I was thinking along the same lines.
What if she was venting to a friend at lunch and someone overheard her. Would they still have banned her?
I see the reason for someone to investigate it, but people need to express their feelings and frustrations in some way. Maybe a public place wasn't the best choice of forum, but I doubt her bottling it up until she really snapped would be a good idea either.
Also, I'm guessing the 'certain someone' would be her boyfriend so why would the professors be 'threatened'... unless each one thought they had been her boyfriend...?
someone is actively out there claiming to be someone else while that someone else is thereafter doubted as to who he is. Not sure that actually happens though
But this is exactly what happens. someone out there claims to be you and applies for credit in your name. That person may or may not continue to pose as you in getting more credit or when showing ID for the credit he has in your name. Even if the person stops claiming to be you, the damage is done to your name.
Just because the person isn't actively 'being you' every day doesn't negate the fact that for a brief moment they did act like you. That's like saying if I stole a car, drove far away, and then ditched the car that I didn't really steal the car because I didn't keep it.
I do agree with everything you said about the banks and shop keepers.
I agree there is plenty of blame to go around However, you seem to think that all people fit into one of those categories.
What you've missed is that there are 'little guys' who didn't take out a loan they couldn't afford, and didn't make a loan to some high risk person. But these 'little guys' are getting screwed because of each of the parties you mentioned. Some of them have been laid off, some have seen their investments brutalized, some are now stuck in their house because their once 80 LTV is now 105 LTV. These are a larger percentage of those complaining
Not to mention the same 'evil bankers' that made the loans also pushed to get regulations relaxed, which makes them somewhat more responsible as without their reckless behavior this mess
Now these 'little guys' find out their tax dollars are going to the same companies that got us into the mess while these companies also are basically getting free money to make new loans and start back with business as usual.
At least that's what I complain about and I'm one of those 'little guys'
Regarding 1:
who gets sued when a design flaw is found, or a component referenced in the design doesn't hold up over the lifetime and a person dies. I don't have a feeling for how much OSS software is currently in that situation, but both would fall under this same issue, but it is something that hasn't really been explored. Is the project creator, the manufacturer, the guy who made a tweak that was accepted to the project the one at fault?
Regarding 2:
Cost - the issue is in production (not development). In the software world distribution is relatively cheap, especially at low volumes of sale. For hardware it is quite the opposite. A company with more money can support a large quantity order, driving down the suppliers price for everything from components to final assembly. A small team or individual is then going to be at a disadvantage because they will generally not have the resources (or connections) to make that happen.
About 50% of the craigslist ads I've responded to were from the same scammer, who tried to get me to paypal them "because they were out of town".
Interesting. My experience trying to sell anything over $20 has had just about the same problem ("I'll pay you 20% extra, oh and I need you to send it to me in another country).
I really think creating an API for viewing posts in different ways would really help Craigslist. They could keep the posting method the same which both protects their market (you still have to go to Craigslist to post) but allows someone else to do the work on trying new search features, data organization, etc.If they are concerned at preserving small communities, they leave contacting the poster out of the API or require a redirection to the actual post.
Since Craigslist doesn't make any money on completed transactions, their business model should be totally preserved.
You do know that you can download your Google doc in a variety of formats, right?
You can also upload them again if something should happen to your online doc.
Also, anyone who think they can rely on data saved to the hard drive, flash disk, floppy, or CD with no other backup is living in a much more delusional place then Cloud 9.
I agree that the length should also be reduced, but you did seem to overlook one piece.
The patent are not meant to just recover investment for an invention, but to do that so that the entire workings of the patented item be released to the public so that other inventors can improve upon it to make a new invention.
Now days it seems that if anyone improves upon a software patent, then they get sued for patent infringement because it is using the patent (an not an improvement).
Except, under your logic, if someone comes up with their own algorithm that generates the same results (or a high enough percentage is the same) as the patented algorithm, they are now able to be sued because it performs the same purpose.
Mathematics was explicitly excluded from patents.
For example
your algorithm is 2+2=4, you get a patent on it today.
Tomorrow, I come up with 1+3=4 and you get to sue me.
Now if you are saying that it is the code, and that the steps must be exactly the same then all someone has to do is go in and change a couple of lines of code which makes it different code. That would result in no protection.
Not to mention, but I have yet to see a patent contain any code (possibly some pseudo code, but even that wasn't complete).
There has to be enough protection for the inventor that they have incentive to share 'how it works' so society can improve upon it. However the current system just seems to cause stifling of the ideas.
I think one of the problems is timeline
For drugs and physically built inventions in the past, 20 years was needed to ensure that costs were recouped and some profit was made.
Now physically built electronic items are likely obsolete technologically in
Software is even more so. Look back at software 5 or 10 years ago. Are the algorithms used that innovative that you would use them in anything today? The answer may be yes for a very select few, but most of it is so outdated that it isn't even useful to society anymore.
If it tasted the same (or could be made to), would it matter?
What would be way more important is to determine if differences in the way that this new meat grew, or changed would be detrimental to the person eating it.
Had a sudden thought when you mentioned 'augmented reality'
Maybe it would bring awareness if someone created an 'app' that showed the following:
A person is standing on a street with their iPhone (or gPhone).
Looking through the iPhone you see a duplication of the houses you see through the person's eyes.
Zoom in to the iPhone and see 2 things on each house:
1) A number with a dollar sign and the word 'goods' after it.
2) A line of text like 'vacation', 'at work', 'at home', or 'nosy neighbor'
Right, because it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that maybe there is a cultural connection, and they felt he would represent them more.
If what you say is true, then no African-American candidate anywhere would lose where the majority of the voting population was African-American, and I don't see any evidence to back that up.
Only if MySQL was the only other DB left. Its not even the only large DB left.
There's still Microsoft SQL, and I don't think Oracle will kill that beast that quickly.
There are also plenty of other DB's available.
MySQL can already fork its current state, so I would ask, why does the EU need the trademark of MySQL to remain outside the influence of Oracle?
I think the reverse also holds as I've had to correct a number of European friends about various items over the years. One was even afraid to come over here because she thought she'd get sued as soon as she stepped off the plane.
it's a big country, with a big population and a lot going on. As a result, most non-Americans knowledge of the US is gleaned from occasional news stories about generally negative events, or Hollywood/TV stereotypes.
Don't forget to add in the total lifetime of netbooks.
For most new types of products it takes a while to determine exactly how they are used and what needs to be done to improve reliability.
Laptops now have some features in them to help reliability that weren't there in the earlier years.
Heck their are whole new products built to be 'tough' to handle rougher treatment. same thing for cellphones
Think teacher's are so bad? Try doing it yourself, and then come back here and tell us how easy it is that you shouldn't get paid that much for it?
Put up or shut-up.
1) You are assuming someone could get a comparable job for just 3 months (more likely, they'd be lucky to even get a minimum wage job for that length).
2) You assume that during those 3 months, teachers are on vacation just like the kids, and not doing any training, lesson plan improvements, etc.
3) You miss the GP's point that you are only taking days into account, if you count the hours teachers work, their hourly rate would be much lower as plenty of teachers (my wife is one) work 10+ hours each day, and exceed that numerous times throughout the year (extra grading to do, parent teacher conferences, etc...)
I do agree to some extent with you that there are many problems with the education system that are not salary related, but they do contribute to the problem.
I know one other person who's hours, and stress level are the same as my wife's, and he makes quite a lot more then her.
Actually it does seem silly that cordless phones couldn't be 'synced' with a local computer.
My Logitech remote can do it, and has cool features, why couldn't the cordless phone.
it wouldn't even have to be all that complicated (I've seen some people mentioning asterisk).
Meaning if there is demand for a service with higher caps that people are willing to pay extra for, there will likely be a supplier. If Comcast doesn't provide it, they'll lose customers to those that do.
But the point is, now you know the limit. To use their system means you will follow their usage terms.
That's somewhat better then before which was that they consider you an excessive user without knowing why.
This enables you to decide if another service (if available) offers a higher cap, or to negotiate with Comcast for a new service that allows a higher cap.
Before, you didn't know so there was no way to compare. For me 250GB is well beyond my current access, and I play online games, watch netflix on demand, and TV shows online.
If their numbers are believable their info page says 125 standard definition movies (at ~2GB each) which is ~ 4 full movies per day every day for a month.
The linked PDF says what is required, though in reading the FCC filing, the summary is a bit incorrect.
Basically Comcast has 2 levels in the tier (called PBE and BE)
Everyone starts out as PBE level.
To get moved from PBE to BE, all of the following have to occur
- That particular network segment needs to be 'nearing congestion' defined as 70% upstream limits or 80% downstream limits for 15 minutes.
- A particular user has to be 'significantly contributing' defined as 70% upstream or downstream limits for 15 minutes.
Being placed in BE means that if there is congestion (meaning priorities have to be determined) any delays will affect BE traffic before PBE traffic.
To be removed from BE status you have to drop below 50% for 15 minutes
I think it is good that these are coming out in the open and being shared, and I think it is a step in the right direction since they state they will no longer use a protocol based management method. If there is congestion on a network, someone has to suffer, and it seems reasonable that those placing the highest load should be the ones to feel the effects first.
I do think, however, they need to mention more explicitly that the speeds they market are theoretical maximum allotments, and to give a average attainable bandwidth if everyone in their (block, building, etc) were to maximize usage.
what kind of cats does your neighborhood have? In my neighborhood, the trash cans are robust enough not to be knocked over by anything smaller then a teenager.
This prevents all of the following from cause the same problem you mention:
cats
dogs
raccoons
coyotes
deer
squirrels
any other animal that desires people food (pretty much all of them).
Same here, that last comment made me think the question a bit trollish. This sort of thing happens with all products including incandescent bulbs, but I don't see any mention of that.
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I was thinking along the same lines.
What if she was venting to a friend at lunch and someone overheard her. Would they still have banned her?
I see the reason for someone to investigate it, but people need to express their feelings and frustrations in some way. Maybe a public place wasn't the best choice of forum, but I doubt her bottling it up until she really snapped would be a good idea either.
Also, I'm guessing the 'certain someone' would be her boyfriend so why would the professors be 'threatened'...
unless each one thought they had been her boyfriend...?
someone is actively out there claiming to be someone else while that someone else is thereafter doubted as to who he is. Not sure that actually happens though
But this is exactly what happens. someone out there claims to be you and applies for credit in your name. That person may or may not continue to pose as you in getting more credit or when showing ID for the credit he has in your name. Even if the person stops claiming to be you, the damage is done to your name.
Just because the person isn't actively 'being you' every day doesn't negate the fact that for a brief moment they did act like you.
That's like saying if I stole a car, drove far away, and then ditched the car that I didn't really steal the car because I didn't keep it.
I do agree with everything you said about the banks and shop keepers.
I agree there is plenty of blame to go around
However, you seem to think that all people fit into one of those categories.
What you've missed is that there are 'little guys' who didn't take out a loan they couldn't afford, and didn't make a loan to some high risk person.
But these 'little guys' are getting screwed because of each of the parties you mentioned. Some of them have been laid off, some have seen their investments brutalized, some are now stuck in their house because their once 80 LTV is now 105 LTV.
These are a larger percentage of those complaining
Not to mention the same 'evil bankers' that made the loans also pushed to get regulations relaxed, which makes them somewhat more responsible as without their reckless behavior this mess
Now these 'little guys' find out their tax dollars are going to the same companies that got us into the mess while these companies also are basically getting free money to make new loans and start back with business as usual.
At least that's what I complain about and I'm one of those 'little guys'
Regarding 1:
who gets sued when a design flaw is found, or a component referenced in the design doesn't hold up over the lifetime and a person dies. I don't have a feeling for how much OSS software is currently in that situation, but both would fall under this same issue, but it is something that hasn't really been explored. Is the project creator, the manufacturer, the guy who made a tweak that was accepted to the project the one at fault?
Regarding 2:
Cost - the issue is in production (not development). In the software world distribution is relatively cheap, especially at low volumes of sale. For hardware it is quite the opposite. A company with more money can support a large quantity order, driving down the suppliers price for everything from components to final assembly. A small team or individual is then going to be at a disadvantage because they will generally not have the resources (or connections) to make that happen.
About 50% of the craigslist ads I've responded to were from the same scammer, who tried to get me to paypal them "because they were out of town".
Interesting. My experience trying to sell anything over $20 has had just about the same problem ("I'll pay you 20% extra, oh and I need you to send it to me in another country).
I really think creating an API for viewing posts in different ways would really help Craigslist. They could keep the posting method the same which both protects their market (you still have to go to Craigslist to post) but allows someone else to do the work on trying new search features, data organization, etc.If they are concerned at preserving small communities, they leave contacting the poster out of the API or require a redirection to the actual post.
Since Craigslist doesn't make any money on completed transactions, their business model should be totally preserved.
You do know that you can download your Google doc in a variety of formats, right?
You can also upload them again if something should happen to your online doc.
Also, anyone who think they can rely on data saved to the hard drive, flash disk, floppy, or CD with no other backup is living in a much more delusional place then Cloud 9.
I agree that the length should also be reduced, but you did seem to overlook one piece.
The patent are not meant to just recover investment for an invention, but to do that so that the entire workings of the patented item be released to the public so that other inventors can improve upon it to make a new invention.
Now days it seems that if anyone improves upon a software patent, then they get sued for patent infringement because it is using the patent (an not an improvement).
Except, under your logic, if someone comes up with their own algorithm that generates the same results (or a high enough percentage is the same) as the patented algorithm, they are now able to be sued because it performs the same purpose.
Mathematics was explicitly excluded from patents.
For example
your algorithm is 2+2=4, you get a patent on it today.
Tomorrow, I come up with 1+3=4 and you get to sue me.
Now if you are saying that it is the code, and that the steps must be exactly the same then all someone has to do is go in and change a couple of lines of code which makes it different code. That would result in no protection.
Not to mention, but I have yet to see a patent contain any code (possibly some pseudo code, but even that wasn't complete).
There has to be enough protection for the inventor that they have incentive to share 'how it works' so society can improve upon it. However the current system just seems to cause stifling of the ideas.
I think one of the problems is timeline
For drugs and physically built inventions in the past, 20 years was needed to ensure that costs were recouped and some profit was made.
Now physically built electronic items are likely obsolete technologically in Software is even more so. Look back at software 5 or 10 years ago. Are the algorithms used that innovative that you would use them in anything today? The answer may be yes for a very select few, but most of it is so outdated that it isn't even useful to society anymore.
If it tasted the same (or could be made to), would it matter?
What would be way more important is to determine if differences in the way that this new meat grew, or changed would be detrimental to the person eating it.
Had a sudden thought when you mentioned 'augmented reality'
Maybe it would bring awareness if someone created an 'app' that showed the following:
A person is standing on a street with their iPhone (or gPhone).
Looking through the iPhone you see a duplication of the houses you see through the person's eyes.
Zoom in to the iPhone and see 2 things on each house:
1) A number with a dollar sign and the word 'goods' after it.
2) A line of text like 'vacation', 'at work', 'at home', or 'nosy neighbor'
Right, because it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that maybe there is a cultural connection, and they felt he would represent them more.
If what you say is true, then no African-American candidate anywhere would lose where the majority of the voting population was African-American, and I don't see any evidence to back that up.
it clearly shows monopolistic intent
Only if MySQL was the only other DB left. Its not even the only large DB left.
There's still Microsoft SQL, and I don't think Oracle will kill that beast that quickly.
There are also plenty of other DB's available.
MySQL can already fork its current state, so I would ask, why does the EU need the trademark of MySQL to remain outside the influence of Oracle?
it's a big country, with a big population and a lot going on. As a result, most non-Americans knowledge of the US is gleaned from occasional news stories about generally negative events, or Hollywood/TV stereotypes.
Don't forget to add in the total lifetime of netbooks.
For most new types of products it takes a while to determine exactly how they are used and what needs to be done to improve reliability.
Laptops now have some features in them to help reliability that weren't there in the earlier years.
Heck their are whole new products built to be 'tough' to handle rougher treatment.
same thing for cellphones
Wrong: http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/faq.php
No, you don't. You can do development in any text editor and compile with mono.
also, there are free (as in beer) licences of VS express.
Think teacher's are so bad? Try doing it yourself, and then come back here and tell us how easy it is that you shouldn't get paid that much for it?
Put up or shut-up.
1) You are assuming someone could get a comparable job for just 3 months (more likely, they'd be lucky to even get a minimum wage job for that length).
2) You assume that during those 3 months, teachers are on vacation just like the kids, and not doing any training, lesson plan improvements, etc.
3) You miss the GP's point that you are only taking days into account, if you count the hours teachers work, their hourly rate would be much lower as plenty of teachers (my wife is one) work 10+ hours each day, and exceed that numerous times throughout the year (extra grading to do, parent teacher conferences, etc...)
I do agree to some extent with you that there are many problems with the education system that are not salary related, but they do contribute to the problem.
I know one other person who's hours, and stress level are the same as my wife's, and he makes quite a lot more then her.
Actually it does seem silly that cordless phones couldn't be 'synced' with a local computer.
My Logitech remote can do it, and has cool features, why couldn't the cordless phone.
it wouldn't even have to be all that complicated (I've seen some people mentioning asterisk).
Meaning if there is demand for a service with higher caps that people are willing to pay extra for, there will likely be a supplier. If Comcast doesn't provide it, they'll lose customers to those that do.
But the point is, now you know the limit. To use their system means you will follow their usage terms.
That's somewhat better then before which was that they consider you an excessive user without knowing why.
This enables you to decide if another service (if available) offers a higher cap, or to negotiate with Comcast for a new service that allows a higher cap.
Before, you didn't know so there was no way to compare.
For me 250GB is well beyond my current access, and I play online games, watch netflix on demand, and TV shows online.
If their numbers are believable their info page says 125 standard definition movies (at ~2GB each) which is ~ 4 full movies per day every day for a month.
The linked PDF says what is required, though in reading the FCC filing, the summary is a bit incorrect.
Basically Comcast has 2 levels in the tier (called PBE and BE)
Everyone starts out as PBE level.
To get moved from PBE to BE, all of the following have to occur
- That particular network segment needs to be 'nearing congestion' defined as 70% upstream limits or 80% downstream limits for 15 minutes.
- A particular user has to be 'significantly contributing' defined as 70% upstream or downstream limits for 15 minutes.
Being placed in BE means that if there is congestion (meaning priorities have to be determined) any delays will affect BE traffic before PBE traffic.
To be removed from BE status you have to drop below 50% for 15 minutes
I think it is good that these are coming out in the open and being shared, and I think it is a step in the right direction since they state they will no longer use a protocol based management method. If there is congestion on a network, someone has to suffer, and it seems reasonable that those placing the highest load should be the ones to feel the effects first.
I do think, however, they need to mention more explicitly that the speeds they market are theoretical maximum allotments, and to give a average attainable bandwidth if everyone in their (block, building, etc) were to maximize usage.
what kind of cats does your neighborhood have? In my neighborhood, the trash cans are robust enough not to be knocked over by anything smaller then a teenager.
This prevents all of the following from cause the same problem you mention:
cats
dogs
raccoons
coyotes
deer
squirrels
any other animal that desires people food (pretty much all of them).
ads and marketing not comparing apples to apples in order to make their own product/service look better
I'm shocked....
Same here, that last comment made me think the question a bit trollish. This sort of thing happens with all products including incandescent bulbs, but I don't see any mention of that.