So your textbooks will only be readable in a "secured" area? Well I retract my statement then, and rephrase it to:
It will not be impossible or too much work to break as long as you can still read your textbook in your own room.
As far as the screenshotting, if things are in digital form you have lots of room to be creative. A program that sends keystrokes to flip the page, take a screenshot and dump it in a directory, then OCR all the screenshots in to a pdf.
What if you only have three or four developers or clerical workers in your company, and you net lets say $200,000 annually? When you're talking about a workers comp claim that could easily reach $50,000+ would it be too much micromanaging at that point?
Your argument might have been referring to the company in the article, but it's a decision they decided was cheaper than losing a potential class action lawsuit or huge swarm of workers comp claims.
I think I just developed a slight case of carpal tunnel typing that, might have to give Labor & Industries a call...
I look forward to the day I can download Calculus_with_Analytical_Geometry_6th_Edition-ENGL ISH-[TmN].torrent with a decrypted pdf and a keygen for the class:-)
And don't say it will be impossible or too much work to break, it definitely can't be any worse than scanning in each page by hand and going to the bookstore and writing down lists of number/password combinations.
Google filters spam so well by filtering out everything that might possibly remember spam. On my Gmail account (my secondary e-mail account), I've had many e-mails from companies thrown in the spam folder or commercial opt-in mailings junked. Basically anything to do with free ipods, casinos, or investing advice gets tossed even if I really wanted all that e-mail. The bayesian filter in Thunderbird is extremely accurate, after a bit of training has never gotten a false positive, and misses very few junk mails.
How is burning carbon fuels inefficient? Coal, oil and natural gas are the primary source of heat and energy across the planet. If the ratio of cost of extraction/refining/transporting to energy produced was better for some other form of fuel today don't you think people would be using it? Some countries are able to use wind, geothermal or other alternative energy forms as the primary energy source because of very unique conditions specific to that area. If you're China or the U.S. and you need a whole bunch of energy for cheap, oil is the way to go.
But if you know of solar panels that will mount on your roof and supply the 220V 60A needed for this fireplace let me know where to buy them, and will the investment ever recoup the costs compared to paying an electricity bill before the lifetime of the unit is up? I would be amazed.
Did they change their RMA policy? I've been buying stuff off NewEgg for a while and lately haven't had any problems, but two years ago I got a motherboard that was DOA. I went on their website and got an RMA number, put it back in the box and shipped it back. I had to pay return shipping costs, they paid shipping a new one back this way again, with no other fees just a new (working) mobo.
Nowadays I usually end up buying stuff from TigerDirect though, as prices are really competitive.
Why would anyone want to exploit "holes" in CSS rendering? People go to great lengths to document and work around the holes so content displays the same across all modern browsers. Looking at the list of fixed bugs from the blog, if Microsoft would release the new build of IE7 and find a way to self destruct all the older versions of IE the net would be a much better place.
I'm probably missing some inside joke here in which case mod me down (and explain the joke).
Whether Microsoft puts Gator on the chopping block or not, the malware that exists right now is still code in the wild and will continue to exist after any acquisitions take place. It needs to be properly identified as such.
Another time an 800 number to one of those fax spammers was posted. By the time most Slashdotters were able to get through the secretary on the other end was extremely irate, and I can imagine she was envisioning the bill coming in for the 800 number.
Any time business is brought up on Slashdot the CEO running off with a bag of loot symbolism is inevitably brought up. The position of CEO is a job at the company, just like any other position. He can receive bonuses, raises, paycuts, and be fired like anyone else. In a publically traded company he cannot randomly give himself money as he or she sees fit. Compensation changes need board approval, and the board is generally made up of people representing the largest shareholders of the company. If a CEO doesn't deserve a raise, the shareholder representatives aren't going to approve the raise. And assuming this move didn't generate an outcry at the next shareholders meeting, the interested parties felt the $x dollars spent on retaining the CEO were better spent than lowering the product price by $x/$num_products.
So, the grandparents argument is still valid. This move allowed the company to retain their successful CEO, who can make smart decisions in the future allowing more R&D, more aggressive competition in their market, and ultimately benefit consumers as well as shareholders.
"Despite the fact that drug use is more or less consistent across racial lines... African Americans comprise only 12.2 percent of the population and 13 percent of drug users, they make up 38 percent of those arrested for drug offenses and 59 percent of those convicted of drug offenses causing critics to call the war on drugs the 'New Jim Crow.'" -- http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/race/
It's also a good way to keep minorities from getting an education.
I only paid $800 for my Averatec laptop, and they have the best 24-hour customer service I've encountered with nearly no wait times. The smaller companies have to try harder in all aspects to compete with companies like Dell and Gateway that sell their name brand.
I think the GP was making the same point as you. As land is valued so highly in densely populated areas like Japan, owning land is out of reach for many people, but some of those people can afford broadband access and virtual land in Second Life.
In Second Life you're basically paying someone else's wage of playing the game. You get a monthly stipend, and bonuses for creating cool things in world that attract people such as clubs or flying saucers. You also create objects, clothing, whatever and sell it to other people who aren't talented in that field or can't be bothered to create it themself. I played for a summer and made about $200 profit, which calculated out to less than a dollar an hour but I wasn't playing purely to make money. It was just a bonus for cashing in all my stuff at the end before I went off to college.
Blogs are here to stay, just like the wiki revolution right? Some blogs will stick around and become staples of the net, just as Wikipedia is still around. But the trend will die out and quickly be replaced by the latest net fad.
If I steal a car and get a suspended sentence, then go out and steal another car, do I get to make a "proposal to avoid going to jail"?
Off-topic from the article, but yes you do get to make a proposal to avoid going to jail. It's called a plea bargain; for example you could reach an agreement with the prosecuting attorney that you will have a suspended license for a couple years and serve x hours of community service along with going to remedial treatment in exchange for another suspended sentence. Facing the sentence written in the law is usually a last resort in all but the highest profile crimes.
That or they don't really care about U.S. bans on embryonic stem cell research, other than it slows down progress in the states while South Korea and the rest of the world make breakthroughs.
The parent poster could have had earplugs in at the concert, he was describing a situation where it would be hard to hear or voice would be interrupting to the surroundings.
This is definitely possible. Four years ago I jumped on a SourceForge project that was creating a P2P network on top of the Freenet network layer. Basically adding metadata/searching/gui to the existing platform. While the project was still in the planning stage a dot-com startup called ESP came in and offered the four of us that were getting things done full-time positions to write the same code we were already going to write for free, and we still got to release under the GPL license. The exchange was ESP would own the copyright to the code and would direct what we coded on a day to day basis, but we were free to fork on our own spare time and go a different direction as was anyone else. Eventually the venture capitalists figured out ESP's business plan looked something like:
And the plug was pulled as soon as the dot-com crash was starting. After being laid off we all lost interest in the project and Espra (as the project was called) was effectively dead in the water. The code mostly disappeared as the server lights went off, and we had local copies and the project COULD have been saved, but all the developers had lost interest at this point. The community formed around the project at that point just dissolved and that was the end of a project that might have lived on had that company never taken it over. But the four of us would have been much poorer, so no regrets here.
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So your textbooks will only be readable in a "secured" area? Well I retract my statement then, and rephrase it to:
It will not be impossible or too much work to break as long as you can still read your textbook in your own room.
As far as the screenshotting, if things are in digital form you have lots of room to be creative. A program that sends keystrokes to flip the page, take a screenshot and dump it in a directory, then OCR all the screenshots in to a pdf.
What if you only have three or four developers or clerical workers in your company, and you net lets say $200,000 annually? When you're talking about a workers comp claim that could easily reach $50,000+ would it be too much micromanaging at that point?
Your argument might have been referring to the company in the article, but it's a decision they decided was cheaper than losing a potential class action lawsuit or huge swarm of workers comp claims.
I think I just developed a slight case of carpal tunnel typing that, might have to give Labor & Industries a call...
I look forward to the day I can download Calculus_with_Analytical_Geometry_6th_Edition-ENGL ISH-[TmN].torrent with a decrypted pdf and a keygen for the class :-)
And don't say it will be impossible or too much work to break, it definitely can't be any worse than scanning in each page by hand and going to the bookstore and writing down lists of number/password combinations.
Google filters spam so well by filtering out everything that might possibly remember spam. On my Gmail account (my secondary e-mail account), I've had many e-mails from companies thrown in the spam folder or commercial opt-in mailings junked. Basically anything to do with free ipods, casinos, or investing advice gets tossed even if I really wanted all that e-mail. The bayesian filter in Thunderbird is extremely accurate, after a bit of training has never gotten a false positive, and misses very few junk mails.
It's a streaming MP3 player with a job
But will it's job get outsourced to India?
How is burning carbon fuels inefficient? Coal, oil and natural gas are the primary source of heat and energy across the planet. If the ratio of cost of extraction/refining/transporting to energy produced was better for some other form of fuel today don't you think people would be using it? Some countries are able to use wind, geothermal or other alternative energy forms as the primary energy source because of very unique conditions specific to that area. If you're China or the U.S. and you need a whole bunch of energy for cheap, oil is the way to go.
But if you know of solar panels that will mount on your roof and supply the 220V 60A needed for this fireplace let me know where to buy them, and will the investment ever recoup the costs compared to paying an electricity bill before the lifetime of the unit is up? I would be amazed.
Did they change their RMA policy? I've been buying stuff off NewEgg for a while and lately haven't had any problems, but two years ago I got a motherboard that was DOA. I went on their website and got an RMA number, put it back in the box and shipped it back. I had to pay return shipping costs, they paid shipping a new one back this way again, with no other fees just a new (working) mobo.
Nowadays I usually end up buying stuff from TigerDirect though, as prices are really competitive.
That would be the Republican half of Washington (everything east of the Cascades) talking.
Why would anyone want to exploit "holes" in CSS rendering? People go to great lengths to document and work around the holes so content displays the same across all modern browsers. Looking at the list of fixed bugs from the blog, if Microsoft would release the new build of IE7 and find a way to self destruct all the older versions of IE the net would be a much better place.
I'm probably missing some inside joke here in which case mod me down (and explain the joke).
Maybe the government could use that ENORMOUS PROFIT to subsidize the cost of replacing analog tuners?
Whether Microsoft puts Gator on the chopping block or not, the malware that exists right now is still code in the wild and will continue to exist after any acquisitions take place. It needs to be properly identified as such.
Another time an 800 number to one of those fax spammers was posted. By the time most Slashdotters were able to get through the secretary on the other end was extremely irate, and I can imagine she was envisioning the bill coming in for the 800 number.
And cut off a main source of local and national news for 12% of the population.
I'm glad this release is targeting rich clients, because I was really getting sick of contracting for those clients with no money.
Any time business is brought up on Slashdot the CEO running off with a bag of loot symbolism is inevitably brought up. The position of CEO is a job at the company, just like any other position. He can receive bonuses, raises, paycuts, and be fired like anyone else. In a publically traded company he cannot randomly give himself money as he or she sees fit. Compensation changes need board approval, and the board is generally made up of people representing the largest shareholders of the company. If a CEO doesn't deserve a raise, the shareholder representatives aren't going to approve the raise. And assuming this move didn't generate an outcry at the next shareholders meeting, the interested parties felt the $x dollars spent on retaining the CEO were better spent than lowering the product price by $x/$num_products.
So, the grandparents argument is still valid. This move allowed the company to retain their successful CEO, who can make smart decisions in the future allowing more R&D, more aggressive competition in their market, and ultimately benefit consumers as well as shareholders.
"Despite the fact that drug use is more or less consistent across racial lines ... African Americans comprise only 12.2 percent of the population and 13 percent of drug users, they make up 38 percent of those arrested for drug offenses and 59 percent of those convicted of drug offenses causing critics to call the war on drugs the 'New Jim Crow.'" -- http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/race/
It's also a good way to keep minorities from getting an education.
Excuse me but I take offense to your comment. We have staplers too.
I only paid $800 for my Averatec laptop, and they have the best 24-hour customer service I've encountered with nearly no wait times. The smaller companies have to try harder in all aspects to compete with companies like Dell and Gateway that sell their name brand.
(My company plug for the day)
I think the GP was making the same point as you. As land is valued so highly in densely populated areas like Japan, owning land is out of reach for many people, but some of those people can afford broadband access and virtual land in Second Life.
In Second Life you're basically paying someone else's wage of playing the game. You get a monthly stipend, and bonuses for creating cool things in world that attract people such as clubs or flying saucers. You also create objects, clothing, whatever and sell it to other people who aren't talented in that field or can't be bothered to create it themself. I played for a summer and made about $200 profit, which calculated out to less than a dollar an hour but I wasn't playing purely to make money. It was just a bonus for cashing in all my stuff at the end before I went off to college.
Blogs are here to stay, just like the wiki revolution right? Some blogs will stick around and become staples of the net, just as Wikipedia is still around. But the trend will die out and quickly be replaced by the latest net fad.
If I steal a car and get a suspended sentence, then go out and steal another car, do I get to make a "proposal to avoid going to jail"?
Off-topic from the article, but yes you do get to make a proposal to avoid going to jail. It's called a plea bargain; for example you could reach an agreement with the prosecuting attorney that you will have a suspended license for a couple years and serve x hours of community service along with going to remedial treatment in exchange for another suspended sentence. Facing the sentence written in the law is usually a last resort in all but the highest profile crimes.
That or they don't really care about U.S. bans on embryonic stem cell research, other than it slows down progress in the states while South Korea and the rest of the world make breakthroughs.
The parent poster could have had earplugs in at the concert, he was describing a situation where it would be hard to hear or voice would be interrupting to the surroundings.
This is definitely possible. Four years ago I jumped on a SourceForge project that was creating a P2P network on top of the Freenet network layer. Basically adding metadata/searching/gui to the existing platform. While the project was still in the planning stage a dot-com startup called ESP came in and offered the four of us that were getting things done full-time positions to write the same code we were already going to write for free, and we still got to release under the GPL license. The exchange was ESP would own the copyright to the code and would direct what we coded on a day to day basis, but we were free to fork on our own spare time and go a different direction as was anyone else. Eventually the venture capitalists figured out ESP's business plan looked something like:
...
1) Pay OSS developers to write GPL code
2)
3) Profit?
And the plug was pulled as soon as the dot-com crash was starting. After being laid off we all lost interest in the project and Espra (as the project was called) was effectively dead in the water. The code mostly disappeared as the server lights went off, and we had local copies and the project COULD have been saved, but all the developers had lost interest at this point. The community formed around the project at that point just dissolved and that was the end of a project that might have lived on had that company never taken it over. But the four of us would have been much poorer, so no regrets here.