I call it "JILO", pronounced like the colorful food item available at stores near you. It stands for "Junk In Low Orbit". And this is the time where there is, in fact, no room for JILO.
In the way back of American currency, there were these strange things called "folding quarter dollars" that were paper money worth 25 cents. Perhaps now would be a time to stop all metal coin production and switch over to all paper currency? Hell, it wouldn't even need be paper, could be something like polyester or other durable plastic that's a recyclable.
Here's how Apple can get around SOX: Put the update on their site, list it as BETA, let anyone register to be a "Beta Tester" for the application, they have to agree that this is a Beta, and you have to uninstall the product when the final implimentation comes out...kind of like what MS does...then let people have the file. Or they can charge you $4.99 for it, but give you a special once-only keycode that's worth $4.99 off any purchase. Result: a wash, accounting-wise. No odd accounting practices, no shuffling of cards, just people getting the app.
It's funny how BIOS updates and other drivers aren't seemingly worried about SOX...or how Microsoft Update isn't either...
There's no price listed because you have to hit the "Contact us" button. Why they did this when the 280n had a price listed I don't know...perhaps it's a half-assed attempt to appease MS? Either way, it's worth the effort if you truly wish to avoid the MS bundled OS.
We have a massive database-interfacing program, that keeps track of everything for medical records...it's truly a monster of a program. There's at the moment 9 full-time.NET programmers working on it (prior to switching to.NET it was a VB6 thing...which sucked); anyway, there's a lot of work that goes on with it, and aother group (3 people) get to determine what information is added, removed, or accessable from the main program. These three are supposed to be experts. But they're just reactionaries to what management "freaks out about at the moment." So the software is never done. You know how Tolkien described the Nazgul as always dying but never dead? Same deal, except in software form. This project's amendments are the ones that are never finished, never done, and is always "THE MOST CRITICAL THING EVER!"...until next week when they need a new thing added (usually a button that prints out the ICD10 code for a particular diagnosis.) [sidetrack: why are ICD9 and ICD10 codes for the same thing often so different? WTF?]
So, in essence, software sucks because programmers are at the beck-and-call of their clients, and the clients don't know WTF they want, need, or can live without. Software written by the programmer to fit a specific need (and nothing more) will always be better than crap from a committee of morons.
...from the oft-proposed, yet always shot-down, "XXX" TLD? Although I support the idea of a "NSFW" tag, as I support the XXX TLD concept, I expect failure for the exact same reasons.
Novell now no longer needs Samba, with MS being their shiny new sugar-daddy. They'll just come out with something *like* Samba, but different, and proprietary (50% MS, 50% Novell), and it would probably work better than Samba does now...thus killing an otherwise excellent OSS program...and locking in more to MS's solutions...which is what MS wants. The only people that lose in this scenario is Samba and the OSS/GPL movement in general.
...when you mint a coin that is worth less than the metals contained therein. Easy solution: remove an amount of US currency off the market to make a penny actually worth the face-value. Would this harm people? Sure, but that's an argument for another day.
All, and I mean all, units were sold out to preorders and the handful of units that were available for the general public. I could get any number of PS3 untis (our BB had at least 10 in a pyramid on the floor, and who knows how many more in the back), but Wiis were non-existant. At 8AM they're all gone. I even went out of town, none there either. Our BB dude said that they'll have some more next week. Yeah, right. Here's the local store count for those of you who care:
Best Buy: ~50 units
Sears: 2 (WTF? 2... are you kidding me?)
FYE: ? (they weren't open until noon...couldn't wait around to find out)
Wal-Mart: ~50
Sam's Club: 5 (WTF? 5?)
Game Stop: 5 (all preordered and waiting for the folks to pick 'em up)
Target: ~15 (all taken before you could blink)
Toys R Us: (supposedly) ~70...all gone in minutes.
Near as I can tell, based on this, the Eastern half of my state had roughtly 300 to 500 units total (if you account for some stores I hadn't thought about.) Amazon.com got hammered by midnight shoppers, and they ran out in less than 1 minute...which, naturally, pissed off all the rest. There was a ton of nasty forum posts about that--Amazon's admins nuked a lot of them quickly. Some were actually kinda funny. I think the best deal I saw was Wal-Mart's online bundle deal, but that was sold out in a heartbeat. Better luck next week, I guess.
'Cuz the Admins already know about the problem and are working on it. Blasting them in every thread/story/post doesn't make them work faster, you know.
How to fix that issue: pass a law that you have to pay any employee or contracted employee a sum that is at least the prevailing wage for the area in which the company is located, and national laws also must apply.
This benefits the offshored people because all of a sudden not only must they receive the minimum wage that is accepted by law, but they must get all the benefits and the prevailing wage of their parent company's home. Short term, they make out like a bandit; eventually, the companies find it hard to justify the additional cost to offshore and bring the job back home (wherever that might be). Local economy goes up, and the formerly offshored workers now have valuable skills that they can use locally to improve their overall situation. Everone wins.
(See previous story). What this will do is (A) give those spammers a legit job, and (B) take the operators of the spam-bots out of the mix, and (C) keep them busy with other things so they can't be bothered to spamminate the 'Net, and (D) solves the problem of the shortage in that particular area.
Can anyone point me to an article that has the reverse happening? That is to say, someone tries to vote Republican and the machines flip them all to Democrat... I'm looking, but I can't seem to locate one. Can someone help?
Stealing implies taking from someone their rightful property; what I want to do is "copy" votes...mine, theirs, and everyone's and put them in places that will do the most good.
Who is to define "good", you ask? Why, that would be me, silly.
Item duplication is one of the many banes of the on-line RPG, what will you be doing to counter that kind of abuse? And frankly, what will you do to keep griefers in line?
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree that LPs will live on much longer...hell, where I live you can't even buy any. If it's not on CD/DVD you might even be hard pressed to convince the "young'uns" that the sound depth is often better than from CD.
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Then I don't know what can. We need more information like this to come out because when dealing with elections, the last thing we need--but apparently the opposition wants--is for some kind of shennanigans elecing the wrong person. If electronic voting is ever to be used, it darn well should be open source, and transparent as hell...with two paper receipts (one for the voter and one for the auditors.)
...that $800 price tag meant full, lifetime subscription to their programming service and automatic upgrade insurance and lifetime replacement warranty.
Other than that, Tivo is smoking something really stong to think $800 is a good price.
Ok, let me get this straight in my own mind--and if I'm off here someone kindly correct me--but she may or may not have downloaded some songs, fine; but then she gets hit by the RIAA saying "pirate! gimme yer drive, lolzors" but the court didn't come get her drive, they asked/subpoenaed it--making it her responsibility to hand it over. Right?
Why didn't the court come and get the drive themselves? That seems to be stupid. Plus, we are, under the Fifth Amendment, permitted to not testify against ourselves; and it could be argued that providing evidence not previously siezed under court order might violate her Fifth Amendment right to self incrimination.
I see this going nowhere for the RIAA and the court on appeal (and, oh, yes, there will be an appeal--you can count on that.) Plus, she could say she removed only private records, such as bank records or financial transaction records not under subpoena, and the "wiping" was a result of a previously installed--but long forgotten--program that overwrites the blank space on a drive. Or perhaps she (or soemone else) ran the Windows XP commandline of "cipher/w:c:" and it did the job.
Regardless...why didn't the court/RIAA physically retrieve the drive themselves? WTF?
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I call it "JILO", pronounced like the colorful food item available at stores near you. It stands for "Junk In Low Orbit". And this is the time where there is, in fact, no room for JILO.
In the way back of American currency, there were these strange things called "folding quarter dollars" that were paper money worth 25 cents. Perhaps now would be a time to stop all metal coin production and switch over to all paper currency? Hell, it wouldn't even need be paper, could be something like polyester or other durable plastic that's a recyclable.
http://www1.la.dell.com/content/products/compare.a spx/optix_n?c=pr&l=en&s=bsd It's not just the Dimension line that comes sans-Windows.
Here's how Apple can get around SOX: Put the update on their site, list it as BETA, let anyone register to be a "Beta Tester" for the application, they have to agree that this is a Beta, and you have to uninstall the product when the final implimentation comes out...kind of like what MS does...then let people have the file. Or they can charge you $4.99 for it, but give you a special once-only keycode that's worth $4.99 off any purchase. Result: a wash, accounting-wise. No odd accounting practices, no shuffling of cards, just people getting the app.
It's funny how BIOS updates and other drivers aren't seemingly worried about SOX...or how Microsoft Update isn't either...
There's no price listed because you have to hit the "Contact us" button. Why they did this when the 280n had a price listed I don't know...perhaps it's a half-assed attempt to appease MS? Either way, it's worth the effort if you truly wish to avoid the MS bundled OS.
No it's not. I have one. OptiPlex GX280n. The "n" is for "no OS", it does come with a CD of FreeDOS, but other than that, you're on your own. You can see their newer versions of the "n" series by clicking this link http://www1.la.dell.com/content/products/compare.a spx/optix_n?c=pr&l=en&s=bsd
We have a massive database-interfacing program, that keeps track of everything for medical records...it's truly a monster of a program. There's at the moment 9 full-time .NET programmers working on it (prior to switching to .NET it was a VB6 thing...which sucked); anyway, there's a lot of work that goes on with it, and aother group (3 people) get to determine what information is added, removed, or accessable from the main program. These three are supposed to be experts. But they're just reactionaries to what management "freaks out about at the moment." So the software is never done. You know how Tolkien described the Nazgul as always dying but never dead? Same deal, except in software form. This project's amendments are the ones that are never finished, never done, and is always "THE MOST CRITICAL THING EVER!"...until next week when they need a new thing added (usually a button that prints out the ICD10 code for a particular diagnosis.) [sidetrack: why are ICD9 and ICD10 codes for the same thing often so different? WTF?]
So, in essence, software sucks because programmers are at the beck-and-call of their clients, and the clients don't know WTF they want, need, or can live without. Software written by the programmer to fit a specific need (and nothing more) will always be better than crap from a committee of morons.
...from the oft-proposed, yet always shot-down, "XXX" TLD? Although I support the idea of a "NSFW" tag, as I support the XXX TLD concept, I expect failure for the exact same reasons.
Novell now no longer needs Samba, with MS being their shiny new sugar-daddy. They'll just come out with something *like* Samba, but different, and proprietary (50% MS, 50% Novell), and it would probably work better than Samba does now...thus killing an otherwise excellent OSS program...and locking in more to MS's solutions...which is what MS wants. The only people that lose in this scenario is Samba and the OSS/GPL movement in general.
...when you mint a coin that is worth less than the metals contained therein. Easy solution: remove an amount of US currency off the market to make a penny actually worth the face-value. Would this harm people? Sure, but that's an argument for another day.
I ask you: what part of "Congress shall make no law..." didn't he get the memo on?
All, and I mean all, units were sold out to preorders and the handful of units that were available for the general public. I could get any number of PS3 untis (our BB had at least 10 in a pyramid on the floor, and who knows how many more in the back), but Wiis were non-existant. At 8AM they're all gone. I even went out of town, none there either. Our BB dude said that they'll have some more next week. Yeah, right. Here's the local store count for those of you who care:
Best Buy: ~50 units
Sears: 2 (WTF? 2... are you kidding me?)
FYE: ? (they weren't open until noon...couldn't wait around to find out)
Wal-Mart: ~50
Sam's Club: 5 (WTF? 5?)
Game Stop: 5 (all preordered and waiting for the folks to pick 'em up)
Target: ~15 (all taken before you could blink)
Toys R Us: (supposedly) ~70...all gone in minutes.
Near as I can tell, based on this, the Eastern half of my state had roughtly 300 to 500 units total (if you account for some stores I hadn't thought about.) Amazon.com got hammered by midnight shoppers, and they ran out in less than 1 minute...which, naturally, pissed off all the rest. There was a ton of nasty forum posts about that--Amazon's admins nuked a lot of them quickly. Some were actually kinda funny. I think the best deal I saw was Wal-Mart's online bundle deal, but that was sold out in a heartbeat. Better luck next week, I guess.
'Cuz the Admins already know about the problem and are working on it. Blasting them in every thread/story/post doesn't make them work faster, you know.
How to fix that issue: pass a law that you have to pay any employee or contracted employee a sum that is at least the prevailing wage for the area in which the company is located, and national laws also must apply.
This benefits the offshored people because all of a sudden not only must they receive the minimum wage that is accepted by law, but they must get all the benefits and the prevailing wage of their parent company's home. Short term, they make out like a bandit; eventually, the companies find it hard to justify the additional cost to offshore and bring the job back home (wherever that might be). Local economy goes up, and the formerly offshored workers now have valuable skills that they can use locally to improve their overall situation. Everone wins.
(See previous story). What this will do is (A) give those spammers a legit job, and (B) take the operators of the spam-bots out of the mix, and (C) keep them busy with other things so they can't be bothered to spamminate the 'Net, and (D) solves the problem of the shortage in that particular area.
Can anyone point me to an article that has the reverse happening? That is to say, someone tries to vote Republican and the machines flip them all to Democrat... I'm looking, but I can't seem to locate one. Can someone help?
Stealing implies taking from someone their rightful property; what I want to do is "copy" votes...mine, theirs, and everyone's and put them in places that will do the most good.
Who is to define "good", you ask? Why, that would be me, silly.
Item duplication is one of the many banes of the on-line RPG, what will you be doing to counter that kind of abuse? And frankly, what will you do to keep griefers in line?
http://slashdot.org/~fudgefactor7/journal/
So I'll just link to it and not repost the whole shebang. It's got my opinions all lined up for you.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree that LPs will live on much longer...hell, where I live you can't even buy any. If it's not on CD/DVD you might even be hard pressed to convince the "young'uns" that the sound depth is often better than from CD.
Your pirate name is:
Dirty William Rackham
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
...greed is the great destroyer.
Then I don't know what can. We need more information like this to come out because when dealing with elections, the last thing we need--but apparently the opposition wants--is for some kind of shennanigans elecing the wrong person. If electronic voting is ever to be used, it darn well should be open source, and transparent as hell...with two paper receipts (one for the voter and one for the auditors.)
...that $800 price tag meant full, lifetime subscription to their programming service and automatic upgrade insurance and lifetime replacement warranty.
Other than that, Tivo is smoking something really stong to think $800 is a good price.
Ok, let me get this straight in my own mind--and if I'm off here someone kindly correct me--but she may or may not have downloaded some songs, fine; but then she gets hit by the RIAA saying "pirate! gimme yer drive, lolzors" but the court didn't come get her drive, they asked/subpoenaed it--making it her responsibility to hand it over. Right?
/w:c:" and it did the job.
Why didn't the court come and get the drive themselves? That seems to be stupid. Plus, we are, under the Fifth Amendment, permitted to not testify against ourselves; and it could be argued that providing evidence not previously siezed under court order might violate her Fifth Amendment right to self incrimination.
I see this going nowhere for the RIAA and the court on appeal (and, oh, yes, there will be an appeal--you can count on that.) Plus, she could say she removed only private records, such as bank records or financial transaction records not under subpoena, and the "wiping" was a result of a previously installed--but long forgotten--program that overwrites the blank space on a drive. Or perhaps she (or soemone else) ran the Windows XP commandline of "cipher
Regardless...why didn't the court/RIAA physically retrieve the drive themselves? WTF?