We have no idiot fees here and NO SALES TAX for anyone, on anything, at anytime. There are several well-stocked and knowledgeable PC stores in Medford just across the border. The trip is about 400 miles each way.
Yes, damn those Californians for trying to make us bear the cost of our actions (buying computers). Better to defer that cost 5 years down the road and refuse to pay for recycling then, too.
If some local pub gave me a wad of cash (please!) to work them into my weekly articles and link to them, how would to write a plugin that could distinguish between the paid content an the article? You couldn't.
I'll bet that it's this sort of back and forth that will finally lead to real AI.
The airline would have had to see this datamining coming in order to post a "no datamining" sign anywhere on the site. If they didn't, then there's a vacuum where they should have been such a policy... and that could make all the difference.
A simple 'personal use only' clause would be enough.
The reason was because they wanted to cut my salary by 40% and wanted me to work russian time (midnight to 8am - they were outsourcing to Russia, this was in 2001.)
This could be construed as constructive dismissal - making unreasonable demands or not paying salary is usually the same as outright firing someone.
It's one of the reasons Toyota doesn't put the 180HP Celica engine in the MR-S, even though it should just drop right in (the engine in the MR-S is the same as the base engine in the Celica).
The other one is that, if they did that, they'd be embarassing the Us Lotus Elise, which also uses the 180HP engine. The solution, of course, is a 6psi turbo. You can go up to 12 or 14 if you redo your internals, but 6 is fairly safe.
Not sure what happens if you try this on a network file system, whether it forces the hosting computer to flush to disk, or if it only forces the local computer to flush to the host.
Depends on the server - you can request it, but the server isn't obligated to comply.
The correct way to handle this is to hand the employee who does this three envelopes on payday. "Here's your regular pay. Here's you overtime pay. Here's your termination notice for working overtime without authorization." Make an example of this former employee, and nobody else will try that stunt again.
And how would you handle the situation where the manager demanded that the employee work 50 hours in a week, but only charge 40? Methinks you're being a bit one-sided.
My point is that putting a file that you do not have the authorization to distribute in a _publically_ shared folder transcends the boundaries of personal use.
That argument has been rejected by the court. Apparently, the public nature of a download directory is not sufficiently apparent.
There are people all over the midwest complaining that their way of life is going to disappear, and we all pay extra taxes to subsidize their plight -- the plight of people unwilling to change jobs when the market disappears.
Goody, farmers can't move on to the next thing. This begs the question: why don't techies do that? Answer: what's the next thing? Why should I spend money I don't have to retrain for something that's going to India in 3-5 years?
I think it was Bill Maher who said (and I'm paraphrasing), "Americans seemed to be more concerned with taking their own lifestyles from 10 to 11 than to help others bring theirs from 0 to 1." And that's the absolute truth. No one reading this is starving. Even if you did nothing but collect welfare, your lifestyle would still be better than 90% of the world.
Are you implying that I should give up my low-crime apartment and clean water because there are starving children in China? I bitch about American corps selling me out and you call me insensitive to the plight of poor 3rd world countries (with an assumed racial bias). Fact is, if I lose my job, I may well be starving - welfare is going away because people like Bill Maher are opposed to any social safety net.
So, you're a programmer. Someone else can do your job for 1/4 of the price with the same quality.
Actually, nobody seems to care about the quality of my work, only the price on the balance sheet.
And stop living in the past. There is no way India can be called Third World,
India is still a third world country. beggars line the street, people are still massively poor (outside of those with tech jobs), the infrastructure sucks, and tourists are routinely kidnapped. What, did you think that all of India was suddenly like San Diego?
We need to find a way to bottle that re-process the fuel and imprison the stuff in solid inert mixtures. Either that, or find create disposal units that drill one way trips down past the earth's crust into hot/squishy rock layers.
Well, we could reprocess the fuel and end up with a lot less waste, but that's illegal uin the US. Thanks, Carter.
Nicaragua was a communist puppet state. Nicaragua's "head of state" was a brutal communist dictator. And contrary to little slashdot kiddie beliefs, communism is not just an epithet.
so that makes it ok to mine their harbor? I don't follow your logic, such as it is.
# With his contact info and where to send his card you could have gone on an internet spending spree.
How so? You have the name - all they give you is a branch to mail it to. You can't get anything shipped to your home until you add the address (good luck with that). The best you could hope for is some free gas.
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We have no idiot fees here and NO SALES TAX for anyone, on anything, at anytime. There are several well-stocked and knowledgeable PC stores in Medford just across the border. The trip is about 400 miles each way.
Yes, damn those Californians for trying to make us bear the cost of our actions (buying computers). Better to defer that cost 5 years down the road and refuse to pay for recycling then, too.
If some local pub gave me a wad of cash (please!) to work them into my weekly articles and link to them, how would to write a plugin that could distinguish between the paid content an the article? You couldn't.
I'll bet that it's this sort of back and forth that will finally lead to real AI.
In their case, the team of Russian Ph.Ds in comp sci who would work for $3.00 hour (and that is really what they were paid) failed them.
Well that's your (their) problem right there: never let PhDs near production code!
The airline would have had to see this datamining coming in order to post a "no datamining" sign anywhere on the site. If they didn't, then there's a vacuum where they should have been such a policy... and that could make all the difference.
A simple 'personal use only' clause would be enough.
The reason was because they wanted to cut my salary by 40% and wanted me to work russian time (midnight to 8am - they were outsourcing to Russia, this was in 2001.)
This could be construed as constructive dismissal - making unreasonable demands or not paying salary is usually the same as outright firing someone.
Absolut Vodka corrupts absolutely.
And what's worse, Grey Goose evaporates! I can never keep a bottle around more than a day.
It's one of the reasons Toyota doesn't put the 180HP Celica engine in the MR-S, even though it should just drop right in (the engine in the MR-S is the same as the base engine in the Celica).
The other one is that, if they did that, they'd be embarassing the Us Lotus Elise, which also uses the 180HP engine. The solution, of course, is a 6psi turbo. You can go up to 12 or 14 if you redo your internals, but 6 is fairly safe.
Not sure what happens if you try this on a network file system, whether it forces the hosting computer to flush to disk, or if it only forces the local computer to flush to the host.
Depends on the server - you can request it, but the server isn't obligated to comply.
I once had a job as a delivery driver for CosaNostra pizza, ...
God damn it! Don't you have any thoughts of your own? Is your life so empty that you have to pretend to be some guy in a novel? Helllooo!!
remember when Unions fought over a loss of $500 a year?
Remember when $500 was two weeks wages in a middle class neighborhood? It wasn't that long ago.
The correct way to handle this is to hand the employee who does this three envelopes on payday. "Here's your regular pay. Here's you overtime pay. Here's your termination notice for working overtime without authorization." Make an example of this former employee, and nobody else will try that stunt again.
And how would you handle the situation where the manager demanded that the employee work 50 hours in a week, but only charge 40? Methinks you're being a bit one-sided.
My point is that putting a file that you do not have the authorization to distribute in a _publically_ shared folder transcends the boundaries of personal use.
That argument has been rejected by the court. Apparently, the public nature of a download directory is not sufficiently apparent.
What use is freedom when you're dead from a terrorist attack?
Better to die on my feet than live on my knees. The terrorists can kiss my ass (except for Cheney - eww).
There are people all over the midwest complaining that their way of life is going to disappear, and we all pay extra taxes to subsidize their plight -- the plight of people unwilling to change jobs when the market disappears.
Goody, farmers can't move on to the next thing. This begs the question: why don't techies do that? Answer: what's the next thing? Why should I spend money I don't have to retrain for something that's going to India in 3-5 years?
I think it was Bill Maher who said (and I'm paraphrasing), "Americans seemed to be more concerned with taking their own lifestyles from 10 to 11 than to help others bring theirs from 0 to 1." And that's the absolute truth. No one reading this is starving. Even if you did nothing but collect welfare, your lifestyle would still be better than 90% of the world.
Are you implying that I should give up my low-crime apartment and clean water because there are starving children in China? I bitch about American corps selling me out and you call me insensitive to the plight of poor 3rd world countries (with an assumed racial bias). Fact is, if I lose my job, I may well be starving - welfare is going away because people like Bill Maher are opposed to any social safety net.
So, you're a programmer. Someone else can do your job for 1/4 of the price with the same quality.
Actually, nobody seems to care about the quality of my work, only the price on the balance sheet.
And stop living in the past. There is no way India can be called Third World,
India is still a third world country. beggars line the street, people are still massively poor (outside of those with tech jobs), the infrastructure sucks, and tourists are routinely kidnapped. What, did you think that all of India was suddenly like San Diego?
When you're at the bottom, there's no where to go but up.
Well you can also just muddle around in the muck.
We need to find a way to bottle that re-process the fuel and imprison the stuff in solid inert mixtures. Either that, or find create disposal units that drill one way trips down past the earth's crust into hot/squishy rock layers.
Well, we could reprocess the fuel and end up with a lot less waste, but that's illegal uin the US. Thanks, Carter.
The US may go influence other countries but when do we tell them to go against laws of their country.
Well, we did arrest that guy in .nl. You know the guy - he wrote DeCss, remember?
Nicaragua was a communist puppet state. Nicaragua's "head of state" was a brutal communist dictator. And contrary to little slashdot kiddie beliefs, communism is not just an epithet.
so that makes it ok to mine their harbor? I don't follow your logic, such as it is.
MS is now forbidden from playing price games with Windows. They absolutely can not threaten or cajole OEMs to do their evil bidding.
Weren't they forbidden from doing that back in 1993? I must be getting old, because I could swear that this had already happened once before.
Do you really think that a few hundred colonists on the Moon or on Mars would be able to perpetuate humanity? How about a few thousand?
How about a trillion? That's the goal, whether you realize it or not.
Now if they _had_ gone for 10% of revenue, that'd go a long way towards covering the International Aid budget...
Well, they are leveraging 33% of revenue.
One thing I do remember is that another survey picked the Amish as being the happiest group in America - to be honest I can see why.
So can I - ignorance is bliss, and the Amish never let progress get in the way of tradition.
Details a modern security system that isn't fundamentally equivalent to security through obscurity.
Photo IDs, combined with somebody who actually knows what you look like.
# With his contact info and where to send his card you could have gone on an internet spending spree.
How so? You have the name - all they give you is a branch to mail it to. You can't get anything shipped to your home until you add the address (good luck with that). The best you could hope for is some free gas.