I presume you meant that I don't curse the design.
I wonder why, though. Have you used it so much the slide is too loose? I could possibly see that after a lot of activity. I can also agree with the issue that you can't number-text well on the keyboard, since it doesn't have the abc def letters over the keys (presuming, like me, you haven't memorized the keys).
I've got the Hermes (well, the Cing 8525) and I like the real keyboard. It's not ideal, but it's worlds better than the damned stylus-centric onscreen keyboard and number pads. I really like the tactile feedback for faster typing. I don't type enough on my mobile to be really used to the touchscreen and predictive typing, but I can't stand there and type l i k e t h i s w i t h a s t y l u s trying to put appointments or brief notes into the thing.
MS has really missed the boat in not making a custom phone OS vs a non-finger-centric port of their PDA software. I hope Google does a better job, but I also hope they attract lots of third party software. I've got 6 months 'til my 2 years is up on my plan, and I'd like to get a (subsidized) upgrade when my time comes.
So, if I were in Germany, and I had three people living in my household, would that put the threshold at 9000/600? Seems only fair if you have to share an internet connection.
I say monetary damages are appropriate. Let's see, Mrs. Anderson was up against, what, 5 to 6 years of annual gross income? 5 to 6 years of gross income for Atlantic should be sufficient and appropriate.:-)
That's kind of sad...I thought that way too when I lived in DC and LA. I decided that, of the 300,000 waking hours I have left on this earth, I wasn't going to spend 22,000 of them commuting. So I retrained into a similar, but less metro-centric career and now work and live in a smaller town with a 1 mile commute and a housing market that's relatively easily affordable. I make a little less than I used to, but I get lots of extra free time. When the work is heavy, I can put in a 10 or 11 hour day and still have time to make it home for dinner with the family and play in the back yard. When the weather is nice, I can walk to the office in about 10 minutes.
I do miss getting to listen to a full cycle of NPR (though I don't miss hearing three full cycles), and I listen to far fewer books on tape (/cd/mp3), but I'm not sure that's really a necessary part of my life. If it was, I could just read with the free time.
You must know inexpensive lawyers and business people who will work for free. If you can do all this in a blinding flash (aka 3 months), you're in for middle to high 5 figures (US$) at a minimum. The lawyer will cost you $350-500/hr, the good business rep who doesn't take no for an answer and doesn't piss everybody off will want about $40-50k for the short engagement (you can get a full year for twice that, if you want to extend the contract). You'll need a couple thousand CDs to start, so tack on 5k, plus about a grand in printing and shipping costs for your letters.
If you manage to clear $6/cd, you'll be working for free until you've sold 10,000 copies, at which point you can all share a latte with the profits. Ideally, you'll have momentum by then, or be out tens of thousands of dollars. At that point you'll probably be ready for the next album, or you'll need to be so that you can get some repeat sales.
Not saying it can't be done, but it's not simple or cheap. Better to try it when you're all young and single, or get a rich guy in the band to find it. Selling your soul to the RIAA generally gets this front money and a basic paycheck, plus the illusion of success. It's no different than starting a business - it takes lot of money and time, and it's often easier to work for someone else for a smaller paycheck even though you'll be treated like shit most of the time.
Now, if it turns out he was indeed following all local / state laws, then the authorities certainly owe him an apology at least.
I believe the term your looking for is "restitution."
The big deal is that somebody got angry that his dog was pissing on their flowers (or some other unrelated infraction), and they called the cops on him, resulting in a raid and quite a bit of inconvenience and expense. And it was all done, if the article is correct, without proper documentation (referred to by some as "in accordance with the law").
There are certain building code regulations, but practically none of them apply to residences. Even the basic structures built in accordance with the building code do not comply with standard architectural engineering practice (I know, I deal with them every day; thanks for asking). Unless he was engaged in commercial operations or was actually manufacturing something illegal or specifically dangerous to the community, there's not a whole lot he can't do. Most common operations undertaken at residences are fairly hazardous - and would require significant expense in a commercial setting - but are allowed. Refueling and maintenance of machinery comes to mind - mowers, tillers, edgers, chainsaws, automobiles. All deal with poisonous compounds and parts that can kill, but are small in scale. As long as you don't create a public nuisance and dispose of the waste properly, they're not going to raid your garage.
Yeah, that just goes to show how old I am. The first time I ran into an imap server, my email reader wouldn't/couldn't do a local copy (though it's possible is was user incompetence, though I was better with the internals then than I am now). My "real" job has gotten in the way of keeping up with most of this for the past 10 or 12 years, and today the cost of consultants to do the work hasn't justified the efficiency improvements available at my small scale. *shrug*
Seriously, though, this is a flop waiting to happen. It might have some application in the hard-core CAD world once you turn off the wacom pad, though.
I don't even trust IMAP to store my email remotely - I still use POP and make backups. I suppose that might change in the future now that the internet is more accessible - my previous internet provider thought "high speed internet" involved their replacing the 33kb modem bank with V.90 units. What can I say, I used to live out in the sticks.
I like the idea of access to everything, from everywhere, but I think I'd still prefer to have the "master" copies at "home" and have the remote files synchronized to that data instead of the other way around. (or, in this case, potentially have no local copy *shiver*)
If you want an iphone, just get it. If you want something else, then wait like the rest of us.
I was actually wondering what I'd do in February when my AT&T contract period is up. My 8525 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I hadn't seen anything I really wanted more as I happen to like the keyboard interface for typing in notes (as compared to a touchscreen). The big question is the apps. I haven't kept up so I don't know what kind of calendar sync will be available with outlook. Note that I keep outlook for the calendar and contacts and the integration with PocketInformant (which is much better than the outlook desktop), but would dump it in the trash if there were something (anything) better. This is the first thing which looks interesting.
Yes, but one of the creepy parts of the movie was the omnipresent testing performed. Genetics is just one test. I was surprised that gattaca wasn't one of the tags for the story.
More interstingly, I would presume that Tuft's would be within their rights to use that as a profit center as well. Those things don't preserve themselves, and in most litigation the financial burden of collecting pre-discovery data (and some discovery data) is on the requesting party.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that Tuft's would give explicit notice to the faculty/students, as well as charging for the software, installation, maintenance, and storage of custom logging operations. That can get expensive quickly, especially when people are billing hourly and university overhead is often north of 50-60% of direct costs.
Biodegradable requires bioactivity, which can be very, very restricted in modern landfills. Iirc, they have done core samples and found decades-old newspapers in excellent - nearly archival - condition. The problem is that when we pack as much as possible in a landfill we also shut out oxygen infiltration. Since oxygen is required for most biological processes which break down biodegradable fibers, almost none occurs.
I like having the option because, like many, I keep a handful around for trash can liners. I have reusable bags for regular groceries, and usually just take small/few items if they can be easily carried without a bag. Reduce, reuse, recycle...in that order.
They're not selling your medical records, they're selling your financial transaction information (afaict), which is probably not covered under HIPAA. It's an end run. If there's one thing that humans are especially good at, it's finding loopholes in laws.
You, apparently, are under the false impression that the TSA offers a heightened level of security for flying. If I flew much, I'd opt out of the theater for $100, too. Then again, so would most terrorists. If you only ever commit one act of terrorism, then die, there's not much non-profiling background to search.
This reminds me of an acquaintance who was one of the statisticians for the LA Kings pro basketball team. He told me that their motto was "we may not always be correct, but we're official."
That's really the role of the SCOTUS - they may not be correct, but they are the official interpreters.
One would hope it would have the same effect as in the printing industry. Two decades ago, getting custom color printed materials for businesses was a real hassle. Now we print color letterheads as a part of daily business. I just sent out a short order (20 pads) of sticky-notes with our custom mailing worksheet (who it's to, how many copies to make, how to mail it, and where to file it). Heck, I even printed out a pattern off the 'net for making a hemispherical model rocket parachute. Think of all the photo printers in peoples homes. Of course, with the ink prices, it costs about 1/3 as much to just digitally transmit the prints to a traditional printer.
Sadly, the 3d printers produce very heavy models when reviewed for rocket use, but for display modeling it might turn out to be quite a boon.
90% less is typically taken as 10% of the current. Not 90% of the current amount...that would be 10% less. If I charge you a dollar for a hot dog, and the guy across the street offers you a hot dog for 90% less, you'd expect to pay $0.10.
Similarly, if it takes 100kJ of electricity to extract 70kJ of stored hydrogen (100% combustion recovery with O2), then 90% less is 10kJ. That makes it 10kJ to extract 70kJ of stored energy. Homer Simpson has some wise words on that. They're not talking about increasing efficiency, they're talking about decreasing electrical (power) demand to split H2 from H2O.
For petrol, the root cause is normally taxes. In the US, the federal gas tax is less than $0.05 per liter ($0.18/gallon). How much tax is paid across the pond? For food; well, Americans will eat anything cheap, no matter how bad it is for you, and we prefer chemically "enhanced" products and growing methods to anything grown naturally.
One question I do have is whether these corporations (and/or their distributors) pay corporate taxes in Europe, and how the net taxes affect their income. Here in the US the corporate rate is 35% (I think...may be closer to 40), but thanks to bought-and-paid-for loopholes most corporations pay a very, very small percentage of revenue as tax (prob 1-2%), and many pay nothing even when profits are good. Any idea what kinds of taxation occurs in Europe at the distributor and corporate level?
Finally, the US hasn't really adjusted to a strong dollar. In many US people's minds, we remember the "high point" of the dollar from the last couple of decades - 100 yen:dollar, near parity with the Pound and Euro, etc. Canadian pay for professional athletes used to be a real sore spot.
Only the casual bootleggers. The good ones (the ones who have an online rep to protect) would get their videos from much more technically savvy sources.
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I presume you meant that I don't curse the design.
I wonder why, though. Have you used it so much the slide is too loose? I could possibly see that after a lot of activity. I can also agree with the issue that you can't number-text well on the keyboard, since it doesn't have the abc def letters over the keys (presuming, like me, you haven't memorized the keys).
I've got the Hermes (well, the Cing 8525) and I like the real keyboard. It's not ideal, but it's worlds better than the damned stylus-centric onscreen keyboard and number pads. I really like the tactile feedback for faster typing. I don't type enough on my mobile to be really used to the touchscreen and predictive typing, but I can't stand there and type l i k e t h i s w i t h a s t y l u s trying to put appointments or brief notes into the thing.
MS has really missed the boat in not making a custom phone OS vs a non-finger-centric port of their PDA software. I hope Google does a better job, but I also hope they attract lots of third party software. I've got 6 months 'til my 2 years is up on my plan, and I'd like to get a (subsidized) upgrade when my time comes.
So, if I were in Germany, and I had three people living in my household, would that put the threshold at 9000/600? Seems only fair if you have to share an internet connection.
I say monetary damages are appropriate. Let's see, Mrs. Anderson was up against, what, 5 to 6 years of annual gross income? 5 to 6 years of gross income for Atlantic should be sufficient and appropriate. :-)
That's kind of sad...I thought that way too when I lived in DC and LA. I decided that, of the 300,000 waking hours I have left on this earth, I wasn't going to spend 22,000 of them commuting. So I retrained into a similar, but less metro-centric career and now work and live in a smaller town with a 1 mile commute and a housing market that's relatively easily affordable. I make a little less than I used to, but I get lots of extra free time. When the work is heavy, I can put in a 10 or 11 hour day and still have time to make it home for dinner with the family and play in the back yard. When the weather is nice, I can walk to the office in about 10 minutes.
I do miss getting to listen to a full cycle of NPR (though I don't miss hearing three full cycles), and I listen to far fewer books on tape (/cd/mp3), but I'm not sure that's really a necessary part of my life. If it was, I could just read with the free time.
You must know inexpensive lawyers and business people who will work for free. If you can do all this in a blinding flash (aka 3 months), you're in for middle to high 5 figures (US$) at a minimum. The lawyer will cost you $350-500/hr, the good business rep who doesn't take no for an answer and doesn't piss everybody off will want about $40-50k for the short engagement (you can get a full year for twice that, if you want to extend the contract). You'll need a couple thousand CDs to start, so tack on 5k, plus about a grand in printing and shipping costs for your letters.
If you manage to clear $6/cd, you'll be working for free until you've sold 10,000 copies, at which point you can all share a latte with the profits. Ideally, you'll have momentum by then, or be out tens of thousands of dollars. At that point you'll probably be ready for the next album, or you'll need to be so that you can get some repeat sales.
Not saying it can't be done, but it's not simple or cheap. Better to try it when you're all young and single, or get a rich guy in the band to find it. Selling your soul to the RIAA generally gets this front money and a basic paycheck, plus the illusion of success. It's no different than starting a business - it takes lot of money and time, and it's often easier to work for someone else for a smaller paycheck even though you'll be treated like shit most of the time.
Now, if it turns out he was indeed following all local / state laws, then the authorities certainly owe him an apology at least.
I believe the term your looking for is "restitution."
The big deal is that somebody got angry that his dog was pissing on their flowers (or some other unrelated infraction), and they called the cops on him, resulting in a raid and quite a bit of inconvenience and expense. And it was all done, if the article is correct, without proper documentation (referred to by some as "in accordance with the law").
There are certain building code regulations, but practically none of them apply to residences. Even the basic structures built in accordance with the building code do not comply with standard architectural engineering practice (I know, I deal with them every day; thanks for asking). Unless he was engaged in commercial operations or was actually manufacturing something illegal or specifically dangerous to the community, there's not a whole lot he can't do. Most common operations undertaken at residences are fairly hazardous - and would require significant expense in a commercial setting - but are allowed. Refueling and maintenance of machinery comes to mind - mowers, tillers, edgers, chainsaws, automobiles. All deal with poisonous compounds and parts that can kill, but are small in scale. As long as you don't create a public nuisance and dispose of the waste properly, they're not going to raid your garage.
Yeah, that just goes to show how old I am. The first time I ran into an imap server, my email reader wouldn't/couldn't do a local copy (though it's possible is was user incompetence, though I was better with the internals then than I am now). My "real" job has gotten in the way of keeping up with most of this for the past 10 or 12 years, and today the cost of consultants to do the work hasn't justified the efficiency improvements available at my small scale. *shrug*
...what it looks like.
Seriously, though, this is a flop waiting to happen. It might have some application in the hard-core CAD world once you turn off the wacom pad, though.
I don't even trust IMAP to store my email remotely - I still use POP and make backups. I suppose that might change in the future now that the internet is more accessible - my previous internet provider thought "high speed internet" involved their replacing the 33kb modem bank with V.90 units. What can I say, I used to live out in the sticks.
I like the idea of access to everything, from everywhere, but I think I'd still prefer to have the "master" copies at "home" and have the remote files synchronized to that data instead of the other way around. (or, in this case, potentially have no local copy *shiver*)
If you want an iphone, just get it. If you want something else, then wait like the rest of us.
I was actually wondering what I'd do in February when my AT&T contract period is up. My 8525 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I hadn't seen anything I really wanted more as I happen to like the keyboard interface for typing in notes (as compared to a touchscreen). The big question is the apps. I haven't kept up so I don't know what kind of calendar sync will be available with outlook. Note that I keep outlook for the calendar and contacts and the integration with PocketInformant (which is much better than the outlook desktop), but would dump it in the trash if there were something (anything) better. This is the first thing which looks interesting.
Yes, but one of the creepy parts of the movie was the omnipresent testing performed. Genetics is just one test. I was surprised that gattaca wasn't one of the tags for the story.
More interstingly, I would presume that Tuft's would be within their rights to use that as a profit center as well. Those things don't preserve themselves, and in most litigation the financial burden of collecting pre-discovery data (and some discovery data) is on the requesting party.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that Tuft's would give explicit notice to the faculty/students, as well as charging for the software, installation, maintenance, and storage of custom logging operations. That can get expensive quickly, especially when people are billing hourly and university overhead is often north of 50-60% of direct costs.
Biodegradable requires bioactivity, which can be very, very restricted in modern landfills. Iirc, they have done core samples and found decades-old newspapers in excellent - nearly archival - condition. The problem is that when we pack as much as possible in a landfill we also shut out oxygen infiltration. Since oxygen is required for most biological processes which break down biodegradable fibers, almost none occurs.
I like having the option because, like many, I keep a handful around for trash can liners. I have reusable bags for regular groceries, and usually just take small/few items if they can be easily carried without a bag. Reduce, reuse, recycle...in that order.
They're not selling your medical records, they're selling your financial transaction information (afaict), which is probably not covered under HIPAA. It's an end run. If there's one thing that humans are especially good at, it's finding loopholes in laws.
Sorry, Robert Mugabe has already trademarked that approach.
You, apparently, are under the false impression that the TSA offers a heightened level of security for flying. If I flew much, I'd opt out of the theater for $100, too. Then again, so would most terrorists. If you only ever commit one act of terrorism, then die, there's not much non-profiling background to search.
This reminds me of an acquaintance who was one of the statisticians for the LA Kings pro basketball team. He told me that their motto was "we may not always be correct, but we're official."
That's really the role of the SCOTUS - they may not be correct, but they are the official interpreters.
One would hope it would have the same effect as in the printing industry. Two decades ago, getting custom color printed materials for businesses was a real hassle. Now we print color letterheads as a part of daily business. I just sent out a short order (20 pads) of sticky-notes with our custom mailing worksheet (who it's to, how many copies to make, how to mail it, and where to file it). Heck, I even printed out a pattern off the 'net for making a hemispherical model rocket parachute. Think of all the photo printers in peoples homes. Of course, with the ink prices, it costs about 1/3 as much to just digitally transmit the prints to a traditional printer.
Sadly, the 3d printers produce very heavy models when reviewed for rocket use, but for display modeling it might turn out to be quite a boon.
Whoops...meant "not having a strong dollar", or as you said, a weak dollar.
Wow, that made my head spin.
90% less is typically taken as 10% of the current. Not 90% of the current amount...that would be 10% less. If I charge you a dollar for a hot dog, and the guy across the street offers you a hot dog for 90% less, you'd expect to pay $0.10.
Similarly, if it takes 100kJ of electricity to extract 70kJ of stored hydrogen (100% combustion recovery with O2), then 90% less is 10kJ. That makes it 10kJ to extract 70kJ of stored energy. Homer Simpson has some wise words on that. They're not talking about increasing efficiency, they're talking about decreasing electrical (power) demand to split H2 from H2O.
You talked to the wrong authority. You need to talk to your lawyer.
For petrol, the root cause is normally taxes. In the US, the federal gas tax is less than $0.05 per liter ($0.18/gallon). How much tax is paid across the pond?
For food; well, Americans will eat anything cheap, no matter how bad it is for you, and we prefer chemically "enhanced" products and growing methods to anything grown naturally.
One question I do have is whether these corporations (and/or their distributors) pay corporate taxes in Europe, and how the net taxes affect their income. Here in the US the corporate rate is 35% (I think...may be closer to 40), but thanks to bought-and-paid-for loopholes most corporations pay a very, very small percentage of revenue as tax (prob 1-2%), and many pay nothing even when profits are good. Any idea what kinds of taxation occurs in Europe at the distributor and corporate level?
Finally, the US hasn't really adjusted to a strong dollar. In many US people's minds, we remember the "high point" of the dollar from the last couple of decades - 100 yen:dollar, near parity with the Pound and Euro, etc. Canadian pay for professional athletes used to be a real sore spot.
I was with you right up until you re-installed ME. Turn in your geek card. Now.
Only the casual bootleggers. The good ones (the ones who have an online rep to protect) would get their videos from much more technically savvy sources.
Odd thing it wasn't invented by Steve Jobs himself, if you ask me.