Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???
I'm glad to hear that they're coming along nicely with eBook readers. The real question agony that I'm facing is a lack of eBook readers out in the public. I haven't seen much out there other than Sony with a $300 eBook reader that I may consider purchasing once it's released. I literally have hundreds of notes and eBooks in PDF format. I would love to carry it all with me and have the crispness of paper and not worry about battery life as compared to a laptop.
Now, only if I could only somehow rig my Etch-A-Sketch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch) to read SD Flash memory I'll be set.
You're both missing the point. You have to trust the establishment that you're doing business with and not worry about the bugs since there is no such thing as 100% safe code and not every person on this planet is honest.
Many security researchers, developers, hackers are very well aware of holes in banking software; many of which are so grave that if you had the slightest clue as to how weak the security was you'd never conduct online transactions. Nonetheless, millions choose to conduct business with an establishment due to an established history or perceived security that the establishment has. If some establishment ignores any reports of unusual activity then the smart choice is to RUN and NEVER look back since sooner or later it may come back to bite you is the A$$. What matters to most is how soon you get your money back should the establishment get breached.
You keep nagging on using Organic/Natural supplementation, but you're completely missing the point. I never said you SHOULD NOT use supplementation. The point I'm making is that people in 3rd world countries hardly get ANY supplementation regardless whether Organic or synthetic and they don't get quality dental care. I worked in the medical field so I'm familiar in this field. You haven't come forward with your source of information and supporting data to prove otherwise.
1. Make a product.
2. Lie to consumers by making false claims.
3. Make millions/billions in revenue and profits.
4. Executives laugh at the fine imposed and gladly pay $200,000 fine.
5. Pull product off shelves.
6. Profit!
7. Goto line 1 next quarter!
Ever notice how peoples teeth in so called 3rd world / developing countries are better than the west.
HA! I don't think you've ever been in a 3rd world country! Some people in less prosperous counties have very good genetics but their tooth quality fades VERY quickly due to lack of fluoride supplementation and lack of funds for quality dental care as well as lack of good dentists. Organic food is GOOD for you and it probably will keep you healthier in the long run but don't confuse this with good dental hygiene and tooth quality.
An inverter or possibly multiple inverters on the MB. There may be plenty of components that need higher voltages. I've known some LCD backlights that require voltages of 80 to 100 VAC to operate.
If they gave you no explanation then they're full of hot air! They're only attempting to discourage you from sharing your knowledge with the smaller competitor. If your future employer refuses to offer you employment due to a possible lawsuit them you may have a VERY big check coming your way if you counter-sue your former employer for defamation and damages.
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company a few years back that attempted the exact same stunt to a coworker that quit, they were hoping to scare him accepting employment from a much smaller consulting company which happened to compete with them. In the end, the big Fortune 500 employer never sued, but the ex-coworker sued them for defamation and won a real nice 6 figures out of those a$$holes.
The 'dangers' of fat are vastly overrated, the body needs fats to function properly.
Not completely true, you should consume FAT in moderation. Also, different fats like saturated vs monosaturated both have different short term as well as long term outcomes. The average steak has more fat than you should consume on a daily basis due to people in the US being accustomed to eating 96oz t-bone steaks to stuff their fat asses.
The general health of Americans would be better if they cut out the donuts, cokes cakes, breads etc. and replaced them with more natural foods like steak, chicken and lamb. You only have to look at the sagging arms of most Americans to see they're not eating too much protein!
WRONG AGAIN! Look up the word NATURAL. What's NOT natural about breads, or should I say, what's more natural about meat? It's called: "Eat in moderation AND exercise you fat ass!" Promoting the Adkins diet will kill you, that is a fact and you can Google for it too! I can clearly see your intensions and I'm well aware of the serious misconceptions people aquire from reading about the Adkins diet or diets very similar to it. Do some more research or go pay a good doctor a visit and you'll discover how flawed your view is. I'm 5'10 weigh 170, ripped with a six-pack and I eat donuts too, but I hit the weights mulitple times a week to keep burning off the excess calories that I accumilate.
The POINT is: NO MATTER WHAT YOU EAT, if you stuff yourself like a pig YOU WILL TURN INTO A LARD ASS!
Most in the IT business have known this for years. Microsoft only makes the issue worse by fooling the general public into accepting that the firewall in Windows XP is sufficient to keep them safe. McAfee is one of the few players with a good personal firewall that manages to lock down the system pretty well but it's definitely too complex for the average user. There isn't much that can be done until the general population gets more educated as time goes on. In the meantime, it's job security for IT people.
WORK HARD, millions on welfare are depending on you!
Ha, if your employer deals with 3TB of data on a daily basis then I'm willing to bet that you work for a very big employer with deep pockets. BS excuses like the one you made are exactly why companies like Citibank paid millions in fines for not encrypting data when backup tapes were lost. I think your company needs a new CSO, or we'll probably see your company in the headlines soon.
A flash light is a bad comparison since flash light bulbs don't produce much luminence to begin with. Look up the amount of LUMENS a projector bulb will produce vs led and you'll quickly realize why. The day that LEDs will match a 1,000,000 candle power spot light is the day that projectors will change their light source.
*NIX isn't any safer than Windows! I've worked in net and OS security for years and I've found that neither one is any safer than the other. The safest route would be completely create your own OS from scratch and then kill all the developers to prevent the source code and internals of the OS from ever leaking. Hackers will still go after it but it will be far much more difficult when they have to learn from scratch and with no knowledge of the OSes internal structure.
If I damage your property, I'm liable for damages. Doesn't matter that there is no contract.
Yes, but this doesn't apply to every situation. A good example where it would apply is if I ran my car into yours and caused damage.
In many jurisdictions consumer protection law throws out liability or warranty disclaimers
Yes, but this is generally true when REAL physical damage occures and possibly in other odd situations. You can't sue and win if you decide drink bleach whether free or not. The only time you could sue and win is if someone told you that you can drink bleach and that they've withheld any known possible negative symptoms like serious poisoning or even death.
The only other time you'd be able to sue an OSS project is if the software had hidden melicious code (spyware, backdoor, etc) with a proven intent to cause damage and harm whether physical or not.
Free software would not face any liability since it's marketed as FREE. You can only sue for the amount you paid. If you paid nothing then you win nothing.
Even if you did manage to sue, you would have to sue yourself for not fixing bugs or other issues in the source code you recieved since you are supposed to evaluate and fix issues as part of your due diligence.
Most of the/. posts make it sound like these poor bastards are in really bad shape. Most Oracle DB admins, engineers, developers are in very high demand so the layoffs are nothing but a temporary vacation for them as they move into new $100,000k+ per year positions elsewhere.
The company I work for looses a lot of Oracle DBAs to bigger fish elsewhere all the time. I guess the Oracle DBAs here must hate making the measly $120k they offer at this company.
I hate dealing with camera dealers in the North East. Most of the disreputable/dishonest ones are in the New York and New Jersey area. They will typically advertise superb prices on their merchandise and then when you place the order they typically tell you that you need to buy additional items that normally should come prepackaged with the item. Another trick they use is, if you call them to place the order, after you've given them your CC info they'll tell you that the item is backordered and you'll get in 4-6 months. arrrrrghh!
You completely missed his point. I'll pay you $20 to get your GF or wife (assuming she's not a tech or developer) to make the monitor work without your assistance. Good luck! lol
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Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???
I'm glad to hear that they're coming along nicely with eBook readers. The real question agony that I'm facing is a lack of eBook readers out in the public. I haven't seen much out there other than Sony with a $300 eBook reader that I may consider purchasing once it's released. I literally have hundreds of notes and eBooks in PDF format. I would love to carry it all with me and have the crispness of paper and not worry about battery life as compared to a laptop.
Now, only if I could only somehow rig my Etch-A-Sketch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch) to read SD Flash memory I'll be set.
You're both missing the point. You have to trust the establishment that you're doing business with and not worry about the bugs since there is no such thing as 100% safe code and not every person on this planet is honest.
Many security researchers, developers, hackers are very well aware of holes in banking software; many of which are so grave that if you had the slightest clue as to how weak the security was you'd never conduct online transactions. Nonetheless, millions choose to conduct business with an establishment due to an established history or perceived security that the establishment has. If some establishment ignores any reports of unusual activity then the smart choice is to RUN and NEVER look back since sooner or later it may come back to bite you is the A$$. What matters to most is how soon you get your money back should the establishment get breached.
You keep nagging on using Organic/Natural supplementation, but you're completely missing the point. I never said you SHOULD NOT use supplementation. The point I'm making is that people in 3rd world countries hardly get ANY supplementation regardless whether Organic or synthetic and they don't get quality dental care. I worked in the medical field so I'm familiar in this field. You haven't come forward with your source of information and supporting data to prove otherwise.
1. Make a product. 2. Lie to consumers by making false claims. 3. Make millions/billions in revenue and profits. 4. Executives laugh at the fine imposed and gladly pay $200,000 fine. 5. Pull product off shelves. 6. Profit! 7. Goto line 1 next quarter!
Ever notice how peoples teeth in so called 3rd world / developing countries are better than the west.
HA! I don't think you've ever been in a 3rd world country! Some people in less prosperous counties have very good genetics but their tooth quality fades VERY quickly due to lack of fluoride supplementation and lack of funds for quality dental care as well as lack of good dentists. Organic food is GOOD for you and it probably will keep you healthier in the long run but don't confuse this with good dental hygiene and tooth quality.
An inverter or possibly multiple inverters on the MB. There may be plenty of components that need higher voltages. I've known some LCD backlights that require voltages of 80 to 100 VAC to operate.
If they gave you no explanation then they're full of hot air! They're only attempting to discourage you from sharing your knowledge with the smaller competitor. If your future employer refuses to offer you employment due to a possible lawsuit them you may have a VERY big check coming your way if you counter-sue your former employer for defamation and damages.
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company a few years back that attempted the exact same stunt to a coworker that quit, they were hoping to scare him accepting employment from a much smaller consulting company which happened to compete with them. In the end, the big Fortune 500 employer never sued, but the ex-coworker sued them for defamation and won a real nice 6 figures out of those a$$holes.
The Zune is 100% DOA
Go buy a Sony Walkman, now with free DRM any spyware!
hahahaha, not much other than change your password to "C:###" to remind you of where you'll spend the next few years.
On the contrary, all that radiation will generate enough free electricity to power huge Beowulf cluster just to run Office 2010.
The 'dangers' of fat are vastly overrated, the body needs fats to function properly.
Not completely true, you should consume FAT in moderation. Also, different fats like saturated vs monosaturated both have different short term as well as long term outcomes. The average steak has more fat than you should consume on a daily basis due to people in the US being accustomed to eating 96oz t-bone steaks to stuff their fat asses.
The general health of Americans would be better if they cut out the donuts, cokes cakes, breads etc. and replaced them with more natural foods like steak, chicken and lamb. You only have to look at the sagging arms of most Americans to see they're not eating too much protein!
WRONG AGAIN! Look up the word NATURAL. What's NOT natural about breads, or should I say, what's more natural about meat? It's called: "Eat in moderation AND exercise you fat ass!" Promoting the Adkins diet will kill you, that is a fact and you can Google for it too! I can clearly see your intensions and I'm well aware of the serious misconceptions people aquire from reading about the Adkins diet or diets very similar to it. Do some more research or go pay a good doctor a visit and you'll discover how flawed your view is. I'm 5'10 weigh 170, ripped with a six-pack and I eat donuts too, but I hit the weights mulitple times a week to keep burning off the excess calories that I accumilate.
The POINT is: NO MATTER WHAT YOU EAT, if you stuff yourself like a pig YOU WILL TURN INTO A LARD ASS!
Most in the IT business have known this for years. Microsoft only makes the issue worse by fooling the general public into accepting that the firewall in Windows XP is sufficient to keep them safe. McAfee is one of the few players with a good personal firewall that manages to lock down the system pretty well but it's definitely too complex for the average user. There isn't much that can be done until the general population gets more educated as time goes on. In the meantime, it's job security for IT people.
WORK HARD, millions on welfare are depending on you!
Ha, if your employer deals with 3TB of data on a daily basis then I'm willing to bet that you work for a very big employer with deep pockets. BS excuses like the one you made are exactly why companies like Citibank paid millions in fines for not encrypting data when backup tapes were lost. I think your company needs a new CSO, or we'll probably see your company in the headlines soon.
A flash light is a bad comparison since flash light bulbs don't produce much luminence to begin with. Look up the amount of LUMENS a projector bulb will produce vs led and you'll quickly realize why. The day that LEDs will match a 1,000,000 candle power spot light is the day that projectors will change their light source.
*NIX isn't any safer than Windows! I've worked in net and OS security for years and I've found that neither one is any safer than the other. The safest route would be completely create your own OS from scratch and then kill all the developers to prevent the source code and internals of the OS from ever leaking. Hackers will still go after it but it will be far much more difficult when they have to learn from scratch and with no knowledge of the OSes internal structure.
Yes, but this doesn't apply to every situation. A good example where it would apply is if I ran my car into yours and caused damage.
In many jurisdictions consumer protection law throws out liability or warranty disclaimers
Yes, but this is generally true when REAL physical damage occures and possibly in other odd situations. You can't sue and win if you decide drink bleach whether free or not. The only time you could sue and win is if someone told you that you can drink bleach and that they've withheld any known possible negative symptoms like serious poisoning or even death.
The only other time you'd be able to sue an OSS project is if the software had hidden melicious code (spyware, backdoor, etc) with a proven intent to cause damage and harm whether physical or not.
Free software would not face any liability since it's marketed as FREE. You can only sue for the amount you paid. If you paid nothing then you win nothing.
Even if you did manage to sue, you would have to sue yourself for not fixing bugs or other issues in the source code you recieved since you are supposed to evaluate and fix issues as part of your due diligence.
Most of the /. posts make it sound like these poor bastards are in really bad shape. Most Oracle DB admins, engineers, developers are in very high demand so the layoffs are nothing but a temporary vacation for them as they move into new $100,000k+ per year positions elsewhere.
The company I work for looses a lot of Oracle DBAs to bigger fish elsewhere all the time. I guess the Oracle DBAs here must hate making the measly $120k they offer at this company.
Nothing new to see here, move along...
Time to move all these online retailers offshore to India or China to escape state taxes.
But knowing our government, they'll probably impose import taxes that might be higher than the state taxes.
Oh well, there's one thing I'm 100% sure of, you can't escape death or taxes!
I'm very sure that they can get $100 laptops by next year. I can't wait to get signed up on the waiting list!
Here are the proposed specs:
486sx 25 MHz
2 Gig HD
16 MB RAM
2" Passive Matrix LCD
MS-DOS 3.2
I hate dealing with camera dealers in the North East. Most of the disreputable/dishonest ones are in the New York and New Jersey area. They will typically advertise superb prices on their merchandise and then when you place the order they typically tell you that you need to buy additional items that normally should come prepackaged with the item. Another trick they use is, if you call them to place the order, after you've given them your CC info they'll tell you that the item is backordered and you'll get in 4-6 months. arrrrrghh!
Save a tree, use both sides of toilet paper.
Good! Homes are overvalued compared to income levels anyways!
You completely missed his point. I'll pay you $20 to get your GF or wife (assuming she's not a tech or developer) to make the monitor work without your assistance. Good luck! lol