I switched to TaxCut about the same time, but only partly because of TurboTax's (nee MacInTax, which I'd been using forever) crap. The other reason was that it started requiring a version of MacOS that my ancient Performa wouldn't support. IIRC TaxCut went the same way the following year, sigh. This past weekend I pulled out the old W2K box to put the new TaxCut CD in and look what's in the drive -- last year's TaxCut CD. Shows how much I use that box;-) (Allegedly TaxCut runs under WINE, I haven't tried that yet - since it's supported back to W98, it wouldn't surprise me.)
I won't touch anything from Intuit anymore. I once upgraded from Quicken 5 to Quicken 6 (Mac version) and 6 was so bad I quickly backed it out. Quicken 5 is Good Enough, and doesn't try tying you into a perpetual upgrade cycle.
Judge Nault: I just think this is the stupidest law in the world. But I didn't write the law and I'm bound to follow it. So I'm gonna go ahead and give you your money. But I'm just saying, it just takes up court time and it's absolutely stupid.
Well gee, Your Honor, that's just how the rest of us feel about spam.
Without wading through the papers (hey, this is/.) this sounds a lot like Dewey B. Larson's 3-D space/3-D time theories. Mind, I haven't read Larson's stuff since I was in high school (my senior year physics teacher was a fan of his theories.) Maybe he was on to something.
You asked for a document that showed a conviction. I found you one. What's your problem?
As for "overturned on appeal", that's not quite what happened. Microsoft and DOJ agreed to a settlement that imposed substantial restrictions on Microsoft behaviour without Microsoft actually admitting wrongdoing. If they weren't guilty, why'd they agree to the restrictions?
It's like getting charged with running a red light (or perhaps reckless driving) but being let off with a fine but no points if you agree to pay up without going to court.
(Boy, the Microsoft apologists are really crawling out of the woodwork today. Something must have hit a sore spot.)
Show me one document that shows a conviction. Just one, that's all I want.
Okay, same one I gave the earlier requestor: U.S. vs Microsoft, but I'll quote a different part:
Upon consideration of the Court's Findings of Fact ("Findings"), filed herein on November 5, 1999, as amended on December 21, 1999, the proposed conclusions of law submitted by the parties, the briefs of amici curiae, and the argument of counsel thereon, the Court concludes that Microsoft maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market, both in violation of 2. Microsoft also violated 1 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system.
Please point me to a legal document that implies they [Microsoft] were "convicted"
Okay, here ya go. It's the "Conclusions of Law" in the United States vs Microsoft case. Quoting from the Orders:
ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECLARED, that Microsoft has violated 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, 2, as well as the following state law provisions: Cal Bus. & Prof. Code 16720, 16726, 17200; Conn. Gen. Stat. 35-26, 35-27, 35-29; D.C. Code 28-4502, 28-4503; Fla. Stat. chs. 501.204(1), 542.18, 542.19; 740 Ill. Comp. Stat. ch. 10/3; Iowa Code 553.4, 553.5; Kan. Stat. 50-101 et seq.; Ky. Rev. Stat. 367.170, 367.175; La. Rev. Stat. 51:122, 51:123, 51:1405; Md. Com. Law II Code Ann. 11-204; Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A, 2; Mich. Comp. Laws 445.772, 445.773; Minn. Stat. 325D.52; N.M. Stat. 57-1-1, 57-1-2; N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 340; N.C. Gen. Stat. 75-1.1, 75-2.1; Ohio Rev. Code 1331.01, 1331.02; Utah Code 76-10-914; W.Va. Code 47-18-3, 47-18-4; Wis. Stat. 133.03(1)-(2);
But there's nothing more important than human life.
If you're talking about "human life" in general -- get a grip, the species isn't going extinct just yet.
If you're talking about a (or even several) human lifes -- get a grip, there are plenty of things more important (to some people) than individual human lives, sometimes including their own; if not, nobody would risk their own life for anything.
If and only if there's a(n enforceable) patent on the technology. While I realize the USPTO hands out patents like candy on Halloween, there's a chance they missed that one.
Actually with any luck Adobe will have patented whatever forces the ad-viewing, so that gnash will perforce have to leave that bit out.
The Bond movies have always poked fun at themselves.
Not really. The first two (Dr. No and From Russia With Love) didn't, although they did have a couple of humorous moments (as did Fleming's books -- and look at Fleming's choice of character names, particularly the females). The later ones maybe a little. The Roger Moore Bond flicks, on the other hand, went overboard in making a farce of it all.
I enjoyed this Casino Royale as a return to the Bond roots. (The other Casino Royale, with David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, etc was also a farce, but it had some redeeming qualities (Joanna Pettet, Ursula Andress, Barbara Bouchet). Nice soundtrack, too.
The towers survived the impact just fine, as they were designed to. It was the fire (coupled with what impact damage there was) they had problems with.
Sustaining "hurricane force winds" means sustaining a side load -- which the towers did just fine. The weight of the floor (and the rest of the building above) is a vertical load, which in the normal course of things is fairly constant.
thermite residue
LOL! Do you even know what thermite is? It's a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide (rust) - they combine energetically to form alumiminum oxide and iron. Gee, do you think that an aluminum aircraft colliding with a steel framed building and sitting through an intense fire might leave some "thermite residue"? I'd be astonished if it didn't.
BTW, demolition is never done with thermite, it doesn't cut fast enough. It's done by precutting (partially) structural members and then using shaped charges to quickly and simultaneously cut them all the rest of the way.
LOL. You cite as a reason that long-lived (ie mildly radioactive) radwaste must be harmful the fact that the company with the contract to store same is a major pork recipient? You don't think that they just might be being paid too much to do something that isn't really necessary?
The ability of crackpots to simultaneously hold two or more contradictory delusions never ceases to amaze me.
Okay, thanks for the info. Make that "no significant fire". Yes, it was significant to the individuals immediately involved, of course, but a good part of the burning fuel (not very much, considering the plane was near the end of its flight) went outside the building. The fire was extinguished.
Other posters have already compared the relative weights and fuel loads of the aircraft. The energy density of "high octane" avgas vs jet fuel is about the same (about 43 MJ/kg), I see more variation between different analyses of same than between avgas and jet fuel.
What temperatures are necessary to melt structural steel at all,
Who said anything about melt?
Structural steel -- almost any metal -- loses strength as it heats up. That's why a blacksmith heats up a piece of iron or steel before working it. It just needed to get hot enough to where the loss of strength was greater than the safety margin built in to the design. That's far short of melting point.
Much like all the structural engineers are sitting there, right now, going "yeah, of course if you fly a jet plane into a building it is going to fall down."
Uh, no, not necessarily. If it were just the jet flying into the building, it would have fallen at the time of impact. They didn't, it was an hour or so later. The fires (from the jet fuel) had to weaken the structural steel first. The Empire State Building survived a hit from an airliner (admittedly not a jet, so lower speed impact) early in its history, and it's still standing, because there was no fire. (And perhaps because the steelwork is more of a self-reinforcing grid rather than the outer shell/core plus bridge-like floor trusses of the WTC towers. Once the beams weakened enough to tear away from the edge supports (outer wall and elevator core) there was nothing else to hold them up -- and the impact of that floor on the floor beneath ripped that one loose, and so on...)
Think about why the World Trade Center towers collapsed. (Hint: something to do with the effect of sustained high temperature kerosene fire on the strength of structural steel.)
E.g., if you want to know how fast a rocket reaches the moon, you don't need to know the exact shape or colour of the rocket
True enough for moon rockets, but for some simulations -- like projecting whether a given asteroid (1950 DA for example), the colour does matter if you're project the orbit to see if it hits Earth in 800 or so years. Over such long time intervals the difference in sunlight pressure (and a couple of related effects) on a light vs dark surface will affect the trajectory.
The same effects have an affect on the rocket too, of course, but as you point out, on that scale they're not important.
If that has anything to do with nukes -- the containment vessels for nuclear power reactors are designed to withstand a crash by a fully fueled airliner. We're talking walls several meters thick of densified reinforced concrete. (Densified -- they use a rock (iron ore?) about twice as dense as ordinary rock in the aggregate.) Airliners -- even moving at 500 knots -- have little more structural integrity than an aluminum soda can.
I think you've been listening to too much elevator music.
None of those things have anything to do with power production, they're weapons related.
If you really had any knowledge of nuclear-related science, you'd know that anything with a "many many thouseands of years of lifespan" in terms of nuclear waste is very very mildly radioactive at all, and mostly harmless.
Just out of curiosity, how long does it take for the arsenic and mercury in coal ash to become non-toxic? Oh, right, it never does.
If you're so up on utilities, what's the standard for allowable radioactive emissions from a coal-fired power plant? Oh, right, there is no standard -- if they had to meet the standards for nuke plants, the coal plants would all be shut down (thorium, radon, etc in the smoke and flue gases.)
No, he's right. Say what you will about Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, the crap routinely spewed out by coal-fired plants is worse, as is the damage done in obtaining and transporting the fuel in the first place.
Probably more people have died just in coal-related transportation accidents (eg, coal-train hitting a car at a railroad crossing) than died at Chernobyl, and certainly more have died in coalmine accidents.
Heck, some people still live in the town of Chernobyl (they refused to be evacuated) and they're doing fine. Not that Chernobyl is at all relevant to power production anywhere else on the planet, it was a design that nobody else uses.
I paid something around $1600 for my first VHS VCR (but hey, it could record audio separately. Used that about once.)
I paid around $600 for my first CD player (but hey, it had subcode ouput! Which I never used and I think only one disc ever took advantage of).
I paid about $200 for my first DVD player (which could read and output NTSC or PAL, and I've actually used that a couple of times).
I'm getting cheaper in my old age, I may not bother with an HD/BD player until I can get one in a Crackerjack box. (Hey, my eyes are going too, who needs hi-def? IfI don't upgrade the prescription on my glasses I'll never know the difference.)
For SCO, off the top of my head I'd say fire Darl [...] Finally, make a fucking product and sell it.
It's probably a couple of years too late for that anyway. But if SCO-Caldera had continued with their OpenLinux distro (which in its day actually wasn't too bad, it was one of, if not the, first easily-installable distros) they'd be a lot better off. Who knows, Novell might have bought them instead of SuSE.
Without the correct password, the controller chip will simply refuse to provide further access to the flash memory.
So even if the password control worked (which it doesn't), you could get at the contents by desoldering the flash chip and putting it in a reader. (Something hobbyists have been doing with HD-DVD drives to reverse engineer/modify the firmware.) And this is a supposedly intelligence-service recommended device for government use? Right, go on, pull the other one.
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I switched to TaxCut about the same time, but only partly because of TurboTax's (nee MacInTax, which I'd been using forever) crap. The other reason was that it started requiring a version of MacOS that my ancient Performa wouldn't support. IIRC TaxCut went the same way the following year, sigh. This past weekend I pulled out the old W2K box to put the new TaxCut CD in and look what's in the drive -- last year's TaxCut CD. Shows how much I use that box ;-) (Allegedly TaxCut runs under WINE, I haven't tried that yet - since it's supported back to W98, it wouldn't surprise me.)
I won't touch anything from Intuit anymore. I once upgraded from Quicken 5 to Quicken 6 (Mac version) and 6 was so bad I quickly backed it out. Quicken 5 is Good Enough, and doesn't try tying you into a perpetual upgrade cycle.
Judge Nault: I just think this is the stupidest law in the world. But I didn't write the law and I'm bound to follow it. So I'm gonna go ahead and give you your money. But I'm just saying, it just takes up court time and it's absolutely stupid.
Well gee, Your Honor, that's just how the rest of us feel about spam.
Without wading through the papers (hey, this is /.) this sounds a lot like Dewey B. Larson's 3-D space/3-D time theories. Mind, I haven't read Larson's stuff since I was in high school (my senior year physics teacher was a fan of his theories.) Maybe he was on to something.
You asked for a document that showed a conviction. I found you one. What's your problem?
As for "overturned on appeal", that's not quite what happened. Microsoft and DOJ agreed to a settlement that imposed substantial restrictions on Microsoft behaviour without Microsoft actually admitting wrongdoing. If they weren't guilty, why'd they agree to the restrictions?
It's like getting charged with running a red light (or perhaps reckless driving) but being let off with a fine but no points if you agree to pay up without going to court.
(Boy, the Microsoft apologists are really crawling out of the woodwork today. Something must have hit a sore spot.)
Okay, same one I gave the earlier requestor: U.S. vs Microsoft, but I'll quote a different part: (Emphasis added)
Okay, here ya go. It's the "Conclusions of Law" in the United States vs Microsoft case. Quoting from the Orders:
Happy now? (No, didn't think so.)
Any job ad I post includes the phrase "Word documents will be discarded unread".
Most publishers that accept email submissions pretty much say the same thing. RTF is allowed (and in some cases, preferred), but DOC gets flushed.
twenty five years ago.
Actually, make that eighty.
(Okay, that's arguably analog rather than digital.)
Next up VCD on Vinyl
Oh, that's been done twenty five years ago.
But there's nothing more important than human life.
If you're talking about "human life" in general -- get a grip, the species isn't going extinct just yet.
If you're talking about a (or even several) human lifes -- get a grip, there are plenty of things more important (to some people) than individual human lives, sometimes including their own; if not, nobody would risk their own life for anything.
If and only if there's a(n enforceable) patent on the technology. While I realize the USPTO hands out patents like candy on Halloween, there's a chance they missed that one.
Actually with any luck Adobe will have patented whatever forces the ad-viewing, so that gnash will perforce have to leave that bit out.
The Bond movies have always poked fun at themselves.
Not really. The first two (Dr. No and From Russia With Love) didn't, although they did have a couple of humorous moments (as did Fleming's books -- and look at Fleming's choice of character names, particularly the females). The later ones maybe a little. The Roger Moore Bond flicks, on the other hand, went overboard in making a farce of it all.
I enjoyed this Casino Royale as a return to the Bond roots. (The other Casino Royale, with David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, etc was also a farce, but it had some redeeming qualities (Joanna Pettet, Ursula Andress, Barbara Bouchet). Nice soundtrack, too.
The towers survived the impact just fine, as they were designed to. It was the fire (coupled with what impact damage there was) they had problems with.
Sustaining "hurricane force winds" means sustaining a side load -- which the towers did just fine. The weight of the floor (and the rest of the building above) is a vertical load, which in the normal course of things is fairly constant.
thermite residue
LOL! Do you even know what thermite is? It's a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide (rust) - they combine energetically to form alumiminum oxide and iron. Gee, do you think that an aluminum aircraft colliding with a steel framed building and sitting through an intense fire might leave some "thermite residue"? I'd be astonished if it didn't.
BTW, demolition is never done with thermite, it doesn't cut fast enough. It's done by precutting (partially) structural members and then using shaped charges to quickly and simultaneously cut them all the rest of the way.
LOL. You cite as a reason that long-lived (ie mildly radioactive) radwaste must be harmful the fact that the company with the contract to store same is a major pork recipient? You don't think that they just might be being paid too much to do something that isn't really necessary?
The ability of crackpots to simultaneously hold two or more contradictory delusions never ceases to amaze me.
Okay, thanks for the info. Make that "no significant fire". Yes, it was significant to the individuals immediately involved, of course, but a good part of the burning fuel (not very much, considering the plane was near the end of its flight) went outside the building. The fire was extinguished.
Other posters have already compared the relative weights and fuel loads of the aircraft. The energy density of "high octane" avgas vs jet fuel is about the same (about 43 MJ/kg), I see more variation between different analyses of same than between avgas and jet fuel.
What temperatures are necessary to melt structural steel at all,
Who said anything about melt?
Structural steel -- almost any metal -- loses strength as it heats up. That's why a blacksmith heats up a piece of iron or steel before working it. It just needed to get hot enough to where the loss of strength was greater than the safety margin built in to the design. That's far short of melting point.
What a maroon.
Much like all the structural engineers are sitting there, right now, going "yeah, of course if you fly a jet plane into a building it is going to fall down."
Uh, no, not necessarily. If it were just the jet flying into the building, it would have fallen at the time of impact. They didn't, it was an hour or so later. The fires (from the jet fuel) had to weaken the structural steel first. The Empire State Building survived a hit from an airliner (admittedly not a jet, so lower speed impact) early in its history, and it's still standing, because there was no fire. (And perhaps because the steelwork is more of a self-reinforcing grid rather than the outer shell/core plus bridge-like floor trusses of the WTC towers. Once the beams weakened enough to tear away from the edge supports (outer wall and elevator core) there was nothing else to hold them up -- and the impact of that floor on the floor beneath ripped that one loose, and so on...)
I'm not sure why that got modded funny.
Think about why the World Trade Center towers collapsed. (Hint: something to do with the effect of sustained high temperature kerosene fire on the strength of structural steel.)
E.g., if you want to know how fast a rocket reaches the moon, you don't need to know the exact shape or colour of the rocket
True enough for moon rockets, but for some simulations -- like projecting whether a given asteroid (1950 DA for example), the colour does matter if you're project the orbit to see if it hits Earth in 800 or so years. Over such long time intervals the difference in sunlight pressure (and a couple of related effects) on a light vs dark surface will affect the trajectory.
The same effects have an affect on the rocket too, of course, but as you point out, on that scale they're not important.
What are you babbling about? Flight 94 ... what?
If that has anything to do with nukes -- the containment vessels for nuclear power reactors are designed to withstand a crash by a fully fueled airliner. We're talking walls several meters thick of densified reinforced concrete. (Densified -- they use a rock (iron ore?) about twice as dense as ordinary rock in the aggregate.) Airliners -- even moving at 500 knots -- have little more structural integrity than an aluminum soda can.
I think you've been listening to too much elevator music.
None of those things have anything to do with power production, they're weapons related.
If you really had any knowledge of nuclear-related science, you'd know that anything with a "many many thouseands of years of lifespan" in terms of nuclear waste is very very mildly radioactive at all, and mostly harmless.
Just out of curiosity, how long does it take for the arsenic and mercury in coal ash to become non-toxic? Oh, right, it never does.
If you're so up on utilities, what's the standard for allowable radioactive emissions from a coal-fired power plant? Oh, right, there is no standard -- if they had to meet the standards for nuke plants, the coal plants would all be shut down (thorium, radon, etc in the smoke and flue gases.)
No, he's right. Say what you will about Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, the crap routinely spewed out by coal-fired plants is worse, as is the damage done in obtaining and transporting the fuel in the first place.
Probably more people have died just in coal-related transportation accidents (eg, coal-train hitting a car at a railroad crossing) than died at Chernobyl, and certainly more have died in coalmine accidents.
Heck, some people still live in the town of Chernobyl (they refused to be evacuated) and they're doing fine. Not that Chernobyl is at all relevant to power production anywhere else on the planet, it was a design that nobody else uses.
The first DVD players were $1000.
I paid something around $1600 for my first VHS VCR (but hey, it could record audio separately. Used that about once.)
I paid around $600 for my first CD player (but hey, it had subcode ouput! Which I never used and I think only one disc ever took advantage of).
I paid about $200 for my first DVD player (which could read and output NTSC or PAL, and I've actually used that a couple of times).
I'm getting cheaper in my old age, I may not bother with an HD/BD player until I can get one in a Crackerjack box. (Hey, my eyes are going too, who needs hi-def? IfI don't upgrade the prescription on my glasses I'll never know the difference.)
For SCO, off the top of my head I'd say fire Darl [...] Finally, make a fucking product and sell it.
It's probably a couple of years too late for that anyway. But if SCO-Caldera had continued with their OpenLinux distro (which in its day actually wasn't too bad, it was one of, if not the, first easily-installable distros) they'd be a lot better off. Who knows, Novell might have bought them instead of SuSE.
Without the correct password, the controller chip will simply refuse to provide further access to the flash memory.
So even if the password control worked (which it doesn't), you could get at the contents by desoldering the flash chip and putting it in a reader. (Something hobbyists have been doing with HD-DVD drives to reverse engineer/modify the firmware.) And this is a supposedly intelligence-service recommended device for government use? Right, go on, pull the other one.