an iPod Touch is already pretty close to the thicker tempered glass used for glass-top dining room tables. If you "flattened" the iPad you could probably get the current hardware nearly that thin as well.
Of course that stuff is so "out of date" cause it's out now. what will Apple have in 3 years?
I was commenting to my wife, while we were at the store, that I didn't need the new Halo game because they're already working on a newer, better game right now... why would I waste my time playing an "inferior" game that's already "out of date". It seems everything of Microsoft's is "coming soon".
it's not so much that they give credit to people that can't afford it (although that was the case) the bigger problem is that they have used the inter-state bank mergers as a means to gut state usury laws. When I was a teen (say late 80s) it was illegal to have interest or fees that would be more than 18%. Now days getting "just" 18% on any non-solicited card is a joke.
Most states got bullied into losing their banks, because while states had things like usury laws, nothing at the federal level stopped the inter-state banks from buying YOUR local bank and carrying it off to another state, the choice was change the state's laws or watch your bank accounts walk away.
I didn't say not to pay it down, but to carry SOME debt on it. You have to show that you made debt payments, if you pay it off each month, they don't report you ever USED the credit, just that it's open... which hurts you. It makes sense because when you want something like a car you need to have a record of paying off long term balances... you don't demonstrate that paying off your bill every month. That part is not a "trap" it is what "credit" is all about... can you borrow other people's stuff, and then give it back.
Except what would be the point of going to all the trouble to kill somebody "just because". That's why serial killers are so rare, because a rational person wouldn't hunt down and kill folks for no reason, there's too much to lose. *and even serial killers have a "reason" it's just not a rational one.
of course a "real" bank isn't interested in you without deposits about the size of your yearly salary... then you start to be interesting. The rest of us are just there because we need access to electronic money and "our money" is the bank's chicken feed. They put up with it because "we" screw up more and they can trap us in small fees ATMs, overdrafts, overdraft protection and lets not forget Interest, way more than they get from the businesses. But mostly we're there to tie down the mom-n-pop shops so THEY have to be the bank's customers too.
but when the banks advertise "zero liability" they need to have a big asterisk telling customers they screw over any merchants your stolen card might have been used at.
actually, paying the bill every month doesn't work because you CARRY no actual debt. It's one of those things that's not logical to normal thinking but you are really showing them your a good "customer", meaning they'll make $$$ off you.
to be fair they cherry pick cases because they feel there is Constitutional ground to be covered, not for matters of right and wrong. They pick cases where the lower courts essentially "set them up" to make a constitutional decision... so a good deal would be overturned. Also our court system is ENTIRELY adversarial. The court can only rule on cases that CONTINUE to be prosecuted. Prosecutors can keep a case out of court by pleading them out to a lower charge rather than risk loosing and most of the time public defenders are wiling to go for it.
This was the trick Bush used for Gitmo. He kept making a small change to the case, letting a few people go, moving them around just before the case got in the Supreme Courts jurisdiction... then the defendants had to start a NEW case all the way from finding a new grounds and 3-4 courts to hear them.
change that to: as long as it's not being used for teaching purposes.... they don't care. They have started adding CDs and "classrooms" and schools are trying to make teachers use them. The CD has a nasty EULA, and the "classroom" is a one time code with a 6 month expiration.
You won't see eTextbooks fly on iPad because Apple (and Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, ect) won't allow publishers to knowingly sell revocable material as it would gut the very slim credibility they have. Apple's policy of not redownloading items is specifically to keep that point in mind. You'll notice for APPS that have licenses, they let you redownload all you want until the author changes their mind.
they already figured that out by adding "helper" CD's and online pages that can only be access for 90 to 180 DAYS.. DAYS mind you or only registered for one teacher. Literally cutting you off so shortly that if you have to retake a class you have to BUY the book again or you won't be able to do your assignments.
look at what it's called EULA... "license". A license assumes the other side has ALL the power... you buy a "license" for a seat at the movies, a right to occupy one seat for a limited amount of time. Software gets away with being not "like a book" because you have to store it electronically to make it do something, so you have to have a "license" to "reproduce" the source code from the magazine article to the compiled program. Copyright says the producer has a legal monopoly to tell you what to do, so they can make a license with whatever terms they feel like.
I agree with other posters that the term "buy" or "own it" for software or media should be stricken as false advertising claims. Nearly every CD, DVD, and Software box has an EULA.. no more saying you "own it forever" either.
Many EULAs give the media 90 days warranty, but only for "defects". And absolutely NO warranty that the software does what it says (i.e. merchantability or fitness for use) in short nearly every box of software at a software store (i'm a dinosaur) is basically a "sale" of a shiny disc (and they will warranty that part) that may or may not do anything... but it's shiny!
That was the very ORIGINAL cause of software licensing. Way back in the Mainframe days when you had to feed the keypunch cards or type the source code in from a printed book. They argued that since you were "copying" the instructions into the storage area, and copying them again into RAM that you needed a "license" for all that copying you were doing.
haven't you seen CSI... there really are detectives that "geeky" that they collect tire treads, foot prints, bugs, etc. just to have them handy.
This is how they look like big shots... just like hackers sit out there and collect atari 2600 roms all day. Somebody has to build these on the off chance they might have only muddy prints to follow. In reality, most violent crimes have only a few suspects... most of the time for murders and such the perp is somebody that knows the vic... making the pool of "shoes" much smaller and plenty of witnesses that can testify you really wear them.
The arrangement was they PAID him millions of dollars to be "fired".... go away and don't cause trouble is implict. Guy could OWN a company for the coin they paid him. He didn't HAVE to work for Oracle, this is like a staged prank to make HP waste money trying to make sure their fired guy isn't discussing strategy with Larry.
but contract terms are not "all or nothing" things like NDAs are separately enforceable contracts... he didn't "unlearn" the knowledge and is still in "possession" of it. If the confidentiality was not breached and the contract "null and void" HP wouldn't have paid him the several million severance. Working for a direct competitor is essentially "intent" to divulge the confidential information. This is Larry at his best, Oracle knows full well HP is going to fight them and has money to burn just for kicks... it's a careful distraction for the HP board and a chance to use their little former exec for some fun.
they gave him a very large severance to "walk away" any judge would consider that "more than acceptable" to ask for him to not be working at a direct competitor.
Personally, it comes down to the amount of work HR is willing to put into the candidates. When they are pulling H1-B for example, a great deal more effort goes up front typically it is a very high level (VP) person recruiting... they don't ask a supervisor for an email of requirements and post a 4-line for these folks. They don't schedule the folks visit during the supervisor's busy work time, they schedule a lunch date off-site for well over the standard "one hour" allocated. If you put similar effort into more new hires you'd get better results. I've seen shop workers called "morning of" the "orientation" day just for the agency to fill the slots then written off as "crappy employees" when they aren't ready for 50-hour weeks.
because the "replacement" you are training is tracked to be your bosses-boss, not a drop-in for YOUR job. You will do the work to describe your job in painful detail (the main reason for the department's inability to function) which makes them smell like roses, especially when they get the bosses ear for all the things you've asked for and been denied. Of course they have the bosses ear, because the boss spent twice as much money on them, so they must be "better" than those folks.
we definitely need to put all Republicans on the "Do Not Fly" list after comments like this. I've heard more comments about "second amendment" rights from rabid Republicans in the last 18 months than I ever heard from Democrats. Democrats very clearly went out after Bush and pushed hard to get folks to VOTE for change. Republicans aren't getting any sympathy because their party was clearly not "Republican" for the previous 8 years, it was something like an armed camp. All the "average joe" Republicans would have been labeled "terrorists" 24 months ago, hell we were afraid of being on the "no fly" list just for Slashdot posts... and these people are saying this stuff in public assembly and the media.
Forget "election" time, these guys started talking like this BEFORE Obama was even in office conveniently ignoring the fact that "their man" walked away from all the responsibility to fix ANYTHING long before the elections ever happened.... like an Executive riding out severance for their "golden parachute".
you'd expect MIT undergrads to subject alcohol to such abuse as sitting open for more than an hour? MIT undergrads have limits to what they'll try for science. They have more respect for drink than that.
This isn't so much about "programming" as it is about a nearly dead industry.
Who would want to work as "skilled labour" in the last plant of an entire industry in the country, especially when they expect to pay "starter" wages for 5-7 years? As a techie it would be fun to work at a company like that and learn everything about the machines, even invent better ones. The problem is that this company really doesn't have a budget to teach anybody, they don't have a budget to invent machines... they just want folks to work at a literally dean-end job.
We need a version of the SCA for 1850's to 1970's! we can all dress up like shop workers and build machines... like steampunk, only more boring.
going 90 in my state would be 25 over, an automatic Criminal charge, not just a traffic ticket. The ticket for 5 over (they smallest they bother with) is $140+ after they add "fees".
Franky, this guy is low-balling it. Make the one-day pass more like $200 and it would be cost parity. After all, what happens when the police officer doesn't see the "pass" and pulls you over? You just nicked his quota for the day because he's not pulling over somebody else... that's a net loss to the police. Guy has the right idea, he's just not lining the right pockets. Of the $140 above the actual "infraction" is under half. The court gets a "court fee" for accepting your money, the secretary of state gets a cut, and there are several other $15-$20 fees for the particular city or township or widows and orphans, I'd suspect there's "sales/use tax" as well.
education.. and high car taxes, absurd 100%+ tax on fuel pushing it well over $8 per gallon (for the same stuff we get for $2.50) helps too.
Facts are in Germany you don't HAVE to own a vehicle. In most of the US employers will not hire you if you do not have a license, and a vehicle, even if you live across the street. I'd swear many companies in the US locate their plants off the public transit grid specifically so they don't have to hire "poor people".
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an iPod Touch is already pretty close to the thicker tempered glass used for glass-top dining room tables. If you "flattened" the iPad you could probably get the current hardware nearly that thin as well.
Of course that stuff is so "out of date" cause it's out now. what will Apple have in 3 years?
I was commenting to my wife, while we were at the store, that I didn't need the new Halo game because they're already working on a newer, better game right now... why would I waste my time playing an "inferior" game that's already "out of date". It seems everything of Microsoft's is "coming soon".
it's like World of WarCrack for normal people! At least WoW keeps those people securely in Mom's basement...
it's not so much that they give credit to people that can't afford it (although that was the case) the bigger problem is that they have used the inter-state bank mergers as a means to gut state usury laws. When I was a teen (say late 80s) it was illegal to have interest or fees that would be more than 18%. Now days getting "just" 18% on any non-solicited card is a joke.
Most states got bullied into losing their banks, because while states had things like usury laws, nothing at the federal level stopped the inter-state banks from buying YOUR local bank and carrying it off to another state, the choice was change the state's laws or watch your bank accounts walk away.
I didn't say not to pay it down, but to carry SOME debt on it. You have to show that you made debt payments, if you pay it off each month, they don't report you ever USED the credit, just that it's open... which hurts you. It makes sense because when you want something like a car you need to have a record of paying off long term balances... you don't demonstrate that paying off your bill every month. That part is not a "trap" it is what "credit" is all about... can you borrow other people's stuff, and then give it back.
Except what would be the point of going to all the trouble to kill somebody "just because". That's why serial killers are so rare, because a rational person wouldn't hunt down and kill folks for no reason, there's too much to lose. *and even serial killers have a "reason" it's just not a rational one.
of course a "real" bank isn't interested in you without deposits about the size of your yearly salary... then you start to be interesting. The rest of us are just there because we need access to electronic money and "our money" is the bank's chicken feed. They put up with it because "we" screw up more and they can trap us in small fees ATMs, overdrafts, overdraft protection and lets not forget Interest, way more than they get from the businesses. But mostly we're there to tie down the mom-n-pop shops so THEY have to be the bank's customers too.
but when the banks advertise "zero liability" they need to have a big asterisk telling customers they screw over any merchants your stolen card might have been used at.
actually, paying the bill every month doesn't work because you CARRY no actual debt. It's one of those things that's not logical to normal thinking but you are really showing them your a good "customer", meaning they'll make $$$ off you.
to be fair they cherry pick cases because they feel there is Constitutional ground to be covered, not for matters of right and wrong. They pick cases where the lower courts essentially "set them up" to make a constitutional decision... so a good deal would be overturned. Also our court system is ENTIRELY adversarial. The court can only rule on cases that CONTINUE to be prosecuted. Prosecutors can keep a case out of court by pleading them out to a lower charge rather than risk loosing and most of the time public defenders are wiling to go for it.
This was the trick Bush used for Gitmo. He kept making a small change to the case, letting a few people go, moving them around just before the case got in the Supreme Courts jurisdiction... then the defendants had to start a NEW case all the way from finding a new grounds and 3-4 courts to hear them.
change that to: as long as it's not being used for teaching purposes.... they don't care. They have started adding CDs and "classrooms" and schools are trying to make teachers use them. The CD has a nasty EULA, and the "classroom" is a one time code with a 6 month expiration.
You won't see eTextbooks fly on iPad because Apple (and Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, ect) won't allow publishers to knowingly sell revocable material as it would gut the very slim credibility they have. Apple's policy of not redownloading items is specifically to keep that point in mind. You'll notice for APPS that have licenses, they let you redownload all you want until the author changes their mind.
they already figured that out by adding "helper" CD's and online pages that can only be access for 90 to 180 DAYS.. DAYS mind you or only registered for one teacher. Literally cutting you off so shortly that if you have to retake a class you have to BUY the book again or you won't be able to do your assignments.
look at what it's called EULA... "license". A license assumes the other side has ALL the power... you buy a "license" for a seat at the movies, a right to occupy one seat for a limited amount of time. Software gets away with being not "like a book" because you have to store it electronically to make it do something, so you have to have a "license" to "reproduce" the source code from the magazine article to the compiled program. Copyright says the producer has a legal monopoly to tell you what to do, so they can make a license with whatever terms they feel like.
I agree with other posters that the term "buy" or "own it" for software or media should be stricken as false advertising claims. Nearly every CD, DVD, and Software box has an EULA.. no more saying you "own it forever" either.
Many EULAs give the media 90 days warranty, but only for "defects". And absolutely NO warranty that the software does what it says (i.e. merchantability or fitness for use) in short nearly every box of software at a software store (i'm a dinosaur) is basically a "sale" of a shiny disc (and they will warranty that part) that may or may not do anything... but it's shiny!
That was the very ORIGINAL cause of software licensing. Way back in the Mainframe days when you had to feed the keypunch cards or type the source code in from a printed book. They argued that since you were "copying" the instructions into the storage area, and copying them again into RAM that you needed a "license" for all that copying you were doing.
haven't you seen CSI... there really are detectives that "geeky" that they collect tire treads, foot prints, bugs, etc. just to have them handy.
This is how they look like big shots... just like hackers sit out there and collect atari 2600 roms all day. Somebody has to build these on the off chance they might have only muddy prints to follow. In reality, most violent crimes have only a few suspects... most of the time for murders and such the perp is somebody that knows the vic... making the pool of "shoes" much smaller and plenty of witnesses that can testify you really wear them.
The arrangement was they PAID him millions of dollars to be "fired".... go away and don't cause trouble is implict. Guy could OWN a company for the coin they paid him. He didn't HAVE to work for Oracle, this is like a staged prank to make HP waste money trying to make sure their fired guy isn't discussing strategy with Larry.
but contract terms are not "all or nothing" things like NDAs are separately enforceable contracts... he didn't "unlearn" the knowledge and is still in "possession" of it. If the confidentiality was not breached and the contract "null and void" HP wouldn't have paid him the several million severance. Working for a direct competitor is essentially "intent" to divulge the confidential information. This is Larry at his best, Oracle knows full well HP is going to fight them and has money to burn just for kicks... it's a careful distraction for the HP board and a chance to use their little former exec for some fun.
they gave him a very large severance to "walk away" any judge would consider that "more than acceptable" to ask for him to not be working at a direct competitor.
Personally, it comes down to the amount of work HR is willing to put into the candidates. When they are pulling H1-B for example, a great deal more effort goes up front typically it is a very high level (VP) person recruiting... they don't ask a supervisor for an email of requirements and post a 4-line for these folks. They don't schedule the folks visit during the supervisor's busy work time, they schedule a lunch date off-site for well over the standard "one hour" allocated. If you put similar effort into more new hires you'd get better results. I've seen shop workers called "morning of" the "orientation" day just for the agency to fill the slots then written off as "crappy employees" when they aren't ready for 50-hour weeks.
because the "replacement" you are training is tracked to be your bosses-boss, not a drop-in for YOUR job. You will do the work to describe your job in painful detail (the main reason for the department's inability to function) which makes them smell like roses, especially when they get the bosses ear for all the things you've asked for and been denied. Of course they have the bosses ear, because the boss spent twice as much money on them, so they must be "better" than those folks.
we definitely need to put all Republicans on the "Do Not Fly" list after comments like this. I've heard more comments about "second amendment" rights from rabid Republicans in the last 18 months than I ever heard from Democrats. Democrats very clearly went out after Bush and pushed hard to get folks to VOTE for change. Republicans aren't getting any sympathy because their party was clearly not "Republican" for the previous 8 years, it was something like an armed camp. All the "average joe" Republicans would have been labeled "terrorists" 24 months ago, hell we were afraid of being on the "no fly" list just for Slashdot posts... and these people are saying this stuff in public assembly and the media.
Forget "election" time, these guys started talking like this BEFORE Obama was even in office conveniently ignoring the fact that "their man" walked away from all the responsibility to fix ANYTHING long before the elections ever happened.... like an Executive riding out severance for their "golden parachute".
you'd expect MIT undergrads to subject alcohol to such abuse as sitting open for more than an hour? MIT undergrads have limits to what they'll try for science. They have more respect for drink than that.
This isn't so much about "programming" as it is about a nearly dead industry.
Who would want to work as "skilled labour" in the last plant of an entire industry in the country, especially when they expect to pay "starter" wages for 5-7 years? As a techie it would be fun to work at a company like that and learn everything about the machines, even invent better ones. The problem is that this company really doesn't have a budget to teach anybody, they don't have a budget to invent machines... they just want folks to work at a literally dean-end job.
We need a version of the SCA for 1850's to 1970's! we can all dress up like shop workers and build machines... like steampunk, only more boring.
going 90 in my state would be 25 over, an automatic Criminal charge, not just a traffic ticket. The ticket for 5 over (they smallest they bother with) is $140+ after they add "fees".
Franky, this guy is low-balling it. Make the one-day pass more like $200 and it would be cost parity. After all, what happens when the police officer doesn't see the "pass" and pulls you over? You just nicked his quota for the day because he's not pulling over somebody else... that's a net loss to the police. Guy has the right idea, he's just not lining the right pockets. Of the $140 above the actual "infraction" is under half. The court gets a "court fee" for accepting your money, the secretary of state gets a cut, and there are several other $15-$20 fees for the particular city or township or widows and orphans, I'd suspect there's "sales/use tax" as well.
education.. and high car taxes, absurd 100%+ tax on fuel pushing it well over $8 per gallon (for the same stuff we get for $2.50) helps too.
Facts are in Germany you don't HAVE to own a vehicle. In most of the US employers will not hire you if you do not have a license, and a vehicle, even if you live across the street. I'd swear many companies in the US locate their plants off the public transit grid specifically so they don't have to hire "poor people".