What do you mean, "on Oct. 5, 1982". If you're converting to metric then you need to write "6.5 x 10^8 seconds ago". Days, months and years aren't metric.
You youngsters don't remember anything. RFC706 "On the Junk Mail Problem" was published in Nov 1975. Spam was already a problem only 4 years after RFC196, which was the original Mail Box Protocol which had no authentication.
No, wait. A better analogy is if God decided the world had expired and made the Sun go supernova.
Or no, an even better analogy is if an ant is painting a masterpiece using Bob Ross oil paint and looks down and sees that the tube of paint has expired, and says "oh, no"
Or wait an even better analogy is if two people are arguing and one of them sees that the other's analogy has expired. Then he says, "Here, use mine"
Its full name is the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and yes, a manufacturer cannot make a "tie-in" requirement that purchasing a part from someone else voids your warranty. You could argue that adding someone else's ink is no different than adding someone else's carbur^H carbo^H transmission, for example.
Lexmark's claim is that their standard cartridge is refillable. They offer a discount for a cartridge which you agree to return to them when empty. Customers are violating the agreement that they made when purchasing the discount cartridge and selling it to refillers. This all looks reasonable, except how do you get stores to carry two identical cartridges, one of which costs more?
Oh, they call this an "environmental" program, since they don't want their cartridges ending up in landfills. Heh.
The use on train cars was not without problems. Some roads ran the cars through a sprayer before trying to read the codes. Union Switch & Signal installed competing systems that used inductive loops; obviously more expensive but high reliability.
I've been in the electronics industry a long time and have never heard of this phrase. Google hasn't heard it either. I think it was a phrase made up on the spot to impress or intimidate us, like "quantum singularity" or "weapons of mass destruction".
This is the list of changes in 5.0 from their website. Nowhere in it do I see that it removed a feature. In fact it says they have improved reporting. That's a misleading ad if I've ever seen one.
What's New in Bobby(TM) 5.0?
Bobby 5.0 is a comprehensive web accessibility desktop testing tool that incorporates the scanning and reporting functionality of Watchfire® WebQA(TM). Over the past months, we gathered feedback from all previous Bobby users and addressed the common issues in this release. Enhancements include:
Spidering Abilities
* Flash links
* JavaScript parsing and execution
* http(s)
* Session IDs
* Logins * Now able to scan larger sites than ever before
Reporting
* Improved Section 508/WCAG reporting
New Options
* Advanced scan and report options
HTML Editor Integration
* Now you can fix errors quickly and easily
Extensive online help
* Explains why certain errors are reported as issues
... and since the gov. provides the roads, they can require you to have a license, control the specs on what you drive, etc. You can't design your own car and use it on public roads, because there's no way to register it. This prevents you from killing a lot of people with your homebrew car, but it also prevents significant changes to the status quo.
Makes you wonder what a public internet would look like. You think the lawmakers would stay hands off?
so and so will be prosecuted for theft, or maybe armed robbery, not for "Economic Espionage", whatever that is. In a bank robbery, a bank and its customers lose money. In Economic Espionage, the company is faced with a possible loss of revenue if potential customers use pirate boxes instead of subscribing to their service. The actual loss is gonna be difficult to compute. Especially difficult if the availability of pirate boxes advertises their service to a wider audience and contributed to increased sales.
Not that I'm advocating what happened, mind you, just pointing out a problem with the comparison.
Hey, when they let Amtrak shut down the unprofitable routes that happen to go through some congressman's district, then you can complain that Amtrak should be self-sustaining. Till then, it has to be subsidized, even in the areas that get two voters^W riders a day.
By the way, comparing trains to other forms of transportation, who pays for the air traffic control system and the highways (a lot)? Now how much are you spending on railroad track and dispatching offices (0)?
Yeah. There is a company that tried a copyrighted Haiku which you could filter on as a guarantee that your mail message was not spam. The trouble is, the only people that use it are the spammers.
But the server you're connected to is still shared. And its connection to the backbone is shared, too. The pipe to your house isn't always the limiting factor. Its more efficient to have the shared connection to your home as long as, on average, not everyone uses it at the same time. If they do, BOTH cable and DSL slow down because of the other bottlenecks.
There are some benefits to mandatory payment schemes. I'd love to see a tiny charge per e-mail. All spam would disappear instantly.
Instead of doing complicated formulas (ae?) for type of content, another approach would be to collect on a per MB network bandwidth basis. Recipient pays, provider collects. Slashdot would be well funded (as would every site mentioned here). And you wouldn't have the RIAA or MPAA getting a piece of the pie.
Obviously, everybody would want to be a content provider and would put enormous flash-trash files on their website, but browsers can be modified to do filtering.
Yeah. Just like the way they gave up on Apollo 13 after it exploded in space. Oh wait, they got it back safely.
Don't for a second think that NASA engineers take their job lightly. The ones I've known are very committed. Look at the number of emails and memos that were passed around about the foam hitting the wing.
Hindsight says they should have taken the warnings more seriously, but they get warnings on every flight. If they grounded the shuttle until it was as safe as a passenger plane, we just wouldn't be in space at all.
Er... Its clear that you have a fine grasp of Microsoft licensing.
The article is about SA, not all of EA. You pay for SA for 3 years no matter what. Company merges, sells all its computers, whatever. EA can go to 0, but you still have to pay for the contracted SA support. The problem is, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SELL THE COMPUTERS TO DON'T GET ANY OF THE SUPPORT THAT YOU PAID FOR!!! Now do you see?
Not sacrosanct exactly. Its just the fourth amendment to the constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Did you read Fahrenheit 451? (Actually the movie was pretty good too). It does have a weird irony to have librarians shredding records. Maybe we just need to have some firemen burning them, too.
" The point is that _anything_ doctored cannot be considered news. If that became standard practice it would be so easy to abuse."
So if the photographer poses the subjects, she should be fired? I don't think theres much difference between telling people where to stand before you take the shot and splicing them together after you take it. The journalistic principles that you are describing went overboard once prime time news became a big revenue generator for TV stations.
Slashdot Mirror
"The European Environment Agency (EEA) estimates they were 1% greater than in 2000"
But how much would they have increased if they had not signed the Kyoto treaty?
Its interesting to compare US trends from the EPA which claims for 2001 "Emissions declined for the first time since the base year 1990".
" Name one single, popular operating system NOT written in assembler, C or C++ "
Perq Operating System was written in Perq Pascal.
Symbolic Lisp Machine O/S was written in Lisp.
Microsoft Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight.
I'd say 100 years is a fairly long-running app.
I remember when we used to have to type at a keyboard and read words on a screen. Hold on a second, my direct cranial connection is loose.
What do you mean, "on Oct. 5, 1982". If you're converting to metric then you need to write "6.5 x 10^8 seconds ago". Days, months and years aren't metric.
You youngsters don't remember anything. RFC706 "On the Junk Mail Problem" was published in Nov 1975. Spam was already a problem only 4 years after RFC196, which was the original Mail Box Protocol which had no authentication.
No, wait. A better analogy is if God decided the world had expired and made the Sun go supernova.
Or no, an even better analogy is if an ant is painting a masterpiece using Bob Ross oil paint and looks down and sees that the tube of paint has expired, and says "oh, no"
Or wait an even better analogy is if two people are arguing and one of them sees that the other's analogy has expired. Then he says, "Here, use mine"
Its full name is the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and yes, a manufacturer cannot make a "tie-in" requirement that purchasing a part from someone else voids your warranty. You could argue that adding someone else's ink is no different than adding someone else's carbur^H carbo^H transmission, for example.
Lexmark's claim is that their standard cartridge is refillable. They offer a discount for a cartridge which you agree to return to them when empty. Customers are violating the agreement that they made when purchasing the discount cartridge and selling it to refillers. This all looks reasonable, except how do you get stores to carry two identical cartridges, one of which costs more?
Oh, they call this an "environmental" program, since they don't want their cartridges ending up in landfills. Heh.
The use on train cars was not without problems. Some roads ran the cars through a sprayer before trying to read the codes. Union Switch & Signal installed competing systems that used inductive loops; obviously more expensive but high reliability.
I've been in the electronics industry a long time and have never heard of this phrase. Google hasn't heard it either. I think it was a phrase made up on the spot to impress or intimidate us, like "quantum singularity" or "weapons of mass destruction".
Body language should be even easier than lip reading. I want to know if I'm wasting my time or whether I should invite her back to my place.
This is the list of changes in 5.0 from their website. Nowhere in it do I see that it removed a feature. In fact it says they have improved reporting. That's a misleading ad if I've ever seen one.
What's New in Bobby(TM) 5.0?
Bobby 5.0 is a comprehensive web accessibility desktop testing tool that incorporates the scanning and reporting functionality of Watchfire® WebQA(TM). Over the past months, we gathered feedback from all previous Bobby users and addressed the common issues in this release. Enhancements include:
Spidering Abilities
* Flash links
* JavaScript parsing and execution
* http(s)
* Session IDs
* Logins
* Now able to scan larger sites than ever before
Reporting
* Improved Section 508/WCAG reporting
New Options
* Advanced scan and report options
HTML Editor Integration
* Now you can fix errors quickly and easily
Extensive online help
* Explains why certain errors are reported as issues
... and since the gov. provides the roads, they can require you to have a license, control the specs on what you drive, etc. You can't design your own car and use it on public roads, because there's no way to register it. This prevents you from killing a lot of people with your homebrew car, but it also prevents significant changes to the status quo.
Makes you wonder what a public internet would look like. You think the lawmakers would stay hands off?
so and so will be prosecuted for theft, or maybe armed robbery, not for "Economic Espionage", whatever that is. In a bank robbery, a bank and its customers lose money. In Economic Espionage, the company is faced with a possible loss of revenue if potential customers use pirate boxes instead of subscribing to their service. The actual loss is gonna be difficult to compute. Especially difficult if the availability of pirate boxes advertises their service to a wider audience and contributed to increased sales.
Not that I'm advocating what happened, mind you, just pointing out a problem with the comparison.
Hey, when they let Amtrak shut down the unprofitable routes that happen to go through some congressman's district, then you can complain that Amtrak should be self-sustaining. Till then, it has to be subsidized, even in the areas that get two voters^W riders a day.
By the way, comparing trains to other forms of transportation, who pays for the air traffic control system and the highways (a lot)? Now how much are you spending on railroad track and dispatching offices (0)?
Yeah. There is a company that tried a copyrighted Haiku which you could filter on as a guarantee that your mail message was not spam. The trouble is, the only people that use it are the spammers.
But the server you're connected to is still shared. And its connection to the backbone is shared, too. The pipe to your house isn't always the limiting factor. Its more efficient to have the shared connection to your home as long as, on average, not everyone uses it at the same time. If they do, BOTH cable and DSL slow down because of the other bottlenecks.
Nope, its right
'b' = bits
'B' = bytes
There are some benefits to mandatory payment schemes. I'd love to see a tiny charge per e-mail. All spam would disappear instantly.
Instead of doing complicated formulas (ae?) for type of content, another approach would be to collect on a per MB network bandwidth basis. Recipient pays, provider collects. Slashdot would be well funded (as would every site mentioned here). And you wouldn't have the RIAA or MPAA getting a piece of the pie.
Obviously, everybody would want to be a content provider and would put enormous flash-trash files on their website, but browsers can be modified to do filtering.
Yeah. Just like the way they gave up on Apollo 13 after it exploded in space. Oh wait, they got it back safely.
Don't for a second think that NASA engineers take their job lightly. The ones I've known are very committed. Look at the number of emails and memos that were passed around about the foam hitting the wing.
Hindsight says they should have taken the warnings more seriously, but they get warnings on every flight. If they grounded the shuttle until it was as safe as a passenger plane, we just wouldn't be in space at all.
Er ... Its clear that you have a fine grasp of Microsoft licensing.
The article is about SA, not all of EA. You pay for SA for 3 years no matter what. Company merges, sells all its computers, whatever. EA can go to 0, but you still have to pay for the contracted SA support. The problem is, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SELL THE COMPUTERS TO DON'T GET ANY OF THE SUPPORT THAT YOU PAID FOR!!! Now do you see?
Thank you and have a nice day.
Not sacrosanct exactly. Its just the fourth amendment to the constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Did you read Fahrenheit 451? (Actually the movie was pretty good too). It does have a weird irony to have librarians shredding records. Maybe we just need to have some firemen burning them, too.
" The point is that _anything_ doctored cannot be considered news. If that became standard practice it would be so easy to abuse."
So if the photographer poses the subjects, she should be fired? I don't think theres much difference between telling people where to stand before you take the shot and splicing them together after you take it. The journalistic principles that you are describing went overboard once prime time news became a big revenue generator for TV stations.