Well, what if 45 employees who bill clients at $50 an hour were unable to be productive (and bill clients) for a full 8-hour day as a result of the system downtime?
I also had nothing but problems with MediaOne/Road Runner. Messed up my bill every single month that I had the service, service outages that (if I somehow managed to get through to tech support) they said weren't their fault, it must be my software, and if it wasn't that then it was my hardware, etc. But, happily, I live in an area where RCN is also available. Now that I've switched, I've had no problems, now I'm a happy camper.
I'm very happy to support RCN. Both because the service is better (and cheaper), and also because if they grow, there will be a monopoly in fewer places, which should force MediaOne/Road Runner to provide decent service.
Er, in my experience it's not very difficult at all to implement connection pooling on an Oracle database. Fact is, no matter what database you use, you shouldn't create and destroy a database connection every time a user wants to run a query (or for each user session, for that matter).
Wow! Get rid of Police departments. They're a way for the government to control us. Don't let them have bullet-proof vests and pepper spary, they are just "stronger ways to control us"!
Wanting music available in MP3 legally is one thing, just taking it is another>
You seem to be having trouble grasping what this is about. You're right, of course, if I go and download a Metallica mp3, that's illegal. But that's only because I don't own any Metallica tapes/LPs/CDs (or, in particular, the one that I'd download). Metallica has no proof that those 300000 (or however many people there were on the list) don't already own the cd. For those that do, nothing illegal has happened, there's only been a blatant invasion of privacy.
The only reason they didn't break even was because they spent even more than that building for the future - spending on advertising, building brand awareness, implementing new features. If they would just all that right now, they would be a profitable company.
Well, this isn't entirely true. Amazon includes their fulfillment expenses in with their marketing expenses. Fulfillment costs are not just going to go away, so some of what they call "marketing" expenses aren't that at all, they're costs of running the business. It seems likely to me that every time you order a book from them, they actually lose a bit of money....
they also have a disclaimer about non-responsibility for errors and omissions
The real question is whether their disclaimer actually clears them of responsibility. I think not. It's like when you go to play paintball, you sign a document that says "No matter what happens to me, it's not the fault of the people who run this place". But I doubt that a document like that would be upheld in a court if the goggles you were using were theirs, and you lost your eyesight because they were in bad condition.
Is it libel for me to say: "I'm not responsible it this is wrong, but such-and-such is a child molester"?
This is enable us to make use of the superior reliability and extended scalability that Windows 2000 offers
For god's sake, if you're upgrading for better reliability and scalability, then upgrade to Unix or Linux! Honestly, if that's what you're looking for, there's no excuse to be using windows. If what you want is a quick plug-it-in system that approximates security and all of that, then maybe consider windows...
Windows 2000 already proves to be impressively stable....
Have you ever used Unix????
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Schools and parents encourage boys towards technical stuff, and girls towards nurturing stuff.
If men and women were allowed to go after their own, personal interests, rather than have them dictated from On High, I suspect you'd find that the number of men and women in cracking was about equal.
Doubt it. This is the whole "nature vs nurture" thing. If you look at animals, the females tend to be more nurturing, the males tend to go out and hunt (generalizing broadly, of course). Humans are the same way. Quite a while ago, I read a newspaper column about this, and the writer made the comment that she had given her son toys that weren't the typical masculine toys (no trucks, soldiers, etc) for his whole life. She watched him playing one day, and he was using a doll, pushing it across the carpet saying "vroom vroom!" pretending it was a truck.
I suspect that hacking and cracking are things that appeal to males' need to hunt, and that that is at least as much of a factor as the way people are guided in school and by parents.
A lot of pirates (arr!) are located in HK, Taiwan, and Malaysia, and I guess that would be a good reason to set them apart as their own region...at least in the eyes of the DVD makers
Yeah, but what's to stop the pirates in SE Asia from getting discs from each of the regions and pirating them? Nothing. The region-encoding thing absolutely in no way impedes any piracy whatsoever. It's just an attempt to make a few extra bucks and to control things a little tighter....
Well, you won't HAVE to buy these screens, but strangely enough, the new CCS-2 DVD players will only work with these screens. And for some reason, there won't be much content released on the old CSS-1 format.
Sounds like they're going to shoot themselves in the foot if they try that. Really, are all of the people who have just invested in DVD's and DVD Players really going to be happy about being forced to buy a new player (and new monitor, etc) just a few years later? Nope. I would just go back to VHS.
If they produce sufficient quantities of this matter, you can create mini blackholes.
Well, if you have a sufficient quantity of Hydrogen, you can get a black hole, too. I believe that in both of these cases, "sufficient quantity" is the stumbling block.
If this were the speed of light in a particular medium, then it wouldn't take too much to make the medium go faster than that.
Er, yeah, but if you try to move the medium, you're going to add plenty of energy, and then you'll no longer have a Bose-Einstein condensate. I can't see how you'd be able to do this without finding a different material capable of slowing the light down.
Each separate company would act in its own interest, which acts to prevent monopolistic behavior....
So I have a question here. If they're broken up into 3 different companies, does Bill have to sell his interest in 2 of them? Because if not, then what is in the best interest of one company would still be very much for the good of the other companies (or certainly their stockholders, and increasing stockholder value is considered one of the prime motives of public companies). Maybe it would be bordering on collusion, but they still could (and would be motivated to) do what they do as one company today.
I hate to nitpick, but given what Jon says, it really seems like a child would be much more likly to be victimized online than to have an airplane fall on his/her head.
It seems that Hawking, while respected, well thought of, and certainly a smart cookie, is not the all-influential demigod that most of us believe that he is.
The way that science works is that there has to be lots of evidence for something (and no real evidence against it) for it to be widely believed. Just because somebody's beliefs are "highly controversial and hotly contested" does not mean that people don't have the utmost respect, or even the belief that he's an "all-influential demigod". There just needs to be discussion and evidence and whatnot for anything to be widely accepted. Scientists don't just believe anything that somebody says, no matter who that is, they need to convince themselves that it's true, no matter if it's Hawking or Einstein or Homer Simpson.
The fact that his beliefs are hotly contested just means that they're on the cutting edge, so it's going to take some time before everybody can convince themselves that they do (or don't) believe them.
I would imagine that Etoys probably thinks that having Etoy shock art just one character away from the Etoys childrens section is like having Howard Stern come on the TV right after Sesame Street.
No, it's much more like having Howard Stern come on MTV (or whatever channel he's on) at the same time that Sesame Street is on PBS, and then PBS shuts MTV down because a few kids press the wrong buttons on the remote.
Should anything be allow on Main Street in the metaverse, or should there be some zoning bylaws to seperate childrens toys stores from adult performance art?
It is eToys that should have to work around this problem. They "moved in next to" Etoy, they have to live with what was already there. Following your analogy, they moved into the area that was zoned "adult performance art" and now want it to be changed to "childrens". If they want this problem solved, they really need to move out of the zone they're in, not change how their current location is zoned.
the idea is to vote for the (wo)man you want to be President, not necessarily for the winner.
True, but you might think about hedging your bet, and choose the lesser of two evils. If, for example, in your state, Bush beats Bradley by 1 vote, and those electoral votes were what he needed to win the election, and you voted for Nader, would you think that you made the right choice?
Electric cars have been around for at least as long as the internal-combustion engine
I'm not going to get in to whether this statement is true. Instead, I'll say that it's irrelevant. They require more advanced technology, and gas-powered cars are clearly a step that is pretty much required to get from Horses to Electric Cars as the major mode of transportation in this country, and that's the point.
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Well, what if 45 employees who bill clients at $50 an hour were unable to be productive (and bill clients) for a full 8-hour day as a result of the system downtime?
I'm very happy to support RCN. Both because the service is better (and cheaper), and also because if they grow, there will be a monopoly in fewer places, which should force MediaOne/Road Runner to provide decent service.
Er, in my experience it's not very difficult at all to implement connection pooling on an Oracle database. Fact is, no matter what database you use, you shouldn't create and destroy a database connection every time a user wants to run a query (or for each user session, for that matter).
Wow! Get rid of Police departments. They're a way for the government to control us. Don't let them have bullet-proof vests and pepper spary, they are just "stronger ways to control us"!
Wanting music available in MP3 legally is one thing, just taking it is another>
You seem to be having trouble grasping what this is about. You're right, of course, if I go and download a Metallica mp3, that's illegal. But that's only because I don't own any Metallica tapes/LPs/CDs (or, in particular, the one that I'd download). Metallica has no proof that those 300000 (or however many people there were on the list) don't already own the cd. For those that do, nothing illegal has happened, there's only been a blatant invasion of privacy.
Hopefully Katz is poorly paraphrasing the law, cause wouldn't that include web browser
Or email software, or ftp servers and clients, or printing presses or....
If they do things right....
Hah! That's the funniest thing I've heard all week! ROTFL!!!
I think that what they meant to say was that the ratio of Helium 3 to Helium 4 was much more than what would naturally be found in our solar system.
The only reason they didn't break even was because they spent even more than that building for the future - spending on advertising, building brand awareness, implementing new features. If they would just all that right now, they would be a profitable company.
Well, this isn't entirely true. Amazon includes their fulfillment expenses in with their marketing expenses. Fulfillment costs are not just going to go away, so some of what they call "marketing" expenses aren't that at all, they're costs of running the business. It seems likely to me that every time you order a book from them, they actually lose a bit of money....
they also have a disclaimer about non-responsibility for errors and omissions
The real question is whether their disclaimer actually clears them of responsibility. I think not. It's like when you go to play paintball, you sign a document that says "No matter what happens to me, it's not the fault of the people who run this place". But I doubt that a document like that would be upheld in a court if the goggles you were using were theirs, and you lost your eyesight because they were in bad condition.
Is it libel for me to say: "I'm not responsible it this is wrong, but such-and-such is a child molester"?
This is enable us to make use of the superior reliability and extended scalability that Windows 2000 offers
For god's sake, if you're upgrading for better reliability and scalability, then upgrade to Unix or Linux! Honestly, if that's what you're looking for, there's no excuse to be using windows. If what you want is a quick plug-it-in system that approximates security and all of that, then maybe consider windows...
Windows 2000 already proves to be impressively stable....
Have you ever used Unix????
Schools and parents encourage boys towards technical stuff, and girls towards nurturing stuff.
If men and women were allowed to go after their own, personal interests, rather than have them dictated from On High, I suspect you'd find that the number of men and women in cracking was about equal.
Doubt it. This is the whole "nature vs nurture" thing. If you look at animals, the females tend to be more nurturing, the males tend to go out and hunt (generalizing broadly, of course). Humans are the same way. Quite a while ago, I read a newspaper column about this, and the writer made the comment that she had given her son toys that weren't the typical masculine toys (no trucks, soldiers, etc) for his whole life. She watched him playing one day, and he was using a doll, pushing it across the carpet saying "vroom vroom!" pretending it was a truck.
I suspect that hacking and cracking are things that appeal to males' need to hunt, and that that is at least as much of a factor as the way people are guided in school and by parents.
A lot of pirates (arr!) are located in HK, Taiwan, and Malaysia, and I guess that would be a good reason to set them apart as their own region...at least in the eyes of the DVD makers
Yeah, but what's to stop the pirates in SE Asia from getting discs from each of the regions and pirating them? Nothing. The region-encoding thing absolutely in no way impedes any piracy whatsoever. It's just an attempt to make a few extra bucks and to control things a little tighter....
Well, you won't HAVE to buy these screens, but strangely enough, the new CCS-2 DVD players will only work with these screens. And for some reason, there won't be much content released on the old CSS-1 format.
Sounds like they're going to shoot themselves in the foot if they try that. Really, are all of the people who have just invested in DVD's and DVD Players really going to be happy about being forced to buy a new player (and new monitor, etc) just a few years later? Nope. I would just go back to VHS.
I second that. Java in a Nutshell is not only the best book on Java that I've seen, but one of the best programming references I've seen.
But Java in a Nutshell is a reference. So if you're new to OOP, I wouldn't start with that. Maybe Core Java, by Horstmann and Cornell?
If they produce sufficient quantities of this matter, you can create mini blackholes.
Well, if you have a sufficient quantity of Hydrogen, you can get a black hole, too. I believe that in both of these cases, "sufficient quantity" is the stumbling block.
If this were the speed of light in a particular medium, then it wouldn't take too much to make the medium go faster than that.
Er, yeah, but if you try to move the medium, you're going to add plenty of energy, and then you'll no longer have a Bose-Einstein condensate. I can't see how you'd be able to do this without finding a different material capable of slowing the light down.
Many of you are asking about a material in which the speed of light is very slow. Such a material was demonstrated last year:
Yeah, but accelerating it in any manner is going to add plenty of energy so that light moves much faster.
Each separate company would act in its own interest, which acts to prevent monopolistic behavior....
So I have a question here. If they're broken up into 3 different companies, does Bill have to sell his interest in 2 of them? Because if not, then what is in the best interest of one company would still be very much for the good of the other companies (or certainly their stockholders, and increasing stockholder value is considered one of the prime motives of public companies). Maybe it would be bordering on collusion, but they still could (and would be motivated to) do what they do as one company today.
I hate to nitpick, but given what Jon says, it really seems like a child would be much more likly to be victimized online than to have an airplane fall on his/her head.
84.5% of all statistics are made up.
It seems that Hawking, while respected, well thought of, and certainly a smart cookie, is not the all-influential demigod that most of us believe that he is.
The way that science works is that there has to be lots of evidence for something (and no real evidence against it) for it to be widely believed. Just because somebody's beliefs are "highly controversial and hotly contested" does not mean that people don't have the utmost respect, or even the belief that he's an "all-influential demigod". There just needs to be discussion and evidence and whatnot for anything to be widely accepted. Scientists don't just believe anything that somebody says, no matter who that is, they need to convince themselves that it's true, no matter if it's Hawking or Einstein or Homer Simpson.
The fact that his beliefs are hotly contested just means that they're on the cutting edge, so it's going to take some time before everybody can convince themselves that they do (or don't) believe them.
Grrr.
I would imagine that Etoys probably thinks that having Etoy shock art just one character away from the Etoys childrens section is like having Howard Stern come on the TV right after Sesame Street.
No, it's much more like having Howard Stern come on MTV (or whatever channel he's on) at the same time that Sesame Street is on PBS, and then PBS shuts MTV down because a few kids press the wrong buttons on the remote.
Should anything be allow on Main Street in the metaverse, or should there be some zoning bylaws to seperate childrens toys stores from adult performance art?
It is eToys that should have to work around this problem. They "moved in next to" Etoy, they have to live with what was already there. Following your analogy, they moved into the area that was zoned "adult performance art" and now want it to be changed to "childrens". If they want this problem solved, they really need to move out of the zone they're in, not change how their current location is zoned.
the idea is to vote for the (wo)man you want to be President, not necessarily for the winner.
True, but you might think about hedging your bet, and choose the lesser of two evils. If, for example, in your state, Bush beats Bradley by 1 vote, and those electoral votes were what he needed to win the election, and you voted for Nader, would you think that you made the right choice?
Electric cars have been around for at least as long as the internal-combustion engine
I'm not going to get in to whether this statement is true. Instead, I'll say that it's irrelevant. They require more advanced technology, and gas-powered cars are clearly a step that is pretty much required to get from Horses to Electric Cars as the major mode of transportation in this country, and that's the point.