I can really feel their pain. I was in a similar situation. I was making a good living selling crack cocaine, then the government had to come in and pass a law just because that industry "bothers" some people. We employed many people, who are out of a job now. (Well, not completely. We adapted and sell extasy now, but the profit margins there are crap.)
Is there a Constitutional right to being drug-free that I missed?
"Look! The last supper is a significant event in the life of our Lord, the penultimate supper was not! Even if they had a conjurer and a mariachi band. Now, a last supper I commissioned from you, and a last supper I want! With twelve disciples and one Christ! "
"One?!"
"Yes one! Now will you please tell me what in God's name possessed you to paint this with three Christs in it?"
"It works, mate!"
"Works?"
"Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones."
HOV lanes are about reducing the number of cars used in commuting to work. This reduces amount of air pollution, gas consumption, etc. as well as reducing the number of cars competing for a limited number of parking spaces at the workplace destination.
Another question is: did they pass on, as a part of the licensing agreement, the skills on how to fake evidence so poorly that it is immediately recognized in the courtroom?
So, Enron is now stronger than ever, just like Arthur Anderson. Nothing bad has happened to either of them, right?
No, you are absolutely correct. Enron is demolished. But who got hurt? The rank and file took it the ass by losing their jobs and being locked out of moving their 401k's out of Enron stock. The upper management, many of whom caused the whole mess, were getting retention bonuses and golden parachutes.
Kenneth Lay's wife was on TV saying tearfully that they were "struggling for liquidity" because all of their $35 million is assets were tied up ($8 million in stock in other companies, vacation homes in Colorado, etc.). Yeah, I really feel sorry for her.
But just go on believing that your Shimmering White Knight that is GW Shrub personally brought them down and personally hunted down all those responsible in order to punish them.
but Schools are charged with preparing students for employment, essentially.
Really. While getting a job is a beneficial effect of going to school, I always kind of thought that the point of going to school was to get an education. Meaning, learning how to think, getting basic skills required to learn more in the future, getting exposure to knowledge outside of their immediate environment. If goal is just to get them into a job and get them on the consumer treadmill, why not just teach them to flip burgers, kick them out and be done with it?
And when these kids get employed, they will most likely be using PCs, regardless of OS.
Um, if it's a PC "regardless of OS", then the most important thing for them to put on this resume you refer to is "A Pentium IV 2GHz biege box with 512M of RAM and a 80G hard drive"?
the student putting MacOS on the "Proficiency" section of his resume is only adding a feather in his cap. A dirty, weather beaten feather. The part that will score the points is where he lists "Microsoft Office".
Doesn't "Microsoft Office" run on MacOS as well?
Using any of the current OS's gives kids general skills needed for dealing with computers. To think that they have to be trained on any particular system is really pretty short sighted. The way you accomplish various goals even changes between versions of Microsoft Office.
To turn down free equipment because of this kind of policy is just asinine. Maybe this is an opportunity for some of the kids (assuming these kids are old enough) to learn how to support different kinds of computers (and add that to their resume) since the school doesn't want to support them.
But, if they are rejected, at least the kids will be exposed to an important concept that will prepare them for employment: corporate policy.
Wow. Now I really want a time machine to take me back to 100 years ago. Because according to you, before the advent of public schools, the world was a utopia.
But what you don't realize is there has been a hundred year effort since the advent of public schools to train free humans to be part of an organization rather than think for themselves.
So the world was filled with clones of Plato and Aristotle, filling the world with enlightened thoughts. But tell me, if the world was filled with altruistic free thinkers, who formulated and implemented this vast conspiracy?
This is what the study of sociology was originally created for. This is why books like Brave New World were written. This is why you spend 16 years of your life in school.
One would suspect, especially one with a sense of humor and a taste for sarcasm, that Brave New World was written to satirize this type of world and make free thinkers examine their own world. (Oops, no more free thinkers. Blows that theory to shit.)
The modern system of organization exemplified by the corporation was the product of vast studies and research, it permeates our very existence in every way. It was done so that people stop thinking for themselves and do what they are told.
And you escaped this web of mind control, how?
It is a difficult concept because simply having free people live together does not produce the amoral behavior found in corporations. It requires a certain kind of person. That kind of person must either be trained in a school or desperate. It is usually the former.
So, in this utopia of pre-public education, there were no violent acts, violations of others rights, or crime of any kind?
Your apparent ignorance of this world wide trend over the last 100 years proves you are a dumbass. Don't be so quick to judge.
Don't forget to refresh the tin-foil in your hat. Cheers.
No, actually there was a big flood around that time and they had to put the whole headquarters up on pontoons. Two pontoons were added to the standard charges in each educational sale.
After the flood, they put holes in the pontoons and sunk them off the coast to create a new artificial reef.
You have acutally stumbled across some little known [Apple] history.
Even when they do release their scary "evidence", given that everything is such a big secret and given their track record for truthfulness, how do we even know that the supposed infringing snippets even exist in their code at all? How do we know that they didn't splice together some files last week and put supposed offending code in them?
I mean, in the company I work for, if there were to be a dispute about an invention or body of work, we need dated documentation, signed engineering notebooks, project notes, etc. Of course they are going to present the court with a historical trail of evidence, right?
I mean, if your only evidence is copyrighted text no one else has seen that exists in a computer file (or a printout you made yesterday), that is irrefutable evidence, right?
Much of MS's dominance on the desktop (as well as everywhere else that they are dominant) is based on the typical FUD. People believe that there is no viable alternative, the alternatives are too difficult to deal with, etc.
Once the breakthrough is made and you see larger manufacturers pre-installing and supporting other choices (ie Linux) on new desktops (and laptops), the situation will snowball because the systems will be competing on more equivalencies. Most of the Linux reviews aimed towards the more mainstream audience dicuss mostly the ease (or not) of installation. When is the last time you saw any sort of MS Windows review that discussed how easy it was to install? MS Windows has its own installation quirks, but very few ever see that.
Once over the barrier to entry hump, things could go very well.
Ah, I see your point. You are saying that the concept of "rights" in general has evolved and that the fact that it is a comparatively recent invention does not discount its validity.
For the most part I agree with that. That has some similarities to point I was trying to make. Which was: property rights laws, along with many other laws, need to be looked at with some logic and reason from time to time.
I believe, however, that the pendulum is swinging too far in the direction of favoring restrictive ownership and copyright holders. (Along with the crap that is spewing out of the Patent Office now.)
From the US Constitution: Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Many of the accusations and complaints right now have nothing to do with promoting science and arts.
We have people being sued over copyright issues long after the creators have died. It is simply a army of lawyers and accountants "managing copyright portfolios" rather than doing productive work.
Slave owners in the pre-Civil War South felt that liberating slaves was a violation of their "property rights".
They also felt that not helping them recapture runaway slaves was also a violation of their "property rights".
It would seem that you are saying that "property rights" are sacrosanct. To be held above reason, common sense, the general good of society, and not to be questioned under any circumstances.
We created tools that run across the code and understand almost all the attacks. Microsoft Research built a tool that can find almost all the buffer overflow problems
Yeah, that tool is called "a non-firewalled internet connection."
I have anedotal evidence. I have direct experience with individuals (engineers) in Europe, specifically Belgium and Germany. I believe that the work week is set at something like 37 hours, and you can get in trouble for working more than that.
I believe that the thought process is that if you need to have people working "overtime", you had better hire another person.
It was my impression it was the same for some other countries as well, such as France.
Exactly. It takes energy to make all this Hydrogen.
I love this part from the article: Far preferable would be to use carbon-free resources like solar, wind, and hydropower to produce electricity for electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen would make renewable energy practical, acting as a storage medium for the modest amounts of energy such resources produce.
And then: ...to the other major power in the conversion from oil to hydrogen: electric utilities. Within a decade, outlays to power companies should be aimed at connecting hydrogen pipelines to the power stations.
So let me get this straight: Use renewables to produce electricity to make hydrogen that can be pumped to utility plants to make electricity. Hmmm. Doesn't sound too efficient.
While that is a way to prevent someone else from filing on the same material, that is not the only way.
A simpler (and cheaper) way is to do a "defensive publication". Simply publish all the relevant information and this then becomes prior art if someone tries to file or enforce a patent on the same material.
But, this is Microsoft, so of course that is not their goal.
I don't know the specifics of the installation, but I suspect it is mobile units carried around by warehouse workers.
Not a set of fixed terminals using wireless LAN access instead of wired LAN access.
In this situation, there very well could not be a realistically feasible wired alternative.
Wireless data is more useful that just a substitute for someone who doesn't want to plug in their laptop. It enables use scenarios that aren't available to a wired infrastructure.
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I can really feel their pain. I was in a similar situation. I was making a good living selling crack cocaine, then the government had to come in and pass a law just because that industry "bothers" some people. We employed many people, who are out of a job now. (Well, not completely. We adapted and sell extasy now, but the profit margins there are crap.)
Is there a Constitutional right to being drug-free that I missed?
"Look! The last supper is a significant event in the life of our Lord, the penultimate supper was not! Even if they had a conjurer and a mariachi band. Now, a last supper I commissioned from you, and a last supper I want! With twelve disciples and one Christ! "
"One?!"
"Yes one! Now will you please tell me what in God's name possessed you to paint this with three Christs in it?"
"It works, mate!"
"Works?"
"Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones."
I would assume that this is what was meant:
HOV lanes are about reducing the number of cars used in commuting to work. This reduces amount of air pollution, gas consumption, etc. as well as reducing the number of cars competing for a limited number of parking spaces at the workplace destination.
Another question is: did they pass on, as a part of the licensing agreement, the skills on how to fake evidence so poorly that it is immediately recognized in the courtroom?
So, Enron is now stronger than ever, just like Arthur Anderson. Nothing bad has happened to either of them, right?
No, you are absolutely correct. Enron is demolished. But who got hurt? The rank and file took it the ass by losing their jobs and being locked out of moving their 401k's out of Enron stock. The upper management, many of whom caused the whole mess, were getting retention bonuses and golden parachutes.
Kenneth Lay's wife was on TV saying tearfully that they were "struggling for liquidity" because all of their $35 million is assets were tied up ($8 million in stock in other companies, vacation homes in Colorado, etc.). Yeah, I really feel sorry for her.
But just go on believing that your Shimmering White Knight that is GW Shrub personally brought them down and personally hunted down all those responsible in order to punish them.
but Schools are charged with preparing students for employment, essentially.
Really. While getting a job is a beneficial effect of going to school, I always kind of thought that the point of going to school was to get an education. Meaning, learning how to think, getting basic skills required to learn more in the future, getting exposure to knowledge outside of their immediate environment. If goal is just to get them into a job and get them on the consumer treadmill, why not just teach them to flip burgers, kick them out and be done with it?
And when these kids get employed, they will most likely be using PCs, regardless of OS.
Um, if it's a PC "regardless of OS", then the most important thing for them to put on this resume you refer to is "A Pentium IV 2GHz biege box with 512M of RAM and a 80G hard drive"?
the student putting MacOS on the "Proficiency" section of his resume is only adding a feather in his cap. A dirty, weather beaten feather. The part that will score the points is where he lists "Microsoft Office".
Doesn't "Microsoft Office" run on MacOS as well?
Using any of the current OS's gives kids general skills needed for dealing with computers. To think that they have to be trained on any particular system is really pretty short sighted. The way you accomplish various goals even changes between versions of Microsoft Office.
To turn down free equipment because of this kind of policy is just asinine. Maybe this is an opportunity for some of the kids (assuming these kids are old enough) to learn how to support different kinds of computers (and add that to their resume) since the school doesn't want to support them.
But, if they are rejected, at least the kids will be exposed to an important concept that will prepare them for employment: corporate policy.
Wow. Now I really want a time machine to take me back to 100 years ago. Because according to you, before the advent of public schools, the world was a utopia.
But what you don't realize is there has been a hundred year effort since the advent of public schools to train free humans to be part of an organization rather than think for themselves.
So the world was filled with clones of Plato and Aristotle, filling the world with enlightened thoughts. But tell me, if the world was filled with altruistic free thinkers, who formulated and implemented this vast conspiracy?
This is what the study of sociology was originally created for. This is why books like Brave New World were written. This is why you spend 16 years of your life in school.
One would suspect, especially one with a sense of humor and a taste for sarcasm, that Brave New World was written to satirize this type of world and make free thinkers examine their own world. (Oops, no more free thinkers. Blows that theory to shit.)
The modern system of organization exemplified by the corporation was the product of vast studies and research, it permeates our very existence in every way. It was done so that people stop thinking for themselves and do what they are told.
And you escaped this web of mind control, how?
It is a difficult concept because simply having free people live together does not produce the amoral behavior found in corporations. It requires a certain kind of person. That kind of person must either be trained in a school or desperate. It is usually the former.
So, in this utopia of pre-public education, there were no violent acts, violations of others rights, or crime of any kind?
Your apparent ignorance of this world wide trend over the last 100 years proves you are a dumbass. Don't be so quick to judge.
Don't forget to refresh the tin-foil in your hat. Cheers.
No, actually there was a big flood around that time and they had to put the whole headquarters up on pontoons. Two pontoons were added to the standard charges in each educational sale.
After the flood, they put holes in the pontoons and sunk them off the coast to create a new artificial reef.
You have acutally stumbled across some little known [Apple] history.
I've got $6.54 in pennies to add.
But I want to be sure that I get my share of the stock certificates! (We are out of toilet paper at my house.)
Well, even beyond that:
Even when they do release their scary "evidence", given that everything is such a big secret and given their track record for truthfulness, how do we even know that the supposed infringing snippets even exist in their code at all? How do we know that they didn't splice together some files last week and put supposed offending code in them?
I mean, in the company I work for, if there were to be a dispute about an invention or body of work, we need dated documentation, signed engineering notebooks, project notes, etc. Of course they are going to present the court with a historical trail of evidence, right?
I mean, if your only evidence is copyrighted text no one else has seen that exists in a computer file (or a printout you made yesterday), that is irrefutable evidence, right?
Well, if that were the case, at least the place would be nicely decorated with good food.
Yes, but if they were lying, and it can be shown that they knew they were lying --> investor lawsuit for lying to inflate stock price.
Although, the key execs have probably already cashed out. But, maybe not, since they are likely in a quiet period right now.
Much of MS's dominance on the desktop (as well as everywhere else that they are dominant) is based on the typical FUD. People believe that there is no viable alternative, the alternatives are too difficult to deal with, etc.
Once the breakthrough is made and you see larger manufacturers pre-installing and supporting other choices (ie Linux) on new desktops (and laptops), the situation will snowball because the systems will be competing on more equivalencies. Most of the Linux reviews aimed towards the more mainstream audience dicuss mostly the ease (or not) of installation. When is the last time you saw any sort of MS Windows review that discussed how easy it was to install? MS Windows has its own installation quirks, but very few ever see that.
Once over the barrier to entry hump, things could go very well.
Ah, I see your point. You are saying that the concept of "rights" in general has evolved and that the fact that it is a comparatively recent invention does not discount its validity.
For the most part I agree with that. That has some similarities to point I was trying to make. Which was: property rights laws, along with many other laws, need to be looked at with some logic and reason from time to time.
I believe, however, that the pendulum is swinging too far in the direction of favoring restrictive ownership and copyright holders. (Along with the crap that is spewing out of the Patent Office now.)
From the US Constitution:
Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Many of the accusations and complaints right now have nothing to do with promoting science and arts. We have people being sued over copyright issues long after the creators have died. It is simply a army of lawyers and accountants "managing copyright portfolios" rather than doing productive work.
Slave owners in the pre-Civil War South felt that liberating slaves was a violation of their "property rights".
They also felt that not helping them recapture runaway slaves was also a violation of their "property rights".
It would seem that you are saying that "property rights" are sacrosanct. To be held above reason, common sense, the general good of society, and not to be questioned under any circumstances.
Well, it'll be in the top 20, anyway.
Can you explain this further?
What features does iTunes/iPod have that a standard mp3-type music player and support software doesn't?
I've never used iTunes and am curious as to what I am missing.
We created tools that run across the code and understand almost all the attacks. Microsoft Research built a tool that can find almost all the buffer overflow problems
Yeah, that tool is called "a non-firewalled internet connection."
that run Windows that run 24/7 (except for the patch reboots)
So you reboot, what, every couple of days then?
I have anedotal evidence. I have direct experience with individuals (engineers) in Europe, specifically Belgium and Germany. I believe that the work week is set at something like 37 hours, and you can get in trouble for working more than that.
I believe that the thought process is that if you need to have people working "overtime", you had better hire another person.
It was my impression it was the same for some other countries as well, such as France.
When is the last time you watched it?
Crichton did make it home. And Crichton's return did start some new problems. Now he is on a different quest.
Exactly. It takes energy to make all this Hydrogen.
...to the other major power in the conversion from oil to hydrogen: electric utilities. Within a decade, outlays to power companies should be aimed at connecting hydrogen pipelines to the power stations.
I love this part from the article:
Far preferable would be to use carbon-free resources like solar, wind, and hydropower to produce electricity for electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen would make renewable energy practical, acting as a storage medium for the modest amounts of energy such resources produce.
And then:
So let me get this straight: Use renewables to produce electricity to make hydrogen that can be pumped to utility plants to make electricity. Hmmm. Doesn't sound too efficient.
While that is a way to prevent someone else from filing on the same material, that is not the only way.
A simpler (and cheaper) way is to do a "defensive publication". Simply publish all the relevant information and this then becomes prior art if someone tries to file or enforce a patent on the same material.
But, this is Microsoft, so of course that is not their goal.
Wired backup?
I don't know the specifics of the installation, but I suspect it is mobile units carried around by warehouse workers.
Not a set of fixed terminals using wireless LAN access instead of wired LAN access.
In this situation, there very well could not be a realistically feasible wired alternative.
Wireless data is more useful that just a substitute for someone who doesn't want to plug in their laptop. It enables use scenarios that aren't available to a wired infrastructure.
11. Window of time Microsoft and the American Association of Publishers (AAP) can engage in
their cooperative Internet surveillance program: 24x7x365
WhooHoo! Safe during leap year, suckers!