on the DRM issue, i'll just give you a few links to follow, ok? here
is one on how Vista DRM causes system slowdown no matter what you are doing; That article is completely theoretical: "While it remains to be seen how these "features" will actually impact Vista games", not very useful.
The next related issue is with Distributed rendering, or rendering a
animation on several network machines at the same time. While there is
a fix for both these issues(that a lot of people are reporting doesn't
work), the Vista DRM system has been linked to slowdowns in copying files This is actually legitimate, with a hotfix available, no clue if it fixes it.
, and reducing network speed to about 5% of normal; you can read about that here. "Sure enough. After removing McAfee, LAN transfer speeds went from 225KB/s to over 5 MB/s. That's more than a 20 times increase in transfer speed."
They were hyping their stock to everyone. They crapped on everyone. What about the billion's lost by everyday investors which were invested in Enron?
Honestly, the employees screwed themselves. The #1 advice for investment is diversify. If someone was stupid enough to put 100% of their money into Enron, well, sorry, but they made a really bad decision, they will have to live with it.
You don't get a manual (at least the US version doesn't include one). You get a small card with the product key and a list of the controls on the opposite side.
For the record I have had a series 1 TiVo for ~6 years and a Series 3 since they were released.
You're still paying per-month on a device that does the "service" of reporting everything you click back to TiVo, Don't care, but you can opt out if you are really paranoid.
flashing ads at you while you skip NEVER seen this.
not giving you a single-button skip option or automatic commercial editing Meh, FF works fine for me, otherwise you can enable a 30s skip if you want it.
sometimes forbidding you from recording or keeping some programs that your content masters have decided not to allow you. Only time I have seen this is on a Amazon Unbox rental I bought. Otherwise I have NEVER seen this on anything I have recorded, of course I don't have any premium channels so maybe they are more strict.
Samples, demos, trials, etc. I am going to do the same thing as the OP, put in zero and download, if I like it I will probably buy the CD, if not, I will just delete and go along my way.
UK copyright law is kind of odd. There are 2 different categories that their music would fall under. Recordings, which is 50 years as you said, and a literary one for the lyrics (maybe the music also?) which is life+70. So I guess you would be free to share the original recordings (they would have to be the original issue? what about a remaster?), but not be able to publish any lyrics with it, or perform a cover, etc.
Hate to break this to you, but Google is an advertising company, THAT is what they do well, finding new ways to deliver ads to people. They make the majority (99%) of their money from Ads.
Oh, and no, high schools in the US are not required to teach econ (it is required in most colleges, however). Hmm, it is required in Illinois, (well they are calling it consumer education now, but it was econ for me when I was in HS). Same in CA and NY, other states just have generic Social Studies requirements, I got tired of looking... You can look up the requirements here:
I am not sure what your point is, a bomb can't have wires and circuit board sticking out of it? First 2 below looks like they could easily be dangled from a shirt:
I did an internship in an Aluminum foundry one summer. Mostly did QA work. All the guys that worked in the permanent mold side were paid piece meal. They would prepared the mold, close it, then took a big ladle of molten aluminum from the furnace and poured it in. Bypassing the safeguards was a big issue (you had to press 2 buttons to close the mold, preventing you from losing a hand, half the guys would turn that off and close the mold via a switch). 2 people had serious accidents when I was there. One did lose a hand, and subsequently lost the best paying job in the place (can't poor with one hand). All because they wanted to bypass the extra 2 seconds the safeguards added. Management didn't care cause the guys were putting out a lot of product.
You should check their quarterly report, their workgroup products account for 50%+ of their gross profit (Netware, Groupwise, Bordermanager, OES) than anything else.
There are 3 different competing technologies in the US. Europe (and presumably Japan) mandated GSM. Japan does not use GSM, they use PDC (TDMA), CDMA and WCDMA.
My problem is that I cannot even use the same password at every site because each one has a different policy. Some allow me to use non-alpa-numeric character others only allow a-z/0-9. so I have about 10 different variations of the same password, but I rarely remember what the sites policy is, so that becomes burdensome. It would be great if every site put there password policy on their login page so I didn't have to go their their registration page again so I could figure out what password I used.
This is the ultimate goal of virtualization in the data center. Once everything is virtualized you can cram as many machines as possible on a few servers, once they start getting loaded you move the virtualized systems to a new host, then back again when the load goes away. Maybe even power off some of the unused systems at night and bring them up in the morning. All the while keeping 24/7 access to your systems.
No SMP on windows guests, super flaky networking, fragile configuration DB, no real CLI management tools. I am not sold on these features myself...
I fully admit, I am sure at least 50% of my problems is due to my unfamiliarity with the product, but I have been able to setup Xen and ESX with the same lack familiarity with little trouble, I have never used a buggier or less user-friendly piece of software than VI, good lord.
There are a few interesting critical pieces on CR car ratings. I am not overly experienced in statistics, so I have no idea if any of this really means much. It is interesting reading though.
The vmware system is not cleaner hardware-wise, it just cleaner driver wise. That issue you had is most likely not a driver one. I would guess bad memory (or overclocking too much). Vmware doesn't magically make your hardware not suck.
Out of curiosity I checked the DoL site for prevailing wages. http://www.flcdatacenter.com/ They let you specify state, location, and job type. Here is Silicon Valley computer programmer (seems a little off to me):
Area Title: SAN JOSE-SUNNYVALE-SANTA CLARA, CA OES/SOC Code: 15-1022 OES/SOC Title: Computer Programmers, Non R&D Level 1 Wage: $21.84 hour - $45,427 year Level 2 Wage: $26.89 hour - $55,931 year Level 3 Wage: $31.94 hour - $66,435 year Level 4 Wage: $36.99 hour - $76,939 year GeoLevel: 2
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There was a chess playing "automaton" in the late 18th century called the Turk. It was actually a guy in a box controlling it.
They were hyping their stock to everyone. They crapped on everyone. What about the billion's lost by everyday investors which were invested in Enron?
Honestly, the employees screwed themselves. The #1 advice for investment is diversify. If someone was stupid enough to put 100% of their money into Enron, well, sorry, but they made a really bad decision, they will have to live with it.
http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?fn=543&fn=6&q=entry+level&cy=US&vw=b&re=14&JSYESREG=1&brd=1
You don't get a manual (at least the US version doesn't include one). You get a small card with the product key and a list of the controls on the opposite side.
No. The stock covers the company as a whole. There are companies listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ with 0 US presence.
Samples, demos, trials, etc. I am going to do the same thing as the OP, put in zero and download, if I like it I will probably buy the CD, if not, I will just delete and go along my way.
Ahh, thats interesting, wonder what is missing from Xbox. I haven't looked at the contents of the PC DVDs
Orange box is a great deal, unless you already bought HL2 and Ep1, if that is the case, it is a ripoff, unless you are a big fan of TF.
UK copyright law is kind of odd. There are 2 different categories that their music would fall under. Recordings, which is 50 years as you said, and a literary one for the lyrics (maybe the music also?) which is life+70. So I guess you would be free to share the original recordings (they would have to be the original issue? what about a remaster?), but not be able to publish any lyrics with it, or perform a cover, etc.
http://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
Hate to break this to you, but Google is an advertising company, THAT is what they do well, finding new ways to deliver ads to people. They make the majority (99%) of their money from Ads.
I think you have a general misunderstanding of the role DHS has, they do not exist just to protect against terrorists.
http://www.education.umn.edu/nceo/TopicAreas/Graduation/StatesGrad.htm
I am not sure what your point is, a bomb can't have wires and circuit board sticking out of it? First 2 below looks like they could easily be dangled from a shirt:
Bomb
Bomb
Bomb
Pay for production causes other issues.
I did an internship in an Aluminum foundry one summer. Mostly did QA work. All the guys that worked in the permanent mold side were paid piece meal. They would prepared the mold, close it, then took a big ladle of molten aluminum from the furnace and poured it in. Bypassing the safeguards was a big issue (you had to press 2 buttons to close the mold, preventing you from losing a hand, half the guys would turn that off and close the mold via a switch). 2 people had serious accidents when I was there. One did lose a hand, and subsequently lost the best paying job in the place (can't poor with one hand). All because they wanted to bypass the extra 2 seconds the safeguards added. Management didn't care cause the guys were putting out a lot of product.
You should check their quarterly report, their workgroup products account for 50%+ of their gross profit (Netware, Groupwise, Bordermanager, OES) than anything else.
My problem is that I cannot even use the same password at every site because each one has a different policy. Some allow me to use non-alpa-numeric character others only allow a-z/0-9. so I have about 10 different variations of the same password, but I rarely remember what the sites policy is, so that becomes burdensome. It would be great if every site put there password policy on their login page so I didn't have to go their their registration page again so I could figure out what password I used.
This is the ultimate goal of virtualization in the data center. Once everything is virtualized you can cram as many machines as possible on a few servers, once they start getting loaded you move the virtualized systems to a new host, then back again when the load goes away. Maybe even power off some of the unused systems at night and bring them up in the morning. All the while keeping 24/7 access to your systems.
No SMP on windows guests, super flaky networking, fragile configuration DB, no real CLI management tools. I am not sold on these features myself...
I fully admit, I am sure at least 50% of my problems is due to my unfamiliarity with the product, but I have been able to setup Xen and ESX with the same lack familiarity with little trouble, I have never used a buggier or less user-friendly piece of software than VI, good lord.
There is no parole in the Federal prison system since ~1990.
There are a few interesting critical pieces on CR car ratings. I am not overly experienced in statistics, so I have no idea if any of this really means much. It is interesting reading though.
http://www.allpar.com/cr.html
http://www.truedelta.com/pieces/shortcomings.php
http://www.truedelta.com/pieces/newdots.php
The vmware system is not cleaner hardware-wise, it just cleaner driver wise. That issue you had is most likely not a driver one. I would guess bad memory (or overclocking too much). Vmware doesn't magically make your hardware not suck.
Out of curiosity I checked the DoL site for prevailing wages. http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
They let you specify state, location, and job type. Here is Silicon Valley computer programmer (seems a little off to me):
Area Title: SAN JOSE-SUNNYVALE-SANTA CLARA, CA
OES/SOC Code: 15-1022
OES/SOC Title: Computer Programmers, Non R&D
Level 1 Wage: $21.84 hour - $45,427 year
Level 2 Wage: $26.89 hour - $55,931 year
Level 3 Wage: $31.94 hour - $66,435 year
Level 4 Wage: $36.99 hour - $76,939 year
GeoLevel: 2