You play in our parks, rely on our infrastructure (including roads, police and fire protection), I will do whatever the hell I want with your content. Thanks.
It certainly does enter the physical realm. The extra processing power, extra storage, extra capacity to handle the volume of spam directly impacts the physical realm, adding to pollution, waste, and excessive energy use.
Depending on your investments, you should be able to do a transfer. I personally use Scottrade now, as they have a very nice local office to me. They've helped me on numerous occasions for free, and I certainly don't have a lot of money invested compared to bigger players.
In general, actual stocks and bonds can be transferred, since you actually own them directly. Mutual funds or other investment fund types are harder or impossible to move without selling and repurchasing (and thus incurring the wrath of the capital gains tax).
It can't hurt to call around. There are so many online trading companies now most are willing to at least let you ask questions before getting an account. They want your business badly.
1. Download music your arch nemesis listens to and has downloaded. 2. Replace your name with his name in the file. 3. Accidentally leak the files onto P2P networks.
Woops. I missed the ??? and Profit!!! steps in there.
Drop AmeriTrade. I did and couldn't be happier. I couldn't trust my stock (and thus, some of my savings and part of my future financial well-being) to a company that can't even keep an e-mail address secure.
Late reply but that's due to some bad handling by Firefox. If you have keep-alive on, it'll annoy you and waste a tiny fraction of bandwidth/server CPU, but that's about it.
Instead of redirecting, you're better off putting a 1 pixel by 1 pixel "icon". Or, actually make an icon. Once Firefox fetches it, it won't ask for it again for a while (cache clear, etc).
Nothing really to do with pipelining or network settings, it's just Firefox trying too hard.
Opera has sensible pipelining defaults. Most "Firefox tip" articles have you set them to values that when combined with other network settings makes your browser appear like a misbehaving robot, proxy, or hacking attempt. Firefox with sensible values doesn't get blocked.
While the infrastructure does cost money, it greatly depends on how much of that infrastructure and population you actually need. If you have a largely Internet-based business for example, Illinois doesn't make sense. A lot of businesses need very little infrastructure and don't need 12 million local residents.
It's simple economics: why pay for what you don't use?
Because in Asia, South America, Africa, Russia, etc, record companies are happy to get any profit at all, even if it is a tiny fraction what they make in other countries. Some profit is better than no profit if the music were 100% pirated.
They still make a profit, and the artists can still make a killing doing concerts in those countries.
That bites. The funds should come from the legislative budget, even if they have no funds left. The Legislature would be hard-pressed to pass more bills that could result in massive legal bills if their pay check was directly at risk.
Either that or create a discretionary fund that is 100% disclosed to voters at voting time, included in clear wording direct in the ballot.
How is it the best when almost all bandwidth providers are given large market contracts with cities, counties, and states? All that does is ensure the group with the biggest pocket book or the most contacts continues to win.
While I generally concur, something at least needs to be done to simplify the legal system. There is no reason a privacy policy cannot be a short, concise, two sentences.
"[Company] collects information which you may wish to remain private. [Company] retains the information for up to 2 years, and information may be made available to outside vendors without your consent."
Almost everyone can understand that. It's still a high reading level (generally), but far simpler than the 8 page privacy policy most companies have.
No, but offloading it to SQLite means they can slowly remove the horrible parsing, storing, etc mechanisms for the current data formats. And it also means that, hopefully, tools will be developed for IT managers to easily sync bookmarks with their employee desktops, e.g, updating home pages, etc remotely.
Most aren't debating that point. The main point of contention is the Copyright to Public Domain point. Copyright hacks like Disney, etc want obscenely long copyrights so they can profit continuously.
Conversely, I believe that shorter Public Domain laws would create more growth. Would you rather companies continually invest in their employees to continue creating new works or have a few select individuals profit endlessly?
Another main point of debate is fair use. Copyright owners don't want any fair use, they want to license EVERYTHING. Should I be allowed to let you listen to my CD? Why or why not? Etc.
Others recommended a few good ones. If you're in the research arena and you print to PDF and are crazy about getting your layout precisely correct, I suggest you check out PrinceXML. Full XML+CSS to PDF printing. For printing random web pages you may get away with running the HTML SGML through Tidy to produce valid XHTML which you can pipe through PrinceXML, but something like cups-pdf will probably work easier for you.
There's also significant financial incentive to keep the limited address space of IPv4. Want a static IP address or additional IP addresses? Fork over the cash, baby!
"Appearing" as in appearing on new laptops we order. Older ones do not contain as much junk as the recent ones. It also appears on laptops that go in for servicing and come back re-imaged.
A vending machine in my building does something similar. There are no "out of product" lights, there's only a single line display. If you select something that's out, it scrolls "NO PRODUCT TO DISPENSE - PLEASE TRY ANOTHER PRODUCT OR CALL 1-800-XXX-XXXX FOR REFILLS - NO PRODUCT TO DISPENSE" one letter at a time. During which time you cannot select another product, get your change back, or do anything at all. Pressing any buttons helpfully resets it to scroll from the start.
That goes double, or triple, for Dell laptops. I've never seen so much sh*t installed on them. It started appearing about 2 months ago, and despite contacting various account reps, they have no idea what I'm bitching about. Very few of the programs uninstall cleanly, either.
Of course, nothing can come even close to the pile of crap called "ConfigFree" on Toshiba laptops. Dear God that software is awful! Remember kids, when you are looking for badly written, badly tested software to hijack network connections, think ConfigFree!
You also have Apache access logs. Unfortunately, when you log the HTTP REPORT commands, it logs everything, e.g., a REPORT is checkouts, updates, AND commits all in one. Unfortunately, there isn't a SVN Hook for "pre-checkout" and "post-checkout" yet. However, there is for "post-commit", so when you combine them, the HTTP REPORT items from Apache are the browse/checkout items.
You can also set up your own authentication mechanism through Apache. We use Django, for instance, which then logs that at least they authenticated.
While there is no "true" log, you can make at least a semblance of one.
Not just images in the sense of PNGs and JPGs, but original source documents as well (PSD, AI, SVG, etc). We track several large (40MB+) source files and I've seen some slowness but nothing to write home about.
We give our outside designers access to their own SVN repository. When we contract out a design (for a brochure, for instance), I give them the SVN checkout path for the project, along with a user name and password. They don't get paid until they commit the final version along with a matching PDF proof.
This solves several issues:
(a) The tendency for design studios to withhold original artwork. Most of them do this to ensure you have to keep coming back to them like lost puppies needing the next bowl of food. It also eliminates the "I e-mailed it to you already!" argument, removes insecure FTP transfers, and can automatically notify interested parties upon checkin. No checkin? No pay. Period.
(b) Printers have to check out the file themselves using svn. They have no excuse to print a wrong file, and you can have a complete log to cross-check their work. They said it's printing? Look at the checkout/export log and see if they actually downloaded the artwork and how long ago.
(c) The lack of accountability via e-mail and phone. We use Trac in the same setup, so all artwork change requests MUST go through Trac. No detailed ticket? No change.
(d) Keeps all files under one system that is easy to back up.
You may have a little difficulty finding someone at both the design and print companies that can do this, but a 1 page Word document seems to do the trick just fine.
Remember that DJs and stupid shock jocks are the voice of radio stations. They aren't exactly the most stable of people, especially if they happen to be facing a pay cut so the station can pay large royalties.
So, actually, it's a win for everyone: (a) RIAA gets their money (b) We get more promotion for cheaper/better/independent music and (c) the death of the overpaid shock jock.
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You play in our parks, rely on our infrastructure (including roads, police and fire protection), I will do whatever the hell I want with your content. Thanks.
It certainly does enter the physical realm. The extra processing power, extra storage, extra capacity to handle the volume of spam directly impacts the physical realm, adding to pollution, waste, and excessive energy use.
One more thing: your existing broker may have some not-so-lovely hidden penalties and fees for transferring or closing your account.
Depending on your investments, you should be able to do a transfer. I personally use Scottrade now, as they have a very nice local office to me. They've helped me on numerous occasions for free, and I certainly don't have a lot of money invested compared to bigger players.
In general, actual stocks and bonds can be transferred, since you actually own them directly. Mutual funds or other investment fund types are harder or impossible to move without selling and repurchasing (and thus incurring the wrath of the capital gains tax).
It can't hurt to call around. There are so many online trading companies now most are willing to at least let you ask questions before getting an account. They want your business badly.
1. Download music your arch nemesis listens to and has downloaded.
2. Replace your name with his name in the file.
3. Accidentally leak the files onto P2P networks.
Woops. I missed the ??? and Profit!!! steps in there.
Drop AmeriTrade. I did and couldn't be happier. I couldn't trust my stock (and thus, some of my savings and part of my future financial well-being) to a company that can't even keep an e-mail address secure.
Late reply but that's due to some bad handling by Firefox. If you have keep-alive on, it'll annoy you and waste a tiny fraction of bandwidth/server CPU, but that's about it.
Instead of redirecting, you're better off putting a 1 pixel by 1 pixel "icon". Or, actually make an icon. Once Firefox fetches it, it won't ask for it again for a while (cache clear, etc).
Nothing really to do with pipelining or network settings, it's just Firefox trying too hard.
Opera has sensible pipelining defaults. Most "Firefox tip" articles have you set them to values that when combined with other network settings makes your browser appear like a misbehaving robot, proxy, or hacking attempt. Firefox with sensible values doesn't get blocked.
Dicking around with the pipelining and max connections will also get you blocked from some web servers and routers/firewalls. Not worth it IMO.
While the infrastructure does cost money, it greatly depends on how much of that infrastructure and population you actually need. If you have a largely Internet-based business for example, Illinois doesn't make sense. A lot of businesses need very little infrastructure and don't need 12 million local residents.
It's simple economics: why pay for what you don't use?
Because in Asia, South America, Africa, Russia, etc, record companies are happy to get any profit at all, even if it is a tiny fraction what they make in other countries. Some profit is better than no profit if the music were 100% pirated.
They still make a profit, and the artists can still make a killing doing concerts in those countries.
That bites. The funds should come from the legislative budget, even if they have no funds left. The Legislature would be hard-pressed to pass more bills that could result in massive legal bills if their pay check was directly at risk.
Either that or create a discretionary fund that is 100% disclosed to voters at voting time, included in clear wording direct in the ballot.
How is it the best when almost all bandwidth providers are given large market contracts with cities, counties, and states? All that does is ensure the group with the biggest pocket book or the most contacts continues to win.
While I generally concur, something at least needs to be done to simplify the legal system. There is no reason a privacy policy cannot be a short, concise, two sentences.
"[Company] collects information which you may wish to remain private. [Company] retains the information for up to 2 years, and information may be made available to outside vendors without your consent."
Almost everyone can understand that. It's still a high reading level (generally), but far simpler than the 8 page privacy policy most companies have.
No, but offloading it to SQLite means they can slowly remove the horrible parsing, storing, etc mechanisms for the current data formats. And it also means that, hopefully, tools will be developed for IT managers to easily sync bookmarks with their employee desktops, e.g, updating home pages, etc remotely.
Most aren't debating that point. The main point of contention is the Copyright to Public Domain point. Copyright hacks like Disney, etc want obscenely long copyrights so they can profit continuously.
Conversely, I believe that shorter Public Domain laws would create more growth. Would you rather companies continually invest in their employees to continue creating new works or have a few select individuals profit endlessly?
Another main point of debate is fair use. Copyright owners don't want any fair use, they want to license EVERYTHING. Should I be allowed to let you listen to my CD? Why or why not? Etc.
Others recommended a few good ones. If you're in the research arena and you print to PDF and are crazy about getting your layout precisely correct, I suggest you check out PrinceXML. Full XML+CSS to PDF printing. For printing random web pages you may get away with running the HTML SGML through Tidy to produce valid XHTML which you can pipe through PrinceXML, but something like cups-pdf will probably work easier for you.
First off, install a good PDF printer.
There's also significant financial incentive to keep the limited address space of IPv4. Want a static IP address or additional IP addresses? Fork over the cash, baby!
"Appearing" as in appearing on new laptops we order. Older ones do not contain as much junk as the recent ones. It also appears on laptops that go in for servicing and come back re-imaged.
A vending machine in my building does something similar. There are no "out of product" lights, there's only a single line display. If you select something that's out, it scrolls "NO PRODUCT TO DISPENSE - PLEASE TRY ANOTHER PRODUCT OR CALL 1-800-XXX-XXXX FOR REFILLS - NO PRODUCT TO DISPENSE" one letter at a time. During which time you cannot select another product, get your change back, or do anything at all. Pressing any buttons helpfully resets it to scroll from the start.
Oy!
That goes double, or triple, for Dell laptops. I've never seen so much sh*t installed on them. It started appearing about 2 months ago, and despite contacting various account reps, they have no idea what I'm bitching about. Very few of the programs uninstall cleanly, either.
Of course, nothing can come even close to the pile of crap called "ConfigFree" on Toshiba laptops. Dear God that software is awful! Remember kids, when you are looking for badly written, badly tested software to hijack network connections, think ConfigFree!
You also have Apache access logs. Unfortunately, when you log the HTTP REPORT commands, it logs everything, e.g., a REPORT is checkouts, updates, AND commits all in one. Unfortunately, there isn't a SVN Hook for "pre-checkout" and "post-checkout" yet. However, there is for "post-commit", so when you combine them, the HTTP REPORT items from Apache are the browse/checkout items.
You can also set up your own authentication mechanism through Apache. We use Django, for instance, which then logs that at least they authenticated.
While there is no "true" log, you can make at least a semblance of one.
Not just images in the sense of PNGs and JPGs, but original source documents as well (PSD, AI, SVG, etc). We track several large (40MB+) source files and I've seen some slowness but nothing to write home about.
We give our outside designers access to their own SVN repository. When we contract out a design (for a brochure, for instance), I give them the SVN checkout path for the project, along with a user name and password. They don't get paid until they commit the final version along with a matching PDF proof.
This solves several issues:
(a) The tendency for design studios to withhold original artwork. Most of them do this to ensure you have to keep coming back to them like lost puppies needing the next bowl of food. It also eliminates the "I e-mailed it to you already!" argument, removes insecure FTP transfers, and can automatically notify interested parties upon checkin. No checkin? No pay. Period.
(b) Printers have to check out the file themselves using svn. They have no excuse to print a wrong file, and you can have a complete log to cross-check their work. They said it's printing? Look at the checkout/export log and see if they actually downloaded the artwork and how long ago.
(c) The lack of accountability via e-mail and phone. We use Trac in the same setup, so all artwork change requests MUST go through Trac. No detailed ticket? No change.
(d) Keeps all files under one system that is easy to back up.
You may have a little difficulty finding someone at both the design and print companies that can do this, but a 1 page Word document seems to do the trick just fine.
Remember that DJs and stupid shock jocks are the voice of radio stations. They aren't exactly the most stable of people, especially if they happen to be facing a pay cut so the station can pay large royalties.
So, actually, it's a win for everyone: (a) RIAA gets their money (b) We get more promotion for cheaper/better/independent music and (c) the death of the overpaid shock jock.
How can anyone be against this?!