The problem with that is that, in both linked instances, they are using very low-res copies.
I've found that for print use, yeah, that technique works well.
I have used flickr-found, CC-licensed photos in my company's advertising before; but I *ALWAYS* get artist permission FIRST, even if the license allows commercial use. (Okay, I may make my advertising mockups before I get permission, but I don't have the ad go live until after I get permission.)
Because he thought that's what NASA was (he is technically an engineer at one of the "experimental space technology companies", he just happens to work in a NASA facility, for a NASA-paid boss.) If he had wanted to work doing "practical stuff that can be used today", he would go work for Boeing. Oh, wait... He did. He went to NASA (via the contractor) when he thought Constellation was going to be groundbreaking. Then the details hit, and he ended up realizing that Ares was a boondoggle.
Note: He just saw one of his designs fly; and was ecstatic. A design for Orion. That will likely now never become production. And he is happy about it. (He's also hoping that HIS design will live on to serve another project, of course.)
Heck, I have a friend who is/was an engineer on the Ares rocket / Orion spacecraft; and he WANTS Ares to die. He would prefer that NASA get out of the rocket design and LEO-transport businesses. He really wants to work on experimental stuff. He feels that THAT is what NASA should do. Leave the LEO stuff to private businesses. (Obviously, with the caveat that NASA buys the use of them when needed.)
Honestly, "Greyglers" is an opt-in list. It's a group you have to CHOOSE to be in. Just because "only" 2000 people are in the group doesn't mean that there are only 2000 over 40s at Google. Just like I'm sure the mailing list, group for African Americans doesn't have every single African American on it.
Note that I consider business practices that have no bearing on the business itself to be abhorrent. I run a small business, and my only policy for my workers is "Do your work well, and you get paid well. Do your work poorly, and you likely won't get a raise, and may be let go. Don't do your work at all, and you get fired. Don't do anything illegal while operating on my business' behalf."
I've had to fire three employees over the years, all for being lackluster employees. I didn't fire them because they surfed the net at work, I didn't fire them for doing pot outside work. I fired them because they didn't do their work. Likewise, I don't want to work for a company that says "don't do this, because we say so," I'd rather work for a company that says "do your work."
As for students who are compelled by age to attend school; well, if their age compels them to attend school, their age also does not guarantee them many of the rights that adults have. They have no legal expectation of perfect privacy at home, they have none at school. Again, doesn't mean I LIKE the situation, just that I understand it.
And that doesn't mean you were allowed to do it, though.
If you don't like it, DON'T AGREE TO IT! Don't be all stupid anonymous (yes, the irony is thick,) about it. Flat out refuse to sign it. Tell them that they changed the contract on you, and you demand a refund, or you demand that they not enforce the agreement on you. It's that simple.
People who cry "FREEDOM!" from anonymous forums, while using the mantle of freedom as an excuse to do illegal things are just whiny spoiled brats. If you actually want to make a real statement, make it. Don't agree to stuff you dislike, then anonymously break it. That's just stupidity and arrogance. (And, yes, I know of which I speak; I have been fired from a job for making public information that WAS public, but which the company declared after the fact should not have been; combined with PUBLICLY standing up to the leadership of the company for their inanity and impropriety.)
If you post it at a school mailroom that very obviously says it is a school post office, not a Mailboxes Etc, Kinkos, or USPS; especially when the contract you signed when you signed up to be a student says so right in there that if you mail from that mailroom, they may read it. That's what the internet agreements all say. If you don't like it, don't sign it, and don't use school internet.
Same with employment. If I write that patent application at my office, it belongs to my employer, period. If my employer wants to say "no sending personal mail from the office, because we may read it", then they absolutely have the right to do so. If you don't like it, don't work there. Or make a point of not agreeing to those provisions, and see if they'll still hire/keep you as an employee.
I am absolutely for free speech, Free Software, net neutrality, and personal privacy. That's why I AVOID those types of establishments when I can, and choose not to do personal things on company/school property when I can't avoid it.
The questions at the heart of this situation are: Does a company (school, government) have a right to restrict SSL traffic so it can snoop your data, or does an individual have a right to encrypted Internet facilities?
Uh... Yes, a company perfectly has that right. No, if you are using an employer/school-provided connection, you have no rights outside the conditions of access you agreed to when you accepted employment/enrollment. (As it relates to internet access, anyway.)
If you want "Free with a capital F" access, you need to get it yourself, not assume that someone else is going to provide it for you.
All Spamhaus would have needed to do is pay for one hour of a lawyer's time to write a motion to dismiss, and let it stand with that as their sole defense. A decent judge would have then thrown it out. I'm sure the EFF or similar would have gladly supplied a free lawyer.
But in the U.S. court system, it takes *SOMEONE* asking for it to be dismissed. Judges don't often have a lot of leeway if it even vaguely looks like the suit MIGHT be legit. But as soon as the defendant asks for it to be dismissed, the judge all of a sudden has a lot of leeway.
The fact of the matter is, Spamhaus chose to thumb their nose at the U.S. legal system, so the judge had no impetus to dismiss. Judges tend to hate being ignored even more than they hate frivolous suits.
The speed difference between the surface of travel and the air is what produces the energy to move the device forward. That forward movement spins the propeller, translating the forward movement into rotational movement into rearward force. As long as there is a speed differential between the surface of travel and the air, there will be forward force to continue the cycle. This should run just fine UPwind, too. (Although that would be hard to test on a treadmill, since it would be going "backwards" against the flow of the treadmill, accelerating off the back end.)
First, he's can't be challenging that it has a "Retina Display", because that's an Apple Trademark. It obviously has a Retina Display. He can challenge Apple's assertion that the dpi of the display, when held at 12", is beyond the capabilities of the human eye. Absolutely he can challenge that.
Don't phrase it as challenging that the iPhone has a "Retina Display", though. (Especially when the so-called "attacker" actually PRAISES the display!)
Finally, I don't know about 12", anyway. I tend to hold my phone at about 18" by default. Maybe when I am not wearing my glasses I'll have it closer, (astigmatism, not near/far sighted, so my glasses don't make things look bigger or smaller,) but even then, if I close my astigmatized eye, 18" is about right.
So Jobs-o will just correct it to 18" instead of 12".
First, EFI is not the same thing as GUI config utility.
EFI has been around since 1999, has been shipping as the default on many servers since 2003, and on many desktop boards since 2006. (Including every Intel-based Mac.) However, most also provide a "BIOS Compatibility Module" to support EFI-unaware OSes. (That's basically all Apple's "Boot Camp" is.) For example, every Intel Desktop Board made since 2007 has been EFI-based, with an EFI application doing the configuration utility in a way that looks like old fashioned "BIOS setup utilities". Many other manufacturers (notably Gigabyte) have also had EFI on all boards for some time.
On the other hand, GUI config utilities have also been around for a long time; I had multiple motherboards (both "major OEM" and boxed integrator-oriented boards,) in the early '90s with graphical setup utilities, based on good old fashioned BIOS. This is just talking about making a new more extensible graphical setup utility that happens to run on EFI instead of BIOS.
Stop confusing the two, stupid companies and news sites!
So... What is it you need to copy on a regular basis; and why does it need to be in the Program Files directory?
There is no excuse for proper file storage. You don't store VMs on your Linux box in/bin, do you? Hell, you shouldn't even be storing them in/usr/bin, for that matter.
Stick your VM files in C:\Users (or C:\Documents and Settings, as the case may be,) or in a new root-level folder. Don't muck around with putting data files in "protected" folders.
Exactly. People seem to think that "traveling faster than the wind" is a violation as "perpetual motion", forgetting that the energy from the wind is constantly *ADDED* energy.
Likewise, conservation of energy fails to take into account that this vehicle is being constantly fed energy; it just is designed in such a way that it can use the energy input ultra-efficiently.
Just as "Free Software" does not exclusively mean FSF approved.
So, Google's release doesn't meet one specific definition of "Open Source" doesn't mean that either WebM isn't open source, or that the name or model of "open source" is in question.
It just means that WebM is "open source" by some definitions, but not others.
I see this in the same light as Apple's licensing of Mac OS X as "UNIX". It's just a name. Apple called it "unix" before it was officially licensed as "UNIX". Does that mean that versions before they licensed the name are any less "unix"? Does it mean that because the underlying bits are the same as before, that the current versions aren't really "UNIX" because all they did was license the name?
No, it's just a name. Or in WebM's case, it's just one organization's definition. Some people get too worked up over a simple definition.
According to that excellent tool, Apple was valued higher than Microsoft through the '80s, as high as 3.2x as much as Microsoft. Then, right around the turn of the decade to 1990, Microsoft pulled ahead.
PowerShell is the new Batch File Scripting, so if you need more power, learn PowerShell and use that. (I am assuming you're in a Windows environment where change of OS isn't an option.)
But DOS batch files still work just fine. In my last job at $major-hardware-vendor, we used DOS batch file-based menus all the time; because they were simple, they got the job done, and all the people who had any need to maintain them knew all about them. Some were particularly large/gnarly batch files, too. (Think 3 KB of one single.bat file menuing to do a few dozen tasks.) When choice is used liberally, along with variables, you can make it very simple to maintain, too. (We used it for updating various things, and the very first section was where all the variables were set, all you had to do when it came time to update was throw the updated file in the right place, and change a number in the batch file.)
At the end of the Mac Clone era, Apple bought Power Computing for the sole purpose of closing it up. (Rather than just waiting for their license to expire.)
Apple re-absorbed Newton, Inc. for the sole purpose of closing it up. (That one is stretching it, since Newton, Inc. was technically a wholly-owned subsidiary already.)
I have one "main" keychain which has the following: * half of detachable two-part keychain pic * house key * "smart" car key (Toyota smart key, looks like just a fob, has a physical key "hidden" inside that is basically never taken out.) * 4 GB metal USB flash drive (Sandisk Cruzer Titanium, to be precise.) * security keyfob for work (last place I worked used a badge for this, so this is new in the past two months.)
The other half contains: * other half of detachable two-part keychain * physical key and security/door remote for second car * house key (sometimes I only grab this half, so I need to have a house key on each,) * key for parents' house * fireproof safe key
FInally, I have my bicycling keychain: * house key * bike lock key - on a smaller-than-normal loop, with no adornments. Fits in a pocket comfortably while biking. - During the Summer months when I bike to work, I'll transfer my work security keyfob to this one.
Except that the pool itself enlarges due to the increased number of sales outlets, which should also increase sales.
For example, if the pool on Amazon was 100, and you saw 20 sales at $2.99 for a profit of $59.80, and 30 sales at $2.49 for a profit of $74.70, yes; you are making more at $2.49.
Then Apple joins in. Let's say Amazon's pool is now 90 (some will leave Amazon for Apple, but not all, nor even likely half.) And Apple's is 50, half the previous Amazon's. So you now have a TOTAL pool of 140. Same percentage for $2.99, 20%, sees 28 sales (18 from Amazon, a net loss of 2 from the old Amazon pool at $2.99 and a net loss of 12 from the old Amazon pool at $2.49; plus 10 from Apple, which are brand new,) for a profit of $83.72. You still make more, even though you have technically "lost" two customers aggregate over selling at $2.49.
I'm not arguing that prices should be artificially limited to x.99, nor that these policies should be in place. Just that the argument isn't quite valid, because you're still gaining customers. You may be losing some compared to the original cheaper price pool, but the pool itself got larger. You can't just assume that the same number of people would buy it at the higher price as before, because there are more POTENTIAL customers now, therefore you will get an increase commensurate with this increase in potential.
Passenger Nbaye Beye said the man, who appeared to be in his late 20s, appeared nervous when approached by a U.S. agent but got off the plane quietly.
Really, someone who was announced by the captain of the flight, to everyone onboard, that he was a "serious security risk", got nervous when approached by what could be assumed to be an armed federal agent???
Yeah. Because I NEVER get nervous after being called a serious security risk and being approached by a federal officer...
<facepalm>
This guy's lucky none of the passengers decided to go vigilante on him.
Yeah; last time I checked, there aren't *ANY* structures in North America that have been around for 500 years. (Some Southwestern Native American pueblos have sections that have been continuously occupied for longer than that, but not the same physical structure the whole time.)
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The problem with that is that, in both linked instances, they are using very low-res copies.
I've found that for print use, yeah, that technique works well.
I have used flickr-found, CC-licensed photos in my company's advertising before; but I *ALWAYS* get artist permission FIRST, even if the license allows commercial use. (Okay, I may make my advertising mockups before I get permission, but I don't have the ad go live until after I get permission.)
Damn... Beat me to it.
DHMO is a major health menace!
Because he thought that's what NASA was (he is technically an engineer at one of the "experimental space technology companies", he just happens to work in a NASA facility, for a NASA-paid boss.) If he had wanted to work doing "practical stuff that can be used today", he would go work for Boeing. Oh, wait... He did. He went to NASA (via the contractor) when he thought Constellation was going to be groundbreaking. Then the details hit, and he ended up realizing that Ares was a boondoggle.
Note: He just saw one of his designs fly; and was ecstatic. A design for Orion. That will likely now never become production. And he is happy about it. (He's also hoping that HIS design will live on to serve another project, of course.)
Heck, I have a friend who is/was an engineer on the Ares rocket / Orion spacecraft; and he WANTS Ares to die. He would prefer that NASA get out of the rocket design and LEO-transport businesses. He really wants to work on experimental stuff. He feels that THAT is what NASA should do. Leave the LEO stuff to private businesses. (Obviously, with the caveat that NASA buys the use of them when needed.)
Honestly, "Greyglers" is an opt-in list. It's a group you have to CHOOSE to be in. Just because "only" 2000 people are in the group doesn't mean that there are only 2000 over 40s at Google. Just like I'm sure the mailing list, group for African Americans doesn't have every single African American on it.
Note that I consider business practices that have no bearing on the business itself to be abhorrent. I run a small business, and my only policy for my workers is "Do your work well, and you get paid well. Do your work poorly, and you likely won't get a raise, and may be let go. Don't do your work at all, and you get fired. Don't do anything illegal while operating on my business' behalf."
I've had to fire three employees over the years, all for being lackluster employees. I didn't fire them because they surfed the net at work, I didn't fire them for doing pot outside work. I fired them because they didn't do their work. Likewise, I don't want to work for a company that says "don't do this, because we say so," I'd rather work for a company that says "do your work."
As for students who are compelled by age to attend school; well, if their age compels them to attend school, their age also does not guarantee them many of the rights that adults have. They have no legal expectation of perfect privacy at home, they have none at school. Again, doesn't mean I LIKE the situation, just that I understand it.
And that doesn't mean you were allowed to do it, though.
If you don't like it, DON'T AGREE TO IT! Don't be all stupid anonymous (yes, the irony is thick,) about it. Flat out refuse to sign it. Tell them that they changed the contract on you, and you demand a refund, or you demand that they not enforce the agreement on you. It's that simple.
People who cry "FREEDOM!" from anonymous forums, while using the mantle of freedom as an excuse to do illegal things are just whiny spoiled brats. If you actually want to make a real statement, make it. Don't agree to stuff you dislike, then anonymously break it. That's just stupidity and arrogance. (And, yes, I know of which I speak; I have been fired from a job for making public information that WAS public, but which the company declared after the fact should not have been; combined with PUBLICLY standing up to the leadership of the company for their inanity and impropriety.)
If you post it at a school mailroom that very obviously says it is a school post office, not a Mailboxes Etc, Kinkos, or USPS; especially when the contract you signed when you signed up to be a student says so right in there that if you mail from that mailroom, they may read it. That's what the internet agreements all say. If you don't like it, don't sign it, and don't use school internet.
Same with employment. If I write that patent application at my office, it belongs to my employer, period. If my employer wants to say "no sending personal mail from the office, because we may read it", then they absolutely have the right to do so. If you don't like it, don't work there. Or make a point of not agreeing to those provisions, and see if they'll still hire/keep you as an employee.
I am absolutely for free speech, Free Software, net neutrality, and personal privacy. That's why I AVOID those types of establishments when I can, and choose not to do personal things on company/school property when I can't avoid it.
Uh... Yes, a company perfectly has that right. No, if you are using an employer/school-provided connection, you have no rights outside the conditions of access you agreed to when you accepted employment/enrollment. (As it relates to internet access, anyway.)
If you want "Free with a capital F" access, you need to get it yourself, not assume that someone else is going to provide it for you.
All Spamhaus would have needed to do is pay for one hour of a lawyer's time to write a motion to dismiss, and let it stand with that as their sole defense. A decent judge would have then thrown it out. I'm sure the EFF or similar would have gladly supplied a free lawyer.
But in the U.S. court system, it takes *SOMEONE* asking for it to be dismissed. Judges don't often have a lot of leeway if it even vaguely looks like the suit MIGHT be legit. But as soon as the defendant asks for it to be dismissed, the judge all of a sudden has a lot of leeway.
The fact of the matter is, Spamhaus chose to thumb their nose at the U.S. legal system, so the judge had no impetus to dismiss. Judges tend to hate being ignored even more than they hate frivolous suits.
Wow. That's a lot of jargon for one sentence...
Do I complain about Apple's closed system, or Google's privacy concerns?
Man, if only Microsoft were in this story, I'd have the geek-complaint-hat-trick!
The speed difference between the surface of travel and the air is what produces the energy to move the device forward. That forward movement spins the propeller, translating the forward movement into rotational movement into rearward force. As long as there is a speed differential between the surface of travel and the air, there will be forward force to continue the cycle. This should run just fine UPwind, too. (Although that would be hard to test on a treadmill, since it would be going "backwards" against the flow of the treadmill, accelerating off the back end.)
First, he's can't be challenging that it has a "Retina Display", because that's an Apple Trademark. It obviously has a Retina Display. He can challenge Apple's assertion that the dpi of the display, when held at 12", is beyond the capabilities of the human eye. Absolutely he can challenge that.
Don't phrase it as challenging that the iPhone has a "Retina Display", though. (Especially when the so-called "attacker" actually PRAISES the display!)
Finally, I don't know about 12", anyway. I tend to hold my phone at about 18" by default. Maybe when I am not wearing my glasses I'll have it closer, (astigmatism, not near/far sighted, so my glasses don't make things look bigger or smaller,) but even then, if I close my astigmatized eye, 18" is about right.
So Jobs-o will just correct it to 18" instead of 12".
First, EFI is not the same thing as GUI config utility.
EFI has been around since 1999, has been shipping as the default on many servers since 2003, and on many desktop boards since 2006. (Including every Intel-based Mac.) However, most also provide a "BIOS Compatibility Module" to support EFI-unaware OSes. (That's basically all Apple's "Boot Camp" is.) For example, every Intel Desktop Board made since 2007 has been EFI-based, with an EFI application doing the configuration utility in a way that looks like old fashioned "BIOS setup utilities". Many other manufacturers (notably Gigabyte) have also had EFI on all boards for some time.
On the other hand, GUI config utilities have also been around for a long time; I had multiple motherboards (both "major OEM" and boxed integrator-oriented boards,) in the early '90s with graphical setup utilities, based on good old fashioned BIOS. This is just talking about making a new more extensible graphical setup utility that happens to run on EFI instead of BIOS.
Stop confusing the two, stupid companies and news sites!
So... What is it you need to copy on a regular basis; and why does it need to be in the Program Files directory?
There is no excuse for proper file storage. You don't store VMs on your Linux box in /bin, do you? Hell, you shouldn't even be storing them in /usr/bin, for that matter.
Stick your VM files in C:\Users (or C:\Documents and Settings, as the case may be,) or in a new root-level folder. Don't muck around with putting data files in "protected" folders.
Exactly. People seem to think that "traveling faster than the wind" is a violation as "perpetual motion", forgetting that the energy from the wind is constantly *ADDED* energy.
Likewise, conservation of energy fails to take into account that this vehicle is being constantly fed energy; it just is designed in such a way that it can use the energy input ultra-efficiently.
Just as "Free Software" does not exclusively mean FSF approved.
So, Google's release doesn't meet one specific definition of "Open Source" doesn't mean that either WebM isn't open source, or that the name or model of "open source" is in question.
It just means that WebM is "open source" by some definitions, but not others.
I see this in the same light as Apple's licensing of Mac OS X as "UNIX". It's just a name. Apple called it "unix" before it was officially licensed as "UNIX". Does that mean that versions before they licensed the name are any less "unix"? Does it mean that because the underlying bits are the same as before, that the current versions aren't really "UNIX" because all they did was license the name?
No, it's just a name. Or in WebM's case, it's just one organization's definition. Some people get too worked up over a simple definition.
Wolfram|Alpha is great.
According to that excellent tool, Apple was valued higher than Microsoft through the '80s, as high as 3.2x as much as Microsoft. Then, right around the turn of the decade to 1990, Microsoft pulled ahead.
By 1998, Microsoft was worth 100x Apple.
Now, they're back up to even.
PowerShell is the new Batch File Scripting, so if you need more power, learn PowerShell and use that. (I am assuming you're in a Windows environment where change of OS isn't an option.)
But DOS batch files still work just fine. In my last job at $major-hardware-vendor, we used DOS batch file-based menus all the time; because they were simple, they got the job done, and all the people who had any need to maintain them knew all about them. Some were particularly large/gnarly batch files, too. (Think 3 KB of one single .bat file menuing to do a few dozen tasks.) When choice is used liberally, along with variables, you can make it very simple to maintain, too. (We used it for updating various things, and the very first section was where all the variables were set, all you had to do when it came time to update was throw the updated file in the right place, and change a number in the batch file.)
At the end of the Mac Clone era, Apple bought Power Computing for the sole purpose of closing it up. (Rather than just waiting for their license to expire.)
Apple re-absorbed Newton, Inc. for the sole purpose of closing it up. (That one is stretching it, since Newton, Inc. was technically a wholly-owned subsidiary already.)
I have one "main" keychain which has the following:
* half of detachable two-part keychain pic
* house key
* "smart" car key (Toyota smart key, looks like just a fob, has a physical key "hidden" inside that is basically never taken out.)
* 4 GB metal USB flash drive (Sandisk Cruzer Titanium, to be precise.)
* security keyfob for work (last place I worked used a badge for this, so this is new in the past two months.)
The other half contains:
* other half of detachable two-part keychain
* physical key and security/door remote for second car
* house key (sometimes I only grab this half, so I need to have a house key on each,)
* key for parents' house
* fireproof safe key
FInally, I have my bicycling keychain:
* house key
* bike lock key
- on a smaller-than-normal loop, with no adornments. Fits in a pocket comfortably while biking.
- During the Summer months when I bike to work, I'll transfer my work security keyfob to this one.
Except that the pool itself enlarges due to the increased number of sales outlets, which should also increase sales.
For example, if the pool on Amazon was 100, and you saw 20 sales at $2.99 for a profit of $59.80, and 30 sales at $2.49 for a profit of $74.70, yes; you are making more at $2.49.
Then Apple joins in. Let's say Amazon's pool is now 90 (some will leave Amazon for Apple, but not all, nor even likely half.) And Apple's is 50, half the previous Amazon's. So you now have a TOTAL pool of 140. Same percentage for $2.99, 20%, sees 28 sales (18 from Amazon, a net loss of 2 from the old Amazon pool at $2.99 and a net loss of 12 from the old Amazon pool at $2.49; plus 10 from Apple, which are brand new,) for a profit of $83.72. You still make more, even though you have technically "lost" two customers aggregate over selling at $2.49.
I'm not arguing that prices should be artificially limited to x.99, nor that these policies should be in place. Just that the argument isn't quite valid, because you're still gaining customers. You may be losing some compared to the original cheaper price pool, but the pool itself got larger. You can't just assume that the same number of people would buy it at the higher price as before, because there are more POTENTIAL customers now, therefore you will get an increase commensurate with this increase in potential.
Really, someone who was announced by the captain of the flight, to everyone onboard, that he was a "serious security risk", got nervous when approached by what could be assumed to be an armed federal agent???
Yeah. Because I NEVER get nervous after being called a serious security risk and being approached by a federal officer...
<facepalm>
This guy's lucky none of the passengers decided to go vigilante on him.
Yeah; last time I checked, there aren't *ANY* structures in North America that have been around for 500 years. (Some Southwestern Native American pueblos have sections that have been continuously occupied for longer than that, but not the same physical structure the whole time.)