While the rate is overall less, the means is what really matters. All of the suicides (afaik) have been jumps from a building. Jumping off a building makes a very bold, very public statement. Plus, it guarantees the jumper's family something like 110,000 yuan; that's over $16k in US! To the worker making less than $1k/month, that's a big chunk of change to "give" to your family. It's very sad, and it's good to see someone (Apple) at least making some effort toward the positive. No one should feel like they have to choose suicide.
In a nutshell, here's the difference between civil cases and criminal cases in the US. In a civil case, it is considered to be a person (or party/parties) versus another person and/or parties. This is your typical lawsuit case. In a criminal case, law enforcement seeks to bring criminal charges against a person or persons. The police collect the evidence, detectives process, and typically the district attorney (DA) will actually bring the charges up on behalf of the State.
So long story short, while stealing is indeed a criminal offense, you'll never find a DA willing to take that case, for the flimsy evidence reasons listed all over slashdot anytime stuff like this comes up. As a result, the only option left for a company or corporation like this is a civil trial, via their lawyers.
There's more to it, like how winning in a civil trial is much easier to do generally. For a good example, see the criminal and civil trials of OJ Simpson. In the criminal trial he was found not guilty, but in the civil trial he was found "liable", and had a judgment levied against him by the families of the two murder victims.
Interestingly, the maiden name has lost its value in recent times. It used to be that the moment a woman got married, her maiden name all but vanished; these days, it seems the younger married woman prefers to use her maiden name as a new middle name.
The maiden name was always a goofy "security" thing anyway; long before the internet, a little social engineering is all it took to glean a maiden name.
Yes, there are open tools, but at the end of the day Adobe still controls the future direction of Flash as a format, platform, whatever. In the end though, all this Adobe/Apple stuff looks like two 500-lb gorrillas trying to piss all over each other, and customers may end up feeling it the worst.
Yet another part of me wants to say "You kids get off my damned lawn, I've hated Flash since it was owned by Macromedia!":)
etc-update? I moved on to dispatch-conf a number of years ago, and thought everyone else did too. etc-update is a pain in the ass, and always has been.
Has it?? i've been running beta2 for a few weeks and it dual boots Win7 just fine. Did they break something?
It all comes down to update-grub on ubuntu. For reasons I don't know, the initial installation does not detect ANY other partitions -- Linux, Win, OS/2, whatever. Immediately after running update-grub as root, grub will detect partitions properly and add them to grub.conf (or whatever ubuntu uses). The Ubuntu team initially was going to rely on a zero-day kernel update -- which would force update-grub to run -- as a workaround for this problem, but they then decided to respin some (not all) ISOs.
FWIW, I think you should also include 2010. We are about to be 5 months into 2010, and we've had 30 deaths in ONE MINE ALONE so far this year (one more person died in the hospital several days ago relating to the UBB mine). Also, the day before Obama's UBB mine worker eulogy, a mine worker in a different mine in WV was crushed to death. So there's 31 deaths inside of one month's time for mining coal, in WV alone, for 2010.
Phew... now you've taken me back. I remember upping my 486/33 from 4M RAM to 8M so I could properly play Lands of Lore : The Throne of Chaos. It's funny to look back now; games truly drove all the upgrades back then. And as you said, when 3DFX and OpenGL hit? It was a whole new level. Now our machines are more capable, but are often less fun to use.
Yeah, me too. Your post brought back some nice memories for me, of the days when squeezing 150MHz actually mattered. 'Holy crap, Carmageddon runs GREAT now!'
HA! Excellent! I also had a BP6, but with 533's. Then I learned how nice having a bigger L2 cache is, got burned by terrible Creative drivers that couldn't deal with SMP, and switched off to a P3-800EB. Ahh memories.
Nitpick... back in the day, we oc'd those bad boys to 450. The 300's were 66MHz bus * 4.5 multiplier; they mostly all moved nicely to the 100MHz bus to get a 450MHz chip with tiny cache. Still, cheaper than a P2-450 or P3-450 at the time.
Didn't they already do a fair portion of the work with the PS3 port? It *had* to be OpenGL, necessitating redoing the engine (or just updating their old OpenGL renderer). However, I heard it was not very good on the PS3. Given the time that passed, I'd bet they used the PS3 engine as a jump-off point and have been optimizing heavily, around OpenGL 2.1 and 3.0 I'd bet. No coincidence 10.6.3 is supposed to have OpenGL 3.0 support.
Regarding the two droids holding hands, the impression I've gotten so far is that it relates to (1) the Glados personality overall (2) emotions and their presence in robots and (3) the mentions repeatedly by the Aperture Science CEO in decoded messages saying basically "no witchcraft!".
I think the computers (Glados) as well as androids (if that's what they are) have some rudimentary emotions established through "witchcraft". What we don't know is what "witchcraft" literally means in this context.
Is it free to make calls from Skype, to a landline? Last time I looked it cost money. But you are correct -- the MagicJack box is just a generic rebranded USB-to-VoIP box and works perfectly with Skype.
Carbon sequestration is a joke. For instance, there is a power plant in WV that recently started capturing CO2. You know how much they capture? Less than 1% of total CO2 emissions. Maybe in the future it will be better, but it is no solution now.
They did get common in the past few years, but since they don't melt snow like good ol' incandescent, colder northern climates are probably dumping them cheap:)
Maybe you would enjoy Torchlight? It's made by a bunch of former Blizzard folks, and is a very good Diablo clone. It doesn't have the same dark feel; it's slightly more cartoony, but still good. Definitely a good stop-gap until Diablo3.
Ok, and I agree to that, but why do they get his passwords and access to various online accounts? Is his Facebook account really relevant to this? THAT is the real scary part -- not that a dude got busted for doing something illegal, but that once busted the 'authorities' decided they should get access to everything in his life.
Ugh, I didn't realize they were stuck with ATSUI on 10.4. That's just nasty; ATSUI has been around since 9.x/10.0.x and definitely was showing its age by 10.4. I can imagine the sorts of IME problems they have too, I remember several cases where 10.5 was much more well-behaved for IME and Unicode support in general than 10.4.
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While the rate is overall less, the means is what really matters. All of the suicides (afaik) have been jumps from a building. Jumping off a building makes a very bold, very public statement. Plus, it guarantees the jumper's family something like 110,000 yuan; that's over $16k in US! To the worker making less than $1k/month, that's a big chunk of change to "give" to your family. It's very sad, and it's good to see someone (Apple) at least making some effort toward the positive. No one should feel like they have to choose suicide.
In a nutshell, here's the difference between civil cases and criminal cases in the US. In a civil case, it is considered to be a person (or party/parties) versus another person and/or parties. This is your typical lawsuit case. In a criminal case, law enforcement seeks to bring criminal charges against a person or persons. The police collect the evidence, detectives process, and typically the district attorney (DA) will actually bring the charges up on behalf of the State.
So long story short, while stealing is indeed a criminal offense, you'll never find a DA willing to take that case, for the flimsy evidence reasons listed all over slashdot anytime stuff like this comes up. As a result, the only option left for a company or corporation like this is a civil trial, via their lawyers.
There's more to it, like how winning in a civil trial is much easier to do generally. For a good example, see the criminal and civil trials of OJ Simpson. In the criminal trial he was found not guilty, but in the civil trial he was found "liable", and had a judgment levied against him by the families of the two murder victims.
Interestingly, the maiden name has lost its value in recent times. It used to be that the moment a woman got married, her maiden name all but vanished; these days, it seems the younger married woman prefers to use her maiden name as a new middle name.
The maiden name was always a goofy "security" thing anyway; long before the internet, a little social engineering is all it took to glean a maiden name.
Ugh, no kidding. That's one of my biggest language pet peeves. (sig related)
Yes, there are open tools, but at the end of the day Adobe still controls the future direction of Flash as a format, platform, whatever. In the end though, all this Adobe/Apple stuff looks like two 500-lb gorrillas trying to piss all over each other, and customers may end up feeling it the worst.
:)
Yet another part of me wants to say "You kids get off my damned lawn, I've hated Flash since it was owned by Macromedia!"
etc-update? I moved on to dispatch-conf a number of years ago, and thought everyone else did too. etc-update is a pain in the ass, and always has been.
Has it?? i've been running beta2 for a few weeks and it dual boots Win7 just fine. Did they break something?
It all comes down to update-grub on ubuntu. For reasons I don't know, the initial installation does not detect ANY other partitions -- Linux, Win, OS/2, whatever. Immediately after running update-grub as root, grub will detect partitions properly and add them to grub.conf (or whatever ubuntu uses). The Ubuntu team initially was going to rely on a zero-day kernel update -- which would force update-grub to run -- as a workaround for this problem, but they then decided to respin some (not all) ISOs.
FWIW, I think you should also include 2010. We are about to be 5 months into 2010, and we've had 30 deaths in ONE MINE ALONE so far this year (one more person died in the hospital several days ago relating to the UBB mine). Also, the day before Obama's UBB mine worker eulogy, a mine worker in a different mine in WV was crushed to death. So there's 31 deaths inside of one month's time for mining coal, in WV alone, for 2010.
Phew... now you've taken me back. I remember upping my 486/33 from 4M RAM to 8M so I could properly play Lands of Lore : The Throne of Chaos. It's funny to look back now; games truly drove all the upgrades back then. And as you said, when 3DFX and OpenGL hit? It was a whole new level. Now our machines are more capable, but are often less fun to use.
Yeah, me too. Your post brought back some nice memories for me, of the days when squeezing 150MHz actually mattered. 'Holy crap, Carmageddon runs GREAT now!'
HA! Excellent! I also had a BP6, but with 533's. Then I learned how nice having a bigger L2 cache is, got burned by terrible Creative drivers that couldn't deal with SMP, and switched off to a P3-800EB. Ahh memories.
I guess their Celeron 300 (Oc'd to 400, ofc)
Nitpick... back in the day, we oc'd those bad boys to 450. The 300's were 66MHz bus * 4.5 multiplier; they mostly all moved nicely to the 100MHz bus to get a 450MHz chip with tiny cache. Still, cheaper than a P2-450 or P3-450 at the time.
Doesn't that, then, speak volumes about Ubisoft?
Because the material is extremely porous?
That's why I loved my (486) DX-33. Built-in FPU! Thanks for the memories.
Didn't they already do a fair portion of the work with the PS3 port? It *had* to be OpenGL, necessitating redoing the engine (or just updating their old OpenGL renderer). However, I heard it was not very good on the PS3. Given the time that passed, I'd bet they used the PS3 engine as a jump-off point and have been optimizing heavily, around OpenGL 2.1 and 3.0 I'd bet. No coincidence 10.6.3 is supposed to have OpenGL 3.0 support.
Regarding the two droids holding hands, the impression I've gotten so far is that it relates to (1) the Glados personality overall (2) emotions and their presence in robots and (3) the mentions repeatedly by the Aperture Science CEO in decoded messages saying basically "no witchcraft!".
I think the computers (Glados) as well as androids (if that's what they are) have some rudimentary emotions established through "witchcraft". What we don't know is what "witchcraft" literally means in this context.
Yep, the host already caved. Wikileaks is already mirroring the document; I don't want to hotlink the PDF and melt their servers :)
Is it free to make calls from Skype, to a landline? Last time I looked it cost money. But you are correct -- the MagicJack box is just a generic rebranded USB-to-VoIP box and works perfectly with Skype.
What, no puffery?
Carbon sequestration is a joke. For instance, there is a power plant in WV that recently started capturing CO2. You know how much they capture? Less than 1% of total CO2 emissions. Maybe in the future it will be better, but it is no solution now.
They did get common in the past few years, but since they don't melt snow like good ol' incandescent, colder northern climates are probably dumping them cheap :)
Maybe you would enjoy Torchlight? It's made by a bunch of former Blizzard folks, and is a very good Diablo clone. It doesn't have the same dark feel; it's slightly more cartoony, but still good. Definitely a good stop-gap until Diablo3.
Ok, and I agree to that, but why do they get his passwords and access to various online accounts? Is his Facebook account really relevant to this? THAT is the real scary part -- not that a dude got busted for doing something illegal, but that once busted the 'authorities' decided they should get access to everything in his life.
Ugh, I didn't realize they were stuck with ATSUI on 10.4. That's just nasty; ATSUI has been around since 9.x/10.0.x and definitely was showing its age by 10.4. I can imagine the sorts of IME problems they have too, I remember several cases where 10.5 was much more well-behaved for IME and Unicode support in general than 10.4.