First off, if Seattle did lose power on a scale that the NE did, the the entire state of WA would be affected, as well as CA, the 4 corner states, and the others in the west.
The grid is divided into 3 sections; east, west, and texas (hehe...i know, sounds odd, but thats what i read on cnn).
That doesn't make too much sense to me. Assuming the blackout is a result of cost cutting, it seems like an unreasonable risk, because now that the power's out, people CAN'T use the power, and thus the utilities can't bill until they lights come back on.
Since the same thing (basicall) happened in '65 I'd have to agree that its probably just a design flaw in the system.
Actually, its not..the plants shutdown automatically to prevent damage to equipment from overloads. Short of building new power stations, I don't think this kind of thing can be prevented.
Being near Philly, i'm glad that the grid isolates the problem as well as it does..
I'd think that the maintainers of the code send the MD5s. Its doubtful they would have tainted code because they are pushing it from thier box to gnu.org, not the other way around.
The correspondance is (by default thanks to the Berne Convention) protected by copyright.
Somehow i doubt that. If i write directions to a local bar for you, is that really something that gets copyrighted just because i wrote it? If i have a conversation with someone, do we exclusively own the copyright to that conversation? I doubt that either of those examples would be something that can be copyrighted, any more then a students notes from a class are copyrightable.
Sorry- should have been more specific. This is after I've imported(via QIF file from my bank) all the transactions. They've got names(comments?), but no expense categories.
Sorry, but you must have done something wrong (like not exported the categories from quicken). 1.8.4 did all the work of the importing for me. I literally could just continue where i left off and enter transactions, with my categories now debit accounts (or is it credit?). Either way, it worked beautifully.
OK, i use gnucash, and it does let you create mutual fund or stock accounts, ect. I don't use it for that (yes, i to track my back accounts on it, i find it more reliable then a paper register), soi don't know if perhaps they are missing key functionality, but they are there...and i would assume you can use them to track the kinds of accounts you're talking about.
But will it still be possible to just use single-entry system with Categories, like the current KmyMoney2 version uses?
Will it be easy for me to pitch in and write reporting functions? I looked into this for GNUcash, but it was more complicated than I would have liked.
I actually switched from quicken to gnucash. The 'categories' just became accounts. Otherwise, everythign worked the same...you enter a payee, pick an account, and enter the amount, your done. Its just as easy as quicken was.
Double entry accounting is nothing to sneeze at, especially when reporting is involved. Not to meantion that small buisnesses may also use this to track whatever a business needs to track.
Personally i switched to gnucash from quicken, and i like it alot. Its quite a great program.
I'd rather go through such a check than pay a 10% premium on everything, you know?
What makes you think prices would go down even if they elimiated shop lifting? Bestbuy hasn't gotten any cheaper since they put those annoying people there.
If I get on a plane and fly around the world to New Zealand, I get jet lagged. But I can switch sleep problems quite quickly without a problem, due to my adjusting to the different light/dark cycle.
Inverting their sleep schedule relative to what exactly?
Um, the other difference is that we were designed to sleep during the night, not during the day. Do you really think if we put a really good blindfold on someone and sent them to sleep in a really bright room around 10pm that they would still have higher cancer rates? Sleep is a very important part of every creature's life, its just as necessary as eating and breathing. Nightshift workers are also awake during the night while they are in the light. I'd hope that any logical person would see that altering the natural regeneration cycle is much more likely to be the cause of the cancer then simply exposure to more light.
To say for sure one way or the other you'd have to have people sleep (blindfolded) in a lit room, and then see if they have cancer. But until then, i think its pretty obsurd to say that light over disrupted sleeping is whast causing the cancer.
Ok, stop right there. While the rest of your list may be correct, did you stop to think that the cancer is caused because people working the night shift are forcing themselves awake when they should be sleeping? You know its not the light keeping them up right...its teh fact that they're working the night shift. I don't buy that particular arguement since its probably caused by the person inverting they sleep schedule, not being exposed to light.
The article (did I say RTFA?) mentions higher rates of breast cancer in women who work the night shift - they don't get a regular dose of darkness that their bodies expect.
I suspect that has more to do with the woman being AWAKE during those hours then it does with the light levels.
The light isn't keeping them awake, its their job.
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Well it also depends if you're 230 lbs and have alot of fat, or 230 lbs and have alot of muscle. I'm also 6'2", and only weight 200 lbs...but i see that i could stand to lose some weight.
they'll want to go to the theater for the eye candy and ambiance (spelling?) regardless.
Ambiance? The theater experience is getting worse and worse. Between people talking on cell phones, punk kids that don't know to shut up, and the 30 minutes of commercials and previews, its almost not worth it at all. Going tot he movies is quickly becoming an unplease experience.
Hey Regal, get rid of that idiotic 'The twenty' It sucks!
Exactly. They're never hawking anything I want anyway -- in fact, the interest level is about as high as for the average spam.
I'd go one step beyond, and say that i wouldn't buy anything from someone calling me because i don't trust that it might not be fraudlent. Just like buying something from a spam email is more likely to ruin your credit then anything else.
Yeah but thats the thing about patents, even if you didn't copy directly and in fact came up with the method yourself, you are still in violation of the patent if you use the same method.
If you come up with it on your own, i'd say thats an arguement against the non-obviousness of the claim. The more people that come up with the same algorithm, i'd say the less novel and non-obvious that algorithm is.
All wine does is expose the same interfaces that a windows binary expects to find. What exactly could would be patented? The functions signature? I highly doubt that's patentable.
The start menu, Look and feel of the GUI
Look and feel can't be patented or copyrighted. See Apple and Xerox.
Samba
Reverse engineered. The code, while preforming the same functionality, is most likely different. If its not, its probably an obvious way to do something...and obvious things cannot be patented.
Active Directory
You mean LDAP right? Thats what AD is, and it was an open standard before MS got in on it.
DAV
Again, this is obvious. Something similar would be storing a CVS repository on a network share. In college, we programmed with a RCS reposity located where everyone could get to it. Anyone on the team could log into any machine and check out the file, change it, and check it in. Its hardly novel, another requirement for something to be patentable.
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First off, if Seattle did lose power on a scale that the NE did, the the entire state of WA would be affected, as well as CA, the 4 corner states, and the others in the west.
The grid is divided into 3 sections; east, west, and texas (hehe...i know, sounds odd, but thats what i read on cnn).
Doesn't deregulation usually mean you can choose your power generator? So that if their prices are too high, you can switch to someone else?
So how do you explain the Great Blackout of '65? Thats well before deregulation isn't it?
That doesn't make too much sense to me. Assuming the blackout is a result of cost cutting, it seems like an unreasonable risk, because now that the power's out, people CAN'T use the power, and thus the utilities can't bill until they lights come back on.
Since the same thing (basicall) happened in '65 I'd have to agree that its probably just a design flaw in the system.
Actually, its not..the plants shutdown automatically to prevent damage to equipment from overloads. Short of building new power stations, I don't think this kind of thing can be prevented.
Being near Philly, i'm glad that the grid isolates the problem as well as it does..
I'd think that the maintainers of the code send the MD5s. Its doubtful they would have tainted code because they are pushing it from thier box to gnu.org, not the other way around.
The correspondance is (by default thanks to the Berne Convention) protected by copyright.
Somehow i doubt that. If i write directions to a local bar for you, is that really something that gets copyrighted just because i wrote it? If i have a conversation with someone, do we exclusively own the copyright to that conversation? I doubt that either of those examples would be something that can be copyrighted, any more then a students notes from a class are copyrightable.
While you may be right, c/c++ code can be made to run on just about any system...can't really say the same for c#.
Sorry- should have been more specific. This is after I've imported(via QIF file from my bank) all the transactions. They've got names(comments?), but no expense categories.
Sorry, but you must have done something wrong (like not exported the categories from quicken). 1.8.4 did all the work of the importing for me. I literally could just continue where i left off and enter transactions, with my categories now debit accounts (or is it credit?). Either way, it worked beautifully.
OK, i use gnucash, and it does let you create mutual fund or stock accounts, ect. I don't use it for that (yes, i to track my back accounts on it, i find it more reliable then a paper register), soi don't know if perhaps they are missing key functionality, but they are there...and i would assume you can use them to track the kinds of accounts you're talking about.
But will it still be possible to just use single-entry system with Categories, like the current KmyMoney2 version uses?
Will it be easy for me to pitch in and write reporting functions? I looked into this for GNUcash, but it was more complicated than I would have liked.
I actually switched from quicken to gnucash. The 'categories' just became accounts. Otherwise, everythign worked the same...you enter a payee, pick an account, and enter the amount, your done. Its just as easy as quicken was.
Double entry accounting is nothing to sneeze at, especially when reporting is involved. Not to meantion that small buisnesses may also use this to track whatever a business needs to track.
Personally i switched to gnucash from quicken, and i like it alot. Its quite a great program.
I'd rather go through such a check than pay a 10% premium on everything, you know?
What makes you think prices would go down even if they elimiated shop lifting? Bestbuy hasn't gotten any cheaper since they put those annoying people there.
If I get on a plane and fly around the world to New Zealand, I get jet lagged. But I can switch sleep problems quite quickly without a problem, due to my adjusting to the different light/dark cycle.
Are you sure about that?
Inverting their sleep schedule relative to what exactly?
Um, the other difference is that we were designed to sleep during the night, not during the day. Do you really think if we put a really good blindfold on someone and sent them to sleep in a really bright room around 10pm that they would still have higher cancer rates? Sleep is a very important part of every creature's life, its just as necessary as eating and breathing. Nightshift workers are also awake during the night while they are in the light. I'd hope that any logical person would see that altering the natural regeneration cycle is much more likely to be the cause of the cancer then simply exposure to more light.
To say for sure one way or the other you'd have to have people sleep (blindfolded) in a lit room, and then see if they have cancer. But until then, i think its pretty obsurd to say that light over disrupted sleeping is whast causing the cancer.
increased cancer rates among humans
Ok, stop right there. While the rest of your list may be correct, did you stop to think that the cancer is caused because people working the night shift are forcing themselves awake when they should be sleeping? You know its not the light keeping them up right...its teh fact that they're working the night shift. I don't buy that particular arguement since its probably caused by the person inverting they sleep schedule, not being exposed to light.
The article (did I say RTFA?) mentions higher rates of breast cancer in women who work the night shift - they don't get a regular dose of darkness that their bodies expect.
I suspect that has more to do with the woman being AWAKE during those hours then it does with the light levels.
The light isn't keeping them awake, its their job.
Well it also depends if you're 230 lbs and have alot of fat, or 230 lbs and have alot of muscle. I'm also 6'2", and only weight 200 lbs...but i see that i could stand to lose some weight.
they'll want to go to the theater for the eye candy and ambiance (spelling?) regardless.
Ambiance? The theater experience is getting worse and worse. Between people talking on cell phones, punk kids that don't know to shut up, and the 30 minutes of commercials and previews, its almost not worth it at all. Going tot he movies is quickly becoming an unplease experience.
Hey Regal, get rid of that idiotic 'The twenty' It sucks!
Why are we paying prisoners? OOPS...different topic.
Indeed, but the answer to your question is that if we didn't, it'd be slavery, which is unconstitutional.
Exactly. They're never hawking anything I want anyway -- in fact, the interest level is about as high as for the average spam.
I'd go one step beyond, and say that i wouldn't buy anything from someone calling me because i don't trust that it might not be fraudlent. Just like buying something from a spam email is more likely to ruin your credit then anything else.
hum...if they need your approval for calling you, how do they get it ??
They don't, unless I tell them to call me.
let's assume I'm your friend, I assume I'm not considered as a spammer, thus, do i still need to ask you before I call you ?
In the course of the friendship, I would have PERSONALLY given you my number. That implies that I don't mind you calling me.
May I suggest you get a better credit card? Perhaps one from a credit union? Thats that only place i have a CC with, and they don't hastle me at all.
Yeah but thats the thing about patents, even if you didn't copy directly and in fact came up with the method yourself, you are still in violation of the patent if you use the same method.
If you come up with it on your own, i'd say thats an arguement against the non-obviousness of the claim. The more people that come up with the same algorithm, i'd say the less novel and non-obvious that algorithm is.
Win32 API (WINE)
All wine does is expose the same interfaces that a windows binary expects to find. What exactly could would be patented? The functions signature? I highly doubt that's patentable.
The start menu, Look and feel of the GUI
Look and feel can't be patented or copyrighted. See Apple and Xerox.
Samba
Reverse engineered. The code, while preforming the same functionality, is most likely different. If its not, its probably an obvious way to do something...and obvious things cannot be patented.
Active Directory
You mean LDAP right? Thats what AD is, and it was an open standard before MS got in on it.
DAV
Again, this is obvious. Something similar would be storing a CVS repository on a network share. In college, we programmed with a RCS reposity located where everyone could get to it. Anyone on the team could log into any machine and check out the file, change it, and check it in. Its hardly novel, another requirement for something to be patentable.