Why would they bust you for downloading Linux? Do you have any idea how the system works?
Any excuse to limit the usage by high-bandwidth users. Comcast would be much happier (and profitable) if, despite all the adverts about the speed Comcast offers, you used your connection only to check your email a few times per day. No streaming media, etc..
Seriously - what the eff did he think would happen if he refused to sign the form? They'd just be all smiles and sunshine and hand the boat over? You can't hold them to the letter of one part of the law (ensuring the paperwork is correct) and then be upset when they follow the rest of the law (requiring the boat be impounded until the paperwork is cleared up). Grow the eff up and deal with the consequences of your choices.
Did you miss the point where the government had screwed up? I don't suppose you read TFA, so I will excerpt it for you:
The primary form, prepared by the government, had an error. The price was copied from the invoice, but DHS changed the currency from Canadian to U.S. dollars.
So, the government screwed up, producing an incorrect form, refused to correct the form, then confiscated the boat when he refused to sign the incorrect form (while signing it would probably have been a felony) and somehow he doesn't have the right to be upset?
You post one anecdote. Let me give you my experience.
I have worked in the UK, Italy, France and the USA. I have worked for British, European and American companies.
I have not noticed a significant difference in how hard people work. Yes, those supposedly lazy Italians worked hard. They enjoyed their lunch, but got back to work promptly.
Yes, the French and Italians do take long vacations, but so do the Germans, which makes me think that your story is BS.
Let's look at specifics:
they were always unavailable for through out the entire day except for early morning..... I ended up going to their German competitors which we're quite happy to work with, they answer their phones, they don't disappear and they're eager to solve problems.
Are you aware of time zones and that Europe is 7-9 hours ahead of the USA (and more for Alaska/Hawaii)? So when you wanted to talk to them, they had finished work for the day? I don't believe the Germans were any better at this because the Germans have a very strong ethos of separating work and home life.
Perhaps the screw-up was on your part in not making sure that the contract included 24-hr support? If indeed your story has any basis in fact.
Google is not the internet, no matter how hard they try, and yet a large population thinks that if you can't reach google, the internet is down...
There are probably thousands of scripts around the world that ping 8.8.8.8 or some other well known Google IP address on a regular basis to test their Internet connectivity. For example, this script
People need to stop buying clear honey, which cannot be traced using traditional methods. The pollen allows honey to be traced, but clear honey doesn't contain any pollen.
Check out the reviews of the
Windows Phone app. When a newpaper's app has obvious misspellings that are uncorrected for over a year, it doesn't reflect well on that newpaper's mobile team.
I just paid my car's annual tax through the DMV website. I'm struggling to reconcile this with the description of the "40 year old antiquated" IT system.
(Not that in some sense it matters -- if the GPS is more accurate and is reporting a higher speed than the speedometer, it means the speedometer is underreporting. This would be a huge problem.)
The reporter notes that different wheels and tires were fitted to the car. Perhaps there is an adjustment that can be made to account for different size tires and the technicians who made the adjustment got it wrong?
If I had Tesla stock I'd be tempted to sell, not because the car is bad, but because their PR is so terrible that I fear for their future.
Someone should introduce Tesla's PR team to Barbra Streisand. This and the whole Top Gear issue should never have happened because they should have either controlled the review more (probably not allowed by Top Gear), or simply not made the cars available for review.
Wow, did you get that rant out of Tesla's PR department because just about every claim you made was not true. Tesla's claims about the NYT article appear to have validity, but the about the Top Gear review -- no.
People just don't think like that. They've got used to laptops being so expensive to repair they might as well buy a new one - tablets are just as bad.
I think that it is often more than cost -- people just don't think it is possible to repair laptops at any price. For example, there was an episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" during which some coffee was spilled into the laptop that one of the teams had been using to create materials for their project. Instead of calling in someone in to recover the data (it might simply have been an issue of moving the hard drive to another machine), they abandoned that work and attempted to re-create it with what little time they had left. I doubt that money was an issue in that situation.
I'm sorry, but you seem to have suffered a comprehension failure. I don't know how a lawsuit could be thrown out on a technicality "despite the judge", since it was the judge who threw out the lawsuit. I found the Jalopnik article with the quote that you cite, but your quotation is not the judge's opinion, instead it is Jalopnik's opion on what Tesla's lawyers wrote:
...., British Justice Tugendhat tossed out the libel claim and said that Tesla's lawyers would have to amend their malicious falsehood claim.
They Tesla's lawyers changed it to this:
"There were reasonable grounds to suspect that each of the Claimants [Top Gear] had intentionally and significantly misrepresented the range of the Roadster by claiming that it had a range of about 200 miles in that its true range on the Top Gear track was only 55 miles".
I.E. they're [again, Tesla's lawyers are saying] saying that Top Gear they intentionally said something untrue, as opposed to intentionally misrepresenting true facts.
There was also a element of strawman in Tesla's complaints about the Top Gear review. Watch the video and you will see that Clarkson does not say that the car ran its batteries flat. Top Gear said that, driving on the track, they way they were doing it *would* run the batteries down in 55 miles. A claim that Tesla did not dispute. There was a real problem with the brakes on one of the cars -- the brakes did not fail completely, but again, Tesla did not dispute the partial failure.
Let's not forget that in the libel-lawsuit capital of the world, Tesla's libel suit was switftly dismissed.
24K gold might work, though. It seems pretty hard in a ring,
When have you seen a 24Kt gold ring? Answer, you haven't. 18Kt perhaps, but not 24Kt. As you say, it's too soft. Perhaps you might have seen jewelery with 24Kt plating.
I have personally seen too many SPAM emails that were sent using compromised Yahoo accounts, and yes -- they really were handled by Yahoo's servers (and, no, I don't have a Yahoo account -- it wasn't my account that was compromised).
Can someone explain why it's reasonable to have patents and copyrights continue to exist after the original author is dead?
Imagine that you create something and then die the next day. You and your heirs will never get any reward for your creation. Now imagine that you die and, instead of passing your house and posessions to your heirs, the government takes it all. Ultimately, ownership of anything (physical or intellectual) is possible only because laws allow you to own it.
The real problem with copyright is not that they continue to exist after the author is dead, but that the terms are far too long. Patents are not too long, but are granted for things that are obvious and not inventive.
Sorry, but no. My tests showed that the amount of memory you can malloc() is dependent on the values in/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio and/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
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Any excuse to limit the usage by high-bandwidth users. Comcast would be much happier (and profitable) if, despite all the adverts about the speed Comcast offers, you used your connection only to check your email a few times per day. No streaming media, etc..
Did you miss the point where the government had screwed up? I don't suppose you read TFA, so I will excerpt it for you:
So, the government screwed up, producing an incorrect form, refused to correct the form, then confiscated the boat when he refused to sign the incorrect form (while signing it would probably have been a felony) and somehow he doesn't have the right to be upset?
If your email address is: <firstname>.<lastname>@yourdomain.com (as many are), it isn't too difficult for the phisher to guess the first and lames.
I have worked in the UK, Italy, France and the USA. I have worked for British, European and American companies.
I have not noticed a significant difference in how hard people work. Yes, those supposedly lazy Italians worked hard. They enjoyed their lunch, but got back to work promptly.
Yes, the French and Italians do take long vacations, but so do the Germans, which makes me think that your story is BS.
Let's look at specifics:
Are you aware of time zones and that Europe is 7-9 hours ahead of the USA (and more for Alaska/Hawaii)? So when you wanted to talk to them, they had finished work for the day? I don't believe the Germans were any better at this because the Germans have a very strong ethos of separating work and home life.
Perhaps the screw-up was on your part in not making sure that the contract included 24-hr support? If indeed your story has any basis in fact.
Nope. That's a configuration option. You can set the output directory to be anywhere you want.
There are probably thousands of scripts around the world that ping 8.8.8.8 or some other well known Google IP address on a regular basis to test their Internet connectivity. For example, this script
People need to stop buying clear honey, which cannot be traced using traditional methods. The pollen allows honey to be traced, but clear honey doesn't contain any pollen.
But seriously, don't buy clear honey. Honey can be traced by the pollen, which has been removed in clear honey.
Check out the reviews of the Windows Phone app. When a newpaper's app has obvious misspellings that are uncorrected for over a year, it doesn't reflect well on that newpaper's mobile team.
I just paid my car's annual tax through the DMV website. I'm struggling to reconcile this with the description of the "40 year old antiquated" IT system.
The reporter notes that different wheels and tires were fitted to the car. Perhaps there is an adjustment that can be made to account for different size tires and the technicians who made the adjustment got it wrong?
He relied on an inaccurate speedometer while the logs are based on GPS?
Someone should introduce Tesla's PR team to Barbra Streisand. This and the whole Top Gear issue should never have happened because they should have either controlled the review more (probably not allowed by Top Gear), or simply not made the cars available for review.
Pot, meet kettle. The data that Musk has refers to the NYT review. GP refers to the Top Gear review.
Wow, did you get that rant out of Tesla's PR department because just about every claim you made was not true. Tesla's claims about the NYT article appear to have validity, but the about the Top Gear review -- no.
I think that it is often more than cost -- people just don't think it is possible to repair laptops at any price. For example, there was an episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" during which some coffee was spilled into the laptop that one of the teams had been using to create materials for their project. Instead of calling in someone in to recover the data (it might simply have been an issue of moving the hard drive to another machine), they abandoned that work and attempted to re-create it with what little time they had left. I doubt that money was an issue in that situation.
There was also a element of strawman in Tesla's complaints about the Top Gear review. Watch the video and you will see that Clarkson does not say that the car ran its batteries flat. Top Gear said that, driving on the track, they way they were doing it *would* run the batteries down in 55 miles. A claim that Tesla did not dispute. There was a real problem with the brakes on one of the cars -- the brakes did not fail completely, but again, Tesla did not dispute the partial failure.
Let's not forget that in the libel-lawsuit capital of the world, Tesla's libel suit was switftly dismissed.
When have you seen a 24Kt gold ring? Answer, you haven't. 18Kt perhaps, but not 24Kt. As you say, it's too soft. Perhaps you might have seen jewelery with 24Kt plating.
Amount of RAM has a significant effect on battery life. It's not just a cost issue.
There is another reason for these cards: to avoid the legally-mandated consumer protection that exists for credit cards.
Since when were whiteboards old-fashioned? I remember chalkboards. Now get off my lawn!
I have personally seen too many SPAM emails that were sent using compromised Yahoo accounts, and yes -- they really were handled by Yahoo's servers (and, no, I don't have a Yahoo account -- it wasn't my account that was compromised).
Imagine that you create something and then die the next day. You and your heirs will never get any reward for your creation. Now imagine that you die and, instead of passing your house and posessions to your heirs, the government takes it all. Ultimately, ownership of anything (physical or intellectual) is possible only because laws allow you to own it.
The real problem with copyright is not that they continue to exist after the author is dead, but that the terms are far too long. Patents are not too long, but are granted for things that are obvious and not inventive.
Sorry, but no. My tests showed that the amount of memory you can malloc() is dependent on the values in /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory