You could try. Though at something like 12 dollars a day, its not exactly a high paying profession.
Jurors are said to be the most important and influential people in the room. But they get paid less for an entire day of their time than the judge/lawyers/bailiffs get paid every few minutes.
It seems to me that is a different thing than the original statement, "Attorney's eyes only".
An attorney is bound by ethical standards and whatnot that a random "analyst" wouldn't be and could conceivably be disbarred (and thereby lose his livelihood) for breaching a confidentiality order. This "incentive to do the right thing" is not present with the random analyst. There may be other sanctions that would apply to both the attorney and the random analyst, but my point is that the attorney has an additional incentive to be, for lack of a better word, trustworthy.
If the sanctions that apply to the ordinary citizen are sufficient, there would be no need for the additional obligations that attorneys are required to undertake as officers of the court.
"Attorney's eyes only" either means what it says, or it does not.
But even when a firm has a lawyer with the right background and experience, it is common to hire an expert to provide support (and possibly testify on findings). Professors with relevant expertise, but without a stake in the outcome of the case, are typically brought in to fill this role.
If the outside experts you mention are not attorneys, what good does it to to hire them to review something that they aren't allowed to see?
Usually the protective order designates source code as "attorneys eyes only" meaning that only the requester's (Leader Technology) outside attorneys can view the source.
And having a bunch of attorneys reading a bunch of source code is a great way to get a really definitive and correct interpretation of the ramifications and effects of that source code. Just like a software developer can provide a detailed critique of the Criminal Code and the Income Tax Act...
The desktop computer that I had immediately prior to this one melted. (Which is why I bought this one.) It looks like the video card overheated and drooped over the motherboard in such a way that it burned a hole in something else and the rest of the motherboard turned into a twisted mess with a hole in the middle.
And yes, it did stink quite a bit, thanks.
The whole thing was contained inside of the case, though. I don't think there was a real fire hazard, though I didn't waste any time pulling the plug when it happened.
it likely still shipped with Windows, meaning you still paid the Microsoft tax,
I have heard that most or maybe all of the "Microsoft tax" is covered by the junkware that the computer vendors include on their Windows install disks, so the amount that Windows adds to the price of a new computer is very close to zero.
I don't know if this is really the case, though, and I'm frankly rather suspicious of that. Does anyone know for sure?
If someone is carrying your entire life savings out the door and you are watching him while holding a gun, what do you do when you yell "Stop!" and he starts to run away carrying your entire life savings that you will never see again unless you take immediate action.
Do you pull the trigger or watch him leave and wonder how you're going to pay for tomorrow's groceries and heat your home?
I'm really interested in anyone's answer to this question, because I'm not sure what I would do myself in that situation.
For the job you mention here, BAS may meet your requirements.
Over the past couple of weeks I have written a couple of small utilities and one-shot "get the data from X" things of that nature using BAS and it has worked well.
C64 games typically were not written in BASIC, as the performance of BASIC sucked. Only the cheesiest type-it-in-yourself games were implemented this way.
A lot of commercial C64 games were even written in C64 BASIC. The one that immediately springs to mind is Sword of Fargoal, published by Epyx, Inc, one of the biggest computer game publishers in the 80's, i.e. the age of the Commodore 64.
If you removed BASIC from the C64, that game (and many others) couldn't possibly run.
in these modern times with object-oriented multithreaded programming, BASIC is kind of a throwback, don't you think?
Why do you think that? BASIC is simple, straight-forward and relatively easy to learn. There are all kinds of "old-time" BASIC programmers around and lots of professional code has been written in BASIC over the years. A lot of programming (even today) involves simple string handling and reading/writing to a file; there's no requirement for fancy front-ends with lots of buttons for a lot of business- or system-oriented programming.
I'm a big fan of BASIC, personally, and wish there was a really good console-oriented BASIC compiler or interpreter available for Linux.
Yes, I know about Freebasic and Gambas but both of those are striving to be an object-oriented fancy thing that doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to traditional BASIC.
Actually, BAS comes about the closest to my idea of what a BASIC interpreter should be. A few additional features like local variables, named subroutines and a $include directive to provide a simple Makefile-like capability would make it a real contender for serious BASIC programming on Linux. Sadly, the chap who wrote BAS doesn't seem to be too interested in that.
Then the radio listeners would go elsewhere because the content that they were familiar and comfortable with was no longer being broadcast on that station.
After a few days of reading I decided fuck it, why should I be ALREADY be spending my own time doing what this company desires?
So you would have the knowledge that would help you to get the job you were interviewing for. Isn't that, after all, the objective ??
there's a good chance I'd be learning all this for nothing.
And the knowledge you gained would be of no value whatsoever in any other job or project?
Frankly, you don't sound like someone who's interested in computer programming as such. Personally, I try to seize opportunities to learn something new about programming because I really am interested in it, whether there is an immediate dollar-payoff or not.
Metadata (book title, author, publisher, title image, etc.) and machine-readable separation into chapters mostly.
Interesting. Not that it's of much direct value to me with most books (who cares if a novel is separated into chapters, I'm not particularly interested in most cover art, and I keep the title and author as part of the filename. On the other hand, I can see where the chapter thing could be useful for technical manuals. Additionally, it's compressed (as was already stated in the GP), which is a pretty big deal for human-readable text.
FBReader can read compressed html. "Herman Melville - Moby Dick.html.bz2" works fine with FBReader.
What's the advantage of epub over a simple html file?
I read books with http://www.fbreader.org/ and it supports both epub and html (and other formats too).
Most of my books are html files so I get boldface chapter headings and whatnot (prettier than a txt file). What does epub add that I don't get with html?
how many people are running real multi-user systems with multiple honest to God local users?
Businesses, of course. And don't assume that means 500+ employees. If you live a town of more than about 500 people, the local town office is another example.
You would be surprised at how many tiny businesses want to have multi-user systems for their operations once someone tells them that it is possible to do that.
You mean I don't have to hoof it over to my secretary's desk to pick up that memo? Sign me up!
All of the readily available PDF readers on Linux (with the obvious exception of acroread, of course) use the poppler backend to do the actual rendering. Therefore, a flaw in the rendering affects all of the reader software.
The biggest beef I have with acroread on Linux is that there isn't a 64-bit version of the darn thing. Sure, it's possible to run the i386 version on an x86_64 setup, but it drags in a metric ton of i386 dependencies.
The computer I'm typing this on runs Fedora 11/x86_64 and has no i386 software installed on it at all.
I use an abacus (really) to do binary arithmetic. I find it very simple to do calculations and visualize the results with my abacus.
In fact, I have two of them. I keep my "big" one on the bookshelf beside my computer desk, and a smaller one beside my office desk.
If you haven't learned to use an abacus for binary, you're missing something. I hate doing that stuff on paper (and I usually manage to get it wrong) and it takes too long to set it up on the computer.
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"All men are created equal..."
So everyone and anyone is your peer, unemployed trash hauler or Ph.D physicist.
Why didn't she (and the others) say that they are unable to reach a decision due to a lack of proper information being provided.
Then the information is either provided or everyone goes home.
You could try. Though at something like 12 dollars a day, its not exactly a high paying profession.
Jurors are said to be the most important and influential people in the room. But they get paid less for an entire day of their time than the judge/lawyers/bailiffs get paid every few minutes.
Is this reasonable and fair?
It seems to me that is a different thing than the original statement, "Attorney's eyes only".
An attorney is bound by ethical standards and whatnot that a random "analyst" wouldn't be and could conceivably be disbarred (and thereby lose his livelihood) for breaching a confidentiality order. This "incentive to do the right thing" is not present with the random analyst. There may be other sanctions that would apply to both the attorney and the random analyst, but my point is that the attorney has an additional incentive to be, for lack of a better word, trustworthy.
If the sanctions that apply to the ordinary citizen are sufficient, there would be no need for the additional obligations that attorneys are required to undertake as officers of the court.
"Attorney's eyes only" either means what it says, or it does not.
But even when a firm has a lawyer with the right background and experience, it is common to hire an expert to provide support (and possibly testify on findings). Professors with relevant expertise, but without a stake in the outcome of the case, are typically brought in to fill this role.
If the outside experts you mention are not attorneys, what good does it to to hire them to review something that they aren't allowed to see?
Usually the protective order designates source code as "attorneys eyes only" meaning that only the requester's (Leader Technology) outside attorneys can view the source.
And having a bunch of attorneys reading a bunch of source code is a great way to get a really definitive and correct interpretation of the ramifications and effects of that source code. Just like a software developer can provide a detailed critique of the Criminal Code and the Income Tax Act...
The desktop computer that I had immediately prior to this one melted. (Which is why I bought this one.) It looks like the video card overheated and drooped over the motherboard in such a way that it burned a hole in something else and the rest of the motherboard turned into a twisted mess with a hole in the middle.
And yes, it did stink quite a bit, thanks.
The whole thing was contained inside of the case, though. I don't think there was a real fire hazard, though I didn't waste any time pulling the plug when it happened.
it likely still shipped with Windows, meaning you still paid the Microsoft tax,
I have heard that most or maybe all of the "Microsoft tax" is covered by the junkware that the computer vendors include on their Windows install disks, so the amount that Windows adds to the price of a new computer is very close to zero.
I don't know if this is really the case, though, and I'm frankly rather suspicious of that. Does anyone know for sure?
do you condone extrajudicial killing for thieves?
If someone is carrying your entire life savings out the door and you are watching him while holding a gun, what do you do when you yell "Stop!" and he starts to run away carrying your entire life savings that you will never see again unless you take immediate action.
Do you pull the trigger or watch him leave and wonder how you're going to pay for tomorrow's groceries and heat your home?
I'm really interested in anyone's answer to this question, because I'm not sure what I would do myself in that situation.
For the job you mention here, BAS may meet your requirements.
Over the past couple of weeks I have written a couple of small utilities and one-shot "get the data from X" things of that nature using BAS and it has worked well.
C64 games typically were not written in BASIC, as the performance of BASIC sucked. Only the cheesiest type-it-in-yourself games were implemented this way.
Allow me to correct you.
A lot of commercial C64 games were even written in C64 BASIC. The one that immediately springs to mind is Sword of Fargoal, published by Epyx, Inc, one of the biggest computer game publishers in the 80's, i.e. the age of the Commodore 64.
If you removed BASIC from the C64, that game (and many others) couldn't possibly run.
in these modern times with object-oriented multithreaded programming, BASIC is kind of a throwback, don't you think?
Why do you think that? BASIC is simple, straight-forward and relatively easy to learn. There are all kinds of "old-time" BASIC programmers around and lots of professional code has been written in BASIC over the years. A lot of programming (even today) involves simple string handling and reading/writing to a file; there's no requirement for fancy front-ends with lots of buttons for a lot of business- or system-oriented programming.
I'm a big fan of BASIC, personally, and wish there was a really good console-oriented BASIC compiler or interpreter available for Linux.
Yes, I know about Freebasic and Gambas but both of those are striving to be an object-oriented fancy thing that doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to traditional BASIC.
Actually, BAS comes about the closest to my idea of what a BASIC interpreter should be. A few additional features like local variables, named subroutines and a $include directive to provide a simple Makefile-like capability would make it a real contender for serious BASIC programming on Linux. Sadly, the chap who wrote BAS doesn't seem to be too interested in that.
Copy the articles's URL and run that through Google. Click on the link that results from that.
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Then the radio listeners would go elsewhere because the content that they were familiar and comfortable with was no longer being broadcast on that station.
A small baker had to close shop because people boycotted him for selling factory-created pastries
Was he still charging the same price for those pastries as he charged for the "home-grown" ones? If so, that was the problem.
After a few days of reading I decided fuck it, why should I be ALREADY be spending my own time doing what this company desires?
So you would have the knowledge that would help you to get the job you were interviewing for. Isn't that, after all, the objective ??
there's a good chance I'd be learning all this for nothing.
And the knowledge you gained would be of no value whatsoever in any other job or project?
Frankly, you don't sound like someone who's interested in computer programming as such. Personally, I try to seize opportunities to learn something new about programming because I really am interested in it, whether there is an immediate dollar-payoff or not.
And if you sent yourself an unsealed envelope you could... put anything into it later on?
This doesn't seem all that airtight to me...
Metadata (book title, author, publisher, title image, etc.) and machine-readable separation into chapters mostly.
Interesting. Not that it's of much direct value to me with most books (who cares if a novel is separated into chapters, I'm not particularly interested in most cover art, and I keep the title and author as part of the filename. On the other hand, I can see where the chapter thing could be useful for technical manuals.
Additionally, it's compressed (as was already stated in the GP), which is a pretty big deal for human-readable text.
FBReader can read compressed html. "Herman Melville - Moby Dick.html.bz2" works fine with FBReader.
Thanks for the answer! I've learned something.
What's the advantage of epub over a simple html file?
I read books with http://www.fbreader.org/ and it supports both epub and html (and other formats too).
Most of my books are html files so I get boldface chapter headings and whatnot (prettier than a txt file). What does epub add that I don't get with html?
how many people are running real multi-user systems with multiple honest to God local users?
Businesses, of course. And don't assume that means 500+ employees. If you live a town of more than about 500 people, the local town office is another example.
You would be surprised at how many tiny businesses want to have multi-user systems for their operations once someone tells them that it is possible to do that.
You mean I don't have to hoof it over to my secretary's desk to pick up that memo? Sign me up!
cmyk?
kpdf and evince both use the poppler pdf rendering library.
All of the readily available PDF readers on Linux (with the obvious exception of acroread, of course) use the poppler backend to do the actual rendering. Therefore, a flaw in the rendering affects all of the reader software.
The biggest beef I have with acroread on Linux is that there isn't a 64-bit version of the darn thing. Sure, it's possible to run the i386 version on an x86_64 setup, but it drags in a metric ton of i386 dependencies.
The computer I'm typing this on runs Fedora 11/x86_64 and has no i386 software installed on it at all.
Don't laugh too hard.
I use an abacus (really) to do binary arithmetic. I find it very simple to do calculations and visualize the results with my abacus.
In fact, I have two of them. I keep my "big" one on the bookshelf beside my computer desk, and a smaller one beside my office desk.
If you haven't learned to use an abacus for binary, you're missing something. I hate doing that stuff on paper (and I usually manage to get it wrong) and it takes too long to set it up on the computer.