It sounds like the man has forgotten what a problem it used to be to install Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000...hunting for drivers, reconfiguring everything, trying to get your desktop out of 640x480x8....
None of which typically applied to a brand-new out of the box computer with Windows Pre-installed. What Walt was reviewing was a laptop provided by Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed by Dell. All of us Linux fans have been saying that the only fair comparison between Windows and Linux would be on machines with the OS pre-installed. We now have that situation, and Walt has some very valid criticism. Although I don't think the need to download new CODECs is all that severe, the poor video performance, problems with the touchpad and the crashing volume control applet are absolutely unacceptable for a pre-install.
Just to clarify myself. Limited or non-slip does not TRANSFER power.
Yeah, I knew what you meant. I was just using the same phrase that the glossies use when describing AWD. However, I was aware that it isn't in reality transferring the power.
Real time 4WD is called that because you used to have to stop the car and rotate something on the tires to get the car into 4WD
It's called "locking the hubs". The old versions of this had to be locked manually from outside the vehicle. However, automatic hub locking is widely available now (where you just flip a switch). However, this is probably why realtime 4WD is not called "automatic 4WD" -- they aren't the same thing. Most realtime 4WD systems employ a 4-wheel differential (usually limited slip) that transfers power to other wheels when one or more wheels is slipping). Because it doesn't have locking hubs, the realtime 4WD system avoids the inherent stress placed on tires and transmission that is caused by running 4WD on dry pavement. In other words, the car decides when you need 4WD instead of letting you make the decision. While this is probably a good thing for the mentally challenged drivers who feel "safer" driving around at normal speeds on dry pavement with the 4WD engaged, it doesn't always work out so well for people who need true 4WD. Realtime 4WD is not very good for off-road driving, and systems that employ an open differential will not always engage the 4WD when you would expect them to. I had an experience last year where my realtime 4WD car had trouble getting up a steep snow-covered driveway, and it was really clear from outside the car that the 4WD wasn't engaging.
You are an American, I guess, by your immediate recourse to legal action as the solution to every problem?
Keep in mind that Microsoft is an American company, and therefore legal action may be necessary.
A lot of things about the OOXML vote have no precedent in ISO history, and probably some ISO and/or National Body procedures will be changed as a result. Forcing these changes by legal action would be expensive and counterproductive, and in the process surely lose the goodwill of the member nations.
I don't think the grandparent was calling for legal action to force ISO to change their procedures. I think the expectation was that legal action would be taken where laws were broken. You stated earlier that you believe "approximately zero" laws were broken, but I think there needs to be some research before we come to that conclusion. I can think of at least two laws in the US that may apply.
The jury did not understand that lawyers are lying; they could have used their common sense and found the kid not guilty given it was a manditory 10 years.
It's not that the lawyers were lying. It's more likely the fact that the jury was given two options: A) Let the guy walk free even though you know he committed a crime, or B) Convict the person you know is guilty and destroy his life in the process. Had there been a third option like C) Provide a guilty verdict that is automatically rescinded if he does more than a month of jail time or is required to register as a sexual offender, they probably would have taken it. Also, it's likely the jury wasn't aware that they had the opportunity for a nullification verdict. Given that they were shown a video tape of the crimes, they could not have used "burden of proof" as a rationale for a "not guilty" verdict.
That is a good idea to notify the court. You can at least hope the court is too slow to act in time before it is too late.
I suspect it would also be a good idea to notify (via registered/certified mail) the co-location service provider of the ongoing litigation and tell them that the court has ordered that the data not be destroyed. That helps transfer the liability associated with destroying evidence to the service provider.
The article says that the cells are 39mm squared so that would take up a volume of over two cubic feet (somebody check my math on this).
But how much of the 39mm^3 volume is required for the fuel, and how would the size of the components change as you scale up the output? Maybe it's possible to build a 50W device that is not tremendously bigger than this one.
If you're gambling against other players (I'll go out on a limb and assume he's playing Poker here), it's about even if everybody's clueless, or profitable for those who understand the game better, because usually games that pit the players against each other have completely symmetrical rules.
I agree, but keep in mind that we're talking about online gambling, and whoever owns the web site is expecting to make some money off the transaction, so it's a net loss if the web site is operated outside of the country.
But stop spreading stupidity like claiming that gambling is a good way of making money.
My favorite part was the argument that the money earned at gambling goes back into the local economy. Never mind the fact that the global net income from gambling is negative (for the gamblers, that is)....
When I have children it is very likely that they will be in this category, and when they are very young I will want to avoid these games.
Based on my personal experience, if you think your children will fall into the "high energy" category, I would advise against video games entirely while they are young. We've discovered that our son goes bonkers after playing video games for too long (regardless of the game). All of his more "hyper" friends are video game addicts. Our son is much calmer when video game playing times are tightly restricted, and if I had it to do over, I would have waited until he was 11 or 12 to introduce them to him. Of course, your mileage may vary....
The point I'm taking from Lord of the Flies is that children (particularly boys, if you want to consider that aspect of the work), left to their own devices, will devise the worst possible type of society and institutionalize their own brutality.
You understand that this is true for adults as well, right?
This is exactly what happens in schools, during recess, etc.
Yes, but there are ways of dealing with that. I have attended both public and private schools. In the public schools, there was exceptionally poor supervision over the children at recess, and what you described is exactly what happened. In the private schools, there was always somebody watching over the kids to make sure that kind of thing didn't happen. It's not that there weren't fights or anything, but you generally didn't have one group of kids trying to set up some sort of totalitarian government over the others. BTW, in the public schools, the way to deal with that problem was to beat the living daylights out of the self-elected dictator.
Did you ever stop to realize that the "human interaction" is with other children? I don't think knowing how to survive in Lord of the Flies is anything we should be forced to learn, especially not the hard way.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I assume that you are confusing the human interaction part with the "need to be told what to do" part, and that you don't consider the "lessons" learned from Lord of the Flies to be good for training in human interaction. If this is what you meant, note that the parent separates human interaction from being "told what to do". The human interaction part is to take place during free time (recess and after school). The "told what to do" part is to take place during classroom time and is primarily related to other subjects -- not to human interaction. I wouldn't interpret Lord of the Flies to be any kind of lesson on human interaction, other than the view of William Golding that civilized society will ultimately fail and revert to savagery under the right conditions. Maybe you can see it as some sort of negative reinforcement.
I know OO saves in Word format, but I don't trust it for someone as important as a resume. Without a test machine with Office, it is hard to know what formatting/conversion defects might appear that would make me look like a dufus to the prospective employer.
OK, if you're using a Windows machine, there is an easy solution. If it's a Linux box, you might be able to get the solution to work under WINE. All you need is Word Viewer 2003. This will allow you to create a Word format document with OO.org and view it as Microsoft Office users would see it.
placing SUVs in a separate vehicle classification and requiring more stringent driving skill tests would quickly disqualify most of the folks who have been presuming to drive these vehicles.
A much easier way to accomplish this is to pass a law that requires that all SUVs have a tamper-proof short-range wireless jammer installed that activates when the engine is running, thus preventing people from making mobile phone calls while driving. I think we all know exactly which class of people this would impact, and I'm going out on a limb and saying that it's the same people that have no concept of cost and value. Those people who actually NEED SUVs for either their job or the area they live in would still be able to get them without paying more or having to pass a more stringent driving test. Those who DON'T need an SUV would find an alternate vehicle that allows them to feed their mobile addiction while driving.
In any case, the point is that NASAs data was wrong, and they have admitted to that and corrected it.
Actually, that's only half the point. The other half is that the conclusions that they drew from that data should now be considered to be wrong. The previous conclusion was that surface temperature measurements for the US showed that the last ten years have been, on average, the hottest on record. After the correction, the conclusion should be that the hottest temperatures on average were measured during the 1930s. The new conclusion throws doubt on statements that the US is experiencing increases in temperature in line with the rest of the world. It also provides fodder for those who are skeptical about Global Warming in general.
That's a feature of the television/tuning device so that people don't have to watch/hear static.
I think it's mostly for the hearing part. The noise from the static can be significantly louder than any of the TV programs that come in clearly. Probably the blue screen ought to be traded for a "mute" function when the a weak signal is detected AND the peak volume exceeds a certain threshold.
Just to play the devil's advocate about your second point, and please don't take it too harshly: how about taking responsibility for your own life? You're not the employer's serf tied to the land. You _can_ look for another job, you know.
I don't take it harshly, and I expected exactly this comment. The truth is that I've had three different employers through the course of my career. I left the first one because of exactly this issue. I left the second one because my income level was not keeping up with the cost of living (but I was not overworked there either). When I first started for the company I work for now, my working hours were predictable and acceptable. About two years after I started, the company got on this "reduce IT costs" kick, and eliminated 30% of the work force. Since then, we have all worked in emergency mode and have been faced with extra hours. I changed positions (to another part of IT) in an attempt to escape the problem, but the team I joined eventually fell under the same management as I had before, with similar results. I have now left the IT field and I'm trying my hand as a PHB, but so far things haven't gotten better. I get to participate in the budget cycle this fall, so maybe things will get better next year. But a message to those who blame me: It's not like I'm completely giving in to the work-like-a-slave paradigm. I've been trying to move on. However, with a family to feed, I can't just change jobs at a whim.
Unfortunately, what I'm seeing seems to be typically of any debt that doesn't get paid down. The graph seems to show an exponential increase (which is to be expected when you are not even covering the interest charged), with the only pause under Clinton when the economy was booming and we actually had surpluses for a couple years. What would be more interesting is total spending and deficit spending. Did you find either of those anywhere?
BTW, just like you, I don't buy into the argument that debt should be viewed as a percentage of GDP.
The problem here is that it only assesses one kind of risk. What about sexually promiscuous employees, or employees that like skydiving or downhill skiing?
I'm not saying it's right, but they could just reduce the percentage covered for treatment of STDs and injuries from dangerous sports. I can't address most of the other things in your post. But I actually have two other complaints:
Making "at risk" people pay more is a money grab. Instead, they should REDUCE the costs for the healthy people, or at least slightly increase the cost for the unhealthy and slightly decrease the cost for the healthy. The way they are implementing it, the insurance company wins all around.
Where's the employer responsibility factor? As a person who is very out of shape, I can 100% attribute it to being forced to work like a slave for most of my career. I'd love to have more time to exercise. I would only accept higher insurance premiums if I could really ding my employer for not hiring enough people to meet the work demand. But I honestly don't know how you would go about measuring such things.
They increase spending at rates that vastly outpace that of democrats, and they increase deficit spending at a ludicrous rate.
Please don't interpret this as a defense of the Republican Party, but you have made this claim twice now without citing a source to back it up. You also ignore the fact that a large portion of the deficit spending at least started because of the drop in tax revenues when the economy went belly up. (although that probably pales in comparison to the spending in Iraq)
... but he does not believe this is cause for concern because marine bacteria and viruses are typically far less harmful to human health than, for instance, those found on land.
<sarcasm>And of course it's not like humans depend on anything in the sea as a source of food or anything like that....</sarcasm> Only the fact that this has been ongoing for quite some time is in the least bit reassuring.
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None of which typically applied to a brand-new out of the box computer with Windows Pre-installed. What Walt was reviewing was a laptop provided by Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed by Dell. All of us Linux fans have been saying that the only fair comparison between Windows and Linux would be on machines with the OS pre-installed. We now have that situation, and Walt has some very valid criticism. Although I don't think the need to download new CODECs is all that severe, the poor video performance, problems with the touchpad and the crashing volume control applet are absolutely unacceptable for a pre-install.
Yeah, I knew what you meant. I was just using the same phrase that the glossies use when describing AWD. However, I was aware that it isn't in reality transferring the power.
It's called "locking the hubs". The old versions of this had to be locked manually from outside the vehicle. However, automatic hub locking is widely available now (where you just flip a switch). However, this is probably why realtime 4WD is not called "automatic 4WD" -- they aren't the same thing. Most realtime 4WD systems employ a 4-wheel differential (usually limited slip) that transfers power to other wheels when one or more wheels is slipping). Because it doesn't have locking hubs, the realtime 4WD system avoids the inherent stress placed on tires and transmission that is caused by running 4WD on dry pavement. In other words, the car decides when you need 4WD instead of letting you make the decision. While this is probably a good thing for the mentally challenged drivers who feel "safer" driving around at normal speeds on dry pavement with the 4WD engaged, it doesn't always work out so well for people who need true 4WD. Realtime 4WD is not very good for off-road driving, and systems that employ an open differential will not always engage the 4WD when you would expect them to. I had an experience last year where my realtime 4WD car had trouble getting up a steep snow-covered driveway, and it was really clear from outside the car that the 4WD wasn't engaging.
Keep in mind that Microsoft is an American company, and therefore legal action may be necessary.
I don't think the grandparent was calling for legal action to force ISO to change their procedures. I think the expectation was that legal action would be taken where laws were broken. You stated earlier that you believe "approximately zero" laws were broken, but I think there needs to be some research before we come to that conclusion. I can think of at least two laws in the US that may apply.
Smoked and salt cured....
It's not that the lawyers were lying. It's more likely the fact that the jury was given two options: A) Let the guy walk free even though you know he committed a crime, or B) Convict the person you know is guilty and destroy his life in the process. Had there been a third option like C) Provide a guilty verdict that is automatically rescinded if he does more than a month of jail time or is required to register as a sexual offender, they probably would have taken it. Also, it's likely the jury wasn't aware that they had the opportunity for a nullification verdict. Given that they were shown a video tape of the crimes, they could not have used "burden of proof" as a rationale for a "not guilty" verdict.
literally.
I suspect it would also be a good idea to notify (via registered/certified mail) the co-location service provider of the ongoing litigation and tell them that the court has ordered that the data not be destroyed. That helps transfer the liability associated with destroying evidence to the service provider.
But how much of the 39mm^3 volume is required for the fuel, and how would the size of the components change as you scale up the output? Maybe it's possible to build a 50W device that is not tremendously bigger than this one.
I agree, but keep in mind that we're talking about online gambling, and whoever owns the web site is expecting to make some money off the transaction, so it's a net loss if the web site is operated outside of the country.
My favorite part was the argument that the money earned at gambling goes back into the local economy. Never mind the fact that the global net income from gambling is negative (for the gamblers, that is)....
Based on my personal experience, if you think your children will fall into the "high energy" category, I would advise against video games entirely while they are young. We've discovered that our son goes bonkers after playing video games for too long (regardless of the game). All of his more "hyper" friends are video game addicts. Our son is much calmer when video game playing times are tightly restricted, and if I had it to do over, I would have waited until he was 11 or 12 to introduce them to him. Of course, your mileage may vary....
You understand that this is true for adults as well, right?
Yes, but there are ways of dealing with that. I have attended both public and private schools. In the public schools, there was exceptionally poor supervision over the children at recess, and what you described is exactly what happened. In the private schools, there was always somebody watching over the kids to make sure that kind of thing didn't happen. It's not that there weren't fights or anything, but you generally didn't have one group of kids trying to set up some sort of totalitarian government over the others. BTW, in the public schools, the way to deal with that problem was to beat the living daylights out of the self-elected dictator.
As has been mentioned before, this case directly involves Capitol. They have visible assets.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I assume that you are confusing the human interaction part with the "need to be told what to do" part, and that you don't consider the "lessons" learned from Lord of the Flies to be good for training in human interaction. If this is what you meant, note that the parent separates human interaction from being "told what to do". The human interaction part is to take place during free time (recess and after school). The "told what to do" part is to take place during classroom time and is primarily related to other subjects -- not to human interaction. I wouldn't interpret Lord of the Flies to be any kind of lesson on human interaction, other than the view of William Golding that civilized society will ultimately fail and revert to savagery under the right conditions. Maybe you can see it as some sort of negative reinforcement.
Obviously, we don't really care about those sorts of problems in the US. Just look at what's happened in New York and Atlanta....
OK, if you're using a Windows machine, there is an easy solution. If it's a Linux box, you might be able to get the solution to work under WINE. All you need is Word Viewer 2003. This will allow you to create a Word format document with OO.org and view it as Microsoft Office users would see it.
A much easier way to accomplish this is to pass a law that requires that all SUVs have a tamper-proof short-range wireless jammer installed that activates when the engine is running, thus preventing people from making mobile phone calls while driving. I think we all know exactly which class of people this would impact, and I'm going out on a limb and saying that it's the same people that have no concept of cost and value. Those people who actually NEED SUVs for either their job or the area they live in would still be able to get them without paying more or having to pass a more stringent driving test. Those who DON'T need an SUV would find an alternate vehicle that allows them to feed their mobile addiction while driving.
Actually, that's only half the point. The other half is that the conclusions that they drew from that data should now be considered to be wrong. The previous conclusion was that surface temperature measurements for the US showed that the last ten years have been, on average, the hottest on record. After the correction, the conclusion should be that the hottest temperatures on average were measured during the 1930s. The new conclusion throws doubt on statements that the US is experiencing increases in temperature in line with the rest of the world. It also provides fodder for those who are skeptical about Global Warming in general.
I think it's mostly for the hearing part. The noise from the static can be significantly louder than any of the TV programs that come in clearly. Probably the blue screen ought to be traded for a "mute" function when the a weak signal is detected AND the peak volume exceeds a certain threshold.
I don't take it harshly, and I expected exactly this comment. The truth is that I've had three different employers through the course of my career. I left the first one because of exactly this issue. I left the second one because my income level was not keeping up with the cost of living (but I was not overworked there either). When I first started for the company I work for now, my working hours were predictable and acceptable. About two years after I started, the company got on this "reduce IT costs" kick, and eliminated 30% of the work force. Since then, we have all worked in emergency mode and have been faced with extra hours. I changed positions (to another part of IT) in an attempt to escape the problem, but the team I joined eventually fell under the same management as I had before, with similar results. I have now left the IT field and I'm trying my hand as a PHB, but so far things haven't gotten better. I get to participate in the budget cycle this fall, so maybe things will get better next year. But a message to those who blame me: It's not like I'm completely giving in to the work-like-a-slave paradigm. I've been trying to move on. However, with a family to feed, I can't just change jobs at a whim.
BTW, just like you, I don't buy into the argument that debt should be viewed as a percentage of GDP.
I'm not saying it's right, but they could just reduce the percentage covered for treatment of STDs and injuries from dangerous sports. I can't address most of the other things in your post. But I actually have two other complaints:
Please don't interpret this as a defense of the Republican Party, but you have made this claim twice now without citing a source to back it up. You also ignore the fact that a large portion of the deficit spending at least started because of the drop in tax revenues when the economy went belly up. (although that probably pales in comparison to the spending in Iraq)
<sarcasm>And of course it's not like humans depend on anything in the sea as a source of food or anything like that....</sarcasm> Only the fact that this has been ongoing for quite some time is in the least bit reassuring.