...discussion on something as mundane as Digital TV turn into Microsoft Bashing. Its Incredible. I mean we are discussing the transition from analog to digital TV and somehow the submitter thought to add his two cents in bashing up Microsoft. MythTV has it. Ubuntu has it. BUT NO! He has to bash Microsoft. What an asshole.
It entirely depends on which stage of development you are. If you are early in the cycle, and just building PoCs to validate architecture and design, then code reviews will be great in establishing basic discipline. If you are late into development and want a code review to find out issues in design, then sorry, you are too late. Code reviews establish base standards BEFORE the battle. Like battle readiness inspection of troops. It tells how you will code under fire. But once the battle starts, you don't conduct inspections, because they are a waste of money and hell they do nothing.
Don't you Britishers' have a law against throttling or capping? I thought Internet Access was a Fundamental Right under EU laws. Doesn't it apply to Britain too? Although the main reason Britain entered the ECC is to set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch., thus, in the immemorial words of Sir Humphrey: "Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a disunited Europe."
Have you played Netwars on Novell Network? The first D&D? The first "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"? There is a difference between complex-hard and complex-fun. Calculus is hard. Geometry is fun. Both are complex. Quantum Physics is Hard. Astrophysics is fun. Both are Complex.
Games are NOT meant to be complex. Life is complex. The reason the earliest games were a success were because they were simple. Tennis, Mario etc. Wii does not dumb down. It makes it interactive. They must be fools to say Wii dumbs down.
This clearly does not fall in the realm of the scenarios you were describing i.e. it does not constitute a breach nor does it fulfil any of the legal conditions that invalidates a contract
I was with AT&T. Sued them in small claims court to get out of the contract because their calls get dropping in my location. Their contract allowed me to get out, but they didn't. Instead they sent me a breakage charge, legal notice and fines to back them up. Once i sued them in SC court, they did not show up. Got a judgement against their practice. They still kept sending me notices, and even threatened to report me to credit scorers. I sent them the judgement copy, credit scorers and also wrote them a serious warning that if they try to trash my score or tried to collect (the new illegal charges) they would be in violation of court orders. No response. No acknowldgement of any kind accepting their guilt or even saying sorry. Just silence. The fact is that you TOO can get out of a contract if you want to. Lawfully. You just need to try. And no, you don't need a lawyer.
Oh, you want to talk about contract?? Come on: How about AT&T charging me for minutes if my phone keeps ringing for more than 30 seconds? How about throttling my mobile network if i use it as a modem? How about canceling my service if i criticize AT&T? How about overcharging me with FUS while blocking calls to soldiers in Iraq who call from PBX? (its illegal). Contracts are NOT sacrosanct. Contracts are NOT law. Contract law is based on mutual, equal remuneration. Contracts can be voided by courts (and have been done many times so) if it can be proved AFTER signing the contract that one party has undue advantage over another. Your rant about contracts clearly shows that you are one of the few hold outs who still think in 1800's style of contracts overriding law and your hiding behind skirt of contracts show you have nothing worthwhile to argue about. Get through your thick aluminium skull: Contracts are NOT law, inspite of what corporates want you to believe. They can be voided by courts, have been done and will continue to be done.
By continuing to stay with AT&T, we are offering it a bonus. To quote Gandhi, a Customer is not dependent on us. We are Dependent on him.
and did you ask AT&T if there was an upgrade path?
Response from AT&T: AT&T does not comment on its contracts. AT&T bluntly said they had no comments on my question.
You signed a fixed contract to do so. How hard is that to understand?
Have you read all the 244 pages of an AT&T contract and applicable law?
all you people whining about
This is slashdot. This is not Law Central or the local coffee house. We have the right to complain. Anything we say can and should be taken seriously by telephone companies. We have the right to a lawyer.
What you are saying is much more understandable to me now (am a bit dim witted, so unless things are told point-blank i don't get them, and yes that includes dry aussie sarcasm). Energy and health care costs will definitely kill us if not taxes. The supplementary employment and rise in incomes of a community due to arrival of a large corporate is more than enough to offset the direct tax benefits it gets. But then most short-sighted activists don't see that and shout themselves hoarse to get rid of Walmart or even Starbucks.
Your use of invectives proves you are an idiot and a moron in first place. Capitalism as is well known and promoted by Ludwig Mises is NOT practised anywhere. And FYI iam not calling corporations BAD or EVIL.
corporate "profit" is the most valuable money in an economy - it _all_ goes into reinvestment contrary to your easily disproved lies.
ROTFL. Oh dude, you STILL believe in that horseshit that corporations spew to make you believe their way of running things? You are unbelievably stupid and incredibly dumb. Are you from Texas by any chance?
If you think you "own" your wife in any way it shows: a) You are living in 1940s and 1950s b) You are a male chavunist. I wanna buy the latest Akon hits from iTunes. Sadly Apple doesn't allow me because of "geographical" restrictions. So, i buy it from legalsounds.com That doesn't mean i don't pay. And FYI i used to download backstreet boys and britney from Napster. I bought every one of their CDs when it became available. Same is the case now.
I don't understand. In your first post you decry high taxes and state they are the reason that corporates move outside of the state or country (Halliburton, etc). Then when i produce stats which say that Fed CIT is about 15% average and that EVEN replacing it with VAT wouldn't increase a company's investment, you go on to decry me for putting words in your mouth. Furthermore you go on saying that whenever there was an increase in tax rates, there was a drop in revenue. Again, am saying that increase in CIT results in short term increase of tax collection while long term is different and subject to environment. Taxes ALONE do not make a company move out of state or even country. The 1950s had the highest, increasing tax rates. Yet more companies grew and more companies paid more taxes. What am trying to say is that taxes ALONE do not make a company move out of a state. Yes, what you are saying is right: companies are responsible to their stakeholders and any reduction in profit due to management's stupidity will result in a lawsuit. Agreed. But taxes alone are not the reason. Because the average Fed CIT has been 15% or less.
FACT of the matter (and it is a FACT), is that the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. It's no surprise that companies choose to do business elsewhere
Oh, i love guys like you. The Fact is that while USA has the second highest corporate tax rates, an abolition of CIT (corporate income tax) and replacing it with VAT will increase additional investment only by 1.5% (source: NBER ) while it increases corporate cash flow by $5.2 Billion. And that is in 1969 dollars. The FACT, as you love to put it is that Federal corporate tax has decreased steadily from 52% in 1955 to 30% in 1967 only to rise up to 33.8% in 1968 (in response to Vietnam) and dropped to 28% in 1977 and again to rise and fall to 16% in 1984 (the begining of the Reagan Era of freedom and corporate irresponsibility). And no, am NOT quoting these stats from my a$$. You can check it up at NBER. So you were sayin???
Politicians are ALWAYS stupid. That is why they are politicians and not in a productive job like linesman or even a payday loaner. Haven't you seen Yes, Minister? The fact is that laws are made to affect citizenry, but not the government itself. Take for instance income tax. Failure to pay will incur a fine, penal interest and all fees. However, if the govt. does not pay your refund, it escapes with a 3% annual interest. Make an amendment that says all laws passed affect the government as a person first. There will be no stupid politicians. There are no stupid laws. Only stupid politicians.
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...discussion on something as mundane as Digital TV turn into Microsoft Bashing.
Its Incredible.
I mean we are discussing the transition from analog to digital TV and somehow the submitter thought to add his two cents in bashing up Microsoft.
MythTV has it.
Ubuntu has it.
BUT NO! He has to bash Microsoft.
What an asshole.
It entirely depends on which stage of development you are.
If you are early in the cycle, and just building PoCs to validate architecture and design, then code reviews will be great in establishing basic discipline.
If you are late into development and want a code review to find out issues in design, then sorry, you are too late.
Code reviews establish base standards BEFORE the battle.
Like battle readiness inspection of troops.
It tells how you will code under fire.
But once the battle starts, you don't conduct inspections, because they are a waste of money and hell they do nothing.
Don't you Britishers' have a law against throttling or capping?
I thought Internet Access was a Fundamental Right under EU laws.
Doesn't it apply to Britain too?
Although the main reason Britain entered the ECC is to set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch., thus, in the immemorial words of Sir Humphrey: "Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a disunited Europe."
Have you played Netwars on Novell Network?
The first D&D?
The first "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"?
There is a difference between complex-hard and complex-fun.
Calculus is hard. Geometry is fun.
Both are complex.
Quantum Physics is Hard. Astrophysics is fun.
Both are Complex.
Games are NOT meant to be complex.
Life is complex.
The reason the earliest games were a success were because they were simple.
Tennis, Mario etc.
Wii does not dumb down. It makes it interactive.
They must be fools to say Wii dumbs down.
God, i wish i had my mod points now.
Mac, Linux, Windows - what's the big difference?
I have karma to burn, and am itching to burn it-:)
A computer consultant who advocates Linux on Desktop is like doctor prescribing amputation without anasthesia.
This is eerily similar to what i was asking
On the whole an arrogant IT management presages a failing company, like AIG.
This clearly does not fall in the realm of the scenarios you were describing i.e. it does not constitute a breach nor does it fulfil any of the legal conditions that invalidates a contract
True. Very True.
Anger != Fact.
Point taken-:)
I was with AT&T. Sued them in small claims court to get out of the contract because their calls get dropping in my location.
Their contract allowed me to get out, but they didn't. Instead they sent me a breakage charge, legal notice and fines to back them up.
Once i sued them in SC court, they did not show up. Got a judgement against their practice. They still kept sending me notices, and even threatened to report me to credit scorers.
I sent them the judgement copy, credit scorers and also wrote them a serious warning that if they try to trash my score or tried to collect (the new illegal charges) they would be in violation of court orders.
No response.
No acknowldgement of any kind accepting their guilt or even saying sorry. Just silence.
The fact is that you TOO can get out of a contract if you want to. Lawfully. You just need to try. And no, you don't need a lawyer.
Oh, you want to talk about contract?? Come on:
How about AT&T charging me for minutes if my phone keeps ringing for more than 30 seconds?
How about throttling my mobile network if i use it as a modem?
How about canceling my service if i criticize AT&T?
How about overcharging me with FUS while blocking calls to soldiers in Iraq who call from PBX? (its illegal).
Contracts are NOT sacrosanct. Contracts are NOT law.
Contract law is based on mutual, equal remuneration. Contracts can be voided by courts (and have been done many times so) if it can be proved AFTER signing the contract that one party has undue advantage over another.
Your rant about contracts clearly shows that you are one of the few hold outs who still think in 1800's style of contracts overriding law and your hiding behind skirt of contracts show you have nothing worthwhile to argue about.
Get through your thick aluminium skull: Contracts are NOT law, inspite of what corporates want you to believe. They can be voided by courts, have been done and will continue to be done.
By offering you an upgrade its already a bonus
By continuing to stay with AT&T, we are offering it a bonus. To quote Gandhi, a Customer is not dependent on us. We are Dependent on him.
and did you ask AT&T if there was an upgrade path?
Response from AT&T: AT&T does not comment on its contracts. AT&T bluntly said they had no comments on my question.
You signed a fixed contract to do so. How hard is that to understand?
Have you read all the 244 pages of an AT&T contract and applicable law?
all you people whining about
This is slashdot. This is not Law Central or the local coffee house. We have the right to complain. Anything we say can and should be taken seriously by telephone companies. We have the right to a lawyer.
Considering you are one of the "lunatics", the aliens would probably haul you off first to the Cell Block #3.
Well said.
What we all need to read is this good book that teaches us in a precise, emotionless way of dealing with platenary defenses.
Unless we missed a day in school somewhere, primes are gonna be known, and a progression of them would be seen as meaningful structure.
Considering Math teachers get sued for teaching harder maths i doubt if in a decade or so, people will be able to understand Prime numbers if they receive it from aliens.
Probably they would understand an alien only if they sent a pic like this
What you are saying is much more understandable to me now (am a bit dim witted, so unless things are told point-blank i don't get them, and yes that includes dry aussie sarcasm).
Energy and health care costs will definitely kill us if not taxes.
The supplementary employment and rise in incomes of a community due to arrival of a large corporate is more than enough to offset the direct tax benefits it gets. But then most short-sighted activists don't see that and shout themselves hoarse to get rid of Walmart or even Starbucks.
Oh... Thanks for the information.
Didn't know the word chavinust comes from a person.
Thanks buddy.
You are a female chauvinist
How the hell can one be a female chavunist?
Your use of invectives proves you are an idiot and a moron in first place.
Capitalism as is well known and promoted by Ludwig Mises is NOT practised anywhere.
And FYI iam not calling corporations BAD or EVIL.
corporate "profit" is the most valuable money in an economy - it _all_ goes into reinvestment contrary to your easily disproved lies.
ROTFL.
Oh dude, you STILL believe in that horseshit that corporations spew to make you believe their way of running things?
You are unbelievably stupid and incredibly dumb.
Are you from Texas by any chance?
organisms you own.
If you think you "own" your wife in any way it shows:
a) You are living in 1940s and 1950s
b) You are a male chavunist.
I wanna buy the latest Akon hits from iTunes. Sadly Apple doesn't allow me because of "geographical" restrictions. So, i buy it from legalsounds.com
That doesn't mean i don't pay. And FYI i used to download backstreet boys and britney from Napster. I bought every one of their CDs when it became available.
Same is the case now.
I would have to disagree, after all if I can get the music for free, why would anyone ever pay
I can get poo for free as a manure for my Garden.
Why do i go and buy manure, red soil, natural fertilizer and all that crap from Home Depot?
I don't understand.
In your first post you decry high taxes and state they are the reason that corporates move outside of the state or country (Halliburton, etc).
Then when i produce stats which say that Fed CIT is about 15% average and that EVEN replacing it with VAT wouldn't increase a company's investment, you go on to decry me for putting words in your mouth.
Furthermore you go on saying that whenever there was an increase in tax rates, there was a drop in revenue.
Again, am saying that increase in CIT results in short term increase of tax collection while long term is different and subject to environment. Taxes ALONE do not make a company move out of state or even country.
The 1950s had the highest, increasing tax rates.
Yet more companies grew and more companies paid more taxes.
What am trying to say is that taxes ALONE do not make a company move out of a state.
Yes, what you are saying is right: companies are responsible to their stakeholders and any reduction in profit due to management's stupidity will result in a lawsuit.
Agreed.
But taxes alone are not the reason.
Because the average Fed CIT has been 15% or less.
FACT of the matter (and it is a FACT), is that the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. It's no surprise that companies choose to do business elsewhere
Oh, i love guys like you.
The Fact is that while USA has the second highest corporate tax rates, an abolition of CIT (corporate income tax) and replacing it with VAT will increase additional investment only by 1.5% (source: NBER )
while it increases corporate cash flow by $5.2 Billion. And that is in 1969 dollars.
The FACT, as you love to put it is that Federal corporate tax has decreased steadily from 52% in 1955 to 30% in 1967 only to rise up to 33.8% in 1968 (in response to Vietnam) and dropped to 28% in 1977 and again to rise and fall to 16% in 1984 (the begining of the Reagan Era of freedom and corporate irresponsibility).
And no, am NOT quoting these stats from my a$$. You can check it up at NBER.
So you were sayin???
Politicians are ALWAYS stupid. That is why they are politicians and not in a productive job like linesman or even a payday loaner. Haven't you seen Yes, Minister?
The fact is that laws are made to affect citizenry, but not the government itself. Take for instance income tax. Failure to pay will incur a fine, penal interest and all fees.
However, if the govt. does not pay your refund, it escapes with a 3% annual interest.
Make an amendment that says all laws passed affect the government as a person first.
There will be no stupid politicians.
There are no stupid laws. Only stupid politicians.