I totally agree. I went shopping last week and newegg had only one brand with read-only switches (and of that brand, only 4 models had switch and they were mostly color variations of the same model).
That's what I'm saying. Buck up! It's just a smell. Some people work around bad smells, they learn to live with it.
If a smell makes you puke are you sure it was just the smell and not something else? How do you tell?
Nature has conditioned most animals, including us, to puke and otherwise have bad reactions to harmful substances. Sometimes it is simply due to some sort of genetic programming wherein our bodies know that some bad tastes and bad smells mean something is fucked up and we don't want that shit anywhere near us.
It is very easy to go in and delete individual cookies too - you can even filter the list of cookies to pick from by part or all of the web-site's name.
So the virus is found in the poor countryside of Mexico...
And someone thinks it was created somewhere in a lab?
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but creating a mild flu in a lab and then transported out to Colillacarajo, Mexico? That's just dumb.
IIRC, that is precisely the plot for one of the episodes in season one of ReGenesis. Just because it was manufactured in a lab doesn't mean it was released on purpose. Whose to say that there isn't a "lab" out in the boonies - depending on what they are studying they may need some arable land in order to test grow some of their other experiments. One foul-up in their safety procedures and the wrong samples get released into the wild...
Dum da dah!!! Yes, that's right folks, McDonald's food is manufactured. That's a dirty word.
As usual, you miss the point. And you do it in the most loud and proud fashion too.
As I said originally, food is more than just the list of nutrients. A list that only measures a very small part of the complexity.
So McDonalds is manufactured out of the absolutely cheapest possible materials that are still edible and flavoring is added to make people think the food is of a higher quality than it is. Big deal you scream with bold words in a bold font. You like cardboard with corn oil and flavors, its freaking great!
Who cares if the means of storage and preparation are chosen for their cost-effectiveness and not their ability to maintain any of the complex carbohydrates, phytochemicals (oh shit, he said chemicals!), polyunsaturated oils, monounsaturated fats, etc that are normally found in higher quality, hand-prepared foods. As long as it tastes good!
I wish I could live in that world where science even makes food taste better! But that was an era when the atom was your friend and we were going to conquer space.
Gee, the universe turned out to be quite a bit more complicated than Popular Science made it out to be. You are welcome to go back to believing that "duck and cover" will keep you safe though.
Failure to be in a database does not make you a suspect. Just because you are already in a database and they could look you up in that database doesn't really support the premise that failure to find you in a database is an arrestable offense.
Fuel cell vehicles, while technically "electric", are traditionally abbreviated FCV.
The point being that just about every bit of research that goes into electric vehicles is just as applicable to fuel cell vehicles and vice versa because they all run on electricity.
Actually, I think shut the fuck up in the first place is the best option - asking a police officer a question can also enrage him regardless of the question.
And shutting up can also enrage a cop. He asks you a question, you don't answer, chances are he's going to get pissy because not responding to his question will be perceived as disrespecting his authoritae.
It is simply amazing how many geeks think people actually read/. Their entire marketing budget is not down the drain, you clod.
Gee, the story was just posted here, and yet the poster you are responding to said he emailed REI over 25 hours ago. Do you think he's psychic and knew it was going to be posted here, or maybe it was posted elsewhere, perhaps somewhere a little more mainstream - first?
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID).
Uhhm, no. It is only required that you identify yourself when asked by a police officer who has grounds to suspect you of a crime. Of course "grounds" is whatever the hell the cop wants it to be. But there is no obligation to provide id, only your name.
What is interesting to me, that I have not seen addressed, is if you are required to provide your legal name or just a name that you may occasionally use. Seems to me that if the cop doesn't explicitly ask for your legal name, then you would be perfectly fine giving an alias that you have used at least once before. Or, if you are one of those people with two middle names, give those out and if the cop assumes they are your first and last name, without explicitly asking for them, well that's on him.
Without the credit check, you can still get a phone, 100% of the time. You will just have to pay a very large deposit, the largest possible for people that have horrible credit.
FWIW, I was able to get verizon fios installed without a SSN or a security deposit or any kind of automated payment setup either. To make things even "weirder" looking - I use a private mailbox for all billing so my installation address didn't even match my billing address.
Comcast, on the other hand, wanted an SSN. Since Verizon didn't I just went with them instead of pushing back on Comcast. So I can't say how easy it might be to change Comcast's mind.
I think that direct payment will continue to be a common form of compensation. There are too many problems with the alternatives: amateurism, self-promotion, employer-sponsored, ad-supported, donation-supported, or selling associated products (support, t-shirts, concerts, etc.)
Is that supposed to be a list of problems or a list of alternative business models, because I only see one problem in that list and it tends to apply to any business model, not just those you've listed.
Precisely. Outside contributors are scared off submitting to projects like MySQL that make uncompensated commercial use of them.
So, your proof of effectiveness of your proposal is simply the failure of a worse system? You have to be better than the systems that are working now. Not better than than the systems that are failing now.
If you're looking for more, go with sata sleds (again not the brand I used, but similar), you can screw your hard drives into those and if your sata controller supports it, hot swap the drives. You can also buy extra sleds so that you can swap out your drives without having to handle the internal drive.
Forget sleds, go trayless. There are a variety of trayless sata racks available from a couple of different manufactureres, including multi-disk designs. I have them in all of my systems, they work great in windows and linux.
Furthermore, as noted the EFF steps in on cases like these so it really doesn't have that much of a chilling effort for Apple to try.
Why don't you ask your lawyer friends how easy it is for a defendant even when some heavy-weight comes in and works pro bono. Here's a hint - pro bono doesn't mean they pick up the defendant's own costs.
After all, Cydia exists and they had to expect something like this would be tried. It's living proof that your argument does not hold here.
And how many other companies would exist if Apple's threat weren't out there in the first place?
Are you saying that anyone selling non-physical easily-redistributed goods should give up trying to charge for them? Music, video, news, software, etc.
Yes.
Au contraire, the prospect of some reward, even if the development committee may not always make that fair, is far better than the exploitation that occurs when commercial dual-licenced projects demand uncompensated copyright assignment of all submissions.
And I bet you can't name a single multi-licensed project that has both a significant amount of outsider contributors and a non-Free license as one of the options.
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I totally agree. I went shopping last week and newegg had only one brand with read-only switches (and of that brand, only 4 models had switch and they were mostly color variations of the same model).
That's what I'm saying. Buck up! It's just a smell. Some people work around bad smells, they learn to live with it.
If a smell makes you puke are you sure it was just the smell and not something else? How do you tell?
Nature has conditioned most animals, including us, to puke and otherwise have bad reactions to harmful substances. Sometimes it is simply due to some sort of genetic programming wherein our bodies know that some bad tastes and bad smells mean something is fucked up and we don't want that shit anywhere near us.
It is very easy to go in and delete individual cookies too - you can even filter the list of cookies to pick from by part or all of the web-site's name.
Nobody driving here.
EVERYTHING about an EV is a solved problem, bar the energy store.
So the point that research on fuel cells has been "lapped" by for electric vehicles was specious.
I in no way commented on it being an arrestable defense,
To be pedantic, you did. The context of the discussion was that it was an arrestable offense as stated here in the thread.
So the virus is found in the poor countryside of Mexico...
And someone thinks it was created somewhere in a lab?
I've heard some far out conspiracy theories, but creating a mild flu in a lab and then transported out to Colillacarajo, Mexico? That's just dumb.
IIRC, that is precisely the plot for one of the episodes in season one of ReGenesis. Just because it was manufactured in a lab doesn't mean it was released on purpose. Whose to say that there isn't a "lab" out in the boonies - depending on what they are studying they may need some arable land in order to test grow some of their other experiments. One foul-up in their safety procedures and the wrong samples get released into the wild...
Dum da dah!!! Yes, that's right folks, McDonald's food is manufactured. That's a dirty word.
As usual, you miss the point. And you do it in the most loud and proud fashion too.
As I said originally, food is more than just the list of nutrients. A list that only measures a very small part of the complexity.
So McDonalds is manufactured out of the absolutely cheapest possible materials that are still edible and flavoring is added to make people think the food is of a higher quality than it is. Big deal you scream with bold words in a bold font. You like cardboard with corn oil and flavors, its freaking great!
Who cares if the means of storage and preparation are chosen for their cost-effectiveness and not their ability to maintain any of the complex carbohydrates, phytochemicals (oh shit, he said chemicals!), polyunsaturated oils, monounsaturated fats, etc that are normally found in higher quality, hand-prepared foods. As long as it tastes good!
I wish I could live in that world where science even makes food taste better! But that was an era when the atom was your friend and we were going to conquer space.
Gee, the universe turned out to be quite a bit more complicated than Popular Science made it out to be.
You are welcome to go back to believing that "duck and cover" will keep you safe though.
I thought compact fluorescent lamps ran comparatively cooler than incandescent.
There is more to a meal than the list of nutrients.
If you haven't read this excerpt from Fast Food Nation yet, you should.
While McDonalds is packed full of those designer chemicals, presumably Panera is not.
Logic, you aren't doing it right.
Failure to be in a database does not make you a suspect. Just because you are already in a database and they could look you up in that database doesn't really support the premise that failure to find you in a database is an arrestable offense.
Fuel cell vehicles, while technically "electric", are traditionally abbreviated FCV.
The point being that just about every bit of research that goes into electric vehicles is just as applicable to fuel cell vehicles and vice versa because they all run on electricity.
Hell, even this version of the letter implies they didn't "trespass" him since they are basically saying they had nothing to do with the incident.
Actually, I think shut the fuck up in the first place is the best option - asking a police officer a question can also enrage him regardless of the question.
And shutting up can also enrage a cop. He asks you a question, you don't answer, chances are he's going to get pissy because not responding to his question will be perceived as disrespecting his authoritae.
It is simply amazing how many geeks think people actually read /. Their entire marketing budget is not down the drain, you clod.
Gee, the story was just posted here, and yet the poster you are responding to said he emailed REI over 25 hours ago. Do you think he's psychic and knew it was going to be posted here, or maybe it was posted elsewhere, perhaps somewhere a little more mainstream - first?
It's had the lion's share of research funding for the past decade,
Does that mean nobody was doing any further research in lithium-ion batteries?
and despite that, has been lapped on pretty much every front by EVs.
Don't fuel cells produce electricity? Don't Electric Vehicles run on electricity?
The problem with giving them something other than your real name, is that they'll run the name you give them through their computer system.
We aren't at the point yet where we are all in a computer system.
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID).
Uhhm, no. It is only required that you identify yourself when asked by a police officer who has grounds to suspect you of a crime. Of course "grounds" is whatever the hell the cop wants it to be. But there is no obligation to provide id, only your name.
What is interesting to me, that I have not seen addressed, is if you are required to provide your legal name or just a name that you may occasionally use. Seems to me that if the cop doesn't explicitly ask for your legal name, then you would be perfectly fine giving an alias that you have used at least once before. Or, if you are one of those people with two middle names, give those out and if the cop assumes they are your first and last name, without explicitly asking for them, well that's on him.
Without the credit check, you can still get a phone, 100% of the time. You will just have to pay a very large deposit, the largest possible for people that have horrible credit.
FWIW, I was able to get verizon fios installed without a SSN or a security deposit or any kind of automated payment setup either. To make things even "weirder" looking - I use a private mailbox for all billing so my installation address didn't even match my billing address.
Comcast, on the other hand, wanted an SSN. Since Verizon didn't I just went with them instead of pushing back on Comcast. So I can't say how easy it might be to change Comcast's mind.
I think that direct payment will continue to be a common form of compensation. There are too many problems with the alternatives: amateurism, self-promotion, employer-sponsored, ad-supported, donation-supported, or selling associated products (support, t-shirts, concerts, etc.)
Is that supposed to be a list of problems or a list of alternative business models, because I only see one problem in that list and it tends to apply to any business model, not just those you've listed.
Precisely. Outside contributors are scared off submitting to projects like MySQL that make uncompensated commercial use of them.
So, your proof of effectiveness of your proposal is simply the failure of a worse system? You have to be better than the systems that are working now. Not better than than the systems that are failing now.
If you're looking for more, go with sata sleds (again not the brand I used, but similar), you can screw your hard drives into those and if your sata controller supports it, hot swap the drives. You can also buy extra sleds so that you can swap out your drives without having to handle the internal drive.
Forget sleds, go trayless. There are a variety of trayless sata racks available from a couple of different manufactureres, including multi-disk designs. I have them in all of my systems, they work great in windows and linux.
The RIAA members need Apple (by their own fault)
...
This is exactly why it is in Apple's interest to throw the RIAA an apple
The latter does not follow from the former.
And the correct colloquialism is bone, not apple.
Are you asking for a wooosh?
Furthermore, as noted the EFF steps in on cases like these so it really doesn't have that much of a chilling effort for Apple to try.
Why don't you ask your lawyer friends how easy it is for a defendant even when some heavy-weight comes in and works pro bono. Here's a hint - pro bono doesn't mean they pick up the defendant's own costs.
After all, Cydia exists and they had to expect something like this would be tried. It's living proof that your argument does not hold here.
And how many other companies would exist if Apple's threat weren't out there in the first place?
Are you saying that anyone selling non-physical easily-redistributed goods should give up trying to charge for them? Music, video, news, software, etc.
Yes.
Au contraire, the prospect of some reward, even if the development committee may not always make that fair, is far better than the exploitation that occurs when commercial dual-licenced projects demand uncompensated copyright assignment of all submissions.
And I bet you can't name a single multi-licensed project that has both a significant amount of outsider contributors and a non-Free license as one of the options.