You must be new here, it is a well known fact that/. editors are incapable of editing even a three word sentence without screwing up. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Couldn't they at least out sourced to a country that is at least clean, if not cleaner than us like the Japanese or one of the Scandinavian countries?
The primary purpose of outsourcing is to save money by having a task performed in a low wage country. Neither Japan nor the Scandinavian countries fall into that category.
From the summary: "That goes to show you how algorithms read headlines and create these automatic orders – you don't even have time to react as a human being."
I am a big coffee drinker and a very fuzzy one at that. A couple of months ago my brother in law knowing my love for coffee bought me some Kopi Luwak from in Malaysia. I cannot even begin to explain how disappointed I were in the experience of drinking this supposedly fantastic brew. I would not compare it with a cheap coffee as it do have a unique and distinct flavor and aroma that is far from unpleasant that set it apart from any other coffee I have ever had, but it certainly does not live up to the reputation it have and it is in my opinion ridiculously overrated.
I use only top quality memory cards and have shot a very large amount of pictures over the years on Nikon D200, D300 and Fujifilm X100, and tend to delete poor quality pictures on spot, but have to date never encountered this problem which lead me to suspect that perhaps many of cases you've seen might be attributed to poor quality memory cards rather than camera firmware, alternatively that I use cameras with better than average firmware. Another possibility could of course also be that in your line of work you encounter these issues on a frequent basis making it seem more prevalent than it really is, after all it probably isn't a common occurrence that you have customers walking in saying "I always delete pics in camera and have never had to do recovery".
I'm not attempting to dispute that you do see this problem frequently, but am genuinely interested in your feedback as your posts made me slightly concerned abut my in camera deleting habit.
Back in 2003 msn.com deliberately sent Opera a faulty style sheet that broke the page, in response and to make a point Opera released a Bork version of their browser that turned msn.com into Swedish Chef talk. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-984632.html
we were told at that time, that what PirateBay does would be legal under swedish law, still they got very stiff sentences
In all fairness it never reached the Supreme Court, possibly the appeal were denied due to political pressure as a Supreme Court ruling done in the spirit of law would not have fallen well with the USA. Remember that the US went to such lengths as threatening with trade sanctions in order to satisfy the MAFIAA?
In the letter references are made to 2 court rulings made in a lower court and used to claim that the ISP is committing an illegal act, if I recall correctly both these cases were appealed to the Swedish equivalent of the Supreme Court but never got that far.
With a bit of luck The Pirate Party stand their ground and this will reach the Supreme Court and finally a precedent will be set as should have been done years ago when the TPB founders were at trial.
In my belief the reason that it never reached the Supreme Court is that any ruling based on Swedish law would have ruled in favor of TPB, so the Swedish Supreme Court took the easy way out by not taking up the case. As by taking up the case the Supreme Court would have been faced with:
1. Setting a precedent that would not go down well with the political powers by ruling according to the spirit of the law. Remember that the US did threaten with embargo in order to strongarm Sweden into acting in the interests of the MAFIAA. So there were a lot of political interests in the outcome of the TPB case.
Or
2. Reach a ruling that is in contradiction to the law as written. Being the Supreme Court this is not really a appealing option so the path of least resistance were chosen. Screw over a bunch of cocky nerds by not granting their appeal.
a friend of mine was applying for a job, and they wanted to see her facebook page. "I don't have one.", was not an acceptable answer.
This was for a highly paid job in a position of significant trust. I can understand their reasoning.
I can't.
It is not like it is unheard of people not having a FB account, not even outside the basement dweller circle. If they do not accept as an answer that you do not have an FB account then already at that point the "position of significant trust" have collapsed.
Monsanto has sued more than 700 additional farmers who have settled out-of-court rather than face Monsanto's belligerent, and well-financed, litigious actions.
The article you refer to is very vague on the actual specifics in the Organic Farmers' lawsuit and equally vague on the details for the judge's decision. To me it almost read as a press release with just that tiny hint of "balanced" reporting needed to not be overly blatant in for whom it were written.
Organic farmers aren't allowed to plant GMO seeds. But most conventional corn in America is genetically modified, and among all grains, corn is perhaps the most promiscuous cross-pollinator, so its genes often migrate into organic fields via windblown pollen that lands on the tassels of organic corn..... most organic corn in the U.S. typically contains anywhere from half a percent to 2 percent GMOs, according to companies that sell such corn to organic dairies or poultry farmers. It has been that way since genetically engineered corn and soybeans became popular, more than a decade ago
So cross pollination would appear to be a fact. Leaving us to assume that the judge threw out the case as the Organic Farmers' were unable to prove any cases of Monsanto suing farmers for cases where the claimed infringement were due to cross pollination. How about the below, close enough for you? http://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-seeds-trial-bowman-123/:
At the center of the case is Monsanto’s protection of its patented soybean, known as Roundup Ready. When farmers like Bowman plant the company’s seeds, they are only allowed to harvest the resulting crop – not keep any for next year’s harvest.
Under these rules, farmers have to buy new Monsanto seeds to plant each season, even if they already have usable seeds in their possession.
However, farmers are able to buy excess soybeans from local grain elevators, many of which are likely to be Roundup Ready seeds. One of Bowman's trips to such a grain elevator put him in Monsanto’s sights.
“We have always had the right to go to an elevator, buy some ‘junk grain’ and use it for seed if you desire,” Bowman explained.
While not a case of cross pollination in the strict meaning of the word it do get pretty damned close, if a ruling is made in favor of Monsanto it would invite them to get even more aggressive in their intimidation tactics and I would be little surprised if the number of out of court settlements increased exponentially.
Actually it will NOT sell except to a few niches like taking inventory
The penetration of the surface pro in that market segment will be minimal, inventory outside of mom & pop organisations is mainly done using rugged devices with an IP rating of 54 or higher. Like for example the Motorola MC2100 Win CE6 handheld computer or their ET1 Android tablet. Both of which are superior to the task described due to ergonomics, ruggedness, peripherals and eco structure.
Disclosure: I have worked in sales at distribution level of exactly this type of hardware but I no longer have any affiliation with Motorola. Examples could just as well have been made using Honeywell, Opticon, Datalogic....
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You must be new here, it is a well known fact that /. editors are incapable of editing even a three word sentence without screwing up. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
The web is not their domain.
It would seem that someone forget sending them the memo.
Couldn't they at least out sourced to a country that is at least clean, if not cleaner than us like the Japanese or one of the Scandinavian countries?
The primary purpose of outsourcing is to save money by having a task performed in a low wage country. Neither Japan nor the Scandinavian countries fall into that category.
Yes. Anybody with a cheap Harbor Freight welder and Chinese 7" mini lathe can produce a gun.
Indeed. A good example of what can be done with a bit of knowledge combined with a lathe and some very basic tools can be found in Darra, Pakistan. http://tribune.com.pk/story/458310/the-legendary-gunsmiths-of-darra-adam-khel/
What say you? What say you? What say you?
Chris Dodd is that you?
do they think Apple is made of money?
What is wrong with thinking that? http://paritynews.com/business/item/847-moody-apples-cash-reserve-to-cross-$170-billion-by-2013
Not too long ago people said the very same thing as you do now about surveillance cameras in London.
No one has turned a page.
Reminds me of this (subtitled) clip from Norway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
From the summary: "That goes to show you how algorithms read headlines and create these automatic orders – you don't even have time to react as a human being."
In Iceland AFAIK people are called "Bob son of George" or "Mary daughter of John"
Almost right, it's "Bob son of George" and "Mary daughter of Jane"
I am a big coffee drinker and a very fuzzy one at that. A couple of months ago my brother in law knowing my love for coffee bought me some Kopi Luwak from in Malaysia. I cannot even begin to explain how disappointed I were in the experience of drinking this supposedly fantastic brew. I would not compare it with a cheap coffee as it do have a unique and distinct flavor and aroma that is far from unpleasant that set it apart from any other coffee I have ever had, but it certainly does not live up to the reputation it have and it is in my opinion ridiculously overrated.
I understand why you post as AC.
Hahahaha! Thank you, you actually had me laughing out loudly and my inner voice ceased screaming "Die die die AC!"
I use only top quality memory cards and have shot a very large amount of pictures over the years on Nikon D200, D300 and Fujifilm X100, and tend to delete poor quality pictures on spot, but have to date never encountered this problem which lead me to suspect that perhaps many of cases you've seen might be attributed to poor quality memory cards rather than camera firmware, alternatively that I use cameras with better than average firmware. Another possibility could of course also be that in your line of work you encounter these issues on a frequent basis making it seem more prevalent than it really is, after all it probably isn't a common occurrence that you have customers walking in saying "I always delete pics in camera and have never had to do recovery".
I'm not attempting to dispute that you do see this problem frequently, but am genuinely interested in your feedback as your posts made me slightly concerned abut my in camera deleting habit.
Wow... original, did you come up with that yourself?
Back in 2003 msn.com deliberately sent Opera a faulty style sheet that broke the page, in response and to make a point Opera released a Bork version of their browser that turned msn.com into Swedish Chef talk. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-984632.html
Karma is a Bitch.
I'm confused, your UID indicate that you have been here since the beginning of time but your comment indicate that you are new here.
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we were told at that time, that what PirateBay does would be legal under swedish law, still they got very stiff sentences
In all fairness it never reached the Supreme Court, possibly the appeal were denied due to political pressure as a Supreme Court ruling done in the spirit of law would not have fallen well with the USA. Remember that the US went to such lengths as threatening with trade sanctions in order to satisfy the MAFIAA?
http://torrentfreak.com/sweden-threatened-with-trade-sanctions-by-the-us-over-the-piratebay/
Damn I forgot to add a "First!"
With a bit of luck The Pirate Party stand their ground and this will reach the Supreme Court and finally a precedent will be set as should have been done years ago when the TPB founders were at trial.
In my belief the reason that it never reached the Supreme Court is that any ruling based on Swedish law would have ruled in favor of TPB, so the Swedish Supreme Court took the easy way out by not taking up the case. As by taking up the case the Supreme Court would have been faced with:
1. Setting a precedent that would not go down well with the political powers by ruling according to the spirit of the law. Remember that the US did threaten with embargo in order to strongarm Sweden into acting in the interests of the MAFIAA. So there were a lot of political interests in the outcome of the TPB case.
Or
2. Reach a ruling that is in contradiction to the law as written. Being the Supreme Court this is not really a appealing option so the path of least resistance were chosen. Screw over a bunch of cocky nerds by not granting their appeal.
a friend of mine was applying for a job, and they wanted to see her facebook page. "I don't have one.", was not an acceptable answer.
This was for a highly paid job in a position of significant trust. I can understand their reasoning.
I can't.
It is not like it is unheard of people not having a FB account, not even outside the basement dweller circle. If they do not accept as an answer that you do not have an FB account then already at that point the "position of significant trust" have collapsed.
Organic Farmers filed a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto over suing for patent infringement where cross-pollination was the culprit and the judge threw the case out because the farmers could not produce one single example of this happening.
I am not overly familiar with the US court system but how about out of court settlements, could the judge even take those into consideration? http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23451
Monsanto has sued more than 700 additional farmers who have settled out-of-court rather than face Monsanto's belligerent, and well-financed, litigious actions.
The article you refer to is very vague on the actual specifics in the Organic Farmers' lawsuit and equally vague on the details for the judge's decision. To me it almost read as a press release with just that tiny hint of "balanced" reporting needed to not be overly blatant in for whom it were written.
What was it that they could not produce one single example of happening, cross pollination? If so, your linked article contain a link ( http://www.npr.org/2011/03/01/134162035/a-growing-debate-how-to-define-organic-food ) leading to the below:
Organic farmers aren't allowed to plant GMO seeds. But most conventional corn in America is genetically modified, and among all grains, corn is perhaps the most promiscuous cross-pollinator, so its genes often migrate into organic fields via windblown pollen that lands on the tassels of organic corn..... most organic corn in the U.S. typically contains anywhere from half a percent to 2 percent GMOs, according to companies that sell such corn to organic dairies or poultry farmers. It has been that way since genetically engineered corn and soybeans became popular, more than a decade ago
So cross pollination would appear to be a fact. Leaving us to assume that the judge threw out the case as the Organic Farmers' were unable to prove any cases of Monsanto suing farmers for cases where the claimed infringement were due to cross pollination. How about the below, close enough for you? http://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-seeds-trial-bowman-123/:
At the center of the case is Monsanto’s protection of its patented soybean, known as Roundup Ready. When farmers like Bowman plant the company’s seeds, they are only allowed to harvest the resulting crop – not keep any for next year’s harvest.
Under these rules, farmers have to buy new Monsanto seeds to plant each season, even if they already have usable seeds in their possession.
However, farmers are able to buy excess soybeans from local grain elevators, many of which are likely to be Roundup Ready seeds. One of Bowman's trips to such a grain elevator put him in Monsanto’s sights.
“We have always had the right to go to an elevator, buy some ‘junk grain’ and use it for seed if you desire,” Bowman explained.
While not a case of cross pollination in the strict meaning of the word it do get pretty damned close, if a ruling is made in favor of Monsanto it would invite them to get even more aggressive in their intimidation tactics and I would be little surprised if the number of out of court settlements increased exponentially.
Mr Tulip looked down at the departing coach
'From what I hear he mostly doesn't do a --ing thing!' he complained
'Yeah,' said M. Pin smoothly. 'One of the hardest things to do properly in Politics'
Actually it will NOT sell except to a few niches like taking inventory
The penetration of the surface pro in that market segment will be minimal, inventory outside of mom & pop organisations is mainly done using rugged devices with an IP rating of 54 or higher. Like for example the Motorola MC2100 Win CE6 handheld computer or their ET1 Android tablet. Both of which are superior to the task described due to ergonomics, ruggedness, peripherals and eco structure.
Disclosure: I have worked in sales at distribution level of exactly this type of hardware but I no longer have any affiliation with Motorola. Examples could just as well have been made using Honeywell, Opticon, Datalogic....