You don't have a 5 and 1/4 inch drive?:-o Put in the whole PC.
You must be the one that sat next to me in the plan yesterday. Dude, there's a reason for the carry-on luggage to have maximum sizes. It's so that other people can also store theirs on top.
No worries though, I was happy to have mine on my lap for the 2 hours, really saved me time after landing.
That's no longer true (about the British). ..
I've never seen a football related fight
Seriously, if there's a football related fight chances of a British hooligan being involved is extremely likely. It seems however that the worst of the worst just prefer to travel overseas with the excuse of whatever European game is available.
It also happens that usually the British TV (and authorities) doesn't show the footage, or if they do, they blame the other fans.
The only country that seems to have more violent supporters are the Turkish, and whenever there's a game between a British and a Turkish game you can expect lots of injured.
Of course I'm only talking about the supporters that travel with the team, I'm sure most supporters are just fine. But it's not what you export and what the rest of the world see.
This is true when concerning local purchases, the labels need to sell music under local laws of where they sell it.
I'm bound by the laws of the country I'm in at any time. In fact, if I visit the US, buy a CD there and come back to Spain then the laws that I'm expect to respect are the Spanish ones. I stop being subjected to US laws as soon as I stop being there. At least in theory, anyway.
This is not true when you download the music from American file-sharers. The sharer violated US license, and you participate in violation of the same license
Where do you get this? That "license" doesn't apply to me. What apply to me are laws, and contracts I agreed to, and the later only if they don't contradict any law. Nothing else.
"However, hiring overall will remain soft in coming months, particularly with the presidential election in the United States and economic turmoil in the European Union."
The EU part is obvious, but there's no explanation about why the presidential election would have an impact or where they are getting that data from.
Anyone who can't figure out how to download the video for himself, then rip an MP3 from the video, doesn't deserve to listen to the music
That's like saying anyone who can't figure out how to install a tap doesn't deserve water.
This kind of attitude LOWERS the value of technical people. You are basically saying that this is the standard that separate the normal people from the retards.
But then... It's fricken' MegaUpload. It's always seemed sketchy. Who trusts important stuff to them?
People who don't know better. This doesn't make them idiots, they just make them ignorant in a specific field.
The same thing could be said about many, many people that are quite knowledgeable in IT yet happened to deposit their money in the wrong bank. And well, they lost a lot of money, not just some digital picture or whatever.
I think before criticizing the victims here we should give it some thought: Do we have *all our own assets* (physical and otherwise) in the right place? Maybe we have our health insurance in the megaupload equivalent of insurance and we don't know about it? Or our funds?
Loved the list! There's even some iGrill apps for your iPhone. It's always a great idea to have your smartphone close to the grill when you are cooking. Why didn't I think of this before?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but technically don't you download a page in order to view it?
No. A page is downloaded indeed, but it doesn't mean that "you" download it (as in you willingly do something that triggers the action).
We can discuss technicalities all we want, but this seems like one of the cases where the judge doesn't need to care about tech stuff. Did the defendant want to see child porn and did something about it, or not? Was the defendant looking for something else and got to that porn stuff instead?
I'm glad. I've never have that in my screen but it's pure luck.
I've seen other people personal information just because it "appeared" on my screen (looking for a file but downloaded something else, etc) and getting in trouble just because I saw it on my monitor seems rather unfair...
That's impossible. Where in heaven would Jobs have found a lawyer?
No, he's suing from hell and is expecting the laws they have there to apply to all other universes. That's what he's used to.
And he's ready to spend all 40 billion fanboys souls he has in the bank if that's what it takes!
How come people in the US can get fired for reasons other than incompetence or stealing? Why can a person get fired simply by raising an issue? I never hear about this here in Europe. It's in fact very difficult to fire a person here if he is a good worker.
Don't know what part of Europe you are in, but in Spain it's quite easy. Not free, but unless the worker belong to specially protected groups (such as pregnant women) you can fire anyone you want.
And since the conservatives are in power, termination fees halved. It's one of their first things they did.
Like my brand new Galaxy Nexus for example had a glitch where the sound would randomly go up and down,
I wrote about this in my amazon.co.uk review, was instantly voted "not useful" by a lot of people. Other reviews mentioning shininess are of course "most useful".
Don't know if it's a legion of astroturfers, fanboys, or just other buyers who have a hard time admitting they made a bad purchase.
Linus: (b) do the long filenames by fooling around with several consecutive
minix-type directory entries. Depending on how you do it, you can make
old binaries see only th first characters of a extended filename, while
new binaries see them all. Besides, this means you won't waste a full
64-char direntry for short files, but instead use several entries only
when necessary. The downside is that it's a bit more work in the
kernel.
Reading about saving bytes and caring about storage... um, gave me a semi...
I guess they could make the tickets non-transferrable but that would affect people who bought tickets with the intention of going but later found out they couldn't and would give their tickets to someone else (or sell them at cost).
Just make them non-transferrable but refundable and problem solved.
I'm not so sure this was the case. I applied, and after the first "Sign up" button there was a page that said something like
"We're looking for a ticket for you. Please don't refresh this page or you will have to start over"
It lasted about 3 minutes before going to the next page where you could select your T-Shirt size, food preference and a few more things.
I don't believe those 3 minutes were overload. Maybe when google said "We're looking for a ticket" they meant "we're looking you up, looking for android, linux and java in your gmail / google + and so on".
Of course it's a theory I just made up. But if you have a better explanation for a 3 minutes delay (different to each user) other than some kind of priorization, go ahead:-)
No wonder the educational system is going to shit since any parent can bully teachers. Seriously, if you're so annoyed about the teacher asking your kid to read any specific book then ask the teacher for an acceptable replacement (for your kid only of course). Or take your kid somewhere else. Or accept an F for that specific assignment.
I wish principals grew a spine and supported their teachers on this kind of stuff.
Bad joke in the subject, but it's true. I've found that submitting patches to a established open source project is the easiest way to find a job, in fact without moving a finger.
Starting a decent open source program is even better. My pet project ccextractor is a very niche things yet I get offers for customizations / deployment / etc very often (to me often here is something like twice a month).
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You don't have a 5 and 1/4 inch drive? :-o Put in the whole PC.
You must be the one that sat next to me in the plan yesterday. Dude, there's a reason for the carry-on luggage to have maximum sizes. It's so that other people can also store theirs on top.
No worries though, I was happy to have mine on my lap for the 2 hours, really saved me time after landing.
That's no longer true (about the British).
..
I've never seen a football related fight
Seriously, if there's a football related fight chances of a British hooligan being involved is extremely likely. It seems however that the worst of the worst just prefer to travel overseas with the excuse of whatever European game is available.
It also happens that usually the British TV (and authorities) doesn't show the footage, or if they do, they blame the other fans.
The only country that seems to have more violent supporters are the Turkish, and whenever there's a game between a British and a Turkish game you can expect lots of injured.
Of course I'm only talking about the supporters that travel with the team, I'm sure most supporters are just fine. But it's not what you export and what the rest of the world see.
This is true when concerning local purchases, the labels need to sell music under local laws of where they sell it.
I'm bound by the laws of the country I'm in at any time. In fact, if I visit the US, buy a CD there and come back to Spain then the laws that I'm expect to respect are the Spanish ones. I stop being subjected to US laws as soon as I stop being there. At least in theory, anyway.
This is not true when you download the music from American file-sharers. The sharer violated US license, and you participate in violation of the same license
Where do you get this? That "license" doesn't apply to me. What apply to me are laws, and contracts I agreed to, and the later only if they don't contradict any law. Nothing else.
If you buy music produced in the US you buy it under the terms of the license.
No. If I buy music (from any country) in Spain I buy it under Spanish laws. Anything else, feel free to shove up your ass, license included.
The article says this:
"However, hiring overall will remain soft in coming months, particularly with the presidential election in the United States and economic turmoil in the European Union."
The EU part is obvious, but there's no explanation about why the presidential election would have an impact or where they are getting that data from.
Anyone who can't figure out how to download the video for himself, then rip an MP3 from the video, doesn't deserve to listen to the music
That's like saying anyone who can't figure out how to install a tap doesn't deserve water.
This kind of attitude LOWERS the value of technical people. You are basically saying that this is the standard that separate the normal people from the retards.
But then... It's fricken' MegaUpload. It's always seemed sketchy. Who trusts important stuff to them?
People who don't know better. This doesn't make them idiots, they just make them ignorant in a specific field.
The same thing could be said about many, many people that are quite knowledgeable in IT yet happened to deposit their money in the wrong bank. And well, they lost a lot of money, not just some digital picture or whatever.
I think before criticizing the victims here we should give it some thought: Do we have *all our own assets* (physical and otherwise) in the right place? Maybe we have our health insurance in the megaupload equivalent of insurance and we don't know about it? Or our funds?
Loved the list! There's even some iGrill apps for your iPhone. It's always a great idea to have your smartphone close to the grill when you are cooking. Why didn't I think of this before?
The story dwells on one person's story.
I hear the next issue cover story is about why journalists are better than average statisticians...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but technically don't you download a page in order to view it?
No. A page is downloaded indeed, but it doesn't mean that "you" download it (as in you willingly do something that triggers the action).
We can discuss technicalities all we want, but this seems like one of the cases where the judge doesn't need to care about tech stuff. Did the defendant want to see child porn and did something about it, or not? Was the defendant looking for something else and got to that porn stuff instead?
I'm glad. I've never have that in my screen but it's pure luck.
I've seen other people personal information just because it "appeared" on my screen (looking for a file but downloaded something else, etc) and getting in trouble just because I saw it on my monitor seems rather unfair...
Just a suggestion, but this time try having lifeboat space for every passenger, not every other passenger?
And then multiply by 1.25 to adjust to American units...
That's impossible. Where in heaven would Jobs have found a lawyer?
No, he's suing from hell and is expecting the laws they have there to apply to all other universes. That's what he's used to.
And he's ready to spend all 40 billion fanboys souls he has in the bank if that's what it takes!
A classic: http://xkcd.com/570/
How come people in the US can get fired for reasons other than incompetence or stealing? Why can a person get fired simply by raising an issue? I never hear about this here in Europe. It's in fact very difficult to fire a person here if he is a good worker.
Don't know what part of Europe you are in, but in Spain it's quite easy. Not free, but unless the worker belong to specially protected groups (such as pregnant women) you can fire anyone you want.
And since the conservatives are in power, termination fees halved. It's one of their first things they did.
Like my brand new Galaxy Nexus for example had a glitch where the sound would randomly go up and down,
I wrote about this in my amazon.co.uk review, was instantly voted "not useful" by a lot of people. Other reviews mentioning shininess are of course "most useful".
Don't know if it's a legion of astroturfers, fanboys, or just other buyers who have a hard time admitting they made a bad purchase.
All the years I spent reading paper books, I never once thought "if only this thing had a built-in light."
Well, just marry someone how wants to sleep while you read in bed.
Linus: (b) do the long filenames by fooling around with several consecutive minix-type directory entries. Depending on how you do it, you can make old binaries see only th first characters of a extended filename, while new binaries see them all. Besides, this means you won't waste a full 64-char direntry for short files, but instead use several entries only when necessary. The downside is that it's a bit more work in the kernel.
Reading about saving bytes and caring about storage... um, gave me a semi...
I guess they could make the tickets non-transferrable but that would affect people who bought tickets with the intention of going but later found out they couldn't and would give their tickets to someone else (or sell them at cost).
Just make them non-transferrable but refundable and problem solved.
Maybe instead of an online first-come first-serve
I'm not so sure this was the case. I applied, and after the first "Sign up" button there was a page that said something like
:-)
"We're looking for a ticket for you. Please don't refresh this page or you will have to start over"
It lasted about 3 minutes before going to the next page where you could select your T-Shirt size, food preference and a few more things.
I don't believe those 3 minutes were overload. Maybe when google said "We're looking for a ticket" they meant "we're looking you up, looking for android, linux and java in your gmail / google + and so on".
Of course it's a theory I just made up. But if you have a better explanation for a 3 minutes delay (different to each user) other than some kind of priorization, go ahead
No wonder the educational system is going to shit since any parent can bully teachers. Seriously, if you're so annoyed about the teacher asking your kid to read any specific book then ask the teacher for an acceptable replacement (for your kid only of course). Or take your kid somewhere else. Or accept an F for that specific assignment.
I wish principals grew a spine and supported their teachers on this kind of stuff.
Firefox is free to final users, but someone (Google at least) is definitely footing the bill.
Most likely that 2.5% doesn't apply to what you pay for firefox but to their global income.
You made my day :-)
The owner of the pool, Slush
Sounds totally legit, how do I sign up?
Bad joke in the subject, but it's true. I've found that submitting patches to a established open source project is the easiest way to find a job, in fact without moving a finger.
Starting a decent open source program is even better. My pet project ccextractor is a very niche things yet I get offers for customizations / deployment / etc very often (to me often here is something like twice a month).