Although he can replace half, there are still jobs that he needs real musicians for. I wonder if those musicians would boycott or try to put him under pressure to use real musicians for everything? They must still have some leverage if they are needed for the parts that computers can't do...
If the show is not making enough money then that is because it is past it's "sell-by" date. If it's just to make more money by cutting costs then it's pretty disgusting really. Yeah, he might make more money but how about putting money back into the community of musicians who made LM possible when computerisation was not an option? Guess I'm just an old softie really...
He didn't actually say what his reason for exemption was. But it was obviously a reasonable one as he didn't even have to discuss it in court.
If the law says there are exemptions to military service, and you fit the criteria, why is that un-heroic? What if someone has a disability that would make them ineligible but the military service records don't reflect that disability? Going to court would be a fair way to settle the dispute.
They only transmit when opened. They would need to conserve the battery power so that it had enough juice to last while the promotion administrators track the winning can down.
I remember looking through some websites of UK companies who specialise in custom, low-power x86 compatible embedded systems. They had a product that they had created for a client which was a GPS transmitter in a can.
I'm sure these aren't that uncommon, I know Budweiser and Coors have already had promotions like this before.
You won't be able to use GPS to scan for the cans because they only start operating when opened. Yeah, some device to detect electronics might work close-up but you'd need to be close-up to every can. You may detect which pallet has a winning can in at the factory but you still wouldn't be able to track it to it's final destination or guarantee you'll be around when that can goes on sale
Some well-organised crooks leased a town centre office and stuck some office furniture in there to make it look reasonably respectable. They had previously stolen an ATM machine by literally ripping one out of the building it was in.
They installed this, and just had the machine eat all the cards but only after the PIN had been entered and logged.
They then hit every (real) ATM they could with all the cards they'd stolen. You have to admire the audacity though!!
That's basically it in a nutshell. The parent needs modding up before this descends into a "if we can do it, then it should be legal" debate.
If this sale (and authorisation) is sanctioned then Apple could potentially invalidate some legal rights they have in agreements with other I-tunes users. Apple can quite rightly sit back and refuse to authorise the transferred file.
I suppose it's just to settle a DRM point but why involve Apple? They've taken a business risk on something that might show the RIAA how it *should* be done. Would be a shame to scare them off..
I'm using 2000 server and client tools which I *believe* is patched up-to-date.. That's at work so I can't check here on Linux. I wish I had the actual code here to post, maybe I've missed something out!
At the time, a colleague suggested concatenating the character codes for 'G' and 'O' to the string instead and the error message went away.
We also had problems with 'GO' in block comments but that's another story! Cheers for the feedback anyway.
No flames here! I like MS SQL server too but it does have it's own hidden depths of weirdness from time-to-time.. and I'd happily tackle a tough install of Oracle if the result was a db that actually had very few bugs.
My personal favourite (in MS SQL) is the way it parses chunks of SQL looking for GO statements. If you've got the word GO in a block comment or in a string, it treats it as a legitimate instruction!
PRINT CAST(@cnt AS VARCHAR) + ' RECORDS TO GO'..gives an error that the string hasn't been closed.
I'd rather not have to mess around with this sort of crap.
Part of your business is to provide privacy and with that will always come some form of abuse. I think that most patrons would expect privacy and understand that with that, also comes a risk of some people abusing it.
Freenet users should accept that to ensure their privacy, without discrimination, publishers need privacy from the participants who are dedicating their resources to host it. It's all or nothing.
I'm *so* close to saying that if Freenet helps criminals then its still worth it if it helps spread global free speech without feer of intimidation. Then someone mentions Kiddie porn or terrorism and the decision to join in with Freenet gets morally complicated.
It's the downloaders of kiddie porn that create the demand, not anonymous hosters. Hoteliers too are exempt form blame for abuses of privacy provided by them for legitimate reasons.
Strangely, my English Literature teacher explained it as follows:
There are three contexts in Russian that the phrase "we will bury you" can be interpreted in.
The first, a very literal meaning:
Elderly man says, "Son, I don't want to be cremated. Can you look after that when I'm gone?"
Son says, "I'll ensure your wishes are carried out Dad, we will bury you"
The second (which is quite widely known in the West) is the violent "gonna kick your ass" interpretation.
The third, is the context that Khrushchev probably wanted to use (which isn't in use in English so the closest translation to English is "bury you"):
Elderly Soviet farmer says, "Son, I am not happy with your plans to change the farms crops from potatoes to wheat, I forbid it!"
Son says, "Well that's fine now but it's folly for you to impose your wishes on me so late in life. Remember, we will bury you and will be around for a long time after you are gone."
To quote Khrushchev:
"About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
He was trying to say capitalism was a dinosaur and communism was the "new thing". The West's disdain for the USSR was irrelevant because our way of life was on the way out and theirs would be around for a long time.
I suppose if he had called us a "dinosaur", we'd report it as "monster that got wiped out"
The developers would not have had any support from Sony but they can release it. Where Sony would have an issue, is if the developers tried to make it look as if it IS endorsed. Expect lots of "100% UNOFFICIAL!" statements on the packaging.
At least you get a written record..
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All changes to software I am developing are sent to me via email. Providing they are concise enough, it means I've always got something in writing to prove what was originally requested.
When people give you verbal instructions, I find that when they forget to ask you to do something, they often try to turn it around and make out that they *did* tell you.
People should use email because it's an efficient tool but I guess I use it mainly to cover my own back.
The admin guys would be the ones to save it, if they were good enough. I feel the $200 per user figure mentioned for support should be mainly put towards good admins and good support people.
And good prices "up-front" are what execs use to base their decisions on. Linux may get in if it truly is cheaper or even if it just *seems* to be initially.
If the prices do go up, hopefully the admins will get better and things may stablise.
That's why it happened. Well, maybe not..but it's an interesting conspiracy theory anyway.
Speaking as an lowly web developer, I was very pleased to have my machine upgraded from a 733 to a 2.4GHz during the upgrade of the rest of our users. I'm only text editing!?!?! DivX is *much* better now though.....;-)
It's the senior geeks who like having the latest and greatest who make the final descisions to upgrade though, so maybe there is something in it after all...
A company I used to work for had around 6 users on terminals connected to a Unix box. I was experimenting with Linux at the time and was taken aback by these users who had been running tape backups, as root, from the command line years before I ever did!
Anyway - the point!!!:-
People will use *anything* at work. If the average user is sat in front of a well controlled desktop with easy access to the software they need, they'll care "not a jot" whether it's Linux, Windows or "Whatever"-soft (bought from "Whatever" local company who can supply the goods cheap enough).
As long as the Linux desktop crashes *less* than Win95 (ahem) then at least this may be an another outlet which exposes Linux to the average person in a positive way - as long as they can get stuff done on it.
In businessess I have worked in, price has always been the deciding factor and this might just be where Linux has the perceived edge to the business. Maybe business is the (indirect) way to the user desktop?
The concept of a mathematical proof is that you can never make further deductions from a hypothesis until it has been actually proven by logical means. Every theory is proven by building on previous discoveries but everything must start from a base that you know is absolutely true.
Now, mathematical hypotheses are often of the "this is true for all values of n that are prime" variety. The only way you can prove this is true is by building on the concepts in older proven theories, and using them to demonstrate that the new one is true.
If you use a brute force method, you could just calculate all of the prime numbers, stick them into your equation and record the results. If this worked for every prime number man has discovered, *some* people may accept this as proof of your theory.
Problem is, maths can't move on and build on the ideas in that theory. What if they did and 200 years later, someone discovered a prime that broke your hypothesis? The 200 years of maths that was built on your theory would instantly be proven wrong.
I know of one instance where this nearly happened. About 40 years passed between the proposal of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture and it's eventual proof. A fair bit of other work had already been based on the assumption it was correct and for a short while it was looking as if it was false.
Anyway, what's the use of knowing that a theory is true, if no-one understands *why* it is true? You plug the equations into the computer and a 1000 years later it prints "Theory proven" at the top of the screen? Where's the fun in that?
The US are constantly claiming an attack on their beliefs and way of life. Yeah, it's not a religion but those people in the middle-east are certainly fighting for their beliefs and way of life. And land?? America would not fight to protect their own soil? I hardly think so.
Your argument is "we haven't enough to feed the world so it's ok to blow it on crap". If we invested this sort of money regularly in these countries, they'd feed *themselves*. They *do* have sunshine, soil, water and seed. It's just hard to grow food when your fields have been napalmed.
Because splashing £26 billion dollars on a "super-duper" defence system is easier than sitting down and talking to all the other countries in the world to sort out the real problems.
News story on a page with adverts on it. Well every link generally leads to the info you need.. *with* advertisments. It's like saying that Yahoo have started putting ads right at the top of the page just above the news stories - you might think it's the headline!!!!
So, I'm looking at this page on Yahoo and I realised that the only site genuinely posting a link (as a news story) which leads to a page (with adverts) is Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Although he can replace half, there are still jobs that he needs real musicians for. I wonder if those musicians would boycott or try to put him under pressure to use real musicians for everything? They must still have some leverage if they are needed for the parts that computers can't do...
If the show is not making enough money then that is because it is past it's "sell-by" date. If it's just to make more money by cutting costs then it's pretty disgusting really. Yeah, he might make more money but how about putting money back into the community of musicians who made LM possible when computerisation was not an option? Guess I'm just an old softie really...
He didn't actually say what his reason for exemption was. But it was obviously a reasonable one as he didn't even have to discuss it in court.
If the law says there are exemptions to military service, and you fit the criteria, why is that un-heroic? What if someone has a disability that would make them ineligible but the military service records don't reflect that disability? Going to court would be a fair way to settle the dispute.
..they won't be transmitting!
They only transmit when opened. They would need to conserve the battery power so that it had enough juice to last while the promotion administrators track the winning can down.
I remember looking through some websites of UK companies who specialise in custom, low-power x86 compatible embedded systems. They had a product that they had created for a client which was a GPS transmitter in a can.
I'm sure these aren't that uncommon, I know Budweiser and Coors have already had promotions like this before.
You won't be able to use GPS to scan for the cans because they only start operating when opened. Yeah, some device to detect electronics might work close-up but you'd need to be close-up to every can. You may detect which pallet has a winning can in at the factory but you still wouldn't be able to track it to it's final destination or guarantee you'll be around when that can goes on sale
A similar thing happened in the UK.
Some well-organised crooks leased a town centre office and stuck some office furniture in there to make it look reasonably respectable. They had previously stolen an ATM machine by literally ripping one out of the building it was in.
They installed this, and just had the machine eat all the cards but only after the PIN had been entered and logged.
They then hit every (real) ATM they could with all the cards they'd stolen. You have to admire the audacity though!!
Will someone please mod the parent down? For God's sake, two people have pointed out that it is a troll and they have been modded as trolls!!
I refer to the *special* ingredient below "Food coloring" and above "Zip lock bags"
That's basically it in a nutshell. The parent needs modding up before this descends into a "if we can do it, then it should be legal" debate.
If this sale (and authorisation) is sanctioned then Apple could potentially invalidate some legal rights they have in agreements with other I-tunes users. Apple can quite rightly sit back and refuse to authorise the transferred file.
I suppose it's just to settle a DRM point but why involve Apple? They've taken a business risk on something that might show the RIAA how it *should* be done. Would be a shame to scare them off..
I'm using 2000 server and client tools which I *believe* is patched up-to-date.. That's at work so I can't check here on Linux. I wish I had the actual code here to post, maybe I've missed something out!
At the time, a colleague suggested concatenating the character codes for 'G' and 'O' to the string instead and the error message went away.
We also had problems with 'GO' in block comments but that's another story! Cheers for the feedback anyway.
No flames here! I like MS SQL server too but it does have it's own hidden depths of weirdness from time-to-time.. and I'd happily tackle a tough install of Oracle if the result was a db that actually had very few bugs.
..gives an error that the string hasn't been closed.
My personal favourite (in MS SQL) is the way it parses chunks of SQL looking for GO statements. If you've got the word GO in a block comment or in a string, it treats it as a legitimate instruction!
PRINT CAST(@cnt AS VARCHAR) + ' RECORDS TO GO'
I'd rather not have to mess around with this sort of crap.
Where *are* my mod points when I need them?
Part of your business is to provide privacy and with that will always come some form of abuse. I think that most patrons would expect privacy and understand that with that, also comes a risk of some people abusing it.
Freenet users should accept that to ensure their privacy, without discrimination, publishers need privacy from the participants who are dedicating their resources to host it. It's all or nothing.
I'm *so* close to saying that if Freenet helps criminals then its still worth it if it helps spread global free speech without feer of intimidation. Then someone mentions Kiddie porn or terrorism and the decision to join in with Freenet gets morally complicated.
It's the downloaders of kiddie porn that create the demand, not anonymous hosters. Hoteliers too are exempt form blame for abuses of privacy provided by them for legitimate reasons.
Strangely, my English Literature teacher explained it as follows:
There are three contexts in Russian that the phrase "we will bury you" can be interpreted in.
The first, a very literal meaning:
Elderly man says, "Son, I don't want to be cremated. Can you look after that when I'm gone?"
Son says, "I'll ensure your wishes are carried out Dad, we will bury you"
The second (which is quite widely known in the West) is the violent "gonna kick your ass" interpretation.
The third, is the context that Khrushchev probably wanted to use (which isn't in use in English so the closest translation to English is "bury you"):
Elderly Soviet farmer says, "Son, I am not happy with your plans to change the farms crops from potatoes to wheat, I forbid it!"
Son says, "Well that's fine now but it's folly for you to impose your wishes on me so late in life. Remember, we will bury you and will be around for a long time after you are gone."
To quote Khrushchev:
"About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
He was trying to say capitalism was a dinosaur and communism was the "new thing". The West's disdain for the USSR was irrelevant because our way of life was on the way out and theirs would be around for a long time.
I suppose if he had called us a "dinosaur", we'd report it as "monster that got wiped out"
Only if you post the mailbox of the real sender.
I'm guessing some of those people are just others on the SPAM list who's address was put in the reply-to field by the spammer.
Maybe there is some script out there that traces back to the real spammer... anyone got any ideas?
I quote from the article:
"That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means"
That is a very scary thing to read!!
Well, you're only getting paid to work there. How dare they steal your bandwidth?
No seriously, can you really expect that your company are going to be cool with this?
I once had a guy instant message me on EDonkey as he was uploading to me 72k/s. -> "I am at work and I don't want to get caught".
I leeched his bandwidth until he got the message and disconnected. I personally DON'T USE P2P AT WORK!!!
Let's not take anything away from this review and what could turn out to be an exciting book but why is this on Slashdot?
The only link to technology is the poker software.
What next? Books on knitting?!
Please mod the parent up!
The developers would not have had any support from Sony but they can release it. Where Sony would have an issue, is if the developers tried to make it look as if it IS endorsed. Expect lots of "100% UNOFFICIAL!" statements on the packaging.
All changes to software I am developing are sent to me via email. Providing they are concise enough, it means I've always got something in writing to prove what was originally requested.
When people give you verbal instructions, I find that when they forget to ask you to do something, they often try to turn it around and make out that they *did* tell you.
People should use email because it's an efficient tool but I guess I use it mainly to cover my own back.
The admin guys would be the ones to save it, if they were good enough. I feel the $200 per user figure mentioned for support should be mainly put towards good admins and good support people.
And good prices "up-front" are what execs use to base their decisions on. Linux may get in if it truly is cheaper or even if it just *seems* to be initially.
If the prices do go up, hopefully the admins will get better and things may stablise.
Linux just needs a "foot" in the door right now.
Hmm.. nice new 2.5Ghz machines!!!
;-)
That's why it happened. Well, maybe not..but it's an interesting conspiracy theory anyway.
Speaking as an lowly web developer, I was very pleased to have my machine upgraded from a 733 to a 2.4GHz during the upgrade of the rest of our users. I'm only text editing!?!?! DivX is *much* better now though.....
It's the senior geeks who like having the latest and greatest who make the final descisions to upgrade though, so maybe there is something in it after all...
Just don't blame lowly me, ok?
A company I used to work for had around 6 users on terminals connected to a Unix box. I was experimenting with Linux at the time and was taken aback by these users who had been running tape backups, as root, from the command line years before I ever did!
:-
Anyway - the point!!!
People will use *anything* at work. If the average user is sat in front of a well controlled desktop with easy access to the software they need, they'll care "not a jot" whether it's Linux, Windows or "Whatever"-soft (bought from "Whatever" local company who can supply the goods cheap enough).
As long as the Linux desktop crashes *less* than Win95 (ahem) then at least this may be an another outlet which exposes Linux to the average person in a positive way - as long as they can get stuff done on it.
In businessess I have worked in, price has always been the deciding factor and this might just be where Linux has the perceived edge to the business. Maybe business is the (indirect) way to the user desktop?
The concept of a mathematical proof is that you can never make further deductions from a hypothesis until it has been actually proven by logical means. Every theory is proven by building on previous discoveries but everything must start from a base that you know is absolutely true.
Now, mathematical hypotheses are often of the "this is true for all values of n that are prime" variety. The only way you can prove this is true is by building on the concepts in older proven theories, and using them to demonstrate that the new one is true.
If you use a brute force method, you could just calculate all of the prime numbers, stick them into your equation and record the results. If this worked for every prime number man has discovered, *some* people may accept this as proof of your theory.
Problem is, maths can't move on and build on the ideas in that theory. What if they did and 200 years later, someone discovered a prime that broke your hypothesis? The 200 years of maths that was built on your theory would instantly be proven wrong.
I know of one instance where this nearly happened. About 40 years passed between the proposal of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture and it's eventual proof. A fair bit of other work had already been based on the assumption it was correct and for a short while it was looking as if it was false.
Anyway, what's the use of knowing that a theory is true, if no-one understands *why* it is true? You plug the equations into the computer and a 1000 years later it prints "Theory proven" at the top of the screen? Where's the fun in that?
The US are constantly claiming an attack on their beliefs and way of life. Yeah, it's not a religion but those people in the middle-east are certainly fighting for their beliefs and way of life. And land?? America would not fight to protect their own soil? I hardly think so.
Your argument is "we haven't enough to feed the world so it's ok to blow it on crap". If we invested this sort of money regularly in these countries, they'd feed *themselves*. They *do* have sunshine, soil, water and seed. It's just hard to grow food when your fields have been napalmed.
Because splashing £26 billion dollars on a "super-duper" defence system is easier than sitting down and talking to all the other countries in the world to sort out the real problems.
That pc/alarm clock convergence box is a reality!!!
News story on a page with adverts on it. Well every link generally leads to the info you need .. *with* advertisments. It's like saying that Yahoo have started putting ads right at the top of the page just above the news stories - you might think it's the headline!!!!
So, I'm looking at this page on Yahoo and I realised that the only site genuinely posting a link (as a news story) which leads to a page (with adverts) is Slashdot.