So you must rewrite your application to take advantage of MySQL's transaction support? So in other words, no, they don't have transaction support.
no subselects
This is a nice feature, but *not* necessary. Many times a proper JOIN can be used instead. Alternately you just use multiple SQLs. However, this is the one missing feature of MySQL that I want the most.
Again you must rewrite the application to compensate for the lack of SQL-completeness. How MySQL even qualifies as an SQL language still escapes me, with all the features it continues to lack. Your arguments that the missing features aren't really necessary are ridiculous to say the least. If you're willing to compromise on nearly every point, why not just use a flat filesystem? All the missing features you excused are valuable and have important functions in a database driven application.
How can this be a "mission critical" SQL database?
How about better performance.
This statement just proves that you have no concept of what the term "mission critical" means. PostgreSQL may not be at the same level as the high-end databases, but at least it is complete. And really, I would rather have a slower correct solution than a fast incomplete hack. But then again, I personally have no need for a database whatsoever as I am not a corporation.
I'd like to finish up by refuting your first statement: "One database is not better than another because it has a bigger checklist of features. If that were true, then we'd all be using Oracle (which is actually a very good RDBMS). " Isn't it the case that anybody who can afford to use Oracle (or IBM or another high-end expensive DBMS) does? If Oracle was free (as in beer) I am sure EVERYBODY would be using it. Slashdot was founded on MySQL because it was free. I'm sure if they had had the budget for it and had known how much traffic the site would generate in the future that they would have chosen Oracle as well, even though Slashdot is hardly mission critical. At the time MySQL wasn't even "free" software. Only in the last year or two, I believe, was it licensed under the GPL. So they chose SQL because it was cheap and fast. If those are your only requirements then MySQL may be perfect for you.
The day a bank moves from Oracle or IBM to MySQL is the day I'll believe it's ready for "mission critical" applications (or it's the day that bank folds). Until then, MySQL will be relegated to serving up websites like Slashdot.
This reminds me of the section they use to have on Mac OS Rumors* (yes, I used to read them:-/) called "Dream Machines". Basically it was the kind of thing a 12-year-old would do. This was like 3 or 4 years ago, and they had things like "Quad 900 MHz G5 with 1024 MB ram" and "25 inch monitor". I guess the main difference between that and this is that this is a "dream machine" that could conceivably exist, whereas MOSR's stuff was complete fantasy. And they had it linked right off the home page. Amazing!
Well, I dunno about that. That's really going to suck for the content providers then. But if that's the case then I think they should be getting a commission on the sales they generate.
I think it was Opie and Anthony on the radio here in New York that said it first, but if the dad in a family dies, do you then go into the family album and cut out his image from all the photos, and the mom and kids pretend that the dad never existed? Why try to make it seem like the towers were never there? Why not remember them for what they were? It's not like they're something to be ashamed of.
My girlfriend was at some clothing store and they gave her a coupon at checkout and it had a picture of the Manhattan skyline with the towers in it, and the lady behind the counter asked if that made her feel uncomfortable, and if so, she would remove the image. Again, why do this? Trying to erase the memory of the towers serves no good purpose, and really only dishonors the memory of those who perished. I mean, if we're saying the towers have never existed then by extension those who've died must not have existed either.
Not to mention that the minerals in the water you drink vary from location to location; that's why water in town X tastes different from that in town Y. Bottled water companies probably do a lot of research to see what minerals taste the best. I guess this is obvious, but there's nothing like my hometown water!
I'm just making this up, but maybe warp 10 is like an asymptote and it can be approached from either direction but never reached. Though I guess you have to go warp 10 before reaching warp 13... unless they find a way to jump from warp 9.999999999999999999999999999... to warp 10.000000000000000000000...00001, maybe with a huge transporter...
The true story is that The Original Series' effects budget couldn't possibly cope with landing the Enterprise or even a shuttle in every episode.
Not to mention how long these sequences would take. They landed Voyager a couple of times and each time there was a big hubbub, and I think it took about 2-3 minutes to land the ship. When a program only has 46 minutes per episode, 2 minutes is a hell of a lot to waste. Granted, they could cut it down if it was every episode, or just say "land the ship" and cut to a pic of the ship on the planet, but transporters opened up a whole other avenue from which to draw stories. Among all the ST series there have probably be at least 20 episodes that revolved around "transporter mishaps". Like when Geordi and Ro got transported into another phase of existence and everybody thought they were dead. They could walk through walls, but how come they didn't fall through the floor off the ship? How did they get in a shuttle and fly to the Romulan ship? Or how about when Dr Pulaski got that old-age virus thing and they used the transporter to re-sequence/filter her DNA with a hair follicle from a brush of hers? If they can do that, why don't they do that every time somebody has screwy DNA problems?
These are just a couple of the little mistakes that I love to find and laugh at, but don't really subtract from my enjoyment of the show.
But what if you need something that the website provides? Look elsewhere. When there are enough people requiring the services of one company, but who do not want to go to that company, another can come in. By being freindlier to their customers, all else being equal, they can gobble up market share.
But it's your choice whether the companies force-advertising you will succeed or not, because they depend on you, and not the other way around.
So you hate these ads so much that you're willing to stop visiting that site completely. Any time a site that tries to make money off ads emerges, you'd like that company to tank.
So let's look at a scenario: Salon.com introduces a new ad delivery method that most people find annoying. These people then stop visiting salon.com. Salon now has no source of revenue and closes up shop. Most other news sites trying new ad techniques meet a similar fate. So who's left? Sites funded by the huge media conglomerates you Slashdotters love so much -- AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Bertelsmann, Sony, etc. -- and MSN. Is this the future you want? You're directly contributing to a situation so many here have railed against for so long -- a media oligopoly. Welcome to the propaganda machine!
I do not understand this mentality most people (me included to some extent) that everything on the Internet must be free and that the site providing the content has no right to show any kind of ads. A popup ad is annoying, but it's annoying enough that you'd stop going to the site and support the media oligopoly I mentioned above? A game I used to play, Dark Galaxy, had so many popups that I resorted to adding nearly every ad server to my windows HOSTS file to prevent them. Every page generated super-annoying popups -- some of which didn't have a window frame with the min/max/close buttons (I know alt-f4 but I'm sure lots of people don't). I would have liked to support that site but when they go to extremes like that it's more than I can take. Eventually I stopped going to the site completely because the game was boring, but also I didn't feel it was right to use their service without "paying" for it.
In this case I just didn't feel that the content was worth the amount of annoyance they were including. I realize that this is what everybody is basically saying, but it seems that too many people have an exceptionally low tolerance for "annoyance". My threshold was multiple popups on every single page. Some people's threshold is apparently interstitial ads like Salon is planning to run, others "can't stand" the "huge" Flash ads on news.com, zdnn, and nytimes.com.
Really, I think if you want to have any hope of avoiding the media oligopoly you should work on lowering your annoyance threshold. And why not click a damn ad banner once in a while? Right or wrong, ad revenue is still pretty much generated on per-click, not per-impression. If you prefer banners over popups, click the banner and not the popup. But to completely stop visiting a site will surely sound the death knell for independent media outlets, except those run as a hobby or those that can profitably be run on a subscription or donation basis.
First of all, the salary was lagged by 1 month, so when you get paid, you're not getting paid for the past 2 weeks, you're getting paid for the period 4 weeks ago to 2 weeks ago. Thus, when I didn't get paid one friday, I was owed two paychecks. Then the company didn't offer any explanation for another 2 weeks (during which time I did not work of course). I was already 10 days late on my rent at that point (I had had some financial difficulties prior to that involving medical expenses) and if the job had continued, I would have been in the black within 1.5 months. In any case, with no income and my rent already late, my landlord started eviction proceedings. So the next month or so was spent begging for money from my family so I could have enough to move out of the city where the job was and back closer to home. I had no time to begin the unemployment process. And I don't know where you're getting your (mis)information, but in New York state there is a cap on unemployment of $405/week, from which 10% is deducted for taxes = $365. I had no savings. I left school to take this job. And you wrongly inferred that I still have the cell phone and cable. My statement regarding these items was that I still have the bills, which had accrued for about 3 months due to the aforementioned financial difficulties I had encountered.
I assumed he was a con man when he decided to lie to both the investors and the public about the plans for the company. Around February it was apparent that he planned to use the company and its product simply as a vehicle to launch his daughter's modeling career (going so far as to claim she and he [neither of whom have ever written even a line of HTML, much less C++] wrote the entire application, both on the client and server side). However, at that time my options were extremely limited as I had only been working there for about 5 months, and my main reason for taking the job was to gain programming experience. 5 months of experience isn't very useful, especially when the project isn't even complete and you've got essentially nothing to show for those 5 months.
While I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't the most financially responsible person on the block, I don't think any amount of planning could have prepared me for the level of underhandedness to which my employer sank.
Oh, if anybody is wondering, the company was Aimster, which has now gone so low as to try and profit off the WTC disaster. While the page now claims that 100% of the money generated will go to the Red Cross, it initially said that "a portion" of the money would go to Aimster's "fight for freedom". Then I guess they took a lot of flak for that, and changed it (copying the text nearly verbatim from PayPal's donation page) but I seriously doubt that the red cross will see a dime of any money generated from that page. And I'm pretty doubtful that the poster they're trying to sell even exists.
A lot of what I wrote above is irrelevant to this subject, but the depths to which Aimster's CEO will sink appalls me more with each passing day.
It doesn't hurt to ask here as many people may have gone through the same thing. I'm sure this person is also looking for information from other sources as well. This respose was totally uncalled for, and I pity you and the dull life you must have if you have to negatively reply to someone harmlessly asking for information from anyone who may have been in the same situation.
How about piercing the corporate veil by proving intent to defraud? I was told the Company had plenty of money 2 or 3 days before the payroll failed to go through, and when I asked what was going on, I was told only "I don't know" by everybody. For two weeks nobody would tell me what was going on. Then it turned out that the company had only $14,000 to be split among ~20 people. THEN they expected everybody to continue working for free. But they promised us shares of the company in exchange for our forbearance. I had to stifle a laugh at that point. In any case, it seems to me they were trying to get more work out of me while knowing they couldn't pay me, which sounds like intent to defraud, which hopefully I can use somehow in court, which it seems is my only recourse.
As for your saying that Michael's statement that the stealing is justified is stupid and that all these disputes should be resolved in court, I can only say that right now I owe $2000 on my credit cards, ~$2000 to other creditors (gas, electric, phone, cell, cable, etc), have student loans to repay, owe $300 on my checking account and now it seems the one place I can actually live I will no longer have as the landlord no longer wants tenants in his house. I cannot afford to wait for bankruptcy court. I need money NOW. If my sleazebag employer had at least had the common courtesy and decency to warn me that the company was in trouble I would have been able to make some sort of preparations. But they left me high and dry and evicted from my apartment. I have been living since July 27 off donations from my family. I don't even know what to tell them at unemployment, as they have only 3 categories for "why you left your job": fired, discharged (laid off), or quit. I was none of these. I simply stopped getting paid. The company still considers us all employees and expected us to all work for free. I am serious about that. They thought we would all work for free. Anyway, I can understand why people would steal. The day before the payroll didn't happen, the company bought 60 new computers -- Athlon 1ghz 1gb ram whiteboxes -- to use as servers. I want at least 20 of them in repayment. I'm not planning to steal them, but I doubt I'll ever see my money (knowing the conman who is the CEO).
I don't think I even had an employment agreement. Employer even refused to sign a contract he had me draw up. They emailed me what they claimed was a confidentiality agreement which I never even opened, much less signed. The only paperwork I filled out was the usual tax stuff that all employers have to give you. So I don't know where that puts me.
the fact that it's illegal to stiff your employees out of wages due them, even in a bankruptcy, isn't mentioned in the article...
I have been a victim of this, and am owed approximately $7500 by my former employer, who one day decided not to pay anyone (not lay us off, just not pay us; then offered no explanation for two weeks). Does anybody know what recourse there is for people like me to get the money owed them? And what to do if the corporation for which you worked is dissolved? Can you go after the assets of the CEO and/or other executives? How? Through the Department of Labor (this is New York state) or through a private attorney? What has worked for people in the past?
We just need to take that feed into a soundcard with a digital input
Fortunately, a certain company with a lion's share of the desktop OS market is planning to only allow certain applications to talk to the sound card. They can just make sure that none such applications allow pure digital input.
Let's see how far MS can push before people really get pissed and stop using their products. The moment has been predicted many times in the past and hasn't yet occurred.
Then this will lead to only [non-MS-OS users] creating MP3s and then the RIAA/MPAA will be able to say "These [non-MS-OS users] are pirating our property! Therefore, [non-MS-OS] should be outlawed!" That's the direction things are headed anyway. And now on top of it, with the US going to war, the RIAA/MPAA will probably be able to get a lot of this legislation through congress without a sound since everybody (i.e. the public) will be focused on the war. Why would Joe Shmoe care about some kids' supposed right to illegally copy music? Small details like fair use and people legitimately making MP3s will go unnoticed.
As for your plan to rip off the shrinkwrap and bring the disc back to the store, most stores that I know of will only allow you to exchange a disc for another copy of the same disc. I guess you can stand there and argue about it with them.
I would imagine it is far better to have guys grab a single large, cached page than a smaller cached page and then have to try to have teh system survive thosands of clicks for more information.
Well, that may be better for the system, but a nested page with ~2000 comments would take quite a while to load on a 56k modem, I'm guessing. Only the Slashteam knows how many people read Slashdot on a 56k, but I bet it's not many. But that is still something to consider.
Yeah, I was waiting for somebody to drop that line. Unfortunately, the definition of government is people sacrificing some liberties for the protection only the government can afford. Since Franklin was one of the most important figures in the creation of the US government I really don't understand what he meant in this quote.
As well, lots of "essential liberties" were thrown out the window by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in his effort to hold the Union together. From here:
In pursuing victory, Lincoln assumed extra-legal powers over the press, virtually ignored the Supreme Court, declared martial law in areas where no military action justified it, quelled draft riots with armed soldiers, and drafted soldiers to fight for the Union cause. No president in history had ever exerted so much executive authority, but he did so not for personal power but in order to preserve the Union.
Nearly every historian I've ever read names Lincoln as the country's best president.
Also, I'm reminded of someone's Slashdot sig quoting Voltaire, something along the lines of "A witty quote proves absolutely nothing." Yes, I do realize the irony of that statement.:-P
In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) called for a global prohibition on encryption products without backdoors for government surveillance.
The motto was part of a volunteer toast which General Stark sent to his wartime comrades, in which he declined an invitation to head up a 32nd anniversary reunion of the 1777 Battle of Bennington in Vermont, because of poor health. The toast said in full: "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils."
This is the same argument that crypto supporters have been using all along. Corporations were complaining that they had to compete with foreign companies' products that had much stronger encryption while they were limited to 40/56/whatever-bit encryption for exported products. The argument appears to have fallen on deaf ears for the last 10-20 years. I don't see why now it would be any different.
And good luck to the government getting people to dump all their current SSL/SSH software in favor of this new awesome backdoored version. Especially with products like OpenSSH which will remain downloadable from any number of sites for quite a while.
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Can you seriously ask that question in a world where a company's version history on a certain product looks like this:
1.0 -> 2.0 -> 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 95 -> 95b -> 98 -> 98SE -> ME -> 2000 -> XP
there should be branches in there for ME and NT but you get the idea.
no proper transactions
Yes it does! If you use certain table types.
So you must rewrite your application to take advantage of MySQL's transaction support? So in other words, no, they don't have transaction support.
no subselects
This is a nice feature, but *not* necessary. Many times a proper JOIN can be used instead. Alternately you just use multiple SQLs. However, this is the one missing feature of MySQL that I want the most.
Again you must rewrite the application to compensate for the lack of SQL-completeness. How MySQL even qualifies as an SQL language still escapes me, with all the features it continues to lack. Your arguments that the missing features aren't really necessary are ridiculous to say the least. If you're willing to compromise on nearly every point, why not just use a flat filesystem? All the missing features you excused are valuable and have important functions in a database driven application.
How can this be a "mission critical" SQL database?
How about better performance.
This statement just proves that you have no concept of what the term "mission critical" means. PostgreSQL may not be at the same level as the high-end databases, but at least it is complete. And really, I would rather have a slower correct solution than a fast incomplete hack. But then again, I personally have no need for a database whatsoever as I am not a corporation.
I'd like to finish up by refuting your first statement: "One database is not better than another because it has a bigger checklist of features. If that were true, then we'd all be using Oracle (which is actually a very good RDBMS). " Isn't it the case that anybody who can afford to use Oracle (or IBM or another high-end expensive DBMS) does? If Oracle was free (as in beer) I am sure EVERYBODY would be using it. Slashdot was founded on MySQL because it was free. I'm sure if they had had the budget for it and had known how much traffic the site would generate in the future that they would have chosen Oracle as well, even though Slashdot is hardly mission critical. At the time MySQL wasn't even "free" software. Only in the last year or two, I believe, was it licensed under the GPL. So they chose SQL because it was cheap and fast. If those are your only requirements then MySQL may be perfect for you.
The day a bank moves from Oracle or IBM to MySQL is the day I'll believe it's ready for "mission critical" applications (or it's the day that bank folds). Until then, MySQL will be relegated to serving up websites like Slashdot.
Too bad phones don't have the equivalent of procmail filters.
Sure... Caller ID + Anonymous Call Rejection. Works well!
This reminds me of the section they use to have on Mac OS Rumors* (yes, I used to read them :-/) called "Dream Machines". Basically it was the kind of thing a 12-year-old would do. This was like 3 or 4 years ago, and they had things like "Quad 900 MHz G5 with 1024 MB ram" and "25 inch monitor". I guess the main difference between that and this is that this is a "dream machine" that could conceivably exist, whereas MOSR's stuff was complete fantasy. And they had it linked right off the home page. Amazing!
* mosr.net is a Mac OS Rumors parody.
This makes perfect sense! I mean, there's no way to catch a virus through email. Right?
Since the story itself had one such comment, it should be filed under this thread. Infinite recursion, noooooooo!
Well, I dunno about that. That's really going to suck for the content providers then. But if that's the case then I think they should be getting a commission on the sales they generate.
I think it was Opie and Anthony on the radio here in New York that said it first, but if the dad in a family dies, do you then go into the family album and cut out his image from all the photos, and the mom and kids pretend that the dad never existed? Why try to make it seem like the towers were never there? Why not remember them for what they were? It's not like they're something to be ashamed of.
My girlfriend was at some clothing store and they gave her a coupon at checkout and it had a picture of the Manhattan skyline with the towers in it, and the lady behind the counter asked if that made her feel uncomfortable, and if so, she would remove the image. Again, why do this? Trying to erase the memory of the towers serves no good purpose, and really only dishonors the memory of those who perished. I mean, if we're saying the towers have never existed then by extension those who've died must not have existed either.
Not to mention that the minerals in the water you drink vary from location to location; that's why water in town X tastes different from that in town Y. Bottled water companies probably do a lot of research to see what minerals taste the best. I guess this is obvious, but there's nothing like my hometown water!
I'm just making this up, but maybe warp 10 is like an asymptote and it can be approached from either direction but never reached. Though I guess you have to go warp 10 before reaching warp 13... unless they find a way to jump from warp 9.999999999999999999999999999... to warp 10.000000000000000000000...00001, maybe with a huge transporter...
Like I said, I made it up.
The true story is that The Original Series' effects budget couldn't possibly cope with landing the Enterprise or even a shuttle in every episode.
Not to mention how long these sequences would take. They landed Voyager a couple of times and each time there was a big hubbub, and I think it took about 2-3 minutes to land the ship. When a program only has 46 minutes per episode, 2 minutes is a hell of a lot to waste. Granted, they could cut it down if it was every episode, or just say "land the ship" and cut to a pic of the ship on the planet, but transporters opened up a whole other avenue from which to draw stories. Among all the ST series there have probably be at least 20 episodes that revolved around "transporter mishaps". Like when Geordi and Ro got transported into another phase of existence and everybody thought they were dead. They could walk through walls, but how come they didn't fall through the floor off the ship? How did they get in a shuttle and fly to the Romulan ship? Or how about when Dr Pulaski got that old-age virus thing and they used the transporter to re-sequence/filter her DNA with a hair follicle from a brush of hers? If they can do that, why don't they do that every time somebody has screwy DNA problems?
These are just a couple of the little mistakes that I love to find and laugh at, but don't really subtract from my enjoyment of the show.
So let's look at a scenario: Salon.com introduces a new ad delivery method that most people find annoying. These people then stop visiting salon.com. Salon now has no source of revenue and closes up shop. Most other news sites trying new ad techniques meet a similar fate. So who's left? Sites funded by the huge media conglomerates you Slashdotters love so much -- AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Bertelsmann, Sony, etc. -- and MSN. Is this the future you want? You're directly contributing to a situation so many here have railed against for so long -- a media oligopoly. Welcome to the propaganda machine!
I do not understand this mentality most people (me included to some extent) that everything on the Internet must be free and that the site providing the content has no right to show any kind of ads. A popup ad is annoying, but it's annoying enough that you'd stop going to the site and support the media oligopoly I mentioned above? A game I used to play, Dark Galaxy, had so many popups that I resorted to adding nearly every ad server to my windows HOSTS file to prevent them. Every page generated super-annoying popups -- some of which didn't have a window frame with the min/max/close buttons (I know alt-f4 but I'm sure lots of people don't). I would have liked to support that site but when they go to extremes like that it's more than I can take. Eventually I stopped going to the site completely because the game was boring, but also I didn't feel it was right to use their service without "paying" for it.
In this case I just didn't feel that the content was worth the amount of annoyance they were including. I realize that this is what everybody is basically saying, but it seems that too many people have an exceptionally low tolerance for "annoyance". My threshold was multiple popups on every single page. Some people's threshold is apparently interstitial ads like Salon is planning to run, others "can't stand" the "huge" Flash ads on news.com, zdnn, and nytimes.com.
Really, I think if you want to have any hope of avoiding the media oligopoly you should work on lowering your annoyance threshold. And why not click a damn ad banner once in a while? Right or wrong, ad revenue is still pretty much generated on per-click, not per-impression. If you prefer banners over popups, click the banner and not the popup. But to completely stop visiting a site will surely sound the death knell for independent media outlets, except those run as a hobby or those that can profitably be run on a subscription or donation basis.
Can someone tell me why this did not get picked up by a more respectful network?
Paramount owns Star Trek. UPN = United Paramount Network. So they air it on the network they own. UPN was the network on which Voyager aired. Capisce?
First of all, the salary was lagged by 1 month, so when you get paid, you're not getting paid for the past 2 weeks, you're getting paid for the period 4 weeks ago to 2 weeks ago. Thus, when I didn't get paid one friday, I was owed two paychecks. Then the company didn't offer any explanation for another 2 weeks (during which time I did not work of course). I was already 10 days late on my rent at that point (I had had some financial difficulties prior to that involving medical expenses) and if the job had continued, I would have been in the black within 1.5 months. In any case, with no income and my rent already late, my landlord started eviction proceedings. So the next month or so was spent begging for money from my family so I could have enough to move out of the city where the job was and back closer to home. I had no time to begin the unemployment process. And I don't know where you're getting your (mis)information, but in New York state there is a cap on unemployment of $405/week, from which 10% is deducted for taxes = $365. I had no savings. I left school to take this job. And you wrongly inferred that I still have the cell phone and cable. My statement regarding these items was that I still have the bills, which had accrued for about 3 months due to the aforementioned financial difficulties I had encountered.
I assumed he was a con man when he decided to lie to both the investors and the public about the plans for the company. Around February it was apparent that he planned to use the company and its product simply as a vehicle to launch his daughter's modeling career (going so far as to claim she and he [neither of whom have ever written even a line of HTML, much less C++] wrote the entire application, both on the client and server side). However, at that time my options were extremely limited as I had only been working there for about 5 months, and my main reason for taking the job was to gain programming experience. 5 months of experience isn't very useful, especially when the project isn't even complete and you've got essentially nothing to show for those 5 months.
While I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't the most financially responsible person on the block, I don't think any amount of planning could have prepared me for the level of underhandedness to which my employer sank.
Oh, if anybody is wondering, the company was Aimster, which has now gone so low as to try and profit off the WTC disaster. While the page now claims that 100% of the money generated will go to the Red Cross, it initially said that "a portion" of the money would go to Aimster's "fight for freedom". Then I guess they took a lot of flak for that, and changed it (copying the text nearly verbatim from PayPal's donation page) but I seriously doubt that the red cross will see a dime of any money generated from that page. And I'm pretty doubtful that the poster they're trying to sell even exists.
A lot of what I wrote above is irrelevant to this subject, but the depths to which Aimster's CEO will sink appalls me more with each passing day.
It doesn't hurt to ask here as many people may have gone through the same thing. I'm sure this person is also looking for information from other sources as well. This respose was totally uncalled for, and I pity you and the dull life you must have if you have to negatively reply to someone harmlessly asking for information from anyone who may have been in the same situation.
With what money? Can you recommend one in New York State that is willing to work for free?
How about piercing the corporate veil by proving intent to defraud? I was told the Company had plenty of money 2 or 3 days before the payroll failed to go through, and when I asked what was going on, I was told only "I don't know" by everybody. For two weeks nobody would tell me what was going on. Then it turned out that the company had only $14,000 to be split among ~20 people. THEN they expected everybody to continue working for free. But they promised us shares of the company in exchange for our forbearance. I had to stifle a laugh at that point. In any case, it seems to me they were trying to get more work out of me while knowing they couldn't pay me, which sounds like intent to defraud, which hopefully I can use somehow in court, which it seems is my only recourse.
As for your saying that Michael's statement that the stealing is justified is stupid and that all these disputes should be resolved in court, I can only say that right now I owe $2000 on my credit cards, ~$2000 to other creditors (gas, electric, phone, cell, cable, etc), have student loans to repay, owe $300 on my checking account and now it seems the one place I can actually live I will no longer have as the landlord no longer wants tenants in his house. I cannot afford to wait for bankruptcy court. I need money NOW. If my sleazebag employer had at least had the common courtesy and decency to warn me that the company was in trouble I would have been able to make some sort of preparations. But they left me high and dry and evicted from my apartment. I have been living since July 27 off donations from my family. I don't even know what to tell them at unemployment, as they have only 3 categories for "why you left your job": fired, discharged (laid off), or quit. I was none of these. I simply stopped getting paid. The company still considers us all employees and expected us to all work for free. I am serious about that. They thought we would all work for free. Anyway, I can understand why people would steal. The day before the payroll didn't happen, the company bought 60 new computers -- Athlon 1ghz 1gb ram whiteboxes -- to use as servers. I want at least 20 of them in repayment. I'm not planning to steal them, but I doubt I'll ever see my money (knowing the conman who is the CEO).
I don't think I even had an employment agreement. Employer even refused to sign a contract he had me draw up. They emailed me what they claimed was a confidentiality agreement which I never even opened, much less signed. The only paperwork I filled out was the usual tax stuff that all employers have to give you. So I don't know where that puts me.
the fact that it's illegal to stiff your employees out of wages due them, even in a bankruptcy, isn't mentioned in the article...
I have been a victim of this, and am owed approximately $7500 by my former employer, who one day decided not to pay anyone (not lay us off, just not pay us; then offered no explanation for two weeks). Does anybody know what recourse there is for people like me to get the money owed them? And what to do if the corporation for which you worked is dissolved? Can you go after the assets of the CEO and/or other executives? How? Through the Department of Labor (this is New York state) or through a private attorney? What has worked for people in the past?
We just need to take that feed into a soundcard with a digital input
Fortunately, a certain company with a lion's share of the desktop OS market is planning to only allow certain applications to talk to the sound card. They can just make sure that none such applications allow pure digital input.
Let's see how far MS can push before people really get pissed and stop using their products. The moment has been predicted many times in the past and hasn't yet occurred.
Then this will lead to only [non-MS-OS users] creating MP3s and then the RIAA/MPAA will be able to say "These [non-MS-OS users] are pirating our property! Therefore, [non-MS-OS] should be outlawed!" That's the direction things are headed anyway. And now on top of it, with the US going to war, the RIAA/MPAA will probably be able to get a lot of this legislation through congress without a sound since everybody (i.e. the public) will be focused on the war. Why would Joe Shmoe care about some kids' supposed right to illegally copy music? Small details like fair use and people legitimately making MP3s will go unnoticed.
As for your plan to rip off the shrinkwrap and bring the disc back to the store, most stores that I know of will only allow you to exchange a disc for another copy of the same disc. I guess you can stand there and argue about it with them.
There's a total of ~120 KB/s upload on this one, so if it gets bogged down it's gonna suck, but I'm not really using it right now anyway...
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http://66.66.232.31/wolfenstein/WolfMPTEST0915.ex
I would imagine it is far better to have guys grab a single large, cached page than a smaller cached page and then have to try to have teh system survive thosands of clicks for more information.
Well, that may be better for the system, but a nested page with ~2000 comments would take quite a while to load on a 56k modem, I'm guessing. Only the Slashteam knows how many people read Slashdot on a 56k, but I bet it's not many. But that is still something to consider.
As well, lots of "essential liberties" were thrown out the window by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in his effort to hold the Union together. From here:Nearly every historian I've ever read names Lincoln as the country's best president.
Also, I'm reminded of someone's Slashdot sig quoting Voltaire, something along the lines of "A witty quote proves absolutely nothing." Yes, I do realize the irony of that statement.
This is the same argument that crypto supporters have been using all along. Corporations were complaining that they had to compete with foreign companies' products that had much stronger encryption while they were limited to 40/56/whatever-bit encryption for exported products. The argument appears to have fallen on deaf ears for the last 10-20 years. I don't see why now it would be any different.
And good luck to the government getting people to dump all their current SSL/SSH software in favor of this new awesome backdoored version. Especially with products like OpenSSH which will remain downloadable from any number of sites for quite a while.