If you assume six hours of sleep per day, it works out at a rate in excess of one text every 5 minutes. What kind of looser has so little going on in their life that this is possible.
In India - a land famous for its scrupulous business practices - there are some unscrupulous businessmen that are pirating Windows software. This is newsworthy why ??
You can say that again. I cannot get my in-laws to accept my free old P4 running XP to replace their PII with Win98. I want to give it to them, becuase, frankly, trekking to their place every couple of weeks to undo all the weird shit they do to their system is really getting boring.
They absolutely refuse to try to use XP, since they are only now able to remember how to use their 98 system, after having it for 5 years.
It is simply inconcievable that a 'normal' person does not know what a web site is.
You don't have to know how a car is designed, built, marketed, and sold, or even know how to drive one; but if you can claim to not know what a car is, you are not *normal*, and therefore NOT FIT TO JUSGE.
As so many posters have commented, as soon as Microsoft attempts to enforce their patents the Linux community will show that it is non-offending, or the offending code will be changed.
OK, I guess I could have read what MTBF actually means. I have in fact never experienced a house fire, but have had 2 hard disk failures (I have owned about 10 hard disks), so, I guess I should be worried.
hard drives crash more often than houses burn down
Hmm...Depending upon who you believe a 'typical' Hard Drive has a MTBF of about 1 Million hours. (about 115 years)
Although I can't find the statistics, I would wager the incidence of house fires is far higher.
... a virtual OS install for all your 'illicit' downloads.
i.e. - VMWare, where the installation is hosted within a single file. For tin foil hat level security you may choose to keep the file on an removable device. The first hint that the RIAA is persuing you, you disconnect/erase the device/file.
There is a legal definition of libel, and it does not include 'insulting' or 'deriding'. Rather it contains a relatively simple definition along the lines of "A false publication" and may include reference to damagae to reputation as a result of such false publication.
So, it is not usually enough to claim libel just from a false publication, you must also show loss of reputation.
In your case, insulting or deriding does not necessarily mean 'false', in which case a good judge should inform you that you really do have 'thin skin', and dismiss the case.
The loss of empire was already occuring well before WWII, in fact it started about 200 years before WWII.
While British and European workers were enjoying their 37.5 hour work week, and 20 days paid holiday (along with 8 bank holidays) Americans were lucky to receive 10 days of holiday (plus 6 national holidays), typically for a work week in excess of 45 hours. It is important to understand this, because it was taxes on wages and industrial output that payed for NATO which was the only thing that kept Joseph and Nikita from owning all of Europe.
Industrial output in Europe was essentially zero immediately after WWII, and there was heavy unemployment. The European economies would not ever have recovered as rapidly as they did (even so it took more than 30 years) without the Marshall Plan, which subsidized European National Health systems, subsidized European housing associations, and helped to mechanize European farming so that it was able to actually feed it's own people (many of whome were starving from lack of available food), you probably are too young to remember the rationing that took place all over Europe after the war, and lasted in some particualrly impoverished weatern European countries for decades. Of course, the US did this in its own best interest as well, but a little gratitude would be nice anyway.
There was also an implicit understanding that to beat the expansionist tendencies of Soviet Union, moral rectitude was required. It would have been very difficult to force 'independant' countries to resist the tide of communism, far better to encourage them to do so. Of course these same countries played both sides of the coin - as should be expected - to gain advantage.
Your claim about Americans being bad at new ideas is simply envy, the facts speak for themselves. Please be more selective in the history that you read.
Retail is rapidly becoming an obsolete business model. The scenario you describes simple proves my point.
Basically there are going to be two classes of retail space.
One will simply be a 'showroom' where manufacturers deign to allow consumers to actually handle their merchandise before buying it. This type of retail space will be suitable for high value, large sized items where there is little immediate need. We can already see this happening with the likes of Comet and Currys (in the UK) where half of the items on display are not in stock.
The other type will be for commonly needed items like lightbulbs, toilette paper, and milk; where the need is essentially immediate, the unit price is low, and the package size is relatively small.
While on contract with ABN AMRO several years back, I sat near a team of Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) weenies.
I am not at all exaggerating when I report that the team of four/five spent approximately two full weeks of 7 hour days 'brainstorming' an acronym for the 'Business Process Re-Engineering' project they were working on.
You simply drag everyone else in this career down when you settle for less.
A very good point indeed, and something that I always struggle to explain to new hires when I encounter them. Those of you who accept 450/day for a job that could easily pay 550+ are idiots, and no amount of "you don't understand my situtation" is going to convince me otherwise.
You are not going to starve to death, your house will not be repossed and your fatuous overpriced sports car or UAV (Urban Assult Vehicle) will still be on the road if you hold out for a better wage. ***unless of course you really are an idiot and have over-extended yourself to that state.
...with less than two months of slack time (no paying work) in that period (not including holidays, of course).
My experience in watching both permies, and contractors (of which I am one) negotiate pay raises is that it is a waste of time. If you want a significant raise, change job (move to a different company), otherwise you will almost invariably be stuck banging your head against the HR pricks.
Those of you promised a bigger bonus or raise 'next year', or given the excuse that 'this years results weren't very good' for your paltry inflation + 1% raise have only yourselves to blame for your lack of upward mobility.
Companies - whole economies - rely upon relatively constant wage costs, and they really can't afford to deviate much for any individual worker.
I'm not bitter, just telling it like I see it.
Only the Executive/Director level gets large wage increases and respectable bonuses, and that's because companies are for their benefit - hint, hint ***not the shareholder*** - despite what you are told in school.
The shareholders job is to accept risk in the hopes for a high reward. The Executives job contains almost no risk, requires little true skill - other than perhaps political nous - and yields huge rewards.
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If you assume six hours of sleep per day, it works out at a rate in excess of one text every 5 minutes. What kind of looser has so little going on in their life that this is possible.
In India - a land famous for its scrupulous business practices - there are some unscrupulous businessmen that are pirating Windows software. This is newsworthy why ??
You can say that again. I cannot get my in-laws to accept my free old P4 running XP to replace their PII with Win98. I want to give it to them, becuase, frankly, trekking to their place every couple of weeks to undo all the weird shit they do to their system is really getting boring.
They absolutely refuse to try to use XP, since they are only now able to remember how to use their 98 system, after having it for 5 years.
I hope I never get like that !
It is simply inconcievable that a 'normal' person does not know what a web site is.
You don't have to know how a car is designed, built, marketed, and sold, or even know how to drive one; but if you can claim to not know what a car is, you are not *normal*, and therefore NOT FIT TO JUSGE.
As so many posters have commented, as soon as Microsoft attempts to enforce their patents the Linux community will show that it is non-offending, or the offending code will be changed.
Next story please
OK, I guess I could have read what MTBF actually means.
I have in fact never experienced a house fire, but have had 2 hard disk failures (I have owned about 10 hard disks), so, I guess I should be worried.
hard drives crash more often than houses burn down
Hmm...Depending upon who you believe a 'typical' Hard Drive has a MTBF of about 1 Million hours. (about 115 years)
Although I can't find the statistics, I would wager the incidence of house fires is far higher.
Yes, and every time you wanted to point with your index finger you would have to re-read the manual to find that ever so obscure escape sequence !
I like watching the clock craplett move the minute hand
... a virtual OS install for all your 'illicit' downloads.
i.e. - VMWare, where the installation is hosted within a single file. For tin foil hat level security you may choose to keep the file on an removable device. The first hint that the RIAA is persuing you, you disconnect/erase the device/file.
Ooops, the cat's out of the bag now !
There is a legal definition of libel, and it does not include 'insulting' or 'deriding'. Rather it contains a relatively simple definition along the lines of "A false publication" and may include reference to damagae to reputation as a result of such false publication.
So, it is not usually enough to claim libel just from a false publication, you must also show loss of reputation.
In your case, insulting or deriding does not necessarily mean 'false', in which case a good judge should inform you that you really do have 'thin skin', and dismiss the case.
http://www.nbc-links.com/powerpoint.html
... is yet another RPC solution.
.......what a man !
...we patent nothing.
/. users !
At last, a system that achieves the dreams and desires of many
I, for one, welcome our new express patenting overlords.
The loss of empire was already occuring well before WWII, in fact it started about 200 years before WWII.
While British and European workers were enjoying their 37.5 hour work week, and 20 days paid holiday (along with 8 bank holidays) Americans were lucky to receive 10 days of holiday (plus 6 national holidays), typically for a work week in excess of 45 hours. It is important to understand this, because it was taxes on wages and industrial output that payed for NATO which was the only thing that kept Joseph and Nikita from owning all of Europe.
Industrial output in Europe was essentially zero immediately after WWII, and there was heavy unemployment. The European economies would not ever have recovered as rapidly as they did (even so it took more than 30 years) without the Marshall Plan, which subsidized European National Health systems, subsidized European housing associations, and helped to mechanize European farming so that it was able to actually feed it's own people (many of whome were starving from lack of available food), you probably are too young to remember the rationing that took place all over Europe after the war, and lasted in some particualrly impoverished weatern European countries for decades. Of course, the US did this in its own best interest as well, but a little gratitude would be nice anyway.
There was also an implicit understanding that to beat the expansionist tendencies of Soviet Union, moral rectitude was required. It would have been very difficult to force 'independant' countries to resist the tide of communism, far better to encourage them to do so. Of course these same countries played both sides of the coin - as should be expected - to gain advantage.
Your claim about Americans being bad at new ideas is simply envy, the facts speak for themselves. Please be more selective in the history that you read.
Retail is not an obsolete business model
Retail is rapidly becoming an obsolete business model. The scenario you describes simple proves my point.
Basically there are going to be two classes of retail space.
One will simply be a 'showroom' where manufacturers deign to allow consumers to actually handle their merchandise before buying it. This type of retail space will be suitable for high value, large sized items where there is little immediate need. We can already see this happening with the likes of Comet and Currys (in the UK) where half of the items on display are not in stock.
The other type will be for commonly needed items like lightbulbs, toilette paper, and milk; where the need is essentially immediate, the unit price is low, and the package size is relatively small.
This is a very large corporation we're dealing with, not a couple of friends building computers in the garage.
Ah, but it was just that not very long ago !
Correct, but those people are to the first to ask for a handout when hard times come along.
They could have moved to Alviso, if they could find it !
While on contract with ABN AMRO several years back, I sat near a team of Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) weenies.
I am not at all exaggerating when I report that the team of four/five spent approximately two full weeks of 7 hour days 'brainstorming' an acronym for the 'Business Process Re-Engineering' project they were working on.
I never did find out what they came up with.
You simply drag everyone else in this career down when you settle for less.
A very good point indeed, and something that I always struggle to explain to new hires when I encounter them. Those of you who accept 450/day for a job that could easily pay 550+ are idiots, and no amount of "you don't understand my situtation" is going to convince me otherwise.
You are not going to starve to death, your house will not be repossed and your fatuous overpriced sports car or UAV (Urban Assult Vehicle) will still be on the road if you hold out for a better wage. ***unless of course you really are an idiot and have over-extended yourself to that state.
...with less than two months of slack time (no paying work) in that period (not including holidays, of course).
My experience in watching both permies, and contractors (of which I am one) negotiate pay raises is that it is a waste of time. If you want a significant raise, change job (move to a different company), otherwise you will almost invariably be stuck banging your head against the HR pricks.
Those of you promised a bigger bonus or raise 'next year', or given the excuse that 'this years results weren't very good' for your paltry inflation + 1% raise have only yourselves to blame for your lack of upward mobility.
Companies - whole economies - rely upon relatively constant wage costs, and they really can't afford to deviate much for any individual worker.
I'm not bitter, just telling it like I see it.
Only the Executive/Director level gets large wage increases and respectable bonuses, and that's because companies are for their benefit - hint, hint ***not the shareholder*** - despite what you are told in school.
The shareholders job is to accept risk in the hopes for a high reward. The Executives job contains almost no risk, requires little true skill - other than perhaps political nous - and yields huge rewards.
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