Just because people evacuated the buildings doesn't mean they were terrified. When was the last time you felt terror while evacuating during an unannounced fire drill? You can take precautionary measures. Here, erring on the side of caution meant you lost a few minutes of trudgery behind your desk for some slightly inconvenient exercise. It's an easy precaution to take, and while the chances of actual danger are very small the consequences would be more than severe enough to justify the action.
Now can we PLEASE give the goddamn cabbies access to GPS?! I often haven't the slightest idea where I'm going beyond an address. It seems that about 90% of my cabbies ask me for directions.
Not how I want to get there, not my preferred route: these people don't know where the hell they're going. It doesn't help me to have a limited GPS in back -- you can't enter addresses into those things.
Xandros's EeePC network manager does not have 802.1x support. WPA Supplicant can do the trick, but can be difficult to properly configure. This is big a problem for environments like campuses, particularly if WiFi is all you have.
Other distros can manage 802.1x, but it seems jury-rigged and discouraging to have to download a distro on some other computer whose WiFi just works.
It's a shame, b/c I think that Xandros's hand-holding layout is actually a decent approach for the person who is unfamiliar with anything but Windows and uninterested in learning any more than is absolutely necessary.
I don't believe that's correct, at least for US federal taxes. All of your examples would be taxable gifts (unless she's your spouse). The recipient is obligated to report gifts.
The Bush admin did not include any of the Iraq & Afghanistan expenses in their budgets, so those expenses are not included.
Yes Obama is projecting a huge budget, but try to take the following into account:
(1) he's not using accounting tricks to mislead people about the amount, (2) if you account for the military expenses of the last admin it is a bit smaller, and (3) it is invested in developing and building the US, instead of developing and building/pissing it away in some other country.
Assuming this guy is telling the truth... If this company is claiming $18,000 in damages, they company must believe they own the registered copyright. It's possible the thief actually DID register these works. (AFAIK, the US Copyright Office doesn't check one registrations against all others when filed, the way the Patent Office does.)
However if the original creator registered his own copyright on these images, then it will simply be a matter of comparing his registered copyright to the company's, and comparing the respective dates.
The human body is pretty darn good at healing itself. There is absolutely no replacement for a decent diet, moderate exercise, and a positive attitude. The last factor alone has been repeatedly shown to boost immune system health over a variety of drug-based treatments.
While I agree that a lot of our respective societies health issues are preventable, I am 26 years old, can run a marathon, and rarely ever touch red meat and I call shenanigans on the idea that diet and exercise are a cure-all! I have 140/85 blood pressure (high) despite doing cardio work 5 days a week and eating right. I have knee problems when it's cold, back problems all the time, and suffer from bronchitis every winter from exercise in the cold. Sometimes I feel like a healthy lifestyle is making me fall apart
I think the GP's point was that modern medicine works best when you're not using it to counter the entirely avoidable effects of a sedentary, poor-diet lifestyle.
As for you personally, marathons are pretty tough on a body and might not be as healthy as you think. After all, the original marathon runner Pheidippides dropped dead the right after he finished his first one. Your knee and back problems certainly do sound consistent with ongoing high-impact exercise.
As for your high blood pressure, you might be able to make helpful dietary adjustments. For example the study below found that drinking beet juice lowered blood pressure. The results were noticeable within one hour, so it'd be easy for you to test the validity of it.
While I thought that, like a subcompact car, it if anything would indicate that I'm not compensating for anything, there might be a downside to this approach. When I first started sporting around my Eee last year, "omg it's so tiny!" was one of the first comments it got me from a woman.
I never want to hear that phrase from a woman again, especially while she's pointing at something approximately lap height.
I agree that the battery life and response is poor on an EeePC 1000 with Ubuntu or its EeePC-specific derivatives.
I think you can get the best perfomance out of it with Gentoo and XFCE, but for your needs Xandros, the default EeePC Linux distro, might be best. I was skeptical about Xandros when I picked up my EeePC 1000 a few months ago, but gave it a fair chance.
Really its biggest general drawback is the Candyland-like interface and this is modified easily enough. Xandros has a great advantage in that it integrates well with the firmware, and you'll almost certainly get better battery life and response from it than you have w/ Ubuntu-eee.
I'd might even have stuck with Xandros, except for its lack of 802.1x wireless support. For me that was a showstopper, and despite my best efforts I was unable to get WPAsupplicant to work. So if you don't need 802.1x, give Xandros a try.
Both you and GP post are assuming that the remaining 95% of cases either result in guilty please or the charges being dropped. You actually need to correlate arrest figures with charges filed/dropped to conclude either way, and neither of you mentions having done so. You can find such records here, I think: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm
Abuses certainly happen, and are terrifying. I recently saw a wrongly convicted man speak; he'd been on death row for 19 years before being freed. His situation was traced to a notorious forensic examiner in Oklahoma. Still, I don't think a general conclusion on either side is appropriate before determining the actual figures.
I certainly don't think that having good faith that at least the criminal justice system is SUPPOSED to keep innocent people out of jail goes as far as cognitive dissonance. If you believe that there should in fact be justice, you certainly stand a better chance of doing something to improve the imperfect, and often horrifying errors of injustice.
Since this is just one blog post, it sounds like your best bet is to game the search results and knock as far off the front page as possible.
And since the crux of your problem is that you've got to distinguish yourself from this guy, you might as well use it to your professional advantage as an excuse to get your name out there. Beyond your own page, start posting under your real name (constructively, of course) on a few different professional-appropriate sites. See if you can get any guest articles on others' sites, the more traffic, the better. You might even have senior projects/papers that would do nicely.
However, if there were many more bad hits on your name, a preemptive approach might be more appropriate. For example, if your name is Alberto Gonzales, probably a good idea to let them know you're not that Alberto Gonzales. Nobody wants to hire him.
I believe the 17th amendment passed because, as great as that balance and distribution sounds in theory, the practical reality was different.
In practice, the appointment rather than election of Senators provided a wide-open avenue for corrupt appointees, seat buying (see Blagojevich), and a nepotistic entrenchment of political power.
When it was originally developed the distinction between the form probably made more sense. Because there was no other, more practical way to mechanically record and reproduce the spoken word, libelous material was naturally easier to distribute than slander.
9.5 hours of battery time sounds like quite a stretch from the marketing & hype dept.
The EeePC 1000HE's 8,700mAh battery replaces the 6,600mAh battery on the 1000 models from last August. My 1000 has gotten a bit over four hours now with light usage at the most power conservative settings on both the distros I've tried on it so far.
I'm not sure if time scales up directly with mAhs, but if it does that would put the upcoming model around 5.5 hours.
some fully supported desktop mobos is what coreboot needs;) if a mobo was fully supported, that would be a huge plus when i'd choose.
Here, here. This project's interia will depend on mobo support.
I chose my last desktop mobo specifically b/c it was a LinuxBIOS 'compatible' board... compatible in the sense that a fairly skilled hardware hack is required.
The board is Gigabyte's GA-M57SLI-S4; its nForce 570 chipset is aging, but if you have an AMD2 CPU and some DDR2 lying around it's still on the market for under $100.
The essential problem here is that people feel they NEED to use MS Word or an equivalent program for absolutely everything. I have been sent emails containing nothing but an MS Word attachment in which is contained... the "letter" I was being sent. It's crazy.
One of my former bosses once was having trouble with a.pdf file. I had her show me what the problem was. She'd been trying to open it using MS Word.
She'd saved it to her desktop, of course, which had Reader. That was MS Office circa 2006, on XP, and she had been using Word since ~ Windows 95.
Piano rolls allowed for things that neither humans nor midi can reproduce, and Conlon Nancarrow was the only person I know of who saw that piano rolls could be used for more that simply imitating human players.
I hope his body of work won't be lost because of this. Here's an example that will blow yer freakin' mind, dude.
At the risk of getting modded down, try browsing your local online sex offender registry and check out the convictions.
The great majority of sex offenders' crimes aren't one-time mistakes; sex offender registries are made up (almost) entirely of people who demonstrate a pattern of behavior over time. Crimes that involve forced sex are categorically different than property crimes. People don't commit sex crimes to make a profit.
There are exceptions, and just as there are innocent people convicted for other crimes, that is a problem that needs to be addressed if there is to be justice. Similarly, if sex offender registries encompass too many crimes that shouldn't be included such as peeing in public or a 17 & 16 year old couple having sex, then that in itself is a different problem and should be addressed differently.
The answer is to focus this approach more narrowly, not eliminate the idea of guarding against recidivism for an entire group who is very likely to reoffend.
You simply cannot control the distribution of a document once it is out of your hands.
However, you CAN trace information. Agree with your customer to include information that is deliberately inaccurate in your spec: certain figures are off by a predetermined fraction, for example.
That way, if the information IS leaked and appears in the hands of parties unaware of the misinformation, you can at least tell its origin.
I've seen thermoplastic sticking before, but never so severe that it degrades the content. My understanding is that sticking occurs in overly humid storage environments.
OTOH, I've seen severe ink degradation, though that is more a problem with color images than documents. Maybe you're right -- the worst material I've seen has been over a century old, at which point poor paper quality has much more of a detrimental effect than fading ink.
At the risk of letting a joke whiz by over my head, it seems that that the punch card method would run into the same problems of obsolete hardware one gets with other file-type methods.
If properly printed and stored, the photos and documents will outlive you.
For the documents, I believe that you want laser prints on acid-free archive quality paper.
For the photos, call a university art library and ask them for recommended paper & ink combinations.
Still use digital storage for easy access; keep the printed material stored. But until the media is proven, it's probably best to consider all optical and magnetic storage volatile, either due to its nature or due to obsolete hardware. Just be redundant --store thumb drives and a hard drive, for example, and copy the files onto your working machine every time you get a new computer.
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Just because people evacuated the buildings doesn't mean they were terrified. When was the last time you felt terror while evacuating during an unannounced fire drill? You can take precautionary measures. Here, erring on the side of caution meant you lost a few minutes of trudgery behind your desk for some slightly inconvenient exercise. It's an easy precaution to take, and while the chances of actual danger are very small the consequences would be more than severe enough to justify the action.
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I love the GPS map for passengers in the back.
Now can we PLEASE give the goddamn cabbies access to GPS?! I often haven't the slightest idea where I'm going beyond an address. It seems that about 90% of my cabbies ask me for directions.
Not how I want to get there, not my preferred route: these people don't know where the hell they're going. It doesn't help me to have a limited GPS in back -- you can't enter addresses into those things.
Xandros's EeePC network manager does not have 802.1x support. WPA Supplicant can do the trick, but can be difficult to properly configure. This is big a problem for environments like campuses, particularly if WiFi is all you have.
Other distros can manage 802.1x, but it seems jury-rigged and discouraging to have to download a distro on some other computer whose WiFi just works.
It's a shame, b/c I think that Xandros's hand-holding layout is actually a decent approach for the person who is unfamiliar with anything but Windows and uninterested in learning any more than is absolutely necessary.
I don't believe that's correct, at least for US federal taxes. All of your examples would be taxable gifts (unless she's your spouse). The recipient is obligated to report gifts.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00.html#2
The Bush admin did not include any of the Iraq & Afghanistan expenses in their budgets, so those expenses are not included.
Yes Obama is projecting a huge budget, but try to take the following into account:
(1) he's not using accounting tricks to mislead people about the amount,
(2) if you account for the military expenses of the last admin it is a bit smaller, and
(3) it is invested in developing and building the US, instead of developing and building/pissing it away in some other country.
Assuming this guy is telling the truth... If this company is claiming $18,000 in damages, they company must believe they own the registered copyright. It's possible the thief actually DID register these works. (AFAIK, the US Copyright Office doesn't check one registrations against all others when filed, the way the Patent Office does.)
However if the original creator registered his own copyright on these images, then it will simply be a matter of comparing his registered copyright to the company's, and comparing the respective dates.
The human body is pretty darn good at healing itself. There is absolutely no replacement for a decent diet, moderate exercise, and a positive attitude. The last factor alone has been repeatedly shown to boost immune system health over a variety of drug-based treatments.
While I agree that a lot of our respective societies health issues are preventable, I am 26 years old, can run a marathon, and rarely ever touch red meat and I call shenanigans on the idea that diet and exercise are a cure-all! I have 140/85 blood pressure (high) despite doing cardio work 5 days a week and eating right. I have knee problems when it's cold, back problems all the time, and suffer from bronchitis every winter from exercise in the cold. Sometimes I feel like a healthy lifestyle is making me fall apart
I think the GP's point was that modern medicine works best when you're not using it to counter the entirely avoidable effects of a sedentary, poor-diet lifestyle.
As for you personally, marathons are pretty tough on a body and might not be as healthy as you think. After all, the original marathon runner Pheidippides dropped dead the right after he finished his first one. Your knee and back problems certainly do sound consistent with ongoing high-impact exercise.
As for your high blood pressure, you might be able to make helpful dietary adjustments. For example the study below found that drinking beet juice lowered blood pressure. The results were noticeable within one hour, so it'd be easy for you to test the validity of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7228420.stm
While I thought that, like a subcompact car, it if anything would indicate that I'm not compensating for anything, there might be a downside to this approach. When I first started sporting around my Eee last year, "omg it's so tiny!" was one of the first comments it got me from a woman.
I never want to hear that phrase from a woman again, especially while she's pointing at something approximately lap height.
I agree that the battery life and response is poor on an EeePC 1000 with Ubuntu or its EeePC-specific derivatives.
I think you can get the best perfomance out of it with Gentoo and XFCE, but for your needs Xandros, the default EeePC Linux distro, might be best. I was skeptical about Xandros when I picked up my EeePC 1000 a few months ago, but gave it a fair chance.
Really its biggest general drawback is the Candyland-like interface and this is modified easily enough. Xandros has a great advantage in that it integrates well with the firmware, and you'll almost certainly get better battery life and response from it than you have w/ Ubuntu-eee.
I'd might even have stuck with Xandros, except for its lack of 802.1x wireless support. For me that was a showstopper, and despite my best efforts I was unable to get WPAsupplicant to work. So if you don't need 802.1x, give Xandros a try.
I'd like to think his defense is reasonable, but then I thought the same thing about Reiser's case.
Both you and GP post are assuming that the remaining 95% of cases either result in guilty please or the charges being dropped. You actually need to correlate arrest figures with charges filed/dropped to conclude either way, and neither of you mentions having done so. You can find such records here, I think: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm
Abuses certainly happen, and are terrifying. I recently saw a wrongly convicted man speak; he'd been on death row for 19 years before being freed. His situation was traced to a notorious forensic examiner in Oklahoma. Still, I don't think a general conclusion on either side is appropriate before determining the actual figures.
I certainly don't think that having good faith that at least the criminal justice system is SUPPOSED to keep innocent people out of jail goes as far as cognitive dissonance. If you believe that there should in fact be justice, you certainly stand a better chance of doing something to improve the imperfect, and often horrifying errors of injustice.
I was going to say that Uncertainty regins for sure, but you do have a point. Now I might change my mind.
Or possibly not.
Since this is just one blog post, it sounds like your best bet is to game the search results and knock as far off the front page as possible.
And since the crux of your problem is that you've got to distinguish yourself from this guy, you might as well use it to your professional advantage as an excuse to get your name out there. Beyond your own page, start posting under your real name (constructively, of course) on a few different professional-appropriate sites. See if you can get any guest articles on others' sites, the more traffic, the better. You might even have senior projects/papers that would do nicely.
However, if there were many more bad hits on your name, a preemptive approach might be more appropriate. For example, if your name is Alberto Gonzales, probably a good idea to let them know you're not that Alberto Gonzales. Nobody wants to hire him.
I believe the 17th amendment passed because, as great as that balance and distribution sounds in theory, the practical reality was different.
In practice, the appointment rather than election of Senators provided a wide-open avenue for corrupt appointees, seat buying (see Blagojevich), and a nepotistic entrenchment of political power.
The broader term is defamation.
When it was originally developed the distinction between the form probably made more sense. Because there was no other, more practical way to mechanically record and reproduce the spoken word, libelous material was naturally easier to distribute than slander.
Several hundred years later, not so much.
9.5 hours of battery time sounds like quite a stretch from the marketing & hype dept.
The EeePC 1000HE's 8,700mAh battery replaces the 6,600mAh battery on the 1000 models from last August. My 1000 has gotten a bit over four hours now with light usage at the most power conservative settings on both the distros I've tried on it so far.
I'm not sure if time scales up directly with mAhs, but if it does that would put the upcoming model around 5.5 hours.
some fully supported desktop mobos is what coreboot needs ;)
if a mobo was fully supported, that would be a huge plus when i'd choose.
Here, here. This project's interia will depend on mobo support.
I chose my last desktop mobo specifically b/c it was a LinuxBIOS 'compatible' board... compatible in the sense that a fairly skilled hardware hack is required.
http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial
The board is Gigabyte's GA-M57SLI-S4; its nForce 570 chipset is aging, but if you have an AMD2 CPU and some DDR2 lying around it's still on the market for under $100.
The essential problem here is that people feel they NEED to use MS Word or an equivalent program for absolutely everything. I have been sent emails containing nothing but an MS Word attachment in which is contained... the "letter" I was being sent. It's crazy.
One of my former bosses once was having trouble with a .pdf file. I had her show me what the problem was. She'd been trying to open it using MS Word.
She'd saved it to her desktop, of course, which had Reader. That was MS Office circa 2006, on XP, and she had been using Word since ~ Windows 95.
Piano rolls allowed for things that neither humans nor midi can reproduce, and Conlon Nancarrow was the only person I know of who saw that piano rolls could be used for more that simply imitating human players.
I hope his body of work won't be lost because of this. Here's an example that will blow yer freakin' mind, dude.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRCdyNb3Eo
At the risk of getting modded down, try browsing your local online sex offender registry and check out the convictions.
The great majority of sex offenders' crimes aren't one-time mistakes; sex offender registries are made up (almost) entirely of people who demonstrate a pattern of behavior over time. Crimes that involve forced sex are categorically different than property crimes. People don't commit sex crimes to make a profit.
There are exceptions, and just as there are innocent people convicted for other crimes, that is a problem that needs to be addressed if there is to be justice. Similarly, if sex offender registries encompass too many crimes that shouldn't be included such as peeing in public or a 17 & 16 year old couple having sex, then that in itself is a different problem and should be addressed differently.
The answer is to focus this approach more narrowly, not eliminate the idea of guarding against recidivism for an entire group who is very likely to reoffend.
You simply cannot control the distribution of a document once it is out of your hands.
However, you CAN trace information. Agree with your customer to include information that is deliberately inaccurate in your spec: certain figures are off by a predetermined fraction, for example.
That way, if the information IS leaked and appears in the hands of parties unaware of the misinformation, you can at least tell its origin.
It sounds like doing so is at worst a violation of the state employee handbook.
Using AK state property to edit Wikipedia, while an inappropriate and partisan use of state resources, was almost certainly not a crime.
I've seen thermoplastic sticking before, but never so severe that it degrades the content. My understanding is that sticking occurs in overly humid storage environments.
OTOH, I've seen severe ink degradation, though that is more a problem with color images than documents. Maybe you're right -- the worst material I've seen has been over a century old, at which point poor paper quality has much more of a detrimental effect than fading ink.
At the risk of letting a joke whiz by over my head, it seems that that the punch card method would run into the same problems of obsolete hardware one gets with other file-type methods.
If properly printed and stored, the photos and documents will outlive you.
For the documents, I believe that you want laser prints on acid-free archive quality paper.
For the photos, call a university art library and ask them for recommended paper & ink combinations.
Still use digital storage for easy access; keep the printed material stored. But until the media is proven, it's probably best to consider all optical and magnetic storage volatile, either due to its nature or due to obsolete hardware. Just be redundant --store thumb drives and a hard drive, for example, and copy the files onto your working machine every time you get a new computer.