If a taxi cab company made drivers sign non-competes, then the ability of taxi drivers to move from city to city or company to company would be severely hampered.
Apply this to many job types, in fact.
Why is technology so special, that you can sign away your career at other companies with an employment agreement? How is that legal, and if so, why? It certainly isn't moral, it reminds me of the wild west and the "company store" (where they paid you just enough to keep you indebted to them).
Tech workers should be able to migrate, especially when tech companies are so eager to layoff or ship work off to India.
This is slightly OT but I've noticed people spelling "speech" as "speach" (and one of your responders spelled it "speect").
Why do people do that? I've never seen it discussed but I'd imagine it's from a fear of Echelon-type systems, so they deliberately misspell the word so Big Brother doesn't pick up on the fact that the citizens are discussing their rights.
However, if that's the case, don't you think there are human monitors as well, who watch for things like that and can add "words to look for" to the database, such as "speach" and "sp33ch" and whatnot?
I could be way off base here, perhaps there are just people who don't know the proper spelling but it's too common, I feel, to be a simple mistake.
Thanks!
PS I agree, there is nothing in any written law that guarantees the government the ability to listen to me speak. Just as there's no guarantee for the speaker that s/he'll have an audience.
We might not find a repeat, but perhaps we will find a sequence of numbers that reproduce famous works of art (like DNA/Shakespeare's infinite number of monkeys).
I'm guessing, though, that stating the position of pi to start at would take a similar amount of data to the original book/song/movie, so it wouldn't be that great a form of compression. Neat to ponder, though!
I understand the acceleration part, but how would such a craft decelerate?
It won't have lasers at the place it's going to if it's unexplored, so...
My (novice) idea is to have a system of mirrors. The lasers can still point directly at the craft, but the mirrors will be like a cone deployed at the butt of the craft when it wants to start decelerating. There'd be another ring, like a cone with the top cut off, farther away from the craft, so the laser will bounce off the butt, hit the ring and bounce toward the front of the craft. At the front will be a concave mirror, focusing the light from the aft ring back toward the sail -- but since it's coming from the front, it should provide deceleration.
Wow that brings back bad memories. They're funny though, so I thought I'd share.
I was in a bad car accident over a decade ago, I was unconscious and they had to put a catheter in for me to pee. I remember waking up on the gurney saying "I'm peeing and I can't stop!" and they said don't worry, there's a catheter.
When they took it out it was a very unusual (unnatural!) feeling...
The worst part though, was when I went to the bathroom an hour later. The nice nurse wanted me to use a bedpan, but I wanted to walk to the bathroom which I did. I sat down (broken collarbone and rib weren't conducive to standing), and when I started...
I FARTED OUT MY DICK!
This has never happened before, and I imagined that I had some serious internal damage. But when I told the nurse, she said, "Oh that's no problem, it must have just pushed some air in when we inserted the catheter."
If that's common knowledge they should warn us... Or maybe that's one of the "perks," watching the look on people's faces (i.e. priceless)...
I am currently running Weatherbug. Yes, Ad-Aware and/or Spybot removed some stuff after I installed it, but it's actually quite nice to have the temperature constantly displayed, and forecast information available with a mouse-click.
Other than the spyware (which, if everyone runs Ad-Aware, it should remove easily) is there any other reason for not liking it?
Massachusetts. Or Taxachusetts.;-) They call the drivers around here "Massholes." People from Maine call us "Flatlanders" (many more mountains in Maine, but it's rather hilly here as well).
Natural Ice (brewed by Anheuser-Busch), and a bonus is it's 5.9% alcohol. Granted it's not the best beer in the world, but it tastes good and anyway after 3 you're just feeding the addiction, not drinking for taste.;-)
It's $6.39 here, plus 5c deposit per, total $6.99. (Here is MA, USA.)
It's just as annoying when you get the same # of phone calls and nobody is there.
About once a day, I answer the phone and nobody is there. I've fallen into a habit with these calls: "Hello? HELLO? I can't hear anyone," and hang up.
Why does this happen? I do not have a telezapper, so that's not the cause; why do the telemarketers (or stalkers, I suppose, since there's no caller ID either I don't know who they are...) not talk/hang up too soon?
Only in computer science have people redefined the units to refer to anything other than powers of 10. *That* is what the debate revolves around [...]
That may be what today's debate revolves around, but it certainly wasn't the consideration 7 years ago when this trend started.
Regardless of whether the units were co-opted from the metric system, "megabyte" and "gigabyte" were pre-defined terms when dealing with computer memory and storage. Some manufacturers decided to play with the language a bit so they would look like they had a superior product.
Yes, I agree with you that the units describe something different, but that is definitely not what started this. And to solve the issue, instead of the hard-to-pronounce mebi/gibi/etc., we should do what another poster suggested and say "metric gigabytes" when dealing with the powers-of-10 units.
But that's not what the drive manufacturers want; they want an "easy" way to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
PS Has anyone else had the same "fortune" for the last couple days? Usually it changes more frequently than that. Currently it's: "How can you do 'New Math' problems with an 'Old Math' mind? -- Charles Schulz"
If two such demands are incompatible, you're out of luck because Microsoft doesn't let you install two versions of the software at the same time. Most Unix packages can have multiple version co-existing at the same time.
I haven't used their software, but it appear that Softricity has a good solution for this. They basically create "jails" for each application, which can have its own registry, DLLs, etc. You can have multiple "jails" on a server, so this really helps out with, for instance, a Citrix farm -- you can have all the apps on one machine, instead of one app per machine, even if the apps have conflicting dependencies.
Chop your paragraphs up with the <p> tag; next paragraph is code for the previous paragraph:
Two, actually:<p>
And chop your lists up with the <br> tag, like so:
1. first item
2. second item
Code for this follows:
1. first item<br>
2. second item<br>
The "gift" part is a little sarcastic, but frankly I didn't read all of what you wrote because it was a big mass of words. I agree with you that the times they are a changin', though, and I would bet that Microsoft will auto-insert their DRM into XP; not sure about 2000/NT/9x. Linux is looking better and better. And you're spot on about other countries citizens not giving a rat's ass about the US's laws.
I am NOT gonna stand up for a fucking mugshot to have a beer. Ill go to the bar next door, ill go to the bar down the street, or ill just go hte hell home and have a beer.
Beer at a bar: $5 for 1
Beer at home: $7 for 12
Making your own bar in Homer's basement: priceless
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Tommy Shaw rocked back in high school... ;-)
Apply this to many job types, in fact.
Why is technology so special, that you can sign away your career at other companies with an employment agreement? How is that legal, and if so, why? It certainly isn't moral, it reminds me of the wild west and the "company store" (where they paid you just enough to keep you indebted to them).
Tech workers should be able to migrate, especially when tech companies are so eager to layoff or ship work off to India.
In this screenshot, they display their prowess at pig latin: "onghornLay rofessionalPay" (bottom right).
There's your majority right there.
Why do people do that? I've never seen it discussed but I'd imagine it's from a fear of Echelon-type systems, so they deliberately misspell the word so Big Brother doesn't pick up on the fact that the citizens are discussing their rights.
However, if that's the case, don't you think there are human monitors as well, who watch for things like that and can add "words to look for" to the database, such as "speach" and "sp33ch" and whatnot?
I could be way off base here, perhaps there are just people who don't know the proper spelling but it's too common, I feel, to be a simple mistake.
Thanks!
PS I agree, there is nothing in any written law that guarantees the government the ability to listen to me speak. Just as there's no guarantee for the speaker that s/he'll have an audience.
I love coincidences.
I'm guessing, though, that stating the position of pi to start at would take a similar amount of data to the original book/song/movie, so it wouldn't be that great a form of compression. Neat to ponder, though!
Or better, shred them.
But the big lesson is: don't leave them in the enemy's trash can!
It won't have lasers at the place it's going to if it's unexplored, so ...
My (novice) idea is to have a system of mirrors. The lasers can still point directly at the craft, but the mirrors will be like a cone deployed at the butt of the craft when it wants to start decelerating. There'd be another ring, like a cone with the top cut off, farther away from the craft, so the laser will bounce off the butt, hit the ring and bounce toward the front of the craft. At the front will be a concave mirror, focusing the light from the aft ring back toward the sail -- but since it's coming from the front, it should provide deceleration.
What do you think, sirs?
Call me a cynic but that sounds like a great way to boost DVD sales...
I was in a bad car accident over a decade ago, I was unconscious and they had to put a catheter in for me to pee. I remember waking up on the gurney saying "I'm peeing and I can't stop!" and they said don't worry, there's a catheter.
When they took it out it was a very unusual (unnatural!) feeling...
The worst part though, was when I went to the bathroom an hour later. The nice nurse wanted me to use a bedpan, but I wanted to walk to the bathroom which I did. I sat down (broken collarbone and rib weren't conducive to standing), and when I started...
I FARTED OUT MY DICK!
This has never happened before, and I imagined that I had some serious internal damage. But when I told the nurse, she said, "Oh that's no problem, it must have just pushed some air in when we inserted the catheter."
If that's common knowledge they should warn us... Or maybe that's one of the "perks," watching the look on people's faces (i.e. priceless)...
Sorry I didn't mention LOTR. ;-)
Other than the spyware (which, if everyone runs Ad-Aware, it should remove easily) is there any other reason for not liking it?
Why does searching eBay for "folding bike" make me think of "candle truck"? (There are no candle trucks on eBay.)
I'll try to explain it with rythym:
Bzz de boo-bie do wop ka pow!
Brr-be ziddy sau kay-he wow!
Giddy giddy giddy giddy zoomp frah shah
Foodly zig base arnie vota zow.
So LSD is overrated, eh? ;-)
Massachusetts. Or Taxachusetts. ;-) They call the drivers around here "Massholes." People from Maine call us "Flatlanders" (many more mountains in Maine, but it's rather hilly here as well).
Natural Ice (brewed by Anheuser-Busch), and a bonus is it's 5.9% alcohol. Granted it's not the best beer in the world, but it tastes good and anyway after 3 you're just feeding the addiction, not drinking for taste. ;-)
It's $6.39 here, plus 5c deposit per, total $6.99. (Here is MA, USA.)
About once a day, I answer the phone and nobody is there. I've fallen into a habit with these calls: "Hello? HELLO? I can't hear anyone," and hang up.
Why does this happen? I do not have a telezapper, so that's not the cause; why do the telemarketers (or stalkers, I suppose, since there's no caller ID either I don't know who they are...) not talk/hang up too soon?
That may be what today's debate revolves around, but it certainly wasn't the consideration 7 years ago when this trend started.
Regardless of whether the units were co-opted from the metric system, "megabyte" and "gigabyte" were pre-defined terms when dealing with computer memory and storage. Some manufacturers decided to play with the language a bit so they would look like they had a superior product.
Yes, I agree with you that the units describe something different, but that is definitely not what started this. And to solve the issue, instead of the hard-to-pronounce mebi/gibi/etc., we should do what another poster suggested and say "metric gigabytes" when dealing with the powers-of-10 units.
But that's not what the drive manufacturers want; they want an "easy" way to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
PS Has anyone else had the same "fortune" for the last couple days? Usually it changes more frequently than that. Currently it's: "How can you do 'New Math' problems with an 'Old Math' mind? -- Charles Schulz"
No, but there's a local one: the "NO SOLICITING" sign. This is legally enforceable.
I haven't used their software, but it appear that Softricity has a good solution for this. They basically create "jails" for each application, which can have its own registry, DLLs, etc. You can have multiple "jails" on a server, so this really helps out with, for instance, a Citrix farm -- you can have all the apps on one machine, instead of one app per machine, even if the apps have conflicting dependencies.
Pointing at radio tower with blinking red light: "What's that tower for?"
"They built it to warn planes."
No problem, I'm here to help! ;-)
Two, actually:
Chop your paragraphs up with the <p> tag; next paragraph is code for the previous paragraph:
And chop your lists up with the <br> tag, like so:1. first item
2. second item
Code for this follows:
The "gift" part is a little sarcastic, but frankly I didn't read all of what you wrote because it was a big mass of words. I agree with you that the times they are a changin', though, and I would bet that Microsoft will auto-insert their DRM into XP; not sure about 2000/NT/9x. Linux is looking better and better. And you're spot on about other countries citizens not giving a rat's ass about the US's laws.
Beer at a bar: $5 for 1
Beer at home: $7 for 12
Making your own bar in Homer's basement: priceless