That could be the case, about the agreement. But that would be stupid by their executives to agree to that. Or at least they should have demanded MORE of the kinds of air conditioners customers want.
BTW, I'd love to get a 6000 BTU unit that runs on 220-240 volts... if I had a need for a window unit.
While some business do care (they want Romney so he will either shift tax burdens back to the poor, or screw the poor by making the country focus on onepercenters like himself), many others really do not care which party and policy comes into power. They just want to KNOW which so they know how to structure their moving forward positions.
Those could be handy with the right smartphone app. Shoot the QR and the app finds it in the database (not spreadsheet) and shows you the network diagram around it (as last known to be wired or scanned).
... currently broken network trying to fix it, you should be using a smartphone app to access the database (not spreadsheet) of network configuration info.
Unfortunately, too many people think "innovation" means "first to make it". And that is not true at all. Those who do real innovation just happen to be first. But there are things that are not innovation, even though someone does it first. Whether something is or is not innovative is often a subjective matter. Innovating is creating something others generally CANNOT create. It is NOT creating something others just happened to not create (because they were busy creating something else). The test... put some number of engineers who have never seen how Apple made their feature work, and give them the requirement to make that. If MANY can, then there is no innovation because we would have had this feature if we wanted it even if Apple did not. If NONE can, then it could well be innovation. THIS feature is so obvious and so simple it would most likely end up with ALL (the number of engineers) can make it. It is so fucking far from innovation that it should be a textbook example of something that cannot possibly be innovative.
However, this... as well as many other features... even though very useful... are NOT INNOVATIVE... not even in the slightest. Almost ANY programmer could do this if they were working on this part of the code. Apple's entire argument is total BS. Unfortunately, BS works in court if the judge is not knowledgeable in technology and the other side doesn't (get to) present an argument that Apple is BS.
They heat the water with the heat they extract and expel it as vapor through the hose. Window units are fine when you want to install them and leave them there. It seems more people don't or can't.
Real internet freedom needs freedom not only from government interference, but also from corporate interference. And the latter requires strong competition based alternative forms of internet access. Since it is not economical to build up that much duplicate physical connectivity to customers, internet access services will need to be split between a shared physical infrastructure and independent core connectivity and associated access services (DHCP, RADIUS, DNS, and whatever else the chosen technology may need). This common shared infrastructure needs to be regulated by government and operated as a regulated monopoly with a mandate to provide service to all on a level and open playing field.
IMHO, Ron Paul would never agree to any part of the infrastructure to be regulated in any way. Competing companies would not overbuild on each other more than 2 or 3 because of the capital inefficiency. As a result, there would not be sufficient competition for a viable free and open internet.
Ron Paul would certainly reject a single vertical internet provider monopoly which would effectively entrench government interference. At least that much is good about his positions.
Only a hybrid solution can ever really work. See how electricity is delivered in Texas. One company (Oncor Energy Delivery) operates the infrastructure and delivers the electricity to the customers of many competing energy providers which customers choose from. Ron Paul is from Texas, so he should know about this.
The local stores such as Lowes are completely out... and have been even before the storm... of the type of air conditioners people want. I talked to an employee there who told me even the store manager there is pissed off because headquarters is too clueless to send the kinds of air conditioners people want, in sufficient quantity. It's portables that people want. The store has over 200 window units that don't sell very well, and 0 portable units that are in high demand. This employee said he gets 10 to 20 queries a day for portables, and about 4 units come in every couple weeks. There's something stupid going on at headquarters... his words!
The problem with NOT doing this is that this highly erroneous system ends up having no checks and balances. It can fail (and does, very often) and they won't even know because TDFC.
... then tell THEM what the cheat was. Or better yet, get THEIR permission to make it public how D3 thinks they cheated.
This is a general overall problem with all the online services. They ban people and never say why other than BS about "violated terms"? They need to answer with WHAT ACTION violated WHAT TERMS. They need to start answering these VERY IMPORTANT questions if they don't want to be thought of as just banning people for the fun of it. If the person they accuse consents to it, make these PUBLIC (so we know the accused is not making it up).
Third world countries don't have issues like this. They are used to the power being on for a couple hours a day, if the community generator is maintained.
Many people who are alive today might already be dead if we didn't have electric power to make our lives less stressful from things like heat. Of course, one problem is our homes today are designed with powered cooling in mind. That, and we are used to it that way.
Is there a way to play with a Rackspace Cloud to see how those steps work, just as a test w/o cost (no public access)? And of course, lots of documentation.
It would be great if I could build my own environment (a root tree), and configure a kernel, and make a gold master of that. I'd base it on Slackware.
rephrasing... "Our IT department basically assumes that any network or PC outside of the company's network is insecure or otherwise not trustworthy... so it allows a laptop in an unsafe environment to come right on in and look like all the secure laptops in the network.
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That could be the case, about the agreement. But that would be stupid by their executives to agree to that. Or at least they should have demanded MORE of the kinds of air conditioners customers want.
BTW, I'd love to get a 6000 BTU unit that runs on 220-240 volts ... if I had a need for a window unit.
While some business do care (they want Romney so he will either shift tax burdens back to the poor, or screw the poor by making the country focus on onepercenters like himself), many others really do not care which party and policy comes into power. They just want to KNOW which so they know how to structure their moving forward positions.
... you need to have in your toolkit a nice set of very durable wire cutters.
Does it still have that plugin where you give it the tabular network scan and it builds the network diagram itself?
Those could be handy with the right smartphone app. Shoot the QR and the app finds it in the database (not spreadsheet) and shows you the network diagram around it (as last known to be wired or scanned).
A tiny QR printer could be nice.
Offline is not a worry unless you can't reach the nearest cell tower from your smartphone.
... currently broken network trying to fix it, you should be using a smartphone app to access the database (not spreadsheet) of network configuration info.
Unfortunately, too many people think "innovation" means "first to make it". And that is not true at all. Those who do real innovation just happen to be first. But there are things that are not innovation, even though someone does it first. Whether something is or is not innovative is often a subjective matter. Innovating is creating something others generally CANNOT create. It is NOT creating something others just happened to not create (because they were busy creating something else). The test ... put some number of engineers who have never seen how Apple made their feature work, and give them the requirement to make that. If MANY can, then there is no innovation because we would have had this feature if we wanted it even if Apple did not. If NONE can, then it could well be innovation. THIS feature is so obvious and so simple it would most likely end up with ALL (the number of engineers) can make it. It is so fucking far from innovation that it should be a textbook example of something that cannot possibly be innovative.
However, this ... as well as many other features ... even though very useful ... are NOT INNOVATIVE ... not even in the slightest. Almost ANY programmer could do this if they were working on this part of the code. Apple's entire argument is total BS. Unfortunately, BS works in court if the judge is not knowledgeable in technology and the other side doesn't (get to) present an argument that Apple is BS.
BTDT. So I agree, complete lie and utter fabrication.
The manufacturer could be an issue. But it doesn't explain the stacks of window units they have which are not selling very well.
They heat the water with the heat they extract and expel it as vapor through the hose. Window units are fine when you want to install them and leave them there. It seems more people don't or can't.
Still does not explain their overstock of window air conditioners. Or maybe they got something mixed up with their computer software.
Real internet freedom needs freedom not only from government interference, but also from corporate interference. And the latter requires strong competition based alternative forms of internet access. Since it is not economical to build up that much duplicate physical connectivity to customers, internet access services will need to be split between a shared physical infrastructure and independent core connectivity and associated access services (DHCP, RADIUS, DNS, and whatever else the chosen technology may need). This common shared infrastructure needs to be regulated by government and operated as a regulated monopoly with a mandate to provide service to all on a level and open playing field.
IMHO, Ron Paul would never agree to any part of the infrastructure to be regulated in any way. Competing companies would not overbuild on each other more than 2 or 3 because of the capital inefficiency. As a result, there would not be sufficient competition for a viable free and open internet.
Ron Paul would certainly reject a single vertical internet provider monopoly which would effectively entrench government interference. At least that much is good about his positions.
Only a hybrid solution can ever really work. See how electricity is delivered in Texas. One company (Oncor Energy Delivery) operates the infrastructure and delivers the electricity to the customers of many competing energy providers which customers choose from. Ron Paul is from Texas, so he should know about this.
The local stores such as Lowes are completely out ... and have been even before the storm ... of the type of air conditioners people want. I talked to an employee there who told me even the store manager there is pissed off because headquarters is too clueless to send the kinds of air conditioners people want, in sufficient quantity. It's portables that people want. The store has over 200 window units that don't sell very well, and 0 portable units that are in high demand. This employee said he gets 10 to 20 queries a day for portables, and about 4 units come in every couple weeks. There's something stupid going on at headquarters ... his words!
Actually my preference is to put my public key in "/root/.ssh/authorized_keys".
The problem with NOT doing this is that this highly erroneous system ends up having no checks and balances. It can fail (and does, very often) and they won't even know because TDFC.
... then tell THEM what the cheat was. Or better yet, get THEIR permission to make it public how D3 thinks they cheated.
This is a general overall problem with all the online services. They ban people and never say why other than BS about "violated terms"? They need to answer with WHAT ACTION violated WHAT TERMS. They need to start answering these VERY IMPORTANT questions if they don't want to be thought of as just banning people for the fun of it. If the person they accuse consents to it, make these PUBLIC (so we know the accused is not making it up).
It is the best ... if you are a member of the exploiter class.
Third world countries don't have issues like this. They are used to the power being on for a couple hours a day, if the community generator is maintained.
Many people who are alive today might already be dead if we didn't have electric power to make our lives less stressful from things like heat. Of course, one problem is our homes today are designed with powered cooling in mind. That, and we are used to it that way.
Is there a way to play with a Rackspace Cloud to see how those steps work, just as a test w/o cost (no public access)? And of course, lots of documentation.
It would be great if I could build my own environment (a root tree), and configure a kernel, and make a gold master of that. I'd base it on Slackware.
And this is why big corporations are the ones failing security 101 the most.
100% agreed. +1
rephrasing ... "Our IT department basically assumes that any network or PC outside of the company's network is insecure or otherwise not trustworthy ... so it allows a laptop in an unsafe environment to come right on in and look like all the secure laptops in the network.