You damn kids, we used Morse code over tin cans and string. Although we sometimes did get interference if somebody hung their clothes on the line to dry...
Yeah, because every household has more than 1 computer, so Johnny can code in his C64 emulator on his personal PC, while Dad looks at & propositions young girls on MySpace on his personal PC, while Mom hires a detective to track her husband on her personal PC, while Susie is unknowingy responding to her "I'm 17 and hot 4 U" dad on MySpace on her personal PC.
$100 for a monitor and C64 makes a lot of sense if there's only 1 PC in the house.
Get them to provide written proof of your grandparent's consent. If it was a webform, get them to prove the exact time, date, and IP address of consent. The more proof the better - MAC address of the (cable/DSL) modem, computer logs proving when that modem's MAC address was registered to the ISP network, etc.
Oh wait, they can't provide written proof? Then there was no consent, there was no valid and legal agreement. What occurred was merely payment for services rendered, like paying a barber for a haircut or a grocery store for food. Check with your lawyer of choice, but the burden of proof is probably on the ISP to prove that an agreement existed (and was documented) rather than on your grandparents.
(According to your story, anyways.)
The real question is if you're willing to pay some money to a lawyer to take it to court, or pay less money to the ISP to resolve the problem. Depends on how you value money and your faith in the legal system.
P2P isn't the solution. The solution is to take a significant majority of the backbone out of the hands of corporations that control them. Corporations will bend to government influence, just as governments bend to corporate influence.
By creating a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to enhance and extend the internet backbone, you've solved the problem of petty ownership and government blustering. Funding would be an adventure, but it's been done by lesser qualified organizations. And no more Level3-Cogent spats!
Yes, you can. Check out http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ and do a search for VMWare. I've done it on Hoary Hedgehog and I'm sure someone has done so on the Breezy Badger as well.
You said you were part of a profitable business. If you're already understaffed, overworked, etc... why are they asking for *your* department to cut costs?
Smells like the CEO wants a new Lexus for Christmas in July...
Comments like As long as they can provide the bare minimum required to keep the money flowing into their coffers just illustrate that the poster is probably inexperienced professionally and has a significant emotional block that prevents him/her from looking at things objectively.
Professionally inexperienced and emotionally blocked. But at least I don't post as an AC. Though why I'm replying to something never to be read again is also ponderable.
I prefer the term cynical to those you so artlessly dropped in your reply. I have a fairly good idea of how corporations work - I work for one. And most corporations do not have any intention of conforming to their customers as Nordstroms does (even if it does make them a boatload of cash) Why? Because the only possible reason to do so is to differentiate themselves from every other corporation out there. If every company in the world lavished attention like Nordstroms does, the first company to cut prices by reducing service and bargaining for lower priced goods would make a killing. Enter the Wal-mart.
You simply cannot attribute human qualities to a non-human entity. If you want to try, keep this in mind: There are no Good Samaritan corporations.
Corporations don't care about the consumer. They never have, and they likely never will. Corporations care about the consumer's money. As long as they can provide the bare minimum required to keep the money flowing into their coffers, that's all they'll do.
Pessimistic, yes. But show me a wildly successful corporation that lavishes it's customers with their every desire. Yeah. Right.
You fail to take into account how memory may work (or not) once the normal life span has been surpassed. Part of learning is knowing when you've made mistakes before and not making them again. If you can't remember what you did wrong, you're doomed to do it again and again. How ironic would it be if longer life spans were counteracted by longer periods of sleeping/dreaming in order to keep our memories straight?
As with anything else, solving one issue (aging) raises even more (health care?!?!, memory, boredom, etc.)
because we've got everything from Far Cry to Invisible War to SimCity 4 to Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 to...you get the picture.
You just named 3 sequels out of 4 games, and you wonder why people say it used to be better in the good old days? Because everything was FRESH back then.:)
...but you abused that submission with more commas than a Microsoft EULA has in total. Learn to use that 'preview' button for more than just HTML-checking.
A comparitive search would have found a number of similarities in the short paragraphs submitted. Automated resume scanners look for keywords; I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to have a 15-day-limited bank of keywords from posted news blurbs scanned against new submissions.
Then again, this is the first time in a while I've seen two dupes back to back. So maybe we're just overreacting.;)
CmdrTaco et al need some sort of CVS on submitted newsposts. Check-out a selected submission, nobody else can touch it. With some work and the tying in of keywords, it could also be a dupe-submission checker of sorts.
...stating that they would never mislead the public about decreasing CD sales, increased piracy, and that little debacle about price fixing.
Hypocrisy is a wonderful thing. We'll make you sign this binding agreement never to do this illegal thing ever again, while we'll go about price fixing and law-dodging and make every attempt to keep it out of the news.
1) Make a couple copies of a detailed explanation, along with code necessary to do the exploit, and put on CD.
2) Mail to CEO, IT director of offending company, student advocate and IT director of university, and one or two newspapers. Make sure that everyone knows that the others are receiving identical copies of the same CD.
3) Get a lawyer. You'll be thankful you retained one, even if nothing ever comes of this event.
4) Encourage everyone (except newspapers, those are your backup) to sit down on campus for a meeting. Bring your lawyer. Bring your professor (I assume that only 1 class uses this system) and make sure that he validates that your grade has not been changed. Once that's done, make sure they realize that you're doing this as a service for their benefit. (both company and university don't need bad press)
5) Get the student newspaper in on it, but don't expect anything.
Hopefully, the exploit will be fixed in a short amount of time, nobody will sue you, and you'll get the pat on the back you expected (nothing more, except maybe a job offer if you're especially golden.)
...in one of his novels, Distraction if I remember correctly. Something about how spontaneous mobs were robbing banks or the like. A good read for sci-fi fans with a down-to-earth mindset.
Oh, and just in case somebody gets their underwear in a bind because of my personal opinion, let me reiterate that I have nothing more to do with either GT or FutureTruck. These are my personal opinions, and mine alone. I'm simply stating what I think about the situation.
I am (was) the team leader for Georgia Tech in this year's FutureTruck competition. Since I am now an alum of GT, and of the FutureTruck program (which I have participated in since its inception in 1999-2000) let me share some thoughts.
GM sponsored the first two years of the competition, Ford these last two. GM has AFAIK not used any of the redesigns that we 15 universities made to their Suburban. Ford cancelled their hybrid Explorer but are continuing forward with their hybrid Escape. All research done for either company during the competitions became theirs.
Of the 1000 points that encompass the competition, 525 depend on the actual performance of the vehicle. 475 depend on the reports, oral presentations, and judges' determinations.
Last year, University of Wisconsin attained approximately 30mpg. Some doubt this, but that's not my point. Greenpeace or some environmental organization got wind of this and printed an article to the effect of "If these kids can get 30mpg, why can't Ford?" Embarrassment for Ford, Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratories (the organizers), etc...
Perhaps as a result of #3, the Acceleration and On-Road Fuel Economy events were combined this year as opposed to previous years. Combining the two events has one result: Reduced fuel economy due to the need to do 8 full-out accelerations. Some might argue that the combination is more 'real-world', but I doubt that everyone jackrabbits their SUV off the line every time they sit at a light or stop sign.
So what is the point of the competition? IMHO, after 4 years of participation, the intent of the FutureTruck competition is to provide college students with a real-world engineering competition. It is also a way to evaluate next-generation technologies like biodiesel, ethanol, and hydrogen fuel cells. It certainly is not a way to give schools the means to one-up GM and Ford by producing a SUV that beats the stock vehicle in fuel economy, performance, and emissions.
Now that I've said that, it's time to plug Georgia Tech.:)
GT won the Best Acceleration, Best Consumer Acceptability, Best Emissions, and 4th place awards. Our dynamic scores were top-notch; we ran in our hybrid mode in every event. Yet when it came to the static side of things, we got destroyed (as usual.) Why? If you re-read the aforementioned reason this competition exists, you'll understand. GT's methodology has always been KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and manufacturability. But the organizers don't want that; they want cutting edge, more-likely-than-not poorly functioning technologies. Because that can't be implemented in the near future.
OK, time to get off my rant horse. If you're still with me, here's the wrap. This was a fun competition, and I strongly encourage schools to participate. Real world experience in the automotive industry while still in college is hard to beat. But if you do join up, keep your eyes and mind open. The most feasible design won't necessarily be the winner.
It's expensive because it *has* to work.
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Medical equipment is expensive because it simply cannot fail. If an EKG hiccups or gets stuck in some embedded-software loop, the company is going to be SOL when hospitals find out and dump their products. How about a faulty defibrillator that only works 1/2 the time, or lifesign monitoring equipment that occasionally has to reboot.
Sure, go ahead and make a $10 EKG. But don't be so naive as to expect medical equipment in general to be low cost. It takes a lot of time and money to test out medical equipment, and they recoup those costs by raising the price.
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The low_uid is primarily a nocturnal poster, but can sometimes be coaxed into daytime efforts by a higher_uid making 'old man of the forest' claims.
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Web 3.0 is muc faste becaus i drop extr letter. Paradig shif.
Or maybe everything old is new again, and it's merely shorthand for the Web.
You damn kids, we used Morse code over tin cans and string. Although we sometimes did get interference if somebody hung their clothes on the line to dry...
Yeah, because every household has more than 1 computer, so Johnny can code in his C64 emulator on his personal PC, while Dad looks at & propositions young girls on MySpace on his personal PC, while Mom hires a detective to track her husband on her personal PC, while Susie is unknowingy responding to her "I'm 17 and hot 4 U" dad on MySpace on her personal PC.
$100 for a monitor and C64 makes a lot of sense if there's only 1 PC in the house.
Get them to provide written proof of your grandparent's consent. If it was a webform, get them to prove the exact time, date, and IP address of consent. The more proof the better - MAC address of the (cable/DSL) modem, computer logs proving when that modem's MAC address was registered to the ISP network, etc.
Oh wait, they can't provide written proof? Then there was no consent, there was no valid and legal agreement. What occurred was merely payment for services rendered, like paying a barber for a haircut or a grocery store for food. Check with your lawyer of choice, but the burden of proof is probably on the ISP to prove that an agreement existed (and was documented) rather than on your grandparents.
(According to your story, anyways.)
The real question is if you're willing to pay some money to a lawyer to take it to court, or pay less money to the ISP to resolve the problem. Depends on how you value money and your faith in the legal system.
P2P isn't the solution. The solution is to take a significant majority of the backbone out of the hands of corporations that control them. Corporations will bend to government influence, just as governments bend to corporate influence.
By creating a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to enhance and extend the internet backbone, you've solved the problem of petty ownership and government blustering. Funding would be an adventure, but it's been done by lesser qualified organizations. And no more Level3-Cogent spats!
Yes, you can. Check out http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ and do a search for VMWare. I've done it on Hoary Hedgehog and I'm sure someone has done so on the Breezy Badger as well.
You said you were part of a profitable business. If you're already understaffed, overworked, etc... why are they asking for *your* department to cut costs?
Smells like the CEO wants a new Lexus for Christmas in July...
Professionally inexperienced and emotionally blocked. But at least I don't post as an AC. Though why I'm replying to something never to be read again is also ponderable.
I prefer the term cynical to those you so artlessly dropped in your reply. I have a fairly good idea of how corporations work - I work for one. And most corporations do not have any intention of conforming to their customers as Nordstroms does (even if it does make them a boatload of cash) Why? Because the only possible reason to do so is to differentiate themselves from every other corporation out there. If every company in the world lavished attention like Nordstroms does, the first company to cut prices by reducing service and bargaining for lower priced goods would make a killing. Enter the Wal-mart.
You simply cannot attribute human qualities to a non-human entity. If you want to try, keep this in mind: There are no Good Samaritan corporations.
Uhm. Let's not give the government any more reason to create new laws than the already-present proclivity, mkay?
Corporations don't care about the consumer. They never have, and they likely never will. Corporations care about the consumer's money. As long as they can provide the bare minimum required to keep the money flowing into their coffers, that's all they'll do.
Pessimistic, yes. But show me a wildly successful corporation that lavishes it's customers with their every desire. Yeah. Right.
I thought it was obvious that they've farmed out the editorial work. Think about it.
1) Bought by OSDN.
2) Outsourced editorial work to India.
3) ????
4) Profit! In Cancun!
Every dupe brings forth rabid replies.. which just increases the ad count. Wave to the banner ad up top!
You fail to take into account how memory may work (or not) once the normal life span has been surpassed. Part of learning is knowing when you've made mistakes before and not making them again. If you can't remember what you did wrong, you're doomed to do it again and again. How ironic would it be if longer life spans were counteracted by longer periods of sleeping/dreaming in order to keep our memories straight?
As with anything else, solving one issue (aging) raises even more (health care?!?!, memory, boredom, etc.)
You just named 3 sequels out of 4 games, and you wonder why people say it used to be better in the good old days? Because everything was FRESH back then.
...but you abused that submission with more commas than a Microsoft EULA has in total. Learn to use that 'preview' button for more than just HTML-checking.
A comparitive search would have found a number of similarities in the short paragraphs submitted. Automated resume scanners look for keywords; I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to have a 15-day-limited bank of keywords from posted news blurbs scanned against new submissions.
;)
Then again, this is the first time in a while I've seen two dupes back to back. So maybe we're just overreacting.
CmdrTaco et al need some sort of CVS on submitted newsposts. Check-out a selected submission, nobody else can touch it. With some work and the tying in of keywords, it could also be a dupe-submission checker of sorts.
...stating that they would never mislead the public about decreasing CD sales, increased piracy, and that little debacle about price fixing.
Hypocrisy is a wonderful thing. We'll make you sign this binding agreement never to do this illegal thing ever again, while we'll go about price fixing and law-dodging and make every attempt to keep it out of the news.
1) Make a couple copies of a detailed explanation, along with code necessary to do the exploit, and put on CD.
2) Mail to CEO, IT director of offending company, student advocate and IT director of university, and one or two newspapers. Make sure that everyone knows that the others are receiving identical copies of the same CD.
3) Get a lawyer. You'll be thankful you retained one, even if nothing ever comes of this event.
4) Encourage everyone (except newspapers, those are your backup) to sit down on campus for a meeting. Bring your lawyer. Bring your professor (I assume that only 1 class uses this system) and make sure that he validates that your grade has not been changed. Once that's done, make sure they realize that you're doing this as a service for their benefit. (both company and university don't need bad press)
5) Get the student newspaper in on it, but don't expect anything.
Hopefully, the exploit will be fixed in a short amount of time, nobody will sue you, and you'll get the pat on the back you expected (nothing more, except maybe a job offer if you're especially golden.)
...in one of his novels, Distraction if I remember correctly. Something about how spontaneous mobs were robbing banks or the like. A good read for sci-fi fans with a down-to-earth mindset.
Oh, and just in case somebody gets their underwear in a bind because of my personal opinion, let me reiterate that I have nothing more to do with either GT or FutureTruck. These are my personal opinions, and mine alone. I'm simply stating what I think about the situation.
The reason you were below stock weight was because you used an aluminum frame. And Michigan Tech even beat you on that punch with their tubular frame.
Anything else you'd like to 'impartially' tell the public?
So what is the point of the competition? IMHO, after 4 years of participation, the intent of the FutureTruck competition is to provide college students with a real-world engineering competition. It is also a way to evaluate next-generation technologies like biodiesel, ethanol, and hydrogen fuel cells. It certainly is not a way to give schools the means to one-up GM and Ford by producing a SUV that beats the stock vehicle in fuel economy, performance, and emissions.
Now that I've said that, it's time to plug Georgia Tech.
GT won the Best Acceleration, Best Consumer Acceptability, Best Emissions, and 4th place awards. Our dynamic scores were top-notch; we ran in our hybrid mode in every event. Yet when it came to the static side of things, we got destroyed (as usual.) Why? If you re-read the aforementioned reason this competition exists, you'll understand. GT's methodology has always been KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and manufacturability. But the organizers don't want that; they want cutting edge, more-likely-than-not poorly functioning technologies. Because that can't be implemented in the near future.
OK, time to get off my rant horse. If you're still with me, here's the wrap. This was a fun competition, and I strongly encourage schools to participate. Real world experience in the automotive industry while still in college is hard to beat. But if you do join up, keep your eyes and mind open. The most feasible design won't necessarily be the winner.
Medical equipment is expensive because it simply cannot fail. If an EKG hiccups or gets stuck in some embedded-software loop, the company is going to be SOL when hospitals find out and dump their products. How about a faulty defibrillator that only works 1/2 the time, or lifesign monitoring equipment that occasionally has to reboot.
Sure, go ahead and make a $10 EKG. But don't be so naive as to expect medical equipment in general to be low cost. It takes a lot of time and money to test out medical equipment, and they recoup those costs by raising the price.