Right and wrong. Even small compressors often have anit-short cycle timers. This is because the refrigeration cycle needs to be off for a while before you can restart the compressor without overloading it. For example, if I turn off my AC at home, and immediately restart it, I will trip the circuit breaker (I know from experience) So you need to wait that 5 minutes or so to restart, no amount of keeping track of time through the power outage will allow you to skip that 5 minutes of off time.
Although I agree that the mutual trust between employer and employee is the most important thing in their relationship, I don't think that it violates that trust to ask someone to leave immediately the day they quit, assuming that the employer still gives you the 2 weeks pay for the unused 2 weeks notice. Having said that, I've never been in that position. Actually, the one time I've been "laid off" my employer gave me 2 weeks notice, but said I could leave immediately, but without telling me that I'd be paid for the 2 weeks if I left. So I stayed the 2 weeks and he rehired me after a couple of jobs came in. My current employer typically escorts fired employees out the door within half a day, but contradictorily are really bad about closing their email accounts and logins. I have never seen them doing the same with employees who quit. Which is good, since several times I've had to pick up the pieces of their projects after they left. Anyone they really care about has already signed a non-compete clause.
Chicago, as others have noted, is a large population center near the middle of the country, a pretty good location geographically.
Chicago does not suffer a lack of electrical capacity. ComEd has had issues with reliability of some of it's older transformers and switches, which they have been aggressively (but not aggressively enough) replacing and upgrading. As far as I can recall, Chicago did not have any rolling blackouts. They have had brownouts in the past, but blackouts are usually due to blown transformers or switches or storms knocking down power lines. Blackouts are usually fixed within a couple of hours, it's extremely rare for the outage to last 24 hours or more. And, wherever located, a properly designed large data center will have feeds from more than one substation to avoid most of those problems, and emergency generator backup to allow operation for 24 to 48 hours in the event of catastrophic poser failure.
Hard winters in the Chicago area cause slow traffic, but few other problems, and roads are typically back to normal as soon as it stops snowing. As someone else stated, you can get free cooling in the winter, acutally whenever it's below 60F, if you plan it properly.
Although land and other costs are cheaper in more remote areas, the cost and reliability of infrastructure is typically worse in those kinds of areas than in major urban areas.
Finally, Northlake is not Chicago, it's a suburb, so costs are a little lower than in the city.
The availability of skilled labor is another consideration that attracts developments like this. Chicago is a pretty good location for this.
I'm in the construction business (consulting engineering) with offices downtown Chicago, so, as much as I dislike Microsoft, I take this as good news.
You are way off base, and TFA is arguing a logical fallacy. They use the statistics of new computer sales to make the claim that "PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, . . ". I use those statistics to claim that most people have a good enough computer already. So PC's role in Japanese homes is growing, albeit growing more slowly, reflected in fewer sales.
Hell, Yahoo just put me through that and I didn't even switch portals, they "Upgraded". And to top it off, they showed me an error message saying that my browser was not supported.
We all know that the dinosaurs went extinct around 5,000 years ago after they began handing out free birth control to the reptilian students at Dino High.
"employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically)"
Employees are much more expensive than an office suite, true. But employees who use Word and Excel on a daily basis cannot be expected to know Word and Excel, automagically or with training.
It amazes me that I have on several occasions seen college-educated engineers entering simple equations on their calculators only to type the result into a spreadsheet cell.
And I often encounter typists that input hard page breaks in order to get formatting looking OK, on a document that subsequently gets edited and sent out with half a blank page at the page break. Not to mention the avoidance of styles in favor of selecting text and formatting it individually, so that the next thing you type has the wrong (default) format again.
I had read/write ntfs support in Fedora 3, tho I had to do a little research and install it from linux-ntfs.org, and at the time it had limited write support (it would force a file system check upon reboot into windows)
"Decided by question of fact, not question of law."
Nothing has been decided except the judge's decision to not decide until an actual trial, or if the defendent continues to not respond, a hearing. Nobody has been found liable or not liable yet, neither in prinipcle nor because of proof or lack of proof.
This is about a motion for default judgement. By law, only questions of law can be decided by before a trial; facts, except uncontested facts, have to be decided by the finder of fact, usually the jury. (But, as you say, often it's better to have a bench trial. A good judge tends to be less emotional and more fact-based than a jury.)
The judge has ruled that the facts presented in the complaint, though uncontested by default and so taken as true, are, as a matter of law, insufficient to conclude a default judgement.
"For all their crimes, that's one thing [stealing peoples pensions] Enron and Halliburton haven't done."
What about the pensions of the people lied into investing in Enron - including individuals, 401K and IRA mutual funds, and other pension plans - or the retirees paying outrageous electricity costs due to Enron's illegal market manipulations.
"and neither one [velocity or speed] is instantaneous"
If you get pedantic about it, you can consider velocity or speed instantaneous.
To the extent you know the velocity (momentum) of an object, you can't precisely measure the position of that object in space/time, and vice-versa. (uncertainty prinicple)
"Now, I haven't bothered downloading the video . . . "
Download it. The clip is short. The music isn't the focus of the video, it isn't even the loudest sound in the background. I couldn't even recognize the song, not that I know any Prince songs. The video is definitely about the baby, not the song. If you can use video as a means of pirating the music, you should patent your methods.
It is very reasonable to assume that this is fair use. IANAL, YMMV, etc., etc.
And you I'm guessing you probably don't have any children either.
Sure, for an adult that doesn't chew on lead toys, the lead in the air is going to be worse, but small children will get a direct dosing from "handling" (read mouthing) lead painted toys, and at an age just when they're most vulnerable.
And lead does do a lot of damage precisely because small exposures acculmulate in the body over time, unlike many organic toxins that do their damage for a short time but are more or less quickly disposed of by the body's metabolism.
and this report finds that that correlation is still there after factoring in the lead effect:
"By the year 2020, when the effects of the Clean Air Act and Roe v. Wade would be complete, violent crime could be as much as 70% lower than it would be if lead had remained in gasoline, and as much as 35-45% lower than it would be if abortion had never been legalized. At the same time, history suggests that other unknown factors would have increased crime by perhaps 3-5% per year."
"The legalization of abortion, as identified by Donohue and Levitt, remains an important and significant factor. Thus, two major acts of government, the Clean Air Act and Roe v. Wade, neither intended to have any effect on crime, may have been the largest factors affecting violent crime trends at the turn of century."
ACtually, the way I heard it, MS gave wads of cash to Novell for patents. Because MS sells so much more than Novell, in balance they owed more to Novell for the use of Novell's IP than Novell owed to MS for the use of MS's IP.
". . . fair use is not a right backed by a law, it's a doctrine . .."
See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html/ :
"This doctrine has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law."
"Too many web site are hard coding the font size . . . "
Since I've been getting older and my eyes weaker, this has bcome a pet peeve of mine. The main reason I love Firefox on my laptop compared to the IE6 I'm forced to use at work is the ability to hit ctrl+ to make text readable - when the web site actually lets it work!
"Zero support from me for regulations of this kind on private business."
If your a completely private entity, those accessibility rules would not apply. But for businesses open to the public, there's a long history of discrimination that has been held as improper ("Irish need not apply" help wanted signs, real estate deeds preventing sale to Jews, "Whites Only" lunch counters, etc.) and the state and federal governments have the legal power to force you to be open to everyone if you're not a completely private club. That has been extended to handicap accessibility in the 70s and 80s. Most of the things required are cheap when accounted for in the planning stages, e.g. set your light switches 48" above the floor rather than 54" or 60", use lever handles rather than knobs, grab bars in bathrooms, ramps instead of steps, and so on. And a lot of those improvements can be helpful for those without major disabilities, too.
There is some compromise built in to those laws and building codes, for example, you are not going to be forced to add a ramp to your 19th century building (no 14th century buildings in use here in the USA) unless you're doing extensive remodelling (IIRC 50% of the value of the building in Illinois). Making changes to a website that probably changes all the time anyway does not fall into the kind of cost category that adding an elevator would. So I have zero sympathy for a publicly accessible commercial web site that doesn't try to provide accessibility to all those it can.
In addition to different versions of Word rendering things slightly differently, Word also changes rendering, including small changes in word, letter, and line spacing, for each different printer. This is not usually very bothersome, but can lead to text overflowing to another page. Also, for some programs and some documents, if defaults are used and saved, the different default settings in different machines can make a difference. Finally, especially if unusual fonts are used in a document sent, they may not be available to the recipient. MS Windows/Office can sometimes make some wacky font substitutions that make a huge change in appearance. (scala sans == courier???)
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Right and wrong.
Even small compressors often have anit-short cycle timers. This is because the refrigeration cycle needs to be off for a while before you can restart the compressor without overloading it. For example, if I turn off my AC at home, and immediately restart it, I will trip the circuit breaker (I know from experience) So you need to wait that 5 minutes or so to restart, no amount of keeping track of time through the power outage will allow you to skip that 5 minutes of off time.
Although I agree that the mutual trust between employer and employee is the most important thing in their relationship, I don't think that it violates that trust to ask someone to leave immediately the day they quit, assuming that the employer still gives you the 2 weeks pay for the unused 2 weeks notice.
Having said that, I've never been in that position. Actually, the one time I've been "laid off" my employer gave me 2 weeks notice, but said I could leave immediately, but without telling me that I'd be paid for the 2 weeks if I left. So I stayed the 2 weeks and he rehired me after a couple of jobs came in.
My current employer typically escorts fired employees out the door within half a day, but contradictorily are really bad about closing their email accounts and logins. I have never seen them doing the same with employees who quit. Which is good, since several times I've had to pick up the pieces of their projects after they left. Anyone they really care about has already signed a non-compete clause.
"the 20% breakage fee on royalties (a holdover from the days of vinyl that bands are stuck with now)"
Actually, vinyl doesn't break that easily; I believe that the breakage fees are a holdover from the ealrier days of shellac records.
The really impressive part, is that many contracts still have that 20% breakage clause even for downloaded music.
Chicago, as others have noted, is a large population center near the middle of the country, a pretty good location geographically.
Chicago does not suffer a lack of electrical capacity. ComEd has had issues with reliability of some of it's older transformers and switches, which they have been aggressively (but not aggressively enough) replacing and upgrading. As far as I can recall, Chicago did not have any rolling blackouts. They have had brownouts in the past, but blackouts are usually due to blown transformers or switches or storms knocking down power lines. Blackouts are usually fixed within a couple of hours, it's extremely rare for the outage to last 24 hours or more. And, wherever located, a properly designed large data center will have feeds from more than one substation to avoid most of those problems, and emergency generator backup to allow operation for 24 to 48 hours in the event of catastrophic poser failure.
Hard winters in the Chicago area cause slow traffic, but few other problems, and roads are typically back to normal as soon as it stops snowing. As someone else stated, you can get free cooling in the winter, acutally whenever it's below 60F, if you plan it properly.
Although land and other costs are cheaper in more remote areas, the cost and reliability of infrastructure is typically worse in those kinds of areas than in major urban areas.
Finally, Northlake is not Chicago, it's a suburb, so costs are a little lower than in the city.
The availability of skilled labor is another consideration that attracts developments like this. Chicago is a pretty good location for this.
I'm in the construction business (consulting engineering) with offices downtown Chicago, so, as much as I dislike Microsoft, I take this as good news.
You are way off base, and TFA is arguing a logical fallacy.
They use the statistics of new computer sales to make the claim that "PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, . . ".
I use those statistics to claim that most people have a good enough computer already. So PC's role in Japanese homes is growing, albeit growing more slowly, reflected in fewer sales.
Hell, Yahoo just put me through that and I didn't even switch portals, they "Upgraded".
And to top it off, they showed me an error message saying that my browser was not supported.
Well, I guess I'm switching now.
Currently, most hydrogen is derived from methane (natural gas).
We all know that the dinosaurs went extinct around 5,000 years ago after they began handing out free birth control to the reptilian students at Dino High.
You "Reader's Digest"ed the plot, but left out the theme:
All people deserve to live.
All people deserve to die.
not necessarily in that order.
"employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically)"
Employees are much more expensive than an office suite, true.
But employees who use Word and Excel on a daily basis cannot be expected to know Word and Excel, automagically or with training.
It amazes me that I have on several occasions seen college-educated engineers entering simple equations on their calculators only to type the result into a spreadsheet cell.
And I often encounter typists that input hard page breaks in order to get formatting looking OK, on a document that subsequently gets edited and sent out with half a blank page at the page break. Not to mention the avoidance of styles in favor of selecting text and formatting it individually, so that the next thing you type has the wrong (default) format again.
I had read/write ntfs support in Fedora 3, tho I had to do a little research and install it from linux-ntfs.org, and at the time it had limited write support (it would force a file system check upon reboot into windows)
"Decided by question of fact, not question of law."
Nothing has been decided except the judge's decision to not decide until an actual trial, or if the defendent continues to not respond, a hearing. Nobody has been found liable or not liable yet, neither in prinipcle nor because of proof or lack of proof.
This is about a motion for default judgement. By law, only questions of law can be decided by before a trial; facts, except uncontested facts, have to be decided by the finder of fact, usually the jury. (But, as you say, often it's better to have a bench trial. A good judge tends to be less emotional and more fact-based than a jury.)
The judge has ruled that the facts presented in the complaint, though uncontested by default and so taken as true, are, as a matter of law, insufficient to conclude a default judgement.
IANAL, YMMV, RTFA, etc. etc.
"For all their crimes, that's one thing [stealing peoples pensions] Enron and Halliburton haven't done."
What about the pensions of the people lied into investing in Enron - including individuals, 401K and IRA mutual funds, and other pension plans - or the retirees paying outrageous electricity costs due to Enron's illegal market manipulations.
"and neither one [velocity or speed] is instantaneous"
If you get pedantic about it, you can consider velocity or speed instantaneous.
To the extent you know the velocity (momentum) of an object, you can't precisely measure the position of that object in space/time, and vice-versa. (uncertainty prinicple)
' There is no such thing as "instantaneous velocity" '
Have problems with calculus, eh? I had the same problems at the time I studied it.
"Now, I haven't bothered downloading the video . . . "
Download it.
The clip is short.
The music isn't the focus of the video, it isn't even the loudest sound in the background.
I couldn't even recognize the song, not that I know any Prince songs.
The video is definitely about the baby, not the song.
If you can use video as a means of pirating the music, you should patent your methods.
It is very reasonable to assume that this is fair use.
IANAL, YMMV, etc., etc.
" . . . I'm no expert . . ."
And you I'm guessing you probably don't have any children either.
Sure, for an adult that doesn't chew on lead toys, the lead in the air is going to be worse, but small children will get a direct dosing from "handling" (read mouthing) lead painted toys, and at an age just when they're most vulnerable.
And lead does do a lot of damage precisely because small exposures acculmulate in the body over time, unlike many organic toxins
that do their damage for a short time but are more or less quickly disposed of by the body's metabolism.
and this report finds that that correlation is still there after factoring in the lead effect:
"By the year 2020, when the effects of the Clean Air Act and Roe
v. Wade would be complete, violent crime could be as much as 70% lower than it would be if lead
had remained in gasoline, and as much as 35-45% lower than it would be if abortion had never
been legalized. At the same time, history suggests that other unknown factors would have
increased crime by perhaps 3-5% per year."
"The legalization of abortion, as identified by Donohue and Levitt, remains an important and significant factor.
Thus, two major acts of government, the Clean Air Act and Roe v. Wade, neither intended to have
any effect on crime, may have been the largest factors affecting violent crime trends at the turn of
century."
ACtually, the way I heard it, MS gave wads of cash to Novell for patents.
Because MS sells so much more than Novell, in balance they owed more to Novell for the use of Novell's IP than Novell owed to MS for the use of MS's IP.
". . . fair use is not a right backed by a law, it's a doctrine . . ."
See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html/ :
"This doctrine has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law."
I assume, like in most failed mergers, they "leveraged their assets" i.e. borrowed more than they could afford.
"Too many web site are hard coding the font size . . . "
Since I've been getting older and my eyes weaker, this has bcome a pet peeve of mine. The main reason I love Firefox on my laptop compared to the IE6 I'm forced to use at work is the ability to hit ctrl+ to make text readable - when the web site actually lets it work!
"Zero support from me for regulations of this kind on private business."
If your a completely private entity, those accessibility rules would not apply. But for businesses open to the public, there's a long history of discrimination that has been held as improper ("Irish need not apply" help wanted signs, real estate deeds preventing sale to Jews, "Whites Only" lunch counters, etc.) and the state and federal governments have the legal power to force you to be open to everyone if you're not a completely private club. That has been extended to handicap accessibility in the 70s and 80s. Most of the things required are cheap when accounted for in the planning stages, e.g. set your light switches 48" above the floor rather than 54" or 60", use lever handles rather than knobs, grab bars in bathrooms, ramps instead of steps, and so on. And a lot of those improvements can be helpful for those without major disabilities, too.
There is some compromise built in to those laws and building codes, for example, you are not going to be forced to add a ramp to your 19th century building (no 14th century buildings in use here in the USA) unless you're doing extensive remodelling (IIRC 50% of the value of the building in Illinois). Making changes to a website that probably changes all the time anyway does not fall into the kind of cost category that adding an elevator would. So I have zero sympathy for a publicly accessible commercial web site that doesn't try to provide accessibility to all those it can.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
In addition to different versions of Word rendering things slightly differently, Word also changes rendering, including small changes in word, letter, and line spacing, for each different printer. This is not usually very bothersome, but can lead to text overflowing to another page.
Also, for some programs and some documents, if defaults are used and saved, the different default settings in different machines can make a difference.
Finally, especially if unusual fonts are used in a document sent, they may not be available to the recipient. MS Windows/Office can sometimes make some wacky font substitutions that make a huge change in appearance. (scala sans == courier???)
Problem is Ticketmaster blacklists promoters and venues that try to go independent.