You'd have to process each email when it was received and everytime it was accessed though (on top of any processing for display purposes). I guess it depends on whether storage space or processor power is cheaper.
LTFL (Learn The Fucking Language): "emergency calls and calls made outside" is two separate parts: (1) emergency calls and (2) calls made outside - so the emergency calls are not necessarily outside.
I don't see why they can't store the files as a binary attachment to the e-mail, instead of storing the data inside the e-mail as text, however.
Where exactly do you think "binary attachments" are stored - they are part of the email text. email (and specifically SMTP mail) was designed to carry text - MIME and attachments etc. are implemented as specially formatted text within the email body.
Yeah... and faster code most of the time, too, in spite of it
It's not faster in spite of it - it's because of it. As a general rule of optimisation, you can optimise for size, or for speed, but not both. Think of it this way, in any loop the loop test and jump both waste processor time. If you knew how many times the loop was going to be executed, you could just expand it out into n copies, avoiding a comparison and a jump. This would be faster, but the object code would be bigger.
Fine until you have a machine with no USB and no CD - I have a server to support that only has a parallel port CD-ROM (no booting from that...) because it has so many internal hard disks the power supply cannot cope with more (it's a Compaq, so don't suggest putting in a better PSU). It's an old Pentium-Pro based server so no USB either.
Exactly - it should be the other way around - expanding an existing idea into new areas (i.e. making it less specific) might be patentable. Taking an existing idea and restricting it is nonsense.
Ie; Prove to me you have not used google.com today. Logs and caches dont mean anything, anyone could delete google references in them. Just because google's logs dont show your IP doesn't mean you didnt use a proxy or anonymizer, etc.
Prove to me you did use Google today. Logs and caches don't mean anything, anyone could add google references in them. Juse because Google's logs show your IP doesn't mean someone else didn't use your IP address or computer.
She's behind two firewalls (one on the PC which will also stop any unknown applications running, one on my routing server), but you are probably right that some sort of popup blocker might be worthwhile.
For example, everyone should know: what the Internet is; that not everyone on it is trustworthy, and most importantly to READ BEFORE YOU CLICK.
My 7 year old daughter knows to do this - I have taught her that if any box appears on the computer to read the message, and if she doesn't understand it or know why the message appears, to ask me. As an example, a while ago she was trying to play a game (probably from the BBC web-site). After a few minutes she came and told me the game wouldn't work - it turned out everytime she clicked on it, she got the standard IE "do you want to run this, blah blah, may cause damage to your computer", so she clicked Cancel (not wanting the computer to be damaged...). After 4 or 5 goes round this she decided it was time to ask for help.
Why is this so difficult to get into other peoples heads?
You're forgetting tax on dividends of public companies. Corporate earnings (which have been taxed) generate dividends for investors, and are taxed again. Or were in the US, until Bush put an end to it.
If I recall correctly, a dividend in the UK is taxed at corporate tax rate. This is then applied as a tax credit against the personal tax on the dividend. As the two levels are almost the same, there is no additional taxation to the recipient. This is true for directors dividends, not sure about investors.
So why, exactly, do you think that a fictitious pass-thru entity such as a corporation should pay taxes which reduce the amount that it can pay in wages and dividends which, at the end of the day, are taxed anyway? Unless you approve of double-taxation and prefer the government gets your company's money instead of you, as an employee or investor, your complaint makes little sense.
Unless Corporate Taxation in the USA is very different from the UK, a Corporate only pays tax on it's profit. Salaries and dividends and all other expenses come out of gross earnings and are not subject to corporation tax. There is no double taxation (at this level anyway).
Perhaps what is needed is a split between "ownership copy rights" and "reproduction copy rights". Something like:
Ownership: life of the artist(s) involved. This is traditional copyright - at the death of the (last of) the original artist(s), this right lapses. Original creators therefore own their products for their life-spans. This right can be transferred or sold, but it expires with the original artists.
Reproduction: After "Ownership" rights have expired, the current owner then gets "reproduction" rights over the work for a fixed time - 10 years maybe. During this time, anyone may reproduce the work, but they must pay a fee to the owners. They would not necessarily need to get permission (the right is automatic as long as they pay their fee).
Once the reproduction rights have lapsed, it's public domain time, and free-for-all.
This way, an original artist is protected for their lifetime, and can use their own creation however they see fit. When they die, their estate/company can then continue to profit for a while, but cannot artificially restrict the use of the original work.
His complaints should be directed at this organization, not Windows. Switching operating systems will not fix their support tech's apparent inability to present a cogent argument to his budget people.
Except many companies would much rather their tech support go around in circles doing repetitive boring tasks (hey, they already pay your salary, right?) then spend money on something that is not seen as strictly necessary (it only saves the tech supports time, after all...). That's if you even have a seperate budget for IT, there are still many places that don't and so ALL expenditure needs individual justication.
Actually, one report I read was that Scandanavian countries had a "born out of wedlock" rate of around 62%. That is MUCH higher than the rate in the US.
And this has exactly what to do with teenage pregnancy? Guess what, there are plenty of planned, non-teen pregnancies between stable committed partners that are "born out of wedlock" - all that means is the parents weren't married, which is a reflection on the general populations view of marriage more than anything else.
Drop a bomb here and I condone it. You should not pull punches in a fight....you fight to win. IF they got a HBomb and they use it...then you have the right to use it back
So, you're saying that if, say, US citizens financed a terrorist group that set off bombs in another country, then that country would be justified in bombing the USA?
Before you answer, remember all the IRA fund raising some of your misguided citizens decided to do before your government eventually decided to do something about it.
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You'd have to process each email when it was received and everytime it was accessed though (on top of any processing for display purposes). I guess it depends on whether storage space or processor power is cheaper.
LTFL (Learn The Fucking Language): "emergency calls and calls made outside" is two separate parts: (1) emergency calls and (2) calls made outside - so the emergency calls are not necessarily outside.
I don't see why they can't store the files as a binary attachment to the e-mail, instead of storing the data inside the e-mail as text, however.
Where exactly do you think "binary attachments" are stored - they are part of the email text. email (and specifically SMTP mail) was designed to carry text - MIME and attachments etc. are implemented as specially formatted text within the email body.
Yeah... and faster code most of the time, too, in spite of it
It's not faster in spite of it - it's because of it. As a general rule of optimisation, you can optimise for size, or for speed, but not both. Think of it this way, in any loop the loop test and jump both waste processor time. If you knew how many times the loop was going to be executed, you could just expand it out into n copies, avoiding a comparison and a jump. This would be faster, but the object code would be bigger.
Fine until you have a machine with no USB and no CD - I have a server to support that only has a parallel port CD-ROM (no booting from that...) because it has so many internal hard disks the power supply cannot cope with more (it's a Compaq, so don't suggest putting in a better PSU). It's an old Pentium-Pro based server so no USB either.
It does have a floppy though...
Exactly - it should be the other way around - expanding an existing idea into new areas (i.e. making it less specific) might be patentable. Taking an existing idea and restricting it is nonsense.
Ie; Prove to me you have not used google.com today. Logs and caches dont mean anything, anyone could delete google references in them. Just because google's logs dont show your IP doesn't mean you didnt use a proxy or anonymizer, etc.
Prove to me you did use Google today. Logs and caches don't mean anything, anyone could add google references in them. Juse because Google's logs show your IP doesn't mean someone else didn't use your IP address or computer.
She's behind two firewalls (one on the PC which will also stop any unknown applications running, one on my routing server), but you are probably right that some sort of popup blocker might be worthwhile.
For example, everyone should know: what the Internet is; that not everyone on it is trustworthy, and most importantly to READ BEFORE YOU CLICK.
My 7 year old daughter knows to do this - I have taught her that if any box appears on the computer to read the message, and if she doesn't understand it or know why the message appears, to ask me. As an example, a while ago she was trying to play a game (probably from the BBC web-site). After a few minutes she came and told me the game wouldn't work - it turned out everytime she clicked on it, she got the standard IE "do you want to run this, blah blah, may cause damage to your computer", so she clicked Cancel (not wanting the computer to be damaged...). After 4 or 5 goes round this she decided it was time to ask for help.
Why is this so difficult to get into other peoples heads?
"Go stick your head in a pig"
You're forgetting tax on dividends of public companies. Corporate earnings (which have been taxed) generate dividends for investors, and are taxed again. Or were in the US, until Bush put an end to it.
If I recall correctly, a dividend in the UK is taxed at corporate tax rate. This is then applied as a tax credit against the personal tax on the dividend. As the two levels are almost the same, there is no additional taxation to the recipient. This is true for directors dividends, not sure about investors.
So why, exactly, do you think that a fictitious pass-thru entity such as a corporation should pay taxes which reduce the amount that it can pay in wages and dividends which, at the end of the day, are taxed anyway? Unless you approve of double-taxation and prefer the government gets your company's money instead of you, as an employee or investor, your complaint makes little sense.
Unless Corporate Taxation in the USA is very different from the UK, a Corporate only pays tax on it's profit. Salaries and dividends and all other expenses come out of gross earnings and are not subject to corporation tax. There is no double taxation (at this level anyway).
It belongs jointly to the creators, like it does already.
24/7/365
It's used by marketing-types who don't understand that 24/7 already means every day of the year.
It's Big Fucking Gun. Why are people afraid of using "Fuck"? Particulary in the US?
Perhaps what is needed is a split between "ownership copy rights" and "reproduction copy rights". Something like:
Ownership: life of the artist(s) involved. This is traditional copyright - at the death of the (last of) the original artist(s), this right lapses. Original creators therefore own their products for their life-spans. This right can be transferred or sold, but it expires with the original artists.
Reproduction: After "Ownership" rights have expired, the current owner then gets "reproduction" rights over the work for a fixed time - 10 years maybe. During this time, anyone may reproduce the work, but they must pay a fee to the owners. They would not necessarily need to get permission (the right is automatic as long as they pay their fee).
Once the reproduction rights have lapsed, it's public domain time, and free-for-all.
This way, an original artist is protected for their lifetime, and can use their own creation however they see fit. When they die, their estate/company can then continue to profit for a while, but cannot artificially restrict the use of the original work.
Enough IT guys switch, and then who cares about all those .Com[mercial] groups anyway.
The badgers do!And don't forget the badgers.
The badgers!
Sony will have to be able to beat any DirectX 10 features (or whichever version the next XBox has) BEFORE IT COMES OUT.
But couldn't you also argue that Microsoft will have to beat any PS/3 features before it comes out?
I'm a 2000 man.
And your kids don't understand you at all?
It removes from distributor of modified code right to remove any rights provided by GPL from his customer.
Except he never had those rights in the first place under copyright law, in which case the GPL has not removed them.
His complaints should be directed at this organization, not Windows. Switching operating systems will not fix their support tech's apparent inability to present a cogent argument to his budget people.
Except many companies would much rather their tech support go around in circles doing repetitive boring tasks (hey, they already pay your salary, right?) then spend money on something that is not seen as strictly necessary (it only saves the tech supports time, after all...). That's if you even have a seperate budget for IT, there are still many places that don't and so ALL expenditure needs individual justication.
There seems to be a difference between information that is suitable for a 7 year old and information that is suitable for a 15 year old.
Not very hard to understand, but I'll let your parents explain it to you.
Actually, one report I read was that Scandanavian countries had a "born out of wedlock" rate of around 62%. That is MUCH higher than the rate in the US.
And this has exactly what to do with teenage pregnancy? Guess what, there are plenty of planned, non-teen pregnancies between stable committed partners that are "born out of wedlock" - all that means is the parents weren't married, which is a reflection on the general populations view of marriage more than anything else.
Drop a bomb here and I condone it. You should not pull punches in a fight....you fight to win. IF they got a HBomb and they use it...then you have the right to use it back
So, you're saying that if, say, US citizens financed a terrorist group that set off bombs in another country, then that country would be justified in bombing the USA?
Before you answer, remember all the IRA fund raising some of your misguided citizens decided to do before your government eventually decided to do something about it.