, agressively marketted sites, like... i don't know... true.com, basically any place that does not allow you to reply to "winks" with a self-written email unless you pay will work:
1. Create a free profile. Do not accept the offer for a "free trial period", just join, put in your age and city, etc. Fill out as much of the rest of the form as you like, but to get the most out of this experiment, I recommend that you do not upload a photo.
2. Wait.
3. After about a week, you will start getting "winks" or "smiles" or whatever they call them on your chosen website. They will all be from women at or near the minimum age you put in your "who I'm looking for" criteria, they will have cute but not unbelievable pictures, and may or may not have their profile information filled out. Occasionally, despite not having your own picture uploaded, you will get a wink that says, "I liked your photo" or something similar.
In order to reply to these "winks", you have to join the site. Sound fishy?
Because every resource can be "next to" hundreds of other resources with are all "next to" hundreds of non-overlapping resources of their own. ...and all of those relationships can be changes instantly.
he was coming back from lunch, obviously. :P
No, because you would still have Word installed on your machine.
Mostly fixed:
"I'm currently working as a Microsoft Systems Administrator. Through a series of bungled management decisions, have found myself responsible for a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory network, that I know nothing about. The person who was sent for training was not the Microsoft point person. I was. The person who received the training left the company soon after the domain upgrade.
It doesn't look as though training will be forthcoming, and I've just been moved from the lab, where I was training myself while handling the domain. I've got the MCSA/MCSE Training Kit, but I've found numerous errors, and submitted so many of them that I was sent a free Press Kit book.
Between management's reluctance to shell out for training, and being moved from the lab, I'm getting the distinct sense that training is something I'm expected to take care of on my own time. Is this the standard within IT?
How do you Slashdot readers keep up with your continuing education, while still maintaining a personal life? Is it naive to try to leave my work at work?"
And the import option in firefox just hangs ...
Stupid.
Lies! Not only did it not "auto migrate", clicking import doesn't give any options for Mozilla 1.x or Netscape as sources.
I and at least 4 other people I know would have at least bought TOS by now on DVD if it were more reasonably priced. ($40-$50)
As for this collection, its insane! $11 per disk!? Who would buy this?
nuff said
Spending $20+ on a full sized DVD that you can watch on your widescreen television once or twice in your life is absurd enough ...
Trading less than an hour's work for 4+ hours of entertainment is well within reason.
Besides, do you really think that most people watch most DVDs that they buy only 1 or 2 times?
The car does not run on hydrogen with this device.
The device adds hydrogen and oxygen to the mix, producing a cleaner, more thorough burn.
Supposedly.
... when a Washington State Judge can tell someone in California that they cannot pursue their career in full accordance with California law.
That is not to say that a California Judge could not have made the same ruling based on the contract signed in Washington. However, the California Judge should place equal if not greater weight in the Will of the People of California.
Some people would say that the contract trumps everything, and that being able to nullify a contract by moving out of the State harms Microsoft. I say, Microsoft should have thought of that when they drafted the contract. They are a World-wide company, and need to think outside the bounds of Washignton State law.
Corporations are granted their very existence by the People only because We believe that their existence benefits Us. When Corporations take actions that benefit only themselves and in fact harm the People (such as preventing Us from benefitting fully from the abilities people whom a Corporation wants to put out of work for spite), We as a Rebublic and as individual States have the right to bitchslap them back into proper behavior.
States as well, have the right to not be bound by the rulings of other States, especially when those other States may be influenced by the wealth of giant world-spanning Corporations that happen to reside within their boundaries.
California is being harmed by Washington's enforcement of this contract, and California should take this dispute to the Federal Courts.
It could also help the peeping toms coordinate with the publicly indecent to save everyone involved a lot of trouble.
Are they still making those with a glass capsule inside? Other than that, I believe most glow sticks are "non-toxic".
Time to get geeky ...
The DS9 wormhole was unique in it's stability. The reason was that there were weird alien energy beings living inside and keeping it that way.
Aside from the battle probably being in the upper atmosphere, as others have said, the ships are also under constant acceleration throughout the sequence.
12. Jaron Lanier is the principle spokesperson for VR
If I put a sign on my lemon tree that says "free lemons" it is not stealing to take some lemons, even if you strip the tree bare and set up a stand nearby to sell them for 5 cents each.
Microsoft can use BSD licensed code in their closed source products, and the author who released the code under the BSD license is/was/should be aware that this is the whole point of choosing to release code under the BSD license over the GPL.
SCRABBLE, or any board game could be patented, but it wasn't, and if it had been, it's patent protection would be over by now, the game having been invented in the 30's.
Now all of you OSC geeks will suffer for endlessly bugging us to read your sacred texts! *cackle*
I couldn't bring myself to pay $10 a month to play tetris-like games online. $5 maybe.