We switched our family plans from Sprint to Verizon. We switched because of the better coverage from Verizon. We end up paying a bit more overall for the plans, since the corporate employee discount from Verizon ony covers the primary line and the cost for other lines are considered "options" and are ot qualified for discount. We did made a conscious decision of not getting any smart phones with them. No we never got hit with any significant extra fees. Heck we don't even have TXT MSG plans for all but one phones. Works great for us. Occassionally we have some extra fees but never went more than $10 a month. If you ask me that's not too bad.
At work I have the standard ball-n-chain Blackberry. It's on Verizon network as well. No complaints there. It does its job well. I guess not having to see the bill every month works great for me. It's a blessing when I know I'm using 1500-2000 minutes every month for work. That's simply the cost of doing business when you travel much.
A soccor mom interested in price, first and foremost, when buying a computer for her middle school/high school kids. Sure the style is important for her daughter and some nice feature may be wanted for her son, but ultimately price makes a HUGE difference in her decision, especially all the basic functions are there and her kids can do their homework with it.
Our company's HR are actually quite busy besides screen resume before recommending them for interviews. They also have to deal with knucklehead engineers like us who usually don't remember a thing about the exact procedures in each stages of the hiring process. Lastly I think those nice ladies working in HR would perceive your "pretty girls" comment as a compliment, they are not quite the type of people you would suggests in the tone of your comments. Not that I don't think our HR policy and processes are perfect, but at least they are doing some real work for us.
I'll have to start a blog outlining all the things I want to do, like solving hunger, cleaning up all the pollution from the ocean, and bringing peace and love to all mankind.
If you are able to get billions of people following your blog impressed about your world-peace agenda, and feel emotionally compell to even go along with your argument, especially the world leaders, then I think you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
I bought my sister a Brother HL-2070 in her junior year in college, essentially the same one without the network capability. Now 4+ years later it is still running just fine. It was design and built right.
I've heard of enough arguments from either pro-US control and anti-US control I hereby present this solution:
I, as an US CITIZEN, has the sole control of the INTERNET. My sole PLEASURE determines if certain protocols or features are available. This way, the US government is no longer in direct control, I can be bribed into and sweet talked into deals by other governments with proper incentives, and US won't feel a sense of loss of control some are feeling right now. If I died for some reason the control is passed on to the person I designated.
Uniloc needs to bring this to a higher appeals court and have the higher judge rule that the US District Judge William S is a dumbass and Uniloc wins again.
They can't (not really). Their have a very high bar to clear as to why the Judge's opinion and Ruling on them being dumb, illogical, and irrelevent while causing the Jury to be biased is without any merit. It will take quite a bit of pixie dust for them to argue that they were not dumb, misleading, uninformative, and illogical, while the Judge is, after a 66-page, well-written summary judgement (which including a reference on why didn't Uniloc went for a simpler legal proceeding durin the procedures. An appeal court may take it to further reprimand Uniloc for trolling the legal system, but definitely not supporting them for their cause.
Note: If you read the entire Judgement, you can see that the judge was clearly not impressed with the dog-fight between the two companies and were not at all pleased with either company. But ultimately ruled in Microsoft's favor because the evidences were overwhelingly in their favor, dispite his initial intent on siding with Uniloc.
While that is certainly likely, the jury is there for a reason. They
aren't there just to be ingored later. There is supposed to be a
process in place here and the judge seems to be just ignoring it in
favor of his own personal biases.
The system you are referring to is called appeal process. This judge is clearly considering the case as an appeal, not a re-trial. Please read the entire judgement and you will see that the Judge simply re-exaime the evidences and records presented and vacated because the jury simply comes to a wrong conclusion and wrongfully convicted Microsoft what it does not do. Furthermore the Plantiff's expert intentionally mislead the jury on the nature of the MD5 and SHA-1 algorithm and essentially lie to the jury, in their face, that MD5 and SHA-1 are in affect "a form of addition or summary algorithm". The judge clearly is able to grasp the difference between "3 plus signs" and a "more complicated, logical algorithm" and calls Uniloc's bluff.
Further, the Judge clearly addresses the nature of the licensing and the use of application. Where Microsoft has seperate and distinct mechanisms for the users to agree to EULA and granting the full use of product on a limited bases (number of days or number of starts) until PA is executed for activation, Uniloc's patent clearly limits the use of product in "demo mode" until the license/registration is completed before granting the full use of the product. In that regard the two mechanism or systems have totally different goals and Microsoft clearly does not implement the PA per goal described in Uniloc's patent. Why would a jury with a clear mind would buy into Uniloc's argument is anybody's guess.
The Judge further reprimand Uniloc's use of sales figure to led Jury's conclusion of $388 million figure, dispite the fact that the jury were already instructed by trial judge to ignore the $19.27 billion figure because the nature was clearly skewed by the Uniloc. Since the jury bite it anyway, the damage awarded based on a biased information should have been vacated. A simple example would be if someone was convicted of stealing his neighbor's daughtor's report card, only he didn't. He was convicted guilty by the jury anyway and the jury sentenced him to death. Not only was the guilty verditct uncalled for, the sentencing was overburden and dis-proportion to his supposedly crime.
In conclusion I think the Judge did the right thing. This was clearly a bad litigation in the first place and many arguments were flawed (on both sides, never mind Microsoft wins in the end). Somehow the Jury were making some real bad/illogical decisions (either lack of judgement or biased against Microsoft, the defendant) while cause unnecessary damage to the defendant. The judge should have the power to undo some of those undue burden upon the defendant, as he has done in this case, regardless of who the defendant is or if the defendant is popular/unpopular with a particular group or even general public.
Arseholes generally do not have many friends and a lot of people without many friends are arseholes.
Assholes are being labeled as such because they attempt to make a point unskillfully with ill regard to the immediate feelings of others. The socialite knows how to mistreat people skillfully so they it is not obvious to the general audience, except the one who they did it on. Heck, the best even make their victims feel pretty good at the moment until the damage is done!
Also the socially skilled mistreat others to promote themselves. The assholes are simply trying to make a point they considered important, without realizing if that was going to assist him on improving his social standing.
To which Gillette replied, "Fuck everything, we're doing five screens!"
- RG>
LOL. Reall funny. Never quite realize why Proctor and Gamble would not enter into the consumer electronic business. They hire enough engineers each year to make something like that work, and they have the marketing machines to push any products into the market!
If you pull up the picture in full detail, you can notice that the three touch screen were bundled together in the demo for a film strip effect. In fact you can see one picture across two screens.
Personally I like the concept of the smaller "informational" screen. I don't have anything specific visualized yet but I'm sure it can come in handy, working with a list of emails, a calendar, and perhaps a seperate IM screen, etc.
Another possible use is to take advantage of the Aero effect from Vista (or multiple desktop) and just display the smaller snapshot of that is going on on the three smaller touch screen and you can bring them up to the main screen by swiping across the screen in an upward motion. Personally I think it can be very useful to keep the desktop clutters down and be more productive with this application. My laptop is still on XP for compatibility reason so I'm no expert on the Vista's features.
I'd pay the fine they want if they would let me select deferred adjudication without having to appear in person and/or having legal representations. I just want the tickets off my records!
How would you like if your government charge for "unnecessary eating", or just charge your for having to eat? Oh wait, you are breathing their air, let me tax you on that as well...
Oh I thought of a better one. Why don't I charge you for the mail that I sent you the tax bill on? Since we need to save the environment everyone who request the government delivering proof of the legitimacy of the charges shall be charged in addition for their "sins". What a hoax!
Proper notifications for billing is inalienable right in a contract. For many this is still the common medium that can be view and verified by many, so this is NOT unnecessary paperwork. You must be able to trace where the charge came from, in business 101. If your country does not allow that or consider that necessary, I feel sorry for you. But please, please, please don't tell me I have to give up my rights just like you do, under the disguise of saving the environment. We can save the environment a lot better with many other things than not giving out invoices to the customers.
True. But even PDF documents can be generated dynamically. Many companies does this to save precious storage space. Until there are such guarentees, electronic bills can be synomomous with online DB access.
Exactly. How can company charge you for the invoice? If a party of the contract expect a payment then they must provide invoice with charges clearly stated. The invoice must be on a medium that is presetable and has legal power in court. Keeping a "copy" of invoice on company's server waiting on customer to retrieve is not considered proper notification, particularly since such monthly statements can be generated dynamically from the database.
If you measure from one live conductor to ground, it's 235 V. So you're both correct.
That's called single phase, not three phase power. The definition of 3-phase power dictates three seperate power lines and the peak-to-peak voltage between any two of the three lines should be the same, with approximately 120 degree in phase-shift. That translate to you should be able to read the same voltage with a volt meter, from one line to another, 3 times. When combining all three phases the phase shift cancells out.
To obtain single phase power, you would typically take one or two phases and bring it in, and use it either line-to-line, or from line to ground. The transformers dictates the RMS voltage you measured and the setup. Typically in a wye transformer you will measure single phase from any one phase (out of three) to neutral (tapped to the center of the Y formation. I think this is what you are measuring, and European Standard is 230V, for single phase. Please see the link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
In US it is 120 Standard, but we also use single phase, 240V. Essentially the utility company brought down two out of the three phases to your house. The RMS voltage between the two line, because of the phase shifting, will result in 208V. It is still considered single phase, however.
There are a few industrial equipments, usually fairly old ones, that uses 240V 3-phase. Those tends to be non-standard in today's point of view and they are usually not part of the single phase/3 phase discussion.
I'd rather have Dr. House as a doctor than some wimpy doctor who knows nothing, as long as I know it before meeting him! He may not care about me as a person but he sure care a lot to do his job right!
Nice may not work but sucking up and good looking seems to work.....
Ask geeks who are not good looking but are nice and competent.
Many has lost to a suckup or a good looking.......
A Nice and good looking person who can charm people doing their job? I think the proper term is "Upper Management."
To be exact, I would take someone who are professionally competent (making correct decision 80% of the time or more) and are at least in the 20% tile or higher in their attitudes and interactions with others. You actually need to be fairly strong willed at times to properly get your point across! That can be perceived as being a "jerk" by the person on the receiving end at the moment.
Very interesting though. I tried to push a much less ambitious version of this for work, and got slapped down because it wasn't made by (insert proprietary vendor here). Of course, we're still having storage issues because we can't afford the proprietary solution, but at least there is no non-branded hardware in our server room.
The reason the brand name products are purchased are because most of the support staff are either short-handed, lack of time, or still in need of additional training. Dealing with experts on final product designs with high scalability factor will inevitabally encourage custom made product, since it will be cheaper once it is being deployed. Call it the google model if you like. This is really the basis of industrial engineering on a fairly stable statistical modeling. Nothing has really changed except where the theory is being applied.
Yes. to fit the poor soccer mom and her four pretty girl in a busy schedule. Or on a long family trip where the parents up front can stop hearing kids constantly asking "are we there yet?"
I hate to break it to the urban dwellers, but there are plenty of folks in Unites States that lives well outside of the city limits of a major city. I know plenty of folks who dislike the crowded city and choose to live in smaller towns. In the case where driving 100+ miles are short for a family trip over the weekend an SUV of reasonable size is actually very well suited for a family's needs. It is not evil (just as those small-town folks don't call a dirty major metropolitan bad--they just don't like it), it is just a different way of life.
I'm not suggesting that the we don't need to improve the gas miilage of the SUV category. I just think that the space requirements are truely appealing and there can be a compromise between the space and fuel efficiency, and the fact that one out of several vehicle a family owned in US is an reasonable sized SUV, not necessarily a beast such as a Suburban, is a bad thing.
Can someone explain to me how a company can ask a judge to not apply the law for purely commercial reasons?
Why not let proven big drug dealers go free because they fuel the economy while they're at it?
During an appeal process the judge has a say on whether the previous judgement should be enforced before or after the appeal process. By law the judge has the authority to do so either way. So Dell is certainly within the boundary and the spirit of the law to voice their concern, especially when it has far reaching impact. It is an entirely different discussion if the judge would see the issue the same way Dell does.
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We switched our family plans from Sprint to Verizon. We switched because of the better coverage from Verizon. We end up paying a bit more overall for the plans, since the corporate employee discount from Verizon ony covers the primary line and the cost for other lines are considered "options" and are ot qualified for discount. We did made a conscious decision of not getting any smart phones with them. No we never got hit with any significant extra fees. Heck we don't even have TXT MSG plans for all but one phones. Works great for us. Occassionally we have some extra fees but never went more than $10 a month. If you ask me that's not too bad.
At work I have the standard ball-n-chain Blackberry. It's on Verizon network as well. No complaints there. It does its job well. I guess not having to see the bill every month works great for me. It's a blessing when I know I'm using 1500-2000 minutes every month for work. That's simply the cost of doing business when you travel much.
A soccor mom interested in price, first and foremost, when buying a computer for her middle school/high school kids. Sure the style is important for her daughter and some nice feature may be wanted for her son, but ultimately price makes a HUGE difference in her decision, especially all the basic functions are there and her kids can do their homework with it.
Our company's HR are actually quite busy besides screen resume before recommending them for interviews. They also have to deal with knucklehead engineers like us who usually don't remember a thing about the exact procedures in each stages of the hiring process. Lastly I think those nice ladies working in HR would perceive your "pretty girls" comment as a compliment, they are not quite the type of people you would suggests in the tone of your comments. Not that I don't think our HR policy and processes are perfect, but at least they are doing some real work for us.
I'll have to start a blog outlining all the things I want to do, like solving hunger, cleaning up all the pollution from the ocean, and bringing peace and love to all mankind.
If you are able to get billions of people following your blog impressed about your world-peace agenda, and feel emotionally compell to even go along with your argument, especially the world leaders, then I think you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
I bought my sister a Brother HL-2070 in her junior year in college, essentially the same one without the network capability. Now 4+ years later it is still running just fine. It was design and built right.
I've heard of enough arguments from either pro-US control and anti-US control I hereby present this solution:
I, as an US CITIZEN, has the sole control of the INTERNET. My sole PLEASURE determines if certain protocols or features are available. This way, the US government is no longer in direct control, I can be bribed into and sweet talked into deals by other governments with proper incentives, and US won't feel a sense of loss of control some are feeling right now. If I died for some reason the control is passed on to the person I designated.
Sounds good everyone?
Uniloc needs to bring this to a higher appeals court and have the higher judge rule that the US District Judge William S is a dumbass and Uniloc wins again.
They can't (not really). Their have a very high bar to clear as to why the Judge's opinion and Ruling on them being dumb, illogical, and irrelevent while causing the Jury to be biased is without any merit. It will take quite a bit of pixie dust for them to argue that they were not dumb, misleading, uninformative, and illogical, while the Judge is, after a 66-page, well-written summary judgement (which including a reference on why didn't Uniloc went for a simpler legal proceeding durin the procedures. An appeal court may take it to further reprimand Uniloc for trolling the legal system, but definitely not supporting them for their cause.
Note: If you read the entire Judgement, you can see that the judge was clearly not impressed with the dog-fight between the two companies and were not at all pleased with either company. But ultimately ruled in Microsoft's favor because the evidences were overwhelingly in their favor, dispite his initial intent on siding with Uniloc.
While that is certainly likely, the jury is there for a reason. They aren't there just to be ingored later. There is supposed to be a process in place here and the judge seems to be just ignoring it in favor of his own personal biases.
The system you are referring to is called appeal process. This judge is clearly considering the case as an appeal, not a re-trial. Please read the entire judgement and you will see that the Judge simply re-exaime the evidences and records presented and vacated because the jury simply comes to a wrong conclusion and wrongfully convicted Microsoft what it does not do. Furthermore the Plantiff's expert intentionally mislead the jury on the nature of the MD5 and SHA-1 algorithm and essentially lie to the jury, in their face, that MD5 and SHA-1 are in affect "a form of addition or summary algorithm". The judge clearly is able to grasp the difference between "3 plus signs" and a "more complicated, logical algorithm" and calls Uniloc's bluff.
Further, the Judge clearly addresses the nature of the licensing and the use of application. Where Microsoft has seperate and distinct mechanisms for the users to agree to EULA and granting the full use of product on a limited bases (number of days or number of starts) until PA is executed for activation, Uniloc's patent clearly limits the use of product in "demo mode" until the license/registration is completed before granting the full use of the product. In that regard the two mechanism or systems have totally different goals and Microsoft clearly does not implement the PA per goal described in Uniloc's patent. Why would a jury with a clear mind would buy into Uniloc's argument is anybody's guess.
The Judge further reprimand Uniloc's use of sales figure to led Jury's conclusion of $388 million figure, dispite the fact that the jury were already instructed by trial judge to ignore the $19.27 billion figure because the nature was clearly skewed by the Uniloc. Since the jury bite it anyway, the damage awarded based on a biased information should have been vacated. A simple example would be if someone was convicted of stealing his neighbor's daughtor's report card, only he didn't. He was convicted guilty by the jury anyway and the jury sentenced him to death. Not only was the guilty verditct uncalled for, the sentencing was overburden and dis-proportion to his supposedly crime.
In conclusion I think the Judge did the right thing. This was clearly a bad litigation in the first place and many arguments were flawed (on both sides, never mind Microsoft wins in the end). Somehow the Jury were making some real bad/illogical decisions (either lack of judgement or biased against Microsoft, the defendant) while cause unnecessary damage to the defendant. The judge should have the power to undo some of those undue burden upon the defendant, as he has done in this case, regardless of who the defendant is or if the defendant is popular/unpopular with a particular group or even general public.
How about stop buying Joyce's books?
There are plenty of other books to read and study.
Please tell that to the English teachers!
Arseholes generally do not have many friends and a lot of people without many friends are arseholes.
Assholes are being labeled as such because they attempt to make a point unskillfully with ill regard to the immediate feelings of others. The socialite knows how to mistreat people skillfully so they it is not obvious to the general audience, except the one who they did it on. Heck, the best even make their victims feel pretty good at the moment until the damage is done!
Also the socially skilled mistreat others to promote themselves. The assholes are simply trying to make a point they considered important, without realizing if that was going to assist him on improving his social standing.
To which Gillette replied, "Fuck everything, we're doing five screens!"
- RG>
LOL. Reall funny. Never quite realize why Proctor and Gamble would not enter into the consumer electronic business. They hire enough engineers each year to make something like that work, and they have the marketing machines to push any products into the market!
If you pull up the picture in full detail, you can notice that the three touch screen were bundled together in the demo for a film strip effect. In fact you can see one picture across two screens.
Personally I like the concept of the smaller "informational" screen. I don't have anything specific visualized yet but I'm sure it can come in handy, working with a list of emails, a calendar, and perhaps a seperate IM screen, etc.
Another possible use is to take advantage of the Aero effect from Vista (or multiple desktop) and just display the smaller snapshot of that is going on on the three smaller touch screen and you can bring them up to the main screen by swiping across the screen in an upward motion. Personally I think it can be very useful to keep the desktop clutters down and be more productive with this application. My laptop is still on XP for compatibility reason so I'm no expert on the Vista's features.
I'd pay the fine they want if they would let me select deferred adjudication without having to appear in person and/or having legal representations. I just want the tickets off my records!
How would you like if your government charge for "unnecessary eating", or just charge your for having to eat? Oh wait, you are breathing their air, let me tax you on that as well...
Oh I thought of a better one. Why don't I charge you for the mail that I sent you the tax bill on? Since we need to save the environment everyone who request the government delivering proof of the legitimacy of the charges shall be charged in addition for their "sins". What a hoax!
Proper notifications for billing is inalienable right in a contract. For many this is still the common medium that can be view and verified by many, so this is NOT unnecessary paperwork. You must be able to trace where the charge came from, in business 101. If your country does not allow that or consider that necessary, I feel sorry for you. But please, please, please don't tell me I have to give up my rights just like you do, under the disguise of saving the environment. We can save the environment a lot better with many other things than not giving out invoices to the customers.
Electronic bills != online DB access.
True. But even PDF documents can be generated dynamically. Many companies does this to save precious storage space. Until there are such guarentees, electronic bills can be synomomous with online DB access.
Exactly. How can company charge you for the invoice? If a party of the contract expect a payment then they must provide invoice with charges clearly stated. The invoice must be on a medium that is presetable and has legal power in court. Keeping a "copy" of invoice on company's server waiting on customer to retrieve is not considered proper notification, particularly since such monthly statements can be generated dynamically from the database.
If you measure from one live conductor to ground, it's 235 V. So you're both correct.
That's called single phase, not three phase power. The definition of 3-phase power dictates three seperate power lines and the peak-to-peak voltage between any two of the three lines should be the same, with approximately 120 degree in phase-shift. That translate to you should be able to read the same voltage with a volt meter, from one line to another, 3 times. When combining all three phases the phase shift cancells out.
To obtain single phase power, you would typically take one or two phases and bring it in, and use it either line-to-line, or from line to ground. The transformers dictates the RMS voltage you measured and the setup. Typically in a wye transformer you will measure single phase from any one phase (out of three) to neutral (tapped to the center of the Y formation. I think this is what you are measuring, and European Standard is 230V, for single phase. Please see the link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
In US it is 120 Standard, but we also use single phase, 240V. Essentially the utility company brought down two out of the three phases to your house. The RMS voltage between the two line, because of the phase shifting, will result in 208V. It is still considered single phase, however.
There are a few industrial equipments, usually fairly old ones, that uses 240V 3-phase. Those tends to be non-standard in today's point of view and they are usually not part of the single phase/3 phase discussion.
No. Think Dr. House.
I'd rather have Dr. House as a doctor than some wimpy doctor who knows nothing, as long as I know it before meeting him! He may not care about me as a person but he sure care a lot to do his job right!
Now if he was ever wrong...
Nice may not work but sucking up and good looking seems to work..... Ask geeks who are not good looking but are nice and competent. Many has lost to a suckup or a good looking .......
A Nice and good looking person who can charm people doing their job? I think the proper term is "Upper Management."
To be exact, I would take someone who are professionally competent (making correct decision 80% of the time or more) and are at least in the 20% tile or higher in their attitudes and interactions with others. You actually need to be fairly strong willed at times to properly get your point across! That can be perceived as being a "jerk" by the person on the receiving end at the moment.
Very interesting though. I tried to push a much less ambitious version of this for work, and got slapped down because it wasn't made by (insert proprietary vendor here). Of course, we're still having storage issues because we can't afford the proprietary solution, but at least there is no non-branded hardware in our server room.
The reason the brand name products are purchased are because most of the support staff are either short-handed, lack of time, or still in need of additional training. Dealing with experts on final product designs with high scalability factor will inevitabally encourage custom made product, since it will be cheaper once it is being deployed. Call it the google model if you like. This is really the basis of industrial engineering on a fairly stable statistical modeling. Nothing has really changed except where the theory is being applied.
I won't laugh when you hit a tree, just when you pay for gas. That's the funny part.
My small SUV gets great milage than a 10-year old Accord. You point being?
Yes. to fit the poor soccer mom and her four pretty girl in a busy schedule. Or on a long family trip where the parents up front can stop hearing kids constantly asking "are we there yet?"
I hate to break it to the urban dwellers, but there are plenty of folks in Unites States that lives well outside of the city limits of a major city. I know plenty of folks who dislike the crowded city and choose to live in smaller towns. In the case where driving 100+ miles are short for a family trip over the weekend an SUV of reasonable size is actually very well suited for a family's needs. It is not evil (just as those small-town folks don't call a dirty major metropolitan bad--they just don't like it), it is just a different way of life.
I'm not suggesting that the we don't need to improve the gas miilage of the SUV category. I just think that the space requirements are truely appealing and there can be a compromise between the space and fuel efficiency, and the fact that one out of several vehicle a family owned in US is an reasonable sized SUV, not necessarily a beast such as a Suburban, is a bad thing.
Can someone explain to me how a company can ask a judge to not apply the law for purely commercial reasons? Why not let proven big drug dealers go free because they fuel the economy while they're at it?
During an appeal process the judge has a say on whether the previous judgement should be enforced before or after the appeal process. By law the judge has the authority to do so either way. So Dell is certainly within the boundary and the spirit of the law to voice their concern, especially when it has far reaching impact. It is an entirely different discussion if the judge would see the issue the same way Dell does.
Don't mess with Texas, BUDDY!