You could have either called the credit card company to ask them for the entire transaction number, and they would have given it to you, or asked to void the transaction. Either option would have worked.
The police have just as much right to know what is in your lungs if you are a suspected drunk driver as they have to know what is in the boot of your car if you are a suspected murderer or what is in your bank acount if you are a suspected tax fraud.
It's odd that the very examples you use require warrants to execute.
I think the logic behind this (not that I think it should be applied here) essentially stems from the fact that nobody's ever walked into a school and massacred people with anti-gun rhetoric.
Actually, no-one's ever walked into a school and massacred people with pro-gun rhetoric, either.
This is a really sorry review for what is considered the.NET Remoting "Bible". Ingo Rammer is considered THE authority on remoting, and his book really describes the subject like no other text currently on the market. If you want to know anything about this topic, buy this book!
2) The resumes that the headhunter gives you are fully of typos and gramatical errors. Not only doesn't the applicant care enough to fill it out, but the headhunter didn't care enough to review it.
Unfortunately, this is often from headhunters 'correcting' what they think are spelling errors.
I have seriously considered adding a copyright notice to the copy of my resume that I have posted on my website in order to prevent crap like this.
Yup, I actually do this on my resume (in small print). The bastards strip the notice and change it anyway. And what are you going to do, really? Make yourself a pariah by making a big deal about it? Are you really going to sue for a single copyright violation?
if you force me to tweek my DNS records (my ISP charges per change - yeah i know i should just run my own copy of BIND, but i don't want to worry about the uptime of a pair of DNS servers) i shall be forced to send you the bill:P
Think about it, if this is marketed to schools, the even larger market will be to students. A student would be able to run his paper through the software and get his "instant grade". He could then decide that a 'B' is good enough, or he could keep working on it until the software tells him that is an 'A' paper. So much for the creative element in papers.
I'm surprised at the "(Score:2, Insightful)" that your comment currently displays, considering the fair lack of knowledge that you are displaying on this topic.
Every.net component is not a COM component. It is true that the.net Framework Class Library sometimes wraps the underlying raw C based windows APIs, or wraps a COM component.
The wrappers that the previous poster referred to was the RCW, or Runtime Callable Wrapper, which is a way for the runtime to automatically marshal.NET calls to COM, enabling a programmer to easily call COM or C type APIs. The concept is very similar to Java's JNI, though the implementation is far simpler to work with.
Just because there is a way to marshal calls for purposes of backwards compatibility does not mean that the entire framework is built upon this concept. -jerdenn
Yes, I agree with you here - and considering it costs me about $500 to get my lawyer to do pretty much anything, it may be cost effective, as well.
My concern is that often these policies are portrayed as something that will cover huge legal expenses - They probably won't. But if you are merely looking for minor legal services, they may be effective.
Yup, and you'll get the absolute minimum service required. Do you really believe that you'll get a zealous advocate under this plan? Just like with Doctors and HMOs, there will be financial incentives for your attorney to minimize time spent on your case. Its likely that you'll be encouraged very strongly to settle. I'd also research your policy for possible exclusions, etc.
Frankly, my opinion of pre-paid legal is that it is a scam. (And I use legal services fairly often, too...)
No, imagine for a second what would happen if they actually were to get their injunction requiring each and every copy of AIX to be collected and destroyed. The National Weather Service is using AIX for some of their weather modeling. What do they do, just cease operations for a few months while they port their software..... to WHAT? None of the other commercial UNIXen are safe, you can bet they aren't stupid enough to try porting to a rack of Dells running NT. So does the Weather Channel replace their feed with a slide saying "Out of Service pending resolution of SCO v IBM"? Follow the ripples down through the economy from all of the sites running AIX.
Which is exactly why this won't happen. Before issuing a preliminary injunction, a judge will weigh the potential harms of issuance vs. non-issuance, on both the parties involved and third parties.
In other words, SCO can thump their chests all they want, but they will run up against a brick wall trying to retroactively recind licenses.
Example: Windows file protection - to avoid DLL Hell. DLL Hell was pure and simple bad user habits (running in Administrator mode etc etc). So they made a system that completely bypasses security, and disallows everyone on your system from changing files... even administrators. It's a travesty, that's what it is.
DLL Hell was not simply bad user habits, but a combination of OS architectual decisions, "Best Practices" documentation from Microsoft to developers, and at times, poor development on the part of third party developers.
You are complaining that Windows File protection can't be worked around by administrators - this simply isn't true. It is possible (but poor practice) to work around Windows File Protection. However, DLL Hell is more pervasive than just system files - It is also a problem for third party developers.
Your information would be more credible if you knew how to spell the word site.
Perhaps. However, my error makes the statement no less true. To make up for my apparent lack of credibility, let me refer you to the following for more information:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/3122.html
Also, as a side note, I work for a very large medical diagnostics company.
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You could have either called the credit card company to ask them for the entire transaction number, and they would have given it to you, or asked to void the transaction. Either option would have worked.
This is correct for current hubs, but it is also correct that older hubs would in fact slow down to the lowest available link speed.
As a SCSI bigot, what's your stance on SATA?
You can't. petabyte is mis-remembering the details of the call. Still, a good story.
Ok, they may be shitty to work for, I'll have to defer to your superior knowledge here. But, how are they for customers? Would you advice using them?
I'm quite certain that Mr. Bunny would disagree.
Hmm.. I like this law, as I'm not so far away from GA 400. Hope it passes. Either that, or I'll have to start sticking a Cruise Card on my forehead.
-jerdenn
And if you are actually paying retail for MSDN, you've got it coming.
I've yet to pay more than $1200 for MSDN Universal.
Here's a pretty good site - there's some yummy stuff here:
http://www.soulfoodcookbook.com
The police have just as much right to know what is in your lungs if you are a suspected drunk driver as they have to know what is in the boot of your car if you are a suspected murderer or what is in your bank acount if you are a suspected tax fraud.
It's odd that the very examples you use require warrants to execute.
-jd
I think the logic behind this (not that I think it should be applied here) essentially stems from the fact that nobody's ever walked into a school and massacred people with anti-gun rhetoric.
Actually, no-one's ever walked into a school and massacred people with pro-gun rhetoric, either.
-jerdenn
This is a really sorry review for what is considered the .NET Remoting "Bible". Ingo Rammer is considered THE authority on remoting, and his book really describes the subject like no other text currently on the market. If you want to know anything about this topic, buy this book!
-jerdenn
2) The resumes that the headhunter gives you are fully of typos and gramatical errors. Not only doesn't the applicant care enough to fill it out, but the headhunter didn't care enough to review it.
Unfortunately, this is often from headhunters 'correcting' what they think are spelling errors.
-jerdenn
I have seriously considered adding a copyright notice to the copy of my resume that I have posted on my website in order to prevent crap like this.
Yup, I actually do this on my resume (in small print). The bastards strip the notice and change it anyway. And what are you going to do, really? Make yourself a pariah by making a big deal about it? Are you really going to sue for a single copyright violation?
Good luck.
-jerdenn
if you force me to tweek my DNS records (my ISP charges per change - yeah i know i should just run my own copy of BIND, but i don't want to worry about the uptime of a pair of DNS servers) i shall be forced to send you the bill :P
So, use Granite Canyon.
-jerdenn
Essay software for students.
Think about it, if this is marketed to schools, the even larger market will be to students. A student would be able to run his paper through the software and get his "instant grade". He could then decide that a 'B' is good enough, or he could keep working on it until the software tells him that is an 'A' paper.
So much for the creative element in papers.
-jerdenn
I'm surprised at the "(Score:2, Insightful)" that your comment currently displays, considering the fair lack of knowledge that you are displaying on this topic.
.net component is not a COM component. It is true that the .net Framework Class Library sometimes wraps the underlying raw C based windows APIs, or wraps a COM component.
.NET calls to COM, enabling a programmer to easily call COM or C type APIs. The concept is very similar to Java's JNI, though the implementation is far simpler to work with.
Every
The wrappers that the previous poster referred to was the RCW, or Runtime Callable Wrapper, which is a way for the runtime to automatically marshal
Just because there is a way to marshal calls for purposes of backwards compatibility does not mean that the entire framework is built upon this concept.
-jerdenn
Yes, I agree with you here - and considering it costs me about $500 to get my lawyer to do pretty much anything, it may be cost effective, as well.
My concern is that often these policies are portrayed as something that will cover huge legal expenses - They probably won't. But if you are merely looking for minor legal services, they may be effective.
-jerdenn
Yup, and you'll get the absolute minimum service required. Do you really believe that you'll get a zealous advocate under this plan? Just like with Doctors and HMOs, there will be financial incentives for your attorney to minimize time spent on your case. Its likely that you'll be encouraged very strongly to settle. I'd also research your policy for possible exclusions, etc.
Frankly, my opinion of pre-paid legal is that it is a scam. (And I use legal services fairly often, too...)
-jerdenn
And of course, if C# is a knock-off of java, that would make java a knock off of c++, and c++ a knock off of c, etc...
.NET isn't a java-knock off. I program in both, so I'm well aware of the similarities and differences.
Please -
-jerdenn
Makes this pretty interesting - the false positive rate in the UK is actually pretty high for DNA:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,64
-jerdenn
No, imagine for a second what would happen if they actually were to get their injunction requiring each and every copy of AIX to be collected and destroyed. The National Weather Service is using AIX for some of their weather modeling. What do they do, just cease operations for a few months while they port their software..... to WHAT? None of the other commercial UNIXen are safe, you can bet they aren't stupid enough to try porting to a rack of Dells running NT. So does the Weather Channel replace their feed with a slide saying "Out of Service pending resolution of SCO v IBM"? Follow the ripples down through the economy from all of the sites running AIX.
Which is exactly why this won't happen. Before issuing a preliminary injunction, a judge will weigh the potential harms of issuance vs. non-issuance, on both the parties involved and third parties.
In other words, SCO can thump their chests all they want, but they will run up against a brick wall trying to retroactively recind licenses.
-jerdenn
You are correct, IMHO - I think I was merely clarifying some of your points.
-jerdenn
Example: Windows file protection - to avoid DLL Hell. DLL Hell was pure and simple bad user habits (running in Administrator mode etc etc). So they made a system that completely bypasses security, and disallows everyone on your system from changing files... even administrators. It's a travesty, that's what it is.
DLL Hell was not simply bad user habits, but a combination of OS architectual decisions, "Best Practices" documentation from Microsoft to developers, and at times, poor development on the part of third party developers.
You are complaining that Windows File protection can't be worked around by administrators - this simply isn't true. It is possible (but poor practice) to work around Windows File Protection. However, DLL Hell is more pervasive than just system files - It is also a problem for third party developers.
-jerdenn
Your information would be more credible if you knew how to spell the word site.
Perhaps.
However, my error makes the statement no less true.
To make up for my apparent lack of credibility, let me refer you to the following for more information: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/3122.html
Also, as a side note, I work for a very large medical diagnostics company.
-jerdenn