If you were lazier you would find a job that only required you to show up to work 40 weeks (or whatever). I realize this isn't particularly practical (despite being a somewhat goal of mine), but part of the reason it isn't practical is that much of society is obsessed with productivity.
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The devils advocate argument would be that you have constructed your life irrationally if you have to choose between work and visiting your family.
I'm pragmatic enough that I won't claim to support that argument (all that much), but that was a big part of the snark in my initial post.
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I'd much rather they charge people with 2 bags more than they charge me and my 1 bag than I would they charge everybody the same.
The pricing structure of 2007 is not compatible with the fuel prices of 2008; charging Mr. 2 bags is not nickel and diming, it is staying in business.
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Are you near death, obsessed with productivity or under heavy obligations?
Those are the only three reasons I can think of for time being severely limited. I live healthy, I am lazy and I don't have a family, so I can't really say that my time is severely limited. Is there some other reason?
Google is *valued* at $170 billion. What they are worth is less clear. They could certainly manage a $1 billion payout, as they are pulling in a multiple of that each quarter and they have $12 billion just sitting around, but it would do more than leave a bad taste in their mouth.
I'm wondering if the trade secrets they stole were the public Outlook plug-in APIs or the methods of interoperating with gmail (imap, smtp). Maybe it was the concept of mapping an "Outlook email message" to an "Internet email message".
It's (apparently) a dick move on Google's part, but the idea that the other company had significant technology is pushing it a bit.
That's an argument for effective regulation and things like environmental bonds (estimate the cost of a cleanup; require insurance; the insurance company will enforce good environmental practices).
Given the global need for resources (it isn't just simple demand at this point), there needs to be some movement away from the attitude of exporting environmental damage to other places (in part because there are resources that are much more readily available within the U.S.). "It will harm the environment" isn't going to have any teeth in 30 or 40 years, we might as well move to "Let's harm the environment as little as possible".
France's engineers tried harder than those in any other country to build and run breeder reactors reliably at a commercial scale, but ultimately they failed. The result is that even in France--the best real-world model of what reprocessing can accomplish--the technology remains a tantalizing but only partial solution to the problem of high-level nuclear waste.
Dude, here is the first sentence from the summary: "SonicSpike writes in with word that an appeals court has dealt a setback to the FCC's plans to encourage broadband over power lines."
I guess there could be a (BPL) in there to make it somewhat clearer, but I get the feeling if someone walked up to you and said "Hey, did you see the game?", you would say "nope" but be thinking "Hey fuck you, I don't like football" even though it was baseball season.
My last visit to the dentist was ~$70 for ~45 minutes of this and that (cleaning and scraping and poking, no carpentry), and included x-rays...that's less than $100 an hour. Around $200 if you figure they were doing nothing half of the time (but that's a silly way to look at it).
Fear not, Ice T and Henry Rollins will have a microwave that is free of government control. You will be able to take your undies to them for sanitization.
Is there some flaw in their signing implementation (I don't pay attention)?
If they claimed that signed exes would keep users safe from threats, they were being ridiculous, if they claimed that they would help users, not so much.
The only other security dialogs I ever see are popups indicating an executable has been signed by so and so and that I should be care when running it. I would be sort of surprised if Microsoft thought that was a big step towards security and not some feature that someone requested.
Fair point. I meant 'mattered much' in the sense that other factors have been much more important in determining the genetic profiles of various populations (migration and sex for the most part).
UAC is as much about putting social pressure on application vendors to write applications that take advantage of the multi-user security as it is about backwards compatibility. It is more about both of those than it is about actual security.
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If you were lazier you would find a job that only required you to show up to work 40 weeks (or whatever). I realize this isn't particularly practical (despite being a somewhat goal of mine), but part of the reason it isn't practical is that much of society is obsessed with productivity.
The devils advocate argument would be that you have constructed your life irrationally if you have to choose between work and visiting your family.
I'm pragmatic enough that I won't claim to support that argument (all that much), but that was a big part of the snark in my initial post.
Only in an obscure former world empire.
I'd much rather they charge people with 2 bags more than they charge me and my 1 bag than I would they charge everybody the same.
The pricing structure of 2007 is not compatible with the fuel prices of 2008; charging Mr. 2 bags is not nickel and diming, it is staying in business.
Are you near death, obsessed with productivity or under heavy obligations?
Those are the only three reasons I can think of for time being severely limited. I live healthy, I am lazy and I don't have a family, so I can't really say that my time is severely limited. Is there some other reason?
There are third party apps to add similar functionality to XP. Launchy is the one I use:
http://www.launchy.net/#download
I think they are all clones of some Mac app though.
Not everyone prides themselves on using a 'cool' isp.
Google is *valued* at $170 billion. What they are worth is less clear. They could certainly manage a $1 billion payout, as they are pulling in a multiple of that each quarter and they have $12 billion just sitting around, but it would do more than leave a bad taste in their mouth.
I'm wondering if the trade secrets they stole were the public Outlook plug-in APIs or the methods of interoperating with gmail (imap, smtp). Maybe it was the concept of mapping an "Outlook email message" to an "Internet email message".
It's (apparently) a dick move on Google's part, but the idea that the other company had significant technology is pushing it a bit.
People in other countries writing to their newspapers would likely be as effective as Americans writing to their newspapers...
That's an argument for effective regulation and things like environmental bonds (estimate the cost of a cleanup; require insurance; the insurance company will enforce good environmental practices).
Given the global need for resources (it isn't just simple demand at this point), there needs to be some movement away from the attitude of exporting environmental damage to other places (in part because there are resources that are much more readily available within the U.S.). "It will harm the environment" isn't going to have any teeth in 30 or 40 years, we might as well move to "Let's harm the environment as little as possible".
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4891
(My point is not that it can not work, it is that it is not ready yet...)
It's also probably safer than crossing a street.
Poop. Fart. Wrong.
I just don't feel the need to shout.
Dude, here is the first sentence from the summary: "SonicSpike writes in with word that an appeals court has dealt a setback to the FCC's plans to encourage broadband over power lines."
I guess there could be a (BPL) in there to make it somewhat clearer, but I get the feeling if someone walked up to you and said "Hey, did you see the game?", you would say "nope" but be thinking "Hey fuck you, I don't like football" even though it was baseball season.
My last visit to the dentist was ~$70 for ~45 minutes of this and that (cleaning and scraping and poking, no carpentry), and included x-rays...that's less than $100 an hour. Around $200 if you figure they were doing nothing half of the time (but that's a silly way to look at it).
Fear not, Ice T and Henry Rollins will have a microwave that is free of government control. You will be able to take your undies to them for sanitization.
Is there some flaw in their signing implementation (I don't pay attention)?
If they claimed that signed exes would keep users safe from threats, they were being ridiculous, if they claimed that they would help users, not so much.
O.K.
The only other security dialogs I ever see are popups indicating an executable has been signed by so and so and that I should be care when running it. I would be sort of surprised if Microsoft thought that was a big step towards security and not some feature that someone requested.
Haze.
Fair point. I meant 'mattered much' in the sense that other factors have been much more important in determining the genetic profiles of various populations (migration and sex for the most part).
UAC is as much about putting social pressure on application vendors to write applications that take advantage of the multi-user security as it is about backwards compatibility. It is more about both of those than it is about actual security.
All I can do is assert that it isn't me, there isn't anything I can do to prove it.
It isn't me. I just find your posts self righteous and arrogant (your *posts*, I don't know you) and don't mind telling other people what I think.
I comment far too often to get mod points.
But this is exactly the sort of thing I am talking about, you really need to relax a little.
The trick is to eat 2 double bacon cheeseburgers and chase it with a party size bag of Doritos.