...these people are sub-morons and deserve to be publicly pilloried, and left to rot in stocks for the rest of their lives. And I'm probably being too lenient, at that. It's jackasses like this that are substantially responsible for how screwed up the legal system is here.
I suspect Shakespeare had these guys in mind, or at least their ancestors, when he penned that famous lawyer quote.
Unless they're just joking, in which case they desperately need to take some classes for the humor-impaired.
This is about power, pure and simple. Lots of people want power across most belief systems, including atheists and agnostics, as well as Christians, Muslims, Jews, pagans, etc. History shows this. It also shows that not everyone who calls themselves any of these things really is- especially in the power games.
Doesn't matter. If they refuse to play ball, we just declare them terrorists, claim they pose a "clear and present danger" to America's financial and technologicla security, and send in the marines.
...and there is almost certainly prior art in the public domain. Certainly there were similar things floating around in the 80s in the X11 world. But I haven't had time to fight my way through the patent technolegalbable yet. Still, from glancing at it, I think there's prior art in the public domain. We'll see.
It's really irrelevant whether they actually understand the real problem or not when what they do is broken. I don't care of they really don;t know or just have a mandate from someone who doesn't know or if they're just too clueless to realize that what happens on their high end system on their high speed LAN has little to do with what Jenny and Joey Average see at home on their cheap Compaq from WalMart with about half the RAM it should have for their current version of Bloated OS. The end result is the same.
And, in fact, a lot of web site developers fit one, two or three of the above categories. It's not just novices. a ridiculous percentage of websites suck performance-wise, and it's not just the myspaces and hacked up CMSes and such; a lot of corporate sites fall into this category as well, from financial institutions to ebay to auto manufacturers and dealers to swimming pool installation companies.
This is why I refuse to buy new music. I don't recall the last time I bought new music. I won't even ask my family for new CDs or concert videos for presents. I'll buy used, but that's it.
If everyone would boycott (I know, never happen), the retailers would gang up on these morons real fast.
Sony should publicly flog this woman, or whoever put her up to it, and put them in public stocks for a few years. But then, that would require the management to have a clue.
The law has long said I can make all the copies I want so long as they're for my personal use, and not more than one is in use at a time. And that's reasonable. Her comments are so far below unreasonable it's ridiculous.
Unless it is initiated on school property, or during school hours, or is otherwise set up specifically to harass during school hours or on school property, I don't see how the school has either the right or the responsibility to intervene.
Despite the enormous flaws in the current system, they have done a good job of getting the word out about what they expect, and that they don't have a sense of humor about it. If she can speak English (and apparently she does), and is intelligent enough to go to MIT (apparently she is) then she really ought to have at least enough of a clue to (a) not have worn this to the airport or (b) to at least have been aware of the possibility of trouble, and been prepared to answer their questions and work with them.
Far brighter would have been to not have worn it at all. It really sounds like she was testing the limits, or looking for attention. But I'll allow she simply could be completely clueless. At best.
Next I guess she'll wear it to Circuit City, and see what happens when she tries to walk out the door without a receipt because she didn't buy anything.
Pornography in the workplace equates to an unsafe workplace, which at the very least leaves the company open to a sexual harassment lawsuit (at least in the USA). That can be extremely expensive in terms of time, money, and mental and emotional capital.
OK, not exactly this, but they attempted to straddle the fence. It failed last time.
It was the Roadrunner 386i, which came out in 1988. It was a 386 system running SunOS (or was it Solaris by then? I forget) with a daughter board and co-processor to run DOS (not Windows, IIRC). I know, because I developed applications on it! The best part was that the beta release of the OS (bundled with their wonderful FORTRAN compiler!!!!) came on a stack of floppies several inches thick. Took a while to IPL or upgrade...
Anyway, Sun survived that debacle, and I suspect they'll survive this one. This time, the product may even survive as well!
RedHat still provides the source for free. They're only charging for support; they just don't provide you with the build formats you may want of the binaries they built and tested.
You can get it all for free, and build it yourself, or get it from someone else who does just that (still for free), such as CentOS or Scientific Linux. You could even get the source, build and test it, and do the same thing RedHat does for less money. You might be hard pressed to make a living that way, challenging the big gorilla, and you'd have the/. community yelling at you, but you're free to do it. Or not.
The GPM doesn't require you to give away binaries or support.
The first time we had an A/C drain problem flooding under the raised floor, we had only a small shop vac to remove the water. Took forever, and I was amazed we lost no power. The next time we had a bigger shop vac-- more powerful, more volume, bigger hose, and we cleaned that sucker out in no time.
Make sure you have water alarms under the floor as well. Ideally they notify someone directly when there's a problem.
Flashlights by the doors. Preferably rechargeable, and plugged in. But at least available, and check them every so often.
I really want a transparisteel skylight in there, but no luck so far.
Every crime costs you, sooner or later. The bank's cost of business, insurance inflation, the extra cost on the jurisdiction that gets called in to investigate, the cost of reporting to the feds (which eats tax dollars as the feds have to generate and process about three forests of paperwork for every incident), etc. And taking cash that isn't yours from that bank is a crime.
So even if the bank never took the money back, it costs every one of us. If eth bank takes the money back, it costs every one of us. If the bank for some reason can't tell who took the money, and you don't report it, you're ripping off everyone you know.
And the fact that a lot of people don't get that, or just don't care, is a big part of why western society is having a lot of the problems it does.
Yeah, I know it's fiction, but revisit Spiderman 1 (movie or comic, either way). Unlce Ben's death because Pete didn't give a damn about a robbery pretty well sums it up.
A friend's sibling was telling us at diner last night that IBM (their employer) encourages them to use Second Life for virtual meetings, hence these guidelines.
IBM has always had strict guidelines about how IBM employees relate to the rest of the world, but at least in the last two decades (the main time I've had any involvement with them, including time contracting there) I have not been aware of them ever crossing the line you're asking about. At any ate, I haven't seen any evidence they are in this case.
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...these people are sub-morons and deserve to be publicly pilloried, and left to rot in stocks for the rest of their lives. And I'm probably being too lenient, at that. It's jackasses like this that are substantially responsible for how screwed up the legal system is here.
I suspect Shakespeare had these guys in mind, or at least their ancestors, when he penned that famous lawyer quote.
Unless they're just joking, in which case they desperately need to take some classes for the humor-impaired.
Am I the only one who read the slashdot intro and thought, "I soooo want to go there!"?
This is about power, pure and simple. Lots of people want power across most belief systems, including atheists and agnostics, as well as Christians, Muslims, Jews, pagans, etc. History shows this. It also shows that not everyone who calls themselves any of these things really is- especially in the power games.
Doesn't matter. If they refuse to play ball, we just declare them terrorists, claim they pose a "clear and present danger" to America's financial and technologicla security, and send in the marines.
Soon to be a major motion picture!
...and there is almost certainly prior art in the public domain. Certainly there were similar things floating around in the 80s in the X11 world. But I haven't had time to fight my way through the patent technolegalbable yet. Still, from glancing at it, I think there's prior art in the public domain. We'll see.
It's really irrelevant whether they actually understand the real problem or not when what they do is broken. I don't care of they really don;t know or just have a mandate from someone who doesn't know or if they're just too clueless to realize that what happens on their high end system on their high speed LAN has little to do with what Jenny and Joey Average see at home on their cheap Compaq from WalMart with about half the RAM it should have for their current version of Bloated OS. The end result is the same.
And, in fact, a lot of web site developers fit one, two or three of the above categories. It's not just novices. a ridiculous percentage of websites suck performance-wise, and it's not just the myspaces and hacked up CMSes and such; a lot of corporate sites fall into this category as well, from financial institutions to ebay to auto manufacturers and dealers to swimming pool installation companies.
This is why I refuse to buy new music. I don't recall the last time I bought new music. I won't even ask my family for new CDs or concert videos for presents. I'll buy used, but that's it.
If everyone would boycott (I know, never happen), the retailers would gang up on these morons real fast.
Sony should publicly flog this woman, or whoever put her up to it, and put them in public stocks for a few years. But then, that would require the management to have a clue.
The law has long said I can make all the copies I want so long as they're for my personal use, and not more than one is in use at a time. And that's reasonable. Her comments are so far below unreasonable it's ridiculous.
Unless it is initiated on school property, or during school hours, or is otherwise set up specifically to harass during school hours or on school property, I don't see how the school has either the right or the responsibility to intervene.
I was *sure* we'd camoflaged our front door better than that!
... if only for not answering their question.
Despite the enormous flaws in the current system, they have done a good job of getting the word out about what they expect, and that they don't have a sense of humor about it. If she can speak English (and apparently she does), and is intelligent enough to go to MIT (apparently she is) then she really ought to have at least enough of a clue to (a) not have worn this to the airport or (b) to at least have been aware of the possibility of trouble, and been prepared to answer their questions and work with them.
Far brighter would have been to not have worn it at all. It really sounds like she was testing the limits, or looking for attention. But I'll allow she simply could be completely clueless. At best.
Next I guess she'll wear it to Circuit City, and see what happens when she tries to walk out the door without a receipt because she didn't buy anything.
I don't have much sympathy for her.
I've often wondered whether the expanding universe would affect perceived mass and/or weight...
By passing judgement without any facts, just your prejudices, you show yourself to be what you thought the poster you responded to was.
Pornography in the workplace equates to an unsafe workplace, which at the very least leaves the company open to a sexual harassment lawsuit (at least in the USA). That can be extremely expensive in terms of time, money, and mental and emotional capital.
OK, not exactly this, but they attempted to straddle the fence. It failed last time.
It was the Roadrunner 386i, which came out in 1988. It was a 386 system running SunOS (or was it Solaris by then? I forget) with a daughter board and co-processor to run DOS (not Windows, IIRC). I know, because I developed applications on it! The best part was that the beta release of the OS (bundled with their wonderful FORTRAN compiler!!!!) came on a stack of floppies several inches thick. Took a while to IPL or upgrade...
Anyway, Sun survived that debacle, and I suspect they'll survive this one. This time, the product may even survive as well!
...a Blue Tatoo like scare about how these will be sued to put gradeschoolers on LSD.
Or perhaps an actual attempt to do so by some moron.
Shower him with CDs thrown like frisbees. The whole campus population can participate!
Don't even think of sharpening the edges and dipping them in hot sauce first...
Mother Space-Time? Is she related to Mother Freedom? Has anyone written a song about her?
``The Big Bang (the Mother of all Space-Time)'' by Hotblack Desiato & Disaster Area (parental lyrics warning)
... a phone that's just a phone?
OK, throw in text messages, because I work with teenagers.
But that's it.Who will sell me that?
I tried to view the picture of this, but it won't fit on my paltry two monitors...
RedHat still provides the source for free. They're only charging for support; they just don't provide you with the build formats you may want of the binaries they built and tested.
/. community yelling at you, but you're free to do it. Or not.
You can get it all for free, and build it yourself, or get it from someone else who does just that (still for free), such as CentOS or Scientific Linux. You could even get the source, build and test it, and do the same thing RedHat does for less money. You might be hard pressed to make a living that way, challenging the big gorilla, and you'd have the
The GPM doesn't require you to give away binaries or support.
The first time we had an A/C drain problem flooding under the raised floor, we had only a small shop vac to remove the water. Took forever, and I was amazed we lost no power. The next time we had a bigger shop vac-- more powerful, more volume, bigger hose, and we cleaned that sucker out in no time.
Make sure you have water alarms under the floor as well. Ideally they notify someone directly when there's a problem.
Flashlights by the doors. Preferably rechargeable, and plugged in. But at least available, and check them every so often.
I really want a transparisteel skylight in there, but no luck so far.
Every crime costs you, sooner or later. The bank's cost of business, insurance inflation, the extra cost on the jurisdiction that gets called in to investigate, the cost of reporting to the feds (which eats tax dollars as the feds have to generate and process about three forests of paperwork for every incident), etc. And taking cash that isn't yours from that bank is a crime.
So even if the bank never took the money back, it costs every one of us. If eth bank takes the money back, it costs every one of us. If the bank for some reason can't tell who took the money, and you don't report it, you're ripping off everyone you know.
And the fact that a lot of people don't get that, or just don't care, is a big part of why western society is having a lot of the problems it does.
Yeah, I know it's fiction, but revisit Spiderman 1 (movie or comic, either way). Unlce Ben's death because Pete didn't give a damn about a robbery pretty well sums it up.
A friend's sibling was telling us at diner last night that IBM (their employer) encourages them to use Second Life for virtual meetings, hence these guidelines.
IBM has always had strict guidelines about how IBM employees relate to the rest of the world, but at least in the last two decades (the main time I've had any involvement with them, including time contracting there) I have not been aware of them ever crossing the line you're asking about. At any ate, I haven't seen any evidence they are in this case.
I surf the web via telnet. Is there an alexa toolbar for that?
If you just followed the link in the article, or typed "alexa" into your search, you'd have known within a few seconds.