Nah. I went and read TFA at the FTC and my interpretation is that the "skill contest" really applies to schemes where you are provided Puzzles or Tests initially which are easy, then subsequent ones remain at a level of easiness till the last ones are unfeasibily difficult. During this time the coumpany has been making offers or promotions.
"Failing" the last tests nullifies the promise of benefits.
I have just finished watching the evening news here in New Zealand(its 7:00pm Tuesday night) and they have been interviewing a family through a window of their quarantined house. To add to the picture, additional cameramen out on the road, hamming it up and fearful to go any closer. The main network channel is bringing test results "live at 9pm".
It is theatre at its best. It makes "alarmist" twitter look boring.
"or the waft of a woman's perfume in a library book"
Some women may do this deliberatly, and could be from a practice from the World Wars when female volunteers would write to single soldiers, and would often dab some perfume on the letter.
I take a combination of this old practice and the one of the males of an African Tribe that smear a dab of semen behind their ears.
So next time that waft is a little musty, perhaps salty, then congratulations on reading that book after me.
Presumably, if someone shares copyrighted files with this system, then a similar argument would apply that the prosecution is using against the current Pirate Bay case.
Its an ego thing. Kennedy was absolutley embarrased by the bay of pigs invasion. That cuba repulsed it so easily. "Cuba is evil" was just a massive example of the US throwing its toys.
I began helping community organisations in university and extended afterwards.
I did 6 years very part time.
Some points I noted at the end of it were:
1) The community org themselves provide a service. I found the expectations of those recieving services expected bank level IT infrastucture("Have you got my reciept dated 5 years ago?).
2) Community org = clients often disadvataged due to health issues. Hence, it will become your responsibility to provide strong, secure databases.
3) Political. Once committees get a sniff you exist. They will look to leverage you, often pushing their own wheel barrows. Conflict ensues.
4) Then at the end, they see options and advantages, applications for funding follows, and often, you are left out of the loop to provide the services tendered.
In short I found the importance of a sytem to be as high as any govt dept might require, but without the professional infrasture in place to support your endeavors.
During the 2nd World War, soldiers recieved cigarettes in their ration pack. Smoking was essentially endorsed by the government back then.
My grandfather started smoking from those cigarettes, survived the war, and died of lung cancer some years back.
As for "and annoying the hell out of everyone around you", you are just conditioned to that view now from modern marketing from government and medical institutions who now realise that smoking costs them money.
American physicians *endorsed* cigattes in US servicemen's ration packs till 1975.
I suggest you look beyond the surface of the individual.
My dentist did not convince me. Perhaps I am lucky. Very good teeth, but 25 years ago he said my mouth was heading to meltdown due to the impending growth of my wisdom teeth. This was supported by some pointing at some vague x-rays To this day, still have 'em and no probs. My girlfriend over the time had hers out as a matter of couse due to dental advice. I know some have problems with wisdom teeth, but then, they have mouths filled with what look like grey wooden pegs in lieu of teeth. I suspect the wisdom teeth thing is half racket.
I look after a small business in-house(30 people). I am the go-to guy for IT, small apps, and web.
Vista was a disaster for me. Especially for laptops.
Just a few examples that spring to mind:
- Outlook 2002 no longer saved passwords. Had to enter each time. Upgraded these to 2003 to fix that problem(there are third party plugins to handle the password for you, *thats* how pervassive this prob was).
- Delta Copy(The rSync client for windows) had all sorts of problems. Email notification still does not work but I work around that.
- USB peripherals would slaughter these machines(SP1 seemed to fix that).
- Connection to Samba shares broke. While any fix now is a quick google search away, at the time, this caused a lot of pain. For weeks.
All the time, the managers that did not care and I got them XP based laptops, well, between 6 XP laptops, the only problems have been the typical ones("I lost my tool bar").
World War One was about trench war, where the commanders in Paris had no clue of conditions.
Thats me....in the trenchs, wading nostril deep though mud, blood and guts each day. Dont tell me how fucking marvelous Vista is.
Most of my posts are marked funny, as I am usually in a fairly irreverant mood when reading posts on/.
I have been using mysql for 5 years(Before that 3 years in Oracle), in hundreds of websites and a few intranets. Some driving huge queries. Some driving simple high volume queries. A few enormous transaction numbers in a few.
I have never had mysql "Blow a table" once, or any other issue, the exception being failing drives.
"Don't PCs already have a dock? "The bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of a Mac and provides easy access to Apple applications."
The sounds like a description of the start menu, and its corresponding bar.
Yes it does. There are bazillions of patents with similar names because they cover similar subjects. With only a brief description of a patent it's impossible to know whether it is indeed novel. Fortunately, patents are more than a brief description. The Dock patent does into great detail covering the magnification feature. It's easy to trash a patent by looking at the title and saying "it's been done before". But when you actually read it, it becomes a bit less obvious the novel things the patent claims have actually been done before. Does Claim 120 ring any bells?:
120. The method of claim 117 wherein each icon is displayed within a corresponding tile area having two opposite edges that are respectively located at distances d.sub.1 and d.sub.2 from said cursor, and said other icons are magnified by the factor 1+(d.sub.2'-d.sub.1')/(d.sub.2-d.sub.1), where: d.sub.1=S.times.sine(.pi./2.times.d.sub.1/W) and d.sub.2'=S.times.sine(.pi./2.times.d.sub.2/W), where W is equal to said defined distance, and (S=((H-h)/2)/sine(.pi..times.(h/2)/(W.times.2)), where H is a magnified size for one dimension of said one icon, and h is a default display size for said one dimension.
That's some details of how that nice "hump" is generated when you use the magnification feature. Had you seen specifically that before 1999?"
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while i think this is a pretty cool idea, being devils advocate, I would imagine rather broad terrorism laws could cover this activity.
Remember pointing a camera at buildings draws attention.
Nah. I went and read TFA at the FTC and my interpretation is that the "skill contest" really applies to schemes where you are provided Puzzles or Tests initially which are easy, then subsequent ones remain at a level of easiness till the last ones are unfeasibily difficult. During this time the coumpany has been making offers or promotions.
"Failing" the last tests nullifies the promise of benefits.
I have just finished watching the evening news here in New Zealand(its 7:00pm Tuesday night) and they have been interviewing a family through a window of their quarantined house. To add to the picture, additional cameramen out on the road, hamming it up and fearful to go any closer. The main network channel is bringing test results "live at 9pm".
It is theatre at its best. It makes "alarmist" twitter look boring.
Just ensure you scrub your swine thoroughly before handling them.
This guy wrote an amusing piece on Agile methodolgy.
I like this bit: "If you plan on using Agile to get out of writing proper documentation, then get ready to agile your sphincter for the angry client."
...which carries a $250,000 purse.
A woman's purse!!
"or the waft of a woman's perfume in a library book"
Some women may do this deliberatly, and could be from a practice from the World Wars when female volunteers would write to single soldiers, and would often dab some perfume on the letter.
I take a combination of this old practice and the one of the males of an African Tribe that smear a dab of semen behind their ears.
So next time that waft is a little musty, perhaps salty, then congratulations on reading that book after me.
Presumably, if someone shares copyrighted files with this system, then a similar argument would apply that the prosecution is using against the current Pirate Bay case.
MS would be the pirate bay in concept.
and....
another
Sure. Asketh, and ye shall recieve.
suing over detention
Its an ego thing. Kennedy was absolutley embarrased by the bay of pigs invasion. That cuba repulsed it so easily. "Cuba is evil" was just a massive example of the US throwing its toys.
I began helping community organisations in university and extended afterwards.
I did 6 years very part time.
Some points I noted at the end of it were:
1) The community org themselves provide a service. I found the expectations of those recieving services expected bank level IT infrastucture("Have you got my reciept dated 5 years ago?).
2) Community org = clients often disadvataged due to health issues. Hence, it will become your responsibility to provide strong, secure databases.
3) Political. Once committees get a sniff you exist. They will look to leverage you, often pushing their own wheel barrows. Conflict ensues.
4) Then at the end, they see options and advantages, applications for funding follows, and often, you are left out of the loop to provide the services tendered.
In short I found the importance of a sytem to be as high as any govt dept might require, but without the professional infrasture in place to support your endeavors.
During the 2nd World War, soldiers recieved cigarettes in their ration pack. Smoking was essentially endorsed by the government back then.
My grandfather started smoking from those cigarettes, survived the war, and died of lung cancer some years back.
As for "and annoying the hell out of everyone around you", you are just conditioned to that view now from modern marketing from government and medical institutions who now realise that smoking costs them money.
American physicians *endorsed* cigattes in US servicemen's ration packs till 1975.
I suggest you look beyond the surface of the individual.
My dentist did not convince me. Perhaps I am lucky. Very good teeth, but 25 years ago he said my mouth was heading to meltdown due to the impending growth of my wisdom teeth. This was supported by some pointing at some vague x-rays To this day, still have 'em and no probs. My girlfriend over the time had hers out as a matter of couse due to dental advice. I know some have problems with wisdom teeth, but then, they have mouths filled with what look like grey wooden pegs in lieu of teeth. I suspect the wisdom teeth thing is half racket.
glad i still have mine.
I look after a small business in-house(30 people). I am the go-to guy for IT, small apps, and web.
Vista was a disaster for me. Especially for laptops. Just a few examples that spring to mind:
- Outlook 2002 no longer saved passwords. Had to enter each time. Upgraded these to 2003 to fix that problem(there are third party plugins to handle the password for you, *thats* how pervassive this prob was).
- Delta Copy(The rSync client for windows) had all sorts of problems. Email notification still does not work but I work around that.
- USB peripherals would slaughter these machines(SP1 seemed to fix that).
- Connection to Samba shares broke. While any fix now is a quick google search away, at the time, this caused a lot of pain. For weeks.
All the time, the managers that did not care and I got them XP based laptops, well, between 6 XP laptops, the only problems have been the typical ones("I lost my tool bar").
World War One was about trench war, where the commanders in Paris had no clue of conditions.
Thats me....in the trenchs, wading nostril deep though mud, blood and guts each day. Dont tell me how fucking marvelous Vista is.
Vista is the S-mine of my existence.
Most of my posts are marked funny, as I am usually in a fairly irreverant mood when reading posts on /.
I have been using mysql for 5 years(Before that 3 years in Oracle), in hundreds of websites and a few intranets. Some driving huge queries. Some driving simple high volume queries. A few enormous transaction numbers in a few.
I have never had mysql "Blow a table" once, or any other issue, the exception being failing drives.
...I went to edit an article for my favorite british dish, Jellied Eels, and found it was "down".
My US friend said this is an example where censorship benefits mankind.
A previous study has found ferrets distract drivers in a similar fashion.
For this reason the study concluded by suggestiing a hands-free ferret.
Hands Free Ferret
Good.
They clearly have the ability to respond to emergencies. And this puts it out there that they can...
eg;
1) Foot n mouth out break in cattle
2) A supliment to census data
3) Finding information of dissidents/traitors(bloggers)
"Don't PCs already have a dock? "The bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of a Mac and provides easy access to Apple applications."
The sounds like a description of the start menu, and its corresponding bar.
Yes it does. There are bazillions of patents with similar names because they cover similar subjects. With only a brief description of a patent it's impossible to know whether it is indeed novel. Fortunately, patents are more than a brief description. The Dock patent does into great detail covering the magnification feature. It's easy to trash a patent by looking at the title and saying "it's been done before". But when you actually read it, it becomes a bit less obvious the novel things the patent claims have actually been done before. Does Claim 120 ring any bells?:
120. The method of claim 117 wherein each icon is displayed within a corresponding tile area having two opposite edges that are respectively located at distances d.sub.1 and d.sub.2 from said cursor, and said other icons are magnified by the factor 1+(d.sub.2'-d.sub.1')/(d.sub.2-d.sub.1), where: d.sub.1=S.times.sine(.pi./2.times.d.sub.1/W) and d.sub.2'=S.times.sine(.pi./2.times.d.sub.2/W), where W is equal to said defined distance, and (S=((H-h)/2)/sine(.pi..times.(h/2)/(W.times.2)), where H is a magnified size for one dimension of said one icon, and h is a default display size for said one dimension.
That's some details of how that nice "hump" is generated when you use the magnification feature. Had you seen specifically that before 1999?"
Yes.
"...smother them to death in beakless, clawless chickens with enormous breasts."
Keep going....I am nearly there...
"Does a video of someone eating a steak get banned...
Like this one?
Knife and kitty Oh the humanity!! This video should be the benchmark....knives and animal cruelty!!
"Me, I just write shit on my hand with a sharpie."
I do the same, just on my forehead.
It has obviously made me more efficient, as requests for my IT assistance has dropped markedly.
No. It was this guy!
nissan.com
Hey! You kids get of my