Yes but if you're talking about "principles" then signing such a contract without modification (but comprehending it and the implications) is lying.
I recommend striking invalid clauses out. Or clauses you are not going to adhere to.
After all if such a clause is _invalid_ (illegal?) in California TODAY, no harm in striking it out right? Or unless they're actually hoping for California to change their mind next year or so?
Either way I think it makes better sense to remove such "invalid" clauses.
If the company objects to that, then you should ask yourself whether you really want to work in a company that insists on having invalid clauses in their contracts, and values those clauses more than it values you working for their company.
And you'd be also working in a company that's selecting for people who don't read, don't understand, don't care about contracts, or think such contracts are acceptable.
Modern conventional cars aren't that noisy either, if they're not revving their engines flat out, it's not easy to hear their _engines_ or exhausts.
The tire noise etc will be the same as an electric car.
Even my 14 year old car doesn't make much noise at 2000 rpm (yes the car still works;) ).
Anyway, in my country you look both ways when you cross the street, even if it's a one way street - crazy motorcyclists (and some car drivers) think it's perfectly fine to travel at a brisk pace the _wrong_ way.
Have to look up and down as well - people have been stealing manhole covers for the metal, and then in some places you might wish to watch for stuff falling from construction sites (a lower risk, but potentially quite a high impact;) ).
So all in all I'd prefer electric cars to not have ridiculous stuff to make them noisy. The crazy racers already make a lot of noise at 3 or 4 am every weekend. Let's not give them extra methods and ways to make their cars louder.
That's not really a problem. They don't have to all fetch it from the same server.
They may THINK they are fetching the same files from the same server, but it doesn't have to be the same server.
You just need to make sure that you have the thousand or so servers ready for them at various parts of the world. Either you do it yourself or you pay people like akamai to do it for you.
This is just incompetence.
Whatever it is, it's just one more reason not to go for bluray. Sure I can probably figure out how to workaround the problem but I don't want to have to explain that sort of crap to my mom or dad or whoever.
If the "Unauthorized Distributors" aka Pirates have conveniently skipped that crap in their versions, then their stuff starts to look even more attractive to more people.
Maybe if he bought his bluray disks from the pirate store he would not have this problem - they might have taken the trouble to exclude the "live content".
They can already rip you off without the official source, and they do.
You fly over for some Joint Venture meeting, hand them a product sample, the very next day they say, "Thanks, but we've decided we don't need to work with you", and a week or so later they're churning out practically the same thing for cheaper.
As for the stuff they are asking for:
From the article: "Products expected to be subject to the system are those equipped with secret coding, such as the Felica contactless smart card system developed by Sony Corp., digital copiers and computer servers. "
Maybe they're wondering if anything else was sneaked in along with the anticounterfeiting stuff in digital copiers;).
Would you want to know whether there are "special cards" that always get access? Or as a government wanted to have such special cards?
Or maybe they wanted to see if there's a difference between the source and what they already have seen for themselves in the hardware. They could have found backdoors already, and wondering whether they are officially in the source code.
I dunno about the rest of the world, but when I use Yahoo stuff, it's not because of the ads or search.
Stuff I use? Yahoo mail, and Yahoo Messenger.
YM is a lot more reliable than Microsoft's equivalent. Skype uses a lot more resources than I like, and often there are weird stalls when trying to send messages.
Skype isn't plaintext like the rest, but while better than nothing, I'm not convinced their crypto is worth the minuses of skype.
Lastly, both Microsoft and Yahoo's search services are actually OK. I'm sticking to google for now out of inertia and when on someone else's PC it's easier to type google ctrl+enter than search.yahoo.com;).
He's got a good point though. Your stuff is cluttering up the place too.
It's probably impossible to get you and twitter to take your battles elsewhere, but could you at least try to keep it down a bit? Ignore the stuff already at -1 or 0.
The problem is crappier regulation instead of better regulation.
The real problem is lots of stupid people don't understand that it's not about more or less regulation, it's about better or worse regulation. Same goes for more or less government - it's about better or worse government (no surprise over time you get crap, when you're deciding based on more/less instead of quality).
There are far better ways to do things.
But of course corrupt politicians do it in the way that makes them and their friends rich, and the voters keep voting for those politicians.
Anyway, I've been thinking that since the finance industry keeps blowing up like clockwork every decade (despite them saying their fancy financial innovations are for reducing risk, haha) perhaps they should incur an extra special tax. The money from that will go to a bailout fund used to bail them out.
If after a few decades they have grown up and have not needed a single bailout, the tax can be reduced, and the best performing companies (in terms of worst perfomance being not that crap) get back some of their money from the fund.
"He says his work has implications for the way drugs are marketed. People often think generic medicine is inferior. But gussy it up a bit, change the name, make it appear more expensive, and maybe it will work better, he said."
Well I'd rather be convinced that cheaper medicine is better or the same as expensive medicine:).
"In the 18 subjects Miller studied, average earnings were $250 for a five-hour shift. That jumped to $350 to $400 per five-hour shift when the women were their most fertile, he said."
There's research that shows that women tend to actually appear more attractive during their most fertile days (and probably might behave in a more attractive manner too ).
Coca Cola from the USA is significantly different from Coca Cola from Taiwan?
Sperm from the USA is different from sperm from Taiwan?
"Anderson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University's School of Medicine, and her colleagues found that not only was Coca-Cola a spermicide, but Diet Coke for some reason worked best. "
Y'know I'm thinking maybe neurons aren't that stupid. And the problem they have is they're rather small, lacking in senses and don't have much control over stuff.
I mean how intelligent could a genius appear to be if they were a microscopic blob of protoplasm.
Well my sig used to log people out, but too many people complained (they should learn to check before they click - there are far more dangerous and annoying links out there).
So I put a video instead. Not a rickroll, but one still complained!
Anyway, as you've probably found there are plenty more similar videos in youtube.
Here are some random videos on different topics (not rick rolls:) ).
Actually if you partitioned the drive and installed XP without all the client side junk that IT installs, I bet it would be very responsive as well.
My XP install definitely does not take 6 minutes to be usable. Maybe about a minute from power on. After login it's usable within seconds. No AV, no other crap.
If you don't play games, but still need windows for various work reasons, you could try Windows in a virtual machine on Linux. There are many advantages of doing that. I was doing that at my previous workplace.
I wonder what happens if a restaurant only plays music that I compose (I'm not a member and the last I checked I am not getting any money or royalties from them).
I also wonder where the royalties are really going and what the pie slices look like;).
To reduce the chances of your laptop getting stolen, how about getting it laser engraved or airbrushed with a unique design, so that it is easily identifiable. That reduces the fence value (thief has to sell components - more hassle).
I suppose the thief could still put a huge sticker on the laptop to cover the artwork.
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I've got a preventative treatment for prostrate cancer.
It's called trans-fatty acids.
Take enough of it and your odds of getting prostrate cancer go way down.
There's plenty of scientific evidence to back my claims.
Yes but if you're talking about "principles" then signing such a contract without modification (but comprehending it and the implications) is lying.
I recommend striking invalid clauses out. Or clauses you are not going to adhere to.
After all if such a clause is _invalid_ (illegal?) in California TODAY, no harm in striking it out right? Or unless they're actually hoping for California to change their mind next year or so?
Either way I think it makes better sense to remove such "invalid" clauses.
If the company objects to that, then you should ask yourself whether you really want to work in a company that insists on having invalid clauses in their contracts, and values those clauses more than it values you working for their company.
And you'd be also working in a company that's selecting for people who don't read, don't understand, don't care about contracts, or think such contracts are acceptable.
Sounds a bit like the beginning of the auto age - back then even the pedal layouts weren't standardized yet.
Same goes for the beginning of the PC age. The PCs in the 1970s-1980s were very different from each other.
Modern conventional cars aren't that noisy either, if they're not revving their engines flat out, it's not easy to hear their _engines_ or exhausts.
;) ).
;) ).
The tire noise etc will be the same as an electric car.
Even my 14 year old car doesn't make much noise at 2000 rpm (yes the car still works
Anyway, in my country you look both ways when you cross the street, even if it's a one way street - crazy motorcyclists (and some car drivers) think it's perfectly fine to travel at a brisk pace the _wrong_ way.
Have to look up and down as well - people have been stealing manhole covers for the metal, and then in some places you might wish to watch for stuff falling from construction sites (a lower risk, but potentially quite a high impact
So all in all I'd prefer electric cars to not have ridiculous stuff to make them noisy. The crazy racers already make a lot of noise at 3 or 4 am every weekend. Let's not give them extra methods and ways to make their cars louder.
That's not really a problem. They don't have to all fetch it from the same server.
They may THINK they are fetching the same files from the same server, but it doesn't have to be the same server.
You just need to make sure that you have the thousand or so servers ready for them at various parts of the world. Either you do it yourself or you pay people like akamai to do it for you.
This is just incompetence.
Whatever it is, it's just one more reason not to go for bluray. Sure I can probably figure out how to workaround the problem but I don't want to have to explain that sort of crap to my mom or dad or whoever.
If the "Unauthorized Distributors" aka Pirates have conveniently skipped that crap in their versions, then their stuff starts to look even more attractive to more people.
Yeah, good thing you Med people don't smirk and make snarky comments to us about "So, you didn't make any backups? Your fault then".
;).
And it'll be nasty day when DRM and "Unauthorized Reproduction of IP" applies to human genes.
e.g. if you want this germline treatment, we own your children (and you pay us a fee to rent them back).
A penny for your thoughts? I think it'll cost a lot more in the future
Well with gigabytes of space per disc, it shouldn't be prohibitive to store a signed compressed blacklist of "bad" players.
If you ever need to blacklist 100 million "bad" players you have a bigger problem than not enough space to store the blacklist.
Whether they'd dare do such a thing, I don't know. Maybe they need to boil the frogs a bit longer first.
Maybe if he bought his bluray disks from the pirate store he would not have this problem - they might have taken the trouble to exclude the "live content".
This way - no bandwidth cap problem.
They can already rip you off without the official source, and they do.
;).
You fly over for some Joint Venture meeting, hand them a product sample, the very next day they say, "Thanks, but we've decided we don't need to work with you", and a week or so later they're churning out practically the same thing for cheaper.
As for the stuff they are asking for:
From the article: "Products expected to be subject to the system are those equipped with secret coding, such as the Felica contactless smart card system developed by Sony Corp., digital copiers and computer servers. "
Maybe they're wondering if anything else was sneaked in along with the anticounterfeiting stuff in digital copiers
Would you want to know whether there are "special cards" that always get access? Or as a government wanted to have such special cards?
Or maybe they wanted to see if there's a difference between the source and what they already have seen for themselves in the hardware. They could have found backdoors already, and wondering whether they are officially in the source code.
From google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=20000+psi+in+atmospheres&meta=
20000 pounds per square inch = 1360.91928 atmospheres
Easy :). Just hoping people would do that more and complain less about imperial vs metric.
Water that isn't wet is called really cold ice.
I dunno about the rest of the world, but when I use Yahoo stuff, it's not because of the ads or search.
;).
Stuff I use? Yahoo mail, and Yahoo Messenger.
YM is a lot more reliable than Microsoft's equivalent. Skype uses a lot more resources than I like, and often there are weird stalls when trying to send messages.
Skype isn't plaintext like the rest, but while better than nothing, I'm not convinced their crypto is worth the minuses of skype.
Lastly, both Microsoft and Yahoo's search services are actually OK. I'm sticking to google for now out of inertia and when on someone else's PC it's easier to type google ctrl+enter than search.yahoo.com
He's got a good point though. Your stuff is cluttering up the place too.
It's probably impossible to get you and twitter to take your battles elsewhere, but could you at least try to keep it down a bit? Ignore the stuff already at -1 or 0.
"And while I think child molestors are scum"
What the Law defines as Child Molester could be very different from what you are thinking of.
Take the case of Genarlow Wilson who was convicted of aggravated child molestation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_v._State_of_Georgia
Maybe in the future the USA would be executing 15 year olds for having consensual sex with each other, in order to protect them of course.
I believe they're already prosecuting them for distributing child porn because they send each other nude pics (kids these days...).
It'll be wonderful to be living in United Saudi Arabia don't you think?
I think the children need protection, but they also need protection from the government and the legal system ;).
Well at least there's you who's working to make things better.
;).
It's hard for the rest of us to not have "contempt of court" though
Well there's always the nagging suspicion that the cheap generic from India/China might not be as good...
The problem is crappier regulation instead of better regulation.
The real problem is lots of stupid people don't understand that it's not about more or less regulation, it's about better or worse regulation. Same goes for more or less government - it's about better or worse government (no surprise over time you get crap, when you're deciding based on more/less instead of quality).
There are far better ways to do things.
But of course corrupt politicians do it in the way that makes them and their friends rich, and the voters keep voting for those politicians.
Anyway, I've been thinking that since the finance industry keeps blowing up like clockwork every decade (despite them saying their fancy financial innovations are for reducing risk, haha) perhaps they should incur an extra special tax. The money from that will go to a bailout fund used to bail them out.
If after a few decades they have grown up and have not needed a single bailout, the tax can be reduced, and the best performing companies (in terms of worst perfomance being not that crap) get back some of their money from the fund.
"He says his work has implications for the way drugs are marketed. People often think generic medicine is inferior. But gussy it up a bit, change the name, make it appear more expensive, and maybe it will work better, he said."
Well I'd rather be convinced that cheaper medicine is better or the same as expensive medicine :).
"In the 18 subjects Miller studied, average earnings were $250 for a five-hour shift. That jumped to $350 to $400 per five-hour shift when the women were their most fertile, he said."
There's research that shows that women tend to actually appear more attractive during their most fertile days (and probably might behave in a more attractive manner too ).
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/52484
BTW there's also:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080226/full/news.2008.625.html
http://www.newlifeafterdivorce.com/Relationships/Married-fertile-women-prefer-single-men.html
Coca Cola from the USA is significantly different from Coca Cola from Taiwan?
Sperm from the USA is different from sperm from Taiwan?
"Anderson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University's School of Medicine, and her colleagues found that not only was Coca-Cola a spermicide, but Diet Coke for some reason worked best. "
Y'know I'm thinking maybe neurons aren't that stupid. And the problem they have is they're rather small, lacking in senses and don't have much control over stuff.
I mean how intelligent could a genius appear to be if they were a microscopic blob of protoplasm.
It's called culture.
:).
Maybe they get it from a dish
Well my sig used to log people out, but too many people complained (they should learn to check before they click - there are far more dangerous and annoying links out there).
:) ).
:)
So I put a video instead. Not a rickroll, but one still complained!
Anyway, as you've probably found there are plenty more similar videos in youtube.
Here are some random videos on different topics (not rick rolls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3nNiUStTE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvzZdzkRQLc
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
Have fun
Actually if you partitioned the drive and installed XP without all the client side junk that IT installs, I bet it would be very responsive as well.
My XP install definitely does not take 6 minutes to be usable. Maybe about a minute from power on. After login it's usable within seconds. No AV, no other crap.
If you don't play games, but still need windows for various work reasons, you could try Windows in a virtual machine on Linux. There are many advantages of doing that. I was doing that at my previous workplace.
Yeah. There's this organisation in my country that goes around collecting money from restaurants etc.
http://www.ppm.org.my/v2/downloads/quoteEN.jpg
I wonder what happens if a restaurant only plays music that I compose (I'm not a member and the last I checked I am not getting any money or royalties from them).
I also wonder where the royalties are really going and what the pie slices look like ;).
Dunno. Probably patented by somebody already.
To reduce the chances of your laptop getting stolen, how about getting it laser engraved or airbrushed with a unique design, so that it is easily identifiable. That reduces the fence value (thief has to sell components - more hassle).
I suppose the thief could still put a huge sticker on the laptop to cover the artwork.