This comment rules. Normally I'm not for trolling, but I think this was a pretty intelligent troll.
At least it gets back to the grass roots of caring about the people instead of caring about landmarks.
I'd go with the patent. Corporations can lie and play on words as long as they don't violate some safety law or something.
Lying on a patent application will ultimately make that patent ineffective.
However, this is Amazon, and they likely have 100,000 other patents to deal with, so they're probably pretty familiar with the legal vagaries.
I certainly consider my water supply a lot more than my ATX powersupply. And I live in the U.S. The post sounds as if its insulting the other countries for valuing life over power availability for computers which they likely don't have many of.
I doubt tech support will be able to do much. Reminds me of people who would call in and demand that I, not Bellsouth or ground technicians, put a DSLAM in their neighborhood, or they'd sue me.
You don't seem as if you're going to sue, but what do you think they can do? Press the 'Magic Button' and change their network infrastructure to be safer?
Escalate the call up to the president if possible. Tell him about it. And don't be technical. Nothing I hated more than someone calling up and acting all badass because they use Linux or some alternative operating system.
If your goal is to confuse the less informed, its obviously not to get legitimite help. In which case, go ahead, but don't complain about not getting any help when you have to explain what 'Megadin God icewn distro tcp/mp3 with OS2 kernal' is for three hours.
I see the crap our managers have to filter out at work. Its not so much external spam as it is internal spam. Example, 10 people discussing what they'll have for lunch in 10 minutes, over 20 emails. CCed to everyone.
I got fired from Bellsouth almost a year ago for helping people. They didn't like my review, either. I was then unemployed for six months, all the time being bitched at by my parents for being 'stupid enough to say something bad about Bellsouth when I'm using their ISP'.
I would also let management feel the pain of cutting their own foot off. I'm not going to try to help a company that expects me to be their hardest worker because they want to save a few bucks. Management should actually be the hardest workers. Since they virtually control everyone else, they need to do their work at times. Just to see how hard it really is. Its easy to see someone playing minesweeper and fire them for being 'dead weight', but it is far more difficult for a company with a few hundred computers and no tech guy to survive when something bad happens to their computers. Server crashes, computer malfunctions, etc. They'll just build up until either the responsibility is delegated to someone else (aside from their usual duties) or someone else is hired. Maybe cutting workforce doubles profits on paper, but the farther you stretch your current workforce, the less quality work they can provide. If I have only one job like say ensuring that one section of computers are up and running, then I am going to get my job done, provided its a small area and no one in the area is a l33t h4x0r. I might even be able to make them run a little better, tune them up, preventative maintainance, etc. Now, lets say my friend gets fired, his responsibility was another section. They delegate the responsibility to me. I now have two sections of computers to deal with. I can't spend as much time preventing their eventual collapses as I could before, and I'm feeling stressed. The last tech guy is eventually fired, and his responsibilities are given to me. So not only do I have to take care of all of the computers in the building, but I have to worry about some servers, a phone system, and keeping it all working together. Considering management fired these people for a reason, like saving money, they're reluctant to give me a raise. Its just a game of tetris then, where you know you can't keep the job up indefinately. Something is going to crash, whether it be you or the machines. Thats a hypothetical situation, but you get the idea.
We also have some other new technologies to stop alpha particles. Even objects which may be in our houses today. Paper, wood, walls, a layer of skin or two..this is all it takes to stop all but the strongest burst of alpha or beta radiation. But take off your paper, wooden, or drywall outfits! Now you can look great while defending yourself from harsh radiation!
A good rule I've learned with delicate electronics, through the actions of others while in high school. Always place the computer higher up than the drink is placed. That way, if the drink spills, it won't trickle down into the computer.
I am not going to make excuses here. People pirate things because they want them, and software companies charge ridiculous amounts for the said software. $500 for Photoshop? It is a powerful tool, yes, but I don't feel that it is worth a week's pay for some people. Yes, you can get sent to prison for years, but usually only if it gets out of hand or you're a business of some kind. Point is, courts need to treat software as what it really it. If you steal a CD, you've stolen a CD with music on it. You didn't steal the medium and then steal the content. The content kind of has to follow the CD around. No MP3 or piece of software is worth three years in prison. It all comes down to who has the most money. The common people can't really speak loud enough. The corporations have private audience with our government, and all we can do is cast a shitty vote.
This is getting out of hand. When will it end? When we get forced back into the analog age again? I hope they realize that they're putting the United States 'behind the times' technologically speaking in the name of 'piracy prevention'. When's the last time you pirated MP3s or ISOs on a toy?
In today's world, either you're a lawyer, you have a lawyer, or you're ignorant. Any time you are served legal papers is good enough for most of us. For the paranoid, I reccomend taking a few law courses to be SURE they know what can / can't happen. If he has that much more money than you, anything is possible. He could very well have sued you, and taken every penny you had. Maybe if you were a lawyer, you could fend for yourself in court, otherwise, you might only lose half of your monentary assets to pay the lawyer.
First of all, the poster of the pictures doesn't speak very good English. Second, all he shows is a few Tesla coils in action, a computer, and some cooling devices. I do believe this is what we like to call a 'hoax'. And if he did get it to work, he should post details on how that Athlon XP could survive at the voltages required to power a Tesla coil. Give some designs or something, not just badly narrated pictures of random objects.
That's just what companies want. It is kind of fear-effect. That, and the value of human life is less than one copyrighted MP3. Five years for the ability to play MP3s? What is that going to solve? Considering everyone and their parents knows how to play mp3s, do people that play mp3s really need to be reahabilitated for society? I don't see how playing music that you own constitutes as stealing or breaking the law. Even if companies say that you can't do that, I say that I can.
Long hours do affect the quality of code you write. If you're not tired, you'd be more inclined to take the safer, slower way around rather than the faster but unsafe methods. Ever wonder why buffer overflows seem to appear in all types of software?
Yeah. Good thing no one around here knows that I secretly went to the nearest 6th mix machine, passed it in front of a bunch of people and then left. They'd annoy me to death asking how I did it.
Nothing's like DDR when it comes to song selections and intensity. I haven't seen anything as intense as those songs. I love most of the songs, and its in a relaxed atmosphere. No lessons, no need for partners or dressing up. And DDR machines around here are in our local malls, so we can just go whenever.
DDR introduced me to social situations. I mean, before DDR, I never really mingled with people at large social gatherings. But DDR has made me a much more social person, forcing you to either deal with people or play at home. Not to mention the health benefits of being able to pass Max300 on maniac (I did that once, it hurt).
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What about the Natalie Portman / Amidala RealDoll (grown up and early teen versions available). Bet she loves that one.
This comment rules. Normally I'm not for trolling, but I think this was a pretty intelligent troll. At least it gets back to the grass roots of caring about the people instead of caring about landmarks.
iMac's that change color based on your mood? That's clever marketing.
I'd go with the patent. Corporations can lie and play on words as long as they don't violate some safety law or something. Lying on a patent application will ultimately make that patent ineffective. However, this is Amazon, and they likely have 100,000 other patents to deal with, so they're probably pretty familiar with the legal vagaries.
I certainly consider my water supply a lot more than my ATX powersupply. And I live in the U.S. The post sounds as if its insulting the other countries for valuing life over power availability for computers which they likely don't have many of.
I doubt tech support will be able to do much. Reminds me of people who would call in and demand that I, not Bellsouth or ground technicians, put a DSLAM in their neighborhood, or they'd sue me.
You don't seem as if you're going to sue, but what do you think they can do? Press the 'Magic Button' and change their network infrastructure to be safer?
Escalate the call up to the president if possible. Tell him about it. And don't be technical. Nothing I hated more than someone calling up and acting all badass because they use Linux or some alternative operating system.
If your goal is to confuse the less informed, its obviously not to get legitimite help. In which case, go ahead, but don't complain about not getting any help when you have to explain what 'Megadin God icewn distro tcp/mp3 with OS2 kernal' is for three hours.
I see the crap our managers have to filter out at work. Its not so much external spam as it is internal spam. Example, 10 people discussing what they'll have for lunch in 10 minutes, over 20 emails. CCed to everyone.
I got fired from Bellsouth almost a year ago for helping people. They didn't like my review, either. I was then unemployed for six months, all the time being bitched at by my parents for being 'stupid enough to say something bad about Bellsouth when I'm using their ISP'.
I would also let management feel the pain of cutting their own foot off. I'm not going to try to help a company that expects me to be their hardest worker because they want to save a few bucks. Management should actually be the hardest workers. Since they virtually control everyone else, they need to do their work at times. Just to see how hard it really is. Its easy to see someone playing minesweeper and fire them for being 'dead weight', but it is far more difficult for a company with a few hundred computers and no tech guy to survive when something bad happens to their computers. Server crashes, computer malfunctions, etc. They'll just build up until either the responsibility is delegated to someone else (aside from their usual duties) or someone else is hired. Maybe cutting workforce doubles profits on paper, but the farther you stretch your current workforce, the less quality work they can provide. If I have only one job like say ensuring that one section of computers are up and running, then I am going to get my job done, provided its a small area and no one in the area is a l33t h4x0r. I might even be able to make them run a little better, tune them up, preventative maintainance, etc. Now, lets say my friend gets fired, his responsibility was another section. They delegate the responsibility to me. I now have two sections of computers to deal with. I can't spend as much time preventing their eventual collapses as I could before, and I'm feeling stressed. The last tech guy is eventually fired, and his responsibilities are given to me. So not only do I have to take care of all of the computers in the building, but I have to worry about some servers, a phone system, and keeping it all working together. Considering management fired these people for a reason, like saving money, they're reluctant to give me a raise. Its just a game of tetris then, where you know you can't keep the job up indefinately. Something is going to crash, whether it be you or the machines. Thats a hypothetical situation, but you get the idea.
We also have some other new technologies to stop alpha particles. Even objects which may be in our houses today. Paper, wood, walls, a layer of skin or two..this is all it takes to stop all but the strongest burst of alpha or beta radiation. But take off your paper, wooden, or drywall outfits! Now you can look great while defending yourself from harsh radiation!
A good rule I've learned with delicate electronics, through the actions of others while in high school. Always place the computer higher up than the drink is placed. That way, if the drink spills, it won't trickle down into the computer.
Am I the only one that wonders why that picture should even be possible? Don't answer that.
I am not going to make excuses here. People pirate things because they want them, and software companies charge ridiculous amounts for the said software. $500 for Photoshop? It is a powerful tool, yes, but I don't feel that it is worth a week's pay for some people. Yes, you can get sent to prison for years, but usually only if it gets out of hand or you're a business of some kind. Point is, courts need to treat software as what it really it. If you steal a CD, you've stolen a CD with music on it. You didn't steal the medium and then steal the content. The content kind of has to follow the CD around. No MP3 or piece of software is worth three years in prison. It all comes down to who has the most money. The common people can't really speak loud enough. The corporations have private audience with our government, and all we can do is cast a shitty vote.
This is getting out of hand. When will it end? When we get forced back into the analog age again? I hope they realize that they're putting the United States 'behind the times' technologically speaking in the name of 'piracy prevention'. When's the last time you pirated MP3s or ISOs on a toy?
In today's world, either you're a lawyer, you have a lawyer, or you're ignorant. Any time you are served legal papers is good enough for most of us. For the paranoid, I reccomend taking a few law courses to be SURE they know what can / can't happen. If he has that much more money than you, anything is possible. He could very well have sued you, and taken every penny you had. Maybe if you were a lawyer, you could fend for yourself in court, otherwise, you might only lose half of your monentary assets to pay the lawyer.
I thought only ATI cards printed their circuits on red PCB.
First of all, the poster of the pictures doesn't speak very good English. Second, all he shows is a few Tesla coils in action, a computer, and some cooling devices. I do believe this is what we like to call a 'hoax'. And if he did get it to work, he should post details on how that Athlon XP could survive at the voltages required to power a Tesla coil. Give some designs or something, not just badly narrated pictures of random objects.
That's just what companies want. It is kind of fear-effect. That, and the value of human life is less than one copyrighted MP3. Five years for the ability to play MP3s? What is that going to solve? Considering everyone and their parents knows how to play mp3s, do people that play mp3s really need to be reahabilitated for society? I don't see how playing music that you own constitutes as stealing or breaking the law. Even if companies say that you can't do that, I say that I can.
..Bill Gates elected president.
Long hours do affect the quality of code you write. If you're not tired, you'd be more inclined to take the safer, slower way around rather than the faster but unsafe methods. Ever wonder why buffer overflows seem to appear in all types of software?
Yeah. Good thing no one around here knows that I secretly went to the nearest 6th mix machine, passed it in front of a bunch of people and then left. They'd annoy me to death asking how I did it.
Nothing's like DDR when it comes to song selections and intensity. I haven't seen anything as intense as those songs. I love most of the songs, and its in a relaxed atmosphere. No lessons, no need for partners or dressing up. And DDR machines around here are in our local malls, so we can just go whenever.
DDR introduced me to social situations. I mean, before DDR, I never really mingled with people at large social gatherings. But DDR has made me a much more social person, forcing you to either deal with people or play at home. Not to mention the health benefits of being able to pass Max300 on maniac (I did that once, it hurt).
Well..Slashdot *IS* notorious for posting old news..