Stuff that just passes through on it's way to and from the Oort cloud obviously doesn't count, but the fact is that "clearing an orbit" is a poor definition - some planets have, others haven't.
It doesn't eliminate the problem of having a non-touch ui that also lacks a lot of the android hardware (rear camera, radio, gps, proper-ppi/sized touch screen, etc.)
If you're developing for android, you really should have at least one android device, same as if you're developing for iOS you really should have one actual iOS device.
He had burned out most of the CPU. Only the 16-bit portion still worked. That's why they said in the instructions not to run it without the cooling fan; the cpu self-destructs in 15 seconds. But of course he'd run it "to do a burn-in test" and wonder why it wouldn't get past the startup screen. This is the type of guy who thinks that if a thin film of thermal gel is good, lots must be better.
They must have finally gotten their act together, because the original french text is now available. It's the usual whine about how they can't stay in business because less than% of people now have AdBlockPlus installed.
They brought it upon themselves by making ads more and more intrusive. I don't mind the occasional side-bar add or banner, but pop-overs, pop-unders, ads that track everything I do and phone home, ads that auto-start sound or video, these need to die.
This is no different from broadcast regulations that don't permit stations to increase the sound modulation (and hence the volume) of ads.
And now AdBlockPlus is taking aim at "publi-reportage" - news reports that are really advertisements. Coming soon to a slashvertisement near you?
The question is, can you trust a 3rd party with your national interest, when they already owe loyalty to other governments? After all, unlike your citizens, if they sell your secrets for money, it's not treason.
We had one guy like that around the turn of the century. He'd "custom-build" computers loaded to the gills. The problem was he knew nothing about computers. All of a sudden he's complaining because "AMD CPUs are crap. None of them boot into Windows." He was booting the computer to test it before adding the CPU fan, and those Thunderbirds ran hot.
Someone told him to ask me what was wrong, and what he could do to fix it, and I said "Concrats, you now own a very very fast 16-bit DOS machine. Enjoy DOOM".
Kind of cheesed me off since I had heard he was pirating some custom software I had written, but whatever.
In the end it wasn't Microsoft who did him in, but the tax man. They wanted the sales tax on everything he had sold. He went personally bankrupt.
It's one thing to pay for a movie if I want to watch it. That's pretty much the way it should be, you create something, you get compensated for me using it.
It's another thing if I pay for the movie and then have to jump through additional hoops to watch it, and I can only watch it the way the creator wants me to. If I pay for something, I expect to be able to use it. As I please. Not as its creator pleases.
Simple solution - don't use it. Problem solved.
Your movie analogy - sitting in a theatre watching ads before the movie is part of the "experience"; you don't get to watch it your way.
Actually, there' something called "moral rights" in copyright law that allows the copyright holder to prevent you from, for example, buying an art book with a bunch of nice pictures in it, cutting out and framing all the pictures, and reselling the framed pictures.
The "suspicious pattern" is back-to-back activation of Windows 7 and Office 2010 from one ip, then the machines being dispersed to other ips as the customers take them whereever. Not all legit customers are going to buy/activate Office, whereas any place that sells only machines with copies of both win7 and office2010 pre-activated is suspicious.
You can't claim copyright on an idea for a story - only the actual text. Anyone who plagerizes it or makes only minor changes, so the original story is clearly identifiable, is guilty of plagerism. But good luck with the trilogy, and may you make beaucoup bux.
Also, when talking about "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, just how clear is "clear"?
A Stern-Levison paramter over 1? Take your pick, as there are several parameters related to the amount of stuff a body shares it s orbit with or connected to ability to clear and dominate the orbit, and they all show a several order of magnitude jump between the dwarf planets and planets.
Stern, currently leading the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto, disagrees with the reclassification of Pluto on the basis that—like Pluto—Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not cleared their orbital neighbourhoods either. Earth co-orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and Jupiter has 100,000 Trojan asteroids in its orbital path. "If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there", he now says
Nice to know I don't live on a "real" planet according to tha IAU.
I don't think there will be much outrage from people who understand that back-alley shops stay open by ripping off everyone, including their customers.
It's how they stay in business, since they obviously don't have the skills to do business legitimately.
If documentation was that much deficient, it seems that the management wasn't THAT much wrong....
In real life, the PHB always sees technical documentation (something many of them wouldn't understand even if they ever read it) as a waste of time, or at worse, taking time away from other tasks. "Do that later. We need this done now." Rinse, lather, repeat.
Wait, do they have to sign the agreement? Or are they paid extra for the agreement?
Nobody *has* to sign any agreements when they're being terminated.
However, many tech workers don't know that. Others are more worried about things like how they're going to find a new job if they get a bad reference from this one, so they sign on the dotted line. Still others want the "bonus" that's offered for signing.
You know how in Hollywood they say "Be nice to everyone you meet on your way up, because you'll see them again on your way down?"
IT is the reverse - "Be nice to people on your way down if you want to have any hope of getting back up." Employers are not likely to hire "complainers" because next thing you know, they'll be whining about having to put in 80-hour weeks and work/life balance and overtime pay.
You missed the "IF". This is part of the problem when an "ask slashdot" doesn't give enough context. And it's a persistent problem - almost every "ask slashdot" suffers from it. In some cases the submitter will offer clarifications in the comments, but when they don't do so on matters of import...
Stories that are people-centric are no more science fiction than vampire stories are history, or Microsoft manuals are about learning.
By the same token, stories about science can't be people-centric either. Like the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, natural selection by Darwin, or insulin by Banting and Best.
Also I can't help but observe that in my experience the way you pursue this is more consistent with the way men do than women do, which further reinforces an earlier point I made on various occasions.
Oh, because I'm using logical arguments instead of getting all peed off? Because I'm engaging in debate rather than taking it personally or getting angry? Because I'd be willing to sit down with you and discuss it over lunch?
Maybe my programmer background has something to do with it, or maybe you're caught up in some sort of world where women are only allowed to behave in certain ways. I don't know.
I think your condoning bestiality is outrageous, but that doesn't mean I should react to that by shutting down communications, since this discussion was about MUCH more than that. To me, it's not just logical - it's the right thing to do.
If you interpret that as being more the way men would handle it compared to women, what can I say? I don't agree, because the range of reactions among both sexes is broad, and there's a lot of overlap, just as there are serious differences. Or as the french say, "Vive la difference!"
There's also the problem that many transsexuals tend to "overdo it" in their efforts to be accepted as who they are, rather than just being themselves. This shows up in all sorts of behavior, from modes of dress to modeling their reactions on stereotypes. It's one of those "dirty little secrets", but it's an understandable behavior when you've had to deal with what we've had to deal with, and it hopefully resolves itself as the woman becomes more secure. BUT - "it's complicated" is a fact of life for us.
There's something called "learning from your mistakes." The people of that era probably thought that they were absolutely doing the moral and right thing. However, as we move towards a more secular, less religion-influenced society, we're realizing that morality isn't either defined or confined by the dictates of previous ages. We sit in judgment, but it's a bit hypocritical because we're making mistakes that future generations will judge use on. Case in point - pollution.
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
One of my friends is an engineer. Once he had his condo, his car, and money in the bank, he figured "you know, this job sucks. I'll take a year of and then find another one."
The year turned into 2. Then 5. Then 10. At the 15-year point, he finally decided that he *really should* get another job in engineering. I pointed out that no potential employer is going to want someone who was so unmotivated that they abandoned their field for a decade and a half, bumming around, doing menial jobs when he needed a few bucks... so he sold his condo at the 20-year mark and "really started looking" .
I told him "You're going to have to say something more acceptable - like you were in jail for manslaughter, or you had a bad drug or booze habit but you're clean now, whatever. That's more acceptable than 'well, I didn't feel like working.' Realistically, you've burnt your degree - you've been out of it so long that, for all practical purposes you have no relevant experience, and your knowledge is out of date compared to a recent grad."
Well, the Earth certainly doesn't "dominate its environment". If it were any other planet, it would be considered a double-planet system, since the moon is so much more massive in relation to its planet than any other moon.
We might look upon the Moon, then, as neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, but as a planet in its own right, moving about the Sun in careful step with the Earth. From within the Earth–Moon system, the simplest way of picturing the situation is to have the Moon revolve about the Earth; but if you were to draw a picture of the orbits of the Earth and Moon about the Sun exactly to scale, you would see that the Moon's orbit is everywhere concave toward the Sun. It is always "falling toward" the Sun. All the other satellites, without exception, "fall away" from the Sun through part of their orbits, caught as they are by the superior pull of their primary planets – but not the Moon.
— Isaac Asimov
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Stuff that just passes through on it's way to and from the Oort cloud obviously doesn't count, but the fact is that "clearing an orbit" is a poor definition - some planets have, others haven't.
It doesn't eliminate the problem of having a non-touch ui that also lacks a lot of the android hardware (rear camera, radio, gps, proper-ppi/sized touch screen, etc.) If you're developing for android, you really should have at least one android device, same as if you're developing for iOS you really should have one actual iOS device.
He had burned out most of the CPU. Only the 16-bit portion still worked. That's why they said in the instructions not to run it without the cooling fan; the cpu self-destructs in 15 seconds. But of course he'd run it "to do a burn-in test" and wonder why it wouldn't get past the startup screen. This is the type of guy who thinks that if a thin film of thermal gel is good, lots must be better.
The emulator sucks. Unless you have an actual android device to test it on, you'll want to either shoot yourself or your computer.
I can choose to enter the movie theater just as the ads are over...
And getting a crappy seat. Is that how you want to watch a movie?
They must have finally gotten their act together, because the original french text is now available. It's the usual whine about how they can't stay in business because less than% of people now have AdBlockPlus installed.
They brought it upon themselves by making ads more and more intrusive. I don't mind the occasional side-bar add or banner, but pop-overs, pop-unders, ads that track everything I do and phone home, ads that auto-start sound or video, these need to die.
This is no different from broadcast regulations that don't permit stations to increase the sound modulation (and hence the volume) of ads.
And now AdBlockPlus is taking aim at "publi-reportage" - news reports that are really advertisements. Coming soon to a slashvertisement near you?
The question is, can you trust a 3rd party with your national interest, when they already owe loyalty to other governments? After all, unlike your citizens, if they sell your secrets for money, it's not treason.
We had one guy like that around the turn of the century. He'd "custom-build" computers loaded to the gills. The problem was he knew nothing about computers. All of a sudden he's complaining because "AMD CPUs are crap. None of them boot into Windows." He was booting the computer to test it before adding the CPU fan, and those Thunderbirds ran hot.
Someone told him to ask me what was wrong, and what he could do to fix it, and I said "Concrats, you now own a very very fast 16-bit DOS machine. Enjoy DOOM".
Kind of cheesed me off since I had heard he was pirating some custom software I had written, but whatever.
In the end it wasn't Microsoft who did him in, but the tax man. They wanted the sales tax on everything he had sold. He went personally bankrupt.
It's one thing to pay for a movie if I want to watch it. That's pretty much the way it should be, you create something, you get compensated for me using it.
It's another thing if I pay for the movie and then have to jump through additional hoops to watch it, and I can only watch it the way the creator wants me to. If I pay for something, I expect to be able to use it. As I please. Not as its creator pleases.
Simple solution - don't use it. Problem solved.
Your movie analogy - sitting in a theatre watching ads before the movie is part of the "experience"; you don't get to watch it your way.
Actually, there' something called "moral rights" in copyright law that allows the copyright holder to prevent you from, for example, buying an art book with a bunch of nice pictures in it, cutting out and framing all the pictures, and reselling the framed pictures.
The "suspicious pattern" is back-to-back activation of Windows 7 and Office 2010 from one ip, then the machines being dispersed to other ips as the customers take them whereever. Not all legit customers are going to buy/activate Office, whereas any place that sells only machines with copies of both win7 and office2010 pre-activated is suspicious.
You can't claim copyright on an idea for a story - only the actual text. Anyone who plagerizes it or makes only minor changes, so the original story is clearly identifiable, is guilty of plagerism. But good luck with the trilogy, and may you make beaucoup bux.
Also, when talking about "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, just how clear is "clear"?
A Stern-Levison paramter over 1? Take your pick, as there are several parameters related to the amount of stuff a body shares it s orbit with or connected to ability to clear and dominate the orbit, and they all show a several order of magnitude jump between the dwarf planets and planets.
Here's what Stern now has to say about that:
Stern, currently leading the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto, disagrees with the reclassification of Pluto on the basis that—like Pluto—Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not cleared their orbital neighbourhoods either. Earth co-orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and Jupiter has 100,000 Trojan asteroids in its orbital path. "If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there", he now says
Nice to know I don't live on a "real" planet according to tha IAU.
I don't think there will be much outrage from people who understand that back-alley shops stay open by ripping off everyone, including their customers.
It's how they stay in business, since they obviously don't have the skills to do business legitimately.
I bet the French surrender after that.
I think they already did ... I tried to look at the original article in french ... wait ... wait ... wait ...
If documentation was that much deficient, it seems that the management wasn't THAT much wrong....
In real life, the PHB always sees technical documentation (something many of them wouldn't understand even if they ever read it) as a waste of time, or at worse, taking time away from other tasks. "Do that later. We need this done now." Rinse, lather, repeat.
Wait, do they have to sign the agreement? Or are they paid extra for the agreement?
Nobody *has* to sign any agreements when they're being terminated.
However, many tech workers don't know that. Others are more worried about things like how they're going to find a new job if they get a bad reference from this one, so they sign on the dotted line. Still others want the "bonus" that's offered for signing.
You know how in Hollywood they say "Be nice to everyone you meet on your way up, because you'll see them again on your way down?"
IT is the reverse - "Be nice to people on your way down if you want to have any hope of getting back up." Employers are not likely to hire "complainers" because next thing you know, they'll be whining about having to put in 80-hour weeks and work/life balance and overtime pay.
Or a dropdown box.
You missed the "IF". This is part of the problem when an "ask slashdot" doesn't give enough context. And it's a persistent problem - almost every "ask slashdot" suffers from it. In some cases the submitter will offer clarifications in the comments, but when they don't do so on matters of import ...
Stories that are people-centric are no more science fiction than vampire stories are history, or Microsoft manuals are about learning.
By the same token, stories about science can't be people-centric either. Like the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, natural selection by Darwin, or insulin by Banting and Best.
Also I can't help but observe that in my experience the way you pursue this is more consistent with the way men do than women do, which further reinforces an earlier point I made on various occasions.
Oh, because I'm using logical arguments instead of getting all peed off? Because I'm engaging in debate rather than taking it personally or getting angry? Because I'd be willing to sit down with you and discuss it over lunch?
Maybe my programmer background has something to do with it, or maybe you're caught up in some sort of world where women are only allowed to behave in certain ways. I don't know.
I think your condoning bestiality is outrageous, but that doesn't mean I should react to that by shutting down communications, since this discussion was about MUCH more than that. To me, it's not just logical - it's the right thing to do.
If you interpret that as being more the way men would handle it compared to women, what can I say? I don't agree, because the range of reactions among both sexes is broad, and there's a lot of overlap, just as there are serious differences. Or as the french say, "Vive la difference!"
There's also the problem that many transsexuals tend to "overdo it" in their efforts to be accepted as who they are, rather than just being themselves. This shows up in all sorts of behavior, from modes of dress to modeling their reactions on stereotypes. It's one of those "dirty little secrets", but it's an understandable behavior when you've had to deal with what we've had to deal with, and it hopefully resolves itself as the woman becomes more secure. BUT - "it's complicated" is a fact of life for us.
There's something called "learning from your mistakes." The people of that era probably thought that they were absolutely doing the moral and right thing. However, as we move towards a more secular, less religion-influenced society, we're realizing that morality isn't either defined or confined by the dictates of previous ages. We sit in judgment, but it's a bit hypocritical because we're making mistakes that future generations will judge use on. Case in point - pollution.
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
True story:
One of my friends is an engineer. Once he had his condo, his car, and money in the bank, he figured "you know, this job sucks. I'll take a year of and then find another one."
The year turned into 2. Then 5. Then 10. At the 15-year point, he finally decided that he *really should* get another job in engineering. I pointed out that no potential employer is going to want someone who was so unmotivated that they abandoned their field for a decade and a half, bumming around, doing menial jobs when he needed a few bucks ... so he sold his condo at the 20-year mark and "really started looking" .
I told him "You're going to have to say something more acceptable - like you were in jail for manslaughter, or you had a bad drug or booze habit but you're clean now, whatever. That's more acceptable than 'well, I didn't feel like working.' Realistically, you've burnt your degree - you've been out of it so long that, for all practical purposes you have no relevant experience, and your knowledge is out of date compared to a recent grad."
We might look upon the Moon, then, as neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, but as a planet in its own right, moving about the Sun in careful step with the Earth. From within the Earth–Moon system, the simplest way of picturing the situation is to have the Moon revolve about the Earth; but if you were to draw a picture of the orbits of the Earth and Moon about the Sun exactly to scale, you would see that the Moon's orbit is everywhere concave toward the Sun. It is always "falling toward" the Sun. All the other satellites, without exception, "fall away" from the Sun through part of their orbits, caught as they are by the superior pull of their primary planets – but not the Moon.
— Isaac Asimov