The last time I checked an M$ Eula, you don't actually own any code you pay for. you are actually paying a use license. M$ retains ownership rights to the software.
Exactly. Total cost of ownership of Windows is zero. If there is no ownership, then there is no cost of ownership.
Hence, the TCO of a Windows install will always be less than or equal to the TCO of any competitor.
Nice trick, MS. I gotta give it to you, that was pretty clever.
This just proves he's been listening to Microsoft too long. He's using Microsoft's favorite buzzword without even thinking whether his statement makes sense. The purchase price is not the total cost of ownership. Not even Microsoft is claiming that.
Dude, please read TFA/S a little more closely.
Microsoft is claiming that. The person who said those words? Microsoft. A very high-ranking official in Microsoft's African operations.
He hasn't spent too long listening to Microsoft... he's spent too long being Microsoft.
Once the series is complete (so far the story arc covers about 10 episodes, it may be more if I need to work in relevant news) I'll be republishing it in serial form on a blog site -- haven't determined which one yet. That will likely take a while, as it'll be getting a re-write (since I'll have the luxury of more space for each episode).
But really, if you can subscribe to it, where's the fun in that? I think it's better as a surprise in relevant articles. I'll always back-link to the prior episode anyway, so you can go back... maybe I should cross-post the episodes in my journal.
I'll put the blog link in the finale (tentatively scheduled for late July/ early August).
The natural corralling would be: That which is not open to the examination of the accused can not be used to convict.
That's the entire basis of this appeal... the defendant did not have the opportunity to examine the tools used to convict him. It's a fundamental principle in the US that defendants are given the opportunity to cross-examine witness, examine material evidence, etc.
when you do government contracting, the government should own what you do
But they weren't doing government contracting. The produced a good that was purchased by the government. There's a very big difference.
The key here is not that the government, or anyone, should own what they produced -- it's that when what they produced is used to convict someone, that person has the right to examine the methods used.
It's not about openness, at all. It's about the right to a fair trial; openness is just a side effect.
When studies have been done, it's turned out that people who live unhealthy lifestyles generally cost a society less overall because they tend to actually die of their health problems. The tofu-eaters, on the other hand, live longer, and accrue more costs.
Yes, but old people tend to leave NY and go somewhere else, and those locales need to pay to keep them alive.
So fat people, who die early, *may* cost NY more, because someone else is bearing the cost of keeping the skinny 90-year-olds alive.
Obviously, the math may say something else entirely -- but net societal costs are not the same thing as net costs to NY; NY may very well get to externalize a significant portion of the extra costs of healthy people.
Yes, but the Admins' "Oops" comments were a cover-up. This outage was not due to an error during maintenance.
This outage was a sign that Gatus and Joba are having some success in their quest to thwart Googol the Destroyer; apparently, not only are they getting converts in their efforts to have all the world's sorcerors collaborate on the One True Operating System with Global Search, but they (or someone else) has launched an effort to delay the work on the Rite of a Million Targeted Ads by Googol the Destroyer and his acolytes.
Who is responsible for the guerrilla attacks on Googol the Destroyer, his acolytes, and his crack team of evil underlords? How are Gatus and Joba faring on their recruitment of the world's sorcerors? What has Stallmanx been working on in his secret laboratory*? Will we ever find out what lies beneath his Beard of Druidic Prowess? Answers to these questions and more will be revealed in the next two episodes!
Remember, kids, tune in to next week's episode (look for it Tuesday or Wednesday) of Googol the Destroyer!
Yes, but the increase in health care premiums is an indirect result of the insurance companies protecting their margins at all costs. They pass on their increased tax expense, and you pay higher premiums, so that their profits are not damaged -- only yours are. And you know what? You (or your employer) are willing to pay the extra cost.
The answer is to jump ship for another insurer with lower premiums. Oh, they're all raising rates? That's the joy of oligopoly.
Note: at a previous employer, I was able to negotiate a higher salary in exchange for not receiving medical benefits. I self-insured, and made out pretty well (my total cost was around 60% of the company's premium, but they paid me 75% of their premiums over base pay -- so we both saved money, even after employment taxes on the salary difference). My current employer offers nothing of the sort, so they're stuck paying high rates.
Go to any industry executive and ask, is it better to get $420 milion in profits from a $8.4 million investment, or is it better to get $500 million in profits from a $140 million investment?
This is the movie industry. There are no profits, remember?
Just royalty expenses paid to affiliate companies.
Ah, but if we're going to imagine making a tank look like a heavy truck, or a rocket launcher looking like a stack of pipes... why not just imagine world peace?
We're about as close to achieving a usable cloak of illusion as we are to achieving world piece...
Fiddle with an invisibility cloak, and it can make any object look like another, say researchers.
Great! This is awesome. Now, where did I put my invisibility cloak so I can fiddle with it?
The researchers have even found a mind-boggling application. Their idea is to create the illusion that a wall has a hole in it, and then use the hole to look through the wall.
That's not quite as bonkers as it sounds. The wall has to be pretty thin, and what the new device does is allow light to tunnel through the wall in a way that would not ordinarily be possible. Amazing, if it works.
Yes, the wall must be thin -- thin enough for light to pass through it. In other words, thin enough to see through without the cloak on top of it. So, in order to see through a see-through wall, we put the cloak in front of it, then make the cloak appear to be a hole, through which we can see through the see-through wall. I see.
These gedanken experiments are nice and all, but I'll believe it when I see it. Or rather, when I don't.
Face it, A "fully updated" WinXP SP3 with a fully updated, modern antivirus package needs ~4 times the hardware a base WinXP (or even Win2K SP4) system would want.
That's nonsense. A base WinXP system (instead of a fully update XPSP3 + AV) would max out the processor and the internet bandwidth within days, if not hours, of being turned on.
See, what happens is that friendly hackers automagically scan the ports of a base XP install, then kindly install their own "service packs" to help make sure the XP system is using all its available resources. You woyludn't want to waste your resources, right?
I cannot imagine that, in the near future, a mobile device will draw more power by just using full processor speed than it would by having to power all those sensors and interpret their data.
It's good that you cannot imagine that. Because if you could imagine that, then it might be something to be worried about.
As an aside, interpreting the data would likely be done by the processor, so if you're going to be running the processor at full speed, then the only thing to be concerned about is the draw of the sensors.
She and I were standing on the earth, which was moving around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. We struggled to make our lips meet...
I have some experience trouble-shooting kissing problems, maybe I can be of service.
First off, were you standing next to eachother? Your statement didn't make this clear; standing on different continents can be an serious issue.
Secondly, is she powered up? Did you flip the switch? Is it depressed on the 0 side or the | side?
Thirdly, did you check the cabling? Is the power cord plugged into the wall socket? Now check the other end of the cord, is it plugged into her back?
Sorry about those last two questions, those are just default trouble-shooting questions for any problem.
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Perhaps you don't understand the nature of vomiting issue. "Bucking up" because it's a "bad smell" is not always possible. Good for you if you're an internet tough guy who never vomits unless he chooses to. The rest of the population sometimes simply doesn't have a choice in the matter. The vomit reflex in response to smell is NOT a voluntary response. While it sometimes can be limited via voluntary effort, this is not always the case.
It is human nature to vomit at the smell of noxious fumes (that's why they are called noxious); this is a biological trait that has evolved as a survival response to eating tainted food.
I don't know if you've ever had a bout of violent vomiting that lasted several minutes. Pulled rib muscles, capillary damage resulting in bleeding from nasal passages and the eyes, esophageal bleeding... a couple of these items require medical examination. When I was an EMT, we had a guy who was throwing up due to overeating and not chewing his food properly, and he had a heart attack, likely from the increase in blood pressure/pulse rate while vomiting. He had no idea he was having a heart attack, he thought he just had painful vomiting.
If there is an unknown risk (which is quite possible), seeking medical evaluation is important. Both for liability reasons (you KNOW the employer needs to cover their ass) and for humane reasons. What if there was a bigger issue, such as toxins? Are you medically qualified to rule that out? Do you think anyone in that office was?
And I'll give you a little hint about office morale... having several employees puking their guts out is a bad idea. Sending them directly home is callous. Making sure they are OK is the right thing to do, and medical evaluation is the right way to do it.
Why can't someone smell when they have seasonal allergies? If you can figure out the answer to THAT question, then you can figure out why inhalation of chemicals into her nasal passage was not a problem, and why concerns about a vomitous reaction would not be a concern for her.
Though toxins with effects other than causing (involuntary, btw) gag reflex appear not to be an issue in this case, the people who succumbed to the odors *had no way of knowing that*.
Unless it's literally chemicals that are affecting your health, or an airborne pathogen, you don't need medical attention.
What do you think odors are? They are chemicals.
If chemicals induce vomiting, they are affecting your health... repeated vomiting can have some nasty effects (like difficulties breathing due to rib muscle injury, or major capillary damage that can affect eyesight, or aspiration of stomach contents leading to pulmonary infection).
Never mind potential allergic reactions.
And never mind the affects of concentrated cleaning solvents in poorly-ventilated areas, which seems also to have been part of the problem.
The EPA Superfund sites are slowly but surely being remediated -- even during the evil Bush Administration, imagine that! -- and sites are being delisted at a much faster rate than they are being added.)
There have been many complaints that the EPA is being deficient in adding sites that should qualify as Superfund sites. Also, the "polluter pays" policy attached to Superfund is being under-enforced. Cleanup of Superfund sites is lagging far behind schedule due to underfunding.
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Exactly. Total cost of ownership of Windows is zero. If there is no ownership, then there is no cost of ownership.
Hence, the TCO of a Windows install will always be less than or equal to the TCO of any competitor.
Nice trick, MS. I gotta give it to you, that was pretty clever.
Dude, please read TFA/S a little more closely.
Microsoft is claiming that. The person who said those words? Microsoft. A very high-ranking official in Microsoft's African operations.
He hasn't spent too long listening to Microsoft... he's spent too long being Microsoft.
Once the series is complete (so far the story arc covers about 10 episodes, it may be more if I need to work in relevant news) I'll be republishing it in serial form on a blog site -- haven't determined which one yet. That will likely take a while, as it'll be getting a re-write (since I'll have the luxury of more space for each episode).
But really, if you can subscribe to it, where's the fun in that? I think it's better as a surprise in relevant articles. I'll always back-link to the prior episode anyway, so you can go back... maybe I should cross-post the episodes in my journal.
I'll put the blog link in the finale (tentatively scheduled for late July/ early August).
Also, I'm looking for artwork to accompany it...
That's the entire basis of this appeal... the defendant did not have the opportunity to examine the tools used to convict him. It's a fundamental principle in the US that defendants are given the opportunity to cross-examine witness, examine material evidence, etc.
But they weren't doing government contracting. The produced a good that was purchased by the government. There's a very big difference.
The key here is not that the government, or anyone, should own what they produced -- it's that when what they produced is used to convict someone, that person has the right to examine the methods used.
It's not about openness, at all. It's about the right to a fair trial; openness is just a side effect.
Yes, but old people tend to leave NY and go somewhere else, and those locales need to pay to keep them alive.
So fat people, who die early, *may* cost NY more, because someone else is bearing the cost of keeping the skinny 90-year-olds alive.
Obviously, the math may say something else entirely -- but net societal costs are not the same thing as net costs to NY; NY may very well get to externalize a significant portion of the extra costs of healthy people.
Just an additional point to consider.
Or you know, do what most people do when systems go down... work on things not requiring those systems.
What's that? All your work systems are dependent on a single outside vendor?
Heh. Heh heh. Brilliant.
Oh, one more thing... I promise not to write advertisements for next week's episode again... just in case it was bothering anyone.
Yes, but the Admins' "Oops" comments were a cover-up. This outage was not due to an error during maintenance.
This outage was a sign that Gatus and Joba are having some success in their quest to thwart Googol the Destroyer; apparently, not only are they getting converts in their efforts to have all the world's sorcerors collaborate on the One True Operating System with Global Search, but they (or someone else) has launched an effort to delay the work on the Rite of a Million Targeted Ads by Googol the Destroyer and his acolytes.
Who is responsible for the guerrilla attacks on Googol the Destroyer, his acolytes, and his crack team of evil underlords? How are Gatus and Joba faring on their recruitment of the world's sorcerors? What has Stallmanx been working on in his secret laboratory*? Will we ever find out what lies beneath his Beard of Druidic Prowess? Answers to these questions and more will be revealed in the next two episodes!
Remember, kids, tune in to next week's episode (look for it Tuesday or Wednesday) of Googol the Destroyer!
Yes, but the increase in health care premiums is an indirect result of the insurance companies protecting their margins at all costs. They pass on their increased tax expense, and you pay higher premiums, so that their profits are not damaged -- only yours are. And you know what? You (or your employer) are willing to pay the extra cost.
The answer is to jump ship for another insurer with lower premiums. Oh, they're all raising rates? That's the joy of oligopoly.
Note: at a previous employer, I was able to negotiate a higher salary in exchange for not receiving medical benefits. I self-insured, and made out pretty well (my total cost was around 60% of the company's premium, but they paid me 75% of their premiums over base pay -- so we both saved money, even after employment taxes on the salary difference). My current employer offers nothing of the sort, so they're stuck paying high rates.
So we should incentivize being fat by offer subsidies on crappy food?
This is the movie industry. There are no profits, remember?
Just royalty expenses paid to affiliate companies.
Never mind the fact that the zombie flies only target these fire-ants -- they are very species-specific.
Ah, but if we're going to imagine making a tank look like a heavy truck, or a rocket launcher looking like a stack of pipes... why not just imagine world peace?
We're about as close to achieving a usable cloak of illusion as we are to achieving world piece...
Great! This is awesome. Now, where did I put my invisibility cloak so I can fiddle with it?
Yes, the wall must be thin -- thin enough for light to pass through it. In other words, thin enough to see through without the cloak on top of it. So, in order to see through a see-through wall, we put the cloak in front of it, then make the cloak appear to be a hole, through which we can see through the see-through wall. I see.
These gedanken experiments are nice and all, but I'll believe it when I see it. Or rather, when I don't.
That's nonsense. A base WinXP system (instead of a fully update XPSP3 + AV) would max out the processor and the internet bandwidth within days, if not hours, of being turned on.
See, what happens is that friendly hackers automagically scan the ports of a base XP install, then kindly install their own "service packs" to help make sure the XP system is using all its available resources. You woyludn't want to waste your resources, right?
It's good that you cannot imagine that. Because if you could imagine that, then it might be something to be worried about.
As an aside, interpreting the data would likely be done by the processor, so if you're going to be running the processor at full speed, then the only thing to be concerned about is the draw of the sensors.
I have some experience trouble-shooting kissing problems, maybe I can be of service.
First off, were you standing next to eachother? Your statement didn't make this clear; standing on different continents can be an serious issue.
Secondly, is she powered up? Did you flip the switch? Is it depressed on the 0 side or the | side?
Thirdly, did you check the cabling? Is the power cord plugged into the wall socket? Now check the other end of the cord, is it plugged into her back?
Sorry about those last two questions, those are just default trouble-shooting questions for any problem.
Please let us know if you found this experience helpful by responding to the resolution questionnaire email we will shortly be sending to you. If not, please log a ticket with Tier II Kissing support.
Perhaps you don't understand the nature of vomiting issue. "Bucking up" because it's a "bad smell" is not always possible. Good for you if you're an internet tough guy who never vomits unless he chooses to. The rest of the population sometimes simply doesn't have a choice in the matter. The vomit reflex in response to smell is NOT a voluntary response. While it sometimes can be limited via voluntary effort, this is not always the case.
It is human nature to vomit at the smell of noxious fumes (that's why they are called noxious); this is a biological trait that has evolved as a survival response to eating tainted food.
I don't know if you've ever had a bout of violent vomiting that lasted several minutes. Pulled rib muscles, capillary damage resulting in bleeding from nasal passages and the eyes, esophageal bleeding... a couple of these items require medical examination. When I was an EMT, we had a guy who was throwing up due to overeating and not chewing his food properly, and he had a heart attack, likely from the increase in blood pressure/pulse rate while vomiting. He had no idea he was having a heart attack, he thought he just had painful vomiting.
If there is an unknown risk (which is quite possible), seeking medical evaluation is important. Both for liability reasons (you KNOW the employer needs to cover their ass) and for humane reasons. What if there was a bigger issue, such as toxins? Are you medically qualified to rule that out? Do you think anyone in that office was?
And I'll give you a little hint about office morale... having several employees puking their guts out is a bad idea. Sending them directly home is callous. Making sure they are OK is the right thing to do, and medical evaluation is the right way to do it.
I read your comment.
I also read TFA, and TFS.
Why can't someone smell when they have seasonal allergies? If you can figure out the answer to THAT question, then you can figure out why inhalation of chemicals into her nasal passage was not a problem, and why concerns about a vomitous reaction would not be a concern for her.
Though toxins with effects other than causing (involuntary, btw) gag reflex appear not to be an issue in this case, the people who succumbed to the odors *had no way of knowing that*.
In short, you're still way off base.
What do you think odors are? They are chemicals.
If chemicals induce vomiting, they are affecting your health... repeated vomiting can have some nasty effects (like difficulties breathing due to rib muscle injury, or major capillary damage that can affect eyesight, or aspiration of stomach contents leading to pulmonary infection).
Never mind potential allergic reactions.
And never mind the affects of concentrated cleaning solvents in poorly-ventilated areas, which seems also to have been part of the problem.
Oops. Fed the troll.
Hey, we were young kids who had been reading older siblings' collegiate math texts.
Can you blame us for being way off base*?
*Literally, off base. Not off-base-as-in-baseball-or-pickle, but off-base-as-in-thinking-base-googol-instead-of-base-ten?
There have been many complaints that the EPA is being deficient in adding sites that should qualify as Superfund sites. Also, the "polluter pays" policy attached to Superfund is being under-enforced. Cleanup of Superfund sites is lagging far behind schedule due to underfunding.
Right back at you. The value of it would be astronomical, it doesn't matter if they can only make money off it for 17-18 years or life +80 years.
It's not aout how long they'd have IP rights, it;s about how much they could sell it for.
WARNING: If you are at work, do NOT image search "DPS" with safesearch off.
What? Sure boss, I'll come right into your office. Just give me one sec.