It may be a violation of the academic honesty code of your school, but I'm not convinced that hiring a ghost writer constitutes plagiarism ("1. The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft."). In particular, purchase is not theft.
Really, would you say that any of the many biographies of famous people are plagiarized?
Videoconferencing is, has always been, and will always be a solution in search of a problem. Nobody (who has any sense) has ever said "gee, I wish I could look at a grainy, postage-stamp-sized picture of the person I'm talking on the phone with". Nobody *cares*. Not for meetings, not for classes. Audio is critically important. Shared presentation is critically important. Shared whiteboard is criticall important for some purposes. Video? Video is utterly useless.
(I've worked with most of the videoconferencing technologies out there, in the context of a large University research group. I've even built custom videoconferencing platforms for clinical case conferencing. It's all useless. People *say* they want it. People *think* they want it. But even when you spend $50k on a pair of high definition Access Grid Node rooms, it's no better than a good speakerphone. And nowhere near as good as $150 plane ticket.)
If you were *actually* in a position to influence their purchasing decisions, you would already know what they're currently purchasing and how much they're paying for it. You would certainly know that site license pricing is highly variable depending on how much the software company in question wants your business.
Spears said it would take her at least three to four years to dig out of the debt she ran up in pursuit of the non-existent pot of Nigerian gold.
What I want to know is where in the hell does someone of her obvious intellect work that she can earn nearly half a million dollars over her expenses in three to four years!
And if she *is* earning that much, what does she need with another $20m anyway?
We've been extremely happy with the eRIC remote management board from Peppercon for all our lights-out remote-datacenter Windows machines. We use it over landline dialup modem (33.6) but it will work fine over any serial link you can throw at it, as long as you're patient. Full graphical remote console, remote IPMI, remote reboot, remote poweron, indepdent power supply (optional), it's great. They're a little hard to track down in the US, but I believe Raritan distributes them now. They're not cheap, but if you're paying for INMARSAT and Iridium, you don't care.
I've always (well, okay, for a few years) thought it would be pretty cool to have a diamond ring made -- synthetic diamond, grown/ground to the shape of a torus.
Of course, the girl I wanted to marry cheated on me and then dumped me after five years of dating, so you might not want to take my advice.
How can I be the only person who doesn't see any change in the rules here? The TCPA already provides:
(b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment (1) Prohibitions It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States-- [...] (B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under paragraph (2)(B);
With all due respect, if you're going to resort to definitional arguments you should at least have the decency to choose a decent, respectable dictionary. Dictionary.com is hardly such a one. The OED defines murder as:
A. n.
I. Simple uses.
1. The action or an act of killing.
While it does go on to provide other more-specific definitions, this one is first for a good reason.
This has nothing to do with BitTorrent. Assigning non-routable IP addresses to anyone is wrong, a violation of good network design, and a compatibility nightmare. Assigning non-routeable addresses to FIVE THOUSAND STUDENTS is even worse.
Every machine deserves a routeable IP, whether they use that IP to run BitTorrent, Skype, or just FTP.
If you allow local execution of code provided by untrusted remote sites, you have no security and never have, no matter how much the vendor assures you their "sandbox" is safe. XSS is not the security hole, it's just the latest batch of holes in the entire concept of client-side scripting.
Actually, I've found that all Democrats are pretty much just as evil and inept as all Republicans (and for that matter all members of any other party.) But that really has nothing to do with the fact that technology will be abused. Microsoft is no different from any other organization in this regard. If you think that they are somehow special, well, I wish you luck in your delusional little world.
And if you believe everything Microsoft tells you, I've got this bridge for sale in Arizona...
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that any technology that can be abused, will be abused. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives.
Upgrade to Vista ... or else.
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That's not what worries me.
What worries me is that (a) almost everyone is running Windows XP by now and (b) Windows XP uses Product (de)Activation.
So there is absolutely nothing stopping Microsoft from saying "Upgrade to Vista... before we remotely and permanently disable every Windows XP installation in the world".
And I strongly suspect that they will -- although it might be Windows UltraMegaHyperCool vs. Windows Vista instead of Vista vs. XP...
We have these at my employer and they work fine, but what pisses me off is this "saves 24,000 gallons of water per year per urinal" bullshit.
24,000 gallons is 90,849 liters (plus change). The urinals we have here that they are replacing use 1.8 liters per flush. So 24,000 gallons per year is 50,472+ flushes per year. That works out to one flush EVERY TEN MINUTES, every hour of every day of the year. If you consider 8 hours per business day, that comes to every 2.46 minutes.
There is no way in hell that urinals average a flush every 2.46 minutes, not by a long shot.
On the one hand, this ruling makes it clear that--Microsoft's EULA to the contrary--I own several copies of Microsoft Office.
What I personally find more interesting is that while you might now own several copies of Microsoft Office 2000 or earlier, no one can own Office XP or later, because you do NOT have the right to "use it indefinitely without material restriction" due to Product Activation (since all recent Microsoft/Adobe/etc software, which all uses Product Activation, can only be run for the limited time span that the companies deign to permit and can be revoked at any time with or without cause or reason.)
Unfortunately, this might encourage more use of Product Activation...
Without regard to whether or not the grandparent's example is a good one, I have here a database table with over 150 columns (about 200 or so). It's a database of every census tract in the US (one per row) with all of the data about that tract that the census collected, including population in many different categories, area, location, and so forth. This is a perfectly reasonable case of a 100+-column database.
To claim that no such cases exist only proves that you only play with toy databases, instead of working with real ones.
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It may be a violation of the academic honesty code of your school, but I'm not convinced that hiring a ghost writer constitutes plagiarism ("1. The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft."). In particular, purchase is not theft.
Really, would you say that any of the many biographies of famous people are plagiarized?
I can tell you've never read the "warranty" that comes with your car or your washing machine. They say precisely that.
...and here I thought *baseball* was stupid.
Videoconferencing is, has always been, and will always be a solution in search of a problem. Nobody (who has any sense) has ever said "gee, I wish I could look at a grainy, postage-stamp-sized picture of the person I'm talking on the phone with". Nobody *cares*. Not for meetings, not for classes. Audio is critically important. Shared presentation is critically important. Shared whiteboard is criticall important for some purposes. Video? Video is utterly useless.
(I've worked with most of the videoconferencing technologies out there, in the context of a large University research group. I've even built custom videoconferencing platforms for clinical case conferencing. It's all useless. People *say* they want it. People *think* they want it. But even when you spend $50k on a pair of high definition Access Grid Node rooms, it's no better than a good speakerphone. And nowhere near as good as $150 plane ticket.)
Who *cares* who made the part? It'd obviously be trivial for any competent machine shop to duplicate.
After all, in soviet russia, national security threatens you.
If you were *actually* in a position to influence their purchasing decisions, you would already know what they're currently purchasing and how much they're paying for it. You would certainly know that site license pricing is highly variable depending on how much the software company in question wants your business.
What I want to know is where in the hell does someone of her obvious intellect work that she can earn nearly half a million dollars over her expenses in three to four years!
And if she *is* earning that much, what does she need with another $20m anyway?
We've been extremely happy with the eRIC remote management board from Peppercon for all our lights-out remote-datacenter Windows machines. We use it over landline dialup modem (33.6) but it will work fine over any serial link you can throw at it, as long as you're patient. Full graphical remote console, remote IPMI, remote reboot, remote poweron, indepdent power supply (optional), it's great. They're a little hard to track down in the US, but I believe Raritan distributes them now. They're not cheap, but if you're paying for INMARSAT and Iridium, you don't care.
I've always (well, okay, for a few years) thought it would be pretty cool to have a diamond ring made -- synthetic diamond, grown/ground to the shape of a torus.
Of course, the girl I wanted to marry cheated on me and then dumped me after five years of dating, so you might not want to take my advice.
How can I be the only person who doesn't see any change in the rules here? The TCPA already provides:
So what, exactly, is the deal?
This turns out not to be the case. Or in WikiPedia speak, [citation needed]. Or in human-speak, what the *fuck* are you *smoking*?
I can't take responsibility for their inability to use condoms. And there's no such thing as a cute puppy.
While it does go on to provide other more-specific definitions, this one is first for a good reason.
This has nothing to do with BitTorrent. Assigning non-routable IP addresses to anyone is wrong, a violation of good network design, and a compatibility nightmare. Assigning non-routeable addresses to FIVE THOUSAND STUDENTS is even worse.
Every machine deserves a routeable IP, whether they use that IP to run BitTorrent, Skype, or just FTP.
If you allow local execution of code provided by untrusted remote sites, you have no security and never have, no matter how much the vendor assures you their "sandbox" is safe. XSS is not the security hole, it's just the latest batch of holes in the entire concept of client-side scripting.
Um, right. If by 'NVIDIA' you mean '3DFX' and by 'recent' you mean 'ten years ago'.
Sheesh. Kids these days, they got no respect.
Actually, I've found that all Democrats are pretty much just as evil and inept as all Republicans (and for that matter all members of any other party.) But that really has nothing to do with the fact that technology will be abused. Microsoft is no different from any other organization in this regard. If you think that they are somehow special, well, I wish you luck in your delusional little world.
And if you believe everything Microsoft tells you, I've got this bridge for sale in Arizona...
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that any technology that can be abused, will be abused. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives.
That's not what worries me.
... before we remotely and permanently disable every Windows XP installation in the world".
What worries me is that (a) almost everyone is running Windows XP by now and (b) Windows XP uses Product (de)Activation.
So there is absolutely nothing stopping Microsoft from saying "Upgrade to Vista
And I strongly suspect that they will -- although it might be Windows UltraMegaHyperCool vs. Windows Vista instead of Vista vs. XP...
We have these at my employer and they work fine, but what pisses me off is this "saves 24,000 gallons of water per year per urinal" bullshit.
24,000 gallons is 90,849 liters (plus change). The urinals we have here that they are replacing use 1.8 liters per flush. So 24,000 gallons per year is 50,472+ flushes per year. That works out to one flush EVERY TEN MINUTES, every hour of every day of the year. If you consider 8 hours per business day, that comes to every 2.46 minutes.
There is no way in hell that urinals average a flush every 2.46 minutes, not by a long shot.
What I personally find more interesting is that while you might now own several copies of Microsoft Office 2000 or earlier, no one can own Office XP or later, because you do NOT have the right to "use it indefinitely without material restriction" due to Product Activation (since all recent Microsoft/Adobe/etc software, which all uses Product Activation, can only be run for the limited time span that the companies deign to permit and can be revoked at any time with or without cause or reason.)
Unfortunately, this might encourage more use of Product Activation...
Without regard to whether or not the grandparent's example is a good one, I have here a database table with over 150 columns (about 200 or so). It's a database of every census tract in the US (one per row) with all of the data about that tract that the census collected, including population in many different categories, area, location, and so forth. This is a perfectly reasonable case of a 100+-column database.
To claim that no such cases exist only proves that you only play with toy databases, instead of working with real ones.
I haven't come up with a perfect solution, but I had an idea: cap liability at, say, ten billion times the cost of the software.
Don't be stupid. The post is very clear.
It says that only Illinois children can buy violent video games.
The PDFs are more detailed, of course.