I have found that two of the best free ways to learn a foreign language online is to listen to music in that language
I can't understand 90% of the lyrics in my own language so I doubt this would be very helpful. I have to admit I've picked up quite a few phrases in Italian from watching Rocco Siffredi in action, though that's not normally the kind of thing that's helpful when trying to order breakfast.
They own the books. They have the right to do whatever they please with them, with or without the publisher's permission.
Yes, you are correct. However, if what you desire to do with the book is make a copy and give it to someone else, whoever you've given the book to does not own the book. They have not purchased the book from you and they have not purchased the book from the author. They do not, legally or morally "own" the book. In fact, if you had a shred of morality, you would feel cheated because the person who now has your book has taken something from you with absolutely no remuneration. So to eliminate the sting that you feel for cheating yourself, you in turn cheat the publisher and author by making and retaining a copy.
If you got past the first grade and didn't learn this lesson, many, many people have failed you in life. Either that or let me know where you live so I can come and take your stuff while you try to figure out how to copy it.
Sure it does. Just push out a service pack that fixes a bug or adds a feature to existing installations of IE6/7/8 and also changes your default browser from MSN to Bing. Instant acceleration of use.
Until you have proof that Bigfoot _ISN'T_ real, it is _YOU_ who are wishfully thinking.
Your logic fails.
We know life exists and evolved under a given set of circumstances. We have good evidence that the set of circumstances that gave rise to life on earth may exist somewhere in the universe outside of the earth. It is therefore entirely logical to deduce with some probability that life as we know it may exist somewhere in the universe outside of the earth.
We have absolutely no evidence to support the idea that Bigfoot exists or has existed under any set of circumstances. Any evidence presented so far has been debunked as a hoax.
Assuming something exists based on the fact that the circumstances that would give rise to are known to exist is not at all the same as assuming something exists when there's no evidence to support its existence. Then again, you've just proved the existence of trolls, and I'm still pretty certain they aren't supposed to exist.
Testing Windows 7 release candidates indicated it was good for deployment on release day for a good number of people and businesses. You probably need to stop hanging out with geek squad 'techies.'
I've had more crashes with Windows 7 in the two months that I've had it than in the entire 4 years I ran the Windows XP box it replaced. Not a single blue screen, just *poof* and it's gone. I've had to replace my 9 month old wireless router with a "Windows 7 compatible" version because of continuous disconnects. Every single piece of hardware in my machine is "designed for Windows 7" and I still crash every couple weeks and have to reboot at least once a week. The audio pops, the interface gets into a state where you can't bring a window to the front, and networking is unreliable at best.
I went in expecting problems and it surely didn't disappoint. I still love it and I think the UI improvements are great, but driver support is seriously lacking and it is definitely not business ready. I've wasted close to 40 hours and $300 working around the network related issues alone. Sounds like you need to hang around with people who know the difference between "yeah, it boots" and actual regression testing.
Yes. And I bet you do to, but you just don't know it. If you have to badge-in to get in your office, you are clocking in. And don't kid yourself that HR doesn't check those records. We recently used them to let go of an individual who regularly couldn't be reached but claims he was coming to work.
I assume, since he's a boss, that he has a private office ? If that's the case, offer him to come do some cerebral, non-social work (not on the phone, more like writing a report or something) for a half day in one of your cubicles, and judge for himself if he really thinks he wouldn't have worked better being isolated from the chatter.
No kidding! My company refused to move me until I made the facilities woman come over and stand in my cube and listen to Chatty McSnotsucker gabbing about her latest cleansing diet and the quality of her shits when the laxatives kick in, all the while trying to clear her sinuses from a chronic post-nasal drip evidently made of horse-glue. She lasted three minutes before she left my cube gagging. I got my transfer.
Why do you think half of US PhD's are awarded to foreign born? Is it because the evil government favors foreigners? Or is that Americans just don't give a shit about science and engineering any more?
Spoken like someone who hasn't been in school for a while. If you've actually attended a graduate institution in the last twenty years you'd realize you have no idea what your saying. Americans do give a shit about science and engineering. The problem is there just aren't enough of us to make us statistically competitive.
When I was in graduate school, I had to fight for every dollar of financial aid and every adviser slot. Yes, I had a few fellow Americans I was competing with, but the vast majority of my competition were Chinese and Indians who were being funded by their government as well as ours. You take a population of 1.3 billion, another of 1.2 billion and there's going to be 8 equivalently intelligent foreign-born individuals for every American. And since this is America, we give equal weight to everyone's application regardless from whence they hail.
The problem is not one of motivation, it's one of numbers. Given an equivalent percentage of Americans, Chinese, and Indians competing for the same slots in Universities, Americans will be outnumbered 8:1. Until our grant money starts going to the people who pay for them, this situation is never going to get better.
That's 0.3% for those of us who are like Rodney McKay, and understand numbers better than words.
Based on your sig, your understanding of numbers is sorely lacking as well. If you actually read the article you're quoting you'd see that "86% said they were 'very or 'somewhat' satisfied with their plan." Somewhat satisfied does not equate to "happy with". I am somewhat satisfied with your interpretation of the article, in that you were actually able to write down the correct numbers. I'm not "happy with" the fact that the way you presented the numbers has no correlation to what the poll actually said.
The poll also shows that "Only 28% found the immediate effort either not very or not at all important." and that "... more Americans said it would be better to pass 'major reform' to health care (55%) rather than 'minor adjustments' (43%)" Those numbers speak for themselves without interpretation.
And I disagree with you. Blizzard has alienated a large number of us "casual" players who do not have three and four hours a night to spend running end-game content. They have obviously recognized this problem with the last patch allowing the extension of resets so content can be cleared at a much more casual pace.
I've been playing for almost 2 years and I've probably seen less than 20% of the game content. My first character hit L60 and got MC attuned a week before TBC came out. I've still never been to MC. Determined to not let that happen again, I spent most of TBC leveling my main to L70 and trying to get my other toons there as well. I wasn't even close when WotLK came out. It's now a race to get everyone up to L80 before the next XPac. And when I do, I'll have a stable of characters - only one of which has every run a pre-TBC dungeon, and none of which have run any TBC dungeons at all. And forget playing both races. Were it not for the TBC quests for Alliance, I wouldn't even know what the major Horde cities look like.
I've paid for a whole bunch of content I will never get a chance to see or experience. And that kinda sucks.
You will get exactly 10 hits, none of which is a promise of employment. Go specifically to their careers mission statement and here's what you get this:
As a DeVry University student, you'll receive a real-world career education and earn a respected degree. What's more, you'll receive the ongoing help and support you need to begin and maintain a rewarding career in your field, or to make a career change. DeVry University provides career planning and other career services you simply can't find anywhere else. The proof is in the numbers. Since 1975, 237,957 undergraduate students system-wide have graduated from DeVry University, and 90% of those in the active job market were employed in career-related positions within 6 months of graduation.
I'm not seeing the promise here. The even list statistics for specific areas of the country so you can see if your area matches up to the DeVry system average. This seems like the minimum amount of research someone should do before spending tens of thousands of dollars on a degree. But your whining just sounds like someone from the sour-grape 10% who weren't employable.
promise to find you a job after you graduate. Of course, I heard the promise
I'm guessing your difficulty in finding a job is your obvious inability to distinguish between someone helping you do something and someone doing it for you. Most schools promise to help you find a job. Some even advertise the percentage of students who are successfully employed upon graduation. That's a world of difference from promising to find you a job.
If you were waiting around for the school to hand you a job with your diploma, you were too immature to enter the workforce for any job you'd have to go to college for to begin with.
Hopefully, this will help Firefox users realize what those warnings actually mean.
The reason they don't work is precisely because the old behavior allowed people to easily misinterpret just how serious a certificate warning is.
They mean squat, and they're horrific and annoying. 99.9% of the Firefox and IE invalid certificate warnings I receive are perfectly legitimate warnings, and absolutely useless. That's because they're coming from the built-in HTTPS based web servers on DRACs and iLOs. It's gotten to the point where I no longer use Firefox to remotely access hardware because the amount of time it takes me to get around the damn security warnings is usually longer than what I needed to do on the box in the first place.
Possibly, but if you're using Windows, avoid Pointsec like the horrific technological plague that it is. I've had to completely rebuild my machine 3 times in 6 months because it crashed and corrupted files beyond recovery. And to top it off, it corrupted every single file that was open at the time of the crash (including files accessed from network shares) making them completely useless on install. I had to restore the machine AND all network archives from backup.
Saying that performance per watt is the same as power efficiency is like saying that horsepower per hour per gallon is the same as miles per gallon. If that were the case, there would be no difference in gasoline efficiency between a gas electric hybrid and an equivalent standard vehicle.
I think that's a good viewpoint. Now, I am all for open source and have on many occasions found it to be of paramount value, but there is no way anyone in their right mind should trust "source code anyone can edit".
Ever see them helping support 2nd Amendment rights?
Yes. Just look at their position on Waco, Ruby Ridge, and asset forfeiture. However, the ACLU views 2nd amendment rights differently than the NRA does, so you don't often see them on the same side of an argument.
And you talk like a Linux person with an irrational hatred for Windows and Microsoft that makes you incapable of understanding Windows and the fact that you're trying to force a server into the role of a desktop.
There's a reason people try to box Linux into the Windows mold: Windows and Macintosh define the desktop. You can't just throw a differently-abled competitor into the mix and cry foul when someone brings up its deficiencies. Sure, Linux can do things Windows can't do, just as it can do them differently. But until it can do the SAME things and do them the SAME way or - god forbid - better, it's not even a contender.
There are server OSs and there are desktop OSs. Microsoft and Linux have both made the same mistake of trying to shoehorn their OS into the opposite role. Macintosh has made the first real foray into a true hybrid. Microsoft makes as good of a server as Linux does a desktop.
My question: If you find the device on the car, are you allowed to remove it? Or would it be illegal somehow (tampering with investigation of some sort)?
No, you're not. Just look at the "Denver Boot" for an example of what kind of trouble you could get in.
Now, you can drive your car into your garage and call the police to tell them you found it and want it removed. That would, of course, lead to the problem of how they would be able to legally enter your garage to retrieve their property from your property without trespassing.
At the very least THAT action would require a warrant, at which time you could find out why you were being tailed in the first place.
Secretly chalking your tires to see if you've been parked there for over X minutes? Isn't that the same as secretly attaching a monitoring device (albeit crude) to your property?
Not even remotely the same. First, chalking tires isn't done secretly, but by some fat lady wielding a piece of chalk on the end of a stick in a three wheeled cart that says "Parking Enforcement". Second, the utility of that mark disappears the moment you move your vehicle from the public place it was parked. That leads to a third difference: that mark does not transmit data in locations that have no relevance to the reason the mark was put there, like your house or your driveway.
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I have found that two of the best free ways to learn a foreign language online is to listen to music in that language
I can't understand 90% of the lyrics in my own language so I doubt this would be very helpful. I have to admit I've picked up quite a few phrases in Italian from watching Rocco Siffredi in action, though that's not normally the kind of thing that's helpful when trying to order breakfast.
As a toy or as a tool? Because it would fail miserably as the latter. And any serious designer who thinks otherwise... isn't.
They own the books. They have the right to do whatever they please with them, with or without the publisher's permission.
Yes, you are correct. However, if what you desire to do with the book is make a copy and give it to someone else, whoever you've given the book to does not own the book. They have not purchased the book from you and they have not purchased the book from the author. They do not, legally or morally "own" the book. In fact, if you had a shred of morality, you would feel cheated because the person who now has your book has taken something from you with absolutely no remuneration. So to eliminate the sting that you feel for cheating yourself, you in turn cheat the publisher and author by making and retaining a copy.
If you got past the first grade and didn't learn this lesson, many, many people have failed you in life. Either that or let me know where you live so I can come and take your stuff while you try to figure out how to copy it.
Sure it does. Just push out a service pack that fixes a bug or adds a feature to existing installations of IE6/7/8 and also changes your default browser from MSN to Bing. Instant acceleration of use.
Until you have proof that Bigfoot _ISN'T_ real, it is _YOU_ who are wishfully thinking.
Your logic fails.
We know life exists and evolved under a given set of circumstances. We have good evidence that the set of circumstances that gave rise to life on earth may exist somewhere in the universe outside of the earth. It is therefore entirely logical to deduce with some probability that life as we know it may exist somewhere in the universe outside of the earth.
We have absolutely no evidence to support the idea that Bigfoot exists or has existed under any set of circumstances. Any evidence presented so far has been debunked as a hoax.
Assuming something exists based on the fact that the circumstances that would give rise to are known to exist is not at all the same as assuming something exists when there's no evidence to support its existence. Then again, you've just proved the existence of trolls, and I'm still pretty certain they aren't supposed to exist.
Testing Windows 7 release candidates indicated it was good for deployment on release day for a good number of people and businesses. You probably need to stop hanging out with geek squad 'techies.'
I've had more crashes with Windows 7 in the two months that I've had it than in the entire 4 years I ran the Windows XP box it replaced. Not a single blue screen, just *poof* and it's gone. I've had to replace my 9 month old wireless router with a "Windows 7 compatible" version because of continuous disconnects. Every single piece of hardware in my machine is "designed for Windows 7" and I still crash every couple weeks and have to reboot at least once a week. The audio pops, the interface gets into a state where you can't bring a window to the front, and networking is unreliable at best.
I went in expecting problems and it surely didn't disappoint. I still love it and I think the UI improvements are great, but driver support is seriously lacking and it is definitely not business ready. I've wasted close to 40 hours and $300 working around the network related issues alone. Sounds like you need to hang around with people who know the difference between "yeah, it boots" and actual regression testing.
Yes. And I bet you do to, but you just don't know it. If you have to badge-in to get in your office, you are clocking in. And don't kid yourself that HR doesn't check those records. We recently used them to let go of an individual who regularly couldn't be reached but claims he was coming to work.
I assume, since he's a boss, that he has a private office ? If that's the case, offer him to come do some cerebral, non-social work (not on the phone, more like writing a report or something) for a half day in one of your cubicles, and judge for himself if he really thinks he wouldn't have worked better being isolated from the chatter.
No kidding! My company refused to move me until I made the facilities woman come over and stand in my cube and listen to Chatty McSnotsucker gabbing about her latest cleansing diet and the quality of her shits when the laxatives kick in, all the while trying to clear her sinuses from a chronic post-nasal drip evidently made of horse-glue. She lasted three minutes before she left my cube gagging. I got my transfer.
Why do you think half of US PhD's are awarded to foreign born? Is it because the evil government favors foreigners? Or is that Americans just don't give a shit about science and engineering any more?
Spoken like someone who hasn't been in school for a while. If you've actually attended a graduate institution in the last twenty years you'd realize you have no idea what your saying. Americans do give a shit about science and engineering. The problem is there just aren't enough of us to make us statistically competitive.
When I was in graduate school, I had to fight for every dollar of financial aid and every adviser slot. Yes, I had a few fellow Americans I was competing with, but the vast majority of my competition were Chinese and Indians who were being funded by their government as well as ours. You take a population of 1.3 billion, another of 1.2 billion and there's going to be 8 equivalently intelligent foreign-born individuals for every American. And since this is America, we give equal weight to everyone's application regardless from whence they hail.
The problem is not one of motivation, it's one of numbers. Given an equivalent percentage of Americans, Chinese, and Indians competing for the same slots in Universities, Americans will be outnumbered 8:1. Until our grant money starts going to the people who pay for them, this situation is never going to get better.
That's 0.3% for those of us who are like Rodney McKay, and understand numbers better than words.
Based on your sig, your understanding of numbers is sorely lacking as well. If you actually read the article you're quoting you'd see that "86% said they were 'very or 'somewhat' satisfied with their plan." Somewhat satisfied does not equate to "happy with". I am somewhat satisfied with your interpretation of the article, in that you were actually able to write down the correct numbers. I'm not "happy with" the fact that the way you presented the numbers has no correlation to what the poll actually said.
The poll also shows that "Only 28% found the immediate effort either not very or not at all important." and that "... more Americans said it would be better to pass 'major reform' to health care (55%) rather than 'minor adjustments' (43%)" Those numbers speak for themselves without interpretation.
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And I disagree with you. Blizzard has alienated a large number of us "casual" players who do not have three and four hours a night to spend running end-game content. They have obviously recognized this problem with the last patch allowing the extension of resets so content can be cleared at a much more casual pace. I've been playing for almost 2 years and I've probably seen less than 20% of the game content. My first character hit L60 and got MC attuned a week before TBC came out. I've still never been to MC. Determined to not let that happen again, I spent most of TBC leveling my main to L70 and trying to get my other toons there as well. I wasn't even close when WotLK came out. It's now a race to get everyone up to L80 before the next XPac. And when I do, I'll have a stable of characters - only one of which has every run a pre-TBC dungeon, and none of which have run any TBC dungeons at all. And forget playing both races. Were it not for the TBC quests for Alliance, I wouldn't even know what the major Horde cities look like. I've paid for a whole bunch of content I will never get a chance to see or experience. And that kinda sucks.
Google site:www.devry.edu promise
You will get exactly 10 hits, none of which is a promise of employment. Go specifically to their careers mission statement and here's what you get this:
As a DeVry University student, you'll receive a real-world career education and earn a respected degree. What's more, you'll receive the ongoing help and support you need to begin and maintain a rewarding career in your field, or to make a career change. DeVry University provides career planning and other career services you simply can't find anywhere else. The proof is in the numbers. Since 1975, 237,957 undergraduate students system-wide have graduated from DeVry University, and 90% of those in the active job market were employed in career-related positions within 6 months of graduation.
I'm not seeing the promise here. The even list statistics for specific areas of the country so you can see if your area matches up to the DeVry system average. This seems like the minimum amount of research someone should do before spending tens of thousands of dollars on a degree. But your whining just sounds like someone from the sour-grape 10% who weren't employable.
promise to find you a job after you graduate. Of course, I heard the promise
I'm guessing your difficulty in finding a job is your obvious inability to distinguish between someone helping you do something and someone doing it for you. Most schools promise to help you find a job. Some even advertise the percentage of students who are successfully employed upon graduation. That's a world of difference from promising to find you a job.
If you were waiting around for the school to hand you a job with your diploma, you were too immature to enter the workforce for any job you'd have to go to college for to begin with.
Hopefully, this will help Firefox users realize what those warnings actually mean.
The reason they don't work is precisely because the old behavior allowed people to easily misinterpret just how serious a certificate warning is.
They mean squat, and they're horrific and annoying. 99.9% of the Firefox and IE invalid certificate warnings I receive are perfectly legitimate warnings, and absolutely useless. That's because they're coming from the built-in HTTPS based web servers on DRACs and iLOs. It's gotten to the point where I no longer use Firefox to remotely access hardware because the amount of time it takes me to get around the damn security warnings is usually longer than what I needed to do on the box in the first place.
Possibly, but if you're using Windows, avoid Pointsec like the horrific technological plague that it is. I've had to completely rebuild my machine 3 times in 6 months because it crashed and corrupted files beyond recovery. And to top it off, it corrupted every single file that was open at the time of the crash (including files accessed from network shares) making them completely useless on install. I had to restore the machine AND all network archives from backup.
Saying that performance per watt is the same as power efficiency is like saying that horsepower per hour per gallon is the same as miles per gallon. If that were the case, there would be no difference in gasoline efficiency between a gas electric hybrid and an equivalent standard vehicle.
So VMWare ESX is Linux?
Well crap. I have mod points but for some reason +1 "Ever so much this" is missing from my menu.
I think that's a good viewpoint. Now, I am all for open source and have on many occasions found it to be of paramount value, but there is no way anyone in their right mind should trust "source code anyone can edit".
There. Does that read any differently?
Depressing as hell, but the system is bought, paid for, and bent beyond repair.
Damn. There goes my plan to slap a coat of paint on it and sell it as new.
Ever see them helping support 2nd Amendment rights?
Yes. Just look at their position on Waco, Ruby Ridge, and asset forfeiture. However, the ACLU views 2nd amendment rights differently than the NRA does, so you don't often see them on the same side of an argument.
The "woosh" there was damn near deafening.
And you talk like a Linux person with an irrational hatred for Windows and Microsoft that makes you incapable of understanding Windows and the fact that you're trying to force a server into the role of a desktop.
There's a reason people try to box Linux into the Windows mold: Windows and Macintosh define the desktop. You can't just throw a differently-abled competitor into the mix and cry foul when someone brings up its deficiencies. Sure, Linux can do things Windows can't do, just as it can do them differently. But until it can do the SAME things and do them the SAME way or - god forbid - better, it's not even a contender.
There are server OSs and there are desktop OSs. Microsoft and Linux have both made the same mistake of trying to shoehorn their OS into the opposite role. Macintosh has made the first real foray into a true hybrid. Microsoft makes as good of a server as Linux does a desktop.
My question: If you find the device on the car, are you allowed to remove it? Or would it be illegal somehow (tampering with investigation of some sort)?
No, you're not. Just look at the "Denver Boot" for an example of what kind of trouble you could get in.
Now, you can drive your car into your garage and call the police to tell them you found it and want it removed. That would, of course, lead to the problem of how they would be able to legally enter your garage to retrieve their property from your property without trespassing.
At the very least THAT action would require a warrant, at which time you could find out why you were being tailed in the first place.
Secretly chalking your tires to see if you've been parked there for over X minutes? Isn't that the same as secretly attaching a monitoring device (albeit crude) to your property?
Not even remotely the same. First, chalking tires isn't done secretly, but by some fat lady wielding a piece of chalk on the end of a stick in a three wheeled cart that says "Parking Enforcement". Second, the utility of that mark disappears the moment you move your vehicle from the public place it was parked. That leads to a third difference: that mark does not transmit data in locations that have no relevance to the reason the mark was put there, like your house or your driveway.
A GPS device fails on all of those counts.