I use email for business correspondence and the statute of repose in my state is 10 years. Let me introduce you to a judgement in the plaintiff's favor for 7 figures if you haven't the documentation (correspondence) which shows their contributory negligence.
Many states in the US have copies of the building code on line, as they are part of the legal code. That's all you need for the hard parts of building a house. They specify what kind of lumber to use, how to install it, how many nails, where the outlets go, how big the plumbing has to be - everything except the plan of the house. You can make it look like anything you want within the definitions of the code. It's free - all the menial work is done.
It's when you diverge from the code that you need an architect and/or engineer. And then you have a custom house. It's no different than software. If you're not going to be doing something that will kill somebody if it fails, you can build anything. Most agricultural and very small structures are exempt from the codes in most US jurisdictions (any OS utility). If you want something someone else has tried and succeeded with, you can pay a small fraction of what a custom design would cost and buy a "stock plan" (a commercial application). If you have special needs and the money to fund it, you can have a pro design from scratch (a custom built application). In parallel, if the structure might kill someone if it fails (say, a house or a pacemaker), or is critical infrastructure (a hospital, or a missile control system) there are higher standards to be met. No matter what you do - unless you have experience with building/codes or are smart and willing to do a lot of reading you should probably have somebody else help you with a design. Just as if you were trying to build a custom application where you're probably best served getting some professional help, especially if you've never coded before.
I was about to post this, but figured I'd better see if anyone else had.
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure % Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. % Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. % People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. % Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. % "Picture the sun as the origin of two intersecting 6-dimensional hyperplanes from which we can deduce a certain transformational sequence which gives us the terminal velocity of a rubber duck..." % Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. % Polymer physicists are into chains. % Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth. % Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. % Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. % Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada % "Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together." % Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! -- Overheard at last year's Archimedeans' Garden Party % Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me." % Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! % Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman % Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. % Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. % Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun % Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson % Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin % Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord. % Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincar'e % Science is what happens when preconception meets verification. % Science may someday discover what faith has always known. % Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William Buckley % Sentient plasmoids are a gas. % Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. % Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall % Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert % Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. -- Wheeler % Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay % Statistics means never having to say you're certain. % Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter. % Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! % Take an astronaut to launch. % Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley % Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. % The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Whitehead. % The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely 1 bananosecond. % The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured in billigrahams. % The best defense against logic is ignorance. % The bigger the theory the better. % The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst % The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project % The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. % The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir % The devil finds work for idle circuits to do. % The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman % The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is
A commercial aircraft flight does not, by design, have a flight vector which is both perpendicular to the earth and occurring at terminal velocity just before initiating the landing sequence. Anyone with flight design experience knows that you never rely on a single point failure for a safety condition (thruster firing). In the rare instance where such a condition is unavoidable, it undergoes intense scrutiny and is generally only acceptable if alternatives which provide redundancy significantly increase the probability of failure.
Then again, we could use a few less rich, stupid people in the world.
Really? You must have some really spammy sounding friends and lists. I am subscribed to at least 4 lists, and get a reasonable amount of both business and personal mail though apps accounts I have. I might find a false positive twice a year. I've noticed that Google must have a master and a personal list, as there are some advertisers I couldn't get rid of by unsubscribing so I marked them as spam and they get filtered.
Of course, it could be people who mark unwanted advertisements as spam which are fouling your filtering. I usually have a two strikes policy (2 unsubscribes, on the third I mark it as spam), but for anyone who uses the service which requires I type in my name to unsubscribe it's a single strike - and that's if I'm in a good mood.
Yes, but did you remember to register your google voice with a cash-only prepaid cell number, and did you purchase it while in disguise and did you alter your voice if you spoke with the cashier? Have you made sure to re-purchase keep-alive minutes in other states well away from your own? I presume you've never turned the cell phone on and, if so, certainly not in your own house.
On the contrary - you have no contractual relationship with the third party. A sale is just a sale. Twitter has provided information registered on your account, and you've made no guarantees with the third party about your information.
I mean, these liver designs will be protected by IP laws. So what will we hear when the pirates steal this work and you can print a new liver on your own home machine?
They should be thanking China for buying our treasury bonds - all of the stimulus was paid for with borrowed money.
Though, to be honest, since those of us in the working class are paying into the Social Security fund, which currently has a 4 Trillion Dollar surplus - all in US treasury notes - I guess we may have kicked in a bit for it.
It won't serve my media entertainment needs until it can play my existing files off my hard drive. MS, like Apple, is very, very bad at supporting anything other than their in-house flavor of video encoding. I've got a lot of TV and movies on my server, and they all play fine with Plex and XBMC. Will they be cataloged and available out of the box with an Xbox One?
If so, count me in, but I'm not holding my breath.
I call you the mother of all Tea Party trolls, but most trolls post as ACs.
The problem with your posit is that there is a (nominally) fixed amount of wealth to be distributed - we are in a closed system. We can change the values of certain things and scale the numbers, but the net effect is that for more people to be rich, the richest must either get less-rich, or the poor become more-poor.
I have here in my hand a list of all the people I suspect of terrorism. It includes many of my business competitors and personal acquaintances I find annoying or otherwise repulsive. For example, you'll see on page 5 I've included Ms. Johnson from down the street who lets her dog shit in my yard and never cleans up after it. I've noticed her making furtive glances at my front window while the dog is dumping and I'm pretty sure she's making notes of when I'm not home so she can steal the propane tank from my Grillmaster and use it in her reign of terror.
Well, if a man would be sent to prison for 5 years for such an infraction, I presume that the penalty would be 5 x $70B = $350B. What's so difficult about that?
They make a tool which circumvents the intended use of the site and promotes (or, in this case, requires) the end user complying with the Youtube TOS.
It would be like Napster getting sued for making file sharing geared towards (copyrighted) music convenient and commonplace. Which they did. And lost. The reason so many add-on services get away with doing similar things is that they are small potatoes and not worth attacking - though you'll notice that many download-and-save add-ons are blocked from use in chrome, so Google is still policing their own house to a certain extent. In this case, it's MS itself - both a competitor and large target - making the circumvention software.
They'll both piss and moan in court over this, but in the end I think MS will be forced to change the software.
Actually I used this calculator: http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm for my numbers. While probably not authoritative, it did appear to be a reputable source, and the answer (0.08) does match the chart below the calculator. And, yes, I'm male so I used the male numbers; males tend to spend more time driving when multiple people travel together, in my no-scientific-at-all observations.
Now, I'm a light drinker even though I'm 200 pounds, so if I have more than one drink in an hour you won't find me driving for a while.
Google: our terms of service clearly state that storing downloads for any other purpose than buffering is not permitted. Judge: (to MS) So you ignored the terms of service in building your application? MS: Well, yes, but we just wanted a good user experience Judge: And my grand-daughter wants a pony. I find you in violation of the TOS, your app must be pulled until you can show it complies.
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I use email for business correspondence and the statute of repose in my state is 10 years. Let me introduce you to a judgement in the plaintiff's favor for 7 figures if you haven't the documentation (correspondence) which shows their contributory negligence.
Many states in the US have copies of the building code on line, as they are part of the legal code. That's all you need for the hard parts of building a house. They specify what kind of lumber to use, how to install it, how many nails, where the outlets go, how big the plumbing has to be - everything except the plan of the house. You can make it look like anything you want within the definitions of the code. It's free - all the menial work is done.
It's when you diverge from the code that you need an architect and/or engineer. And then you have a custom house. It's no different than software. If you're not going to be doing something that will kill somebody if it fails, you can build anything. Most agricultural and very small structures are exempt from the codes in most US jurisdictions (any OS utility). If you want something someone else has tried and succeeded with, you can pay a small fraction of what a custom design would cost and buy a "stock plan" (a commercial application). If you have special needs and the money to fund it, you can have a pro design from scratch (a custom built application). In parallel, if the structure might kill someone if it fails (say, a house or a pacemaker), or is critical infrastructure (a hospital, or a missile control system) there are higher standards to be met. No matter what you do - unless you have experience with building/codes or are smart and willing to do a lot of reading you should probably have somebody else help you with a design. Just as if you were trying to build a custom application where you're probably best served getting some professional help, especially if you've never coded before.
I was about to post this, but figured I'd better see if anyone else had.
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure % Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. % Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. % People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. % Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. % "Picture the sun as the origin of two intersecting 6-dimensional hyperplanes from which we can deduce a certain transformational sequence which gives us the terminal velocity of a rubber duck ..." % Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. % Polymer physicists are into chains. % Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth. % Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. % Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. % Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada % "Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together." % Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! -- Overheard at last year's Archimedeans' Garden Party % Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me." % Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! % Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman % Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. % Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. % Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun % Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson % Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin % Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord. % Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincar'e % Science is what happens when preconception meets verification. % Science may someday discover what faith has always known. % Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William Buckley % Sentient plasmoids are a gas. % Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. % Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall % Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert % Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. -- Wheeler % Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay % Statistics means never having to say you're certain. % Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter. % Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! % Take an astronaut to launch. % Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley % Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. % The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Whitehead. % The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely 1 bananosecond. % The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured in billigrahams. % The best defense against logic is ignorance. % The bigger the theory the better. % The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst % The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project % The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. % The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir % The devil finds work for idle circuits to do. % The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman % The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is
A commercial aircraft flight does not, by design, have a flight vector which is both perpendicular to the earth and occurring at terminal velocity just before initiating the landing sequence. Anyone with flight design experience knows that you never rely on a single point failure for a safety condition (thruster firing). In the rare instance where such a condition is unavoidable, it undergoes intense scrutiny and is generally only acceptable if alternatives which provide redundancy significantly increase the probability of failure.
Then again, we could use a few less rich, stupid people in the world.
Really? You must have some really spammy sounding friends and lists. I am subscribed to at least 4 lists, and get a reasonable amount of both business and personal mail though apps accounts I have. I might find a false positive twice a year. I've noticed that Google must have a master and a personal list, as there are some advertisers I couldn't get rid of by unsubscribing so I marked them as spam and they get filtered.
Of course, it could be people who mark unwanted advertisements as spam which are fouling your filtering. I usually have a two strikes policy (2 unsubscribes, on the third I mark it as spam), but for anyone who uses the service which requires I type in my name to unsubscribe it's a single strike - and that's if I'm in a good mood.
My most sincere condolences.
(I stopped using TB at about 3GB of mail, when it was incapable of storing and indexing all of it)
Maybe it's time for Google to be more symbiont and less parasite.
You can really say that in the same conversation which includes the "content" organizations who feed exclusively off the works of artists?
One of those "three months in the lab can save an entire week in the library" conditions.
Yes, but did you remember to register your google voice with a cash-only prepaid cell number, and did you purchase it while in disguise and did you alter your voice if you spoke with the cashier? Have you made sure to re-purchase keep-alive minutes in other states well away from your own? I presume you've never turned the cell phone on and, if so, certainly not in your own house.
On the contrary - you have no contractual relationship with the third party. A sale is just a sale. Twitter has provided information registered on your account, and you've made no guarantees with the third party about your information.
B&Bs? So the roaches have turned into either WAPSs or Hipsters. Either way, I think we can wipe them out - just set out poisoned Starbucks coffee.
And pretty easily trackable if they're broadcasting with enough power to send HD signals 3 miles.
I mean, these liver designs will be protected by IP laws. So what will we hear when the pirates steal this work and you can print a new liver on your own home machine?
"Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!"
Those designs will be protected by IP laws. And what will they say when you can pirate the design for a new liver?
"Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!"
Yeah, that's about it.
The NRA told me so. The more guns we have the safer we will be.
Oh, and chocolate rations are being increased again.
Don't confuse us with facts. There must be something evil afoot, otherwise tin foil hat stocks wouldn't be so high.
They should be thanking China for buying our treasury bonds - all of the stimulus was paid for with borrowed money.
Though, to be honest, since those of us in the working class are paying into the Social Security fund, which currently has a 4 Trillion Dollar surplus - all in US treasury notes - I guess we may have kicked in a bit for it.
It won't serve my media entertainment needs until it can play my existing files off my hard drive. MS, like Apple, is very, very bad at supporting anything other than their in-house flavor of video encoding. I've got a lot of TV and movies on my server, and they all play fine with Plex and XBMC. Will they be cataloged and available out of the box with an Xbox One?
If so, count me in, but I'm not holding my breath.
I call you the mother of all Tea Party trolls, but most trolls post as ACs.
The problem with your posit is that there is a (nominally) fixed amount of wealth to be distributed - we are in a closed system. We can change the values of certain things and scale the numbers, but the net effect is that for more people to be rich, the richest must either get less-rich, or the poor become more-poor.
I have here in my hand a list of all the people I suspect of terrorism. It includes many of my business competitors and personal acquaintances I find annoying or otherwise repulsive. For example, you'll see on page 5 I've included Ms. Johnson from down the street who lets her dog shit in my yard and never cleans up after it. I've noticed her making furtive glances at my front window while the dog is dumping and I'm pretty sure she's making notes of when I'm not home so she can steal the propane tank from my Grillmaster and use it in her reign of terror.
Well, if a man would be sent to prison for 5 years for such an infraction, I presume that the penalty would be 5 x $70B = $350B. What's so difficult about that?
They make a tool which circumvents the intended use of the site and promotes (or, in this case, requires) the end user complying with the Youtube TOS.
It would be like Napster getting sued for making file sharing geared towards (copyrighted) music convenient and commonplace. Which they did. And lost. The reason so many add-on services get away with doing similar things is that they are small potatoes and not worth attacking - though you'll notice that many download-and-save add-ons are blocked from use in chrome, so Google is still policing their own house to a certain extent. In this case, it's MS itself - both a competitor and large target - making the circumvention software.
They'll both piss and moan in court over this, but in the end I think MS will be forced to change the software.
Actually I used this calculator: http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm for my numbers. While probably not authoritative, it did appear to be a reputable source, and the answer (0.08) does match the chart below the calculator. And, yes, I'm male so I used the male numbers; males tend to spend more time driving when multiple people travel together, in my no-scientific-at-all observations.
Now, I'm a light drinker even though I'm 200 pounds, so if I have more than one drink in an hour you won't find me driving for a while.
Google: our terms of service clearly state that storing downloads for any other purpose than buffering is not permitted.
Judge: (to MS) So you ignored the terms of service in building your application?
MS: Well, yes, but we just wanted a good user experience
Judge: And my grand-daughter wants a pony. I find you in violation of the TOS, your app must be pulled until you can show it complies.