Though I guess you could argue said program is no different than a VCR (which the SCOTUS ruled can legally capture video and store it).
...which is likely why the RIAA is asking and whining, instead of issuing takedown notices and sending official threats of litigation.
The absolute last thing they'd ever want is for a case like this to end up making video/audio ripping off a stream the equivalent of using a VCR to tape a show.
I've worked for companies that (ab-)use the HI-B system heavily. The problem is, you don't get cheaper expenses. Why? Well, you have to help shepherd the workers into the country, keep the paperwork current (which costs HR time), lose productivity and time while the H1-B worker acclimates to the work environment (and local culture!), and finally, have to end up paying them more anyway when they themselves realize that they could be making more money, and as local albeit smaller companies offer them more money to jump ship.
Short-term, yeah, you get a pretty balance sheet, depending on how much of a cut in payroll you can get. Long-term, you get stuck in this endless cycle of excess paper, money thrown at the HR department instead of at engineering, mis-communication and botched project timelines while waiting for the new arrivals to figure things out, and then you get to deal with them getting all 'uppity and demanding bigger paychecks in a year or two anyway.
It's a game that only the really big boys can play (If you're not in the Fortune 100? Don't bother), and even then they only make it up on margins, so to speak.
Whine when people want more pay, but WHINE when you cant hire people at insulting wages.
The market has a cure for that... those who can afford the skills requested get the employees who can provide them. You assume that the government is required for this... why?
When I went job-sniffing last year at this time, I had my pick of offers to choose from. I negotiated the offers I was interested in, and the one with the best mix of pay, culture, and benefits won. The ones who refused to budge upwards were discounted. The ones with a boiler-room culture were discounted. The ones with little/no benefits were discounted. The one I accepted wound up bumping by annual salary by almost $15k (before bonuses), the culture was very friendly, and the benefits were adequate for my needs.
Note that I never demanded or even desired that the government do it for me. I simply laid it out for those who had to keep looking. Whether they choose to do something about it or not (e.g. offer a better salary, benefits, etc) is their problem, not mine. If I were in a position where I had no choice, I would take whatever I could get until I could get something better, then pull the D-Ring on the current employer the moment I do find/get better. I've done that a few times before in my life, and I can do it again.
If the employer doesn't want to pay for the talent, the employer can do without.
On just one core? Sorry - you get to buy a new phone.
I'm wondering how they're going to avoid the Osbourne Effect on all the existing Nokia gear out there now, especially at a time when Nokia really, really, really needs the sales.
As sibling said - I don't think anyone particularly cares if they write closed-source software - just open the effing API and specifications, so the community can write its own drivers for it.
Also, Nvidia is still not providing any Linux support for the one chipset that seems to be the most commonly used in laptops... go figure.
Well, if you want to be pedantic, for ever PC sold these days, there are simply thousands of embedded devices sold - a market which is pretty much owned by Linux and *nix variants.
As for how many browse online? Hard to say, though most if not all the Android installs do.
Then maybe the douchebags at Funnyjunk should publicly disavow any connection to the douchebag who's doing the actual suing?
You know, like, sometime before the folks at CNN, BBC, et al decide to pick up the story and broadcast it with the lede: "...and in other news, the internet site funnyjunk.com is suing some comic site and TWO BIG CHARITIES today..." (followed of course by the charities giving a ton of damning soundbites that make the site and its lawyer look like massive, well, you know, douchebags...)
('course, there's still that whole douchebag factor, but that's not my problem. I'm only here to offer helpful advice about that lawyer vs. reputation thing).
It's actually not as amazing as it seems... adult stem cells* have been used quite extensively, and for quite awhile. It also has the added advantage of compatibility.
* yes she's a kid, but they still call 'em adult cells, to distinguish them from the embryonic ones.
Pro tip: Blaming the consumer is only something that only the losers in the corporate world will ever do, and they usually do it in bankruptcy court.
If they do not buy your product, it is still your fault. If you want to survive, you need to find out why. It could be as simple as crappy marketing, but you still need to fix it if you want to stay alive.
They brought it on themselves, and have only themselves to blame.
In all seriousness, Nokia sat around on its ass all smug and secure for way too long after the iPhone detonated, then redefined the market. Samsung, HTC, and many others busted ass to remake themselves and their products into credible contenders. Nokia sat around and watched their R&D flounder around, thinking they had all the time in the world to do something about it, all while pointing at Symbian's (then) massive dominance of the global smartphone markets. They then had a chance to make a clean break and start fresh, but they decided to back the wrong horse (with a nudge from their new Microsoftie CEO, natch).
Moral of the story? Apparently it's two-fold: 1) If you're on top, don't sit around on your ass all complacent about it. 2) Never hire anyone who has previously worked as a Microsoft executive. They *will* fuck you over.
Hell, even the vendors here in Portland will pass word around (candidate names come up at a lunch meeting w/ a vendor, sales rep says "oh yeah - Joe Sixpack - he's the one who screwed over Acme WidgetCo... their billing was down for a month and it screwed us up pretty good..." )
It would depend on the employee, I suspect. As a sr. sysadmin, if my access was cut off, I'd know immediately what was up (since I'd need it for my job), and if I were unscrupulous, I'd have alternate backdoor accounts and backups already in place to suck out all the data that I really wanted. *shrug*.
I recall distinctly during my time with a certain F50 company that they would not only refuse to buy any of the secrets, but that they would be the first to call the FBI on you for trying. The last thing they wanted or needed was to have those secrets unearthed years later, potentially costing them billions of dollars.
Now the gray/black market? Maybe... but that's as much of a jail risk as carrying around an open box full of kiddy porn in front of a police station.
If anything, the things I can see IT employees walking out with are software licenses, images (even hardware!) and crap like that - things they would find useful to themselves later on.
Even better - pick up brass from any sporting/shooting event. Be sure to reload using cartridges from three different widely-separated gun ranges.
Good luck with that.
The firing pin? Anyone with even a half-assed mechanical shop and a small metal lathe can make new pins by the dozen: "Oh, sorry Ossifer, my pin broke and this was cheaper."
Besides... barrel rifling already makes a fingerprint-like marking on the shell/slug/bullet, and that's going to be a hell of a lot more useful in identifying the gun it was shot from than any other method thought up so far...
"Contrary to some misunderstandings, Arrhenius does not explicitly suggest in this paper that the burning of fossil fuels will cause global warming,though it is clear that he is aware that fossil fuels are a potentially significant source of carbon dioxide (page 270), and he does explicitly suggest this outcome in later work.... (emphasis mine - the latter to point out a bit of weasel-wording by the summarizer).
In other words, as stated: No one was putting forth the theory that the Earth was warming due to mankind's actions 120 years ago.
Meanwhile, you either had to rely on a half-assed out-of-context quote to try and carry your water for you, or your literacy skills are deficient - you pick.
So, about that "spouting lies" bit... maybe you'd like to stop doing that now?;)
Wish I had mod points today... best opinion I've seen on the subject so far. You'll have to settle for a silent thumbs-up from this quarter, but the mods could do well to amp the post up for visibility.
It's a step in the right direction, but I'm not sure if it's out of any charity towards their customer base, or if it's because the previous policy of blindly complying with all these subpoenas was an expensive PITA for them.
I'd still rather masturbate with a fistful of broken glass than voluntarily use their services, but this act is a good first step towards reversing that opinion.
Unless the other carrier follows suit, how on Earth do they expect to keep customers?
Certainly,while Sprint and T-Mobile may be small, and AT&T has sucky customer service and/or coverage (I'm sitting here at home with a AT&T smartphone that has zero signal - thank Heaven for automatic call forwarding), any of the three would be infinitely better than being forced to shit out what is likely going to be a three-digit cell phone bill each month.
Then again, knowing carriers, they'll likely start jacking their rates in proportion to how badly they want new customers vs. getting a piece of that pie.
Clue: No one was putting forth the theory that the Earth was warming due to mankind's actions 120 years ago, so unless you can post a paper stating otherwise, trot that troll elsewhere.
Furthermore, much proof has come forth since then showing that CO2 isn't even the biggest source of greenhouse gas (Try methane for starters, and there's a fuckton of that thawing out under the sea now, even after numerous downward estimate revisions. 'course, that alone would put a crimp in the ever-so-constant and "scientific consensus" of "itz ALL MANKINDZ FUALT!!!!!!11!!!BBQ!").
Hell, they can't even figure out yet what concentrations we actually have, what would be considered "normal", and what would cause this doom-laden runaway effect scenario that we were treated to not even 10 years ago.
The funny part is, the research itself is often rife with actions that reek of fraud (seriously, "hide the decline"? What the fuck kind of actual science does that fall under?) Then there's the niggling fact that almost every time someone brings up anything even remotely contrary, the interloper is immediately accused of being in the employ of "Big Oil", or is otherwise and unceremoniously blackballed from the community at large by all means deemed necessary.
Tell you what - when the pro-AGW types clean their act up, and actually present something that isn't slanted, in constant need of models more tailored to fit a hypothesis instead of testing it, or isn't rife with hysteria, then maybe they can get some credibility as real scientists.
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Though I guess you could argue said program is no different than a VCR (which the SCOTUS ruled can legally capture video and store it).
...which is likely why the RIAA is asking and whining, instead of issuing takedown notices and sending official threats of litigation.
The absolute last thing they'd ever want is for a case like this to end up making video/audio ripping off a stream the equivalent of using a VCR to tape a show.
Yes and No.
I've worked for companies that (ab-)use the HI-B system heavily. The problem is, you don't get cheaper expenses. Why? Well, you have to help shepherd the workers into the country, keep the paperwork current (which costs HR time), lose productivity and time while the H1-B worker acclimates to the work environment (and local culture!), and finally, have to end up paying them more anyway when they themselves realize that they could be making more money, and as local albeit smaller companies offer them more money to jump ship.
Short-term, yeah, you get a pretty balance sheet, depending on how much of a cut in payroll you can get. Long-term, you get stuck in this endless cycle of excess paper, money thrown at the HR department instead of at engineering, mis-communication and botched project timelines while waiting for the new arrivals to figure things out, and then you get to deal with them getting all 'uppity and demanding bigger paychecks in a year or two anyway.
It's a game that only the really big boys can play (If you're not in the Fortune 100? Don't bother), and even then they only make it up on margins, so to speak.
Whine when people want more pay, but WHINE when you cant hire people at insulting wages.
The market has a cure for that... those who can afford the skills requested get the employees who can provide them. You assume that the government is required for this... why?
When I went job-sniffing last year at this time, I had my pick of offers to choose from. I negotiated the offers I was interested in, and the one with the best mix of pay, culture, and benefits won. The ones who refused to budge upwards were discounted. The ones with a boiler-room culture were discounted. The ones with little/no benefits were discounted. The one I accepted wound up bumping by annual salary by almost $15k (before bonuses), the culture was very friendly, and the benefits were adequate for my needs.
Note that I never demanded or even desired that the government do it for me. I simply laid it out for those who had to keep looking. Whether they choose to do something about it or not (e.g. offer a better salary, benefits, etc) is their problem, not mine. If I were in a position where I had no choice, I would take whatever I could get until I could get something better, then pull the D-Ring on the current employer the moment I do find/get better. I've done that a few times before in my life, and I can do it again.
If the employer doesn't want to pay for the talent, the employer can do without.
...up to 64 cores, certainly.
On just one core? Sorry - you get to buy a new phone.
I'm wondering how they're going to avoid the Osbourne Effect on all the existing Nokia gear out there now, especially at a time when Nokia really, really, really needs the sales.
As sibling said - I don't think anyone particularly cares if they write closed-source software - just open the effing API and specifications, so the community can write its own drivers for it.
Also, Nvidia is still not providing any Linux support for the one chipset that seems to be the most commonly used in laptops... go figure.
Well, if you want to be pedantic, for ever PC sold these days, there are simply thousands of embedded devices sold - a market which is pretty much owned by Linux and *nix variants.
As for how many browse online? Hard to say, though most if not all the Android installs do.
...and ".NET" to pretty much everything made in 2001-2002 that wasn't welded to the floor in Redmond.
(...including "Windows .Net Server" Go figure.)
FunnyJunk's Lawyer is suing.
Then maybe the douchebags at Funnyjunk should publicly disavow any connection to the douchebag who's doing the actual suing?
You know, like, sometime before the folks at CNN, BBC, et al decide to pick up the story and broadcast it with the lede: "...and in other news, the internet site funnyjunk.com is suing some comic site and TWO BIG CHARITIES today..." (followed of course by the charities giving a ton of damning soundbites that make the site and its lawyer look like massive, well, you know, douchebags...)
('course, there's still that whole douchebag factor, but that's not my problem. I'm only here to offer helpful advice about that lawyer vs. reputation thing).
Sue early, sue often. Sue pre-emptively.
...until you stumble into the Righthaven Effect
It's actually not as amazing as it seems... adult stem cells* have been used quite extensively, and for quite awhile. It also has the added advantage of compatibility.
* yes she's a kid, but they still call 'em adult cells, to distinguish them from the embryonic ones.
Pro tip: Blaming the consumer is only something that only the losers in the corporate world will ever do, and they usually do it in bankruptcy court.
If they do not buy your product, it is still your fault. If you want to survive, you need to find out why. It could be as simple as crappy marketing, but you still need to fix it if you want to stay alive.
There was plenty of both, but tell me - who made the decision to take Elop on, and who got themselves into such a position in the first place?
They brought it on themselves, and have only themselves to blame.
In all seriousness, Nokia sat around on its ass all smug and secure for way too long after the iPhone detonated, then redefined the market. Samsung, HTC, and many others busted ass to remake themselves and their products into credible contenders. Nokia sat around and watched their R&D flounder around, thinking they had all the time in the world to do something about it, all while pointing at Symbian's (then) massive dominance of the global smartphone markets. They then had a chance to make a clean break and start fresh, but they decided to back the wrong horse (with a nudge from their new Microsoftie CEO, natch).
Moral of the story? Apparently it's two-fold:
1) If you're on top, don't sit around on your ass all complacent about it.
2) Never hire anyone who has previously worked as a Microsoft executive. They *will* fuck you over.
What sibling said.
Hell, even the vendors here in Portland will pass word around (candidate names come up at a lunch meeting w/ a vendor, sales rep says "oh yeah - Joe Sixpack - he's the one who screwed over Acme WidgetCo... their billing was down for a month and it screwed us up pretty good..." )
It would depend on the employee, I suspect. As a sr. sysadmin, if my access was cut off, I'd know immediately what was up (since I'd need it for my job), and if I were unscrupulous, I'd have alternate backdoor accounts and backups already in place to suck out all the data that I really wanted. *shrug*.
I recall distinctly during my time with a certain F50 company that they would not only refuse to buy any of the secrets, but that they would be the first to call the FBI on you for trying. The last thing they wanted or needed was to have those secrets unearthed years later, potentially costing them billions of dollars.
Now the gray/black market? Maybe... but that's as much of a jail risk as carrying around an open box full of kiddy porn in front of a police station.
If anything, the things I can see IT employees walking out with are software licenses, images (even hardware!) and crap like that - things they would find useful to themselves later on.
Even better - pick up brass from any sporting/shooting event. Be sure to reload using cartridges from three different widely-separated gun ranges.
Good luck with that.
The firing pin? Anyone with even a half-assed mechanical shop and a small metal lathe can make new pins by the dozen: "Oh, sorry Ossifer, my pin broke and this was cheaper."
Besides... barrel rifling already makes a fingerprint-like marking on the shell/slug/bullet, and that's going to be a hell of a lot more useful in identifying the gun it was shot from than any other method thought up so far...
From the summary of your own cite:
"Contrary to some misunderstandings, Arrhenius does not explicitly ... (emphasis mine - the latter to point out a bit of weasel-wording by the summarizer).
suggest in this paper that the burning of fossil fuels will cause global
warming,though it is clear that he is aware that fossil fuels are a
potentially significant source of carbon dioxide (page 270), and he does
explicitly suggest this outcome in later work.
In other words, as stated: No one was putting forth the theory that the Earth was warming due to mankind's actions 120 years ago.
Meanwhile, you either had to rely on a half-assed out-of-context quote to try and carry your water for you, or your literacy skills are deficient - you pick.
So, about that "spouting lies" bit... maybe you'd like to stop doing that now? ;)
I'm not a Verizon customer. How exactly does one leave Verizon if one was never with them in the first place?
Wish I had mod points today... best opinion I've seen on the subject so far. You'll have to settle for a silent thumbs-up from this quarter, but the mods could do well to amp the post up for visibility.
It's a step in the right direction, but I'm not sure if it's out of any charity towards their customer base, or if it's because the previous policy of blindly complying with all these subpoenas was an expensive PITA for them.
I'd still rather masturbate with a fistful of broken glass than voluntarily use their services, but this act is a good first step towards reversing that opinion.
Thinking it over, I suspect that Verizon is about to prove that yes, consumers really are that stupid.
After all, they've been raping their customers for years, almost at will and whim. What makes 'em think that anything will change now?
Unless the other carrier follows suit, how on Earth do they expect to keep customers?
Certainly,while Sprint and T-Mobile may be small, and AT&T has sucky customer service and/or coverage (I'm sitting here at home with a AT&T smartphone that has zero signal - thank Heaven for automatic call forwarding), any of the three would be infinitely better than being forced to shit out what is likely going to be a three-digit cell phone bill each month.
Then again, knowing carriers, they'll likely start jacking their rates in proportion to how badly they want new customers vs. getting a piece of that pie.
How disingenuous...
Clue: No one was putting forth the theory that the Earth was warming due to mankind's actions 120 years ago, so unless you can post a paper stating otherwise, trot that troll elsewhere.
Furthermore, much proof has come forth since then showing that CO2 isn't even the biggest source of greenhouse gas (Try methane for starters, and there's a fuckton of that thawing out under the sea now, even after numerous downward estimate revisions. 'course, that alone would put a crimp in the ever-so-constant and "scientific consensus" of "itz ALL MANKINDZ FUALT!!!!!!11!!!BBQ!").
Hell, they can't even figure out yet what concentrations we actually have, what would be considered "normal", and what would cause this doom-laden runaway effect scenario that we were treated to not even 10 years ago.
The funny part is, the research itself is often rife with actions that reek of fraud (seriously, "hide the decline"? What the fuck kind of actual science does that fall under?) Then there's the niggling fact that almost every time someone brings up anything even remotely contrary, the interloper is immediately accused of being in the employ of "Big Oil", or is otherwise and unceremoniously blackballed from the community at large by all means deemed necessary.
Tell you what - when the pro-AGW types clean their act up, and actually present something that isn't slanted, in constant need of models more tailored to fit a hypothesis instead of testing it, or isn't rife with hysteria, then maybe they can get some credibility as real scientists.
So where are the reviews that actually challenge the hypothesis - or is that untouchable?