Besides, I don't think it's "humanly" possible to transport this amount of information with absolutely no spillage at all.
Rubbish. My company developed and supports a database system for the police that contains roughly 45 million records. In the several years that the system has been live, not one single dataset has gone missing - and yes, they are provided to us (encrypted) on physical media.
The point is that a lot of these scams, if they were legitimate, would involve the victim committing a crime (typically either fraud or embezzlement) in order to obtain the money. The fact that it is a scam doesn't change that.
I don't even know what "f*ck all" means. Is that a new high school term you created to show your prowess with swearing in front of your teeny bopper friends?
Maybe it's not in common usage in the US, but here in the UK it's about as old as the language itself. It means "nothing".
good job making it difficult for people to view your post while at work without triggering any filters
If your employer treats you like that, it's time to find a new job, for someone who realises that you're an adult.
But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
That's a little simplistic though. Just because my neighbour breaks those rules doesn't mean I can't complain when I am considered a target. Similarly, if a soldier breaks those rules, the civilians have every right to be upset.
As you say, it depends on the situation. I have the luxury of not having to make that sort of decision under battlefield or similar conditions. I don't envy those that do not have that luxury; but personally, I'd still rather see more soldiers dead than more civilians. But maybe I'm biased as I am a civilian.
but MSIE is pretty much dead in the water here due to the level of integration with the base system
You should probably take a look at IE7's protected mode (unfortunately only available on Vista-based systems) before making that sort of sweeping assertion.
But in this case, the authors will get paid anyway from company B. Its just an infight between company A and B with company A trying to get a piece of the lucrative cake, even if it's B who put the biggest part of the effort into producing the movie.
For company A to have a case, they must have already paid the authors some agreed sum of money in return to some right to the work. I very much doubt that it's quite as cut and dried as you seem to be trying to make it out to be.
Octopi would be an extreme example. If the estimates that they are as smart as dogs is true, it puts calamari in a different light.
Calamari is squid...
Besides which, the general rule of thumb (at least in western countries) is that if the animal is cute, we won't eat it; otherwise it's fair game. There's nothing cute about octopuses or squid.
Now I don't happen to think this is a crime or unethical - IT IS A BUSINESS and we want to sell books
And the students want to learn without having to pay exorbitant amounts (that they can't really afford) for books that they only need because people like you try to force them to need them.
What you're doing may not be illegal, but it's certainly unethical.
Thanks for asking, that's always puzzled me as well. I went to Imperial in London, and while I did buy a few books in my first year, I soon realised that it was essentially just a waste of money. The notes were good enough in almost all cases, and if I wanted to learn something in greater depth, the library was excellent.
In fact my only difference to your experience is that I had exams at the end of all four years, and while the first year didn't contribute much to my overall score, they certainly did count...
From what little I've seen of her typing, my girlfriend uses caps lock instead of shift.
I've also used caps lock at times when I've been typing a large amount of stuff in capitals (oddly enough), such as SQL statements and pl/sql code, which our local coding rules mandate should be in caps (now that I'm the most senior dev after a couple of others left, that may change...)
I'll second the recommendation of Server 2008, though will point out that as a server OS it's not cheap (I'm currently running a trial version). I *have* installed all the "make look like Vista" stuff though, and it still feels just as fast as XP Pro did before it, on the same ~2.5 year old hardware (2GB of RAM, 7800GTX, Athlon X2 4400+)
And Vista removed a tool I use from time to time to work from home from the Home Premium version of Vista (remote desktop). You'd have to buy either the business or ultimate version of Vista for a tool that's been around for years. Ridiculous.
Remote desktop was only available as a client on XP Home, you had to have XP Pro in order to connect to the computer in question. For the vast majority of home users MS didn't remove anything.
Now I'd be the first to argue that allowing remote desktop connections to the home editions would be great, but they haven't done anything differently from previous releases in this respect.
My ex bought a Dell Inspiron laptop in March, which shipped with Vista Home Premium. It runs perfectly well.
I recently installed a trial version of Windows Server 2008 on my 2.5 year old desktop, and switched on all the "make it look like Vista" options, and it runs just fine. Qualitatively it runs just as well as XP Pro did on that machine, though I don't have any actual numbers.
While I'm not going to debate the design, the hardware most certainly is ready for it.
Define "normal laptop". My ex bought what I consider to be a mid-price laptop (around £700) which shipped with Vista Home Premium, and it works perfectly. Plenty responsive enough and no issues that either of us has seen.
It's also making things worse by having so many different versions
There are two versions that the vast majority of people will be exposed to, Home Basic and Home Premium. Yes, business users will also have to choose from Ultimate and Business, but if you go out to buy a PC from a shop it's either Home Basic or Home Premium.
MS doesn't even have the decency to provide 32/64bit on the same disc
Actually the retail versions do come with 32 and 64 bit versions on the same disc; OEM versions don't, however.
More to the point, judges, district attorneys, etc are supposed to uphold the law without favour, and without bowing to public pressure (just because the mob is baying for someone's blood doesn't make them guilty, for example)
If they have to worry about an impending (re)election, can they really be trusted to be impartial?
Relatively benign? The red-eye is only there because of the camera flash; I'd say that removing it is making the photograph closer to reality, in that it more accurately reflects the scene as it actually was.
Two of these things are typically supervised by one worker
In the Tescos I use, it's generally more like 1 worker for 6 or 8 of these, and quite often there's no-one there at all (there is a button you can press to call for assistance).
I refuse to use them too, for exactly the same reasons - they're taking jobs away from people who can probably work in very few other places. That probably makes me a Luddite; so be it. I'm not opposed to technology, but I am opposed to the relentless effort by most companies to save money, often at the expense of the employees.
I'm all for increased automation and efficiency and thus increased leisure time, but society just isn't set up to support the people who find themselves with no jobs and no money because of it.
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Except that in the UK, it's not called the Department of Justice, it's called the Ministry of Justice. Doesn't that have a nice, warm ring to it?
Besides, I don't think it's "humanly" possible to transport this amount of information with absolutely no spillage at all.
Rubbish. My company developed and supports a database system for the police that contains roughly 45 million records. In the several years that the system has been live, not one single dataset has gone missing - and yes, they are provided to us (encrypted) on physical media.
Can't you buy a wildcard SSL cert (e.g. for *.example.com), and then have the test server(s) hang off the real domain (e.g. test.example.com)?
The point is that a lot of these scams, if they were legitimate, would involve the victim committing a crime (typically either fraud or embezzlement) in order to obtain the money. The fact that it is a scam doesn't change that.
I don't even know what "f*ck all" means. Is that a new high school term you created to show your prowess with swearing in front of your teeny bopper friends?
Maybe it's not in common usage in the US, but here in the UK it's about as old as the language itself. It means "nothing".
good job making it difficult for people to view your post while at work without triggering any filters
If your employer treats you like that, it's time to find a new job, for someone who realises that you're an adult.
But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
That's a little simplistic though. Just because my neighbour breaks those rules doesn't mean I can't complain when I am considered a target. Similarly, if a soldier breaks those rules, the civilians have every right to be upset.
As you say, it depends on the situation. I have the luxury of not having to make that sort of decision under battlefield or similar conditions. I don't envy those that do not have that luxury; but personally, I'd still rather see more soldiers dead than more civilians. But maybe I'm biased as I am a civilian.
but MSIE is pretty much dead in the water here due to the level of integration with the base system
You should probably take a look at IE7's protected mode (unfortunately only available on Vista-based systems) before making that sort of sweeping assertion.
I'm going to be 34 in a couple of weeks.
There are probably 30K active accounts with UIDs low enough to qualify as 'graybeards'.
I'm a graybeard? I don't even have a beard! And I'm not going grey yet! Mind you that might be because I've been dying my hair since 1995...
Yes you did, and if you'd kept reading you'd have seen that story debunked - it's Via that's getting out of the chipset business, not Nvidia.
But in this case, the authors will get paid anyway from company B. Its just an infight between company A and B with company A trying to get a piece of the lucrative cake, even if it's B who put the biggest part of the effort into producing the movie.
For company A to have a case, they must have already paid the authors some agreed sum of money in return to some right to the work. I very much doubt that it's quite as cut and dried as you seem to be trying to make it out to be.
Octopi would be an extreme example. If the estimates that they are as smart as dogs is true, it puts calamari in a different light.
Calamari is squid...
Besides which, the general rule of thumb (at least in western countries) is that if the animal is cute, we won't eat it; otherwise it's fair game. There's nothing cute about octopuses or squid.
Now I don't happen to think this is a crime or unethical - IT IS A BUSINESS and we want to sell books
And the students want to learn without having to pay exorbitant amounts (that they can't really afford) for books that they only need because people like you try to force them to need them.
What you're doing may not be illegal, but it's certainly unethical.
Thanks for asking, that's always puzzled me as well. I went to Imperial in London, and while I did buy a few books in my first year, I soon realised that it was essentially just a waste of money. The notes were good enough in almost all cases, and if I wanted to learn something in greater depth, the library was excellent.
In fact my only difference to your experience is that I had exams at the end of all four years, and while the first year didn't contribute much to my overall score, they certainly did count...
From what little I've seen of her typing, my girlfriend uses caps lock instead of shift.
I've also used caps lock at times when I've been typing a large amount of stuff in capitals (oddly enough), such as SQL statements and pl/sql code, which our local coding rules mandate should be in caps (now that I'm the most senior dev after a couple of others left, that may change...)
I'll second the recommendation of Server 2008, though will point out that as a server OS it's not cheap (I'm currently running a trial version). I *have* installed all the "make look like Vista" stuff though, and it still feels just as fast as XP Pro did before it, on the same ~2.5 year old hardware (2GB of RAM, 7800GTX, Athlon X2 4400+)
And Vista removed a tool I use from time to time to work from home from the Home Premium version of Vista (remote desktop). You'd have to buy either the business or ultimate version of Vista for a tool that's been around for years. Ridiculous.
Remote desktop was only available as a client on XP Home, you had to have XP Pro in order to connect to the computer in question. For the vast majority of home users MS didn't remove anything.
Now I'd be the first to argue that allowing remote desktop connections to the home editions would be great, but they haven't done anything differently from previous releases in this respect.
And while the hardware still isn't ready for it
My ex bought a Dell Inspiron laptop in March, which shipped with Vista Home Premium. It runs perfectly well.
I recently installed a trial version of Windows Server 2008 on my 2.5 year old desktop, and switched on all the "make it look like Vista" options, and it runs just fine. Qualitatively it runs just as well as XP Pro did on that machine, though I don't have any actual numbers.
While I'm not going to debate the design, the hardware most certainly is ready for it.
kdawson finally gets *plonk*ed. Seriously, of all the things not to check up on before posting the story.
Define "normal laptop". My ex bought what I consider to be a mid-price laptop (around £700) which shipped with Vista Home Premium, and it works perfectly. Plenty responsive enough and no issues that either of us has seen.
It's also making things worse by having so many different versions
There are two versions that the vast majority of people will be exposed to, Home Basic and Home Premium. Yes, business users will also have to choose from Ultimate and Business, but if you go out to buy a PC from a shop it's either Home Basic or Home Premium.
MS doesn't even have the decency to provide 32/64bit on the same disc
Actually the retail versions do come with 32 and 64 bit versions on the same disc; OEM versions don't, however.
More to the point, judges, district attorneys, etc are supposed to uphold the law without favour, and without bowing to public pressure (just because the mob is baying for someone's blood doesn't make them guilty, for example)
If they have to worry about an impending (re)election, can they really be trusted to be impartial?
relatively benign red-eye-removal
Relatively benign? The red-eye is only there because of the camera flash; I'd say that removing it is making the photograph closer to reality, in that it more accurately reflects the scene as it actually was.
Directly under his post I guess, assuming you're using a threaded or chronological view of posts.
(But yes, you beat me to it)
Two of these things are typically supervised by one worker
In the Tescos I use, it's generally more like 1 worker for 6 or 8 of these, and quite often there's no-one there at all (there is a button you can press to call for assistance).
I refuse to use them too, for exactly the same reasons - they're taking jobs away from people who can probably work in very few other places. That probably makes me a Luddite; so be it. I'm not opposed to technology, but I am opposed to the relentless effort by most companies to save money, often at the expense of the employees.
I'm all for increased automation and efficiency and thus increased leisure time, but society just isn't set up to support the people who find themselves with no jobs and no money because of it.
But every single train crash is news, because more people die in an individual event than in an individual car crash.
Actually they're news because they're rare; I have certainly seen reports of train crashes and derailments in which few or no people were killed.