OoooOOoo... can I play too? My brother's on his third xbox 360. The best part was, he worked at UPS and shipped the units back and forth all day long. He said the volume was staggering. The reason he knew is that people getting their Xbox back would usually be at school during the day so they'd get a UPS "We were here, you were not" sticky on their door. Rather than waiting for the next day delivery, the kids/teens would make their parents go to the local distribution center to pick it up in the evening that same day, after 6pm when all the trucks were back. He worked in the area that had to pull all the "hold" packages off trucks and bring them up front. He said 70% of all those pulls were xboxen.
I was actually just on a jury a few weeks ago for a DUI case.
There were three things we were asked to determine as part of the charges:
1) Was the defendant "under the influence" of alcohol, and we were instructed that BAC has nothing to do with whether or not alcohol has influenced you. A person with a high tolerance might not be influenced, which a person with no experience drinking and a small stature may be under the influence of alcohol. There was a long description of things that a reasonable person might consider to be under the inlfuence. This was count one of the charges.
2) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved that the defendant had a BAC of 0.08 or more (a separate statute, wherein operating a motor vehicle with a BAC of 0.08+ is a crime). This was count 2 of the charges.
3) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved the defendant had a BAC of 0.20 or more, in which case this would become an aggravated crime. for the second charge.
So at least in my state, you can get a DUI without blowing over the limit if the prosecution can convince a jury your driving was impaired, caused by the influence of alcohol. The 0.08 limit is just an automatic threshold in which you have committed a crime.
Xerox was granted options on $1 million in pre-IPO Apple stock in exchange for granting a team of Apple's engineers 3 days access to PARC, it's engineers, and it's technology. Xerox was explicitly aware that Apple intended to use this time to gain knowledge on GUIs and human interface design and they were cool with it. This was all covered quite well in that old 90's PBS special "Triumph of the Nerds". The woman that managed the PARC was seriously upset and got a letter from the higher ups resolving her of any responsibility. She knew they were giving away the crown jewels to Apple.
Microsoft on the other hand, did not have a technology license from Xerox. John Sculley of Apple was upset that Microsoft copied the Lisa (Mac) interface in a product called Interface Manager after Apple gave them Lisa/Mac source code to help them optimize their products. Bill Gates told Sculley that he was happy to cancel all Mac software development (Microsoft was the main Apple software developer at the time) if Apple sued MS over Interface Manager. Sculley blinked and signed a contract allowing Microsoft to sell Interface Manager (later renamed to Windows 1.0) in exchange for a commitment to continue to develop Mac software and a 2 year exclusive on Excel (Microsoft's then-new version of it's successful Multiplan spreadsheet package).
So whenever this argument comes up, I just roll my eyes. Everyone is pretty much in the clear here. MS fanboys claiming Apple stole Xerox's stuff are wrong, and Apple fanboys claiming MS stole from Apple are wrong too (I suppose you can say they started copying it initially, but Apple sure caved fast). People need to simmer down.
My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels. But I know a contractor listens to his heart when taking on a job:-)
Will this work to save the attachments somewhere? I have a similar question to the OP but in reverse. I'm tired of searching my email for attachments that have been sent to me over the years (going back to '97) and would like to take my mbox, run it thru a program, and have all the attachments end up in a directory of my choosing. I can then delete or file them, having them now in a more sane place than using email as a file system
The selling of "second shift" gear with inferior materials has been hurting the climbing business quite a bit... and this is gear we trust our lives to:
Wait, I do a gig or two of data per month on my *phone*, where all my media and apps are local. On a laptop with everything streamed from the cloud there's no way 100MB a month is good for anything other than the occasional text based email.
Not being used for anything new? All the big banks use it for their back ends. I work in a shop that continually develops new functionality using COBOL based code. All those whizbang features like mobile banking and making deposits by taking a picture with your phone are driven off a cobol based backend.
I played Q2 on a 486 for a while but it sucked. I remember building my first real enthusiast pc just so I could play Q2 at lan parties. Had a Pentium 200 and a Riva128. 10baseT FTW! Those were the days!
I dunno if that's quite accurate. It's more like Pepsi buying coke and filling their empty Pepsi cans with coke. Then turning around and offering themselves as a low cost coke supplier. Sure they bought the coke legally. They are now positioning themselves as coke "software" wrapped in pepsi "hardware". It's not offering a similar product. It's basically offering an identical product.
Essentially the selling point of the Mac experience is the software experience. "It just works" is possible because of tight hardware and software integration and knowing exactly what hardware they support. Not relying on fly by night companies to write drivers for crappy knockoff hardware. On the Mac platform the two are intertwined. What happens when Mac OSX is crashing on the Psystar platform due to some hardware incompatibility? It could give users the impression that Mac OSX isn't stable or up to snuff. I am not sure of the legalities involved, but I can see why Apple is interested in stopping Psystar.
I have to agree with these other guys. Doesn't matter how nice the source is if you wrap it up in flash and require streaming. Any roadbump along the route causes unneeded stuttering and lag. Flash players are good for casual browsing, but nothing more. And most of the time it's a royal PITA.
I don't think the parent intended to contradict themself, just didn't do a good job explaining. In my experience H1B's tend to all get crammed in together into dorm style living by their agency. Thus, rather than spend the money in the usa on a house, and kids, and grocerys or whatever an american worker does that same money gets spent back home. The H1B person wires it out of the country where the money is still spent on kids and grocerys or whatever. So it's not the case you are inferring.
Also, living in MN, I had the benefit of seeing extensive coverage on the nightly news. You may feel differently after seeing some of the pictures they showed us on tv.
One of the best parts is that, in their defense, one of the students said some of the pictures were over 4 years old! So if they're seniors that would be pix of them drinking as freshman.
So, I know it's slashdot, and no one reads the articles, but if you're sitting there waiting for the answer maybe you should go read it for yourself. The school busted high school athletes who had signed a code of conduct stating they would not use tobacco, drugs, or alcohol.
The punishment was to suspend them from the sports activity for violating the code of conduct they themselves signed. I'd say if you signed a code of conduct saying you'd behave and then posted pictures of yourself breaking that promise you're an idiot. And that's exactly what these high school kids are. Even if they had NOT signed a code of conduct, how wise is it for you to go posting pictures of yourself drinking underage??
So Yes, you are wrong. The school does have the right to punish a student in their own sports program, by preventing them from participating in their sports program. Their own sports program is *entirely* their jurisdiction.
Also, the article is not clear if it was the school administration browsing facebook, or if students or parents had provided pictures to the school. So lets stop jumping to conclusions here.
I work at a bank and we get this complaint all the time. Check out the bottom of page 14: http://www.usa.visa.com/download/merchants/rules_for_visa_merchants.pdf. This is clearly against visa's terms, and if you report it to both Visa (800-VISA-911) and your bank, chances are the merchant will get a stern talking to by a visa rep.
Ditto here. I couldn't get the checkout button to appear in firefox either. What I did was click on "edit payment details", reconfirm what I already had, closed it out, and when the window refreshed voila the checkout button had appeared. Dunno what the deal with that was though. I was a mouseclick away from giving up on them. I have to agrewe the website looked terrible and I wasn't sure it was legit at all at first.
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OoooOOoo... can I play too? My brother's on his third xbox 360. The best part was, he worked at UPS and shipped the units back and forth all day long. He said the volume was staggering. The reason he knew is that people getting their Xbox back would usually be at school during the day so they'd get a UPS "We were here, you were not" sticky on their door. Rather than waiting for the next day delivery, the kids/teens would make their parents go to the local distribution center to pick it up in the evening that same day, after 6pm when all the trucks were back. He worked in the area that had to pull all the "hold" packages off trucks and bring them up front. He said 70% of all those pulls were xboxen.
I was actually just on a jury a few weeks ago for a DUI case.
There were three things we were asked to determine as part of the charges:
1) Was the defendant "under the influence" of alcohol, and we were instructed that BAC has nothing to do with whether or not alcohol has influenced you. A person with a high tolerance might not be influenced, which a person with no experience drinking and a small stature may be under the influence of alcohol. There was a long description of things that a reasonable person might consider to be under the inlfuence. This was count one of the charges.
2) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved that the defendant had a BAC of 0.08 or more (a separate statute, wherein operating a motor vehicle with a BAC of 0.08+ is a crime). This was count 2 of the charges.
3) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved the defendant had a BAC of 0.20 or more, in which case this would become an aggravated crime. for the second charge.
So at least in my state, you can get a DUI without blowing over the limit if the prosecution can convince a jury your driving was impaired, caused by the influence of alcohol. The 0.08 limit is just an automatic threshold in which you have committed a crime.
Xerox was granted options on $1 million in pre-IPO Apple stock in exchange for granting a team of Apple's engineers 3 days access to PARC, it's engineers, and it's technology. Xerox was explicitly aware that Apple intended to use this time to gain knowledge on GUIs and human interface design and they were cool with it. This was all covered quite well in that old 90's PBS special "Triumph of the Nerds". The woman that managed the PARC was seriously upset and got a letter from the higher ups resolving her of any responsibility. She knew they were giving away the crown jewels to Apple.
Microsoft on the other hand, did not have a technology license from Xerox. John Sculley of Apple was upset that Microsoft copied the Lisa (Mac) interface in a product called Interface Manager after Apple gave them Lisa/Mac source code to help them optimize their products. Bill Gates told Sculley that he was happy to cancel all Mac software development (Microsoft was the main Apple software developer at the time) if Apple sued MS over Interface Manager. Sculley blinked and signed a contract allowing Microsoft to sell Interface Manager (later renamed to Windows 1.0) in exchange for a commitment to continue to develop Mac software and a 2 year exclusive on Excel (Microsoft's then-new version of it's successful Multiplan spreadsheet package).
So whenever this argument comes up, I just roll my eyes. Everyone is pretty much in the clear here. MS fanboys claiming Apple stole Xerox's stuff are wrong, and Apple fanboys claiming MS stole from Apple are wrong too (I suppose you can say they started copying it initially, but Apple sure caved fast). People need to simmer down.
My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels. But I know a contractor listens to his heart when taking on a job :-)
Will this work to save the attachments somewhere? I have a similar question to the OP but in reverse. I'm tired of searching my email for attachments that have been sent to me over the years (going back to '97) and would like to take my mbox, run it thru a program, and have all the attachments end up in a directory of my choosing. I can then delete or file them, having them now in a more sane place than using email as a file system
The selling of "second shift" gear with inferior materials has been hurting the climbing business quite a bit... and this is gear we trust our lives to:
http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/02/11/warning-regarding-presence-counterfeit-versions-petzl-products
Wait, I do a gig or two of data per month on my *phone*, where all my media and apps are local. On a laptop with everything streamed from the cloud there's no way 100MB a month is good for anything other than the occasional text based email.
Oh man, that brings back memories. I was supporting PointCast at the time when everyone thought push tech would change the world.
Not being used for anything new? All the big banks use it for their back ends. I work in a shop that continually develops new functionality using COBOL based code. All those whizbang features like mobile banking and making deposits by taking a picture with your phone are driven off a cobol based backend.
I hate the #dickbar so much. Man it sucked. I paid for a new client just to get rid of it!
I played Q2 on a 486 for a while but it sucked. I remember building my first real enthusiast pc just so I could play Q2 at lan parties. Had a Pentium 200 and a Riva128. 10baseT FTW! Those were the days!
Hmmm... Captive Cloud Computing? Has a nice marketing ring to it. I better hurry and trademark that!
Shocking no? But he's onto something. This may be what you are looking for: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/1542206&from=rss
I dunno if that's quite accurate. It's more like Pepsi buying coke and filling their empty Pepsi cans with coke. Then turning around and offering themselves as a low cost coke supplier. Sure they bought the coke legally. They are now positioning themselves as coke "software" wrapped in pepsi "hardware". It's not offering a similar product. It's basically offering an identical product.
Essentially the selling point of the Mac experience is the software experience. "It just works" is possible because of tight hardware and software integration and knowing exactly what hardware they support. Not relying on fly by night companies to write drivers for crappy knockoff hardware. On the Mac platform the two are intertwined. What happens when Mac OSX is crashing on the Psystar platform due to some hardware incompatibility? It could give users the impression that Mac OSX isn't stable or up to snuff. I am not sure of the legalities involved, but I can see why Apple is interested in stopping Psystar.
I have to agree with these other guys. Doesn't matter how nice the source is if you wrap it up in flash and require streaming. Any roadbump along the route causes unneeded stuttering and lag. Flash players are good for casual browsing, but nothing more. And most of the time it's a royal PITA.
Ummm, no, see:
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11652
Yes they can... Refer back to a prev Slashdot story.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/02/0415209
You didn't mean this did you :-)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199500385
I don't think the parent intended to contradict themself, just didn't do a good job explaining. In my experience H1B's tend to all get crammed in together into dorm style living by their agency. Thus, rather than spend the money in the usa on a house, and kids, and grocerys or whatever an american worker does that same money gets spent back home. The H1B person wires it out of the country where the money is still spent on kids and grocerys or whatever. So it's not the case you are inferring.
Also, living in MN, I had the benefit of seeing extensive coverage on the nightly news. You may feel differently after seeing some of the pictures they showed us on tv.
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S307125.shtml?cat=1
One of the best parts is that, in their defense, one of the students said some of the pictures were over 4 years old! So if they're seniors that would be pix of them drinking as freshman.
So, I know it's slashdot, and no one reads the articles, but if you're sitting there waiting for the answer maybe you should go read it for yourself. The school busted high school athletes who had signed a code of conduct stating they would not use tobacco, drugs, or alcohol.
The punishment was to suspend them from the sports activity for violating the code of conduct they themselves signed. I'd say if you signed a code of conduct saying you'd behave and then posted pictures of yourself breaking that promise you're an idiot. And that's exactly what these high school kids are. Even if they had NOT signed a code of conduct, how wise is it for you to go posting pictures of yourself drinking underage??
So Yes, you are wrong. The school does have the right to punish a student in their own sports program, by preventing them from participating in their sports program. Their own sports program is *entirely* their jurisdiction.
Also, the article is not clear if it was the school administration browsing facebook, or if students or parents had provided pictures to the school. So lets stop jumping to conclusions here.
I work at a bank and we get this complaint all the time. Check out the bottom of page 14: http://www.usa.visa.com/download/merchants/rules_for_visa_merchants.pdf. This is clearly against visa's terms, and if you report it to both Visa (800-VISA-911) and your bank, chances are the merchant will get a stern talking to by a visa rep.
Too funny. Mod that up!
Amen brother. I don't even need to post because you took the words out of my mouth.
Ditto here. I couldn't get the checkout button to appear in firefox either. What I did was click on "edit payment details", reconfirm what I already had, closed it out, and when the window refreshed voila the checkout button had appeared. Dunno what the deal with that was though. I was a mouseclick away from giving up on them. I have to agrewe the website looked terrible and I wasn't sure it was legit at all at first.