Yes, I'm definitely a geezer. The last generation had to wait until 50 or 60 to be a geezer, but we are fortunate enough to now attain that status at 38.
I remember when I first got an inkjet printer, years and years ago, when they first came out. I had been using a dot matrix printer for a long time, and laser printers were way too expensive.
The letter quality was amazing compared to my dot matrix, and when they started printing in color, and I could print photos, it was great.
Somewhere along the line, the price gouging for ink came about. I had an epson 740 for a long time, and bought ink from some third party source at very reasonable prices (~$10/ cartridge). The ink was just as good as anything else I'd used, as far as I could tell.
I had the sad wake up call about a year ago, when the epson 740 finally died. I looked and looked for a printer that would accept third party ink cartridges, and couldn't find anything reasonable. My wife's in grad school, and does a lot of printing, so I eventually went with a Brother laser printer that ran me about $150, plus $75 or so for a toner cartridge. (Although after many months, we're still using the "starter" cartridge.)
Because my old printer hung on for so long, I was rather abruptly thrust into this brave new world of ink pricing and vendor lock in. It's sad to realize that the five year old printer I had, because of the availability of third party ink cartridges, was a far better product than anything I could buy today. I'm afraid the same thing will happen to laser printers at some point, and who knows what I'll do. Perhaps that will finally push us into the paperless lifestyle we were all promised a decade ago.
When I moved into my house, the elderly lady who owned it previously had moved out rather suddenly and unexpectedly due to health issues. She hadn't disconnected anything, so the phone was still in her name. When I called the phone company to have them terminate her phone service and start mine, they initially refused.
It was the weirdest thing. I told them I'd be happy for her to keep paying for my phone usage, but I thought it would be fairer if I paid for it myself. In the end her daughter had to call up and cancel the phone service.
I now use DSL and VOIP from speakeasy. I've ditched the phone company, and find my perpetual bile against the phone company is slowly, after several years, starting to wane.
It's just a shame that the right decision comes down on the side of the spammer.
This is often the case - think of all the free speech cases involving Nazis and white supremicists in this country. It has a good side - it reassures us in the rule of law. If these rights apply to an alleged spammer, then we can be assured that they apply to everyone.
So hold up a beer for this guy, who has accidently helped further all of our rights. And let's hope the police get a proper search warrant and put him away for a good, long time.
My father has a collection of old magazines dating back a hundred years or so. (I haven't looked at them since I was a kid, so I can't tell you which ones.) I distinctly remember a coupon for toothpaste for some brand that was still in existence. The coupon had no expiration date or any of the legal jargon printed on the back of one now. As a kid, I wondered if it was still valid.
(As an adult, I can say with some confidence that the company would honor the coupon, if only for the PR value of having someone redeem 75 year old coupon!)
It's surprising how much companies are willing to write off. A few years ago, when I was having work done on my house, someone ordered about $500 worth of frozen food on my credit card. It seemed likely that it was one of the many workers coming and going through my house. However, the credit card company and the food company showed no interest in pursuing it. They even had a delivery address. I was pretty pissed, and tried to get the address out of them. It went nowhere.
What annoyed me is that I'm sure this guy's employer, who is trusting his employees not to steal from his customers, might have an interest in identifying this guy. However, because it was never pursued, he never found out about it.
NOBODY HAS TO use the GPLv3. INSTEAD, you can CONTINUE using the GPLv2. IF you wish to.
Yes, as long as you maintain your own fork of the relevant code. The existing GPLv2 code can be used and perpetuated under GPLv2 for as long as you wish. However, if someone else makes a change and re-releases under GPLv3, you can't use it in your fork.
I'd like to see a good analysis of why MS is doing this. That they are doing a bunch of these deals in rapid succession indicates that they've got a plan - but what is it?
Perhaps all these deals are to give an aura of legitimacy to their patent claims, enabling them to spread FUD more effectively.
Perhaps they want to get enough people to continue Linux support under GPLv2.
Perhaps it's an attempt to tie Linux to some actual companies, which they can later undercut and drive out of business (which is how they've dealt with their traditional competitors until now, but which hasn't worked against open source.)
Honestly, I haven't been able to figure out what this is about.
The analysis presented is oversimplified in that it assumes the occurance of #1 and #2 are random. Personally, after a #2 I am less likely to do a #1 again. Also, it is unknown if there is a correlation between spouses #2's, given that they often share mealtimes. In some people the occurance of #2 may be highly correlated (constipation).
I don't know if this has any significant impact on the results...
When I was a freshman in college, my dorm phone had call forwarding, which was completely novel to me (my parents didn't have touch tone phones yet.) Being a curious sort, I tried call forwarding to myself. The phone stopped working and I had to call someone (from another phone) to get them to fix it.
1) Get contact information for some of the candidates they are hawking.
2) Contact candidates, and cc recruiter, stating "Due to the unprofessional recruiting practice of XYZ recruiters, we are not accepting any candidates they represent."
3) XYZ will realize that they are not getting any hires, and may be losing resumes to push, and will have an incentive to leave you alone.
Some people thrive on meeting with hostility, so don't waste your time yelling at them.
"At the minimum speed--the speed where the solar wind is no longer able to drag out helium--the solar wind itself can't escape either," said Dr. Keith Ogilvie.
I think they don't know what's causing what. But there is a minimum speed - below which you don't see solar wind. At this speed, the He concentration also drops to zero. So the two are linked, but from TFA, they don't have a clue as to how.
I think I got that right, anyway. If not, feel free to make fun of me.
The "consumer-grade" and "business-grade" are the same off the shelf stuff, but if you are getting business-grade stuff from a reputable vendor they QA the consumer-grade parts, throw out the bad ones, and stamp "business-grade" on the ones that survive.
I worked at ATMEL many years ago in their EPROM division. I had an up close and personal view of the screening flows, both Military and otherwise. Let's put aside the issue of Military screening, which is extensive and costly. You can't make very much out of Military grade ICs, because there are not very many available.
The difference between commercial and industrial parts is one of operating temperature, not quality. (In point of fact, there was no actual difference in the screening or handling.) The quality standards for both parts were the same - the goal was always zero defects. I spent weeks weeding out a problem with a 50 ppm failure rate that was slipping through our screening, and everyone was damned happy when I fixed it.
There's no reason to expect a correlation between maximum operating temperature and quality. A part might run too slow at elevated temperature to pass, but this will usually happen for process variation reasons that do not affect the expect lifetime of the part.
Any part coming from a reputable IC manufacturer should have the same level of quality, regardless of the rating.
Now, that being said, there is a very serious quality issue that an OEM does need to address, and that's counterfeit parts. If an OEM is not careful about where their parts come from, or buys them cheap and looks the other way, then there quality will obviously suffer. But this isn't so much a commercial versus industrial quality; it's about honest versus dishonest business practices.
I totally agree. Like all open source ventures, the quality just isn't there. The proprietary masons would have done it properly.
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One "constant" that has changed and actually is not a constant at all, is the fine-structure constant
Let's not be too hasty here. Changes in the fine structure constant have been proposed to account for some cosmological observations, but the evidence is spotty, with the best evidence indicating that it is NOT happening. See, for example,
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7285
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Yes, I'm definitely a geezer. The last generation had to wait until 50 or 60 to be a geezer, but we are fortunate enough to now attain that status at 38.
The letter quality was amazing compared to my dot matrix, and when they started printing in color, and I could print photos, it was great.
Somewhere along the line, the price gouging for ink came about. I had an epson 740 for a long time, and bought ink from some third party source at very reasonable prices (~$10/ cartridge). The ink was just as good as anything else I'd used, as far as I could tell.
I had the sad wake up call about a year ago, when the epson 740 finally died. I looked and looked for a printer that would accept third party ink cartridges, and couldn't find anything reasonable. My wife's in grad school, and does a lot of printing, so I eventually went with a Brother laser printer that ran me about $150, plus $75 or so for a toner cartridge. (Although after many months, we're still using the "starter" cartridge.)
Because my old printer hung on for so long, I was rather abruptly thrust into this brave new world of ink pricing and vendor lock in. It's sad to realize that the five year old printer I had, because of the availability of third party ink cartridges, was a far better product than anything I could buy today. I'm afraid the same thing will happen to laser printers at some point, and who knows what I'll do. Perhaps that will finally push us into the paperless lifestyle we were all promised a decade ago.
Oh wait, I guess that's the point...
It was the weirdest thing. I told them I'd be happy for her to keep paying for my phone usage, but I thought it would be fairer if I paid for it myself. In the end her daughter had to call up and cancel the phone service.
I now use DSL and VOIP from speakeasy. I've ditched the phone company, and find my perpetual bile against the phone company is slowly, after several years, starting to wane.
Now I'm starting to hate my bank.
Fish hunting? Isn't that fishing?
This is often the case - think of all the free speech cases involving Nazis and white supremicists in this country. It has a good side - it reassures us in the rule of law. If these rights apply to an alleged spammer, then we can be assured that they apply to everyone.
So hold up a beer for this guy, who has accidently helped further all of our rights. And let's hope the police get a proper search warrant and put him away for a good, long time.
(As an adult, I can say with some confidence that the company would honor the coupon, if only for the PR value of having someone redeem 75 year old coupon!)
What annoyed me is that I'm sure this guy's employer, who is trusting his employees not to steal from his customers, might have an interest in identifying this guy. However, because it was never pursued, he never found out about it.
Yes, as long as you maintain your own fork of the relevant code. The existing GPLv2 code can be used and perpetuated under GPLv2 for as long as you wish. However, if someone else makes a change and re-releases under GPLv3, you can't use it in your fork.
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
It doesn't seem that this guy needs to release his code in any event, however.
Perhaps all these deals are to give an aura of legitimacy to their patent claims, enabling them to spread FUD more effectively.
Perhaps they want to get enough people to continue Linux support under GPLv2.
Perhaps it's an attempt to tie Linux to some actual companies, which they can later undercut and drive out of business (which is how they've dealt with their traditional competitors until now, but which hasn't worked against open source.)
Honestly, I haven't been able to figure out what this is about.
"This tastes a little irony to me - how many paper clips did you put in this cake?"
We have two daughters. I have lost.
I don't know if this has any significant impact on the results...
When I was a freshman in college, my dorm phone had call forwarding, which was completely novel to me (my parents didn't have touch tone phones yet.) Being a curious sort, I tried call forwarding to myself. The phone stopped working and I had to call someone (from another phone) to get them to fix it.
1) Get contact information for some of the candidates they are hawking.
2) Contact candidates, and cc recruiter, stating "Due to the unprofessional recruiting practice of XYZ recruiters, we are not accepting any candidates they represent."
3) XYZ will realize that they are not getting any hires, and may be losing resumes to push, and will have an incentive to leave you alone.
Some people thrive on meeting with hostility, so don't waste your time yelling at them.
Quite simple, we'll take the DMCA approach - we'll make it a criminal offense to own or sell a UV lamp. That's adding value!
I think I got that right, anyway. If not, feel free to make fun of me.
Tons, unfortunately. That's the problem.
I worked at ATMEL many years ago in their EPROM division. I had an up close and personal view of the screening flows, both Military and otherwise. Let's put aside the issue of Military screening, which is extensive and costly. You can't make very much out of Military grade ICs, because there are not very many available.
The difference between commercial and industrial parts is one of operating temperature, not quality. (In point of fact, there was no actual difference in the screening or handling.) The quality standards for both parts were the same - the goal was always zero defects. I spent weeks weeding out a problem with a 50 ppm failure rate that was slipping through our screening, and everyone was damned happy when I fixed it.
There's no reason to expect a correlation between maximum operating temperature and quality. A part might run too slow at elevated temperature to pass, but this will usually happen for process variation reasons that do not affect the expect lifetime of the part.
Any part coming from a reputable IC manufacturer should have the same level of quality, regardless of the rating.
Now, that being said, there is a very serious quality issue that an OEM does need to address, and that's counterfeit parts. If an OEM is not careful about where their parts come from, or buys them cheap and looks the other way, then there quality will obviously suffer. But this isn't so much a commercial versus industrial quality; it's about honest versus dishonest business practices.
I wouldn't expect to get off that easily if my wife caught me cheating...
I totally agree. Like all open source ventures, the quality just isn't there. The proprietary masons would have done it properly.
Let's not be too hasty here. Changes in the fine structure constant have been proposed to account for some cosmological observations, but the evidence is spotty, with the best evidence indicating that it is NOT happening. See, for example, http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7285
Aging? 31? Crap, make me feel old...