Cartoon depictions of child sexual activity (commonly found in manga) is against the child porn statutes in many countries. So, yes, I can tell the difference, but the law can not.
Of course it can. "The law" is not a computer program, it's interpreted by people. And the law and those people can't somehow infer that an entire medium is now illegal because someone used it to do something illegal. Movies, photos, and comics (Japanese or not) are entirely the same in this regard.
People want to pretend this is some slippery slope, but you know, it really isn't. Jeez, since when did NAMBLA have such a big following on slashdot?
And calling "manga" illegal is about as misleadingly stupid as calling "books" or "movies" illegal just because it's possible to create child pornography in the medium. These aren't subtle distinctions, if you can't tell the difference between a comic book and child porn you are a pretty twisted person.
I don't like the idea of having proprietary SSD chips built on the motherboard. It makes it impossible to upgrade.
If it's like the Air, they are not soldered to the motherboard, they are on a small (proprietary) daughtercard. So it's not impossible to upgrade, just annoying and expensive. I guess that's the trade off for a 0.7" thick, 4.5lb laptop... no one buys Macbooks for their low price and ease of upgrade...
As much as I agree that longer term planning is an important (and undervalued) concern in many engineering designs, I think taking into account the heat death of the sun might be over-engineering just a bit.
Exactly! And of course it's possible to allow them to come back to you and demand a design change or get support forever, just make sure you put it in the contract and bill them for any hours spent. For many businesses, that's not a liability, it's their main source of continuing *revenue*.
What they expect doesn't really matter (as long as you are willing to lose them as a customer going forward).
If you both sign a contract for given work at a given price, they are obligated to pay the agreed price and you are obligated to do the agreed work, no more, no less. Unless they can prove in court that you didn't fulfill the contract they're pretty much SOL.
Which is really the answer to the article question - there is no "industry convention", the industry convention is to negotiate a contract that is acceptable to both parties, and if they want unlimited support you make sure they *pay* for it.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
I'm sure they do, it's not that hard to price out. Do you have any idea how much heat and AC cost a school with 1000+ students every year? In a 4 season climate it absolutely dwarfs any ISP costs. And gets more expensive every year, while Internet access gets cheaper.
I would love to have seen Rahm and Ari as kids around the dining room table.
"Mom, pass the fucking bread". "Get it your goddamn self, Rahm". "Dammit Dad, Rahm keeps kicking me!" "Shut the fuck up and kick the bastard back, Ari!"
Yeah, I have to say Josh was so proud of himself for asking his question he really didn't seem interested in hearing an answer. Usually when you ask a question you then shut up for a second and let the other guy (no matter how wrong his answer is) say something before talking over him.
It was just two egotists talking to the crowd/themselves, neither to the other.
If I'm wrong, I loose nothing. If I'm right, you lose everything.
So, you believe in God "just in case"? At least have a backbone about it, that's the worst reason you can have. At least those with *faith* are at about a level 5 of human motivation ("finding a higher purpose"), you haven't even climbed past level 1 ("survival").
allowing diet will just have everyone switch to a giant diet soda, and there will be very little gained. If you want to increase health, drink water, not any form of soda.
That's ridiculous, there will be a HUGE gain. Diet soda is basically 99% water with a bit of CO2 and food coloring. A non-diet 32oz soda is around 450 calories (all from HFCS), which is almost 25% of the average person's recommended daily calorie intake in a nice quick to ingest diabetes promoting form.
Hi. I'm a child of the 20th Century. You might remember us. We fixed a Depression, killed Adolf Hitler, held Stalin in check, invented the atom bomb, rebuilt Europe and Japan, built a national infrastructure of highways and electricity, got Jim Crow off the books at least, added a Moon rock to our mood ring collection and then watched Al Gore invent the internet -- all without a single corporation as the driving force.
Actually, all of those examples were *implemented* almost entirely by the giant military-industrial complex based on the existing infrastructure of corporations like Ford and General Electric (and Boeing and Lockheed and General Motors and General Dynamics and Raytheon and Harris and Grumman and Caterpillar and Colt and BAE and L-3 and Bechtel and Newport News and...)
All justices, judges, and magistrates accept that corporations are legal persons. This is neither surprising, nor debatable, and is a fundamental part of Common Law tradition.
No, it's not. Common law tradition said the exact OPPOSITE, that only actual persons could be sued, and thus limited liability corporations could NOT. It was only since the rise of large LLCs in the 19th century that specific laws were passed to prevent this abuse by defining a limited "legal personhood" for corporations.
Yeah, and good luck importing from Germany once they shut down all of their nuke plants and think solar plants are going to do any good on a cold January night in France:)
Germany is getting rid of all of their nuclear power and replacing it with solar (and this article was pointing out how "great" that solar power is doing).
The point was eliminating direct fossil fuel burning like natural gas or oil (which long term needs to happen regardless of how electricity is generated) in exchange for electrical heating makes the electricity needs even higher when solar power production is at a low.
CO2 is the least of your worries, it's the particulate matter that gets released in the air. In some parts of CA almost 90% of the particulate air pollution is due to wood burning. Even a "clean" pellet stove generates 100x the particulate air pollution of natural gas. It just doesn't scale to 100% home usage unless you want metropolitan valleys to look like Beijing on a bad day.
Given that I have used the BD drive on my *desktop* about 3 times in the last year (one of those was to install the OS, the other two were to install games I probably wouldn't put on a laptop anyway) I personally think a thinner, lighter weight, longer lasting (especially with a "retina" display which I'm sure will eat battery) laptop at the expense of an optical drive is a great trade off.
You can get an external DVD-RW drive for less than $40 or a BD-RW for about $120. We are talking about a $2-3k MBP so that's a pretty trivial expense if you ever need it. I'm so ready to replace my bulky-ass, 8lbs+ with the extended battery, can-barely-open-on-an-airplane Dell Latitude with the new MBP when it comes out...
People were all pissed at Apple when they were the first to remove the floppy drive from their computers, as well. Didn't seem to hurt them too much.
Are you suggesting wood or coal heating in the HOME!?
At least in a large power plant coal burning byproducts can be relatively efficiently scrubbed, but in a home that's not realistic.
Wood is even worse- its byproducts are just plain horrible for the environment/air quality in large quantities. It's the single biggest source of air pollution in Northern California in the winter, and most people are just doing it for FUN. It's already severely restricted in the last couple years, and will probably be outlawed entirely sometime this decade.
First, you seriously overestimate the US government control of the energy industry - ever heard of ENRON?
Second, in general government controls are fine. Meta-government, hah. The EU would be about as successful at regulating energy policy among 27 nations as the UN is regulating... well, just about anything of importance.
It sounds trite, but there is a kernel of wisdom there. Buy a Macbook Pro if you can afford it.
For someone with limited computer literacy, that's probably just overkill in price and features. a 13" Macbook Air is probably fine.
Or if you are going to get a Macbook Pro, definitely don't buy one NOW. Apple is almost definitely going to release an update in a month, with rumors saying it will be 30% thinner, lighter, and probably with a "retina" (ie. stupid marketing speak for MUCH higher resolution) screen.
The power network of Europe only work as a whole, which is why the switch to green energies better would have been organized on the level of the EU.
Yeah, the EU has shown giant multinational government bureaucracies have been a great idea for organizing economies. Give them control over power generation as well and then people can end up both poor *and* in the dark...
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Cartoon depictions of child sexual activity (commonly found in manga) is against the child porn statutes in many countries. So, yes, I can tell the difference, but the law can not.
Of course it can. "The law" is not a computer program, it's interpreted by people. And the law and those people can't somehow infer that an entire medium is now illegal because someone used it to do something illegal. Movies, photos, and comics (Japanese or not) are entirely the same in this regard.
People want to pretend this is some slippery slope, but you know, it really isn't. Jeez, since when did NAMBLA have such a big following on slashdot?
No it's not. Drug possession is also a crime.
And calling "manga" illegal is about as misleadingly stupid as calling "books" or "movies" illegal just because it's possible to create child pornography in the medium. These aren't subtle distinctions, if you can't tell the difference between a comic book and child porn you are a pretty twisted person.
I don't like the idea of having proprietary SSD chips built on the motherboard. It makes it impossible to upgrade.
If it's like the Air, they are not soldered to the motherboard, they are on a small (proprietary) daughtercard. So it's not impossible to upgrade, just annoying and expensive. I guess that's the trade off for a 0.7" thick, 4.5lb laptop... no one buys Macbooks for their low price and ease of upgrade...
As much as I agree that longer term planning is an important (and undervalued) concern in many engineering designs, I think taking into account the heat death of the sun might be over-engineering just a bit.
Exactly! And of course it's possible to allow them to come back to you and demand a design change or get support forever, just make sure you put it in the contract and bill them for any hours spent. For many businesses, that's not a liability, it's their main source of continuing *revenue*.
What they expect doesn't really matter (as long as you are willing to lose them as a customer going forward).
If you both sign a contract for given work at a given price, they are obligated to pay the agreed price and you are obligated to do the agreed work, no more, no less. Unless they can prove in court that you didn't fulfill the contract they're pretty much SOL.
Which is really the answer to the article question - there is no "industry convention", the industry convention is to negotiate a contract that is acceptable to both parties, and if they want unlimited support you make sure they *pay* for it.
Teas made with *tea plant* leaves have caffeine, and "herbal" teas without it don't. Duh.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
I'm sure they do, it's not that hard to price out. Do you have any idea how much heat and AC cost a school with 1000+ students every year? In a 4 season climate it absolutely dwarfs any ISP costs. And gets more expensive every year, while Internet access gets cheaper.
And TFA doesn't even use the term "cloud", just the lame submission summary. If you don't like the submission, why post it!?
I would love to have seen Rahm and Ari as kids around the dining room table.
"Mom, pass the fucking bread".
"Get it your goddamn self, Rahm".
"Dammit Dad, Rahm keeps kicking me!"
"Shut the fuck up and kick the bastard back, Ari!"
Yeah, I have to say Josh was so proud of himself for asking his question he really didn't seem interested in hearing an answer. Usually when you ask a question you then shut up for a second and let the other guy (no matter how wrong his answer is) say something before talking over him.
It was just two egotists talking to the crowd/themselves, neither to the other.
If I'm wrong, I loose nothing. If I'm right, you lose everything.
So, you believe in God "just in case"? At least have a backbone about it, that's the worst reason you can have. At least those with *faith* are at about a level 5 of human motivation ("finding a higher purpose"), you haven't even climbed past level 1 ("survival").
allowing diet will just have everyone switch to a giant diet soda, and there will be very little gained. If you want to increase health, drink water, not any form of soda.
That's ridiculous, there will be a HUGE gain. Diet soda is basically 99% water with a bit of CO2 and food coloring. A non-diet 32oz soda is around 450 calories (all from HFCS), which is almost 25% of the average person's recommended daily calorie intake in a nice quick to ingest diabetes promoting form.
Hi. I'm a child of the 20th Century. You might remember us. We fixed a Depression, killed Adolf Hitler, held Stalin in check, invented the atom bomb, rebuilt Europe and Japan, built a national infrastructure of highways and electricity, got Jim Crow off the books at least, added a Moon rock to our mood ring collection and then watched Al Gore invent the internet -- all without a single corporation as the driving force.
Actually, all of those examples were *implemented* almost entirely by the giant military-industrial complex based on the existing infrastructure of corporations like Ford and General Electric (and Boeing and Lockheed and General Motors and General Dynamics and Raytheon and Harris and Grumman and Caterpillar and Colt and BAE and L-3 and Bechtel and Newport News and...)
All justices, judges, and magistrates accept that corporations are legal persons. This is neither surprising, nor debatable, and is a fundamental part of Common Law tradition.
No, it's not. Common law tradition said the exact OPPOSITE, that only actual persons could be sued, and thus limited liability corporations could NOT. It was only since the rise of large LLCs in the 19th century that specific laws were passed to prevent this abuse by defining a limited "legal personhood" for corporations.
So where does the "offtopic" come from?
Probably from the fact it was offtopic.
Yeah, and good luck importing from Germany once they shut down all of their nuke plants and think solar plants are going to do any good on a cold January night in France :)
Germany is getting rid of all of their nuclear power and replacing it with solar (and this article was pointing out how "great" that solar power is doing).
The point was eliminating direct fossil fuel burning like natural gas or oil (which long term needs to happen regardless of how electricity is generated) in exchange for electrical heating makes the electricity needs even higher when solar power production is at a low.
Did you even RTFA or the GP post?
CO2 is the least of your worries, it's the particulate matter that gets released in the air. In some parts of CA almost 90% of the particulate air pollution is due to wood burning. Even a "clean" pellet stove generates 100x the particulate air pollution of natural gas. It just doesn't scale to 100% home usage unless you want metropolitan valleys to look like Beijing on a bad day.
Given that I have used the BD drive on my *desktop* about 3 times in the last year (one of those was to install the OS, the other two were to install games I probably wouldn't put on a laptop anyway) I personally think a thinner, lighter weight, longer lasting (especially with a "retina" display which I'm sure will eat battery) laptop at the expense of an optical drive is a great trade off.
You can get an external DVD-RW drive for less than $40 or a BD-RW for about $120. We are talking about a $2-3k MBP so that's a pretty trivial expense if you ever need it. I'm so ready to replace my bulky-ass, 8lbs+ with the extended battery, can-barely-open-on-an-airplane Dell Latitude with the new MBP when it comes out...
People were all pissed at Apple when they were the first to remove the floppy drive from their computers, as well. Didn't seem to hurt them too much.
Are you suggesting wood or coal heating in the HOME!?
At least in a large power plant coal burning byproducts can be relatively efficiently scrubbed, but in a home that's not realistic.
Wood is even worse- its byproducts are just plain horrible for the environment/air quality in large quantities. It's the single biggest source of air pollution in Northern California in the winter, and most people are just doing it for FUN. It's already severely restricted in the last couple years, and will probably be outlawed entirely sometime this decade.
First, you seriously overestimate the US government control of the energy industry - ever heard of ENRON?
Second, in general government controls are fine. Meta-government, hah. The EU would be about as successful at regulating energy policy among 27 nations as the UN is regulating... well, just about anything of importance.
It sounds trite, but there is a kernel of wisdom there. Buy a Macbook Pro if you can afford it.
For someone with limited computer literacy, that's probably just overkill in price and features. a 13" Macbook Air is probably fine.
Or if you are going to get a Macbook Pro, definitely don't buy one NOW. Apple is almost definitely going to release an update in a month, with rumors saying it will be 30% thinner, lighter, and probably with a "retina" (ie. stupid marketing speak for MUCH higher resolution) screen.
All in all, I'm satisfied, my mother is too.
*Sigh* I really should hit preview before I post.
That's what she said.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
The power network of Europe only work as a whole, which is why the switch to green energies better would have been organized on the level of the EU.
Yeah, the EU has shown giant multinational government bureaucracies have been a great idea for organizing economies. Give them control over power generation as well and then people can end up both poor *and* in the dark...