I'll back this up. Here in germany I had a minor dispute with an ex-landlord, who sued me for 3.5 months rent. Based on German law (which, it turned out, I was better able to research than either my lawyer or the judge) she was only entitled to 1 month. I pointed this out to the judge and he ordered me to pay the rent for the one month and stated that we had to split the legal costs (as is normal practice). I had to front 2/7 of the cost (1/3.5) and she the rest. It took me a while to figure out that that was how they came to my share of the cost, which was simply listed in euros, but it seemed pretty fair.
-Steve
Sorry to respond to my own post, but upon reading the article, I found that this sentence:
'A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the [edit: Nantucket] Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, "Sir, you can't use the Internet outside the library."'
indicates that it happened in Nantucket. Looks like sometimes it does pay to read the article.
Ok, I'll admit up front I didn't read the article. I did, however, do a quick google search and found that the Keith Shaw listed on this page: http://www.nwfusion.com/events/wlan/index.html is a journalist who has WiFi knowledge. If you do a reverse lookup on the contact number for the organizers at the bottom of the page it turns our that he's probably in MARLBORO, Massachusetts.
Anybody feel like calling the cops there to find out if this is the case and what their side of the story is?
I haven't seen this posted yet, so I'll go ahead and toss in my 2 cents.
Whereas this might not be the case for most people, since I'm living abroad right now, it makes sense to have both. I use the mobile phone as you normally would, however, if I want to place an international call, I make sure to do this from home. It's a hell of a lot cheaper. Enough so that it makes it worth it to pay the monthly costs of the landline.
Hey coward, you've just listed several people who care more about principals than money. Fact is that traditionally rebulicans favour fiscal policy that favors the rich, which in theory promotes the industrious people (they must be industrious since they are wealthy, right?) to reinvest and create jobs for the 'little people.' The democrats on the other hand have the reputation of favoring social programs and using taxes as a means for redistribution of the wealth (i.e. take from the rich and give to the poor). Now, if you were rich, which would you favor? Being taxed extra hard by the government to give the money to the poor, or just keep that money and maybe invest it if you feel like it to make you even more money. If you look at the contribution statistics you've quoted, they may well be correct. There are probably just a few wealthy democrats that vote their principles in comparison to the numerous (upper)middle class republicans who vote with their checkbooks, but I'd be willing to wager that the large majority of democratic votes come from the lower class who can't even afford to contribute. That pretty much sums up the myth (i.e. well recognized facts, and admitted policies from both sides) and why your selective few argument is mostly a read herring will be left as an exercise to the reader.
I'll play the devil's advocate to the devil's advocate.
If you assume that the criminal in question is a potential repeat offender, i.e. 'he did it once, he can do it again', and you assume that there's a chance that the next time you could be on the receiving end of the crime, then it follows that although the police are, in fact, reacting to criminal behaviour in the past, they are also potentially preventing criminal behaviour in the future, and thus protecting you.
Peter: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's just that I just don't care.
Bob Porter; Don't, don't care?
Peter: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now, if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime. So where's the motivation?
Looks like we need capitalist rewards to incentivise TPS reports compliance...;-)
"IBM has a broader agenda--undermining Bill Gates' company in the battle for a new $21 billion market for Web-linked software."
What I didn't like is that they didn't really focus on this new industry at all. After reading the slashdot summary, I had hoped it would shed more light on how web services in both companies were going to unfold. I've read the hype about this and am really curious who the players are going to be and more importantly, how they're really going to cash in on it.
Alas, it just turned out to be another IBM vs. Microsoft article with a Linux vs. windows focus. Nothing really earth shattering there...
"A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour."
Living in Germany I read 'dieter' as 'deeh ter' and pictured this large, hairy guy I know named Dieter stepping on a scale every half hour. Needless to say, this would also be pointless, probably even more so than a person trying to lose weight.;-)
"(2) Use a pay phone. Not very convenient, costs 25 or 35 cents
depending, but it cannot be traced back to your house in any way,
not even by *57. Not even if the person who you call has Mulder and
Scully hanging over your shoulder trying to get an FBI trace (sic).
Janet Reno himself couldn't subpoena your identity.
Lots of western european countries have laws in place to protect smaller companies, such as retail stores. Try going shopping for a TV on a sunday afternoon in even a city like Zurich. in 2000, it was not really that possible. AFIK it's still the same in Germany.
I'm currently working at a major software company in Germany and I can say that this is still mostly the case. But I'll go one step further and say that this doesn't just apply to TVs. It's embedded in the mentality here and at the international software company I work, most people work 9 to 6, which is considered by most normal people to be really long. This tends to piss me off sometimes (such as when I bust my ass to get a job done, like I'm doing right now -got here at 7:30am and it's currently 8:30pm), but other times I really like being able to leave at 6 and not feel bad about it. Just my two slightly off topic cents.
Even if they don't have a reverse, couldn't the one that you stated was 'buried', just make another turn back to the original course after the first has passed and continue out the other end? Seems like this would be logical, and maybe even allow more tunnel traffic as trains could pass each other at this spot as well...
I live in Germany too, and as far as I know it's still legal (or better, not illegal) to download files off of P2P networks, etc.. There is legislation currently under discussion to do away with this, but it's not finalized yet. My advice to you is to just take the songs you want and if you like them and don't want to feel guilty, kick back a few bucks directly to the artist.
There's a certain balance that needs to be maintained between advertising and content for something to hold ones attention. If the content's really good, I might be willing to suffer the advertising. If the advertising's really good, I might be willing to suffer through the super bowl. When both turn to crap, as has happened with TV in the last few years, it's almost futile to resist the impulse to switch off the set. The real question is what will happen when advertisers figure out that their captive audience is now in a different media. Hopefully they won't follow, or the video game industry will be wise enough to ensure that content doesn't suffer. Just my knee jerk reaction, and no I didn't read the article.
"Java is not Sun's. If Sun were to crash, IBM would still do Java, as would Apple, HP, GNU etc. etc."
So shouldn't your original post have said that Java (and maybe Java users) has nothing to fear. I think Sun, as the company steering Java (JCP, I know, I know - in practice almost every spec lead I know is a Sun employee), has a lot to fear right now, and needs to very carifully have a look at what their future with respect to Java is.
"J2EE is small and easy, not large and expensive. Anyone can build JSP pages or use Servlets on a free but high-quality App server like Tomcat - this may not involve Enterprise Java Beans (the least used aspect of J2EE), but its still J2EE and it costs nothing.
I partially agree with this point. Anyone can easily download, install Tomcat, and have a light J2EE app running fairly quickly. However, we're talking enterprise software here, and most big businesses want the advanced features and support that they need to run mission critical software. It's big business and it's big money.
"How can.Net be a threat when Microsoft is struggling (making a loss!) on the server side?"
I think that's part of the point. Microsoft may be struggling to gain a foothold, but it looks like they might actually get one. As the article mentioned, decision makers often don't look past the superficial solution and as a result Microsoft might eventually overtake Sun in this space and kill Java. That doesn't seem like a contradiction to me.
"Why does Java need to be Open Source to ride the Linux revolution? High-quality Java VMs are ready for Linux.
The JVMs are ready for Linux, true. However, they are not shipped with Linux by default. A new license that would allow them to ship with the linux CD could bolster support.
"Java is the most widely requested language for development, and its use is still rapidly expanding. Sun has nothing to fear."
This just seems like a complacent, arrogant statement. Sure java is important now, but do you seriously think that things can't change? I could list example after example of how this kind of hubris has resulted in the death of companies, but I just don't feel like wasting the energy.
A friend of mine had an interesting credit card lock. She froze her CC in a block of ice in her freezer. Any time that she wanted to use it, she would have to take it out and let the ice melt first, giving her time to think about the purchase in question.
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Yes, but did you do this in Java?
I'll back this up. Here in germany I had a minor dispute with an ex-landlord, who sued me for 3.5 months rent. Based on German law (which, it turned out, I was better able to research than either my lawyer or the judge) she was only entitled to 1 month. I pointed this out to the judge and he ordered me to pay the rent for the one month and stated that we had to split the legal costs (as is normal practice). I had to front 2/7 of the cost (1/3.5) and she the rest. It took me a while to figure out that that was how they came to my share of the cost, which was simply listed in euros, but it seemed pretty fair. -Steve
Sorry to respond to my own post, but upon reading the article, I found that this sentence:
'A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the [edit: Nantucket] Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, "Sir, you can't use the Internet outside the library."'
indicates that it happened in Nantucket. Looks like sometimes it does pay to read the article.
Ok, I'll admit up front I didn't read the article. I did, however, do a quick google search and found that the Keith Shaw listed on this page: http://www.nwfusion.com/events/wlan/index.html is a journalist who has WiFi knowledge. If you do a reverse lookup on the contact number for the organizers at the bottom of the page it turns our that he's probably in MARLBORO, Massachusetts.
Anybody feel like calling the cops there to find out if this is the case and what their side of the story is?I haven't seen this posted yet, so I'll go ahead and toss in my 2 cents.
Whereas this might not be the case for most people, since I'm living abroad right now, it makes sense to have both. I use the mobile phone as you normally would, however, if I want to place an international call, I make sure to do this from home. It's a hell of a lot cheaper. Enough so that it makes it worth it to pay the monthly costs of the landline.
-Stevethis gets attention in countries that know what being bombed feels like, i.e. every non-American country.
umm...Pearl Harbor...
Hey coward, you've just listed several people who care more about principals than money. Fact is that traditionally rebulicans favour fiscal policy that favors the rich, which in theory promotes the industrious people (they must be industrious since they are wealthy, right?) to reinvest and create jobs for the 'little people.' The democrats on the other hand have the reputation of favoring social programs and using taxes as a means for redistribution of the wealth (i.e. take from the rich and give to the poor). Now, if you were rich, which would you favor? Being taxed extra hard by the government to give the money to the poor, or just keep that money and maybe invest it if you feel like it to make you even more money. If you look at the contribution statistics you've quoted, they may well be correct. There are probably just a few wealthy democrats that vote their principles in comparison to the numerous (upper)middle class republicans who vote with their checkbooks, but I'd be willing to wager that the large majority of democratic votes come from the lower class who can't even afford to contribute. That pretty much sums up the myth (i.e. well recognized facts, and admitted policies from both sides) and why your selective few argument is mostly a read herring will be left as an exercise to the reader.
I'll play the devil's advocate to the devil's advocate.
If you assume that the criminal in question is a potential repeat offender, i.e. 'he did it once, he can do it again', and you assume that there's a chance that the next time you could be on the receiving end of the crime, then it follows that although the police are, in fact, reacting to criminal behaviour in the past, they are also potentially preventing criminal behaviour in the future, and thus protecting you.
-Steve
Peter: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's just that I just don't care.
Bob Porter; Don't, don't care?
Peter: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now, if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime. So where's the motivation?
Looks like we need capitalist rewards to incentivise TPS reports compliance...
"IBM has a broader agenda--undermining Bill Gates' company in the battle for a new $21 billion market for Web-linked software."
What I didn't like is that they didn't really focus on this new industry at all. After reading the slashdot summary, I had hoped it would shed more light on how web services in both companies were going to unfold. I've read the hype about this and am really curious who the players are going to be and more importantly, how they're really going to cash in on it.
Alas, it just turned out to be another IBM vs. Microsoft article with a Linux vs. windows focus. Nothing really earth shattering there...
"A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour."
Living in Germany I read 'dieter' as 'deeh ter' and pictured this large, hairy guy I know named Dieter stepping on a scale every half hour. Needless to say, this would also be pointless, probably even more so than a person trying to lose weight.
And in HS you usually have a whole year for calculus, whereas in college you cram it into a semester or trimester, at least that was my experience.
Sorry, had to be said...
"(2) Use a pay phone. Not very convenient, costs 25 or 35 cents depending, but it cannot be traced back to your house in any way, not even by *57. Not even if the person who you call has Mulder and Scully hanging over your shoulder trying to get an FBI trace (sic). Janet Reno himself couldn't subpoena your identity.
I loved that part.
Lots of western european countries have laws in place to protect smaller companies, such as retail stores. Try going shopping for a TV on a sunday afternoon in even a city like Zurich. in 2000, it was not really that possible. AFIK it's still the same in Germany.
I'm currently working at a major software company in Germany and I can say that this is still mostly the case. But I'll go one step further and say that this doesn't just apply to TVs. It's embedded in the mentality here and at the international software company I work, most people work 9 to 6, which is considered by most normal people to be really long. This tends to piss me off sometimes (such as when I bust my ass to get a job done, like I'm doing right now -got here at 7:30am and it's currently 8:30pm), but other times I really like being able to leave at 6 and not feel bad about it. Just my two slightly off topic cents.
I looked all over for a 404 permit, but I couldn't find one.
Even if they don't have a reverse, couldn't the one that you stated was 'buried', just make another turn back to the original course after the first has passed and continue out the other end? Seems like this would be logical, and maybe even allow more tunnel traffic as trains could pass each other at this spot as well...
Yes.
"City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups"
And this is almost news...
I live in Germany too, and as far as I know it's still legal (or better, not illegal) to download files off of P2P networks, etc.. There is legislation currently under discussion to do away with this, but it's not finalized yet. My advice to you is to just take the songs you want and if you like them and don't want to feel guilty, kick back a few bucks directly to the artist.
There's a certain balance that needs to be maintained between advertising and content for something to hold ones attention. If the content's really good, I might be willing to suffer the advertising. If the advertising's really good, I might be willing to suffer through the super bowl. When both turn to crap, as has happened with TV in the last few years, it's almost futile to resist the impulse to switch off the set. The real question is what will happen when advertisers figure out that their captive audience is now in a different media. Hopefully they won't follow, or the video game industry will be wise enough to ensure that content doesn't suffer. Just my knee jerk reaction, and no I didn't read the article.
Boy are you in the wrong forum. slashdotters are, however, representative of slashdotters.
"Java is not Sun's. If Sun were to crash, IBM would still do Java, as would Apple, HP, GNU etc. etc."
So shouldn't your original post have said that Java (and maybe Java users) has nothing to fear. I think Sun, as the company steering Java (JCP, I know, I know - in practice almost every spec lead I know is a Sun employee), has a lot to fear right now, and needs to very carifully have a look at what their future with respect to Java is.
"J2EE is small and easy, not large and expensive. Anyone can build JSP pages or use Servlets on a free but high-quality App server like Tomcat - this may not involve Enterprise Java Beans (the least used aspect of J2EE), but its still J2EE and it costs nothing.
I partially agree with this point. Anyone can easily download, install Tomcat, and have a light J2EE app running fairly quickly. However, we're talking enterprise software here, and most big businesses want the advanced features and support that they need to run mission critical software. It's big business and it's big money.
"How can .Net be a threat when Microsoft is struggling (making a loss!) on the server side?"
I think that's part of the point. Microsoft may be struggling to gain a foothold, but it looks like they might actually get one. As the article mentioned, decision makers often don't look past the superficial solution and as a result Microsoft might eventually overtake Sun in this space and kill Java. That doesn't seem like a contradiction to me.
"Why does Java need to be Open Source to ride the Linux revolution? High-quality Java VMs are ready for Linux.
The JVMs are ready for Linux, true. However, they are not shipped with Linux by default. A new license that would allow them to ship with the linux CD could bolster support.
"Java is the most widely requested language for development, and its use is still rapidly expanding. Sun has nothing to fear."
This just seems like a complacent, arrogant statement. Sure java is important now, but do you seriously think that things can't change? I could list example after example of how this kind of hubris has resulted in the death of companies, but I just don't feel like wasting the energy.
A friend of mine had an interesting credit card lock. She froze her CC in a block of ice in her freezer.
Any time that she wanted to use it, she would have to take it out and let the ice melt first, giving her time to think about the purchase in question.