Does not cover everything. For example, kleptomania is not considered a "disability" under the act, and I doubt being addicted to the Internet is really much different.
Amazing, I was able to use the mandatory ethics training I had to take at work in a conversation....hooray! Maybe?
Yahoo prefers one 24" monitor compared to the dual setup at Microsoft and Goolgle(19" and 20" respectively) Considering that most 24" LCDs cost at least as much if not more than a pair of smaller ones, I wonder why they opted for less screen real estate(also interesting to me since I am in the market to upgrade displays and am debating between the two setups as well)
That is exactly what I was pointing out. I am against the Iraq war, but I find it absolutely hilarious when Europeans get all sanctimonious about it. They are showing ignorance of their history, both past and present.
I asked this at a research conference once(it was about mobile phone security as well) and the researcher, who had drawn out all these equations showing how wonderful the fingerprint security was couldn't answer me. For a device like a mobile phone that tends to get tossed around and abused a lot, I wouldn't imagine that the scanner breaking would be all that rare of an occurence. However, the researcher just said that if the fingerprint scanning device was broken, then you could use a password instead, of course this was after he spent the first 5 minutes of his presentation telling us how passwords were insecure. Assuming that passwords are insecure, wouldn't the first thing an attacker does when getting the phone be to smash the fingerprint scanner? Then what was the point?
If their main concern is people hogging the computers using these sites, then there is a fix that doesn't require legislation. Give the librarians the power to boot people off of computers if others are waiting and they are doing something frivilous. That is what they did at the computer labs at my university. Seemed to work pretty well.
or is there an emerging criminal organization that targets laptops for the data they contain instead of for the hardware itself. It could be much more profitable to hold the data hostage rather than flip the laptop for whatever crappy amount you could get on ebay or at the local pawn shop.
Have there been any intensive studies that attempt to show what happens to stolen laptops?
I have been living in Germany for the past 2 years, and trust me, in the EU the consumer does NOT come first. The government comes first, pure and simple. Ever buy anything from outside the EU and have it shipped to you? I, blisfully unaware of the details of doing so, had an electronic dictionary shipped to me from Japan. This is not an item you can even buy in the EU. However, they wanted to tax me on it, and I wasn't paying 50 euros in tax just to please the German government. Since I am not a member of the EU and refused to pay the outrageous taxes on it, I just said to have them mail it to my house in America, I could pick it up there. I had to take time out of my very busy day to go the very inconviently located Zollamt to deal with these people. Naively I took the beureucrat's word for it(there were 4 of them working there and not a single person came in the whole hour I was mingling with them, which leads me to believe the whole customs racket is just a vast employment scam by the government that annoys everyone else), but of course weeks passed by and nothing. So I called the place in Nuernberg, and they said it was in Frankfurt. Had to call Frankfurt and had to pay 12 cents a minute to be put on hold(something that never happens outside of the EU mind you, not in America, not in Japan etc) only to have Frankfurt tell me it was in Nuernberg. This went back and forth for weeks and eventually they returned it to the person that mailed it to me. The EU, where the consumer comes first, spent extra money to deny me my property. Brilliant! It's a real consumers paradise! Now compare that to the US and Japan, other places I have lived, where I have sent and received laptop computers with no hassle whatsoever from the government.
Ever ride a DeutscheBahn train? Ever actually be on time with that train? Especially when you compare it to the rail system in Japan the rail system in Europe is another government run nightmare. They don't exist to move you around places, they exist to make some government workers feel powerful, and thus do a terrible job of getting anywhere on time. Broken down trains, trains that don't come, and just plain lateness are way too common. I've spent more time waiting in bahnhofs for the next train since I was too late for my connection than I care to count. Again, the government, not the consumer, comes first.
Speaking of consumers, you ever compare the sales taxes in Europe to that of the US, Canada, or Japan? Guess what, they can be 4 to 5 times as much, and in a lot of places in the states, they don't charge sales tax on things like food. I always found it funny that the sales taxes supposedly go to help the less fortunate, and yet a sales tax is the MOST regressive tax you can find. Again, it's not the consumer that comes first, its the government. The government makes a lot of money and employs a lot of people to collect this overly complex tax(businesses don't have to pay it if they are putting it into a finished product, the tax levels are different for all sorts of items, etc).
The government in the EU has this significant power trip, and the iTunes thing is no different. The government sees somewhere where it doesn't have absolute control and CANNOT STAND IT! So therefore they decide that they know what is best and now set their sight on the biggest player in the market.
Bah, if only the American government weren't worse(in different aspects). But no, the EU is a consumer's nightmare, not paradise.
Through its various console and arcade ports, Mike Tyson's punch out has had blacks, Indians, East Asians, Mexicans, Jamaicans, Eastern Europeans, and probably some other groups I neglected to mention, oh yeah, French. Now granted none of these characters were "playable"(the only playable character was a little white guy with a stereotyped black coach) and I wouldn't necessarily call all the treatments the various races received respectful but....
They need protected, not babysat. It wasn't like Apple was hiding what the terms of buying music were. It's written on the website. If a consumer doesn't want to read them then that isn't Apple's fault. They offer a service, if the consumer doesn't want the service then they can go elsewhere. If enough people don't use it, it will either have to adapt or die. That is the beuty of capitalism.
Banning the service outright because the state doesn't like it is nanny-state mentality pure and simple. "Remember kids, the state knows what is best for you! The state knows better than you, so listen to the state like good little sheep!"
Dude I do that kind of stuff not out of patriotism, but because it requires the least amount of movement. Dump orange stuff in water stir=tang, for the ice cream, you don't even have to get out of your chair to go to the freezer. Now THAT is the American way! *play patriotic sounds in the background*
Also keep in mind that many companies aren't interested in linpac peformance per se, at least to the extent that they will spend a lot of time and effort tweaking their computers to get really high linpac scores, which is all that is important when it comes to top500.
Business Week is running a story about how the H1-B visa is ACTUALLY being used, and it seems it is used much more often than not to act as a conduit to offshore outsourcing, ie get the Indians or whoever over to the US, train them at a crappy salary(comparatively) and then send them home. While some firms certainly are using the visas to get foreign talent to the US, they are being crowded out by body dumpers. One suggestion proffered by the article is to only let US companies get H1Bs.
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Nope, not a bad guess though. It involves the direct quote "super babies"
amazing!
:P
Bonus to whoever figures out what I am referencing
Does not cover everything. For example, kleptomania is not considered a "disability" under the act, and I doubt being addicted to the Internet is really much different.
Amazing, I was able to use the mandatory ethics training I had to take at work in a conversation....hooray! Maybe?
The information source was the article....
Yahoo prefers one 24" monitor compared to the dual setup at Microsoft and Goolgle(19" and 20" respectively) Considering that most 24" LCDs cost at least as much if not more than a pair of smaller ones, I wonder why they opted for less screen real estate(also interesting to me since I am in the market to upgrade displays and am debating between the two setups as well)
Sweet! Now I can go to the brothel 29 times!
So in other words, your god is Larry Wall?
if the creator of Viagra had a similar epiphany
shares of AMD rose 3.17 percent, or 46 cents, to $3.17
:P
Maybe he should check his math processor
That is exactly what I was pointing out. I am against the Iraq war, but I find it absolutely hilarious when Europeans get all sanctimonious about it. They are showing ignorance of their history, both past and present.
Like the French did in Vietnam? Or like the French did in the Ivory Coast? Or like the French did in Algeria? Those are some great examples!
I asked this at a research conference once(it was about mobile phone security as well) and the researcher, who had drawn out all these equations showing how wonderful the fingerprint security was couldn't answer me. For a device like a mobile phone that tends to get tossed around and abused a lot, I wouldn't imagine that the scanner breaking would be all that rare of an occurence. However, the researcher just said that if the fingerprint scanning device was broken, then you could use a password instead, of course this was after he spent the first 5 minutes of his presentation telling us how passwords were insecure. Assuming that passwords are insecure, wouldn't the first thing an attacker does when getting the phone be to smash the fingerprint scanner? Then what was the point?
My right hand slaves all year for me and doesn't get anything in return. I think this would be a fantastic gift to show righty how much I care!
If their main concern is people hogging the computers using these sites, then there is a fix that doesn't require legislation. Give the librarians the power to boot people off of computers if others are waiting and they are doing something frivilous. That is what they did at the computer labs at my university. Seemed to work pretty well.
or is there an emerging criminal organization that targets laptops for the data they contain instead of for the hardware itself. It could be much more profitable to hold the data hostage rather than flip the laptop for whatever crappy amount you could get on ebay or at the local pawn shop.
Have there been any intensive studies that attempt to show what happens to stolen laptops?
figures out how to dupe the "one that will rule them all"
When Duke Nukem Forever comes out, PC gamers will forget about all those old, now dull looking toys.
I have been living in Germany for the past 2 years, and trust me, in the EU the consumer does NOT come first. The government comes first, pure and simple. Ever buy anything from outside the EU and have it shipped to you? I, blisfully unaware of the details of doing so, had an electronic dictionary shipped to me from Japan. This is not an item you can even buy in the EU. However, they wanted to tax me on it, and I wasn't paying 50 euros in tax just to please the German government. Since I am not a member of the EU and refused to pay the outrageous taxes on it, I just said to have them mail it to my house in America, I could pick it up there. I had to take time out of my very busy day to go the very inconviently located Zollamt to deal with these people. Naively I took the beureucrat's word for it(there were 4 of them working there and not a single person came in the whole hour I was mingling with them, which leads me to believe the whole customs racket is just a vast employment scam by the government that annoys everyone else), but of course weeks passed by and nothing. So I called the place in Nuernberg, and they said it was in Frankfurt. Had to call Frankfurt and had to pay 12 cents a minute to be put on hold(something that never happens outside of the EU mind you, not in America, not in Japan etc) only to have Frankfurt tell me it was in Nuernberg. This went back and forth for weeks and eventually they returned it to the person that mailed it to me. The EU, where the consumer comes first, spent extra money to deny me my property. Brilliant! It's a real consumers paradise! Now compare that to the US and Japan, other places I have lived, where I have sent and received laptop computers with no hassle whatsoever from the government.
Ever ride a DeutscheBahn train? Ever actually be on time with that train? Especially when you compare it to the rail system in Japan the rail system in Europe is another government run nightmare. They don't exist to move you around places, they exist to make some government workers feel powerful, and thus do a terrible job of getting anywhere on time. Broken down trains, trains that don't come, and just plain lateness are way too common. I've spent more time waiting in bahnhofs for the next train since I was too late for my connection than I care to count. Again, the government, not the consumer, comes first.
Speaking of consumers, you ever compare the sales taxes in Europe to that of the US, Canada, or Japan? Guess what, they can be 4 to 5 times as much, and in a lot of places in the states, they don't charge sales tax on things like food. I always found it funny that the sales taxes supposedly go to help the less fortunate, and yet a sales tax is the MOST regressive tax you can find. Again, it's not the consumer that comes first, its the government. The government makes a lot of money and employs a lot of people to collect this overly complex tax(businesses don't have to pay it if they are putting it into a finished product, the tax levels are different for all sorts of items, etc).
The government in the EU has this significant power trip, and the iTunes thing is no different. The government sees somewhere where it doesn't have absolute control and CANNOT STAND IT! So therefore they decide that they know what is best and now set their sight on the biggest player in the market.
Bah, if only the American government weren't worse(in different aspects). But no, the EU is a consumer's nightmare, not paradise.
Through its various console and arcade ports, Mike Tyson's punch out has had blacks, Indians, East Asians, Mexicans, Jamaicans, Eastern Europeans, and probably some other groups I neglected to mention, oh yeah, French. Now granted none of these characters were "playable"(the only playable character was a little white guy with a stereotyped black coach) and I wouldn't necessarily call all the treatments the various races received respectful but....
They need protected, not babysat. It wasn't like Apple was hiding what the terms of buying music were. It's written on the website. If a consumer doesn't want to read them then that isn't Apple's fault. They offer a service, if the consumer doesn't want the service then they can go elsewhere. If enough people don't use it, it will either have to adapt or die. That is the beuty of capitalism.
Banning the service outright because the state doesn't like it is nanny-state mentality pure and simple. "Remember kids, the state knows what is best for you! The state knows better than you, so listen to the state like good little sheep!"
Dude I do that kind of stuff not out of patriotism, but because it requires the least amount of movement. Dump orange stuff in water stir=tang, for the ice cream, you don't even have to get out of your chair to go to the freezer. Now THAT is the American way! *play patriotic sounds in the background*
Also keep in mind that many companies aren't interested in linpac peformance per se, at least to the extent that they will spend a lot of time and effort tweaking their computers to get really high linpac scores, which is all that is important when it comes to top500.
Yeah, we have managers at my work too!
Business Week is running a story about how the H1-B visa is ACTUALLY being used, and it seems it is used much more often than not to act as a conduit to offshore outsourcing, ie get the Indians or whoever over to the US, train them at a crappy salary(comparatively) and then send them home. While some firms certainly are using the visas to get foreign talent to the US, they are being crowded out by body dumpers. One suggestion proffered by the article is to only let US companies get H1Bs.
Wow, the joke took his head off and removed him from the gene pool! How apropos.