I wonder how they deal with jism squirts in microgravity - cause that's the most this guy is going to get till he hits ground. Does it foul the filters?
In today's job market, I keep my resume always up to date. If my management were so dumb as to buy into an article like this, i'd get my ass on the market, and cacle evilly as they reaped the 'benefits' of their foolishness.
(if you fear doing that, you lack skills - get some, mostly people skills!)
However, very few executives are this stupid anymore. The last 3 years or so have taken a big bite out of the idiot IT manager population. I'm sure there are quite a few still around, but the more blatant ones have bitten the dust (or their whole companies have).
Book piracy is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus, people want to own the book and feel it in their hands.
Like someone wants to have a stapled stack of recycled copier paper in a fuzzy inkjet font. Even worse is the suggestion of reading it off the screen. The whole concept is just silly.
In the case of music, I seriously doubt most people get the mp3 and then buy the CD. I would suggest in this case that anyone interested in reading an 870 page book would go out and buy it, or at least borrow it from the library.
The Court apparently thought that the Texas statute was within its guidelines for the obscenity exception to the First Amendment.
"that which appeals to the prurient interest" is the metric, last I heard. Look up prurient interest if you don't have a grasp on the concept, it's a rare one.
There are a few other exceptions, "fighting words" being one, ie, that which would make a reasonable person want to perform violence on you. Say, "your wife gives great head to me every Saturday night", for instance.
I am not all that surprised by the language. You pay money to get that kind of language. Otherwise why pay?
At least it isn't an indemnification agreement, whereby you agree to insure Microsoft against any future tort payouts associated with this, and pay for their defense.
When O'Reilly publishes a new book, I should buy it, scan in the pages into an electronic format and put it on the internet for the whole world to copy. After all, "copyright doesn't make sense in a world where things are easily and cheaply copiable", and all I did was easily and cheaply copy a book.
You forgot that this is a pain in the ass. Leaving out the requirement for human effort from your theory is a fatal flaw. People are lazy. Copying CDs is easy. "If it's so easy, why does it cost so much?"
Continue on that line of thought.
You missed a goodly portion of the point of the parent poster.
The question isn't whether there will be a market for Sun gear. The question is whether Sun is still in existence to fill it, and if it is sufficient to support a company as bloated as Sun has become.
The company is not doing real well and hasn't for a while.
My Gentoo partition is out of action right now because Portage failed to update the glibc dependency while doing other updates. Yeah, I know, I can fix it manually but it's not worth my time at the moment.
Put a real damper on my desire to run Gentoo anymore to tell the truth. Up to that point I was a real believer but I got fucked over just the same way that the RPM distros fuck you over, by ignoring dependencies or putting you through hell getting them up to date.
Pretty typical: reality is too tough to argue about so we throw me to some page that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Whatever - history will bear me out on this one. 'accessibility' will be one of those whiner topics people _still_ complain about when I am old and gray, in about 30 or 40 years.
Accessible websites don't have to be ugly. What makes you think that they do?
Because most sites suck anyway. Mediocre developers producing the best they can. Making them conform to standards that tend to make sites look bad (by your own admission) just turns an already bad situation to shit.
Face it, anything beyond a teletype interface is going to be really crappy for the disabled. Maybe we should all go back to command lines for everything as a result.
Didn't think so. Spreading the misery isn't a solution for the travails of the disabled.
Pretending that accessibility standards don't limit what you can't do with a web site is silly.
All US government sites are compelled to be Section 508 compliant and they are uniformly...well, ugly. Uglier than a good commercial site. Is it a causal relationship? No, probably not. But the Sec. 508 compliance isn't helping matters in that regard.
I suggest that a Fourth Amendment issue in a criminal trial is far different than a civil court ascertaining liability. I happen to know a lot about the latter.
How cheap could these be? I mean titanium itself is not a cheap metal (about $4 a pound apparently), but I imagine making nanotubes out of titanium oxide probably does not consume much titanium. The process has to be a bitch though.
I don't see anything about cost in the paper either.
Actually I was considering a 'reference model system' of each OS that has been available and accumulated significant data.
Imagine for each system you could create something like this (we are using DOS as an example):
A processor emulator (ala Bochs or one of the 8 bit emulators) that runs on a common system ~ 10 years after the original processor is outmoded.
A disk image with a copy of the OS (say MS-DOS 5.0, the most compatible version of that series)
A compendium of common applications (for DOS) - this is a rough one but a copy of Quattro Pro from the old text mode days (can open just about anything spreadsheety), WordPerfect, Foxpro (ditto for dBase files), utilities (say Norton or PC Tools or both), plus anything else you could think of, representative games, etc.
HTML documentation of same
HTML docs of file formats, for posterity (dbf, 1-2-3 files, etc)
Include documentation regarding clock speed and original levels of responsiveness, as well as video output capability.
Now, you might say - great, but that'll be outmoded 10 years later. Not so. You could either write a newer emulator for more modern systems, or you could just wrap it in additional levels of emulation as long as you preserve the original responsiveness level.
Something along those lines, maintained in archival form, could be priceless in the future for accessing data or running applications from a bygone era. Also, it seems very doable. The only additional concern is storage media (in my view). Oh and that pesky 'intellectual property' concept that prevents doing this kind of legitimate historical work.
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I wonder how they deal with jism squirts in microgravity - cause that's the most this guy is going to get till he hits ground. Does it foul the filters?
In today's job market, I keep my resume always up to date. If my management were so dumb as to buy into an article like this, i'd get my ass on the market, and cacle evilly as they reaped the 'benefits' of their foolishness.
(if you fear doing that, you lack skills - get some, mostly people skills!)
However, very few executives are this stupid anymore. The last 3 years or so have taken a big bite out of the idiot IT manager population. I'm sure there are quite a few still around, but the more blatant ones have bitten the dust (or their whole companies have).
Book piracy is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus, people want to own the book and feel it in their hands.
Like someone wants to have a stapled stack of recycled copier paper in a fuzzy inkjet font. Even worse is the suggestion of reading it off the screen. The whole concept is just silly.
In the case of music, I seriously doubt most people get the mp3 and then buy the CD. I would suggest in this case that anyone interested in reading an 870 page book would go out and buy it, or at least borrow it from the library.
The Court apparently thought that the Texas statute was within its guidelines for the obscenity exception to the First Amendment.
"that which appeals to the prurient interest" is the metric, last I heard. Look up prurient interest if you don't have a grasp on the concept, it's a rare one.
There are a few other exceptions, "fighting words" being one, ie, that which would make a reasonable person want to perform violence on you. Say, "your wife gives great head to me every Saturday night", for instance.
Have you ever read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"?
Perhaps that is the future...since the present is much like the scenario painted in that novel.
Maybe you could be John Galt?
I am not all that surprised by the language. You pay money to get that kind of language. Otherwise why pay?
At least it isn't an indemnification agreement, whereby you agree to insure Microsoft against any future tort payouts associated with this, and pay for their defense.
When O'Reilly publishes a new book, I should buy it, scan in the pages into an electronic format and put it on the internet for the whole world to copy. After all, "copyright doesn't make sense in a world where things are easily and cheaply copiable", and all I did was easily and cheaply copy a book.
You forgot that this is a pain in the ass. Leaving out the requirement for human effort from your theory is a fatal flaw. People are lazy. Copying CDs is easy. "If it's so easy, why does it cost so much?"
Continue on that line of thought.
You missed a goodly portion of the point of the parent poster.
The question isn't whether there will be a market for Sun gear. The question is whether Sun is still in existence to fill it, and if it is sufficient to support a company as bloated as Sun has become.
The company is not doing real well and hasn't for a while.
You can get _too_ bleeding edge with Gentoo.
My Gentoo partition is out of action right now because Portage failed to update the glibc dependency while doing other updates. Yeah, I know, I can fix it manually but it's not worth my time at the moment.
Put a real damper on my desire to run Gentoo anymore to tell the truth. Up to that point I was a real believer but I got fucked over just the same way that the RPM distros fuck you over, by ignoring dependencies or putting you through hell getting them up to date.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and run BSD.
Pretty typical: reality is too tough to argue about so we throw me to some page that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Whatever - history will bear me out on this one. 'accessibility' will be one of those whiner topics people _still_ complain about when I am old and gray, in about 30 or 40 years.
Kind of like racism.
Accessible websites don't have to be ugly. What makes you think that they do?
Because most sites suck anyway. Mediocre developers producing the best they can. Making them conform to standards that tend to make sites look bad (by your own admission) just turns an already bad situation to shit.
Face it, anything beyond a teletype interface is going to be really crappy for the disabled. Maybe we should all go back to command lines for everything as a result.
Didn't think so. Spreading the misery isn't a solution for the travails of the disabled.
Pretending that accessibility standards don't limit what you can't do with a web site is silly.
All US government sites are compelled to be Section 508 compliant and they are uniformly...well, ugly. Uglier than a good commercial site. Is it a causal relationship? No, probably not. But the Sec. 508 compliance isn't helping matters in that regard.
It was an AAD recording however, which I think is more to the point.
Those who spend large amounts of corporate money on enterprise software research it thoroughly.
Sometimes. Only sometimes.
I suggest that a Fourth Amendment issue in a criminal trial is far different than a civil court ascertaining liability. I happen to know a lot about the latter.
Don't assume I didn't already know that - this was a joke.
The glider forces used were very low-tech. Imagine skydiving troops buzzing in just beyond the main defensive belt at the coast? Stunning.
probably more than you do sir.
I am not going to list my CV but I have gotten a lot of exposure to juries and I say that no jury composed of US citizens is going to do that.
Responsibility also implies legal liability - the RIAA would not win a judgement from you if you were unaware of the activity. No jury would do that.
We could have saved a lot of money and time with this methodology.
How cheap could these be? I mean titanium itself is not a cheap metal (about $4 a pound apparently), but I imagine making nanotubes out of titanium oxide probably does not consume much titanium. The process has to be a bitch though.
I don't see anything about cost in the paper either.
Overexuberance on the author's part?
Actually I was considering a 'reference model system' of each OS that has been available and accumulated significant data.
Imagine for each system you could create something like this (we are using DOS as an example):
Now, you might say - great, but that'll be outmoded 10 years later. Not so. You could either write a newer emulator for more modern systems, or you could just wrap it in additional levels of emulation as long as you preserve the original responsiveness level.
Something along those lines, maintained in archival form, could be priceless in the future for accessing data or running applications from a bygone era. Also, it seems very doable. The only additional concern is storage media (in my view). Oh and that pesky 'intellectual property' concept that prevents doing this kind of legitimate historical work.
In addition, companies like that randomly (and sometimes not so randomly) record phone calls on audio tape for the same reasons that IM is logged.
I worked there, I know.
As opposed to the male vulva/vagina? ;)
Hey, if that's what you want to call your bunghole...
That assumes you could find an honest politician.
As if a person could remain honest and get elected.
To get elected today you have to promise to lower taxes and give more benefits/services - it is obvious that both are not possible at the same time.
Obviously we get the government that we deserve, no?
If all anyone throws you is a straight pitch, you'll never learn to hit the curveball.