You'd also need to make sure any portion of the deletion action is gone (from any blocks used by Trash or Recycle), also any temp files used to download or torrent need to be gone. Otherwise, they'd be able to see partial traces that portions of the file had been on the disk at some point in time. While it's not the same as having the whole file, I can see overzealous prosecutors drooling. Destroying the disk seems simpler and safer. Then they can charge you with destroying evidence.
How exactly does the state get a copy of my financial statements? Seems to me they would need a little thing called a warrant to obtain them.
There are many things that are not subject to use tax. For CA there's a 45 page document listing everything that is exempted -- including fun stuff like SPACE FLIGHT PROPERTY, RAIL FREIGHT CARS, WHEELCHAIRS, etc. I purchase a lot of spacecraft parts for handicapped people.
If someone writes a crappy game/app/javascript that uses a lot of system resources, you'd never blame the OS. Whereas in Flash's case, you blame not the author of the crappy Flash content, but... Flash.
Um, no. Flash doesn't eat system resources on PCs or mobile. Badly written content does.
Apple has always been in full control of their platform. Adobe as an app dev is subject to the whims of Apple, not the other way around.
That's what Adobe gets from leaving things until the last minute.
Actually, Adobe has been very busy keeping up. Various products have gone 64 bit, and there's always more OSX features to implement.
Now put yourself in Adobe's shoes. Apple tells you they will take Carbon to 64 bit. Do you bother going Cocoa? Of course not. Then when they change their mind...
Hardly. Apple has had plenty of goodies to bring to the party, including QuickTime, iPhone, <cough>OpenDoc</cough>...
Meanwhile, with the resources to port to Cocoa, Adobe could be testing CS3, porting to Linux, or any of a number of interesting things. It's a good thing that they employ lots of developers like myself who absolutely love converting thousands of dialogs from one platform to another.
What you have not stated is a good reason why Adobe should have spent the year of effort a switch would entail. In 2006, Apple said they were going to bring Carbon to 64 bit. In 2007, they said they wouldn't.
You say Apple bent over backwards to provide Carbon. They were pushed. Hard. By Adobe.
You say "dragging their feet" as if it were easy to completely rewrite large portions of a huge application suite. At least when OSX came out there were some user benefits, but users don't really care if an app is Carbon or Cocoa. The only people who care are Apple, who don't want to support both and have their own agenda to pursue. So they foist the issue onto application developers. Naturally, everyone blames the app devs for not doing whatever Apple says they need to, no matter how much it costs them.
(Reminds me a bit of No Child Left Behind for some reason.)
A couple years ago at BM I met a pro photographer who was working on a book project. He took a lot of pictures of people and was very conscientious about obtaining model's releases. The BM organization reviewed the project and to this day has not approved it for final publication due in no small part to concerns about some semi nude photographs in the set. That is not about censorship. It's absolutely the case that they do not want other people to profit from sensationalist coverage about the event. You can (and do) speculate that Burning Man, LLC might someday want to cash in and abuse their powers. However, this is antithetical to the core values of the event. It would be as absurd as Disneyland becoming a spring break destination for college students.
Please do a search on flickr etc. and then let's discuss how they restrict your photographic freedom of creative expression. They don't.
The entire purpose of BurningMan, LLC is to get people to not go. This is why the event is held in mid summer in the center of an inhospitable and very dusty desert hundreds of miles from civilization, with a steep entry fee, and the rules and regulations are totally outrageous. Despite all this, a few thousand people still show up. I hear that this year they will institute mandatory strip searches at the gate, and next year drug testing.
Actually, not that anyone here cares, but it's a series of different little problems once every 4-6 months, usually having something to do with lifting a heavy object or twisting in some unnatural way. Don't ask. But if there is a chronic issue I have, it is called getting older. If you find a cure for that let me know.
I know a bunch of people, here at work and elsewhere, who also use chiropractors for various ailments. I don't know each of their cases in extreme detail but I don't think they are being swindled. I've met many other chiropractors also. I have heard of some who use techniques that I don't believe in and probably never will, like "electromagnetic field isolators" or whatever the heck they are called. I also hear there are unscrupulous "western type" doctors who give radiation treatment to healthy people, or lick toes of dental patients.
As to what is entertaining about astrology, as my friend says, "anything sufficiently vague rings true."
To be as fair as possible, Chiropratic treatment has some evidentiary basis, and well-run studies have been shown to it effective for accute back problems (but not chronic ones). It's only when a chiropractor claims it makes sense to see them on any sort of regular basis that they become scam artists. That's almost always the case, of course.
You started out well but finished by overgeneralizing. Some chiropractors are scam artists, ok. Almost always? That I doubt. I see a chiropractor for acute back problems and it helps a lot. Never once has he tried to get me to see him more often than I want.
But yes, astrology goes in the pile with homeopathy & creationism
I respectfully disagree. In the words of my SO, astrology is to be used for entertainment purposes only, and succeeds in that regard. I don't find anything entertaining about homeopathy or cre{a}t{o}inism.
Is this vocational training, or are you trying to teach them how the software works?
If you're doing future-job-training, then you have little choice but to teach what they would be expected to know in the workforce. You won't be doing them a favor by giving them obscure and not-in-demand skills. Older versions of commercial software are largely the same, as vendors don't rewrite from scratch, they generally just add new features.
However, if you want them to learn how a graphics filter works, using open-source software is obviously a huge advantage.
Why not expose them to both?
Soooo...
They extract a $200,000 fine from the victim.
How much did it cost them, in lawyer's fees, to get that? I bet they are losing money.
Maybe if everyone fought them, they'd go bankrupt.
That list is like saying "motorcycles aren't standard cars."
Can you write animated games or play movies in only HTML?
Are browsers bug free and consistent?
Flash has its uses, such as delivering a consistent experience. Flex is not intended to replace HTML, but is intended for doing things that are impractical or inefficient in HTML.
I could do with less ads.
Hm. The last "standards based" printer I bought, an Okidata with PS option, used SCSI as the interface. None of my PCs have SCSI, and it's cheaper and easier for me to buy a new printer than to install a SCSI card. So much for standard printer languages.
Correct, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, under any circumstances... so then, it is clear that we have the right to carry around nerve gas, dirty bombs, nuclear weapons of all shapes and sizes, cruise missiles, howitzers, heavy machine guns, tanks, bazookas, battleships, chemical and biological weapons, as well as box cutters... whenever, and wherever we please. And if the feds get in our way, then they must be a dictatorship and we can open up a can of whoopass on them.
Oh, but none of those things were invented when the Constitution was written, and some sort of limitations seem absolutely reasonable, don't they? Hm, that is a bit of a dilemma, isn't it... maybe instead of blindly applying the language, we ought to interpret it in the of the social and technological context of the modern day.
This is all very doubtful. Taxes on transactions are generally called use or sales tax. In California, sales taxes are not collected on anything transmitted electronically. So if you download an application, and no physical CD is sent to you, you don't pay sales tax. See www.boe.ca.gov for details.
Now, if I were to pay someone to create something in-game, that might be a taxable service.
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You'd also need to make sure any portion of the deletion action is gone (from any blocks used by Trash or Recycle), also any temp files used to download or torrent need to be gone. Otherwise, they'd be able to see partial traces that portions of the file had been on the disk at some point in time. While it's not the same as having the whole file, I can see overzealous prosecutors drooling. Destroying the disk seems simpler and safer. Then they can charge you with destroying evidence.
How exactly does the state get a copy of my financial statements? Seems to me they would need a little thing called a warrant to obtain them.
There are many things that are not subject to use tax. For CA there's a 45 page document listing everything that is exempted -- including fun stuff like SPACE FLIGHT PROPERTY, RAIL FREIGHT CARS, WHEELCHAIRS, etc. I purchase a lot of spacecraft parts for handicapped people.
I for one welcome our Afghan overlords!
I for one welcome our CIA overlords!
There, I fixed it for you.
Let's just lay the blame squarely where it ought to, on the law that allows such an abomination to survive and feed.
Really? Here's an Android phone running Flash... now. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html
If someone writes a crappy game/app/javascript that uses a lot of system resources, you'd never blame the OS. Whereas in Flash's case, you blame not the author of the crappy Flash content, but... Flash. Um, no. Flash doesn't eat system resources on PCs or mobile. Badly written content does.
Said Leader Technology attorneys, of course, would keep all of the gigabytes of Facebook source code completely safe and secure.
Apple has always been in full control of their platform. Adobe as an app dev is subject to the whims of Apple, not the other way around.
That's what Adobe gets from leaving things until the last minute.
Actually, Adobe has been very busy keeping up. Various products have gone 64 bit, and there's always more OSX features to implement.
Now put yourself in Adobe's shoes. Apple tells you they will take Carbon to 64 bit. Do you bother going Cocoa? Of course not. Then when they change their mind...
Adobe's been calling all the shots up to now.
Hardly. Apple has had plenty of goodies to bring to the party, including QuickTime, iPhone, <cough>OpenDoc</cough>...
Meanwhile, with the resources to port to Cocoa, Adobe could be testing CS3, porting to Linux, or any of a number of interesting things. It's a good thing that they employ lots of developers like myself who absolutely love converting thousands of dialogs from one platform to another.
What you have not stated is a good reason why Adobe should have spent the year of effort a switch would entail. In 2006, Apple said they were going to bring Carbon to 64 bit. In 2007, they said they wouldn't.
You say Apple bent over backwards to provide Carbon. They were pushed. Hard. By Adobe. You say "dragging their feet" as if it were easy to completely rewrite large portions of a huge application suite. At least when OSX came out there were some user benefits, but users don't really care if an app is Carbon or Cocoa. The only people who care are Apple, who don't want to support both and have their own agenda to pursue. So they foist the issue onto application developers. Naturally, everyone blames the app devs for not doing whatever Apple says they need to, no matter how much it costs them. (Reminds me a bit of No Child Left Behind for some reason.)
A couple years ago at BM I met a pro photographer who was working on a book project. He took a lot of pictures of people and was very conscientious about obtaining model's releases. The BM organization reviewed the project and to this day has not approved it for final publication due in no small part to concerns about some semi nude photographs in the set. That is not about censorship. It's absolutely the case that they do not want other people to profit from sensationalist coverage about the event. You can (and do) speculate that Burning Man, LLC might someday want to cash in and abuse their powers. However, this is antithetical to the core values of the event. It would be as absurd as Disneyland becoming a spring break destination for college students. Please do a search on flickr etc. and then let's discuss how they restrict your photographic freedom of creative expression. They don't.
The entire purpose of BurningMan, LLC is to get people to not go. This is why the event is held in mid summer in the center of an inhospitable and very dusty desert hundreds of miles from civilization, with a steep entry fee, and the rules and regulations are totally outrageous. Despite all this, a few thousand people still show up. I hear that this year they will institute mandatory strip searches at the gate, and next year drug testing.
> To use Bruce Schneier's analogy, it's more like trying to make a safe secure.
I learned this as "Locks are for honest people"
(It occurs to me... so cracking DRM is for... who?)
Actually, Comcast is "bandwidth throttling" the site.
Actually, not that anyone here cares, but it's a series of different little problems once every 4-6 months, usually having something to do with lifting a heavy object or twisting in some unnatural way. Don't ask. But if there is a chronic issue I have, it is called getting older. If you find a cure for that let me know. I know a bunch of people, here at work and elsewhere, who also use chiropractors for various ailments. I don't know each of their cases in extreme detail but I don't think they are being swindled. I've met many other chiropractors also. I have heard of some who use techniques that I don't believe in and probably never will, like "electromagnetic field isolators" or whatever the heck they are called. I also hear there are unscrupulous "western type" doctors who give radiation treatment to healthy people, or lick toes of dental patients. As to what is entertaining about astrology, as my friend says, "anything sufficiently vague rings true."
Is this vocational training, or are you trying to teach them how the software works? If you're doing future-job-training, then you have little choice but to teach what they would be expected to know in the workforce. You won't be doing them a favor by giving them obscure and not-in-demand skills. Older versions of commercial software are largely the same, as vendors don't rewrite from scratch, they generally just add new features. However, if you want them to learn how a graphics filter works, using open-source software is obviously a huge advantage. Why not expose them to both?
Soooo... They extract a $200,000 fine from the victim. How much did it cost them, in lawyer's fees, to get that? I bet they are losing money. Maybe if everyone fought them, they'd go bankrupt.
Have you tried FlexBuilder 3 beta 2? it says it has a new feature "Web Services introspection" Although not on the Linux version yet...
That list is like saying "motorcycles aren't standard cars." Can you write animated games or play movies in only HTML? Are browsers bug free and consistent? Flash has its uses, such as delivering a consistent experience. Flex is not intended to replace HTML, but is intended for doing things that are impractical or inefficient in HTML. I could do with less ads.
Hm. The last "standards based" printer I bought, an Okidata with PS option, used SCSI as the interface. None of my PCs have SCSI, and it's cheaper and easier for me to buy a new printer than to install a SCSI card. So much for standard printer languages.
and gun ownership may well be the only thing that recently stopped the USA from falling into fascist totalitarianism
Oh, that must be why Democrats have been running around the halls of congress with M-16s...
Correct, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, under any circumstances... so then, it is clear that we have the right to carry around nerve gas, dirty bombs, nuclear weapons of all shapes and sizes, cruise missiles, howitzers, heavy machine guns, tanks, bazookas, battleships, chemical and biological weapons, as well as box cutters... whenever, and wherever we please. And if the feds get in our way, then they must be a dictatorship and we can open up a can of whoopass on them. Oh, but none of those things were invented when the Constitution was written, and some sort of limitations seem absolutely reasonable, don't they? Hm, that is a bit of a dilemma, isn't it... maybe instead of blindly applying the language, we ought to interpret it in the of the social and technological context of the modern day.
This is all very doubtful. Taxes on transactions are generally called use or sales tax. In California, sales taxes are not collected on anything transmitted electronically. So if you download an application, and no physical CD is sent to you, you don't pay sales tax. See www.boe.ca.gov for details.
Now, if I were to pay someone to create something in-game, that might be a taxable service.