I used to live in WA state and was able to get a Wii after just a few weekends of calling retailers. However, I moved to MN state recently and you can't get a Wii here.
I asked the electronics dude at target and he said they get a couple units a week and they all sell out the same day they arrive. I really don't understand why they can't ramp up production even more. At this point, scarcity isn't doing them any favors so there is no reason to limit supply. They should simply make as many units as possible and saturate the market to ensure licensing revenues are steady for some time to come.
If you look at the WoW executables and DLL's, the program itself has not grown appreciably. The content directories are very large, but the combined size of the executables is only about 20 MB.
Yes, I used to work in a call center with the same policy. I eventually told them their options were A) I leave my computer on 24x7 and show up on time and ready to rock, or B) I take overtime for showing up 10 minutes early to start my computer.
I kind of want an iPhone just because they're sexy, but giving up my Treo with PalmOS would be almost impossible. I have actual shit to do with my phone and PalmOS has the software availability I need.
Even if you're right(I don't know shit about this stuff), the issue then becomes the software.
If the plane descended so abruptly that it caused 70 injuries, then the software is to blame for not limiting ascent and descent in a more controlled manner.
When a human pilot sees they're at 30k feet and wants to be at 12k feet, they do not plunge the plane into a nose dive.
While this has nothing to do with labor laws such as overtime exemptions, I feel compelled to correct some misconceptions of yours.
Banks, in an effort to make money have been gradually giving higher and higher value loans to people with relatively stagnant income. This was magnified by the fact that stupid consumers, often those with insufficient or bad credit, have been using their homesteads as short-term credit cards. They bank on the fact that the value of their house will go up to compensate for their lack of spending control.
While you may be right(sort of) about the demographics of those people, it had nothing to do with affirmative action. This is what happens when greedy banks deal with desperate and/or uninformed homebuyers.
1) This CSS template makes me want to claw my eyes out. I know I can avoid it. I'm merely mentioning this again, because it is so ugly.
2) This is BS. It won't fly in college and it doesn't adequately prepare students for working even minimal responsibility jobs. Working in fast food requires a high degree of accuracy. Making half the burgers wrong will get you fired quickly.
Let's see here. The majority of schools in the Pittsburgh public school system are accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Looking at their accreditation standards(http://www.css-msa.org/pdfs/Standards_for_Schools_with_Indicators.pdf), and I quote for the lazy/PDF-impaired:
Indicators for schools with secondary school programs:
8.28 The educational program facilitates a smooth transition from elementary or middle
school to secondary school.
8.29 The educational program develops academic knowledge and skills as well as career
competencies.
8.30 The educational program provides appropriate educational programs for students who
are concluding formal study as well as those planning further education.
8.31 The educational program develops habits of the mind and attitudes required for success
in further education and in the workplace.
Seems to me this policy fails to meet their accreditation requirements from a very basic subjective view on 8.29-8.31.
I'm assuming you're talking about QA/management standards like ISO 9001, 14001, 13485, TS16949, etc.
If so, you are correct. There are indeed many ISO registrars for these certifications and many of them are only in it to make money, which means giving their customers a lot of leeway when it comes to nonconformities.
At first it seems counterproductive to sacrifice your reputation for a little extra money, until you realize that many supply chain companies don't care who the registrar is and only care that the certificate exists.
The fact is that accreditation bodies for ISO registrars aren't all equally competent to assess the registrars ability to objectively conduct audits. Another common pitfall is that many companies in supply chains don't understand the relationship between accreditors and registrars, leaving a lot of customers who DO have a certificate for their quality systems in the lurch. I mentioned 13485 specifically because a lot of US registrars aren't accepted in Europe due to only being accredited by ANSI/ANAB or SCC.
As someone from a certification body, I will not be providing any opinions on specific companies. I will say however that your comments seem to indicate you're on the other end of the audits, responsible for implementing QA systems to meet ISO requirements and your company is committed to those requirements only to the extent that is required to pass the audit.
From my own personal experience, it sounds like your auditor needs to dig more during audits to see if you're company uniformly follows its own quality management system. If you received more nonconformities, your company would either provide adequate training and/or resources to meet your own quality system or would drop it entirely.
Either outcome would be beneficial for you(unless you're canned for not passing your audits(lol?)).
Intimidation to cause censorship. The city attempted to hinder her 1st amendment rights. She fought back and the city backed down, but that doesn't make what they did right.
The city needs to be made an example of in the court of law for all to see so as to dissuade others from trying the same thing.
I was under the impression that the anti-attack site feature is now built into Firefox and isn't a 3rd party addon. Regardless, the terms of their agreement are pretty stupid. I would bet the entire reason they concocted this is some lawyer in the Mozilla Foundation decided the warranty disclaimers the GPL weren't enough and they wanted to go above and beyond.
Really, its a bit over the top. It's not a license in the traditional sense. It is more akin to a websites terms of use.
Silly. I think what they are really looking for is called a "Copyright notice". Basically stating the software source code is covered under the GPL and the artwork, name and other aspects are covered under trademark and copyright.
Hey, that kind of sounds like the About Mozilla Firefox option under help.
You have to realize that communication between nodes in a cluster of off the shelf PCs is going to be much slower than the inter-node communication channels used in a Cray.
Any work that requires a lot of communication will always run faster on a real supercomputer versus a cluster of PCs. There will always be a niche for Cray, but their prices will continue to go up as more and more of their repeat customers realize they don't really need what they're getting.
My perception seems to be that local news on non-political subjects is a lot more accurate and unbiased than national news.
For example, I trust my local TV stations to very accurately portray local news such as house fires and violent crimes. However, I do not trust national media to accurately portray most international news such as wars and diplomatic actions.
It's not that I think people in media are terrible at their jobs. In fact, the lower you go in the organization tree, I think the more honest people are. However, as with many organizations, the higher you get the more influential the bad people can be. Even the "embedded reporters" in Iraq were all likely doing a great job, but they were only reporting on what they were allowed to see and the output of their reporting was all filtered to show only what management wanted you to see.
Consider this: recent figures estimate the Iraqi death toll to be 10x as high as our own. How many dead Iraqis have you seen on TV? How many dead Americans? I'd bet both numbers are extraordinarily low. The reason is the media filters out that kind of content, knowing that if you saw the true cost and effect of the war that your support for it might wane.
The media in most industrialized nations is hypersensationalized, faulty or even just wrong. Once you admit that traditional media outlets are often biased and have agendas of their own, you can come to the realization that there are things the media wont print even without censorship.
In short, the media self-censors to it's own preservation.
I think the key is that both #1 and 2 are correct. Patent clerks evidently think anything performed by a computer is completely separate and distinct from the physical world, and creative.
You're an idiot. WoW is the best digital skinner box ever devised. Almost the entire game is central to spending more time for better items, with very little skill being involved.
The one exception to this was a recent change - arenas. There it truly is about skill(and playing whatever classes are currently higher on the imbalance scale, which changes over time).
Every other aspect of the game is about grinding. Your example, "dailies", is a terrible example. It's the epitome of grinding. Most of the quests are meaningless, simple and time consuming(Isle quests anyone? a well trained monkey could do them).
The goal is to reduce the rate at which you can obtain items. The reset timers on instances are a shining example of Blizzard's admission that instances are not difficult and that they must use artificial locks to prevent you from running out of content.
Hasn't Microsoft trained us over time with a reverse skinner box approach, by offering cooperation and failing to deliver on the open principles they committed to?
Microsoft has earned the negative attitude they receive with years of practice, hard work and dedication. It's like posting at -1. It takes time to dig yourself out of it and Microsoft can't just create a new account and start over.
If Ramji really wants to be taken seriousyl, he should be prepared to be received poorly for some time to come and take that in stride.
You're looking at IP54 protection at best, "Weather-resistant. Protects against weather hazards such as rain and sleet; used outdoors, on ship docks, in construction work and in tunnels and subways."
Conformal coatings are nothing new, but the degree of protection afforded by them varies tremendously. Anyone wanting to use this on Something Important(TM) should do a lot of research.
Likely not. You would have to prove it was Dells intent to do this deliberately. From the sounds of it, Dell just kinda fucked up. That might entitle you to a rebate, refund or exchange but is unlikely to get you any punitive damages.
The old restaurant I worked at paid almost $19k USD monthly in rent.
Waiters/waitresses are close to free, making just minimum wage. Cooks keep asking for raises though.
Transporting food costs a lot. If he thought about it, he would realize itâ(TM)s a deal. All the people sitting around him subsidized him getting a meal made of ingredients he may or may not be able to obtain at a reasonable price otherwise.
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I used to live in WA state and was able to get a Wii after just a few weekends of calling retailers. However, I moved to MN state recently and you can't get a Wii here.
I asked the electronics dude at target and he said they get a couple units a week and they all sell out the same day they arrive. I really don't understand why they can't ramp up production even more. At this point, scarcity isn't doing them any favors so there is no reason to limit supply. They should simply make as many units as possible and saturate the market to ensure licensing revenues are steady for some time to come.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00006424&year=2007
Estimated net worth for John McCain is about $28M.
If you look at the WoW executables and DLL's, the program itself has not grown appreciably. The content directories are very large, but the combined size of the executables is only about 20 MB.
and go read the actual 1996 bill, and you'll see that was I say is true.
Right, because spending bills ALWAYS send money where they are supposed to...
Yes, I used to work in a call center with the same policy. I eventually told them their options were A) I leave my computer on 24x7 and show up on time and ready to rock, or B) I take overtime for showing up 10 minutes early to start my computer.
They chose A, despite B being much cheaper.
I kind of want an iPhone just because they're sexy, but giving up my Treo with PalmOS would be almost impossible. I have actual shit to do with my phone and PalmOS has the software availability I need.
Even if you're right(I don't know shit about this stuff), the issue then becomes the software.
If the plane descended so abruptly that it caused 70 injuries, then the software is to blame for not limiting ascent and descent in a more controlled manner.
When a human pilot sees they're at 30k feet and wants to be at 12k feet, they do not plunge the plane into a nose dive.
While this has nothing to do with labor laws such as overtime exemptions, I feel compelled to correct some misconceptions of yours.
Banks, in an effort to make money have been gradually giving higher and higher value loans to people with relatively stagnant income. This was magnified by the fact that stupid consumers, often those with insufficient or bad credit, have been using their homesteads as short-term credit cards. They bank on the fact that the value of their house will go up to compensate for their lack of spending control.
While you may be right(sort of) about the demographics of those people, it had nothing to do with affirmative action. This is what happens when greedy banks deal with desperate and/or uninformed homebuyers.
1) This CSS template makes me want to claw my eyes out. I know I can avoid it. I'm merely mentioning this again, because it is so ugly.
2) This is BS. It won't fly in college and it doesn't adequately prepare students for working even minimal responsibility jobs. Working in fast food requires a high degree of accuracy. Making half the burgers wrong will get you fired quickly.
Let's see here. The majority of schools in the Pittsburgh public school system are accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Looking at their accreditation standards(http://www.css-msa.org/pdfs/Standards_for_Schools_with_Indicators.pdf), and I quote for the lazy/PDF-impaired:
Indicators for schools with secondary school programs:
8.28 The educational program facilitates a smooth transition from elementary or middle school to secondary school.
8.29 The educational program develops academic knowledge and skills as well as career competencies.
8.30 The educational program provides appropriate educational programs for students who are concluding formal study as well as those planning further education.
8.31 The educational program develops habits of the mind and attitudes required for success in further education and in the workplace.
Seems to me this policy fails to meet their accreditation requirements from a very basic subjective view on 8.29-8.31.
I'm assuming you're talking about QA/management standards like ISO 9001, 14001, 13485, TS16949, etc.
If so, you are correct. There are indeed many ISO registrars for these certifications and many of them are only in it to make money, which means giving their customers a lot of leeway when it comes to nonconformities.
At first it seems counterproductive to sacrifice your reputation for a little extra money, until you realize that many supply chain companies don't care who the registrar is and only care that the certificate exists.
The fact is that accreditation bodies for ISO registrars aren't all equally competent to assess the registrars ability to objectively conduct audits. Another common pitfall is that many companies in supply chains don't understand the relationship between accreditors and registrars, leaving a lot of customers who DO have a certificate for their quality systems in the lurch. I mentioned 13485 specifically because a lot of US registrars aren't accepted in Europe due to only being accredited by ANSI/ANAB or SCC.
As someone from a certification body, I will not be providing any opinions on specific companies. I will say however that your comments seem to indicate you're on the other end of the audits, responsible for implementing QA systems to meet ISO requirements and your company is committed to those requirements only to the extent that is required to pass the audit.
From my own personal experience, it sounds like your auditor needs to dig more during audits to see if you're company uniformly follows its own quality management system. If you received more nonconformities, your company would either provide adequate training and/or resources to meet your own quality system or would drop it entirely.
Either outcome would be beneficial for you(unless you're canned for not passing your audits(lol?)).
Just so you know, IBM doesn't own or operate Groklaw. I'm not sure where you got that from.
IBM contributes to ibiblio, the Groklaw host. That's not quite the same thing.
If only we could round up all the politicians and lobbyists in the same small area and convince them like lemmings to jump off a bridge...
I think a lot of things would improve.
Intimidation to cause censorship. The city attempted to hinder her 1st amendment rights. She fought back and the city backed down, but that doesn't make what they did right.
The city needs to be made an example of in the court of law for all to see so as to dissuade others from trying the same thing.
I just reviewed that link briefly.
I was under the impression that the anti-attack site feature is now built into Firefox and isn't a 3rd party addon. Regardless, the terms of their agreement are pretty stupid. I would bet the entire reason they concocted this is some lawyer in the Mozilla Foundation decided the warranty disclaimers the GPL weren't enough and they wanted to go above and beyond.
Really, its a bit over the top. It's not a license in the traditional sense. It is more akin to a websites terms of use.
Much hullabaloo over nothing imo.
Silly. I think what they are really looking for is called a "Copyright notice". Basically stating the software source code is covered under the GPL and the artwork, name and other aspects are covered under trademark and copyright.
Hey, that kind of sounds like the About Mozilla Firefox option under help.
What are we talking about again?
You have to realize that communication between nodes in a cluster of off the shelf PCs is going to be much slower than the inter-node communication channels used in a Cray.
Any work that requires a lot of communication will always run faster on a real supercomputer versus a cluster of PCs. There will always be a niche for Cray, but their prices will continue to go up as more and more of their repeat customers realize they don't really need what they're getting.
My perception seems to be that local news on non-political subjects is a lot more accurate and unbiased than national news.
For example, I trust my local TV stations to very accurately portray local news such as house fires and violent crimes. However, I do not trust national media to accurately portray most international news such as wars and diplomatic actions.
It's not that I think people in media are terrible at their jobs. In fact, the lower you go in the organization tree, I think the more honest people are. However, as with many organizations, the higher you get the more influential the bad people can be. Even the "embedded reporters" in Iraq were all likely doing a great job, but they were only reporting on what they were allowed to see and the output of their reporting was all filtered to show only what management wanted you to see.
Consider this: recent figures estimate the Iraqi death toll to be 10x as high as our own. How many dead Iraqis have you seen on TV? How many dead Americans? I'd bet both numbers are extraordinarily low. The reason is the media filters out that kind of content, knowing that if you saw the true cost and effect of the war that your support for it might wane.
The media in most industrialized nations is hypersensationalized, faulty or even just wrong. Once you admit that traditional media outlets are often biased and have agendas of their own, you can come to the realization that there are things the media wont print even without censorship.
In short, the media self-censors to it's own preservation.
I think the key is that both #1 and 2 are correct. Patent clerks evidently think anything performed by a computer is completely separate and distinct from the physical world, and creative.
They've lost their minds.
If I were a citizen, I would countersue the company by demonstrating future harm.
You're an idiot. WoW is the best digital skinner box ever devised. Almost the entire game is central to spending more time for better items, with very little skill being involved.
The one exception to this was a recent change - arenas. There it truly is about skill(and playing whatever classes are currently higher on the imbalance scale, which changes over time).
Every other aspect of the game is about grinding. Your example, "dailies", is a terrible example. It's the epitome of grinding. Most of the quests are meaningless, simple and time consuming(Isle quests anyone? a well trained monkey could do them).
The goal is to reduce the rate at which you can obtain items. The reset timers on instances are a shining example of Blizzard's admission that instances are not difficult and that they must use artificial locks to prevent you from running out of content.
Hasn't Microsoft trained us over time with a reverse skinner box approach, by offering cooperation and failing to deliver on the open principles they committed to?
Microsoft has earned the negative attitude they receive with years of practice, hard work and dedication. It's like posting at -1. It takes time to dig yourself out of it and Microsoft can't just create a new account and start over.
If Ramji really wants to be taken seriousyl, he should be prepared to be received poorly for some time to come and take that in stride.
You're looking at IP54 protection at best, "Weather-resistant. Protects against weather hazards such as rain and sleet; used outdoors, on ship docks, in construction work and in tunnels and subways."
Conformal coatings are nothing new, but the degree of protection afforded by them varies tremendously. Anyone wanting to use this on Something Important(TM) should do a lot of research.
Likely not. You would have to prove it was Dells intent to do this deliberately. From the sounds of it, Dell just kinda fucked up. That might entitle you to a rebate, refund or exchange but is unlikely to get you any punitive damages.
The old restaurant I worked at paid almost $19k USD monthly in rent.
Waiters/waitresses are close to free, making just minimum wage. Cooks keep asking for raises though.
Transporting food costs a lot. If he thought about it, he would realize itâ(TM)s a deal. All the people sitting around him subsidized him getting a meal made of ingredients he may or may not be able to obtain at a reasonable price otherwise.