How can an ISP be prosecuted for not blocking a child porn site if the site hasn't been legally proven to be a child porn site? How would the state get tips? Are they looking for the sites? If so, when they find them, why not report them to the FBI? I would think this is similar to requiring bookstores to stop selling certain magazines - they'd have to first provide due process that the magazines should be blocked.
A problem with this is unless the ISP's announce a list or warn the site they are blocking, it does risk legal sites being blocked and not knowing it. Unlike the print industry, which knows if shipments are refused or returned, neither legitamite sites nor their attempted viewers would know why the connection didn't work.
Sorry, I wasn't specific. They can release the shows, since they are pure new material. But they don't include the music video's with B&B's commentaries, which were usually funnier and more interesting than the actual episodes.
At least they didn't when they first came out, and as far as I know this hasn't changed. In a similar vein that makes me more certain this is still true, comments have been posted by people about the recently released Daria DVD's not having incidental background music, again presumably because of differences between broadcast and distribution rights.
The "good" news here is that copyright holders end up over-complicating things and hurting each other. On the commentary for The Emperor's New Groove* they mentioned that John Goodman had to sign something so they could use the scat that he made up in the one scene. Similarly, the reason Beavis and Butthead releases are without videos is that while MTV had broadcast rights, they don't have distribution rights to the videos, even though the majority are snippets. Whether they are unwilling to try for them, or they failed, I don't know. The irony here being B&B is where I usually learned about new music I ended up liking. Whoever chose the videos tended to be way more eclectic than the standard playlists of the day.
* - Yes, discussing a Disney movie in a copyright context will probably provoke numerous cries of "Foul!" However, I think that while the movie industry has a number of faults, other than the encryption issues many DVD's are good deals. Not much more than CDs, but hours more use. Especially considering many CDs have less then 15 minutes worth of good stuff on them. If we could just convince the MPAA that they should have a campaign to go after street corner vendors and leave home users alone. After all, those are where they actually lose sales.
Wow! You're right! Student athletes never look down their noses at others! They try to go to the nerd parties but they're frightened by the computers and the fruit punch! All the members of the Chess club are constantly wearing their letter jackets and sweatshirts and rubbing everyone's noses in it!
Get real. Nerds aren't simply "the smart ones". There are plenty of smart, popular kids (and people). The real difference is their interests - Chess Club vs. Track, that kind of thing. And what about Band? Or JROTC? The scholastic world isn't Jocks vs. Nerds.
The 'elitism' you see is more of a reaction than a provacation. Those that show off their smarts are as likely to do it to their peers as much as anyone else, or even more since they'd be viewed as direct competition. However, it is also true that those that are labeled as nerds try to take consolation in the belief that they are shunned because of their intelligence. Neither the article nor your 'response' provides any illumination as to which comes first, but I certainly don't remember the Model UN having it's own stadium, locker rooms, boosters, trophy cabinet, or even room.
The seems abundantly presumptuous. If it broke off of somewhere 4 billion years ago, or even 100 million years ago, it's entirely possible wherever it came from has evolved life and hasn't yet failed.
In fact, it seems odd to me that no one has yet suggested it originally came from Earth. Think about it. As I understand it, there wasn't much of an atmosphere before life, so it's feasible that for one reason or another a hunk flew off. I'm not about to calculate the path it would have flown, or even argue the likelihood, but I don't think it's impossible.
For reference, the nearest star is Proxima Centauri, at ~25,000,000,000,000 miles. I looked a number of places and found no consensus on the speed of the meteorite, but the larger number I saw was 20,000 mph. At that speed it would have taken ~150,000 years to get here. Since that is assuming a straight line among other things I feel it is reasonable to conclude wherever it came from it took longer than that, if it was near a star we know about.
(That really doesn't have anything to do with my point. But I did the research and math so I figured I might as well share it.)
It isn't spelled out directly there, but from previous times I worked on MacOS apps the guideline summaries have pretty much said "One document, one window". It is consistent with their original desktop theme - each window was a document and sort of appeared as a sheet of paper.
And before someone else points them out, iTunes is more like an appliance - i.e. your CD player. iPhoto is an electronic photo album. iDVD and iMovie are film editors. Essentially the distinction is they don't work with single documents. Safari, however, deals with would could be called active newspapers or magazines. If you want to read a different article, it's in a different magazine, and either replaces your current document or is another document altogether.
I'm not trying to over-defend their choices. I just wanted to point out they are fairly consistent. Sometimes the distinctions are vague (e.g. what would Mail be?), but in the case of Safari I thinking they are going to stick with the document line of thought, and in this case it makes sense to me.
Woo. They're semi-protected from learning about sex on the internet. I guess they'll have to learn in the back seat after all. That is the American way, right?
And on your "thoughts" - laws should be based on allowing equal opportunities for everyone to live as they want, as long as they aren't forcing others. The reason murder is illegal isn't some abstract religious reason - it's because you've deprived someone of their guaranteed rights such that they can never be given back, and that's why it has the most extreme punishment. Whereas if you jaywalk, you're just being annoying and get a fine.
Laws that are based on religion are generally unfair: anti-drug laws have highly unfair sentences; tv and internet censorship laws tell people what they can see; anti-gambling laws, actually I have no idea why you can't play poker in your own house; and anti-prostitution and anti-abortion laws have the government telling people what they can do with their body.
I find that the most religious Christians are generally ignorant of their own religion. It never surprises me to see women trying to preach in church, apparently unaware of 1 Cor 14:34-35 (Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. (35)And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.)
or 1 Tim 2:11-12 (Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. (12)But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.) It also never surprises me how many people think they'll be saved, in spite of Rev 7:4 (And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.) and Rev 14:3-4 (the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. (4)
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.)
Obviously, its idiocies like this that are behind the Catholic Church's bizarrest rules - obviously women can't preach, and only the chaste will be saved. I can't tell which are worse - Islamic Fanatics, who know their religion, or Christian Fanatics who have no clue what they're a part of.
When I was taught, the black box mentality related only to specific functions/methods. e.g. function DoThingsToX(X,Y,Z) would change only X and have no side effects, or at least no undocumented ones. That was it. But in programming, all we were concerned with was one part of a project - with specifications on what that part should do, and on what other parts would did. Analysis & Design covered the big picture, where how the interactions of the lower parts should be planned. All requirements and interactions of what was to be programmed would be worked out ahead of time.
Of course, this only involves "white paper" (new) projects. In the real world, I have only been involved in two or three of these, and at the risk of inflated my ego they went pretty well. But 97% of my career has been divided between supporting or adding functionality to existing software. In my opinion, this is where a black box mentality can cause problems. I 've regularly run into functions/procedures that didn't work as described, or expected, or weren't tested, or made undocumented assumptions, and so on. However, that didn't stop me from ensuring what I worked on did what it was supposed to, and passed testing, and effectively was a black box in and of itself.
As to the professors that insisted the machine is a black box, I have to say that generally speaking I agree. For what I work on, as long as the hardware is up my only concern should be that memory requests work. The part that I think is confusing is that what was implied was hardware is a black box if you aren't directly concerned with it. If my software is to control a specific network card, then I better know everything there is to know about that network card. If my software just needs to talk through it to a network, then all I need are the protocols and error messages, and it is a black box for how it does what it does.
Isn't the issue that they reuse code that wasn't theirs, without the license that allowed them? How is that different then someone else using my short story in their book? Fair use would allow people to read and share my stories (with limits), not pass them off as their own. I would hope the same principle is what applies to the code I write.
And yes, there are bigger issues with all of that, and personally I would agree copyright lengths are to long. I am trying to address the second paragraph's phrase "to use material protected by copyright". The main issue with copyright is exactly what the use is.
So as far as the GPL goes, the upshot (as far as I can tell as a layman) is that you can go beyond the normal allowed uses of the given copyrighted material if you follow some rules. If you don't, you are in violation of both the GPL and the copyright.
Again, that's just my impression. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know.
Well, yes, but the only way to fight them in court may be to legitimize them. There are three possible outcomes:
1) The court says 'tough noogies', and says the EULA is binding, software companies aren't responsible for making sure the retailer will actually take the software back. Probably the worst case scenario.
2) The court says that by selling software with these 'take back to retailer' licenses, they implicitly agree to take back the software and must do so, with "I disagree with the EULA" being enough reason. NOTE: if the software is in a seperate seal, they may still refuse.
3) They specify that the license is only bindable if it can be read without breaching the seal on the media, whether or not you have to purchase it first. This would eliminate the piracy issue, and retailers would have to reword their software policy. It may also force software companies to redo their packaging, and put the EULA OUTSIDE the sealed media bag.
Personally I think a variation of 3) is likely, that courts rule that if the software media itself isn't openned it doesn't violate its unopenned status. This would make the least change to the status quo.
Mind you, this really wouldn't settle some important areas, like EULA's on preinstalled software or click-through downloaded licenses on software/security updates. However, it would directly address the case at hand, so the software companies could take this position and leave CompUSA out to dry.
(2) and 3) got a little muddled, but I think I've made my point: All this may accomplish is force the EULA outside the media seal, and retailers redefine "open packages".)
{Only the Combo Drive comparison makes sense, and I'm only trying to list differences.} 12" Powerbook
867MHz G4
256K L2 cache
133MHz Bus
256MB
40GB Ultra ATA/100
NVIDIA GeForce4 420 (32MB DDR)
-- Dual Display & Video Mirroring
Airport Extreme Ready
Bluetooth Built-in
$1799
12.1" iBook
800 MHz G3
512K L2 cache
100Mhz Bus
30GB Ultra ATA Drive
ATI Radeon 7500 (32MB)
-- Video
Airport Ready
$1299
So the $500 extra upfront gets a faster processor, more RAM, larger & possibly faster HD, possibly faster video card with dual display ability, Airport Extreme ready, and built in Bluetooth.
Conclusion: there are differences. The question for prospective buyers is would they use the differences. For the record, upgrading the iBook memory to 256 is $50 and the hard drive to 40GB is $100, so the price difference for the other differences is $350.
On a side note, I personally want the SuperDrive, which isn't available on an iBook (most likely a G4 is required).
"those who knew" -- They all knew, it was more how deeply they believed.
As is detailed on here, the chief engineer attempted to stop the lauch. As I've said, the onlineethics.org pages are missing, but every other page I've been able to dig up has indicated that the engineers, knowing it would be the coldest launch ever, did not aquiesce. The managers, however, originally agreed with them and later withdrew their objections to the launch fearing losing the contract. If the conference call you're referring to did happen, it would have been with those managers, not the engineers.
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That's pure conjecture, and I don't know enough about the construction process to know if it is true. Of course, given that the launches happened in Florida it could be a case where they had planned for a tolerance of, say, 35F, but later discovered it to be at 53F, a much more likely temperature in Florida in January.
Of course, if the design that allowed for a shuttle to launch from a runway and climb through the atmosphere had been used there wouldn't have been a booster rocket to fail. The fact was that engineers at Morton Thiokol knew it would fail below 53F, but Morton Thiokol's management retracted their objections to launch over fear of losing the contract to make the Solid Rocket Booster.
They are now, of course, using a different design that won't fail in the same way.
And I know I'm going on a bit in my own thread, but I first learned of these facts in an Engineering Ethics class and it sometimes amazes me how little things change in ignore-then-blame-engineers.
10) Discuss last night's Bachlorette/Weakest Link/Whatever with coworkers.
9) Three words: Longer bathroom breaks
8) Meetings
7) Clean your area (tidy it up, not to leave.)
6) Exercise by walking through all of the corridors in your building with a folder and a grimace.
5) Clean and redraw your whiteboard
4) Defrag your hard drive, in the interest of efficiency
3) Review all your old emails, to catch anything that may have fallen through the cracks
2) Read magazines/journals related to your business
1) Take advantage of you boss's open door policy
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That's a very good point. The managers may well have been politically motivated. I just got worked up because the article seemed to imply engineers felt there was no problem, which is patently untrue.
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This is a PPT, but hits the main points:
Challenger Disaster. An ugly page that has an actual paragraph is this. But I finally found a real page here.
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The O-rings in use on the booster rockets for the Challenger (and previous shuttles) were rated for warm weather, which was acceptable since the launches were in Florida. It was a cold day when Challenger launched. The engineers warned admin that day that the boosters might fail. There had already been numerous delays, so admin launched anyway.
How 'bout a parady of MacArthur Park?
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My Powerbook is baking in the dark,
The backlit logo's turning brown,
Someone left the 'Book out in the rain
I never thought it'd take it
But someone thought to bake it
And I'll have rip those MP3's again
Oh, no!
That about says it all. However much unions may or may not step over good sense boundaries, employees have zero leverage without them. And how many companies wouldn't throw out unionizers immediately, thanks to that "at will" clause? You can check with a lawyer (obligatory IANAL), but as far as I can tell if you refuse they can fire you with cause, since your initial agreement probably had language that you would comply with their policies. From that perspective, it's no different than requiring ties or name tags. Drug testing and lie detectors generate a lot of flak; have any firings for refusals been settled in court?
Furthermore, if you've already signed agreements you could be in violation for merely asking this. Did you already sign the NDA or are you waiting on all of these forms?
I 4/5s agree with this. I thought the whole soul-mate thing had a weak conclusion (the Marge-may-leave-Homer type plots just don't work anymore), but the cookout, his "trip", his search at the bar and through the personals, and the short-shorts ending we're all good wacky fun.
Coyote (Johnny Cash): Fear not, Homer. I am your spirit guide.
Homer: [warily] Hiya.
Coyote: There is a lesson you must learn.
Homer: If it's about laying off the insanity peppers, I'm way ahead of
you.
Maggie is listed as costing $847.63, a figure once given as the amount of money required to raise a baby for one month in the US.
But the trivia question in The 138th Episode Spectacular said that the cash register read "NRA4EVER". What's going on here?
The trivia questions in The 138th Episode Spectacular are gags made to troll the audience, just like the images of Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon in the episode are not what those people really look like. The cash register question is a gag referring to the people who have labeled the show as "the most liberal on television" by portraying it as having an ultra-conservative slant.
OK, I will admit that was part of stream-of-consciousness, but I accidentally helped my own point: sometimes it's easy to focus on a small part of an issue and miss the bigger problems.
(Okay, that is partially a CMA statement, but I think it does apply to both of our statements.)
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How can an ISP be prosecuted for not blocking a child porn site if the site hasn't been legally proven to be a child porn site? How would the state get tips? Are they looking for the sites? If so, when they find them, why not report them to the FBI? I would think this is similar to requiring bookstores to stop selling certain magazines - they'd have to first provide due process that the magazines should be blocked.
A problem with this is unless the ISP's announce a list or warn the site they are blocking, it does risk legal sites being blocked and not knowing it. Unlike the print industry, which knows if shipments are refused or returned, neither legitamite sites nor their attempted viewers would know why the connection didn't work.
Sorry, I wasn't specific. They can release the shows, since they are pure new material. But they don't include the music video's with B&B's commentaries, which were usually funnier and more interesting than the actual episodes.
At least they didn't when they first came out, and as far as I know this hasn't changed. In a similar vein that makes me more certain this is still true, comments have been posted by people about the recently released Daria DVD's not having incidental background music, again presumably because of differences between broadcast and distribution rights.
The "good" news here is that copyright holders end up over-complicating things and hurting each other. On the commentary for The Emperor's New Groove* they mentioned that John Goodman had to sign something so they could use the scat that he made up in the one scene. Similarly, the reason Beavis and Butthead releases are without videos is that while MTV had broadcast rights, they don't have distribution rights to the videos, even though the majority are snippets. Whether they are unwilling to try for them, or they failed, I don't know. The irony here being B&B is where I usually learned about new music I ended up liking. Whoever chose the videos tended to be way more eclectic than the standard playlists of the day.
* - Yes, discussing a Disney movie in a copyright context will probably provoke numerous cries of "Foul!" However, I think that while the movie industry has a number of faults, other than the encryption issues many DVD's are good deals. Not much more than CDs, but hours more use. Especially considering many CDs have less then 15 minutes worth of good stuff on them. If we could just convince the MPAA that they should have a campaign to go after street corner vendors and leave home users alone. After all, those are where they actually lose sales.
Wow! You're right! Student athletes never look down their noses at others! They try to go to the nerd parties but they're frightened by the computers and the fruit punch! All the members of the Chess club are constantly wearing their letter jackets and sweatshirts and rubbing everyone's noses in it!
Get real. Nerds aren't simply "the smart ones". There are plenty of smart, popular kids (and people). The real difference is their interests - Chess Club vs. Track, that kind of thing. And what about Band? Or JROTC? The scholastic world isn't Jocks vs. Nerds.
The 'elitism' you see is more of a reaction than a provacation. Those that show off their smarts are as likely to do it to their peers as much as anyone else, or even more since they'd be viewed as direct competition. However, it is also true that those that are labeled as nerds try to take consolation in the belief that they are shunned because of their intelligence. Neither the article nor your 'response' provides any illumination as to which comes first, but I certainly don't remember the Model UN having it's own stadium, locker rooms, boosters, trophy cabinet, or even room.
I don't care if it's spelled with four M's and a silent Q. Why don't you try www.h.smith's ? I did, they sent me here. Did they.
The seems abundantly presumptuous. If it broke off of somewhere 4 billion years ago, or even 100 million years ago, it's entirely possible wherever it came from has evolved life and hasn't yet failed.
In fact, it seems odd to me that no one has yet suggested it originally came from Earth. Think about it. As I understand it, there wasn't much of an atmosphere before life, so it's feasible that for one reason or another a hunk flew off. I'm not about to calculate the path it would have flown, or even argue the likelihood, but I don't think it's impossible.
For reference, the nearest star is Proxima Centauri, at ~25,000,000,000,000 miles. I looked a number of places and found no consensus on the speed of the meteorite, but the larger number I saw was 20,000 mph. At that speed it would have taken ~150,000 years to get here. Since that is assuming a straight line among other things I feel it is reasonable to conclude wherever it came from it took longer than that, if it was near a star we know about.
(That really doesn't have anything to do with my point. But I did the research and math so I figured I might as well share it.)
It isn't spelled out directly there, but from previous times I worked on MacOS apps the guideline summaries have pretty much said "One document, one window". It is consistent with their original desktop theme - each window was a document and sort of appeared as a sheet of paper.
And before someone else points them out, iTunes is more like an appliance - i.e. your CD player. iPhoto is an electronic photo album. iDVD and iMovie are film editors. Essentially the distinction is they don't work with single documents. Safari, however, deals with would could be called active newspapers or magazines. If you want to read a different article, it's in a different magazine, and either replaces your current document or is another document altogether.
I'm not trying to over-defend their choices. I just wanted to point out they are fairly consistent. Sometimes the distinctions are vague (e.g. what would Mail be?), but in the case of Safari I thinking they are going to stick with the document line of thought, and in this case it makes sense to me.
Woo. They're semi-protected from learning about sex on the internet. I guess they'll have to learn in the back seat after all. That is the American way, right?
And on your "thoughts" - laws should be based on allowing equal opportunities for everyone to live as they want, as long as they aren't forcing others. The reason murder is illegal isn't some abstract religious reason - it's because you've deprived someone of their guaranteed rights such that they can never be given back, and that's why it has the most extreme punishment. Whereas if you jaywalk, you're just being annoying and get a fine.
Laws that are based on religion are generally unfair: anti-drug laws have highly unfair sentences; tv and internet censorship laws tell people what they can see; anti-gambling laws, actually I have no idea why you can't play poker in your own house; and anti-prostitution and anti-abortion laws have the government telling people what they can do with their body.
I find that the most religious Christians are generally ignorant of their own religion. It never surprises me to see women trying to preach in church, apparently unaware of 1 Cor 14:34-35 (Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. (35)And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.) or 1 Tim 2:11-12 (Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. (12)But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.) It also never surprises me how many people think they'll be saved, in spite of Rev 7:4 (And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.) and Rev 14:3-4 (the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. (4) These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.)
Obviously, its idiocies like this that are behind the Catholic Church's bizarrest rules - obviously women can't preach, and only the chaste will be saved. I can't tell which are worse - Islamic Fanatics, who know their religion, or Christian Fanatics who have no clue what they're a part of.
When I was taught, the black box mentality related only to specific functions/methods. e.g. function DoThingsToX(X,Y,Z) would change only X and have no side effects, or at least no undocumented ones. That was it. But in programming, all we were concerned with was one part of a project - with specifications on what that part should do, and on what other parts would did. Analysis & Design covered the big picture, where how the interactions of the lower parts should be planned. All requirements and interactions of what was to be programmed would be worked out ahead of time.
Of course, this only involves "white paper" (new) projects. In the real world, I have only been involved in two or three of these, and at the risk of inflated my ego they went pretty well. But 97% of my career has been divided between supporting or adding functionality to existing software. In my opinion, this is where a black box mentality can cause problems. I 've regularly run into functions/procedures that didn't work as described, or expected, or weren't tested, or made undocumented assumptions, and so on. However, that didn't stop me from ensuring what I worked on did what it was supposed to, and passed testing, and effectively was a black box in and of itself.
As to the professors that insisted the machine is a black box, I have to say that generally speaking I agree. For what I work on, as long as the hardware is up my only concern should be that memory requests work. The part that I think is confusing is that what was implied was hardware is a black box if you aren't directly concerned with it. If my software is to control a specific network card, then I better know everything there is to know about that network card. If my software just needs to talk through it to a network, then all I need are the protocols and error messages, and it is a black box for how it does what it does.
Are you thinking of the Golden Globes awards?
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Isn't the issue that they reuse code that wasn't theirs, without the license that allowed them? How is that different then someone else using my short story in their book? Fair use would allow people to read and share my stories (with limits), not pass them off as their own. I would hope the same principle is what applies to the code I write.
And yes, there are bigger issues with all of that, and personally I would agree copyright lengths are to long. I am trying to address the second paragraph's phrase "to use material protected by copyright". The main issue with copyright is exactly what the use is.
So as far as the GPL goes, the upshot (as far as I can tell as a layman) is that you can go beyond the normal allowed uses of the given copyrighted material if you follow some rules. If you don't, you are in violation of both the GPL and the copyright.
Again, that's just my impression. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know.
Well, yes, but the only way to fight them in court may be to legitimize them. There are three possible outcomes:
1) The court says 'tough noogies', and says the EULA is binding, software companies aren't responsible for making sure the retailer will actually take the software back. Probably the worst case scenario.
2) The court says that by selling software with these 'take back to retailer' licenses, they implicitly agree to take back the software and must do so, with "I disagree with the EULA" being enough reason. NOTE: if the software is in a seperate seal, they may still refuse.
3) They specify that the license is only bindable if it can be read without breaching the seal on the media, whether or not you have to purchase it first. This would eliminate the piracy issue, and retailers would have to reword their software policy. It may also force software companies to redo their packaging, and put the EULA OUTSIDE the sealed media bag.
Personally I think a variation of 3) is likely, that courts rule that if the software media itself isn't openned it doesn't violate its unopenned status. This would make the least change to the status quo.
Mind you, this really wouldn't settle some important areas, like EULA's on preinstalled software or click-through downloaded licenses on software/security updates. However, it would directly address the case at hand, so the software companies could take this position and leave CompUSA out to dry.
(2) and 3) got a little muddled, but I think I've made my point: All this may accomplish is force the EULA outside the media seal, and retailers redefine "open packages".)
{Only the Combo Drive comparison makes sense, and I'm only trying to list differences.}
12" Powerbook
867MHz G4
256K L2 cache
133MHz Bus
256MB
40GB Ultra ATA/100
NVIDIA GeForce4 420 (32MB DDR)
-- Dual Display & Video Mirroring Airport Extreme Ready
Bluetooth Built-in
$1799
12.1" iBook
800 MHz G3
512K L2 cache
100Mhz Bus
30GB Ultra ATA Drive
ATI Radeon 7500 (32MB)
-- Video Airport Ready
$1299
So the $500 extra upfront gets a faster processor, more RAM, larger & possibly faster HD, possibly faster video card with dual display ability, Airport Extreme ready, and built in Bluetooth.
Conclusion: there are differences. The question for prospective buyers is would they use the differences. For the record, upgrading the iBook memory to 256 is $50 and the hard drive to 40GB is $100, so the price difference for the other differences is $350.
On a side note, I personally want the SuperDrive, which isn't available on an iBook (most likely a G4 is required).
"those who knew" -- They all knew, it was more how deeply they believed.
As is detailed on here, the chief engineer attempted to stop the lauch. As I've said, the onlineethics.org pages are missing, but every other page I've been able to dig up has indicated that the engineers, knowing it would be the coldest launch ever, did not aquiesce. The managers, however, originally agreed with them and later withdrew their objections to the launch fearing losing the contract. If the conference call you're referring to did happen, it would have been with those managers, not the engineers.
That's pure conjecture, and I don't know enough about the construction process to know if it is true. Of course, given that the launches happened in Florida it could be a case where they had planned for a tolerance of, say, 35F, but later discovered it to be at 53F, a much more likely temperature in Florida in January.
Of course, if the design that allowed for a shuttle to launch from a runway and climb through the atmosphere had been used there wouldn't have been a booster rocket to fail. The fact was that engineers at Morton Thiokol knew it would fail below 53F, but Morton Thiokol's management retracted their objections to launch over fear of losing the contract to make the Solid Rocket Booster.
They are now, of course, using a different design that won't fail in the same way.
And I know I'm going on a bit in my own thread, but I first learned of these facts in an Engineering Ethics class and it sometimes amazes me how little things change in ignore-then-blame-engineers.
10) Discuss last night's Bachlorette/Weakest Link/Whatever with coworkers.
9) Three words: Longer bathroom breaks
8) Meetings
7) Clean your area (tidy it up, not to leave.)
6) Exercise by walking through all of the corridors in your building with a folder and a grimace.
5) Clean and redraw your whiteboard
4) Defrag your hard drive, in the interest of efficiency
3) Review all your old emails, to catch anything that may have fallen through the cracks
2) Read magazines/journals related to your business
1) Take advantage of you boss's open door policy
That's a very good point. The managers may well have been politically motivated. I just got worked up because the article seemed to imply engineers felt there was no problem, which is patently untrue.
This is a PPT, but hits the main points: Challenger Disaster. An ugly page that has an actual paragraph is this. But I finally found a real page here.
The O-rings in use on the booster rockets for the Challenger (and previous shuttles) were rated for warm weather, which was acceptable since the launches were in Florida. It was a cold day when Challenger launched. The engineers warned admin that day that the boosters might fail. There had already been numerous delays, so admin launched anyway.
Interestingly (or suspiciously?), the ethics site's page is down, but the cache is here:Roger Boisjoly on the Challenger Disaster
CHORUS:
My Powerbook is baking in the dark,
The backlit logo's turning brown,
Someone left the 'Book out in the rain
I never thought it'd take it
But someone thought to bake it
And I'll have rip those MP3's again
Oh, no!
That about says it all. However much unions may or may not step over good sense boundaries, employees have zero leverage without them. And how many companies wouldn't throw out unionizers immediately, thanks to that "at will" clause? You can check with a lawyer (obligatory IANAL), but as far as I can tell if you refuse they can fire you with cause, since your initial agreement probably had language that you would comply with their policies. From that perspective, it's no different than requiring ties or name tags. Drug testing and lie detectors generate a lot of flak; have any firings for refusals been settled in court?
Furthermore, if you've already signed agreements you could be in violation for merely asking this. Did you already sign the NDA or are you waiting on all of these forms?
I 4/5s agree with this. I thought the whole soul-mate thing had a weak conclusion (the Marge-may-leave-Homer type plots just don't work anymore), but the cookout, his "trip", his search at the bar and through the personals, and the short-shorts ending we're all good wacky fun.
Coyote (Johnny Cash): Fear not, Homer. I am your spirit guide.
Homer: [warily] Hiya.
Coyote: There is a lesson you must learn.
Homer: If it's about laying off the insanity peppers, I'm way ahead of you.
Today's Slashdot lesson: Proper Activity Orders
Incorrect:
1. Bring up Slashdot page
2. Read article in new window
3. Reply to a comment
Correct
1. Bring up Slashdot page
2. Read article in new window
3. Refresh Slashdot page
4. Reply to a comment
From List of Inquiries and Substantive Answers:
How much does Maggie cost in the opening titles?
Maggie is listed as costing $847.63, a figure once given as the amount of money required to raise a baby for one month in the US.
But the trivia question in The 138th Episode Spectacular said that the cash register read "NRA4EVER". What's going on here?
The trivia questions in The 138th Episode Spectacular are gags made to troll the audience, just like the images of Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon in the episode are not what those people really look like. The cash register question is a gag referring to the people who have labeled the show as "the most liberal on television" by portraying it as having an ultra-conservative slant.
OK, I will admit that was part of stream-of-consciousness, but I accidentally helped my own point: sometimes it's easy to focus on a small part of an issue and miss the bigger problems.
(Okay, that is partially a CMA statement, but I think it does apply to both of our statements.)