So you either have to be willing to break laws or give up your common carrier status? I'm sure there's a legal doctrine that says your argument is wrong. It cannot be to Google's detriment, in court, that they obeyed the law of China when they did business there. I know of situations where an oil company put a requirement on their female employees to travel with a male escort in certain countries. That would be actionable discrimination here in the US. The China thing with Google is on the same level as that.
If Dell had gone ahead and introduced a system when they had the hype in their court, whatever they released would have *become* the standard. Of course, most people with a clue (which includes some suits at Dell, I am certain) realize that linux distributions are not nearly as different and incompatible as some fuddites would have you believe.
>What if it's something else like the friend's dad comes home from work and smokes a joint in the living room every day.
What? You can be reasonably confident that he's not a heavy alcoholic, he will probably live longer for having a lower stress level, reduced cancer risk, and is probably not aligned with the ultra right wing set. On the other hand, if he smokes "joints" he's somewhat anachronistic, and a bit wasteful.
>How about a Linux box that >-instantly resumes from standby
Practical standby is the #1 reason I switched from a Linux laptop to a Macbook pro. I realize that it's probably possible to make ACPI or whatever, work on a Linux notebook, but it never really worked for me. It was this particular frustration that drove me to find a solution -- and the first time I tried a Mac portable, there was no other serious choice. Others seem to think of boot time or sleep/restart time as inconsequential, but for me, suspend/resume latency made the difference between me actually using the device, quite often.
>This reminds me of selling a car. How much do you want? Make me an offer. Whats the lowest youll take? Make me an offer...
I had a domain name that people kept asking if I'd sell. "Make me an offer", I'd say. "How much do you want?" they'd say. I wouldn't even reply.
Finally, somebody offered to do an escrow.com trade for $10G. I went for it. Can't believe they way people won't say what they will pay for stuff. I'm not from a culture that haggles, so it's not really something I know how to do, as some people seem to have a skill, or even a passion, for. It just annoys the hell out of me, and I end up either keeping my stuff, or else walking away from purchases, all the time.
>Except that, as someone above mentioned, most managers aren't in control of the purse strings.
But, *someone* is, and you need to find out what *they* need, and interview for *that* job instead. Maybe they need a manager who is capable of controlling purse strings;-)
I had a MSDN subscription that had already been activated. MS reps passed me off in a circular queue for a couple of weeks, going between their support department sending me back to the reseller, and the reseller sending them back to Microsoft. I had to literally threaten to sue them before they gave me a license key. I was actually surprised how quickly I got results after I told them that I had decided to file a lawsuit. I was not exactly bluffing, but I also could not have taken it much farther than the initial filing. But I was ready to go to the US Court Of Claims to say that the retailer and Microsoft had together sold me a product which did not work and that both had refused to give me a refund. After certain certified letters reached certain individuals, I got a license key, and for a couple of months afterwards, received occasional calls from Microsoft support folks asking me if my problem was taken care of.
The lessons I learned:
1. Microsoft is in denial about their software security system. 2. Threatening to file a lawsuit against a corporation engenders prompt responses.
The point of your post is well taken but I see it from a different direction.
The problem with the media industry's heavy handed approach to copyright, puts a damping effect on anyone who actually wants his copyrighted work to be freely distributed. Part of the reason for this is that the idea has been firmly ingrained in the minds of millions that "copyright" means "illegal to copy or distribute", which is not always the case. Copyright and controls on distribution are related but not the same. Also, people tend to assume that "copyrighted material" refers only to those items represented by large corporate entities, and that individual works (insofar as people realize these even exist), do not carry the same protections. Finally, the actions of the media industry puts a cloud of doubt on the distribution channels themselves. The very protocols become synonymous with "stealing". This definitely creates a chilling effect for anyone who would like to take advantage of those distribution channels for purposes that are 100% legal.
> Last time I was in Las Vegas. (Around 2001, admittedly)
A lot has changed since 2001, and I have my suspicions that part of the motivation to move to tickets from coins came from pressure to make the casinos more accoutable to fatherland security.
Another machine in the same casino. This is a very big distinction between machines that use chits (private token, revocable) and machines that use coins (public, legal tender).
>Actually there is no such law for ANY taxes in the USA!
Tax protesters never prevail.
I love that video, though. Right out of the gate, it opens with a quote from Bush that cannot be corroborated: "The goddamned piece of paper" quote. All sources for that will lead you to a Capitol Hill Blue piece, which was quite vague and hardly credible. Beside the point. Tax protesters do not prevail in court.
"I was taking Steven Cook's Complexity Theory class at UofT and when we were given the TSP I immediately saw a solution reduced into Dijkstra's algorithm. I don't think anyone in the class actually followed, the prof said that it can probably work. I never dealt with it again, but that was the reason I remember that class."
Did you at least try to scribble it in the margin of your book?
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So you either have to be willing to break laws or give up your common carrier status? I'm sure there's a legal doctrine that says your argument is wrong. It cannot be to Google's detriment, in court, that they obeyed the law of China when they did business there. I know of situations where an oil company put a requirement on their female employees to travel with a male escort in certain countries. That would be actionable discrimination here in the US. The China thing with Google is on the same level as that.
If Dell had gone ahead and introduced a system when they had the hype in their court, whatever they released would have *become* the standard. Of course, most people with a clue (which includes some suits at Dell, I am certain) realize that linux distributions are not nearly as different and incompatible as some fuddites would have you believe.
>What if it's something else like the friend's dad comes home from work and smokes a joint in the living room every day.
What? You can be reasonably confident that he's not a heavy alcoholic, he will probably live longer for having a lower stress level, reduced cancer risk, and is probably not aligned with the ultra right wing set. On the other hand, if he smokes "joints" he's somewhat anachronistic, and a bit wasteful.
>due to the high rate of paging MacOS does.
How well do you know the workings of OSX VM? What are you comparing it to?
Are you considering the 32-bit table scheme or the 64-bit?
>Credit card trail? I have never seen a pay at the pump that took cash.
They are common enough. Usually there's a bill reader on the island serving 4 pumps.
Seen them in 7 or 8 states.
>How about a Linux box that
>-instantly resumes from standby
Practical standby is the #1 reason I switched from a Linux laptop to a Macbook pro.
I realize that it's probably possible to make ACPI or whatever, work on a Linux notebook,
but it never really worked for me. It was this particular frustration that drove me to
find a solution -- and the first time I tried a Mac portable, there was no other serious
choice. Others seem to think of boot time or sleep/restart time as inconsequential, but
for me, suspend/resume latency made the difference between me actually using the device,
quite often.
>This reminds me of selling a car. How much do you want? Make me an offer. Whats the lowest youll take? Make me an offer...
I had a domain name that people kept asking if I'd sell. "Make me an offer", I'd say. "How much do you want?" they'd say. I wouldn't even reply.
Finally, somebody offered to do an escrow.com trade for $10G. I went for it. Can't believe they way people won't say what they will pay for stuff. I'm not from a culture that haggles, so it's not really something I know how to do, as some people seem to have a skill, or even a passion, for. It just annoys the hell out of me, and I end up either keeping my stuff, or else walking away from purchases, all the time.
>Except that, as someone above mentioned, most managers aren't in control of the purse strings.
But, *someone* is, and you need to find out what *they* need, and interview for *that* job instead.
Maybe they need a manager who is capable of controlling purse strings
I had a MSDN subscription that had already been activated. MS reps passed me off in a circular queue for a couple of weeks, going between their support department sending me back to the reseller, and the reseller sending them back to Microsoft. I had to literally threaten to sue them before they gave me a license key.
I was actually surprised how quickly I got results after I told them that I had decided to file a lawsuit. I was not exactly bluffing, but I also could not have taken it much farther than the initial filing. But I was ready to go to the US Court Of Claims to say that the retailer and Microsoft had together sold me a product which did not work and that both had refused to give me a refund. After certain certified letters reached certain individuals, I got a license key, and for a couple of months afterwards, received occasional calls from Microsoft support folks asking me if my problem was taken care of.
The lessons I learned:
1. Microsoft is in denial about their software security system.
2. Threatening to file a lawsuit against a corporation engenders prompt responses.
Every time I've setup a Mac, I've used Safari exactly once, to download Firefox.
The point of your post is well taken but I see it from a different direction.
The problem with the media industry's heavy handed approach to copyright, puts
a damping effect on anyone who actually wants his copyrighted work to be freely
distributed. Part of the reason for this is that the idea has been firmly ingrained
in the minds of millions that "copyright" means "illegal to copy or distribute", which
is not always the case. Copyright and controls on distribution are related but not the same.
Also, people tend to assume that "copyrighted material" refers only to those items represented
by large corporate entities, and that individual works (insofar as people realize these even exist),
do not carry the same protections. Finally, the actions of the media industry puts a cloud of doubt
on the distribution channels themselves. The very protocols become synonymous with "stealing". This
definitely creates a chilling effect for anyone who would like to take advantage of those distribution
channels for purposes that are 100% legal.
Who owns the phone? The customer or T-Mobile?
> Last time I was in Las Vegas. (Around 2001, admittedly)
A lot has changed since 2001, and I have my suspicions that part of the motivation to move to tickets from coins
came from pressure to make the casinos more accoutable to fatherland security.
>The tickets can be inserted into another machine
Another machine in the same casino. This is a very big distinction between machines that use chits (private token, revocable) and machines that use coins (public, legal tender).
>Well, that just takes all the fun out of it doesn't it??? Lazy bastards...
It does, but more than that, it introduces a level of interaction that many people simply won't do.
In the old days, you could, at any moment, scoop up your bucket of quarters and walk away.
Now, you have to take a receipt, stand in line, and get your cash. Forget it.
>Except for the sound of coin hitting the payout tray under the slot machine.
They don't even have this anymore, and with that went 100% of the appeal that slot machines ever had for me!
I always enjoyed scooping large cups of quarters out of the tray, or hearing the payout sound (even when it wasn't mine!).
Now all you hear in casinos is "bloop bloop bloop" and "WHEEL...OF...FORTUNE!!!" and a payout means taking a receipt to the
cage. No thanks.
>If you'd bothered to actually WATCH the documentary
I watched it until it vectored an unsupported item as fact, and then stopped.
You have to do better than that to be worth my time, sorry.
>Actually there is no such law for ANY taxes in the USA!
Tax protesters never prevail.
I love that video, though. Right out of the gate, it opens with a
quote from Bush that cannot be corroborated: "The goddamned piece of paper" quote.
All sources for that will lead you to a Capitol Hill Blue piece, which was quite
vague and hardly credible. Beside the point. Tax protesters do not prevail
in court.
>Debts can't be inherited.
Might want to run that past a probate lawyer.
I have, twice, seen CD's of entirely my own work, match the checksums of others when queried via CDDB.
>...on the TV compared to the monitor.
1440x900, works for me.
24" monitors? I've been using a 37" TV lately. It's great, and I think it was inexpensive by comparison with a large monitor that was made for PC use.
>This completely ignores a VITAL fact... computers are binary, NOT decimal.
Many, many systems use some form of BCD, especially for dates.
>As opposed to electing Clinton, who's introduced practically the same type of legislation in the past?
Americans are not going to elect a woman or a black person to the office of president, period.
"I was taking Steven Cook's Complexity Theory class at UofT and when we were given the TSP I immediately saw a solution reduced into Dijkstra's algorithm. I don't think anyone in the class actually followed, the prof said that it can probably work. I never dealt with it again, but that was the reason I remember that class."
Did you at least try to scribble it in the margin of your book?