Yes, a corporation's main purpose (I wouldn't say its 'sole' purpose) is to generate capital.
The important difference is *how* you do it.
If a corporation's profit strategy is to create well thought out, elegantly designed, innovative products, with great customer support and charging a premium for it, then I'm all for it!
I'm not entirely sure we need a law to govern this. If someone is naive enough to take money that is good everywhere and make it good only in one place and expire after a while, then so be it I say.
I've been working as a Macintosh help desk tech for about 7 months, and not once have I heard of someone calling about spyware.
Although, I've had a few calls where people *thought* they had a virus because of some strange email in their inbox, but that's about it.
Many articles about this term extension say that the entertainment industry will lose millions/billions if the terms are not extended.
What a crock.
Based on how famous actors/directors/musicians are living, I'd say they've got more than thier fair share, and if their works are still profitable after 20+ years, I say the public has paid enough money and it should belong to the public.
And if they want to get real freaky with it, you could use also use session ids, instead of asking the government to help you because of your lack of technical knowledge.
I don't understand what the big deal is. If a site is this concerned with linking, how difficult is it to configure the webserver to redirect all requests without a proper referer to a main home page?
Yeah, there are ways to trick out a referer, but who would go through the trouble for a news article?
Alright, let's say this UKUSA thing is true (which wouldn't be too big of a surprise), and it is brought in from the cold, what would the rest of the world think or feel?
Imagine some of your friends admitting to having a secret alliance and talk about certain things without you, how would you feel?
Maybe it's like finding out your girlfriend has been hanging out with your friends and not telling you about it.
I think the problem is that we humans have caveman residue (for lack of a better term), a kind of primal competitive mindset.
Thinking that we are separate nations rather than a single species. Maybe the time is ripe for an international revolution of humanity, I can smell it in the works, we just have to evolve, think and wake up. not neccesarily in that order.
Imagine all the people, living in harmony.
I don't think it's that silly if you think about it.
I don't know about IL, but here in NY we don't have any real curfew laws. This is the city that never sleeps, as they say.
The only curfews you'd have to worry about is the ones set by their parents, even then if a parent knows that their kids are in a safe environment, and in school nontheless, that shouldn't be a problem
Now, I can't tell you what you should do, but I'll tell you how I became a sysadmin.
Total computer classes taken: 1 (BASIC programming in HS)
After highschool my father gotten me a job with the city doing lead paint testing (ew), during which I began to fall in love with computers and after working there for three years, I decided that it wasn't what I wanted to do.
I wanted to make web sites, bought a book on HTML and UNIX for dummies. I saved up some cash, quit my lead testing job and offered my small local ISP to intern for free with the hopes of getting paid and learning something. After a month they began to pay me minimum wage to do techsupport and answer phones, half a year later, after learning some about web design, I got a raise and began doing that. About a year later after learning some about apache and perl, I got another raise and began helping the sysadmins do some grunt work. Another year goes by, and after learning some about systems administration, I recieved another raise, and was the assistant systems administrator (aka systems administrator). Shortly after this, and learning yet some more about sysadmining, I quit my job there and began working as a sysadmin/programmer for a constuling group.
I suppose you should keep in mind that it was my profession and my hobby. I basically worked and learned then came home and learned some more.
Now I'm basically doing what I love doing. Without any formal schooling.
I recently sold a few time based correctors on ebay and had no idea who the person was until I saw the shipping address was USK-T29, 8550 Astronaut Blvd, Cape Canaveral
Let me see if I understand this correctly:
The internet becomes alive with bustling of new ideas and technological advancements.
The side effect of these forward strides makes a companies' business model outdated.
The public no longer has as much interest in their products, but somehow we are responsible for keeping their nearly defunct business alive and profitable.
Stephen Hawking said something that I thought was interesting. I can't seem to locate the exact text, but it went something like:
If God did exist, the kind of God that is popular today, given the assumption that he gave us our minds, it would be a waste to not utilize this gift to it's fullest potential.
Where do you live where you can renew your vehicle reg in 5 minutes?!
I think our government should utilize this internet more, and it will happen eventually. A time when 100% pure democracy will be in effect. (as opposed to a democratic republic). Our senators will no longer be the ones voting on and creating/modifying laws, the public will. When every single able-bodied American has access to a computer, every voice can and will be heard.
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There's a major difference between a toll road and Manhattan.
WIth a toll roads, you usually have a choice not to take it and use a much less efficient route.
Manhattan is an island and many people work and live in Manhattan.
It's not just 'customers' that are going to be tracked, it's everyone.
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This 'statistic' is based on 40,000 web sites who use Net Applications' service to provide web stats.
I don't think that's a very accurate method of determining market share.
Yes, a corporation's main purpose (I wouldn't say its 'sole' purpose) is to generate capital.
The important difference is *how* you do it.
If a corporation's profit strategy is to create well thought out, elegantly designed, innovative products, with great customer support and charging a premium for it, then I'm all for it!
I'm not entirely sure we need a law to govern this. If someone is naive enough to take money that is good everywhere and make it good only in one place and expire after a while, then so be it I say.
I've been working as a Macintosh help desk tech for about 7 months, and not once have I heard of someone calling about spyware.
Although, I've had a few calls where people *thought* they had a virus because of some strange email in their inbox, but that's about it.
Why is there a Maya logo in the background of one of the scenes if it was done with 3dsmax?
Many articles about this term extension say that the entertainment industry will lose millions/billions if the terms are not extended.
What a crock.
Based on how famous actors/directors/musicians are living, I'd say they've got more than thier fair share, and if their works are still profitable after 20+ years, I say the public has paid enough money and it should belong to the public.
And if they want to get real freaky with it, you could use also use session ids, instead of asking the government to help you because of your lack of technical knowledge.
If a site is this concerned with linking, how difficult is it to configure the webserver to redirect all requests without a proper referer to a main home page?
Yeah, there are ways to trick out a referer, but who would go through the trouble for a news article?
Imagine some of your friends admitting to having a secret alliance and talk about certain things without you, how would you feel?
Maybe it's like finding out your girlfriend has been hanging out with your friends and not telling you about it.
I think the problem is that we humans have caveman residue (for lack of a better term), a kind of primal competitive mindset.
Thinking that we are separate nations rather than a single species. Maybe the time is ripe for an international revolution of humanity, I can smell it in the works, we just have to evolve, think and wake up. not neccesarily in that order.
Imagine all the people, living in harmony. I don't think it's that silly if you think about it.
I don't know about IL, but here in NY we don't have any real curfew laws. This is the city that never sleeps, as they say. The only curfews you'd have to worry about is the ones set by their parents, even then if a parent knows that their kids are in a safe environment, and in school nontheless, that shouldn't be a problem
Every day, the United States is beginning to seem more like the world from the movie Brazil. . .
I often searched for a MUA that uses MySQL as storage and often though of creating one myself.
This is sad news indeed.
In my opinion AugioGalaxy is better than Napster ever was.
I guess it's time to stock up on felt tip markers.
Now, I can't tell you what you should do, but I'll tell you how I became a sysadmin.
Total computer classes taken: 1 (BASIC programming in HS)
After highschool my father gotten me a job with the city doing lead paint testing (ew), during which I began to fall in love with computers and after working there for three years, I decided that it wasn't what I wanted to do.
I wanted to make web sites, bought a book on HTML and UNIX for dummies. I saved up some cash, quit my lead testing job and offered my small local ISP to intern for free with the hopes of getting paid and learning something. After a month they began to pay me minimum wage to do techsupport and answer phones, half a year later, after learning some about web design, I got a raise and began doing that. About a year later after learning some about apache and perl, I got another raise and began helping the sysadmins do some grunt work. Another year goes by, and after learning some about systems administration, I recieved another raise, and was the assistant systems administrator (aka systems administrator).
Shortly after this, and learning yet some more about sysadmining, I quit my job there and began working as a sysadmin/programmer for a constuling group.
I suppose you should keep in mind that it was my profession and my hobby. I basically worked and learned then came home and learned some more.
Now I'm basically doing what I love doing. Without any formal schooling.
I hope this helps.
I recently sold a few time based correctors on ebay and had no idea who the person was until I saw the shipping address was USK-T29,
8550 Astronaut Blvd,
Cape Canaveral
google: "casio touch screen watch"
T-Touch the first touch screen watch, the third listing in a google search. . .
The side effect of these forward strides makes a companies' business model outdated.
The public no longer has as much interest in their products, but somehow we are responsible for keeping their nearly defunct business alive and profitable.
Granted I had some trouble figuring out how to get mp3 files onto the device, I have had not one problem with playing 'standard' mp3 files.
I just wish there were more apps that were made for the 320x320 screen.
Stephen Hawking said something that I thought was interesting. I can't seem to locate the exact text, but it went something like:
If God did exist, the kind of God that is popular today, given the assumption that he gave us our minds, it would be a waste to not utilize this gift to it's fullest potential.
Where do you live where you can renew your vehicle reg in 5 minutes?!
I think our government should utilize this internet more, and it will happen eventually. A time when 100% pure democracy will be in effect. (as opposed to a democratic republic). Our senators will no longer be the ones voting on and creating/modifying laws, the public will.
When every single able-bodied American has access to a computer, every voice can and will be heard.
As my former employer used to say:
"There are three things:
Good Quality, Fast Service, and Fair Price. You only get to pick two."
If AMD can keep their processors a few hundred cheaper than Intel by leaving out a thermal protection system, that's fine by me.
vi will always be better.
:)
Isn't my Discman's anti-shock technology utilizing a 'circular buffer'?
Is it me or are recent patents becoming more ridiculous?