Yeah, you're probably like the idiot who came to install my cable modem. I was at work. He had it working on his laptop and it wasn't working on my wife's computer (a Mac.) After goofying around with my wife's computer for an hour (uninstalling and re-installing some stupid browser), the Bozo announced that the problem was because she had a Mac and our computer was busted, etc., and he left.
Turned out the problem was on the ISP's end. The reason his machine worked was because his MAC address was being recognized in some special manner. They needed to actually activate our account which he was supposed to do with some software on his machine. The problem had nothing to do with her computer or the fact that it was a Mac. The problem was completely on their end.
Every time we have a problem it's always on their end. If it goes out when I'm not home, my wife calls them and they tell her something ridiculous like they don't support her version of Netscape. When the problem is the whole network is down, their DHCP server isn't assigning us an address, therefore the browser can't possibly work.
I guess since their shit is broken and I'm at home, I'm automatically an idiot who shouldn't "be allowed" to run Linux or MacOS X.
I have done research that had to go through an IRB. I am not a physician - I have an MSR in psychology (dropped out of a PhD program in Human Factors to become a developer). I had to go through the IRB in order to get permission to experiment on human subjects.
Mine went pretty fast. The looked at it and approved it in one meeting, so I had to wait about a month total. I was not giving people drugs, though. I was doing a psychophysics type experiment.
If you're doing something like this, I would expect it to take from several months to a year.
In AT&T's case, they will be bound by US law because they are a US corporation, they have offices here, and they do business in the US. Where the call originates doesn't matter since it is AT&T calling you and they do have control over it.
Even if it is a foreign corporation, the fines will still stick if they have offices here or are licensed to do business in the US.
The case I'm not real sure about is if you were a foreign corporation, did not have offices in the US, and did no business in the US (i.e. were not licensed to sell anything here, etc.) And if that were the case, then why are you calling me since you can't sell me anything?
Also, if you were a complete independent telemarketing company and were hired to do a campaign into the US for someone else, then I don't know what the law would say. Maybe the fines would apply to the company that paid for the ad campaign?
Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen don't count as "lots of people" (or even "people" in my book.)
I know lots of people who work at Microsoft and they all tell me that the company's explicitly stated (internally) plan is to fuck over Slashdotters. The reason that LongHorn has been delayed is because at every meeting some wise-ass says "I think we could fuck over people harder than this." and then they start thinking of new ways and adding them to the spec.
I am somewhat surprised that there isn't a G5 version of the XServe yet. I guess the G5 chips are still pretty scarce. (Or else Apple's really taking the time to get the G5 XServe right... or both.)
However, if G5 Macintosh systems like this become "popular" in supercomputing, maybe that's a reason to get a G5 XServe out there sooner. I'd imagine a rack mount system would be easier to deal with than a bunch of towers.
I can't remember anytime Apple has ever released an update for a non-current version of MacOS. They always assume that you should update to the latest version that you can run on your machine.
There are all sorts of bugs in 10.1 that Apple will has addressed in 10.2 and 10.3. That does not mean they go backwards and release patches for older OSes. They don't have the resources to do that. Many such bugs are also potential security holes.
Couldn't you know how many hard drives have been shipped, their capacities, estimate how long they last, and then take some random samples of how full people's hard drives are and then make an estimate?
Also, I do find it sad how liberals are so elitist in that if you don't have a college degree, you are not capable of being intellectual.
Where the heck are you getting that from? I hear this statement from people on the right all the time. Instead of crazy rants about how liberal intellectuals are keeping you down, why not just say something intelligent or at least interesting?
I hate liberals in the fact that they think they know best...when in fact they know jack shit.
Where's your evidence of either part of this argument? This is just a paranoid rant.
even drop-outs such as Bill Gates piss them off.
Deranged, you are. Steve Jobs didn't finish college either (although unlike Bill Gates, it was because he didn't have the money to pay for it - so he went to work), yet he's a liberal poster boy - and was the biggest individual donor to Bill Clinton's 1996 re-ellection campaign.
The fact is, you've been brainwashed by the rightwing media (Rush, Fox News, etc.) and are parroting their line. They're just using you.
Even if we can't get this passed at the federal level, we should be working to get versions of this passed at the state level. It's especially important for states like California which have large pockets of Republicans trying to implement Diebold systems.
If we act, we can stop them in California and Florida. There should be an initiative on this in the next California election. I'd work on it, but I live in Washington (we probably need to do the same thing even though we vote here with pencil and paper.)
I'm not 100% positive on this, but I think there was a voting rights act from the federal government that did put some restrictions on how states could run elections. For example, requiring a secret ballot. The reason why it was passed was because in the south, the states would come up with ways to prevent blacks from voting. This included poll taxes (you have to pay to vote), grandfather clauses (if your grandfather couldn't vote neither can you), literacy tests (if you can't read to my satisfaction you can't vote), and non-secret ballots (if you vote republican, your barn will burn down).
The problem with Communism is when people try to make reality conform to its theoretical model.
The fact is, we don't really understand how economics really work.
Capitalism has "worked" (to the extent that it has) because it tries to construct the model around reality and not the other way around.
This is my problem with neo-conservatives, too. They don't have good goals and they implement policy based on a theoretical model rather than on honestly trying scientifically tinker with the economy.
The boom economy of the 90s was brought about because Bush I and Clinton both did the right things... hire experts (Greenspan et al) and sit down and try to craft reasonable pragmatic policies and keeping a close eye on the markets and reacting to it.
If you do that while working towards the goals of freedom for everyone, economic fairness for everyone, and a wide a distribution of wealth as possible, then you are probably doing as good of a job governing as is possible with the current state of what we know about economics.
Give me a freaking break. I never buy anything on the internet based on *price*. I never have and never will.
I buy stuff on the internet because it cannot be found locally, or cannot be found easily locally. Like obscure music, or obscure books. I used to buy the old school Vans shoes online until they started carrying them at the mall. Now I go to the mall to get them - its easier and less risky, less hassel.
Why do I say less risky? Well, I have bought things online, paid for them, and they never show up before. In one case, the company was an auction house that had been around for a while and I bought a keyboard from them and eventually got a note from them saying they were out of the keyboard, they were going out of business, and would not return my money because they'd rather keep it.
This doesn't happen often, but it has happened. You have to be real careful buying online. If I buy my shoes at the mall, I at least have them when I leave the store and if I pay cash, there is no risk.
I actually like a lot of what FDR did. I'm just saying that during his administration, the federal government really stepped up the amount of secrecy we have on government policies. Also, the internment of the Japanese wasn't exactly a proud moment for freedom. Neither was the secret medical experiments conducted on black soldiers. Neither was the imprisonment of black soldiers who refused to go back to work loading ammo onto ships in unsafe conditions following an accident in which many of them were killed.
The questionable uses are tracking attendance of political afterschool groups
Yeah, I'm worried that my daughter in third grade might be viewed with suspicicon if they use RFID to track her movements in the building and find that she has been attending Young Communist meetings in the Cafeteria.
For example, if a defect is found in the requirements phase, it may cost $1 to fix. It is proffered that the same defect will cost $10 if found in design, $100 during coding, $1000 during testing.
In the above example, you're talking about a bug that is an error in getting the requirements down correctly and letting it live all the way out into the field. Such a bug would indeed be quite costly to repair! Most likely it would require a new version of the product. This type of bug might be that the product didn't have a feature that was needed (i.e. to sell it? to use it?). The lost income from lost sales alone would be enormous.
However, that doesn't mean that all bugs are requirements bugs. In general, the shorter time the bug "lives", the lower the cost. The fewer stages the bug moves through, the lower the cost. If the bug is a design error and you find it in testing, it costs a lot more than an implementation error found in testing.
Make a mistake during coding and finding it while you are still coding is very common and the cost of that is minimal. That's why it pays to test your code yourself and to do unit testing before sending it to QA.
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Yeah, you're probably like the idiot who came to install my cable modem. I was at work. He had it working on his laptop and it wasn't working on my wife's computer (a Mac.) After goofying around with my wife's computer for an hour (uninstalling and re-installing some stupid browser), the Bozo announced that the problem was because she had a Mac and our computer was busted, etc., and he left.
Turned out the problem was on the ISP's end. The reason his machine worked was because his MAC address was being recognized in some special manner. They needed to actually activate our account which he was supposed to do with some software on his machine. The problem had nothing to do with her computer or the fact that it was a Mac. The problem was completely on their end.
Every time we have a problem it's always on their end. If it goes out when I'm not home, my wife calls them and they tell her something ridiculous like they don't support her version of Netscape. When the problem is the whole network is down, their DHCP server isn't assigning us an address, therefore the browser can't possibly work.
I guess since their shit is broken and I'm at home, I'm automatically an idiot who shouldn't "be allowed" to run Linux or MacOS X.
Fuck you.
Congratulations on having done so well in Microsoft brainwashing school.
Idiot.
>The treatment sucks, but it's better than dying!
Everyone always say this, but how do you really know?
I have done research that had to go through an IRB. I am not a physician - I have an MSR in psychology (dropped out of a PhD program in Human Factors to become a developer). I had to go through the IRB in order to get permission to experiment on human subjects.
Mine went pretty fast. The looked at it and approved it in one meeting, so I had to wait about a month total. I was not giving people drugs, though. I was doing a psychophysics type experiment.
If you're doing something like this, I would expect it to take from several months to a year.
They called Lenny and had him send it in the outgoing mail (while Carl watched and commented).
Duh.
In AT&T's case, they will be bound by US law because they are a US corporation, they have offices here, and they do business in the US. Where the call originates doesn't matter since it is AT&T calling you and they do have control over it.
Even if it is a foreign corporation, the fines will still stick if they have offices here or are licensed to do business in the US.
The case I'm not real sure about is if you were a foreign corporation, did not have offices in the US, and did no business in the US (i.e. were not licensed to sell anything here, etc.) And if that were the case, then why are you calling me since you can't sell me anything?
Also, if you were a complete independent telemarketing company and were hired to do a campaign into the US for someone else, then I don't know what the law would say. Maybe the fines would apply to the company that paid for the ad campaign?
Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen don't count as "lots of people" (or even "people" in my book.)
I know lots of people who work at Microsoft and they all tell me that the company's explicitly stated (internally) plan is to fuck over Slashdotters. The reason that LongHorn has been delayed is because at every meeting some wise-ass says "I think we could fuck over people harder than this." and then they start thinking of new ways and adding them to the spec.
I've seen this troll before, word for word, in several Apple related articles.
I am somewhat surprised that there isn't a G5 version of the XServe yet. I guess the G5 chips are still pretty scarce. (Or else Apple's really taking the time to get the G5 XServe right... or both.)
However, if G5 Macintosh systems like this become "popular" in supercomputing, maybe that's a reason to get a G5 XServe out there sooner. I'd imagine a rack mount system would be easier to deal with than a bunch of towers.
I can't remember anytime Apple has ever released an update for a non-current version of MacOS. They always assume that you should update to the latest version that you can run on your machine.
There are all sorts of bugs in 10.1 that Apple will has addressed in 10.2 and 10.3. That does not mean they go backwards and release patches for older OSes. They don't have the resources to do that. Many such bugs are also potential security holes.
Couldn't you know how many hard drives have been shipped, their capacities, estimate how long they last, and then take some random samples of how full people's hard drives are and then make an estimate?
Is that what they did?
Also, I do find it sad how liberals are so elitist in that if you don't have a college degree, you are not capable of being intellectual.
Where the heck are you getting that from? I hear this statement from people on the right all the time. Instead of crazy rants about how liberal intellectuals are keeping you down, why not just say something intelligent or at least interesting?
I hate liberals in the fact that they think they know best...when in fact they know jack shit.
Where's your evidence of either part of this argument? This is just a paranoid rant.
even drop-outs such as Bill Gates piss them off.
Deranged, you are. Steve Jobs didn't finish college either (although unlike Bill Gates, it was because he didn't have the money to pay for it - so he went to work), yet he's a liberal poster boy - and was the biggest individual donor to Bill Clinton's 1996 re-ellection campaign.
The fact is, you've been brainwashed by the rightwing media (Rush, Fox News, etc.) and are parroting their line. They're just using you.
Even if we can't get this passed at the federal level, we should be working to get versions of this passed at the state level. It's especially important for states like California which have large pockets of Republicans trying to implement Diebold systems.
If we act, we can stop them in California and Florida. There should be an initiative on this in the next California election. I'd work on it, but I live in Washington (we probably need to do the same thing even though we vote here with pencil and paper.)
I'm not 100% positive on this, but I think there was a voting rights act from the federal government that did put some restrictions on how states could run elections. For example, requiring a secret ballot. The reason why it was passed was because in the south, the states would come up with ways to prevent blacks from voting. This included poll taxes (you have to pay to vote), grandfather clauses (if your grandfather couldn't vote neither can you), literacy tests (if you can't read to my satisfaction you can't vote), and non-secret ballots (if you vote republican, your barn will burn down).
The problem with Communism is when people try to make reality conform to its theoretical model.
The fact is, we don't really understand how economics really work.
Capitalism has "worked" (to the extent that it has) because it tries to construct the model around reality and not the other way around.
This is my problem with neo-conservatives, too. They don't have good goals and they implement policy based on a theoretical model rather than on honestly trying scientifically tinker with the economy.
The boom economy of the 90s was brought about because Bush I and Clinton both did the right things... hire experts (Greenspan et al) and sit down and try to craft reasonable pragmatic policies and keeping a close eye on the markets and reacting to it.
If you do that while working towards the goals of freedom for everyone, economic fairness for everyone, and a wide a distribution of wealth as possible, then you are probably doing as good of a job governing as is possible with the current state of what we know about economics.
Give me a freaking break. I never buy anything on the internet based on *price*. I never have and never will.
I buy stuff on the internet because it cannot be found locally, or cannot be found easily locally. Like obscure music, or obscure books. I used to buy the old school Vans shoes online until they started carrying them at the mall. Now I go to the mall to get them - its easier and less risky, less hassel.
Why do I say less risky? Well, I have bought things online, paid for them, and they never show up before. In one case, the company was an auction house that had been around for a while and I bought a keyboard from them and eventually got a note from them saying they were out of the keyboard, they were going out of business, and would not return my money because they'd rather keep it.
This doesn't happen often, but it has happened. You have to be real careful buying online. If I buy my shoes at the mall, I at least have them when I leave the store and if I pay cash, there is no risk.
...I'd like an "Undo" on reality, too.
That's just sad and pathetic. First, you redefine "liberal" to mean something that doesn't make any sense. Then claim to hate them.
I'm very suspicious of those who get their political ideas from college drop-out, junky radio announcers.
So what happens if I forget my glasses?
Same as now - wander around and crash into things.
Scams were common in the 20th, 19th, 18th, 15th, and 11th century, why would they stop now?
Scams were common way before that.
Poser.
I actually like a lot of what FDR did. I'm just saying that during his administration, the federal government really stepped up the amount of secrecy we have on government policies. Also, the internment of the Japanese wasn't exactly a proud moment for freedom. Neither was the secret medical experiments conducted on black soldiers. Neither was the imprisonment of black soldiers who refused to go back to work loading ammo onto ships in unsafe conditions following an accident in which many of them were killed.
Not being there to immediately respond when your boss wants something can be hazardous to continued employment.
The questionable uses are tracking attendance of political afterschool groups
Yeah, I'm worried that my daughter in third grade might be viewed with suspicicon if they use RFID to track her movements in the building and find that she has been attending Young Communist meetings in the Cafeteria.
calmly waiting for when the next megalomaniac in charge gets the idea to finally implement the Big Brother society that will be the end of democracy.
That already happened during the (Franklin) Roosevelt administration.
For example, if a defect is found in the requirements phase, it may cost $1 to fix. It is proffered that the same defect will cost $10 if found in design, $100 during coding, $1000 during testing.
In the above example, you're talking about a bug that is an error in getting the requirements down correctly and letting it live all the way out into the field. Such a bug would indeed be quite costly to repair! Most likely it would require a new version of the product. This type of bug might be that the product didn't have a feature that was needed (i.e. to sell it? to use it?). The lost income from lost sales alone would be enormous.
However, that doesn't mean that all bugs are requirements bugs. In general, the shorter time the bug "lives", the lower the cost. The fewer stages the bug moves through, the lower the cost. If the bug is a design error and you find it in testing, it costs a lot more than an implementation error found in testing.
Make a mistake during coding and finding it while you are still coding is very common and the cost of that is minimal. That's why it pays to test your code yourself and to do unit testing before sending it to QA.