Actually, if the student is in breach of contract, they may not owe him anything. It's a bit difficult to call this (even apart from the fact that any arbiter or court may disagree with any or all of us on/.) without having all teh details-- what the contract says, seeing the full blogs, a transcript of all that was said and done, how Marquette typically handles such cases (or as near as they have had) and so forth.
It's easy to play armchair lawyer when you don't have all the facts.
I'm sorry, but that was altogether comprehensible and comprehensive. You'll have to do worse than that.
Not only did you write clearly and cover useful data, but (even more foolishly) you compared the unit to the wrong sort of boxes. Your UPS pickups will be canceled.
[disclaimer] If you require to have heard an words that are stringed together with clueless meaning, please see the mommy and dady of this post box instead. [/disclaimer]
I would absolutely use an ad-supported OS, so long as it came with complete source code. Then I could hack the source so the advertisers *thought* I read the ads, but I never really saw them. Then I could have what I've always wanted, a free operating system! Yay!
I say, leave it alone for five days and watch the fun.
When all us geeks can't get to/. or our favorite radio stations or comics, we'll solve the problem a new way. or destroy the planet, but either one works.
Several people have noted that this only affects systems that allow a CGI or PHP script to execute arbitrary programs. I don't think most Windows systems have that short of "shell" access from CGI/PHP. Then again, I know ALAP about Windows...
``in the real world if you change your name everyone recognizes you, in an MMO they don't.''
Well, maybe. They probably do if you show up in person, and it hasn't been too long, and you haven't changed too much. But if you grew a beard and changed your name, or called on the phone, they might not recognize you. And they *sure* won't recognize your check in the mail with a different name.
But that's a nitpick, and not really germane to the point. Overall, I think you're on the right track.
I would add that I can't see spending real money and time with a vendor who so clearly doesn't give a rip. There is no appeals process; you can try to make one up, but it's completely up to the GM you're dealing with to validate it. That's badly broken.
And to all the goobers rantiong and raving about CmdrTaco being an idiot for complaining, well, you'r emostly goobers. He clearly SAID it was their right to change the anem, and that wasn't his real complaint. Also, having use the same email address for two decades, and the same login/handle on public fora for nearly that long, I understand how he feels. A lot of people know me by this name, and the couple of times I haven't been able to use it, it was annoying. The couple of times it was *taken* I was horrified. Is someone pretending to be me? Will whatever they do impact who people think I am? It's a pretty spooky feeling.
I agree completely. It's one thing to have a EULA on a download before I have paid for it. It is entirley another to have to buy the software and then find out what the EULA states. Once I've bought it, if you want to change the rules of the game (and that's just what a shrinkwrapped EULA is) the onus should *not* be on me. At the very least, it should be on the software maker, or in some cases the vendor. But neither is likely to show up at my door within 24 hours and kindly hand me back my cash, check, or CC chargeback and cart the software off, are they?
OK, so maybe hairstyles don't matter. But what about glasses on or off? What if I don't use the phone for two weeks but grew a beard and moustache? What about when my body has a reaction to what I eat and my lips puff up hugely? All these have been a factor during my adult life. nevermind how it would deal with teenage girls and makeup!
He might as well just nuke us and wait a few centuries to start over here.
Because that's the only way we'd switch to Microsoft. Even if 80% of the technical staf (and we're almost all technical staff here) didn't loathe it for anything other than games, our tools don't run on it and porting would cost a fortune.
Meanwhile, if they show up in less than battalion strength, we'll be happy to chain them to 19" racks, haul them onto the roof, and leave them for the buzzards.
Apparently color doesn't matter when it comes to the ability to make absurd generalizations. You sound like you could be a fine, young bigot in the making. I hope not, but it sounds that way....the peoples you are dealing with have already crossed the finish line and are living it up with you in your high-paid, low-work environment.
I know very, very few people who are in a "high-paid, low-work environment". I know a few people in a "low-work" environment. Most of them aren't paid that great. I know some highly paid professionals, most of whom worked their butts off to get there, and work their butts off to stay there. Everywhere I've worked in 20+ years in high tech has been an equal opportunity employer. I've worked with men and women of all skin colors (except an albino) from all over the globe. A friend at church (a true African-American, having move dhere from Kenya maybe 10 years ago) is a part owner in a thriving computer-related business. One of the best hardware layout guys here is Hispanic. (I work for a small company which employees or has meployeed orientals, middle eastern people, etc, etc, etc. Except nobody even thinks about it unless someone asks.)
So you really need to look at why you have such a huge chip on your shoulder. Assuming you aren't just a troll...
The NY AG's office has announced that they will now prosecute anyone found in a bedroom, because children are molested in bedrooms. The NYC DA, not wishing to be outdone, has promised to prosecute people found indoors without a permit, which his office won't be prepared to provide for at least another year. NY Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton later announced that if elected president, she will just generally outlaw people.
I didn't see any errors in punctuation or grammar, either. I don't recall the last time I saw a post of that length which didn't confuse plural's (sic) with possessives.
There are still tons of smaller, slower, "antiquated" processors embedded in all sorts of things, for which code gets written. The Z80 is still alive and well, believe it or not, along with lots of other, old standards (and newer, but still small and slow, CPUS).
Good grief. How many people evn use Picture in picture? I get called foure eyes a lot, but even I have a hard time following two screens at once, much less four.
Look at the target market. While not targeted at someone living in a tent or cardboard village, it *is* targeted at people in third world countries and rough, poor areas of new/old world countries. This means temperature extremes a little hairier than the Dell box is made for, horrible power, etc. It's hardly mil-spec, but the AMD is a somewhat hardened appliance. The Dell is not. And which one's going to survive being pulled off the table by the two year old, hmmm? Which one will handle sand and rain blowing onto it through an open window better? Presumably the AMD, which seems to have been made with that environment in mind. The Dell? Belly up in three months, if you're very lucky.
This isn't a rant against Dell; the cheaper Dells that I have seen were simply not designed with a harsh environment in mind.
It's one of the whole points of society. Guess what? I don't *want* to do my own plumbing. I'm prefectly happy to not know the intricacies of how the SEC works, all the details of the IEC, and the intricacies of corporate law in Botswana (hint: I don't live in Botswana and will likely never incorporate there). I kind of wish I could do more work on my car, but really, most of the time I'd take it to someone else, anyway. At the same time, if I'm interested, I'll learn as much on these or any other topics as I want or need to.
And that's true for many people of the younger generations today. Others are stupid, lazy, drugged out or whatever. But guess what? That was also true whne I was their age, and when my parents were their age (substitute booze for drugs back then, but the point is the same), and so on, all the way back Cain and Abel (whether literal or not).
There will always be something of a generation gap, but how much of one, and how it applies, is defined as much by the adult's attitude as by the youth's attitude. If you're truly worried about the youth of today, get to know them, spend time with them, take an interest in them and what they're interested in, and you'll find opportunities to make a difference. But be prepared to be made different. (For instance, be prepared to find out there's still good music being made today, and I don't mean by people emulating whoever you liked in high school or college.)
I'll be 50 in December. I have lots of teenage and kid friends. (No, I'm not Michael Jackson!) I listen to them, and they listen to me. Pretty simple, really. It just takes a decision not to be an old fart, and to try.
As a teenager, I took the "other" Peter Pan Pledge (I'll never grow up!) Like almost everyone else, I broke it. But eventually I remembered, and decided life was too short to spend it working so hard to be an adult. There are definitely advantages to being an adult. The world needs adults. But it needs adults who arent obsessed or consumed with their adulthood.
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Actually, if the student is in breach of contract, they may not owe him anything. It's a bit difficult to call this (even apart from the fact that any arbiter or court may disagree with any or all of us on /.) without having all teh details-- what the contract says, seeing the full blogs, a transcript of all that was said and done, how Marquette typically handles such cases (or as near as they have had) and so forth.
It's easy to play armchair lawyer when you don't have all the facts.
I'm sorry, but that was altogether comprehensible and
comprehensive. You'll have to do worse than that.
Not only did you write clearly and cover useful data,
but (even more foolishly) you compared the unit to
the wrong sort of boxes. Your UPS pickups will
be canceled.
[disclaimer]
If you require to have heard an words that are
stringed together with clueless meaning, please
see the mommy and dady of this post box instead.
[/disclaimer]
... on fruit.
Put them on bananas and apples at the grocery store.
I would absolutely use an ad-supported OS, so long as it came with complete source code. Then I could hack the source so the advertisers *thought* I read the ads, but I never really saw them. Then I could have what I've always wanted, a free operating system! Yay!
Too bad I'm stuck with Linux instead.
So it's five days away from a meltdown?
/. or our
I say, leave it alone for five days and watch the fun.
When all us geeks can't get to
favorite radio stations or comics, we'll
solve the problem a new way. or destroy
the planet, but either one works.
For instance, we could duct tape fins onto them and drop them on Al Quaieda terrorists. They wouldn't exactly be smart bombs, but...
Several people have noted that this only affects systems that allow a CGI or PHP script to execute arbitrary programs. I don't think most Windows systems have that short of "shell" access from CGI/PHP. Then again, I know ALAP about Windows...
This doesn't scale very well.
$10M for 40kg? Now if I could get a 4g
payload under my control for $10k, or
a 400mg payload for $1k, I might
get excited.
``in the real world if you change your name everyone recognizes you, in an MMO they don't.''
Well, maybe. They probably do if you show up in person, and it hasn't been too long, and you haven't changed too much. But if you grew a beard and changed your name, or called on the phone, they might not recognize you. And they *sure* won't recognize your check in the mail with a different name.
But that's a nitpick, and not really germane to the point. Overall, I think you're on the right track.
I would add that I can't see spending real money and time with a vendor who so clearly doesn't give a rip. There is no appeals process; you can try to make one up, but it's completely up to the GM you're dealing with to validate it. That's badly broken.
And to all the goobers rantiong and raving about CmdrTaco being an idiot for complaining, well, you'r emostly goobers. He clearly SAID it was their right to change the anem, and that wasn't his real complaint. Also, having use the same email address for two decades, and the same login/handle on public fora for nearly that long, I understand how he feels. A lot of people know me by this name, and the couple of times I haven't been able to use it, it was annoying. The couple of times it was *taken* I was horrified. Is someone pretending to be me? Will whatever they do impact who people think I am? It's a pretty spooky feeling.
I agree completely. It's one thing to have a EULA on a download
before I have paid for it. It is entirley another to have to buy
the software and then find out what the EULA states. Once I've
bought it, if you want to change the rules of the game (and that's
just what a shrinkwrapped EULA is) the onus should *not* be on me.
At the very least, it should be on the software maker, or in some
cases the vendor. But neither is likely to show up at my door
within 24 hours and kindly hand me back my cash, check, or CC
chargeback and cart the software off, are they?
Track the guy down and beat the snot out of him
Get a video.
Send it to all the trad media outlets as well as
online outlets.
``Clog the blog, we flog.''
Or just bring back public stocks and floggings.
I've long wised we'd do this for a number of crimes.
And yes, I am completely serious.
OK, so maybe hairstyles don't matter. But what about glasses on or off? What if I don't use the phone for two weeks but grew a beard and moustache? What about when my body has a reaction to what I eat and my lips puff up hugely? All these have been a factor during my adult life. nevermind how it would deal with teenage girls and makeup!
Not that someone high up at Microsoft appears to be an ignorant racist.
Ignorance and racism are never good.
But at least the African people may avoid a certain economic slavery that will inevitably follow having Microsoft own their computing infrastructure.
``The day I come in front of the Gartner audience and say we have a better Unix than Linux, that'll be...
``...the day you know I found the cache of drugs Hunter S. Thompson left behind and took them all at once.''
He might as well just nuke us and wait a few centuries to start over here.
Because that's the only way we'd switch to Microsoft. Even if 80% of the technical staf (and we're almost all technical staff here) didn't loathe it for anything other than games, our tools don't run on it and porting would cost a fortune.
Meanwhile, if they show up in less than battalion strength, we'll be happy to chain them to 19" racks, haul them onto the roof, and leave them for the buzzards.
[Can you tell we have no use for stormies?]
You muggles get excited over the oddest things...
Apparently color doesn't matter when it comes to the ability to make absurd generalizations. You sound like you could be a fine, young bigot in the making. I hope not, but it sounds that way. ...the peoples you are dealing with have already crossed the finish line and are living it up with you in your high-paid, low-work environment.
I know very, very few people who are in a "high-paid, low-work environment". I know a few people in a "low-work" environment. Most of them aren't paid that great. I know some highly paid professionals, most of whom worked their butts off to get there, and work their butts off to stay there. Everywhere I've worked in 20+ years in high tech has been an equal opportunity employer. I've worked with men and women of all skin colors (except an albino) from all over the globe. A friend at church (a true African-American, having move dhere from Kenya maybe 10 years ago) is a part owner in a thriving computer-related business. One of the best hardware layout guys here is Hispanic. (I work for a small company which employees or has meployeed orientals, middle eastern people, etc, etc, etc. Except nobody even thinks about it unless someone asks.)
So you really need to look at why you have such a huge chip on your shoulder. Assuming you aren't just a troll...
The NY AG's office has announced that they will now prosecute anyone found in a bedroom, because children are molested in bedrooms. The NYC DA, not wishing to be outdone, has promised to prosecute people found indoors without a permit, which his office won't be prepared to provide for at least another year. NY Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton later announced that if elected president, she will just generally outlaw people.
I didn't see any errors in punctuation or grammar, either. I don't recall the last time I saw a post of that length which didn't confuse plural's (sic) with possessives.
There are still tons of smaller, slower, "antiquated" processors embedded in all sorts of things, for which code gets written. The Z80 is still alive and well, believe it or not, along with lots of other, old standards (and newer, but still small and slow, CPUS).
They found it in a *wet cave*...
It *shrunk*.
Good grief. How many people evn use Picture in picture?
I get called foure eyes a lot, but even I have a hard time
following two screens at once, much less four.
Um, you prefer them where?
Nevermind. I don't want to know.
Look at the target market. While not targeted at someone living in a tent or cardboard village, it *is* targeted at people in third world countries and rough, poor areas of new/old world countries. This means temperature extremes a little hairier than the Dell box is made for, horrible power, etc. It's hardly mil-spec, but the AMD is a somewhat hardened appliance. The Dell is not. And which one's going to survive being pulled off the table by the two year old, hmmm? Which one will handle sand and rain blowing onto it through an open window better? Presumably the AMD, which seems to have been made with that environment in mind. The Dell? Belly up in three months, if you're very lucky.
This isn't a rant against Dell; the cheaper Dells that I have seen were simply not designed with a harsh environment in mind.
It's one of the whole points of society. Guess what? I don't *want* to do my own plumbing. I'm prefectly happy to not know the intricacies of how the SEC works, all the details of the IEC, and the intricacies of corporate law in Botswana (hint: I don't live in Botswana and will likely never incorporate there). I kind of wish I could do more work on my car, but really, most of the time I'd take it to someone else, anyway. At the same time, if I'm interested, I'll learn as much on these or any other topics as I want or need to.
And that's true for many people of the younger generations today. Others are stupid, lazy, drugged out or whatever. But guess what? That was also true whne I was their age, and when my parents were their age (substitute booze for drugs back then, but the point is the same), and so on, all the way back Cain and Abel (whether literal or not).
There will always be something of a generation gap, but how much of one, and how it applies, is defined as much by the adult's attitude as by the youth's attitude. If you're truly worried about the youth of today, get to know them, spend time with them, take an interest in them and what they're interested in, and you'll find opportunities to make a difference. But be prepared to be made different. (For instance, be prepared to find out there's still good music being made today, and I don't mean by people emulating whoever you liked in high school or college.)
I'll be 50 in December. I have lots of teenage and kid friends. (No, I'm not Michael Jackson!) I listen to them, and they listen to me. Pretty simple, really. It just takes a decision not to be an old fart, and to try.
As a teenager, I took the "other" Peter Pan Pledge (I'll never grow up!) Like almost everyone else, I broke it. But eventually I remembered, and decided life was too short to spend it working so hard to be an adult. There are definitely advantages to being an adult. The world needs adults. But it needs adults who arent obsessed or consumed with their adulthood.