Go with your gut feelings... As long as you have a good relationship with your boss and he/she realizes that it was a recruiter that contacted you, why not stay. That is where you are happy. They obviously want you to stay.
I'd also be sincere with the recruiter. If he can get you a job in this economy, he might be able to find something for you in the future when you really do want to leave.
Create a.sex domain. All sites dealing with pornographic materials must register under this new domain. I'm sure there must already exist appropriate definitions of pornography. Create a straightforward process where people can file for exemptions, for those grey areas.
Parents/communities can then block out.sex access.
I'd also go one step further and make it illegal for sending unsolicited mail that includes sexual/adult references/images/links. I can't believe that it's legal for these sex spammers to send links like this to email accounts that might be used by children.
When does a child have a right to grow up, -without- being force fed sex, violence and other adult issues?
Video games, Arcades, TV, commercials, magazines, malls,... It's everywhere. Alot of kids don't have a strong family structure, and even when there are concerned/educated parents around a kid can very easily be exposed to this stuff without making a conscious decision to do so. After all, they are -children-
You can argue all you want about an individual's right to view this material, but what about a child's right to avoid it?
This ruling says that "local governments can limit children's access to violent or sexually explicit video games".
I read recently that Germany has a law which prohibits red blood in violent video games.
You can argue whether the content of these video games should be allowed or not, but video games are not trying to make a 'statement'. They are selling products any way they can -violence, sex, action, graphics...
Save the free speech argument for those times when it really applies
Maybe it's just me, but the mac I just replaced was a Powercomputing PowerTower Pro 200 with an external 33.6k modem, running Netscape 4.7.
Now I've got a G4 700mhz imac w/56k modem, running Mozilla (which is only in beta). Browsing is -much- faster. I'm (almost) sure my bottleneck is the modem speed, and not the browser/OSX.
That article mentions that it takes an avg of 10 seconds to connect CNN web to from a mac? My PC at work w/High speed internet usually takes 10+ seconds to connect to. CNN site can be brutally slow.
Maybe the article is referring to browser speed on OSX in a corporate environment with a high speed network? On that, I can't comment.
Probably no one will read this, but here is the update. According to the Credit Union's website, they support both Netscape and IE browsers v4.0 and higher.
I happened to see on one of their pages that the site was maintained by some company, so I went there and found a tech. support number to call.
This company doesn't support end users, though only customers (which in this case is the Credit Union). So I gave them all the contact info that I had at the Credit union. Hopefully they will fix the problem
``You've never checked to this day whether what Mr. Gates told you... was true in the remedies,'' Gutman challenged. Sanders agreed he had not read the states' proposals.
Read the whole article at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ri/020416/microsoft_3.html
Also, I find it very difficult to believe that 95% of their customers are on a browser that was released about 7 months ago. You could say that this is a statistical improbability!
I wasn't upset at all, and can certainly understand having limited resources. I even told them in my email that I wasn't in a hurry. I was trying to avoid calling them on the phone for such a non urgent issue. In the end I suggested that they mention somewhere on the site that the Online transfer requires IE6.
But look a little closer at their response, which was asking me to use IE or a -later- version of Netscape. -Which is why I tried using IE5 and Netscape6.
Why would they have me try a later version of Netscape if they only support IE?
It's more a Customer Service Issue, I think. Let people know what browsers are/not supported. Anyway, I can only imagine this kind of response happening even more often with a lesser known browser than Netscape.
I'm probably going to start using Mozilla at work in addition to home soon enough regardless!
I connected to my Credit Union's site to do an online transfer. It looked like it was going to work, but when it asked to verify the transaction I got an error. I was running Netscape 4.7.
I emailed their customer service and they said "Netscape does tend to be a little quirky. We suggest using Internet Explorer or the most updated version of Netscape."
It just so happens that I had IE5 and Netscape 6 on my machine so I tried doing the transfer with both app's and got the same error. I emailed customer service again, and here is the response (word for word):
"Have you tried Internet Explorer 6, as that is the most recent and should solve your problem. That is actually what 95% of our Customer's use who access our website. Thank you."
Can you imagine that? Think they were blowing me off?
I can only imagine the kinds of reponses from customer service folks who have never heard of Mozilla:) btw-Downloaded Mozilla for my home computer the other day, running on OSX and have been very pleased so far!
I just don't understand why a top level.sex domain isn't created, and then legislation to require all pornography sites to use this domain.
The legislation would be as specific as possible to avoid lumping 'art' into this category, and a company would be able to file for exception if for some reason they didn't fall under this 'definition'.
There's absolutely no common sense reason that this shouldn't happen!!
I was under the impression that Nusphere -Was- dynamically linking. I thought that when Nusphere and MySQL AB were getting along, MySQL AB included the 'hooks' to Nusphere's row level locking functionality. Once these hooks were included in the product, Nusphere could add the transaction support thru dynamic linking, without violating any agreement.
One of the proposed MS settlements was that Microsoft would have "uniform terms and conditions" for licensing.
Sony argues that in the past, they have added language which would strengthen their claim to it's intellectual property.
Now that Microsoft is renegotiating with Sony, MS claims that in order to be compliant with the settlement, they cannot accept Sony's modifications of the license. -which only strengthens Microsoft's ability to extend it's monopoly.
and here I thought that was one of the safest proposals of the settlement!!
If DMA members currently don't spam anyway, this statement will only help to define or clarify an anti-spam policy that is acceptable.
Eventually, some good legislation might get passed that has the backing of DMA/Marketing industry, consumers, and legislators. If DMA can separate themselves from the filth, they are more likely to support such measures, rather than oppose it.
The DVDCCA claimed that a certain key within the DeCSS program was a -Trade Secret-. The original injunction only took into account the potential harm of the defendant and plaintiff. It did not consider the implications that it would have on the 1st ammendment/free speach.
In this case, a compiled DeCSS object would have only a functional purpose -to decrypt DVD's. It is the source code of DeCSS which has an expressive purpose. This is what the judge ruled.
"If the source code were "compiled" to create object code, we would agree that the resulting composition of zeroes and ones would not convey ideas. (See generally Junger v. Daley, supra, 209 F.3d at pp. 482-483.) That the source code is capable of such compilation, however, does not
destroy the expressive nature of the source code itself. Thus, we conclude that the trial
court's preliminary injunction barring Bunner from disclosing DeCSS can fairly be characterized as a prohibition of "pure" speech."
I'd like to see pop up ads that could expire. Rather than making you hunt across your desktop for that annoying ad that's hiding somewhere, I would like to see a banner ad that pops up as a separate window but will automatically close after 5 seconds.
(I still think the original banners are the best. I don't always click thru them, but I generally do see/read them. I actually boycott sites now that have overly intrusive ads, such as ZDNet.)
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As long as you have a good relationship with your boss and he/she realizes that it was a recruiter that contacted you, why not stay. That is where you are happy. They obviously want you to stay.
I'd also be sincere with the recruiter. If he can get you a job in this economy, he might be able to find something for you in the future when you really do want to leave.
Parents/communities can then block out .sex access.
I'd also go one step further and make it illegal for sending unsolicited mail that includes sexual/adult references/images/links. I can't believe that it's legal for these sex spammers to send links like this to email accounts that might be used by children.
Video games, Arcades, TV, commercials, magazines, malls,... It's everywhere. Alot of kids don't have a strong family structure, and even when there are concerned/educated parents around a kid can very easily be exposed to this stuff without making a conscious decision to do so. After all, they are -children-
You can argue all you want about an individual's right to view this material, but what about a child's right to avoid it?
This ruling says that "local governments can limit children's access to violent or sexually explicit video games".
Is this so bad? I think it's rather good.
You can argue whether the content of these video games should be allowed or not, but video games are not trying to make a 'statement'. They are selling products any way they can -violence, sex, action, graphics...
Save the free speech argument for those times when it really applies
Now I've got a G4 700mhz imac w/56k modem, running Mozilla (which is only in beta). Browsing is -much- faster. I'm (almost) sure my bottleneck is the modem speed, and not the browser/OSX.
That article mentions that it takes an avg of 10 seconds to connect CNN web to from a mac? My PC at work w/High speed internet usually takes 10+ seconds to connect to. CNN site can be brutally slow.
Maybe the article is referring to browser speed on OSX in a corporate environment with a high speed network? On that, I can't comment.
I happened to see on one of their pages that the site was maintained by some company, so I went there and found a tech. support number to call.
This company doesn't support end users, though only customers (which in this case is the Credit Union). So I gave them all the contact info that I had at the Credit union. Hopefully they will fix the problem
Read the whole article at: http://biz.yahoo.com/ri/020416/microsoft_3.html
Also, I find it very difficult to believe that 95% of their customers are on a browser that was released about 7 months ago. You could say that this is a statistical improbability!
But look a little closer at their response, which was asking me to use IE or a -later- version of Netscape. -Which is why I tried using IE5 and Netscape6.
Why would they have me try a later version of Netscape if they only support IE?
It's more a Customer Service Issue, I think. Let people know what browsers are/not supported. Anyway, I can only imagine this kind of response happening even more often with a lesser known browser than Netscape.
I'm probably going to start using Mozilla at work in addition to home soon enough regardless!
I emailed their customer service and they said "Netscape does tend to be a little quirky. We suggest using Internet Explorer or the most updated version of Netscape."
It just so happens that I had IE5 and Netscape 6 on my machine so I tried doing the transfer with both app's and got the same error. I emailed customer service again, and here is the response (word for word):
"Have you tried Internet Explorer 6, as that is the most recent and should solve your problem. That is actually what 95% of our Customer's use who access our website. Thank you."
Can you imagine that? Think they were blowing me off?
I can only imagine the kinds of reponses from customer service folks who have never heard of Mozilla:) btw-Downloaded Mozilla for my home computer the other day, running on OSX and have been very pleased so far!
Don't worry. When Microsoft decides to bundle the XBox with Internet Explorer, they will do just fine!
Maybe he could work something out with Apple where his parents sign for him?
The legislation would be as specific as possible to avoid lumping 'art' into this category, and a company would be able to file for exception if for some reason they didn't fall under this 'definition'.
There's absolutely no common sense reason that this shouldn't happen!!
What's more interesting is that Steve Jobs is also the CEO of a Movie/animation Studio -Pixar!!
I was under the impression that Nusphere -Was- dynamically linking. I thought that when Nusphere and MySQL AB were getting along, MySQL AB included the 'hooks' to Nusphere's row level locking functionality. Once these hooks were included in the product, Nusphere could add the transaction support thru dynamic linking, without violating any agreement.
Sony argues that in the past, they have added language which would strengthen their claim to it's intellectual property.
Now that Microsoft is renegotiating with Sony, MS claims that in order to be compliant with the settlement, they cannot accept Sony's modifications of the license. -which only strengthens Microsoft's ability to extend it's monopoly.
and here I thought that was one of the safest proposals of the settlement!!
Eventually, some good legislation might get passed that has the backing of DMA/Marketing industry, consumers, and legislators. If DMA can separate themselves from the filth, they are more likely to support such measures, rather than oppose it.
I would go with the MOTU 828 which is a cheaper version of the 896. I agree that USB is not nearly as good as a firewire solution.
I wonder if you can remove the flat panel monitor and connect it to the ipod, for a portable tablet... now that would be cool!
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2101964,00
I thought zdnet considered themselves a news organization, not a rumors site. Guess not!
Did anybody else miss the discussion group 2-3 articles below that reviews the Handspring Treo -Cellphone, PDA, keyboard...?
In this case, a compiled DeCSS object would have only a functional purpose -to decrypt DVD's. It is the source code of DeCSS which has an expressive purpose. This is what the judge ruled.
"If the source code were "compiled" to create object code, we would agree that the resulting composition of zeroes and ones would not convey ideas. (See generally Junger v. Daley, supra, 209 F.3d at pp. 482-483.) That the source code is capable of such compilation, however, does not destroy the expressive nature of the source code itself. Thus, we conclude that the trial court's preliminary injunction barring Bunner from disclosing DeCSS can fairly be characterized as a prohibition of "pure" speech."
(I still think the original banners are the best. I don't always click thru them, but I generally do see/read them. I actually boycott sites now that have overly intrusive ads, such as ZDNet.)