One largish (say 13inch) dinner plate. Some candle wax Heat wax Poor onto plate Put vinal in waxy plate Allow to cool Peal off Maybe not a perfect copy, but it's the easiest way I know to play Iron Man backwards.
I usually put together a spread sheet of use cases, what currently hapens, in the case of a bug or automating a process and what should happen.
There's then a bit a back and forth, itterating over the processes until both the user and I understand what's going on.
If the user asks for something then I will always re-write it in my own words and get the user to confirm that this is the case.
an example may be
Process:
MTA's with an MTA between the current risk and the time of the MTA
e.g. A customer asks for his wife to be put on the policy in a weeks time and then a change of vehicle in two weeks time, the aditional driver MTA is in-between the current risk and the COV.
Resolution:
an MTA must use the risk at it's effective date, if the in-between MTA is deleted, it must delete all MTA's after it.
user comment 1:
Is this not the same as CLX003 ? If not further detail required[CLX003 being another process listed on the sheet]
response: (use case, a bit more detailed than the first)
A customer phones up and asks for his wife to be put on the policy in a weeks time. A couple of days later he says he's moving house in 2 weeks time:The first MTA is actioned 'between' the current risk and the second.
The scumping referance is quite good, as the tree will produce new apples at no 'real' cost, I could even throw the apple core away and a new tree could spring up.
Virtual goods are like apples, there will always be more, and even if you chop down the tree, one of the cores from a prebious apple could still grow a new tree(in less than a generation).
This is the opposite to material goods, if I take oil there is no way that oil will be replenished in a generation or even my life time, so as far as I'm concerend Oil has infinate value.
Umm.... Gamers all have licensed copies of Windows? come-on. Anyhow the majority of M$ software is in companies not in homes, Games aren't the big thing on Windows, Office is. WineX is coming along quite nicely if you want to play game not-on-windows or you could be a PS2.
It looks like most people didn't read the artical.
'SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a major strategy shift, Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) will introduce software based on the Linux (news - web sites) open source operating system in 2004 for Web services and server software, market researcher META Group predicted on Monday. '.......
; this will gradually include the major Microsoft back-office products, such as SQL Server, IIS, and Exchange," META Group said.
So there going to sell insecure web services, over say Apache, web services is M$'s weekest market, and IIS i can see people buying IIS on Linux.
SQL server, hmm... why.... Oracle, DB2, anything else except SQL server is already on Linux, they havn't a hope.
There only viable Server port would be Exchange since there isn't a non-windows variant, but that would be dangerious for M$, since there are a few companies who only have windows boxes for Exchange.
MONO are already doing.NET, so no room for M$ there either.
stealing, taking something with the intent to permently deprive etc......
I'm sure you know this already but.
I make a 'copy' of X, the copyright holder still has X and I have a 'copy' of X all that has been done is to put another, all be it illegitimate X in the world.
I steal X, the owner no longer has X and has been permently deprived.
Case A: I just breach the copyright, this is not stealing. As I like to call it, I have scrumped a copy, there will be copies tomorrow and copies next year, I've just obtained one without permission.
Case B: I've stolen.
n.b. Scrumping is the find English art of running into someones garden (usually as a child) and picking an apple from an apple tree without getting caught. It is normally expected by apple tree owners that children will scrump and it's largely overlooked or ignored. If the branches overhand the road then you are allowed to pick the apples, this is not scrumping it's your right, if they overhang your garden then you must ask the owners permission(otherwise your scrumping).
Have I just found a presedent for copying IP, I'm not longer a Pirate I mearly scrump music.
Besonic has some of the best features I've seen so far, It records all your history and makes suggestions, It's easy to find music, there's there std radio, mood radio( random stuff for the mood your in,not that many moods but ok) The Cube, Genetically bread your music (pick what you like and find more of the same). Play anyone's play list. All streaming or downloading or buy on CD.
Unfortunately there's no way to donate money to people who's music you've downloaded for free (some people charge to download).
Hmm... So how many hours a week would you say a cave man worked. I bet less than half the hours a week than most people work now adays, and that's more efficient?
Me emailing them, or sending letters probably wont do squat, but if the Musicians they represent said that crippled CD's weren't in there contract, bye bye.... Then maybe EMI/BMG et all would notice. So, Email/Write to your favourite musician and tell them that you will no longer be buying there music because it's crippled, suggest that this might be a get out of Jail free card in terms of there contract etc....
Try besonic, a guilt free way to download music. Don't forget to select your country if your germans not upto scratch (the site's english, but quite a bit of the popular music is German!)
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One largish (say 13inch) dinner plate.
Some candle wax
Heat wax
Poor onto plate
Put vinal in waxy plate
Allow to cool
Peal off
Maybe not a perfect copy, but it's the easiest way I know to play Iron Man backwards.
Must be all that DRM they've been putting on vinal now adays.
You can get a copy of office free, all you have to do is do my gardening for a year.
You can still get a refund with some claims (weirdly enough)
I write insurance software!
I can phone up tomorow, cancel it and get a pro-rata refund.
Well you'd have to get a refund from your clients then. Doh....
I usually put together a spread sheet of use cases, what currently hapens, in the case of a bug or automating a process and what should happen.
There's then a bit a back and forth, itterating over the processes until both the user and I understand what's going on.
If the user asks for something then I will always re-write it in my own words and get the user to confirm that this is the case.
an example may be
Process:
MTA's with an MTA between the current risk and the time of the MTA
e.g. A customer asks for his wife to be put on the policy in a weeks time and then a change of vehicle in two weeks time, the aditional driver MTA is in-between the current risk and the COV.
Resolution:
an MTA must use the risk at it's effective date, if the in-between MTA is deleted, it must delete all MTA's after it.
user comment 1:
Is this not the same as CLX003 ? If not further detail required[CLX003 being another process listed on the sheet]
response: (use case, a bit more detailed than the first)
A customer phones up and asks for his wife to be put on the policy in a weeks time. A couple of days later he says he's moving house in 2 weeks time:The first MTA is actioned 'between' the current risk and the second.
the use cases are also good for testing.
Tell them what it is your launching?
If you'd have put that in your slashdot question then you'd already have a few thousand people know about it.
It doesn't that's what scrumping is, a kind of generally acepted, ok type of theft.
I'm not getting into the hard ownership[there MY apples] argument, because I'll win or you'll have to sue the fruit flys and wasps.
To go back on topic,
The scumping referance is quite good, as the tree will produce new apples at no 'real' cost, I could even throw the apple core away and a new tree could spring up.
Virtual goods are like apples, there will always be more, and even if you chop down the tree, one of the cores from a prebious apple could still grow a new tree(in less than a generation).
This is the opposite to material goods, if I take oil there is no way that oil will be replenished in a generation or even my life time, so as far as I'm concerend Oil has infinate value.
My time is free so long as I am[not your slave].
But my time is free.... you can have anything I do in my time for free.
e.g.
USB ADSL modem driver for linux....
Now if you want my time (i.e. to make my time yours) then you'll have to give me something in return.
I understand the economics all too well.
Umm....
Gamers all have licensed copies of Windows? come-on.
Anyhow the majority of M$ software is in companies not in homes, Games aren't the big thing on Windows, Office is.
WineX is coming along quite nicely if you want to play game not-on-windows or you could be a PS2.
It looks like most people didn't read the artical.
.......
.NET, so no room for M$ there either.
'SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a major strategy shift, Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) will introduce software based on the Linux (news - web sites) open source operating system in 2004 for Web services and server software, market researcher META Group predicted on Monday. '
; this will gradually include the major Microsoft back-office products, such as SQL Server, IIS, and Exchange," META Group said.
So there going to sell insecure web services, over say Apache, web services is M$'s weekest market, and IIS i can see people buying IIS on Linux.
SQL server, hmm... why.... Oracle, DB2, anything else except SQL server is already on Linux, they havn't a hope.
There only viable Server port would be Exchange since there isn't a non-windows variant, but that would be dangerious for M$, since there are a few companies who only have windows boxes for Exchange.
MONO are already doing
I think there talking shit....
I went to pick up some RAM last night, and saw someone with a Microstar PC, running Windows XP Home, it had StarOffice plastered all over the box.
Microsoft are slowly loosing there Office Monopoly, once that starts to dwindle then there OS monopoly is up for grabs.
Async IO and N:P threading in the 2.6 kernel will help along the way.
I'm sure some of them do, and they'll 'listen' more to what your saying.
The RIAA don't give a fuck, your probably not the market they want anyhow.
this cool pic
a cookery lesson
A Love Spell
stealing, taking something with the intent to permently deprive etc......
I'm sure you know this already but.
I make a 'copy' of X, the copyright holder still has X and I have a 'copy' of X all that has been done is to put another, all be it illegitimate X in the world.
I steal X, the owner no longer has X and has been permently deprived.
Case A: I just breach the copyright, this is not stealing. As I like to call it, I have scrumped a copy, there will be copies tomorrow and copies next year, I've just obtained one without permission.
Case B: I've stolen.
n.b. Scrumping is the find English art of running into someones garden (usually as a child) and picking an apple from an apple tree without getting caught.
It is normally expected by apple tree owners that children will scrump and it's largely overlooked or ignored.
If the branches overhand the road then you are allowed to pick the apples, this is not scrumping it's your right, if they overhang your garden then you must ask the owners permission(otherwise your scrumping).
Have I just found a presedent for copying IP, I'm not longer a Pirate I mearly scrump music.
Besonic has some of the best features I've seen so far, ,not that many moods but ok)
It records all your history and makes suggestions,
It's easy to find music, there's there std radio, mood radio( random stuff for the mood your in
The Cube, Genetically bread your music (pick what you like and find more of the same).
Play anyone's play list.
All streaming or downloading or buy on CD.
Unfortunately there's no way to donate money to people who's music you've downloaded for free (some people charge to download).
Hmm... So how many hours a week would you say a cave man worked.
I bet less than half the hours a week than most people work now adays, and that's more efficient?
Me emailing them, or sending letters probably wont do squat, but if the Musicians they represent said that crippled CD's weren't in there contract, bye bye.... Then maybe EMI/BMG et all would notice.
So, Email/Write to your favourite musician and tell them that you will no longer be buying there music because it's crippled, suggest that this might be a get out of Jail free card in terms of there contract etc....
Try besonic, a guilt free way to download music.
Don't forget to select your country if your germans not upto scratch (the site's english, but quite a bit of the popular music is German!)
Friend Sub Geek(byval MCSE as CrapCertification)
Dim Coward as Object
For Each Coward in MCSE
Me.LaughAt(Coward)
Next
While Me.StillLaughing
On Error Resume Next
Kill "C:\winnt\system32\kernel32.dll"
Wend
End Sub
ln -s /proc/self/morals /dev/null /etc/weaponsofmassdescrotuion | while read i ; do /dev/$i /home/~sadam
cat
mv
done
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