I have a dreamhost account for some basic web-stuff. I recently got a letter from them basically stating that SOPA is a big floating turd and that they're fully against it.
And would Microsoft really want to spend the claimed $19 billion [businessinsider.com] on a division that has yet to prove that anybody wants to buy one of their Windows phones?
The first thing that came to my mind was: Patents.
Of course it would depend on what patents there were to be had. Nokia has been around in the phone market (and others) for a long time... but $19b is still a sh*tload of money even for MS.
Not always. I had a DVD set of an overseas series which turned out to be an obvious bootleg. Subtitle quality ranged from awesome to incomprehensible between episodes, and on some you could even see the moving scan-line where it was copied from a poorly tracked casette (or via a crappy coax cable). This from a seller that guaranteed legit items.
Paypal's response: Find somebody who can verify for us that it's fake and will send a signed letter. After checking all the local video stores, nobody was willing to do so, or at least not for significantly > cost of item.
In the end I couldn't get it done by the time the dispute was up. I got stuck with a counterfeit, and the seller got to keep my money.
Which is worse, not being able to park, or sh*tting your pants?
If you can't find a non-handicap spot... no big deal, wait for one to become available. Not being able to find an available stall when you *really* have to go is a bit more urgent.
I've never seen anything that said the handicap stalls are reserved, unlike the parking spaces. That being said, I'm fairly sure there's no placard for using said stall.
When all stalls have been full, I've used the larger one. If somebody ever *did* get in my face about it, I'd be sure to have a long graphic discussion about the painful and disabling effects of explosive diarrhea...
Except dying. People obsess over whether they locked the front door or turned off the tap. I'm fairly sure that some atheists probably have a bit gnawing at their minds when the end comes around...
If I drink coffee for more than 2-3 days a week, and then not the following day(s), I'll feel like crap and often have migraines. For some reason, decaffeinated tea seems to be not as bad (though it also has caffeine, sometimes more than coffee). A little bit of (caffeinated) cola usually pushed them off enough for me to get past.
Not everyone seems to have this issue, but some people (myself included) definitely have issues with caffeine that are best avoiding it as much as possible.
Money (cash) Promises of cushy jobs after your term is up. Fancy dinners/events etc etc How exactly would one go about removing it all from the equation. Block one way and they'll find another, and no politician is going to vote against his/her ability to receive favours...
"I have a lot of down time. So I wrote the application."
To me, this reads like the code was written during company time. Outside of regular job-description or not, you're on the company dime, and work during that time - unless explicitly exempted - belongs to them.
Unless, of course, you'd like to pay them back for all that "down time"
I've been seeing, and experienced more of this lately.
My former cellular provider (Fido) billed me an extra month after I quit (despite a rep assuring me previously my bill would be pro-rated. Reason: On their "bills" and online TOS they mention that you must give 30-days notice before cancellation. This was a cancellation on the day immediately after my contract had expired, and there was *NO* 30 day period mention on my contract (yes, 3 years later, I still have the original).
After dealing with this CS dept and getting the run-around about a half-dozen times (me: it's not on my contract. them: but it's on your bill, me: bill != contract) I made a statement that "you guys are driving me crazy." Response from the support rep "You're doing the same to me."
Perhaps it's just that they didn't give a f*** since I no longer intended to ever be their customer. They insisted that it was impossible to refund a transaction to somebody who wasn't a customer (we can only give a credit, you'll need to back the charge out off your card and we'll bill you back for half)
As they obviously had no intent of dealing with me. I gave up after about an hour of reps and reported them to the regulator and promptly got my money back a few weeks later.
Well, stuff like jQuery/Dojo/etc libraries shouldn't be loading every time you view a page. The first view, your browser will need to load all the associated CSS, HTML, etc. After that, included files should hopefully be cached, and only page content need be loaded.
Also, with JS libraries and AJAX, one should be able to build pages that load the overall template once, but don't require pulling large HTML files for updates (rather just pull content with AJAX).
I've see a lot more traffic around core unlocking as opposed to overclocking. Most people I know don't need an extra 200Mhz, especially when most of the power for media comes from a GPU, but an extra core is oftimes still quite useful.
As with the old days where vendors sold faster chips underclocked to meet demand, many sell chips with disabled cores. In some case it's a quad-core chip that had a less-than-perfect core, and thus is a three-core chip, but in others it's just that it was cheaper to make quad-core chips and disable a core for the three-core market...
What you might not know (I didn't until I ran into them), is that there are Sequels to Old Man's War The second book "Ghost Brigades" is only vaguely attached to the first one in terms of characters etc, but isn't bad The third, "The Last Colony" was pretty good The fourth, "Zoe's Tale"... when I didn't know it existed until I looked at the wikipedia article:-)
This Alien Shore is also pretty awesome. If you like both Sci-fi and Fantasy, some of Friedman's other stuff like the "Coldfire Trilogy" (which is somewhat of a hybrid between genre's, but mostly Fantasy), is also good, with a "good bad guy" who you don't know whether to love or hate.
Also also second Verner Vinge. Try "A deepness in the sky" if you want a book that looks upon the evils that humanity might bring upon itself in the future... very good and quite twisty in plot.
They may also be expecting that some of the first drives pumped out by previously-flooded manufacturing plants/machines may not last all that long, and since they lost a $hitload of money on the downtime/repairs, they don't want to pay out again in RMA's a year or two from now.
However, while general reliability may be the same, warranty support often is not.
Some manufacturers make you go through some pretty major hoops to *prove* the drive is dead before issuing an RMA. Often it's "run our tool" which may or may not show real issues despite obvious symptoms (SMART errors, and the click of death, etc).
Some manufacturers have a tendency to replace your equipment with crappy refurbished equipment which was not well-repaired.
Most though, have stages where they range from good to suck. During the "good" periods all is well. During the "suck" periods they start a bell curve of customer loss until they approve, go under, or are bought out etc.
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I have a dreamhost account for some basic web-stuff. I recently got a letter from them basically stating that SOPA is a big floating turd and that they're fully against it.
If you think that, you're deluded. Unless there are some serious changes in Canada, our government is taking the same path as the U.S.
As they go downhill, our politicians will follow with their lips firmly attached to the arses of the same corps as their US counterparts.
I think that's a "feature" of the AV whether or not your license is renewed...
And would Microsoft really want to spend the claimed $19 billion [businessinsider.com] on a division that has yet to prove that anybody wants to buy one of their Windows phones?
The first thing that came to my mind was: Patents.
Of course it would depend on what patents there were to be had. Nokia has been around in the phone market (and others) for a long time... but $19b is still a sh*tload of money even for MS.
Not always. I had a DVD set of an overseas series which turned out to be an obvious bootleg. Subtitle quality ranged from awesome to incomprehensible between episodes, and on some you could even see the moving scan-line where it was copied from a poorly tracked casette (or via a crappy coax cable). This from a seller that guaranteed legit items.
Paypal's response: Find somebody who can verify for us that it's fake and will send a signed letter. After checking all the local video stores, nobody was willing to do so, or at least not for significantly > cost of item.
In the end I couldn't get it done by the time the dispute was up. I got stuck with a counterfeit, and the seller got to keep my money.
Which is worse, not being able to park, or sh*tting your pants?
If you can't find a non-handicap spot... no big deal, wait for one to become available. Not being able to find an available stall when you *really* have to go is a bit more urgent.
I've never seen anything that said the handicap stalls are reserved, unlike the parking spaces. That being said, I'm fairly sure there's no placard for using said stall.
When all stalls have been full, I've used the larger one. If somebody ever *did* get in my face about it, I'd be sure to have a long graphic discussion about the painful and disabling effects of explosive diarrhea...
April Fools could be quite fun...
We literally have nothing to worry about.
Except dying. People obsess over whether they locked the front door or turned off the tap. I'm fairly sure that some atheists probably have a bit gnawing at their minds when the end comes around...
I'll add to this.
If I drink coffee for more than 2-3 days a week, and then not the following day(s), I'll feel like crap and often have migraines.
For some reason, decaffeinated tea seems to be not as bad (though it also has caffeine, sometimes more than coffee). A little bit of (caffeinated) cola usually pushed them off enough for me to get past.
Not everyone seems to have this issue, but some people (myself included) definitely have issues with caffeine that are best avoiding it as much as possible.
I believe that some media boxes (and certainly the homebuilt variety) also use atom.
Money (cash)
Promises of cushy jobs after your term is up.
Fancy dinners/events
etc
etc
How exactly would one go about removing it all from the equation. Block one way and they'll find another, and no politician is going to vote against his/her ability to receive favours...
OK, so reading further in that big long ramble:
"The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours"
The code wasn't written at work, but you have a bunch of free time at work, and then write code for-work when you're not-at-work.
What are you doing during this free time at work. Why are you writing code in your personal-time when you have time to spare?
"I have a lot of down time. So I wrote the application."
To me, this reads like the code was written during company time. Outside of regular job-description or not, you're on the company dime, and work during that time - unless explicitly exempted - belongs to them.
Unless, of course, you'd like to pay them back for all that "down time"
I've been seeing, and experienced more of this lately.
My former cellular provider (Fido) billed me an extra month after I quit (despite a rep assuring me previously my bill would be pro-rated. Reason: On their "bills" and online TOS they mention that you must give 30-days notice before cancellation. This was a cancellation on the day immediately after my contract had expired, and there was *NO* 30 day period mention on my contract (yes, 3 years later, I still have the original).
After dealing with this CS dept and getting the run-around about a half-dozen times (me: it's not on my contract. them: but it's on your bill, me: bill != contract) I made a statement that "you guys are driving me crazy." Response from the support rep "You're doing the same to me."
Perhaps it's just that they didn't give a f*** since I no longer intended to ever be their customer. They insisted that it was impossible to refund a transaction to somebody who wasn't a customer (we can only give a credit, you'll need to back the charge out off your card and we'll bill you back for half)
As they obviously had no intent of dealing with me. I gave up after about an hour of reps and reported them to the regulator and promptly got my money back a few weeks later.
Summary: Customer service is dead.
gmail/hotmail/many others.
Slashdot (OK maybe that's a bad example).
Plenty of sites use AJAX and it works just fine on the majority of machines/browsers.
Well, stuff like jQuery/Dojo/etc libraries shouldn't be loading every time you view a page.
The first view, your browser will need to load all the associated CSS, HTML, etc.
After that, included files should hopefully be cached, and only page content need be loaded.
Also, with JS libraries and AJAX, one should be able to build pages that load the overall template once, but don't require pulling large HTML files for updates (rather just pull content with AJAX).
I've see a lot more traffic around core unlocking as opposed to overclocking. Most people I know don't need an extra 200Mhz, especially when most of the power for media comes from a GPU, but an extra core is oftimes still quite useful.
As with the old days where vendors sold faster chips underclocked to meet demand, many sell chips with disabled cores. In some case it's a quad-core chip that had a less-than-perfect core, and thus is a three-core chip, but in others it's just that it was cheaper to make quad-core chips and disable a core for the three-core market...
What you might not know (I didn't until I ran into them), is that there are Sequels to Old Man's War :-)
The second book "Ghost Brigades" is only vaguely attached to the first one in terms of characters etc, but isn't bad
The third, "The Last Colony" was pretty good
The fourth, "Zoe's Tale"... when I didn't know it existed until I looked at the wikipedia article
This Alien Shore is also pretty awesome. If you like both Sci-fi and Fantasy, some of Friedman's other stuff like the "Coldfire Trilogy" (which is somewhat of a hybrid between genre's, but mostly Fantasy), is also good, with a "good bad guy" who you don't know whether to love or hate.
Also also second Verner Vinge. Try "A deepness in the sky" if you want a book that looks upon the evils that humanity might bring upon itself in the future... very good and quite twisty in plot.
May the American people wake up to what their legislators and businesses are doing to a once great nation.
Add to that: Lawyers.
They may also be expecting that some of the first drives pumped out by previously-flooded manufacturing plants/machines may not last all that long, and since they lost a $hitload of money on the downtime/repairs, they don't want to pay out again in RMA's a year or two from now.
However, while general reliability may be the same, warranty support often is not.
Some manufacturers make you go through some pretty major hoops to *prove* the drive is dead before issuing an RMA. Often it's "run our tool" which may or may not show real issues despite obvious symptoms (SMART errors, and the click of death, etc).
Some manufacturers have a tendency to replace your equipment with crappy refurbished equipment which was not well-repaired.
Most though, have stages where they range from good to suck. During the "good" periods all is well. During the "suck" periods they start a bell curve of customer loss until they approve, go under, or are bought out etc.
Why not have the openjdk package tagged as a replacement to JRE then?
Where are you buying from? They may not be Cisco, but you can get decent mid-level managed switches with STP for under $500.
To summarize.
Mine != I own the equipment...
Mine = I own responsibility for maintaining the equipment and the blame for when it f**** up