Horse petunias. Clarity of expression *is* eloquence. It takes a lot of understanding to achieve simplicity.
To say nothing about the fact that you and PJ are the first legal eagles to generate a fan club since Clarence Darrow, so you'll have a hard time pushing the humble wheelbarrow in this forum.
-- just another egregious back-handed complement from a fanboi.
It's cold. DAMN cold! How cold? Ask the guy with the frozen thumb!
Yep, well the last time I caught someone installing a key logger his thumb wouldn't fit in the coffee afterwards. And I remember one winter in Montana where it was so cold it went quiet -- everybody's words froze as they left the mouth.You never heard such a ruckus at spring thaw, though.
Quite so. It matters because MS spent alot of time and money developing Vista. If customers continue to demand XP and refuse to upgrade to Vista then that time and money was a waste.
The money spent to develop Vista is a sunk cost; whether the money was well spent or not is irrelevant to the economic value of Vista to Microsoft. The bottom line is - does it do a better job of selling Microsoft OS licenses than XP or not? The sole and entire measure of Vista's success is whether or not it retains or improves Microsoft's market share. Since there is evidence of push back (lots of push back) from the market against Vista then by the only useful metric, improved license sales, Vista is a failure. A smart businessman (or at least one who is not completely ego-driven) would write it off, keep the original going to keep the customers happy and say "ok, we stuffed that up -- moving forward we will build on lessons learned".
The problem there is that while the market is determined by the customer base, the choice of who sits in the badly-dented swivel chair is determined by the board.
My point is that the decision to press on with Vista is a decision based on internal corporate politics, not any rational basis based on correctional pressures from the market.
The cure? I think Steve Ballmer needs to bow out and find another hobby.
These were the days before metadata; think about that. No data descriptions accompanying the persisted data on disk.
What that means is it's all fun and games until you forget yourself and expect a subroutine to handle an overloaded parameter list, and you find yourself in the curious world of dump artifacts.
Modern languages have evolved to require a bit less discipline in data typing, so besides learning a "simpler" language, you have to make up for the simplicity in syntax and data structure with a very disciplined approach toward (mostly) the passing of argument lists. And if you pass an integer by value when you need to pass by reference, the compiler might not notice. You have to spend a lot of time structuring your data types and carefully naming your procedure division paragraph names so the resulting code looks simple, elegant, and maintainable. It's code + discipline, as always, but the discipline required might be mildly horrifying if you're not the type who enjoys puzzles.
This will probably only make sense *after* the door to the Hellmouth closes behind you, sorry. But anyone reaching back that far has my sympathy, if not my support at minimum wage.
The state highway patrol would be the only thing that would be gone people see on a regular basis.
That would indeed be a pity. It's been a few years since I've been in the US but I remember positive encounters with the CHP and they struck me as being what a good cop is all about. Could be because they patrol clean streets instead of dirty alleys, but it's good to have a standard worth pointing to.
Watch as yet another RIAA lawyer makes a complete ass of himself... and in the Midwestern normal town capital of the world no less... why do i feel like Garrison Kieler should be commenting on this.
In Hollywood, where the artists are strong, the music is paid for, and all the lawyers are below average.
I think it's an indication that judges do read ABA journals, that word does get around, and that perhaps there is a hope that these tactics are being exposed for what they are, a colossal rort of the legal system for private gain. You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time, it appears.
Re: The long Tail -- spot on, thanks for the reference. Insightful read -- one of the things I tell those I mentor is to use the Amazon cross-sell to trigger additional lines of investigation. Yet I hadn't thought of just how prevalent or culture-changing that simple thing could be. Good catch.
Arrrh, aye, this be done since the dawn of time, matey! Ever since the days before global warming when pirates kept a second pistol in their belt just in case. Cap'n Jack Reed in the Solomons would harden his data with a second powder charge when the occasion demanded it.
"Awk! Parroty Error! Parroty Error! Pieces of Seven, Pieces of Seven"
If the weight goes down, there will be a net drop in the overall amount of energy used. We're displacing less mass, at a lower energy cost. So in the long run, even though you might be simply moving the energy production off-board, there would be a net improvement in economy due to that. So all we need to do is find a lighter, more economical way to store the energy than big lumps of lead drenched in sulphuric acid.
Really? I still buy CD's and rip them. Don't bother sharing them, I'm more interested in convenience than per-song costs. I think the clear trend the *IAA's really are fighting is the tendency for people to go after music they like, rather than the push-culture sort of thing that started with The Monkees - the idea that a sliver of pop interest could be cultured and packaged and be presented as a sort of faux-grass roots appeal to an audience demographic. I.e. I buy Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, old blues collections and a selection of classical music. I don't buy boy bands, girl bands or Britney. Who's in the same boat?
Not sure I agree with your less-than relation, but that's not the point I was trying to press. Energy density is important to transport, and it's true that petrol has a high energy density. What I was alluding to is the unstable nature of lithium hydride when not carefully handled. (**BANG** there goes my basement cogenerator. Darn, knew I should have checked the gutters!) You gotta admit that's a good "worst case".
I wasn't aware that police badges were strapped on. Kinky.
Anyway, considering the number of police there are as a ratio of police:other citizens in the world, we're talking a statistical universe of discourse of many hundreds of millions of people. Does anyone honestly think we're *not* going to get the full range of human behavioural types in a sample that large?
Ok, so there's a filter applied based on the number of different motivations for joining up. There will be a number of corresponding behaviour trends as a result. But it would take a real dill to presume that one or two samples are anything other than examples selected to support a personal prejudice, or individual traumatic events that defined those prejudices, for good or bad. Please, get scientific here guys -- clear thinking is even more important when the subject is so highly emotionally loaded as "people who have control over us".
I have a couple of friends who are good cops. I have a couple of acquaintances who are police feared for the wrong reasons. There are good doctors, crap doctors. There are lawyers out there unfit to chase ambulances and there are Ray Beckermans at the opposite end of the scale.
We're people. We're different. Please stop trying to predict or pre-judge behavior without taking that into consideration, or you'll only fuel the next generation of hate-worshippers.
Why not use a metal hydride storage both at home... worst case you buy electricity off the grid to make hydrogen
(smile) I think worst case is more likely to be the lithium hydride storage has a casing failure due to age at some point and water finds its way in, followed by the householder wondering which neighborhood to start searching for the remainder of their belongings.
IP Addresses are *assigned* to network devices that each have quasi-unique Media Access Control (alpha-numeric) numberings.
An interesting development of this IP to "Hardware" bond is that it's becoming even more Quasi at the Quackadero than ever before.
Virtual server instances have to come up with MAC addresses internally. These MAC addresses are generated.
In the absence of manufacturer's unique build tables (and are they still using these?) how likely are we to run into problems with MAC address collisions when adding more and more virtual instances across your average-largish virtual server farm?
The only problem with VMWare is that they don't support any 64bit Host OS
Old news I think, or perhaps a bit cross-pointed. That was a problem with Microsoft's Virtual Server for a long time in that it ran on 64 bit platforms but only supported 32bit guest instances. This too is history, and the 32 bit instance limitation is kind of gone now. Things that pressured a 64 bit instance were things like Exchange Server moving to 64-bit only platform.
You know, thinking about it, I think what you need in the American courts is something akin to the Australian "Vexatious Litigant" rules. Do you have anything like this? If a judge believes a plaintiff is rorting the courts he can put them in that category and, forever more, that plaintiff has to ask permission of a judge before he can bring another lawsuit -- to anybody. Or so I hear. IANBL but I think with strict criteria for entry into that list (separate hearing ordered by the judge perhaps?) it could shut down nightmares like this.
An alternative would be to legally classify them as kangaroos and include them in the next government-mandated cull.
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...indicative of a nefarious plot...
Let me be the judge of that.
I'd sure rather have a hat or a sticker than ride in the same vehicle as some old guy. Have you smelled an old person?
You mean a wrinkly white haired dude?
I am a wrinkly white haired dude, you insensitive clod!
Try this: Why would anyone pay for WoW? If I want to play a game, I can fire up GnuChess for free.
Excellent! All the cerebral exercise without the Barren's chat. Thanks for that.
How do you get epic upgrades for the knight though? I presume he wears plate...
I'm not as eloquent.
Horse petunias. Clarity of expression *is* eloquence. It takes a lot of understanding to achieve simplicity.
To say nothing about the fact that you and PJ are the first legal eagles to generate a fan club since Clarence Darrow, so you'll have a hard time pushing the humble wheelbarrow in this forum.
-- just another egregious back-handed complement from a fanboi.
It's cold. DAMN cold! How cold? Ask the guy with the frozen thumb!
Yep, well the last time I caught someone installing a key logger his thumb wouldn't fit in the coffee afterwards. And I remember one winter in Montana where it was so cold it went quiet -- everybody's words froze as they left the mouth.You never heard such a ruckus at spring thaw, though.
Quite so. It matters because MS spent alot of time and money developing Vista. If customers continue to demand XP and refuse to upgrade to Vista then that time and money was a waste.
The money spent to develop Vista is a sunk cost; whether the money was well spent or not is irrelevant to the economic value of Vista to Microsoft. The bottom line is - does it do a better job of selling Microsoft OS licenses than XP or not? The sole and entire measure of Vista's success is whether or not it retains or improves Microsoft's market share. Since there is evidence of push back (lots of push back) from the market against Vista then by the only useful metric, improved license sales, Vista is a failure. A smart businessman (or at least one who is not completely ego-driven) would write it off, keep the original going to keep the customers happy and say "ok, we stuffed that up -- moving forward we will build on lessons learned".
The problem there is that while the market is determined by the customer base, the choice of who sits in the badly-dented swivel chair is determined by the board.
My point is that the decision to press on with Vista is a decision based on internal corporate politics, not any rational basis based on correctional pressures from the market.
The cure? I think Steve Ballmer needs to bow out and find another hobby.
Perl programmers would have an unfair edge ;)
Disagree. I'd stack a pure K&R C code single-line macro up against the best from CPAN any day.
How does anybody verify that 2 messes are equally messy?
Your credentials have been established.
I guess a working catch phrase might be "hardware is not people".
What that means is it's all fun and games until you forget yourself and expect a subroutine to handle an overloaded parameter list, and you find yourself in the curious world of dump artifacts.
Modern languages have evolved to require a bit less discipline in data typing, so besides learning a "simpler" language, you have to make up for the simplicity in syntax and data structure with a very disciplined approach toward (mostly) the passing of argument lists. And if you pass an integer by value when you need to pass by reference, the compiler might not notice. You have to spend a lot of time structuring your data types and carefully naming your procedure division paragraph names so the resulting code looks simple, elegant, and maintainable. It's code + discipline, as always, but the discipline required might be mildly horrifying if you're not the type who enjoys puzzles.
This will probably only make sense *after* the door to the Hellmouth closes behind you, sorry. But anyone reaching back that far has my sympathy, if not my support at minimum wage.
The state highway patrol would be the only thing that would be gone people see on a regular basis.
That would indeed be a pity. It's been a few years since I've been in the US but I remember positive encounters with the CHP and they struck me as being what a good cop is all about. Could be because they patrol clean streets instead of dirty alleys, but it's good to have a standard worth pointing to.
Watch as yet another RIAA lawyer makes a complete ass of himself... and in the Midwestern normal town capital of the world no less... why do i feel like Garrison Kieler should be commenting on this.
In Hollywood, where the artists are strong, the music is paid for, and all the lawyers are below average.
Lawyers are officers of the court. They must act within the bounds ...
Bravo, you win the Internet. That is a well-reasoned and informed presentation of the situation.
I think it's an indication that judges do read ABA journals, that word does get around, and that perhaps there is a hope that these tactics are being exposed for what they are, a colossal rort of the legal system for private gain. You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time, it appears.
Re: The long Tail -- spot on, thanks for the reference. Insightful read -- one of the things I tell those I mentor is to use the Amazon cross-sell to trigger additional lines of investigation. Yet I hadn't thought of just how prevalent or culture-changing that simple thing could be. Good catch.
"Awk! Parroty Error! Parroty Error! Pieces of Seven, Pieces of Seven"
(*BOOM*) never did like that bird.
If the weight goes down, there will be a net drop in the overall amount of energy used. We're displacing less mass, at a lower energy cost. So in the long run, even though you might be simply moving the energy production off-board, there would be a net improvement in economy due to that. So all we need to do is find a lighter, more economical way to store the energy than big lumps of lead drenched in sulphuric acid.
Really? I still buy CD's and rip them. Don't bother sharing them, I'm more interested in convenience than per-song costs. I think the clear trend the *IAA's really are fighting is the tendency for people to go after music they like, rather than the push-culture sort of thing that started with The Monkees - the idea that a sliver of pop interest could be cultured and packaged and be presented as a sort of faux-grass roots appeal to an audience demographic. I.e. I buy Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, old blues collections and a selection of classical music. I don't buy boy bands, girl bands or Britney. Who's in the same boat?
Not sure I agree with your less-than relation, but that's not the point I was trying to press. Energy density is important to transport, and it's true that petrol has a high energy density. What I was alluding to is the unstable nature of lithium hydride when not carefully handled. (**BANG** there goes my basement cogenerator. Darn, knew I should have checked the gutters!) You gotta admit that's a good "worst case".
Anyway, considering the number of police there are as a ratio of police:other citizens in the world, we're talking a statistical universe of discourse of many hundreds of millions of people. Does anyone honestly think we're *not* going to get the full range of human behavioural types in a sample that large?
Ok, so there's a filter applied based on the number of different motivations for joining up. There will be a number of corresponding behaviour trends as a result. But it would take a real dill to presume that one or two samples are anything other than examples selected to support a personal prejudice, or individual traumatic events that defined those prejudices, for good or bad. Please, get scientific here guys -- clear thinking is even more important when the subject is so highly emotionally loaded as "people who have control over us".
I have a couple of friends who are good cops. I have a couple of acquaintances who are police feared for the wrong reasons. There are good doctors, crap doctors. There are lawyers out there unfit to chase ambulances and there are Ray Beckermans at the opposite end of the scale.
We're people. We're different. Please stop trying to predict or pre-judge behavior without taking that into consideration, or you'll only fuel the next generation of hate-worshippers.
(/rant)
Why not use a metal hydride storage both at home ... worst case you buy electricity off the grid to make hydrogen
(smile) I think worst case is more likely to be the lithium hydride storage has a casing failure due to age at some point and water finds its way in, followed by the householder wondering which neighborhood to start searching for the remainder of their belongings.
Just because its in the contract doesn't make it legal.
Just because it's legal it does not mean you can enforce it.
Just because it isn't legal doesn't mean you can't enforce it. Ref: http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/080729LargeRecordingCompaniesVsTheDefenseless.pdf/
IP Addresses are *assigned* to network devices that each have quasi-unique Media Access Control (alpha-numeric) numberings.
An interesting development of this IP to "Hardware" bond is that it's becoming even more Quasi at the Quackadero than ever before.
Virtual server instances have to come up with MAC addresses internally. These MAC addresses are generated.
In the absence of manufacturer's unique build tables (and are they still using these?) how likely are we to run into problems with MAC address collisions when adding more and more virtual instances across your average-largish virtual server farm?
The only problem with VMWare is that they don't support any 64bit Host OS
Old news I think, or perhaps a bit cross-pointed. That was a problem with Microsoft's Virtual Server for a long time in that it ran on 64 bit platforms but only supported 32bit guest instances. This too is history, and the 32 bit instance limitation is kind of gone now. Things that pressured a 64 bit instance were things like Exchange Server moving to 64-bit only platform.
An alternative would be to legally classify them as kangaroos and include them in the next government-mandated cull.