...be sure you carry with you the basics for an overnight stay.
You are not allowed to carry with you the basics required for an overnight stay.
I remember some blathering announcement at the last two airports about "remember 3, 4, 5". I remember 3, 4, 5 and I remember that 3 is the number of ounces you can bring of liquids or gels, but I don't know what 4 or 5 are.
I have to bite for the "unaccompanied" addon and have to be careful that termination allows for pickup and by the declared parties.
Anybody here remember when it was CHEAPER for kids to fly than adults? Now it is about 25% more expensive for a kid to fly than an adult, at least unaccompanied. An accompanied child, of course, costs the same as an adult.
We need to educate the investor that making $1 this quarter by selling vital assets, screwing customers, and weaseling out of agreed to pensions is no match for the $10,000 you could make in 10 years by treating customers like customers, standing behind your employees and keeping equipment well-maintained.
Actually, it is pretty much a misnomer to call the modern breed of stockholders 'Investors'. They just want to buy it, run it up and sell it. They are not interested in 'investing' in the company at all.
Sorry, but your adrenaline doesn't last for 32 hours. Adrenaline might last maybe five minutes, then you are left depleted and your reaction time will be less than normal, and after 7 or 8 hours, fatigue will start setting in, and your reaction time will be even lower. It doesn't matter how you try to justify driving fast, science proves it wrong every time.
WWHB is a country station. But I guess regardless of the format, the problem is that in a major market, I can scan through the radio and come across five or six stations playing country, regardless of whether they are actually country stations. Yes, even in New York, I had the same problem. Now probably they were really pop stations playing a country song, but it boils down to the same thing. I'm changing the channel.
I have all of LZs albums on CD and most of them on vinyl, and I have zero of them ripped to MP3. When I want to listen to them, I pop them in the CD player. I have no use for DRMed digital formats that may or may not work on all players, may get lost if the device crashes, may be tied to a particular computer, or may be tied to the financial viability of a particular company.
LZ wanted people to listen to the whole album, not just a song by itself.
Well, I never really thought of LZ as album oriented rock. Sure the songs were related, but it's not like Pink Floyd or something where they play a song on the radio, then go to another group or something and you are thinking "Wait! That's not what comes next!". I like it when the radio station bites off more than they can chew and starts playing some Pink Floyd song, and then can't bring themselves to actually cut off until they get to the end of the album side.
Alan Parsons Project has several albums that were definitely album oriented, and of course, there is Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. Led Zeppelin was not prominent in my mind as particularly album oriented.
You can't just steal from people because they won't sell something to you on terms they don't agree with. You can't steal a car from a car lot because it doesn't come in pink.
I don't think that most people who really like music by box sets, rip it to MP3, and then sell the box set. Everyone I know that is seriously into music has hundreds of CDs and/or vinyl albums. Yes, many of them will rip these to MP3 for listening on the go. But they would never sell off the original.
From my perspective, I would far sooner pay $15 for a CD, than pay $5 (or whatever they charge these days) for the DRMed lower quality tracks available online.
I can identify with you. I live in Oklahoma. Your instant reaction to that is probably to assume that there is nothing but rednecks who listen to country music here. But the selection of music on the radio here is vastly better than almost anywhere else I travel in the U.S. At least there are only four or five country stations on the dial here. If I go to Chicago, New York, or other metro areas, there are dozens of country stations. Also, we have two classic rock stations, and a rock station that plays some classic rock. That is about equal to the number of classic rock stations in a large market like Chicago. So our signal to noise ratio here is actually better than most major markets.
Don't forget. The largest Garth concert ever was in New York City. Or was that Clint Black? I don't know. You see one Country singer, you've seen 'em all.
That you have to "train" it to recognize various document types, and then it redacts the same locations on subsequent documents that match the fingerprint.
Well, they aren't entirely clear, but they say it is software that scans the document, so I am guessing they aren't pairing it with physical scanning. I guess they could on low speed scanners, but it would be kind of dumb to take your 200 image per minute scanner and make it do a 2 second OCR on each page.
Vote for Ron Paul.
Is he the pr0n guy? No wait, that's Ron Jeremy. I'd vote for him. Ron Paul is the other guy, the guy who writes his Es and Ls backward. No thank you.
Putting aside the fact that OCR and related AI is still just this side of "not very good," As Director of Recognition Technologies for my firm, I would like to disagree with you.
large corporations, for whatever reason, are extremely bad about keeping employees in the loop. Go figure.
Large being defined as more than about 5. I know that I have been deliberately kept out of the loop in companies of less than 15 people. For some reason, management thinks they are doing you a favor. My boss actually told me, proudly, "I've been shielding you from most of this nonsense." The nonsense being things I couldn't possibly care about, like how was our series A going, when are we getting those promised stock options, is there money for payroll, etc.
The real truth of the matter is that they need to keep you uninformed because you are viewed as a material asset and they don't want you to quit before they have time to sell to the highest bidder and then leave out the back of the plane with the last (golden) parachute.
In most of the three-tiered identification methods I've seen, #2 and #3 provided all the real security and #1 was only able to make any kind of decision if it had #2 and #3 to back it up.
Also, #3 also tells the system who you are unless you have given your password to someone else. If you give it away voluntarily, you are an idiot. If you give it away at gunpoint, then likely they would have found a way to drag your biometrics along with them.
I figure their ought to be a configuration setting that you can choose/unchoose to allow targeted ads on your storefront. Also, if you choose to accept, they should pay you an amount that you specify for each ad. Of course, if they don't like that amount, they can always choose not to advertise on your storefront.
It's kind of like Best Buy's property manager (to whom they pay rent) coming in and posting fliers for Wal-mart, K-Mart, Circuit City, etc., and the property manager getting paid by the other companies to do so.
I have a Beauty Salon, and we decided we could make a little extra income selling products on the internet. We researched the legality of it and found nothing illegal about it, and even found that Amazon and some other big names were selling the exact same products. We also read our applications from our suppliers and found nothing preventing sale on the internet, and we talked to one of our suppliers and they had no problem with it.
Our other supplier through a fit when they found out, and demanded we stop advertising the products they sold us, or they would stop selling to us. So we stopped selling their products even though we didn't appreciate their attitude or heavyhanded threats.
Then we got a cease and desist letter from one of the manufacturers. Their position is that it is unfair competition for us to sell on the internet, and that it is against our reseller agreement. Well, we fired a letter right back saying that we don't consider it unfair competition that we happen to be enterprising enough to put together a website. And secondly, we had never signed, nor even seen a reseller agreement. Thirdly, what we DID consider unfair competition was the fact that they plainly allow Amazon.com and other sites to operate internet sales of the products with impunity, while demanding that actual brick and mortar stores not be allowed to sell on the internet.
The letter went unanswered, and we still have never seen a reseller agreement, nor could we find one on the internet. For the moment, we have taken down the products from that manufacturer, but we will probably put it back up, since they were not able to provide evidence that what we are doing is wrong, and their arguments for us not doing it are all anti-competitive, and thus illegal. However, they did threaten to stop selling to us if we persist in selling on the internet, which is also anti-competitive and thus illegal. If I was just an internet sales company, I wouldn't care, but we have a lot of stylists that use those products, and if the company stopped selling to us, we would probably lose those stylists and the business would end up folding.
I agree they make more money than the single mothers the RIAA usually harasses, but as you mention yourself, it is likely a single person working out of their basement, and a single person is limited to how quickly they can get stuff listed, websites updated, kick off CD duplication tasks, deal with any support issues (ha!) and get the things shipped.
The one guy may be making even a million a year, but that wouldn't even scare the RIAA. I suspect there is some other reason that they are ignoring these corps. Maybe, as someone else posited, they are taking a cut of the profits. Perhaps that is the answer. Single mother should stop putting the stuff up for free, and should put it up for cheap, and then send a portion of the proceeds to the RIAA.
Yes, they suck. And what they suck is a pretty hefty amount of money. This is because they are built to handle just about any custom configuration with a bit of customization. The customization is also expensive. This is why SAP, PeopleSoft, DBS, etc. are good systems for Enterprises which have large numbers of billions of dollars going through them, and can afford to spend years paralleling the system to make sure that it works. I worked in companies that used these systems, and they often had close to 100 full time very smart IT personnel making sure things ran seamlessly. It cost the company millions per year, but the amount was eclipsed by the billions saved in the automation of the accounting system.
I am quite convinced that the Chicago Public School system does not have the expertise to run such a system, nor the cash flowing through the system to justify having purchased it.
The software is not wrong, it is just being used in the wrong environment. Probably some salesman needs to be fired (out of a cannon; into the sun). The salesman's creed is: "The right customer is everyone, and the right product is the one I'm selling." This is absolute bullocks.
Somehow I expect that these counterfeit organizations are not rolling in money to near the extent that the movie industry is. I would be very surprised if the average pirate company has much more than $10,000 leftover after expenses.
Well, we need to get not just computers, but internet to the poor. Our educational system still discriminates against the poor. One of my kids classes (history), requires each student to have an e-mail address, and the school does not supply an e-mail address. Since I have several computers and high speed internet in my house, it wasn't so much an issue for me, but the median income of our school district is not terribly high, so I thought it was pretty presumptuous of the teacher to make the kids turn in their homework via e-mail. Of course, there is always the library or a friends house, but the point is that the poorer students have to be more resourceful than the middle income kids just in order to get their homework turned in.
Also, my kid ran into a problem where he had not written the teachers e-mail address down properly off of the blackboard, and couldn't get the e-mail to go through and had to call a friend to find out the correct address. Luckily for him the teacher's server actively bounced bad addresses, or my kid would have not know it didn't go through and would have gotten a zero. I've never laid a piece of paper on the wrong teacher's desk before. Technology for technology's sake is stupid.
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...be sure you carry with you the basics for an overnight stay.
You are not allowed to carry with you the basics required for an overnight stay.
I remember some blathering announcement at the last two airports about "remember 3, 4, 5". I remember 3, 4, 5 and I remember that 3 is the number of ounces you can bring of liquids or gels, but I don't know what 4 or 5 are.
I have to bite for the "unaccompanied" addon and have to be careful that termination allows for pickup and by the declared parties.
Anybody here remember when it was CHEAPER for kids to fly than adults? Now it is about 25% more expensive for a kid to fly than an adult, at least unaccompanied. An accompanied child, of course, costs the same as an adult.
We need to educate the investor that making $1 this quarter by selling vital assets, screwing customers, and weaseling out of agreed to pensions is no match for the $10,000 you could make in 10 years by treating customers like customers, standing behind your employees and keeping equipment well-maintained.
Actually, it is pretty much a misnomer to call the modern breed of stockholders 'Investors'. They just want to buy it, run it up and sell it. They are not interested in 'investing' in the company at all.
The number of people in the world doesn't matter. It's the number of bored 11-15 year olds that we have to consider.
Sorry, but your adrenaline doesn't last for 32 hours. Adrenaline might last maybe five minutes, then you are left depleted and your reaction time will be less than normal, and after 7 or 8 hours, fatigue will start setting in, and your reaction time will be even lower. It doesn't matter how you try to justify driving fast, science proves it wrong every time.
WWHB is a country station. But I guess regardless of the format, the problem is that in a major market, I can scan through the radio and come across five or six stations playing country, regardless of whether they are actually country stations. Yes, even in New York, I had the same problem. Now probably they were really pop stations playing a country song, but it boils down to the same thing. I'm changing the channel.
I have all of LZs albums on CD and most of them on vinyl, and I have zero of them ripped to MP3. When I want to listen to them, I pop them in the CD player. I have no use for DRMed digital formats that may or may not work on all players, may get lost if the device crashes, may be tied to a particular computer, or may be tied to the financial viability of a particular company.
LZ wanted people to listen to the whole album, not just a song by itself.
Well, I never really thought of LZ as album oriented rock. Sure the songs were related, but it's not like Pink Floyd or something where they play a song on the radio, then go to another group or something and you are thinking "Wait! That's not what comes next!". I like it when the radio station bites off more than they can chew and starts playing some Pink Floyd song, and then can't bring themselves to actually cut off until they get to the end of the album side.
Alan Parsons Project has several albums that were definitely album oriented, and of course, there is Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. Led Zeppelin was not prominent in my mind as particularly album oriented.
A agree. When I hear Stairway on the radio, I switch stations. I can't think of any other LZ songs that would make me switch stations.
You can't just steal from people because they won't sell something to you on terms they don't agree with. You can't steal a car from a car lot because it doesn't come in pink.
I don't think that most people who really like music by box sets, rip it to MP3, and then sell the box set. Everyone I know that is seriously into music has hundreds of CDs and/or vinyl albums. Yes, many of them will rip these to MP3 for listening on the go. But they would never sell off the original.
From my perspective, I would far sooner pay $15 for a CD, than pay $5 (or whatever they charge these days) for the DRMed lower quality tracks available online.
I can identify with you. I live in Oklahoma. Your instant reaction to that is probably to assume that there is nothing but rednecks who listen to country music here. But the selection of music on the radio here is vastly better than almost anywhere else I travel in the U.S. At least there are only four or five country stations on the dial here. If I go to Chicago, New York, or other metro areas, there are dozens of country stations. Also, we have two classic rock stations, and a rock station that plays some classic rock. That is about equal to the number of classic rock stations in a large market like Chicago. So our signal to noise ratio here is actually better than most major markets.
Don't forget. The largest Garth concert ever was in New York City. Or was that Clint Black? I don't know. You see one Country singer, you've seen 'em all.
That you have to "train" it to recognize various document types, and then it redacts the same locations on subsequent documents that match the fingerprint.
Well, they aren't entirely clear, but they say it is software that scans the document, so I am guessing they aren't pairing it with physical scanning. I guess they could on low speed scanners, but it would be kind of dumb to take your 200 image per minute scanner and make it do a 2 second OCR on each page.
Vote for Ron Paul.
Is he the pr0n guy? No wait, that's Ron Jeremy. I'd vote for him. Ron Paul is the other guy, the guy who writes his Es and Ls backward. No thank you.
Putting aside the fact that OCR and related AI is still just this side of "not very good,"
As Director of Recognition Technologies for my firm, I would like to disagree with you.
Sadly, I can't.
large corporations, for whatever reason, are extremely bad about keeping employees in the loop. Go figure.
Large being defined as more than about 5. I know that I have been deliberately kept out of the loop in companies of less than 15 people. For some reason, management thinks they are doing you a favor. My boss actually told me, proudly, "I've been shielding you from most of this nonsense." The nonsense being things I couldn't possibly care about, like how was our series A going, when are we getting those promised stock options, is there money for payroll, etc.
The real truth of the matter is that they need to keep you uninformed because you are viewed as a material asset and they don't want you to quit before they have time to sell to the highest bidder and then leave out the back of the plane with the last (golden) parachute.
In most of the three-tiered identification methods I've seen, #2 and #3 provided all the real security and #1 was only able to make any kind of decision if it had #2 and #3 to back it up.
Also, #3 also tells the system who you are unless you have given your password to someone else. If you give it away voluntarily, you are an idiot. If you give it away at gunpoint, then likely they would have found a way to drag your biometrics along with them.
I figure their ought to be a configuration setting that you can choose/unchoose to allow targeted ads on your storefront. Also, if you choose to accept, they should pay you an amount that you specify for each ad. Of course, if they don't like that amount, they can always choose not to advertise on your storefront.
It's kind of like Best Buy's property manager (to whom they pay rent) coming in and posting fliers for Wal-mart, K-Mart, Circuit City, etc., and the property manager getting paid by the other companies to do so.
I have a Beauty Salon, and we decided we could make a little extra income selling products on the internet. We researched the legality of it and found nothing illegal about it, and even found that Amazon and some other big names were selling the exact same products. We also read our applications from our suppliers and found nothing preventing sale on the internet, and we talked to one of our suppliers and they had no problem with it.
Our other supplier through a fit when they found out, and demanded we stop advertising the products they sold us, or they would stop selling to us. So we stopped selling their products even though we didn't appreciate their attitude or heavyhanded threats.
Then we got a cease and desist letter from one of the manufacturers. Their position is that it is unfair competition for us to sell on the internet, and that it is against our reseller agreement. Well, we fired a letter right back saying that we don't consider it unfair competition that we happen to be enterprising enough to put together a website. And secondly, we had never signed, nor even seen a reseller agreement. Thirdly, what we DID consider unfair competition was the fact that they plainly allow Amazon.com and other sites to operate internet sales of the products with impunity, while demanding that actual brick and mortar stores not be allowed to sell on the internet.
The letter went unanswered, and we still have never seen a reseller agreement, nor could we find one on the internet. For the moment, we have taken down the products from that manufacturer, but we will probably put it back up, since they were not able to provide evidence that what we are doing is wrong, and their arguments for us not doing it are all anti-competitive, and thus illegal. However, they did threaten to stop selling to us if we persist in selling on the internet, which is also anti-competitive and thus illegal. If I was just an internet sales company, I wouldn't care, but we have a lot of stylists that use those products, and if the company stopped selling to us, we would probably lose those stylists and the business would end up folding.
I agree they make more money than the single mothers the RIAA usually harasses, but as you mention yourself, it is likely a single person working out of their basement, and a single person is limited to how quickly they can get stuff listed, websites updated, kick off CD duplication tasks, deal with any support issues (ha!) and get the things shipped.
The one guy may be making even a million a year, but that wouldn't even scare the RIAA. I suspect there is some other reason that they are ignoring these corps. Maybe, as someone else posited, they are taking a cut of the profits. Perhaps that is the answer. Single mother should stop putting the stuff up for free, and should put it up for cheap, and then send a portion of the proceeds to the RIAA.
Yes, they suck. And what they suck is a pretty hefty amount of money. This is because they are built to handle just about any custom configuration with a bit of customization. The customization is also expensive. This is why SAP, PeopleSoft, DBS, etc. are good systems for Enterprises which have large numbers of billions of dollars going through them, and can afford to spend years paralleling the system to make sure that it works. I worked in companies that used these systems, and they often had close to 100 full time very smart IT personnel making sure things ran seamlessly. It cost the company millions per year, but the amount was eclipsed by the billions saved in the automation of the accounting system.
I am quite convinced that the Chicago Public School system does not have the expertise to run such a system, nor the cash flowing through the system to justify having purchased it.
The software is not wrong, it is just being used in the wrong environment. Probably some salesman needs to be fired (out of a cannon; into the sun). The salesman's creed is: "The right customer is everyone, and the right product is the one I'm selling." This is absolute bullocks.
Well, how's his wife holding out?
Somehow I expect that these counterfeit organizations are not rolling in money to near the extent that the movie industry is. I would be very surprised if the average pirate company has much more than $10,000 leftover after expenses.
Well, we need to get not just computers, but internet to the poor. Our educational system still discriminates against the poor. One of my kids classes (history), requires each student to have an e-mail address, and the school does not supply an e-mail address. Since I have several computers and high speed internet in my house, it wasn't so much an issue for me, but the median income of our school district is not terribly high, so I thought it was pretty presumptuous of the teacher to make the kids turn in their homework via e-mail. Of course, there is always the library or a friends house, but the point is that the poorer students have to be more resourceful than the middle income kids just in order to get their homework turned in.
Also, my kid ran into a problem where he had not written the teachers e-mail address down properly off of the blackboard, and couldn't get the e-mail to go through and had to call a friend to find out the correct address. Luckily for him the teacher's server actively bounced bad addresses, or my kid would have not know it didn't go through and would have gotten a zero. I've never laid a piece of paper on the wrong teacher's desk before. Technology for technology's sake is stupid.