To give you an idea of how little effect it can have, a widening project on the 405 freeway through Orange County (SE of Los Angeles) is tentatively scheduled to begin in five years. It will add two lanes (one in each direction), which will increase rush hour traffic speed by a mere 5mph.
A lack of public transportation is supposed to inhibit a city's growth, and yet people keep coming to this area. The Ventura-Los Angeles-Orange County metroplex still has people virtually flooding into it.
Quieter -- They use non-metallic wheels, often on a non-metallic surface, though I don't know if this applies to high-speed monorails.
Aesthetically pleasing -- Since they are usually on raised structures, they use less surface space, don't interfere as much with foot or vehicle traffic, and the rails and their supports can be made to look nice.
Safer -- They're relatively hard to derail, and since the rails don't usually run at ground level, there are fewer things to hit.
Less expensive in the long run -- Not sure how this works out, since I've not seen the economics of monorails.
I can see the point of the proponents, but US transportation management does not have a good record of building expensive things now and having them operate less expensively later.
Exactly. In fact, I hear one manager, a Michael Brown, is looking for a job managing something. He'll take anything, even if he knows nothing about it.
A common tactic for shutting down obscenity operations is that they often cross state lines in committing the act -- producing in one state, processing in another, and distributing in multiple states. Whether through the postal service or telecommunications lines, it makes it much easier for the feds to tack on a few years through these kinds of charges.
Hence the reason for going with SHA-256. It doesn't fix the issues with the SHA algorithm (which may eventually be found to break the whole SHA system, much as MD5's first clear weaknesses proved to merely be the first steps on the path to shatter its reliability in the course of only months), but rather covers up the weakness with additional difficulty that is still sufficient to deter attackers.
You might want to check out Gnumeric. There's a fairly simple hack to the source code (three lines? I don't recall exactly) that allows you to alter the maximum number of rows. For a while, I was opening files of 400,000 lines at work in a copy of Gnumeric that would handle up to one million rows.
And in other news, Slashdot's posting page looks... different.
If you do not register your copyright, it might be harder to defend it, but you still own that copyright.
You are also more limited in the damages that you can sue for under copyright law. Use of an unregistered copyright can be pursued for (IIRC) actual damages only, whereas a registered copyright can be pursued for treble damages.
I just gave the fact that it had been done. I never said that it was cost-effective. I would like to see the Hubble returned, though, if it's not going to be repaired.
Actually, there has been a fairly public argument between climatologists and the hurricane researchers. The former claim that the increase in hurricanes is further evidence of global warming; the latter claim that this is part of the normal patterns. William Gray, a prominent hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, has been among the more vocal critics of those claiming that global warming is at fault for the increase.
Give me $20B, and I'll plan and build a giant Hot Wheels launch track -- complete with pointless loop in the middle -- and we'll fling cars into orbit all day long!
Wikipedia is good even in those cases to get some launch points to do additional research. I try to base my arguments on verifiable facts available from legal code, government statistic sites like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, and reputable financial analysis sites, but occasionally when looking for something, I need something like Wikipedia to get me pointed in the right direction.
If you mean through IE integration with Windows, Nimda is definitely one. You could get it through network share, uploaded into IIS, or downloaded through IE. It took us almost two weeks at one company to clean it up (would have been about five days, but upper management got involved). We eventually traced it back to a user in one of our Asian offices visiting the webpage of a newspaper in the Phillipines. Within twelve hours, several hundred systems had been infected primarily through shares but some through internal websites. Ugly mess.
The first missions stayed a few days. The next set of missions is intended to extend this to timespans ranging from a week to a month, laying the groundwork, including exploration of potential sites, for longer-term bases, probably built over the course of a few missions, which could then remain manned for periods of several months. Exploration of the surface and experimental mining procedures could be developed with an eye towards making it a completely self-contained and operational base, dependent on the Earth for only spare parts, and perhaps even some of those could be locally fabricated.
Then you claim that a section of a labor contract signed in an area where it's legal is enforceable in a different area where it is not legal. This presents a major question of constitutionality. Such a position suggests that a given state may enforce its laws in other states where contrary laws exist, which seems to me a violation of the concept of federalism, where each states laws are generally enforceable only within its own boundaries, except where allowed by Congress.
And if Lee were to work in California, as the parent to my post suggested? It seems to me that California law would apply then.
What Lee may have done while within Washington is a matter of concern, and if Bad Things happened within Washington, then penalties should apply under Washington law. However, once he's in California, he's under California law, and not Washington law, so anything subsequent to the California move has nothing to do with Washington law.
California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 covers it succinctly:
Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.
The exceptions it discusses generally apply to business owners. In plain terms, the California courts have found that as long as trade secrets are not misappropriated, an employee can almost never be blocked from working for a competitor in the same field.
When I began working for my current employer, I stated up front that I knew about Section 16600, and that the non-compete section was invalid in the state. The HR person said she knew, and that this was standard boiler-plate since the company was in another state. I followed up on this and on Labor Code Section 2870 (which prohibits a requirement of assigning rights in cases of "an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information" except where it relates to or originates in work done for the company); documentation acknowledging it was placed into my personnel file.
I did this because I do occasionally write code snippets that have nothing to do with my job (I'm a network engineer, not a programmer), are not produced at or for work, and never worked on using company assets. Just covering myself. It's good to be aware of the law and one's rights.
It has more than a few odd glitches. So far as I have been able to find, neither the Wine devs nor Codeweavers have been able to get it to work. They've traced it back to a problem with the licensing module. There is some hope that Crossover 5.0 (scheduled for release this month, but who knows), which transitions from Win98 to Win2000 as the base OS, may solve some of the problem.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 doesn't run under Wine. As a possible replacement for Photoshop, there is GIMPShop, which provides a more intuitive interface for some.
I've already made the decision to switch to Linux as my main OS -- but not until I get a CPU with virtualization, because I hate the idea of rebooting just for a game. The only non-game app that I have and use that is not significantly duplicated on Linux is YIM7 -- I do use some of the features on it that are specific to it and have not been duplicated in GAIM or other packages. I rather wish Yahoo would make a full version available for Linux users.
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To give you an idea of how little effect it can have, a widening project on the 405 freeway through Orange County (SE of Los Angeles) is tentatively scheduled to begin in five years. It will add two lanes (one in each direction), which will increase rush hour traffic speed by a mere 5mph.
A lack of public transportation is supposed to inhibit a city's growth, and yet people keep coming to this area. The Ventura-Los Angeles-Orange County metroplex still has people virtually flooding into it.
I can see the point of the proponents, but US transportation management does not have a good record of building expensive things now and having them operate less expensively later.
Exactly. In fact, I hear one manager, a Michael Brown, is looking for a job managing something. He'll take anything, even if he knows nothing about it.
A common tactic for shutting down obscenity operations is that they often cross state lines in committing the act -- producing in one state, processing in another, and distributing in multiple states. Whether through the postal service or telecommunications lines, it makes it much easier for the feds to tack on a few years through these kinds of charges.
Hence the reason for going with SHA-256. It doesn't fix the issues with the SHA algorithm (which may eventually be found to break the whole SHA system, much as MD5's first clear weaknesses proved to merely be the first steps on the path to shatter its reliability in the course of only months), but rather covers up the weakness with additional difficulty that is still sufficient to deter attackers.
Think about it. Slashdot has updated its code. It moves fast, and it's standards compliant.
Face it. The end has come, and IBM will soon fall, as McBride stumbles across a smoking gun and gains control of IBM's board.
We're all doomed. If you're not in the bunker yet, it's probably too late.
You might want to check out Gnumeric. There's a fairly simple hack to the source code (three lines? I don't recall exactly) that allows you to alter the maximum number of rows. For a while, I was opening files of 400,000 lines at work in a copy of Gnumeric that would handle up to one million rows.
And in other news, Slashdot's posting page looks... different.
If you do not register your copyright, it might be harder to defend it, but you still own that copyright.
You are also more limited in the damages that you can sue for under copyright law. Use of an unregistered copyright can be pursued for (IIRC) actual damages only, whereas a registered copyright can be pursued for treble damages.
I just gave the fact that it had been done. I never said that it was cost-effective. I would like to see the Hubble returned, though, if it's not going to be repaired.
Actually, there has been a fairly public argument between climatologists and the hurricane researchers. The former claim that the increase in hurricanes is further evidence of global warming; the latter claim that this is part of the normal patterns. William Gray, a prominent hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, has been among the more vocal critics of those claiming that global warming is at fault for the increase.
Give me $20B, and I'll plan and build a giant Hot Wheels launch track -- complete with pointless loop in the middle -- and we'll fling cars into orbit all day long!
I'll name two things: Palapa B-2 and Westar 6, both captured and returned on STS-51-A. The Palapa satellite was later overhauled and relaunched.
Wikipedia is good even in those cases to get some launch points to do additional research. I try to base my arguments on verifiable facts available from legal code, government statistic sites like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, and reputable financial analysis sites, but occasionally when looking for something, I need something like Wikipedia to get me pointed in the right direction.
If you mean through IE integration with Windows, Nimda is definitely one. You could get it through network share, uploaded into IIS, or downloaded through IE. It took us almost two weeks at one company to clean it up (would have been about five days, but upper management got involved). We eventually traced it back to a user in one of our Asian offices visiting the webpage of a newspaper in the Phillipines. Within twelve hours, several hundred systems had been infected primarily through shares but some through internal websites. Ugly mess.
The first missions stayed a few days. The next set of missions is intended to extend this to timespans ranging from a week to a month, laying the groundwork, including exploration of potential sites, for longer-term bases, probably built over the course of a few missions, which could then remain manned for periods of several months. Exploration of the surface and experimental mining procedures could be developed with an eye towards making it a completely self-contained and operational base, dependent on the Earth for only spare parts, and perhaps even some of those could be locally fabricated.
Oh, NOW you tell me about this after I went through an annoyingly painful installation of Gimpshop that went bad twice before working right.
I need a time machine.
Then you claim that a section of a labor contract signed in an area where it's legal is enforceable in a different area where it is not legal. This presents a major question of constitutionality. Such a position suggests that a given state may enforce its laws in other states where contrary laws exist, which seems to me a violation of the concept of federalism, where each states laws are generally enforceable only within its own boundaries, except where allowed by Congress.
Possible, but if one is trying to get completely away from Windows, then that's maybe not the best option.
And if Lee were to work in California, as the parent to my post suggested? It seems to me that California law would apply then.
What Lee may have done while within Washington is a matter of concern, and if Bad Things happened within Washington, then penalties should apply under Washington law. However, once he's in California, he's under California law, and not Washington law, so anything subsequent to the California move has nothing to do with Washington law.
California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 covers it succinctly:
Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.
The exceptions it discusses generally apply to business owners. In plain terms, the California courts have found that as long as trade secrets are not misappropriated, an employee can almost never be blocked from working for a competitor in the same field.
When I began working for my current employer, I stated up front that I knew about Section 16600, and that the non-compete section was invalid in the state. The HR person said she knew, and that this was standard boiler-plate since the company was in another state. I followed up on this and on Labor Code Section 2870 (which prohibits a requirement of assigning rights in cases of "an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information" except where it relates to or originates in work done for the company); documentation acknowledging it was placed into my personnel file.
I did this because I do occasionally write code snippets that have nothing to do with my job (I'm a network engineer, not a programmer), are not produced at or for work, and never worked on using company assets. Just covering myself. It's good to be aware of the law and one's rights.
It has more than a few odd glitches. So far as I have been able to find, neither the Wine devs nor Codeweavers have been able to get it to work. They've traced it back to a problem with the licensing module. There is some hope that Crossover 5.0 (scheduled for release this month, but who knows), which transitions from Win98 to Win2000 as the base OS, may solve some of the problem.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 doesn't run under Wine. As a possible replacement for Photoshop, there is GIMPShop, which provides a more intuitive interface for some.
I've already made the decision to switch to Linux as my main OS -- but not until I get a CPU with virtualization, because I hate the idea of rebooting just for a game. The only non-game app that I have and use that is not significantly duplicated on Linux is YIM7 -- I do use some of the features on it that are specific to it and have not been duplicated in GAIM or other packages. I rather wish Yahoo would make a full version available for Linux users.
So...
Combining the two sides that have been presented, BPL breaks amateur radio, but amateur radio breaks BPL back?
Well, then what good is it? Get my hopes up for that and then dash them because of a typo? Just how cruel can one be?