For that matter, what's the crack about House Atreides? Ornithopters were in the original Dune book (and the original Dune movie). Forget about the crap prequels written by hacks after Herbert's death. (He wrote enough crap sequels to the brillaint first book himself.)
Osama bin Laden comes from one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia.
Poor distribution of wealth -> terrorism, my ass!
The immensely rich Saudis finance, and in bin Laden's case, lead the terrorists; the foot soldiers come from the refugee camps and unemployed. You think if everyone was middle-class this would happen?
Everything on the CD is an advert for something else. You can't even get to the main menu without watching a video of a car advert.
Turn off autoplay for CDRs in Windows. Then just browse the files with Explorer or whatever filemanager you prefer. I really hate apps that just start installing themselves or playing some crap when I just want to check out a disk.
This has happened over 130 times before. Interestingly, in some of these the URLS have been redacted, for instance a porn story with the linked notice that "Portions of this notice have been redacted out of respect for the privacy of a minor."
Is providing a link to the DMCA complain that lists the infringing sites in violation? If not, then there is really no point to taking down any results in the first place...
The point is that Google has complied with the letter of the law.
Actually, I don't have any clothes made in Thailand, China, or Indonesia.
Unless you hand-loomed the cloth and tailored them yourself, you do. There are lots of clothing "manufactureers" in the US who contract out the bulk of the work overseas (China, Cambodia, Ceylon, etc). The goods are shipped back to the US, where a final label or button is sewn on, thus allowing a "Made in the USA" label to be affixed.
Nope, what is hillarious is that all that is required to prevent this is legislation requiring any american company to pay any employee US equivalent wages
What is hilarious is that you think this would work. The outsourced workers aren't employees of the US company, they're either independent contractors or employees of an overseas company (that may in fact be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US company) that contracts with the US client. Most of the clothing you buy is made in Chinese factories by women who work for a few dollars a day. They work for Chinese companies which are subcontracted by Hong Kong companies to produce goods for the US client -- I use this industry as an example because I know rather a lot about it. I'm sure IT would be done in the same way. The campaigns against sweatshop labour have been successful only by moral pressure. If the foreign workers were actually being paid good wages on local terms, there is nothing to pressure them with.
Secondly, this would reduce profits for big companies, who have lobbyists who will stop it.
Well, he was (of a very small company). Because of his incompetence at managing people, every time he lucked into a good market and started to expand, the company would collapse due to his fear of losing control, which made it impossible for him to delegate authority. So when things got too complex for him to manage personally, it turned to shit. I saw this go through a few cycles before I found my ticket out. You can learn a lot from your boss's mistakes.
Short answer: "normalizing" the file for volume, or even chopping off a few seconds of trailing silence with something like CoolEdit will certainly change the hash
If that's all you want to do, much better not to use Cooledit, which has to expand and recompress the file to MP3. Use something like
MP3Trim which can chop off any given number of MP3 frames, or normalise the volume, by operating on the MP3 directly. Much much faster, and no expand/recompress quality loss.
>>Isn't this the same give-away-the-razor-sell-the-blades marketing technique that makes us hate the printer manufacturers?
> And no, because in this case, the cost of creating the "content" (virus definitions) _constitutes_ the main expenses of the antivir software companies
It IS a razor blade business model. Because antivirus products could and have been made that prevent certain classes of activity (messing with the MBR, eg), sending out mail inappropriately, etc. But they lost out to the "search for a million signatures that you have to update daily" class of product that can only react after a virus is loose.
Be prepared to resign. Saying 'no' is insubordination and legal grounds in the US for being fired, no matter how absurd the demand.
If the demand really is absurd, you have grounds to take the employer to court should he fire you. Obvious example: asking you to do something illegal. Your contract should state something about how much overtime you may be expected to work; eg "in emergencies", but if it's a permanent emergency, that can't be reasonable.
I once worked for a complete asshole who piled on the work to an absurd extent. He would call me a couple of times a week to tell me to start immediately on some new project that would take a few weeks' work. When I pointed out that I could only do so by dropping the last thing he had told me to do, he just shouted at me. I finally quit when my salary was months late and sued him for severance. Since then, he's had several replacements bu none lasted moe than a few months. So the relevance to this is that sometimes you can never win, no matter how hard you work. Just document what you do in case it comes to a dispute and they want to fire you for poor performance in not reaching impossible goals.
Yeah. And who needs spelling nazis when you have punctuation nazis.
That was my point. (Though I'll happily join a discussion on the finer points of punctuation should the subject come up.)
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I'd never heard of them (I'm not American). Looking at their site, I see they seem to be proclaiming styles for academic works; if so deliberately messing around with quotes for aesthetic reasons at the expense of logic seems perverse. I go with the Chicago Manual mostly, or Oxford, depending on context (British author, British style, etc).
I wouldn't say that it's entirely wrong. Here's something from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg:
Okay; perhaps I'm going a bit the other way just because I get annoyed at the more common [ab]use of apostrophes in word plurals. So my policy (and I'm an editor, so I get to enforce it in my books) is to use it only when necessary, not just in case. I don't think it is necessary for plurals of figures, but I'll accept that as not wrong.
Why the apostrophe in "nazi's"? Yea, you're also forgetting that the question mark should be inside the quotes there!
No it shouldn't, as what I'm quoting does not include the question mark. This is called the "logical quoting style". I know many Americans migrate punctuation inside quotes regardless of context, but I don't, and in British style it is standard.
He probably confused the idea of adding an apostrophe on for things like 10's, et. al.
Which is also wrong. You don't need an apostrophe before a plural s unless there is some chance of confusion. There isn't when adding an s to a figure, so you don't need one there.
Posted by
michael
on Friday August 08, @08:55PM from the good-junkyard-wars-challenge dept. capt.Hij writes "There is an interesting
article at the Christian Science Monitor about how water skimmers are able to move the way they do. This new theory debunks the previously accepted theory and answers why smaller, younger water skimmers are also able to move the same way as their elders: 'As he looked into the question, he adds, he learned that the reigning explanation leaves an unsolved puzzle: If these tiny insects propel themselves in the way many researchers think they do, then baby water striders should go nowhere fast.'" There's also a BBC story with pictures.
During the Iraqi war the BBC had a lot of video on the web; but thay said it was costing them a fortune. So I can't imagine they'd just open the taps and let the world download everything on demand. There must be a lot of conditions on this so far unstated. Certainly the quality is going to be as low as possible -- much lower than VHS, let alone DVD.
Same thing for documents: if you have a vanilla text document, with embedded pictures and using style tags correctly... it's usually fine. But it's amazing the number of total kludges people use in document construction, that will make it "blow up" if the document is sent to any other user/computer/version
Every time we have a story about Open Office, someone (or many someones) will comment: "I HAVE to use Word because the client demands it and if I send them a file exported from OO it may not look exactly the same and they'll think I'm a moron". To which I've answered too many times:
1) if it's normal correspondence, plain ASCII would do. If you want to use bold and italics, bullets, etc, use RTF
2) if exact layout is important, use PDF.
Not to mention all the problems of trying to read old files, macro viruses, hidden deleted text, etc.
Personally, I do a lot of DTP and just about everyone sends me doc files no matter how many times I explain, beg or demand they use simply formatted RTF. Truly, many just refuse to think about it -- it's like I'm asking them to use a Dvorak keyboard or PGP encryption instead of "Save as". Anyway, so more and more people start using cute Word features in their files, embedding blocks of text as art because they can't work out how to use styles to indent text, Excel worksheets because they can't work out how to use tables, etc. So to get clean text out of the fucking things now takes sometimes hours of dicking around in Word, and sometimes I just have to retype text.
One should read their ISP's Terms of Service. If it says "we will assist law enforcement authorities and copyright holders"
?? "and copyright holders???
Anyone who want to be can be a "copyright holder; e.g. you have a website, you have copyright on that, even without writing the little (C) symbol. So any bozo who was stalking you online, wanted to smash your teeth in for a flame, could subpoena your ISP claiming you'd violated his copyright in some way. Unless you have a judge to give a sanity check that there is a high probability of an offense being committed, any private party, like the RIAA, can use this to destroy privacy, and even safety.
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For that matter, what's the crack about House Atreides? Ornithopters were in the original Dune book (and the original Dune movie). Forget about the crap prequels written by hacks after Herbert's death. (He wrote enough crap sequels to the brillaint first book himself.)
Poor distribution of wealth -> terrorism, my ass!
The immensely rich Saudis finance, and in bin Laden's case, lead the terrorists; the foot soldiers come from the refugee camps and unemployed. You think if everyone was middle-class this would happen?
Turn off autoplay for CDRs in Windows. Then just browse the files with Explorer or whatever filemanager you prefer. I really hate apps that just start installing themselves or playing some crap when I just want to check out a disk.
This has happened over 130 times before. Interestingly, in some of these the URLS have been redacted, for instance a porn story with the linked notice that "Portions of this notice have been redacted out of respect for the privacy of a minor."
The point is that Google has complied with the letter of the law.
Unless you hand-loomed the cloth and tailored them yourself, you do. There are lots of clothing "manufactureers" in the US who contract out the bulk of the work overseas (China, Cambodia, Ceylon, etc). The goods are shipped back to the US, where a final label or button is sewn on, thus allowing a "Made in the USA" label to be affixed.
What is hilarious is that you think this would work. The outsourced workers aren't employees of the US company, they're either independent contractors or employees of an overseas company (that may in fact be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US company) that contracts with the US client. Most of the clothing you buy is made in Chinese factories by women who work for a few dollars a day. They work for Chinese companies which are subcontracted by Hong Kong companies to produce goods for the US client -- I use this industry as an example because I know rather a lot about it. I'm sure IT would be done in the same way. The campaigns against sweatshop labour have been successful only by moral pressure. If the foreign workers were actually being paid good wages on local terms, there is nothing to pressure them with.
Secondly, this would reduce profits for big companies, who have lobbyists who will stop it.
It's both. The first becasue it works, the second because it's targetted at referrals from one site only.
Well, he was (of a very small company). Because of his incompetence at managing people, every time he lucked into a good market and started to expand, the company would collapse due to his fear of losing control, which made it impossible for him to delegate authority. So when things got too complex for him to manage personally, it turned to shit. I saw this go through a few cycles before I found my ticket out. You can learn a lot from your boss's mistakes.
See above that: "products could and have been made".
If that's all you want to do, much better not to use Cooledit, which has to expand and recompress the file to MP3. Use something like MP3Trim which can chop off any given number of MP3 frames, or normalise the volume, by operating on the MP3 directly. Much much faster, and no expand/recompress quality loss.
> And no, because in this case, the cost of creating the "content" (virus definitions) _constitutes_ the main expenses of the antivir software companies
It IS a razor blade business model. Because antivirus products could and have been made that prevent certain classes of activity (messing with the MBR, eg), sending out mail inappropriately, etc. But they lost out to the "search for a million signatures that you have to update daily" class of product that can only react after a virus is loose.
No, counterfeit copies will be unable to update, and pop up an alarm to the user. I think I've had that when my free update period ran out.
If the demand really is absurd, you have grounds to take the employer to court should he fire you. Obvious example: asking you to do something illegal. Your contract should state something about how much overtime you may be expected to work; eg "in emergencies", but if it's a permanent emergency, that can't be reasonable.
I once worked for a complete asshole who piled on the work to an absurd extent. He would call me a couple of times a week to tell me to start immediately on some new project that would take a few weeks' work. When I pointed out that I could only do so by dropping the last thing he had told me to do, he just shouted at me. I finally quit when my salary was months late and sued him for severance. Since then, he's had several replacements bu none lasted moe than a few months. So the relevance to this is that sometimes you can never win, no matter how hard you work. Just document what you do in case it comes to a dispute and they want to fire you for poor performance in not reaching impossible goals.
That was my point. (Though I'll happily join a discussion on the finer points of punctuation should the subject come up.)
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I'd never heard of them (I'm not American). Looking at their site, I see they seem to be proclaiming styles for academic works; if so deliberately messing around with quotes for aesthetic reasons at the expense of logic seems perverse. I go with the Chicago Manual mostly, or Oxford, depending on context (British author, British style, etc).
Okay; perhaps I'm going a bit the other way just because I get annoyed at the more common [ab]use of apostrophes in word plurals. So my policy (and I'm an editor, so I get to enforce it in my books) is to use it only when necessary, not just in case. I don't think it is necessary for plurals of figures, but I'll accept that as not wrong.
No it shouldn't, as what I'm quoting does not include the question mark. This is called the "logical quoting style". I know many Americans migrate punctuation inside quotes regardless of context, but I don't, and in British style it is standard.
Which is also wrong. You don't need an apostrophe before a plural s unless there is some chance of confusion. There isn't when adding an s to a figure, so you don't need one there.
They did; this is the rerun.
Why the apostrophe in "nazi's"?
During the Iraqi war the BBC had a lot of video on the web; but thay said it was costing them a fortune. So I can't imagine they'd just open the taps and let the world download everything on demand. There must be a lot of conditions on this so far unstated. Certainly the quality is going to be as low as possible -- much lower than VHS, let alone DVD.
Every time we have a story about Open Office, someone (or many someones) will comment: "I HAVE to use Word because the client demands it and if I send them a file exported from OO it may not look exactly the same and they'll think I'm a moron". To which I've answered too many times:
1) if it's normal correspondence, plain ASCII would do. If you want to use bold and italics, bullets, etc, use RTF
2) if exact layout is important, use PDF.
Not to mention all the problems of trying to read old files, macro viruses, hidden deleted text, etc.
Personally, I do a lot of DTP and just about everyone sends me doc files no matter how many times I explain, beg or demand they use simply formatted RTF. Truly, many just refuse to think about it -- it's like I'm asking them to use a Dvorak keyboard or PGP encryption instead of "Save as". Anyway, so more and more people start using cute Word features in their files, embedding blocks of text as art because they can't work out how to use styles to indent text, Excel worksheets because they can't work out how to use tables, etc. So to get clean text out of the fucking things now takes sometimes hours of dicking around in Word, and sometimes I just have to retype text.
?? "and copyright holders???
Anyone who want to be can be a "copyright holder; e.g. you have a website, you have copyright on that, even without writing the little (C) symbol. So any bozo who was stalking you online, wanted to smash your teeth in for a flame, could subpoena your ISP claiming you'd violated his copyright in some way. Unless you have a judge to give a sanity check that there is a high probability of an offense being committed, any private party, like the RIAA, can use this to destroy privacy, and even safety.