It's more than just having a known history of fraud.
The question for more corporations is about getting caught.
Fraud is running rampant: Hudreds of accounting scandals across the globe. Companies spying on their employees and leaking documents for personal gain. Government officials seducing their young interns and aides even when writing legisation against the acts they are committing.
For these companies, it's more a question of hiring somebody who has a history of getting caught, or hiring people who haven't been caught yet.
The trouble is trying to find those who are committing the fraud and not getting caught, versus those who are honest and hardworking. Or honest and slacking off on/.
Does your iPod let you take notes on it? Does your iPod have 3D accelerated game support? (Wait, I forgot, I said game.) Does your iPod let you grab pictures off your friend's digital camera? Does your iPod let you swap music with your friends when you get together, and copy it from one device to another? Does your iPod let you switch from playing music/games to taking notes with a single button press, or even listen to music while taking notes electronically? Does your iPod work as a GPS and navigation system? (True I had to buy that separately, but you buy music...) Does your iPod have an IR port that works as a universal remote control? Does your iPod have an IM client?
I suppose I'll stop adding to the list, I hope you got the idea.
Yes, I can play video and music roughly as long as you can with your ipod 60GB, at VGA resolution and nicely encoded mp3 rates.
No, I don't have all that storage with me all the time, I can swap it out.
I suppose reversing the question is fair game, too:
Can you play RPGs on your ipod? Can you play online games on your ipod? Can you play nethack on your ipod? Can you play ANY fun games on your ipod? Can you connect to the Internet at work without your boss tracking it to your PC, using your ipod? -_- Can you discretely record hours of incriminating personal converations at work using your ipod? Can you download DivX movies on your and play them back? Can you use skype on your iPod at any wifi hotspot? Can you use your ipod to transfer files to/from work, sync your email, and do personal projects?
So while I suppose I did miss out on some of the storage space, for the cost I believe the device is much better all around.
>> Can your Axim play music for 16 hours straight?
Yes. I did opt for the bigger battery though, and I've heard that the lower batter can only operate as an mp3 player (the screen backlight off) for around 7 hours.
>> How about 4 hours of video?
No, I only get about 3 1/2 hours on one battery charge. It is long enough to watch two of the many feature-length DVDs I have transcoded and stored on a memory card. They look great, I just don't like that they take over 100MB per hour of footage. I have a CF card filled with all the movies I am interested in re-watching any time soon.
>> Does it have 60 gigs of storage to hold enough music and video to be able to go weeks without listening to the same thing twice?
It has SD and CF card slots. Currently it only has 8 1/2 GB in the device, but I have additional cards I swap when I want to change them.
Besides, I don't feel the need to carry around 60 gigs of music -- I have found that 7GB is more than enough for the music I own.
A dell axim with 1/4GB + another 8 GB of storage cards ($400 total, all new) gives you a great mp3 player, wifi Internet, tons of games, Direct3D Mobile and hardware accelerated 3D, bluetooth, a VGA resolution screen, and tons more features.
Who needs another tiny dedcated MP3 player when I can get a nice little 600 MHz computer? My expensive laptop from 1999 didn't even have that good of specifications.
... but every thumb drive I've tried has busted when on a keychain for more than a few months.
It needs to take a lot of abuse, and getting squished by a few hundred pounds of stationary overhead pressure from a car tire doesn't qualify as a lot of abuse.
School officials reserve the right to look through the cell phone when they suspect a student has drugs or stolen goods, according to Principal Michael Welch.... The rule complies with federal law, which says a school can conduct searches when there is "reasonable suspicion" that a student has contraband.
As for your other statement...
If you need to get in touch with your kid, there is an established procedure for that: Contact the office. It may take a few minutes longer, but it won't end up disturbing the entire class while your kid figures out that it is his phone, digs it out of the bag, and starts chatting in the middle of a test or lecture.
Imagine what you could do with a small, camera enabled remote controlled gecko toy. Just make sure that it has an LED chameleon-like skin. Beyond the Big Brother considerations, you could mix the draw of voyeurism and the joy of being a total geek.
I have to agree with this one.
You can get a removable GPS adapter that can be plugged in to a bluetooth radio or a serial cable directly to your handheld. These show up on a COM port on the device so that other software can easily use it. They also have a CF card adapter that I looked at, but didn't like because my big fat rhino-skin case keeps the CF flip top from going to a convenient location. The radio and serial versions both have a car power adapter so you can plug in both the GPS reciever and the PDA. The GPS is a little box that you can remove and do whatever you want with.
Or, if you prefer, you can get an all-in-one CF or SD card, both contain Osita in addition to the GPS reciever. The disadvantage is that they eat more power and I don't think they show up as a com port.
The GPS reciever by itself is fairly cheap. The Osita natigation software is also relatively cheap purchased separately. You don't have to use Osita if you only buy the bluetooth or serial adapter versions, and that might be true of the other configurations.
I don't like the Streets & Trips software, or at least, I didn't when I last used it a few years ago. That's just a personal preference and if you like that software, you can buy it.
I have no complaints about the Osita software. There are some tiny problems I've had, but in the Grand Scheme of Things, the problems are insignificant.
The biggest problems I've had so far were (1) When visiting LA, two of the places were right on the border of different maps. Keeping multiple maps loaded requires more device memory. On Mobile 5 the memory requirements shouldn't be a big deal. It only loads a few MB into RAM at any given time, and even 64MB should be enough if you have most of it free; I have 128MB on my device and had no problem keeping five maps loaded. (2) Map files are moderately big. Another road trip took about 150MB on my SD card to store all the maps I wanted. But that's what cards are for, right? (3) The software assumes QVGA screen. You can cheat by using an app like SE_VGA that reports a bigger screen and it looks quite nice; (4) Maps are not quite accurate. They are *much* better than some other software I looked at.; (5) Finding the best route sometimes picks slightly bad routes. Sure, it will get you there, but if you have looked at a map you might see that it is faster to take highway X for another three miles. I'm guessing that they just didn't have space for road speeds in the maps, just for road classes.
All told, Osita has been a really nice package for me. I have had great experiences with it's accuracy. I had one problem trying to get to a funeral. The cemetary was right next to a freeway and the software kept directing me to a subdivision just barely on the other side of the freeway. That was a single bad location out of hundreds I've used, and even that was not really off by much.
If it doesn't satisfy you, the bluetooth adapter just transmits the GPS as a regular COM port -- meaning almost all the software out there can work with it.
Let's not forget world band radios, HAM, and countless other areas of the spectrum. The radio world isn't just AM, FM and TV.
Although not that popular in the US, shortwave (SW) is popular in much of the world, and unregulated. You can be in Nowhere, Zimbabwe and still pick up shortwave stations around the globe using a hand-cranked radio, where a 30-second crank spin will give you an hour or so of radio pleasure.
SW can get you great programming like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, both of which are good listening. There are thousands of other stations out there, but I don't bother listening for them. Just searching gives me a bunch of oriental-sounding stations, something I think is arabic, a bunch of spanish polka, and lots of other weird stuff. The time is broadcast on several stations (5000 kHz is the one I use) and the digital radios can pick it up and give you lots of other good info.
Visual Studio and Microsoft tools force you to adopt programming techniques designed around implementation speed, not understanding or quality.
Force? noone's forcing me to use the RAD tools; I use VS primarily as an editor with intellisense and solution/project file management; no more, nor less. FUD.
Exactly.
Some projects at my company were written by people who did not know how to program well. Others of us follow well-organized, structured development.
Their code looked like the Microsoft samples. (God help us all! And MSDN Team: I write you EVERY THREE MONTHS that is is int main() and not void main().) When some of my team was asked to help them write unit tests for their code, we gave up and told them to rewrite. When they wanted to add more functionality, they couldn't and finally asked us for help. We told their boss (not their team lead) to rewrite when we found that every button had their own set of SQL calls and set the state of various controls on the form. Most of the buttons duplicated the work of all the others.
Contrasting it with our beautiful code.:) Ours looks like it was planned, mainly because it was. Only one of our projects is a GUI. The rest provide libraries with M/V/P or M/V/C structure. It is all under unit test, and adding features is a joy. Well, as much of a joy as work can be.
VS itself is not the problem. It's the developers who never learned how to program that are the problem.
This is just one of many "we don't like how the world works" bills and laws. The state *knows* it won't be enforcable, they just want to make their voice heard.
There are lots of these bills. Too many/.ers saw the word "Utah" and instantly ignored the fact that Michigan introduced it too, or even ignored the rest of the post.
I'm not a doctor, but isn't salt (especially the sodium component) necessary to sustain your electrolyte levels? This is why Gatorade and other sports drinks have quite high levels of it. You can actually die of "water poisoning" if you exercise a lot and drink too much plain water without eating or drinking anything else to restore your electrolytes, because the electrolyte levels fall too low and your nerves stop functioning.
It's a matter of ratios.
If the liquid has too much salt, your cells will give up their own water to make the solution less concentrated, since the difference between inside the cells and outside the cells must be a certain ratio.
If the liquid doesn't have enough salt, your cells will absorb the water to make the external solution more concentrated, again to preserve the ratio.
Drinking salt water (ie: from the ocean) when you are thirsty will dehydrate the cells, but drinking lots of pure water while exercising can cause your cells to absorb too much.
Fortunately most of us don't get out enough or exercise enough for those to be problems.:-)
It looks like option (ii) is opt-in, but option (i) is not, since it makes no mention of the consumer's request. And really, what ISP would write custom software rather than implement IP filtering?
You are implying that Option 2 requires some custom software. That's laughable.
People who request it can get a filtered proxy server. People who don't request it get regular access.
That's hardly a difficult thing for an ISP to set up, assuming they have any techincal sense.
We wanted to start small as we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load.
But now we expect our servers to go up in flames as the slashdot horde arrives.
Project forking is not always a bad thing.
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Yes, the two groups have different goals and ideas.
GREAT!!
Let them fork and both implement whatever they want. Let's have some competition between two very great projects. Then let the people decide which one (or even both) that they want to support.
Yes, there is some fear it will turn into some sort of Gnome vs KDE thing, but we're not talking about something so fundamental. In the big picture, it's just a web browser.
Codify a minimum standard for fair use, along with additional guidelines for additional fair use.
All works copyrighted at creation (generally already true), renewable through registration.
Reset the lifetime of the monopoly. That could be 5-10 years, renewable a few times.
Repository of all works that are renewed, with public release of all content at the end of the renewal. Expired content is made available at no cost, or perhaps for a very small annual usage fee. In the case of computer programs, this includes manditory release of all source code being copyrighted to the copyright office, and all code being released to the public after the renewal expires.
Ability to send content to a "public domain office", where the object is cleared of copyrights immediatly, and made publicly avaiable at no cost.
An army of Copyright Office workers, who are able to rapidly accept or reject copyright applications based on the evidence submitted. No more of this 2-3 years for acceptance garbage.
No more "register only the first and last 10 pages". You register the whole thing if you want legal protection, and the only protection you get renewed is the stuff you register.
Expidited court cases, assisted by the required submittal of renewals. For renewed copyright challenges, only the actual registered content would be accepted. No more of the 2+ years getting ready for the trial and everybody registering all their stuff with the copyright office, another year to get an injunction, then another five or so years waiting for the groups to settle out of court.
I'm sure I could think of more, but that's a good starting point.
That's generally a great security policy. It's SOP for many government offices.
What the guy REALLY ought to do is call the Business Software Alliance on them.
And if he doesn't think they have enough bad licenses, he could find a way to 'misplace' several licenses. Not necessarily steal them, but just maybe push a bunch of papers behind some file cabinets, that just HAPPEN to include some Microsoft licenses.
If they say "It's the theory of evolution" they'll be sued by all the Fundamentalists who don't believe in science.
If they say "It's possibly guided by some greater power that we aren't allowed to speak about" they'll be sued by both the Fundamentalists who will tell them they MUST say what power made it, or by the {insert four-letter-acronym} who says the schools are the state, and can't mention anything having to do with religion, even though religion is a HUGE part of the entire history (and present) of the world.
If they say "It could be both", they'll still be sued, since Fundamentalists on both sides will say "Our Beliefs are the One True Way (tm)", and refuse to accept that any other view may have merit.
So...
I propose they just hand out little cards to the students that read:
"Due to the threat of law suits, all classes will be terminated, effective immediatly. Please find the non-toxic, non-branded crayons in the back of the room, and color on your non-branded paper.* No students may talk or otherwise interact with other students. --- The School Board
* Do not abuse the crayons or place them in any bodily oriface. Do not break crayons. Do not throw crayons. Do not color obscene picutres or images of anything that my offend any religion, race, geneder, species, or lawyer. Do not show your pictures to any other student or teacher. Assorted other warnings."
While it doesn't allow for much learning, it doesn't detract from their education any more than the lawsuits are doing. And it will help the school board manage their budget a little better, rather than spending the (already tight) budget on legal fees.
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Oops.
Now everybody needs to educate grandma not only what phishing is, but also how innocent material can be blocked by an association with phishing sites.
This is wonderful, never hear those complaining people again. Make sure the entire technical call center has these.
It's more than just having a known history of fraud.
The question for more corporations is about getting caught.
Fraud is running rampant: Hudreds of accounting scandals across the globe. Companies spying on their employees and leaking documents for personal gain. Government officials seducing their young interns and aides even when writing legisation against the acts they are committing.
For these companies, it's more a question of hiring somebody who has a history of getting caught, or hiring people who haven't been caught yet.
The trouble is trying to find those who are committing the fraud and not getting caught, versus those who are honest and hardworking. Or honest and slacking off on /.
Looks like I even forgot some more...
Does your iPod let you take notes on it?
Does your iPod have 3D accelerated game support? (Wait, I forgot, I said game.)
Does your iPod let you grab pictures off your friend's digital camera?
Does your iPod let you swap music with your friends when you get together, and copy it from one device to another?
Does your iPod let you switch from playing music/games to taking notes with a single button press, or even listen to music while taking notes electronically?
Does your iPod work as a GPS and navigation system? (True I had to buy that separately, but you buy music...)
Does your iPod have an IR port that works as a universal remote control?
Does your iPod have an IM client?
I suppose I'll stop adding to the list, I hope you got the idea.
Yes, I can play video and music roughly as long as you can with your ipod 60GB, at VGA resolution and nicely encoded mp3 rates.
No, I don't have all that storage with me all the time, I can swap it out.
I suppose reversing the question is fair game, too:
Can you play RPGs on your ipod?
Can you play online games on your ipod?
Can you play nethack on your ipod?
Can you play ANY fun games on your ipod?
Can you connect to the Internet at work without your boss tracking it to your PC, using your ipod? -_-
Can you discretely record hours of incriminating personal converations at work using your ipod?
Can you download DivX movies on your and play them back?
Can you use skype on your iPod at any wifi hotspot?
Can you use your ipod to transfer files to/from work, sync your email, and do personal projects?
So while I suppose I did miss out on some of the storage space, for the cost I believe the device is much better all around.
>> Can your Axim play music for 16 hours straight?
Yes. I did opt for the bigger battery though, and I've heard that the lower batter can only operate as an mp3 player (the screen backlight off) for around 7 hours.
>> How about 4 hours of video?
No, I only get about 3 1/2 hours on one battery charge. It is long enough to watch two of the many feature-length DVDs I have transcoded and stored on a memory card. They look great, I just don't like that they take over 100MB per hour of footage. I have a CF card filled with all the movies I am interested in re-watching any time soon.
>> Does it have 60 gigs of storage to hold enough music and video to be able to go weeks without listening to the same thing twice?
It has SD and CF card slots. Currently it only has 8 1/2 GB in the device, but I have additional cards I swap when I want to change them.
Besides, I don't feel the need to carry around 60 gigs of music -- I have found that 7GB is more than enough for the music I own.
A dell axim with 1/4GB + another 8 GB of storage cards ($400 total, all new) gives you a great mp3 player, wifi Internet, tons of games, Direct3D Mobile and hardware accelerated 3D, bluetooth, a VGA resolution screen, and tons more features.
Who needs another tiny dedcated MP3 player when I can get a nice little 600 MHz computer? My expensive laptop from 1999 didn't even have that good of specifications.
If it still needs to be transparent, does that mean you are using cellophane paper? ;-)
It needs to take a lot of abuse, and getting squished by a few hundred pounds of stationary overhead pressure from a car tire doesn't qualify as a lot of abuse.
How does it hold up in the real world?
If you need to get in touch with your kid, there is an established procedure for that: Contact the office. It may take a few minutes longer, but it won't end up disturbing the entire class while your kid figures out that it is his phone, digs it out of the bag, and starts chatting in the middle of a test or lecture.
Imagine what you could do with a small, camera enabled remote controlled gecko toy. Just make sure that it has an LED chameleon-like skin. Beyond the Big Brother considerations, you could mix the draw of voyeurism and the joy of being a total geek.
What more could any geek want?
Sorry about the lack of paragraphs in that.
I have to agree with this one. You can get a removable GPS adapter that can be plugged in to a bluetooth radio or a serial cable directly to your handheld. These show up on a COM port on the device so that other software can easily use it. They also have a CF card adapter that I looked at, but didn't like because my big fat rhino-skin case keeps the CF flip top from going to a convenient location. The radio and serial versions both have a car power adapter so you can plug in both the GPS reciever and the PDA. The GPS is a little box that you can remove and do whatever you want with. Or, if you prefer, you can get an all-in-one CF or SD card, both contain Osita in addition to the GPS reciever. The disadvantage is that they eat more power and I don't think they show up as a com port. The GPS reciever by itself is fairly cheap. The Osita natigation software is also relatively cheap purchased separately. You don't have to use Osita if you only buy the bluetooth or serial adapter versions, and that might be true of the other configurations. I don't like the Streets & Trips software, or at least, I didn't when I last used it a few years ago. That's just a personal preference and if you like that software, you can buy it. I have no complaints about the Osita software. There are some tiny problems I've had, but in the Grand Scheme of Things, the problems are insignificant. The biggest problems I've had so far were (1) When visiting LA, two of the places were right on the border of different maps. Keeping multiple maps loaded requires more device memory. On Mobile 5 the memory requirements shouldn't be a big deal. It only loads a few MB into RAM at any given time, and even 64MB should be enough if you have most of it free; I have 128MB on my device and had no problem keeping five maps loaded. (2) Map files are moderately big. Another road trip took about 150MB on my SD card to store all the maps I wanted. But that's what cards are for, right? (3) The software assumes QVGA screen. You can cheat by using an app like SE_VGA that reports a bigger screen and it looks quite nice; (4) Maps are not quite accurate. They are *much* better than some other software I looked at.; (5) Finding the best route sometimes picks slightly bad routes. Sure, it will get you there, but if you have looked at a map you might see that it is faster to take highway X for another three miles. I'm guessing that they just didn't have space for road speeds in the maps, just for road classes. All told, Osita has been a really nice package for me. I have had great experiences with it's accuracy. I had one problem trying to get to a funeral. The cemetary was right next to a freeway and the software kept directing me to a subdivision just barely on the other side of the freeway. That was a single bad location out of hundreds I've used, and even that was not really off by much. If it doesn't satisfy you, the bluetooth adapter just transmits the GPS as a regular COM port -- meaning almost all the software out there can work with it.
If you know you interviewed well, and you know they like you, it's a very good question.
Although not that popular in the US, shortwave (SW) is popular in much of the world, and unregulated. You can be in Nowhere, Zimbabwe and still pick up shortwave stations around the globe using a hand-cranked radio, where a 30-second crank spin will give you an hour or so of radio pleasure.
SW can get you great programming like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, both of which are good listening. There are thousands of other stations out there, but I don't bother listening for them. Just searching gives me a bunch of oriental-sounding stations, something I think is arabic, a bunch of spanish polka, and lots of other weird stuff. The time is broadcast on several stations (5000 kHz is the one I use) and the digital radios can pick it up and give you lots of other good info.
frob.
Some projects at my company were written by people who did not know how to program well. Others of us follow well-organized, structured development.
Their code looked like the Microsoft samples. (God help us all! And MSDN Team: I write you EVERY THREE MONTHS that is is int main() and not void main().) When some of my team was asked to help them write unit tests for their code, we gave up and told them to rewrite. When they wanted to add more functionality, they couldn't and finally asked us for help. We told their boss (not their team lead) to rewrite when we found that every button had their own set of SQL calls and set the state of various controls on the form. Most of the buttons duplicated the work of all the others.
Contrasting it with our beautiful code. :) Ours looks like it was planned, mainly because it was. Only one of our projects is a GUI. The rest provide libraries with M/V/P or M/V/C structure. It is all under unit test, and adding features is a joy. Well, as much of a joy as work can be.
VS itself is not the problem. It's the developers who never learned how to program that are the problem.
frob
There are lots of these bills. Too many /.ers saw the word "Utah" and instantly ignored the fact that Michigan introduced it too, or even ignored the rest of the post.
frob
If the liquid has too much salt, your cells will give up their own water to make the solution less concentrated, since the difference between inside the cells and outside the cells must be a certain ratio.
If the liquid doesn't have enough salt, your cells will absorb the water to make the external solution more concentrated, again to preserve the ratio.
Drinking salt water (ie: from the ocean) when you are thirsty will dehydrate the cells, but drinking lots of pure water while exercising can cause your cells to absorb too much.
Fortunately most of us don't get out enough or exercise enough for those to be problems. :-)
People who request it can get a filtered proxy server. People who don't request it get regular access.
That's hardly a difficult thing for an ISP to set up, assuming they have any techincal sense.
frob
GREAT!!
Let them fork and both implement whatever they want. Let's have some competition between two very great projects. Then let the people decide which one (or even both) that they want to support.
Yes, there is some fear it will turn into some sort of Gnome vs KDE thing, but we're not talking about something so fundamental. In the big picture, it's just a web browser.
frob
All works copyrighted at creation (generally already true), renewable through registration.
Reset the lifetime of the monopoly. That could be 5-10 years, renewable a few times.
Repository of all works that are renewed, with public release of all content at the end of the renewal. Expired content is made available at no cost, or perhaps for a very small annual usage fee. In the case of computer programs, this includes manditory release of all source code being copyrighted to the copyright office, and all code being released to the public after the renewal expires.
Ability to send content to a "public domain office", where the object is cleared of copyrights immediatly, and made publicly avaiable at no cost.
An army of Copyright Office workers, who are able to rapidly accept or reject copyright applications based on the evidence submitted. No more of this 2-3 years for acceptance garbage.
No more "register only the first and last 10 pages". You register the whole thing if you want legal protection, and the only protection you get renewed is the stuff you register.
Expidited court cases, assisted by the required submittal of renewals. For renewed copyright challenges, only the actual registered content would be accepted. No more of the 2+ years getting ready for the trial and everybody registering all their stuff with the copyright office, another year to get an injunction, then another five or so years waiting for the groups to settle out of court.
I'm sure I could think of more, but that's a good starting point.
What the guy REALLY ought to do is call the Business Software Alliance on them.
And if he doesn't think they have enough bad licenses, he could find a way to 'misplace' several licenses. Not necessarily steal them, but just maybe push a bunch of papers behind some file cabinets, that just HAPPEN to include some Microsoft licenses.
If they say "It's the theory of evolution" they'll be sued by all the Fundamentalists who don't believe in science.
If they say "It's possibly guided by some greater power that we aren't allowed to speak about" they'll be sued by both the Fundamentalists who will tell them they MUST say what power made it, or by the {insert four-letter-acronym} who says the schools are the state, and can't mention anything having to do with religion, even though religion is a HUGE part of the entire history (and present) of the world.
If they say "It could be both", they'll still be sued, since Fundamentalists on both sides will say "Our Beliefs are the One True Way (tm)", and refuse to accept that any other view may have merit.
So...
I propose they just hand out little cards to the students that read:
While it doesn't allow for much learning, it doesn't detract from their education any more than the lawsuits are doing. And it will help the school board manage their budget a little better, rather than spending the (already tight) budget on legal fees.frob