I remember when they added user accounts I signed up pretty much right away but no one else I knew was registerting so still stayed mostly anonymous. By the time I went back to start posting under an account I couldn't remember for the life of me what I had used. I would be willing to bet there are a lot of old unused low uid accounts like that.
He's not obligated to provide the SDK license, nor is he obligated to provide access to the AppStore. He's obligated to redistribute the GPL'd source code which he is. Hell, he could charge another $2.99 for the ability to download the source code if he wanted and that's all perfectly fine. Also, you are seriously confusing the concept of the why GPL'd source code is free. It's not free as in there is no cost. It's free in that you will always have access to the source and the ability to modify it as you see fit, so long as you also extend that freedom on to others.
Just because it's GPL does not mean it's also $0.00.
The submitter has done absolutely nothing wrong, and the original dev shouldn't have released the source under the GPL if he felt that the app should never be charged for. He should have released it under a non commercial license that explicitly restricted the sale of the software.
In general I would agree with you that the less competent should go, but that's not what the H1-B program is about. The H1-B program was designed to bring in foreign workers to fill openings where there were shortages of native workers with the appropriate skills. This is the argument used by companies like Microsoft and Intel to get the caps increased. They simply couldn't find people to fill these slots.
Keep in mind we are talking about the situation where a company is down sizing. Not dealing with promotions, firings, etc. If you have two employees that are up for a promotion and there's only one slot then absolutely performance is the only thing that matters. If you are being evaluated for competence or performance and need to be let go due to incompetence, again that's the only thing that matters. However, when the company is downsizing there is no valid argument that they can't find the skilled workers. There are more skilled workers than can be employed at that point, and the justification for the H1-B is now gone.
Microsoft just let 1400 workers go from their Licensing division in Reno, NV. Those are almost entirely non technical staff and would fall into the "financial services" folks they said they would lay off. It's also extremely unlikely there were any workers in that portion of the layoffs that had an H1-B.
Now, I would agree with the senator that if two people are being considered for a layoff and one has an H1-B and the other is a citizen, the H1-B should be let go. The reason being that Microsoft and the other tech companies argued that they desperately needed the cap on H1-B's to be increased as they couldn't find skilled workers in the US to fill the positions. At a time of layoffs, in the situation I described, that would obviously not be true any more.
Not sure, the article that I read said the temperatures would be around -128C. At that temperature and in that location it would be encased in a tomb of carbon dioxide ice, and the cold would be enough to crack the solar arrays and break the circuit boards. So you'd have to either be able to move enough to get out of the danger area, or perhaps generate enough heat to not be frozen solid. I'm guessing neither would be very easy to combat due to payload weight issues (getting off earth) and the energy needed to offse those extreme conditions.
It was named Phoenix as the mission was originally scrapped after the polar lander crash. When they revived the project they renamed it Phoenix. It's also unlikely that it will be revived in the next martian summer. The reason being that where the rover is, it will be cold enough for the solar cells and other components to be destroyed.
Tell that to the dozen landscape companies (mainly lawn mowing) that handle the houses on my block. The ones that handle foreclosed houses seem to be doing particularly well.
The difference is almost entirely semantic. The people that purchased indulgences surely thought that the money they were paying was going to remove their sins just as the people paying the money for carbon offsets believe that their money actually is going to offset programs and used legitimately. There was fraud perpetrated in the indulgence system and there's fraud in the carbon offset system. That's not to say that neither system has/had merits. It's certainly possible some churches used the money to help the community just as some carbon offset programs are 100% legitimate.
I've seen half a dozen failures with the TeraStation Pro (the first model) and having gone through the RMA process repeatedly I wouldn't recommend Buffalo for anything that you cared about keeping longer than a year.
That's not to say that Buffalo is all bad. Via http://www.terastation.org/wiki/TeraStationPro you can read about the numerous ways to hack the devices as well as to recover your data when it fails.
I don't know about the smaller lakes but supposedly they used some sonar imaging to look through walker lake so it's possible they have considered methods of searching the smaller lakes.
I live in Reno but grew up in a smaller town and spent much of my youth fishing and camping near where he took off from. The terrain varies quite a bit from nice long flats with no water in sight to lush valleys where the walker river and others run. The Flying M Ranch is where they were reporting him having taken off from. You have all of that type of terrain there.
A lack of water and the generally high temperatures are probably his biggest concerns depending on where he landed. On the same token it's going to be cold tonight and it's going to be getting cooler throughout the week. The varied terrain can mean that while water is nearby it's difficult to get to. There might be a river.5 miles away there might be 3 miles in climbing up and down hills to get to it. Landing out in one of the flats could mean 30 or more miles of walking just to get to an area where there is water. Of course they are searching something like 600 miles of terrain for him according to the last local news report so who knows what exactly they think. Smaller concerns are probably rattle snakes, big cats, coyotes, etc. This is rural Nevada and there is plenty of wild life out there.
Pan around the map a bit and you can see how much the terrain changes. Keep in mind that he was out looking for a place to break a land speed record and you might be able to narrow it down a bit, but it's certainly not a small area and the terrain doesn't exactly lend itself to searches.
That's interesting that you mention the permission slips. I never actually had to sign a permission slip after I turned 18. There was a form I filled out with the records office that stated I had turned 18 and was assuming responsibility for myself and that my parents were no longer responsible for my showing up at school (essentially that's what it said). From that point forward I excused my own absences as well. There was supposed to be more monitoring of the number of absences but no one ever called me on not showing up for classes after that point.
A significant percentage of high school seniors are not 18 years old. During my senior year I turned 18 in February, a little over half way through the year, and most of my friends didn't turn 18 until after graduation. As such none of them would have been able to enter into a legally binding contract with turn it in.
I realize that part of the splitting of files on usenet is due to limitations in the distribution system, I was just trying to reinforce the idea that pars tend to work very quickly with large data sets if that data is split into smaller, though not necessarily convenient chunks.
If you take a look at the way a lot of files are distributed on usenet you'll find exactly that. 4GB of data will be broken up in to 40-50MB blocks and par2 files will be built to support the set. Doing a repair on a highly damaged set of between 4-5GB on my Athlon 64 X2 4600 takes about 5 minutes.
Keep in mind this was published by a bigwig at Opera. The Opera web browser tends to stay way ahead of the other browsers in terms of standards compliance. This includes things like the ability to use the page elements to force page breaking and to help create layouts useful for things like books, reports, etc. Opera is a great engine for rendering HTML & CSS, I personally just can't get past the UI.
Additionally, the album was likely sold by an entity in Finland as it did reach #13 on the charts there. Most likely the publishing company has a local presence that the assets can be taken from. Assuming of course that Finland has similar laws to the U.S. Of course he could always find a lawyer in the U.S. that would bring the suit in the U.S. where it would almost undoubtedly win. The downside to that is how much does the lawyer get? Probably 40-60%.
Not exactly, the album this song is attached to sold ~3.737.775 copies. That implies there was some profit for the record company, Nelly Furtado, and of course the person who allegedly stole the sample, Timbaland. The profit involved in this makes it a bigger deal than "Local Man Ticketed for Jaywalking" and the original author of the melody and chorus tracks should be justly compensated for his work.
It's a combination of both. You won't find my name in the phone book. If I didn't give you my phone number I don't want you to call me. I don't want you to be able to go on the Internet or look in a book to get that information. I don't want you to be able to get it from a 411 service or any other information broker. Hell I don't want corporations to have access to that information unless I specifically give it to them. I think that in the past people weren't aware of the consequences of giving this information out and since corporations and various unethical persons have abused their information there's a growing group of people that don't want anyone to have their personal information unless absolutely necessary.
Then there's the majority who either don't care, or are simply incredibly poorly educated on the topic.
There will likely be greens that are better than the current Tier 3 gear. That's to be expected as the level increases to 70. There will also be new epics and legendary gear that are better than the greens, blues, and the old armor Tiers. If we assume that Tier4 is level 70 epic gear then the sad truth is that those same people that poured their lives into getting Tier 3. They are the same people that are going to pour their lives into getting to 70 and raiding four or more nights a week so they can get their Tier 4 etc.
That is another good solution to the charging issue. The other issue is of course the fact that the batteries are not user replaceable in these devices which means you either send them in for repair or get a new mouse when the battery dies. I did not know that Kensington had those available as I typically avoid their mice as the designs they use tend to not fit well in my hand, good to know some manufacturers are thinking of these issues.
I agree, or worse, mice that contain embedded rechargable batteries that require you to place the mouse on a charging station. I had the Logitech MX1000 and loved it except for the charging issue as I would often forget to place it on the charger at the end of the day leaving me with a useless mouse at some point.
There is however a mouse that doesn't have this problem. The Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse is perfect. It comes with two small Li-ion battery packs and a charging station. So while you are using one the other is charging. They don't last terribly long, but it takes about 10 seconds to swap them out. I can't understand why Logitech continues to put out new mice without this type of a battery pack/charging solution and keep using the embedded Li-ion batteries.
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I remember when they added user accounts I signed up pretty much right away but no one else I knew was registerting so still stayed mostly anonymous. By the time I went back to start posting under an account I couldn't remember for the life of me what I had used. I would be willing to bet there are a lot of old unused low uid accounts like that.
The GPL does not requite that you redistribute the source for free, it requires that you don't charge more for the source than the binary however.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#CompanyGPLCostsMoney
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee
He's not obligated to provide the SDK license, nor is he obligated to provide access to the AppStore. He's obligated to redistribute the GPL'd source code which he is. Hell, he could charge another $2.99 for the ability to download the source code if he wanted and that's all perfectly fine. Also, you are seriously confusing the concept of the why GPL'd source code is free. It's not free as in there is no cost. It's free in that you will always have access to the source and the ability to modify it as you see fit, so long as you also extend that freedom on to others.
Just because it's GPL does not mean it's also $0.00.
The submitter has done absolutely nothing wrong, and the original dev shouldn't have released the source under the GPL if he felt that the app should never be charged for. He should have released it under a non commercial license that explicitly restricted the sale of the software.
In general I would agree with you that the less competent should go, but that's not what the H1-B program is about. The H1-B program was designed to bring in foreign workers to fill openings where there were shortages of native workers with the appropriate skills. This is the argument used by companies like Microsoft and Intel to get the caps increased. They simply couldn't find people to fill these slots.
Keep in mind we are talking about the situation where a company is down sizing. Not dealing with promotions, firings, etc. If you have two employees that are up for a promotion and there's only one slot then absolutely performance is the only thing that matters. If you are being evaluated for competence or performance and need to be let go due to incompetence, again that's the only thing that matters. However, when the company is downsizing there is no valid argument that they can't find the skilled workers. There are more skilled workers than can be employed at that point, and the justification for the H1-B is now gone.
Microsoft just let 1400 workers go from their Licensing division in Reno, NV. Those are almost entirely non technical staff and would fall into the "financial services" folks they said they would lay off. It's also extremely unlikely there were any workers in that portion of the layoffs that had an H1-B.
Now, I would agree with the senator that if two people are being considered for a layoff and one has an H1-B and the other is a citizen, the H1-B should be let go. The reason being that Microsoft and the other tech companies argued that they desperately needed the cap on H1-B's to be increased as they couldn't find skilled workers in the US to fill the positions. At a time of layoffs, in the situation I described, that would obviously not be true any more.
Not sure, the article that I read said the temperatures would be around -128C. At that temperature and in that location it would be encased in a tomb of carbon dioxide ice, and the cold would be enough to crack the solar arrays and break the circuit boards. So you'd have to either be able to move enough to get out of the danger area, or perhaps generate enough heat to not be frozen solid. I'm guessing neither would be very easy to combat due to payload weight issues (getting off earth) and the energy needed to offse those extreme conditions.
It was named Phoenix as the mission was originally scrapped after the polar lander crash. When they revived the project they renamed it Phoenix. It's also unlikely that it will be revived in the next martian summer. The reason being that where the rover is, it will be cold enough for the solar cells and other components to be destroyed.
Tell that to the dozen landscape companies (mainly lawn mowing) that handle the houses on my block. The ones that handle foreclosed houses seem to be doing particularly well.
The difference is almost entirely semantic. The people that purchased indulgences surely thought that the money they were paying was going to remove their sins just as the people paying the money for carbon offsets believe that their money actually is going to offset programs and used legitimately. There was fraud perpetrated in the indulgence system and there's fraud in the carbon offset system. That's not to say that neither system has/had merits. It's certainly possible some churches used the money to help the community just as some carbon offset programs are 100% legitimate.
You are thinking of Indulgence and certainly there are some similarities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
I've seen half a dozen failures with the TeraStation Pro (the first model) and having gone through the RMA process repeatedly I wouldn't recommend Buffalo for anything that you cared about keeping longer than a year.
That's not to say that Buffalo is all bad. Via http://www.terastation.org/wiki/TeraStationPro you can read about the numerous ways to hack the devices as well as to recover your data when it fails.
I don't know about the smaller lakes but supposedly they used some sonar imaging to look through walker lake so it's possible they have considered methods of searching the smaller lakes.
I live in Reno but grew up in a smaller town and spent much of my youth fishing and camping near where he took off from. The terrain varies quite a bit from nice long flats with no water in sight to lush valleys where the walker river and others run. The Flying M Ranch is where they were reporting him having taken off from. You have all of that type of terrain there.
.5 miles away there might be 3 miles in climbing up and down hills to get to it. Landing out in one of the flats could mean 30 or more miles of walking just to get to an area where there is water. Of course they are searching something like 600 miles of terrain for him according to the last local news report so who knows what exactly they think. Smaller concerns are probably rattle snakes, big cats, coyotes, etc. This is rural Nevada and there is plenty of wild life out there.
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A lack of water and the generally high temperatures are probably his biggest concerns depending on where he landed. On the same token it's going to be cold tonight and it's going to be getting cooler throughout the week. The varied terrain can mean that while water is nearby it's difficult to get to. There might be a river
If he did indeed take off from the Flying M and not another ranch with a private air strip then this should be the starting point for his flight:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.611438,-119
Pan around the map a bit and you can see how much the terrain changes. Keep in mind that he was out looking for a place to break a land speed record and you might be able to narrow it down a bit, but it's certainly not a small area and the terrain doesn't exactly lend itself to searches.
That's interesting that you mention the permission slips. I never actually had to sign a permission slip after I turned 18. There was a form I filled out with the records office that stated I had turned 18 and was assuming responsibility for myself and that my parents were no longer responsible for my showing up at school (essentially that's what it said). From that point forward I excused my own absences as well. There was supposed to be more monitoring of the number of absences but no one ever called me on not showing up for classes after that point.
A significant percentage of high school seniors are not 18 years old. During my senior year I turned 18 in February, a little over half way through the year, and most of my friends didn't turn 18 until after graduation. As such none of them would have been able to enter into a legally binding contract with turn it in.
I realize that part of the splitting of files on usenet is due to limitations in the distribution system, I was just trying to reinforce the idea that pars tend to work very quickly with large data sets if that data is split into smaller, though not necessarily convenient chunks.
If you take a look at the way a lot of files are distributed on usenet you'll find exactly that. 4GB of data will be broken up in to 40-50MB blocks and par2 files will be built to support the set. Doing a repair on a highly damaged set of between 4-5GB on my Athlon 64 X2 4600 takes about 5 minutes.
Keep in mind this was published by a bigwig at Opera. The Opera web browser tends to stay way ahead of the other browsers in terms of standards compliance. This includes things like the ability to use the page elements to force page breaking and to help create layouts useful for things like books, reports, etc. Opera is a great engine for rendering HTML & CSS, I personally just can't get past the UI.
Additionally, the album was likely sold by an entity in Finland as it did reach #13 on the charts there. Most likely the publishing company has a local presence that the assets can be taken from. Assuming of course that Finland has similar laws to the U.S. Of course he could always find a lawyer in the U.S. that would bring the suit in the U.S. where it would almost undoubtedly win. The downside to that is how much does the lawyer get? Probably 40-60%.
Not exactly, the album this song is attached to sold ~3.737.775 copies. That implies there was some profit for the record company, Nelly Furtado, and of course the person who allegedly stole the sample, Timbaland. The profit involved in this makes it a bigger deal than "Local Man Ticketed for Jaywalking" and the original author of the melody and chorus tracks should be justly compensated for his work.
It's a combination of both. You won't find my name in the phone book. If I didn't give you my phone number I don't want you to call me. I don't want you to be able to go on the Internet or look in a book to get that information. I don't want you to be able to get it from a 411 service or any other information broker. Hell I don't want corporations to have access to that information unless I specifically give it to them. I think that in the past people weren't aware of the consequences of giving this information out and since corporations and various unethical persons have abused their information there's a growing group of people that don't want anyone to have their personal information unless absolutely necessary.
Then there's the majority who either don't care, or are simply incredibly poorly educated on the topic.
There will likely be greens that are better than the current Tier 3 gear. That's to be expected as the level increases to 70. There will also be new epics and legendary gear that are better than the greens, blues, and the old armor Tiers. If we assume that Tier4 is level 70 epic gear then the sad truth is that those same people that poured their lives into getting Tier 3. They are the same people that are going to pour their lives into getting to 70 and raiding four or more nights a week so they can get their Tier 4 etc.
It is when the cable can't reach the PC it's used with.
That is another good solution to the charging issue. The other issue is of course the fact that the batteries are not user replaceable in these devices which means you either send them in for repair or get a new mouse when the battery dies. I did not know that Kensington had those available as I typically avoid their mice as the designs they use tend to not fit well in my hand, good to know some manufacturers are thinking of these issues.
I agree, or worse, mice that contain embedded rechargable batteries that require you to place the mouse on a charging station. I had the Logitech MX1000 and loved it except for the charging issue as I would often forget to place it on the charger at the end of the day leaving me with a useless mouse at some point.
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There is however a mouse that doesn't have this problem. The Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse is perfect. It comes with two small Li-ion battery packs and a charging station. So while you are using one the other is charging. They don't last terribly long, but it takes about 10 seconds to swap them out. I can't understand why Logitech continues to put out new mice without this type of a battery pack/charging solution and keep using the embedded Li-ion batteries.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/detail
Logitech lists it at $99.99 but it can be had for around $60 at many vendors.