I can see how this would be useful, and possibly even a Good Thing for, say, my Mom. But, for me it's not, really. Perhaps I am "bi-coastal" or just travel a lot...Maybe I'm just a paranoid, pain-in-the-ass nerd...but, uh, of course I'm not...*shifty eyes*
Seriously, though...Are they offering a way to get "generic" ads?
You could similarly make a company that specifically held up the rights/freedoms that you deemed worthy of protecting.
We shouldn't fool ourselves. Corporations want to wave the banner of whatever sells best and for the most. If parents scream "ban everything but whitehouse.com!" (wouldn't that be funny?) then some company will make software to do it, assuming those same screaming parents will cough up the money to cover it (or, at least, make their local library pay for it).
There are companies willing to play "fair". I always think of O'Reilly as a shining bastion in that way. But, sadly, I just now paused for a minute or so and couldn't come up with anyone else. Even seemingly angelic "organizations" like the SPCA have odd ways of doing business that make you wonder what they're in it for.
I'd much rather have the freedom to be surrounded by assholes than be where everyone's only being nice because they HAVE to. Even with all the unsavories abounding, you can always find your element. And, if you have the will, push forth with your idea of "fair" and "free". And if you're really lucky, maybe that's what you can call work everyday.
There will always be room for the next way of doing something (anything). Once some people realize what they're giving up by holding steady with the status quo, they'll convert to your (at this point hypothetical) way of doing things. And they'll tell and convince their friends...and so on.
Regardless of if his punishment is upheld, he's going to have quite the reputation of being the computer wizard among his friends. And their friends will know, and their friends, and so on...
Or, perhaps I'm being idealistic. I know it would have been (and was) that way in my high school. But, then, St. Xavier (Cincinnati, OH) is a very different kind of school. Now that I'm thinking about it more, I have this feeling in my gut that he's going to be lumped (As seemingly everyone else is) with the trenchcoat mafia.
Personally (though I don't generally ponder such silliness), I would think the best way would be to re-examine what constellations apply to what time periods (since the current system has been off for about 2,600 years).
This assumes, obviously, that we're going with the new month system - a leap on its own.
I think that, at least, there'd have to be a different word for the various units. Else there'd be headache with newseconds versus oldseconds, and so on.
But, yeah, the calculations for Unix timestamps would be so much easier:)
No. Read the article. You need two Xs to be a tetrachromat. So, the Klinefelter Syndrome guy could (in theory) be a tetrachromat, but the XY kid could not.
...through nominalia.com which is based in Spain - When I registered, it helped to know a little Spanish (One confirmation message was all Spanish, but a guy in my office helped me out), but they seem to have updated their site considerably. Maybe there's an all-English route, now.
I would imagine that, with the closeness of nearly all of the states, that you'd come up with the same numbers (+/- a few percent). So what does it really matter?
Unless all the "liars" from the 2 big parties said they voted Nader - hehe.
What if they're under 18? Here in the states you can't enter a binding contract before you're 18. Makes it really easy to order a load of CDs from Columbia House for a penny (or whatever it is these days) and then say "oh, I didn't know what I was getting myself into! please take me off of your mailing list."
As I recall, the quick and dirty method of getting around lots of censorware was to add the [proper] trailing dot. So, http://slashdot.org/ would become http://slashdot.org./ - Or have they defeated that?
I work for Taos, Inc. and this is how they do it (at least, this is how I understand it and how I'm doing it - no one's said otherwise in the last 3 or 4 months):
record +2 hours to every on-call day
any calls/pages are billed in.25 hour increments
you get to count transit time (but, of course, use the best available - you can't walk 60 miles and count it) [I generally just round to "fair" because I always forget to note it when I'm in-transit]
I am personally very happy with this arrangement. But then, I almost never get paged (maybe once a week, max, and I really wish it were more).
I have a friend who, upon being paged, charged a 2-hour "base", and then "real time" past the first two hours. and, whenever on pager duty, he billed half-time. An impressive sca^Hheme if you can pull it off.
I wish I could believe this was simply a ploy to illustrate the inherent evils of something, but not only can I not think of what that something might be, I wouldn't trust AT&T as far as I could throw their corporate headquarters.
I guess now all we can do is sit back and hope for a retraction that tells us the "comment was taken out of context" or something along those lines.
Or we just wait for AOL to chime in with the AOLerific "Me, Too!"
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Notably, I don't want it, particularly, but, just conceptually....
I can see how this would be useful, and possibly even a Good Thing for, say, my Mom. But, for me it's not, really. Perhaps I am "bi-coastal" or just travel a lot...Maybe I'm just a paranoid, pain-in-the-ass nerd...but, uh, of course I'm not...*shifty eyes*
Seriously, though...Are they offering a way to get "generic" ads?
I've got no numbers for you, but, it does seem to be more "even" with the processor usage - i.e. not slamming cpu0 while cpu1 idles.
Why are Americans being fined in pounds, anyway?
Just like Jim Bakker didn't go to jail for being married to a woman with no fasion sense. That's just peripheral information.
We shouldn't fool ourselves. Corporations want to wave the banner of whatever sells best and for the most. If parents scream "ban everything but whitehouse.com!" (wouldn't that be funny?) then some company will make software to do it, assuming those same screaming parents will cough up the money to cover it (or, at least, make their local library pay for it).
There are companies willing to play "fair". I always think of O'Reilly as a shining bastion in that way. But, sadly, I just now paused for a minute or so and couldn't come up with anyone else. Even seemingly angelic "organizations" like the SPCA have odd ways of doing business that make you wonder what they're in it for.
I'd much rather have the freedom to be surrounded by assholes than be where everyone's only being nice because they HAVE to. Even with all the unsavories abounding, you can always find your element. And, if you have the will, push forth with your idea of "fair" and "free". And if you're really lucky, maybe that's what you can call work everyday.
There will always be room for the next way of doing something (anything). Once some people realize what they're giving up by holding steady with the status quo, they'll convert to your (at this point hypothetical) way of doing things. And they'll tell and convince their friends...and so on.
Don't give up.
I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find a monkey in rubber pants?
Ah, so sue me. At first glance (from a picture NOT linked to, yet) it looked smaller than "proper". Whoops.
It's not like the size was hard to estimate in Kubrick's film...It was certainly bigger than 6 feet tall.
And if it had a big Space Fetus...that would make me more impressed, too.
Or, perhaps I'm being idealistic. I know it would have been (and was) that way in my high school. But, then, St. Xavier (Cincinnati, OH) is a very different kind of school. Now that I'm thinking about it more, I have this feeling in my gut that he's going to be lumped (As seemingly everyone else is) with the trenchcoat mafia.
*sigh*
Personally (though I don't generally ponder such silliness), I would think the best way would be to re-examine what constellations apply to what time periods (since the current system has been off for about 2,600 years).
This assumes, obviously, that we're going with the new month system - a leap on its own.
But, yeah, the calculations for Unix timestamps would be so much easier :)
How will people know what zodiac sign they are, though?
poof - reboot worries are gone :)
No. Read the article. You need two Xs to be a tetrachromat. So, the Klinefelter Syndrome guy could (in theory) be a tetrachromat, but the XY kid could not.
Good luck.
Only in half the states.
Unless all the "liars" from the 2 big parties said they voted Nader - hehe.
My god! what is happening to the slashdotters?
The original poster made such a slick little tounge-in-cheek comment that was smoothly read over if you weren't really paying attention.
goodness.
Yay, laws.
As I recall, the quick and dirty method of getting around lots of censorware was to add the [proper] trailing dot. So, http://slashdot.org/ would become http://slashdot.org./ - Or have they defeated that?
I'm up in SF...If you're ever at an inter-office event, I'm the tall bald guy with piercings and tattoos (perhaps riding my purple Harley) :)
--boinger
Right, but most arms (and the like) are constructed with 2-dimensional hinges (elbow-style) which, thus, makes it a useful exercise.
- record +2 hours to every on-call day
- any calls/pages are billed in
.25 hour increments
- you get to count transit time (but, of course, use the best available - you can't walk 60 miles and count it) [I generally just round to "fair" because I always forget to note it when I'm in-transit]
I am personally very happy with this arrangement. But then, I almost never get paged (maybe once a week, max, and I really wish it were more).I have a friend who, upon being paged, charged a 2-hour "base", and then "real time" past the first two hours. and, whenever on pager duty, he billed half-time. An impressive sca^Hheme if you can pull it off.
I wish I could believe this was simply a ploy to illustrate the inherent evils of something, but not only can I not think of what that something might be, I wouldn't trust AT&T as far as I could throw their corporate headquarters.
I guess now all we can do is sit back and hope for a retraction that tells us the "comment was taken out of context" or something along those lines.
Or we just wait for AOL to chime in with the AOLerific "Me, Too!"