The criminals may be monitored, but they sure aren't being turned in. It's against the hip-hop "code". If you snitch on people in your hood, even if they're scum, bad things will happen to you.
Maybe if more people tried cooperating with the police rather than treating them like the enemy, the neighborhoods wouldn't be so filled with crime and the officers wouldn't resent the residents.
Thanks for the regards. I'm not too new and am well-aware of the mentality of which you speak. I think it's one thing for such remarks to be in the comments area, but quite unnecessary for them to be stapled to the news headline (especially when it wasn't all that funny to begin with).
Imagine if every website was so inclined:
Popular Science Archaeologists uncover door to tomb that has been closed to man for over 3000 years -That's almost as long as Hillary's thighs have been closed to man!
Time and again, ignorance has been dismissed as a reason to not capitulate with the law.
The fact is, if you setup an http server on your computer, and then you put html files in your http doc root, you are publishing those html files. Many of the people I've seen so far would argue that you aren't distributing those html files. They are just sitting there on your computer and other people come along and steal them/make illegal copies of your html documents when they type your ip address into their browser. If you put copyrighted material on those http docs I hardly think you'd be able to hide behind the shield of "I didn't intend for anybody besides me to ever access those files, even though I didn't setup any type of permissions." It just doesn't fly.
Similarly, when you setup a shared folder, it's the same thing. Maybe you aren't distributing the files in that shared folder, but you are publishing them. To claim ignorance in this situation is just as absurd.
I am definitely not pro RIAA, but this just seems like a case of some snot-nosed know-it-all college student with too much time on his hands throwing a tantrum in the form of a weak legal argument.
There's nothing to prevent businesses from artificially raising their prices under our current tax system. Unless you count alienating your customers and going out of business as good reasons.
This is one of the most misunderstood things about the FairTax. You don't pay less in taxes, it's just shifts the time that taxes are taken out from the day you get paid, to the time you purchase goods or services.
The FairTax is not magical, it's a zero sum gain. It's not meant to alleviate your tax burden, it's just meant to change the way taxes are collected to something far less complicated than the current system. People who try to make it out to be more than that are doing it a disservices because most people know BS when they see it.
Example:
-Current System You make 50K/year. You take home 40K/year after income taxes. You effectively only make 40K a year, but your employer has to pay you 50. That extra 10 thousand has to be made up somewhere, so the cost of the product or service that your company provides has to be raised to make sure the company makes enough money to sustain itself.
-FairTax You make 40K/year. You take home 40K year. The company that employs you doesn't have to spend thousands of dollars on overhead to have you work for them. The company that employs you can now lower it's prices to a rate lower than what they were charging you before. So if they were charging 2.50 for a widget, they now can charge 2.00 for a widget and be in the exact some position as they were before. Now you add a 23% tax to the 2.00 widget, which makes the widget cost about 2.50 right where it was before.
Under the FairTax, everything will cost about the same, everyone will make about the same amount of money. There's nothing magical here, it just changes the way in which you are taxed. In my opinion to a much simpler system. The upside to illegal immigration being that when somebody buys a Coke for 1 dollar, they are paying taxes on it regardless of whether they are in the country legally or not.
In the plasma/lcd world, 32 bit color output can indeed contain a broader color pallet than the 16.7 million colors that a 24 bit color pallet is capable of displaying.
In many displays you will see 10-bit 1.07-billion color display capability mentioned as a feature.
Not too offend the open source community, but how exactly do you secure your codebase if your web-applications functionality is downloaded to the client (browser)? One of the features of server side applications that are so common on the web is the fact that only your presentation layer is presented to the end-user and your applications business processes is handled on the server.
Is it the same paradigm as applets in that your applet can still communicate with the server from whence it came to allow the server to handle business logic processing?
Speaking of applets, I still prefer their structured code format. I never liked working with javascript because there were so many different ways to do the exact same thing in javascript and it made getting all the developers on the same page, so that you are writing consistently formatted code, a bit more difficult... which leads to hard to maintain code... which, of course, leads to the dark side.
I looked at the generated Javascript for Google Maps and was completely daunted. Time to dust off the text books.
Possible explanation: He wasn't "blown" back by "space wind". If the dead droid wasn't attached to the figher craft, then when the fighter craft accelerates, it would leave the dead droid behind. This may give the illusion of being "blown" but its just a case of one object accelerating past another.
"our inhouse framework uses a single Dispatcher servlet to dispatch actions to the relevant Handler classes. Those classes do more or less processing, but the end result is *always* displayed by a JSP - we *never* use a Java class to output an entire page."
"Uh, EVERYONE has a dvd player now, who cares. Nobody bought an xbox for watching DVD's (not to mention the required 50$ remote) "
Either you're wrong or Canadian (redundancy unintended), because the xbox dvd upgrade package was only about $30. Also, in 2001 when the xbox came out, there were still quite a number of homes that didn't have DVD players, and for those who did, xbox owners were some of the first people to have TWO dvd players as the idea of having 2 players only became more common in the next couple of years once the price of DVD players dropped sharply.
In fact, the price of DVD players may have dropped significantly THANKS TO the PS2 and XBOX because why would anybody buy a standalone DVD player when they could purchase a game system + DVD for about the same price? DVD players had to be reduced in price accordingly to make them competitive.
"unless you know a reviewer well enough to be sure that his/her personal tastes line up with yours."
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for, for a long long long long time.
I would like RottenTomatoes.com or some other site to come up with a small application that will give you a liked it/didn't like it quizz. Where the quizz randomly selects 25 movies and asks you whether you liked it or didn't like it, and then it searches the archive of reviews and it -matches- your opinions with critics who have smiliar tastes and opinions. That way you can read reviews of a critic that you tend to agree with.
If something like this already exists, PLEASE point me in the right direction. I'd even write the application myself, I just don't have access to the data archive needed to support it.
I've found that under Windows XP, even though a newly installed piece of software prompts you to "reboot to complete installation." You can just click 'cancel' and immediately launch into the program successfully without requiring one.
I'm not sure if the "Please Reboot" is a hold-over part of the installation process from back in the day when you actualy needed to do this, or if its because there is only one installer program, thus telling you to reboot in case you happen to be running an old version of Windows.
What I find particularly annoying is that my Windows machine prompts me to reboot after installing a critical update, and I'm reminded every few minutes that I need to reboot no matter how many times I click 'reboot later.'
Please see my reply to Dachannien in this thread. We aren't lying to anybody.
If America Online is located in Metropolis, USA, and they provide you (located in Smallville, USA) with a tech-support number that is local to your area code, are they defrauding you by pretending to be your neighbor?
We are trying to provide a convenience to the customer, we aren't defrauding.
Where is the corporate office of Sprint PCS? Does the fact that they have a satelite office in my town mean they are defrauding me since the entire company doesn't work in my town? If they tell me to get customer support by contacting my local sales representative, are they lying to me? Maybe if they give me a local number to call and somebody in India answers, are they defrauding me then?
We aren't exactly calling people up and pretending to be Nigerian refugees looking for a place to offload some cash.
This wouldn't apply to us. There is a fine line here that isn't being crossed.
1) We actualy DO have an office in the area of the client with people in that office who would work on the project. It's just that most of the software development would take place somewhere else.
2) We never lied by claiming to have the entire team located in Chicago, the client knows this.
3) The main reason for Vonage was to provide a convenience to the client so that they can contact the non-local members without having to pay long-distance phone charges.
#3 was one of the things that was in our competitors favor that we took off the table.
We aren't defrauding anybody, but I did find your link interesting and worth thinking about.
They don't want incoming phone numbers or to make general outgoing calls.
I think you just answered your own question.
I'm currently in a real-world situation where my company is competing with another company for a contract. We are located in Texas and the other company is located in Chicago where the client is. One of the reasons the client was leaning torward the Chicago-based client was because of their proximity.
So, in comes Vonage. Now everyone at my company has a Chicago based phone number and we are claiming to have a Chicago-based office of operation because Vonage gives us a VOIP gateway that allows us to 'fake-it.'
If you just want basic communications then Skype is the way to go, if you want a company that will stand beside you and provide you with service and support, it's just not enough for a lot of people.
I would love to participate in this new study. Please provide me with your bank account numbers and I will deposit all of my Nigerian assets into your accounts.
I agree that it can be done, but my comment was based on the fact that the series would take place between episodes 3 and 4. KOTOR takes place thousands of years before episode 1 so it wouldn't make any sense to have familiar characters.
I'm not saying it would be impossible, it just helps having a familiar face in a spin off.
See, Joey, Frasier, Benson (ok, old example).
Also, somebody made the comparison of Star Trek Voyager. The Star Trek shows have always had an ensemble cast. When TNG came out you could look at the characters and relate them to the ones from the original series. Captain Kirk split into 2 personalities = Picard (cunning) and Number 1 (ladies man). Scotty = Jordy. Spock = Data. Since the setting was the same, this substitue cast is explainable. Not sure how well that would work in Star Wars where things haven't been as structured.
Slashdot Mirror
At an interchange on Highway 80 at Phenix City, Alabama there are a series of speed bumps warning you to slow down.
The speed bumps are in a series of 1 speed bump, space, 1 speed bump, space, 3 speed bumps.
When you drive over them in your car, it sounds just like the theme song to Knight Rider.
Duh duh.... duh duh.... duh duh, duh duh, duh duh.
CTRL-ALT-DELETE
Kari Byron from the show Mythbusters is the ultimate geeky babe.
Compared to her, Portman is just a ballistics gel replica of a woman. Wait... on second thought, that doesn't sound too bad either.
The criminals may be monitored, but they sure aren't being turned in. It's against the hip-hop "code". If you snitch on people in your hood, even if they're scum, bad things will happen to you.
Maybe if more people tried cooperating with the police rather than treating them like the enemy, the neighborhoods wouldn't be so filled with crime and the officers wouldn't resent the residents.
Thanks for the regards. I'm not too new and am well-aware of the mentality of which you speak. I think it's one thing for such remarks to be in the comments area, but quite unnecessary for them to be stapled to the news headline (especially when it wasn't all that funny to begin with).
Imagine if every website was so inclined:
Popular Science
Archaeologists uncover door to tomb that has been closed to man for over 3000 years
-That's almost as long as Hillary's thighs have been closed to man!
Personally I think this guy is just vying to replace Tony Snow at the White House.
Are the comments areas getting so full of Daily KOS 1-liners that they need to be spilled over into the headlines too?
I expect that kind of thing in the forums, but it doesn't belong in my RSS feed.
Time and again, ignorance has been dismissed as a reason to not capitulate with the law.
The fact is, if you setup an http server on your computer, and then you put html files in your http doc root, you are publishing those html files. Many of the people I've seen so far would argue that you aren't distributing those html files. They are just sitting there on your computer and other people come along and steal them/make illegal copies of your html documents when they type your ip address into their browser. If you put copyrighted material on those http docs I hardly think you'd be able to hide behind the shield of "I didn't intend for anybody besides me to ever access those files, even though I didn't setup any type of permissions." It just doesn't fly.
Similarly, when you setup a shared folder, it's the same thing. Maybe you aren't distributing the files in that shared folder, but you are publishing them. To claim ignorance in this situation is just as absurd.
I am definitely not pro RIAA, but this just seems like a case of some snot-nosed know-it-all college student with too much time on his hands throwing a tantrum in the form of a weak legal argument.
There's nothing to prevent businesses from artificially raising their prices under our current tax system. Unless you count alienating your customers and going out of business as good reasons.
This is one of the most misunderstood things about the FairTax. You don't pay less in taxes, it's just shifts the time that taxes are taken out from the day you get paid, to the time you purchase goods or services.
/year. /year after income taxes.
The FairTax is not magical, it's a zero sum gain. It's not meant to alleviate your tax burden, it's just meant to change the way taxes are collected to something far less complicated than the current system. People who try to make it out to be more than that are doing it a disservices because most people know BS when they see it.
Example:
-Current System
You make 50K
You take home 40K
You effectively only make 40K a year, but your employer has to pay you 50.
That extra 10 thousand has to be made up somewhere, so the cost of the product or service that your company provides has to be raised to make sure the company makes enough money to sustain itself.
-FairTax
You make 40K/year.
You take home 40K year.
The company that employs you doesn't have to spend thousands of dollars on overhead to have you work for them.
The company that employs you can now lower it's prices to a rate lower than what they were charging you before.
So if they were charging 2.50 for a widget, they now can charge 2.00 for a widget and be in the exact some position as they were before.
Now you add a 23% tax to the 2.00 widget, which makes the widget cost about 2.50 right where it was before.
Under the FairTax, everything will cost about the same, everyone will make about the same amount of money. There's nothing magical here, it just changes the way in which you are taxed. In my opinion to a much simpler system. The upside to illegal immigration being that when somebody buys a Coke for 1 dollar, they are paying taxes on it regardless of whether they are in the country legally or not.
In the plasma/lcd world, 32 bit color output can indeed contain a broader color pallet than the 16.7 million colors that a 24 bit color pallet is capable of displaying.
In many displays you will see 10-bit 1.07-billion color display capability mentioned as a feature.
Not too offend the open source community, but how exactly do you secure your codebase if your web-applications functionality is downloaded to the client (browser)? One of the features of server side applications that are so common on the web is the fact that only your presentation layer is presented to the end-user and your applications business processes is handled on the server.
Is it the same paradigm as applets in that your applet can still communicate with the server from whence it came to allow the server to handle business logic processing?
Speaking of applets, I still prefer their structured code format. I never liked working with javascript because there were so many different ways to do the exact same thing in javascript and it made getting all the developers on the same page, so that you are writing consistently formatted code, a bit more difficult... which leads to hard to maintain code... which, of course, leads to the dark side.
I looked at the generated Javascript for Google Maps and was completely daunted. Time to dust off the text books.
Possible explanation: He wasn't "blown" back by "space wind". If the dead droid wasn't attached to the figher craft, then when the fighter craft accelerates, it would leave the dead droid behind. This may give the illusion of being "blown" but its just a case of one object accelerating past another.
Does your *framework* use a lot of *custom* characters to *emphasize* certain variables? :)
"our inhouse framework uses a single Dispatcher servlet to dispatch actions to the relevant Handler classes. Those classes do more or less processing, but the end result is *always* displayed by a JSP - we *never* use a Java class to output an entire page."
That's a lot of words to say "We use STRUTS"
I think this may shed some light on that question...
From an internal memo intercepted at Cingular from the office of CEO
"Uh, EVERYONE has a dvd player now, who cares. Nobody bought an xbox for watching DVD's (not to mention the required 50$ remote) "
Either you're wrong or Canadian (redundancy unintended), because the xbox dvd upgrade package was only about $30. Also, in 2001 when the xbox came out, there were still quite a number of homes that didn't have DVD players, and for those who did, xbox owners were some of the first people to have TWO dvd players as the idea of having 2 players only became more common in the next couple of years once the price of DVD players dropped sharply.
In fact, the price of DVD players may have dropped significantly THANKS TO the PS2 and XBOX because why would anybody buy a standalone DVD player when they could purchase a game system + DVD for about the same price? DVD players had to be reduced in price accordingly to make them competitive.
"unless you know a reviewer well enough to be sure that his/her personal tastes line up with yours."
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for, for a long long long long time.
I would like RottenTomatoes.com or some other site to come up with a small application that will give you a liked it/didn't like it quizz. Where the quizz randomly selects 25 movies and asks you whether you liked it or didn't like it, and then it searches the archive of reviews and it -matches- your opinions with critics who have smiliar tastes and opinions. That way you can read reviews of a critic that you tend to agree with.
If something like this already exists, PLEASE point me in the right direction. I'd even write the application myself, I just don't have access to the data archive needed to support it.
They probaby had some extra RAM lying around and the marketing guys urged them to just put it in the card. That way they could claim...
512 MEGABYTES OF MEMORY!!!
TWICE THE MEMORY OF ANY OTHER GRAPHICS CARD OUT THERE!
NO OTHER GRAPHICS CARD COMPARES!
I expect ATI to come out with a sound card next month with a volume control that goes up to 11.
I've found that under Windows XP, even though a newly installed piece of software prompts you to "reboot to complete installation." You can just click 'cancel' and immediately launch into the program successfully without requiring one.
I'm not sure if the "Please Reboot" is a hold-over part of the installation process from back in the day when you actualy needed to do this, or if its because there is only one installer program, thus telling you to reboot in case you happen to be running an old version of Windows.
What I find particularly annoying is that my Windows machine prompts me to reboot after installing a critical update, and I'm reminded every few minutes that I need to reboot no matter how many times I click 'reboot later.'
Please see my reply to Dachannien in this thread. We aren't lying to anybody.
If America Online is located in Metropolis, USA, and they provide you (located in Smallville, USA) with a tech-support number that is local to your area code, are they defrauding you by pretending to be your neighbor?
We are trying to provide a convenience to the customer, we aren't defrauding.
Where is the corporate office of Sprint PCS? Does the fact that they have a satelite office in my town mean they are defrauding me since the entire company doesn't work in my town? If they tell me to get customer support by contacting my local sales representative, are they lying to me? Maybe if they give me a local number to call and somebody in India answers, are they defrauding me then?
We aren't exactly calling people up and pretending to be Nigerian refugees looking for a place to offload some cash.
This wouldn't apply to us. There is a fine line here that isn't being crossed.
1) We actualy DO have an office in the area of the client with people in that office who would work on the project. It's just that most of the software development would take place somewhere else.
2) We never lied by claiming to have the entire team located in Chicago, the client knows this.
3) The main reason for Vonage was to provide a convenience to the client so that they can contact the non-local members without having to pay long-distance phone charges.
#3 was one of the things that was in our competitors favor that we took off the table.
We aren't defrauding anybody, but I did find your link interesting and worth thinking about.
They don't want incoming phone numbers or to make general outgoing calls.
I think you just answered your own question.
I'm currently in a real-world situation where my company is competing with another company for a contract. We are located in Texas and the other company is located in Chicago where the client is. One of the reasons the client was leaning torward the Chicago-based client was because of their proximity.
So, in comes Vonage. Now everyone at my company has a Chicago based phone number and we are claiming to have a Chicago-based office of operation because Vonage gives us a VOIP gateway that allows us to 'fake-it.'
If you just want basic communications then Skype is the way to go, if you want a company that will stand beside you and provide you with service and support, it's just not enough for a lot of people.
I would love to participate in this new study. Please provide me with your bank account numbers and I will deposit all of my Nigerian assets into your accounts.
-Prince Azoo III
I agree that it can be done, but my comment was based on the fact that the series would take place between episodes 3 and 4. KOTOR takes place thousands of years before episode 1 so it wouldn't make any sense to have familiar characters.
I'm not saying it would be impossible, it just helps having a familiar face in a spin off.
See, Joey, Frasier, Benson (ok, old example).
Also, somebody made the comparison of Star Trek Voyager. The Star Trek shows have always had an ensemble cast. When TNG came out you could look at the characters and relate them to the ones from the original series. Captain Kirk split into 2 personalities = Picard (cunning) and Number 1 (ladies man). Scotty = Jordy. Spock = Data. Since the setting was the same, this substitue cast is explainable. Not sure how well that would work in Star Wars where things haven't been as structured.