First of all, the book describes events which mainly involved a single firm, and those events took place nearly twenty years ago. Second, NASD arbitration isn't quite the "kangaroo court" you imagine it to be. I work with people every day who are subject to NASD scrutiny and authority, and it is taken very, very seriously. In fact, I would characterize the whole thing as nearly the opposite of what you describe: most people faced with going up against the NASD would much rather hash it out in court.
As for your claim of paltry settlements, I think you need to review more recent cases. The outcome may have been suspect ten or fifteen years ago, but these days payouts are running to seven and eight figures, which is a pretty good payday for enduring some douchebag's unwanted advances for a period of time (or whatever the case may be). And while I'm on the subject, that's on top of the millions firms are spending to remind the rest of us that we now live in a world ruled by tedious, oversensitive, PC whiners.
I know what Haliburton does. It's very dull and repetitive and not especially evil. My former father-in-law was an extremely high ranking executive there, and the man is about as evil as a room full of sleeping puppies.
However, I did get a big laugh out of your closing statement about "find the evil hidden in this picture" which is an excellent description of the way people like you view the business world in general. In fact, should one be inclined to do evil, it would appear that the best way to avoid that sort of scrutiny is to simply declare that you're not evil (e.g. "Don't be evil,") and you'll swallow it hook, line and sinker.
It's also worth noting that.NET applications can ONLY be executed in fully compiled native-code form..NET applications compile to CIL (Common Intermediate Language, formerly MSIL), and a JIT compiles them as needed. Unlike Java, there is no option to run in any interpreted state. As such, the CLR is much closer to an API library than the traditional definition of a virtual machine (such as the JVM). Most of the things that led to the term "virtual machine" and all it implies are compiled to a native-platform equivalent by the time the JIT is done and the code is running.
I don't want to reopen the nagasaki and Hiroshima debate, but...BUT... you're going to anyway.
Or is it, you don't want to reopen the debate, BUT you want to make your point and not hear others?
Don't be such a simpleton. The net result was unarguably good. This doesn't mean the event itself wasn't horrific and unfortunate. Besides, I was obviously posting an exaggerated comment in direct response to the unthinking PC nonsense spouted by DoofusOfDeath.
Simple. 1024x768 is a commonly-used 4:3 ratio, whereas 960x720 isn't commonly used. Everybody in the world was already making 768-line LCD panels (and all the controller hardware that goes with it) for use in the earlier-generation computer monitors. Some of the higher priced projection displays (front and rear) do have "true" 720 line panels, but I don't think they're all that common.
The whole point of the registry is to "make piracy difficult". The ONLY reason they created it in the FIRST place was because Bill Gates et al thought their third-rate operating system was so special and important that to protect it from nasty "pirates" they had to essentially lobotomize it.
LOL... that's inventive, I'll grant you that.
The correct answer was that the authors of NT realized the ever-expanding and slow-to-process INI arrangement in earlier, simpler versions of Windows was doomed to failure. The registry is a great idea with a really god-awful implementation, and the problems are compounded by a planet full of relatively poor quality programmers that insist on jamming all sorts of weird shit in there in the most unlikely places.
The crackheads who came up with the implementation of COM registration are especially deserving of slow painful deaths. That's 99% of your registry garbage right there.
But it is utterly and absolutely unrelated to piracy. Good luck next time.
Somebody else pointed out they don't. I was wrong. Not really an Apple guy (to put it mildly), I just thought I had read about a monster-screen laptop from them.
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First of all, the book describes events which mainly involved a single firm, and those events took place nearly twenty years ago. Second, NASD arbitration isn't quite the "kangaroo court" you imagine it to be. I work with people every day who are subject to NASD scrutiny and authority, and it is taken very, very seriously. In fact, I would characterize the whole thing as nearly the opposite of what you describe: most people faced with going up against the NASD would much rather hash it out in court.
As for your claim of paltry settlements, I think you need to review more recent cases. The outcome may have been suspect ten or fifteen years ago, but these days payouts are running to seven and eight figures, which is a pretty good payday for enduring some douchebag's unwanted advances for a period of time (or whatever the case may be). And while I'm on the subject, that's on top of the millions firms are spending to remind the rest of us that we now live in a world ruled by tedious, oversensitive, PC whiners.
I know what Haliburton does. It's very dull and repetitive and not especially evil. My former father-in-law was an extremely high ranking executive there, and the man is about as evil as a room full of sleeping puppies.
However, I did get a big laugh out of your closing statement about "find the evil hidden in this picture" which is an excellent description of the way people like you view the business world in general. In fact, should one be inclined to do evil, it would appear that the best way to avoid that sort of scrutiny is to simply declare that you're not evil (e.g. "Don't be evil,") and you'll swallow it hook, line and sinker.
Style over substance is the new watchword.
I'm sure it looks better than the gaping hole of unemployment.
Goatse NDA FTW!
It's also worth noting that .NET applications can ONLY be executed in fully compiled native-code form. .NET applications compile to CIL (Common Intermediate Language, formerly MSIL), and a JIT compiles them as needed. Unlike Java, there is no option to run in any interpreted state. As such, the CLR is much closer to an API library than the traditional definition of a virtual machine (such as the JVM). Most of the things that led to the term "virtual machine" and all it implies are compiled to a native-platform equivalent by the time the JIT is done and the code is running.
and for considerably more stolen money!
So you're some kind of con-artist or thief? Nice.
Fair enough, I did jump to a conclusion. Twice, in fact.
Actually, hazards of a poor short term memory created by a misspent youth. :)
I don't want to reopen the nagasaki and Hiroshima debate, but ...BUT... you're going to anyway.
Or is it, you don't want to reopen the debate, BUT you want to make your point and not hear others?
Don't be such a simpleton. The net result was unarguably good. This doesn't mean the event itself wasn't horrific and unfortunate. Besides, I was obviously posting an exaggerated comment in direct response to the unthinking PC nonsense spouted by DoofusOfDeath.
a free market with a single Venture Capitalist (the state party chairman) through whom ALL requests for money to develop an invention must go through
You have a... "unique" definition of the word "free".
...might be enough to power my wifes iPod that she uses to pretend I'm someone else when I'm banging her.
Fixed.
To answer your question: No, not really.
Fair warning: Absolution Gap is a yawner by comparison.
Bah. Namby-pamby. Chain them to treadmills and shoot them full of raw adrenaline.
But some former citizens of Hiroshima an Nagasaki probably have somewhat mixed feelings on the issue.
Indeed, their assumption of racial superiority was dealt a severe blow. That was a good act if I've ever heard of one.
Simple. 1024x768 is a commonly-used 4:3 ratio, whereas 960x720 isn't commonly used. Everybody in the world was already making 768-line LCD panels (and all the controller hardware that goes with it) for use in the earlier-generation computer monitors. Some of the higher priced projection displays (front and rear) do have "true" 720 line panels, but I don't think they're all that common.
Actually Flourinert is very safe stuff.
Non-toxic, environazi-friendly, the whole nine yards.
Very expensive though -- about $200 per gallon.
On top of that it takes up a lot of disk space/RAM
It's 2007. A couple hundred megs isn't a lot of disk space.
Come to think of it, a couple hundred megs is an average amount of RAM.
Realized or believed, the point is that it wasn't related to the other poster's anti-piracy fantasy.
Hell, I'm still waiting for a version of Vista Upgrade Advisor that doesn't immediately suck down 1GB of swap space then hang indefinitely...
The whole point of the registry is to "make piracy difficult". The ONLY reason they created it in the FIRST place was because Bill Gates et al thought their third-rate operating system was so special and important that to protect it from nasty "pirates" they had to essentially lobotomize it.
... that's inventive, I'll grant you that.
LOL
The correct answer was that the authors of NT realized the ever-expanding and slow-to-process INI arrangement in earlier, simpler versions of Windows was doomed to failure. The registry is a great idea with a really god-awful implementation, and the problems are compounded by a planet full of relatively poor quality programmers that insist on jamming all sorts of weird shit in there in the most unlikely places.
The crackheads who came up with the implementation of COM registration are especially deserving of slow painful deaths. That's 99% of your registry garbage right there.
But it is utterly and absolutely unrelated to piracy. Good luck next time.
Actually denoir did mention wavelets a few posts back, and some moron modded it flamebait.
KMRML! Of course! Now why couldn't I remember that name?
Self driving cars have to be, (at least in recent years) an absolute con
w s/news.html?in_article_id=393401&in_page_id=1770
VW is doing a pretty good job.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/ne
Bah. Everyone knows it's really the clanwallace effect.
Somebody else pointed out they don't. I was wrong. Not really an Apple guy (to put it mildly), I just thought I had read about a monster-screen laptop from them.