He only says he'll pay a million dollars. Does he specify US Dollars? He could mean ANY sort of dollars - Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, Hong Kong dollars
if the Defense is based on the impossibility of the timing provided by the Prosecution, the Defense Attorney has provided a reward to give the Prosecution evidence against his own theory, therefore harming his client
The client always lies about something that can hurt him. If this is his alibi, you don't begin by publicly proclaiming that the timing is impossible.
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
"Fair Use" usually boils down to the question of whether the geek with a broadband connection is entitled to his free movie fix - or has to stand in line with the peons at Blockbuster.
I have said this before:
The juror is not your comrade-in-arms, he does not share the geek's sense of entitlement. He is a middle-aged, middle class, small-C conservative who respects the system and has come to do a job.
Let him define "fair use" and you risk being hammered into the ground like Jammie Thomas.
Loose talk about guns casts the geek as a psychopath.
Decentralized generation seems likely to offer more jobs at the local level, both for construction of smaller, more numerous generating facilities and for on-going staffing and maintenance.
In other words, small, inefficient and wasteful.
You build your hydro plant on the Niagara River because you can generate massive amounts of power from facilities which will last more than 100 years - with maintaince and rehab on a 25 year cyle.
It's not a make-work project - it is a power project.
To provide some perspective: the "Optional Protocol" also forbids the use of children in combat: In plain English, the Convention bars the enslavement and exploitation of children by both private individuals and the state.
1 MS Office Home & Student 2007. 931 Days In The Top 100. 4 MS Office Home & Student 2008. - Mac. 609 Days 7 Outlook 2007. 930 Days 17 MS Office Small Business 2007 Full Version. 400 Days 18 MS Office Pro 2007 Full Version. 494 Days 19 MS Office Standard 2007 Full Version. 916 Days. 23 MS Office Pro 2007 Upgrade. 930 Days. 24 MS Office Small Business 2007 Upgrade. 575 Days.
26 of the top 100 Business Best Sellers in Software at Amazon are MS Office 2007 products.
WordPerfect X4 Home&Student at $70 comes in at #60. 50 Days In the The Top 100.
Vista didn't cause a switch away from Windows, only down to XP
Even in the W3Schools stats Vista holds about a 20% share. Net Applications 25%.
The "downgrade" to XP did not happen in the consumer market.
Netbooks: hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper. WIll this cause people to switch to Linux (it's a $50 - $100 savings on a $200 computer)?
The Atom netbook running XP drop-kicked Linux into the dumpster. On Price. On Specs. XP was the clear winner.
There are enormous economies of scale in producing for the Windows market - the price always comes down and the specs always look better.
The OEM Linux PC has little or no visibility at mid-line and higher. That's true even if the recession has you shopping for the WalMart price. It anchors Linux's reputation as the odd man out - the bottom-feeder - in the consumer market.
There may be tens of thousands of programs in your distro's repository. The problem is that no one but a geek knows what they are.
But talk to a gamer about classics like Fallout and his eyes will light up. Fallout is a $5 download from Gog.com. Ready to run on Vista and Win 7.
I guess the bottom line is, if you are coming out with a new product, you don't have to be the best--you just have to first and spread quickly. Then it really doesn't matter much what comes later, you're in the money.
Being first to take the high dive is a risk.
Your product and your market are not well defined. Competitors learn from your mistakes.
I think whoever wrote this has little idea how many business use apps that Google will never have any interest in duplicating, like our cash register functions
It's this ability to tie everything together into a single unified working environment that makes the Microsoft solution - and those of its corporate partners - so appealing.
There is always a template or plug-in or a third party app that fits in somewhere, that solves some nagging little problem, no matter how obscure.
Windows inertia keeping people from using a proper operating system.
Microsoft and Apple both began with the stand-alone PC - and both moved as quickly as possible - and as far as possible - beyond the hobbyist - market.
Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle. Microsoft solid middle class values. It's no coincidence that Microsoft has a solid anchorage in business and the Mac in the arts.
The "proper OS" is defined by the needs and values of its user.
The Windows desktop is multicore and increasingly 64 bit. The OS Vista today and Win 7 tomorrow.
Combined market share about 25% of the consumer desktop.
The geek will rant and rave but the core tech is solid. The OEM systems full-featured and very affordable.
Linux is the generic netbook with 512 MB of RAM that sells for $250-$300 and chokes when you leave two tabs open in Firefox.
Microsoft has at most 20 years of experience in that field. Before the 90-ies they were basically a second grade DOS and developer tool vendor.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to corporate clients as early as 1976. Microsoft was a first-tier vendor of development tools for the micro from Day 1:
April 4, 1979 Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry.Microsoft History
The Multiplan [1983] spreadsheet did quite well abroad. MS Word 1.0 for DOS also launches in '83.
Sharepoint in particular has no value what so ever and Outlook and Office are steaming piles of shit.
Sharepoint generated a billion in sales for Microsoft before the geek even knew it existed.
Calling Office and Outlook "steaming piles of shit" is usually worth three of four mod points on Slashdot - with a bonus point, maybe, for the "Outhouse" slur.
Worthy of Twitter, that one.
Doesn't make any of it true.
Even when it arrives tagged with a 942 ID.
The geek's natural habitat is the server room. He is not likely to be an office manager or - by choice - a clerical worker.
This is why all political decisions should be confined to a small enough region that any citizen in the area is close enough to conveniently go and flatten the responsible politicians nose.
You can tell that the geek is a big city boy.
In the small town it is the dissenter who gets flattened.
- a project that takes three years to become profitable
This notion worries me a little. Because it suggests you are satisfied with picking the low-hanging fruit. The company with deep pockets and long term goals can be a brutally effective competitor - one that just might sweep up the best features of your niche product and weave them into his own before you can gain any traction.
If you can't say something other people don't want to hear, you do not have free speech.
The first amendment did not end prosecutions for libel and slander.
Truth as a defense is a late comer in American law and may not be available elsewhere: on the ground that the libel is needlessly provocative and dangerous to the public peace and order.
It's this line of thinking that leads to the conclusion that you can't be allowed to falsely and maliciously shout "Fire! in a crowded theater.
Why you can't be permitted to outshout other speakers or hog the microphone at the town meeting.
Free speech is one of our society's core values.
But we value other things no less highly - and this can be difficult for a geek, who tends - like an adolescent - to think in terms of absolutes: black and white, good and evil, all or nothing.
I don't know if this is viable in London as I don't live there. But if it's remotely an option, then there are times when jury nullification is called for.
The juror is a middle-aged small-C Conservative who takes his civic obligations seriously and has come to do a job.
He is in many ways the mirror image of the judge.
He is not your comrade-in-arms.
The geek never quite grasps what the black American through most of our history learned from birth:
Jury Nullification cuts both ways.
It can send an innocent man to the gallows. It can free the KKK to kill again.
Capturing the color, detail and texture of a great painting is a difficult problem in both aesthetics and technology.
It is not point-and-click photography.
If you want to use these images the ethical thing to do is to ask for permission and credit them properly.
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Don't quit your day job.
if the Defense is based on the impossibility of the timing provided by the Prosecution, the Defense Attorney has provided a reward to give the Prosecution evidence against his own theory, therefore harming his client
The client always lies about something that can hurt him.
If this is his alibi, you don't begin by publicly proclaiming that the timing is impossible.
You test it first.
I was under the impression that COBOL was a programming language and not an operating system.
if the jury believes a law to be wrong or a bad law they can disregard the law and rule against it.
The only truly final decision an American jury can make is a verdict of "Not Guilty" in a criminal trial.
In an ordinary civil trial a judge can set aside a verdict that is against the law and the facts.
But the judge and jury are usually cut from the same cloth, on the same wavelength....
Nullification tends to send the innocent man to the gallows or frees the KKK to kill again.
The geek goes into court expecting to emerge triumphant.
He would be wiser to consider far more seriously the possibility of tar and feathers and the hangman's noose.
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
"Fair Use" usually boils down to the question of whether the geek with a broadband connection is entitled to his free movie fix - or has to stand in line with the peons at Blockbuster.
I have said this before:
The juror is not your comrade-in-arms, he does not share the geek's sense of entitlement. He is a middle-aged, middle class, small-C conservative who respects the system and has come to do a job.
Let him define "fair use" and you risk being hammered into the ground like Jammie Thomas.
Loose talk about guns casts the geek as a psychopath.
Decentralized generation seems likely to offer more jobs at the local level, both for construction of smaller, more numerous generating facilities and for on-going staffing and maintenance.
In other words, small, inefficient and wasteful.
You build your hydro plant on the Niagara River because you can generate massive amounts of power from facilities which will last more than 100 years - with maintaince and rehab on a 25 year cyle.
It's not a make-work project - it is a power project.
Filtering of CP leads to filtering of obscenity, leads to filtering of "objectionable content," leads to filtering of government dissent...
The slipperly slope argument reduces everything to extremes of action or inaction.
That is a receipe for political impotence.
Where would your government be without childporn? If it didn't exist, the government would surely invent it
But it does exist - as part of the sex trade in children - and it is not an invention of the government:
UNICEF - Convention of the Rights of the Child - Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Ratified 2002. By New Zealand in 2000.
To provide some perspective: the "Optional Protocol" also forbids the use of children in combat: In plain English, the Convention bars the enslavement and exploitation of children by both private individuals and the state.
The geek hasn't got a clue - and you can't slam one into his head with a twenty-pound sledge.
Software Best Sellers In Business [Updated Hourly]
1 MS Office Home & Student 2007. 931 Days In The Top 100.
4 MS Office Home & Student 2008. - Mac. 609 Days
7 Outlook 2007. 930 Days
17 MS Office Small Business 2007 Full Version. 400 Days
18 MS Office Pro 2007 Full Version. 494 Days
19 MS Office Standard 2007 Full Version. 916 Days.
23 MS Office Pro 2007 Upgrade. 930 Days.
24 MS Office Small Business 2007 Upgrade. 575 Days.
26 of the top 100 Business Best Sellers in Software at Amazon are MS Office 2007 products.
WordPerfect X4 Home&Student at $70 comes in at #60.
50 Days In the The Top 100.
Vista didn't cause a switch away from Windows, only down to XP
Even in the W3Schools stats Vista holds about a 20% share. Net Applications 25%.
The "downgrade" to XP did not happen in the consumer market.
Netbooks: hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper. WIll this cause people to switch to Linux (it's a $50 - $100 savings on a $200 computer)?
The Atom netbook running XP drop-kicked Linux into the dumpster. On Price. On Specs. XP was the clear winner.
There are enormous economies of scale in producing for the Windows market - the price always comes down and the specs always look better.
The OEM Linux PC has little or no visibility at mid-line and higher. That's true even if the recession has you shopping for the WalMart price. It anchors Linux's reputation as the odd man out - the bottom-feeder - in the consumer market.
There may be tens of thousands of programs in your distro's repository. The problem is that no one but a geek knows what they are.
But talk to a gamer about classics like Fallout and his eyes will light up. Fallout is a $5 download from Gog.com. Ready to run on Vista and Win 7.
I guess the bottom line is, if you are coming out with a new product, you don't have to be the best--you just have to first and spread quickly. Then it really doesn't matter much what comes later, you're in the money.
Being first to take the high dive is a risk.
Your product and your market are not well defined. Competitors learn from your mistakes.
I think whoever wrote this has little idea how many business use apps that Google will never have any interest in duplicating, like our cash register functions
It's this ability to tie everything together into a single unified working environment that makes the Microsoft solution - and those of its corporate partners - so appealing.
There is always a template or plug-in or a third party app that fits in somewhere, that solves some nagging little problem, no matter how obscure.
Making Excel work as a database isn't real work, it's DOING IT WRONG.
It's a hack. "Good enough for government work." Using a familiar and easily accessible tool to solve a relatively simple problem.
Windows inertia keeping people from using a proper operating system.
Microsoft and Apple both began with the stand-alone PC - and both moved as quickly as possible - and as far as possible - beyond the hobbyist - market.
Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle. Microsoft solid middle class values. It's no coincidence that Microsoft has a solid anchorage in business and the Mac in the arts.
The "proper OS" is defined by the needs and values of its user.
The Windows desktop is multicore and increasingly 64 bit. The OS Vista today and Win 7 tomorrow.
Combined market share about 25% of the consumer desktop.
The geek will rant and rave but the core tech is solid. The OEM systems full-featured and very affordable.
Linux is the generic netbook with 512 MB of RAM that sells for $250-$300 and chokes when you leave two tabs open in Firefox.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to corporate clients as early as 1976. Microsoft was a first-tier vendor of development tools for the micro from Day 1:
April 4, 1979 Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry. Microsoft History The Multiplan [1983] spreadsheet did quite well abroad. MS Word 1.0 for DOS also launches in '83.
1985 marks the launch of Excel for the Mac.
Sharepoint in particular has no value what so ever and Outlook and Office are steaming piles of shit.
Sharepoint generated a billion in sales for Microsoft before the geek even knew it existed.
Calling Office and Outlook "steaming piles of shit" is usually worth three of four mod points on Slashdot - with a bonus point, maybe, for the "Outhouse" slur.
Worthy of Twitter, that one.
Doesn't make any of it true.
Even when it arrives tagged with a 942 ID.
The geek's natural habitat is the server room. He is not likely to be an office manager or - by choice - a clerical worker.
Much better to rely on your own security forces, strongboxes, armored cars, and safes!
Look around you.
I'm betting your employer has a vault.
Employs security guards - and - however rarely - an armed or armored courier.
His corporate bank account is a relatively sterile and isolated entry in a database. Documents provide context.
His bank has an institutional tradition of protecting its clients privacy. He has other and perhaps better choices than HSBC.
Google mines data for everything it can extract. Nothing else it has tried has shown a profit.
Where is the competition for that ENTIRE feature set, for a comparative amount of money?
This is where the geek gets it wrong.
He sees the MS Office suite or perhaps Exchange.
What he doesn't see is that Microsoft - and Microsoft's partners - can deliver a turn key solution for a business of any size.
Microsoft has had close on to 35 years experience and - quite literally - tens of billions of dollars to spend on the study of office work.
This is why all political decisions should be confined to a small enough region that any citizen in the area is close enough to conveniently go and flatten the responsible politicians nose.
You can tell that the geek is a big city boy.
In the small town it is the dissenter who gets flattened.
Does effort and skill make something copyrightable? No.
Did I say anything about copyright?
- a project that takes three years to become profitable
This notion worries me a little. Because it suggests you are satisfied with picking the low-hanging fruit. The company with deep pockets and long term goals can be a brutally effective competitor - one that just might sweep up the best features of your niche product and weave them into his own before you can gain any traction.
If you can't say something other people don't want to hear, you do not have free speech.
The first amendment did not end prosecutions for libel and slander.
Truth as a defense is a late comer in American law and may not be available elsewhere: on the ground that the libel is needlessly provocative and dangerous to the public peace and order.
It's this line of thinking that leads to the conclusion that you can't be allowed to falsely and maliciously shout "Fire! in a crowded theater.
Why you can't be permitted to outshout other speakers or hog the microphone at the town meeting.
Free speech is one of our society's core values.
But we value other things no less highly - and this can be difficult for a geek, who tends - like an adolescent - to think in terms of absolutes: black and white, good and evil, all or nothing.
In the W3Schools stats the Win 7 RC has half the desktop share of Linux.
I don't know if this is viable in London as I don't live there. But if it's remotely an option, then there are times when jury nullification is called for.
The juror is a middle-aged small-C Conservative who takes his civic obligations seriously and has come to do a job.
He is in many ways the mirror image of the judge.
He is not your comrade-in-arms.
The geek never quite grasps what the black American through most of our history learned from birth:
Jury Nullification cuts both ways.
It can send an innocent man to the gallows. It can free the KKK to kill again.
Capturing the color, detail and texture of a great painting is a difficult problem in both aesthetics and technology.
It is not point-and-click photography.
If you want to use these images the ethical thing to do is to ask for permission and credit them properly.
It is not unethical to ask for payment in return.
the secret to humor is timing.
Games have trouble with timing if the player is in control, and not the comedian.
Then you maneuver the player into setting up the gag. Give him something to say or do that seems perfectly logical.
But leads him on in a descent into madness.
One of Keaton's best - certainly his most dangerous - sight gags simply has him standing in front of a wall that collapses during a storm.
To be saved by a cut-out for a window.