I'll ruin it: It's from Keith Laumer's "The Great Time Machine Hoax", copyright 1963,64. Sorry ScrewMaster, but I had to do it. It is a pleasant surprise to find another Laumer fan on here though!
Those of you unfamiliar with him, fix that by getting some Retief books from the library! He can be a little formulaic (okay, a lot formulaic), but it's always a great read.
So I should trust rebates to work, despite class action lawsuits against Sony, Best Buy, Comp USA, Dell, and others for failing to pay?
That said, I have had good experiences with small ($5-$20) manufacturer rebates in the past. Retailer rebates have earned their foul reputation, and now even the good ones are paying the price for the unscrupulous ones. If only there were some way of lowering prices ahead of time, taking the intent of the rebate into account... Nah, can't be done!
How about licenses for the publishers? Say, Microsoft couldn't sell a new version of Windows unless it passed some basic safety tests first, kind of like emissions testing and safety checks for cars to ensure they're "street legal".
Yeah, horrible idea, but we can't blame everything on the uneducated/uninterested users.
I worked at Intergraph at the time they transitioned from their proprietary cpu/unix ("clipper"/"clix") to Windows NT. (This clipper pre-dated the failed encryption chip, also named "clipper". That was a real problem for Ingr.) At the time, the rumor was that we had to because the only backup of Clix source code had been lost. It sounds only slightly less ludicrous now than it did at the time.
Even then, they had some pretty sophisticated hardware facilities there, and worked with Fairchild (I think) on their clipper cpu. Most of the software products were based on Microstation CAD, by the Bentley Brothers, who was sort of an unwilling partner of Intergraph. (As I understood it, no one could purchase Microstation except through Intergraph. I doubt that's the case now.)
In short, I guess I'm saying that Intergraph doesn't seem to me like one of those nasty IP holding companies that sue everyone in sight. It's been more than a decade since I left though, so I can't speak about their philosophy these days.
United using "Ted" to target the unions?
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Didn't United start up their discount company "Ted" as a possible way of killing their existing contracts with the unions? Ted would allow United to fall into near-bankruptcy, giving them a chance to shift everything over to "Ted". Same management, same union works, much less favorable contracts for the unions.
It might not really be as simple as all that, but that's what the conspiracy theorist in me assumed from the day they announced Ted. (It doesn't help that I have friends who work at United and tell me how devious and insane the goings-on there can be!)
I find it strange how there seem to be tides with regard to law, particulalry in the States
Yep, that's what checks and balances are for. They're less effective when one party dominates all the governmental entities, but haven't completely shut down.
Expedia works with FireFox v0.9, at the very least. I just got back from a trip booked that way with Expedia.
Had I needed IE, I would have had to boot back into Windows, which is pretty rare for me these days.
Just curious, are you (or your customer) paying for the "business class" service? Comcast doesn't advertise that it would eliminate that delay, but it might. Then again, if support didn't already redirect you to sales, they may know it won't make a difference.
If it remains an issue, you could try smarthosting your mail through another ISP. It costs more, but if your business really depends upon email, you'd be crazy not to have a backup plan.
Yep, Fax.com is sleazy at best and quite probably thoroughly illegal, but it's not Forbes job to determine the legality of their actions. That's what the legal system is for.
As for:
You don't see Forbes.COM publishing articles saying "pity the poor crack-dealers" now do you?
Nope. Nor did I seem them requesting pity for poor fax.com either. That was misleading spin supplied by the story submitter. Maybe you should attack that person instead of someone else's strawman?
This is the kind of thing the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is meant to solve. I'm not sure how you would tie it in to your system yet, but some of these Java-centric links might help:
I've been looking at this kind of thing recently myself, but specifically in the Java world for JSPs. Maybe some of these links will help?
http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security/jgss/tutorials/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security/jaas/tutorials/
http://www.pramati.com/docstore/1270002/index.htm
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/861
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My own experiences with Agile have been promising but flawed, and were best summed up here: http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
I'll ruin it: It's from Keith Laumer's "The Great Time Machine Hoax", copyright 1963,64. Sorry ScrewMaster, but I had to do it. It is a pleasant surprise to find another Laumer fan on here though!
Those of you unfamiliar with him, fix that by getting some Retief books from the library! He can be a little formulaic (okay, a lot formulaic), but it's always a great read.
So I should trust rebates to work, despite class action lawsuits against Sony, Best Buy, Comp USA, Dell, and others for failing to pay?
That said, I have had good experiences with small ($5-$20) manufacturer rebates in the past. Retailer rebates have earned their foul reputation, and now even the good ones are paying the price for the unscrupulous ones. If only there were some way of lowering prices ahead of time, taking the intent of the rebate into account... Nah, can't be done!
Does this mean more pirated installs of BSD out there? I'm not sure that's a bad thing...
How about licenses for the publishers? Say, Microsoft couldn't sell a new version of Windows unless it passed some basic safety tests first, kind of like emissions testing and safety checks for cars to ensure they're "street legal".
Yeah, horrible idea, but we can't blame everything on the uneducated/uninterested users.
I worked at Intergraph at the time they transitioned from their proprietary cpu/unix ("clipper"/"clix") to Windows NT. (This clipper pre-dated the failed encryption chip, also named "clipper". That was a real problem for Ingr.) At the time, the rumor was that we had to because the only backup of Clix source code had been lost. It sounds only slightly less ludicrous now than it did at the time.
Even then, they had some pretty sophisticated hardware facilities there, and worked with Fairchild (I think) on their clipper cpu. Most of the software products were based on Microstation CAD, by the Bentley Brothers, who was sort of an unwilling partner of Intergraph. (As I understood it, no one could purchase Microstation except through Intergraph. I doubt that's the case now.)
In short, I guess I'm saying that Intergraph doesn't seem to me like one of those nasty IP holding companies that sue everyone in sight. It's been more than a decade since I left though, so I can't speak about their philosophy these days.
Didn't United start up their discount company "Ted" as a possible way of killing their existing contracts with the unions? Ted would allow United to fall into near-bankruptcy, giving them a chance to shift everything over to "Ted". Same management, same union works, much less favorable contracts for the unions.
It might not really be as simple as all that, but that's what the conspiracy theorist in me assumed from the day they announced Ted. (It doesn't help that I have friends who work at United and tell me how devious and insane the goings-on there can be!)
For really bad use of Flash, check out Chipotle's site. All Flash, and absolutely no way to retrieve any information (like locations) without it.
I like their food, though.
Expedia works with FireFox v0.9, at the very least. I just got back from a trip booked that way with Expedia.
Had I needed IE, I would have had to boot back into Windows, which is pretty rare for me these days.
Just curious, are you (or your customer) paying for the "business class" service? Comcast doesn't advertise that it would eliminate that delay, but it might. Then again, if support didn't already redirect you to sales, they may know it won't make a difference.
If it remains an issue, you could try smarthosting your mail through another ISP. It costs more, but if your business really depends upon email, you'd be crazy not to have a backup plan.
So, you FAVOR an ubiquitous (and likely unaccountable-to-drivers) network to detect and punish "bad" driving,
And you're AGAINST spews....
Are these two things really all that different to you?
As for:
Nope. Nor did I seem them requesting pity for poor fax.com either. That was misleading spin supplied by the story submitter. Maybe you should attack that person instead of someone else's strawman?This is the kind of thing the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is meant to solve. I'm not sure how you would tie it in to your system yet, but some of these Java-centric links might help:
http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/y /jgss/tutorials/
y /jaas/tutorials/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/securit
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/securit
http://www.pramati.com/docstore/1270002/index.htm
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/861
I've been looking at this kind of thing recently myself, but specifically in the Java world for JSPs. Maybe some of these links will help? http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/ http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security /jgss/tutorials/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security /jaas/tutorials/
http://www.pramati.com/docstore/1270002/index.htm
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/861