Does this open the door to collecting disability pay/insurance for losing your job after too much WoW?
Does anyone know how non-accidental disabilities... like drug addictions... are handled in such cases? I've never been a drug addict, but surely you can't collect disability pay for it.
(Lauren Nguyen an MPAA attorney) also said that the judge "broke no new ground in the case." The courts have long considered computer RAM as "electronically stored information," she said.
That's like calling a wheelbarrow "physically stored dirt". The RAM isn't the information, it's the container for the information...
Hey... maybe they can just call up their buddies in Redmond and license Photosynth... stitch all the pictures together then remove parts that are inconsistant between shots.
In other news, weather.com is forecasting possible flurries in the 7th circle.
In the old days, when stumbling around teh Intertron, you'd never know when you'd be blasted in the face with godawful web design.
Now, just check the domain name... if it's got myspace anywhere in it, you can be sure you'll get a page of blinking text, horizontal scrolling, fixed page backgrounds, and text the same color as it's container table (you know, the kind you have to select to read).
Myspace is to crappy web design as goatse is to anal porn.
Geez, I don't know about you, but I'd think about putting a few good cameras really high up... I dunno, maybe we could put them on the moon or something, but then they wouldn't be useful in a given geographic area half+ the time. If only there were some way to keep a camera high above earth, maybe in some sort of position that doesn't change relative to the ground.
Has anyone wondered whats going to happen to all the DRM-encumbered music you've already bought if they suddenly go DRM-less?
Are you going to have to buy it all over again? Will they give you new copies of what you purchased? Will all the new DRM-free players also be able to handle any media with any outmoded DRM to allow backwards compatibility of things I've already bought?
Has anyone thought that perhaps the 180 degree change of opinion from Apple's side might find you paying twice for your "Best of The Rolling Stones" album?
...but I don't think it's too far fetched to say that the post wasn't "censored" due to it's content, but due to it's tone. Maybe next time don't come out swinging with speculation... I believe the IdeaStorm website was meant to offer a forum for valuable feedback, not Dell-bashing because they don't offer your favorite pet OS.
That being said, you also have it look at it from Dell's perspective... if a very vocal minority representing a tiny fraction of your customer base offered up an "idea" and stuffed the ballot box to make it look larger than life, how seriously would you take it?
Frankly, my mom could care less if Linux came on a Dell... and if it did, she still wouldn't buy it because it probably wouldn't run AOL.
If she did buy it thinking she was saving a few bucks, she'd probably be rather upset that she couldn't find anything, it was completely different than what she used at work, and she could no longer sign onto her AOL email to send me another freaking hallmark eCard for St Patricks Day.
A few more readers need to tag this as slashvertising
Bleh.
If you submit a link to an article you wrote under the guise "[Website] has just [posted] a new [review of thing]"... where in fact [you] were the one doing the posting of said [review] under the employ of said [website]... you should be stoned.
Keep in mind, competition and the existence of a market go hand in hand. If there was no market for such a device, there wouldn't be much competition in that market.
On the price... Mac customers have been trained for years to pay a price premium simply because it's a Mac... and it's cool... I don't think this pavlovian conditioning was as widespread back in '93.
Game maker Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against NASA, claiming it stole code originally used to control GRAW AI teammates for use in the Mars Spirit Rover.
Keep in mind, not everyone is skilled in the art of spamassassin/procmail... nor are their IT staffs.
Regardless of any level of skill or technological wizardry, saying it's not neccessary to teach users the basics of keeping their email address off spam lists is a pretty hard sell.
Mars is, roughly, between 50 and 250 million miles away from earth, depending where we are in our solar orbits. Recently, the closest it's been in a long while is nearly 35 million miles (back in 2003 according to the Intertron)... but the distance swings rapidly as we race around our orbits... it can go from 40 million to 200 million in the space of a few months. I'm using 50 million as a rough average for the sake of illustration.
Given the speed of light, as fast as we think we can go, is *only* 670 million mph... that means the fastest one way trip we think anything can do is still going to take 4.5 minutes... it'll be better when it's closer (just over 3 minutes) and worse when it's on the opposite side of the sun (22 minutes)... and remember thats just one way!
Even if we plant a colony on mars, you won't be seeing ms ping times between earth.sol and mars.sol until there a breakthrough in our understanding of physics and we figure out how to go faster than the speed of light.
For those who didn't want to bother to read this post, if you want to play Halo XXV on a Mars server, you'll need to figure out a way to communicate with that installation at superluminal speeds.
Assuming you haven't compromised your email address (lots of ways to do this), you might not get much spam, in which case it doesn't take a lot of time. If you do get spam, having automated means to manage it can help (although I'd argue that your best bet is to not get it in the first place)
These are the things that users need to be educated in BEFORE you can move on to other email productivity "best practices". I don't care how good your are at managing your email time, if you're still using your address to "sign up to win a free vacation!" on every random website that flashes a banner at you, you're going to waste a good portion of it.
It's interesting that the 12 steps don't mention anything about mitigating or reducing SPAM... seems like it should be step 0 to me.
A large portion of the time spent on many people's email is deleting & weeding through SPAM, and if you didn't get a single piece of spam, you'd spend a lot less time in your inbox...and what time you did spend would be productive.
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Does anyone know how non-accidental disabilities... like drug addictions... are handled in such cases? I've never been a drug addict, but surely you can't collect disability pay for it.
That's like calling a wheelbarrow "physically stored dirt". The RAM isn't the information, it's the container for the information...
In other news, weather.com is forecasting possible flurries in the 7th circle.
Now, arguably, Eve was made out of a rib, so that may create kind of a grey area. I mean, it's not meat, but it's a bone. ;)
You're thinking Meters per Gallon.
In Soviet Russia, welcoming our chair-throwing overlords profits from YOU!
I don't know about you, but my GF seems to pretty adept at integrating her sleep with my pleasure. =(
1. Proper usage of the contraction "you're"
Sry, couldn't resist ;)
In the old days, when stumbling around teh Intertron, you'd never know when you'd be blasted in the face with godawful web design.
Now, just check the domain name... if it's got myspace anywhere in it, you can be sure you'll get a page of blinking text, horizontal scrolling, fixed page backgrounds, and text the same color as it's container table (you know, the kind you have to select to read).
Myspace is to crappy web design as goatse is to anal porn.
Someone really should invent that.
Are you going to have to buy it all over again? Will they give you new copies of what you purchased? Will all the new DRM-free players also be able to handle any media with any outmoded DRM to allow backwards compatibility of things I've already bought?
Has anyone thought that perhaps the 180 degree change of opinion from Apple's side might find you paying twice for your "Best of The Rolling Stones" album?
That being said, you also have it look at it from Dell's perspective... if a very vocal minority representing a tiny fraction of your customer base offered up an "idea" and stuffed the ballot box to make it look larger than life, how seriously would you take it?
Frankly, my mom could care less if Linux came on a Dell... and if it did, she still wouldn't buy it because it probably wouldn't run AOL.
If she did buy it thinking she was saving a few bucks, she'd probably be rather upset that she couldn't find anything, it was completely different than what she used at work, and she could no longer sign onto her AOL email to send me another freaking hallmark eCard for St Patricks Day.
Bleh.
If you submit a link to an article you wrote under the guise "[Website] has just [posted] a new [review of thing]"... where in fact [you] were the one doing the posting of said [review] under the employ of said [website]... you should be stoned.
Or modded down.
I take it you've never seen the Alt-Tab powertoy for XP? Good enough for me, without all the graphical eye candy that is Mac.
Not hard to hide all windows to see the desktop, show all windows, etc either... ToggleDesktop anyone?
Keep in mind, competition and the existence of a market go hand in hand. If there was no market for such a device, there wouldn't be much competition in that market.
On the price... Mac customers have been trained for years to pay a price premium simply because it's a Mac... and it's cool... I don't think this pavlovian conditioning was as widespread back in '93.
That other /. article from today is right... there really is a delay in TV media getting to the Aussies after being released in the US...
Game maker Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against NASA, claiming it stole code originally used to control GRAW AI teammates for use in the Mars Spirit Rover.
Regardless of any level of skill or technological wizardry, saying it's not neccessary to teach users the basics of keeping their email address off spam lists is a pretty hard sell.
Mars is, roughly, between 50 and 250 million miles away from earth, depending where we are in our solar orbits. Recently, the closest it's been in a long while is nearly 35 million miles (back in 2003 according to the Intertron)... but the distance swings rapidly as we race around our orbits... it can go from 40 million to 200 million in the space of a few months. I'm using 50 million as a rough average for the sake of illustration.
Given the speed of light, as fast as we think we can go, is *only* 670 million mph... that means the fastest one way trip we think anything can do is still going to take 4.5 minutes... it'll be better when it's closer (just over 3 minutes) and worse when it's on the opposite side of the sun (22 minutes)... and remember thats just one way!
Even if we plant a colony on mars, you won't be seeing ms ping times between earth.sol and mars.sol until there a breakthrough in our understanding of physics and we figure out how to go faster than the speed of light.
For those who didn't want to bother to read this post, if you want to play Halo XXV on a Mars server, you'll need to figure out a way to communicate with that installation at superluminal speeds.
Assuming you haven't compromised your email address (lots of ways to do this), you might not get much spam, in which case it doesn't take a lot of time. If you do get spam, having automated means to manage it can help (although I'd argue that your best bet is to not get it in the first place)
These are the things that users need to be educated in BEFORE you can move on to other email productivity "best practices". I don't care how good your are at managing your email time, if you're still using your address to "sign up to win a free vacation!" on every random website that flashes a banner at you, you're going to waste a good portion of it.
I fully expect us to go tearing off to Alpha Centuri the second we throw together a big enough engine. ;)
Ah, that's some useful clarification. Makes sense now.
1) Advertise for free on a popular website
2) __________?
3) Profit!
What security or performance "tests" did you run that you found "far from impressive"?
Note:
1) Open web browser
2) Load www.slashdot.org
3) Read what other people who haven't actually tested Vista posted
... is not a valid test. ;)
A large portion of the time spent on many people's email is deleting & weeding through SPAM, and if you didn't get a single piece of spam, you'd spend a lot less time in your inbox...and what time you did spend would be productive.