The situation is the same in UK. After factoring in childcare (for one infant and one preschooler) and commuting costs, my wife makes about a pound ($2) an hour and that's in a reasonably well paying job. In fact her real earnings are probably negative because of the tax benefits that we no longer qualify for with our combined salaries. Obviously she doesn't do it for the money, but if she stayed at home and looked after the kids for 5 years, she'd be unemployable in her field.
As for me, I like in house childcare because you don't get the BS (most of the time) of folks with kids having to run home every time their kid is sick.
Do the company childcare providers not worry about sickness spreading to other children, or taking carers' time away from the healthy children to look after a sick child? Why should company provided childcare be any different than outside childcare with respect to sickness policies?
They certainly did get run over at Tienanmen Square. An ex-flatmate's brother lost his leg there. You're talking about the famous photo of the guy stopping the tank by standing in front of it, but that wasn't the only tank, and they didn't always stop.
Until recently I only had FoxIt installed for reading PDFs. But then I tried to use Royal Mail's online postage printing to print some urgently needed stamps (no time to queue at the post office). FoxIt does not support the full PDF spec, and my envelopes came out with SAMPLE watermarks across them. So in the end I had to reluctantly go back to twiddling my thumbs while Acrobat locks up my whole browser for 2 minutes every time I want to look at a PDF.
Another variation on #1 is that they buy something from you and overpay with a bank draft from a foreign bank, asking you to send the difference to their "shipping agent" so they can avoid a double fee. It's all designed to make you feel like there is no risk - people trust bank drafts more than they do personal cheques, but in reality a bank draft can also be reversed weeks later when the originating bank gets the original and discovers it was forged or stolen. You also don't have to send the shipping agent any money until the bank draft "clears", and you don't have to send the goods until you get instructions from the shipping agent (which never come, to avoid leaving a trail to the fraudster - any contact with the shipping agent is through a temporary mail drop).
Here's an even better idea: The HTML DOM would be the View, the Javascript would be the Controller, and the server would be the Model!
Here's another one for you: The HTML DOM is the view, the Browser is the Controller, the Model is implemented in Javascript, and the server would be a source of data.
This would show me the customer is a DULT and doesn't know anything about the system they bought/use.
Which is exactly why you can get away with a quote of 6 months to install a piece of off the shelf software. The world is full of companies who bought some piece of software for no other reason than the CEO's brother in law had good things to say about it over a game of golf. Successful companies like Accenture are built off the opportunities these suckers present.
My last experience with a Mac was one of the original PowerPC based ones, which had the power button next to the floppy drive, right where every other PC had the floppy eject button. To eject a floppy, you had to use a paperclip right after pressing the power button by mistake. There was also a software eject somewhere in the system menu for those rare cases where you got your work done without a system bomb (the Mac equivalent of a bluescreen).
And vice versa. As someone outside the US, I get a lot of these prerecorded calls originating from the US, but seldom from my own country where I'm on the equivalent of your do not call list. What's the bet this law only applies to calls to and from US numbers, and telemarketing is just going to be pushed across national borders from now on.
Radio and TV are slightly different, in that you don't get to choose what to listen to when (you can timeshift, but still there are other conditions that go with broadcast licenses that prevent whole albums being broadcast in one go or for the schedule to be known in advance down to details of what tracks will be played when). But allofmp3.com was shut down by the RIAA for using the exact business model that is being mooted here. Even though they eventually won their court case in Russia recognizing the legitimacy of the licensing body they were paying, they have not been able to reopen due to being blocked by all major credit card vendors, paypal and other sources of payment.
Trouble is...they way things stand as I understand it...even if you play ONLY indie, free music, you are still subject to SoundExchanges fees.
That's not quite right. Paying SoundExchange gets you a license to the music, whether the musician likes it or not. But getting a license directly from the musician (which if the musician releases the music freely, you have) is a perfectly valid alternative way of getting a license. When the SoundExchange MAFFIA come calling to sell you their services, they might not explain it that way, but when it comes to the law, they can only act on behalf of musicians they represent.
Exactly. It can confuse customer support when they have to confirm your identity though, as they start to think the database is corrupt when the answer on their screen is completely unrelated to the question that they're about to ask you.
The transformation from a feudal system to a more modern political system began under the previous Dalai Lama in the early 1930's. He sent envoys to Japan to study their transformation in the 19th century. But the Japanese democracy had already deteriorated by then to a military dictatorship with only a facade of democracy, so it is not clear what that transformation would have ended up looking like if the British and Chinese had not invaded in the 1940's.
Pure zip files do have a small header at the start of the file, but most tools that deal with zip files ignore it so they can work with self-compressed exes as well. Since java doesn't really need to handle self compressed exes, it could reject jar files that don't start with the PK\003\004 byte sequence.
But this only closes the attack for sites that check the types of files uploaded carefully. Most image uploading sites make thumbnails and other sized images, so would probably detect a non-image as part of that processing, but there are also a lot of sites that just check the extension of files users upload, so a simple renaming of a jar file to.gif will expose users to the same attack there.
Only certain product codes are included. I have a DV2175ea, which has a product code outside the range they are extending the warranty for. Its NVidia video chip overheated in March (outside the normal 1 year warranty period, but well within the extended 2 year one).
Vista's security chain works as designed and intended, preventing from you to inject an untrusted bootloader into the bootstrap.
If that was the case, the bootloader would have failed on the first boot after installing it, not after installing SP1, and there wouldn't be a workaround of downgrading to the Vista bootloader to install the service pack then reverting after it was installed.
In the UK the rate has often been a 1 UK Point == 1 US dollar (although the rate is about £2 - $1)
The currency is called pound, and you got the exchange rate backwards. But as far as prices on the shelf go, you're right £1 : US$1 is not far wrong in a lot of cases.
The main reasons for US ebay sellers not shipping outside of US and Canada are anti-competitive agreements they have with software publishers to prevent them undercutting the official resellers in those countries, (these agreements are also common in the music, movie and publishing industries and are propped up by US copyright law, though no longer by the copyright laws in many of the worst affected countries, as governments have started to fight back against this price gouging by multinationals), and for smaller sellers, the perceived risk of fraud and reduced ability to do something about it once you ship internationally.
The Euro's low was around US$0.83 in November 2001, and its high in $1.60 in April 2008. So yes, it did change that much. As a general rule, most obvious with oil prices, a product will increase in price as soon as the exchange rate or commodity market rate becomes unfavorable for the seller, but decreases in price are rare, and lag market changes by months if they happen at all.
Also, the shelf price of goods in shops does not fluctuate with the global currency markets. So though the Euro is strong now (the dollar is weak might be a more accurate way of stating it, but most financial commentary tends to be US$ centric, even in Europe), the shelf prices were set long when the dollar was much stronger (the Euro was originally valued at something like US$0.80, compared to today's $1.60), at which time the relative prices might have been closer.
Oh great, I no longer live in London, but I was in for the Saturday a couple of weeks ago when the first problem happened, and as I touched out at Waterloo got a red light come up saying "Seek Assistance", so I presume my card was affected. So now I have to go to the station in outer London I nominated as my home station 5 years ago to get my refund?
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The situation is the same in UK. After factoring in childcare (for one infant and one preschooler) and commuting costs, my wife makes about a pound ($2) an hour and that's in a reasonably well paying job. In fact her real earnings are probably negative because of the tax benefits that we no longer qualify for with our combined salaries. Obviously she doesn't do it for the money, but if she stayed at home and looked after the kids for 5 years, she'd be unemployable in her field.
Do the company childcare providers not worry about sickness spreading to other children, or taking carers' time away from the healthy children to look after a sick child? Why should company provided childcare be any different than outside childcare with respect to sickness policies?
They certainly did get run over at Tienanmen Square. An ex-flatmate's brother lost his leg there. You're talking about the famous photo of the guy stopping the tank by standing in front of it, but that wasn't the only tank, and they didn't always stop.
Until recently I only had FoxIt installed for reading PDFs. But then I tried to use Royal Mail's online postage printing to print some urgently needed stamps (no time to queue at the post office). FoxIt does not support the full PDF spec, and my envelopes came out with SAMPLE watermarks across them. So in the end I had to reluctantly go back to twiddling my thumbs while Acrobat locks up my whole browser for 2 minutes every time I want to look at a PDF.
They light it as you hand it over?
Another variation on #1 is that they buy something from you and overpay with a bank draft from a foreign bank, asking you to send the difference to their "shipping agent" so they can avoid a double fee. It's all designed to make you feel like there is no risk - people trust bank drafts more than they do personal cheques, but in reality a bank draft can also be reversed weeks later when the originating bank gets the original and discovers it was forged or stolen. You also don't have to send the shipping agent any money until the bank draft "clears", and you don't have to send the goods until you get instructions from the shipping agent (which never come, to avoid leaving a trail to the fraudster - any contact with the shipping agent is through a temporary mail drop).
Here's another one for you: The HTML DOM is the view, the Browser is the Controller, the Model is implemented in Javascript, and the server would be a source of data.
Which is exactly why you can get away with a quote of 6 months to install a piece of off the shelf software. The world is full of companies who bought some piece of software for no other reason than the CEO's brother in law had good things to say about it over a game of golf. Successful companies like Accenture are built off the opportunities these suckers present.
My last experience with a Mac was one of the original PowerPC based ones, which had the power button next to the floppy drive, right where every other PC had the floppy eject button. To eject a floppy, you had to use a paperclip right after pressing the power button by mistake. There was also a software eject somewhere in the system menu for those rare cases where you got your work done without a system bomb (the Mac equivalent of a bluescreen).
And vice versa. As someone outside the US, I get a lot of these prerecorded calls originating from the US, but seldom from my own country where I'm on the equivalent of your do not call list. What's the bet this law only applies to calls to and from US numbers, and telemarketing is just going to be pushed across national borders from now on.
Radio and TV are slightly different, in that you don't get to choose what to listen to when (you can timeshift, but still there are other conditions that go with broadcast licenses that prevent whole albums being broadcast in one go or for the schedule to be known in advance down to details of what tracks will be played when). But allofmp3.com was shut down by the RIAA for using the exact business model that is being mooted here. Even though they eventually won their court case in Russia recognizing the legitimacy of the licensing body they were paying, they have not been able to reopen due to being blocked by all major credit card vendors, paypal and other sources of payment.
And if they'd ranked that table the American way, they could have put themselves second instead of third.
That's not quite right. Paying SoundExchange gets you a license to the music, whether the musician likes it or not. But getting a license directly from the musician (which if the musician releases the music freely, you have) is a perfectly valid alternative way of getting a license. When the SoundExchange MAFFIA come calling to sell you their services, they might not explain it that way, but when it comes to the law, they can only act on behalf of musicians they represent.
Do they seriously increase your risk of lung cancer?
Exactly. It can confuse customer support when they have to confirm your identity though, as they start to think the database is corrupt when the answer on their screen is completely unrelated to the question that they're about to ask you.
The transformation from a feudal system to a more modern political system began under the previous Dalai Lama in the early 1930's. He sent envoys to Japan to study their transformation in the 19th century. But the Japanese democracy had already deteriorated by then to a military dictatorship with only a facade of democracy, so it is not clear what that transformation would have ended up looking like if the British and Chinese had not invaded in the 1940's.
The DMCA applies to copyright, not trademark infringement. If the IOC has used the DMCA here, they deserve to be slapped down big time.
Pure zip files do have a small header at the start of the file, but most tools that deal with zip files ignore it so they can work with self-compressed exes as well. Since java doesn't really need to handle self compressed exes, it could reject jar files that don't start with the PK\003\004 byte sequence.
But this only closes the attack for sites that check the types of files uploaded carefully. Most image uploading sites make thumbnails and other sized images, so would probably detect a non-image as part of that processing, but there are also a lot of sites that just check the extension of files users upload, so a simple renaming of a jar file to .gif will expose users to the same attack there.
Only certain product codes are included. I have a DV2175ea, which has a product code outside the range they are extending the warranty for. Its NVidia video chip overheated in March (outside the normal 1 year warranty period, but well within the extended 2 year one).
If that was the case, the bootloader would have failed on the first boot after installing it, not after installing SP1, and there wouldn't be a workaround of downgrading to the Vista bootloader to install the service pack then reverting after it was installed.
The currency is called pound, and you got the exchange rate backwards. But as far as prices on the shelf go, you're right £1 : US$1 is not far wrong in a lot of cases.
The main reasons for US ebay sellers not shipping outside of US and Canada are anti-competitive agreements they have with software publishers to prevent them undercutting the official resellers in those countries, (these agreements are also common in the music, movie and publishing industries and are propped up by US copyright law, though no longer by the copyright laws in many of the worst affected countries, as governments have started to fight back against this price gouging by multinationals), and for smaller sellers, the perceived risk of fraud and reduced ability to do something about it once you ship internationally.
The Euro's low was around US$0.83 in November 2001, and its high in $1.60 in April 2008. So yes, it did change that much. As a general rule, most obvious with oil prices, a product will increase in price as soon as the exchange rate or commodity market rate becomes unfavorable for the seller, but decreases in price are rare, and lag market changes by months if they happen at all.
Also, the shelf price of goods in shops does not fluctuate with the global currency markets. So though the Euro is strong now (the dollar is weak might be a more accurate way of stating it, but most financial commentary tends to be US$ centric, even in Europe), the shelf prices were set long when the dollar was much stronger (the Euro was originally valued at something like US$0.80, compared to today's $1.60), at which time the relative prices might have been closer.
Oh great, I no longer live in London, but I was in for the Saturday a couple of weeks ago when the first problem happened, and as I touched out at Waterloo got a red light come up saying "Seek Assistance", so I presume my card was affected. So now I have to go to the station in outer London I nominated as my home station 5 years ago to get my refund?