Is it equivalent to a model where we say the planet doesn't rotate? No - we could see the difference in a centrifugal force causing the planet to bulge as it rotates
In order to test your theory, we need to immediately build a stationary Earth and rotate the entire Universe around it, to see if that bulge remains, instead of your wacky notion that the Earth is spinning and thus creating some invisible force that causes the bulge.
Every time the Pentagon tries to cut its budget, congrescritters get all up in arms about "jobs", so the Pentagon has all these useless projects. . . It's the primary reason US military spending has risen so sharply over the years.
AC replied:
Shhh, stop talking like that. You know that the only reason the military has a large amount of funding is because we're an evil white male imperialist evil secret military dictatorship.
I fail to see the conflict between the two statements
Even very weak brakes are strong enough to stop a car with a very powerful engine.
I call bullshit. Unless you have forever to stop.
I've had my throttle stick at 35 MPH (not a runaway engine revving, just a physically stuck pedal) and it would have been impossible for me to stop before hitting the car in front of me (who was stopped at a red light). Luckily, though, I did manage to thow it into neutral at the last second, so I did stop.
You just generate a fairly simple, rhythmically repetitive left hand, add a rhythmically simple right hand using a pseudorandom number generator to generate the melodic line, limiting jumps to the range of about an octave at any given time and limiting the number of repeated jumps in any given direction so that it falls within a fixed range, force the result into some semblance of a musical form, and litter both hands with lots of cluster chords.
Actually, you should start with a chord progression, which constrains the selection of the notes. But otherwise, you're not far off.
I resent that I might be taxed more to pay for medical procedures for some of my friends that could afford health insurance, but have simply chosen not to so they can have nicer cars or homes
Unfortunately, you are already in that position, since emergency rooms cannot turn away emergencies.
Everyone has access to medical care in the USA.. it's just that some can't afford it
To paraphrase your anecdote to fit some of my own:
ok. Here's some data points... I live in the US. Illinois. Have lived here for 54 years and as such, plenty of opportunity to show up in emergency rooms...
Over the last years, things have become bad. A few summers ago, my 80 year old mother fainted while gardening, fell, and broke her arm. My dad drove her to the emergency room. After hours of waiting, someone finally took a look at her, put her arm in a splint, said it was probably broken, and told her to see her primary care physician. Since it was Sunday, that meant going home and waiting 'til the next day. They did give her a prescription for pain medicine, but no X-Rays. Apparently broken bones are not sufficient reason to get emergency care in the eyes of her HMO.
I've had some of my own run-ins with insurance, too. Such as the time I had chest pains and a numb
arm, and was admitted to the hospital because my EKG was not normal. My insurance refused to pay for the emerrgency room visit, apparently because I should have known that it wasn't life-threatening before going there, even though the doctor thought it was enough of a problem to keep me in the hospital two days. And then they wouldn't let the doctor do the test he wanted to, because it was too expensive, so they did the cheaper test first, got the results, then had to repeat the test the way my docotor wanted to do it anyway.
I could go on, but really, no matter how you cut it, health care costs are skyrocketing, and someone has to decide whether and how to collect and spend the money. I'd rather it be decided by a non-profit that is controlled in part by my vote.
I've had to have my fingerprints taken three times for my job, That was not required by my employer, but their clients. And not just for biometric access, but for background checks. I was a little worried the first time, partly because I wasn't sure if my arrest record had been really expunged. The second and third times, they really didn't care if you were arrested, but only if you were convicted, and for most crimes, only if it was in the last ten years. But still, these are the compromising you will probably learn to make to keep food on the table. It isn't good, but the alternate could be letting someone convicted of computer fraud walking around unescorted in a credit card data center or someone convicted of bomb-making access to the baggage area of an airport.
It's not really bitchy of Firefox to want to hedge their bets and lessen their overwhelming reliance on Google. Especially since in this case the default was probably set by Ubunutu, not Firefox.
But is that the way they present it? Surely they would claim that the product is the physical media, packaging and a license to use the software?
Despite what off-the-shelf software sellers want you to believe, you don't need a license to use software (in the US, anyway). However, you may need a license to use the online service. If the software doesn't work without the online service, then it's not a matter of first sale doctrine, it's a matter of false adverstising or breach of contract.
I had that problem on a Chrysler, the dealership wanted $75 to "inspect" the car and turn off the light, in addition to whatever might need to be done. The independent shop in my neighborhood changed a belt for less, but couldn't turn off the light.
I solved that problem with a little black tape.
Several years later I donated the car to the auto repair shop of the community college, so I never had to worry about the next Owner seeing the light.
In a way car manufacturers have tried to do similar with their electronic diagnostics, anti-theft radios, subscription GPS, and subsription satellite radio.
1) Companies cannot override your basic rights when purchasing a game.
True
You have the right to re-sell,
True
end of.
???
2) What happens if the guy at the shop copies the code and then sells the game (shrink wrap machines are pretty cheap)? Sony demands another $20. Game shop doesn't accept refunds on opened software.
The answer to (2) is that you get a full refund, as that is your statutory right. The goods are defective and unusable as sold.
True, but your beef is with the game shoop, not with Sony.
EULAs and shop policies never ever override your basic rights.
In the US (YMMV) you have a right to do anything you want with your physical copy of the game (outside of making illicit copies). However, any rights for any subscription services are not "basic" - they depend on the contract/license for the service.
If you write a script for Word to do something that would normally take a thousand mouse clicks to do - why is that bad?
It's not bad to run a useful and benign macro that you wrote youself.
What's bad is that in a botnet's hands VBA has access to the entire computer, and not just to the document or its' folder. (yes, I know that there have been some improvements in that regard, but that depends more on the OS & application settings than on inherent VBA limitations)
As usual, it appears to be a poorly designed pretty graph, made by someone who doesn't know or care that a graph is supposed to convey information.
Root around for raw data around here
At one architectural firm they are using it to tie all of the reams of documentation together (blue prints, materials samples, project documentation (based on Word templates), cost figures (based on Excel spreadsheets), marketing documents (the architecture firm does a lot of commercial property, movie theaters, etc.
In the example of the architectural firm, they don't need as many project managers and their projects take less time because what used to be a manual process has been shifted over to SharePoint.
I imagine that I could be wrong, but I doubt that any document management software (as opposed to design and business practices, technological or not) including Sharepoint, could make that big of a difference to an Architectural firm. Design decisions must still be thought about, developed, reviewed, revised. All of the documents must still be created and edited. All of them still need to be reviewed and re-edited. All of them still need to be relooked at and revised when the client makes "small" changes. For any decent-sized job, the people involved must be kept informed, given tasks, those tasks must be organized and coordinated, e-mails must be read and answered, comments and suggestions responded to, decisions made and defended, and so on. Most of those tasks are by nature "manual". Efficient document management could cut a couple of percent off of the time for a project, but only if the technology follows the business practices, rather than the business practices fitting into the technology. Saying that that can reduce the number of project managers is just some vice president's unrealistic BS (IMHO).
Unlikely, there is other laws, privacy I think, that cover reverse phone directories...
For any listing connecting names, phone numbers, and addresses that is available in a plain text (or otherwise unencrypted) electronic format it is trivial to do a reverse lookup.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it equivalent to a model where we say the planet doesn't rotate? No - we could see the difference in a centrifugal force causing the planet to bulge as it rotates
In order to test your theory, we need to immediately build a stationary Earth and rotate the entire Universe around it, to see if that bulge remains, instead of your wacky notion that the Earth is spinning and thus creating some invisible force that causes the bulge.
To be fair, an even distribution was in the requirements.
Every time the Pentagon tries to cut its budget, congrescritters get all up in arms about "jobs", so the Pentagon has all these useless projects. . . It's the primary reason US military spending has risen so sharply over the years.
AC replied:
Shhh, stop talking like that. You know that the only reason the military has a large amount of funding is because we're an evil white male imperialist evil secret military dictatorship.
I fail to see the conflict between the two statements
Even very weak brakes are strong enough to stop a car with a very powerful engine.
I call bullshit.
Unless you have forever to stop.
I've had my throttle stick at 35 MPH (not a runaway engine revving, just a physically stuck pedal) and it would have been impossible for me to stop before hitting the car in front of me (who was stopped at a red light). Luckily, though, I did manage to thow it into neutral at the last second, so I did stop.
So Yao Ming, Gheorghe Murean, or Manute Bol would be breaking the law if the walked past this guy's house at the wrong time?
. . . that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's not surprising that a machine can absorb Mozart's prodigious output and spit out something similar
To me the amazing thing about Mozart's prodigious output is that by the time he was my age, it was already more thanr 20 years since he had died.
You just generate a fairly simple, rhythmically repetitive left hand, add a rhythmically simple right hand using a pseudorandom number generator to generate the melodic line, limiting jumps to the range of about an octave at any given time and limiting the number of repeated jumps in any given direction so that it falls within a fixed range, force the result into some semblance of a musical form, and litter both hands with lots of cluster chords.
Actually, you should start with a chord progression, which constrains the selection of the notes. But otherwise, you're not far off.
How the hell does allowing copyright on a secret document help "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" ?
I resent that I might be taxed more to pay for medical procedures for some of my friends that could afford health insurance, but have simply chosen not to so they can have nicer cars or homes
Unfortunately, you are already in that position, since emergency rooms cannot turn away emergencies.
Everyone has access to medical care in the USA .. it's just that some can't afford it
It is not access if it's not accessible.
To paraphrase your anecdote to fit some of my own:
ok. Here's some data points... I live in the US. Illinois. Have lived here for 54 years and as such, plenty of opportunity to show up in emergency rooms...
Over the last years, things have become bad. A few summers ago, my 80 year old mother fainted while gardening, fell, and broke her arm. My dad drove her to the emergency room. After hours of waiting, someone finally took a look at her, put her arm in a splint, said it was probably broken, and told her to see her primary care physician. Since it was Sunday, that meant going home and waiting 'til the next day. They did give her a prescription for pain medicine, but no X-Rays. Apparently broken bones are not sufficient reason to get emergency care in the eyes of her HMO.
I've had some of my own run-ins with insurance, too. Such as the time I had chest pains and a numb arm, and was admitted to the hospital because my EKG was not normal. My insurance refused to pay for the emerrgency room visit, apparently because I should have known that it wasn't life-threatening before going there, even though the doctor thought it was enough of a problem to keep me in the hospital two days. And then they wouldn't let the doctor do the test he wanted to, because it was too expensive, so they did the cheaper test first, got the results, then had to repeat the test the way my docotor wanted to do it anyway.
I could go on, but really, no matter how you cut it, health care costs are skyrocketing, and someone has to decide whether and how to collect and spend the money. I'd rather it be decided by a non-profit that is controlled in part by my vote.
I've had to have my fingerprints taken three times for my job, That was not required by my employer, but their clients. And not just for biometric access, but for background checks. I was a little worried the first time, partly because I wasn't sure if my arrest record had been really expunged. The second and third times, they really didn't care if you were arrested, but only if you were convicted, and for most crimes, only if it was in the last ten years. But still, these are the compromising you will probably learn to make to keep food on the table. It isn't good, but the alternate could be letting someone convicted of computer fraud walking around unescorted in a credit card data center or someone convicted of bomb-making access to the baggage area of an airport.
There are horizontal monoplies and vertical monoplies
Neither are good for you.
It's not really bitchy of Firefox to want to hedge their bets and lessen their overwhelming reliance on Google. Especially since in this case the default was probably set by Ubunutu, not Firefox.
Search is a service, not a product.
Searchers are customers, not products.
Good Point.
Mod the Coward up.
But is that the way they present it? Surely they would claim that the product is the physical media, packaging and a license to use the software?
Despite what off-the-shelf software sellers want you to believe, you don't need a license to use software (in the US, anyway). However, you may need a license to use the online service. If the software doesn't work without the online service, then it's not a matter of first sale doctrine, it's a matter of false adverstising or breach of contract.
I had that problem on a Chrysler, the dealership wanted $75 to "inspect" the car and turn off the light, in addition to whatever might need to be done. The independent shop in my neighborhood changed a belt for less, but couldn't turn off the light.
I solved that problem with a little black tape.
Several years later I donated the car to the auto repair shop of the community college, so I never had to worry about the next Owner seeing the light.
In a way car manufacturers have tried to do similar with their electronic diagnostics, anti-theft radios, subscription GPS, and subsription satellite radio.
1) Companies cannot override your basic rights when purchasing a game.
True
You have the right to re-sell,
True
end of.
???
2) What happens if the guy at the shop copies the code and then sells the game (shrink wrap machines are pretty cheap)? Sony demands another $20. Game shop doesn't accept refunds on opened software. The answer to (2) is that you get a full refund, as that is your statutory right. The goods are defective and unusable as sold.
True, but your beef is with the game shoop, not with Sony.
EULAs and shop policies never ever override your basic rights.
In the US (YMMV) you have a right to do anything you want with your physical copy of the game (outside of making illicit copies). However, any rights for any subscription services are not "basic" - they depend on the contract/license for the service.
If you write a script for Word to do something that would normally take a thousand mouse clicks to do - why is that bad?
It's not bad to run a useful and benign macro that you wrote youself.
What's bad is that in a botnet's hands VBA has access to the entire computer, and not just to the document or its' folder. (yes, I know that there have been some improvements in that regard, but that depends more on the OS & application settings than on inherent VBA limitations)
"turn on more lights or you will strain your eyes". Old wives tale then and nonsense today.
is mistaken. More light will close your pupils more, so focusing will be easier and depth of field greater. That puts less strain on your eyes.
As usual, it appears to be a poorly designed pretty graph, made by someone who doesn't know or care that a graph is supposed to convey information. Root around for raw data around here
At one architectural firm they are using it to tie all of the reams of documentation together (blue prints, materials samples, project documentation (based on Word templates), cost figures (based on Excel spreadsheets), marketing documents (the architecture firm does a lot of commercial property, movie theaters, etc.
In the example of the architectural firm, they don't need as many project managers and their projects take less time because what used to be a manual process has been shifted over to SharePoint.
I imagine that I could be wrong, but I doubt that any document management software (as opposed to design and business practices, technological or not) including Sharepoint, could make that big of a difference to an Architectural firm. Design decisions must still be thought about, developed, reviewed, revised. All of the documents must still be created and edited. All of them still need to be reviewed and re-edited. All of them still need to be relooked at and revised when the client makes "small" changes. For any decent-sized job, the people involved must be kept informed, given tasks, those tasks must be organized and coordinated, e-mails must be read and answered, comments and suggestions responded to, decisions made and defended, and so on. Most of those tasks are by nature "manual". Efficient document management could cut a couple of percent off of the time for a project, but only if the technology follows the business practices, rather than the business practices fitting into the technology. Saying that that can reduce the number of project managers is just some vice president's unrealistic BS (IMHO).
Unlikely, there is other laws, privacy I think, that cover reverse phone directories...
For any listing connecting names, phone numbers, and addresses that is available in a plain text (or otherwise unencrypted) electronic format it is trivial to do a reverse lookup.