I don't believe that repair will always work, especially on a system that has had a few service packs installed. I've seen a "repair" turn a system that was malfunctioning into one that would not boot.
Secondly, what does repair do to security? In my experience, after a repair, the system does not require all the security patches to be re-installed, yet the repair must have overwritten some files that had been patched for security fixes. In other words, some of the security patches have been rolled back, yet the system does not apparently detect this.
I wonder what user agent this uses and what the legitimacy would be of data used by authorities if either the user agent was spoofed or if it ignored robots.txt?
Using Gonzales' logic, we can safely say that there is no right to bear arms (the second amendment is also written in the negative). So now the government can come and collect all those pesky weapons that people have.
The problem is communicating that to marketing, sales, and senior management. To them it's money -- it is difficult to convey what the real cost is
What you need is a system to track support call times by customer name. If you could show that certain customers cost more than the revenue they bring in, senior management would quickly understand.
Marketing is different, since they probably have goals that don't reflect these one-percenters.
Primarily it becomes an issue of volume. One call to a customer with an abusive machine will eat up the profit from that customer for months. You can't just call them and say "fix it", you have to handhold them through the process or you will almost certainly lose their revenue altogether.
Is it such a bad thing to lose them as customers? After all they are probably using an excessive amount of bandwidth. They probably need more than average handholding for any support.
Here is someone who could easily afford their own computer. She should keep her private data on her own computer, not her work computer. What's so hard to understand about that?
Even if her own computer is too expensive for her, how much does a USB key cost these days? Combined with Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable (and others) this provides a simple and elegant solution.
Prosecutors do not allege vote fraud or that the mishandling of the recount affected the outcome of the presidential election.
That's why it's not a big deal. But it doesn't stop you or the editors from making a mountain out of a molehill.
Just because prosecutors do not allege it does not remove the possibility that the election result would have been different if a proper recount had been held.
They are prosecuting these people and probably feel that any allegations about changes to the election result would only confuse the issue. Furthermore, they probably don't have admissable evidence to support such an allegation.
Oh great, so you think the solution is ultra-hardcore DRM designed to lock up media forever,
The only reason DRM works is because circumventing it is illegal. Any DRM that is not backed up by such laws will be quickly broken. Also, as other posters have mentioned, consumers won't accept an "ultra-hardcore DRM". Today, customers accept lightweight DRM schemes because they don't interfere significantly with their use.
and when you say "give people" you mean "give the people they have sold the device to" right? Cause that's the only people to which they have given the binaries
What is it about the "any third party" in "Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party" from 3.b of GPL Version 2 that you don't understand?
I know this might be a radical concept, but if you RTFA, you will see that TFA attempts to make the tie. Essentially, the point is that Cisco is being hypocritical in accusing Apple over iPhone trademarks, while violating copyights on the Cisco's iPhone.
Firstly, you have to understand that these are statistical measures, which don't apply to individual cases.
Mean time to first failure is much more likely to be associated with end of life -- it would be a combination of lifetime measurements and MTBF, but MTBF is typically tiny component in that calculation.
For disk drives, unless you are running a data centre, the MTBF is an irrelevant piece of information. What is much more important is the expected lifetime, which HDD manufacturers do not normally quote. One can get an indication of this from their warranty length -- 5 years in Seagate's case.
Think of it this way: MTBF represents failure rate only during the normal lifetime. Once the normal lifetime has passed, MTBF has no meaning.
For something that isn't repairable, surely they are related? Lifetime = alpha * MTBF, where alpha is some number less than one?
It's a common misconception that MTBF is related to lifetime. In fact they are separate parameters.
Failure rates of electronic and other components are usually modelled as a "bathtub". In this model, there is an initial high rate of failures, which rapidly drops off. This is the "infant mortality" period. Then there is a period where there is a low rate of random failures. MTBF refers to the failure rate during this period. Finally, the failure rate increases as the device reaches end of life. In other words, wearout.
So, as you can see, end of life is related to wear functions, while MTBF is related only to random failures during the device's normal life expectancy.
Good point, but I would be very surprised if the trooper isn't "exempt from overtime" otherwise known as salaried.
I doubt that he is non-exempt for a couple of reasons: 1. Police like to get overtime, it contributes a large amount to their income and they have powerful unions to keep it that way. 2. To be exempt, your job must meet certain criteria, which I believe writing tickets would fail.
I would think that if the state claims the software as its own, he would have a pretty good claim for overtime. All those hours working on the program for the state's benefit -- well, he should be compensated.
Unless they provided a license agreement prior to download then redistribution would be legal. Public Domain
Err.... No. Nothing makes it public domain. It's as if you bought a copy of a book. You did not sign a license agreement, but you are still not entitled to make copies of the book.
In this case, the copyright holders gave you permission to download, but unless you can show that they also gave you permission to upload, you may be SOL. One might be able to argue that simply by making it available on bittorrent, there was implicit permission to upload, since the download/upload capability is built into the protocol, or, rather than permission, that the MPAA is estopped from pursuing uploaders due to their own actions with respect to making the content available via bittorrent.
Contrary to that, surely if it is copyrighted content then the MPAA is making the content available to you. Is it really illegal to download something from the copyright owner if they make it available publicly with no license to agree to prior to download?
But what about the uploads that the downloaders send to other bittorrent users?
In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base.
Or you just proved that the candidate does not perform well in environments that are unrelated to actual job requirement. Really: "team technical interview"? Most programmer positions require an analytical mind which is unrelated to the quick-fire response situations most interviews (and especially team interviews) create.
Not clear at all. We use a Dish DVR. It's basically an embedded , Linux-based tivo-like appliance. It saves all the shows we want, plays them anytime I want on either of my TVs, and it's ridiculously easy to use. Only two features should be added:
1) Ability to stream saved shows over my local LAN.
Tivo supports this. I also recently downloaded software that will strip out the DRM from the.tivo files and turn them into regular mpeg files.
2) Ability to save videos from other sources to the DVR over the LAN.
Tivo supports this.
In addition, Tivo supports an interface to applications running on the PC, and there is software that will stream music, get weather, travel info, to your Tivo.
The Bay Bridge is an interesing parallel -- the delays have been caused by unclear and shifting requirements (which are focussed on the aesthetics). These changing requirements have led to delays and cost overruns.
$52.50 is not worth the hours it would take me to get it. I can use that time for something more productive with a better pay rate.
Until enough people do this and Dell decides that it is such a waste of its resources that Dell changes its policies and sells naked home PCs at a price that is discounted from the "Windows included" price.
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I don't believe that repair will always work, especially on a system that has had a few service packs installed. I've seen a "repair" turn a system that was malfunctioning into one that would not boot.
Secondly, what does repair do to security? In my experience, after a repair, the system does not require all the security patches to be re-installed, yet the repair must have overwritten some files that had been patched for security fixes. In other words, some of the security patches have been rolled back, yet the system does not apparently detect this.
I wonder what user agent this uses and what the legitimacy would be of data used by authorities if either the user agent was spoofed or if it ignored robots.txt?
... until Hangul don't run! (there goes my karma!)
Using Gonzales' logic, we can safely say that there is no right to bear arms (the second amendment is also written in the negative). So now the government can come and collect all those pesky weapons that people have.
Marketing is different, since they probably have goals that don't reflect these one-percenters.
Here is someone who could easily afford their own computer. She should keep her private data on her own computer, not her work computer. What's so hard to understand about that?
Even if her own computer is too expensive for her, how much does a USB key cost these days? Combined with Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable (and others) this provides a simple and elegant solution.
They are prosecuting these people and probably feel that any allegations about changes to the election result would only confuse the issue. Furthermore, they probably don't have admissable evidence to support such an allegation.
I know this might be a radical concept, but if you RTFA, you will see that TFA attempts to make the tie. Essentially, the point is that Cisco is being hypocritical in accusing Apple over iPhone trademarks, while violating copyights on the Cisco's iPhone.
Firstly, you have to understand that these are statistical measures, which don't apply to individual cases.
Mean time to first failure is much more likely to be associated with end of life -- it would be a combination of lifetime measurements and MTBF, but MTBF is typically tiny component in that calculation.
For disk drives, unless you are running a data centre, the MTBF is an irrelevant piece of information. What is much more important is the expected lifetime, which HDD manufacturers do not normally quote. One can get an indication of this from their warranty length -- 5 years in Seagate's case.
Think of it this way: MTBF represents failure rate only during the normal lifetime. Once the normal lifetime has passed, MTBF has no meaning.
Failure rates of electronic and other components are usually modelled as a "bathtub". In this model, there is an initial high rate of failures, which rapidly drops off. This is the "infant mortality" period. Then there is a period where there is a low rate of random failures. MTBF refers to the failure rate during this period. Finally, the failure rate increases as the device reaches end of life. In other words, wearout.
So, as you can see, end of life is related to wear functions, while MTBF is related only to random failures during the device's normal life expectancy.
I would think that if the state claims the software as its own, he would have a pretty good claim for overtime. All those hours working on the program for the state's benefit -- well, he should be compensated.
In this case, the copyright holders gave you permission to download, but unless you can show that they also gave you permission to upload, you may be SOL. One might be able to argue that simply by making it available on bittorrent, there was implicit permission to upload, since the download/upload capability is built into the protocol, or, rather than permission, that the MPAA is estopped from pursuing uploaders due to their own actions with respect to making the content available via bittorrent.
Tivo supports this.
In addition, Tivo supports an interface to applications running on the PC, and there is software that will stream music, get weather, travel info, to your Tivo.
The Bay Bridge is an interesing parallel -- the delays have been caused by unclear and shifting requirements (which are focussed on the aesthetics). These changing requirements have led to delays and cost overruns.
Apparently, someone in Brazil noticed this last November