If the disc is warped, uneven, or unbalanced, it will cause DVD player failure. I know this because we've been through 6 DVD players in 3 1/2 years. My wife gets children's movies for my daughter from the library, they put stickers on them (on the center hub)... when these stickers are not placed on correctly they cause the disc to wobble, this kills motors dead.
Listen to the drive when you put a disc in, can you hear the disc spin up? If not, you've fried your motor, if so it's most likely a firmware issue. Since you've killed two DVD players though, it's more likely that the problem is the motor fried.
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Funny you should mention "flying cars" now...
I just saw (over at the drudge report) a link to a yahoo story about NASA and boeing teaming up to build flying cars to alleviate traffic crowding...
Where the hell are we given such a right as to "fair treatment and to not be humiliated"? While it's not very nice to say that the wanker bastard is a fat shit-shovelling blowhard shyster, if it's your OPINION, you have a right to state it... He has a right to retort, but not to tort. You have no right to not be offended, and arguing any differently would offend me and therefore nullify your argument.
Until we see the Patent Office being sued by someone/company that suffered financially or otherwise because of a bogus patent that the PTO granted, we won't see any significant changes to the way things work now. After a lawsuit or two they might finally get the hint to stop granting such bogus patents and maybe even (gasp!) start reviewing past ones once they realize those might become a liability.
Unfortunately, you cannot sue the federal government in it's official capacity, nor can you sue the employees in their professional capacity. In order to bring suit, you have to first request permission to sue them! A fox-n-hen-house thing... It would have to be a fairly gross violation (say a patent issued on breathing, and then half the US sued for violating the patent), before you'll garner the public attention necessary to warrant the court allowing a suit against a big-money winner like the PTO.
Wrong, natural Aspiration means no turbo or supercharger -- or in some purists belief's N2O. All Diesels are injected, most are turbo charged (not N/A). Be it mechanical or electronic injection, it's still injection -- without the above mentioned forced air inducers though, it's a N/A vehicle.
You are right, the technical term is "Inattentive driving"
Do you live out by St. Louis Park, Minnesota? If so, I think I went to school with you! Prince Wally? Can't be many of them, do you remember Jason? I was the third trouble maker -- and got kicked out/left school...
At my last "full time employee" position, I was charged with the responsibility of training my replacement in! At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that he only lasted two weeks.
And what is title x's USCA listing? Or the USC listing (United States Codes, Annotated -- or United States Codes). Got a case that cites it?
You are wrong, there is no such "law" in effect; in some states, under certain specific conditions, employers were found to have over-reached their bounds in disciplining people for web related activity, but this is NOT LAW! (It is sometimes referred to as "Case Law" but is "Non-Binding" in nature). If it were law, it would nullify the DMCA as the party of the first (ISP/Employer) would lack rights to monitor and/or manage the party of the second (pirate/copyright infringer). Further, anyone trying to enforce the DMCA after the first case would be liable for malicious prosecution, with intent to harm and/or disrupt business (a REALLY bad SLAPP suit). Also, it would make 8/10 insider crimes legal -- because the business could ONLY KNOW if they monitored for certain keywords (and you claimed ALL monitors are illegal).
There is no such thing as "US Public Law"... As the owner of a resource, or renter of a residence/property, you have a legal RIGHT to monitor all transactions -- and/or reject them -- including email, URLs, phone calls, and even Postal services (although, with the post, you cannot open an envelope, you can only direct it as accepted or not accepted at the address). I have seen cases go both ways with EMail and Phone service (POTS only, VoIP is still untested but the legal theory is that, since it uses IP tech, and resources paid by the company on a per bit/byte basis, it is under scrutiny of the said company). There are a lot of arguments that people should have a "right" to privacy at work -- but that right has only been extended (by the Courts) to the bathroom (restroom) and on breaks (while NOT utilizing company resources).
As for your (URL == excess data) problem, if an employee is eating company resources, they are criminally liable for disruption of business, and since it is utilizing your resources, you can monitor them.
I speak from experience, in four professional capacities -- Systems/Network Administrator, Legal Advisory consultant, technology, for law firm (high dollar paralegal) and a systems administrator for multiple law offices (my current profession, specializing in system/network administration for law offices/realitors), and finally a lawyer in Florida from 1996 to 2000.
I've personally fired a dozen or so people, and caused three times that to be fired -- solely based upon their email, web surfing and/or phone/personal contacts in the office. I regret costing someone their job, but am glad that I've protected the integrity of the firm(s), and stopped potential problems/conflicts of interest from ever arising! I have also voided contracts, cancelled customer accounts, and dropped my own clients for not going with my recommendations, all because of log analysis. I've been threatened with suits -- and sued -- for violation of privacy, but, since they utilized a network that I had a policy on (published, and given to customers/clients/employees), they had NO recourse.
Here in Minnesota, driving while on a cell phone is considered a "driver distraction" and you can get a ticket for it (I know a couple of people with a number of tickets for this)... As to the headphones, it's illegal to wear a stereo headphone (or almost anything covering both ears). I was pulled over for wearing "headphones" a couple of years ago, the officer saw that it only covered one ear, and let me go -- thanking me for not holding the cellphone while I was talking.
Yesterday, I was on the phone with the local telco (Qwest) trying to get a damaged Cell Phone repaired. The call was tinny, echoed, had lag, and faded in and out -- after a little while, the call actually just dropped.
I got a call back about 5 minutes later, from Qwest, and found out that they've switched a lot of their support staff to VoIP! They should have gone with a better carrier though -- this call was like an 80's Cell Phone, almost out of range!
Bottom line (and the on topic point) is: I don't think they'll have too many problems with converting to VoIP, as long as they use an ILEC/CLEC to do it.
I know that you can have multiple users accessing the same MS Access database, and even the same recordset; but that would be with a fully scripted program, which is what I was arguing in favour of. Two users can't click the same access database (even on a file server) and utilize the same tables with read/write access. I think it is beyond the scope of most secretaries (and, from what I've seen, most in-house IT guys) to produce a multi-user accessable database interface application with Access (remember, this was about forms and reports originally); thereby eliminating the "cost savings" of using the industry standard so that even the secretary can roll out a database.
If you are rolling out a new product, you can use MS Access -- and if you already have it, and the staff in place to support it, you would be silly not to use it unless it's an enterprise class or a mission critical database. If you do not have the staff and data tools yet, it can (and I've found normally is) cheaper and more efficient to use "free" tools and roll out a custom system (you would be doing the same thing with Access). I've rolled out Access, MS-SQL, and PostgreSQL solutions for clients, and have to say that they are most happy with the Postgres/Web App solutions because they are easier for the clients' employees to learn, and are a little more robust. This is personal experience though, I know that there are others that have had the exact opposite results, I respect that their client set is different than mine, and I realize that the "one size fits all" solution is NOT a solution at all.
Although I don't agree that the secretary, or even average tech guy, should be writing the database interface (much less the database), I have seen those a lot.
I'd forgotten about the point-n-click wizards for Access; but I thought you still needed to code your data sources, etc. I was coming at this from a different perspective though, also -- A lot of the discussion surrounding office suites and their payoffs is the allmighty ROI. If you are starting a new program/service/specialty at a company, or just expanding an existing one, it will be more efficient, and cheaper, in the long run to have these things done properly; I'm not saying that's what happens, I'm saying that with the clients I've had where this DOES happen, they save money and time (meaning more money).
As for PHP, I again concede, if a person is trained in (or even self-taught sometimes) a programming or scripting language, they can generate a much better system for getting stuff done. Again, this is a bottom line ROI statement (and for me, I find it easier to knock out a database and forms in PostgreSQL/Perl or PHP than to click one out in Access -- and I can have a much richer feature set when I work with the scripting).
With the Jet Driver, do you mean using remote tables in local databases and setting up single record gets and Views? If so, although these can be point -n-clicked, you still do need to (lite use of term)code (/lite use of term) a little bit (it's more than the average person does anyway).
All said, I agree with your basic points, if it's just a "get through this" type of DB, then Access will do, if on the other hand it's critical, I think that the overall cost in time, money, reliability, etc. outweighs the benefit of the secretary being able to click it out on her lunch break.
That's not totally true. ROI is not always cheaper "going with what you know". I've converted offices from MS Office to OOo with custom web access database forms, etc. Yes, my consulting fee is probably a little higher than the initial buy-in cost of MS-Office; but that fee comes with training for employees, and, as I've implied, custom web based business software (customer/products/sales/tech). The trend I've noticed is that it's easier to train a person to go to a page (site) select the group they need, log into that group, and work from there (ie. tech support logging into tech, and pulling the latest unresolved trouble tickets to resolve them; and Cron archiving finished trouble tickets every hour).
A big problem with going with the "corporate standard" is lock-in, forced upgrades, and the associated problems when all people in the loop don't upgrade.
A case in point would be a previous client of mine. This company had developers that liked to be cutting edge, and ran a service for thousands of clients buying and selling parts (not an auction house -- a vendor to vendor sales service). The biggest problem we faced were various versions of Office! Part of my job was to make sure that files clients sent in were imported into a database in near real-time -- after they were reviewed and saved in a uniform format (see comment lower down), the problem arose because of the various versions of Excel (their customers' most common file format -- XLS). The final solution was to stop using MS to make these imports and host the data -- we moved all of the database and import software off MS, put the DB in PostgreSQL and wrote a Perl importer. Worked like a dream, and was able to handle all office imports (including DBF and MDB files). Prior to this move, there were two people assigned to review the files, and save them in a uniform version -- this consumed about 12 business hours a day (they both had other official duties that had to be neglected), after the importer was done, they no longer even received the emails with the files -- their workload was combined, and one person was all that was needed. They converted internally to OOo, and send out everything in PDF now. The ROI for this client was best served with the cheapest office product because of the various versions of the "corporate standard" that are out there. Training took no longer than training on a new version of MS Office would have taken, and the buy-in was much lower; in addition, they no longer needed to use the office suite to access the SQL Server (MS-SQL 7.0), and no longer needed to do database edits by hand (a BIG no-no anyway). The office solution alone only saved them a few thousand dollars, but the combined savings (12 billed hours daily, licensing, uptime, customer service, costs associated with system growth because of more customers/records) allowed them to take a considerable saving, and a REAL and VISIBLE ROI.
You do realize that these easy to access forms and reports have to be written/designed right? For the data access, these forms use VBA, to populate them and to write back to the database, that has to be coded in, along with the form fields being assigned data fields, the form needing to be designed, etc. This is no different than coding simple web forms in Perl or PHP using ODBC to interact with a database. I believe you can even write forms and reports in OOo that interact with databases, and you will have the same results! I personally would rather write a Perl or PHP interface for a database, and set SP/Triggers on the database -- then some tasks can be automated even (Cron or at); initial coding of a set of web docs may take longer, but in the end (with proper checks and balances coded in) it will be much more efficient and reliable than a point and click database.
Also, in Access, only one person can change a database at a time -- if these are really for the secretary, and office staff (something like a customer contact database, or an order handling database, or even a trouble ticket system -- yes these all DO wind up in MS Access some times), but only one person can access them at a time, this could cause serious productivity issues! (What happens when the secretary goes for lunch, locks her screen, and forgets that she's got the database open for customer edits, and the sales manager needs to update a critical client's information?) I understand that using JET or ODBC or ADO you can script a web page/program to allow multiple connections to an MS Access database; but at that point, why not move on to something a little more robust, and with the ability to do realtime data backups and moves without overtaxing the system it's on?
I have to use racing fuel/small airplane fuel in mine. The fuel is 102-110 Octane lead gas. The motor is a 1970 Buick 455; back in the day (during the lead gas years, and for a while after phase-out) Premium Gas was 100-102 octane. Most people who own these old engines decide to stick with the high compression (10.50:1 in my car, before the heads were decked, now about 12:1) in the engine, and the soft valve seats. We just buy gas in 55 gallon drums (or pull up to the pump at small airports, and pay 2.50-3.50 a gallon).
That Octane Booster doesn't really help, all it does is pollute, and foul plugs (most of it is not even flamable).
As for gas milage -- I have my 455 in my Camaro, it pulls 10's on the track; but when driven on the street gets about 19/22 miles per gallon.
I agree with the oral contracts for those listed -- and many others, with these though, the conditions are made known (price per distance listed on/in taxi -- price of beer made known -- terms of parking lot posted). They are obvious exchanges, but, in this case the contract is not obvious, nor is it expected, but it IS written.
Because of these (the non-obvious nature, and the written contract) must be fully viewable and agreeable to both parties prior to the sale. Also, if it is infact a lease (no matter what the terms), this must be noted.
Simply noting that a license is enclosed can not be valid proof of consent to the license, because the buyer has not had the opportunity to agree to the license after fully reading (and theoretically understanding) it but, prior to entry into it.
I don't think even the voided warranty is correct. Ford, GM, and Chrysler DID try to put warranty clauses in stating that if you used aftermarket parts, your warranty would be voided. This was struck down, and made specifically illegal (with certain exceptions... ie. a Nitrous Oxide boost on your car WILL void the warranty -- but then, it's normally illegal on the street anyway). Car manufacterers have tried a number of these types of "warranty clauses" to make a person use/buy only dealer authorized parts/services, and every time, they've been stricken down specifically because you've bought the vehicle (even using Ford or GMAC financing). The most common one is fluid changes and routine vehicle maintenance.
Contract law is a very finicky field, if you've ever bought or sold products, services or other goods based upon a license/contract/deed, you've seen that the contract must lay out, in minute detail, all items to be transferred, all services to be rendered, and limitations on the same prior to the sale; this also must be done after clearly identifying ALL parties to the contract, and all parties must agree to be bound by the specific terms set forth. With Contracts there is always the requirement of knowledge of the content of the contract, and a specific agreement to the terms of the contract.
Unless you sign an agreement prior to purchase, there can be no lease/rental. A contract must be written and agreed to BY BOTH PARTIES prior to the exchange of goods (or services). If this "eula" is inside the tool's packaging, then it is not enforceable -- further, the company may be liable for civil penalties if they try to enforce the contract, because it would be a "bad faith" action. Use of the tool cannot imply agreement with the license, that agreement can only be made prior to purchase, because the first party to the agreement (seller) has already benefited from the transfer of goods, and sold the goods without any contract attached. To try to enforce THIS license after the purchase could be akin to bait and switch (advertising or selling a product as something that it is not), in this case, the baiting would be a "general sale of the tool," with the switch happening if the company were to try to change the sale to an unlimited term of lease with specific limitations, via ex post facto attachment of license to the product.
Most EULAs are a moot license, and therefore, unenforceable from the start, because the contract is not given, and agreed to, prior to a party to the sale receiving benefits, and without a waiver prior to sale of the right to purchase an unecumbered product.
This troll is old, I saw it back when the 2.4 Kernel was going frozen! Try some new material; and try to actually test what you say.
Visual Basic (VB) can NOT go as low as C, because VB is literally tied into the GUI of windows, whereas C can be used to write an OS. There are other "technical reasons" why VB can't get as low as C (as you, being a veteran VB Programmer MUST know!) BTW, you say Newest Version, not VB.Net -- the only way I've heard a VB programmer refer to VB.net. I've programmed VB; I have an MCSD and an MCSE (I think that's expired though, since TCP and WinNT are no longer recognized certs). I've written alot in VB, including really basic converter programs (excel/DB3/CSV to TAB format for DB import) -- for a small file (only 1.4 million records) it took VB almost 20 minutes to do the conversion and insert into the Database (MS-SQL 7.0); it took perl about 2 minutes to do the conversion and the import (same file, and database server, identical databases -- on same server). When I migrated the database to PostgreSQL, it took Perl 48-70 seconds to do the conversion and import, whereas VB took almost 40 minutes.
As for your Apache VS. IIS -- I call BS! You know not of that which you speak... I won't bother 'debunking' you -- it'd probably be a little too technical for you. With Bind, how did it cause your kernel to panic? That's just not possible. And, a lack of journalled filing systems? I have run tests on the ReiserFS (for journalling qualities -- ie. being able to recover from a power outage/crash, or multiples, even during recovery), and have to say that I am more impressed with it (especially in a RAID5 arrangement) than ANY file system I have dealt with. SMP support lacking? I run 2 procs on my desktop computer, with 6GB of RAM. My uptime is 9 months on my mail server; that's with me updating everything but my kernel, no need to reboot for server upgrades (server being a daemon that serves). My desktop is 5 months, and that's only because I got pissed at my fax for crashing, and yanked the power strip they are both hooked to.
You are a troll, I am responding to you, knowing you are a troll, but I don't like seeing this kinda' crap even when it's just trolling.
I have been unemployed for more than 7 months now... NOT because I don't have qualifications (or even "certs")... the last FOUR jobs I have received a response for -- and had preliminary employment interviews with -- said the same thing "I'm sorry, but, we've outsourced overseas".
Tell my daughter, who lives month to month (at THREE YEARS OLD) not knowing if this will be "home", that there are others that deserve the money more! Tell my wife, who works 50+ hours a week -- to help me (and unemployment) make ends meet -- that some fucktard bastard, who DOESN'T EVEN LIVE in this country, deserves MY JOBS more than I do!
I know 6 programming languages -- and by "know" I don't mean "look in THAT book"... I have more experience with UNIX/Linux than my father-in-law who has been in "the industry" for 30 years, and an IBM ONLY contractor for almost 20.
I work THREE jobs, as a consultant -- for computer systems and networks (Even though I am a trained, and studied programmer; and a systems administrator who will pull 72 hour shifts), as a mechanic (because I can build custom street legal 10 second cars, and fix your 2003 Toyota with the same tools), and as a flooring installer (even though I have a bullet scar through my left leg, an have had surgery on my right leg three times; two due to carpet installation)...
I will admit; we lived comfortably, and had ALL of the amentities (my wife had her nails done while the house was cleaned) -- and I don't begrudge ANYONE anything, UNLESS it's because some fuckup of an American Company decided to lower their bottom line by canning us American Workers for some half-ass BUT HALF PAID third-world wannabe who would work for nothing. Guess what fuckhead; my skills ARE WORTH the amount I charge, I am reasonable, I don't want to take advantage of anyone -- I just want the YEARS of dedication I've put into my love of computers, and my learning because of that love, to be justly rewarded!
Rate me as Troll -- guess what, as an Angry American who has been fucked by enough "foreign interests" who are interested in only bringing their top-dollar mark up -- and by enough "American Companies" who wanted to bring their "bottom-dollar" down, I am ready to be a troll!
Again, I offer a hearty FUCK YOU -- from the working class American who is losing jobs because of opinions JUST LIKE YOURS!
I try to find the most offensive way to tell Telemarketers to piss off. I live in the U.S.; in a state which has single party consent recording -- I also pay almost $12.00 a month to have 3 different screening options on my phone, they still get through sometimes though! I start by answering the phone with a "Hello you've reached ; by continuing with this call you consent to be recorded and accept all charges incurred, our rate is $150 an hour for telephone support with a 3 hour minimum" By then the recording of theirs is done -- but they continue. Since "Autodialers" are supposed to be illegal, I had to talk to a person -- or they violated the law! After that, I will either try to sell them something, convert them to a religion, push my favourite politition on them, rant at them, or have phone sex -- it all depends on my mood. Another fun one, if they get through and I am too busy to try to see who it is -- I answer the phone "911 What is your emergency" or "ER, what's the patient name, status, and what is the ETA". I've answered customers of mine with the 911 line, and we had a laugh about it; they don't like telemarketers either, and thought it was interesting to deal with them like this.
Telemarketers cause me great annoyance! I would gladly torture them with Barry Manilow for 10-500 hours in a Sensory Deprivation tank -- if I could get them to just come over! I don't personally advocate real violence against the telemarketers; but I do believe that harrassing them is no worse than what they do to me! (Great thing is that my fax line is my published number, so they rarely get my voice line number, and rarer still do they get through).
Your argument that the caller is merely an innocent that is doing their job is bullshit; if I set up a drug ring, and hire people to only call my customers to sell them more dope, those people are still commiting a crime! Whether they know that it's actual dope, or think I really am selling that many sets of knives to the same people! To me I'm dealing with something worse than a machine -- I am dealing with a person who made a concious decision to partake in a business founded on fraud, deceipt and preying on the weak. I can tolerate collections callers; they have a legitimate reason to place the call -- but a telemarketer using either a computer to generate numbers OR any other form of Autodialer -- they are scum, they are spammers with bad intent, they peddle their wares to unsuspecting victims. They are the same as the con artist who reads the Obits. and goes to the grieving family to deliver the Bible or art pic, or even family photo (to be taken today!) that was ordered last month -- and collect the money. As far as telemarketers go, I think they are worse than spammers or direct mailers (spammers hit my filters, I get a piece of spam a month, direct mailers -- I write "no longer at this address" and send it back).
You could have been modded down, but I decided to post a reply to your well intentioned -- but poorly thought out -- post. I don't think harrassing people who harrass you is wrong, or even slightly immoral, I think that founding a business that is built on fraud, deception, or even annoyance and power sales IS wrong and immoral. Also, for future reference, a good argument does not need vulgarity to make it's point -- it needs consice issues raised and answered, in a fashion that allows an open discourse; otherwise it looks like either another troll or a bit of flamebate.
They are made by putting a spark plug, propane tank and ignition switch on the vehicle (or in some cases just a plug and ignition switch); mine runs on 12 volts... and I get flames about 8 feet out (Big Motor/Big Exhaust, only fires when tacking over 3000 AND the button is pushed).
Anyway, a 12v charge is plenty to get a spark -- just not enough to get a "hot" spark, like the one you would get from an HEI or points ignition.
300+ HP? repeat after me "THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR BIG DISPLACEMENT"... My Buick 455 Stage 2 Year 1 (1970 Buick Wildcat Custom) idles at 300 HP... and lights the tires at 50 MPH. It had (factory) 370 HP and 510 Ft.Lbs. of torque... at the rear wheel. I've added a little, like a bigger carb, HEI, true 2.5 inch dual exhaust (with headers), and a single plane intake (next step is either 2x4 or a 6 pack:D). Dino'd at 600+ HP and 800+ Torque. I plan on actually building it up one day... I haven't restored the body yet, because once that's done rice runners won't race me any more;) If you are hell bent on a small engine though, and wanna' see people shit themselves, go get a 1985-87 High Deck 2.4L Dodge charger (carbed), stroke the bastard, bore it 60 over, turbo charge it, replace the 2bbl with the MP 4bbl carb. The engine was designed by Carrol Shelby (of Shelby Mustang fame); it's actually a destroked 2.6. I've seen 'em built up to produce over 350 HP, without juice or computers (or even injection). As for those vette's beat on! I hate those bastards...always trying to pass you, and getting mad when they can't! As for the YMMV mine doesn't vary at all:( 7 MPG, and it'll be going down with a new carb system. But, you are kinda' wrong about 1500 not being streetable... just don't let 'em catch you "streeting" it! Last rant... 12-18" 4 wheel Bear Claws are NOT for light cars, the are for beasts like mine (6,000 lbs). Bear Claws are nice and all... but you people with the big V's need 'em (hint LOSE THE 4 Wheel Drums!), and you people with the 4's DON'T... they will NOT help you stop better.
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If the disc is warped, uneven, or unbalanced, it will cause DVD player failure. I know this because we've been through 6 DVD players in 3 1/2 years. My wife gets children's movies for my daughter from the library, they put stickers on them (on the center hub)... when these stickers are not placed on correctly they cause the disc to wobble, this kills motors dead.
Listen to the drive when you put a disc in, can you hear the disc spin up? If not, you've fried your motor, if so it's most likely a firmware issue. Since you've killed two DVD players though, it's more likely that the problem is the motor fried.
Funny you should mention "flying cars" now... I just saw (over at the drudge report) a link to a yahoo story about NASA and boeing teaming up to build flying cars to alleviate traffic crowding...
Where the hell are we given such a right as to "fair treatment and to not be humiliated"?
While it's not very nice to say that the wanker bastard is a fat shit-shovelling blowhard shyster, if it's your OPINION, you have a right to state it... He has a right to retort, but not to tort. You have no right to not be offended, and arguing any differently would offend me and therefore nullify your argument.
Until we see the Patent Office being sued by someone/company that suffered financially or otherwise because of a bogus patent that the PTO granted, we won't see any significant changes to the way things work now. After a lawsuit or two they might finally get the hint to stop granting such bogus patents and maybe even (gasp!) start reviewing past ones once they realize those might become a liability.
Unfortunately, you cannot sue the federal government in it's official capacity, nor can you sue the employees in their professional capacity. In order to bring suit, you have to first request permission to sue them! A fox-n-hen-house thing... It would have to be a fairly gross violation (say a patent issued on breathing, and then half the US sued for violating the patent), before you'll garner the public attention necessary to warrant the court allowing a suit against a big-money winner like the PTO.
Wrong, natural Aspiration means no turbo or supercharger -- or in some purists belief's N2O.
All Diesels are injected, most are turbo charged (not N/A). Be it mechanical or electronic injection, it's still injection -- without the above mentioned forced air inducers though, it's a N/A vehicle.
So what everyone is getting at is simply:
Let's take spam "assassin" to a new level?
Could be a nice new field for laid of tech workers!
That's the Marines!
I need to get your email address! It's been a while since we talked; didn't hear the school closed down -- too bad.
You are right, the technical term is "Inattentive driving"
Do you live out by St. Louis Park, Minnesota?
If so, I think I went to school with you!
Prince Wally? Can't be many of them, do you remember Jason? I was the third trouble maker -- and got kicked out/left school...
At my last "full time employee" position, I was charged with the responsibility of training my replacement in! At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that he only lasted two weeks.
And what is title x's USCA listing? Or the USC listing (United States Codes, Annotated -- or United States Codes). Got a case that cites it?
... As the owner of a resource, or renter of a residence/property, you have a legal RIGHT to monitor all transactions -- and/or reject them -- including email, URLs, phone calls, and even Postal services (although, with the post, you cannot open an envelope, you can only direct it as accepted or not accepted at the address). I have seen cases go both ways with EMail and Phone service (POTS only, VoIP is still untested but the legal theory is that, since it uses IP tech, and resources paid by the company on a per bit/byte basis, it is under scrutiny of the said company). There are a lot of arguments that people should have a "right" to privacy at work -- but that right has only been extended (by the Courts) to the bathroom (restroom) and on breaks (while NOT utilizing company resources).
You are wrong, there is no such "law" in effect; in some states, under certain specific conditions, employers were found to have over-reached their bounds in disciplining people for web related activity, but this is NOT LAW! (It is sometimes referred to as "Case Law" but is "Non-Binding" in nature). If it were law, it would nullify the DMCA as the party of the first (ISP/Employer) would lack rights to monitor and/or manage the party of the second (pirate/copyright infringer). Further, anyone trying to enforce the DMCA after the first case would be liable for malicious prosecution, with intent to harm and/or disrupt business (a REALLY bad SLAPP suit). Also, it would make 8/10 insider crimes legal -- because the business could ONLY KNOW if they monitored for certain keywords (and you claimed ALL monitors are illegal).
There is no such thing as "US Public Law"
As for your (URL == excess data) problem, if an employee is eating company resources, they are criminally liable for disruption of business, and since it is utilizing your resources, you can monitor them.
I speak from experience, in four professional capacities -- Systems/Network Administrator, Legal Advisory consultant, technology, for law firm (high dollar paralegal) and a systems administrator for multiple law offices (my current profession, specializing in system/network administration for law offices/realitors), and finally a lawyer in Florida from 1996 to 2000.
I've personally fired a dozen or so people, and caused three times that to be fired -- solely based upon their email, web surfing and/or phone/personal contacts in the office. I regret costing someone their job, but am glad that I've protected the integrity of the firm(s), and stopped potential problems/conflicts of interest from ever arising! I have also voided contracts, cancelled customer accounts, and dropped my own clients for not going with my recommendations, all because of log analysis. I've been threatened with suits -- and sued -- for violation of privacy, but, since they utilized a network that I had a policy on (published, and given to customers/clients/employees), they had NO recourse.
Here in Minnesota, driving while on a cell phone is considered a "driver distraction" and you can get a ticket for it (I know a couple of people with a number of tickets for this)... As to the headphones, it's illegal to wear a stereo headphone (or almost anything covering both ears). I was pulled over for wearing "headphones" a couple of years ago, the officer saw that it only covered one ear, and let me go -- thanking me for not holding the cellphone while I was talking.
Yesterday, I was on the phone with the local telco (Qwest) trying to get a damaged Cell Phone repaired. The call was tinny, echoed, had lag, and faded in and out -- after a little while, the call actually just dropped.
I got a call back about 5 minutes later, from Qwest, and found out that they've switched a lot of their support staff to VoIP! They should have gone with a better carrier though -- this call was like an 80's Cell Phone, almost out of range!
Bottom line (and the on topic point) is: I don't think they'll have too many problems with converting to VoIP, as long as they use an ILEC/CLEC to do it.
I know that you can have multiple users accessing the same MS Access database, and even the same recordset; but that would be with a fully scripted program, which is what I was arguing in favour of. Two users can't click the same access database (even on a file server) and utilize the same tables with read/write access. I think it is beyond the scope of most secretaries (and, from what I've seen, most in-house IT guys) to produce a multi-user accessable database interface application with Access (remember, this was about forms and reports originally); thereby eliminating the "cost savings" of using the industry standard so that even the secretary can roll out a database.
If you are rolling out a new product, you can use MS Access -- and if you already have it, and the staff in place to support it, you would be silly not to use it unless it's an enterprise class or a mission critical database. If you do not have the staff and data tools yet, it can (and I've found normally is) cheaper and more efficient to use "free" tools and roll out a custom system (you would be doing the same thing with Access). I've rolled out Access, MS-SQL, and PostgreSQL solutions for clients, and have to say that they are most happy with the Postgres/Web App solutions because they are easier for the clients' employees to learn, and are a little more robust. This is personal experience though, I know that there are others that have had the exact opposite results, I respect that their client set is different than mine, and I realize that the "one size fits all" solution is NOT a solution at all.
Point conceded!
Although I don't agree that the secretary, or even average tech guy, should be writing the database interface (much less the database), I have seen those a lot.
I'd forgotten about the point-n-click wizards for Access; but I thought you still needed to code your data sources, etc.
I was coming at this from a different perspective though, also -- A lot of the discussion surrounding office suites and their payoffs is the allmighty ROI. If you are starting a new program/service/specialty at a company, or just expanding an existing one, it will be more efficient, and cheaper, in the long run to have these things done properly; I'm not saying that's what happens, I'm saying that with the clients I've had where this DOES happen, they save money and time (meaning more money).
As for PHP, I again concede, if a person is trained in (or even self-taught sometimes) a programming or scripting language, they can generate a much better system for getting stuff done. Again, this is a bottom line ROI statement (and for me, I find it easier to knock out a database and forms in PostgreSQL/Perl or PHP than to click one out in Access -- and I can have a much richer feature set when I work with the scripting).
With the Jet Driver, do you mean using remote tables in local databases and setting up single record gets and Views? If so, although these can be point -n-clicked, you still do need to (lite use of term)code (/lite use of term) a little bit (it's more than the average person does anyway).
All said, I agree with your basic points, if it's just a "get through this" type of DB, then Access will do, if on the other hand it's critical, I think that the overall cost in time, money, reliability, etc. outweighs the benefit of the secretary being able to click it out on her lunch break.
That's not totally true. ROI is not always cheaper "going with what you know". I've converted offices from MS Office to OOo with custom web access database forms, etc. Yes, my consulting fee is probably a little higher than the initial buy-in cost of MS-Office; but that fee comes with training for employees, and, as I've implied, custom web based business software (customer/products/sales/tech). The trend I've noticed is that it's easier to train a person to go to a page (site) select the group they need, log into that group, and work from there (ie. tech support logging into tech, and pulling the latest unresolved trouble tickets to resolve them; and Cron archiving finished trouble tickets every hour).
A big problem with going with the "corporate standard" is lock-in, forced upgrades, and the associated problems when all people in the loop don't upgrade.
A case in point would be a previous client of mine. This company had developers that liked to be cutting edge, and ran a service for thousands of clients buying and selling parts (not an auction house -- a vendor to vendor sales service). The biggest problem we faced were various versions of Office! Part of my job was to make sure that files clients sent in were imported into a database in near real-time -- after they were reviewed and saved in a uniform format (see comment lower down), the problem arose because of the various versions of Excel (their customers' most common file format -- XLS). The final solution was to stop using MS to make these imports and host the data -- we moved all of the database and import software off MS, put the DB in PostgreSQL and wrote a Perl importer. Worked like a dream, and was able to handle all office imports (including DBF and MDB files). Prior to this move, there were two people assigned to review the files, and save them in a uniform version -- this consumed about 12 business hours a day (they both had other official duties that had to be neglected), after the importer was done, they no longer even received the emails with the files -- their workload was combined, and one person was all that was needed. They converted internally to OOo, and send out everything in PDF now. The ROI for this client was best served with the cheapest office product because of the various versions of the "corporate standard" that are out there. Training took no longer than training on a new version of MS Office would have taken, and the buy-in was much lower; in addition, they no longer needed to use the office suite to access the SQL Server (MS-SQL 7.0), and no longer needed to do database edits by hand (a BIG no-no anyway). The office solution alone only saved them a few thousand dollars, but the combined savings (12 billed hours daily, licensing, uptime, customer service, costs associated with system growth because of more customers/records) allowed them to take a considerable saving, and a REAL and VISIBLE ROI.
You do realize that these easy to access forms and reports have to be written/designed right? For the data access, these forms use VBA, to populate them and to write back to the database, that has to be coded in, along with the form fields being assigned data fields, the form needing to be designed, etc. This is no different than coding simple web forms in Perl or PHP using ODBC to interact with a database. I believe you can even write forms and reports in OOo that interact with databases, and you will have the same results! I personally would rather write a Perl or PHP interface for a database, and set SP/Triggers on the database -- then some tasks can be automated even (Cron or at); initial coding of a set of web docs may take longer, but in the end (with proper checks and balances coded in) it will be much more efficient and reliable than a point and click database.
Also, in Access, only one person can change a database at a time -- if these are really for the secretary, and office staff (something like a customer contact database, or an order handling database, or even a trouble ticket system -- yes these all DO wind up in MS Access some times), but only one person can access them at a time, this could cause serious productivity issues! (What happens when the secretary goes for lunch, locks her screen, and forgets that she's got the database open for customer edits, and the sales manager needs to update a critical client's information?) I understand that using JET or ODBC or ADO you can script a web page/program to allow multiple connections to an MS Access database; but at that point, why not move on to something a little more robust, and with the ability to do realtime data backups and moves without overtaxing the system it's on?
I have to use racing fuel/small airplane fuel in mine. The fuel is 102-110 Octane lead gas. The motor is a 1970 Buick 455; back in the day (during the lead gas years, and for a while after phase-out) Premium Gas was 100-102 octane. Most people who own these old engines decide to stick with the high compression (10.50:1 in my car, before the heads were decked, now about 12:1) in the engine, and the soft valve seats. We just buy gas in 55 gallon drums (or pull up to the pump at small airports, and pay 2.50-3.50 a gallon).
That Octane Booster doesn't really help, all it does is pollute, and foul plugs (most of it is not even flamable).
As for gas milage -- I have my 455 in my Camaro, it pulls 10's on the track; but when driven on the street gets about 19/22 miles per gallon.
I agree with the oral contracts for those listed -- and many others, with these though, the conditions are made known (price per distance listed on/in taxi -- price of beer made known -- terms of parking lot posted). They are obvious exchanges, but, in this case the contract is not obvious, nor is it expected, but it IS written.
Because of these (the non-obvious nature, and the written contract) must be fully viewable and agreeable to both parties prior to the sale. Also, if it is infact a lease (no matter what the terms), this must be noted.
Simply noting that a license is enclosed can not be valid proof of consent to the license, because the buyer has not had the opportunity to agree to the license after fully reading (and theoretically understanding) it but, prior to entry into it.
I don't think even the voided warranty is correct. Ford, GM, and Chrysler DID try to put warranty clauses in stating that if you used aftermarket parts, your warranty would be voided. This was struck down, and made specifically illegal (with certain exceptions... ie. a Nitrous Oxide boost on your car WILL void the warranty -- but then, it's normally illegal on the street anyway). Car manufacterers have tried a number of these types of "warranty clauses" to make a person use/buy only dealer authorized parts/services, and every time, they've been stricken down specifically because you've bought the vehicle (even using Ford or GMAC financing). The most common one is fluid changes and routine vehicle maintenance.
Contract law is a very finicky field, if you've ever bought or sold products, services or other goods based upon a license/contract/deed, you've seen that the contract must lay out, in minute detail, all items to be transferred, all services to be rendered, and limitations on the same prior to the sale; this also must be done after clearly identifying ALL parties to the contract, and all parties must agree to be bound by the specific terms set forth. With Contracts there is always the requirement of knowledge of the content of the contract, and a specific agreement to the terms of the contract.
Unless you sign an agreement prior to purchase, there can be no lease/rental. A contract must be written and agreed to BY BOTH PARTIES prior to the exchange of goods (or services). If this "eula" is inside the tool's packaging, then it is not enforceable -- further, the company may be liable for civil penalties if they try to enforce the contract, because it would be a "bad faith" action. Use of the tool cannot imply agreement with the license, that agreement can only be made prior to purchase, because the first party to the agreement (seller) has already benefited from the transfer of goods, and sold the goods without any contract attached. To try to enforce THIS license after the purchase could be akin to bait and switch (advertising or selling a product as something that it is not), in this case, the baiting would be a "general sale of the tool," with the switch happening if the company were to try to change the sale to an unlimited term of lease with specific limitations, via ex post facto attachment of license to the product.
Most EULAs are a moot license, and therefore, unenforceable from the start, because the contract is not given, and agreed to, prior to a party to the sale receiving benefits, and without a waiver prior to sale of the right to purchase an unecumbered product.
This troll is old, I saw it back when the 2.4 Kernel was going frozen! Try some new material; and try to actually test what you say.
Visual Basic (VB) can NOT go as low as C, because VB is literally tied into the GUI of windows, whereas C can be used to write an OS. There are other "technical reasons" why VB can't get as low as C (as you, being a veteran VB Programmer MUST know!) BTW, you say Newest Version, not VB.Net -- the only way I've heard a VB programmer refer to VB.net. I've programmed VB; I have an MCSD and an MCSE (I think that's expired though, since TCP and WinNT are no longer recognized certs). I've written alot in VB, including really basic converter programs (excel/DB3/CSV to TAB format for DB import) -- for a small file (only 1.4 million records) it took VB almost 20 minutes to do the conversion and insert into the Database (MS-SQL 7.0); it took perl about 2 minutes to do the conversion and the import (same file, and database server, identical databases -- on same server). When I migrated the database to PostgreSQL, it took Perl 48-70 seconds to do the conversion and import, whereas VB took almost 40 minutes.
As for your Apache VS. IIS -- I call BS! You know not of that which you speak... I won't bother 'debunking' you -- it'd probably be a little too technical for you. With Bind, how did it cause your kernel to panic? That's just not possible. And, a lack of journalled filing systems? I have run tests on the ReiserFS (for journalling qualities -- ie. being able to recover from a power outage/crash, or multiples, even during recovery), and have to say that I am more impressed with it (especially in a RAID5 arrangement) than ANY file system I have dealt with. SMP support lacking? I run 2 procs on my desktop computer, with 6GB of RAM. My uptime is 9 months on my mail server; that's with me updating everything but my kernel, no need to reboot for server upgrades (server being a daemon that serves). My desktop is 5 months, and that's only because I got pissed at my fax for crashing, and yanked the power strip they are both hooked to.
You are a troll, I am responding to you, knowing you are a troll, but I don't like seeing this kinda' crap even when it's just trolling.
FUCK YOU
... the last FOUR jobs I have received a response for -- and had preliminary employment interviews with -- said the same thing "I'm sorry, but, we've outsourced overseas".
I have been unemployed for more than 7 months now... NOT because I don't have qualifications (or even "certs")
Tell my daughter, who lives month to month (at THREE YEARS OLD) not knowing if this will be "home", that there are others that deserve the money more! Tell my wife, who works 50+ hours a week -- to help me (and unemployment) make ends meet -- that some fucktard bastard, who DOESN'T EVEN LIVE in this country, deserves MY JOBS more than I do!
I know 6 programming languages -- and by "know" I don't mean "look in THAT book"... I have more experience with UNIX/Linux than my father-in-law who has been in "the industry" for 30 years, and an IBM ONLY contractor for almost 20.
I work THREE jobs, as a consultant -- for computer systems and networks (Even though I am a trained, and studied programmer; and a systems administrator who will pull 72 hour shifts), as a mechanic (because I can build custom street legal 10 second cars, and fix your 2003 Toyota with the same tools), and as a flooring installer (even though I have a bullet scar through my left leg, an have had surgery on my right leg three times; two due to carpet installation)...
I will admit; we lived comfortably, and had ALL of the amentities (my wife had her nails done while the house was cleaned) -- and I don't begrudge ANYONE anything, UNLESS it's because some fuckup of an American Company decided to lower their bottom line by canning us American Workers for some half-ass BUT HALF PAID third-world wannabe who would work for nothing. Guess what fuckhead; my skills ARE WORTH the amount I charge, I am reasonable, I don't want to take advantage of anyone -- I just want the YEARS of dedication I've put into my love of computers, and my learning because of that love, to be justly rewarded!
Rate me as Troll -- guess what, as an Angry American who has been fucked by enough "foreign interests" who are interested in only bringing their top-dollar mark up -- and by enough "American Companies" who wanted to bring their "bottom-dollar" down, I am ready to be a troll!
Again, I offer a hearty FUCK YOU -- from the working class American who is losing jobs because of opinions JUST LIKE YOURS!
I try to find the most offensive way to tell Telemarketers to piss off. I live in the U.S.; in a state which has single party consent recording -- I also pay almost $12.00 a month to have 3 different screening options on my phone, they still get through sometimes though! I start by answering the phone with a "Hello you've reached ; by continuing with this call you consent to be recorded and accept all charges incurred, our rate is $150 an hour for telephone support with a 3 hour minimum" By then the recording of theirs is done -- but they continue. Since "Autodialers" are supposed to be illegal, I had to talk to a person -- or they violated the law! After that, I will either try to sell them something, convert them to a religion, push my favourite politition on them, rant at them, or have phone sex -- it all depends on my mood. Another fun one, if they get through and I am too busy to try to see who it is -- I answer the phone "911 What is your emergency" or "ER, what's the patient name, status, and what is the ETA". I've answered customers of mine with the 911 line, and we had a laugh about it; they don't like telemarketers either, and thought it was interesting to deal with them like this.
Telemarketers cause me great annoyance! I would gladly torture them with Barry Manilow for 10-500 hours in a Sensory Deprivation tank -- if I could get them to just come over! I don't personally advocate real violence against the telemarketers; but I do believe that harrassing them is no worse than what they do to me! (Great thing is that my fax line is my published number, so they rarely get my voice line number, and rarer still do they get through).
Your argument that the caller is merely an innocent that is doing their job is bullshit; if I set up a drug ring, and hire people to only call my customers to sell them more dope, those people are still commiting a crime! Whether they know that it's actual dope, or think I really am selling that many sets of knives to the same people! To me I'm dealing with something worse than a machine -- I am dealing with a person who made a concious decision to partake in a business founded on fraud, deceipt and preying on the weak. I can tolerate collections callers; they have a legitimate reason to place the call -- but a telemarketer using either a computer to generate numbers OR any other form of Autodialer -- they are scum, they are spammers with bad intent, they peddle their wares to unsuspecting victims. They are the same as the con artist who reads the Obits. and goes to the grieving family to deliver the Bible or art pic, or even family photo (to be taken today!) that was ordered last month -- and collect the money. As far as telemarketers go, I think they are worse than spammers or direct mailers (spammers hit my filters, I get a piece of spam a month, direct mailers -- I write "no longer at this address" and send it back).
You could have been modded down, but I decided to post a reply to your well intentioned -- but poorly thought out -- post. I don't think harrassing people who harrass you is wrong, or even slightly immoral, I think that founding a business that is built on fraud, deception, or even annoyance and power sales IS wrong and immoral. Also, for future reference, a good argument does not need vulgarity to make it's point -- it needs consice issues raised and answered, in a fashion that allows an open discourse; otherwise it looks like either another troll or a bit of flamebate.
Ever see flaming exhaust pipes?
They are made by putting a spark plug, propane tank and ignition switch on the vehicle (or in some cases just a plug and ignition switch); mine runs on 12 volts... and I get flames about 8 feet out (Big Motor/Big Exhaust, only fires when tacking over 3000 AND the button is pushed).
Anyway, a 12v charge is plenty to get a spark -- just not enough to get a "hot" spark, like the one you would get from an HEI or points ignition.
300+ HP? :D). Dino'd at 600+ HP and 800+ Torque. I plan on actually building it up one day... I haven't restored the body yet, because once that's done rice runners won't race me any more ;) :( 7 MPG, and it'll be going down with a new carb system. But, you are kinda' wrong about 1500 not being streetable... just don't let 'em catch you "streeting" it!
repeat after me "THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR BIG DISPLACEMENT"... My Buick 455 Stage 2 Year 1 (1970 Buick Wildcat Custom) idles at 300 HP... and lights the tires at 50 MPH. It had (factory) 370 HP and 510 Ft.Lbs. of torque... at the rear wheel. I've added a little, like a bigger carb, HEI, true 2.5 inch dual exhaust (with headers), and a single plane intake (next step is either 2x4 or a 6 pack
If you are hell bent on a small engine though, and wanna' see people shit themselves, go get a 1985-87 High Deck 2.4L Dodge charger (carbed), stroke the bastard, bore it 60 over, turbo charge it, replace the 2bbl with the MP 4bbl carb. The engine was designed by Carrol Shelby (of Shelby Mustang fame); it's actually a destroked 2.6. I've seen 'em built up to produce over 350 HP, without juice or computers (or even injection).
As for those vette's beat on! I hate those bastards...always trying to pass you, and getting mad when they can't! As for the YMMV mine doesn't vary at all
Last rant... 12-18" 4 wheel Bear Claws are NOT for light cars, the are for beasts like mine (6,000 lbs). Bear Claws are nice and all... but you people with the big V's need 'em (hint LOSE THE 4 Wheel Drums!), and you people with the 4's DON'T... they will NOT help you stop better.