that makes it difficult to use another plumber or add fixtures from another comapny, is pure evil, and plain greedy.
I know (of) a fellow who's called "Green Wire Tom". He sells and installs commercial sound systems. He got his name because he wires everything using only green wires. That way, it's extremely difficult for anyone else to trace what he did to fix it, upgrade it or add anything new.
I strongly suggest that you talk to a credit union.
I used to have my business accounts at a bank and when they told me that they intended to deduct 2% from my cash deposits (real cash, not cheques or anything like that) for a "service fee", I told them that I was taking my business elsewhere. I walked down the street and got an account at the local credit union and have never regretted it. That was six years ago.
If your carrier adds a fee (as T-mobile just did) you can cancel your contract without penalty.
But that would leave you without the service that they contracted to provide to you.
I'd rather see the carrier pay a penalty to the subscriber for non-performance of the contract. Or best, just have the carrier honour the original agreement as written.
as a novice work worker and DIY home improvement and maintenance guy, I find using mixed fractions very annoying.
As a "DIY home improvement and maintenance guy" you have probably realized that all existing American construction was done in Imperial units using lumber and materials cut to Imperial lengths. 4x8 plywood sheets, 8' 2x4's, 7'9" 2x4 studs, and so on.
Now what do you do when the 2x4 is no longer exactly 1.5"x3.5" and shorter than 8' long when you need to add a piece to your house?
it's all on a sensible module that you can use to line everything up on
But in carpentry you DON'T want to line everything up. You don't want the rigid foam insulation seam to line up with a seam in concrete block wall (where you offset the blocks), and you don't want the wall paneling to line up with the seam in the insulation. Offset is the name of the game, not "make one seam that goes all the way through to the great outdoors".
But that's professional printing your talking about. They ain't going to be buying standard paper anyway, no matter if it's imperial or metric, so the point is kinda redundant.
Really? Don't place any large wagers on that.
A friend of mine owns a small publishing business. He goes through about 30 cases of 11x17 paper each week printing 8.5x11 booklets.
The only way you could protect yourself from financial ruin in this case is to not make the thing to begin with. There is no avoiding this reality
And?
How is the fact that the world doesn't see the benefit of your invention in this circumstance somehow better than the world not seeing the benefit of another invention because the inventor fears being sued for infringing someone else's patent that he may not even be aware of?
I had an XT, which gave me a ROM BASIC error when you put in the wrong floppy disk, and people told me theres a BASIC interpreter in there somewhere in the BIOS.
Only on gen-yoo-wine IBM PC's. Clones didn't have ROM BASIC, but they still had the error message for "compatibility reasons".
Did anyone ever get into the ROM BASIC?
As I recall, IBM PC's came with ROM BASIC in ROM (naturally), and BASICA on floppy disk. BASICA had more features than ROM BASIC, hence "BASIC-Advanced".
I would recommend the new format embrace the features of Camera RAW modes so as to avoid a common publishing format but a proprietary storage format.
And how many gigabytes of ram did you say that you wanted to purchase and carry around in your camera? What do you mean you need more than six photos at a time....
You could always release it to the company whose product is affected and give them $suitable_time to fix the vulnerability before you post on Bugtraq.
The obvious problem with that approach is that the fact that there is no guarantee that you, as the discoverer of the vulnerability, are the first or even the fiftieth person to discover it.
Therefore, while you're being a nice guy and letting Company X have the time to repair their software, the other 49 (or 4900) black hats are exploiting the hell out of other peoples' networks.
Tell me there is a bug and no fix available yet, I can take my systems offline or disable something or at least consider some protective action of some kind. Don't tell me there's a bug and I'm a sitting duck until someone bothers to make mention.
All music is copyrighted by somebody (at least until that copyright expires), whether they assert their rights or not.
You can specifically disclaim any copyright on any of your works, though. I used to put this notice on some of the software that I wrote: "This program is truly public domain. You can use it, hack it, change it, give it away, sell it or anything else that makes your little heart go pitter-patter."
I have seen and heard of too many examples of people who simply can't make the polls, typically blue collars who are required to be at work from much earlier than "business hours" until let go in the evening. I once had to QUIT a job and walk off to go vote, they would not "allow" me to come in late, nor leave early, and that day we had overtime I wasn't expecting.
In Canada, employees are entitled by law to four consecutive hours off work to vote.
For example, if your working hours are 9 to 5 and the polls close at 8, your employer must let you go at 4.
As I said, this is required by law and an employer can get himself into very deep shit indeed if he fails to honour that requirement.
they could just define it as "between multiple sites" or something like that... anything that leaves the building, basically.
Hmm.. so using a wireless link to send data to your secretary's office across the street would be taxed, but sending the same data to the office next door wouldn't be?
Slashdot Mirror
There are still people that use DOS-applications,
Use, hell. I write and maintain some very specialized DOS applications. I run dosemu on my Fedora Core 2 box to edit and compile them, actually.
Of course Microsoft innovate! Don't you remember Bob?
Actually, MS Bob is a kind-of enhanced version of the Commodore 64 cartridge program called Magic Desk.
So much for that one.
The question comes -- should all of it be public?
They are public records. So, yes it should all be public.
Simple, no?
that makes it difficult to use another plumber or add fixtures from another comapny, is pure evil, and plain greedy.
I know (of) a fellow who's called "Green Wire Tom". He sells and installs commercial sound systems. He got his name because he wires everything using only green wires. That way, it's extremely difficult for anyone else to trace what he did to fix it, upgrade it or add anything new.
I strongly suggest that you talk to a credit union.
I used to have my business accounts at a bank and when they told me that they intended to deduct 2% from my cash deposits (real cash, not cheques or anything like that) for a "service fee", I told them that I was taking my business elsewhere. I walked down the street and got an account at the local credit union and have never regretted it. That was six years ago.
If your carrier adds a fee (as T-mobile just did) you can cancel your contract without penalty.
But that would leave you without the service that they contracted to provide to you.
I'd rather see the carrier pay a penalty to the subscriber for non-performance of the contract. Or best, just have the carrier honour the original agreement as written.
as a novice work worker and DIY home improvement and maintenance guy, I find using mixed fractions very annoying.
As a "DIY home improvement and maintenance guy" you have probably realized that all existing American construction was done in Imperial units using lumber and materials cut to Imperial lengths. 4x8 plywood sheets, 8' 2x4's, 7'9" 2x4 studs, and so on.
Now what do you do when the 2x4 is no longer exactly 1.5"x3.5" and shorter than 8' long when you need to add a piece to your house?
it's all on a sensible module that you can use to line everything up on
But in carpentry you DON'T want to line everything up. You don't want the rigid foam insulation seam to line up with a seam in concrete block wall (where you offset the blocks), and you don't want the wall paneling to line up with the seam in the insulation. Offset is the name of the game, not "make one seam that goes all the way through to the great outdoors".
But that's professional printing your talking about. They ain't going to be buying standard paper anyway, no matter if it's imperial or metric, so the point is kinda redundant.
Really? Don't place any large wagers on that.
A friend of mine owns a small publishing business. He goes through about 30 cases of 11x17 paper each week printing 8.5x11 booklets.
And mistakes cost money too.
And sometimes could cost lives. This is an account of an error in filling the fuel tanks on a passenger jet due to incorrect conversion factors.
And if you want to make an A5-sized booklet, print it 2-up on A4, appropriately interleaved, staple down the middle and fold.
And if you want to make a letter-sized booklet, print it 2-up on ledger (11x17) paper, appropriately interleaved, staple down the middle and fold.
If someone wants to mirror us, please contact me at info (at) softmaker.de . Please. Pretty please.
If someone wants to donate bandwidth to us so we can promote our commercial, give-us-your-cash software, let us know?
Am I wrong or is does that deal seem a bit one-sided?
Since when is it their responsibility?
Since they started distributing software that interferes with the stability of everyone else's networks, of course.
It seems pretty clear that the "injured party" is the spamee here, not Microsoft.
You're paying for the bandwidth?
The only way you could protect yourself from financial ruin in this case is to not make the thing to begin with. There is no avoiding this reality
And?
How is the fact that the world doesn't see the benefit of your invention in this circumstance somehow better than the world not seeing the benefit of another invention because the inventor fears being sued for infringing someone else's patent that he may not even be aware of?
I had an XT, which gave me a ROM BASIC error when you put in the wrong floppy disk, and people told me theres a BASIC interpreter in there somewhere in the BIOS.
Only on gen-yoo-wine IBM PC's. Clones didn't have ROM BASIC, but they still had the error message for "compatibility reasons".
Did anyone ever get into the ROM BASIC?
As I recall, IBM PC's came with ROM BASIC in ROM (naturally), and BASICA on floppy disk. BASICA had more features than ROM BASIC, hence "BASIC-Advanced".
Not necessarily. There are many so-called "ethical" mutual funds and the like, each one with its own definiton of ethical, of course.
I would recommend the new format embrace the features of Camera RAW modes so as to avoid a common publishing format but a proprietary storage format.
And how many gigabytes of ram did you say that you wanted to purchase and carry around in your camera? What do you mean you need more than six photos at a time....
available under reasonable terms and conditions on a non-discriminatory basis."
RAND is not free. RAND still boils down to "give me money", and that's a real problem for free software projects.
You could always release it to the company whose product is affected and give them $suitable_time to fix the vulnerability before you post on Bugtraq.
The obvious problem with that approach is that the fact that there is no guarantee that you, as the discoverer of the vulnerability, are the first or even the fiftieth person to discover it.
Therefore, while you're being a nice guy and letting Company X have the time to repair their software, the other 49 (or 4900) black hats are exploiting the hell out of other peoples' networks.
Tell me there is a bug and no fix available yet, I can take my systems offline or disable something or at least consider some protective action of some kind. Don't tell me there's a bug and I'm a sitting duck until someone bothers to make mention.
The first option seems better to me.
All music is copyrighted by somebody (at least until that copyright expires), whether they assert their rights or not.
You can specifically disclaim any copyright on any of your works, though. I used to put this notice on some of the software that I wrote: "This program is truly public domain. You can use it, hack it, change it, give it away, sell it or anything else that makes your little heart go pitter-patter."
Seems pretty clear to me.
I have seen and heard of too many examples of people who simply can't make the polls, typically blue collars who are required to be at work from much earlier than "business hours" until let go in the evening. I once had to QUIT a job and walk off to go vote, they would not "allow" me to come in late, nor leave early, and that day we had overtime I wasn't expecting.
In Canada, employees are entitled by law to four consecutive hours off work to vote.
For example, if your working hours are 9 to 5 and the polls close at 8, your employer must let you go at 4.
As I said, this is required by law and an employer can get himself into very deep shit indeed if he fails to honour that requirement.
What you need is a Grammar Checker program.
Grampa?
they could just define it as "between multiple sites" or something like that... anything that leaves the building, basically.
Hmm.. so using a wireless link to send data to your secretary's office across the street would be taxed, but sending the same data to the office next door wouldn't be?
Tain't much of a solution there.
(there is no question that some guy selling illegal copies of CDs on the street corner hurts album sales)
Does it, though? Consider these two situations:
Someone says "I'll buy that for a dollar" and takes it home and listens to it.
Someone says "$20 is more than I want to spend for that CD; I'll do without", and never buys it or listens to it in his entire lifetime.
Has the music industry lost $1? Has it lost $20? Has it lost anything at all?