I can't figure out exactly why you'd want a "PDF and Email" option.
It beats "attach Word/Excel/[other proprietary format]", which is far too common now. (Of course, even better would be "paste plain text into email", which would do the job 99% of the time, but his lets people send decorative messages without viruses/missing fonts/text reflow.
If anyone is interested in the horses' mouths, here are a few references:
US Bureau of Engraving: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues." This statute means that you have made a valid and legal offer of payment of your debt when you tender United States currency to your creditor. However, there is no Federal statute which mandates that private businesses must accept cash as a form of payment. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Bank of England: The concept of legal tender is often misunderstood. Contrary to popular opinion, legal tender is not a means of payment that must be accepted by the parties to a transaction, but rather a legally defined means of payment that should not be refused by a creditor in satisfaction of a debt.
Reserve Bank of Australia "...refusal to accept payment in legal tender notes and coins is not unlawful... If a provider of goods or services specifies other means of payment prior to the contract, then there is usually no obligation for legal tender to be accepted as payment....coins are legal tender for payment of amounts which are limited as follows.... not exceeding 10 times the face value if coins in the range 50c to $10 inclusive are offered; and to any value if coins of value greater than $10 are offered.
I hear Jackie Chan say [sic] he only uses the stunt doubles for some scenes...
The word in Hong Kong (where I live) is that he uses them a lot now -- he's almost 49 after all. But part of his image is doing his own stunts, so this is not acknowledged (like using body doubles with nicer T&A for actresses). Of course, he still does much more action than any Hollywood star would.
If they slapped a digitized face on a CGI character, why would they need the actor at all? Eventually they could just generate faces. And the actors union wouldn't be very happy about that.
There are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of human actors, 99% of whom would work for scale. Having a believable simulation of a face is a long way from creating a compelling performance. Not to mention, who is David Letterman going to interview -- this is not a joke, actors now spend as much time on the road promoting a movie as shooting it.
yes you can -- more precisely, you cut from the CGI to the actor in closeup, who could be seated comforatbly in front of a blue-screen.
3)In the first movie he was upside down for some shots. try that with back pain.
Being upside-down reduces back strain. Some people hang from frames to help their back pain.
Anyway, they could delay any "difficult" shots till late in the shoot, months down the track. Unless he's got really severe problems, he'd be able to cope with a few days' work then. The CGI will take the best part of a year anyway.
a spokesman for the actor said he was experiencing problems with his back and may not be up to performing difficult stunts.
Pray tell, what "difficult stunts" do A-list stars do these days? Even Jacky Chan uses stunt doubles now. Since in virtually all the "stunts" he's in a full body suit and mask, I didn't think it was him at all in any of the action scenes. Not to mention the rather clunky CGI web-swinging (impressive, yes; convincingly human, no).
Either he's negotiating for a bigger cut, or... actually, I have no "or". He's negotiating for a bigger cut.
All black market activities fund terrorism in one way or another.
I don't claim a great insight; but bin Laden is a Saudi, his money and al Qaeda'a funding comes from Saudi Arabia, and is essentially from the entirely legitimate oil industry. Another source of funding is governments; the CIA and the Pakistani government was happy to fund him and those who became the Taliban when they opposed the Russians in Afghanistan.
It's true many "terrorists" dabble in crime, but what generally happens is that the terrorists become corrupt and divert from politics into pure money-making. (As in China, where the triads began as counter-revolutionaries, and are now simply mafia (in the general sense)). So capitalism triumphs over terrorism as well as communism.
. Can your host be authenticated with reverse IP look-ups, crosschecked with MX? No? Then, again, noone should be getting your mail.
Unfortunately, foe those like myself who live in the APNIC zone (Hong Kong specifically), apparently reverse-IP lookups don't work for many in other zones, so I can find myself locked out. Doesn't help the number of smug isolationist sysadmins who actually boast that "I got spam from Korea (China/Japan/... etc) so I blocked the whole country.
. If you made the book available to the public, why should you go care if someone makes a PDF of it, unless you are selling copies of it.
Making something freely available is not the same as putting it in the public domain or relinquishing copyright (after all, variations on this are what the GPL is all about).
The point is manufacturers do have control over what happens with their pricing.
They certainly want that, and in cases where they have contracts with their distributors they may be able to enforce that; but in general they have no legal right to do so, much less prevent people from distributing such information.
And about your point, there is no big difference between office 97 and staroffice 5.2,
I'm not that old, but I remember the days (almost 10 summers gone) before there was "one office suite to rule them all and in the darkness bind them". My first spreadsheet was Lotus 123 2 (DOS). Excel, up to 97 at least, has "help for Lotus 1-2-3" and you can even set it to recognise 123's / commands (Tools|transition). One of the Excel programmers, Joel Spolsky, wrote about "barriers to entry" when trying to overtake an entrenched application (which for Excel was 123). These inluded:
They have to convert their existing spreadsheets: Give Excel the capability to read 123 spreadsheets
They have to rewrite their keyboard macros: Give Excel the capability to run 123 macros
They have to learn a new user interface: Give Excel the ability to understand Lotus keystrokes
So this strategy got MS on the top, and it can as well work work again.
The blind panic that strikes many now at the very idea of using anything else is a bit disconcerting (a couple of years ago when my boss sent "ILOVEYOU" around the company we had a meeting about viruses, my suggestion to just give up Outlook becasue it was chronically insecure almost got me burned at the stake).
Am I the only one (I've scanned through a lot of posts, but I could have missed it) that wonders of this whole post is just a hoax? "Anonymous reader" and his unnamed college presents a question that seems designed to press every Slashdotter's buttons. It would be nice if there had been some hint of the grandfather's motivation; as it is it feels about as credible as Dr Evil's latest plan to extort "one million dollars".
You haven't applied for a typical office job recently, have you? If you haven't got MS apps experience, the automated CV scanners are going to rule you out in a heartbeat, because like it or not, that is what almost everyone uses. So yes, it does matter what you've used.
True, everyone has "expert with MS Office" (or more amusingly "expert with Microsoft" or "windows" or...) on their CVs. If you know where the start button is, and how to click "new", "save", "print", go ahead and add this. That's all most office workers know, or need to know. Actually, AS WELL AS THIS, (not instead of) you could then add "expert with Red Hat, Star Office,...", and have something that most other applicants don't. If I was hiring office staff, I'd care much more about typing speed than whatever wordprocessor the applicant last used.
I'm willing to make the choice for linux, but forcing Linux onto 7000 students, who might just want to use hotmail in the library, or catch a quicktime CNN news clip, is extreme enough to merit contention.
And you can't do this on Linux? And anyway, why should a university spend any effort to provide this? (CNN as a source of information -- God help us all -- read a newspaper, listen to the BBC.)
If you guys really hate Benetton, you could get a handheld emp gun and zap their entire store
If "EMP guns" existed, certainly.(See here for discussion.)
Alternatively, the easy solution would probably to just get a microwave oven and leave the door open during operation.
If you rewired it to defeat the safety interlock that prevents it working with the door open. And didn't mind all the meat nearby (i.e., you) getting cooked too.
So I don't think you can make anything catch on fire actually.
A colleague was warming a bread roll. She thought it was tough, so she gave it a few more minutes. Actually, of course, it had by then completely dried out and the next step was, if not actual flames, a choking cloud of smoke. I've noticed some plastic bowls get very hot in a MW. In complex molecules there will likely be a resonance with the water frequency, weak or strong, so eventuslly everything heats up.
Anyway, all this "disable" discussion is silly. Of course, as the FA states, the tag is in the label. So cut it off.
As there is an "existing relationship" exception, why is there another for ISPs? Why should an ISP be allowed to spam people at random?
Sounds like they're afraid of being held responsible if thy are sued to relay spam. Surely there should be some defence in that case if they can show they made a good-faith attempt to prevent this, and close down the hole. If there's no offence at all, we're just in the same place we are now, or worse.
Since the whole site has been blown off the net, I don't see the problem. To gain damages in a copyright case, one usually has to show a loss incurred.
How is this differnt from using Google's cache? Has anyone sued them?
I was trying to imply that user training could, potentially, cost a LOT of money.
I have no survey to back this up, just my own experience, but I feel sure that over 95% of office workers use "Office" to write memos and letters, 1-2 pages long for the most part. They need email too, though it's surprising how many govt workers DON'T have email.
Basically, most could use a typewriter instead with little effect on productivity, maybe an increase as they wouldn't be able to surf or play solitaire.
Assuming that, all they need to know is how to open a new document, start typing, spellcheck optionally, and print/send. Really, you can learn this in 1/2 hour. Maybe a little longer if people obsess about menus being in different places than they're used to.
The minority that want or need to write spreadsheet macros and the like will take longer to retrain; the simplest option perhaps to allow some to remain with MS for a longer transition period. But Sun and others are working hard on making this easy.
The biggest PC-use productivity boost would come if everyone was given touch-typing lessons. Most staff these days (including myself) are hunt and peck, self-taught typists.
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It beats "attach Word/Excel/[other proprietary format]", which is far too common now. (Of course, even better would be "paste plain text into email", which would do the job 99% of the time, but his lets people send decorative messages without viruses/missing fonts/text reflow.
The Chinese government is at least five times larger (in headcount, if not budget).
If anyone is interested in the horses' mouths, here are a few references:
This statute means that you have made a valid and legal offer of payment of your debt when you tender United States currency to your creditor. However, there is no Federal statute which mandates that private businesses must accept cash as a form of payment. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Annnother eeeeditorial oooversight.
Gollum, LOTR: Two Towers
Impressive as that was, they still can't do a convincing human face in CGI. But they can use real actors for that, as I said.
The word in Hong Kong (where I live) is that he uses them a lot now -- he's almost 49 after all. But part of his image is doing his own stunts, so this is not acknowledged (like using body doubles with nicer T&A for actresses). Of course, he still does much more action than any Hollywood star would.
There are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of human actors, 99% of whom would work for scale. Having a believable simulation of a face is a long way from creating a compelling performance. Not to mention, who is David Letterman going to interview -- this is not a joke, actors now spend as much time on the road promoting a movie as shooting it.
yes you can -- more precisely, you cut from the CGI to the actor in closeup, who could be seated comforatbly in front of a blue-screen.
3)In the first movie he was upside down for some shots. try that with back pain.
Being upside-down reduces back strain. Some people hang from frames to help their back pain.
Anyway, they could delay any "difficult" shots till late in the shoot, months down the track. Unless he's got really severe problems, he'd be able to cope with a few days' work then. The CGI will take the best part of a year anyway.
Pray tell, what "difficult stunts" do A-list stars do these days? Even Jacky Chan uses stunt doubles now. Since in virtually all the "stunts" he's in a full body suit and mask, I didn't think it was him at all in any of the action scenes. Not to mention the rather clunky CGI web-swinging (impressive, yes; convincingly human, no).
Either he's negotiating for a bigger cut, or ... actually, I have no "or". He's negotiating for a bigger cut.
Really?
I don't claim a great insight; but bin Laden is a Saudi, his money and al Qaeda'a funding comes from Saudi Arabia, and is essentially from the entirely legitimate oil industry. Another source of funding is governments; the CIA and the Pakistani government was happy to fund him and those who became the Taliban when they opposed the Russians in Afghanistan.
It's true many "terrorists" dabble in crime, but what generally happens is that the terrorists become corrupt and divert from politics into pure money-making. (As in China, where the triads began as counter-revolutionaries, and are now simply mafia (in the general sense)). So capitalism triumphs over terrorism as well as communism.
Unfortunately, foe those like myself who live in the APNIC zone (Hong Kong specifically), apparently reverse-IP lookups don't work for many in other zones, so I can find myself locked out. Doesn't help the number of smug isolationist sysadmins who actually boast that "I got spam from Korea (China/Japan/... etc) so I blocked the whole country.
Making something freely available is not the same as putting it in the public domain or relinquishing copyright (after all, variations on this are what the GPL is all about).
Copyright is not solely about money.
They certainly want that, and in cases where they have contracts with their distributors they may be able to enforce that; but in general they have no legal right to do so, much less prevent people from distributing such information.
I'm not that old, but I remember the days (almost 10 summers gone) before there was "one office suite to rule them all and in the darkness bind them". My first spreadsheet was Lotus 123 2 (DOS). Excel, up to 97 at least, has "help for Lotus 1-2-3" and you can even set it to recognise 123's / commands (Tools|transition). One of the Excel programmers, Joel Spolsky, wrote about "barriers to entry" when trying to overtake an entrenched application (which for Excel was 123). These inluded:
- They have to convert their existing spreadsheets: Give Excel the capability to read 123 spreadsheets
- They have to rewrite their keyboard macros: Give Excel the capability to run 123 macros
- They have to learn a new user interface: Give Excel the ability to understand Lotus keystrokes
So this strategy got MS on the top, and it can as well work work again.The blind panic that strikes many now at the very idea of using anything else is a bit disconcerting (a couple of years ago when my boss sent "ILOVEYOU" around the company we had a meeting about viruses, my suggestion to just give up Outlook becasue it was chronically insecure almost got me burned at the stake).
Am I the only one (I've scanned through a lot of posts, but I could have missed it) that wonders of this whole post is just a hoax? "Anonymous reader" and his unnamed college presents a question that seems designed to press every Slashdotter's buttons. It would be nice if there had been some hint of the grandfather's motivation; as it is it feels about as credible as Dr Evil's latest plan to extort "one million dollars".
True, everyone has "expert with MS Office" (or more amusingly "expert with Microsoft" or "windows" or ...) on their CVs. If you know where the start button is, and how to click "new", "save", "print", go ahead and add this. That's all most office workers know, or need to know. Actually, AS WELL AS THIS, (not instead of) you could then add "expert with Red Hat, Star Office, ...", and have something that most other applicants don't. If I was hiring office staff, I'd care much more about typing speed than whatever wordprocessor the applicant last used.
And you can't do this on Linux? And anyway, why should a university spend any effort to provide this? (CNN as a source of information -- God help us all -- read a newspaper, listen to the BBC.)
If "EMP guns" existed, certainly.(See here for discussion.)
Alternatively, the easy solution would probably to just get a microwave oven and leave the door open during operation.
If you rewired it to defeat the safety interlock that prevents it working with the door open. And didn't mind all the meat nearby (i.e., you) getting cooked too.
Try this for size then.
A colleague was warming a bread roll. She thought it was tough, so she gave it a few more minutes. Actually, of course, it had by then completely dried out and the next step was, if not actual flames, a choking cloud of smoke. I've noticed some plastic bowls get very hot in a MW. In complex molecules there will likely be a resonance with the water frequency, weak or strong, so eventuslly everything heats up.
Anyway, all this "disable" discussion is silly. Of course, as the FA states, the tag is in the label. So cut it off.
Sounds like they're afraid of being held responsible if thy are sued to relay spam. Surely there should be some defence in that case if they can show they made a good-faith attempt to prevent this, and close down the hole. If there's no offence at all, we're just in the same place we are now, or worse.
Since the whole site has been blown off the net, I don't see the problem. To gain damages in a copyright case, one usually has to show a loss incurred.
How is this differnt from using Google's cache? Has anyone sued them?
Okay, I'll bite. How are they different?
I have no survey to back this up, just my own experience, but I feel sure that over 95% of office workers use "Office" to write memos and letters, 1-2 pages long for the most part. They need email too, though it's surprising how many govt workers DON'T have email.
Basically, most could use a typewriter instead with little effect on productivity, maybe an increase as they wouldn't be able to surf or play solitaire.
Assuming that, all they need to know is how to open a new document, start typing, spellcheck optionally, and print/send. Really, you can learn this in 1/2 hour. Maybe a little longer if people obsess about menus being in different places than they're used to.
The minority that want or need to write spreadsheet macros and the like will take longer to retrain; the simplest option perhaps to allow some to remain with MS for a longer transition period. But Sun and others are working hard on making this easy.
The biggest PC-use productivity boost would come if everyone was given touch-typing lessons. Most staff these days (including myself) are hunt and peck, self-taught typists.