No. The next step is to force them to tell you what they are telling the other person, every time they tell the other person. Otherwise it is just gossip.
The step after that is to allow for suing them for libel if they refuse to correct mistakes.
Of course, the the company becomes less than profitable because it requires work to do all that. You can't just take a "business's" claim that they are owed $X amount, and let the company wait patiently until you want to buy a house or car.
Which brings us to the proper step. Credit management should be handled by the government. If I do not pay a debt, it isn't entered onto my credit history until a court concurs. Innocent until proven guilty.
But, don't most machines do things that can already be done by hand...just much faster? I'm not trying to be combative. It just seems that this is a questionable criteria to use for patentability.
The guy that invented that little rubber cover that goes over the connector of good ethernet cables to keep the clip from catching on all the other cables (best invention EVVARR!!). Well, that was something that you could already do by keeping your finger on the clip, but I think the invention was invaluable and the guy deserved some patent protection.
It is terrifying that some people think that 5 minutes on google somehow will make them more informed than 10 years of medical training plus years of actual medical practice. Self diagnosis via google is a HUGE problem because disease processes are complicated and there are a lot of subtle distinctions the lay-person will not know anything about. Yes, sometimes the doctor might miss something but the vast majority of the time you will observe the doctor having a better batting average on the diagnosis than the patient.
It is terrifying that some people think the doctor can do a better job of diagnosing me as he jogs past my room to the next patient, barely taking the time to notice I exist, than I can with a careful reading of multiple informative and reliable websites. Data is data, after all. The disease may be complex. It may be obvious. But the doctor won't necessarily know with the three minutes he's willing to spend in the room.
BTW, for my money, I prefer nurse practioners (I'm American). They are not under the tight time constraints of a doctor, but have nearly as much training, and plenty enough to know when they are looking at something they don't know about.
My wife worked in the records dept of a doctor years ago. If someone came in to request thier records, they had to let the doctor sift through them first so the doc had a chance to remove anything embarassing or anything he might get sued over.
And how is ANYTHING in this conversation at all amusing? We're talking about the politically powerful being able to kill innocent people. The submitter's sense of humor is nauseating.
Wouldn't this be more of a Western culture issue? Many parts of the world value the human interaction much more that Western, industrialized cultures, especially the American culture, which is off the end of the chart with its task oriented nature. This is NOT America bashing. Our culture is what you want when you want to get task done in the shortest time possible. We are good at business and getting projects done. Other cultures are not nearly as concerned with "git 'er done", if it sacrifices human interaction.
Technically, the shareholders *should* be able to do this already through the Board.
Except that CEO of company A sits on the board of company B, and the CEO of company B sits on the board of company A. CEO A votes to raise B's salary, and vice-versa. When someone raises a conflict of interest issue, you just substitute a close family member to sit on the board of the other company. It's not like it isn't a close knit community.
IMHO the problem with executive bonusses isn't so much the amount or that they get bonusses at all, it's the fact that they can fail horribly and still recieve a bonus.
I can think of only one counter-example to prove this rule with....Alcatel-Lucent. Old time telephony is simply going away as an obsolete technology. Really, there is simply no way to make a twisted pair carry the data that can be pumped over coax, while obeying the the laws of physics. What happens to a company who's central product is no longer needed? Can a good CEO do a better job of milking the market for the few remaining dollars than a bad CEO? Is it worth paying an extra million, if the good CEO could milk out another billion?
The law said they government would be paid back before the investors in the case of a bankruptcy. The Obama administration changed the loan so that the investors got their money back first.
If you can't see the fraud in that, you're willfully blind.
Because in private enterprise the return on investment is always 100% guaranteed?
Because in actual private enterprise, not Facist crony capitalisim, investment isn't made at the point of a gun.
How did guns enter this discussion?
Call up the IRS and tell them that you aren't going to pay a proportionate amount of your taxes because of Solyndra. They probably won't show up with guns, because they'll just take what is in your bank account (it's just easier that way), but if you had the money hidden in our mattress, they would show up at your door with....GUNS....
The one thing missed is that if the defendant is really innocent it does not matter what sentence he is threatened with as it will never be imposed.
As someone that has had to pay for a lawyer to defend his innocent son, I must respectfully say that you haven't a clue what you're talking about. You are channelling what the system SHOULD be like. What actually happens if you refuse to play the game is that you are put in jail until your court date. You can post bail if you have money, but then if you had money your lawyer would have talked to the DA and the charges would be dropped. Either way, you're out of bail bond or lawyer fees. If you've got money, no biggy. If you actually work for a living, it can be a true hardship to take out loans to make ends meet. If there were "speedy" trials, it would be one thing; but, 6 months is now considered "speedy". Try getting your factory job back after you sat in jail for 6mos, even if the charges get thrown out.
The idea was that they were just going to be hidden for a while, until someone requisitioned the resources to get them back. But then the jet age began, and no one really cared about some buried remnants of last years war. They are only interesting now for the nostalgia factor.
You could always drop back to launching the programs from terminal, and specifying the DISPLAY environment variable beforehand. Another alternative is to edit the programs command in the launcher to specify the DISPLAY variable. I run three instances of the X-Plane flight simulator on three monitors. I built a stand so that it wraps around my head. This requires that I turn off Xineranama and use the displays separately. I have a shell script that launches each X-Plane instance in the background, exporting the correct DISPLAY variable beforehand.
No. Expecting your software to work on all hardware out of the box is not sensible or logical.
Protocols get modified, misinterpreted, corrupted, or just plain screwed up by bad programmers. Anticipating this is called "validating input". Your program did not generate the data, therefore it is input, and you should provide some method for it to be validated, overridden or ignored. I work in software QA and I tire quickly of developers assuming that data derived from external sources is somehow sacrosanct. It is almost as stupid and worn out as "the customer would never do that." The "one off, special case, old shit" is not a rare exception, and it can almost always be handled by proper validation and a configuration dialog.
And the good lord knows that someone intent on mowing down children is going to know and abide by the trivialities of such laws.
I used a Saturn jack to lift my airplane yesterday. It had a 3/4" nut on the end to use the hand wrench on. I chucked a 3/4" socket in my battery drill to drive it. This is all it would take to turn a "hand cranked" anything into an "automatic" anything.
Riddle me this..is there an EASY way to restore one of those INI files if it gets fucked? like maybe a simple keypress that would...oh i don't know...restore the last known good config perhaps? There isn't? How about a way to just send someone an INI file that will fix a particular problem they are having just by going "clicky clicky" and not having to put in an assload of CLI, like say how I can reset the windows sound server with a 14Kb reg file? There isn't?
How about you send me an email with the correct INI file attached, then I drag and drop it to the appropriate directory? How about I copy the correct INI file statements off a website and paste them into the correct INI file? How about I restore an INI file from the backup I have on a CD?
The Registry was the worst abomination that MS and IBM stuck into OS/2. It caused more headaches than anything else in the OS. Of all the things in OS/2 that POS is the one thing that MS decided to carry forward. Go figure.
Tell that to my niece that has been harassed and bullied so bad for being a "white girl" that she had to move in with her uncle to attend a different school.
The one thing I was told about special operations was that if you know about them, they are already obsolete. They've had SEAL training on TV for the love of Pete. Remember when the special forces meant the Green Berets? The SEALs are some major badasses, but you don't know what to call today's true special forces...and you won't for another 20 years.
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No. The next step is to force them to tell you what they are telling the other person, every time they tell the other person. Otherwise it is just gossip.
The step after that is to allow for suing them for libel if they refuse to correct mistakes.
Of course, the the company becomes less than profitable because it requires work to do all that. You can't just take a "business's" claim that they are owed $X amount, and let the company wait patiently until you want to buy a house or car.
Which brings us to the proper step. Credit management should be handled by the government. If I do not pay a debt, it isn't entered onto my credit history until a court concurs. Innocent until proven guilty.
And if you do buy cheap cables, buy a pair of duckbill pliers 8*)
This is, like you said, a gimmick.
Heh, they're just following in the footsteps of those Wright brothers, and that Lindbergh guy.
But, don't most machines do things that can already be done by hand...just much faster? I'm not trying to be combative. It just seems that this is a questionable criteria to use for patentability.
The guy that invented that little rubber cover that goes over the connector of good ethernet cables to keep the clip from catching on all the other cables (best invention EVVARR!!). Well, that was something that you could already do by keeping your finger on the clip, but I think the invention was invaluable and the guy deserved some patent protection.
It is terrifying that some people think that 5 minutes on google somehow will make them more informed than 10 years of medical training plus years of actual medical practice. Self diagnosis via google is a HUGE problem because disease processes are complicated and there are a lot of subtle distinctions the lay-person will not know anything about. Yes, sometimes the doctor might miss something but the vast majority of the time you will observe the doctor having a better batting average on the diagnosis than the patient.
It is terrifying that some people think the doctor can do a better job of diagnosing me as he jogs past my room to the next patient, barely taking the time to notice I exist, than I can with a careful reading of multiple informative and reliable websites. Data is data, after all. The disease may be complex. It may be obvious. But the doctor won't necessarily know with the three minutes he's willing to spend in the room.
BTW, for my money, I prefer nurse practioners (I'm American). They are not under the tight time constraints of a doctor, but have nearly as much training, and plenty enough to know when they are looking at something they don't know about.
They do say that.
I've read it.
In my wife medical record from a doctor that was a total ass.
The fact that they called you a silly dipshit.
My wife worked in the records dept of a doctor years ago. If someone came in to request thier records, they had to let the doctor sift through them first so the doc had a chance to remove anything embarassing or anything he might get sued over.
And how is ANYTHING in this conversation at all amusing? We're talking about the politically powerful being able to kill innocent people. The submitter's sense of humor is nauseating.
Wouldn't this be more of a Western culture issue? Many parts of the world value the human interaction much more that Western, industrialized cultures, especially the American culture, which is off the end of the chart with its task oriented nature. This is NOT America bashing. Our culture is what you want when you want to get task done in the shortest time possible. We are good at business and getting projects done. Other cultures are not nearly as concerned with "git 'er done", if it sacrifices human interaction.
Would other cultures prefer the kiosks?
And yet, you're here.
Technically, the shareholders *should* be able to do this already through the Board.
Except that CEO of company A sits on the board of company B, and the CEO of company B sits on the board of company A. CEO A votes to raise B's salary, and vice-versa. When someone raises a conflict of interest issue, you just substitute a close family member to sit on the board of the other company. It's not like it isn't a close knit community.
IMHO the problem with executive bonusses isn't so much the amount or that they get bonusses at all, it's the fact that they can fail horribly and still recieve a bonus.
I can think of only one counter-example to prove this rule with....Alcatel-Lucent. Old time telephony is simply going away as an obsolete technology. Really, there is simply no way to make a twisted pair carry the data that can be pumped over coax, while obeying the the laws of physics. What happens to a company who's central product is no longer needed? Can a good CEO do a better job of milking the market for the few remaining dollars than a bad CEO? Is it worth paying an extra million, if the good CEO could milk out another billion?
The law said they government would be paid back before the investors in the case of a bankruptcy. The Obama administration changed the loan so that the investors got their money back first.
If you can't see the fraud in that, you're willfully blind.
When it is taken by politicians to give to a company in exchange for a kick-back? Yes. That is theft.
You go first.
Because in private enterprise the return on investment is always 100% guaranteed?
Because in actual private enterprise, not Facist crony capitalisim, investment isn't made at the point of a gun.
How did guns enter this discussion?
Call up the IRS and tell them that you aren't going to pay a proportionate amount of your taxes because of Solyndra. They probably won't show up with guns, because they'll just take what is in your bank account (it's just easier that way), but if you had the money hidden in our mattress, they would show up at your door with ....GUNS....
The one thing missed is that if the defendant is really innocent it does not matter what sentence he is threatened with as it will never be imposed.
As someone that has had to pay for a lawyer to defend his innocent son, I must respectfully say that you haven't a clue what you're talking about. You are channelling what the system SHOULD be like. What actually happens if you refuse to play the game is that you are put in jail until your court date. You can post bail if you have money, but then if you had money your lawyer would have talked to the DA and the charges would be dropped. Either way, you're out of bail bond or lawyer fees. If you've got money, no biggy. If you actually work for a living, it can be a true hardship to take out loans to make ends meet. If there were "speedy" trials, it would be one thing; but, 6 months is now considered "speedy". Try getting your factory job back after you sat in jail for 6mos, even if the charges get thrown out.
Big holes were easy. They had bulldozers.
The idea was that they were just going to be hidden for a while, until someone requisitioned the resources to get them back. But then the jet age began, and no one really cared about some buried remnants of last years war. They are only interesting now for the nostalgia factor.
You could always drop back to launching the programs from terminal, and specifying the DISPLAY environment variable beforehand. Another alternative is to edit the programs command in the launcher to specify the DISPLAY variable. I run three instances of the X-Plane flight simulator on three monitors. I built a stand so that it wraps around my head. This requires that I turn off Xineranama and use the displays separately. I have a shell script that launches each X-Plane instance in the background, exporting the correct DISPLAY variable beforehand.
Not true. At least, not on any installation I've had since I started running Kubuntu in something like 2008.
No. Expecting your software to work on all hardware out of the box is not sensible or logical.
Protocols get modified, misinterpreted, corrupted, or just plain screwed up by bad programmers. Anticipating this is called "validating input". Your program did not generate the data, therefore it is input, and you should provide some method for it to be validated, overridden or ignored. I work in software QA and I tire quickly of developers assuming that data derived from external sources is somehow sacrosanct. It is almost as stupid and worn out as "the customer would never do that." The "one off, special case, old shit" is not a rare exception, and it can almost always be handled by proper validation and a configuration dialog.
And the good lord knows that someone intent on mowing down children is going to know and abide by the trivialities of such laws.
I used a Saturn jack to lift my airplane yesterday. It had a 3/4" nut on the end to use the hand wrench on. I chucked a 3/4" socket in my battery drill to drive it. This is all it would take to turn a "hand cranked" anything into an "automatic" anything.
remind me what would you call the "bailout" that saved some American banks
Graft and corruption
Riddle me this..is there an EASY way to restore one of those INI files if it gets fucked? like maybe a simple keypress that would...oh i don't know...restore the last known good config perhaps? There isn't? How about a way to just send someone an INI file that will fix a particular problem they are having just by going "clicky clicky" and not having to put in an assload of CLI, like say how I can reset the windows sound server with a 14Kb reg file? There isn't?
How about you send me an email with the correct INI file attached, then I drag and drop it to the appropriate directory? How about I copy the correct INI file statements off a website and paste them into the correct INI file? How about I restore an INI file from the backup I have on a CD?
The Registry was the worst abomination that MS and IBM stuck into OS/2. It caused more headaches than anything else in the OS. Of all the things in OS/2 that POS is the one thing that MS decided to carry forward. Go figure.
Tell that to my niece that has been harassed and bullied so bad for being a "white girl" that she had to move in with her uncle to attend a different school.
The one thing I was told about special operations was that if you know about them, they are already obsolete. They've had SEAL training on TV for the love of Pete. Remember when the special forces meant the Green Berets? The SEALs are some major badasses, but you don't know what to call today's true special forces...and you won't for another 20 years.