Re:Nothing untrue in the article at all. /. howeve
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Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov - Who? What are you reporting here?
Sakharov was the father of the Soviet H-Bomb. He was later sentenced to internal exile for his political views. However, your second comment relevant to this is correct. What was the submitter getting at with his Sakharov post.
Their annual reports [sony.co.jp] are online, so you can check this stuff too
OK, I looked. Where was the $1B line item for "piracy losses"? I know it has to be there, because they keep telling us that they're losing billions to piracy!
No, no. You've got it all wrong. Monopolistic practices are supposed to *MAKE* money for the RIAA. If they don't then they're Evil(tm), or Piracy(tm), Unamerican(tm), or illegal.
I used to work at a major defense contractor. After two or three layoff rounds, I put my resume out on the web... didn't think too much about it, because I was happy where I was. About 6 months later, I get a call from a recruiter. I get an offer that's about a 20%.
My then-current employer offered to match (sans options, but I wasn't counting on those:-P). I looked at the situation... I had a hell of a lot of seniority (I'd worked there for 17 years), but on the other hand, I was pushing 40, and I had a "now or never" feeling. I gave them my regrets, explained that it had nothing to do with the company, and that while the counter was generous, I really felt that it was just time to leave. No hard feelings, I was told that if I ever wanted to come back, and there was an opening, no problem. Privately, my direct boss told me that even if there wasn't an opening, he'd make one if I needed one. That security blanket was a big help, since I was going to a small start-up.
I had a friend who accepted there a counter 6 years ago, and he's still there.
When one is learning basic arithmetic, no calculators of any sort should be allowed. Note: basic arithmetic includes square roots and percentages.
For more advanced courses, when one is presumed to know arithmetic, allow any NUMERIC calculator. Symbolic and graphing calcs should not be allowed. Yeah, you can use them in the Real World(tm), but in school you're not just supposed to be learning *HOW* to do this stuff, but *WHY* you do this stuff. The symbolic and graphing functions kill the second part.
Also the differences between all numbers from 0 to 100 (so I can get my change quickly in case the cash register is broken.)
Wrong, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!
Disclaimer: I pulled graveyards at a 7-11 in 1982 and 1983.
Everyone should learn the PROPER way to make change. It pisses me off when some clueless idiot goes... "$7.47 is your change". That's not how to do it. let's say my bill was $2.53 and $7.47 *IS* my change. The correct way would be:
Say $2.53 Give Penny (say 54) Give Penny (say 55) Give dime (say 65) Give dime (say 75) Give quarter (say $3.00) give dollar bill (say $4.00) give dollar bill (say $5.00) give five dollar bill (say $10.00, thank you).
That way, you know that you didn't screw up counting it, or that you didn't fsck up typeing in the amount given. Also, make damn sure you leave the money I gave you on top of the register until I agree that it's the right amount of change. This prevents "I gave you a $20! No you didn't, you gave me a $10!" arguments.
Alas, making change is a lost art.
Re:More about GOSH's perpetual copyright on Peter
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Disney will get a dose of its own medicine when it tries to release Return to Never Land on DVD in Region 2.
Why, they just won't release it Region 2. I bet things like this are part of the reason that region coding exists!
Re:Part of copyright should be the right to not
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Given your acting abilities, Vlade, as seen in the recent Laker series, I doubt that you have to worry about it. What'd you do, go to the Bill Laimbeer School of Acting? Your flops are totally unbelievable!
Slashdot Mirror
And the first two people charged will be:
Ian Hill and CmdrTaco for causing a slashdotting of the UK Parliament server!
STIII:TSFS was highly underrated. It didn't blow.
Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov - Who? What are you reporting here?
Sakharov was the father of the Soviet H-Bomb. He was later sentenced to internal exile for his political views. However, your second comment relevant to this is correct. What was the submitter getting at with his Sakharov post.
the scene where an Ent open's an eye is too dark and too fast to catch.
Somehow I can't imagine an Ent opening his eye so... hastily.
Their annual reports [sony.co.jp] are online, so you can check this stuff too
OK, I looked. Where was the $1B line item for "piracy losses"? I know it has to be there, because they keep telling us that they're losing billions to piracy!
No, no. You've got it all wrong. Monopolistic practices are supposed to *MAKE* money for the RIAA. If they don't then they're Evil(tm), or Piracy(tm), Unamerican(tm), or illegal.
If it helps the RIAA, then it's a Good Thing(tm).
This lesson brought to you by the number e.
That's why they aren't included in any distros, and you need to download them from nVidia.
Sorry, rector, obviously I forgot the SARCASM tags.
What I posted was essentially parroting the MS anti-GPL FUD.
preloaded with ThizLinux, whatever the fsck that is
DistroWatch Answers.
I hope that worm wasn't GPL'ed!
:-)
After all, that would mean that MS would have to distribute the source to VS.NET!
Hey... now there's an idea
If anyone else opens up MY WIFE NUDE.JPG, I'll have to kill them. After I interrogate them to find out where they got the pic.
All the professors who are anybody have done this multiple times
N.B. "Professors who are anybody" don't have to worry about getting fired. There's this little thing called "tenure".
I used to work at a major defense contractor.
:-P). I looked at the situation... I had a hell of a lot of seniority (I'd worked there for 17 years), but on the other hand, I was pushing 40, and I had a "now or never" feeling. I gave them my regrets, explained that it had nothing to do with the company, and that while the counter was generous, I really felt that it was just time to leave. No hard feelings, I was told that if I ever wanted to come back, and there was an opening, no problem. Privately, my direct boss told me that even if there wasn't an opening, he'd make one if I needed one. That security blanket was a big help, since I was going to a small start-up.
After two or three layoff rounds, I put my resume out on the web... didn't think too much about it, because I was happy where I was. About 6 months later, I get a call from a recruiter. I get an offer that's about a 20%.
My then-current employer offered to match (sans options, but I wasn't counting on those
I had a friend who accepted there a counter 6 years ago, and he's still there.
My wife just took a 33% raise to leave her current position. At her exit interview, they tried to guilt her into staying (at the old salary).
Yep.
Your Root-ness, I'm just a simple caveman. Your high speed data access frightens me.
-- Frozen Caveman Sysadmin
Mmmmm... my own private 10Gb/s pipe.
Let's see, that's about 1GB/s, so I can download the three ISOs for MDK8.2 in oh... 3 seconds or less!
Geosync has a MINIMUM .25s latency. That's just ONE round trip (45000 miles). Things get slower from there.
Unless, of course, you've invented subspace radio.
2BaseT? That's 2Mb/s on Twisted Pair!
If you're referring to ThinNet, that's 10Base2.
Thicknet is 10Base5.
Because often I don't *HAVE* exact change. When I do have it, I try to pay it (I dislike having tons of small change jingling around in my pocket).
When one is learning basic arithmetic, no calculators of any sort should be allowed. Note: basic arithmetic includes square roots and percentages.
For more advanced courses, when one is presumed to know arithmetic, allow any NUMERIC calculator. Symbolic and graphing calcs should not be allowed. Yeah, you can use them in the Real World(tm), but in school you're not just supposed to be learning *HOW* to do this stuff, but *WHY* you do this stuff. The symbolic and graphing functions kill the second part.
Also the differences between all numbers from 0 to 100 (so I can get my change quickly in case the cash register is broken.)
Wrong, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!
Disclaimer: I pulled graveyards at a 7-11 in 1982 and 1983.
Everyone should learn the PROPER way to make change. It pisses me off when some clueless idiot goes... "$7.47 is your change". That's not how to do it. let's say my bill was $2.53 and $7.47 *IS* my change. The correct way would be:
Say $2.53
Give Penny (say 54)
Give Penny (say 55)
Give dime (say 65)
Give dime (say 75)
Give quarter (say $3.00)
give dollar bill (say $4.00)
give dollar bill (say $5.00)
give five dollar bill (say $10.00, thank you).
That way, you know that you didn't screw up counting it, or that you didn't fsck up typeing in the amount given. Also, make damn sure you leave the money I gave you on top of the register until I agree that it's the right amount of change. This prevents "I gave you a $20! No you didn't, you gave me a $10!" arguments.
Alas, making change is a lost art.
Why, they just won't release it Region 2. I bet things like this are part of the reason that region coding exists!
Given your acting abilities, Vlade, as seen in the recent Laker series, I doubt that you have to worry about it. What'd you do, go to the Bill Laimbeer School of Acting? Your flops are totally unbelievable!
I said it was a hypothetical.
I'll rephrase it.
Let's say that bandwidth is free...