Ok, as I understood California or some other state had it legalized for medical use. Guess US federal law goes over that.
It's also completely criminalized where I live, but doctor in combination with the medical agency can give special permission to use it for medical use (in which after they can buy it from their own local drug store). It's not widespread, but apparently a few people with injuries from serious accidents and such have got the permission. I don't see anything wrong with that though.
Still makes me wonder why the guy got both domain and hosting from the same place. There has been countless of cases with such issues before, either for the host locking domain too (like here) or giving trouble if you want to move hosting elsewhere but keep the domain. Network Solutions, like GoDaddy's, main business is domain registration anyway, not hosting.
Get the domain from a reputable registrar and then hosting from reputable hosting company.
While I completely agree that using DMCA to pull of the site is an asshole move, the documents also gave reassurance about privacy policies used in those services, mainly that MS isn't logging chat between people in Messenger and that when you move the email from their servers to your local computer email box, it isn't kept on MS servers. While in contrast, in my understating, for example Google keeps even deleted email somewhere in their networked file system for many many months.
I actually like to see more of these from different companies. Most interestingly, Facebook has a lot personal data. And what about Google? Yahoo?
If anything, such openness is good for MS in this case (even while they don't seem to agree to it, until now that it's leaked).
If you're going to move somewhere for it, you might as well move to some cheaper country and where they don't require one-man online startup's to take health care or any other high expenses and complicated things.
Hell, you'd probably find a nice island somewhere and can code at your beach house (right after you've gone morning surfing and taking some sun). Not Hawaii though, that place is expensive.
Other than the math software in your list aren't commercial software. Linux might pay for Linus now, but it surely didn't when he started developing it and that wasn't his intent.
Of course, if you're developing open source or free software with no commercial purpose, you don't need to take care of any of the things mentioned in TFA or summary. But for someone starting as independent programmer to make his living, things are different.
Of course, but the thing here is that you can't necessary choose the better way either, so you have to go by that. Of course it's easy to yell about "working for soulless big company like EA" from the moms basement, but that's not how it goes in the real world.
But the amount of such things you need to care of in the US isn't even bad yet. In other countries there's so many things you need to take care of it really, really puts you off. You'll be spending a lot more time trying to figure out all the overhead things than getting any work done.
You would need to right away get some lawyer to tell you everything little minor detail in law, an accountant to make sure you fill the complicated taxes correctly, take care of payment processing, and pay large amount of money for irrelevant things like health care and so on. If the workless people don't have to pay for health care, why should a beginning entrepreneur do so if they don't like to?
In beginning you really need someone. If you're an games programmer, this means someone that can handle the distribution and paying your share of it. PopCap and such might be good for a beginner.
On the internet it might also mean starting your site with no financial incentives first and hope someone picks you up, or provides funding and other expertise.
But yourself alone, as a newbie with no money to invest with - no, it's too hard.
possibly the check my also look into the profitability and future of the business in question
How is that banks job to do? It's not like he was asking a loan for business from them. How you spend your money (as long as its legally), no matter how unprofitable it may look, it's none of banks business.
Having a website hardly counts as a nerdy thing anymore.
And it's not even connected to website directly, but objectionable content (I assume the gay dating thingie or whatever). Web is just the medium in this case.
No, that was before it was officially announced, with prices and details. Everyone figured it'll be closer to $1000 based on rumors of such device coming from Apple. It was still when everyone thought it would actually have a good hardware, open, as in more closer to OSX than iPhone, OS and good features.
It wasn't anything like that, but useless device, which is overpriced for what it has actually has or does.
Oh, geeks do want an Internet tablet. But they don't want a crappy, over-priced one. I though almost every OS could handle multitasking after DOS age, and most did before that too (yeah yeah, it can multi-task, but doesn't allow you to - still the same thing for me in usability point of view). I also don't want to buy everything from their store, where everything costs and is controlled. How do you think open source software would work on this thing?
I would love to have a nice internet tablet while I'm on sofa. But iPad isn't such. Personally I'm waiting to see how Courier turns out to be. Maybe it is such, maybe not, but iPad definitely isn't.
Why don't they make such monitor where the bezels are as minimalistic as possible? Judging by these pictures I couldn't ever play with so much blocked view.
You can do exactly that. Set Steam to appear offline for your friends list when you don't want to be bothered, and online when it's ok.
On the latter point, playing with friends in the living room with some beers is of course fun. But it doesn't mean it's either that or this, you can have the both. Many of the multiplayer games are more fun with friends even if you're playing on your computers (and the added bonus of being able to play with foreign friends).
I dont just buy some game if I see some friend playing it - you're allowed to think with your own brains and evaluate it. But there has been cases where I've spotted some of my friends playing some game and looked it up, and then buying it as it looked interesting and heard it was fun. Just like you could heard it on slashdot, some forum or gaming mazagine.
But any point about social interaction and such is quite stupid with Steam, as no one forces you to use those, and even if you do, you can easily decide when.
How does Steam let the whole world know if you're playing or not? Even if you use your usual nickname with Steam, set your profile status to private (it's friends only by default if I remember correctly) and don't add friends on it. No one knows you're playing then.
99% of games you can also buy on other media or download services than Steam (MW2 and a few other games being exceptions, since they use Steam).
Complaining about Steam's community and friends features is stupid because you don't need to use them if you don't want to.
So then just don't use Steam. There's a difference between being tracked involuntarily a la Google Analytics and tracking your game stats and achievements on a gaming platform that contains such community features, which you signed up for.
Your complain is like signing up to a dating site and then complaining how the girls won't leave you alone.
You do know you can add shortcuts to non-steam games in Steam too? That way you also get the in-game browser and community features in it. You're the first person I've actually heard of using the Vista/Win7 game explorer though, if not using Steam it's much faster to write part of the game's name to start menu search box and launch it.
Quite many games in stores at least have that PC&Mac logo, so I don't see why it wouldn't be the same in Steam.
And even if not currently, Steam gained popularity on PC because it was the first online platform to buy and play games (it wasn't as good as it is now, they had to work a lot on it). Now they're first on Mac's too and will dominate that market too.
When you abandon satellite, fuel tanks or anything else in the space, why not just push it floating further away in space? Let some aliens take care of them.
(Emphasis mine.) It seems like he has a reasonably technical background. What has he found that cannot be explained by SuperFetch (high memory usage) and Native Command Queuing (backlogged disk I/O queue)? Those were the two big percentage differences and apparently explainable if not desirable for the average user.
Slashdot has people with most likely even more technical backgrounds. It tells something that he never tells what he has found (with his "reasonably technical background"), and that he acknowledged "XPnet's data couldn't determine whether the memory usage was by the operating system itself, or an increased number of applications". He didn't mention what kind of RAM usage is full, never said anything about SuperFetch or anything else. He practically knew nothing but just shout out bullshit. He even says it himself:
"The persona of Craig Barth was exposed as one Randall C. Kennedy, and the entire web of half-truths and misdirection was exposed as the ruse that it was."
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Ok, as I understood California or some other state had it legalized for medical use. Guess US federal law goes over that.
It's also completely criminalized where I live, but doctor in combination with the medical agency can give special permission to use it for medical use (in which after they can buy it from their own local drug store). It's not widespread, but apparently a few people with injuries from serious accidents and such have got the permission. I don't see anything wrong with that though.
If you're medical marijuana user, isn't it perfectly legal then? Why would they be after you in that case, exactly?
Still makes me wonder why the guy got both domain and hosting from the same place. There has been countless of cases with such issues before, either for the host locking domain too (like here) or giving trouble if you want to move hosting elsewhere but keep the domain. Network Solutions, like GoDaddy's, main business is domain registration anyway, not hosting.
Get the domain from a reputable registrar and then hosting from reputable hosting company.
While I completely agree that using DMCA to pull of the site is an asshole move, the documents also gave reassurance about privacy policies used in those services, mainly that MS isn't logging chat between people in Messenger and that when you move the email from their servers to your local computer email box, it isn't kept on MS servers. While in contrast, in my understating, for example Google keeps even deleted email somewhere in their networked file system for many many months.
I actually like to see more of these from different companies. Most interestingly, Facebook has a lot personal data. And what about Google? Yahoo?
If anything, such openness is good for MS in this case (even while they don't seem to agree to it, until now that it's leaked).
If you're going to move somewhere for it, you might as well move to some cheaper country and where they don't require one-man online startup's to take health care or any other high expenses and complicated things.
Hell, you'd probably find a nice island somewhere and can code at your beach house (right after you've gone morning surfing and taking some sun). Not Hawaii though, that place is expensive.
Other than the math software in your list aren't commercial software. Linux might pay for Linus now, but it surely didn't when he started developing it and that wasn't his intent.
Of course, if you're developing open source or free software with no commercial purpose, you don't need to take care of any of the things mentioned in TFA or summary. But for someone starting as independent programmer to make his living, things are different.
It's hard to do anything as a beginner.
Of course, but the thing here is that you can't necessary choose the better way either, so you have to go by that. Of course it's easy to yell about "working for soulless big company like EA" from the moms basement, but that's not how it goes in the real world.
But the amount of such things you need to care of in the US isn't even bad yet. In other countries there's so many things you need to take care of it really, really puts you off. You'll be spending a lot more time trying to figure out all the overhead things than getting any work done.
You would need to right away get some lawyer to tell you everything little minor detail in law, an accountant to make sure you fill the complicated taxes correctly, take care of payment processing, and pay large amount of money for irrelevant things like health care and so on. If the workless people don't have to pay for health care, why should a beginning entrepreneur do so if they don't like to?
In beginning you really need someone. If you're an games programmer, this means someone that can handle the distribution and paying your share of it. PopCap and such might be good for a beginner.
On the internet it might also mean starting your site with no financial incentives first and hope someone picks you up, or provides funding and other expertise.
But yourself alone, as a newbie with no money to invest with - no, it's too hard.
it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law.
They've already proved with the blatently illegal settlement on the book scanning deal that the law doesn't apply to them.
What is that famous ruling anyway? That sentence just calls for a link.
possibly the check my also look into the profitability and future of the business in question
How is that banks job to do? It's not like he was asking a loan for business from them. How you spend your money (as long as its legally), no matter how unprofitable it may look, it's none of banks business.
Having a website hardly counts as a nerdy thing anymore.
And it's not even connected to website directly, but objectionable content (I assume the gay dating thingie or whatever). Web is just the medium in this case.
I have run a Debian server that was running in VMWare on a Windows XP host, running on a netbook.
Worked quite good too, to be honest.
No, that was before it was officially announced, with prices and details. Everyone figured it'll be closer to $1000 based on rumors of such device coming from Apple. It was still when everyone thought it would actually have a good hardware, open, as in more closer to OSX than iPhone, OS and good features.
It wasn't anything like that, but useless device, which is overpriced for what it has actually has or does.
Oh, geeks do want an Internet tablet. But they don't want a crappy, over-priced one. I though almost every OS could handle multitasking after DOS age, and most did before that too (yeah yeah, it can multi-task, but doesn't allow you to - still the same thing for me in usability point of view). I also don't want to buy everything from their store, where everything costs and is controlled. How do you think open source software would work on this thing?
I would love to have a nice internet tablet while I'm on sofa. But iPad isn't such. Personally I'm waiting to see how Courier turns out to be. Maybe it is such, maybe not, but iPad definitely isn't.
Why don't they make such monitor where the bezels are as minimalistic as possible? Judging by these pictures I couldn't ever play with so much blocked view.
You've never met a woman, have you...
Are you saying average Apple fanboy acts girlishly?
You can do exactly that. Set Steam to appear offline for your friends list when you don't want to be bothered, and online when it's ok.
On the latter point, playing with friends in the living room with some beers is of course fun. But it doesn't mean it's either that or this, you can have the both. Many of the multiplayer games are more fun with friends even if you're playing on your computers (and the added bonus of being able to play with foreign friends).
I dont just buy some game if I see some friend playing it - you're allowed to think with your own brains and evaluate it. But there has been cases where I've spotted some of my friends playing some game and looked it up, and then buying it as it looked interesting and heard it was fun. Just like you could heard it on slashdot, some forum or gaming mazagine.
But any point about social interaction and such is quite stupid with Steam, as no one forces you to use those, and even if you do, you can easily decide when.
OS X != Linux, and there are many more games that do support OS X.
How does Steam let the whole world know if you're playing or not? Even if you use your usual nickname with Steam, set your profile status to private (it's friends only by default if I remember correctly) and don't add friends on it. No one knows you're playing then.
99% of games you can also buy on other media or download services than Steam (MW2 and a few other games being exceptions, since they use Steam).
Complaining about Steam's community and friends features is stupid because you don't need to use them if you don't want to.
So then just don't use Steam. There's a difference between being tracked involuntarily a la Google Analytics and tracking your game stats and achievements on a gaming platform that contains such community features, which you signed up for.
Your complain is like signing up to a dating site and then complaining how the girls won't leave you alone.
You do know you can add shortcuts to non-steam games in Steam too? That way you also get the in-game browser and community features in it. You're the first person I've actually heard of using the Vista/Win7 game explorer though, if not using Steam it's much faster to write part of the game's name to start menu search box and launch it.
Quite many games in stores at least have that PC&Mac logo, so I don't see why it wouldn't be the same in Steam.
And even if not currently, Steam gained popularity on PC because it was the first online platform to buy and play games (it wasn't as good as it is now, they had to work a lot on it). Now they're first on Mac's too and will dominate that market too.
Million Reasons Why Latvia Is The Best Country In The World
Be warned, you'll lose productivity for rest of the day.
When you abandon satellite, fuel tanks or anything else in the space, why not just push it floating further away in space? Let some aliens take care of them.
Yes, it's right there in the Preferences.
Dynamic Index -> Exclusions
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Classic Index -> Authors
(Emphasis mine.) It seems like he has a reasonably technical background. What has he found that cannot be explained by SuperFetch (high memory usage) and Native Command Queuing (backlogged disk I/O queue)? Those were the two big percentage differences and apparently explainable if not desirable for the average user.
Slashdot has people with most likely even more technical backgrounds. It tells something that he never tells what he has found (with his "reasonably technical background"), and that he acknowledged "XPnet's data couldn't determine whether the memory usage was by the operating system itself, or an increased number of applications". He didn't mention what kind of RAM usage is full, never said anything about SuperFetch or anything else. He practically knew nothing but just shout out bullshit. He even says it himself:
"The persona of Craig Barth was exposed as one Randall C. Kennedy, and the entire web of half-truths and misdirection was exposed as the ruse that it was."