"I don't think blame should be assigned to the technician who missed the task; rather, it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task. Who's really at fault?"
If a single maintenance task (refueling) is missed on airplanes, they will crash.
Why is having to regularly work on extremely complicated systems anyone's fault? I'd lean towards blaming the idiot who didn't...you know...do his job.
Maybe the blacks and poor should stop commiting felonies.
Hell, maybe everyone should stop committing felonies, and then we'd have nobody disenfranchised and the voting rolls would just read "Everybody" and we'd buy the world a Coke and teach it to sing in perfect harmony.
boy, thanks for explaining the joke. Us poor dum redneks mite have had to thunk fer ourselves. I'm going to go and watch Friends later, will you come over and explain to me what a double entendre is?
MICR$HAFT IS JUST LIKE EATING MEET OH NO CANT HURT THE PRETTY LITTLE ANIMALS.
you should probably yank your head out of your ass and have a hamburger.. either that or get a glass stomach so that you don't bump into stuff all the time. Vegetarianism is only important in the lives of sad little fuckers whos mommies didn't love them enough.
Companies are forced to do stuff like this to keep Trademarks. See: "Is pepsi Ok?" in eateries when one asks for a Coke; the generic term Asprin, etc etc.
It sounds to me like Sellotape is being fairly reasonable about the whole thing, even allowing continued use of the mark, provided that it's documented correctly.
Why does this make Sellotape the bad guys? They're trying to protect a valuable asset, and doing it in a pretty non-heavy handed way. I read the letter, and it didn't threaten legal action in the way that sort of letter typically does, it merely requested proper use of a trademark..
They covered the fact that Microsoft was the most vulnerable to email viruses earlier. The little comment just makes micheal look like a small small man.
until this line: "There's a real market for your product, people who (for whatever reason) are using Windows and/or Outlook..."
This article was nice. It was well balanced. It looked like old mikey-boy had actually done some research. It seemed as if it had been spell-checked. Why throw in the Microsoft dig like that? It throws the credibility of the entire article out the window.
The slashdot crew should hire a decent editor. Or even a bad one, for chrissake.
Tivo does this in the states too. On a Tivo remote there's a button that looks like taht retarded little square tivo thing (I think it's supposed to be an evil mutant TV set) You push that button to get to the main menu. Then you can select "Now Playing", which is the stuff that you have recorded manually (plus the stuff that tivo suggests based on your veiwing profile), and there's a "Showcase" selection, which is where stuff like "This month on HBO" and the Sheryl Crow preview is located. This information is seldom longer than 1/2 hour total length, and is considered part of the 2 gigs of space that tivo has for 'system' stuff. Tivo isn't decieving customers, it's using advertising as an alternate source of revenue, and it's opt-in advertising, for chrissakes. I'm not forced to watch these updates, I usually don't even know that they're on my tivo, and I don't care.
But I've turned into a tivo zealot as of late, so take this with a grain of salt.
Where did you get that he attempted to mislead the court? He 'fumbled.' Fumble is a term used in american football to describe the act of accidentally dropping the ball, giving the other team a chance to pick it up.
It is not a deliberate act, just like the MIT Prof in question's fumble wasn't deliberate, either. Simply put, this professor was a bad witness. Smart guy, bad witness. He got flustered and stumbled over his words. This does not make him a liar.
And if you're suggesting that someone not attend MIT just because one professor likes Microsoft, you're an ignorant git and should be hit by a bus, fall on a soup spoon, get cancer and die.
They actually don't use "RaDAR" as you high-tech gurus like to call it. They use a string with a rock at the end of it. they throw it off the front (or "bow") of the boat, and if it makes a 'DONK' noise, then you know that something is in front of the boat. if it goes 'SPLASH', the front of the boat is clear. Now, when this thingy is traveling at 300 knots, you're going to need a longer string and a bigger rock, with a stronger guy throwing it, but those are just engineering details.
Eratosthenes' experiment notwithstanding, sailing ships taught us the world was round in a very accesible way... on a clear day, the hull of the boat dissapears over the horizon before the crow's nest does.
Richard Rhodes certianly deserved the pulitzer he recieved for that book. His follow-up, Dark Sun (the making of the H-bomb) was also pretty good, but not as compelling of a story from the human side of things. Another excellent account of the human side of the process is Genius, by James Glick, which is about Dick Feynman.
Because most people who buy these machines are going to use pirated copies of Windows on them. I mean, it's great that you can buy machine where you get free reign on what OS you run, but when we're talking about regular people, the point remains that nobody runs linux. These people are going to borrow their sister's copy of windows XP or ME or whatever and throw that bad boy onto this box.
The 1040 in question was the 1040 EZ, which you can see here: http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/NABR/1040EZx2.gif. This form has 17 fields to fill out (not counting name and address and a couple other gimmies). An EULA tries to cover the gamut of legal possibilities. This little analysis is ignorant. An EULA is always going to be somewhat complex. The key to a usable EULA (which the issuer doesn't want, btw) is using layman's terms.
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Dumbasses, please read the article. The reason they should have to honor thier price is beacuse the advert said "GeFORCE CARD! 129.99! $200 SAVINGS!" or something to that effect. if the ad had just said Geforce card, 129.99, I'd agree with you, but the inclusion of the 200 savings bit indicates that it isn't a typo, it was intentional.
When I did volunteer EMS in rural NJ, we had this thing in our rig called a 'ring remover'. It removed rings with a little saw blade, and it was nigh impossible to damage the patient's finger with the cutter. Ti was on the list of metals that it would cut. So I wouldn't be *that* worried.
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"I don't think blame should be assigned to the technician who missed the task; rather, it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task. Who's really at fault?"
If a single maintenance task (refueling) is missed on airplanes, they will crash.
Why is having to regularly work on extremely complicated systems anyone's fault? I'd lean towards blaming the idiot who didn't...you know...do his job.
Maybe the blacks and poor should stop commiting felonies.
Hell, maybe everyone should stop committing felonies, and then we'd have nobody disenfranchised and the voting rolls would just read "Everybody" and we'd buy the world a Coke and teach it to sing in perfect harmony.
Boy howdy, that'd be great.
Those who could benefit from more joke-explaining are as follows:
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Niggers.
Wops.
Poor dumb mexicans.
Humorless wankers on
Thank you, come again!
boy, thanks for explaining the joke. Us poor dum redneks mite have had to thunk fer ourselves. I'm going to go and watch Friends later, will you come over and explain to me what a double entendre is?
Yeah, well, you're a dirty englishman who LOVES COCKS!
Does nintendo even have 5 games?
:(:(:(:(:(
Let's see...
Mario.
Zelda.
Metroid.
I only count 3.
DEAR FROD PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM COCK+MOUTH KIT!
The #slashdot channel (not the official channel, the fun one) has moved to irc.oublinet.net.
Come on over for some fun.
Jesus, you're a fucking retard.
MICR$HAFT IS JUST LIKE EATING MEET OH NO CANT HURT THE PRETTY LITTLE ANIMALS.
you should probably yank your head out of your ass and have a hamburger.. either that or get a glass stomach so that you don't bump into stuff all the time. Vegetarianism is only important in the lives of sad little fuckers whos mommies didn't love them enough.
I hope you get cancer.
Companies are forced to do stuff like this to keep Trademarks. See: "Is pepsi Ok?" in eateries when one asks for a Coke; the generic term Asprin, etc etc.
It sounds to me like Sellotape is being fairly reasonable about the whole thing, even allowing continued use of the mark, provided that it's documented correctly.
Why does this make Sellotape the bad guys? They're trying to protect a valuable asset, and doing it in a pretty non-heavy handed way. I read the letter, and it didn't threaten legal action in the way that sort of letter typically does, it merely requested proper use of a trademark..
should be the Bloodhound Gang, for thier track "The Ten Greatest Things about New Jersey", which is ten seconds of silence.
right now mine has a bunch of mr deeds trailers on it. the second one is pretty funny, the first one basically just what's on teevee.
Everybody repeat after me.
Commonality
Does Not
Equal
Causality.
Please stop being retarded, thanks.
They covered the fact that Microsoft was the most vulnerable to email viruses earlier. The little comment just makes micheal look like a small small man.
until this line: "There's a real market for your product, people who (for whatever reason) are using Windows and/or Outlook..."
This article was nice. It was well balanced. It looked like old mikey-boy had actually done some research. It seemed as if it had been spell-checked. Why throw in the Microsoft dig like that? It throws the credibility of the entire article out the window.
The slashdot crew should hire a decent editor. Or even a bad one, for chrissake.
Tivo does this in the states too. On a Tivo remote there's a button that looks like taht retarded little square tivo thing (I think it's supposed to be an evil mutant TV set) You push that button to get to the main menu. Then you can select "Now Playing", which is the stuff that you have recorded manually (plus the stuff that tivo suggests based on your veiwing profile), and there's a "Showcase" selection, which is where stuff like "This month on HBO" and the Sheryl Crow preview is located. This information is seldom longer than 1/2 hour total length, and is considered part of the 2 gigs of space that tivo has for 'system' stuff. Tivo isn't decieving customers, it's using advertising as an alternate source of revenue, and it's opt-in advertising, for chrissakes. I'm not forced to watch these updates, I usually don't even know that they're on my tivo, and I don't care.
But I've turned into a tivo zealot as of late, so take this with a grain of salt.
Where did you get that he attempted to mislead the court? He 'fumbled.' Fumble is a term used in american football to describe the act of accidentally dropping the ball, giving the other team a chance to pick it up.
It is not a deliberate act, just like the MIT Prof in question's fumble wasn't deliberate, either. Simply put, this professor was a bad witness. Smart guy, bad witness. He got flustered and stumbled over his words. This does not make him a liar.
And if you're suggesting that someone not attend MIT just because one professor likes Microsoft, you're an ignorant git and should be hit by a bus, fall on a soup spoon, get cancer and die.
They actually don't use "RaDAR" as you high-tech gurus like to call it. They use a string with a rock at the end of it. they throw it off the front (or "bow") of the boat, and if it makes a 'DONK' noise, then you know that something is in front of the boat. if it goes 'SPLASH', the front of the boat is clear. Now, when this thingy is traveling at 300 knots, you're going to need a longer string and a bigger rock, with a stronger guy throwing it, but those are just engineering details.
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They're not under the jurisdiction of the FAA, they're under the maritime authorities.
Searches at the airport do not increase security, if you're referring to body searches. The baggage, as always, is the weak point.
Eratosthenes' experiment notwithstanding, sailing ships taught us the world was round in a very accesible way... on a clear day, the hull of the boat dissapears over the horizon before the crow's nest does.
Richard Rhodes certianly deserved the pulitzer he recieved for that book. His follow-up, Dark Sun (the making of the H-bomb) was also pretty good, but not as compelling of a story from the human side of things. Another excellent account of the human side of the process is Genius, by James Glick, which is about Dick Feynman.
Because most people who buy these machines are going to use pirated copies of Windows on them. I mean, it's great that you can buy machine where you get free reign on what OS you run, but when we're talking about regular people, the point remains that nobody runs linux. These people are going to borrow their sister's copy of windows XP or ME or whatever and throw that bad boy onto this box.
The 1040 in question was the 1040 EZ, which you can see here: http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/NABR/1040EZx2.gif. This form has 17 fields to fill out (not counting name and address and a couple other gimmies). An EULA tries to cover the gamut of legal possibilities. This little analysis is ignorant. An EULA is always going to be somewhat complex. The key to a usable EULA (which the issuer doesn't want, btw) is using layman's terms.
Dumbasses, please read the article. The reason they should have to honor thier price is beacuse the advert said "GeFORCE CARD! 129.99! $200 SAVINGS!" or something to that effect. if the ad had just said Geforce card, 129.99, I'd agree with you, but the inclusion of the 200 savings bit indicates that it isn't a typo, it was intentional.
When I did volunteer EMS in rural NJ, we had this thing in our rig called a 'ring remover'. It removed rings with a little saw blade, and it was nigh impossible to damage the patient's finger with the cutter. Ti was on the list of metals that it would cut. So I wouldn't be *that* worried.