One thing I have to ask is: why a parking technology contract would legitimately have a 75 year term? Technology moves so fast that a five year term might be excessive. At 75 years, you might as well be signing a contract for lighting the streets using whale oil. Keeping the term short is another form of leverage to keep the contractor reasonably in line.
I get he's a prick, but why the heck do people still keep voting for him? Do voters not realize this, or is he actually less of a prick than whoever runs against him?
[quote]Or a stoned dude does a silly thing like jump in the subway or harm you for money for get the "personal share" of drugs.[/quote]
There is an opinion that this would happen a lot less if drugs are legalized. If a hit costs a little more than aspirin, how many people are going to commit violent crimes to get money to pay for it?
Maybe the European experiments in decriminalization won't work the same as it does in Mexico, but given your circumstances, do you really think you can't afford to give it a try? Sometimes the most prudent action is the more counter intuitive one.
While Intel has had many triumphs of engineering, don't forget that Intel has had significant setbacks in its history too.
Look how much they've sunk into their Itanium and all it's done for them in return, it might as well have been just a marketing program to spook the heavy iron architectures into closing up shop. They certainly didn't manage to make that research pay back for itself. Intel also made several RISC chips of their own that didn't do nearly what they expected.
They also tried to make an LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip and display engine for projection displays, that had to be canned.
The Netburst microarchitectures aren't outright failures, but they were pretty inefficient and didn't scale all that well over time.
I think the collapse of the US middle class is in large part the fault of the middle class itself. In a world of increasing sophistication, most people ignored it and didn't adapt to it, and they didn't instill into their children the importance of education. The idea that one can live very comfortably simply being unskilled labor was a foolish one that idea only worked for a generation or two. The economic hegemony of the US post WWII helped feed that idea, but part of that hegemony was sustained by malicious policies against other countries.
Maybe globalization made that middle class collapse happen faster, but an unsustainable situation like that wasn't going to stay that way forever. Closing borders to trade usually hasn't worked out well either, all that does is incite reciprocal action.
It might have been caffeine for me, I don't know. If I make it sensitive enough such that I don't need to take my thumb off and roll again to cross the screen, it's too twitchy. Maybe there are some acceleration tweaking programs to improve that, I just don't care, it's not for me.
My biggest problem is that my thumb does very well on side-to-side motion, but not the motion needed for tracking the pointer up and down. It just doesn't work well for me, too awkward. A regular mouse seems to be a lot more isotropic for me.
Twitter contingent? You mean, getting a lot of people to pay to get access to an event to protest the event's rules? Are you sure you thought that one through? Vote with your dollars. Why not just avoid the event completely?
I wonder if it turned out for the best that Boeing didn't try to match the A380, even if it was a hindsight kind of thing. Two competing super jumbos might have very seriously hurt both companies, especially given the current global civil aviation market.
It seems both companies had significant delays with recently designed aircraft, A380 had a couple delays and significant reductions in the production of deliverable aircraft. The break-even point is somewhere above 270 aircraft, and it looks like they've only delivered 17 so far.
Some copyright infringement is *considered* criminal by US law. Maybe by other country's laws, depending on how much influence the copyright lobby has in a given country.
The problem is that our immigration laws are largely set up by xenophobes a lot like you. They make it nearly impossible to legally immigrate, so what do you expect? When you have unjust laws, you shouldn't expect people to respect them. This same kind of thing happened during the prohibition era too. But do people really learn? Not really.
One thing that the anti-immigrant crowd do miss is that a lot of them are holding jobs using assumed SSNs, and taxes are withheld. They don't bother to file to get those withholdings back.
Some copyright infringement is criminal. I don't know much about this case though.
Still, it's the state that sets the statutory limits for copyright infringement, and I don't see how there should be a moral or legal case for fining individuals millions of dollars, especially since the fine would end up totaling more than most individual's lifetime earnings.
Given that there are no copyright protections, and if it's only built for personal use, I think it's completely OK legally. Where you start getting unwanted attention is if you start selling them or giving them away.
It's a double-edged sword though, student workers at university don't get paid much. Foreign students aren't allowed to work off campus. In my experience, a domestic student can usually get off campus work that pays more anyway.
I thought it was amusing to suggest a "HateBook" site in a conversation some time ago, where you would have people enemy each other. It didn't take long to realize that would quickly devolve from something light hearted to just plain vicious.
I agree. Getting "big time" in any business takes a lot more than an idea. It takes a lot of determination and putting your own work into it. And frankly, a lot of ideas seem good to the person that came up with it. Sometimes there are problems with it not apparent to that person.
It's one thing to offer suggestions on how to improve their product, but they're probably not interested in hearing project ideas. For one, it opens up liability issues, they don't want to fend off claims that they took some shlub's idea when they might have had a similar one in the works already.
It seems to me the problem is that he's asking for information that is no longer necessary. He no longer needs a street address to sell a paper electronically through a third party, so why should he still get that information?
The problem is most likely an application that is misusing a flag that tells the operating system the app is not ready to shut down. It's a legitimate flag, but has been abused. A legitimate use would be file you're editing but hasn't been saved yet. You probably don't want it to kill a modified, but unsaved file.
Microsoft has very little control over that, unless you want them to authorize every program that's installed.
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One thing I have to ask is: why a parking technology contract would legitimately have a 75 year term? Technology moves so fast that a five year term might be excessive. At 75 years, you might as well be signing a contract for lighting the streets using whale oil. Keeping the term short is another form of leverage to keep the contractor reasonably in line.
I get he's a prick, but why the heck do people still keep voting for him? Do voters not realize this, or is he actually less of a prick than whoever runs against him?
[quote]Or a stoned dude does a silly thing like jump in the subway or harm you for money for get the "personal share" of drugs.[/quote]
There is an opinion that this would happen a lot less if drugs are legalized. If a hit costs a little more than aspirin, how many people are going to commit violent crimes to get money to pay for it?
Maybe the European experiments in decriminalization won't work the same as it does in Mexico, but given your circumstances, do you really think you can't afford to give it a try? Sometimes the most prudent action is the more counter intuitive one.
While Intel has had many triumphs of engineering, don't forget that Intel has had significant setbacks in its history too.
Look how much they've sunk into their Itanium and all it's done for them in return, it might as well have been just a marketing program to spook the heavy iron architectures into closing up shop. They certainly didn't manage to make that research pay back for itself. Intel also made several RISC chips of their own that didn't do nearly what they expected.
They also tried to make an LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip and display engine for projection displays, that had to be canned.
The Netburst microarchitectures aren't outright failures, but they were pretty inefficient and didn't scale all that well over time.
I think the collapse of the US middle class is in large part the fault of the middle class itself. In a world of increasing sophistication, most people ignored it and didn't adapt to it, and they didn't instill into their children the importance of education. The idea that one can live very comfortably simply being unskilled labor was a foolish one that idea only worked for a generation or two. The economic hegemony of the US post WWII helped feed that idea, but part of that hegemony was sustained by malicious policies against other countries.
Maybe globalization made that middle class collapse happen faster, but an unsustainable situation like that wasn't going to stay that way forever. Closing borders to trade usually hasn't worked out well either, all that does is incite reciprocal action.
It might have been caffeine for me, I don't know. If I make it sensitive enough such that I don't need to take my thumb off and roll again to cross the screen, it's too twitchy. Maybe there are some acceleration tweaking programs to improve that, I just don't care, it's not for me.
My biggest problem is that my thumb does very well on side-to-side motion, but not the motion needed for tracking the pointer up and down. It just doesn't work well for me, too awkward. A regular mouse seems to be a lot more isotropic for me.
You carpeted your desk?
Twitter contingent? You mean, getting a lot of people to pay to get access to an event to protest the event's rules? Are you sure you thought that one through? Vote with your dollars. Why not just avoid the event completely?
I wonder if it turned out for the best that Boeing didn't try to match the A380, even if it was a hindsight kind of thing. Two competing super jumbos might have very seriously hurt both companies, especially given the current global civil aviation market.
It seems both companies had significant delays with recently designed aircraft, A380 had a couple delays and significant reductions in the production of deliverable aircraft. The break-even point is somewhere above 270 aircraft, and it looks like they've only delivered 17 so far.
I'm not sure, but it seemed like it might have been a sarcastic comment.
I recall Jim Crow laws being popular in some states too.
I should change that.
Some copyright infringement is *considered* criminal by US law. Maybe by other country's laws, depending on how much influence the copyright lobby has in a given country.
The problem is that our immigration laws are largely set up by xenophobes a lot like you. They make it nearly impossible to legally immigrate, so what do you expect? When you have unjust laws, you shouldn't expect people to respect them. This same kind of thing happened during the prohibition era too. But do people really learn? Not really.
One thing that the anti-immigrant crowd do miss is that a lot of them are holding jobs using assumed SSNs, and taxes are withheld. They don't bother to file to get those withholdings back.
Some copyright infringement is criminal. I don't know much about this case though.
Still, it's the state that sets the statutory limits for copyright infringement, and I don't see how there should be a moral or legal case for fining individuals millions of dollars, especially since the fine would end up totaling more than most individual's lifetime earnings.
Given that there are no copyright protections, and if it's only built for personal use, I think it's completely OK legally. Where you start getting unwanted attention is if you start selling them or giving them away.
Tim Howes is also the inventor of the LDAP Protocol, when he was a grad student at UMich studying DAP and DIT under X.500 of OSI fame.
I doubt anyone can get fame for having anything to do with those acronyms, except for the UMich one.
It's a double-edged sword though, student workers at university don't get paid much. Foreign students aren't allowed to work off campus. In my experience, a domestic student can usually get off campus work that pays more anyway.
I thought it was amusing to suggest a "HateBook" site in a conversation some time ago, where you would have people enemy each other. It didn't take long to realize that would quickly devolve from something light hearted to just plain vicious.
Imagine those lines voiced by Donald LaFontaine when you read it, and for me, it's easy to imagine people lining up at the theaters to eat it up.
I doubt it, why would a search engine not find 58.44 in a page that has 58.443? Unless you have exact search on, it will work fine.
I agree. Getting "big time" in any business takes a lot more than an idea. It takes a lot of determination and putting your own work into it. And frankly, a lot of ideas seem good to the person that came up with it. Sometimes there are problems with it not apparent to that person.
It's one thing to offer suggestions on how to improve their product, but they're probably not interested in hearing project ideas. For one, it opens up liability issues, they don't want to fend off claims that they took some shlub's idea when they might have had a similar one in the works already.
It seems to me the problem is that he's asking for information that is no longer necessary. He no longer needs a street address to sell a paper electronically through a third party, so why should he still get that information?
His news channel is more about opinion than journalism. That statement can probably be said about the other major news channels too.
The problem is most likely an application that is misusing a flag that tells the operating system the app is not ready to shut down. It's a legitimate flag, but has been abused. A legitimate use would be file you're editing but hasn't been saved yet. You probably don't want it to kill a modified, but unsaved file.
Microsoft has very little control over that, unless you want them to authorize every program that's installed.
So "your" response is just to parrot someone else's prose? That makes it not your response.