Whoops, knew I forgot to list something--yeah, LT lacks 3D. Given that we only use acad for 2D anyway (PDS and/or microstation for 3D) it rather easily slips the mind, despite it being THE major difference between acad and LT.
BTW, I work for these guys. You might know (of) us given your industry.
AutoCAD costs $700 per seat? Prices I've seen on the web (from legitimate dealers) is in the thousands of dollars US for ACAD 2005.
Actually, AutoCAD LT does cost only $700 a seat (compared to the $3-4k for the "full" version.) The major differences are LT lacks VBA support and batch plotting.
The loan isn't neccessarily the bad part though, it is how they spend the money like water which causes the problems.
The record company is lends the artist money which the artist uses to record their albumnm, and the record company further uses for promotion. After all this money is spent, the record company ends up owning the finished product!
Imagine going to the bank so you could buy a house. The bank gives you a mortgage with a 30 year term. At the end of the term, after you've paid off the house, instead of giving you clear title, the bank instead says "Thanks for the house."
While the artist truly does enter into these agreements of their own accord, the only possible words I can use to describe the above are "slavery," or at best "indentured servitude."
Just what Microsoft needs to strengthen it's monopoly: even more great applications on Windows
Evolution provides Exchange Server connectivity. If Evolution becomes the mail client of choice in an organization, that's one less reason for Windows on the desktop in that organization (though, ironically, the backoffice Windows becomes more entrenched.)
Chicago has an 8.75% sales tax, which is the worst I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be other locations with a bit more.
Tennessee has a 7% state sales tax, with counties and localities allowed to tack on up to 2.75% more. In most localities, they tack on the fullest amount allowed for by law, so most places in the state you're looking at 9.75%
Still, we have no state income tax, so it does balance out a bit.
First of all, who cares about filing online? If you're chronically late or obessive about filing right away, I suppose online filing is something you can't do without. However, I don't mind mailing my forms.
I'm the opposite of what you suggest--I do my taxes as early as possible. Usually the first week of February. I also have efiled for the last four years. Why? Speed. I get whatever money the government owes me back well before you do with your paper return. Last year it was 13 days from the time I filed the return until the money was sitting, cleared, in my checking account.
The previous crew were Gennady Padalka (RN3DT) and Edward "Fat Mike" Fincke (KE5AIT).
Let me get this straight... they had a guy named Fat Mike aboard, and it took them this freaking long to determine that the previous crew ate the missing food?! One would think the obvious first question would be, "Hey Fat Mike, did you eat all the food on the ISS?"
It's an intresting concept, but it probably causes their IT managers to pull their hair out.
Interesting question: Would you rather have an easy(ier) job with a company that loses billions of dollars a year, or a hard(er) job with a company that actually makes money and is going to be around for the next five years?
Me, I'd choose the later. I'd rather be bald than working for a company with no future.
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Shouldn't our top physicists be working on something more important that Santa Claus?
Merry Christmas to you, too.
Reading through all the linked stories in this article, the most amusing to me is the NORAD one. They've been doing it for half a century now, and it all started out because of a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper. After the first "mistake" year they took the ball and ran with it.
If the guys who were watching for Soviet missiles in a time when such things were a distinct possibility can celebrate christmas in their own way, and actually share that spirit with anyone and everyone--to such an extent that it's become an institution in an environment where humor isn't exactly appreciated--then maybe, just maybe, you can lighten up a bit and join in with the rest of us.
To the guys at NORAD, and in the NOC, and sitting in the lab developing Santa's ion shield: Thanks for the Christmas cheer, and right back at you!
...or would you not purchase products from most of those companies anyway? A camcorder from Fisher...no thanks! Who the hell is Concord anyway? GiGaFast? Now there's a name brand!;)
I agree completely! Give me a name brand Sorny, Magnetbox, or Panaphonics any day!
The Supreme Court of the United States indicated in its Eldred v. Ashcroft opinion that the Court isn't in the mood to to legislate from the bench, that it's Congress's job to sort out the scope of copyright law so long as there's a semblance of a right of fair use preserved to the people.
I wouldn't expect Eldren v. Ashcroft to even play into this at all, because it doesn't involv eany of the issues raised therein. The courts don't have the power to decide what methods are or should be used to protect "intellectual property." That's clearly up to congress, and I would expect any reasonable judge to toss this on that alone.
I predict a huge upswing in the popularity of NCAA-based games. Or maybe arena league;)
Don't count on it. A significant number of NCAA bowl games happen in NFL stadiums. Without RingTFA, and going entirely off the blurb (which says the agreement guarantees EA exclusive rights to stadiums) this would seem to sink NCAA games, too--at least any with post season play that want to be "realistic"
9/11 was the single largest failure of US security agencies in history
Not to pick nits or anything, but the single largest failure of US security agencies would probably be Pearl Harbor. We were actually reading the Japanese communications at the time.
Yeah, just google for "buckling spring keyboards" and you'll find a lot of people feel the same way you and I do. The problem is, I'm a pretty dedicated Mac user and I've never been able to find a USB buckling spring keyboard. If I had one, I'd never let it go.
Have you considered a PS/2 -> USB converter? Not being a Mac guy myself, I don't know whether or not OS X supports such a device (and I doubt the various manufacturers offer Mac drivers if Apple doesn't) but it would definitely be worth investigating in your case.
Current resistance in Irak is not terrorism, as it targets essentially police and occupying forces.
Are you fucking kidding me?
To be sure, the American/British forces and their allies, along with the Iraqi police and armed forces are targets--but so, it seems, is everybody else. Car bombs blowing up civilians, international aid workers kidnapped and shot, foreign workers trying to rebuild power plants and communications kidnapped and decapitated... and the list goes on.
Certainly there are SOME groups in Iraq that constitute "freedom fighters" but there are most assuredly others who do earn the "terrorist" label.
Something similar happens with piping design at times. For example, a big rush from management ("look busy") to do detail engineering before certified vendor drawings and specifications are received.
I work for one of the companies that your company likely sources components from (piping support manufacturer) and I have to say that from our end things look pretty similar--though in our case, it's not our management wanting engineering done before the proper data is received, it's our customers.
Is that so? You've done so well in places likes Iraq, Somalia, and Vietnam after all. Go ahead, and pat yourself on the back.
To be fair, he did say "conventional" forces. What happened in Iraq, Somalia, and Vietnam fits his definition. Recall that in 1991 and more recently, the Iraqi army was destroyed as a fighting force with extremely few--that is to say less than 100--American casualties. Even in Vietnam, conventional NVA forces took a serious beating. Somalia? In the events described in "Blackhawk Down" the US lost 18 soldies, inclusive of the two aircrews at the center of the battle. The Somali militia opposing them--despite outnumbering the Americans by at least 20:1--had over 500 killed, and over a thousand more wounded.
No, pound for pound and in a pitched battle, the US military is significantly ahead of every other fighting force in the world--Guderian would be proud of how well we've learned his lessons and improved upon them. However, the US military isn't (despite what "the US military is going to take over the world" types would have you believe) designed to be an army of occupation--it's designed to kill people and break things, not to be a police force.
So, just like Vietnam, we're now facing a highly motivated adversary who--despite not having access to the same technology as US forces, and despite dying in droves compared to the casualties they can inflict upon us--is quite capable of winning the war despite not being able to win the battles. Despite the massive culture of special ops we've developed since Vietnam, we still don't seem to be much better at being the defensive side in a guerilla war.
So fellow Canadians, please, no more "we are so much better" posts. Let the Americans just forget about us, or at least let them go back to thinking of us as a bunch of hicks, so we can pursue our way of life peacefully. Cheers.
I'm an American, and a nominally conservative one at that. That said, I love your nation and I don't want to forget about it. Canada was a great friend to the United States during the Cold War. If not for the joint NORAD command and the DEW line, who knows whether or not my nation would have been nuked into oblivion by Soviet bombers.
Most of us down here remember our traditional allies, even when they choose to go a different path than ours. We really do realize that you are our good friends. We really do realize that your soldiers (and those of our other allies like the French, the Germans, the Brits, the Aussies, etc) are there with ours in Afghanistan.
It's a rather vocal minority that comprise the archetypical ignorant, obnoxious Americans that you're thinking of--you know, the ones that come up with labels like "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" because the French didn't want to be involved in Iraq. The rest of us aren't quite so bad.
Go look at the monitors on the Best Buy website, and then try the monitors on the Circuit City website. You'll notice something amazing... They have practically none in common. Best Buy sells the cheapest, junkiest brands they can, and most other stores have higher standards.
Had you actually gone to both websites, you would have noticed that they DO have a large number of models in common, and that Circuit City has its own fine selection of crap brands, too.
I can't believe I'm arguing with someone who is praising the merits of one big box retailer over another. I bet you also get into holy wars about Lowes vs. Home Depot, or K-Mart vs. Walmart vs. Target. Here's a hint: they're all the same.
Just a pit-nick; AFAIK FreeType is distributed under a license which does not require redistribution of source.
I know this is slashdot, and all, but maybe you should read what you're linking to:
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By removing copyright notices and not complying with the documentation requirement stating that their "product" is based on Freetype, they most certainly are violating the rights of the Freetype team, whether or not they're distributing source.
But in any case: you should verify a selected sample of the machines' votes in every polling station to make sure that they are giving reasonable numbers. This is just the application of industry-standard quality control procedures to voting machines. It boggles my mind that electronic voting was ever considered without them.
I agree with you whole heartedly. But what REALLY boggles the mind isn't that this was never considered, but rather that people are fighting so damn hard to prevent it from happening!
For the average operator it seems that a simple manual of arms leads to better utilization given the same ammount of training on more complex designs.
It's hard to argue with the above--I agree, given the same amount of time, your average person will learn more when faced with an easier task than a harder one.
OTOH, I don't think the 1911 requires the level of commitment you do. Contrary to what my cheerleading here implies, I'm not a 1911 guy--believe it or not, I don't even own one and I've only fired one a handful of times. That said, it didn't take long at all to learn how to properly handle one. The idea of wiping off the safety as the gun was coming up wasn't particularly hard to grasp and only took a few minutes before it was second nature. Indeed, the hard part of the 1911 IMHO is getting used to the idea that the weapon isn't "safe" until you engage the manual safety. (DAOs and Glocks make such an idea a foreign concept.:)
And remember one last thing: despite the fact that the 1911 has of late become the realm of the spec ops guys, it was the standard issue sidearm of our military for over three quarters of a century. Those soldiers didn't have much more in the way of pistol training than the police officers and their revolvers, but by all accounts the weapon was a great success. It was replaced only because the existing stock of them was largely old and worn out, and since NATO wanted us to come into line with the 9mm standard it would be politically problematic to replace the 1911 with more 1911s.
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Whoops, knew I forgot to list something--yeah, LT lacks 3D. Given that we only use acad for 2D anyway (PDS and/or microstation for 3D) it rather easily slips the mind, despite it being THE major difference between acad and LT.
BTW, I work for these guys. You might know (of) us given your industry.
AutoCAD costs $700 per seat? Prices I've seen on the web (from legitimate dealers) is in the thousands of dollars US for ACAD 2005.
Actually, AutoCAD LT does cost only $700 a seat (compared to the $3-4k for the "full" version.) The major differences are LT lacks VBA support and batch plotting.
The loan isn't neccessarily the bad part though, it is how they spend the money like water which causes the problems.
The record company is lends the artist money which the artist uses to record their albumnm, and the record company further uses for promotion. After all this money is spent, the record company ends up owning the finished product!
Imagine going to the bank so you could buy a house. The bank gives you a mortgage with a 30 year term. At the end of the term, after you've paid off the house, instead of giving you clear title, the bank instead says "Thanks for the house."
While the artist truly does enter into these agreements of their own accord, the only possible words I can use to describe the above are "slavery," or at best "indentured servitude."
Just what Microsoft needs to strengthen it's monopoly: even more great applications on Windows
Evolution provides Exchange Server connectivity. If Evolution becomes the mail client of choice in an organization, that's one less reason for Windows on the desktop in that organization (though, ironically, the backoffice Windows becomes more entrenched.)
Chicago has an 8.75% sales tax, which is the worst I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be other locations with a bit more.
Tennessee has a 7% state sales tax, with counties and localities allowed to tack on up to 2.75% more. In most localities, they tack on the fullest amount allowed for by law, so most places in the state you're looking at 9.75%
Still, we have no state income tax, so it does balance out a bit.
First of all, who cares about filing online? If you're chronically late or obessive about filing right away, I suppose online filing is something you can't do without. However, I don't mind mailing my forms.
I'm the opposite of what you suggest--I do my taxes as early as possible. Usually the first week of February. I also have efiled for the last four years. Why? Speed. I get whatever money the government owes me back well before you do with your paper return. Last year it was 13 days from the time I filed the return until the money was sitting, cleared, in my checking account.
The previous crew were Gennady Padalka (RN3DT) and Edward "Fat Mike" Fincke (KE5AIT).
Let me get this straight... they had a guy named Fat Mike aboard, and it took them this freaking long to determine that the previous crew ate the missing food?! One would think the obvious first question would be, "Hey Fat Mike, did you eat all the food on the ISS?"
Ocean front property in North carolina. From my front porch you can see the sea...oh hell... is that what I think it is?
:)
Look on the bright side: When the wave hits, I'll have some ocean front property in Tennessee. Thanks, neighbor!
It's an intresting concept, but it probably causes their IT managers to pull their hair out.
Interesting question: Would you rather have an easy(ier) job with a company that loses billions of dollars a year, or a hard(er) job with a company that actually makes money and is going to be around for the next five years?
Me, I'd choose the later. I'd rather be bald than working for a company with no future.
Shouldn't our top physicists be working on something more important that Santa Claus?
Merry Christmas to you, too.
Reading through all the linked stories in this article, the most amusing to me is the NORAD one. They've been doing it for half a century now, and it all started out because of a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper. After the first "mistake" year they took the ball and ran with it.
If the guys who were watching for Soviet missiles in a time when such things were a distinct possibility can celebrate christmas in their own way, and actually share that spirit with anyone and everyone--to such an extent that it's become an institution in an environment where humor isn't exactly appreciated--then maybe, just maybe, you can lighten up a bit and join in with the rest of us.
To the guys at NORAD, and in the NOC, and sitting in the lab developing Santa's ion shield: Thanks for the Christmas cheer, and right back at you!
I agree completely! Give me a name brand Sorny, Magnetbox, or Panaphonics any day!
The Supreme Court of the United States indicated in its Eldred v. Ashcroft opinion that the Court isn't in the mood to to legislate from the bench, that it's Congress's job to sort out the scope of copyright law so long as there's a semblance of a right of fair use preserved to the people.
I wouldn't expect Eldren v. Ashcroft to even play into this at all, because it doesn't involv eany of the issues raised therein. The courts don't have the power to decide what methods are or should be used to protect "intellectual property." That's clearly up to congress, and I would expect any reasonable judge to toss this on that alone.
I predict a huge upswing in the popularity of NCAA-based games. Or maybe arena league ;)
Don't count on it. A significant number of NCAA bowl games happen in NFL stadiums. Without RingTFA, and going entirely off the blurb (which says the agreement guarantees EA exclusive rights to stadiums) this would seem to sink NCAA games, too--at least any with post season play that want to be "realistic"
Although, I wonder exactly what comes with "11 Pipers Piping"...
Kilts. Lots of kilts.
9/11 was the single largest failure of US security agencies in history
Not to pick nits or anything, but the single largest failure of US security agencies would probably be Pearl Harbor. We were actually reading the Japanese communications at the time.
Yeah, just google for "buckling spring keyboards" and you'll find a lot of people feel the same way you and I do. The problem is, I'm a pretty dedicated Mac user and I've never been able to find a USB buckling spring keyboard. If I had one, I'd never let it go.
Have you considered a PS/2 -> USB converter? Not being a Mac guy myself, I don't know whether or not OS X supports such a device (and I doubt the various manufacturers offer Mac drivers if Apple doesn't) but it would definitely be worth investigating in your case.
Current resistance in Irak is not terrorism, as it targets essentially police and occupying forces.
Are you fucking kidding me?
To be sure, the American/British forces and their allies, along with the Iraqi police and armed forces are targets--but so, it seems, is everybody else. Car bombs blowing up civilians, international aid workers kidnapped and shot, foreign workers trying to rebuild power plants and communications kidnapped and decapitated... and the list goes on.
Certainly there are SOME groups in Iraq that constitute "freedom fighters" but there are most assuredly others who do earn the "terrorist" label.
Something similar happens with piping design at times. For example, a big rush from management ("look busy") to do detail engineering before certified vendor drawings and specifications are received.
I work for one of the companies that your company likely sources components from (piping support manufacturer) and I have to say that from our end things look pretty similar--though in our case, it's not our management wanting engineering done before the proper data is received, it's our customers.
Is that so? You've done so well in places likes Iraq, Somalia, and Vietnam after all. Go ahead, and pat yourself on the back.
To be fair, he did say "conventional" forces. What happened in Iraq, Somalia, and Vietnam fits his definition. Recall that in 1991 and more recently, the Iraqi army was destroyed as a fighting force with extremely few--that is to say less than 100--American casualties. Even in Vietnam, conventional NVA forces took a serious beating. Somalia? In the events described in "Blackhawk Down" the US lost 18 soldies, inclusive of the two aircrews at the center of the battle. The Somali militia opposing them--despite outnumbering the Americans by at least 20:1--had over 500 killed, and over a thousand more wounded.
No, pound for pound and in a pitched battle, the US military is significantly ahead of every other fighting force in the world--Guderian would be proud of how well we've learned his lessons and improved upon them. However, the US military isn't (despite what "the US military is going to take over the world" types would have you believe) designed to be an army of occupation--it's designed to kill people and break things, not to be a police force.
So, just like Vietnam, we're now facing a highly motivated adversary who--despite not having access to the same technology as US forces, and despite dying in droves compared to the casualties they can inflict upon us--is quite capable of winning the war despite not being able to win the battles. Despite the massive culture of special ops we've developed since Vietnam, we still don't seem to be much better at being the defensive side in a guerilla war.
So fellow Canadians, please, no more "we are so much better" posts. Let the Americans just forget about us, or at least let them go back to thinking of us as a bunch of hicks, so we can pursue our way of life peacefully. Cheers.
I'm an American, and a nominally conservative one at that. That said, I love your nation and I don't want to forget about it. Canada was a great friend to the United States during the Cold War. If not for the joint NORAD command and the DEW line, who knows whether or not my nation would have been nuked into oblivion by Soviet bombers.
Most of us down here remember our traditional allies, even when they choose to go a different path than ours. We really do realize that you are our good friends. We really do realize that your soldiers (and those of our other allies like the French, the Germans, the Brits, the Aussies, etc) are there with ours in Afghanistan.
It's a rather vocal minority that comprise the archetypical ignorant, obnoxious Americans that you're thinking of--you know, the ones that come up with labels like "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" because the French didn't want to be involved in Iraq. The rest of us aren't quite so bad.
Haven't read further down yet, but here's hoping you had the decency to appologize to them.
Go look at the monitors on the Best Buy website, and then try the monitors on the Circuit City website. You'll notice something amazing... They have practically none in common. Best Buy sells the cheapest, junkiest brands they can, and most other stores have higher standards.
Had you actually gone to both websites, you would have noticed that they DO have a large number of models in common, and that Circuit City has its own fine selection of crap brands, too.
I can't believe I'm arguing with someone who is praising the merits of one big box retailer over another. I bet you also get into holy wars about Lowes vs. Home Depot, or K-Mart vs. Walmart vs. Target. Here's a hint: they're all the same.
I know this is slashdot, and all, but maybe you should read what you're linking to:
By removing copyright notices and not complying with the documentation requirement stating that their "product" is based on Freetype, they most certainly are violating the rights of the Freetype team, whether or not they're distributing source.
But in any case: you should verify a selected sample of the machines' votes in every polling station to make sure that they are giving reasonable numbers. This is just the application of industry-standard quality control procedures to voting machines. It boggles my mind that electronic voting was ever considered without them.
I agree with you whole heartedly. But what REALLY boggles the mind isn't that this was never considered, but rather that people are fighting so damn hard to prevent it from happening!
For the average operator it seems that a simple manual of arms leads to better utilization given the same ammount of training on more complex designs.
:)
It's hard to argue with the above--I agree, given the same amount of time, your average person will learn more when faced with an easier task than a harder one.
OTOH, I don't think the 1911 requires the level of commitment you do. Contrary to what my cheerleading here implies, I'm not a 1911 guy--believe it or not, I don't even own one and I've only fired one a handful of times. That said, it didn't take long at all to learn how to properly handle one. The idea of wiping off the safety as the gun was coming up wasn't particularly hard to grasp and only took a few minutes before it was second nature. Indeed, the hard part of the 1911 IMHO is getting used to the idea that the weapon isn't "safe" until you engage the manual safety. (DAOs and Glocks make such an idea a foreign concept.
And remember one last thing: despite the fact that the 1911 has of late become the realm of the spec ops guys, it was the standard issue sidearm of our military for over three quarters of a century. Those soldiers didn't have much more in the way of pistol training than the police officers and their revolvers, but by all accounts the weapon was a great success. It was replaced only because the existing stock of them was largely old and worn out, and since NATO wanted us to come into line with the 9mm standard it would be politically problematic to replace the 1911 with more 1911s.