get moderated down for building you position on a factual flawed premises.
It is the unelected council of ministers; i.e. ministers appointed from european nation states and not the EU parliament that seem to be screwing this up, by trying to by-pass that democraticly elected European Parliament.
Given the poor quality of most Christian science, c.f. Creationism, can we really expect them to present an unbiased perspective on the net. I dont think so, what surprises me is that this is being accepted at face value by most posters, when there is tons of research that says the exact opposite.
SP2 broke a good majority of my previously installed software; oddly the standard suggested solution of re-installing the 3rd party software does seem to mostly fix things. Which suggests to me the install process its self is somehow screwing up the 3rd party software installation/configurations rather than the SP2 itself.
How the IETF & W3C standards processes for ID's & RFC's are breaking down. They are meta-morphing into the bloated committees of vested interests of old, that have failed to keep pace with developments. Though this is probably what the vested interests want, so they marginalised contributors that don't work for famous name, even if you're representing the first and only organisation to actually have a working system in the field.
I'm a UK Software Engineer and I've only been asked if I had any MS-Certification once. My reply was that since I have a BSc(Hons) from the most prestigous IT school in the country, it was rather like asking a Doctor if he had a first aid certificate.
The only people that bother with them in the UK are the desperate unemployed conned into paying for a Home-Study IT qualification.
Its looks like Microsoft may be falling foul of UK law with some of their claims.
The CAP Code (Ed 11) : GENERAL RULES
SUBSTANTIATION
3.1 Before distributing or submitting a marketing communication for publication, marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove all claims, whether direct or implied, that are capable of objective substantiation.
Relevant evidence should be sent without delay if requested by the ASA or CAP. The adequacy of evidence will be judged on whether it supports both the detailed claims and the overall impression created by the marketing communication. The full name and geographical business address of marketers should be provided without delay if requested by the ASA or CAP.
3.2 If there is a significant division of informed opinion about any claims made in a marketing communication they should not be portrayed as generally agreed.
3.3 Claims for the content of non-fiction books, tapes, videos and the like that have not been independently substantiated should not exaggerate the value, accuracy, scientific validity or practical usefulness of the product.
3.4 Obvious untruths or exaggerations that are unlikely to mislead and incidental minor errors and unorthodox spellings are all allowed provided they do not affect the accuracy or perception of the marketing communication in any material way.
many of us are wary to speak about what is going on because it will inevitably reveal problems with the company.
You should always take a solution to a manager not a problem. If you know what the 'problems' are you should also have a good idea what the solution is. Present the solution in the way a none IT manager can understand. I.e "We can [reduce costs|improve customer care|be more responsive to business demands] by applying X solution.
If all the industrialized nations are considering all possible scenarios,... But it is unfair to most of the rest of the industrialized world to claim that "everybody's doing it."
They will have plans within what they consider to be their sphere of influence.
Australia and France are both significant militry powers in its own right and could well have military plans for Cuba, though I doubt Finland has plans for Panama.
Let me get this straight. Someone doesn't want to sell it's own country's resources to the US, and you claim that it's grounds to go to war? That sounds remarkably like bullying to me.
It sounds remarkably like the reality of geo-politics to me, and to believe otherwise is nieve beyound belief. All ccountries act in there own best interests.
1) Osama is alive and well, and in hiding, the CIA dont know or cant prove it. 2) Osama is alive and well, and in hiding, the CIA do know and can prove it. 3) Osama is dead and the CIA dont know or cant prove it. 4) Osama is dead and the CIA do know and can prove it.
My observation is that the vast majority of people think he is alive and in hiding. However there is little proof, a few tapes of indeterminate date and certainly nothing conclusive. Most people haven't really though about the questions; Do the CIA do know? and Would they publish such information? I think they would probably do whatever they felt was in their own best interest.
So we have a possibility that he is dead and buried under tons of rubble in one of the most inaccessable places on the world. The CIA might suspect it, or assume it, but they dont know it and cannot prove it without expending considerable effort.
They assume he's dead and release the information they lose their bogey-man and have to deal with a martyr, a much more difficult prospect to handle. If it turned out to be wrong they would also have to contend with a a miracle. No a dead bogey-man is much easier to fight than a prophet.
If the CIA say he is dead they get a martyr or a prophet, and neither is in their best interests.
So do I think hes dead ? I dont know, but I dont assume he is alive and in hiding.
including anything you invent while working for the company.
This uninformed B.S. Even if it says as much in some contracts. A contract must be fair and equatable, if the inventor does not receive something for their patent, the contract is unfair. Unfair contracts are unenforcable and any court will throw out such contracts.
1) A patent belongs to an individual not a corporation, Companies cannot invent and cannot own patents. People invent things, not companies. The company cannot simply register the patent or claim the patent rights.
2) To qualify for a patent an inventiion must be original and not obvious to an normal expert in the field, in simple terms the invention must be extra-ordinary.
4) If the person is an ordinary employee, not employed as an inventor, they are not expected to be extra-ordinary. Their job description and contract will not account for this situation. The company has no rights to the patent for free. It may be in the employees interests to negotiate, but that is a seperate issue.
3) If the person is employed as an inventor, their job description and contract will account for this situation and will contain appropriate clauses governing this situation, including assignment of rights to the company, and the reward for such assignment.
The idea that a company gets the patent for free is absurd.
Im a asuming the patent has been applied for and granted in your name ?
If you already assigned the patent to the company, you are in a weak position, and are relying on the companies good will, the best you can hope for is raising it at your annual review like you would any acheivement.
If you have not made the assignment you find your self in a good position of negotiating with the company from a position of strength. DO NOT sign over the rights to the patent. Consult a patent agent/lawyer.
You can negotiate, ask for a fair offer. Find out or estimate the revenue or savings made and know the patents value to the company. You are entitled to a share of this.
Consider the cost of exploiting the patent, if this is huge, expect a smaller percentage, 2% or less; if the cost of exploiting the patent is low, i.e. licensing the patent to others, expect a much larger share, 20% or more.
If the company has applied for the patent in somebody else name, and you also have problems, you can negotiate but the hammer is that you can break the patent, you need evidence to support it as your patent and this can easily be very expensive legal problems, consult a patent agent/lawyer.
In the UK there is (or was) a huge modded Car scene but was mostly been off-line, probalby because it predates the Web. It featured Clubs a few good magazines, such as Classic Car and CCC (sadly it in is last month), with had decent technical articles and ran awesome track days.
The source, staightdope, shows the last change of the story as 7th October. The story was posted the Slashdot on the 8th October, one day later. The poster accessed it on the 9th, one day later still.
It seems much more likely to me that a network admin modded the cached version to prevent it triggering alarms in some censorware that operates inside the DMZ.
once men have managed to squirt out a few of the little cadgers, their role in this life is pretty much done.
This is tied old rhetoric. Children raised by single mothers, have lower educational achievement, lower earnings, commit more crime, suffer poorer health and die younger than children raised by fathers. The simple fact women are naturally equipped to bear children whilst men are best equipped to prepare children for the world.
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get moderated down for building you position on a factual flawed premises.
It is the unelected council of ministers; i.e. ministers appointed from european nation states and not the EU parliament that seem to be screwing this up, by trying to by-pass that democraticly elected European Parliament.
which affects all browsers.
This doesnt effect Firefox v1.0
is that all these are consensus despite the evidence, global warming is a consensus because of the evidence.
Given the poor quality of most Christian science, c.f. Creationism, can we really expect them to present an unbiased perspective on the net. I dont think so, what surprises me is that this is being accepted at face value by most posters, when there is tons of research that says the exact opposite.
Games improve hand eye coordination.
Computers use improves reading & Social skills
Games improve physiological and psychological responses
Games improve productivity and job satisfaction
Computer games improve childrens listening skill.
BTW, this post will probably be illegal in the UK tomorrow, when it will be made illegal to criticise religion.
SP2 broke a good majority of my previously installed software; oddly the standard suggested solution of re-installing the 3rd party software does seem to mostly fix things. Which suggests to me the install process its self is somehow screwing up the 3rd party software installation/configurations rather than the SP2 itself.
How the IETF & W3C standards processes for ID's & RFC's are breaking down. They are meta-morphing into the bloated committees of vested interests of old, that have failed to keep pace with developments. Though this is probably what the vested interests want, so they marginalised contributors that don't work for famous name, even if you're representing the first and only organisation to actually have a working system in the field.
I'm a UK Software Engineer and I've only been asked if I had any MS-Certification once. My reply was that since I have a BSc(Hons) from the most prestigous IT school in the country, it was rather like asking a Doctor if he had a first aid certificate.
The only people that bother with them in the UK are the desperate unemployed conned into paying for a Home-Study IT qualification.
Its looks like Microsoft may be falling foul of UK law with some of their claims.
The CAP Code (Ed 11) : GENERAL RULES
SUBSTANTIATION
3.1 Before distributing or submitting a marketing communication for publication, marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove all claims, whether direct or implied, that are capable of objective substantiation.
Relevant evidence should be sent without delay if requested by the ASA or CAP. The adequacy of evidence will be judged on whether it supports both the detailed claims and the overall impression created by the marketing communication. The full name and geographical business address of marketers should be provided without delay if requested by the ASA or CAP.
3.2 If there is a significant division of informed opinion about any claims made in a marketing communication they should not be portrayed as generally agreed.
3.3 Claims for the content of non-fiction books, tapes, videos and the like that have not been independently substantiated should not exaggerate the value, accuracy, scientific validity or practical usefulness of the product.
3.4 Obvious untruths or exaggerations that are unlikely to mislead and incidental minor errors and unorthodox spellings are all allowed provided they do not affect the accuracy or perception of the marketing communication in any material way.
http://www.asa.org.uk/index.asp
The Zaurus has a CF slot so you can just plug in a one of IBM's CF MicroDrives.
Nuisance/Unsolicited calls or fax are certainly against the rules and the company can be cut off of even prosecuted.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk.
many of us are wary to speak about what is going on because it will inevitably reveal problems with the company.
You should always take a solution to a manager not a problem. If you know what the 'problems' are you should also have a good idea what the solution is. Present the solution in the way a none IT manager can understand. I.e "We can [reduce costs|improve customer care|be more responsive to business demands] by applying X solution.
If all the industrialized nations are considering all possible scenarios, ... But it is unfair to most of the rest of the industrialized world to claim that "everybody's doing it."
They will have plans within what they consider to be their sphere of influence.
Australia and France are both significant militry powers in its own right and could well have military plans for Cuba, though I doubt Finland has plans for Panama.
Let me get this straight. Someone doesn't want to sell it's own country's resources to the US, and you claim that it's grounds to go to war? That sounds remarkably like bullying to me.
It sounds remarkably like the reality of geo-politics to me, and to believe otherwise is nieve beyound belief. All ccountries act in there own best interests.
Um... Isn't the U.S. arresting people all over the world right now for having "plans"?
Er, no. Its arresting people for implementing plans.
Such as
Bali blast families welcome arrest
Sixth Briton held at Camp X-Ray
'US citizen' in Camp X-Ray
Swede and Dane are terror suspects
'Shoe bomber' pleads guilty
Who's who of al-Qaeda in custody
(5) Where the fuck is Osama?!?!
.
Well consider the scenarios
1) Osama is alive and well, and in hiding, the CIA dont know or cant prove it.
2) Osama is alive and well, and in hiding, the CIA do know and can prove it.
3) Osama is dead and the CIA dont know or cant prove it.
4) Osama is dead and the CIA do know and can prove it
My observation is that the vast majority of people think he is alive and in hiding. However there is little proof, a few tapes of indeterminate date and certainly nothing conclusive. Most people haven't really though about the questions; Do the CIA do know? and Would they publish such information? I think they would probably do whatever they felt was in their own best interest.
Towards the end of the war there was an assault of the caves at Tora Bora, his last strong hold and they included the use of thermobaric bombs designed to cause implosions/cave-ins.
So we have a possibility that he is dead and buried under tons of rubble in one of the most inaccessable places on the world. The CIA might suspect it, or assume it, but they dont know it and cannot prove it without expending considerable effort.
They assume he's dead and release the information they lose their bogey-man and have to deal with a martyr, a much more difficult prospect to handle. If it turned out to be wrong they would also have to contend with a a miracle. No a dead bogey-man is much easier to fight than a prophet.
If the CIA say he is dead they get a martyr or a prophet, and neither is in their best interests.
So do I think hes dead ? I dont know, but I dont assume he is alive and in hiding.
including anything you invent while working for the company.
This uninformed B.S. Even if it says as much in some contracts. A contract must be fair and equatable, if the inventor does not receive something for their patent, the contract is unfair. Unfair contracts are unenforcable and any court will throw out such contracts.
1) A patent belongs to an individual not a corporation, Companies cannot invent and cannot own patents. People invent things, not companies. The company cannot simply register the patent or claim the patent rights.
2) To qualify for a patent an inventiion must be original and not obvious to an normal expert in the field, in simple terms the invention must be extra-ordinary.
4) If the person is an ordinary employee, not employed as an inventor, they are not expected to be extra-ordinary. Their job description and contract will not account for this situation. The company has no rights to the patent for free. It may be in the employees interests to negotiate, but that is a seperate issue.
3) If the person is employed as an inventor, their job description and contract will account for this situation and will contain appropriate clauses governing this situation, including assignment of rights to the company, and the reward for such assignment.
The idea that a company gets the patent for free is absurd.
Im a asuming the patent has been applied for and granted in your name ?
If you already assigned the patent to the company, you are in a weak position, and are relying on the companies good will, the best you can hope for is raising it at your annual review like you would any acheivement.
If you have not made the assignment you find your self in a good position of negotiating with the company from a position of strength. DO NOT sign over the rights to the patent. Consult a patent agent/lawyer.
You can negotiate, ask for a fair offer. Find out or estimate the revenue or savings made and know the patents value to the company. You are entitled to a share of this.
Consider the cost of exploiting the patent, if this is huge, expect a smaller percentage, 2% or less; if the cost of exploiting the patent is low, i.e. licensing the patent to others, expect a much larger share, 20% or more.
If the company has applied for the patent in somebody else name, and you also have problems, you can negotiate but the hammer is that you can break the patent, you need evidence to support it as your patent and this can easily be very expensive legal problems, consult a patent agent/lawyer.
The real irony is I used to get my books from Amazon.com (not co.uk) until a year ago because they where cheaper.
In the UK there is (or was) a huge modded Car scene but was mostly been off-line, probalby because it predates the Web. It featured Clubs a few good magazines, such as Classic Car and CCC (sadly it in is last month), with had decent technical articles and ran awesome track days.
However this has increasingly been replaced by a Street (Racing) Cruising (some of the links will not be work safe) scene based on more mainstream, non-geek pop culture (not work safe). It does feature a younger and more-internet savy demographic, but is increasingly based on existing performance and professionally modified cars rather than DIY mods.
Why bother? I'm in IT -- I can surf anywhere.
... keep most of the bandwidth to yourself.
And...
This doesnt sound likely to me.
The source, staightdope, shows the last change of the story as 7th October.
The story was posted the Slashdot on the 8th October, one day later.
The poster accessed it on the 9th, one day later still.
It seems much more likely to me that a network admin modded the cached version to prevent it triggering alarms in some censorware that operates inside the DMZ.
I'm all for saving the environment, but not at the cost of someone's life.
Do you really believer your pitiful little life is more important than the survival of our ecosystem and our entire species ?
If so I'm staggered by your narcissism.
but how many female welders or construction workers (ones who do the construction) do you know?
s /
Or for that matter for any of the most dangerous jobs !
1) Timber Cutters
2) Fisheries
3) Pilots & Navigators
4) Structural Metal Workers
5) Driving Sales
6) Roofers
7) Electrical Power installers
8) Farming
9) Construction
10) Truck drivers
http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/13/pf/dangerousjob
once men have managed to squirt out a few of the little cadgers, their role in this life is pretty much done.
This is tied old rhetoric. Children raised by single mothers, have lower educational achievement, lower earnings, commit more crime, suffer poorer health and die younger than children raised by fathers. The simple fact women are naturally equipped to bear children whilst men are best equipped to prepare children for the world.
Perhaps Esperanto would be a good way for americans to get with the program globally
I think we would be content for them to master English!