Not in the US. That's what we seem to refer to as entertainment.~
Defamation, libel, slander and villification may be punishable offenses. Also, if one uses profanity to insult, that may be punishable under certain circumstances. For instance, using profanity in the presence of a minor is an offense in several states and municipalities.
Many people believe that freedom of speech is the right to express your opinion in civil discourse without threatening or unfairly abusing others. It should not be interpreted as the right to blurt out whatever crosses one's mind at any moment in time, as the old standard of shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater demonstrates. Nor should it give one license to browbeat those with differing opinions. That would cease to be *civil* discourse.
I believe they covered this in kindergarten: "Play nice."
To me, this would be akin to plastering my personal medical records on a bulletin board in a busy public place with a single coversheet on each item that says "Private Medical Information: Please don't read this."
Thanks to the military, I had an introduction to very early "on-line" medical records. Yes, you guessed correctly. Those records are "no longer available." Fortunately, I requested copies of every contact and kept those in a personal copy of my medical records.
Perhaps the legislation could simply require that publicly supported, open document formats be considered for use by the archives of the pertinent state.
Actually we have three: two in college and one in high school. They' re not so small any more, but they once were. I agree that kids will be kids and will move and touch things, build forts out of blankets and couch cushions, etc. They're even more fun when they start learning to cook. What I'm advocating is teaching them a sense of responsibility and caring for others.
We taught our kids to put things back where they found them, or in the proper place if that's not where they found them. If they didn't, we politely asked them to stop whatever they were doing immediately to correct the problem. It wasn't easy, nor was it excessively difficult. Other than working to be consistent, the hardest part was living up to the same standard and allowing the kids to point out our failings, as well, and we corrected them immediately.
We also enforced rules about putting toys away after use. If the children failed to put away their toys, after three warnings we would collect the toys and put them out of sight and out of reach for at least a week. If the cycle repeated, the child was asked to clean and package the toys for donation Goodwill. We drove them to the donation center and they were required to carry the items in. Exceptions were, of course, made for the dearest items they slept with or a few special gifts from Grandma. They quickly learned to pick up after themselves.
I believe that children need to know that they choose their behavior and that their choices have impacts. The earlier they learn that, the better off they will be. Both at home and in the real world.
"There's a history of a lot of crazy people trying this sort of thing, and the idea is to do it in a way that's not crazy," said Joe Lonsdale, the institute's chairman and a principal at Clarium Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund.
So, to be clear, the idea's not crazy, just everyone who's tried it so far. Hmmm.
You have my vote for suckiest (yet rewarding) tech job. I visited a poultry plant once and discovered that I really needed to be elsewhere, FAST.
Worst tech working conditions I can recall was mopping 6 inches of stagnant water out of a sub-floor while the Burroughs mainframe above was still powered up. I stood on the power conduit most of the time (I knew it was well grounded).
Worst working conditions overall was walking/wading/swimming through the swamps near Moody AFB GA looking for parts from an F-4 engine. Good thing I had that yellow fever shot!
The company which procured the seat for me implied that the website didn't support a downloadable image, just a direct installation. I haven't had the opportunity to check because...
The network is run by the Army. Three months later, they're still waiting for approval to operate the software. Boots and bullets they understand, software is a different story.
Sometimes it's the exclusive distribution method or the update method that truly irks.
Google's Sketch-up Pro is available only by download. Not a problem in the US, but on a remote US base in Afghanistan? A CD/DVD option would have been most helpful.
As already pointed out above, updaters can be a significant issue even if the software itself is acceptable. The status quo should be maintained for settings, file associations and preferences, TYVM.
Advertise on the web and through the quality of your product, not via the update process.
Encoding likely, hopefully binary. We'll have to figure out ET's communicative symbology after the pleasantry of exchanging "assumed to be universally consistent" math facts in whatever encoding. Then, assuming we can receive and decode, we have to try to understand ET's symbology with no common base. Then, we have to interpret ET's intent along with the message. Might take longer than the Fermi-labs mystery letter.
Instead of "obnoxious security" as highlighted by the apple commercial, now we have "less effective than advertised obnoxious security that's still better than XP."
Can we possibly bring ourselves to acknowledge that M$ actually brought about an improvement in PC security? It shouldn't hurt too much since it appears to be verifiable.
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Not in the US. That's what we seem to refer to as entertainment.~
Defamation, libel, slander and villification may be punishable offenses. Also, if one uses profanity to insult, that may be punishable under certain circumstances. For instance, using profanity in the presence of a minor is an offense in several states and municipalities.
Many people believe that freedom of speech is the right to express your opinion in civil discourse without threatening or unfairly abusing others. It should not be interpreted as the right to blurt out whatever crosses one's mind at any moment in time, as the old standard of shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater demonstrates. Nor should it give one license to browbeat those with differing opinions. That would cease to be *civil* discourse.
I believe they covered this in kindergarten: "Play nice."
To me, this would be akin to plastering my personal medical records on a bulletin board in a busy public place with a single coversheet on each item that says "Private Medical Information: Please don't read this."
Thanks to the military, I had an introduction to very early "on-line" medical records. Yes, you guessed correctly. Those records are "no longer available." Fortunately, I requested copies of every contact and kept those in a personal copy of my medical records.
Perhaps the legislation could simply require that publicly supported, open document formats be considered for use by the archives of the pertinent state.
And they say you can't legislate common sense!
Given the current state of the world, you might want to consider donating to disaster relief. I promise, Microsoft won't get any of it.
Actually we have three: two in college and one in high school. They' re not so small any more, but they once were. I agree that kids will be kids and will move and touch things, build forts out of blankets and couch cushions, etc. They're even more fun when they start learning to cook. What I'm advocating is teaching them a sense of responsibility and caring for others.
We taught our kids to put things back where they found them, or in the proper place if that's not where they found them. If they didn't, we politely asked them to stop whatever they were doing immediately to correct the problem. It wasn't easy, nor was it excessively difficult. Other than working to be consistent, the hardest part was living up to the same standard and allowing the kids to point out our failings, as well, and we corrected them immediately.
We also enforced rules about putting toys away after use. If the children failed to put away their toys, after three warnings we would collect the toys and put them out of sight and out of reach for at least a week. If the cycle repeated, the child was asked to clean and package the toys for donation Goodwill. We drove them to the donation center and they were required to carry the items in. Exceptions were, of course, made for the dearest items they slept with or a few special gifts from Grandma. They quickly learned to pick up after themselves.
I believe that children need to know that they choose their behavior and that their choices have impacts. The earlier they learn that, the better off they will be. Both at home and in the real world.
Oh, M$ patent, nevermind.
OK /.ers, how would YOU categorize or classify data centers to provide a little more sanity|classification|taxonomy to this generic study? For example:
Transaction Processing Center
High Performance Computing Center
Corporate Support Data Center
Web Host or ISP Data Center
Search Engine Data Center
Have at it.
From TFA:
So, to be clear, the idea's not crazy, just everyone who's tried it so far. Hmmm.
when asking about the latest "P2P" technology.
You have my vote for suckiest (yet rewarding) tech job. I visited a poultry plant once and discovered that I really needed to be elsewhere, FAST.
Worst tech working conditions I can recall was mopping 6 inches of stagnant water out of a sub-floor while the Burroughs mainframe above was still powered up. I stood on the power conduit most of the time (I knew it was well grounded).
Worst working conditions overall was walking/wading/swimming through the swamps near Moody AFB GA looking for parts from an F-4 engine. Good thing I had that yellow fever shot!
Quality of play will be piss-poor.
Anyone know if it will run on DS Lite?
Avenue, that is. In a little green plastic house with his pewter car parked on the square.
The company which procured the seat for me implied that the website didn't support a downloadable image, just a direct installation. I haven't had the opportunity to check because...
The network is run by the Army. Three months later, they're still waiting for approval to operate the software. Boots and bullets they understand, software is a different story.
At the SketchUp Pro retail single seat price of $495, I'm rather certain they could handle a one-off CD/DVD distribution system. Don't you think?
Beats the heck out of everyone learning to be considerate of each others' property. What benefit would that have in real life? ~
It seems to me they're finally admitting that their tactics and stance may be considered toxic. "Let the cause suffer, I want the spotlight."
Sometimes it's the exclusive distribution method or the update method that truly irks.
Google's Sketch-up Pro is available only by download. Not a problem in the US, but on a remote US base in Afghanistan? A CD/DVD option would have been most helpful.
As already pointed out above, updaters can be a significant issue even if the software itself is acceptable. The status quo should be maintained for settings, file associations and preferences, TYVM.
Advertise on the web and through the quality of your product, not via the update process.
to use a mouse embryo to clone even part of a cat gene, you insensitive clods!
With tachyons, the message can arrive before it's sent! All we need to do is to figure out how to keep them from condensing....
Unless, of course, ET has a real hot pad.
Encoding likely, hopefully binary. We'll have to figure out ET's communicative symbology after the pleasantry of exchanging "assumed to be universally consistent" math facts in whatever encoding. Then, assuming we can receive and decode, we have to try to understand ET's symbology with no common base. Then, we have to interpret ET's intent along with the message. Might take longer than the Fermi-labs mystery letter.
and get back to work. I pay you to code, not decode!" says the pointy haired boss. ]8O
Instead of "obnoxious security" as highlighted by the apple commercial, now we have "less effective than advertised obnoxious security that's still better than XP."
Can we possibly bring ourselves to acknowledge that M$ actually brought about an improvement in PC security? It shouldn't hurt too much since it appears to be verifiable.
Somehow, I doubt that is the explanation, but wouldn't it be nice if it were true?