Most the hard drives I see say that you only void the warrenty on them if they're impacted at 700-900Gs. If CRT glass can maintain a vacuum, and the release of that vacuum, I think an aluminium shell that you could fire from a rail gun without voiding the warrenty would do ok.
This is pretty standard fare for Microsoft, and your reaction is pretty standard fare for the Google worshippers that live here. The only thing that has changed is names (and that the story isn't about how they pushed the competiton under with law suits)
Last time I checked all of those companies are serving the common good of the people.
Wal-Mart provides low low prices, which is, judging completely by their popularity, more important to most people than shopping at a local business or one that provides adaquate protection to all its workers.
Same with McDonalds, Mcrosoft etc, etc, they all provide a service or product that Americans have decided they are happy to spend money on. If the common good isn't providing people what they want then what is? Who are you to say what's "best" for everyone?
That's the difference between successful, professional theives and your average neighborhood kid shoplifting.
The professionals don't set off obvious alarm bells and draw attention to themselves, they know just what to say, and once they've hit your store they never come back.
Unlike your average moron, who gets spotted coming in the door becasue they've been there before, or because another store just called and said that so and so is in the area. I can't name the number of times I was alerted to be watching a specific person before they were within a hundred yards of anything worth stealing because they were just plain dumb. If you defraud a store, they might not catch you, but they may notice it in time to call the store across the street that Joe Criminal thought he could be efficient and hit while he was in the neighborhood.
We're specicily told not to after a Wal-Mart employee in texas go run over chasing a guy onto the interstate, some grocery store clerk was shot and killed following a guy into the parkinglot, etc etc. They're allowed to block you, so one tactic is if you're walking out the doors they can run through the other set and try to beat you to the outside, but I don't know how effective that would be against a criminal that would wait till they hit the alarms and then take off.
You can't watch everywhere. The cameras decide who to watch by who looks suspicious. Something like standing around in the same area for twenty minutes or repeatedly picking up the same object then putting it back, or avoiding employees. If you simply walked in, executed and walked out it'd be a matter of dumb luck whether anyone was paying attnetion to you, and if you trying to just walk out the door with things dumb luck is about all you can hope for.
The just run plan works even further past that. Until you watched a guy pick up and X-box, kick open the fire door, and run to his car you'd never think it would work, but there's absolutely nothing to stop it especially if you run far enough away that the cameras in the parkinglot can't get your license plate.
Correct about the once a year inventory. Although, there would be somewhat of a check if the store ran out of iPods. If the employees can't find any iPods but the inventory says they should still have five, most employees would alert a manager or Assets Protection that there was something seriously wrong.
Even in a store that's kept at rediculously warm temperatures? I live in Wisconsin, and the first thing everyone does when they walk into a store is unzip their coat and take off all their winter gear. Anyone who walks around the entire store bundled up is very warm and very suspicious.
Generally the wages employees are paid are based on competitive wages for that area, so as much as I hate Wal-Mart I must disagree with the misconception that all of their workers are getting screwed hard. When I worked at Target working in a metropolitan area I made far more than the minimum wage, and more than my aunt who started working in a small town, but it was still only average compared to everything else.
You'd be surprised.
If you say, stuck the iPod in a Target bag that you'd brought from home and managed to get the alarm sticker deactivated it's pretty doubtful that anyone would question a guy walking out the door with an iPod in a bag. As long as you don't draw undue attention to yourself more retail employees don't have time to watch everyone. That and you could just run, no body is supposed to chase you under any circumstances, at least at Target.
Spoken as a former manager and three year vetern of Target.
I've seen better and I've seen worse. It would be a better analogy if the alcohol distributers were pressing for legislation that said you couldn't drink alcohol from any container not officially licenced by them regardless of the will of the breweries or the people with large collections of frosty mugs. The world is sadly not a perfect place to make perfect analogies.
The rights of the many do not outweigh the rights of the few, but nor does the few have the right to impose their morals and standards on the many simply because they are a very vocal and rich minority. No one here is talking about creators rights, we're talking about the rights of a distributer to infringe upon existing fair use laws as well as the basic freedoms of choice vs. the rights of those who recieve the product.
For the same reason they want to get their FPS higher than anyone could possibly percieve. For the same reason that people build cars that can go through an entire tank of gas running the quarter mile or a statue of a man whose feet rests on opposite sides of a great chasm. It's impressive
I would say you can stop at whatever point gets you to where you want to be.
If I want to kill my boss but I don't, I'm still deranged but I'm not in jail so although in some senses I'm still not doing too well, I'm doing just great according to where I'd like to be.
People who absolutely love KFC may be unhappy that they can't eat it, but they wont be getting fat off of it. What you suggest is great for former part, dealing with not always getting what you want, but many people find that that the sense of self satisfaction they gain from being able to take control of their lives in some way and in noticing that their actions have a noticible impact is enough to replace the shallow joy of delicious chicken.
No, They're trying to compare the same idea of a minority group trying to assert their will about what your rights are against the people who clearly have another idea entirely. No matter how many warehouses they raid and how mach DRM they place on their products the people are going to continue to play and view media how they choose.
Actually, if the problem is eating too much KFC, not aquiring KFC is exatly the solution to the problem. You don't get fat from desiring lard, you get fat from eating it.
This is a debate about physical health, not the spiritual health that some would say cannot function without removing desire.
My old anatomy and physiology teacher put it best when a girl from our class who was very concerned with her weight (she was incredibly fit but overly compassionate towards others) wanted him to be nicer to people who might have glandular or metabolic problems.
"If you don't put food in your mouth you can't get fat. Genetics can give you a harder time, but without you, nothing is going to happen."
My sibling posters have already mentioned that maybe 1500 calories a day is too much, or that maybe the way it's injested is problematic but the point remains that you're just as responcible for not knowing your limitations as your body is for having them.
Yes, and every time I wake up I want chips, but becasue I know that if I have a bag of chips in the house, no matter the size, that I'll eat the whole thing in a day I just stopped buying them. There's nothing meditative about it, it's called being realistic. If you are a massive fat ass you need to sit there and say, yes KFC would be nice, but I'm not going to eat it because that's stupid. Personal responcibility is something woefully lacking in todays society. Maybe I'm just the strong willed.
None is less than half. My wording may be contentious, but at least I'm not pretending to be the victim of a vast right wing eLynchMob that doesn't exist.
You stated that all of us were lambasting you, and my contention is that not only were not all of us lambasting you, but not even a majority of people were lambasting you. In fact, if you're talking about/. I'd say probably 1 in 50 were lambasting you. Bush has his supporters, but supporting Bush these days tends to get you into an argument with almost everyone so the majority of Bush supporters I've met generally just roll there eyes in mixed company because it's not worth arguing for the one thousandth time that Bush didn't make up the unlawful combatent term or that America should be invading Sudan to save the Dafurians.
Bush has his supporters, but how many of them are violently outspoken here? Any time he's mentioned I look past ten comments that I want to reply to but don't bother with becasue it's a never ending hassel. I don't even like Bush.
I'm pretty sure that no one was lambasting you about not supporting Bush. Most outspoken people on the internet love to jump on the bush bashing bandwagon. Don't believe me? Enter "failure" into Google and hit I Feel Lucky. People love to hate Bush and come together in hating Bush. They get their iPods and only listen to the BBC and sit around hating Bush. Cry elsewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Most the hard drives I see say that you only void the warrenty on them if they're impacted at 700-900Gs. If CRT glass can maintain a vacuum, and the release of that vacuum, I think an aluminium shell that you could fire from a rail gun without voiding the warrenty would do ok.
What medicine?
This is pretty standard fare for Microsoft, and your reaction is pretty standard fare for the Google worshippers that live here. The only thing that has changed is names (and that the story isn't about how they pushed the competiton under with law suits)
Last time I checked all of those companies are serving the common good of the people.
Wal-Mart provides low low prices, which is, judging completely by their popularity, more important to most people than shopping at a local business or one that provides adaquate protection to all its workers.
Same with McDonalds, Mcrosoft etc, etc, they all provide a service or product that Americans have decided they are happy to spend money on. If the common good isn't providing people what they want then what is? Who are you to say what's "best" for everyone?
That's the difference between successful, professional theives and your average neighborhood kid shoplifting. The professionals don't set off obvious alarm bells and draw attention to themselves, they know just what to say, and once they've hit your store they never come back. Unlike your average moron, who gets spotted coming in the door becasue they've been there before, or because another store just called and said that so and so is in the area. I can't name the number of times I was alerted to be watching a specific person before they were within a hundred yards of anything worth stealing because they were just plain dumb. If you defraud a store, they might not catch you, but they may notice it in time to call the store across the street that Joe Criminal thought he could be efficient and hit while he was in the neighborhood.
We're specicily told not to after a Wal-Mart employee in texas go run over chasing a guy onto the interstate, some grocery store clerk was shot and killed following a guy into the parkinglot, etc etc. They're allowed to block you, so one tactic is if you're walking out the doors they can run through the other set and try to beat you to the outside, but I don't know how effective that would be against a criminal that would wait till they hit the alarms and then take off.
You can't watch everywhere. The cameras decide who to watch by who looks suspicious. Something like standing around in the same area for twenty minutes or repeatedly picking up the same object then putting it back, or avoiding employees. If you simply walked in, executed and walked out it'd be a matter of dumb luck whether anyone was paying attnetion to you, and if you trying to just walk out the door with things dumb luck is about all you can hope for.
The just run plan works even further past that. Until you watched a guy pick up and X-box, kick open the fire door, and run to his car you'd never think it would work, but there's absolutely nothing to stop it especially if you run far enough away that the cameras in the parkinglot can't get your license plate.
Correct about the once a year inventory. Although, there would be somewhat of a check if the store ran out of iPods. If the employees can't find any iPods but the inventory says they should still have five, most employees would alert a manager or Assets Protection that there was something seriously wrong.
Even in a store that's kept at rediculously warm temperatures? I live in Wisconsin, and the first thing everyone does when they walk into a store is unzip their coat and take off all their winter gear. Anyone who walks around the entire store bundled up is very warm and very suspicious.
Generally the wages employees are paid are based on competitive wages for that area, so as much as I hate Wal-Mart I must disagree with the misconception that all of their workers are getting screwed hard. When I worked at Target working in a metropolitan area I made far more than the minimum wage, and more than my aunt who started working in a small town, but it was still only average compared to everything else.
You'd be surprised. If you say, stuck the iPod in a Target bag that you'd brought from home and managed to get the alarm sticker deactivated it's pretty doubtful that anyone would question a guy walking out the door with an iPod in a bag. As long as you don't draw undue attention to yourself more retail employees don't have time to watch everyone. That and you could just run, no body is supposed to chase you under any circumstances, at least at Target. Spoken as a former manager and three year vetern of Target.
A bandaid solution is still better for a child that infection. Healing takes time.
Big words from a man linking to goat.cx.
I've seen better and I've seen worse. It would be a better analogy if the alcohol distributers were pressing for legislation that said you couldn't drink alcohol from any container not officially licenced by them regardless of the will of the breweries or the people with large collections of frosty mugs. The world is sadly not a perfect place to make perfect analogies.
The rights of the many do not outweigh the rights of the few, but nor does the few have the right to impose their morals and standards on the many simply because they are a very vocal and rich minority. No one here is talking about creators rights, we're talking about the rights of a distributer to infringe upon existing fair use laws as well as the basic freedoms of choice vs. the rights of those who recieve the product.
For the same reason they want to get their FPS higher than anyone could possibly percieve. For the same reason that people build cars that can go through an entire tank of gas running the quarter mile or a statue of a man whose feet rests on opposite sides of a great chasm. It's impressive
I would say you can stop at whatever point gets you to where you want to be. If I want to kill my boss but I don't, I'm still deranged but I'm not in jail so although in some senses I'm still not doing too well, I'm doing just great according to where I'd like to be. People who absolutely love KFC may be unhappy that they can't eat it, but they wont be getting fat off of it. What you suggest is great for former part, dealing with not always getting what you want, but many people find that that the sense of self satisfaction they gain from being able to take control of their lives in some way and in noticing that their actions have a noticible impact is enough to replace the shallow joy of delicious chicken.
No, They're trying to compare the same idea of a minority group trying to assert their will about what your rights are against the people who clearly have another idea entirely. No matter how many warehouses they raid and how mach DRM they place on their products the people are going to continue to play and view media how they choose.
Because people are willing to pay. That's how the market works.
Actually, if the problem is eating too much KFC, not aquiring KFC is exatly the solution to the problem. You don't get fat from desiring lard, you get fat from eating it.
This is a debate about physical health, not the spiritual health that some would say cannot function without removing desire.
My old anatomy and physiology teacher put it best when a girl from our class who was very concerned with her weight (she was incredibly fit but overly compassionate towards others) wanted him to be nicer to people who might have glandular or metabolic problems.
"If you don't put food in your mouth you can't get fat. Genetics can give you a harder time, but without you, nothing is going to happen." My sibling posters have already mentioned that maybe 1500 calories a day is too much, or that maybe the way it's injested is problematic but the point remains that you're just as responcible for not knowing your limitations as your body is for having them.
Yes, and every time I wake up I want chips, but becasue I know that if I have a bag of chips in the house, no matter the size, that I'll eat the whole thing in a day I just stopped buying them. There's nothing meditative about it, it's called being realistic. If you are a massive fat ass you need to sit there and say, yes KFC would be nice, but I'm not going to eat it because that's stupid. Personal responcibility is something woefully lacking in todays society. Maybe I'm just the strong willed.
None is less than half. My wording may be contentious, but at least I'm not pretending to be the victim of a vast right wing eLynchMob that doesn't exist.
I don't have to admit that, or even beleive it.
/. I'd say probably 1 in 50 were lambasting you. Bush has his supporters, but supporting Bush these days tends to get you into an argument with almost everyone so the majority of Bush supporters I've met generally just roll there eyes in mixed company because it's not worth arguing for the one thousandth time that Bush didn't make up the unlawful combatent term or that America should be invading Sudan to save the Dafurians.
You stated that all of us were lambasting you, and my contention is that not only were not all of us lambasting you, but not even a majority of people were lambasting you. In fact, if you're talking about
Bush has his supporters, but how many of them are violently outspoken here? Any time he's mentioned I look past ten comments that I want to reply to but don't bother with becasue it's a never ending hassel. I don't even like Bush.
I'm pretty sure that no one was lambasting you about not supporting Bush. Most outspoken people on the internet love to jump on the bush bashing bandwagon. Don't believe me? Enter "failure" into Google and hit I Feel Lucky. People love to hate Bush and come together in hating Bush. They get their iPods and only listen to the BBC and sit around hating Bush. Cry elsewhere.
Don't worry, many Americans hate France too.