It's like people who go 45 MPH in the left lane on a 55 MPH road. Yeah, that's definitely what the laws say you can do, but most people don't, and the presence of a vehicle going a different speed from the flow of traffic creates danger and stress that shouldn't be there.
That is (generally) incorrect. Slower traffic is generally required to be in the right lane per law - source: http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
The overhead of tracking tax codes down to the city level (and keeping up to date) would be overwhelming.
They could put them all in an online computer database?
So you're offering to make and update this database for free? No? You'd want to be paid to do it? Well how much would that cost? So roughly the amount of money that we make from doing business there or more? Nevermind, it's easier to just not do business there.
A better example than a patron would be an employee - the vast majority of bars i've frequented left their employees in situations where the had no choice but to breathe in second hand smoke. I know the free-market extremists will disagree, but i think your employer should be responsible for a safe working environment.
I certainly know of someone who got a nasty laceration in his foot from broken glass from a customer spill. The bar settled and covered his medical costs.
That's certainly a different situation than being exposed to second hand smoke, though. If you apply to work at a bar/restaurant where smoking is allowed (which you could easily tell when you were picking up your application), I think you should expect that you'll be around second hand smoke and if that is objectionable - choose not to work there! If you object to working outside in the heat, perhaps you shouldn't apply for a construction job in California - it's not the hiring construction companies job to provide a portable air conditioning unit for you. If you object to working with children - you should probably not try to become a second grade teacher. If you object to working around alcohol - you should not apply to a liquor store. If you object to working around smoke, you should choose not to work at a place WHERE PEOPLE FREQUENTLY SMOKE. You are not entitled to work at whatever job you want with whatever conditions you want, no one owes you the type of job you dream of.
Having the characters flash like the iPhone totally defeats the purpose of masking the characters in my opinion.
Only if the purpose it to stop someone determined to find out your password by staring at the screen and memorizing what's typed. If it's purpose is to prevent people from casually glancing at the screen and seeing your password then I'd say it does an admirable job.
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
Basically, in a few situations like this, it would be really handy to turn off masking one-time-only.
Why didn't you just block it into chunks? k38dheyd73hdud73hd73jdu37dhe7dyeh37dyeh37djeucut7ehsd8e8ts7e3jd is hard to type all in one go, but if you block it out in four letters: k38d heyd 73hd ud73 hd73 jdu3 7dhe 7dye h37d yeh3 7dje ucut 7ehs d8e8 ts7e 3jd - it is much easier (or maybe I'm just too used to typing product keys...) and significantly easier to tell by the last letter where you left off.
my Director relied on me for 75% of the groups knowledge..... BAAAAAAADDDDD place to be.
This is a WONDERFUL place to be! Time to ask for a raise! If you don't get it, your director risks showing how incompetent he is when you leave as all of a sudden his department isn't functioning half as good as it was before you left.
That's a bad metric. My IT dept. gets very few calls. But it's because people have realized that it's pointless to call them for help. Telling someone to call the help desk there is a form of sarcasm.
I worked at a place like this once upon a time. My job was to go around to the various buildings and fix the issues I was assigned - I was not allowed to do anything that I wasn't assigned, or to solve even simple problems, I was to refer them to the help desk. Unfortunately the person at the help desk didn't know much about computers, couldn't be fired for union reasons, and was aware that their position was in jeopardy so would try to troubleshoot the problem on the phone for a long time before finally giving up and creating a ticket. There's roughly 10,000 computers at this place, and ONE person at the help desk. As they were on the calls for long periods of time, calls often went to voicemail - they then had to be called back by the help desk and the trouble shooting done with them at this point - if they could be reached! If something came up, then they'd have to try to call them again later until they got through to spend time "troubleshooting" over the phone. Due to this, I could have absolutely zero open tickets, yet be walking around a building having dozens of people ask me if I was there to fix their problem. It's not fun having to tell them "no, it hasn't been assigned to me yet" for the Nth time. As a result, people stopped calling the help desk, and just started complaining to their higher ups. Some would bribe IT with baked goods. It's amazing what poor decisions by the higher ups can cause.
Fun times...
If copying a working solution to a problem from the internet is cheating, then I cheat all the time in my work.
That would only be cheating if either A) you were copying something you aren't allowed to copy (copyright infringement) or B) your employer is paying you to come up with a unique/personal solution to the particular problem instead of asking you to come up with the best/most cost effective/any working solution (which I'd wager these three are much more common).
Stop calling them free updates. We already paid for them, they are not free.
Well, what number of paid updates did you pay for exactly? Or what date do you stop receiving your paid for updates? Surely you didn't expect 1,000,000 paid updates, or for paid updates through the year 4953? It seems to me like you bought a game with free updates, but no guarantee or contract specifying how many or for how long.
Actually what they said is quite factual. The "23rd October" would have started on roughly 10/01/0023 and there's no way they'd be selling Windows 7 before then. If they meant the "23rd of October" then that's a different case entirely:P
Quick clarification, Universal Studios settled with Crispin the day before it was to go to trial - supposedly because they didn't want to reveal their accounting practices. It hasn't been an issue since as "the Screen Actors Guild later rewrote their rules regarding the derivative use of actors' works in films or TV series, setting terms under which to require the studios and networks to give payment and credit to the actors."
Citation: http://www.answers.com/topic/back-to-the-future-part-ii#Replacement_of_Crispin_Glover
"Did the state or county provide some service or infrastructure that supported the internet sale?"
Yes.
"Did the state or county or city bring anything to the table?"
Yes
Any other questions?
What did they provide? How pertinent was it to this specific transaction? How far can we extend this "provided a service"? I'm sure the building where the item was made used light bulbs to provide lighting (while making the item being sold) or at the very least the vehicle used to transport it had headlights - does that mean that New Jersey sales tax should be paid (Edison invented the light bulb and he lived in New Jersey)? How is that NOT New Jersey providing a service?
Number 2 isn't always irrational - it may be a perfectly rational thing to due if you have the assumption that there are variables that are out of your control and/or unknown to you. It's only an irrational action if you have perfect knowledge of the system.
Example: A user tries to delete a file and gets an error message. The user waits five seconds and tries to delete the file again and succeeds. During the five seconds a program (which the user is not aware of) that was accessing the file stopped accessing it. In the future, when the user gets an error message about deleting a file, they simply retry in a few seconds (which has worked for them in the past) assuming they have incomplete knowledge of everything that's going on. Increasing the number of tries it takes (i.e. repeating again and again) is still a rational thing to do (up to a point, but I don't really think anyone is arguing that somebody is repeating the same action for a literal eternity).
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It's like people who go 45 MPH in the left lane on a 55 MPH road. Yeah, that's definitely what the laws say you can do, but most people don't, and the presence of a vehicle going a different speed from the flow of traffic creates danger and stress that shouldn't be there.
That is (generally) incorrect. Slower traffic is generally required to be in the right lane per law - source: http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
The overhead of tracking tax codes down to the city level (and keeping up to date) would be overwhelming. They could put them all in an online computer database?
So you're offering to make and update this database for free? No? You'd want to be paid to do it? Well how much would that cost? So roughly the amount of money that we make from doing business there or more? Nevermind, it's easier to just not do business there.
A better example than a patron would be an employee - the vast majority of bars i've frequented left their employees in situations where the had no choice but to breathe in second hand smoke. I know the free-market extremists will disagree, but i think your employer should be responsible for a safe working environment.
I certainly know of someone who got a nasty laceration in his foot from broken glass from a customer spill. The bar settled and covered his medical costs.
That's certainly a different situation than being exposed to second hand smoke, though. If you apply to work at a bar/restaurant where smoking is allowed (which you could easily tell when you were picking up your application), I think you should expect that you'll be around second hand smoke and if that is objectionable - choose not to work there! If you object to working outside in the heat, perhaps you shouldn't apply for a construction job in California - it's not the hiring construction companies job to provide a portable air conditioning unit for you. If you object to working with children - you should probably not try to become a second grade teacher. If you object to working around alcohol - you should not apply to a liquor store. If you object to working around smoke, you should choose not to work at a place WHERE PEOPLE FREQUENTLY SMOKE. You are not entitled to work at whatever job you want with whatever conditions you want, no one owes you the type of job you dream of.
Having the characters flash like the iPhone totally defeats the purpose of masking the characters in my opinion.
Only if the purpose it to stop someone determined to find out your password by staring at the screen and memorizing what's typed. If it's purpose is to prevent people from casually glancing at the screen and seeing your password then I'd say it does an admirable job.
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
Basically, in a few situations like this, it would be really handy to turn off masking one-time-only.
Why didn't you just block it into chunks? k38dheyd73hdud73hd73jdu37dhe7dyeh37dyeh37djeucut7ehsd8e8ts7e3jd is hard to type all in one go, but if you block it out in four letters: k38d heyd 73hd ud73 hd73 jdu3 7dhe 7dye h37d yeh3 7dje ucut 7ehs d8e8 ts7e 3jd - it is much easier (or maybe I'm just too used to typing product keys...) and significantly easier to tell by the last letter where you left off.
But 50ms maximum latency to where? And is it one way or return?
My guess would be from your home to their facility (i.e. the last mile of the connection).
my Director relied on me for 75% of the groups knowledge..... BAAAAAAADDDDD place to be.
This is a WONDERFUL place to be! Time to ask for a raise! If you don't get it, your director risks showing how incompetent he is when you leave as all of a sudden his department isn't functioning half as good as it was before you left.
That's a bad metric. My IT dept. gets very few calls. But it's because people have realized that it's pointless to call them for help. Telling someone to call the help desk there is a form of sarcasm.
I worked at a place like this once upon a time. My job was to go around to the various buildings and fix the issues I was assigned - I was not allowed to do anything that I wasn't assigned, or to solve even simple problems, I was to refer them to the help desk. Unfortunately the person at the help desk didn't know much about computers, couldn't be fired for union reasons, and was aware that their position was in jeopardy so would try to troubleshoot the problem on the phone for a long time before finally giving up and creating a ticket. There's roughly 10,000 computers at this place, and ONE person at the help desk. As they were on the calls for long periods of time, calls often went to voicemail - they then had to be called back by the help desk and the trouble shooting done with them at this point - if they could be reached! If something came up, then they'd have to try to call them again later until they got through to spend time "troubleshooting" over the phone. Due to this, I could have absolutely zero open tickets, yet be walking around a building having dozens of people ask me if I was there to fix their problem. It's not fun having to tell them "no, it hasn't been assigned to me yet" for the Nth time. As a result, people stopped calling the help desk, and just started complaining to their higher ups. Some would bribe IT with baked goods. It's amazing what poor decisions by the higher ups can cause. Fun times...
If copying a working solution to a problem from the internet is cheating, then I cheat all the time in my work.
That would only be cheating if either A) you were copying something you aren't allowed to copy (copyright infringement) or B) your employer is paying you to come up with a unique/personal solution to the particular problem instead of asking you to come up with the best/most cost effective/any working solution (which I'd wager these three are much more common).
dammit, mismod, commenting to correct
Stop calling them free updates. We already paid for them, they are not free.
Well, what number of paid updates did you pay for exactly? Or what date do you stop receiving your paid for updates? Surely you didn't expect 1,000,000 paid updates, or for paid updates through the year 4953? It seems to me like you bought a game with free updates, but no guarantee or contract specifying how many or for how long.
And it's only by accident that the valuable item ever got there in the first place.
And if you look at everything going through, you find a surprising number of body parts...
"'We won't be actually selling [Windows 7] a day before the 23rd October" That statement could not possibly be more precisely wrong, as it turns out. They will actually be selling Windows 7 a day before the 23rd of October.
Actually what they said is quite factual. The "23rd October" would have started on roughly 10/01/0023 and there's no way they'd be selling Windows 7 before then. If they meant the "23rd of October" then that's a different case entirely :P
You are wrong. A bunch of dead white men from several hundred years ago don't know what's best for 2009.
And what makes you think a bunch of living (white, or any color for that mattter) men from 2009 know what's best for 2009?
Beware of viruses when making connections to untrusted hosts!
Viruses are something that can be dealt with - unintentionally spawning new processes is another matter entirely...
you may as well just move to linux
Sounds great, does Linux support shims yet?
Why yes, but they call it "wine" instead of "shim".
Quick clarification, Universal Studios settled with Crispin the day before it was to go to trial - supposedly because they didn't want to reveal their accounting practices. It hasn't been an issue since as "the Screen Actors Guild later rewrote their rules regarding the derivative use of actors' works in films or TV series, setting terms under which to require the studios and networks to give payment and credit to the actors." Citation: http://www.answers.com/topic/back-to-the-future-part-ii#Replacement_of_Crispin_Glover
"Did the state or county provide some service or infrastructure that supported the internet sale?"
Yes.
"Did the state or county or city bring anything to the table?"
Yes
Any other questions?
What did they provide? How pertinent was it to this specific transaction? How far can we extend this "provided a service"? I'm sure the building where the item was made used light bulbs to provide lighting (while making the item being sold) or at the very least the vehicle used to transport it had headlights - does that mean that New Jersey sales tax should be paid (Edison invented the light bulb and he lived in New Jersey)? How is that NOT New Jersey providing a service?
Number 2 isn't always irrational - it may be a perfectly rational thing to due if you have the assumption that there are variables that are out of your control and/or unknown to you. It's only an irrational action if you have perfect knowledge of the system.
Example: A user tries to delete a file and gets an error message. The user waits five seconds and tries to delete the file again and succeeds. During the five seconds a program (which the user is not aware of) that was accessing the file stopped accessing it. In the future, when the user gets an error message about deleting a file, they simply retry in a few seconds (which has worked for them in the past) assuming they have incomplete knowledge of everything that's going on. Increasing the number of tries it takes (i.e. repeating again and again) is still a rational thing to do (up to a point, but I don't really think anyone is arguing that somebody is repeating the same action for a literal eternity).
Are you implying the US government is violating United States law?
Implying? No - but I'm certainly thinking it very loudly.
I'm still waiting for the IPod bubble to burst. Been waiting quite a while now...
I'm still waiting for this whole "Motion Picture" bubble to burst. Been waiting quite a while now...
You know, if this trend holds, their next car will be competitive with the Civic-and-Corolla crowd.
Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!
...we were supposed to be the good guys?
The bad guys always do...
Why am I strange when I'm against the idea no matter who is sending them out?
Because you, sir, have principles and that is something you were never told by the media to have!
If Family Guy has taught me anything, it's that everyone should go to the nearest Twinkie factory in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
If Family Guy has taught you anything, then may god have mercy on us all.