Most exchanges will call the members who have accidentally benefited from another member's mistake and ask them politely to agree to void the deal.
Although not obligated to do so, most brokerages typically honor this request as they have to assume that they will be the next ones to make a mistake.
My dog has one of these. He only accepts calls from bitches with the same device. When I call him, he just lets it go to the voice mail. Maybe I should text him instead...
On behalf of the less-bigoted, may I say I am ecstatic that there are two (three?) cpu companies to choose from. This means I can buy whoever's cpus are currently the best and that there is competition to make them all try harder.
For those of you who [hate Intel | love AMD | hate AMD | love Intel] I only hope you actually benefit from this chauvinism. Perhaps you have shares in one or the other. Perhaps you work for one or the other. Whatever.
The rest of us should be buying on the merits of whatever is currently available. I am buying AMD64 cpus at the moment. Prior to that I was buying AMD Athlons. Prior to that I was buying Pentium IIIs. I have also had good success with Cyrix in the past.
Lave the bigots to scream and shout. Please buy on technical merits. May the best cpu manufacturer of the moment win.
Many people seem to have faith in hybrid technology over electric vehicles. I'm not one of them. Every type of transport has a market for which it performs well. I drive 15 miles each way to work. An electric car is exactly what I want.
Unfortunately, I cannot buy one.
GM has stopped.
Toyota's electric RAV4 is only available for fleet purchases.
Ford has stopped making the electric Ranger.
A golf cart won't cut it for me.
It's a shame.
If anyone can recommend an electric car available for NJ, I'm listening.
Incidentally I recommend www.evworld.com for alternative fuel cars, but it has recently become a subscription site:-(
Can someone please tell what bandwidth would be available to the humble end user in this frequency range? By bandwidth I really mean bits per second.
I am assuming that customers would compete for the same bandwidth and be capped somehow. What would this cap be? More/less than current cable modem allowances?
Inquiring minds need to know.
Thanks.
>>the *AA will have died a gruesome death before
>>most slashdotters are old enough to worry about it.
Maybe you didn't look at my login name.
I won't be waiting for several decades.
I have already been developing software for many (OK 3.5) decades.
I wouldn't mind going out fighting though.
I've spent most of my life pushing back against crap. Why change habits when I die.
I personally lament Gertrude's passing away.
What a great memorial.
Just prior to death, put a file server away in a hidden closet in a house with many years of ISP paid for in advance.
Serve up those files with no possible recourse from RIAA and other leeches.
Maybe a foundation could be started such that the file repository is transferred from near-death person to near-death person. As the slow wheels of the RIAA start legal proceedings, the person becomes beyond even their reach.
Not so much the "make a wish" foundation as the "make a statement" foundation.
The onwer of this virtual island may [not] be a sucker.
The entire scheme relies upon this sucker finding enough lesser suckers so that he can turn a profit. If enough lesser suckers are found, he is renamed from "sucker" to "successful businessman".
This pyramid of suckers continues until enough of them decide that buying a virtual grain of sand on a virtual beach on a virtual island isn't worth either one virtual or real cent, whereupon the virtual volcano on the island will explode, destroying all real evidence of a scam and the perpetrators will go off with the profits and take over Worldcom, Enron etc,.
Personally, I'll stick to buying
tulip bulbs as a less risky business venture.
According to a previous poster, 900,000 songs * 3MB per song = 2.7TB of storage required.
What media does he use for backups? I estimate something like 570 blank DVDs for one backup. I would hate to think how long it would take to take a backup.
Then again, what does he use for primary storage? That's a whole load of hard disk space. Without paying for copyright infringement lawsuits, just the cost of the disk space is already outside the hardware budget approved by my wife. Expensive hobby.
I purchased an Exilim Z4U (4MP) almost 1 year ago. Is this a better camera? The Z4U is certainly very small (fits nicely into my shirt pocket) and takes good pictures. How do these two cameras compare?
On a different topic, why does/. have a motherboard icon next to this article?
Maybe I can use it to carve my name upon my ex-girlfriend's heart. She left me after 3 years. She said I spend too much time in front of a computer. She wouldn't open the electronic cards I sent her. She's blocked me on AIM. My emails are bouncing. I cannot even ping her anymore. Oh Joyce, forgive me.
I have been developing software for more than 30 years. I have never been out of work (except when I chose to take time off). There have been always been employment downturns. I found that the keys to continued employment are as follows:
Keep your skill set up.
Too many developers let their skills languish over time.
Keep your business knowledge current.
Too many developers focus only on their computer skills and fail to keep up with business trends in their sector - or ignore any aspect of business altogether and remain pure developers.
Do a good job.
Too many developers develop crappy code.
Take pride in your work.
Probably the same thing as the previous point.
Work in a sector where local employment is more likely.
As the orinigator of this discussion is indicating, time-zone sensitive work is more safe than other types of employment. Also native language work requirements can be a major asset.
I discovered Atlantis with my family while on a recent vacation on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Atlantis didn't match Plato's description. Come to think of it, it didn't match the travel agent's description either. Indifferent service. Very expensive.
I'm headed for Shangri La next year. I'm sure my travel agent will provide the necessary arrangements.
The next step will be to add a "record mode" to the night vision goggles to aid prosecution.
Shortly thereafter, someone in the movie industry will publish the footage. Reality cinema arrives when we pay to see this footage. Finally the loop is completed when pirates copy this footage.
I would ideally like to buy an electric car.
Things were looking good. The major manufacturers were starting to produce them. GM EV1, Ford Ranger, Toyota RAV4 all available electric. Now where are they? The RAV4 was only available to fleet buyers. Ford has stopped production of the electric Ranger, GM stopped leasing the EV1 and crushed the lot.
Two questions:
1. What happened?
2. I still want an electric car. Any suggestions?
While SCO certainly looks like a despicable villan, it wasn't all that long ago that I viewed IBM in exactly the same light. So you'll have to excuse me from participating while everyone else chants "go IBM". Let's also not forget Microsoft's position in this affair, supplying the cash so that SCO could wage this legal war.
Wouldn't it be a dream world if all the lawyers spent all their employers' money suing each other and left us alone to produce world class open source software?
It seems to me that open software is the only way to break the enternal circle of despising an abusing software company, waiting until it self-destructs and promptly promoting another one into the same position.
The storage capacity of a coin isn't a matter of which side up it is.
The bit is on if the coin is in my pocket.
If the coin isn't in my pocket, the state of the bit doesn't really matter any more.
If you want to find out the state of your monetary storage, just pass it to me and I'll tell you.
It seems that much time has been spent calculating the odds of a killer asteroid wiping out all life on Earth.
Has any time been spent calculating the odds of a killer maniac (or group thereof) wiping out all life on Earth?
As an rough estimate, with the Doomsday Clock as a reference, I humbly propose that the odds of a maniac killing us all are massively higher than the rogue asteroid issue.
Maybe we should be putting available cash towards world peace as a slightly higher priority.
I think I'll start off by registering aindows.
Next comes bindows.
I'd better avoid lindows and windows, they're already taken.
I agree with previous posters that Microsoft merely publicizes lindows by taking legal action. It really represents no threat to them. Even if they win (in court), they lose (in business).
Microsoft looks like it has fallen into the elementary trap:
Never argue with an idiot, bystanders cannot tell who is the idiot.
I hope the entertainment doesn't end soon. I'm sure the lawyers on both sides are working hard at not settling and thus maintaining their income. Just view it as a long-running joke and laugh.
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Most exchanges will call the members who have accidentally benefited from another member's mistake and ask them politely to agree to void the deal. Although not obligated to do so, most brokerages typically honor this request as they have to assume that they will be the next ones to make a mistake.
My dog has one of these. He only accepts calls from bitches with the same device. When I call him, he just lets it go to the voice mail.
Maybe I should text him instead...
On behalf of the less-bigoted, may I say I am ecstatic that there are two (three?) cpu companies to choose from. This means I can buy whoever's cpus are currently the best and that there is competition to make them all try harder. For those of you who [hate Intel | love AMD | hate AMD | love Intel] I only hope you actually benefit from this chauvinism. Perhaps you have shares in one or the other. Perhaps you work for one or the other. Whatever. The rest of us should be buying on the merits of whatever is currently available. I am buying AMD64 cpus at the moment. Prior to that I was buying AMD Athlons. Prior to that I was buying Pentium IIIs. I have also had good success with Cyrix in the past. Lave the bigots to scream and shout. Please buy on technical merits. May the best cpu manufacturer of the moment win.
Why wouldn't a statement come from CNBC declaring this to be a good purchase? It is from such an unbiased source after all.
I propose the name "Open Sauce" for this beer.
So is the solution:
- Everyone should share/download copyrighted works.
- No-one should ever use P2P again, even if it can have useful and 100% legitimate applications.
- The RIAA/MPAA/etc should learn that this type of behavior is highly counterproductive to their goals.
If (like me) you think the last choice is the best, what appropriate sanction can be put upon them that law-abiding netizens would agree with?Let's get something moving please. But what?
Unfortunately, I cannot buy one.
GM has stopped.
Toyota's electric RAV4 is only available for fleet purchases.
Ford has stopped making the electric Ranger.
A golf cart won't cut it for me.
It's a shame.
If anyone can recommend an electric car available for NJ, I'm listening.
Incidentally I recommend www.evworld.com for alternative fuel cars, but it has recently become a subscription site :-(
Can someone please tell what bandwidth would be available to the humble end user in this frequency range? By bandwidth I really mean bits per second. I am assuming that customers would compete for the same bandwidth and be capped somehow. What would this cap be? More/less than current cable modem allowances?
Inquiring minds need to know.
Thanks.
>>the *AA will have died a gruesome death before >>most slashdotters are old enough to worry about it. Maybe you didn't look at my login name. I won't be waiting for several decades. I have already been developing software for many (OK 3.5) decades. I wouldn't mind going out fighting though. I've spent most of my life pushing back against crap. Why change habits when I die.
I personally lament Gertrude's passing away. What a great memorial. Just prior to death, put a file server away in a hidden closet in a house with many years of ISP paid for in advance. Serve up those files with no possible recourse from RIAA and other leeches. Maybe a foundation could be started such that the file repository is transferred from near-death person to near-death person. As the slow wheels of the RIAA start legal proceedings, the person becomes beyond even their reach. Not so much the "make a wish" foundation as the "make a statement" foundation.
I don't to compress files produced by my Kodak DC260 because someone stole it :-(
The onwer of this virtual island may [not] be a sucker.
The entire scheme relies upon this sucker finding enough lesser suckers so that he can turn a profit. If enough lesser suckers are found, he is renamed from "sucker" to "successful businessman".
This pyramid of suckers continues until enough of them decide that buying a virtual grain of sand on a virtual beach on a virtual island isn't worth either one virtual or real cent, whereupon the virtual volcano on the island will explode, destroying all real evidence of a scam and the perpetrators will go off with the profits and take over Worldcom, Enron etc,.
Personally, I'll stick to buying tulip bulbs as a less risky business venture.
According to a previous poster, 900,000 songs * 3MB per song = 2.7TB of storage required.
What media does he use for backups?
I estimate something like 570 blank DVDs for one backup. I would hate to think how long it would take to take a backup.
Then again, what does he use for primary storage? That's a whole load of hard disk space.
Without paying for copyright infringement lawsuits, just the cost of the disk space is already outside the hardware budget approved by my wife. Expensive hobby.
Inside sources indicate there will be a fraud charge added: he was representing that this was the code of an operating system.
I purchased an Exilim Z4U (4MP) almost 1 year ago. Is this a better camera? The Z4U is certainly very small (fits nicely into my shirt pocket) and takes good pictures. How do these two cameras compare?
/. have a motherboard icon next to this article?
On a different topic, why does
Maybe I can use it to carve my name upon my ex-girlfriend's heart. She left me after 3 years. She said I spend too much time in front of a computer. She wouldn't open the electronic cards I sent her. She's blocked me on AIM. My emails are bouncing. I cannot even ping her anymore. Oh Joyce, forgive me.
Too many developers let their skills languish over time.
Too many developers focus only on their computer skills and fail to keep up with business trends in their sector - or ignore any aspect of business altogether and remain pure developers.
Too many developers develop crappy code.
Probably the same thing as the previous point.
As the orinigator of this discussion is indicating, time-zone sensitive work is more safe than other types of employment. Also native language work requirements can be a major asset.
I predict that I don't care what Bill Gates predicts.
I discovered Atlantis with my family while on a recent vacation on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Atlantis didn't match Plato's description. Come to think of it, it didn't match the travel agent's description either. Indifferent service. Very expensive.
I'm headed for Shangri La next year. I'm sure my travel agent will provide the necessary arrangements.
The next step will be to add a "record mode" to the night vision goggles to aid prosecution.
Shortly thereafter, someone in the movie industry will publish the footage. Reality cinema arrives when we pay to see this footage. Finally the loop is completed when pirates copy this footage.
Now where are they? The RAV4 was only available to fleet buyers. Ford has stopped production of the electric Ranger, GM stopped leasing the EV1 and crushed the lot.
Two questions:
1. What happened? 2. I still want an electric car. Any suggestions?
While SCO certainly looks like a despicable villan, it wasn't all that long ago that I viewed IBM in exactly the same light. So you'll have to excuse me from participating while everyone else chants "go IBM". Let's also not forget Microsoft's position in this affair, supplying the cash so that SCO could wage this legal war.
Wouldn't it be a dream world if all the lawyers spent all their employers' money suing each other and left us alone to produce world class open source software?
It seems to me that open software is the only way to break the enternal circle of despising an abusing software company, waiting until it self-destructs and promptly promoting another one into the same position.
The bit is on if the coin is in my pocket.
If the coin isn't in my pocket, the state of the bit doesn't really matter any more.
If you want to find out the state of your monetary storage, just pass it to me and I'll tell you.
Has any time been spent calculating the odds of a killer maniac (or group thereof) wiping out all life on Earth?
As an rough estimate, with the Doomsday Clock as a reference, I humbly propose that the odds of a maniac killing us all are massively higher than the rogue asteroid issue.
Maybe we should be putting available cash towards world peace as a slightly higher priority.
I agree with previous posters that Microsoft merely publicizes lindows by taking legal action. It really represents no threat to them. Even if they win (in court), they lose (in business).
Microsoft looks like it has fallen into the elementary trap:
Never argue with an idiot, bystanders cannot tell who is the idiot.
I hope the entertainment doesn't end soon. I'm sure the lawyers on both sides are working hard at not settling and thus maintaining their income. Just view it as a long-running joke and laugh.