Why would we consider using UTC worldwide, and NOT synchronize UTC with the International Date Line? Why reduce 24 reference points to (2) when it could be reduced to (1)?
Actually it makes sense. It won't happen because there aren't enough people worldwide who are able to base decisions on logic.
The business traveler presumably has appointments/meetings that can't be satisfied by phone/video call. That same traveler wouldn't need to care when the sun rises locally as long as he's on-time for his appointments. When his flights are delayed, he wouldn't be counting time zones to determine whether he'll be late. And your scheduling software would not have to contain the code needed to track time zones, eliminating potential bugs.
Arizone and Indiana don't observe DST. You would no longer have to change clocks while driving across state lines -- or remembering when you DON'T need to change clocks crossing state lines.
The teacher may NOT own the material, based on intellectual property agreements and whether the lesson plans were created for initial use performing his/her job.
It's a moot point anyway. Public school systems are usually defendants in a civil suit. Most don't have a legal budget to sue their employees only to recover $100's-to-$1,000's.
It's a FREE service. I don't have a problem with an outage when the service is free. It's when I pay for a premium service, they can't keep it stable, and finally raise my rate to cover their idiocy that p*sses me off.
All true, there is much greed involved on the part of resellers.
Another point is the greed on the part of retailers. Many retailers are 'bundling' the base console with an additional $200-$400 of accessories and games. The bundles are generally typical of what a consumer might buy during the first year of ownership, but most parents want to get the base console, a couple of games, and minimal accessories.
Your points don't make sense. Those are not 'wars' on the same sense as the DVD media formats.
HDMI is combined analog/digital sound AND video; component is analog video only. They can and will continue to coexist and do not even compete with each other.
The rest are healthy marketplace competition.
BluRay vs. HDDVD has the ability to limit the titles people can play on their player, and enough people know and understand this to restrict adoption of players using either format for some time to come.
But to succeed, they don't need to erode the prevalence of.doc format. The.doc format can live forever, who really cares about a file format that's.rtf under the covers? If the product is *REALLY* better (as opposed to simply NOT-Microsoft) then they have a start.
To succeed, they need to: 1. Provide a graphically-equivalent product. Nothing is worse than getting a document that's "Word-compatible" and then having it look different when loaded into Word; or getting a Word doc that doesn't look like it did in Word.
2. Provide functional equivalence (or superiority) including ergonomics. Not the garbage attempted by the likes of Lotus.
3. If they succeed at (1) and (2), then (3) must be widespread exposure.
Personally, I have not seen a competing product that's "superior" to Word, at any price. It would be really nice if somebody took the task seriously rather than the limp-ware popular in the Linux universe.
Which all points to a very convenient (and paranoid) conspiracy theory. Or should I say "another" MS conspiracy theory... try to be rational without rationalizing
It's entirely plausible that WGA does a couple of different things without actually being yet another evil conspiracy, and without any active intervention on installed systems.
Here are a couple of plausible theories that make WGA's existence productive, while not infringing on anybody's rights.
1. WGA just identifies pirated copies. You buy a new system from a smallish vendor. On your first trip to Windows Update, you see a screen telling you that your OS is pirated. Irate, you complain to the vendor; to MS; and escalate through your state's regulatory agencies. This helps MS isolate pirates but does not affect your ability to get updates beyond a "nag" screen.
2. WGA helps MS collect statistics and nothing else. When systems connect to get fixes, WGA keeps a counter of pirate-detctions. This allows MS to decide how much to budget for future legal enforcement, and how much to budget for future anti-theft engineering.
If I saw signs of the type of gov't that you describe, I'd be concerned.
I don't see those signs... not now.
I have no problem with a gov't watching real troublemakers.
People like MLK, who try to effect change through peaceful protest/demonstration are not being oppressed.
OTOH, those who incite violence should be watched very carefully. Same for those who associate with known terrorists or terrorist groups. The people held at Gitmo are there for good reason.
I am far more concerned about ultra-conservative groups -- including fundamentalists of all denominations -- than I am of our govt.
Worldwide, the worst trouble surrounds the fundamentalist religious groups. The lack of tolerance in the mideast (both sides) and the decades of war it's fostered. The terrorism backed by fundamentalist Muslims.
In the US, the targets are less obvious but still present: anti-immigrant militias; those in the anti-abortion camp who murder practicing physicians... The list goes on and on, and underlying it all is intolerance born of fundamentalist religious belief. The concept that one's God is the correct God and everybody else is wrong.
It's thoroughly irrational to think that an entire population could be watched. No public or private agency on the planet has the resources for that kind of surveillance.
What kind of life is it, spending all of one's time and energy looking over his shoulder in fear of being watched?
The ACLU is a your best friend if your goals include crime, terrorism, or just going out to make people miserable. They keep criminals on the streets and terrorists in our midst.
They simply do not know when to back-off for the good of the population at-large. IMO we'd be better off without them.
It also protects people from buying a second-hand pass with fewer days than they paid-for.
The ACLU lives in a state of constant fear an paranoia. In this case it's also ignorance since there are no 'fingerprints' taken. They need to find a better use for their energy.
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I used to be one of the kids who was bullied, always smaller than the other kids until late in high school.
Now I've got a 3 year-old who resembles me physically and tempermentally (short-fuse). We have started him in martial-arts. Hopefully he will learn discipline along with self-defense. My goal is for him to pick the right spots to fight, then defend himself convincingly-enough that he'll no longer be a "target".
The problem with punishing bullies, is that often they have been provoked, usually verbally. "Target" kids are frequently "wise-guys"; if they can't defend themselves physically then they attempt to compensate verbally.
So any "solution" has to include not only the bullies, but the kids who respond, and the kids who provoke verbally.
And the solution is not just a matter for the schools. Kids repeat what they see in the home, and schools can't fix that. It's got to be a concerted-effort between schools and parents.
Parents who cop-out and simply blame the public schools are probably the biggest part of the problem.
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Absolutely the right way. Do a good job and rely on dividends as regular income; no additional salary and no discretionary bonus.
Why would we consider using UTC worldwide, and NOT synchronize UTC with the International Date Line? Why reduce 24 reference points to (2) when it could be reduced to (1)?
Actually it makes sense. It won't happen because there aren't enough people worldwide who are able to base decisions on logic.
The business traveler presumably has appointments/meetings that can't be satisfied by phone/video call. That same traveler wouldn't need to care when the sun rises locally as long as he's on-time for his appointments. When his flights are delayed, he wouldn't be counting time zones to determine whether he'll be late. And your scheduling software would not have to contain the code needed to track time zones, eliminating potential bugs.
Arizone and Indiana don't observe DST. You would no longer have to change clocks while driving across state lines -- or remembering when you DON'T need to change clocks crossing state lines.
The teacher may NOT own the material, based on intellectual property agreements and whether the lesson plans were created for initial use performing his/her job.
It's a moot point anyway. Public school systems are usually defendants in a civil suit. Most don't have a legal budget to sue their employees only to recover $100's-to-$1,000's.
It's a FREE service. I don't have a problem with an outage when the service is free. It's when I pay for a premium service, they can't keep it stable, and finally raise my rate to cover their idiocy that p*sses me off.
All true, there is much greed involved on the part of resellers.
Another point is the greed on the part of retailers. Many retailers are 'bundling' the base console with an additional $200-$400 of accessories and games. The bundles are generally typical of what a consumer might buy during the first year of ownership, but most parents want to get the base console, a couple of games, and minimal accessories.
Your points don't make sense. Those are not 'wars' on the same sense as the DVD media formats.
HDMI is combined analog/digital sound AND video; component is analog video only. They can and will continue to coexist and do not even compete with each other.
The rest are healthy marketplace competition.
BluRay vs. HDDVD has the ability to limit the titles people can play on their player, and enough people know and understand this to restrict adoption of players using either format for some time to come.
Yes, they exist because of Office pricing.
.doc format. The .doc format can live forever, who really cares about a file format that's .rtf under the covers? If the product is *REALLY* better (as opposed to simply NOT-Microsoft) then they have a start.
But to succeed, they don't need to erode the prevalence of
To succeed, they need to:
1. Provide a graphically-equivalent product. Nothing is worse than getting a document that's "Word-compatible" and then having it look different when loaded into Word; or getting a Word doc that doesn't look like it did in Word.
2. Provide functional equivalence (or superiority) including ergonomics. Not the garbage attempted by the likes of Lotus.
3. If they succeed at (1) and (2), then (3) must be widespread exposure.
Personally, I have not seen a competing product that's "superior" to Word, at any price. It would be really nice if somebody took the task seriously rather than the limp-ware popular in the Linux universe.
Which all points to a very convenient (and paranoid) conspiracy theory. Or should I say "another" MS conspiracy theory... try to be rational without rationalizing
It's entirely plausible that WGA does a couple of different things without actually being yet another evil conspiracy, and without any active intervention on installed systems.
Here are a couple of plausible theories that make WGA's existence productive, while not infringing on anybody's rights.
1. WGA just identifies pirated copies.
You buy a new system from a smallish vendor. On your first trip to Windows Update, you see a screen telling you that your OS is pirated. Irate, you complain to the vendor; to MS; and escalate through your state's regulatory agencies. This helps MS isolate pirates but does not affect your ability to get updates beyond a "nag" screen.
2. WGA helps MS collect statistics and nothing else.
When systems connect to get fixes, WGA keeps a counter of pirate-detctions. This allows MS to decide how much to budget for future legal enforcement, and how much to budget for future anti-theft engineering.
If I saw signs of the type of gov't that you describe, I'd be concerned.
I don't see those signs... not now.
I have no problem with a gov't watching real troublemakers.
People like MLK, who try to effect change through peaceful protest/demonstration are not being oppressed.
OTOH, those who incite violence should be watched very carefully. Same for those who associate with known terrorists or terrorist groups. The people held at Gitmo are there for good reason.
I am far more concerned about ultra-conservative groups -- including fundamentalists of all denominations -- than I am of our govt.
Worldwide, the worst trouble surrounds the fundamentalist religious groups. The lack of tolerance in the mideast (both sides) and the decades of war it's fostered. The terrorism backed by fundamentalist Muslims.
In the US, the targets are less obvious but still present: anti-immigrant militias; those in the anti-abortion camp who murder practicing physicians... The list goes on and on, and underlying it all is intolerance born of fundamentalist religious belief. The concept that one's God is the correct God and everybody else is wrong.
That's absurd.
You've just compared Disney to Nazi Germany. I suppose your next point will be that Mickey is a likeness of Hitler?
Exactly what I expect from the ACLU.
You behave like we're in (or approaching) Nazi Germany, or Stalinist Russia.
Absurd.
It's thoroughly irrational to think that an entire population could be watched. No public or private agency on the planet has the resources for that kind of surveillance.
What kind of life is it, spending all of one's time and energy looking over his shoulder in fear of being watched?
The ACLU is a your best friend if your goals include crime, terrorism, or just going out to make people miserable. They keep criminals on the streets and terrorists in our midst.
They simply do not know when to back-off for the good of the population at-large. IMO we'd be better off without them.
It also protects people from buying a second-hand pass with fewer days than they paid-for.
The ACLU lives in a state of constant fear an paranoia. In this case it's also ignorance since there are no 'fingerprints' taken. They need to find a better use for their energy.
Now I've got a 3 year-old who resembles me physically and tempermentally (short-fuse). We have started him in martial-arts. Hopefully he will learn discipline along with self-defense. My goal is for him to pick the right spots to fight, then defend himself convincingly-enough that he'll no longer be a "target".
The problem with punishing bullies, is that often they have been provoked, usually verbally. "Target" kids are frequently "wise-guys"; if they can't defend themselves physically then they attempt to compensate verbally.
So any "solution" has to include not only the bullies, but the kids who respond, and the kids who provoke verbally.
And the solution is not just a matter for the schools. Kids repeat what they see in the home, and schools can't fix that. It's got to be a concerted-effort between schools and parents.
Parents who cop-out and simply blame the public schools are probably the biggest part of the problem.
Sounds like a good freeware/shareware candidate.
NetZero and Juno, both offer premium services that people actually pay for.
Users who don't want the limitations of free e-mail, or just want an account outside their ISP, have been buying premium e-mail services all along.
It's not an issue of whether the market will bear pay-per-service, but how much people will be willing to pay to use them.