One of the more interesting things my geologist friend pointed out to me was the fossel recond in Michigan (for our European friends, Michigan is a state on the border with Canada). We have palm tree fossels all over Michigan. Our current climate won't support palms now but some time long ago Michigan was much warmer than it is now.
He also mentioned that Michigan was buried under about a mile of ice at one time too.
These weather changes were long before man came on the scene. I'm all for Michigan becoming tropical again but that is likely to cause problems for the southern part of the US.
When I was doing coding one of the most difficult things to find was a newbie who was willing to let me watch them use my new program. I could learn a lot by watching someone do something "intuitive" and my code wouldn't behave as they expected. Each time I modified the user interface I had to find a new newbie because the old ones now had preconceived ideas on how it worked. The next problem was that one person wasn't a very large sample. As a normal geed I didn't have all that many friends to draw on.
And what do you do when the company requires both windows and IE?. Loading any non-approved software is a firing offence. The latest versions of IE, McAffee are not available from the company approved software site. Manditory use web sites (payroll/HR/CIS) require IE.
A bit of humor: Flash/Shockwave is required for the web based security training.
Campaign finance reform also will prohibit EFF from buying or being given ad space on/. just before an election. It also prohibits Handgun Control, NRA, Right to Life, Pro Choice, etc from telling voters how candidates feel about those issues. Many candidates wessel word what they have done in the past to the point of lying. Personally, I would like to know what each of those groups thinks about my local candidates. I know it's possible to search public records for voting records but it's a lot harder to figure out which of those votes were sham votes just to be on the public record for or against some issue.
Talk to your credit card company first, the seller second
The credit card people will ask if you have make "a good faith effort" to resolve the problem first. That means attempting to talk to the seller first.
Go back even further and AMD made an 8088 clone that ran faster than the intel chip. I can't remember if the Intel was 4 or 5 mhz but the AMD ran at 6 mhz.
It also included an extended instruction set (CPM derivitive) that I didn't need.
I wrote a program for an aluminum foundry that controled their electric melting furnaces. My part moved the peak usage control from a mechanical switch to computer control. They also added two more furnaces to the four origionals. The end result was a lower electric bill for the six furnaces than they were getting for four. Melting times were also faster because the computer didn't mind switching power around for a 30 second benifit but the human operators didn't have the time to do so.
I was working on the assumption that we all have really, really good spam filters so spam just uses cpu cycles, some tempory disk space and bandwidth. ie the same resources used by a wireless user.
When you twist the lamp shade so you get light and the home owners get less light you are stealing light. When the people owning the wireless network get less bandwidth due to your use, you are stealing.
Use of someone elses network without permission is wrong. We see this with spam, why can't we see this with wireless? It's the same resources being abused.
I did something like this some time ago that needed to keep its state between crashes and reboots. I would periodicly write to alternet state files with a calculated checksum. On program restart I checked the newest file for a valid checksum and used the older if the checksum failed. This way a power off in the middle of writing one of the files didn't loose my state completely.
Just whom should we be negotiating with? No one has taken credit or made any demands for any of 9/11. No one has taken credit or made demands for the anthrax letters.
Should we just start giving consessions to any state that might have a minority group that doesn't like the US? I think that would include the entire world including. Even England has its Yank haters.
You need to work on your random number theory. For true randomness each happening is totally independent of the others. Because one meteor hit recently does not influence when the next will hit. It could be tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. The only difference is a few mathamtitions will have to recalc the "average" impact time.
The reports that I've seen suggest one sudden turn of approx 20 degress. This could easily have happened due to a heat explosion on one side of the asteroid.
Aren't the companies under some fiduciary liability to make sure their stock holders make as much money as possible?
I keep seeing this comment on slashdot. The answer is NO. Companies (their officers) are not required to maximise profits in any way. If this were even remotely true, no company would ever donate to charities or open source. All that the officers are required to do is attempt to make a profit. The board of directors of the company get to decide if the attempt was good enough or should they fire the CEO.
One of the big problems is actually finding out what your real cost of an item is.
Cost is more that an items wholesale price. Things that add/modify that initial cost are:
Shipping costs are billed per truck load not per item. Weight and size of items vary and cost of fuel is dynamic.
Wharehouse costs. Size (shelf space) is only a part of this cost. There is also rate of turnover cost. Keeping one book for a year has higher wharehouse costs than keeping 10 books that sell out each month.
There is also the cost of money. Most inventory is purchased with borrowed money. Turnover and interest rates make this part of the cost flucuate. Even when the money isn't borrowed from someone else the cost exists.
People costs per item. This is all the salesmen, buyers, office personel that need to be paid. Their wages add to the cost.
"shrinkage" Items are lost, stolen, and damaged in shipment. How fragil an item is adds to the cost. How likely an item is stolen adds to the cost.
Having done accounting programs for companies, the best anyone could ever hope for was an approximation of an item's real cost. At the end of a quarter you compaired your estimated costs/profits with your bank balance. When they are close you are doing pretty good.
The argument about how a DVD that eventually falls into the public domain will be accessed struck me as a particularly powerful
one.
This means that
that they have stated in court that there is a legal use for DeCSS - for decripting movies after copyright has expired. Not only is there no known use of DeCSS for pirating but there is real reasonable use for the code.
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He also mentioned that Michigan was buried under about a mile of ice at one time too.
These weather changes were long before man came on the scene. I'm all for Michigan becoming tropical again but that is likely to cause problems for the southern part of the US.
If I were not signed up for RH email anouncements I would be pissed. SPAM is SPAM whether it comes from MS or RH.
As it is I've signed up for some RH email and I get only the email I signed up for - nothing extra just because RH thinks I might be interested.
remove the space in "ap pa"
I though the password was 1 2 3 4 5.
But what about my celeb voice on my answering machine saying "Whall pilgrim, whadda have to saay?"
When I was doing coding one of the most difficult things to find was a newbie who was willing to let me watch them use my new program. I could learn a lot by watching someone do something "intuitive" and my code wouldn't behave as they expected. Each time I modified the user interface I had to find a new newbie because the old ones now had preconceived ideas on how it worked. The next problem was that one person wasn't a very large sample. As a normal geed I didn't have all that many friends to draw on.
A bit of humor: Flash/Shockwave is required for the web based security training.
Campaign finance reform also will prohibit EFF from buying or being given ad space on /. just before an election. It also prohibits Handgun Control, NRA, Right to Life, Pro Choice, etc from telling voters how candidates feel about those issues. Many candidates wessel word what they have done in the past to the point of lying. Personally, I would like to know what each of those groups thinks about my local candidates. I know it's possible to search public records for voting records but it's a lot harder to figure out which of those votes were sham votes just to be on the public record for or against some issue.
Talk to your credit card company first, the seller second
The credit card people will ask if you have make "a good faith effort" to resolve the problem first. That means attempting to talk to the seller first.
Go back even further and AMD made an 8088 clone that ran faster than the intel chip. I can't remember if the Intel was 4 or 5 mhz but the AMD ran at 6 mhz.
It also included an extended instruction set (CPM derivitive) that I didn't need.
I wrote a program for an aluminum foundry that controled their electric melting furnaces. My part moved the peak usage control from a mechanical switch to computer control. They also added two more furnaces to the four origionals. The end result was a lower electric bill for the six furnaces than they were getting for four. Melting times were also faster because the computer didn't mind switching power around for a 30 second benifit but the human operators didn't have the time to do so.
I was working on the assumption that we all have really, really good spam filters so spam just uses cpu cycles, some tempory disk space and bandwidth. ie the same resources used by a wireless user.
When you twist the lamp shade so you get light and the home owners get less light you are stealing light. When the people owning the wireless network get less bandwidth due to your use, you are stealing.
Use of someone elses network without permission is wrong. We see this with spam, why can't we see this with wireless? It's the same resources being abused.
I'm guessing you didn't read the other link that explains that a small claims verdict never sets "legal precedent".
Sometimes your mail host is down and I might like to know you didn't get the email I sent.
I did something like this some time ago that needed to keep its state between crashes and reboots. I would periodicly write to alternet state files with a calculated checksum. On program restart I checked the newest file for a valid checksum and used the older if the checksum failed. This way a power off in the middle of writing one of the files didn't loose my state completely.
2. Negotiate
Just whom should we be negotiating with? No one has taken credit or made any demands for any of 9/11. No one has taken credit or made demands for the anthrax letters.
Should we just start giving consessions to any state that might have a minority group that doesn't like the US? I think that would include the entire world including. Even England has its Yank haters.
I think you need a reality check.
You need to work on your random number theory. For true randomness each happening is totally independent of the others. Because one meteor hit recently does not influence when the next will hit. It could be tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. The only difference is a few mathamtitions will have to recalc the "average" impact time.
The reports that I've seen suggest one sudden turn of approx 20 degress. This could easily have happened due to a heat explosion on one side of the asteroid.
You forgot to mention that the judges also raised taxes to pay for the busing.
my ksh prompt in a sun dtterm:
Hi=$( tput smso )
Norm=$( tput rmso )
Host=$( hostname )
User=$LOGNAME
PS1='${Hi} ${Norm}$Host:$PWD
${Hi} ${Norm}$User $ "'
I keep seeing this comment on slashdot. The answer is NO. Companies (their officers) are not required to maximise profits in any way. If this were even remotely true, no company would ever donate to charities or open source. All that the officers are required to do is attempt to make a profit. The board of directors of the company get to decide if the attempt was good enough or should they fire the CEO.
Cost is more that an items wholesale price. Things that add/modify that initial cost are:
Shipping costs are billed per truck load not per item. Weight and size of items vary and cost of fuel is dynamic.
Wharehouse costs. Size (shelf space) is only a part of this cost. There is also rate of turnover cost. Keeping one book for a year has higher wharehouse costs than keeping 10 books that sell out each month.
There is also the cost of money. Most inventory is purchased with borrowed money. Turnover and interest rates make this part of the cost flucuate. Even when the money isn't borrowed from someone else the cost exists.
People costs per item. This is all the salesmen, buyers, office personel that need to be paid. Their wages add to the cost.
"shrinkage" Items are lost, stolen, and damaged in shipment. How fragil an item is adds to the cost. How likely an item is stolen adds to the cost.
Having done accounting programs for companies, the best anyone could ever hope for was an approximation of an item's real cost. At the end of a quarter you compaired your estimated costs/profits with your bank balance. When they are close you are doing pretty good.
This means that that they have stated in court that there is a legal use for DeCSS - for decripting movies after copyright has expired. Not only is there no known use of DeCSS for pirating but there is real reasonable use for the code.