I too buy less mayo, but that's a matter of trying not to waste things I'm never going to eat. I do see a drastic difference with food and cable channels going unused though.
Regarding the other aspect, you still end up paying less. Sure you get less, but you get everything you want. I don't pay my cable bill, so I have no idea what it costs, but lets settle at an arbitrary $50 per month. At $600 a year, you'd get the shows you want (the three you listed) and a ton of stuff you're never going to watch. Now, what if Amazon or whoever placed those shows at $201 per season. You can get them for $603 for the year, and you get everything you want, and nothing you don't but it costs not even a penny a day more. But would you? No, you buy them for about $30-40 each season. That's about $120 a year (at most). Still a tremendous savings under $600. But what if Amazon did jack the prices? Would you pay $80 each a season? Would you pay $100? $120? $150? $200 to exactly equal a full years worth of cable? I can't imagine anyone would bite. I can imagine that Amazon negotiated a price range which allows A) the studio to be happy, B) Amazon to grab a profit, and C) the consumer to actually pay for just three shows.
I would gladly pay more for a bundle that did not include ESPN, or any of the other "sports" networks, or Empty-V or any of its myriad clones. Or the shopping channels.
Spending money to facilitate better service for these private businesses who have not only made billions from customers, but took billions of tax dollars and screwed us as citizens.
NSF should not be paying a cent for this. The issues need to become prominent enough for the customers to demand better products from the oligopoly of telcos.
I'm usually quite on board with the government not paying money to help businesses further their own causes, but there are exceptions to every rule.
This should be seen as acceptable, just like it's seen as acceptable for the government to pay for the NHSTA to crash cars to test them. Those tests are given back to the manufacturers to make... wait for it... better cars. Sure it helps the manufacturers, but more importantly it helps the consumer, or more important to the governments cause, the citizenry.
No government can safely doll out money and not expect it to get back into the pockets of big business somewhere down stream in commerce. To think so is asinine (and I'm not suggesting that's what your suggesting). But there has to be exceptions, and this one, I think falls under such exceptions.
In addition to asking how to deal with some previous dev copying web-published code, he also asked how he can tell his company, or if he should, or what might happen if he does/doesn't.
I pointed out a very harmless way to "spill the beans" if he so chooses.
The problem is not ratting out the former dev, the problem is that the former dev is now his superior. If he wants to point out that the code is copied to a higher up, yet not assign blame to his current boss, the way to do it is the old switch-a-roo. I laid it all out.
If you really want to spill the beans on this guy and get people to notice that he "stole" the code, then play stupid and show the forum to your boss and say "Look this guy took our code and posted it on this website" They will put one and one together and see that it was your office that actually copied it. Then it's in their hands and you we attempting to protect the company.
Don't worry about the fact that the forum post was 4 months before you guys even started work on your project. In your haste to protect your companies IP you didn't realize you were the ones doing the copying.
Actually, and my math will suck here. If they implement the new AT&T data, and then ask for 10% it would be much harder then what AT&T themselves did.
If they were at 50% accuracy and AT&T gave them 8.63%, if they implement that they are now at 58.63% accuracy. If they require a 10% increase then a new person will have to bring them up to 68.63% accuracy, much harder then the 60% AT&T was aiming for. Assuming that it becomes harder as you get closer to 100% accuracy.
During the early 90's I did alot of selling high, I can't recommend it. I sold all my Microsoft stock at $36 while listening to Huey Lewis wearing a rain slicker and doing lines off the back of the hooker I just killed.
I compare it to paying a gym membership, heading towards the treadmill only to be stopped by a trainer and told there is someone on it already. You look, see no one is on it, ask again and are allowed to use it. Sometimes the trainer comes over and tells you that you have to get off for someone else. Everytime you get off, no one else gets on. So you have to restart your workout whenever the trainer asks.
Windows is crapping the fuck out on me lately. I think it's time for a reinstall. Do I need to have a judge sign and affidavit stating that I did it soley for the purposes of fixing the fact that Windows doesn't load half the stuff I want it to on boot up (I want my Volume control dammit!).
What horrible horrible law. You should be charged with (actually, she wasn't charged, this is all civil) "intent to steal/distribute" "conspiracy to distribute" but not distribution.
Next up is me getting arrested because I don't secure my wireless network (it's in my house) and I have my files on the share network.
100% true, mod parent up until his minutes expire.
I just got my first phone in 4 years, maybe 4.5. I went with Verizon (whom I absolutely despise) because my girlfriend gets a big discount (39%) from work, so it's too cheap to pass up.
Putting aside all the BS the "salesman" tried to sell me, I left with a phone that had a warranty for 4 hours. It seems, that this piece of Motorola hardware will have it's warranty voided if I go home and sync the phone with my computer in means other than Verizon's service (which is around $6 a month + a $29.99 Mini USB cable). Motorola makes the software I used it get into the phone, I put songs on it and pulled photos off it. I didn't "hack" anything the computer (once the drivers were installed) recognized it immediately.
I can understand voiding the warranty if I modded it or did things that may or may not have harmed the OS but all I did was pull the photos off of the memory chip, rather than send them to myself for $0.25 (that's like $85.94 in Verizon math).
These providers have you by the balls. It's much like when MaBell would only sell their equipment (somethingsomethingmonopolysomething), expect here it's not even their equipment.
The cost to society is more acturately based on the hourly rate of the cop who sat in the theater looking for criminals. Figure, 2.5 hours there, mileage reinbursement, popcorn reinbursement (or at least a tax deduction), 2 hours of paperwork and another 5 hours of overtime for the court appearneces.
Seriously, does the NYPD really not have enough to do that they can send thier officers into theaters to catch pirates? Also, how do I sign up for this detail?
Note: The undercover cop saw him move his arm in a weird angle at the begining of the film, then waited until it was over to make the arrest. Yeah, he was doing covert ops for those 2 hours, certainly he never looked up at the screen.
This will probably fall on deaf ears (or dark eyes because it's text?) but I'd rather have the most used keys (letters) under my finger tips than the colons, commas, and brakets because of symmetry. Form follows Funtion.
Yesterday I was naming pictures from a wedding my girlfriend and I went to. I was standing she was sitting in my chair (I to her right infront of the mouse). She was taking too long so I reached out with my left hand and typed from the center of the keyboard. I made mistakes, sure, but we were both shocked that I could type one handed, off center and do so quickly. I took over mainly because it bothered me that she doesn't know any of the shortcuts.
The moral here is that I think our fingers know the keys like a piano player knows the keys on a keyboard. Change their chair, move them down the board, make them stand, it doesn't matter, they can still play. We may have to look down for [] and () sometimes but over all it doesn't matter what the hand/body position is, the keys remain the same we just have to hit them in the right order.
For me, this comes from years of one handed typing while weilding a gun with the mousehand in any number of First Person Shooters.
Two weeks ago everyone was out of town and I was stuck at home alone with the dog. I watched Season 1 and Season 2 off of Google Video. That was like 3 hours of RvB action! I felt like a complete nerd but it was highly entertaining.
Best episode isn't even an episode at all, it's their PSA on Zombie Plans. It's just so well done and completely random. Since watching it I have made certain that everyone in my office has a Zombie plan.
I, like many office workers, sit in an non-OSHA approved seating position while at work. My chair is at it's lowest height, leaned back as far as it will go, and my arm is not near a 90 degree angle. But I'm damn comfortable. My mouse is pointed at "11:00" because that's how my wrist like it. My brain is trained to understand that forward towards the monitor will lead the mouse pointer diaganol towards the top right of the screen. Moving the mouse diagonaly left/forward, moves the pointer vertically on the screen.
To compensate for the fact that I don't have a "natural" or "ergonomic" keyboard I have changed my finger position from the standard "asd fjkl;" line up to "cdsa nkl;" my fingers make the "ergonomic" shape.
They make these things for people who sit "properly" the only problem is that most people don't sit "properly"
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I too buy less mayo, but that's a matter of trying not to waste things I'm never going to eat. I do see a drastic difference with food and cable channels going unused though.
Regarding the other aspect, you still end up paying less. Sure you get less, but you get everything you want. I don't pay my cable bill, so I have no idea what it costs, but lets settle at an arbitrary $50 per month. At $600 a year, you'd get the shows you want (the three you listed) and a ton of stuff you're never going to watch. Now, what if Amazon or whoever placed those shows at $201 per season. You can get them for $603 for the year, and you get everything you want, and nothing you don't but it costs not even a penny a day more. But would you? No, you buy them for about $30-40 each season. That's about $120 a year (at most). Still a tremendous savings under $600. But what if Amazon did jack the prices? Would you pay $80 each a season? Would you pay $100? $120? $150? $200 to exactly equal a full years worth of cable? I can't imagine anyone would bite. I can imagine that Amazon negotiated a price range which allows A) the studio to be happy, B) Amazon to grab a profit, and C) the consumer to actually pay for just three shows.
I would gladly pay more for a bundle that did not include ESPN, or any of the other "sports" networks, or Empty-V or any of its myriad clones. Or the shopping channels.
Wait, you would gladly pay more for less?
Spending money to facilitate better service for these private businesses who have not only made billions from customers, but took billions of tax dollars and screwed us as citizens.
NSF should not be paying a cent for this. The issues need to become prominent enough for the customers to demand better products from the oligopoly of telcos.
I'm usually quite on board with the government not paying money to help businesses further their own causes, but there are exceptions to every rule.
This should be seen as acceptable, just like it's seen as acceptable for the government to pay for the NHSTA to crash cars to test them. Those tests are given back to the manufacturers to make... wait for it... better cars. Sure it helps the manufacturers, but more importantly it helps the consumer, or more important to the governments cause, the citizenry.
No government can safely doll out money and not expect it to get back into the pockets of big business somewhere down stream in commerce. To think so is asinine (and I'm not suggesting that's what your suggesting). But there has to be exceptions, and this one, I think falls under such exceptions.
In addition to asking how to deal with some previous dev copying web-published code, he also asked how he can tell his company, or if he should, or what might happen if he does/doesn't.
I pointed out a very harmless way to "spill the beans" if he so chooses.
The problem is not ratting out the former dev, the problem is that the former dev is now his superior. If he wants to point out that the code is copied to a higher up, yet not assign blame to his current boss, the way to do it is the old switch-a-roo. I laid it all out.
If you really want to spill the beans on this guy and get people to notice that he "stole" the code, then play stupid and show the forum to your boss and say "Look this guy took our code and posted it on this website" They will put one and one together and see that it was your office that actually copied it. Then it's in their hands and you we attempting to protect the company.
Don't worry about the fact that the forum post was 4 months before you guys even started work on your project. In your haste to protect your companies IP you didn't realize you were the ones doing the copying.
Typso? Are you kidding me? That's too easy.
I gave AT&T an extra 0.2% because I love Big Brother. Not because my math sucks.
-Dick Cheney
Actually, and my math will suck here. If they implement the new AT&T data, and then ask for 10% it would be much harder then what AT&T themselves did.
If they were at 50% accuracy and AT&T gave them 8.63%, if they implement that they are now at 58.63% accuracy. If they require a 10% increase then a new person will have to bring them up to 68.63% accuracy, much harder then the 60% AT&T was aiming for. Assuming that it becomes harder as you get closer to 100% accuracy.
No precedence. Mac users have no fear of trojans entering thier computers, so why worry now? They will just click click click with no fear.
Is this basically the last drive sequence of F&TF3: Tokyo Drift?
Where all the kids are viewing/filming the race down the mountain as it goes by?
I thought that technology (well, that CGI) was rediculous but maybe it's not that far away?
(NOTE: Give me Karma, I admitted to watching that movie, that's gotta count for something).
You could have put in the meaning of life in that hyperlink, wouldn't matter, no one here reads the articles anyway.
During the early 90's I did alot of selling high, I can't recommend it. I sold all my Microsoft stock at $36 while listening to Huey Lewis wearing a rain slicker and doing lines off the back of the hooker I just killed.
-Bateman
p.s. At least I got a reservation at Dorsia.
I compare it to paying a gym membership, heading towards the treadmill only to be stopped by a trainer and told there is someone on it already. You look, see no one is on it, ask again and are allowed to use it. Sometimes the trainer comes over and tells you that you have to get off for someone else. Everytime you get off, no one else gets on. So you have to restart your workout whenever the trainer asks.
No, a real nerd wouldn't admit to using Windows on Slashdot, and thus not whine about it on Slashdot. Maybe we're both right.
Windows is crapping the fuck out on me lately. I think it's time for a reinstall. Do I need to have a judge sign and affidavit stating that I did it soley for the purposes of fixing the fact that Windows doesn't load half the stuff I want it to on boot up (I want my Volume control dammit!).
What horrible horrible law. You should be charged with (actually, she wasn't charged, this is all civil) "intent to steal/distribute" "conspiracy to distribute" but not distribution.
Next up is me getting arrested because I don't secure my wireless network (it's in my house) and I have my files on the share network.
Does this patent cover anything that sways when hung from a virtual car and virtually sways?
I'm really concerned about the virtual nutsack I have hanging from my virtual trailer hitch on my virtual truck.
100% true, mod parent up until his minutes expire.
I just got my first phone in 4 years, maybe 4.5. I went with Verizon (whom I absolutely despise) because my girlfriend gets a big discount (39%) from work, so it's too cheap to pass up.
Putting aside all the BS the "salesman" tried to sell me, I left with a phone that had a warranty for 4 hours. It seems, that this piece of Motorola hardware will have it's warranty voided if I go home and sync the phone with my computer in means other than Verizon's service (which is around $6 a month + a $29.99 Mini USB cable). Motorola makes the software I used it get into the phone, I put songs on it and pulled photos off it. I didn't "hack" anything the computer (once the drivers were installed) recognized it immediately.
I can understand voiding the warranty if I modded it or did things that may or may not have harmed the OS but all I did was pull the photos off of the memory chip, rather than send them to myself for $0.25 (that's like $85.94 in Verizon math).
These providers have you by the balls. It's much like when MaBell would only sell their equipment (somethingsomethingmonopolysomething), expect here it's not even their equipment.
The cost to society is more acturately based on the hourly rate of the cop who sat in the theater looking for criminals. Figure, 2.5 hours there, mileage reinbursement, popcorn reinbursement (or at least a tax deduction), 2 hours of paperwork and another 5 hours of overtime for the court appearneces.
Seriously, does the NYPD really not have enough to do that they can send thier officers into theaters to catch pirates? Also, how do I sign up for this detail?
Note: The undercover cop saw him move his arm in a weird angle at the begining of the film, then waited until it was over to make the arrest. Yeah, he was doing covert ops for those 2 hours, certainly he never looked up at the screen.
This will probably fall on deaf ears (or dark eyes because it's text?) but I'd rather have the most used keys (letters) under my finger tips than the colons, commas, and brakets because of symmetry. Form follows Funtion.
Yesterday I was naming pictures from a wedding my girlfriend and I went to. I was standing she was sitting in my chair (I to her right infront of the mouse). She was taking too long so I reached out with my left hand and typed from the center of the keyboard. I made mistakes, sure, but we were both shocked that I could type one handed, off center and do so quickly. I took over mainly because it bothered me that she doesn't know any of the shortcuts.
The moral here is that I think our fingers know the keys like a piano player knows the keys on a keyboard. Change their chair, move them down the board, make them stand, it doesn't matter, they can still play. We may have to look down for [] and () sometimes but over all it doesn't matter what the hand/body position is, the keys remain the same we just have to hit them in the right order.
For me, this comes from years of one handed typing while weilding a gun with the mousehand in any number of First Person Shooters.
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Two weeks ago everyone was out of town and I was stuck at home alone with the dog. I watched Season 1 and Season 2 off of Google Video. That was like 3 hours of RvB action! I felt like a complete nerd but it was highly entertaining.
Best episode isn't even an episode at all, it's their PSA on Zombie Plans. It's just so well done and completely random. Since watching it I have made certain that everyone in my office has a Zombie plan.
I, like many office workers, sit in an non-OSHA approved seating position while at work. My chair is at it's lowest height, leaned back as far as it will go, and my arm is not near a 90 degree angle. But I'm damn comfortable. My mouse is pointed at "11:00" because that's how my wrist like it. My brain is trained to understand that forward towards the monitor will lead the mouse pointer diaganol towards the top right of the screen. Moving the mouse diagonaly left/forward, moves the pointer vertically on the screen.
To compensate for the fact that I don't have a "natural" or "ergonomic" keyboard I have changed my finger position from the standard "asd fjkl;" line up to "cdsa nkl;" my fingers make the "ergonomic" shape.
They make these things for people who sit "properly" the only problem is that most people don't sit "properly"
Hostel II, the movie about rape/murder/torture/death/slashing/etc, was 5th in terms of revenues for this last weekend in the UK.
"Senator Obama, which do you prefer? Anarchy, Socialism, Communism or CowboyNealism?