There is no Javanese flag. Note that there really are a people known as the Javanese, they're not just a typo of Japanese;-) Javanese are a majority ethnic group of Indonesians, but have no flag of their own (nor do, say, black or white people have a flag, in general). Indonesia has a flag that looks like the Polish one, upside down.
PDF is to preserve presentation. This is precisely what you do NOT want on an e-reader. ePub, which is really just HTML, is designed to provide reflow for e-readers. It can be used with or without DRM.
I imagine that a thickness gauge (which is what is *really* intuitive in the measuring-cup example) or a color-gauge would be more intuitive. The critical point here is that thicker is "more" and thinner is "less". Even with colors you can have "more red" or "less red". Numbers are a higher-form thought process. When dealing with a line system, your general intention is to gauge this same "more or less" comparions, but is abstracted through numbers which is based on a complex thought process of reading and comprehension.
Those companies are not violating the TOS, the employee is. What the company is doing is worse, the company is arguably accessing without agreeing to the TOS at all, which falls under unauthorized access and is criminal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I think. IANAL
Without any contract, you have no authority access. If you breech the contract, you have no authorization to access. Access without authorization is a felony.
I tend to agree that the other courts were probably right. Whether or not the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is too broad is another matter and something for higher courts and the legislative branch to determine.
The problem is that without rules on how properties are divided, they can be defined in arbitrary ways. Vague definitions are cause for disputes. Overly precise definitions based on constants such Pi are also vague. With Pi, you must, practically, round. If your property is explicitly framed in the context of Pi and your neighbor plans bushes in your yard because he estimated Pi as 22/7... do you bring it to a judge and argue precision?
It is a silly thought experiment with few practical applications. I don't see why legislators would bother, unless they're bored on the hill, or there is a particularly generous landowner with thousands of acres of property with ill-defined boundaries.
There may actually be sound reasons to legislatively set Pi to a rounded constant. One that comes to mind: Many property lines are defined along a circular arc (mine is). Pi is arguably too precise for property law, lest people might argue about a tree impeding a nanometer over their property line. Rounding it would settle those disputes. Of course, such a ruling wouldn't be broadly desirable outside that particular niche... and there are other aspects of property law that attempt to address this, such as setbacks.
I left my carry-on roller-bag on the plane once and I *always* bring a roller-bag. I just forgot and walked off. I also left my wallet, once. I fly >100k miles a year and just happened to be air-headed on those two flights. It happens. It especially happens if you're on a red-eye or, simply, on a long flight. In both cases, I immediately remembered once I hit the terminal and asked the flight-crew to retrieve the items.
I know someone that left their brand-new DSLR camera in the overhead, their camera went to China... they never got it back.
Ironically, the alternative to bringing the item on board is to pack a gun into your checked luggage. That makes sure it is treated with kid-gloves and isn't opened. Seriously. (You tell the airline you have the gun in your luggage and follow the necessary firearm safety laws/ordinances and airline requirements)
I remember IBM really pushing the sales of OS/2 Warp. However, I couldn't ever *find* the software for sale. Also, this was during a period when some machines were sold with only DOS, but an increasing number of systems were moving to having Windows pre-installed. Very quickly, Microsoft closed the gap through pre-installations, creating a giant barrier to competition. Once that window of opportunity was closed, OS/2 and other operating systems had no chance. Apple only succeeded in having their own hardware to run their OS on, thus they weren't entirely squeezed out of the market.
Actually, there was a Linux flash player since version 6... The support hasn't always been good or well-synced with the Windows/MacOS releases, but it has existed for quite a long time. 64-bit support has only been available since version 10 or so.
I've transferred 220GB in the past month, evenly split between upload and download. No, I am not using P2P networks. This is just standard usage.
That said, I do have a Netflix account... but I haven't used it this month. I work from home, do lots of SSH and a few minutes a day of VoIP. My wife uses Skype video extensively on the weekends. I use VNC and other remote console stuff on occassion, but not frequently. I have a number of computers that download updates from the internet, including a Windows desktop with Steam (those downloads can be big). I've probably downloaded and/or streamed about 5 hours of television from iTunes.
I'll bump it up significantly before the month is over as I intend to download a number of things from Microsoft Technet...
This isn't an internet-only issue, although we don't hear much about the other variants of this... Why don't we hear about people complaining about men reading medical textbooks in public places where nudity is visible? How about National Geographic? What about women (or men) reading pregnancy books depicting the graphic birthing process?
These are just as appropriate or inappropriate as internet pornography in a library.
Companies should worry because the Safe Harbor provisions were denied to MegaUpload based in part on their use of deduplication.
MU was denied safe harbour because they "did not comply" by using deduplication (!!!), by profiteering, and through employee misconduct.
Services such as MegaUpload and Dropbox should protect their customer's data from their own employees. Clearly, stuff like this gets abused all the time - which I feel should result in penalties for those employees, and potentially fines for the company, but it shouldn't destroy the business. Look at how HIPAA violations are handled in hospitals, for instance. Finding examples of employees fired for HIPAA violations over Google is pretty easy, but I don't see many, if any, hospitals that have been shut down for these problems.
All of these problems apply to services like S3 and Dropbox. Don't believe for a second that there hasn't been *someone* at Amazon or Dropbox that hasn't broken the rules. They're good rules, and there might even be enforcement, but, "rules are made to be broken". I've been in the hosting business for over a decade and while I haven't ever broken these rules, I know they're broken all the time.
What we need to take away from this is that: 1) Deduplication, at least in a hosted-services context, should be avoided until we see the results of these trials. 2) Companies need to better police their employees for misconduct with zero-tolerance policies. 3) The law needs to be *loosened* so that hosting/cloud companies can continue to operate, because right now, services like Dropbox and AWS S3 are are immense risk.
I've moved back to WindowMaker. I've complemented this with some of the utilities from Rox-Desktop, such as roxterm and roxfiler, largely because they work well and avoid Gnome/KDE dependencies and often enough, Dbus as well.
I wish WindowMaker was scriptable in Lua, or had more features. However, it is ICCWM compliant and has a wide number of features (I might have even put some in there... its hard to recall).
I say either take the kit lens of 18-55mm and hold-off on buying additional lenses... OR skip the 18-55mm kit lens and buy a 55-200mm and a 50mm/f1.8 lens. Some stores will offer bundles on the body + 55-200mm lens, which makes this an affordable option.
Its kind of strange, an 18-55mm lens is a good range if it is your *only* lens (which is why it is a kit lens), but I find that if I'm outdoors I'm most likely to carry the 55-200mm and if indoors, I'll definitely have the 50mm/f1.8 on.
I haven't done it yet, but I do plan to try using my 18-55mm with a reversing ring & bellows for cheap macro. It wont match a good macro setup, but I expect it should do decently for the sub-$50 price-tag.
I don't have the expertise to know at what point spending more money isn't going to do me, as a camera newbie, any good. Any thoughts?"
To this point, don't go *beyond* the Nex-3 or the A33/A35 cameras in price or complexity. The Nex-3 is about $450 and hardly larger than a typical pocket camera, it will be an amazing upgrade from a cell phone, without exploding in physical size. It has interchangeable lenses, although few (and expensive) -- the A33/A35 cameras are similar but take common Alpha Sony/Minolta lenses. Because of the new translucent lenses in this line of cameras, these cameras are significantly smaller than and shoot faster than others in this price range.
So now I'll answer the, "but it is Sony!". Yes, it is true that there is a great distain for all things Sony, and no they are not the market leaders in the SLR space... However, for an unbiased entry-level SLR, the Nex-3 and A33/A35 cameras are an amazing deal... and offer things that others do not for the non-discerning entry-level shooter.
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There is no Javanese flag. Note that there really are a people known as the Javanese, they're not just a typo of Japanese ;-) Javanese are a majority ethnic group of Indonesians, but have no flag of their own (nor do, say, black or white people have a flag, in general). Indonesia has a flag that looks like the Polish one, upside down.
PDF is to preserve presentation. This is precisely what you do NOT want on an e-reader. ePub, which is really just HTML, is designed to provide reflow for e-readers. It can be used with or without DRM.
I imagine that a thickness gauge (which is what is *really* intuitive in the measuring-cup example) or a color-gauge would be more intuitive. The critical point here is that thicker is "more" and thinner is "less". Even with colors you can have "more red" or "less red". Numbers are a higher-form thought process. When dealing with a line system, your general intention is to gauge this same "more or less" comparions, but is abstracted through numbers which is based on a complex thought process of reading and comprehension.
Those companies are not violating the TOS, the employee is. What the company is doing is worse, the company is arguably accessing without agreeing to the TOS at all, which falls under unauthorized access and is criminal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I think. IANAL
Without any contract, you have no authority access. If you breech the contract, you have no authorization to access. Access without authorization is a felony.
I tend to agree that the other courts were probably right. Whether or not the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is too broad is another matter and something for higher courts and the legislative branch to determine.
Which was made by Samsung. This will change with the Motorola acquisition...
Username changes would be very appreciated...
The problem is that without rules on how properties are divided, they can be defined in arbitrary ways. Vague definitions are cause for disputes. Overly precise definitions based on constants such Pi are also vague. With Pi, you must, practically, round. If your property is explicitly framed in the context of Pi and your neighbor plans bushes in your yard because he estimated Pi as 22/7... do you bring it to a judge and argue precision?
It is a silly thought experiment with few practical applications. I don't see why legislators would bother, unless they're bored on the hill, or there is a particularly generous landowner with thousands of acres of property with ill-defined boundaries.
There may actually be sound reasons to legislatively set Pi to a rounded constant. One that comes to mind: Many property lines are defined along a circular arc (mine is). Pi is arguably too precise for property law, lest people might argue about a tree impeding a nanometer over their property line. Rounding it would settle those disputes. Of course, such a ruling wouldn't be broadly desirable outside that particular niche... and there are other aspects of property law that attempt to address this, such as setbacks.
someone needs to re-adapt The Crucible...
I left my carry-on roller-bag on the plane once and I *always* bring a roller-bag. I just forgot and walked off. I also left my wallet, once. I fly >100k miles a year and just happened to be air-headed on those two flights. It happens. It especially happens if you're on a red-eye or, simply, on a long flight. In both cases, I immediately remembered once I hit the terminal and asked the flight-crew to retrieve the items.
I know someone that left their brand-new DSLR camera in the overhead, their camera went to China... they never got it back.
Ironically, the alternative to bringing the item on board is to pack a gun into your checked luggage. That makes sure it is treated with kid-gloves and isn't opened. Seriously. (You tell the airline you have the gun in your luggage and follow the necessary firearm safety laws/ordinances and airline requirements)
I remember IBM really pushing the sales of OS/2 Warp. However, I couldn't ever *find* the software for sale. Also, this was during a period when some machines were sold with only DOS, but an increasing number of systems were moving to having Windows pre-installed. Very quickly, Microsoft closed the gap through pre-installations, creating a giant barrier to competition. Once that window of opportunity was closed, OS/2 and other operating systems had no chance. Apple only succeeded in having their own hardware to run their OS on, thus they weren't entirely squeezed out of the market.
Trenton, NJ and Morristown, PA are connected by three bridges. Two are paid. All are less than a mile apart.
Taking the free bridge isn't a huge detour, although that way tends to be more crowded...
Actually, there was a Linux flash player since version 6... The support hasn't always been good or well-synced with the Windows/MacOS releases, but it has existed for quite a long time. 64-bit support has only been available since version 10 or so.
I've transferred 220GB in the past month, evenly split between upload and download. No, I am not using P2P networks. This is just standard usage.
That said, I do have a Netflix account... but I haven't used it this month. I work from home, do lots of SSH and a few minutes a day of VoIP. My wife uses Skype video extensively on the weekends. I use VNC and other remote console stuff on occassion, but not frequently. I have a number of computers that download updates from the internet, including a Windows desktop with Steam (those downloads can be big). I've probably downloaded and/or streamed about 5 hours of television from iTunes.
I'll bump it up significantly before the month is over as I intend to download a number of things from Microsoft Technet...
Wasting paper and other resources. Disk space might be cheap, but it still rests on natural resources.
Unless this person has a severe problem of not having enough storage space or a severe fear of fire, I just don't get it.
Modern ones have a blow-dry option.
This isn't an internet-only issue, although we don't hear much about the other variants of this... Why don't we hear about people complaining about men reading medical textbooks in public places where nudity is visible? How about National Geographic? What about women (or men) reading pregnancy books depicting the graphic birthing process?
These are just as appropriate or inappropriate as internet pornography in a library.
Companies should worry because the Safe Harbor provisions were denied to MegaUpload based in part on their use of deduplication.
MU was denied safe harbour because they "did not comply" by using deduplication (!!!), by profiteering, and through employee misconduct.
Services such as MegaUpload and Dropbox should protect their customer's data from their own employees. Clearly, stuff like this gets abused all the time - which I feel should result in penalties for those employees, and potentially fines for the company, but it shouldn't destroy the business. Look at how HIPAA violations are handled in hospitals, for instance. Finding examples of employees fired for HIPAA violations over Google is pretty easy, but I don't see many, if any, hospitals that have been shut down for these problems.
All of these problems apply to services like S3 and Dropbox. Don't believe for a second that there hasn't been *someone* at Amazon or Dropbox that hasn't broken the rules. They're good rules, and there might even be enforcement, but, "rules are made to be broken". I've been in the hosting business for over a decade and while I haven't ever broken these rules, I know they're broken all the time.
What we need to take away from this is that:
1) Deduplication, at least in a hosted-services context, should be avoided until we see the results of these trials.
2) Companies need to better police their employees for misconduct with zero-tolerance policies.
3) The law needs to be *loosened* so that hosting/cloud companies can continue to operate, because right now, services like Dropbox and AWS S3 are are immense risk.
I've moved back to WindowMaker. I've complemented this with some of the utilities from Rox-Desktop, such as roxterm and roxfiler, largely because they work well and avoid Gnome/KDE dependencies and often enough, Dbus as well.
I wish WindowMaker was scriptable in Lua, or had more features. However, it is ICCWM compliant and has a wide number of features (I might have even put some in there... its hard to recall).
I say either take the kit lens of 18-55mm and hold-off on buying additional lenses... OR skip the 18-55mm kit lens and buy a 55-200mm and a 50mm/f1.8 lens. Some stores will offer bundles on the body + 55-200mm lens, which makes this an affordable option.
Its kind of strange, an 18-55mm lens is a good range if it is your *only* lens (which is why it is a kit lens), but I find that if I'm outdoors I'm most likely to carry the 55-200mm and if indoors, I'll definitely have the 50mm/f1.8 on.
I haven't done it yet, but I do plan to try using my 18-55mm with a reversing ring & bellows for cheap macro. It wont match a good macro setup, but I expect it should do decently for the sub-$50 price-tag.
+1 on this
To this point, don't go *beyond* the Nex-3 or the A33/A35 cameras in price or complexity. The Nex-3 is about $450 and hardly larger than a typical pocket camera, it will be an amazing upgrade from a cell phone, without exploding in physical size. It has interchangeable lenses, although few (and expensive) -- the A33/A35 cameras are similar but take common Alpha Sony/Minolta lenses. Because of the new translucent lenses in this line of cameras, these cameras are significantly smaller than and shoot faster than others in this price range.
So now I'll answer the, "but it is Sony!". Yes, it is true that there is a great distain for all things Sony, and no they are not the market leaders in the SLR space... However, for an unbiased entry-level SLR, the Nex-3 and A33/A35 cameras are an amazing deal... and offer things that others do not for the non-discerning entry-level shooter.
I've noticed this on LinkedIn as well, where celebrities are less likely to be making random friends.