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The FTP term has lost its meaning to represent a protocol (which is what the IT staff thinks of it as) vs the end users with think of FTP as a generic term to transfer files.
And the role of IT is to support those end users called "Joe Sixpack" in the completion of their duties. In this case those users are absolutely correct based upon the definition of FTP which is
File Transfer Protocol
Simply put, those users are using the terminology in the correct manner based upon the language instead of using it according to the damn RFC. In fact based upon the definition of FTP, it could easily include Sneaker Net, Direct Connection, Bit Torrent, Rapid Share, WhaleMail and a whole rash of other setups that do the same thing as you're local server does.
Of course we could just blame Michael Jackon's funeral for the internet meltdown.
Nah! There's no blame because you're more likely right then wrong. All the damn fools wanting to get to the funeral at Stapples Center from around the world.
If this is what it takes to return the United States to a proper service economy instead of the rampant consumerism we've had forced down our throats for the last 30+ years, then I'm all for it because I'd personally be willing to spend a bit more for a product that can be repaired easily and that doesn't fall apart the day after the warranty expires unlike the crap I've seen for the last decade.
Wrong!! The bulk of the Software on OSX is either closed source or under the BSD license not the GPL, which Apple avoids as though it is infected with the Plague. Yes I do know that Apple has contributed to GPL projects, things like webkit but the only time I've seen any contributions to a GPL project is when it benefits Apple by improving Interoperability with Windows, otherwise they prefer the BSD license model as it means they can keep things close to their vest or even stay completely proprietary and not share it at all.
The fact that EULA's are not considered binding contracts (hell they aint even considered legal) in California and several other states. So why in hell should I read something that is not binding or even legal in my state?
Right now, B&M fixed that for you small businesses need to do this for in-state tax (and those on state boundaries need to handle customers who cross state lines to shop). There's no reason why this can't be made efficient for multiple tax zones. In fact, it's probably an opportunity for someone to set up a service bureau to do this.
You better not be an upper level manager or accountant for any B&M as you're flat wrong about sales taxes. A B&M has to collect without exception those sales taxes of the municipality where it has a physical presence of a retail store. In regards to being on a state line, there is no issue there even if their physical property does cross a state line. The location of the store itself, not the damn parking lot, determines what state/municipality gets sales taxes collected. A solid example of this are the Outlet Stores on I15 that the exit for is in Nevada. The stores themselves are in California and the county which gets to collect sales tax is San Bernadino.
Now the issue with Amazon is that they've terminated the affiliate contracts and unless they had a clause in their contracts that gave them the option to terminate at any time, someone is going to pursue a "Breach of Contract" lawsuit against them and likely succeed. Currently, that is the only way that Amazon can get into any kind of trouble for this sudden termination. For those who didn't get the warning email, email is still not considered effective for legal notifications by the Court system in the United States. This means that once again, a breach of contract issue has possibly risen and Amazon screwed the damn pooch.
Process architecture is what IE does. Each and ever tab is actually a separate running process of IE unlike firefox in which the main instance is shared across all of the tabs. One of the advantages of the shared process feature is a reduced memory footprint but the disadvantage is that a single flaky tab can bring the whole browser down. In the case of IE and Chrome, it's not as likely as each tab is a separate process. Sure a flaky website can crash a tab, but it only crashes that tab.
Actually, if the amount is over $1,000 you are required to report it. That went into effect at the same time that the legislation creating DHS was created.
Strange as I built my desktop two years ago with energy efficiency as the primary goal. I'm currently running a 64bit multi-lib version of Gentoo on a C2D e6300 (1.8GHz) with 8GB of memory and F@H using the 64bit SMP version set to Large (>10M) work units and my system is using a grand total of 120 watts average (that includes my LCD monitor and Linksys WiFi router) according to my APC battery backup. Hell I rarely turn my system off so it makes sense to run F@H and use the CPU while my system isn't being used for much else.
Based on my normal usage, I could actually get by with a 700Mhz Celeron and Win95 if it weren't for flash and Folding.
I have to deal with the various state Driver Licenses and I.D's that are issued in my capacity as a Notary Public and I'd much rather see a standardized format for all Identification in the United States. If it takes the federal government to force such a standard format upon the states, then I'm all for it. Of course the Feds could then ensure only one or two companies are authorized to make the cards and equipment for printing them.
The three elements I want to see on such I.D is "Full Name, including middle" "Persons Signature" and Picture along with an expiration date. As to the various state drinking ages, I don't give a damn about a Date of Birth. Simply have a restricted version (under 21) and an unrestricted that are color coded. A good example is how some states use a Red Band across the top of the license. To me this makes far more sense because you don't require a D.o.B on the license to indicate that the individual is not allowed to drink and if we require bars to check I.D, any bartender who serves a restricted I.D looses their license and job along with being liable for fines and as an accessory if the driver is involved in an accident (criminal liability).
Damn pushed one of my own buttons but it does make sense as it removes the age stigmata from our younger drivers while ensuring those who have a license are responsible by adding the stigma of having a restricted license.
after RTFA, I think this guy's lawyer is an idiot. First off, his original contract with Nestle's included the provision of no further usage without negotiation. Even if there was an expiration imposed upon the contract, under general contract law (IANALS - I am not a lawyer/student), Due to his stated intentions (basic contract law) the further usage of his likeness was forbidden by the Additional Usage Negotiation Requirement. This shows that his intention was that his image could be used for that single purpose instead of a continual (decade plus) campaign.
What I feel is that this is a simple matter of contract violation and unauthorized usage of his likeness in the same vein as someone using either Mel Gibson's or Harrison Ford's picture to advertise a product without compensation.
Yea Intel will be able to get a 50X power savings at idle but the real problem is the 2watts used when talking. That'll kill any phone battery in less then 10 minutes unless it's one of the old Analog Bricks that weigh 2 kilo's.
We bought our first VCR in the mid-eighties, which was a Betamax unit. At that time, the shortest tape you could get for VHS/BETA was T120 (2 hours). The real difference was you couldn't record more then 6 hours on a betamax system where as the VHS units where already offering 8 hours of recording time but the main thing that killed the Beta format was Sony's refusal to license the tech to the Porn industry. Simply put, Porn sold a hell of a lot of VHS tapes and built the market for it.
You can actually build a workable vehicle from carbon fiber and ceramics nowdays without using any metal at all. The biggest problem is how to you repair such a vehicle when it's damaged? Is it even possible? What about recycling the materials? Both steel and aluminum are easily recyclable, thus reducing actual energy costs associated with the manufacturing of the parts but cutting out the mining process.
What I'd rather see is the push to design a vehicle that's as close to 100 percent recyclable as possible. The other issue is to design such a vehicle to be as easily repaired as possible. This means it'll be butt ugly but I feel that something that can be easily repaired (modular components) can also be easily upgraded to improved performance levels just like a PC can be.
Unless the tech was installing a DVD Burner, he had no business looking at the customers file system as that's a violation of the customers right to privacy. The reason I say this revolves around ethics. If the tech is installing a playback only drive, then all he needs to do for testing purposes is ensure the drive can playback its intended medium. If it can not, then you diagnose the issue which is either hardware related such as using onboard video, or an OS problem in that the appropriate software is not installed (should come with the drive).
In the case of a burner, you can easily test such an installation by looking at the Windows directory only or the shared docs folder on an XP/Vista system. Otherwise you're crossing the line by examining private data (My Docs is a personal directory placed under "UserName" in both XP and Vista, so any entry into that directory is a violation of the customers expected privacy.
TW's DNS service has been screwed up for the last 12 months at least, which is why I've been using OpenDNS though my router is configured with OpenDNS in Slot 1, TW in slot 2, OpenDNS slot 3 and TW in the final slot. Works nicely so far and I rarely hit the OpenDNS search page.
in place of those pesky text books that use a proprietary docking port for data loading. Don't give em network access and have them all be the same. Advantage is that students always have the current textbooks on the things and the schools have a unified format for ensuring that all students have the same text books based upon their classes.
In the event of breakage or other hardware failure, simply have a location where students can take them for replacement on campus. This ensures that the units given are then loaded with their textbooks and any reading assignments while getting the failed unit in for repair/replacement.
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The FTP term has lost its meaning to represent a protocol (which is what the IT staff thinks of it as) vs the end users with think of FTP as a generic term to transfer files.
And the role of IT is to support those end users called "Joe Sixpack" in the completion of their duties. In this case those users are absolutely correct based upon the definition of FTP which is
Simply put, those users are using the terminology in the correct manner based upon the language instead of using it according to the damn RFC. In fact based upon the definition of FTP, it could easily include Sneaker Net, Direct Connection, Bit Torrent, Rapid Share, WhaleMail and a whole rash of other setups that do the same thing as you're local server does.
Should soon be heard around France in response to this law.
Damn if that doesn't make sense. Might just be able to resurrect the old Epson (286) pc that someone gave me.
Of course we could just blame Michael Jackon's funeral for the internet meltdown.
Nah! There's no blame because you're more likely right then wrong. All the damn fools wanting to get to the funeral at Stapples Center from around the world.
Thanks Matey: now I've got to clean my damn screen.
Ribbit using Kermit to browse the net
If this is what it takes to return the United States to a proper service economy instead of the rampant consumerism we've had forced down our throats for the last 30+ years, then I'm all for it because I'd personally be willing to spend a bit more for a product that can be repaired easily and that doesn't fall apart the day after the warranty expires unlike the crap I've seen for the last decade.
The bulk of the software on any Apple Mac is GPL.
Wrong!! The bulk of the Software on OSX is either closed source or under the BSD license not the GPL, which Apple avoids as though it is infected with the Plague. Yes I do know that Apple has contributed to GPL projects, things like webkit but the only time I've seen any contributions to a GPL project is when it benefits Apple by improving Interoperability with Windows, otherwise they prefer the BSD license model as it means they can keep things close to their vest or even stay completely proprietary and not share it at all.
The fact that EULA's are not considered binding contracts (hell they aint even considered legal) in California and several other states. So why in hell should I read something that is not binding or even legal in my state?
Right now, B&M fixed that for you small businesses need to do this for in-state tax (and those on state boundaries need to handle customers who cross state lines to shop). There's no reason why this can't be made efficient for multiple tax zones. In fact, it's probably an opportunity for someone to set up a service bureau to do this.
You better not be an upper level manager or accountant for any B&M as you're flat wrong about sales taxes. A B&M has to collect without exception those sales taxes of the municipality where it has a physical presence of a retail store. In regards to being on a state line, there is no issue there even if their physical property does cross a state line. The location of the store itself, not the damn parking lot, determines what state/municipality gets sales taxes collected. A solid example of this are the Outlet Stores on I15 that the exit for is in Nevada. The stores themselves are in California and the county which gets to collect sales tax is San Bernadino.
Now the issue with Amazon is that they've terminated the affiliate contracts and unless they had a clause in their contracts that gave them the option to terminate at any time, someone is going to pursue a "Breach of Contract" lawsuit against them and likely succeed. Currently, that is the only way that Amazon can get into any kind of trouble for this sudden termination. For those who didn't get the warning email, email is still not considered effective for legal notifications by the Court system in the United States. This means that once again, a breach of contract issue has possibly risen and Amazon screwed the damn pooch.
Heck neither my car or my van even have chips unless you count "paint chips" as both of them have no radio's
Process architecture is what IE does. Each and ever tab is actually a separate running process of IE unlike firefox in which the main instance is shared across all of the tabs. One of the advantages of the shared process feature is a reduced memory footprint but the disadvantage is that a single flaky tab can bring the whole browser down. In the case of IE and Chrome, it's not as likely as each tab is a separate process. Sure a flaky website can crash a tab, but it only crashes that tab.
Actually, if the amount is over $1,000 you are required to report it. That went into effect at the same time that the legislation creating DHS was created.
which is one more reason I hate Gnome and use either KDE or one of the lightweight WM's like fluxbox/FVWM
Strange as I built my desktop two years ago with energy efficiency as the primary goal. I'm currently running a 64bit multi-lib version of Gentoo on a C2D e6300 (1.8GHz) with 8GB of memory and F@H using the 64bit SMP version set to Large (>10M) work units and my system is using a grand total of 120 watts average (that includes my LCD monitor and Linksys WiFi router) according to my APC battery backup. Hell I rarely turn my system off so it makes sense to run F@H and use the CPU while my system isn't being used for much else.
Based on my normal usage, I could actually get by with a 700Mhz Celeron and Win95 if it weren't for flash and Folding.
I have to deal with the various state Driver Licenses and I.D's that are issued in my capacity as a Notary Public and I'd much rather see a standardized format for all Identification in the United States. If it takes the federal government to force such a standard format upon the states, then I'm all for it. Of course the Feds could then ensure only one or two companies are authorized to make the cards and equipment for printing them.
The three elements I want to see on such I.D is "Full Name, including middle" "Persons Signature" and Picture along with an expiration date. As to the various state drinking ages, I don't give a damn about a Date of Birth. Simply have a restricted version (under 21) and an unrestricted that are color coded. A good example is how some states use a Red Band across the top of the license. To me this makes far more sense because you don't require a D.o.B on the license to indicate that the individual is not allowed to drink and if we require bars to check I.D, any bartender who serves a restricted I.D looses their license and job along with being liable for fines and as an accessory if the driver is involved in an accident (criminal liability).
Damn pushed one of my own buttons but it does make sense as it removes the age stigmata from our younger drivers while ensuring those who have a license are responsible by adding the stigma of having a restricted license.
after RTFA, I think this guy's lawyer is an idiot. First off, his original contract with Nestle's included the provision of no further usage without negotiation. Even if there was an expiration imposed upon the contract, under general contract law (IANALS - I am not a lawyer/student), Due to his stated intentions (basic contract law) the further usage of his likeness was forbidden by the Additional Usage Negotiation Requirement. This shows that his intention was that his image could be used for that single purpose instead of a continual (decade plus) campaign.
What I feel is that this is a simple matter of contract violation and unauthorized usage of his likeness in the same vein as someone using either Mel Gibson's or Harrison Ford's picture to advertise a product without compensation.
Yea Intel will be able to get a 50X power savings at idle but the real problem is the 2watts used when talking. That'll kill any phone battery in less then 10 minutes unless it's one of the old Analog Bricks that weigh 2 kilo's.
We bought our first VCR in the mid-eighties, which was a Betamax unit. At that time, the shortest tape you could get for VHS/BETA was T120 (2 hours). The real difference was you couldn't record more then 6 hours on a betamax system where as the VHS units where already offering 8 hours of recording time but the main thing that killed the Beta format was Sony's refusal to license the tech to the Porn industry. Simply put, Porn sold a hell of a lot of VHS tapes and built the market for it.
You can actually build a workable vehicle from carbon fiber and ceramics nowdays without using any metal at all. The biggest problem is how to you repair such a vehicle when it's damaged? Is it even possible? What about recycling the materials? Both steel and aluminum are easily recyclable, thus reducing actual energy costs associated with the manufacturing of the parts but cutting out the mining process.
What I'd rather see is the push to design a vehicle that's as close to 100 percent recyclable as possible. The other issue is to design such a vehicle to be as easily repaired as possible. This means it'll be butt ugly but I feel that something that can be easily repaired (modular components) can also be easily upgraded to improved performance levels just like a PC can be.
Nope. USB 4.0 will have "OMG Ponies" as it's moniker
Unless the tech was installing a DVD Burner, he had no business looking at the customers file system as that's a violation of the customers right to privacy. The reason I say this revolves around ethics. If the tech is installing a playback only drive, then all he needs to do for testing purposes is ensure the drive can playback its intended medium. If it can not, then you diagnose the issue which is either hardware related such as using onboard video, or an OS problem in that the appropriate software is not installed (should come with the drive).
In the case of a burner, you can easily test such an installation by looking at the Windows directory only or the shared docs folder on an XP/Vista system. Otherwise you're crossing the line by examining private data (My Docs is a personal directory placed under "UserName" in both XP and Vista, so any entry into that directory is a violation of the customers expected privacy.
what's so damn hard about
when re/building a kernel?
TW's DNS service has been screwed up for the last 12 months at least, which is why I've been using OpenDNS though my router is configured with OpenDNS in Slot 1, TW in slot 2, OpenDNS slot 3 and TW in the final slot. Works nicely so far and I rarely hit the OpenDNS search page.
in place of those pesky text books that use a proprietary docking port for data loading. Don't give em network access and have them all be the same. Advantage is that students always have the current textbooks on the things and the schools have a unified format for ensuring that all students have the same text books based upon their classes.
In the event of breakage or other hardware failure, simply have a location where students can take them for replacement on campus. This ensures that the units given are then loaded with their textbooks and any reading assignments while getting the failed unit in for repair/replacement.