Thanks for your post. It made me realize just how much people are not interested in the actual work, but the sentimental value and charm of old worn things. Thinking of these works in pristine condition as being of greater historical value took me a few moments. Thanks.
"There was a minimum 0.45 fee applied to cover credit card cost, so if people went to bittorrent, etc., it could be pirated."
Or since the 0.45 fee would entirely cover the credit card processing to recover the fee, people eliminated the credit card processing and thus the 0.45 minimum fee.
"It's easy to say the idea is obvious once someone else has thought of it and presented it to you - but was it "obvious" to people before Amazon did it? If so, then why was Amazon the first?"
Uhhh, because there has to be a first time for something, even obvious things?
This is the kind of news that your HR folks don't want to hear, but researchers today said letting workers swear at will in the workplace can benefit employees and employers. The study found regular use of profanity to express and reinforce solidarity among staff, enabling them to express their feelings, such as frustration, and develop social relationships, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UES). Researchers said their aim was to challenge leadership styles and suggest ideas for best practice. "Employees use swearing on a continuous basis, but not necessarily in a negative, abusive manner. Swearing was as a social phenomenon to reflect solidarity and enhance group cohesiveness, or as a psychological phenomenon to release stress, " the study stated."
Really. Other open-source licenses work within the realm of copyright, allow things that copyright restricts by default. This, on the other hand, is more of a contract, adding restrictions well beyond the realm of copyright. End-users have never even been the subject of open-source licenses, just distributors/authors.
It's not Google that ultimately sets these awful restrictive criteria; it's the end user, who is better served by a search engine that weeds out crappy pages automatically. Reminds me a while back of companies complaining about users choosing Google more than other engines, making Google a "monopoly". It's like affirmative action gone wrong.
And hey, since it'll cost you (MAFIAA) a lot of bandwidth to send copies of material to all us to be sure each of our private collections is free of copyrighted material, we could set up a torrent for you. We'd like to help out.
How about solid roll-back capability? Then if my computer was working properly yesterday and isn't today after the update, I can just roll back to yesterday's OS and wait until the next update.
All I can say is: bit flips suck! Do you KNOW your data is intact? Do you REALLY believe your dozens of 750GB-1TB SATA drives are keeping your data safe?
You do realize that the bits the OS stores on the hard drive are not physical bits, right? The hard drive presents logical bits to the PC which are physically spread out on the disk so that localized damage to the platter's magnetic configuration won't damage individual bits. So you don't get "bit flips" as you would with non-ECC DRAM for example.
I think that might be a good thing, but it could set a dangerous president for the rest of society.
Don't worry, we already have one of these in office in the US.
I certainly wouldn't want to be denied a job due to my Alzheimer's, heart disease, or cancer risk factors.
How about being denied a job for which the given ailment would prevent you from doing the job? That would be the point of having mental-related standards for people in office, so that they could do their job (and not the one of pandering to the lobbyists).
Yeah, it's not the OS that's supposed to be using much of the new power; it's user applications. If anything, operating systems can reduce system usage by improving how they allocate system resources. I wouldn't be surprised if Mac OS X were more efficient than Mac OS 9 in some ways, due to having real multitasking and decent virtual memory (funny I'm typing this on my Mac OS 9 machine).
I think he was misquoted. He was really referring to Bill Gates' Windows putting a "strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration." Apparently Gates had a suitcase full of copies of Vista he was going to give away.
"If the item arrived on time and wasn't damaged, why would you care what carrier was used? I might use golden state overnight, and that certainly isn't one of the ebay dropdowns."
If the seller claims that I have a choice of carrier (where one is $5 cheaper than the other), but then chooses the cheaper one when I chose the expensive (faster) one, I do care. If the seller really is just going to ship it to me in a few days with whatever carrier he wants, fine, he just needs to state this clearly in the terms. Hell, if a seller wanted to ship me something by carrier pigeons, I wouldn't mind, as long as it were stated up-front.
Data's safety is about having a backup, which is what I thought your post would be about. It is surprising that someone would have 2GB of mostly irreplacable data stored on someone else's machine, to which you pay nothing for the service. On the other hand, e-mail is sent from machine to machine in the clear, so anything you send is probably intercepted already. Even if you have your e-mail program "delete" the message from the server, who says it really gets deleted anyway?
I find most extras stupid, especially the heavily produced ones (as compared to commentary). Occasionally the commentary has been good, like for The Goonies.
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How does the buyer of the vote verify that it was actually cast as paid for?
Here is some of their super secret codes revealed:
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And the most valuable, apparently:
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Thanks for your post. It made me realize just how much people are not interested in the actual work, but the sentimental value and charm of old worn things. Thinking of these works in pristine condition as being of greater historical value took me a few moments. Thanks.
"There was a minimum 0.45 fee applied to cover credit card cost, so if people went to bittorrent, etc., it could be pirated."
Or since the 0.45 fee would entirely cover the credit card processing to recover the fee, people eliminated the credit card processing and thus the 0.45 minimum fee.
"It's easy to say the idea is obvious once someone else has thought of it and presented it to you - but was it "obvious" to people before Amazon did it? If so, then why was Amazon the first?"
Uhhh, because there has to be a first time for something, even obvious things?
Actually, I think he called it a super computer because it costed as much as one.
Really. Other open-source licenses work within the realm of copyright, allow things that copyright restricts by default. This, on the other hand, is more of a contract, adding restrictions well beyond the realm of copyright. End-users have never even been the subject of open-source licenses, just distributors/authors.
RIAA sues HTTP.com, RIAA sues USB 2.0, RIAA sues self?
It's not Google that ultimately sets these awful restrictive criteria; it's the end user, who is better served by a search engine that weeds out crappy pages automatically. Reminds me a while back of companies complaining about users choosing Google more than other engines, making Google a "monopoly". It's like affirmative action gone wrong.
But DRM adds value for the consumer! Nobody in their right mind would turn that down, even at a discount.
And hey, since it'll cost you (MAFIAA) a lot of bandwidth to send copies of material to all us to be sure each of our private collections is free of copyrighted material, we could set up a torrent for you. We'd like to help out.
Hush hush! Don't spoil their fun with practical questions.
How about solid roll-back capability? Then if my computer was working properly yesterday and isn't today after the update, I can just roll back to yesterday's OS and wait until the next update.
You do realize that the bits the OS stores on the hard drive are not physical bits, right? The hard drive presents logical bits to the PC which are physically spread out on the disk so that localized damage to the platter's magnetic configuration won't damage individual bits. So you don't get "bit flips" as you would with non-ECC DRAM for example.
Don't worry, we already have one of these in office in the US.
How about being denied a job for which the given ailment would prevent you from doing the job? That would be the point of having mental-related standards for people in office, so that they could do their job (and not the one of pandering to the lobbyists).
Yeah, it's not the OS that's supposed to be using much of the new power; it's user applications. If anything, operating systems can reduce system usage by improving how they allocate system resources. I wouldn't be surprised if Mac OS X were more efficient than Mac OS 9 in some ways, due to having real multitasking and decent virtual memory (funny I'm typing this on my Mac OS 9 machine).
Is "sideways PDF" another way of saying that the submitter didn't know how to use the rotate button in the Acrobat viewer?
I think he was misquoted. He was really referring to Bill Gates' Windows putting a "strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration." Apparently Gates had a suitcase full of copies of Vista he was going to give away.
"If the item arrived on time and wasn't damaged, why would you care what carrier was used? I might use golden state overnight, and that certainly isn't one of the ebay dropdowns."
If the seller claims that I have a choice of carrier (where one is $5 cheaper than the other), but then chooses the cheaper one when I chose the expensive (faster) one, I do care. If the seller really is just going to ship it to me in a few days with whatever carrier he wants, fine, he just needs to state this clearly in the terms. Hell, if a seller wanted to ship me something by carrier pigeons, I wouldn't mind, as long as it were stated up-front.
"As a Canadian, I've never voted with anything other than a paper ballot, and I have never had a reason to question the voting process as a result."
America is the land of opportunity, like the opportunity to question the integrity of the voting process! I hope I've answered your question.
Data's safety is about having a backup, which is what I thought your post would be about. It is surprising that someone would have 2GB of mostly irreplacable data stored on someone else's machine, to which you pay nothing for the service. On the other hand, e-mail is sent from machine to machine in the clear, so anything you send is probably intercepted already. Even if you have your e-mail program "delete" the message from the server, who says it really gets deleted anyway?
I find most extras stupid, especially the heavily produced ones (as compared to commentary). Occasionally the commentary has been good, like for The Goonies.
So you'd prefer that his decision be imposed on everyone? Let each district decide what machines they want to use. sold != forced to buy
Whenever anyone tries to get me to join their social networking site, I just point them to the only one I'll ever need: isolatr.