Depends on who you talk to. Personally I'm going to go with:
Version 3: Wait for Starcraft 2 to come out from Blizzard, but I might just pick up a used disk from RA3 and use "Version 2" once I have the legit media.
Copying the DVD and using your kid as an excuse is opting for the easy way out
He's not an excuse, he's one (of many) reasons why I might copy a DVD. I *don't* copy them for my friends. I *don't* sell copies, or other such illegal things. That's why there are exemptions for fair-use or personal use. The problem is that the media companies want to take those away or restrict them, like the current laws in Canada which would basically make it illegal to dump your DVD to an ipod-friendly format or whatever (which in the case of DVD's, needs to circumvent CSS). Compilations of my own DVD's/Mp3's are another good reason for copying. I could supply man reasons why I should be allow to maintain copies of things I paid for.
It's not that he's actively smashing the DVD, grinding it with sand, or taking other actions to cause its destruction, it's just scratched, sometimes in a manner that prevents proper playback.
I have various game DVD's etc in a CD-wallet. Sometimes they get a little scratched going into our out of the wallet, probably due to some dirt on the wallet or the disc itself. Nothing that causes playback issues, but there are noticeable scratches. I'm going to to "clean room" my DVD's every f*cking time I take them in/out of a case either to avoid scratches, and I shouldn't have to inspect the damn things for minute dirt particles.
So if I - and many adults - can't prevent some scratching of my own discs, I can't really hold a kid responsible if discs get scratched either, unless he's doing something really dumb like putting the disc on something abrasive/pointy or other such things (which he isn't, though he will sometimes put one on the counter while cycling discs).
Or the section where you add/remove/view items on the list could be encrypted+password-protected. For extra privacy, have different passwords return different lists (see honey, the only thing on here is online shopping sites, no pr0n).
Heh. Well my girlfriend tends to be very curious when she gets wind that I'm shopping for her. I have my own laptop+login so it's not likely she'll get a my browser, but if she did it would be nice to know she wouldn't be able to pull up my online shopping/browsing history. As it is I have to hide the presents to prevent her from poking/shaking/sniffing/investigating them in attempts to guess the content:-)
As an additional note, I was thinking more about those who are a little more blatant about their resume mistruths. Fake job experience or educational background, etc. It's a little different than those that say they have 4 years of experiencing coding in X when they only have 2-3, or whatever.
Depends on what you're looking for. Most of my job movement the last several years has been due to "upgrading" rather than being unemployed. In my case, I'd rather be hired based on what my actual qualifications are, rather than being unqualified, screwing up, and then becoming unemployed.
I do list experience that is somewhat dated, but it's still valid experience. If I'm asked about it during an interview, I'll state when I last used the given technology.
Why bother lying on your resume if the facts are good enough to get you a job anyhow?
Right. Why should I buy him anything at all? Clothes, well he just rips them and gets them dirty. Toys, nah, they break too. He can sleep as well on the floor as on a bed.
So I'll just let him wandering around naked and play with a stick, it'll build character, that's what Calvin's dad always says...
And in both cases, a lot of this seems to depend on where you live.
In North America, Canada seems safer, but there's also a push to hit us with new laws that would be even more draconian than those in the US.
Personally, if person X wants to pay person Y $1.50 to copy his (bought and paid for) "Little Mermaid" DVD so that the kids don't ruin the original, why shouldn't he be able to?
I tend to hang around with a lot of Chinese (friends, and often dating). I find that I'm more comfortable with people of that particular culture than locals. I don't think it's a physical issue, because in many cases I only find myself attracted to foreign Chinese (local-born have the same habits as local-born Caucasians).
I've also found that people of certain European backgrounds are equally as interesting/attractive, though these seem to be less prevalent in the area, or perhaps just less visible.
He didn't say you shouldn't change your skin color, should you be willing and able to do so. He said you shouldn't have to do so [in order to gain preference with others].
I know a Chinese girl who got "Asian Eye Surgery" (basically making the eyes look more caucasian). It seemed odd to me. What would it be like if you could get "[color] skin surgery?" What if it were shown that doing one of these surgeries improved your chances of finding a mate/job/[other]?
I moved from a smaller city in western Canada to a large city in Ontario. Culturally, Canada is a pretty good mixing pot in general, but there's definitely a bigger mix here.
Hopefully I'm being honest with myself when I say that I didn't come with a lot of preconceptions about certain races/origins. I had never really met people from these places before, and had nothing to form an opinion on (either positive or negative).
However, I have come to recognize certain patterns derived from cultural backgrounds of various ethnicities.
Do these apply all the time: no. But they do apply often enough that one begins to profile, even if unwillingly, various others. Ways of doing business, driving habits, etc, can be very strongly influenced by one's origins. Certain countries have driving conditions much different than here, and it seems their driving habits often reflect this. Certain countries do business differently, and their business-habits reflect this. What's polite in one place can be rude in the other.
So, when coming across people from these various origins, whether driving on the road, in the store, or elsewhere, is it truly racist to have some bias based on prior experience?
If 85% of purple people tend to drive aggressively (maybe because in their originating country traffic patterns dictated this as normal), is it racist of me to take extra care when driving around somebody that appears to be of this origin?
If people from a predominantly Mauve country have a tendency to fudge facts on their resume (maybe it's easier due to corruption/politics in that country), what does it mean if I take extra care to verify the details of a Mauve person's resume.
One of the things I hate these days is feeling like a racist due to situations like the above. What's racism and what's prudence. Certainly I wouldn't hire a less-skilled Blue person over a more-skinned Orange person over personal bias, nor would I intentionally treat either one person with less respect. But what's bias, what's profiling, and what's experience?
Sometimes you inherit the fires. Oftimes they may be created by other people, and frankly, without enough co-operation by management (either dealing with consistent firestarters or by hiring supporting staff), you cannot make yourself redundant.
There's only so much time in the day for a given person to do a given set of tasks.
His actions were extremely stupid, but I fail to see why this idiot's relatively non-disruptive actions rise to the level of criminal prosecution.
One thing I wonder about though, knowing government (especially higher levels of government with deep pockets), is the whole scenario that led up to this. What if you knew your boss was doing something wrong (say, illegal), and that you were likely going to be the one blamed for it after being canned. What if by giving up access you'd give them plenty of ways to nail you with blame - and a lawsuit - after the fact?
I really wonder what the whole story is here. Certainly if it hadn't been made into such a debacle then nobody would have heard about it, so maybe that's the point of it all.
I wonder if the coldness associated with space/vacuum could be used in this case? You don't need water per-se, but anything that could conduct something to a heat-radiator would work well enough I'd imagine.
How about solar power though? Less environment = more rays. Night's a problem but a combination should work well?
It wasn't a server, but we did have some maintenance guys once stick a new wall over a bunch of switches and important patch panels. We were rather pissed when we found out, they were rather pissed when we tore down their wall (luckily with the permission of management, which was pissed at the maintenance guys and not us).
There's a limit to that though, and that usually is where time becomes money.
Sure, you could wait days to have the stuck printer fixed, or various other small things.
But when something major comes up that stops the cash flow, that's usually when people start thinking about the importance these things, which is usually too late.
When a sysadmin is good, he's often not noticed. Mainly because there's a lack of screwups to draw attention to him. It's when there's somebody to take blame for IT-disasters that people really go looking for him.
Another reason could just be that it's just as easy to sell plans at 10 cents a txt as it is to sell them at 5 cents a txt. We simply don't realize the cost adds up as consumers
I think it's more a case of s/notice/care/ for most cases...
Seems to me that a lot of this depends on what was communicated between Ms Rowling and the lexicon author.
Did the author originally indicate it was a fan-intended/non-profit work?
Did JKR indicate that she was going to be making her own - official - Lexicon to the author?
As it's already been mentioned that JKR was involved in helping with the lexicon, how much communication occured with the author? Seems to me if I was dedicating my time and support to something which was indicated to be free, only to later find that it's going to make into a for-profit venture, I'd be rather pissed off myself. I don't have enough time to read a 65-page transcript to see if the info is in there, but it seems to me that a lot of this might depend on the above.
Combined with a process that harnesses external energy from the sun or chemical reactions, they could form a self-replicating...
I'm no bioscientist, but could this project be modified to something which harvests energy from the sun and then can discharge it in a was in which electrical or bio-mechanical energy could be generated?
Seems to me that if you're replacing the batteries you're probably going to have the vehicle with them. They're pretty damn weighty, and due to hazards may require a professional for removal/installation. If theft becomes an issue, then they could make it a requirement that the vehicle be brought in with the batteries, in which case they'd have to steal the whole car (and if they can manage that, they'd do so regardless of batteries).
Well for those that would have the money to buy something like this, and the time to put it together, doing the above (or at least some of the above) might actually be a fun hobby.
It's not like people don't invest a lot of time and cash into restoring old cars or modding their own vehicles, after all.
Personally I want a Delorian with a flux capacitor...
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Depends on who you talk to. Personally I'm going to go with:
Version 3: Wait for Starcraft 2 to come out from Blizzard, but I might just pick up a used disk from RA3 and use "Version 2" once I have the legit media.
Not to mention that it pretty much nullifies your ability to sell/give your media to somebody else. No more second-hand CD stores.
(not that the media companies would mind that at all).
Copper is also several orders of magnitude lighter (weight wise) than copper and a lot less bulky.
I assume you meant to say that fiber lighter than copper?
Copying the DVD and using your kid as an excuse is opting for the easy way out
He's not an excuse, he's one (of many) reasons why I might copy a DVD. I *don't* copy them for my friends. I *don't* sell copies, or other such illegal things. That's why there are exemptions for fair-use or personal use. The problem is that the media companies want to take those away or restrict them, like the current laws in Canada which would basically make it illegal to dump your DVD to an ipod-friendly format or whatever (which in the case of DVD's, needs to circumvent CSS). Compilations of my own DVD's/Mp3's are another good reason for copying. I could supply man reasons why I should be allow to maintain copies of things I paid for.
It's not that he's actively smashing the DVD, grinding it with sand, or taking other actions to cause its destruction, it's just scratched, sometimes in a manner that prevents proper playback.
I have various game DVD's etc in a CD-wallet. Sometimes they get a little scratched going into our out of the wallet, probably due to some dirt on the wallet or the disc itself. Nothing that causes playback issues, but there are noticeable scratches. I'm going to to "clean room" my DVD's every f*cking time I take them in/out of a case either to avoid scratches, and I shouldn't have to inspect the damn things for minute dirt particles.
So if I - and many adults - can't prevent some scratching of my own discs, I can't really hold a kid responsible if discs get scratched either, unless he's doing something really dumb like putting the disc on something abrasive/pointy or other such things (which he isn't, though he will sometimes put one on the counter while cycling discs).
Or the section where you add/remove/view items on the list could be encrypted+password-protected. For extra privacy, have different passwords return different lists (see honey, the only thing on here is online shopping sites, no pr0n).
Heh. Well my girlfriend tends to be very curious when she gets wind that I'm shopping for her. I have my own laptop+login so it's not likely she'll get a my browser, but if she did it would be nice to know she wouldn't be able to pull up my online shopping/browsing history. As it is I have to hide the presents to prevent her from poking/shaking/sniffing/investigating them in attempts to guess the content :-)
As an additional note, I was thinking more about those who are a little more blatant about their resume mistruths. Fake job experience or educational background, etc. It's a little different than those that say they have 4 years of experiencing coding in X when they only have 2-3, or whatever.
Depends on what you're looking for. Most of my job movement the last several years has been due to "upgrading" rather than being unemployed. In my case, I'd rather be hired based on what my actual qualifications are, rather than being unqualified, screwing up, and then becoming unemployed.
I do list experience that is somewhat dated, but it's still valid experience. If I'm asked about it during an interview, I'll state when I last used the given technology.
Why bother lying on your resume if the facts are good enough to get you a job anyhow?
Right. Why should I buy him anything at all? Clothes, well he just rips them and gets them dirty. Toys, nah, they break too. He can sleep as well on the floor as on a bed.
So I'll just let him wandering around naked and play with a stick, it'll build character, that's what Calvin's dad always says...
Or I could just copy the damn DVD...
And in both cases, a lot of this seems to depend on where you live.
In North America, Canada seems safer, but there's also a push to hit us with new laws that would be even more draconian than those in the US.
Personally, if person X wants to pay person Y $1.50 to copy his (bought and paid for) "Little Mermaid" DVD so that the kids don't ruin the original, why shouldn't he be able to?
I tend to hang around with a lot of Chinese (friends, and often dating). I find that I'm more comfortable with people of that particular culture than locals. I don't think it's a physical issue, because in many cases I only find myself attracted to foreign Chinese (local-born have the same habits as local-born Caucasians).
I've also found that people of certain European backgrounds are equally as interesting/attractive, though these seem to be less prevalent in the area, or perhaps just less visible.
I think you misinterpreted.
He didn't say you shouldn't change your skin color, should you be willing and able to do so. He said you shouldn't have to do so [in order to gain preference with others].
I know a Chinese girl who got "Asian Eye Surgery" (basically making the eyes look more caucasian). It seemed odd to me. What would it be like if you could get "[color] skin surgery?" What if it were shown that doing one of these surgeries improved your chances of finding a mate/job/[other]?
I moved from a smaller city in western Canada to a large city in Ontario. Culturally, Canada is a pretty good mixing pot in general, but there's definitely a bigger mix here.
Hopefully I'm being honest with myself when I say that I didn't come with a lot of preconceptions about certain races/origins. I had never really met people from these places before, and had nothing to form an opinion on (either positive or negative).
However, I have come to recognize certain patterns derived from cultural backgrounds of various ethnicities.
Do these apply all the time: no. But they do apply often enough that one begins to profile, even if unwillingly, various others. Ways of doing business, driving habits, etc, can be very strongly influenced by one's origins. Certain countries have driving conditions much different than here, and it seems their driving habits often reflect this. Certain countries do business differently, and their business-habits reflect this. What's polite in one place can be rude in the other.
So, when coming across people from these various origins, whether driving on the road, in the store, or elsewhere, is it truly racist to have some bias based on prior experience?
If 85% of purple people tend to drive aggressively (maybe because in their originating country traffic patterns dictated this as normal), is it racist of me to take extra care when driving around somebody that appears to be of this origin?
If people from a predominantly Mauve country have a tendency to fudge facts on their resume (maybe it's easier due to corruption/politics in that country), what does it mean if I take extra care to verify the details of a Mauve person's resume.
One of the things I hate these days is feeling like a racist due to situations like the above. What's racism and what's prudence. Certainly I wouldn't hire a less-skilled Blue person over a more-skinned Orange person over personal bias, nor would I intentionally treat either one person with less respect. But what's bias, what's profiling, and what's experience?
Sometimes you inherit the fires. Oftimes they may be created by other people, and frankly, without enough co-operation by management (either dealing with consistent firestarters or by hiring supporting staff), you cannot make yourself redundant.
There's only so much time in the day for a given person to do a given set of tasks.
His actions were extremely stupid, but I fail to see why this idiot's relatively non-disruptive actions rise to the level of criminal prosecution.
One thing I wonder about though, knowing government (especially higher levels of government with deep pockets), is the whole scenario that led up to this. What if you knew your boss was doing something wrong (say, illegal), and that you were likely going to be the one blamed for it after being canned. What if by giving up access you'd give them plenty of ways to nail you with blame - and a lawsuit - after the fact?
I really wonder what the whole story is here. Certainly if it hadn't been made into such a debacle then nobody would have heard about it, so maybe that's the point of it all.
I wonder if the coldness associated with space/vacuum could be used in this case? You don't need water per-se, but anything that could conduct something to a heat-radiator would work well enough I'd imagine.
How about solar power though? Less environment = more rays. Night's a problem but a combination should work well?
It wasn't a server, but we did have some maintenance guys once stick a new wall over a bunch of switches and important patch panels. We were rather pissed when we found out, they were rather pissed when we tore down their wall (luckily with the permission of management, which was pissed at the maintenance guys and not us).
There's a limit to that though, and that usually is where time becomes money.
Sure, you could wait days to have the stuck printer fixed, or various other small things.
But when something major comes up that stops the cash flow, that's usually when people start thinking about the importance these things, which is usually too late.
When a sysadmin is good, he's often not noticed. Mainly because there's a lack of screwups to draw attention to him. It's when there's somebody to take blame for IT-disasters that people really go looking for him.
Another reason could just be that it's just as easy to sell plans at 10 cents a txt as it is to sell them at 5 cents a txt. We simply don't realize the cost adds up as consumers
I think it's more a case of s/notice/care/ for most cases...
Seems to me that a lot of this depends on what was communicated between Ms Rowling and the lexicon author.
Did the author originally indicate it was a fan-intended/non-profit work?
Did JKR indicate that she was going to be making her own - official - Lexicon to the author?
As it's already been mentioned that JKR was involved in helping with the lexicon, how much communication occured with the author? Seems to me if I was dedicating my time and support to something which was indicated to be free, only to later find that it's going to make into a for-profit venture, I'd be rather pissed off myself. I don't have enough time to read a 65-page transcript to see if the info is in there, but it seems to me that a lot of this might depend on the above.
Is there a "-1, Duh" moderation? Of course plants/chlorophyll harvest solar energy, but that wasn't the question.
What I was asking was: can we create an organism that produces usable electrical or biolmechanical energy (other than as petroleum-type fuels).
Combined with a process that harnesses external energy from the sun or chemical reactions, they could form a self-replicating...
I'm no bioscientist, but could this project be modified to something which harvests energy from the sun and then can discharge it in a was in which electrical or bio-mechanical energy could be generated?
Seems to me that if you're replacing the batteries you're probably going to have the vehicle with them. They're pretty damn weighty, and due to hazards may require a professional for removal/installation. If theft becomes an issue, then they could make it a requirement that the vehicle be brought in with the batteries, in which case they'd have to steal the whole car (and if they can manage that, they'd do so regardless of batteries).
Well for those that would have the money to buy something like this, and the time to put it together, doing the above (or at least some of the above) might actually be a fun hobby.
It's not like people don't invest a lot of time and cash into restoring old cars or modding their own vehicles, after all.
Personally I want a Delorian with a flux capacitor...