While Republicans are not almost exclusively anti-science, the anti-science crowd is almost almost exclusively Republican.
His generalization that if you are anti-science, you must be voting Republican may be unsettling to the science-friendly Republicans, but it is nonetheless correct.
"The Windows edition does have a certain amount of programmability through a bring-your-own-language method. By importing PlanMaker's type library into Visual Basic or Borland Delphi, you can program macros and scripts in an interface similar to that of Microsoft Excel. SoftMaker does have a VBA-compatible macro language called BasicMaker, but currently it is only supported in the Windows version of the SoftMaker office suite in the German language. Translation of BasicMaker into English is underway and will be available in future editions of PlanMaker for Windows; the GNU/Linux edition will also have macro support eventually."
Eventually (for linux anyway) isn't the same as now, but I think is better than never.
Ok, thanks for poiting that out. I still disagree though that even music downloaded is by definition illegal. I've seen plenty of struggling artists (and even some not so struggling) give away their music through downloads. These are completely legal and will play quite nicely on portable mp3 players of all flavors.
I concede that most music downloaded is not obtained legally, but we need to keep in mind the quite legal minority as well.
AFAIK it's almost the only player capable of playing LEGAL songs. (via iTMS)
Why do you make the assumption that the only legal way to play music is to use iTMS? I buy a cd, I rip it to my harddrive, I convert it to mp3s, I transfer the mp3s to just about any portable player (Rio, Archos, et al) and its all legal. No encryption was circumvented, so no DMCA violation--its all fair use.
It was not that e-mail is a legal notice necessarily, its the fact that it was AOL's specified policy to use e-mail as an acceptable way of notifying them of infringement. They lost their safe harbor status for failing to properly implement their own policy.
First off I don't know that a dinner (formal, informal?) is the appropriate setting for a whistleblowing and/or gripe session. Seems like more of an opportunity for schmoozing, selling some otherwise hard to budget ideas, laying groundwork for later proposals, etc.
That said, if you feel you must forge ahead and divulge all of your departments glaring drawbacks to the higherups, remember to have your facts straight and well-documented. What avenues have been tried previously to rectify the problems? Does the fault lie in the process or in a person? Has the boss been made aware of this already? Which brings me to the last point: Unless the disposition of the offending supervisor (e.g. vindictive) prohibits, have a one-on-one with him/her *before* giving the goods the the VP.
Oh and remember to use a lot of passive sentence structures:)
Okay I confess I was taking a cheap shot at my ISP. I guess to be fair to the bast^H^H^H^H providers the bill we pay to the cable company is supposed to be for the connection to their uplink. The advertising supposedly pays for the content.
I suppose this same setup applies to my (now rather weak) complaint about Internet access and content. My fee to the ISP goes towards access. My eyeballs to adverts pays for the content.
But does anyone remember when AOL justified their fee by promising exclusive content that outsiders couldn't access? I wonder how they justify showing their own ads and charging a monthly fee on top.
Studies have shown that this genetically modified fish is in no way dangerous to humans, even if consumed...
The exact quote from the article was "The company's chief executive, Alan Blake, said scientific studies have shown the fish are safe and the lawsuit is without merit."
Couldn't this same argument be applied to omnipresent standards and not just monopolies? If everyone uses TCP/IP and a security flaw is found in it, doesn't that amount to the same type of security threat?
And yes I'm playing devil's advocate, but it's a slow morning:)
Bad decisions? To be accurate you should say "frequently reversed" decisions, unless of course you are prepared to offer an analysis of the merits of their decisions.
Why they are reversed so often has as much to do with the conservative leanings of the Supreme Court and the Ninth's own liberal leanings as it does with the alleged quality of their decisions.
I hope my new patent on a lossy compression codec for words doesn't infringe on your patent for letters.
My codec works like this: You can remove letters from words to make them shorter by substituting an apostrophe for the missing letters. I call my lossy codec "Contractions".
"It is kind of the same situation that we have seen--a certain level of human error is going to be present and that is true even for security software," said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft.
Wow that ought to really bolster a customer's confidence: NOt only are you saying this type of mistake is common in your experience, your excuse is "Hey we're only human"! Uh isn't that why you're supposed to have quality assurance?
It's all about deterrence not effectiveness. Adobe just needs to show they made a good faith effort to stem this sort of illegal activity so they can't get nailed when someone dupes a ben franklin.
I couldn't get yahoo to give up the goods, so I went to news.google and found basically the same AP article at the Seattle Times.
My opinion is, if they have the same labor laws as the U.S. then and only then can companies which transact in the U.S. employ foreign workers.
This "offshore outsourcing" or whatever euphemism the PR teams come up with is simply a means to undermine U.S. labor and the laws that protect it.
You might want to try switching out the AA nicads and go for NiMH--you can pick up a set of 2200maH and let the music play for 8-10 hours on a full charge. Works for my Archos anyway... That was one of the nice things about the old Archos--user replaceable batteries (not to mention harddrive and open source firmware).
The bandwidth theft may be something to keep an eye on; something else to think about is the taxing Grokker's going to put on your box's resources:
"System Requirements
Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Pentium III at 400MHZ or higher
128MB RAM (we recommend 256MB or more, if you're going to use the file indexing service for the My Files keyword search)
100MB of free disk space (or 20MB only if Java 2 is already installed)"
Myself I kind of like the idea of the graphical results, but not if my box is doing the grunt work. I think Google has them beat on that point.
Not to mention that Grokker "Contains a fully functional Web browser based on Internet Explorer". How would one go about updating the various patches for this browser?
http://www.groxis.com/service/grok/g_products.ht ml
Aside from the fact that many people do consider Russia to be part of Europe (West of the Urals anyway), note this from the article:
"The network, expected to go online next month, will ring the Northern Hemisphere, connecting computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow..."
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Yeah, I think the U.S. has those too--they're called "nuclear submarines".
I see. So political affiliation==competency in your book? Remind to never hire you for any position of authority.
While Republicans are not almost exclusively anti-science, the anti-science crowd is almost almost exclusively Republican.
His generalization that if you are anti-science, you must be voting Republican may be unsettling to the science-friendly Republicans, but it is nonetheless correct.
From the article:
"The Windows edition does have a certain amount of programmability through a bring-your-own-language method. By importing PlanMaker's type library into Visual Basic or Borland Delphi, you can program macros and scripts in an interface similar to that of Microsoft Excel. SoftMaker does have a VBA-compatible macro language called BasicMaker, but currently it is only supported in the Windows version of the SoftMaker office suite in the German language. Translation of BasicMaker into English is underway and will be available in future editions of PlanMaker for Windows; the GNU/Linux edition will also have macro support eventually."
Eventually (for linux anyway) isn't the same as now, but I think is better than never.
Now if only we could just train humans not to plant the mines, *then* we'd be getting somewhere.
Given the historical scoreboard of Humanity vs Animals, I'd say the real market is in suits to protect *animals* from *humans*.
Erm, that is if the animals had wallets.
Ok, thanks for poiting that out. I still disagree though that even music downloaded is by definition illegal. I've seen plenty of struggling artists (and even some not so struggling) give away their music through downloads. These are completely legal and will play quite nicely on portable mp3 players of all flavors.
I concede that most music downloaded is not obtained legally, but we need to keep in mind the quite legal minority as well.
Why do you make the assumption that the only legal way to play music is to use iTMS? I buy a cd, I rip it to my harddrive, I convert it to mp3s, I transfer the mp3s to just about any portable player (Rio, Archos, et al) and its all legal. No encryption was circumvented, so no DMCA violation--its all fair use.
It was not that e-mail is a legal notice necessarily, its the fact that it was AOL's specified policy to use e-mail as an acceptable way of notifying them of infringement. They lost their safe harbor status for failing to properly implement their own policy.
They can if its their users who posted it and if the material is being hosted on servers they own.
Or perhaps pop-up and banner ads?
I have yet to see one, but I'm sure they're just around the corner--or maybe I'm not hitting the right sites?
First off I don't know that a dinner (formal, informal?) is the appropriate setting for a whistleblowing and/or gripe session. Seems like more of an opportunity for schmoozing, selling some otherwise hard to budget ideas, laying groundwork for later proposals, etc.
:)
That said, if you feel you must forge ahead and divulge all of your departments glaring drawbacks to the higherups, remember to have your facts straight and well-documented. What avenues have been tried previously to rectify the problems? Does the fault lie in the process or in a person? Has the boss been made aware of this already? Which brings me to the last point: Unless the disposition of the offending supervisor (e.g. vindictive) prohibits, have a one-on-one with him/her *before* giving the goods the the VP.
Oh and remember to use a lot of passive sentence structures
I suppose this same setup applies to my (now rather weak) complaint about Internet access and content. My fee to the ISP goes towards access. My eyeballs to adverts pays for the content.
But does anyone remember when AOL justified their fee by promising exclusive content that outsiders couldn't access? I wonder how they justify showing their own ads and charging a monthly fee on top.
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net?"
Gee I thought that monthly bill from my ISP meant *I* was paying the freight.
Studies have shown that this genetically modified fish is in no way dangerous to humans, even if consumed... The exact quote from the article was "The company's chief executive, Alan Blake, said scientific studies have shown the fish are safe and the lawsuit is without merit."
Couldn't this same argument be applied to omnipresent standards and not just monopolies? If everyone uses TCP/IP and a security flaw is found in it, doesn't that amount to the same type of security threat?
:)
And yes I'm playing devil's advocate, but it's a slow morning
Bad decisions? To be accurate you should say "frequently reversed" decisions, unless of course you are prepared to offer an analysis of the merits of their decisions.
Why they are reversed so often has as much to do with the conservative leanings of the Supreme Court and the Ninth's own liberal leanings as it does with the alleged quality of their decisions.
I hope my new patent on a lossy compression codec for words doesn't infringe on your patent for letters.
My codec works like this: You can remove letters from words to make them shorter by substituting an apostrophe for the missing letters. I call my lossy codec "Contractions".
Wow that ought to really bolster a customer's confidence: NOt only are you saying this type of mistake is common in your experience, your excuse is "Hey we're only human"! Uh isn't that why you're supposed to have quality assurance?
CYA, as in business speak for Cover Your Ass
No relation to CMYK
It's all about deterrence not effectiveness. Adobe just needs to show they made a good faith effort to stem this sort of illegal activity so they can't get nailed when someone dupes a ben franklin.
I couldn't get yahoo to give up the goods, so I went to news.google and found basically the same AP article at the Seattle Times. My opinion is, if they have the same labor laws as the U.S. then and only then can companies which transact in the U.S. employ foreign workers. This "offshore outsourcing" or whatever euphemism the PR teams come up with is simply a means to undermine U.S. labor and the laws that protect it.
You might want to try switching out the AA nicads and go for NiMH--you can pick up a set of 2200maH and let the music play for 8-10 hours on a full charge. Works for my Archos anyway... That was one of the nice things about the old Archos--user replaceable batteries (not to mention harddrive and open source firmware).
The bandwidth theft may be something to keep an eye on; something else to think about is the taxing Grokker's going to put on your box's resources:
t ml
"System Requirements
Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Pentium III at 400MHZ or higher
128MB RAM (we recommend 256MB or more, if you're going to use the file indexing service for the My Files keyword search)
100MB of free disk space (or 20MB only if Java 2 is already installed)"
Myself I kind of like the idea of the graphical results, but not if my box is doing the grunt work. I think Google has them beat on that point.
Not to mention that Grokker "Contains a fully functional Web browser based on Internet Explorer". How would one go about updating the various patches for this browser?
http://www.groxis.com/service/grok/g_products.h
Aside from the fact that many people do consider Russia to be part of Europe (West of the Urals anyway), note this from the article:
"The network, expected to go online next month, will ring the Northern Hemisphere, connecting computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow..."