They covered this topic years ago on the reference for legal opinions,"Hill Street Blues."
On the show the judge said it was OK if the trash was in the "scoop" of the garbage truck, at which point it was considered public property, but the cops couldn't touch it before it was mixed with everyone else's trash.
I wonder if the writers were inspired by a real-world legal ruling.
Yep. Humans should have rights, corporations should not.
As "Cecil Adams" wrote recently, the judicial precedent that corporations have rights is based on the improper work of court reporter who had an ax to grind.
The question isn't what but when. When will Microsoft money come into play. Sooner or later Microsoft will be knocking on Seagate's door with a fruit basked full of goodies.
...and do what? GIVE AWAY their most profitable product (Windows OSs)? Not likely.
Sure they make OEM deals that force PC makers to install Windows, but those makers have to PAY for the copy of Windows. What they may not be a lot of money, but it is in no way free.
Having started with Wordstar under CP/M on an Apple ][+ in ~1981 or 82, I found Joe to be just what I was looking for.
You can still get VDE, which is a blazingly fast WordStar-like DOS editor written in assembler. AFAIK, because it loads the entire file into a page of memory it still has a 64K file size limitation, but it has a built-in ability to split and reassemble to and from larger files.
It works great on an 8086 class PC. There's even a Palm version.
Watch the clock at the OTHER END of the day, too!
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I think the answer is to make sure your are never even 1 minute late. Also make sure you never work 1 minute past quittin' time! If it's the end of your shift and the code needed tommorow ain't workin' - It's quittin' time! See ya!
We have similar sillinesss popping up at my job occasionally. This in spite of the fact that I have in the past come in for a system upgrade or repair on a Friday and still been at work the following Monday evening.
You never get those hours back. As Scott Adams (Dilbert) says, "Work will take what give it." and never even say "Thank you." With that in mind you're nuts not to give exactly the 8 hour day work is requiring and not one minute more.
There's a Home Shopping Network outlet in one of the outlet malls at the Illinois/Wisconsin border.
What I find funny is about every product you see in the store "in the flesh" is obviously lightweight and crap, but you can see that it must look like it's the real deal on TV.
Support both Windows and Linux "...
"The first requirement is because I wanted the results to be applicable to everyone"
My how the definition of everyone has changed. So it's bad luck Mac, Solaris, *BSD, HP-UX, VMS users...
I was on the team that discussed a corporate-wide email standard at a Fortune 50 behemouth. I was thinking towards using Internet standards with a choice of POP email clients and a *nix backbone. Silly me.
One of the requirements was that it had to be "Multi-platform. - It must support Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT"To quote Dave Barry, I am not making this up.
So of course, Outlook / Exchange was the perfect answer.
If you read the OS license on a Sun you'll see that the OS non-transferable. As far as you're concerned the OS didn't cost anything. It came with the box. You can sell the box. You can't sell the software. As I recall Sun used to charge $1000 for an OS licence. At least now you could run Linux as an alternative.
Doesn't Microsoft's license say the same thing with OEM versions of Windows? Sell the PC. The OS is non-transferable.
I have to wonder how it could possibly handle the heat and stresses of atmospheric re-entry.
Re-entry from orbit involves hitting the atmosphere at almost-orbital speeds - about 17,000+ mph.
SSO is designed to fly SUB-orbital. Its re-entry will be MUCH slower. Scaled Composites' website quotes a maximum speed of about 2,500 mph. Kinetic heating shouldn't be a major problem at that sort of speed.
In fact Burt said that the IAS (INDICATED airspeed) never goes above around 180 knots even though the ship goes over Mach 3. Your average small plane can get an indicated speed in that range.
Think air density. It takes molecules of air hitting to move the airspeed indicator. They are very few air molecules at altitudes above 50,000 feet.
With the tail feathers raised the enormous drag in air that there holds the airspeed down during descent.
I'm not fond of these phones at all... The caller always sounds distant, and the lag makes phone conversations more difficult, especially with conference calls. Calling someone across the room for example will reveal a disconcerting 1/2 second or so lag between what you hear across the room and what you hear on the phone.
Have you ever tried calling a buddy's mobile phone right next to you? Same thing. I guess the the A-D-D-A conversion and traversing the cell tower backbone introduces latency.
I arranged a meetup recently where one buddy called my cell phone and said he was right there. I looked around the small crowd and said, "Raise your hand so I can see you." He was standing only 30 feet away. We couldnt tell we were talking to each other due to the lag.
Tungsten comes with the Palm Web Browser, and you know what's stupid in it? That it requires a *beep*ing proprietary proxy to work!
Whine, whine....The free Eudora web browser and the Blazer browser that was bundled with my Handspring Treo 90 work directly over TCP/IP. Blazer renders all of the graphics on the web page.
I aim my Treo's IR port at the one on my Nokia cell phone with built-in 9600bps modem and get online with no problem. I prefer not getting the images so I can browse faster.
The biggest problem is "clever" webmasters who put in code that checks your browser and refuses to show you any web content if it doesn't recognize it. Morons. Let ME decide if the content is usable.
One thing I gotta know: If the spammer knows I have no interest in the say, "Herbal Viagra" prodct he's pitching, why does he think that if he says he's selling "V A 1 G R A" it'll be different? Am I supposed to go for that message and BUY THE PRODUCT now?
I'll answer my own question a bit: After seeing one of these scumbags on TV it's obvious they get off just watching the counter increment saying that he just sent 4,123,456.890 more messages while he watched. They don't really want you buy or do anything. They just want to send the garbage.
TiVo-CU, the Tivo eye which scans the living room to record number of viewers and general state of consciousness.
You think you're making that up? Uh-uh!
I consulted at a research center where they developed that very thing. They started with a CCTV camera that hooked up to a computer with face recognition software so it knew when Mom, Dad, Junior, or Rex the family dog was in front of the T&V.
Just like with this TiVo data, I've heard that since they deployed the "people meters" the networks - who pay the bills for the TV ratings research - are screaming foul because it shows how few bodies are actually in front of the monitored TVs. They don't want to take the drop in they get from the ratings households = viewer formula they've used up to now.
They really can't handle the truth getting in the way of the cash cow they've had up to now. They want the good cash flow for the erroneous data over the risk of losing it with realistic data. More bodies = more $$$, Nobody wants to hear that there are fewer bodies.
The result as I heard it is that that the people meters are in very few homes - they're just an experiment you know.
Look at my.sig and guess what I do on sunny weekends.
You can get up from the Flight Sim and try the real thing. Start at BeAPilot.com
In my case I dreamed about flying all of my life. I decided to give it a go while I was still young enough to enjoy it.
I had three concerns: 1) It's very expensive. I can't afford it. (It took a while for me to notice that I could afford it.) 2) I need to do other things like get a new degree, etc. This will take up a lot of time. (So what? I wasn't making good progress toward that goal anyway.) 3) If I start, I'll be obsessed by it and I won't do much else. (Again So What? It ain't a drug addiction. It turned out that the obsession wore down, but not much. Like most pilots I think it's so magical I never get tired of talking about it, even if you get tired of hearing about it.)
Worse than I imagined, I bought a plane. There's where all my money goes.
There actually is a wave of techies that became pilots about the same time I did. We thought we had money to burn when the stock market was flying high.
Even now, you can earn a Private Pilot certificate in the US 6 months or so for $5000 or less.
Get John Coltrane and Johhny Hartman on Impulse!(Verve).
It has only 6 cuts but they're all keepers. You'll play it over and over. This version of Lush Life is the reference classic. It's a good romance soundtrack.
Also get Bird and Diz for the Be-bop classics. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins.
As much as I hate to say it, The overrated Ken Burns 4 CD Jazz collection is a pretty good sampling. I mean he overrates himself. The music didn't need his endorsement, but at least he got the word out.
I was digging the 4th disc today. It has Sonny Rollins, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Bruibeck, all of the classics.
The boss will always have the idea "These guys CAN'T be any good. They work HERE!" also for the consultants "These guys are GOOD. They cost a FORTUNE."
On such concepts are huge outside consulting practices built. If you want to do the job, go work for a big consulting company; come back to your boss and be amazed on how you're suddenly a genius and he likes your ideas.
Scott Adams had a Dilbert where Wally got canned and came back the following week as a consultant on the same project and recommended exactly the same solution. As a consultant he was listened to.
So what happens if they conclude that "Tivo owners tend to skip ads" and "Star Trek viewers tend to use Tivo"?
Shhhh! THAT would be a secret until somebody hip to it put it into a one page Executive Summary for the MBAs.
The truth is really the opposite. There are so many commercials on the programs on Discovery Channels - History Channel, Discovery Wings, etc, that the shows are a total waste of time if you can't FF past the ads. I discovered this fact when I recommended some shows on Discovery Wings to TiVo-less friends and they replied that they are unwatchable due to the flood of commercials. I think the useful content time on those channels is in the 20 minutes per half hour range. At some tolerance point on those shows
value of useful content < value of time it takes to acquire content.
Because these channels are otherwise unwatchable they may someday find if they ignore the TiVo users they they have no other viewers left.
If the TiVo viewing data really gets distributed there will be MUCH better ratings for/. TV like Star Trek(s), Red Dwarf, Blackadder, The Office, Buffy,... and the stuff on TechTV and the Sci-Fi channel.
Nerd viewing habits will be a force to be reckoned with. Don't write letters to networks and advertisers - VOTE for your favorite shows with your TiVo!
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On the show the judge said it was OK if the trash was in the "scoop" of the garbage truck, at which point it was considered public property, but the cops couldn't touch it before it was mixed with everyone else's trash.
I wonder if the writers were inspired by a real-world legal ruling.
His phone number is on the list!
That, and there's all those phone calls he's been getting from consumers who wanted to show what tehy could with the "rights" he was upholding.
Sure they make OEM deals that force PC makers to install Windows, but those makers have to PAY for the copy of Windows. What they may not be a lot of money, but it is in no way free.
It works great on an 8086 class PC. There's even a Palm version.
We have similar sillinesss popping up at my job occasionally. This in spite of the fact that I have in the past come in for a system upgrade or repair on a Friday and still been at work the following Monday evening.
You never get those hours back. As Scott Adams (Dilbert) says, "Work will take what give it." and never even say "Thank you." With that in mind you're nuts not to give exactly the 8 hour day work is requiring and not one minute more.
Yoshi of TechTV's The Screen Savers also built a PC in an ammo box..
What I find funny is about every product you see in the store "in the flesh" is obviously lightweight and crap, but you can see that it must look like it's the real deal on TV.
If you read the OS license on a Sun you'll see that the OS non-transferable. As far as you're concerned the OS didn't cost anything. It came with the box. You can sell the box. You can't sell the software. As I recall Sun used to charge $1000 for an OS licence. At least now you could run Linux as an alternative.
Doesn't Microsoft's license say the same thing with OEM versions of Windows? Sell the PC. The OS is non-transferable.
How about Macs and Mac OS?
Think air density. It takes molecules of air hitting to move the airspeed indicator. They are very few air molecules at altitudes above 50,000 feet.
With the tail feathers raised the enormous drag in air that there holds the airspeed down during descent.
I arranged a meetup recently where one buddy called my cell phone and said he was right there. I looked around the small crowd and said, "Raise your hand so I can see you." He was standing only 30 feet away. We couldnt tell we were talking to each other due to the lag.
I aim my Treo's IR port at the one on my Nokia cell phone with built-in 9600bps modem and get online with no problem. I prefer not getting the images so I can browse faster.
The biggest problem is "clever" webmasters who put in code that checks your browser and refuses to show you any web content if it doesn't recognize it. Morons. Let ME decide if the content is usable.
I'll answer my own question a bit: After seeing one of these scumbags on TV it's obvious they get off just watching the counter increment saying that he just sent 4,123,456.890 more messages while he watched. They don't really want you buy or do anything. They just want to send the garbage.
Maybe that wouldn't sell because there are a lot more cubicle victims in the population than bosses.
I consulted at a research center where they developed that very thing. They started with a CCTV camera that hooked up to a computer with face recognition software so it knew when Mom, Dad, Junior, or Rex the family dog was in front of the T&V.
Just like with this TiVo data, I've heard that since they deployed the "people meters" the networks - who pay the bills for the TV ratings research - are screaming foul because it shows how few bodies are actually in front of the monitored TVs. They don't want to take the drop in they get from the ratings households = viewer formula they've used up to now.
They really can't handle the truth getting in the way of the cash cow they've had up to now. They want the good cash flow for the erroneous data over the risk of losing it with realistic data. More bodies = more $$$, Nobody wants to hear that there are fewer bodies.
The result as I heard it is that that the people meters are in very few homes - they're just an experiment you know.
Look at my .sig and guess what I do on sunny weekends.
You can get up from the Flight Sim and try the real thing. Start at BeAPilot.com
In my case I dreamed about flying all of my life. I decided to give it a go while I was still young enough to enjoy it.
I had three concerns:
1) It's very expensive. I can't afford it. (It took a while for me to notice that I could afford it.)
2) I need to do other things like get a new degree, etc. This will take up a lot of time. (So what? I wasn't making good progress toward that goal anyway.)
3) If I start, I'll be obsessed by it and I won't do much else. (Again So What? It ain't a drug addiction. It turned out that the obsession wore down, but not much. Like most pilots I think it's so magical I never get tired of talking about it, even if you get tired of hearing about it.)
Worse than I imagined, I bought a plane. There's where all my money goes.
There actually is a wave of techies that became pilots about the same time I did. We thought we had money to burn when the stock market was flying high.
Even now, you can earn a Private Pilot certificate in the US 6 months or so for $5000 or less.
Join me in the air.
Get John Coltrane and Johhny Hartman on Impulse!(Verve). It has only 6 cuts but they're all keepers. You'll play it over and over. This version of Lush Life is the reference classic. It's a good romance soundtrack.
Also get Bird and Diz for the Be-bop classics. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins.
As much as I hate to say it, The overrated Ken Burns 4 CD Jazz collection is a pretty good sampling. I mean he overrates himself. The music didn't need his endorsement, but at least he got the word out.
I was digging the 4th disc today. It has Sonny Rollins, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Bruibeck, all of the classics.
- One from OZ built into a Ford chassis
- An F/A 18 Hornet simulator made from wood, also in OZ
- A Boeing 767 in London that "flies" around the world
- A "multi-mission simulator" by an avionics engineer in the US
- An F-15 in Washington
You're welcome.Let's try not to Slashdot 'em too badly.
The boss will always have the idea "These guys CAN'T be any good. They work HERE!" also for the consultants "These guys are GOOD. They cost a FORTUNE."
On such concepts are huge outside consulting practices built. If you want to do the job, go work for a big consulting company; come back to your boss and be amazed on how you're suddenly a genius and he likes your ideas.
Scott Adams had a Dilbert where Wally got canned and came back the following week as a consultant on the same project and recommended exactly the same solution. As a consultant he was listened to.
The truth is really the opposite. There are so many commercials on the programs on Discovery Channels - History Channel, Discovery Wings, etc, that the shows are a total waste of time if you can't FF past the ads. I discovered this fact when I recommended some shows on Discovery Wings to TiVo-less friends and they replied that they are unwatchable due to the flood of commercials. I think the useful content time on those channels is in the 20 minutes per half hour range. At some tolerance point on those shows Because these channels are otherwise unwatchable they may someday find if they ignore the TiVo users they they have no other viewers left.
If the TiVo viewing data really gets distributed there will be MUCH better ratings for /. TV like Star Trek(s), Red Dwarf, Blackadder, The Office, Buffy,... and the stuff on TechTV and the Sci-Fi channel.
Nerd viewing habits will be a force to be reckoned with.
Don't write letters to networks and advertisers - VOTE for your favorite shows with your TiVo!