That would hand The Enemy an easy method of sabotage. All he would need to do to cripple your gear is to try to use it (like some idiot locking out your account by trying to guess the password... but in this case it's hardware and it's irreversible). Or if it's based on time elapsed since the authorized user was using it, just keep you away from it for that long. If you want the authorized user to be the one to determine when the gear should (and should not) be sacrificed, it has to be "destroy on command".
Yeah, if they were going to be put off by a CPAP, I don't think they would've gotten past his extra weight, unreliable hygiene, poor job prospects....:/
He's had sleep studies done. They gave him a CPAP, and he just whined that it was uncomfortable, and fretted about it being embarrassing to wear to bed with someone (not exactly an immediate danger). The guy's got "issues".
See a sleep specialist. If you don't sleep well, there's probably a reason. For many overweight people, the problem is sleep apnea, caused by the airway being obstructed, which the body reacts to by waking up. A different sleeping position, a device worn over the mouth and nose to help keep the airway open, and/or losing weight can help. (I know about this from a friend who suffers from this problem, but isn't willing to do anything about it. And not coincidentally has been suffering from increasing Can't Remember Shit Syndrome.)
In your knee-jerk parroting of the "filesharing isn't theft" semantic argument, you missed the AC's point: to be meaningful the survey would need to control for the users' level of interest.
This is a classic example of the correlation-equals-causation fallacy. While it's being trumpeted by filesharers as proof that it results in people paying for more music and movies, it can just as easily be interpreted as indicating that people who are sufficiently into commercial media that they spend 30% more money on it, also fileshare it. Which would be totally unsurprising, and also a lot less of a challenge to the MAFIAA's argument, because it's possible that these people would've spent 40% more if they didn't have access to stuff without paying. Or maybe not. This survey doesn't tell us.
Don't be like a Creationist, looking for and latching onto any dubious study that seems to support the belief you already hold. Demand – as AC suggested – better studies that control for interest, to show whether or not your religious beliefs are sound or not.
I'm no relationship expert (currently single, in fact) but it amazes me that a couple can go so far as getting married before figuring something like this out. If you haven't successfully introduced each other to your respective interests, or worked out that it just isn't going to happen and how to accommodate that (which is totally possible), why have you gone ahead and sworn yourselves to an exclusive lifelong relationship (and in this case, further committed by having children together)?
I know this answer isn't helpful to the person asking, and I hate those kinds of replies, but for the rest of you: This is what dating is for. It's a time to not only get to know each other, but to work out what your relationship is going to be like. If you're like most couples, you probably made sure you were sexually compatible before marrying (or at least talked about it), which is a good start, but if you're going to spend the rest of your lives together, you kinda need to also figure out how you're going to spend the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of each day as well.
They lost a huge chunk of their business (government contract), and since payroll was 90% of their costs they had to cut people. Several years later, I was unemployed again and using one of the people still there as a work reference, so they knew I was looking, and they invited me personally to take a new (different) position that they thought I'dt be able to do. It was actually a poor match for my skills, and I had to finagle my way into a different position that I'm qualified for, but it's a bird in the hand, y'know?
The place I'm working now is the one place that ever let me go on decent terms. When they had a spot for me they asked me back. Even though the new job kinda sucks (more customer service than tech), it's better (I guess) than taking an objectively better job some place that will screw me over whenever it suits them.
Well, I've pretty much stopped looking. I suppose what I'm doing now counts as a "tech job", but the IT job market sure has lost a lot of appeal to me. Who wants to get chewed up and spit out again?
This is essentially the same phenomenon that TV news has been performing, and which has convinced many people that there is an epidemic of child abductions and other violent crime in our society. (And there is not.) The improbable events of 7 billions lives are being condensed into our individual (vicarious) experience – but with the average person being unable to instinctively grasp that vast context – and we're losing our sense of perspective. Little wonder that people are locking themselves and their children inside gated, armed enclaves.
At my day job we have a fleet of laptops used by field workers. For several years we've been buying them TabletPC machines so they can do checkbox selecting and such more efficiently than with a trackpad. A year and a half ago the latest hardware refresh came with touch suppport as well. We showed it to them. And I can tell from watching them when they come in with tech problems, or even just looking at their screens, that they aren't using it.
But that's how crowdsourcing works: you get a throng of people who don't really know anything about the subject, a bunch of people with working knowledge, and one or two experts, get them to all throw their ideas out, and then spend the next few years trying them all, in order of which ones got modded "Funny" the most.
"It's pretty easy to cross-check an artist's name (publicly displayed) with whether they have bought an Adobe license and then engage them to see how can they go legal in case they are using Adobe products."
You're assuming that licenses are registered using the same name the artist uses professionally. A freelancer might use the name of the LLC that they formed for tax/liability purposes. The non-creative tech guy for a large firm might put his own name in. For that matter, you're assuming that artists consistently have their name legibly attached to all of their published work; if it's freelance work-for-hire (a huge portion of Adobe's user base), that's actually pretty unlikely.
Adobe has run out of compelling new features to add their main line of products. Sure, there are new bells and whistles in every new release of Photoshop and Illustrator, but the CS2 versions (and even a couple versions back from that) will let you achieve the same results as the CS6 results, just maybe with a little more work. It's not their fault, really; it's the quandary of having a mature set of products. So pretty the main reason anyone upgrades these apps anymore is because they no longer work (or work quite right) on the latest operating systems from Apple and Microsoft (e.g. CS2 for OS X is PPC-only and requires Rosetta, which has been discontinued). That's part of why Adobe (like Microsoft, which is in the same boat with Office) is pushing for a subscription model for their software (rent it by the month) rather than the traditional buy-it-once approach.
Except that the connection between lead and violent behavior isn't just a statistical correlation, but someone that we actually know how and why it works. It's called science: look into it.
"Omitting your religion, marital status, sexual preference... your choice"
Technically, yes, but it's really not a good idea to volunteer this kind of information, unless it's incidentally implied by something else on your work history or work-related hobbies. So, if you were the IT manager for your local coven or organized monthly flying spaghetti dinners for the homeless, go ahead and say that, but don't simply put "member of the Church of the Sub-Genius" on your resumé. In the US it is illegal for them to ask that, and it is legally touchy for them to know that, because it opens them up to accusations of bias. It can come across as blackmail, saying "If you don't hire me, I'll sue you for illegal discrimination" or trying to curry favor with someone who has the same faith. At the least it shows that you don't understand what's appropriate information in a job application.
"The one dollar bill of the US just confounds me."
Me too, and I have a wallet full of them. Every other comparable economy on the planet has discontinued their bank notes with a value comparable to the US dollar. Can, EU, UK, etc. The problem is that Americans are so fixated on "the dollar bill" as a nationalist symbol of pride, that it would seriously become an electoral issue if it were discontinued.
This is happening all across the US too, on a more informal basis. The few places where I make cash transactions (the booze and comics shops) either keep a small leave-a-penny-take-a-penny stash on the counter to make things come out right, or just give out the "wrong" change (off by a cent or two). As far as I can tell, no one's complaining.
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That would hand The Enemy an easy method of sabotage. All he would need to do to cripple your gear is to try to use it (like some idiot locking out your account by trying to guess the password... but in this case it's hardware and it's irreversible). Or if it's based on time elapsed since the authorized user was using it, just keep you away from it for that long. If you want the authorized user to be the one to determine when the gear should (and should not) be sacrificed, it has to be "destroy on command".
"Electronic devices are built to last...." Sorry, but you just lost me, right there.
Yeah, if they were going to be put off by a CPAP, I don't think they would've gotten past his extra weight, unreliable hygiene, poor job prospects.... :/
He's had sleep studies done. They gave him a CPAP, and he just whined that it was uncomfortable, and fretted about it being embarrassing to wear to bed with someone (not exactly an immediate danger). The guy's got "issues".
See a sleep specialist. If you don't sleep well, there's probably a reason. For many overweight people, the problem is sleep apnea, caused by the airway being obstructed, which the body reacts to by waking up. A different sleeping position, a device worn over the mouth and nose to help keep the airway open, and/or losing weight can help. (I know about this from a friend who suffers from this problem, but isn't willing to do anything about it. And not coincidentally has been suffering from increasing Can't Remember Shit Syndrome.)
In your knee-jerk parroting of the "filesharing isn't theft" semantic argument, you missed the AC's point: to be meaningful the survey would need to control for the users' level of interest.
This is a classic example of the correlation-equals-causation fallacy. While it's being trumpeted by filesharers as proof that it results in people paying for more music and movies, it can just as easily be interpreted as indicating that people who are sufficiently into commercial media that they spend 30% more money on it, also fileshare it. Which would be totally unsurprising, and also a lot less of a challenge to the MAFIAA's argument, because it's possible that these people would've spent 40% more if they didn't have access to stuff without paying. Or maybe not. This survey doesn't tell us.
Don't be like a Creationist, looking for and latching onto any dubious study that seems to support the belief you already hold. Demand – as AC suggested – better studies that control for interest, to show whether or not your religious beliefs are sound or not.
I'm no relationship expert (currently single, in fact) but it amazes me that a couple can go so far as getting married before figuring something like this out. If you haven't successfully introduced each other to your respective interests, or worked out that it just isn't going to happen and how to accommodate that (which is totally possible), why have you gone ahead and sworn yourselves to an exclusive lifelong relationship (and in this case, further committed by having children together)?
I know this answer isn't helpful to the person asking, and I hate those kinds of replies, but for the rest of you: This is what dating is for. It's a time to not only get to know each other, but to work out what your relationship is going to be like. If you're like most couples, you probably made sure you were sexually compatible before marrying (or at least talked about it), which is a good start, but if you're going to spend the rest of your lives together, you kinda need to also figure out how you're going to spend the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of each day as well.
If you're shallow enough to think that you can take in an entire local culture in a two week vacation, then gaming is probably the only thing for you.
They lost a huge chunk of their business (government contract), and since payroll was 90% of their costs they had to cut people. Several years later, I was unemployed again and using one of the people still there as a work reference, so they knew I was looking, and they invited me personally to take a new (different) position that they thought I'dt be able to do. It was actually a poor match for my skills, and I had to finagle my way into a different position that I'm qualified for, but it's a bird in the hand, y'know?
The place I'm working now is the one place that ever let me go on decent terms. When they had a spot for me they asked me back. Even though the new job kinda sucks (more customer service than tech), it's better (I guess) than taking an objectively better job some place that will screw me over whenever it suits them.
Well, I've pretty much stopped looking. I suppose what I'm doing now counts as a "tech job", but the IT job market sure has lost a lot of appeal to me. Who wants to get chewed up and spit out again?
The probability may be 1 in 1,000,000,000, but in a world with 7,000,000,000 people on it, it becomes... likely.
This is essentially the same phenomenon that TV news has been performing, and which has convinced many people that there is an epidemic of child abductions and other violent crime in our society. (And there is not.) The improbable events of 7 billions lives are being condensed into our individual (vicarious) experience – but with the average person being unable to instinctively grasp that vast context – and we're losing our sense of perspective. Little wonder that people are locking themselves and their children inside gated, armed enclaves.
Our field staff have touch enabled laptops.
Most of them do not use the touch capability.
At my day job we have a fleet of laptops used by field workers. For several years we've been buying them TabletPC machines so they can do checkbox selecting and such more efficiently than with a trackpad. A year and a half ago the latest hardware refresh came with touch suppport as well. We showed it to them. And I can tell from watching them when they come in with tech problems, or even just looking at their screens, that they aren't using it.
But that's how crowdsourcing works: you get a throng of people who don't really know anything about the subject, a bunch of people with working knowledge, and one or two experts, get them to all throw their ideas out, and then spend the next few years trying them all, in order of which ones got modded "Funny" the most.
Barium not an option?
Then Crematum.
"It's pretty easy to cross-check an artist's name (publicly displayed) with whether they have bought an Adobe license and then engage them to see how can they go legal in case they are using Adobe products."
You're assuming that licenses are registered using the same name the artist uses professionally. A freelancer might use the name of the LLC that they formed for tax/liability purposes. The non-creative tech guy for a large firm might put his own name in. For that matter, you're assuming that artists consistently have their name legibly attached to all of their published work; if it's freelance work-for-hire (a huge portion of Adobe's user base), that's actually pretty unlikely.
Adobe has run out of compelling new features to add their main line of products. Sure, there are new bells and whistles in every new release of Photoshop and Illustrator, but the CS2 versions (and even a couple versions back from that) will let you achieve the same results as the CS6 results, just maybe with a little more work. It's not their fault, really; it's the quandary of having a mature set of products. So pretty the main reason anyone upgrades these apps anymore is because they no longer work (or work quite right) on the latest operating systems from Apple and Microsoft (e.g. CS2 for OS X is PPC-only and requires Rosetta, which has been discontinued). That's part of why Adobe (like Microsoft, which is in the same boat with Office) is pushing for a subscription model for their software (rent it by the month) rather than the traditional buy-it-once approach.
Except that the connection between lead and violent behavior isn't just a statistical correlation, but someone that we actually know how and why it works. It's called science: look into it.
Clearly this indicates that greater criminal activity leads to prior use of more lead.
Actually applying version numbers to help people differentiate between subsequent verions would make too much sense.
"Omitting your religion, marital status, sexual preference... your choice"
Technically, yes, but it's really not a good idea to volunteer this kind of information, unless it's incidentally implied by something else on your work history or work-related hobbies. So, if you were the IT manager for your local coven or organized monthly flying spaghetti dinners for the homeless, go ahead and say that, but don't simply put "member of the Church of the Sub-Genius" on your resumé. In the US it is illegal for them to ask that, and it is legally touchy for them to know that, because it opens them up to accusations of bias. It can come across as blackmail, saying "If you don't hire me, I'll sue you for illegal discrimination" or trying to curry favor with someone who has the same faith. At the least it shows that you don't understand what's appropriate information in a job application.
"The one dollar bill of the US just confounds me."
Me too, and I have a wallet full of them. Every other comparable economy on the planet has discontinued their bank notes with a value comparable to the US dollar. Can, EU, UK, etc. The problem is that Americans are so fixated on "the dollar bill" as a nationalist symbol of pride, that it would seriously become an electoral issue if it were discontinued.
This is happening all across the US too, on a more informal basis. The few places where I make cash transactions (the booze and comics shops) either keep a small leave-a-penny-take-a-penny stash on the counter to make things come out right, or just give out the "wrong" change (off by a cent or two). As far as I can tell, no one's complaining.