Bear in mind statistics are one of the most important components in baseball. More so than any other sport.
Bullshit
1) Do they show a screen of statistics and graphs with an inset of the actual game in the bottom right corner on TV? Why does anyone go to a baseball field when they could more comfortably access all the statistics at home?
Because copyright is, ostensibly, an incentive for you to create new things. You can't do much new creating if you're dead. Do you think employers should continue to pay employees' wage to their "estates" after they die ? If not, why not - what's the difference ?
If you're an artist who is, say, 85 years old, or have AIDS, or live in Iraq; who will publish you, fearing you could die tomorrow and they'd lose most of the profit? Thus no incentive for you to create. So while I don't think the current centuries of copyright protection are a good idea, I'd support something like 14-20 years after the creator's death. Creative works can earn money independently of the creator being living or dead, so the "wages" argument isn't relevant.
Anyhow on stealing OSX - I'd gladly pay for OSX (just like I paid for Windows) if I could run it on my own PC. However I don't feel like paying 2000+$ for a machine thats basically a 300-600$ Intel PC.
Blocking all cookies because you're afraid of them just makes life more difficult
Obviously; boards like Slashdot are a pain if you have to sign in every time. But sites I visit randomly in search of specifc information and probably never again don't need a cookie active till 2037, as many try to set.
Yeah, I mean the Sun Bulletin just shrugged off all of the reports of plagiarism in this case. I wish they had done something to remedy the situation.
Oh wait, they did.
Read the linked articles; you find that the Sun did try to brush it off; then gave the reporter a brief suspension, before finally firing him; all only because of the attention competing newspapers were giving.
Not as long as the tinfoil hat brigade thinks that all cookies are evil and blocks them. You need something that's outside the user's control
Blocking "www.google-analytics.com" is in my control; I blocked it some time ago, not out of paranoia but because some sites seemed to be pausing while loading something from it. It didn't look like anything I needed to be inconvenienced for.
A few weeks ago I noticed some sites pausing while loading something from www.google-analytics.com, it sounded like some tracking site I didn't want to contribute my time to so I added that to my block list.
Moscow is the capital of Russia
dude, these are former soviets...these kind of jokes
Not necessarily a joke -- there are at least seven "Moscow"s in the USA. One might think that the original, oldest, largest one wouldn't require disambiguation, but US newsreaders seem to think, for instance, they need to say "Paris, France" in case viewers think they're talking about Paris, Texas.
have never, ever, had the urge to look at the keys when I'm typing.
It's not for ordinary typing; you don't need dynamic keycaps for that, but for showing shortcuts for whatever app (or game) you happen to be running; or perhaps if you need to switch to different languages. Or maybe you want your "Windows" key tobe a Gnome footprint.
The DVDs can only (supposedly) be played on "the limited edition DVD players issued last year to Bafta members. Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD screeners.... Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe".
Why on Earth they region-encoded them on top of the special encryption is a question Steve may well be asking.
Appears I was wrong to give you the benefit of the doubt. After Googling I find that aside from "Methylsulfonylmethane", "Maastricht School of Management"; MSM, according to trhe infallible Wikipedia, is a term used by "right-leaning authors the acronym implying that the majority of mass media sources is dominated by leftist powers which are furthering their own agenda".
Sorry for not knowing your code-words. Do you also have a secret handshake?
I wasn't referring to you as a zealot; I haven't examined your posting history so give you the benefit of hte doubt. By zealots I mean those, on either side, who take any opportunity to tiresomely regurgitate the same arguments with their mirror images; neither side learning a thing in the process. Same mentality as the pro/anti gun nuts. Good for the ad impressions though. However, I'm not familiar with "MSM"? Something like the Illuminati? Or did you mean FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster)?
Creationists are nutty, but I don't recall any ever claiming that bees were supported in the air by God's grace. I can't see how this has any relevance to the "debate" at all. But good flamebait, Slashdot well on the way to the usual 800 posts any story mentioning ID gets as all the zealots recycle their arguments.
I'm in the middle of archiving about 800 VHS tapes to DVD. Many are 15-20 years old, and I've been surprised at how well most of them still work.
I live in Hong Kong; after one or at most two years VHS tapes have fungus growing on them. I've got lots of old CDS and VCDs, very rare for them to fail so far.
One week passes. The court hear nothing. The day after one of the brothers show up with proof that they have now paid the bill. He is astounded to learn that the company is no more. It'll be liquidated. All assets sold to the highest bidder. The proceeds used to pay of this, and any other outstanding bills.
I wish they'd done that to my former boss. He never counted a bill as being due till it was at least 30 days past the stated date. He did that with suppliers, and eventually started doing it to his staff. So when finally ordered to pay by the court, he paid late then too. But at least then I was able to get a bailiff's order to collect or else face liquidation. He and many other jerks get away with massive abuses though because the labour tribunal treats them indulgently. If I'd helped myself to 1/10th as much of the company's money as he owed me, Id have been in jail for years. He just has to be contrite in front of the judge and suffers no real penalty, in fact he got an extra year's credit by stretching out the case.
Five years ago and I still get angry if I think about this.
Most "real" Sony hardware is made in China anyway. I've got a Chinese-brand DVD player; works perfectly. And it plays counterfeit DVDs that Sony players refuse to....
Arbitration with no legal force is, however, as you say, pointless unless both sides actually want to reach an agreement.
Yes, that's vital. Unless eBay or anyone who provides such a "service" puts this in the TOS, it will become just a way of delaying payment. I'm pretty disillusioned with such procedures myself, having suffered through a long process with our local Labour Tribunal when my former employer was months late in paying salary. Despite the simplicity of the case, it took over a year to resolve; and at every step we were urged to agree to "conciliation", an arbitration agreement that would inevitably have meant my accepting much less than was due, merely to save the Tribunal's time. Forcing cases to go to arbitration gives scumbags the chance to stretch out the process, hoping you'll just give up. From all reports, eBay is happy for its customers to be scammed, as long as they don't make a fuss.
From TF summary: Someday, Congress and the Senate might even use programs such as this to resolve conflicting bills
What bullshit. Conflicting bills are solved on the basis of power and horsetrading; and no one would want a record of their negotiations to come back and embarrass them. Anyway, they're all in the same building so I fail to see the point of an "e-negotiation" when they can just retire to the traditional smoke-filled backrooms.
I doubt a robotic piece of code will ever be able to emulate well enough to keep things out of higher courts just to get the final answer as society deems it should be.
If you'd RTFA instead of the bullshit summary, (look at the original headline "'Robot agents' to help settle disputes", vs Slashdot's) you'd see there is nothing about robotic lawyers or judges making decisions on cases; it simply acts to host an online venue for arbitration, processing the complaints and presenting options. So as for eBay conflict resolution, it will be yet another way for scammers to waste time and for eBay to avoid reponsibility. Arbitration only works if there is good faith on both sides.
From my personal experience, I use more than 5% of MS Office's functionality, so I'm not in any posiiton to tell the "little people" what features they are going have to miss out on? Revision Marks? Pivot Tables? Grammar Checker? No Go, as far I am concerned (personally).
Pivot tables? I was talking about Word. Grammar checker? Worthless in every version. But if you want to trust it, good luck. Revision marks -- this is useful to me, in collaborative work. But it was in Word 97, if not earlier.
> Even better, spend a day tutoring them in Word 5 for DOS or WordPerfect 5.1 and they'd be twice as productive.
Training costs are too high for DOS apps. That's why we got rid of them to begin with.
They were just unsupported and a forced upgrade. The major training for any wordprocessing is just typing. That people can manage to work on Word et al with no training is the reason hardly anyone uses it efficiently or effectively; support costs through lack of initial training must be vast. Though I do use Windows apps, I avoid Word unless forced to use it for compatibility.
YMMV; but to reiterate, I speak for 10 years' experience in interacting with people via Word files and feel I have a pretty good idea of how most people use it. That no one is ever trained how to use it is painfully obvious from the fucked-up formatting and that I have to write long involved messages telling them how to "save as" or how to use revision history.
Slashdot Mirror
Bullshit
1) Do they show a screen of statistics and graphs with an inset of the actual game in the bottom right corner on TV? Why does anyone go to a baseball field when they could more comfortably access all the statistics at home?
2) You obviously haven't heard of cricket.
If you're an artist who is, say, 85 years old, or have AIDS, or live in Iraq; who will publish you, fearing you could die tomorrow and they'd lose most of the profit? Thus no incentive for you to create. So while I don't think the current centuries of copyright protection are a good idea, I'd support something like 14-20 years after the creator's death. Creative works can earn money independently of the creator being living or dead, so the "wages" argument isn't relevant.
Buy a Mini and a KVM.
More typecasting -- Flynn was Australian...
But you can keep Mel Gibson. He was born in the US anyway.
Obviously; boards like Slashdot are a pain if you have to sign in every time. But sites I visit randomly in search of specifc information and probably never again don't need a cookie active till 2037, as many try to set.
If it were original, maybe. But some cunt posts it every fucking time a story about Australia is posted. Thus my distinct lack of appreciation.
Hey, make a Simpsons' reference about how the toilets flush the wrong way! That's sure to get a laugh!
Read the linked articles; you find that the Sun did try to brush it off; then gave the reporter a brief suspension, before finally firing him; all only because of the attention competing newspapers were giving.
Blocking "www.google-analytics.com" is in my control; I blocked it some time ago, not out of paranoia but because some sites seemed to be pausing while loading something from it. It didn't look like anything I needed to be inconvenienced for.
A few weeks ago I noticed some sites pausing while loading something from www.google-analytics.com, it sounded like some tracking site I didn't want to contribute my time to so I added that to my block list.
dude, these are former soviets...these kind of jokes
Not necessarily a joke -- there are at least seven "Moscow"s in the USA. One might think that the original, oldest, largest one wouldn't require disambiguation, but US newsreaders seem to think, for instance, they need to say "Paris, France" in case viewers think they're talking about Paris, Texas.
It's not for ordinary typing; you don't need dynamic keycaps for that, but for showing shortcuts for whatever app (or game) you happen to be running; or perhaps if you need to switch to different languages. Or maybe you want your "Windows" key tobe a Gnome footprint.
Anyway, sadly it looks like vapourware.
Yes, see Larry Niven's Protector.
The DVDs can only (supposedly) be played on "the limited edition DVD players issued last year to Bafta members. Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD screeners .... Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe".
Why on Earth they region-encoded them on top of the special encryption is a question Steve may well be asking.
Sorry for not knowing your code-words. Do you also have a secret handshake?
I wasn't referring to you as a zealot; I haven't examined your posting history so give you the benefit of hte doubt. By zealots I mean those, on either side, who take any opportunity to tiresomely regurgitate the same arguments with their mirror images; neither side learning a thing in the process. Same mentality as the pro/anti gun nuts. Good for the ad impressions though. However, I'm not familiar with "MSM"? Something like the Illuminati? Or did you mean FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster)?
Creationists are nutty, but I don't recall any ever claiming that bees were supported in the air by God's grace. I can't see how this has any relevance to the "debate" at all. But good flamebait, Slashdot well on the way to the usual 800 posts any story mentioning ID gets as all the zealots recycle their arguments.
I live in Hong Kong; after one or at most two years VHS tapes have fungus growing on them. I've got lots of old CDS and VCDs, very rare for them to fail so far.
I wish they'd done that to my former boss. He never counted a bill as being due till it was at least 30 days past the stated date. He did that with suppliers, and eventually started doing it to his staff. So when finally ordered to pay by the court, he paid late then too. But at least then I was able to get a bailiff's order to collect or else face liquidation. He and many other jerks get away with massive abuses though because the labour tribunal treats them indulgently. If I'd helped myself to 1/10th as much of the company's money as he owed me, Id have been in jail for years. He just has to be contrite in front of the judge and suffers no real penalty, in fact he got an extra year's credit by stretching out the case.
Five years ago and I still get angry if I think about this.
China. Though it's possible that some of them may be legit; many are certainly packaged very nicely.
Most "real" Sony hardware is made in China anyway. I've got a Chinese-brand DVD player; works perfectly. And it plays counterfeit DVDs that Sony players refuse to....
Yes, that's vital. Unless eBay or anyone who provides such a "service" puts this in the TOS, it will become just a way of delaying payment. I'm pretty disillusioned with such procedures myself, having suffered through a long process with our local Labour Tribunal when my former employer was months late in paying salary. Despite the simplicity of the case, it took over a year to resolve; and at every step we were urged to agree to "conciliation", an arbitration agreement that would inevitably have meant my accepting much less than was due, merely to save the Tribunal's time. Forcing cases to go to arbitration gives scumbags the chance to stretch out the process, hoping you'll just give up. From all reports, eBay is happy for its customers to be scammed, as long as they don't make a fuss.
What bullshit. Conflicting bills are solved on the basis of power and horsetrading; and no one would want a record of their negotiations to come back and embarrass them. Anyway, they're all in the same building so I fail to see the point of an "e-negotiation" when they can just retire to the traditional smoke-filled backrooms.
It may well have uses, but not in government.
If you'd RTFA instead of the bullshit summary, (look at the original headline "'Robot agents' to help settle disputes", vs Slashdot's) you'd see there is nothing about robotic lawyers or judges making decisions on cases; it simply acts to host an online venue for arbitration, processing the complaints and presenting options. So as for eBay conflict resolution, it will be yet another way for scammers to waste time and for eBay to avoid reponsibility. Arbitration only works if there is good faith on both sides.
Pivot tables? I was talking about Word. Grammar checker? Worthless in every version. But if you want to trust it, good luck. Revision marks -- this is useful to me, in collaborative work. But it was in Word 97, if not earlier.
> Even better, spend a day tutoring them in Word 5 for DOS or WordPerfect 5.1 and they'd be twice as productive.
Training costs are too high for DOS apps. That's why we got rid of them to begin with.
They were just unsupported and a forced upgrade. The major training for any wordprocessing is just typing. That people can manage to work on Word et al with no training is the reason hardly anyone uses it efficiently or effectively; support costs through lack of initial training must be vast. Though I do use Windows apps, I avoid Word unless forced to use it for compatibility.
YMMV; but to reiterate, I speak for 10 years' experience in interacting with people via Word files and feel I have a pretty good idea of how most people use it. That no one is ever trained how to use it is painfully obvious from the fucked-up formatting and that I have to write long involved messages telling them how to "save as" or how to use revision history.
Except for The Lone Gunmen (March 2001 -- actually targetting the WTC) or Tom Clancy (1994).