Would unsecured debt be things like salaries? If so I think the US has this really backwards. The way I see it is the employees really should get the most, they are the ones who can afford it the least. Think of the debt you'd incur living off of savings/credit for a year while your company didn't pay you, that's going to take you a long time to work off. It just seems that corporate creditors could absorb the loss with a lot less trouble.
Then again the only real experience I have with this stuff is ECON 201, so I could be way off base in my theories.
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The sad thing is that even when management faces jail time, it's usually pretty short. Would you be willing to spend six months in a minimum security prison to walk away with millions of dollars?
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This is funny???
You make a really good point though. I can't figure out how it's legal in the US that management can walk away from a dead company with millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees walk away thousands in the hole. Maybe the US should look to Canada and follow its lead (in just one of many places).
From what I understand the employees almost always get screwed in these situations because the way the creditors are paid off is the ones who are owed the most get their money first and then it works its way down. IMHO it should be exactly the other way around, FedEX can afford to lose $100,000, Joe Programmer probably can't afford to lose $20,000.
Ug i know, don't feed the trolls, but every browser uses "home page" to describe the page the browser loads when it first starts. This isn't something microsoft is forcing down the throats of everyone, it's just the accepted term. How is this even an issue worth discussing?
The above post is offtopic. If you bother to click the link you'll see that someone just worded the summary poorly. This is not a netflix add but an actual review. And finally, if you are only going to bitch about slashdot, please go away, we don't want you here, no one is forcing you to stay.
I couldn't agree with you more. Hell I watched the game and the local postgame show said absolute crap. The Eagles are upset they lost, but they put up a good fight. Right there is the entire hour following the game in one sentence. That's my "Digital Time Machine" version. Not bad huh, a full hour compressed to about 5 seconds.
Yah but it's the ads that are paying for the content you're watching. Think of it this way, if that extra commercial gets a show the little extra bit of money it needs to not be cancelled w/o affecting the amount of story, is it worth 30 seconds once a week?
This is a really minor nit, but IIRC telecine (converting film to broadcast fps) does infact change the running time. There's no easy way to make 24fps become 29.97fps for NTSC. It's hardly noticable but I think it works out to a little over 1 second per hour. I also remeber hearing that a lot of studios get lazy for PAL transfers and just slow down the 24 fps to 25 fps. This is noticable. I think the PAL version of The Wall did this and pissed off a lot of people. Then again this is all stuff that I seem to remember reading so I'm probably pulling all of this out of my ass.
Please explain to me what makes debs better than rpms. Don't tell me that apt is a better tool because AFAIK that has nothing to do with the package format, just the program used to install it. From what I understand RPM 3.0 (the package not the proggie) has all the necisarry info to be able to grab dependencies for you.
I wouldn't trust comcast for one second with their cable modem service. They purchased my neighborhood from adelphia (who I never had problems with) a while ago. Then in September decided to upgrade the cable modem network. Makes sense. The only problem is that they disconnected everyone's cable modem w/o warning them, and won't give any idea about when they will resume service. The best I've gotten is "hopefully less than a month" That was in september. Don't trust these guys to tell you anything.
As for number four read your bank's fine print. I know with my bank if the card is stolen i'm responsible for the first $50 of any ATM transaction (requiring the PIN), and $0 of any credit card transaction on the card. So provided I report the card stolen the most I'm out is $50 and that's if the person manages to guess my PIN in three tries (the ATM eats the card after that).
Besides, if you don't want a "check card" just tell your bank, I'm certain they would be more than happy to issue you a standard ATM card.
If you look hard enough for a pattern in anything you will find it. I'm willing to bet $200 that I could find an aproximation for pi in any text, religious or otherwise.
If you hold the mouse pointer over a negative resource it will tell you how much gold per round it's costing you. So basically if you're negative you automatically buy the resources.
IANAL, but my understanding is that a class action lawsuit is when one lawsuit is presented on the grounds of a whole mess of people, rather than having the individual people sue the company themselves.
Based on past experience I'd have to say you're right. A friend of mine had a 166mhz US II (I think) system, and it completely smoked my pII-300. There's a heck of a lot more to system speed than raw MHz.
Because the information for the menus is stored in the IFO files on the disc. These files have no official documentation available, and very little has been reverse engineered. It's a very difficult task to reverse engineer a file format about which you know very little.
Because the region coding system creates trade barriers, something which is illegal under the terms of the WTO treaties. It's crap like this that the WTO should be stepping in on, not stuff such as bans on sale of products that harm the environment.
Of course IANAL so more than likely I'm talking out of my ass. Does anyone know for certain about this?
Actually from what I understand the DVD region coding might violate some WTO treaties. I haven't seen anything outside of rumors about this, but from my understanding of the WTO it would make a lot of sense. The region codes are definately a barrier to trade. Wouldn't that be a kicker, the WTO doing something good for consumers? If they can get laws banning the sale of non-dolphin safe tuna shot down, why not get the dvd region coding system destroyed.
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Would unsecured debt be things like salaries? If so I think the US has this really backwards. The way I see it is the employees really should get the most, they are the ones who can afford it the least. Think of the debt you'd incur living off of savings/credit for a year while your company didn't pay you, that's going to take you a long time to work off. It just seems that corporate creditors could absorb the loss with a lot less trouble.
Then again the only real experience I have with this stuff is ECON 201, so I could be way off base in my theories.
The sad thing is that even when management faces jail time, it's usually pretty short. Would you be willing to spend six months in a minimum security prison to walk away with millions of dollars?
This is funny???
You make a really good point though. I can't figure out how it's legal in the US that management can walk away from a dead company with millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees walk away thousands in the hole. Maybe the US should look to Canada and follow its lead (in just one of many places).
From what I understand the employees almost always get screwed in these situations because the way the creditors are paid off is the ones who are owed the most get their money first and then it works its way down. IMHO it should be exactly the other way around, FedEX can afford to lose $100,000, Joe Programmer probably can't afford to lose $20,000.
Ug i know, don't feed the trolls, but every browser uses "home page" to describe the page the browser loads when it first starts. This isn't something microsoft is forcing down the throats of everyone, it's just the accepted term. How is this even an issue worth discussing?
Cuz the phone company won't give the number w/o a warrant. That's how I think it works at least.
The above post is offtopic. If you bother to click the link you'll see that someone just worded the summary poorly. This is not a netflix add but an actual review. And finally, if you are only going to bitch about slashdot, please go away, we don't want you here, no one is forcing you to stay.
I couldn't agree with you more. Hell I watched the game and the local postgame show said absolute crap. The Eagles are upset they lost, but they put up a good fight. Right there is the entire hour following the game in one sentence. That's my "Digital Time Machine" version. Not bad huh, a full hour compressed to about 5 seconds.
Yah but it's the ads that are paying for the content you're watching. Think of it this way, if that extra commercial gets a show the little extra bit of money it needs to not be cancelled w/o affecting the amount of story, is it worth 30 seconds once a week?
This is a really minor nit, but IIRC telecine (converting film to broadcast fps) does infact change the running time. There's no easy way to make 24fps become 29.97fps for NTSC. It's hardly noticable but I think it works out to a little over 1 second per hour. I also remeber hearing that a lot of studios get lazy for PAL transfers and just slow down the 24 fps to 25 fps. This is noticable. I think the PAL version of The Wall did this and pissed off a lot of people. Then again this is all stuff that I seem to remember reading so I'm probably pulling all of this out of my ass.
Did you bother reading the article? Some station did exactly this with a football game.
I love rpm -tb, but what I really wish was that there was a way to pass arguments to configure. It'd be really great to do:
rpm -tb file.tgz --help
rpm -tb file.tgz --with-neato-completo-feature
I just wish that you didn't have to muck with the spec file for such a simple thing.
Please explain to me what makes debs better than rpms. Don't tell me that apt is a better tool because AFAIK that has nothing to do with the package format, just the program used to install it. From what I understand RPM 3.0 (the package not the proggie) has all the necisarry info to be able to grab dependencies for you.
Don't most (all?) IDE drives just pretend to do the low-level format and in reality do absolutely nothing?
I wouldn't trust comcast for one second with their cable modem service. They purchased my neighborhood from adelphia (who I never had problems with) a while ago. Then in September decided to upgrade the cable modem network. Makes sense. The only problem is that they disconnected everyone's cable modem w/o warning them, and won't give any idea about when they will resume service. The best I've gotten is "hopefully less than a month" That was in september. Don't trust these guys to tell you anything.
As for number four read your bank's fine print. I know with my bank if the card is stolen i'm responsible for the first $50 of any ATM transaction (requiring the PIN), and $0 of any credit card transaction on the card. So provided I report the card stolen the most I'm out is $50 and that's if the person manages to guess my PIN in three tries (the ATM eats the card after that).
Besides, if you don't want a "check card" just tell your bank, I'm certain they would be more than happy to issue you a standard ATM card.
Not quite. DV is 720x480 interlaced and works out to about 3.6MB/s.
If you look hard enough for a pattern in anything you will find it. I'm willing to bet $200 that I could find an aproximation for pi in any text, religious or otherwise.
If you hold the mouse pointer over a negative resource it will tell you how much gold per round it's costing you. So basically if you're negative you automatically buy the resources.
IANAL, but my understanding is that a class action lawsuit is when one lawsuit is presented on the grounds of a whole mess of people, rather than having the individual people sue the company themselves.
Based on past experience I'd have to say you're right. A friend of mine had a 166mhz US II (I think) system, and it completely smoked my pII-300. There's a heck of a lot more to system speed than raw MHz.
Because the information for the menus is stored in the IFO files on the disc. These files have no official documentation available, and very little has been reverse engineered. It's a very difficult task to reverse engineer a file format about which you know very little.
You get your IFO spec and code it. Oh right, there isn't one. Atleast not a complete one. It's not quite that easy.
Because the region coding system creates trade barriers, something which is illegal under the terms of the WTO treaties. It's crap like this that the WTO should be stepping in on, not stuff such as bans on sale of products that harm the environment.
Of course IANAL so more than likely I'm talking out of my ass. Does anyone know for certain about this?
Actually from what I understand the DVD region coding might violate some WTO treaties. I haven't seen anything outside of rumors about this, but from my understanding of the WTO it would make a lot of sense. The region codes are definately a barrier to trade. Wouldn't that be a kicker, the WTO doing something good for consumers? If they can get laws banning the sale of non-dolphin safe tuna shot down, why not get the dvd region coding system destroyed.
So you are saying the fact that the people who put lots of time and money into developing mp3 shouldn't get any compensation for their efforts?