Difficulty in policing something isn't a reason to allow a crime to be legal.
The jury has been out on that for a few hundred years now. Consider 1.) An unenforceable (de jure) law ultimately rewards the dishonest while punishing only the honest who confess their crime (Hobbes). And 2.) From a political standpoint, unenforceable legislation creates the appearance of real moral authority without risk of alienating those constituents who would be punished if were enforceable. Public disregard for enforceability therefore promotes dishonesty of both the citizen and the official -- exactly the sort of business an ethical society should avoid.
Bottom line: race and gender *do* matter. What would become of our beloved Chocolate Factory if it became known that Willy Wonka exclusively used male Oompa Loompas in his production lines?
A variation on this theme, how about displaying an additional desktop from the current user session within a nested X server (a-la Xephyr)? Granted we don't yet have hardware acceleration in Xephyr, but all in good time...
Nytimes.com may succeed, but as a wsj.com subscriber myself, somewhat disappointed with an increasingly noisy site and "front-page" opinion content a-la News corp, I may have to switch.
Ok this may not be quite newsworthy but, it's Sunday right? Anyway, the energy consumed by 26 million CPUs running at or near 100% utilization for 15 or so minutes each day translates to a considerable corporate carbon footprint. It *must* be possible to halve these requirements without impact to actual gameplay.
ILMerge doesn't manage complexity -- it merely hides it. What's really needed is a process capable of merging only the IL needed for a given app, à la OSGi.
1. Legal interpretation aside, this guy practically turned himself in leaving such an obvious digital trail. Had he been intercepting the mail he would have been much harder to track down. Unless it can be shown that making the act of viewing documents illegal will reduce the incidence of identity theft, it would seem the preservation of freedom on this topic remains in our best interest.
2. Before grabbing document x (most likely shared by mistake), ask yourself whether you want to be on the shortlist with morally-challenged folks like this guy.
The example you cite has nothing whatsoever to do with the program, which defines a 'clunker' as a vehicle that gets a max combined economy of 18 MPG. The new vehicle must get no less than 22 MPG. Assuming most of these trade-ins will not get exactly 18 MPG (say 15 is the avg here), and most trade-ups will not get exactly 22 MPG (say 28 is the avg here), the net effect of the program may be to halve the overall fuel requirements of that portion of the populace who participated in the program.
The sort of freedom you cite, the freedom to disregard, is exactly the sort of attitude that if left unchecked will result in the decline of your country. Cheers.
So complete disregard for ones carbon footprint is not irresponsible? Generally speaking, is it acceptable for those in power to endorse policies that reward irresponsible behavior? The term irresponsible, having a precise definition, can be argued and shown to have been used incorrectly. If merely being called out to defend ones actions is offensive, is the act of responding with largely irrelevant, hostile remarks not more so?
If vetting of your idea requires expertise that you yourself don't possess, you should be prepared to offer those you consult with a stake in the venture. Otherwise you'd be guilty of the very thing you seek to prevent.
If you are truly a serious inventor, journal your marketable thoughts, email, print and mail them to yourself to establish authorship. If possible, prototype the idea to establish prior art. Let those you discuss the idea with know the idea is documented and you should be protected as fully as the law allows.
To be fair, the US labor market of Carnegie's day was on par with that of most other countries, his railroad empire was largely built on the back of indentured labor (a substantial portion of which had consisted of Chinese immigrants). He maintained a private army to hedge against an armed workforce uprising, which eventuallyhappened -- and during which he retreated to the safety of his personal Scottish castle. Afterward said labor force was promptly replaced with a force entirely composed of desperate immigrants.
Please share with us the many Microsoft patent timebombs embedded in Mono and Moonlight. The code is open because it is GPL -- the Novell agreement has no bearing on the nature of the project.
A 10% stake in the company is a unique invitation to join its executive team. Ergo, your ideas may translate to action that may directly translate to value. If change is what you're looking for, you've found it whether you decide to stay or not.
Which is basically redundant considering the market's assessment of an organization's value at any given point in time is mankind's most reliable assessment of its future value. Your first post was fine as is.
Even without "UAC" (gui-integrated sudo) temporarily gaining root access via a GNU/*nix gui is simply a matter of running the executable in question via sudo from the command line (i.e., sudo nautilus, sudo thunar, sudo systemsettings, etc.). That's been the case for the past decade or so anyway.
Well users may "benefit" in ways not related to cost, i.e., access to the software from any computer/device, and automatic upgrades. They also benefit having the ability to use the service to import/export files to/from these formats (and perform any last-minute cleanup) when using free alternatives for the bulk of the work.
Suppliers may also benefit if these users otherwise either pirate the software or rent time on public use systems, etc.
So the user may appreciate the extra "value-add" and spend $5 where they may have spent $0 before. A potential win-win.
Actually there is no need to embed knowledge of this particular font in the document -- this font (or any font modified via this process for that matter) can simply be substituted by the printer to produce a higher-quality economy-mode result. Good news for many routine printing application not traditionally well-suited to economy mode printing.
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All of which (except SSH) typically run on port 80 -- we routinely teach our firewalls the difference, and that it no longer matters...
Difficulty in policing something isn't a reason to allow a crime to be legal.
The jury has been out on that for a few hundred years now. Consider 1.) An unenforceable (de jure) law ultimately rewards the dishonest while punishing only the honest who confess their crime (Hobbes). And 2.) From a political standpoint, unenforceable legislation creates the appearance of real moral authority without risk of alienating those constituents who would be punished if were enforceable. Public disregard for enforceability therefore promotes dishonesty of both the citizen and the official -- exactly the sort of business an ethical society should avoid.
Bottom line: race and gender *do* matter. What would become of our beloved Chocolate Factory if it became known that Willy Wonka exclusively used male Oompa Loompas in his production lines?
A variation on this theme, how about displaying an additional desktop from the current user session within a nested X server (a-la Xephyr)? Granted we don't yet have hardware acceleration in Xephyr, but all in good time...
Nytimes.com may succeed, but as a wsj.com subscriber myself, somewhat disappointed with an increasingly noisy site and "front-page" opinion content a-la News corp, I may have to switch.
Ok this may not be quite newsworthy but, it's Sunday right? Anyway, the energy consumed by 26 million CPUs running at or near 100% utilization for 15 or so minutes each day translates to a considerable corporate carbon footprint. It *must* be possible to halve these requirements without impact to actual gameplay.
ILMerge doesn't manage complexity -- it merely hides it. What's really needed is a process capable of merging only the IL needed for a given app, à la OSGi.
1. Legal interpretation aside, this guy practically turned himself in leaving such an obvious digital trail. Had he been intercepting the mail he would have been much harder to track down. Unless it can be shown that making the act of viewing documents illegal will reduce the incidence of identity theft, it would seem the preservation of freedom on this topic remains in our best interest.
2. Before grabbing document x (most likely shared by mistake), ask yourself whether you want to be on the shortlist with morally-challenged folks like this guy.
The example you cite has nothing whatsoever to do with the program, which defines a 'clunker' as a vehicle that gets a max combined economy of 18 MPG. The new vehicle must get no less than 22 MPG. Assuming most of these trade-ins will not get exactly 18 MPG (say 15 is the avg here), and most trade-ups will not get exactly 22 MPG (say 28 is the avg here), the net effect of the program may be to halve the overall fuel requirements of that portion of the populace who participated in the program.
The sort of freedom you cite, the freedom to disregard, is exactly the sort of attitude that if left unchecked will result in the decline of your country. Cheers.
So complete disregard for ones carbon footprint is not irresponsible? Generally speaking, is it acceptable for those in power to endorse policies that reward irresponsible behavior? The term irresponsible, having a precise definition, can be argued and shown to have been used incorrectly. If merely being called out to defend ones actions is offensive, is the act of responding with largely irrelevant, hostile remarks not more so?
If vetting of your idea requires expertise that you yourself don't possess, you should be prepared to offer those you consult with a stake in the venture. Otherwise you'd be guilty of the very thing you seek to prevent.
If you are truly a serious inventor, journal your marketable thoughts, email, print and mail them to yourself to establish authorship. If possible, prototype the idea to establish prior art. Let those you discuss the idea with know the idea is documented and you should be protected as fully as the law allows.
"VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
â" Ambrose Bierce
To be fair, the US labor market of Carnegie's day was on par with that of most other countries, his railroad empire was largely built on the back of indentured labor (a substantial portion of which had consisted of Chinese immigrants). He maintained a private army to hedge against an armed workforce uprising, which eventually happened -- and during which he retreated to the safety of his personal Scottish castle. Afterward said labor force was promptly replaced with a force entirely composed of desperate immigrants.
It is widely believed his later philanthropic activities were entirely motivated by his damaged reputation and desire to right a fortune built on questionable ethics and ruthless business practices. What do you buy someone who already has everything? Posterity.
No ban need mention a party by name, rather simply enumerate policy violations that merit said ban. Done.
"you just take it out of the box and it's ready to
go"
Manageable challenge there, In fact, it's more ready to go than just about anything else on the market once the package manager is fired up.
Please share with us the many Microsoft patent timebombs embedded in Mono and Moonlight. The code is open because it is GPL -- the Novell agreement has no bearing on the nature of the project.
Please do let us know if you have any luck ending your contract.
A 10% stake in the company is a unique invitation to join its executive team. Ergo, your ideas may translate to action that may directly translate to value. If change is what you're looking for, you've found it whether you decide to stay or not.
Which is basically redundant considering the market's assessment of an organization's value at any given point in time is mankind's most reliable assessment of its future value. Your first post was fine as is.
Even without "UAC" (gui-integrated sudo) temporarily gaining root access via a GNU/*nix gui is simply a matter of running the executable in question via sudo from the command line (i.e., sudo nautilus, sudo thunar, sudo systemsettings, etc.). That's been the case for the past decade or so anyway.
Well users may "benefit" in ways not related to cost, i.e., access to the software from any computer/device, and automatic upgrades. They also benefit having the ability to use the service to import/export files to/from these formats (and perform any last-minute cleanup) when using free alternatives for the bulk of the work.
Suppliers may also benefit if these users otherwise either pirate the software or rent time on public use systems, etc.
So the user may appreciate the extra "value-add" and spend $5 where they may have spent $0 before. A potential win-win.
Actually there is no need to embed knowledge of this particular font in the document -- this font (or any font modified via this process for that matter) can simply be substituted by the printer to produce a higher-quality economy-mode result. Good news for many routine printing application not traditionally well-suited to economy mode printing.
Good citizenship aside, if this were a non-profit entity, these donations would also be tax-deductible.
"Despite my strong taste for liberty, I'd rather live under the paw of a lion than be gnawed at continually by the teeth of a thousand rats who are my peers."
-Voltaire
And for good measure ...