No. The family in Kansas making $50K a year may have been earning that money running a little hardware store that catered to the farming community around them. The dads' pappy and his pappys' pappy may have run that very store. The family was happily selling their shovels, rakes and and other various sundries to their friends and neighbors for 75 years or so, until old Sam showed up and built himself a giant-assed Wally Word Super Center in town. Now there is no way that ole' Zeke can match Wally Worlds' $1.88 price for a shovel, so all his customers start shopping there and Zeke loses the store that was in his family for lo' these many years. The same happens to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, etc. until all of the local shops are gone and Wally World is all that is left. Poor ole' Zeke needs to put food on the table, so he sucks up his pride and takes a "job" at Wally World making $5.15 an hour selling those $1.88 shovels. Now, his wife needs to buy some groceries and clothes for the kids, but the Shop N' Save and Wollworths have both closed down too (they couldn't compete with the 88 cents a loaf for Wonder Bread and 6 pairs of tube socks for $2.88), so she if off to, you guessed it, Wall Mart. 75% of her husbands' paycheck goes right back into Wall Marts' coffers just to keep her family fed and clothed.
WallMart is the modern equivilent of the Company Store. They own their employees, lock, stock, and barrel. This exact scenario is played out in EVERY community that WallMart move into.
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There is a workaround to this problem. It won't let you record two shows, but you can watch one while you record another. Basically, you set up a second connection to the TV from your cable box or antenna that by-passes the TiVo unit altogether. It also won't work on channels that need to be de-scrambled by your cable box like HBO or Showtime, but at least you can watch one and record another.
Agreed. This problem only seems to creep up on me when I have more than a few different files open in the IDE (say 12 or more). I find that if I close out any files that I am not working on, the IDE is much more responsive and less likely to hang/crash. Though I do often encounter a situation whereby the IDE crashes/mini dumps on me whenever I select "Debug Source Files" from the "Soloution Properties->Common Properties" panel...
Back in the early 70's there was a popular bumper-sticker around Boston that read: "Jesus Saves, and Espo puts in the rebound!" (Espo = Phil Espisito for non-hockey fans)
gregarican is correct. I just set up my security prefs as he descibed and wingo, no more clickable urls in my emails from senders outside of our company! However, emails from senders inside our company still contain the links. Not sure if this has something to do with the "Trusted Zone" settings or not...
This poster makes some excellent observations. I went through a similar situation at supermarket chain I onced worked for. Other warning signs to look out for:
Drastic reductions in inventory/product orders
Price reductions (to clear inventory)
Cancellation/suspension of supply orders (cleaning products, packaging material, etc.)
Hiring freezes
Lowered standards in routine facility maintenence (cleaning, sanitation, etc.)
Obligitory IANAL, blah, blah, but shouldn't it be possible to form a class-action suit against SCOX on behaf of all of the contributing devlopers? Just a thought.
Supermarkets layout is actually a quite sophisticated process. Ever notice how the bakery is often close to the entrance? The smell of freshly baked bread, cookies, etc. is there to entice you and start a Pavlovian hunger response. You will buy more food when hungry. Next in line are the perishable food depts. (produce, meat, deli). They want you to take the perishable products off of their hands quickly so they do not have time to spoil. The last aisle usually contains the nessecity items that you want most such as milk, egss, bread, etc. They put this at the back of in order to get you to walk all the way through the rest of the store in hopes that you will make some impulse-purchases on the way (mmm.... Screaming Yellow Zonkers). The rest of the aisles are also laid on in some shopping-frenzy inducing pattern.
The page is using the stock "form validation" components provided in Visual Studio.NET. These (client side JavaScript) components are notorious for not working properly in anything but IE. The probable reason that you are able to submit in Mozilla and other browsers is that you are not filling the form out completly, but the broken validation "controls" are not being triggered, thereby allowing the form to submit. Just a thought...
Before bashing MS, read the letter. Lindows (MSFreePC.com) is mis-leading the public into thinking that they can enter them into the class. MS is only saying that due to the nature of the settlement and to the agreed method of joining the class, the way that MSFreePC.com is going about it is invalid. Wake up and RTFA before you go screaming about how evil MS is.
My company ran into a similar situation. We wanted to use an MS Excel web component to create graphs and charts (in.gif format) to be displayed on a web page. After reading (and re-reading) the EULA, we decided that the license did indeed state in convoluted and complicated leagaleese that ALL clients that were accessing these components needed to have a valid Excel license. As our website is publicly accessible and we had no control over the people accessing the site, we decided that this was not a viable option. We instead used Perl and gd (in.png format, of course) to create our charts.
The guys climbing the poles for Verizon make over 75k/yr, at least according to their recent ad campaign.
Those ad campaings were produced by Verizon in order to sway public sympathy away from their (unionized) workers that were about to strike in order to protect their benefits. My wife, brother-in-law, and cousin are all techs with Verizon, and, believe me, they do not make anything approaching $75k/year. Possibly with 30 or so years with the company and 15-20 hours of over-time each week (if it is available), then they might the approach $75k. A better estimate would be around $40k/year. Hell, I wish my wife made $75k, my life would be much easier;)
Where does it say the rights server needs to be connected to the internet in order to distribute the DRM keys? The rights server could just as easily be on a corporated LAN, protected by a firewall. In fact, I see this as the most likely deployment scenario for this type of system. Please spread your FUD elswhere. Oh, wait, this is slashdot, you may proceede...
They DO seperate the updates/patches into seperate categories (Critical Updates/ServicePacks, Windows Updates, and Driver Updates, IIRC). My win2k box is fully patched with all of the Security Updates and most of the Recommended Updates, but Media Player 9 (now with Flavor Crystals!) is not, and will never be, installed on my machine (though Windows Update does remind me every three days that it is available).
About 30 seconds after I RTFA, I was working in Photoshop and realized that I was doing an awful lot of left/right scrolling. This thing would have been perfect...
Most of the online retailers use Muze (http://www.muze.com) for their online music samples as well as for editorial content regarding music and books. I have seen their operation and it is very impressive. They have terrabytes of data regarding music and books.
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No. The family in Kansas making $50K a year may have been earning that money running a little hardware store that catered to the farming community around them. The dads' pappy and his pappys' pappy may have run that very store. The family was happily selling their shovels, rakes and and other various sundries to their friends and neighbors for 75 years or so, until old Sam showed up and built himself a giant-assed Wally Word Super Center in town. Now there is no way that ole' Zeke can match Wally Worlds' $1.88 price for a shovel, so all his customers start shopping there and Zeke loses the store that was in his family for lo' these many years. The same happens to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, etc. until all of the local shops are gone and Wally World is all that is left. Poor ole' Zeke needs to put food on the table, so he sucks up his pride and takes a "job" at Wally World making $5.15 an hour selling those $1.88 shovels. Now, his wife needs to buy some groceries and clothes for the kids, but the Shop N' Save and Wollworths have both closed down too (they couldn't compete with the 88 cents a loaf for Wonder Bread and 6 pairs of tube socks for $2.88), so she if off to, you guessed it, Wall Mart. 75% of her husbands' paycheck goes right back into Wall Marts' coffers just to keep her family fed and clothed.
WallMart is the modern equivilent of the Company Store. They own their employees, lock, stock, and barrel. This exact scenario is played out in EVERY community that WallMart move into.
There is a workaround to this problem. It won't let you record two shows, but you can watch one while you record another. Basically, you set up a second connection to the TV from your cable box or antenna that by-passes the TiVo unit altogether. It also won't work on channels that need to be de-scrambled by your cable box like HBO or Showtime, but at least you can watch one and record another.
Agreed. This problem only seems to creep up on me when I have more than a few different files open in the IDE (say 12 or more). I find that if I close out any files that I am not working on, the IDE is much more responsive and less likely to hang/crash. Though I do often encounter a situation whereby the IDE crashes/mini dumps on me whenever I select "Debug Source Files" from the "Soloution Properties->Common Properties" panel...
.aspx files are .NET pages. The site may be written in VB.NET, C#, or a host of other languages.
Back in the early 70's there was a popular bumper-sticker around Boston that read: "Jesus Saves, and Espo puts in the rebound!" (Espo = Phil Espisito for non-hockey fans)
gregarican is correct. I just set up my security prefs as he descibed and wingo, no more clickable urls in my emails from senders outside of our company! However, emails from senders inside our company still contain the links. Not sure if this has something to do with the "Trusted Zone" settings or not...
I can verify that compatability is a problem, as my DVD player will not play DVD+ dics (not sure the brand/model).
I'm thinking more along the lines of Nigel trapped in the pod in "This Is Spinal Tap".
Most Canadians outside of Quebec don't speak French either.
Notepad. I use it every day.
I can switch my land-line from the evil that is Verizon and move my number to my Verizon..wireless..phone... Er, um, wha?
Of course, this poll was recorded using a Diebold EZ-Vote 2000 Electronic Voting Machie.
Obligitory IANAL, blah, blah, but shouldn't it be possible to form a class-action suit against SCOX on behaf of all of the contributing devlopers? Just a thought.
Supermarkets layout is actually a quite sophisticated process. Ever notice how the bakery is often close to the entrance? The smell of freshly baked bread, cookies, etc. is there to entice you and start a Pavlovian hunger response. You will buy more food when hungry. Next in line are the perishable food depts. (produce, meat, deli). They want you to take the perishable products off of their hands quickly so they do not have time to spoil. The last aisle usually contains the nessecity items that you want most such as milk, egss, bread, etc. They put this at the back of in order to get you to walk all the way through the rest of the store in hopes that you will make some impulse-purchases on the way (mmm.... Screaming Yellow Zonkers). The rest of the aisles are also laid on in some shopping-frenzy inducing pattern.
The page is using the stock "form validation" components provided in Visual Studio.NET. These (client side JavaScript) components are notorious for not working properly in anything but IE. The probable reason that you are able to submit in Mozilla and other browsers is that you are not filling the form out completly, but the broken validation "controls" are not being triggered, thereby allowing the form to submit. Just a thought...
Naw, REAL men parse the raw HTML in their head and visualize the page...
Before bashing MS, read the letter. Lindows (MSFreePC.com) is mis-leading the public into thinking that they can enter them into the class. MS is only saying that due to the nature of the settlement and to the agreed method of joining the class, the way that MSFreePC.com is going about it is invalid. Wake up and RTFA before you go screaming about how evil MS is.
My company ran into a similar situation. We wanted to use an MS Excel web component to create graphs and charts (in .gif format) to be displayed on a web page. After reading (and re-reading) the EULA, we decided that the license did indeed state in convoluted and complicated leagaleese that ALL clients that were accessing these components needed to have a valid Excel license. As our website is publicly accessible and we had no control over the people accessing the site, we decided that this was not a viable option. We instead used Perl and gd (in .png format, of course) to create our charts.
The guys climbing the poles for Verizon make over 75k/yr, at least according to their recent ad campaign.
;)
Those ad campaings were produced by Verizon in order to sway public sympathy away from their (unionized) workers that were about to strike in order to protect their benefits. My wife, brother-in-law, and cousin are all techs with Verizon, and, believe me, they do not make anything approaching $75k/year. Possibly with 30 or so years with the company and 15-20 hours of over-time each week (if it is available), then they might the approach $75k. A better estimate would be around $40k/year. Hell, I wish my wife made $75k, my life would be much easier
Where does it say the rights server needs to be connected to the internet in order to distribute the DRM keys? The rights server could just as easily be on a corporated LAN, protected by a firewall. In fact, I see this as the most likely deployment scenario for this type of system. Please spread your FUD elswhere. Oh, wait, this is slashdot, you may proceede...
They DO seperate the updates/patches into seperate categories (Critical Updates/ServicePacks, Windows Updates, and Driver Updates, IIRC). My win2k box is fully patched with all of the Security Updates and most of the Recommended Updates, but Media Player 9 (now with Flavor Crystals!) is not, and will never be, installed on my machine (though Windows Update does remind me every three days that it is available).
About 30 seconds after I RTFA, I was working in Photoshop and realized that I was doing an awful lot of left/right scrolling. This thing would have been perfect...
I've seen some of the other "stuff" you are refering to. Whatever you do, just don't step in it.
Most of the online retailers use Muze (http://www.muze.com) for their online music samples as well as for editorial content regarding music and books. I have seen their operation and it is very impressive. They have terrabytes of data regarding music and books.