If they don't have procedures to care for the fact that their employess have been spending 7 hours staring at a slide show of strangers' houses, they damned well have no business taking those pictures. If you can not deal with the necessary fallout of your business practises, change business. As simple as that.
"There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity."
Every time I see statements like this, I smile. It is proof that Microsoft still hasn't gotten it. And most likely they never will. Nobody cares about free-as-in-beer software. Well, some do, but that's not the point. What is important is of course free-as-in-speech software, and Microsoft repeatedly fails to understand why. It will be their doom, of course... and the smile will stay on my face when they perish.
I have heard that Bush was furious that Texas was not chosen, pulled a few strings and the project was cancelled.
If there is any truth to that rumour, that alone is reason enough to drag the man out on the streets and put him up against a wall. Not to mention the rest of the hideous crimes he has committed. Why on earth have the american public - one which is so proud of its supposed ability to take down a corrupt government - not executed this man yet?
Sorry, I'm usually not one trying to force my view on others, but that statement is just complete nonsense. Procreation is about the most destructive thing a person with normal power (i.e., the ones not having access to A Big Red Button or something similar) can do.
The issue of going paperless to save the planet was always bogus.
Explain how not printing a page can be equally, or more wasteful than printing one.
Driving a mile in a car has a much larger impact on the planet than printing a page.
How is this relevant? They are two completely separate actions. One will in no way affect the other, and one (driving a car) is generally known to be a very environmentally expensive thing to do anyway.
According to this there 1.26 billion Internet users. According to Wikipedia there were 1.4 million iPhones sold by October 2007.
While the person who came up with the silly 0.12% number may very well be a tool, I don't think it is safe to assume that one user implies one, and only one device. On the contrary, the number of devices connected to the net would outnumber human users by far.
For those of you who buy books regularly, do you really read them 3+ times? Or is there some other reason you do it instead of going to the library?
1) I get to decide when I must have finished reading the book. Not the library. 2) I get to treat the book whichever way I like. I never have to worry about damaging it (I always carry at least one book with me, so this is a not an unrealistic worry). 3) The library often doesn't have the books I want to read. 4) I know that the books i get from a store will be in an acceptable condition (no pages missing) when I get them. 5) When I'm done with a book I like, I can dump it on someone else who I believe will like it as well. 6) Not seldom I find myself looking up specific things in books I've read. Quotes, character names, location descriptions, whatnot. They turn from entertainment into reference litterature once they've read. 7)...and yes, this is silly - I like to support my local book shop, as well as the authors. I have friends working in the shop, and I want their business to be profitable.
But no, I practically never read a book more than once.
I don't have to prove it. Not only that, but you wouldn't believe me if even if the code was released - after all, how do you know that the code corresponds to the actual binary?
You don't need to trust the binary if you have the source. You compile your own, and use that one. I know we're going off on a tangent here, but this is exactly why closed source software can't be trusted when open source software can.
Not that such a thing has really happened, as my sibling posters have already told you, but there's a huge differance between monitoring what state employees are doing on their payed time and monitoring what private citizens do in their spare time.
I certainly do not hope I will need to elaborate on this.
Given how easy it is to sniff sensitive data from an unencrypted wireless network, I can't imagine Bruce would allow it unless he segments his network or wires up his own PC.
Any data that goes unencrypted between your computer and your wifi base station will also go unencrypted between the wifi base station and the target destination. On top of this, any data that's only encrypted by your wifi network will also go unencrypted between the wifi base station and its target destination. Maybe Bruce is just wise enough to encrypt any sensitive data he transfers properly, and not rely on the encryption in his $30 hardware that will only protect against attackers within 50 meters?
That comment really surprised me as well. I work in a European country, where the procedures are highly different. Three months is the usual period between handing your notice in and actually quitting, and in many cases (in the software development industry, which happens to be the one I know and can speak of) I'd say that that's too little. The company I currently work for has a development staff that has varied from 6-10 active developers (plus project management and quality assurance), and anybody that needs replacing is a major blow to the speed with which we develop, and the quality of our work. The last person we lost let us know nine months before that he was leaving, and it was still difficult to deal with his absence (and lack of his specific knowledge and skills) once he was gone. I honestly can't see how two weeks can be anywhere near sufficient, unless the people leaving have contributed nothing but manual labor.
- Elder Scrolls (I only played III and IV, but they both qualify) - EVE Online - Elite - Sim City & clones
I see you contesting someone else's claim that Oblivion isn't railed.. and I honestly do not understand what your criteria is, then. I fail to see how a game can get much more free than the Elder Scrolls games. They can become bigger, yes, but less railed? Doubtful.
Does anyone know of any mail experience available that is superior to gmail?
Mutt + procmail. And yes, I'm perfectly serious. GMail does searching in large quantities of mail (hundreds of MB) quicker. That's the only thing I've actually seen it do better.
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Yes, health care seems like an place where such a questions are actually warranted. Thank you for a good reply.
Clerk: Race?
Call me naive, but is this a question that is actually asked? In what situations? For what purpose?
I'm not from the US and do not know all your local customs, but I find the idea quite absurd (bordering on offensive).
Quite irrelevant.
If they don't have procedures to care for the fact that their employess have been spending 7 hours staring at a slide show of strangers' houses, they damned well have no business taking those pictures.
If you can not deal with the necessary fallout of your business practises, change business.
As simple as that.
What am I missing?
+5 Funny.
"There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity."
Every time I see statements like this, I smile. It is proof that Microsoft still hasn't gotten it. And most likely they never will.
Nobody cares about free-as-in-beer software. Well, some do, but that's not the point. What is important is of course free-as-in-speech software, and Microsoft repeatedly fails to understand why. It will be their doom, of course... and the smile will stay on my face when they perish.
How is this different from a pantent troll?
It is different from a patent troll in much the same way a football is different from space rocket - by having no properties in common!
I have heard that Bush was furious that Texas was not chosen, pulled a few strings and the project was cancelled.
If there is any truth to that rumour, that alone is reason enough to drag the man out on the streets and put him up against a wall. Not to mention the rest of the hideous crimes he has committed. Why on earth have the american public - one which is so proud of its supposed ability to take down a corrupt government - not executed this man yet?
Yep.
Sorry, I'm usually not one trying to force my view on others, but that statement is just complete nonsense. Procreation is about the most destructive thing a person with normal power (i.e., the ones not having access to A Big Red Button or something similar) can do.
if you are over mid 30's, they will either not hire you OR fire you before you are about to vest.
I see
Some moderators tend to mod funny comments "interesting" or "insightful" since that gives a karma bonus, and "funny" does not.
The issue of going paperless to save the planet was always bogus.
Explain how not printing a page can be equally, or more wasteful than printing one.
Driving a mile in a car has a much larger impact on the planet than printing a page.
How is this relevant? They are two completely separate actions. One will in no way affect the other, and one (driving a car) is generally known to be a very environmentally expensive thing to do anyway.
look and see the actual source code running, or look at what they say is the source code?
*blink*
It's being encrypted client side. You can be pretty damn sure it's the source code that's running. Build the binary yourself.
According to this there 1.26 billion Internet users. According to Wikipedia there were 1.4 million iPhones sold by October 2007.
While the person who came up with the silly 0.12% number may very well be a tool, I don't think it is safe to assume that one user implies one, and only one device.
On the contrary, the number of devices connected to the net would outnumber human users by far.
Although I *did* see a feature of the OSX that I liked -- the transparent terminal...
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
I'm sure this, with minor modifications, is applicable to your distribution of choice.
For those of you who buy books regularly, do you really read them 3+ times? Or is there some other reason you do it instead of going to the library?
...and yes, this is silly - I like to support my local book shop, as well as the authors. I have friends working in the shop, and I want their business to be profitable.
1) I get to decide when I must have finished reading the book. Not the library.
2) I get to treat the book whichever way I like. I never have to worry about damaging it (I always carry at least one book with me, so this is a not an unrealistic worry).
3) The library often doesn't have the books I want to read.
4) I know that the books i get from a store will be in an acceptable condition (no pages missing) when I get them.
5) When I'm done with a book I like, I can dump it on someone else who I believe will like it as well.
6) Not seldom I find myself looking up specific things in books I've read. Quotes, character names, location descriptions, whatnot. They turn from entertainment into reference litterature once they've read.
7)
But no, I practically never read a book more than once.
I'm not arguing any other point you make though.
Not that such a thing has really happened, as my sibling posters have already told you, but there's a huge differance between monitoring what state employees are doing on their payed time and monitoring what private citizens do in their spare time.
I certainly do not hope I will need to elaborate on this.
Also a brain-free area for the fuckwits to come up with these [...] ideas.
Oh, there is, and the fuckwits have found it already. They call it Congress.
It is not surprising that it takes a thirty meter telescope to see progress, because there sure ain't any of it nowhere near, is it?
Given how easy it is to sniff sensitive data from an unencrypted wireless network, I can't imagine Bruce would allow it unless he segments his network or wires up his own PC.
Any data that goes unencrypted between your computer and your wifi base station will also go unencrypted between the wifi base station and the target destination. On top of this, any data that's only encrypted by your wifi network will also go unencrypted between the wifi base station and its target destination.
Maybe Bruce is just wise enough to encrypt any sensitive data he transfers properly, and not rely on the encryption in his $30 hardware that will only protect against attackers within 50 meters?
Amen.
That comment really surprised me as well. I work in a European country, where the procedures are highly different. Three months is the usual period between handing your notice in and actually quitting, and in many cases (in the software development industry, which happens to be the one I know and can speak of) I'd say that that's too little.
The company I currently work for has a development staff that has varied from 6-10 active developers (plus project management and quality assurance), and anybody that needs replacing is a major blow to the speed with which we develop, and the quality of our work.
The last person we lost let us know nine months before that he was leaving, and it was still difficult to deal with his absence (and lack of his specific knowledge and skills) once he was gone. I honestly can't see how two weeks can be anywhere near sufficient, unless the people leaving have contributed nothing but manual labor.
- Elder Scrolls (I only played III and IV, but they both qualify)
- EVE Online
- Elite
- Sim City & clones
I see you contesting someone else's claim that Oblivion isn't railed.. and I honestly do not understand what your criteria is, then. I fail to see how a game can get much more free than the Elder Scrolls games. They can become bigger, yes, but less railed? Doubtful.
For those of us who aren't omnipotent, who is this guy?
Heck, even those of us who are omnipotent haven't heard of this guy. That's how important he is!
Does anyone know of any mail experience available that is superior to gmail?
Mutt + procmail.
And yes, I'm perfectly serious. GMail does searching in large quantities of mail (hundreds of MB) quicker. That's the only thing I've actually seen it do better.
Did you have to do that? I clicked the link and.... recognized the stories.
*sigh*