Opening a directory with 50 video files may slow the Explorer window to generate thumbnails... but only the first time you open that window. It doesn't regenerate them every time, so it won't take any longer to open that window the second time through.
There's no reason that window/mouse response should become sluggish when it is generating thumbnails first time or not. That's just poor UI design. I see the same thing in IE. Some web sites, this one included, will cause window/mouse response in IE to get very sluggish or non-existent for a while. The user action should always have priority. I don't care if it's busy processing through 1000 Slashdot comments... if I want to click a link, close the window, or go back it should just do it.
So you propose to keep all taxes the same (including the Social Security & Medicare deductions totalling 15.3% of your income), but no longer provide Social Security or Medicare benefits?
Good luck with that... any politican who proposes that would be gone in the next election, if not much sooner.
Indeed, so feeble is the ring that scientists have calculated that if all the material were gathered up, it would fill a crater on Phoebe no more than a kilometre across.
In a busy area you have several cell towers to choose from. In a sparsely populated area you're just hosed if your one available tower gets overloaded.
And if they really are keeping him in to expire his certs, he could be stuck in there for another couple years.
Recertification Renewal Timeframes
CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCVP, and CCIP certifications are valid for three years.
All CCIE certifications and Specialist certifications are valid for two years. ...
Individuals with an expired certification(s) must repeat the entire certification exam process in order to regain their certification(s).
(http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_recertification_training.html)
Just admit that he was presumed guilty before a trial you incompetent fools. You all are making yourselves look more and more like idiots, and the Childs is laughing his ass off in jail.
They may just be keeping him in long enough for all of his certs to expire.
That's ashame. It would have been nicer on the PvP servers to no longer have the 80+ crowd hanging around in lowbie areas ganking you. But on the plus side the new reworking might make leveling a new alt bearable.
Yes, going from a previous article here on that subject.
SSA doesn't think so. It sounds like they will change the numbering system (add some digits probably) when they run out intead of reusing numbers. It ought to be an interesting Y2K-style programming exercise when that transpires.
Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?
A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 415 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.
Well how about the fact that the company is in Canada and the lawsuit is taking place in Texas. You gotta be kidding, you seriously think this is legit? This company is a parasite. Even its "product" is just some crapware which plugs into word and it's suspect that there is even a product, it looks like they made that page simply for the court case.
This is a clever manipulation of statistics. The high-end market is rapidly shrinking as the average price of a PC has dropped under $500, while Apple's average price is still up around $1500. So yes their share of the remaining $1000+ market is increasing. Apple didn't destroy Dell and HP in the high-end market... that market moved out from under Dell and HP, and will eventually move out from under Apple as well.
Strangely enough NPD excluded high-end PC gaming systems... I'm not sure how many non-gaming $1000+ machines are out there to count, so the statistics are even more skewed than they should be.
Apple may own 91% of the high end "non-gaming" market, but right now the high end market is only about 10% of the total... they are missing out on nearly all of the lower 90% of the market.
As far as Windows licensing, I don't really see a lot of difference with Apple... in most cases you don't reuse OSX on your next Mac either.
Maybe it's because you've used Windows since release 1.0, have a ton of applications for it, and just want to run them on a really sharp looking laptop?
IMO Apple would do well to open up their market a bit and offer MacBooks preloaded with Windows. They would destroy Dell & HP in the high end market.
Count yourself lucky then. I had zero problems with viruses and the like until Blaster hit the scene and infected machines with no user interaction required at all. Even worse, a couple times when I had to do a reinstall of XP the machines became infected before Windows Update could install the needed security patches. It was a happy day when I got a XP SP2 reinstallation disk with a newer system that I could use on the older machines when needed.
The judges order http://www.scribd.com/doc/16501242/Gertner-Order-of-61609-re-Nesson-Tactics has some insight: "The Defendant is permitted to record the remaining depositions in any manner consistent with the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(3). The parties are cautioned, however, that the decision to publicize any recording, on the internet or otherwise, may be regarded as an effort to taint the jury pool in advance of trial."
As long as the information was recorded _in_ Federal court, on US government property, I don't think a Massachusetts statute could apply. But outside of that he's screwed.
Depends on how their systems are organized and which root(s) you have. Having root to the source, build or test server doesn't necessarily mean you would be able to disrupt/modify trades on the production server. Even if you had root to the production server you may be able to disrupt/shutdown trades but modifying trades could require access to an Oracle server somewhere else. It all depends on if Goldman has any clue about system security.
Right now we don't need anything to discourage moving toward electric / hybrid / high mileage vehicles. The environmental benefits and economic benefits of removing the need for foreign oil would far outweigh whatever revenue the government would receive.
Eventually they could probably come up with an electric metering system for plug-ins which would be far less intrusive than having a GPS watching you all the time.
GPS would be infinitely useful for governments. In addition to tracking mileage they can automatically charge tolls and even issue speeding tickets.
Why not just continue to raise the fuel taxes to generate revenue? That would serve to continue to reduce fuel consumption which would be a good thing.
And any small companies that have rolled their own systems will need to get help.
It is unreasonable for any jurisdiction outside of the one(s) that a company is operating out of to demand anything from that company.
Now it would be reasonable for the jurisdiction in which the company operates to demand sales taxes from the company even for out of state sales... I never really understood why they were treated seperately since the sale was still made in that jurisdiction even if it is shipped somewhere else. Of course the problem with this is that every mail order outfit in the country would then move to one of the states with no sales tax (Oregon, New Hampshire, a couple others).
Just as my mortgage holder doesn't calculate or pay my real estate taxes (they outsource it to a specialized third party)
This is a completely different issue. My mortgage holder receives a bill from my county which specifies exactly how much tax I owe, they just pay that bill. They do not need to calculate the tax, and that would certainly be even more difficult for them to do that than it would be to calculate sales tax.
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Opening a directory with 50 video files may slow the Explorer window to generate thumbnails... but only the first time you open that window. It doesn't regenerate them every time, so it won't take any longer to open that window the second time through.
There's no reason that window/mouse response should become sluggish when it is generating thumbnails first time or not. That's just poor UI design. I see the same thing in IE. Some web sites, this one included, will cause window/mouse response in IE to get very sluggish or non-existent for a while. The user action should always have priority. I don't care if it's busy processing through 1000 Slashdot comments... if I want to click a link, close the window, or go back it should just do it.
So you propose to keep all taxes the same (including the Social Security & Medicare deductions totalling 15.3% of your income), but no longer provide Social Security or Medicare benefits?
Good luck with that... any politican who proposes that would be gone in the next election, if not much sooner.
Indeed, so feeble is the ring that scientists have calculated that if all the material were gathered up, it would fill a crater on Phoebe no more than a kilometre across.
This is the same reason why you cannot be forced to reveal the encryption keys on your computer by your own will.
Yes, but would you really want to put it to the test? http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/15/120220. That guy is still in jail to this day.
They're probably more worried about someone using peek and poke in unintended ways.
In a busy area you have several cell towers to choose from. In a sparsely populated area you're just hosed if your one available tower gets overloaded.
Oops, it looks like he's in California State Prison at Corcoran. http://www.insideprison.com/California-State-Prison-Corcoran.asp.
But the education opportunities there don't appear to be much better http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Visitors/Facilities/COR-Inmate_Programs.html. "Computer Technology". Woooo.
And if they really are keeping him in to expire his certs, he could be stuck in there for another couple years.
Recertification Renewal Timeframes CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCVP, and CCIP certifications are valid for three years.
...
All CCIE certifications and Specialist certifications are valid for two years.
Individuals with an expired certification(s) must repeat the entire certification exam process in order to regain their certification(s).
(http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_recertification_training.html)
Just admit that he was presumed guilty before a trial you incompetent fools. You all are making yourselves look more and more like idiots, and the Childs is laughing his ass off in jail.
They may just be keeping him in long enough for all of his certs to expire.
That's ashame. It would have been nicer on the PvP servers to no longer have the 80+ crowd hanging around in lowbie areas ganking you. But on the plus side the new reworking might make leveling a new alt bearable.
Do SSNs get reused?
Yes, going from a previous article here on that subject.
SSA doesn't think so. It sounds like they will change the numbering system (add some digits probably) when they run out intead of reusing numbers. It ought to be an interesting Y2K-style programming exercise when that transpires.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html
Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?
A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 415 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.
Well how about the fact that the company is in Canada and the lawsuit is taking place in Texas. You gotta be kidding, you seriously think this is legit? This company is a parasite. Even its "product" is just some crapware which plugs into word and it's suspect that there is even a product, it looks like they made that page simply for the court case.
If they just made the page simply for the court case, they've been planning it for over 6 years... http://web.archive.org/web/20030207000848/http://www.i4i.com/x4o.htm.
I don't really think they have a case, but a patent troll they are not.
This is a clever manipulation of statistics. The high-end market is rapidly shrinking as the average price of a PC has dropped under $500, while Apple's average price is still up around $1500. So yes their share of the remaining $1000+ market is increasing. Apple didn't destroy Dell and HP in the high-end market... that market moved out from under Dell and HP, and will eventually move out from under Apple as well.
Strangely enough NPD excluded high-end PC gaming systems... I'm not sure how many non-gaming $1000+ machines are out there to count, so the statistics are even more skewed than they should be.
Apple may own 91% of the high end "non-gaming" market, but right now the high end market is only about 10% of the total... they are missing out on nearly all of the lower 90% of the market.
As far as Windows licensing, I don't really see a lot of difference with Apple... in most cases you don't reuse OSX on your next Mac either.
Maybe it's because you've used Windows since release 1.0, have a ton of applications for it, and just want to run them on a really sharp looking laptop?
IMO Apple would do well to open up their market a bit and offer MacBooks preloaded with Windows. They would destroy Dell & HP in the high end market.
Count yourself lucky then. I had zero problems with viruses and the like until Blaster hit the scene and infected machines with no user interaction required at all. Even worse, a couple times when I had to do a reinstall of XP the machines became infected before Windows Update could install the needed security patches. It was a happy day when I got a XP SP2 reinstallation disk with a newer system that I could use on the older machines when needed.
Some are bad, some are good. But even the bad stuff starts to taste good after a few.
The judges order http://www.scribd.com/doc/16501242/Gertner-Order-of-61609-re-Nesson-Tactics has some insight: "The Defendant is permitted to record the remaining depositions in any manner consistent with the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(3). The parties are cautioned, however, that the decision to publicize any recording, on the internet or otherwise, may be regarded as an effort to taint the jury pool in advance of trial."
As long as the information was recorded _in_ Federal court, on US government property, I don't think a Massachusetts statute could apply. But outside of that he's screwed.
Depends on how their systems are organized and which root(s) you have. Having root to the source, build or test server doesn't necessarily mean you would be able to disrupt/modify trades on the production server. Even if you had root to the production server you may be able to disrupt/shutdown trades but modifying trades could require access to an Oracle server somewhere else. It all depends on if Goldman has any clue about system security.
In reference to the Illinois Tollway system I found this kind of interesting: http://www.jschoenberg.org/tollway/Illinois_Report_Final.pdf
Right now we don't need anything to discourage moving toward electric / hybrid / high mileage vehicles. The environmental benefits and economic benefits of removing the need for foreign oil would far outweigh whatever revenue the government would receive.
Eventually they could probably come up with an electric metering system for plug-ins which would be far less intrusive than having a GPS watching you all the time.
GPS would be infinitely useful for governments. In addition to tracking mileage they can automatically charge tolls and even issue speeding tickets.
Why not just continue to raise the fuel taxes to generate revenue? That would serve to continue to reduce fuel consumption which would be a good thing.
And any small companies that have rolled their own systems will need to get help.
It is unreasonable for any jurisdiction outside of the one(s) that a company is operating out of to demand anything from that company.
Now it would be reasonable for the jurisdiction in which the company operates to demand sales taxes from the company even for out of state sales... I never really understood why they were treated seperately since the sale was still made in that jurisdiction even if it is shipped somewhere else. Of course the problem with this is that every mail order outfit in the country would then move to one of the states with no sales tax (Oregon, New Hampshire, a couple others).
Just as my mortgage holder doesn't calculate or pay my real estate taxes (they outsource it to a specialized third party)
This is a completely different issue. My mortgage holder receives a bill from my county which specifies exactly how much tax I owe, they just pay that bill. They do not need to calculate the tax, and that would certainly be even more difficult for them to do that than it would be to calculate sales tax.
While I'm all for taking Amazon down a notch I think it would be just a little bit unfair to only make Amazon do this.