Also, Watts was the one who started it by refusing, twice, to get back into his car while they were initially attempting to search his trunk.
Why should I not watch them search my trunk? How do I know that they aren't stealing and/or planting stuff there? If I can see it happen then I can testify to who did what and when; if I just find out after the fact that something has been planted or is missing, I can't testify to who did it, how he did it, etc.
You don't need a smart meter for either of those things. If it's a police issue, they can just shut the power off to the block or something. If it's a billing issue, they can just come and take your meter out or padlock it.
Or you can just set up automatic payments for everything.
This works well up until there is a problem or billing dispute. For example, I know of someone who had automatic payments being made from their account to the electric company. The utility decided that some damage that he didn't think he was responsible for was, in fact, his responsibility so they withdrew $7500 from his bank account. He discovered this when his other cheques and whatnot started bouncing.
I have nothing set up for automatic payments. It doesn't take that long to write someone a cheque and put it in the mail, and I retain control of my own bank account and know that money won't be magically disappearing.
When it comes to a billing dispute, I would prefer to have them coming after me for money rather than be in a position where I am trying to get my money back from them.
I pay my bills but I want to know exactly how much I'm paying and what I got for my money. Then I'll write you a cheque.
How can we as programmers expect fast, efficient, lightweight code when our compiler (even ones as popular as gcc) are bloating the program without being asked to?
For the sake of comparison to modern compilers, I just compiled hello.c with Borland Turbo C 2.01 for DOS (copyright 1987/1988) and got this: wc -c hello.exe 5676 hello.exe
Removing the printf and simply assigning the text to a pointer (as she did in her "second try") got me this: wc -c hello.exe 4332 hello.exe
Changing to the "tiny" memory model from the default "small" got me this: wc -c hello.exe 4396 hello.exe.
Looks like ELF defaults to using roughly twice as much ram as MZ did(does) in DOS. On the other hand, ELF may be doing more setup stuff than MZ -- I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of that to be sure. I do know that the MZ header is pretty simple...
if you are a Sikh you are allowed to use a motorbike without a helmet since you have a turban in the way (although to be honest, in that case your violation doesn't harm anyone else).
Until you fall off of the bike and suffer a severe (preventable) head injury that requires expensive taxpayer-financed treatment.
Why would the school produce photographic evidence against itself?
Civil discovery. They are obligated to produce all evidence, both incriminating and exculpatory.
Civil court has different rules than criminal court. In criminal court, the defendant has no obligation to provide incriminating evidence; that doesn't apply in civil proceedings.
Just "select all" in your web browser and the contrast will, obviously, increase. I do that on some websites where the text is so faint I can't read it otherwise.
Although I think very low of the morality of those who do this for a living, but at times you really have to respect their skills.
Skills? I think it's more a case of "even a blind pig occasionally turns up a nut." There are so many wanna-be spammers and wanna-be "hackers" and wanna-be whatever's-hot-this-week that it doesn't take much of a success rate to land a ton of spam in your inbox, and mine.
I susspect that at least 85% of the people who read Slashdot could do a better job of spamming than the spammers, if they were so inclined.
I have considered getting a big-screen television for book reading, but haven't heard of anyone actually doing it.
You could hook your computer up to the TV and use a joystick or something to turn the pages, then sit back in your easy chair and read with any font size you want and without having to hold the book in your hands.
Is there anything that I'm missing in this scenario that would make it not work well?
I don't watch television so the only reason for getting a setup like that would be for reading books...
That depends on your Linux distribution. I can upgrade OO on my Centos machines by downloading the program and typing two commands, "tar xzf OOo*.tar.gz", then "rpm -U *.rpm". I could also do the same thing with about three clicks on my desktop.
I'm not familiar with Intrepid Linux, but perhaps you should look at a Linux distribution with a better package management system?
Because it is a class action, all members of the class had notice and the opportunity to opt-out of the litigation;
I live in a small town in Canada and I didn't receive any notice. I have the "big city" newspaper delivered every day and I get the local weekly paper in my mailbox too. Never saw any notice in either of those, or anywhere else (other than what's been posted on Slashdot and the like).
And for basic formatting (bold chapter headings and the like), HTML. Which is, after all, simply ASCII text with text tags that can either be interpreted and used or stripped out and ignored, as desired.
The judge and lawyers are doing it as a job, not a duty. "I, ________, do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties
You're not there for the money. You're there because it's part of your civic duty,
How is it reasonable that the "most important people in the room" get $7/day, while the judge and lawyers get hundreds-to-thousands for sitting in the same room? Don't those guys swear an oath when they're appointed that they will defend peoples rights and so on, too?
If it's my duty to sit there for $7/day, it's their duty to sit there for $5/day (as their function is apparently less important than mine is as a juror).
This way, the person who gets it can opt for the community service if they can't afford the fine, and the community as a whole benefits).
In a "former life" I was in charge of a fine option/community service program in a small town. Take it from me, there isn't much benefit to the community.
You get people who really don't want to be there, doing as little as possible as slowly as possible. Add in the fact that a significant percentage of them have never actually worked before (really!), and a simple job like "paint the fence at the firehall" turns into a very long instructional session on how to paint, and a tremendous mess on and around that fence that needs to be cleaned up and re-done by the next community service "customer".
The only jobs you can really have them do are manual labour type of jobs, and in a lot of cases those jobs are already being done by unionized public employees. In addition to the fact that the regular employees would take a dim view (and probably file a grievance) if you put someone else out to do "their job", it would be pretty demoralizing to the employees to find out that their actual job is being used as a punishment for someone breaking a law in some way.
Community service hours sounds great in theory, but it's not nearly as wonderful when it's actually being performed on the streets.
Having said that, I feel a bit hypocritical because I discovered that my name was available in my country's tld (firstnamelastname.tld) a couple of weeks ago so I immediately registered it and added it to the half-dozen domain names that I currently use for various legitimate business enterprises.
However, I have no immediate idea what to do with my new firstnamelastname.tld domain name, yet. I put up a generic webpage with my name and address on it and set it up to receive email sent to me and I'm sure I'll think of a real use for it at some point. I have a few vague ideas but nothing that I'm ready to start implementing yet.
I wanted to grab it quick before someone else did and I'm mostly just sitting on it for the moment.
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No Linux/x86_64 version is available there...
Also, Watts was the one who started it by refusing, twice, to get back into his car while they were initially attempting to search his trunk.
Why should I not watch them search my trunk? How do I know that they aren't stealing and/or planting stuff there? If I can see it happen then I can testify to who did what and when; if I just find out after the fact that something has been planted or is missing, I can't testify to who did it, how he did it, etc.
You don't need a smart meter for either of those things. If it's a police issue, they can just shut the power off to the block or something. If it's a billing issue, they can just come and take your meter out or padlock it.
Or you can just set up automatic payments for everything.
This works well up until there is a problem or billing dispute. For example, I know of someone who had automatic payments being made from their account to the electric company. The utility decided that some damage that he didn't think he was responsible for was, in fact, his responsibility so they withdrew $7500 from his bank account. He discovered this when his other cheques and whatnot started bouncing.
I have nothing set up for automatic payments. It doesn't take that long to write someone a cheque and put it in the mail, and I retain control of my own bank account and know that money won't be magically disappearing.
When it comes to a billing dispute, I would prefer to have them coming after me for money rather than be in a position where I am trying to get my money back from them.
I pay my bills but I want to know exactly how much I'm paying and what I got for my money. Then I'll write you a cheque.
In that order.
run w8loss.exe against your executable to strip it.
w8loss.exe doesn't come with Turbo C, at least not with the version that I have here.
recompiling using the tiny memory model, shouldn't you call it hello.com?
I kind of thought so too, but the compiler named the executable hello.exe.
How can we as programmers expect fast, efficient, lightweight code when our compiler (even ones as popular as gcc) are bloating the program without being asked to?
For the sake of comparison to modern compilers, I just compiled hello.c with Borland Turbo C 2.01 for DOS (copyright 1987/1988) and got this:
wc -c hello.exe
5676 hello.exe
Removing the printf and simply assigning the text to a pointer (as she did in her "second try") got me this:
wc -c hello.exe
4332 hello.exe
Changing to the "tiny" memory model from the default "small" got me this:
wc -c hello.exe
4396 hello.exe.
Looks like ELF defaults to using roughly twice as much ram as MZ did(does) in DOS. On the other hand, ELF may be doing more setup stuff than MZ -- I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of that to be sure. I do know that the MZ header is pretty simple...
if you are a Sikh you are allowed to use a motorbike without a helmet since you have a turban in the way (although to be honest, in that case your violation doesn't harm anyone else).
Until you fall off of the bike and suffer a severe (preventable) head injury that requires expensive taxpayer-financed treatment.
You could pass the time by making phone calls from the cinema without disturbing anyone.
NO!
It's not only the noise that you make talking; it's also the light from the phone.
Why would the school produce photographic evidence against itself?
Civil discovery. They are obligated to produce all evidence, both incriminating and exculpatory.
Civil court has different rules than criminal court. In criminal court, the defendant has no obligation to provide incriminating evidence; that doesn't apply in civil proceedings.
Just "select all" in your web browser and the contrast will, obviously, increase. I do that on some websites where the text is so faint I can't read it otherwise.
Although I think very low of the morality of those who do this for a living, but at times you really have to respect their skills.
Skills? I think it's more a case of "even a blind pig occasionally turns up a nut." There are so many wanna-be spammers and wanna-be "hackers" and wanna-be whatever's-hot-this-week that it doesn't take much of a success rate to land a ton of spam in your inbox, and mine.
I susspect that at least 85% of the people who read Slashdot could do a better job of spamming than the spammers, if they were so inclined.
I have considered getting a big-screen television for book reading, but haven't heard of anyone actually doing it.
You could hook your computer up to the TV and use a joystick or something to turn the pages, then sit back in your easy chair and read with any font size you want and without having to hold the book in your hands.
Is there anything that I'm missing in this scenario that would make it not work well?
I don't watch television so the only reason for getting a setup like that would be for reading books...
That depends on your Linux distribution. I can upgrade OO on my Centos machines by downloading the program and typing two commands, "tar xzf OOo*.tar.gz", then "rpm -U *.rpm". I could also do the same thing with about three clicks on my desktop.
I'm not familiar with Intrepid Linux, but perhaps you should look at a Linux distribution with a better package management system?
Apparently that's what they've got with this Video Furnace thing. And that's what the copyright holders are objecting to.
Because it is a class action, all members of the class had notice and the opportunity to opt-out of the litigation;
I live in a small town in Canada and I didn't receive any notice. I have the "big city" newspaper delivered every day and I get the local weekly paper in my mailbox too. Never saw any notice in either of those, or anywhere else (other than what's been posted on Slashdot and the like).
Copyright doesn't give you the right to limit how others may quote you.
Tell that to Men at Work: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/04/down-under-lawsuit.html
And for basic formatting (bold chapter headings and the like), HTML. Which is, after all, simply ASCII text with text tags that can either be interpreted and used or stripped out and ignored, as desired.
The judge and lawyers are doing it as a job, not a duty.
"I, ________, do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties
????
You're not there for the money. You're there because it's part of your civic duty,
How is it reasonable that the "most important people in the room" get $7/day, while the judge and lawyers get hundreds-to-thousands for sitting in the same room? Don't those guys swear an oath when they're appointed that they will defend peoples rights and so on, too?
If it's my duty to sit there for $7/day, it's their duty to sit there for $5/day (as their function is apparently less important than mine is as a juror).
You can find a gtapecalc srpm (and binary) that will compile cleanly on newer Centos and Fedora versions here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el5
This way, the person who gets it can opt for the community service if they can't afford the fine, and the community as a whole benefits).
In a "former life" I was in charge of a fine option/community service program in a small town. Take it from me, there isn't much benefit to the community.
You get people who really don't want to be there, doing as little as possible as slowly as possible. Add in the fact that a significant percentage of them have never actually worked before (really!), and a simple job like "paint the fence at the firehall" turns into a very long instructional session on how to paint, and a tremendous mess on and around that fence that needs to be cleaned up and re-done by the next community service "customer".
The only jobs you can really have them do are manual labour type of jobs, and in a lot of cases those jobs are already being done by unionized public employees. In addition to the fact that the regular employees would take a dim view (and probably file a grievance) if you put someone else out to do "their job", it would be pretty demoralizing to the employees to find out that their actual job is being used as a punishment for someone breaking a law in some way.
Community service hours sounds great in theory, but it's not nearly as wonderful when it's actually being performed on the streets.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/International/pope-john-paul-whipped-belt/story?id=9674114
Apparently not.
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
fuck domain squaters.
I completely agree with your sentiment.
Having said that, I feel a bit hypocritical because I discovered that my name was available in my country's tld (firstnamelastname.tld) a couple of weeks ago so I immediately registered it and added it to the half-dozen domain names that I currently use for various legitimate business enterprises.
However, I have no immediate idea what to do with my new firstnamelastname.tld domain name, yet. I put up a generic webpage with my name and address on it and set it up to receive email sent to me and I'm sure I'll think of a real use for it at some point. I have a few vague ideas but nothing that I'm ready to start implementing yet.
I wanted to grab it quick before someone else did and I'm mostly just sitting on it for the moment.
Does that make me a domain squatter? [shudder]
They are:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/01/10/12412776-qmi.html