The OS is more then the kernel. For example it could put the contents of the swap file into extended memory rather writing it to disk. The various system services that are woven into the OS could also put their larger uses of memory into extended memory to keep them out of the way of user apps. The system monitoring tools could also account for this memory in it's displays.
You may want to check into unemployment for your state. If they fire you for not signing such an agreement, you may be able to collect unemployment, while you look for a new employer.
I'm still using Office 2000 myself. I have previously used both Office XP and Office 2003 extensively at work and have found no reason to upgrade at home (I recently became voluntarily unemployed so now I'm only using Office 2000). I've briefly used Office 2007 at work, and that ribbon is good reason for me not to upgrade to it. I tried OpenOffice.org as well, but some very basic things about their Excel equivalent annoyed me to no end so I gave up on that.
For a good show, I'd pay a few bucks an episode or $SEASON_DVD_PRICE per season, whichever is less. I'd want it within a few days of the original airing.
If I paid for the season, I'd expect a coupon that would let me buy the DVD for the cost of manufacturing and shipping.
I'd go for paying the season DVD price to watch each episode once on demand along with that coupon to get the actual DVD set at cost. Otherwise, screw 'em I'll wait for it to come out on DVD.
"You can't say the server accepts the client's offer because this is a guaranteed committed consequence of human actions that have already taken place." - no it isn't. The server can decline the offer and many sites do that and instead make a counter offer for the the client to provide valid credentials before the content will be transfered. Many sites that require client's to provide valid credentials only accept credentials provided by that same site and only provide the credentials after the client has first agreed to the site's terms of service. That's how web site owner's make offers accepted by client's.
"So where does the client get the URL from in the first place, if not from an offer?" - lots of place. For example when some verbally tells you about a website that they don't own including telling you what the URL for it is, that person is not making you an offer and the website owner has had no contact with you. Such a URL does not come to you by way of an offer, but simply word of mouth.
"Any time one party makes an offer to another, and the other accepts the offer, there's at least an implied contract. That's clearly what's happening in the case of mail servers and web servers. These are both offers of service in exchange for certain restrictions on how you can use it that are known and understood by both sides."
A server isn't a party (i.e. a server is not legal person).
Even if you are talking about the person who is running the client and the person who is running the server, it's the the person running the client who actually makes an offer (i.e. give the resource at this URL or accept this e-mail and put in the specified box) and it's the person running the server that accepts it.
"I'm curious what your theory is for why it's not just without being fraud. I mean, we all know that force is not just even though it's not fraud. So what is it that makes this unjust?"
I never said it was just or not. All I said was that it isn't a click and it isn't t fraud and that lack of fraud does not equal being just. The lack of fraud does not equal being unjust either. If there is fraud then there is injustice. The lack of fraud alone does not determine whether there has been an injustice or not.
"Spam *is* fraud. When you connect to a mail server, there's an implied contract."
While phishing is fraud, spam is only so if there is a law making it so. There is no implied-in-law contract unless there is actually a law creating it, and that varies by jurisdiction. There is no implied-in-fact contract without conduct from both parties from their intention to form a tacit understanding can be inferred. Clearly, one party's conduct (the spammers) demonstrates their lack intention to have an understanding not to send unsolicited commercial e-mails.
"If you walk into a barbershop, sit down for a haircut, and then the barber asks for $350, it's fraud. He implicitly accepted the contract you offered him by sitting down for a haircut, and then violated its terms by charging you a price you would not have agreed to."
Actually I think the customer would lose that one if that was the barbers standard rate, no rate was posted, and the customer failed inquire as to price. $350 isn't actually an outrageous price for hair styling, which a hair cut is a form of. It also isn't fraud and as there was no misrepresentation on the barber's part in your scenario.
"You have changed your position in response to my criticism but pretend that you have not."
Nope. You've mischaracterized my position. I never said anything about being justified. I said it wasn't clicks and it wasn't fraud. Not being fraud does not equal being just (e.g. mugging someone isn't fraud but it isn't just either).
"If we really believed that, we could justify anything. Why can't I spam you? It's not my fault your mail server accepts the mail and delivers it to a person. As far as I know, it wants it and might even throw it away."
Considering the amount of spam I get (including physical junk mail) I can't see the relevance of the statement nor what spam in general (vs. phishing specifically) has to do with fraud.
When you leave your windows open without screens in, expect bugs come in the house. The internet is no different. If your server is designed to blindly respond to every request, expect to get requests you don't actually want. Just like physical screens for physical windows, virtual filters for virtual ports cost money.
First it isn't clicks that are being counted, but rather URL hits. Google doesn't know when someone clicks something in their browser as the adwords HTML fragment doesn't include javascript). What Google knows is when an HTTP client requests the content of a specific URL (I was going to post an example but it's quite a long URL).
Second the HTTP client's request no representation to Google about it's intentions for requesting the URL's content, nor it's intended use of the URL's content.
It seems to me that things that made the biggest impact on the way people lived in was advent of agriculture and then the industrial revolution.
Prior to the advent of agriculture, people were hunter gathers. Prior to the industrial revolution most people's livelihoods were in agriculture.
While computers have revolutionized information based activities in the Western world, these are only a small portion of overall activity. Most people are still engaged in affecting the physical world in some way (medcial industry, service industry, retail industry, transportation industry, etc.). The next revolution will be the robotic revolution were machines take over more and more of these activities and more and more people become engaged information based activities.
Sure it was tiny % of boomers doing the innovation from the mid 70s to the early 90s, and those individuals well deserve credit for their achievement; however, their entire generation does not.
All long distance land travel was not done by horseback prior to the railroads. Wagons and carriages had been around for a very long time prior to railroads.
"Higher paided ones are less plentiful and they are usually require you live in very expensive places to live." - this is definitely a problem. In many tech areas, tech salaries don't allow the average techy to live well due to the high cost of living and annual raises are not keeping up with local price increases so the average techy actually feels poorer every year.
Perhaps no expensive equipment to harvest, but building all those concrete pools and greenhouse is going to require some substantial capital outlay just to get started.
Knowing which operations a data structure is particularly good or bad at is one thing, but expecting folks to remember the big O notation for all of the operations on all of the basic data structures is specific knowledge that can be quite easily looked up when necessary. For small data sets the big O isn't going to matter, and the specific implementation will actually need to be examined; however, for most uses of small data sets the perf really doesn't matter and code simplicity is governs the choice of the standard implementation to use (i.e the one that requires the least code to actually make use of).
Right, cause 4G languages have nothing to be with being able to develop the software faster in the first place, and it's only about modifying the code later. Humans developed better code viewing tools so that they can understand code better. Hungarian is the assembly of code understanding, and it can not provide nearly as much information as modern source code editors can. Why have a human do the work the machine can do?
And who are you going to sue when something goes wrong? The Indian or Chinese doctor? Good luck with that. It seems like you want cheap medical care without addressing the reasons it is so expensive in the US such as malpractice insurance and "Managed" care.
Or you could do your due diligence up front and make sure the doctor is good before they operate so there is no need to sue afterwards
Some doctors in the US are going to a cash only with a waiver of liability, so they no hassles with insurance companies and no giant malpractice insurance premiums, which dramatically reduces their costs so they can charge reasonable prices.
I don't believe official inflation numbers either. To much hedonic adjustment going on and there's the whole deal with "core inflation" which excludes food and energy (oh no food and energy are volatile; never mind everyone needs it to survive). At the same time, I'm wholly unconvinced that the throwing more money at schools will improve anything, as I don't think it's the lack of funds that is the primary problem, but that a lot of schools have basically become glorified day care centers. I think we might be better off getting rid of federal funding for schools along with all of the strings that come with it.
You do not write code for computer. You do not even write code for the human who is developing the solution. You write code for one reason: to help the human who has to maintain your code do so quickly and efficiently.
Err, do you mean code comments rather then code? If not then pass the peace pipe 'cause I want a hit.
too many years of "borrow and spend" republicans slashing support for schools using the very lame excuse about "cutting back money going to the school bureaucrats"
People who interview for an engineering position with a 6 figure salary crash and burn when asked to reverse a linked list (it's not a critical question, but I've stopped asking that one). Very few seem to know their data structures and their performance characteristics. I'm talking about undergraduate data structures and algo stuff: arrays vs linked list, trees vs hash tables, big O notation.
That's because rolling your own basic data structures and algorithms is generally frowned upon when there are existing implementations in a standard library. As result of using standard implementations and not regularly dealing with these basics for years on end people forget a lot of the details. This has happened to me and I found it necessary to spend a week reviewing some college text books in order to interview well, and then it was back to using standard implementations again, and forgetting the details of basic data structures and algorithms.
This is again an issue of wanting specific knowledge. Do you really need someone who remembers the details of basic data structures and algorithms off the top of their head, or do you need some one who knows how to find and learn whatever is necessary to get the job done? Asking about the former won't tell you about the later.
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The OS is more then the kernel. For example it could put the contents of the swap file into extended memory rather writing it to disk. The various system services that are woven into the OS could also put their larger uses of memory into extended memory to keep them out of the way of user apps. The system monitoring tools could also account for this memory in it's displays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Windowing_Extensions allows addressing up to 64GB of RAM. If the OS can enable an app to do it why can't it do it self?
You may want to check into unemployment for your state. If they fire you for not signing such an agreement, you may be able to collect unemployment, while you look for a new employer.
I'm still using Office 2000 myself. I have previously used both Office XP and Office 2003 extensively at work and have found no reason to upgrade at home (I recently became voluntarily unemployed so now I'm only using Office 2000). I've briefly used Office 2007 at work, and that ribbon is good reason for me not to upgrade to it. I tried OpenOffice.org as well, but some very basic things about their Excel equivalent annoyed me to no end so I gave up on that.
For a good show, I'd pay a few bucks an episode or $SEASON_DVD_PRICE per season, whichever is less. I'd want it within a few days of the original airing. If I paid for the season, I'd expect a coupon that would let me buy the DVD for the cost of manufacturing and shipping. I'd go for paying the season DVD price to watch each episode once on demand along with that coupon to get the actual DVD set at cost. Otherwise, screw 'em I'll wait for it to come out on DVD.
"You can't say the server accepts the client's offer because this is a guaranteed committed consequence of human actions that have already taken place." - no it isn't. The server can decline the offer and many sites do that and instead make a counter offer for the the client to provide valid credentials before the content will be transfered. Many sites that require client's to provide valid credentials only accept credentials provided by that same site and only provide the credentials after the client has first agreed to the site's terms of service. That's how web site owner's make offers accepted by client's.
"So where does the client get the URL from in the first place, if not from an offer?" - lots of place. For example when some verbally tells you about a website that they don't own including telling you what the URL for it is, that person is not making you an offer and the website owner has had no contact with you. Such a URL does not come to you by way of an offer, but simply word of mouth.
"Any time one party makes an offer to another, and the other accepts the offer, there's at least an implied contract. That's clearly what's happening in the case of mail servers and web servers. These are both offers of service in exchange for certain restrictions on how you can use it that are known and understood by both sides."
A server isn't a party (i.e. a server is not legal person).
Even if you are talking about the person who is running the client and the person who is running the server, it's the the person running the client who actually makes an offer (i.e. give the resource at this URL or accept this e-mail and put in the specified box) and it's the person running the server that accepts it.
"I'm curious what your theory is for why it's not just without being fraud. I mean, we all know that force is not just even though it's not fraud. So what is it that makes this unjust?"
I never said it was just or not. All I said was that it isn't a click and it isn't t fraud and that lack of fraud does not equal being just. The lack of fraud does not equal being unjust either. If there is fraud then there is injustice. The lack of fraud alone does not determine whether there has been an injustice or not.
"Spam *is* fraud. When you connect to a mail server, there's an implied contract."
While phishing is fraud, spam is only so if there is a law making it so. There is no implied-in-law contract unless there is actually a law creating it, and that varies by jurisdiction. There is no implied-in-fact contract without conduct from both parties from their intention to form a tacit understanding can be inferred. Clearly, one party's conduct (the spammers) demonstrates their lack intention to have an understanding not to send unsolicited commercial e-mails.
"If you walk into a barbershop, sit down for a haircut, and then the barber asks for $350, it's fraud. He implicitly accepted the contract you offered him by sitting down for a haircut, and then violated its terms by charging you a price you would not have agreed to."
Actually I think the customer would lose that one if that was the barbers standard rate, no rate was posted, and the customer failed inquire as to price. $350 isn't actually an outrageous price for hair styling, which a hair cut is a form of. It also isn't fraud and as there was no misrepresentation on the barber's part in your scenario.
"You have changed your position in response to my criticism but pretend that you have not."
Nope. You've mischaracterized my position. I never said anything about being justified. I said it wasn't clicks and it wasn't fraud. Not being fraud does not equal being just (e.g. mugging someone isn't fraud but it isn't just either).
"If we really believed that, we could justify anything. Why can't I spam you? It's not my fault your mail server accepts the mail and delivers it to a person. As far as I know, it wants it and might even throw it away."
Considering the amount of spam I get (including physical junk mail) I can't see the relevance of the statement nor what spam in general (vs. phishing specifically) has to do with fraud.
When you leave your windows open without screens in, expect bugs come in the house. The internet is no different. If your server is designed to blindly respond to every request, expect to get requests you don't actually want. Just like physical screens for physical windows, virtual filters for virtual ports cost money.
First it isn't clicks that are being counted, but rather URL hits. Google doesn't know when someone clicks something in their browser as the adwords HTML fragment doesn't include javascript). What Google knows is when an HTTP client requests the content of a specific URL (I was going to post an example but it's quite a long URL).
Second the HTTP client's request no representation to Google about it's intentions for requesting the URL's content, nor it's intended use of the URL's content.
It seems to me that things that made the biggest impact on the way people lived in was advent of agriculture and then the industrial revolution. Prior to the advent of agriculture, people were hunter gathers. Prior to the industrial revolution most people's livelihoods were in agriculture. While computers have revolutionized information based activities in the Western world, these are only a small portion of overall activity. Most people are still engaged in affecting the physical world in some way (medcial industry, service industry, retail industry, transportation industry, etc.). The next revolution will be the robotic revolution were machines take over more and more of these activities and more and more people become engaged information based activities.
Sure it was tiny % of boomers doing the innovation from the mid 70s to the early 90s, and those individuals well deserve credit for their achievement; however, their entire generation does not.
All long distance land travel was not done by horseback prior to the railroads. Wagons and carriages had been around for a very long time prior to railroads.
"Higher paided ones are less plentiful and they are usually require you live in very expensive places to live." - this is definitely a problem. In many tech areas, tech salaries don't allow the average techy to live well due to the high cost of living and annual raises are not keeping up with local price increases so the average techy actually feels poorer every year.
Perhaps no expensive equipment to harvest, but building all those concrete pools and greenhouse is going to require some substantial capital outlay just to get started.
Knowing which operations a data structure is particularly good or bad at is one thing, but expecting folks to remember the big O notation for all of the operations on all of the basic data structures is specific knowledge that can be quite easily looked up when necessary. For small data sets the big O isn't going to matter, and the specific implementation will actually need to be examined; however, for most uses of small data sets the perf really doesn't matter and code simplicity is governs the choice of the standard implementation to use (i.e the one that requires the least code to actually make use of).
Right, cause 4G languages have nothing to be with being able to develop the software faster in the first place, and it's only about modifying the code later. Humans developed better code viewing tools so that they can understand code better. Hungarian is the assembly of code understanding, and it can not provide nearly as much information as modern source code editors can. Why have a human do the work the machine can do?
And who are you going to sue when something goes wrong? The Indian or Chinese doctor? Good luck with that. It seems like you want cheap medical care without addressing the reasons it is so expensive in the US such as malpractice insurance and "Managed" care.
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Or you could do your due diligence up front and make sure the doctor is good before they operate so there is no need to sue afterwards
I've read more then once that it's a small percentage of bad doctors who are responsible for most malpractice suits, but since it's other doctors that regulate doctors, these bad doctors don't get there license pulled. For example http://www.saynotocaps.org/newsarticles/Small%20P
Some doctors in the US are going to a cash only with a waiver of liability, so they no hassles with insurance companies and no giant malpractice insurance premiums, which dramatically reduces their costs so they can charge reasonable prices.
I don't believe official inflation numbers either. To much hedonic adjustment going on and there's the whole deal with "core inflation" which excludes food and energy (oh no food and energy are volatile; never mind everyone needs it to survive). At the same time, I'm wholly unconvinced that the throwing more money at schools will improve anything, as I don't think it's the lack of funds that is the primary problem, but that a lot of schools have basically become glorified day care centers. I think we might be better off getting rid of federal funding for schools along with all of the strings that come with it.
Your talking about scientific theory, but that isn't the only kind of theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory :
"Theories exist not only in the so-called hard sciences, but in all fields of academic study, from philosophy to music to literature.
In the humanities, theory is often used as an abbreviation for critical theory or literary theory."
You do not write code for computer. You do not even write code for the human who is developing the solution. You write code for one reason: to help the human who has to maintain your code do so quickly and efficiently.
Err, do you mean code comments rather then code? If not then pass the peace pipe 'cause I want a hit.
too many years of "borrow and spend" republicans slashing support for schools using the very lame excuse about "cutting back money going to the school bureaucrats"
t e-chart.html looks like funding support for schools continues to go up every year to me.
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edli
People who interview for an engineering position with a 6 figure salary crash and burn when asked to reverse a linked list (it's not a critical question, but I've stopped asking that one). Very few seem to know their data structures and their performance characteristics. I'm talking about undergraduate data structures and algo stuff: arrays vs linked list, trees vs hash tables, big O notation.
That's because rolling your own basic data structures and algorithms is generally frowned upon when there are existing implementations in a standard library. As result of using standard implementations and not regularly dealing with these basics for years on end people forget a lot of the details. This has happened to me and I found it necessary to spend a week reviewing some college text books in order to interview well, and then it was back to using standard implementations again, and forgetting the details of basic data structures and algorithms.
This is again an issue of wanting specific knowledge. Do you really need someone who remembers the details of basic data structures and algorithms off the top of their head, or do you need some one who knows how to find and learn whatever is necessary to get the job done? Asking about the former won't tell you about the later.