No, the expiry complaint is to do with when the rebate company invariably finds someething wrong with your form or attachments, half the time they let you know about it after the rebate has expired, making the whole thing moot.
But if you've already moderated a thread, you can't reply in it. slashdot won't let you. You have to log out, and then post an invisible AC reply. A royal PITA.
But at least now slash lets you know you can't reply, before it used to happily accept your reply, and then undo all your mods to the thread, and not give back the mod points, without any warning.
The other way to look at it, that also holds up 90% rule, is that, most (90%) of the people you deal with day to day are font-line employees, ie, service industry. Hardly anyone's (90%?) first career aspiration. So you'll run into a lot of stupidity, laziness, incompetence and indifference. These people just don't really care.
My home PC (zalman flower-CPU, new PSU, etc.) ranges from "annoying" (most of the time) to "people think you've left the hoover on" when it detects that it's too hot.
What the fuck have you done to your system?!? I have one of those Zalman copper flower type HSF mounted on a P4 3.2 and 3.0 sytsems, and even with the fan turned way up (which is not necessary unless you're planning to be pinning the CPU) it is quieter than the hard drive or case fan.
You've either bought a defective rip off, or it's something else making that noise.
My boss called the credit card company (dunno if he spoke to the same woman) and gave them shit, but the card wasn't cancelled.
Why would he give them shit? They were doing their jobs, and pretty well at that, by declining the purchase. It obviously wasn't your credit card. What if you had stolen it?
TA'ing is not teaching, and it's definitely not Assistant Professorship. Nurses to a lot of doctor-type work, but they're not Assistant Doctors, are they? They're still just nurses, and they don't practice medicine.
That's pretty interesting. Star Trek desperately needs a decline event of some sort to advance the (small-u) universe. There is only so much Starfleet can do. I wonder what the best plot to accomplish this would be...
Unfair. AvH, and this track (as opposed to song) is house. Notice the long and relatively monotonous lead-in and outro (used by djs to setup the track for live mixing) and various transitions in the main body. It is for dance halls, not radio. That it's found its way there, well, so be it. There are many that do, but that is not their intention. Buying a CD with such a track would be pointless, as it's not that great by itself. Rather it should be skillfully mixed in with other tracks and played live.
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Well, I think over $100 is a little much. Most TV series are in the 50-80 range. $100 is sticker shock.
Personally, I don't get that either. I deliberately shift my brain into neutral. It's a _MOVIE_. Entertainment! That way, you can typically wantch any given movie twice.
Although that can lead to some interesting situations. Off the top of my head, I didn't really like The Cell or Existenz the first time around, but like them more each time I watch them.
So I don't try to 'figure out' movies when watching, especially the first time. I think that's a pastime for people who try too hard to impress others. I watch the damn thing, and see where it takes me. This also makes some movies utterly unwatchable, like Bad Boyz or Rush Hour. Oh God, shoot me now.
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Well, I would buy move TV series DVDs, but typically they are too expensive. I always get Buffy and 24 and Trailer Park Boys. I'd love to get ST:TNG and DS9, but they're too expensive, although the Borg cube is kinda neat. I hear good things about Farscape, but I don't get the TV channel, and I'm not shelling out $120+ per season. What's up with sci-fi shows being so expensive? Geeks have too much money to spend? That said, whatever Firefly cost me, it's some of the best money I've ever spent.
You can't have civilians collecting and securing your evidence. They're not trained. They're not certified. They're not recognized. Should the local Sherlock Holmes fan club be invited to dust a crime scene for fingerprints and collect fibers if the cops get too busy writing traffic tickets?
It's the classic tragedy of the commons. You do something nice, and most people appreciate and don't abuse, but someone always does and spoils it for everyone. Because once abusers begins to affect business, the store has to start placing signs spelling out the limits.
Same thing happened with 'unlimited Internet'. Worked fine for vast majority of the people, but a few abusers noticed they could get away with a lot, and so they did. Eventually ISPs put caps in place, often very low, so the people who usually used reasonable amounts would be 'unfairly' punished when they went over once or twice a year.
It's just a bad atmosphere. At first the unlimited bandwidth ISPs and comfy chair book stores were a 'secret'; a few people knew you could go there once or twice a month and relax for a bit, browse some books, drink a coffee, etc. Word got out, and the freeloaders took over. Happens all the time.
What to do about it? Nothing you CAN do except put limits in place, or get rid of the nice freebie. Maybe you'll now have to pay a buck for 15 or 30 minutes to sit in a comfy chair. Or buy $x of merchandise. Not so friendly and personal anymore, is it?
It's part of the culture, true. It has to do with how many places to eat out per capita there are. In European cities, most streets are lined with cafes and restaurants. There's almost never a case that you will have to wait for a table. Just go down the street and find another place. In most of US, this is not the case. Even if it is, everything is spread out in large malls or even worse, stip malls. Concentrated in few locations, as opposed to spread over the city. Population density does not allow this. You can see the influence in places like New Orleans, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, even Calgary as of recent.
I love it! Pop in, grab a drink, some food, hang our for an hour or two. No rush. No lineups. Somewhere too busy? Go two doors down, the food is probably just as good, as opposed to in the US where there are very few 'good' places, and lots of chain crap, so people tend to congregate inappropriately even more, competing for the same space.
Also, 'lower prices than competitors' mentality means low margins, which encourage high customer turnover to keep profits up. Keep em moving. McDs even got it down to a science with the colour scheme and furniture design.
Consumers are really going to be interested in continuously buying new players or upgrading their current firmware to play new realeases because someone broke through their brand of player.
I don't buy this scheme, unless I'm totally misreading how this works.
Say one key is compromised. Someone figures out the encryption algorithm. In this case they're already telling you what it is. So you have a key. You have the method. You have the plain text. What is stopping someone from brute forcing the entire keyspace to find the rest of the keys? How is banning the key originally recovered helping the situation?
Isn't this what happened with CSS? One key was in plain text somewhere, and now there are a whole bunch that are known. Maybe not all are known, why go to the trouble when you already have a working one...
When Stallman says that you should release all your code free, you have the option of doing that or not doing that. When you don't release all your code free, Stallman doesn't have tho option to modify your code. Clearly only one of those represents an incursion of freedom of choice, and it's not Stallman's position!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Chicken and egg problem at best here. Am I limiting freedom of choice by not releaseing source, or is Stallman limiting freedom of choice by making me release source? I wrote the damn code, and it's _my_first_ choice whether to relase the source along with it. If _I_ don't want people to modify _my_code_, then that's _my_free_choice_ damn it!
Present a software question or problem to Stallman, any problem, and his answer will be 'release the source'. Bugs in your code? Release the source! Crashing all the time? Release the source! UI not user friendly? Release the source! Missing feature? Release the source! Not configurable enough? Release the source! Not compatible with something obscure? Release the source!
I may happen to agree with free software, GPL even, but not with RMS' single track mind.
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One is illegal discrimination, the other is not. One is relevant, the other is not (unless the job in question REQUIRES a nice ass). You connect the dots.
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No, the expiry complaint is to do with when the rebate company invariably finds someething wrong with your form or attachments, half the time they let you know about it after the rebate has expired, making the whole thing moot.
How would you know? Do they have this tattooed on their foreheads?
If the law (patent) is not recognized in your country, you're not breaking the law, hmm? Otherwise you have to pay the license.
But if you've already moderated a thread, you can't reply in it. slashdot won't let you. You have to log out, and then post an invisible AC reply. A royal PITA.
But at least now slash lets you know you can't reply, before it used to happily accept your reply, and then undo all your mods to the thread, and not give back the mod points, without any warning.
Yeah, that'll always work, because we know all criminals are stupid.
The other way to look at it, that also holds up 90% rule, is that, most (90%) of the people you deal with day to day are font-line employees, ie, service industry. Hardly anyone's (90%?) first career aspiration. So you'll run into a lot of stupidity, laziness, incompetence and indifference. These people just don't really care.
The application will be published when it is processed. Perfect for submarine patents.
What the fuck have you done to your system?!? I have one of those Zalman copper flower type HSF mounted on a P4 3.2 and 3.0 sytsems, and even with the fan turned way up (which is not necessary unless you're planning to be pinning the CPU) it is quieter than the hard drive or case fan.
You've either bought a defective rip off, or it's something else making that noise.
Most of the money VC companies made came from their managemtn fees, which can sometimes b outrageous.
24/7/365? What happens on leap years?
In any case, don't cell phones work 24x7, and will reach you more reliably any time of day than a land line, or am I missing something here?
Why would he give them shit? They were doing their jobs, and pretty well at that, by declining the purchase. It obviously wasn't your credit card. What if you had stolen it?
Is there some law that requires your signature be the same as your name?
TA'ing is not teaching, and it's definitely not Assistant Professorship. Nurses to a lot of doctor-type work, but they're not Assistant Doctors, are they? They're still just nurses, and they don't practice medicine.
That's pretty interesting. Star Trek desperately needs a decline event of some sort to advance the (small-u) universe. There is only so much Starfleet can do. I wonder what the best plot to accomplish this would be...
Unfair. AvH, and this track (as opposed to song) is house. Notice the long and relatively monotonous lead-in and outro (used by djs to setup the track for live mixing) and various transitions in the main body. It is for dance halls, not radio. That it's found its way there, well, so be it. There are many that do, but that is not their intention. Buying a CD with such a track would be pointless, as it's not that great by itself. Rather it should be skillfully mixed in with other tracks and played live.
Well, I think over $100 is a little much. Most TV series are in the 50-80 range. $100 is sticker shock.
Personally, I don't get that either. I deliberately shift my brain into neutral. It's a _MOVIE_. Entertainment! That way, you can typically wantch any given movie twice.
Although that can lead to some interesting situations. Off the top of my head, I didn't really like The Cell or Existenz the first time around, but like them more each time I watch them.
So I don't try to 'figure out' movies when watching, especially the first time. I think that's a pastime for people who try too hard to impress others. I watch the damn thing, and see where it takes me. This also makes some movies utterly unwatchable, like Bad Boyz or Rush Hour. Oh God, shoot me now.
Well, I would buy move TV series DVDs, but typically they are too expensive. I always get Buffy and 24 and Trailer Park Boys. I'd love to get ST:TNG and DS9, but they're too expensive, although the Borg cube is kinda neat. I hear good things about Farscape, but I don't get the TV channel, and I'm not shelling out $120+ per season. What's up with sci-fi shows being so expensive? Geeks have too much money to spend? That said, whatever Firefly cost me, it's some of the best money I've ever spent.
You can't have civilians collecting and securing your evidence. They're not trained. They're not certified. They're not recognized. Should the local Sherlock Holmes fan club be invited to dust a crime scene for fingerprints and collect fibers if the cops get too busy writing traffic tickets?
It's the classic tragedy of the commons. You do something nice, and most people appreciate and don't abuse, but someone always does and spoils it for everyone. Because once abusers begins to affect business, the store has to start placing signs spelling out the limits.
Same thing happened with 'unlimited Internet'. Worked fine for vast majority of the people, but a few abusers noticed they could get away with a lot, and so they did. Eventually ISPs put caps in place, often very low, so the people who usually used reasonable amounts would be 'unfairly' punished when they went over once or twice a year.
It's just a bad atmosphere. At first the unlimited bandwidth ISPs and comfy chair book stores were a 'secret'; a few people knew you could go there once or twice a month and relax for a bit, browse some books, drink a coffee, etc. Word got out, and the freeloaders took over. Happens all the time.
What to do about it? Nothing you CAN do except put limits in place, or get rid of the nice freebie. Maybe you'll now have to pay a buck for 15 or 30 minutes to sit in a comfy chair. Or buy $x of merchandise. Not so friendly and personal anymore, is it?
It's part of the culture, true. It has to do with how many places to eat out per capita there are. In European cities, most streets are lined with cafes and restaurants. There's almost never a case that you will have to wait for a table. Just go down the street and find another place. In most of US, this is not the case. Even if it is, everything is spread out in large malls or even worse, stip malls. Concentrated in few locations, as opposed to spread over the city. Population density does not allow this. You can see the influence in places like New Orleans, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, even Calgary as of recent.
I love it! Pop in, grab a drink, some food, hang our for an hour or two. No rush. No lineups. Somewhere too busy? Go two doors down, the food is probably just as good, as opposed to in the US where there are very few 'good' places, and lots of chain crap, so people tend to congregate inappropriately even more, competing for the same space.
Also, 'lower prices than competitors' mentality means low margins, which encourage high customer turnover to keep profits up. Keep em moving. McDs even got it down to a science with the colour scheme and furniture design.
I don't buy this scheme, unless I'm totally misreading how this works.
Say one key is compromised. Someone figures out the encryption algorithm. In this case they're already telling you what it is. So you have a key. You have the method. You have the plain text. What is stopping someone from brute forcing the entire keyspace to find the rest of the keys? How is banning the key originally recovered helping the situation?
Isn't this what happened with CSS? One key was in plain text somewhere, and now there are a whole bunch that are known. Maybe not all are known, why go to the trouble when you already have a working one...
Travolta wasn't in Three Kings... are you thinking of Clooney?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Chicken and egg problem at best here. Am I limiting freedom of choice by not releaseing source, or is Stallman limiting freedom of choice by making me release source? I wrote the damn code, and it's _my_first_ choice whether to relase the source along with it. If _I_ don't want people to modify _my_code_, then that's _my_free_choice_ damn it!
Present a software question or problem to Stallman, any problem, and his answer will be 'release the source'. Bugs in your code? Release the source! Crashing all the time? Release the source! UI not user friendly? Release the source! Missing feature? Release the source! Not configurable enough? Release the source! Not compatible with something obscure? Release the source!
I may happen to agree with free software, GPL even, but not with RMS' single track mind.
One is illegal discrimination, the other is not. One is relevant, the other is not (unless the job in question REQUIRES a nice ass). You connect the dots.