Alongside many of the excellent suggestions already made, I would say tell her some things about your wife, from your perspective. As a single parent, your wife will need to be the voice of authority in her life and there are almost certainly going to be conflicts in their future. Some insight about your wife from your point of view may help during the more difficult times, by humanizing her and reminding your daughter that even when it feels that they have nothing in common, they had a common thread in your love.
One of the largest uses for artificial sapphire is supermarket barcode scanners. No one's putting it there because they feel a need to bling-out the supermarket. It's there because any surface that has stuff dragged across it all day, every day either needs to be incredible scratch-resistant or replaced way too often.
The inherent problem is that renters tend to be forced out of the gentrified neighborhood, so it tends to not so much clean up ghettos as relocate them to an area with cheaper (or still-cheap) housing costs. -- While this is still a net gain for the city, it tends to be distressing to the individuals that are forced out. Sure, rationally it doesn't make sense for a renter to feel entitled to the home they're renting. On the other hand, it's hard not to develop an emotional attachment to the place you've been living for 20 or 30 years,despite what it says on the deed.
This looks to me like a civil matter. That is, if there had never been the DMCA.
You're confusing DMCA and CFAA. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act pre-dates DMCA by more than 10 years and was initially designed to target '80s era hackers.
Personally, I prefer Amazon's take on packaging to Apple's. It may not be as pretty, but it's designed to be easy to ship, open, unpack and recycle. Coincidentally (or not), that happens to be the sequence of events where I will actually interact with the packaging.
This law would likely do exactly the opposite of what it's theoretically intended to do. When someone posts something that you don't like, you'll have all the information you need to stalk and harass the poster. Forget online bullying, this would enable physical bullying.
Yet, here I am on the East Coast and I don't hear California radio stations.
Coast-to-coast no. However, it's not uncommon to be able to tune to a station 500 miles away (assuming an AM station and the right weather conditions). If you want to talk about interference, rather than reception, it goes much further. It's not uncommon for AM stations on the West coast to see interference from Asia.
After a certain distance they lose potency to still cause problems.
The distance at which the cause problems is significantly greater than the distance at which they block a signal entirely. You couldn't effectively block signals within a single building without also causing interference in the surrounding area.
I will never understand why, for example, restaurants and movie theaters (most of them) tolerate behavior this is, to say the least, boorish and disruptive to the experience of the other customers
As someone that's done it, I guarantee that evicting someone from a movie theater will be far more distracting than their cell phone. If they're obnoxious enough that theater management is involved, then they're probably also not going to politely get up and leave when someone asks them to. At that point, the management has two choices: let them remain or call the police. This won't be considered a particularly high priority, so you can expect a half-hour wait for the police. One they get there, they''ll want the house lights brought up (at a minimum; they may ask that the movie be stopped as well) before they escort the person off the premises.
That said, I have seen a "patron" carried out of a movie theater after being pepper-sprayed. It's a bad idea to lay your hands on a police officer when they ask you to leave...
Science tends to look at the world in terms of numbers, technology and confirmed facts. Religion tends to tell the world has been made by some imaginary person in the sky, tells you to pray towards said imaginary person and completely disregards science in favor of what someone wrote on paper 1500-2000 years ago. They are not compatible.
Tell that to Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein (to name only a few). They and countless other scientists, both historical and contemporary, held to religious beliefs while greatly advancing our knowledge of science. Religion and science are not the diametrically opposed forces that self-serving religious leaders and over-zealous atheists make them out to be.
As has been pointed out numerous times already, it's really "The 100 most popular science fiction and fantasy books among listeners of NPR that could be bothered to vote".
As for the flowchart, which is really the point of the post, they did a pretty good job of it, considering what they had to work with.
The small business owners are not the ones reaping the benefit of lower tax rates on long-term capital gains. Most of them are already paying taxes at the marginal tax rate, unlike the people this proposal is targeting.
We don't have a need for cheaper alternatives to diamond - it would be like searching for a cheaper alternative to sea water. You're missing the point. The question isn't "can we create something to replace diamond?", it's "can we create something with some of the same properties as diamond, that can be used in situations where diamond cannot?" Diamond, for instance, is not thermodynamically stable, so a hard material that is thermodynamically stable can be used in a range of activities where diamonds are impractical.
I got my start programming on Apple IIs in second grade. While I used BASIC and LOGO on the Apple IIs and at home on a C64 on and off for years, I never really understood a lot of the basic concepts of structural programming untill I took some Computer Science courses in High School were they were using Pascal.
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I think Pascal is a great language for teaching. A lot of the concepts carry over into more powerful languages like C and some aspects (like strong typecasting) force better programming habits than other introductory languages (like BASIC).
I wouldn't start them out with VB or Delphi because my experience has been that people that learn to program with RAD tools first don't develop the skills to write good code dehind the forms.
"an operator must notify a parent that it wishes to collect personal information from the child; that the parent's consent is required for the collection, use and disclosure of the information"
In order to notify a parent don't they have to already have collected some information?
In at least one case a writer of fan fiction was hired as a full-time writer.
Devin Greyson was hired by DC Comics after a copy of her fanfic reached the Batman editors. After writing assorted specials, she now writes two monthly comics for DC (including a new Batman title).
Oh please... First of all, non-profits are not a particularly large market to start with, if they really were after "mind-share" they'd offer these prices across the board. Second, cost is extremely important to non-profits, since most of them are perpetually stuggling to stay financially stable and if they spend too much in certain areas they lose major sources of revenue (like United Way). The "mental share" arguement makes some sense if you're talking about academic pricing, but I really don't see much applicability in the non-profit arena. By the way, the only other major company that I am aware of that offers significant discounts to nonprofits is Adobe, so I guess they're motivated by the same reasoning.
Okay, this kind of thing has been bothering me for a while, so I'm going to take a stand here.
You may not realize this, but the moderators are picked more or less at random. The ability to moderate lasts three days. It's not like there is someone out there attacking anything that is against "slashdot policy." What likely happened was a regular reader of slashdot was given moderator status, felt that this post was nothing more than an attempt to get a reaction and therefore decided that it should be considered flamebait. It's not like that moderator is going to be able to carry out any kind of agenda, since after Saturday (at the latest) s/he won't be a moderator any more.
What it comes down to is that most of the moderation has absolutely nothing to do with the Slashdot editorial staff. There is no overriding agenda because any regular reader can be a moderator.
Actually, I fear that a ruling might put us closer to this scenario. If the government starts telling Microsoft what they can and can't do at every turn (which seems to me to be the likliest outcome) then who do you think they'll turn to if they decide we need a "acknowledged, certified, and regulated information public utility in the United States?" Wouldn't they most likely choose the corporation that they have the most influence over?
Really, I don't see this happening in any case. It's pretty clear that in every aspect we are moving away from official public utilities. In a lot of communities you now are able to choose who you want to buy phone service, gas, electricity, and water from. It just doesn't seem likely that this will ever come to pass.
Even if this does happen, wouldn't it be scarier if Apple were thrust into that role. They would be in a position to tell you what hardware and what software to use. In a lot of ways they are closer to the old "Ma Bell" business model than Microsoft, since they control the hardware(phones : computers) and the service(switching stations : operating system). Of course, they don't have the success of Microsoft, so they're okay.
This has already been done to some extent with a system called Fuzion. Fuzion was developed be R. Talsorian (Cyberpunk) and Hero (Champions). It is a scalable system capable of being very simple or fairly complex. As a gestalt of Talsorian's Interlock mechanics and the Hero System, I find it to be vastly superior (mechanically) to anything TSR has ever published. It is also totally free (and available as a PDF) for personal use (and has been for years). I believe they ask for a licensing fee if other companies want to use it. In fact it has been used as the basis of games by a few other companies.
Okay, so it wasn't controlled remotely, but a few years ago an Marine reservist did drive away with a tank in San Diego. As I recall, the police just followed him until he got hung up on the center divider of the highway.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't choose an operating system because it makes me "cool" or "leet".
This goes back to an old problem the computer industry has faced: elitism. There are a great number of technically proficient out there that desperately want to maintain the image that they possess arcane and incomprehensible knowledge. We need to stop fostering the impression that we think of people that haven't spent years developing computer skills as utter morons (as the AC implied). A lack of technical knowledge is not an indication of stupidity.
If you want to be truly "cool" and "leet", why don't you build your own operating system. Don't blame the Linux community for growing and maturing into something more than it started out as.
When was the last time you bought something from a manufacturer or distributor? Did you pay less than MSRP? I doubt it.
Most distributors won't sell directly to the public because they know that while they may make more money on an individual sale, they will have a hard time moving the quantity the sell wholesale (just try buying directly from Ingram, for example).
While many manufacturers do offer their products direct, they almost always sell their products at suggested retail price. Why? Because they don't want to undercut the retailers. Retailers act as free adverising. And don't forget that for every item a retailer has in stock, the manufacturer has already received their share.
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Alongside many of the excellent suggestions already made, I would say tell her some things about your wife, from your perspective. As a single parent, your wife will need to be the voice of authority in her life and there are almost certainly going to be conflicts in their future. Some insight about your wife from your point of view may help during the more difficult times, by humanizing her and reminding your daughter that even when it feels that they have nothing in common, they had a common thread in your love.
One of the largest uses for artificial sapphire is supermarket barcode scanners. No one's putting it there because they feel a need to bling-out the supermarket. It's there because any surface that has stuff dragged across it all day, every day either needs to be incredible scratch-resistant or replaced way too often.
The inherent problem is that renters tend to be forced out of the gentrified neighborhood, so it tends to not so much clean up ghettos as relocate them to an area with cheaper (or still-cheap) housing costs.
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While this is still a net gain for the city, it tends to be distressing to the individuals that are forced out. Sure, rationally it doesn't make sense for a renter to feel entitled to the home they're renting. On the other hand, it's hard not to develop an emotional attachment to the place you've been living for 20 or 30 years,despite what it says on the deed.
This looks to me like a civil matter. That is, if there had never been the DMCA.
You're confusing DMCA and CFAA. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act pre-dates DMCA by more than 10 years and was initially designed to target '80s era hackers.
Enlighten me on exactly what is so valuable about knowing someone is Disney Customer 00123865387.
easy when you have a friend that can access the backend DB (by whatever means).
If you know someone that's willing to compromise Disney World's customer database, you don't need to waste your time scanning RFIDs.
Personally, I prefer Amazon's take on packaging to Apple's. It may not be as pretty, but it's designed to be easy to ship, open, unpack and recycle. Coincidentally (or not), that happens to be the sequence of events where I will actually interact with the packaging.
This law would likely do exactly the opposite of what it's theoretically intended to do. When someone posts something that you don't like, you'll have all the information you need to stalk and harass the poster. Forget online bullying, this would enable physical bullying.
Yet, here I am on the East Coast and I don't hear California radio stations.
Coast-to-coast no. However, it's not uncommon to be able to tune to a station 500 miles away (assuming an AM station and the right weather conditions). If you want to talk about interference, rather than reception, it goes much further. It's not uncommon for AM stations on the West coast to see interference from Asia.
After a certain distance they lose potency to still cause problems.
The distance at which the cause problems is significantly greater than the distance at which they block a signal entirely. You couldn't effectively block signals within a single building without also causing interference in the surrounding area.
I will never understand why, for example, restaurants and movie theaters (most of them) tolerate behavior this is, to say the least, boorish and disruptive to the experience of the other customers
As someone that's done it, I guarantee that evicting someone from a movie theater will be far more distracting than their cell phone. If they're obnoxious enough that theater management is involved, then they're probably also not going to politely get up and leave when someone asks them to. At that point, the management has two choices: let them remain or call the police. This won't be considered a particularly high priority, so you can expect a half-hour wait for the police. One they get there, they''ll want the house lights brought up (at a minimum; they may ask that the movie be stopped as well) before they escort the person off the premises.
That said, I have seen a "patron" carried out of a movie theater after being pepper-sprayed. It's a bad idea to lay your hands on a police officer when they ask you to leave...
Science tends to look at the world in terms of numbers, technology and confirmed facts. Religion tends to tell the world has been made by some imaginary person in the sky, tells you to pray towards said imaginary person and completely disregards science in favor of what someone wrote on paper 1500-2000 years ago. They are not compatible.
Tell that to Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein (to name only a few). They and countless other scientists, both historical and contemporary, held to religious beliefs while greatly advancing our knowledge of science. Religion and science are not the diametrically opposed forces that self-serving religious leaders and over-zealous atheists make them out to be.
As has been pointed out numerous times already, it's really "The 100 most popular science fiction and fantasy books among listeners of NPR that could be bothered to vote".
As for the flowchart, which is really the point of the post, they did a pretty good job of it, considering what they had to work with.
The small business owners are not the ones reaping the benefit of lower tax rates on long-term capital gains. Most of them are already paying taxes at the marginal tax rate, unlike the people this proposal is targeting.
This would be more newsworthy if Marvel hadn't created a Hispanic Spider-man 20 years ago and a Hispanic Spider-Girl 8 years ago.
I got my start programming on Apple IIs in second grade. While I used BASIC and LOGO on the Apple IIs and at home on a C64 on and off for years, I never really understood a lot of the basic concepts of structural programming untill I took some Computer Science courses in High School were they were using Pascal.
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I think Pascal is a great language for teaching. A lot of the concepts carry over into more powerful languages like C and some aspects (like strong typecasting) force better programming habits than other introductory languages (like BASIC).
I wouldn't start them out with VB or Delphi because my experience has been that people that learn to program with RAD tools first don't develop the skills to write good code dehind the forms.
"an operator must notify a parent that it wishes to collect personal information from the child; that the parent's consent is required for the collection, use and disclosure of the information"
In order to notify a parent don't they have to already have collected some information?
In at least one case a writer of fan fiction was hired as a full-time writer.
Devin Greyson was hired by DC Comics after a copy of her fanfic reached the Batman editors. After writing assorted specials, she now writes two monthly comics for DC (including a new Batman title).
Oh please... First of all, non-profits are not a particularly large market to start with, if they really were after "mind-share" they'd offer these prices across the board. Second, cost is extremely important to non-profits, since most of them are perpetually stuggling to stay financially stable and if they spend too much in certain areas they lose major sources of revenue (like United Way). The "mental share" arguement makes some sense if you're talking about academic pricing, but I really don't see much applicability in the non-profit arena. By the way, the only other major company that I am aware of that offers significant discounts to nonprofits is Adobe, so I guess they're motivated by the same reasoning.
Okay, this kind of thing has been bothering me for a while, so I'm going to take a stand here.
You may not realize this, but the moderators are picked more or less at random. The ability to moderate lasts three days. It's not like there is someone out there attacking anything that is against "slashdot policy." What likely happened was a regular reader of slashdot was given moderator status, felt that this post was nothing more than an attempt to get a reaction and therefore decided that it should be considered flamebait. It's not like that moderator is going to be able to carry out any kind of agenda, since after Saturday (at the latest) s/he won't be a moderator any more.
What it comes down to is that most of the moderation has absolutely nothing to do with the Slashdot editorial staff. There is no overriding agenda because any regular reader can be a moderator.
Have you read the moderator guidelines? It's all covered there.
Actually, I fear that a ruling might put us closer to this scenario. If the government starts telling Microsoft what they can and can't do at every turn (which seems to me to be the likliest outcome) then who do you think they'll turn to if they decide we need a "acknowledged, certified, and regulated information public utility in the United States?" Wouldn't they most likely choose the corporation that they have the most influence over?
Really, I don't see this happening in any case. It's pretty clear that in every aspect we are moving away from official public utilities. In a lot of communities you now are able to choose who you want to buy phone service, gas, electricity, and water from. It just doesn't seem likely that this will ever come to pass.
Even if this does happen, wouldn't it be scarier if Apple were thrust into that role. They would be in a position to tell you what hardware and what software to use. In a lot of ways they are closer to the old "Ma Bell" business model than Microsoft, since they control the hardware(phones : computers) and the service(switching stations : operating system). Of course, they don't have the success of Microsoft, so they're okay.
This has already been done to some extent with a system called Fuzion. Fuzion was developed be R. Talsorian (Cyberpunk) and Hero (Champions). It is a scalable system capable of being very simple or fairly complex. As a gestalt of Talsorian's Interlock mechanics and the Hero System, I find it to be vastly superior (mechanically) to anything TSR has ever published. It is also totally free (and available as a PDF) for personal use (and has been for years). I believe they ask for a licensing fee if other companies want to use it. In fact it has been used as the basis of games by a few other companies.
Okay, so it wasn't controlled remotely, but a few years ago an Marine reservist did drive away with a tank in San Diego. As I recall, the police just followed him until he got hung up on the center divider of the highway.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't choose an operating system because it makes me "cool" or "leet".
This goes back to an old problem the computer industry has faced: elitism. There are a great number of technically proficient out there that desperately want to maintain the image that they possess arcane and incomprehensible knowledge. We need to stop fostering the impression that we think of people that haven't spent years developing computer skills as utter morons (as the AC implied). A lack of technical knowledge is not an indication of stupidity.
If you want to be truly "cool" and "leet", why don't you build your own operating system. Don't blame the Linux community for growing and maturing into something more than it started out as.
When was the last time you bought something from a manufacturer or distributor? Did you pay less than MSRP? I doubt it.
Most distributors won't sell directly to the public because they know that while they may make more money on an individual sale, they will have a hard time moving the quantity the sell wholesale (just try buying directly from Ingram, for example).
While many manufacturers do offer their products direct, they almost always sell their products at suggested retail price. Why? Because they don't want to undercut the retailers. Retailers act as free adverising. And don't forget that for every item a retailer has in stock, the manufacturer has already received their share.