Yup. If I have to whitelist the actual site to read the basic text content, then they can do without my patronage. It's no loss to me. If I pop up noscript and the list of domains is so long I have to scroll it, ditto. OTOH, if the site has only one or two 3rd party domains, I'll allow it. Ghostery and Disconnect manage the rest.
Blame Snowden, sure. That's exactly the sort of ready-to-print headline we've come to expect from politicians in the UK - the Daily Fail and other FUD-spreading tabloid press won't even have to re-write it.
Sadly, the tabloid-addicted public will believe it - they've spent decades in a sewer of screaming headlines, and have lost anything resembling critical thinking.
This would be a good time for her maj to put her foot down - she does command the armed forces, after all.
I've used Adobe Creative Suite (video) on both PC and Mac. The UI is almost identical, the output from both is satisfactory, but each has advantages and disadvantages.
I prefer the windows solution, because it's cheaper and easier to do progressive upgrades, such as replacing the hard drives, or upgrade the video adapter.
Nonsense. Australia appoints its public law enforcement officials - police chiefs, judges, public prosecutors & defenders, etc - and it works with minimal levels of corruption.
Election of such officials - WITHOUT mandatory voting - just results in interest groups getting their preferred puppet installed, and sets up conditions that encourage corruption. When your continued employment depends on popularity instead of merit, you find ways legal and otherwise to maintain your popularity.
I'd have thought that would have already been clear in the licencing contract.
"The material is licenced to the purchaser for the purposes stated in appendix A. Ownership and copyright of the material remains at all times with the seller".
So a copyright claim by Epic/Sony would be breach of contract, and hopefully there would be a clause in the contract that the licence is immediately cancelled should there be such a breach of contract.
At least, that's how I would licence any material of mine.
Sony has obviously sent a copy of the video to their legal/enforcement division (did they have a licence to copy the material for that purpose?), who proceeded to scour youtube/vimeo/liveleak for it, without bothering to check who *actually* held the copyright in the original footage.
I guess the cut-back-on-staff-to-improve-profitibility(ratings) experiment didn't work.
I would have moved the other three into a different field, maybe a travelling show, visiting schools to do cool science stuff - fewer explosions, sure, but maybe some rocketry +GoPro, or weather balloons. Lots of room for building stuff out of silicone/gelatine, dropping buster onto various surfaces with sensor experiments designed by the students.
An accurate headline should read, "one person out of 45,000 that have worked on Fukushima recovery has developed cancer". In the US , approximately 1.5% of people will be diagnosed with leukemia, and it is more common in men than women. Did this guy smoke cigarettes? The risk is higher if he did. The news reports ignore important stuff like this. In a given group of 45,000 people, we should expect to see over 10 cases of Leukemia per year, but we've only seen one in 3-4 years. Why is that?
That's a very good question, but it's a bit misleading to quote U.S. statistics - it might be different in Japan. There are countries with significantly higher/lower rates of particular cancers (and other diseases) for various reasons, and we should be quoting the "normal" rate for this cancer in Japan, not the USofA.
Just that - you CANNOT sign away your right to counsel, or your right to sue. You can only choose not to pursue those options.
It's like the various waivers you have to sign to be allowed to do certain potentially dangerous things - "no matter what happens, you can't sue us for negligence" - it's nothing more than a bluff.
That was sort of my first thought: what if I get a job elsewhere, and even more interesting, what if I get a job with a competing bank?
Most employers wouldn't be inclined to give me time off to help them, but if my new employer was a competing entity, they might say "sure, take as much time as you want to help them out, just remember you're employed by us, not them, and we'd appreciate you reporting back any interesting information you discover while you're there. In fact, there'll be a bonus in your pay for any such information received."
It'll only take one court case to have the offending clauses in these "contracts" declared invalid.
Only twice in 10 years have I encountered people who didn't have the money to pay for service, elderly/retirees included. One, a small rural shop that would have required a 40-minute drive was surprised that I wanted $95/hour, and the other actually called back after ringing around for a cheaper rate/faster service. I even get the followup calls from customers of another guy who charges almost half my rate, but can't cope beyond a GUI.
My experience is that retirees/elderly are more than happy to pay for a house call - just like it was half a century (or more) ago. They don't like burrowing under desks to unplug or re-plug cables, and they see value in service at their home. They also have a network and I get lots of work by referral. When they ask for 2 or 3 of my business cards, I know I'll see some new customers within a week or two.
Ask your parents to ask their friends who looks after their computers, then pick the one with the best reputation, and don't try to beat down his/her hourly rate.
Operating systems? DB2? Compilers? Other applications?
The source code for proprietary operating systems isn't much good without the hardware it's designed to run on, unless some clever programmers can port the functionality to other hardware.
See if you can find some episodes of a British TV show called "Grand designs"
A moderately pompous but well meaning and personable architect travels around the UK visiting building sites and recording the process of construction. Not ordinary housing, but people who've picked unusual projects - medieval barn restoration, cut-into-the-hillside dwellings, mansions on small plots, etc.
A number of them feature plans that are designed to take advantage of high-tech pre-fab techniques. The plans are emailed to a construction facility in Europe (mostly Germany), where wall panels, roof, etc are manufactured - precisely enough that they don't need any trimming onsite. They use a number of techniques, but mostly pressure-glued laminates of various types. The "house" arrives on the back of a truck, and assembled relatively quickly because it's mostly a case of "tab A into slot B". It's very precise and apparently cost-competitive with conventional construction.
Don't bet on it. The fuckers, particularly telstra/bigpond aren't ready, or are still fighting it.
I logged a fault (bursts of line sync loss - it was going up and down like a yo-yo) yesterday, only to be told by the first-level droid that I wasn't experiencing dropouts - then he proceeded to the wi-fi troubleshooting script.
To cut a long story short, 2nd level support and the "broadband test team" have both told me that their systems "aren't capable of detecting or logging dropouts". Just let that sink in for a minute.
I don't believe it for a second - they're lying. They want to be able to say that they're unable to log this metadata.
a new computer system that must be natively compatible with IBM's iSeries.
Funny you should mention that. Way back when we wanted to replace an ageing System/36, we wanted to preserve the significant investment in the application code. Only Wang and IBM were in the running - Wang's system ran the '36 code by re-compiling the source into their own binary code, and IBM obviously bid an AS400. The final prices were (in my mind) suspiciously close. One of those two bidders had a mole in the competition.
where I wouldn't dare venture with such things as implanted RFID chips.
Want to use your implanted RFID chip to access your bank via ATM? What's to stop criminals from cutting off your finger and racing to the nearest ATM before your finger and the chip become non-operational? Probably the PIN you also use to authenticate, but still.......
No, no it's not. My income since 29th July has increased, mainly due to sorting out issues caused by Windows 10.
I'm not objecting to it for obvious reasons, but to call it a fine operating system is just incorrect.
If you're going to push a "free" upgrade to people, and boast of its improvements and superiority, you'd better make sure that commonly-used programs (such as Google Chrome) migrate seamlessly, or at least leave a message or log about things that went wrong, so i don't have to spend hours diagnosing the problem.
No, I don't remember that, seeing as how TMMM was published in the 70s, and Linux was released in the 90s.
If you meant Unix, then you're getting closer temporally, but you've still missed the target.
I'll assume your auto-correct substituted "Linux" when you really meant "OS360", but I'd like to see some examples of "discreet OS360 programs and pipes" to support your statement.
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Yup. If I have to whitelist the actual site to read the basic text content, then they can do without my patronage. It's no loss to me. If I pop up noscript and the list of domains is so long I have to scroll it, ditto. OTOH, if the site has only one or two 3rd party domains, I'll allow it. Ghostery and Disconnect manage the rest.
Blame Snowden, sure. That's exactly the sort of ready-to-print headline we've come to expect from politicians in the UK - the Daily Fail and other FUD-spreading tabloid press won't even have to re-write it.
Sadly, the tabloid-addicted public will believe it - they've spent decades in a sewer of screaming headlines, and have lost anything resembling critical thinking.
This would be a good time for her maj to put her foot down - she does command the armed forces, after all.
But not the latest version. Feature bloat.
Also, I disabled Chrome.
I've used Adobe Creative Suite (video) on both PC and Mac. The UI is almost identical, the output from both is satisfactory, but each has advantages and disadvantages.
I prefer the windows solution, because it's cheaper and easier to do progressive upgrades, such as replacing the hard drives, or upgrade the video adapter.
Do tell me how W10 manages to bypass the firewall rules in my router?
It MAY bypass its own firewall, but it's only going to take one exploit for the lawsuits to start rolling in.
Last time I enquired, a digital back for my RB67 was $14K. Sigh. I guess I'll stick with film for now.
Nonsense. Australia appoints its public law enforcement officials - police chiefs, judges, public prosecutors & defenders, etc - and it works with minimal levels of corruption.
Election of such officials - WITHOUT mandatory voting - just results in interest groups getting their preferred puppet installed, and sets up conditions that encourage corruption. When your continued employment depends on popularity instead of merit, you find ways legal and otherwise to maintain your popularity.
Yep, but an unscheduled 24-hour outage is still going to look bad on *someone's* quarterly report.
The workload might switch elsewhere, but fixed costs don't.
How about a mandatory downtime for the data centre of say, 24 hours?
Hit 'em in the hip pocket - which is what a fine is supposed to do, but rarely, in the case of corporations, achieves its desired affect.
I'd have thought that would have already been clear in the licencing contract.
"The material is licenced to the purchaser for the purposes stated in appendix A. Ownership and copyright of the material remains at all times with the seller".
So a copyright claim by Epic/Sony would be breach of contract, and hopefully there would be a clause in the contract that the licence is immediately cancelled should there be such a breach of contract.
At least, that's how I would licence any material of mine.
Sony has obviously sent a copy of the video to their legal/enforcement division (did they have a licence to copy the material for that purpose?), who proceeded to scour youtube/vimeo/liveleak for it, without bothering to check who *actually* held the copyright in the original footage.
I guess the cut-back-on-staff-to-improve-profitibility(ratings) experiment didn't work.
I would have moved the other three into a different field, maybe a travelling show, visiting schools to do cool science stuff - fewer explosions, sure, but maybe some rocketry +GoPro, or weather balloons. Lots of room for building stuff out of silicone/gelatine, dropping buster onto various surfaces with sensor experiments designed by the students.
1 laptop connected to the big-screen TV, with internet connection for Netflix and ABC iView, and an external HDD for stored content.
1 blu-ray player connected to the TV for occasional discs.
1 eeePC with external powered speakers, exclusively connected to Live365 for music.
Other family members all have a laptop for school, work, and netflix.
An accurate headline should read, "one person out of 45,000 that have worked on Fukushima recovery has developed cancer". In the US , approximately 1.5% of people will be diagnosed with leukemia, and it is more common in men than women. Did this guy smoke cigarettes? The risk is higher if he did. The news reports ignore important stuff like this. In a given group of 45,000 people, we should expect to see over 10 cases of Leukemia per year, but we've only seen one in 3-4 years. Why is that?
That's a very good question, but it's a bit misleading to quote U.S. statistics - it might be different in Japan. There are countries with significantly higher/lower rates of particular cancers (and other diseases) for various reasons, and we should be quoting the "normal" rate for this cancer in Japan, not the USofA.
Just that - you CANNOT sign away your right to counsel, or your right to sue. You can only choose not to pursue those options.
It's like the various waivers you have to sign to be allowed to do certain potentially dangerous things - "no matter what happens, you can't sue us for negligence" - it's nothing more than a bluff.
That was sort of my first thought: what if I get a job elsewhere, and even more interesting, what if I get a job with a competing bank?
Most employers wouldn't be inclined to give me time off to help them, but if my new employer was a competing entity, they might say "sure, take as much time as you want to help them out, just remember you're employed by us, not them, and we'd appreciate you reporting back any interesting information you discover while you're there. In fact, there'll be a bonus in your pay for any such information received."
It'll only take one court case to have the offending clauses in these "contracts" declared invalid.
Only twice in 10 years have I encountered people who didn't have the money to pay for service, elderly/retirees included. One, a small rural shop that would have required a 40-minute drive was surprised that I wanted $95/hour, and the other actually called back after ringing around for a cheaper rate/faster service. I even get the followup calls from customers of another guy who charges almost half my rate, but can't cope beyond a GUI.
My experience is that retirees/elderly are more than happy to pay for a house call - just like it was half a century (or more) ago. They don't like burrowing under desks to unplug or re-plug cables, and they see value in service at their home. They also have a network and I get lots of work by referral. When they ask for 2 or 3 of my business cards, I know I'll see some new customers within a week or two.
Ask your parents to ask their friends who looks after their computers, then pick the one with the best reputation, and don't try to beat down his/her hourly rate.
Except operating system updates that render the device unusable without a factory restore/reset.
Two of many:
https://discussions.apple.com/...
http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/18/...
Operating systems? DB2? Compilers? Other applications?
The source code for proprietary operating systems isn't much good without the hardware it's designed to run on, unless some clever programmers can port the functionality to other hardware.
See if you can find some episodes of a British TV show called "Grand designs"
A moderately pompous but well meaning and personable architect travels around the UK visiting building sites and recording the process of construction. Not ordinary housing, but people who've picked unusual projects - medieval barn restoration, cut-into-the-hillside dwellings, mansions on small plots, etc.
A number of them feature plans that are designed to take advantage of high-tech pre-fab techniques. The plans are emailed to a construction facility in Europe (mostly Germany), where wall panels, roof, etc are manufactured - precisely enough that they don't need any trimming onsite. They use a number of techniques, but mostly pressure-glued laminates of various types. The "house" arrives on the back of a truck, and assembled relatively quickly because it's mostly a case of "tab A into slot B". It's very precise and apparently cost-competitive with conventional construction.
Don't bet on it. The fuckers, particularly telstra/bigpond aren't ready, or are still fighting it.
I logged a fault (bursts of line sync loss - it was going up and down like a yo-yo) yesterday, only to be told by the first-level droid that I wasn't experiencing dropouts - then he proceeded to the wi-fi troubleshooting script.
To cut a long story short, 2nd level support and the "broadband test team" have both told me that their systems "aren't capable of detecting or logging dropouts". Just let that sink in for a minute.
I don't believe it for a second - they're lying. They want to be able to say that they're unable to log this metadata.
a new computer system that must be natively compatible with IBM's iSeries.
Funny you should mention that. Way back when we wanted to replace an ageing System/36, we wanted to preserve the significant investment in the application code. Only Wang and IBM were in the running - Wang's system ran the '36 code by re-compiling the source into their own binary code, and IBM obviously bid an AS400. The final prices were (in my mind) suspiciously close. One of those two bidders had a mole in the competition.
where I wouldn't dare venture with such things as implanted RFID chips.
Want to use your implanted RFID chip to access your bank via ATM? What's to stop criminals from cutting off your finger and racing to the nearest ATM before your finger and the chip become non-operational? Probably the PIN you also use to authenticate, but still.......
Live tiles.
Well idiot W10 is a fine operating system
No, no it's not. My income since 29th July has increased, mainly due to sorting out issues caused by Windows 10.
I'm not objecting to it for obvious reasons, but to call it a fine operating system is just incorrect.
If you're going to push a "free" upgrade to people, and boast of its improvements and superiority, you'd better make sure that commonly-used programs (such as Google Chrome) migrate seamlessly, or at least leave a message or log about things that went wrong, so i don't have to spend hours diagnosing the problem.
No, I don't remember that, seeing as how TMMM was published in the 70s, and Linux was released in the 90s.
If you meant Unix, then you're getting closer temporally, but you've still missed the target.
I'll assume your auto-correct substituted "Linux" when you really meant "OS360", but I'd like to see some examples of "discreet OS360 programs and pipes" to support your statement.