Nope, not karma-starved, just writing slowly while the previous RTFA'er submitted. Without using the +1 bonus. Take it easy, I just replied rather than using a mod point to drop your comment.
Oh yeah, never have done crack. Quite happy with my fucking life, and the rest of my life is pretty good, too.
Read the article? "The cluster is running modified LS-DYNA crash-testing software from Livermore Software Technology Group in Livermore, Calif." Now if we could just get moderators to read the article before going +1 informative....
Well, one improvement would be to utilize more of the available spectrum. Like the 400nm-550nm band containing new colors called "blue" and "green";>. Congrats on being able to see into the near-IR, tho. Can you see through clothes like the old sony camcorders could? Schweet.
How about an ipod sized box, with one of these for an input device and something like this for a display? Of course, all with a six hour battery supply.
You mean like the dozens of small containers of ~50% alcohol they walk up and down the aisle during your flight?
You can do cool stuff with alcohol solutions, tho. We used to put Stetson(tm) into a 2l soda bottle with a small hole in the lid and a nail in the side. Shake it up, and touch the nail with a portable tesla coil. Instarocket. Fun stuff.
And your friend-- think about this for a minute. Joking with Mr. "I've been pulled from my cushy desk job, my career is on hold, and I'm dressed in green camo inside of an airport, and I'd really like to take it out on the first idiot who yanks my chain". Does green camo inside an airport make any sense to anyone???
I get your point, but it's not meaningless at all. I work in R&D in the biotech industry in California, and deal with trade secrets every day-- my job is to make the damn things. And I didn't sign a non-compete, since my employer doesn't try to spoof people into such things.
Had they asked, I would have gladly signed it-- because in the state of California, blanket non-compete covenents are not enforcable. It's written into state law and has been upheld numerous times in court. If you're a tech worker in California and your company had you sign a non-compete, they spoofed you, unless it's very narrowly and specifically written and has only a negligible impact on your ability to be employed. You can't contract away that right, and you can't be fired or denied employment for refusing to sign a blanket non-compete
What this precedent does is prevent companies from using trade secret law to do an end-run around the state ban on non-competes. Which is very important to California tech workers, since it plugs a hole in the ability to go from job to job.
IANALBMGIIHR (I am not a lawyer but my girlfriend is in human resources). I'd suggest reading Walia v. Aetna for an example of how badly a company can get hit if they take action against somebody in california for not signing a non-compete: $54k in compensatory damages, $125k for emotional distress, and $1 million for punitive damages. Ouch
The only people I ask to address me as Doctor are those who introduce themselves as Dr. whomever. Everybody else just calls me by my first name. I've always felt that as long as I have confidence in my knowledge and abilities, I don't need to push the handle.
"shock wave of kinetic energy"? WTF? If there's sufficient matter ejected, then you might hear the sound of impacts on the hull of your spaceship, several minutes after you see the flash. Are you suggesting that enough electromagnetic energy is liberated in such an explosion to produce a noticable impact on your hull? Gimme a break. No, there's no medium to transfer your shock wave of kinetic energy; you won't hear an explosion in space.
Of course he didn't sign a non-compete; even if he had it wouldn't have made a spit of difference.
The court didn't have to rule on whether non-competes are legal in California; see
Walia v. Aetna. The court said that the plantiff was trying to make an after-the-fact non-compete, which would be unenforcable in California.
It's called intentional interference, and if their case is without merit, you're going to at least get your legal fees back, probably also get a good chunk of what would have been your salary at the other company.
You have your own nuclear power plant? Man I'm jealous. Of course, your 1000 degree steam is under pressure, isn't it? Unvented, that is.
In a vented system (like this) with a reservoir of liquid water (the leaves) that is likewise under no pressure (like in this case) the temperature of the water in the leaves cannot exceed 212F/100C. That's why the outer several leaves char-- once all the water is gone, the temperature goes up and the cellulose and lignin convert to charcoal and then burn off, leaving the inorganic ash-- sodium and potassium nitrates & etc. As long as there are a couple of leaves left uncharred, the temperature the meat is exposed to isn't going to exceed 100C. Which is why you'll get a perfectly roasted but not browned piece of meat-- you need to evaporate off all of the water in the outer layer of meat to get some nice browning. I'd rather have it grilled on my Weber.
It's not cleverness-- it's brute force. There's no driving will behind it, but when you put selective pressure on a reproducing system you're going to get adaptation to the pressure. If you have a short generation time (bacteria and computers, mostly) you can adapt to a particular situation (antibiotics, anyone?) pretty damn fast.
No Way. The AARP crowd is far more likely to be supportive of them... If they want to put the fear of Ashcroft into the average file-sharer, nail a couple of sub-17 year olds using Mommy & Daddy's computer to be a massive distribution point, and then sue Mom & Dad into oblivion. Take a few college students into bankruptcy as well, and you've got a pretty good bet that a lot of casual users will go away.
When you buy a Ti ring, make sure you don't get aircraft grade Ti or any of the other super-hard alloys that are commonly sold. Stick with pure unalloyed Ti. If you have an emergency and are wearing an aircraft-grade Ti ring, many E.R.'s won't be able to easily cut it off.
Wow, in a down economy sales of a free product are lower. What a surprise! Next thing you know, news.com will tell us that we'll get wet if we go out in a rainstorm without an umbrella.
Beer? During Q3A? Think of your reaction times! Jolt(tm) all the way to fraggin' the other schmuck. Especially if they're drinking judgment-and-reaction-time impairing beverages.
Unless your company uses a webapp that requires IE (i.e. a passphrase screen that requires you to type in the Windows domain). Mozilla doesn't seem able to handle this, and just asks for userID and password. When the winapp doesn't find the domain, the log-in gets dumped. Hence, being forced to use IE
5) A few brave souls start a hardware-smuggling operation, bringing in non-DRM mobos and processors across from Tijuana in daring midnight runs across the border being chased by the Mexican army and US Customs, with John Asscroft in the lead Hummer manning the machine guns.
6) Secret midnight meetings in the dark ally behind the San Diego Fry's, where people in overcoats trade small unmarked bills for the illicit hardware.
7) The FBI catches on, when a friend of one of the smugglers mentions the operation in an e-mail sent from a Palladium equiped PC. The federally mandated but secret auto-keyword-sniffing alerts are activated, and sends the message to the feds.
8) The daring smugglers and their desperate customers are taken from their beds in a midnight raid by the FBI and the office of homeland security. As provided for by the patriot act, they are never heard from again.
I'd totally agree with this-- by the old copyright laws, you'd get away with it. Pre-DMCA, copyright law said you could do whatever you wanted to circumvent, as long as you used it within your fair use rights. Which is why Sen. Disney and friends passed the DMCA.
Fair use only prevents them from giving you legal grief for using the technology. Nowhere does the law say that they have to make excercising your fair use convenient.
It's like car stereos: Ford can't prevent me from swapping out the junk stereo they put in my car with a nice non-ford model, but if they don't put a DIN opening in the dash, it's gonne be really inconveniet for me to do so. Nobody says they have to make it easy, just that they can't sue you.
So what? Go to non-WinTel hardware
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Kinda makes mac hardware with yellow dog or OS X seem like an attractive prospect, huh?
Um.... PCR WAS patented when it was discovered. And with every PCR machine and every lot of TAq and related polymerases that you buy a little bit of license fee goes back to the current licenseholder (Roche). Hope that clears up your illness. Next time do a bit of research before spouting off, m'kay?
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Nope, not karma-starved, just writing slowly while the previous RTFA'er submitted. Without using the +1 bonus. Take it easy, I just replied rather than using a mod point to drop your comment.
Oh yeah, never have done crack. Quite happy with my fucking life, and the rest of my life is pretty good, too.
Read the article? "The cluster is running modified LS-DYNA crash-testing software from Livermore Software Technology Group in Livermore, Calif." Now if we could just get moderators to read the article before going +1 informative....
Well, one improvement would be to utilize more of the available spectrum. Like the 400nm-550nm band containing new colors called "blue" and "green" ;>. Congrats on being able to see into the near-IR, tho. Can you see through clothes like the old sony camcorders could? Schweet.
How about an ipod sized box, with one of these for an input device and something like this for a display? Of course, all with a six hour battery supply.
You mean like the dozens of small containers of ~50% alcohol they walk up and down the aisle during your flight?
You can do cool stuff with alcohol solutions, tho. We used to put Stetson(tm) into a 2l soda bottle with a small hole in the lid and a nail in the side. Shake it up, and touch the nail with a portable tesla coil. Instarocket. Fun stuff.
And your friend-- think about this for a minute. Joking with Mr. "I've been pulled from my cushy desk job, my career is on hold, and I'm dressed in green camo inside of an airport, and I'd really like to take it out on the first idiot who yanks my chain". Does green camo inside an airport make any sense to anyone???
Outlaw star's a rip-off of Bebop, so it's either a sibling to O.S., or a rip-off of a rip-off.
Had they asked, I would have gladly signed it-- because in the state of California, blanket non-compete covenents are not enforcable. It's written into state law and has been upheld numerous times in court. If you're a tech worker in California and your company had you sign a non-compete, they spoofed you, unless it's very narrowly and specifically written and has only a negligible impact on your ability to be employed. You can't contract away that right, and you can't be fired or denied employment for refusing to sign a blanket non-compete
What this precedent does is prevent companies from using trade secret law to do an end-run around the state ban on non-competes. Which is very important to California tech workers, since it plugs a hole in the ability to go from job to job.
IANALBMGIIHR (I am not a lawyer but my girlfriend is in human resources). I'd suggest reading Walia v. Aetna for an example of how badly a company can get hit if they take action against somebody in california for not signing a non-compete: $54k in compensatory damages, $125k for emotional distress, and $1 million for punitive damages. Ouch
The only people I ask to address me as Doctor are those who introduce themselves as Dr. whomever. Everybody else just calls me by my first name. I've always felt that as long as I have confidence in my knowledge and abilities, I don't need to push the handle.
"shock wave of kinetic energy"? WTF? If there's sufficient matter ejected, then you might hear the sound of impacts on the hull of your spaceship, several minutes after you see the flash. Are you suggesting that enough electromagnetic energy is liberated in such an explosion to produce a noticable impact on your hull? Gimme a break. No, there's no medium to transfer your shock wave of kinetic energy; you won't hear an explosion in space.
The court didn't have to rule on whether non-competes are legal in California; see Walia v. Aetna. The court said that the plantiff was trying to make an after-the-fact non-compete, which would be unenforcable in California.
It's called intentional interference, and if their case is without merit, you're going to at least get your legal fees back, probably also get a good chunk of what would have been your salary at the other company.
You have your own nuclear power plant? Man I'm jealous. Of course, your 1000 degree steam is under pressure, isn't it? Unvented, that is.
In a vented system (like this) with a reservoir of liquid water (the leaves) that is likewise under no pressure (like in this case) the temperature of the water in the leaves cannot exceed 212F/100C. That's why the outer several leaves char-- once all the water is gone, the temperature goes up and the cellulose and lignin convert to charcoal and then burn off, leaving the inorganic ash-- sodium and potassium nitrates & etc. As long as there are a couple of leaves left uncharred, the temperature the meat is exposed to isn't going to exceed 100C. Which is why you'll get a perfectly roasted but not browned piece of meat-- you need to evaporate off all of the water in the outer layer of meat to get some nice browning. I'd rather have it grilled on my Weber.
It's not cleverness-- it's brute force. There's no driving will behind it, but when you put selective pressure on a reproducing system you're going to get adaptation to the pressure. If you have a short generation time (bacteria and computers, mostly) you can adapt to a particular situation (antibiotics, anyone?) pretty damn fast.
No Way. The AARP crowd is far more likely to be supportive of them... If they want to put the fear of Ashcroft into the average file-sharer, nail a couple of sub-17 year olds using Mommy & Daddy's computer to be a massive distribution point, and then sue Mom & Dad into oblivion. Take a few college students into bankruptcy as well, and you've got a pretty good bet that a lot of casual users will go away.
When you buy a Ti ring, make sure you don't get aircraft grade Ti or any of the other super-hard alloys that are commonly sold. Stick with pure unalloyed Ti. If you have an emergency and are wearing an aircraft-grade Ti ring, many E.R.'s won't be able to easily cut it off.
Wow, in a down economy sales of a free product are lower. What a surprise! Next thing you know, news.com will tell us that we'll get wet if we go out in a rainstorm without an umbrella.
Otherwise there wouldn't be time for the dramatic snowfield battle, they'd just walk up and blow the generators.
Beer? During Q3A? Think of your reaction times! Jolt(tm) all the way to fraggin' the other schmuck. Especially if they're drinking judgment-and-reaction-time impairing beverages.
Unless your company uses a webapp that requires IE (i.e. a passphrase screen that requires you to type in the Windows domain). Mozilla doesn't seem able to handle this, and just asks for userID and password. When the winapp doesn't find the domain, the log-in gets dumped. Hence, being forced to use IE
'nuff said
5) A few brave souls start a hardware-smuggling operation, bringing in non-DRM mobos and processors across from Tijuana in daring midnight runs across the border being chased by the Mexican army and US Customs, with John Asscroft in the lead Hummer manning the machine guns.
6) Secret midnight meetings in the dark ally behind the San Diego Fry's, where people in overcoats trade small unmarked bills for the illicit hardware.
7) The FBI catches on, when a friend of one of the smugglers mentions the operation in an e-mail sent from a Palladium equiped PC. The federally mandated but secret auto-keyword-sniffing alerts are activated, and sends the message to the feds.
8) The daring smugglers and their desperate customers are taken from their beds in a midnight raid by the FBI and the office of homeland security. As provided for by the patriot act, they are never heard from again.
I'd totally agree with this-- by the old copyright laws, you'd get away with it. Pre-DMCA, copyright law said you could do whatever you wanted to circumvent, as long as you used it within your fair use rights. Which is why Sen. Disney and friends passed the DMCA.
Fair use only prevents them from giving you legal grief for using the technology. Nowhere does the law say that they have to make excercising your fair use convenient.
It's like car stereos: Ford can't prevent me from swapping out the junk stereo they put in my car with a nice non-ford model, but if they don't put a DIN opening in the dash, it's gonne be really inconveniet for me to do so. Nobody says they have to make it easy, just that they can't sue you.
Kinda makes mac hardware with yellow dog or OS X seem like an attractive prospect, huh?
Um.... PCR WAS patented when it was discovered. And with every PCR machine and every lot of TAq and related polymerases that you buy a little bit of license fee goes back to the current licenseholder (Roche). Hope that clears up your illness. Next time do a bit of research before spouting off, m'kay?