I'm guessing that the IDF pshrinks found that D&D gamers tend to be more indivualistic. Being in the military is, by necessity, to be part of a team and the team has to come first, thereby presenting an inherant conflict of interest which may present itself at some very inopportune moment.
Ambiguity is a horrid idea, particularly in the legal arena; e.g., it's bad enough that so many people don't know how and why a yeild sign is different from a stop sign: what happens when we introduce ambiguity over what the stop sign means?
ebay is a california corporation, consequently Ohio cannot declare it a traditional auction house even if they wanted to. (OK, they could, but under the UCC and Congress' Constitutional mandate to regulate interstate commerce, that would be easily struck down.) This would take a ruling at the Federal level. The question of which circut would have jurisdiction is an interesting one.
"If someone buys and sells on eBay on a regular basis as a type of business, then there is a need for regulation." "As a type of business"? No ambiguity there, is there?
Yes. I.E., what constitutes a business?
It used to be if you filed a Schedule C with yuor tax return, or held a vendor's license, or were incorporated then that constituted "being a business". Today, it's more and more often that "being a business" is defined as whatever is the most convenient for the circumstances. It's not at all consistent, doesn't conform to either IRS or GAO or prolly even most states' revenue department's standards.
If we had automatic judical review for internal consistency on every newly passed law, we'd be seeing a hell of a lot fewer of this semi-well-intentioned, generally crappy laws being proposed, let alone passed.
THe ENTIER point of ebay is that THEY are the auctioneer not you. You are simply the provider of the goods you don't actually participate the in auciton itself.
From any of ebay's crappy, canned e-mail responses: "we are just a venue"
eBay itself went through this 4-5 years ago in California after so many people were complaining to the Attorney General that eBay wasn't registered as an auctioneer (with appropriate bonding and all the liability that goes along with that, which ain't trivial). The AG's ruling was that they didn't have to, as they are not an auctioneer. They are a venue selling in an "auction style format", as ebay puts it, and the AG bought it.
IANAL, but given that ebay isn't a registered auctioneer, it ought not to be too terribly difficult to get judicial review on this in Ohio and have ebay (and other on-line sites like Yahoo's "auctions") ruled not a traditional auction and thus exempt from this mess.
The sextant and the abacus did more to shape the whole of humanity than the rest of the list combined. The abacus is still in use today, and probably by more people than there were Powerbooks made, let alone sold and still in use.
The top ten items on the list are almost all entertainment based or related rather than scientific acheivements or technical enablers. They ought to have split this into two lists: one for "fun" stuff and one for science and industry.
In addition to the GPS being a potentially unlawful search, the tax, if deemed to be prohibitive, may be a breach of the US Citizens' right to travel. IANAL, but this site offers a perspective that may be applicable to this situation.
In addition to shutting off lights, monitors (not systems), copiers, fax machines, and printers, actually remove some of these.
You'll save on maintenance costs, even more on electricity costs, and most significantly, paper. The one company I worked for that actually made significant strides to reducing paper in the office did so by first pulling out the printers (starting with 2 of the 3 monster printronix P600s that spate out boxes and boxes of greenbar around the clock).
Look at the other "usual" IT expenses from a perspective of risk management. Which risks do you want to cover, and how far? For what and to whom are you willing to pay for that coverage, and what are you willing to basically "self-insure" yourselves on? Printers are pratically commodity items these days, so perhaps you can afford not to have a hardware contract in place for them. Proprietary computer servers are a different story--in general.
And then finally you can get pissy about the obviously extraneous non-IT costs too. Does anyone drive a company car? How many company-paid cater meals/meetings/events are there going on? And there rest of the usual suspects that we secretly want and are all to willing to complain about if we don't have 'em.
Because that would have required cross-funding of projects from two different space agencies, and we all know how well the bureaucrats grok that. Heck, this could have lead to the co-mingling of funds, and that would be horrible! How would they ever decide on who gets credit for what? You cannot forget what's really important about these projects, you know.
Using your criteria, that would be all of it. Tracking time against an activity falls within the purview of the scientific method of observation. Sort of the reverse-Heisenberg pricinple of scientific accounting: you can know when you are not doing science, but not for how long you're not doing it, or you've just done it.
At 186,000 MPS, it's the strength of the signal, not the distance traveled, that matters. In this context, the distances from orbit are insignificant, and the depth of rock only somewhat less so. It's the echo from the water under the rock that's being returned to the sattelite, not imaging data.
We have no way of telling that a massive release of gas on Mars would not eventually come back to haunt us here on Earth.
For what value of "massive" are you referring? The Sun produces "massive" releases of gas and plasma constantly. Anything we do on Mars is going to be so much less energetic that it's ridiculous to consider as a possible threat to Earth.
Also, BASIC was not used for anything strong, as in enterprise-class application developement.
Don't make guesses about what you don't know for a fact.
There are several million users world-wide running enterprise applications written in some varient of BASIC. One example is about 20% of the HMO's in the US are running an application owned by CA and written in either Pick Basic or UniVerse Basic (a product now owned by IBM).
how different is the Airbus A380 really from Boeing 747 developed in the 60s? Sure it's much more sophisticated but have the speed, range, altitude ceiling or even cost of operation improved anywhere near order of magnitude?
Good question. Here's what I dug-up (hey's it's Friday and I don't feel like taking a chance on breaking anything):
The orginal 747 was $21 million in 1970 dollars, so we can see, after accounting for inflation, that manufacturing costs have improved, but that's about it.
What this really points to is that big business believes that the economy is stable enough and has sufficient growth potential to risk spending the big bucks to invest in it.
Whether or not this is good news for the average consumer remains to be seen. The software market is going to continue to get tighter. This is a complete SWAG based on nothing current, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sybase was the next big take-over target.
The cell phone market is going to stay competitive for a while with Sprint both lowering the bar for consumers and tossing the gauntlet at the competition with flat-fee overages. By this time next year we may be looking at unlimited, non-peak hour cell service for a flat rate and peak-hour overages for a flat rate from all cell providers
BTW, between work and home I have over 100 passwords and pins. Only a select few for work are anywhere in writing. I was using a password safe on my plam, but that was a pain to update every 4 months when passwords rolled so gave-up on that.
I've successfully fought against mandatory password changes at my company, but it rears its head again every few months, as some bright spark in management (usually in our parent company) thinks it would be a good idea
Of course it's a good idea. But like everything else in life, it, too, is subject to the "Too Much of a Good Thing" syndrome. The trick is to change passwords often enough to maintain security and protect against those who will, inevitably, give-away there passwords in exchange for trinkets or favors, and to balance that against not making the change so often as to be more trouble than it is worth. Depending on the environment, 2-5 times a year is sufficient.
Remember, a login/password scheme is there to ensure limited access to a limited number of systems (usually one) is granted to a known, limited number of individuals (usually just one per login). As soon as you don't have this, you don't have security. The best firewall in the world won't save you from the dumbass user who calls the vendor directly and gives their login & password to the tech support drone on the phone.
it irks me that many of the same people who dismiss the notion of any sort of divine intervention will anthropomorphize the heck out of evolution non-stop.
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There would also be questions of anti-trust involved. We wouldn't want them to become monopolists.
With only 4 major labels, and all of them coordinating distribution and pricing to various degrees, we're basically at the monopoly point anyway.
The suggestion that it's a good idea that the computer companies buy up record companies and become media conglomerates fills me with dread.
Agreed!
I'm guessing that the IDF pshrinks found that D&D gamers tend to be more indivualistic. Being in the military is, by necessity, to be part of a team and the team has to come first, thereby presenting an inherant conflict of interest which may present itself at some very inopportune moment.
Ambiguity is a horrid idea, particularly in the legal arena; e.g., it's bad enough that so many people don't know how and why a yeild sign is different from a stop sign: what happens when we introduce ambiguity over what the stop sign means?
ebay is a california corporation, consequently Ohio cannot declare it a traditional auction house even if they wanted to. (OK, they could, but under the UCC and Congress' Constitutional mandate to regulate interstate commerce, that would be easily struck down.) This would take a ruling at the Federal level. The question of which circut would have jurisdiction is an interesting one.
"If someone buys and sells on eBay on a regular basis as a type of business, then there is a need for regulation." "As a type of business"? No ambiguity there, is there?
Yes. I.E., what constitutes a business?
It used to be if you filed a Schedule C with yuor tax return, or held a vendor's license, or were incorporated then that constituted "being a business". Today, it's more and more often that "being a business" is defined as whatever is the most convenient for the circumstances. It's not at all consistent, doesn't conform to either IRS or GAO or prolly even most states' revenue department's standards.
If we had automatic judical review for internal consistency on every newly passed law, we'd be seeing a hell of a lot fewer of this semi-well-intentioned, generally crappy laws being proposed, let alone passed.
THe ENTIER point of ebay is that THEY are the auctioneer not you. You are simply the provider of the goods you don't actually participate the in auciton itself.
From any of ebay's crappy, canned e-mail responses: "we are just a venue"
eBay itself went through this 4-5 years ago in California after so many people were complaining to the Attorney General that eBay wasn't registered as an auctioneer (with appropriate bonding and all the liability that goes along with that, which ain't trivial). The AG's ruling was that they didn't have to, as they are not an auctioneer. They are a venue selling in an "auction style format", as ebay puts it, and the AG bought it.
IANAL, but given that ebay isn't a registered auctioneer, it ought not to be too terribly difficult to get judicial review on this in Ohio and have ebay (and other on-line sites like Yahoo's "auctions") ruled not a traditional auction and thus exempt from this mess.
Useless? Not quite. The sextant was initially developed to more precisely calculate latitude.
The sextant and the abacus did more to shape the whole of humanity than the rest of the list combined. The abacus is still in use today, and probably by more people than there were Powerbooks made, let alone sold and still in use.
The top ten items on the list are almost all entertainment based or related rather than scientific acheivements or technical enablers. They ought to have split this into two lists: one for "fun" stuff and one for science and industry.
In addition to the GPS being a potentially unlawful search, the tax, if deemed to be prohibitive, may be a breach of the US Citizens' right to travel. IANAL, but this site offers a perspective that may be applicable to this situation.
In addition to shutting off lights, monitors (not systems), copiers, fax machines, and printers, actually remove some of these.
You'll save on maintenance costs, even more on electricity costs, and most significantly, paper. The one company I worked for that actually made significant strides to reducing paper in the office did so by first pulling out the printers (starting with 2 of the 3 monster printronix P600s that spate out boxes and boxes of greenbar around the clock).
Look at the other "usual" IT expenses from a perspective of risk management. Which risks do you want to cover, and how far? For what and to whom are you willing to pay for that coverage, and what are you willing to basically "self-insure" yourselves on? Printers are pratically commodity items these days, so perhaps you can afford not to have a hardware contract in place for them. Proprietary computer servers are a different story--in general.
And then finally you can get pissy about the obviously extraneous non-IT costs too. Does anyone drive a company car? How many company-paid cater meals/meetings/events are there going on? And there rest of the usual suspects that we secretly want and are all to willing to complain about if we don't have 'em.
Because that would have required cross-funding of projects from two different space agencies, and we all know how well the bureaucrats grok that. Heck, this could have lead to the co-mingling of funds, and that would be horrible! How would they ever decide on who gets credit for what? You cannot forget what's really important about these projects, you know.
Using your criteria, that would be all of it. Tracking time against an activity falls within the purview of the scientific method of observation. Sort of the reverse-Heisenberg pricinple of scientific accounting: you can know when you are not doing science, but not for how long you're not doing it, or you've just done it.
At 186,000 MPS, it's the strength of the signal, not the distance traveled, that matters. In this context, the distances from orbit are insignificant, and the depth of rock only somewhat less so. It's the echo from the water under the rock that's being returned to the sattelite, not imaging data.
Googling for info on earth orbiting radar platforms lead me to more info on earth orbiting radar sattelites that you'd ever need
From TFA:
follows eight months of intensive computer simulations and technical investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.
It's good to know they took the time to work out all the conversions to and from metric.
Give me a break. There is no life-ending catastrophe even on the most distant horizon.
Be sure that the Vogons get a memo on that.
We have no way of telling that a massive release of gas on Mars would not eventually come back to haunt us here on Earth.
For what value of "massive" are you referring? The Sun produces "massive" releases of gas and plasma constantly. Anything we do on Mars is going to be so much less energetic that it's ridiculous to consider as a possible threat to Earth.
Also, BASIC was not used for anything strong, as in enterprise-class application developement.
Don't make guesses about what you don't know for a fact.
There are several million users world-wide running enterprise applications written in some varient of BASIC. One example is about 20% of the HMO's in the US are running an application owned by CA and written in either Pick Basic or UniVerse Basic (a product now owned by IBM).
Pick has it's own complex family tree
Good question. Here's what I dug-up (hey's it's Friday and I don't feel like taking a chance on breaking anything):The orginal 747 was $21 million in 1970 dollars, so we can see, after accounting for inflation, that manufacturing costs have improved, but that's about it.
Until there's an IQ test required to aquire mod points, stuff like this is just the tip of the iceberg of idiotic moderation possiblities.
Imagine that your house is your computer!
Welcome to Dayworld, where your house and everything in it is integrated and on-line 24x7 (even if you aren't).
What this really points to is that big business believes that the economy is stable enough and has sufficient growth potential to risk spending the big bucks to invest in it.
Whether or not this is good news for the average consumer remains to be seen. The software market is going to continue to get tighter. This is a complete SWAG based on nothing current, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sybase was the next big take-over target.
The cell phone market is going to stay competitive for a while with Sprint both lowering the bar for consumers and tossing the gauntlet at the competition with flat-fee overages. By this time next year we may be looking at unlimited, non-peak hour cell service for a flat rate and peak-hour overages for a flat rate from all cell providers
we have an ancient VAX system at work, which requires me to change my password every 4 months and any password previously used is not accepted
s g/c6f28f73c3ff7b95?dmode=source
Ask the system admin modify the password history. See here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/m
BTW, between work and home I have over 100 passwords and pins. Only a select few for work are anywhere in writing. I was using a password safe on my plam, but that was a pain to update every 4 months when passwords rolled so gave-up on that.
I've successfully fought against mandatory password changes at my company, but it rears its head again every few months, as some bright spark in management (usually in our parent company) thinks it would be a good idea
Of course it's a good idea. But like everything else in life, it, too, is subject to the "Too Much of a Good Thing" syndrome. The trick is to change passwords often enough to maintain security and protect against those who will, inevitably, give-away there passwords in exchange for trinkets or favors, and to balance that against not making the change so often as to be more trouble than it is worth. Depending on the environment, 2-5 times a year is sufficient.
Remember, a login/password scheme is there to ensure limited access to a limited number of systems (usually one) is granted to a known, limited number of individuals (usually just one per login). As soon as you don't have this, you don't have security. The best firewall in the world won't save you from the dumbass user who calls the vendor directly and gives their login & password to the tech support drone on the phone.
it irks me that many of the same people who dismiss the notion of any sort of divine intervention will anthropomorphize the heck out of evolution non-stop.
And evolution has purposely kept them.
Evolution doesn't purposely do anything.
"Evolution" is a label we've applied to an observed process, not a unseen force or hidden hand or any of the other stupid analogies made about it.
Well, guess what? They *WILL* have to do that in four years.
If Cheny runs and wins, it would only be as a change as a matter of formality!