Why not use an automated phone system to inform callers that it isn't The Apple Store? Or would it be relatively costly and/or give the impression of an impersonal business?
- Customer: hello, I'd like to order half of dozen bottles of that 4-y old dry cider that you advertise
- (auto response): Sorry sir, we don't sell iPhone X
(later on)
- Shopkeeper: shit, extra expense last month to buy that damn'd auto response system and the sales went down this month. I wonder why?
It really does make good business sense, doesn't it?
Good work, IIPA, keep it that way please. Nothing like a good list showing the countries that are interested the freedom of their citizens more that the financial interest of some companies which make a title of honor from minimizing the contribution to the society of those countries (a.k.a. the tax avoidance).
But you and everyone else is ignoring the elephant in the room, the same one that causes me to this very day to have infected system cross my desk that are still running XP SP2, and that is piracy.
Au contraire, mon ami, au contraire, I'm not ignoring piracy. In fact, I'm so convinced that copyright should protect honest work that I decided it's better for me to use products not made by MS.
But considering the only systems I don't see patched after SP1 was released nearly 3 years ago is pirate systems I just can't blame MSFT for dropping support as pretty much all that is left without SP1 is the pirates it seems.
(friendly kidding now) Well, has been quite a while since I used a MS OS... but somehow I still can't believe that the pirated systems using MS OSes IS actually a single one - if true, either MS is doing great financially or is totally busted.
Dans la pratique, cette procédure est surtout utilisée pour traiter rapidement la masse des délits routiers, comme le défaut d’assurance ou la conduite en état alcoolique, ainsi que les délits simples, comme les petits vols. ...
La CRPC n’est toutefois pas applicable à certains délits ou certaines accusations particulièrement graves. Parmi ceux-ci :
les violences, les menaces, les agressions sexuelles et les atteintes involontaires à l’intégrité de la personne, pour lesquelles une peine d’emprisonnement d’une durée supérieure ou égale à 5 ans est encourue.
In english translation - with the help of google, here you have some relevant information:
In practice, this procedure is mainly used to quickly treat thje majority of traffic offenses, such as lack of insurance or drunken driving, as well as simple offenses such as petty theft. ...
Though, the plea bargain is not applicable to some serious offenses or allegations. Among them:
violence, threats, sexual assault and involuntary damage to the integrity of the person, incurring a sentence of imprisonment for a term no less than 5 years.
And PVs work great as long as you only want to turn your lights on when the sun is shining brightly.
1. My post was in reply to someone claiming that all the world surface need to be covered by PV, this is why I stayed with PV as a given.
2. have you noticed the phrase saying The only engineering problem is the transport of the energy around the globe.
Thermal solar systems are what is used for generating power for the grid.
Well, while you are right that thermal solar is the easiest way, that's not absolutely necessary: see NaS batteries, the Zn-ZnO cycle (still using thermal power, but not storing the energy as thermal) or even rechargeable batteries for small power needs (look, Model S Tesla is currently delivered with 60/80 kWh batteries. If you need or really want to live off grid and can afford to spend, you can).
vi? emacs? no normal English speaker knows what these words mean. Do you need to be a cunnilinguist to use these programs?
FTFY. The answer of the question in the correct form above is "Highly probable": after an age, even if still interested in a sexual life, that's about all you can do (and you need to have a certain age to know how to use both vi and emacs).
Current figures (greater melbourne, wikipedia) have more than 4miliion.
Yes, but if you consider the "City of Melbourne" area, you won't get 3 mills.
Anyway, I was replying to a post in which "large metropolitan area" was interpreted as "large sprawl metropolitan area" rather than "high population density metropolitan areas" (were, indeed, "the average trip is very very short"), so quibbling over the exact population of the Greater Melbourne is pointless.
By car, there are peak hour traffic jams - despite succesive state governments building freeways in every direction...
Solutions: move closer, telecommute or travel off peak (I'm using a combination of the last two for my 55km one-way) - waiting for extensive public transport coverage in large sprawls is hopeless. There is something to pay for the fact that everybody has a backyard.
You see, though, the context is "the New York City" with Capital c. Yes, I know, they are 8mils+, but the land area they live on is 789 sq.km (if it would be a circle, the radius of the circle would be only about 16 km. About 28 km side if a perfect square). And in regards with the transportation, it is the "size" as in distance that matter, not the size of its population.
We might also move to 100% green energy if we carpet the entire surface of the earth with solar cells. Until people reduce and make their own efforts to reduce there energy needs through economic (if you don't save on costs or get paid, it is not reasonable to ask people to change their habits) means then it wont work.
You would only need to cover some percentage of desert area (not even all of it: do a computation using the solar constant, total world energy production and assume only 12% conversion efficiency for PV - you'll be surprised of how low the percentage of the world surface would need to be covered by PV-es. I've done this computation in the past). The only engineering problem is the transport of the energy around the globe.
Sounds like they get to have their cake *and* eat it too
You reckon? One reasons for renewable power working well in Germany: they also started to build in a "energy efficient manner and insulate the old buildings. Here's why:
German building stock currently consumes approximately three to (in the worse cases) ten times as much energy for heating as new builds.
Loans/mortgages for insulating buildings would be a win-win situation for the case of older ones. (if you start insulating some buildings, the money saved on energy can be used for insulating others... I think Bloomberg could even choose to offer "0 rate loans/returnable subsidies" from the city budget...).
I live in Melbourne, Australia and commute an hour to and from work. This is normal. This is a city of only 3. something million. A city 5 times ours I'm sure has longer commute times.
Where do you pull this idea that trips are short?
3 millions if you think of "The Greater Melbourne" (that is including the suburbs) - which means a "city" radius of about 50 km.
However, if you refer to "the City of Melbourne" (aka CBD; let's take the inner suburbs as well = max 10 km radius), I fail to see how commuting to/from work takes an hour each way.
No. But I reckon another medal would be required to recognize the "Exceptional Remote Assassin"(s) when killing - authorized by presidential order, how else? - US citizens. I'll let the suggestions of design to you.
Why is it that today almost every story on Slashdot is about our frog-in-slowly-heated-water society.
Because its hard to avoid this nowadays, doh.
( And "odor" is a polite and mild term: to be precise, one should use "stench" for how the today's world smells like... ummm... or is it my socks only?)
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Since when does NASA have money?
Maybe they dedicated some cores to bitcoin mining? (I mean, if the congress approval is unreliable, they'd need to find other ways to survive)
"Nobody could understand the source code anymore without massive doses of caffeine... ao we decided to rewrite the whole thing in Perl."
Oblig xkcd
Why not use an automated phone system to inform callers that it isn't The Apple Store? Or would it be relatively costly and/or give the impression of an impersonal business?
- Customer: hello, I'd like to order half of dozen bottles of that 4-y old dry cider that you advertise
- (auto response): Sorry sir, we don't sell iPhone X
(later on)
- Shopkeeper: shit, extra expense last month to buy that damn'd auto response system and the sales went down this month. I wonder why?
It really does make good business sense, doesn't it?
a fart in a spacesuit in Spain
(friendly kidding) You reckon a fart in a spacesuit would be even slightly more popular if it would happen elsewhere?
Good work, IIPA, keep it that way please.
Nothing like a good list showing the countries that are interested the freedom of their citizens more that the financial interest of some companies which make a title of honor from minimizing the contribution to the society of those countries (a.k.a. the tax avoidance).
we witness an older gentleman subtly lamenting his chronic erectile dysfunction.
Hang on, buddy. Just who told you that I mastered both vi and emacs long ago?
(not that I can't deny it and still stay true, just curious who told you?)
But you and everyone else is ignoring the elephant in the room, the same one that causes me to this very day to have infected system cross my desk that are still running XP SP2, and that is piracy.
Au contraire, mon ami, au contraire, I'm not ignoring piracy. In fact, I'm so convinced that copyright should protect honest work that I decided it's better for me to use products not made by MS.
But considering the only systems I don't see patched after SP1 was released nearly 3 years ago is pirate systems I just can't blame MSFT for dropping support as pretty much all that is left without SP1 is the pirates it seems.
(friendly kidding now) Well, has been quite a while since I used a MS OS... but somehow I still can't believe that the pirated systems using MS OSes IS actually a single one - if true, either MS is doing great financially or is totally busted.
Windows 7 SP1 has been out for nearly three years now... So I don't get what the problem of dropping support for RTM would be.
Let me explain loud and clear... whoOOOoosh!
You got it now?
(besides, the OS I pointed to has a stellar level of support by comparison)
Ever heard of a plea bargain?
Not in France, no.
Fine, ever heard of plaider coupable.
Non. Mais, avec l'aide de l'ami Google, je peux vous montrer quelques informations pertinentes:
Dans la pratique, cette procédure est surtout utilisée pour traiter rapidement la masse des délits routiers, comme le défaut d’assurance ou la conduite en état alcoolique, ainsi que les délits simples, comme les petits vols.
...
La CRPC n’est toutefois pas applicable à certains délits ou certaines accusations particulièrement graves. Parmi ceux-ci : les violences, les menaces, les agressions sexuelles et les atteintes involontaires à l’intégrité de la personne, pour lesquelles une peine d’emprisonnement d’une durée supérieure ou égale à 5 ans est encourue.
In english translation - with the help of google, here you have some relevant information:
In practice, this procedure is mainly used to quickly treat thje majority of traffic offenses, such as lack of insurance or drunken driving, as well as simple offenses such as petty theft.
...
Though, the plea bargain is not applicable to some serious offenses or allegations. Among them: violence, threats, sexual assault and involuntary damage to the integrity of the person, incurring a sentence of imprisonment for a term no less than 5 years.
Now, look, MS... I don't know what's in your mind lately, by I get better support from other operating systems.
And PVs work great as long as you only want to turn your lights on when the sun is shining brightly.
1. My post was in reply to someone claiming that all the world surface need to be covered by PV, this is why I stayed with PV as a given.
2. have you noticed the phrase saying The only engineering problem is the transport of the energy around the globe.
Thermal solar systems are what is used for generating power for the grid.
Well, while you are right that thermal solar is the easiest way, that's not absolutely necessary: see NaS batteries, the Zn-ZnO cycle (still using thermal power, but not storing the energy as thermal) or even rechargeable batteries for small power needs (look, Model S Tesla is currently delivered with 60/80 kWh batteries. If you need or really want to live off grid and can afford to spend, you can).
If only one did it, the other one knows it and is silent == conspiracy. Both did it, both stay silent == conspiracy.
That was pretty simple.
What if none of them did it (e.g. the DNA got on the scene accidentally)?
Except the law doesn't work via compromise.
Ever heard of a plea bargain?
Not in France, no.
vi? emacs? no normal English speaker knows what these words mean. Do you need to be a cunnilinguist to use these programs?
FTFY.
The answer of the question in the correct form above is "Highly probable": after an age, even if still interested in a sexual life, that's about all you can do (and you need to have a certain age to know how to use both vi and emacs).
Now... get off my lawn, kids.
Current figures (greater melbourne, wikipedia) have more than 4miliion.
Yes, but if you consider the "City of Melbourne" area, you won't get 3 mills.
Anyway, I was replying to a post in which "large metropolitan area" was interpreted as "large sprawl metropolitan area" rather than "high population density metropolitan areas" (were, indeed, "the average trip is very very short"), so quibbling over the exact population of the Greater Melbourne is pointless.
By car, there are peak hour traffic jams - despite succesive state governments building freeways in every direction...
Solutions: move closer, telecommute or travel off peak (I'm using a combination of the last two for my 55km one-way) - waiting for extensive public transport coverage in large sprawls is hopeless. There is something to pay for the fact that everybody has a backyard.
the city of Melbourne (small c)
You see, though, the context is "the New York City" with Capital c. Yes, I know, they are 8mils+, but the land area they live on is 789 sq.km (if it would be a circle, the radius of the circle would be only about 16 km. About 28 km side if a perfect square). And in regards with the transportation, it is the "size" as in distance that matter, not the size of its population.
We might also move to 100% green energy if we carpet the entire surface of the earth with solar cells. Until people reduce and make their own efforts to reduce there energy needs through economic (if you don't save on costs or get paid, it is not reasonable to ask people to change their habits) means then it wont work.
You would only need to cover some percentage of desert area (not even all of it: do a computation using the solar constant, total world energy production and assume only 12% conversion efficiency for PV - you'll be surprised of how low the percentage of the world surface would need to be covered by PV-es. I've done this computation in the past). The only engineering problem is the transport of the energy around the globe.
Sounds like they get to have their cake *and* eat it too
You reckon? One reasons for renewable power working well in Germany: they also started to build in a "energy efficient manner and insulate the old buildings. Here's why:
German building stock currently consumes approximately three to (in the worse cases) ten times as much energy for heating as new builds.
Loans/mortgages for insulating buildings would be a win-win situation for the case of older ones. (if you start insulating some buildings, the money saved on energy can be used for insulating others... I think Bloomberg could even choose to offer "0 rate loans/returnable subsidies" from the city budget...).
"Large" metropolitan areas...
I live in Melbourne, Australia and commute an hour to and from work. This is normal. This is a city of only 3. something million. A city 5 times ours I'm sure has longer commute times.
Where do you pull this idea that trips are short?
3 millions if you think of "The Greater Melbourne" (that is including the suburbs) - which means a "city" radius of about 50 km.
However, if you refer to "the City of Melbourne" (aka CBD; let's take the inner suburbs as well = max 10 km radius), I fail to see how commuting to/from work takes an hour each way.
Nicodemus and becomes...intelligent.
Algernon (was the first).
we'd all be happy to see the harshest threats/penalties applied
I wouldn't - (because fuck Raytheon, what did it ever do for me?)
So who are "we"? Or am I they?
You have issues with behaviors/attitudes at DOJ that need to be fixed, not just a few sentences in a statute.
No, I don't have issues with DOJ. DOJ has the issues on its own.
And if you close these holes, aren't they just going to find others?...
So, sure, maybe they should tweak the laws a bit;
Who the hell are they?
"Cyber-soldier" - the presence of the "cyber" should be shame enough (I'm sick of the term).
No. But I reckon another medal would be required to recognize the "Exceptional Remote Assassin"(s) when killing - authorized by presidential order, how else? - US citizens. I'll let the suggestions of design to you.
Why is it that today almost every story on Slashdot is about our frog-in-slowly-heated-water society.
Because its hard to avoid this nowadays, doh. (
And "odor" is a polite and mild term: to be precise, one should use "stench" for how the today's world smells like... ummm... or is it my socks only?)
If we don't need hundreds and thousands of workers as cheap labor, then we don't need to outsource of jobs.
So what are you going to do with the people who can't hold down a high-tech/creative job?
Soylent green? Can sell it to China or Mexico afterwards.