Obtaining summary judgment and affirmance... rejecting the claims of a major tobacco company seeking to shut down the.. nationwide counter-marketing campaign to discourage young people from smoking"
Not a plus in my opinion. The tobacco witch hunt was nothing short of ridiculous. I read novels written in the 50s referring to cigarettes as "cancel sticks" and "coffin nails", and yet and expected to believe that people were magically convinced they were healthy because of tobacco PR and marketing? Give me a break. People smoked because they wanted to (this is coming from an ex-smoker), and because when we're young we can't believe that we're mortal.
There's a huge difference here. Television is not a necessity to modern life and maintaining standard of living (in spite of how loudly some my proclaim otherwise). Driving, especially in rural areas and areas without transit, is.
Yep, definitely - nobody's going to complain if your usage doesn't increase dramatically, because they'll have no reason to look at you in the first place. I find that tethering is great for when I need to ssh into servers and get tired of the crappy ssh client on my device - I use it to transfer the same amounts of data I would if I were using the client on the device. But I'm not going to go out and start running bittorrent via blackberry - that'd be a quick way to give them reason to look at my usage patterns.
Frankly, I find the whole situation irritating as hell. Here are my (contractually allowed) options:
1) use internet on my blackberry only, with no limits at all. Not even 5GB. Pay $30/mo
2) get tethering service. Pay $60-70/mo for a 5GB transfer limit.
Today we have our laptops, Kindles, RSS feeds, incredible PDAs, hell, my cell phone does more than first computer ever could, ten times over.
I used to read books and magazines on my Palm tungsten. Then I switched to blackberry, and I have nearly $1000 in ebooks that I can't read. At all. Why would people want to run that risk? The capabilities are there, but after/years/ of ebook publishing there's still no standard that will ensure this can't happen. Print media can always be read, no matter what platform you're using.
Of course, there's a much more practical concern: after 12-16 hours, I want to/stop/ looking at a monitor for a while.
Just please don't give me this nostalgic wasn't-it-great-back-then crap about how you used to be so excited for the new issue to come in the mail. Rather, be excited about seeing your RSS feed updated. Shift your focus, enjoy your nostalgia, but put it into perspective.
Nostalgia is longing for something past for its own sake. In this case, there's a measurable difference in quality. I can count on one hand the number of web sites that deliver the kind of quality technical information that DDJ and CUJ used to provide.
And among those web sites, it's still a challenge to find the valid, useful information hidden amidst blog entries where folks will hold forth on topics they know little to nothing about.
I haven't purchased a magazine outside of an airport in this millennium and I don't know anyone else who has, either. There isn't one thing a magazine could tell me that I haven't read (and probably re-re-read) many times over.
In other words, "I don't use this, and therefore nobody else does either"?
For AT&T customers in the US with 'unlimited' data plans, this is very likely against the terms of service. As long as you keep data usage light, you'll probably be fine - but if you start doing massive downloads and they look closer, your service may get terminated.
From the link:
Prohibited and permissable uses
... Furthermore, plans(unless specifically designated for tethering usage) cannot be used for any applications that tether the device (through use of, including without limitation, connection kits, other phone/PDA-to computer accessories, Bluetooth® or any other wireless technology) to Personal Computers (including without limitation, laptops), or other equipment for any purpose
Valid point. If things do progress to that point, neither stocks nor money will be of help - but there are things that can be done with money while it/is/ useful that can help offset that. Hadn't thought of it that way.
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So computer security isn't really much different. Instead of vaults and locks and security guards, we have encryption and firewalls and antiviruses. Protecting against external threats isn't really that hard a lot of the time. Most of the time, the biggest dangers are either directly or indirectly from employees.
While I agree with your point overall, I do disagree with this. A key difference is the lack of physical "stuff". I copy a file to a network share, access it randomly from someone's PC that got left unlocked, copy it to a USB stick... it's worse than no evidence, it's incorrect evidence.
The audit of physical goods (particularly money in a bank) is very comprehensive. The audit of information is much more complex, if not impossible, to maintain in a way that is guaranteed accurate. Unless you prevent humans from accessing your systems at all, you're at risk - firewalls, proxies, and audit data can reduce the risk, but it is impossible to eliminate.
Arg, mis-stated. I meant that the investment won't help much when you're living in the states with no access to money, not that chinese currency would not be valid in the states;)
My own belief is that there will be a global collapse; if that happens I don't really lose anything and am not any worse off. If it does not happen, I come out well ahead.
That said - if there's a safer bet to be had, it probably/will/ be chinese currency. BUt if there's an internal collapse, it won't buy you very much here in the states.
The day-traders do. The ones who buy stocks and hold onto it for decades (ie, the smart folks) don't have so much of an impact on the day-to-day price swings, and are far more likely to profit in spite of times like this.
Another way to look at it: buy as much as you can. Either this cycle will will end and you'll come out a wealthy person in a few decades - or the economy will completely collapse, and we're all screwed anyway.
Don't come to me with "I can't print". Come to me with "when I print, I get an error message that says 'xyz 123', when I opened the print thingy (que) there are like 200 jobs in there, I tried rebooting and a different printer but no go, can you help?"
Why? All they want to do is a print a document. When they can't print it, they call the folks who can fix that (presumably you). Their job isn't to troubleshoot the problem - it's to write that document and print it. By definition, they can't be wasting your time to bring the problem to you, because that's your job. If they can take some steps to make it easier for you, you should be thanking them - but not holding it against them if they don't.
Technology may not be your thing, and that is fine. But problem solving better be on your list of skills, or you are going to be a huge liability for me, yourself and who ever we work for. Not just with technology, but with anything.
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Solving problems within their domain of expertise is what they do for a living. Solving problems within your domain of expertise is what you do for a living. Where's the fuzzy line?
I may be abnormal, but I have degrees in business, computers and I'm finishing up my accounting degree. I say that, to say this... the same set of problem solving skills are used in all these fields. The only difference is the background knowledge needed to make it work.
That's rather key isn't it? If they don't have the background knowledge of computers, they lack the ability to do even simple troubleshooting - no matter that the basics of troubleshooting are the same the world over. "Printer queue? What's that? Wait, I can use other printers? How do I do that?"
What really pisses me off about disabling that stupid dog is the way he turns his back on me, and slowly saunters off the screen. No, you stupid mutt! I want you gone NOW, none of this insouciance from you!
I think you're missing a key point in this. There's a difference between what's natural, the culturally agreed-upon behaviors expected of civilized people. While I think our (U.S.) attitude towards nudity, sex, and the body human is ridiculous, I'm also aware that we can't just make it go away by proclaiming loudly "But it's natural".
Further, making your case by saying "monkeys do it" is counterproductive. People/strongly/ dislike being reminded of our probable simian heritage. So what you get is a kneejerk response that says, "But that's what makes us civilized" instead of any chance at reasonable discourse - consequently missing any opportunity to convince people of your point of view.
It used to be just about procreation and there was zero emotion or intimacy attached,
Sources? Anytime something feels good to do, there's going to be emotion involved. Whether it's sex or murder, there's emotion. The monkeys probably enjoy it too;)
The purpose of the statement was to expose as hypocritical MS claims about the effects of software piracy on local economies.
Please do try and keep up at the back of the class.
So you're saying paying taxes is the same as putting money into the local economy? I must have missed that lesson...
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Actually for Flash you should take a look at these instructions which will work cross-platform.
Recommended reading as far as Flash and standards. If you said "people use it as an excuse to make hard-to-navigate, crappy web sites that don't do anything useful" , I would have agreed whole-heartedly. Instead, you seem to be the case that because a small minority of users can't view Flash pages, nobody should use it.
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that Flash/is/ a de facto standard. It runs on the platforms that the vast majority of the computing world uses, and most folks don't ever have to do anything to configure it.
If you haven't read it, then don't bother. 6 or 7 linux distros (half of which are outdated - fedora 9 beta anyone?), open office 3, firefox 3, and ibm lotus symphony. I can't fathom how this made it to the front page. I kept clicking 'next' thinking that I'd find the content of the article just around the corner.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I mean, I'm trying to figure it out, but I don't get it. My argument was that Europeans really do pay significantly higher taxes than Americans.
Specifically, I was refuting this:
Free health care and you pay less in taxes than Americans.
You just brought to mind an interesting dilemma I'm going to have when my wife and I have kids. We met online... so that means I'm going to be stuck in the old "do as I say, not as I did" rut, which never works...
Double jeopardy prevents you from being tried for the same crime again. There is nothing stopping them from prosecuting you for those other 15 rapes while you are already in jail.
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Obtaining summary judgment and affirmance ... rejecting the claims of a major tobacco company seeking to shut down the .. nationwide counter-marketing campaign to discourage young people from smoking"
Not a plus in my opinion. The tobacco witch hunt was nothing short of ridiculous. I read novels written in the 50s referring to cigarettes as "cancel sticks" and "coffin nails", and yet and expected to believe that people were magically convinced they were healthy because of tobacco PR and marketing? Give me a break. People smoked because they wanted to (this is coming from an ex-smoker), and because when we're young we can't believe that we're mortal.
There's a huge difference here. Television is not a necessity to modern life and maintaining standard of living (in spite of how loudly some my proclaim otherwise). Driving, especially in rural areas and areas without transit, is.
Frankly, I find the whole situation irritating as hell. Here are my (contractually allowed) options:
1) use internet on my blackberry only, with no limits at all. Not even 5GB. Pay $30/mo
2) get tethering service. Pay $60-70/mo for a 5GB transfer limit.
More than a little ridiculous.
Today we have our laptops, Kindles, RSS feeds, incredible PDAs, hell, my cell phone does more than first computer ever could, ten times over.
I used to read books and magazines on my Palm tungsten. Then I switched to blackberry, and I have nearly $1000 in ebooks that I can't read. At all. Why would people want to run that risk? The capabilities are there, but after /years/ of ebook publishing there's still no standard that will ensure this can't happen. Print media can always be read, no matter what platform you're using.
Of course, there's a much more practical concern: after 12-16 hours, I want to /stop/ looking at a monitor for a while.
Just please don't give me this nostalgic wasn't-it-great-back-then crap about how you used to be so excited for the new issue to come in the mail. Rather, be excited about seeing your RSS feed updated. Shift your focus, enjoy your nostalgia, but put it into perspective.
Nostalgia is longing for something past for its own sake. In this case, there's a measurable difference in quality. I can count on one hand the number of web sites that deliver the kind of quality technical information that DDJ and CUJ used to provide.
And among those web sites, it's still a challenge to find the valid, useful information hidden amidst blog entries where folks will hold forth on topics they know little to nothing about.
I haven't purchased a magazine outside of an airport in this millennium and I don't know anyone else who has, either. There isn't one thing a magazine could tell me that I haven't read (and probably re-re-read) many times over.
In other words, "I don't use this, and therefore nobody else does either"?
For AT&T customers in the US with 'unlimited' data plans, this is very likely against the terms of service. As long as you keep data usage light, you'll probably be fine - but if you start doing massive downloads and they look closer, your service may get terminated.
From the link:
Prohibited and permissable uses
... Furthermore, plans(unless specifically designated for tethering usage) cannot be used for any applications that tether the device (through use of, including without limitation, connection kits, other phone/PDA-to computer accessories, Bluetooth® or any other wireless technology) to Personal Computers (including without limitation, laptops), or other equipment for any purpose
Valid point. If things do progress to that point, neither stocks nor money will be of help - but there are things that can be done with money while it /is/ useful that can help offset that. Hadn't thought of it that way.
Give me a root ...
I guess that depends on your definition of "queen"....
). So computer security isn't really much different. Instead of vaults and locks and security guards, we have encryption and firewalls and antiviruses. Protecting against external threats isn't really that hard a lot of the time. Most of the time, the biggest dangers are either directly or indirectly from employees.
While I agree with your point overall, I do disagree with this. A key difference is the lack of physical "stuff". I copy a file to a network share, access it randomly from someone's PC that got left unlocked, copy it to a USB stick... it's worse than no evidence, it's incorrect evidence.
The audit of physical goods (particularly money in a bank) is very comprehensive. The audit of information is much more complex, if not impossible, to maintain in a way that is guaranteed accurate. Unless you prevent humans from accessing your systems at all, you're at risk - firewalls, proxies, and audit data can reduce the risk, but it is impossible to eliminate.
Arg, mis-stated. I meant that the investment won't help much when you're living in the states with no access to money, not that chinese currency would not be valid in the states ;)
That said - if there's a safer bet to be had, it probably /will/ be chinese currency. BUt if there's an internal collapse, it won't buy you very much here in the states.
The design of the space shuttle was influenced enormously by the military, just FYI.
Truth.
He's not a moron
This, only time will tell.
Another way to look at it: buy as much as you can. Either this cycle will will end and you'll come out a wealthy person in a few decades - or the economy will completely collapse, and we're all screwed anyway.
Silly? Sure. But you're very seldom going to convince someone that they're being foolish by saying to them "you're an idiot".
Don't come to me with "I can't print". Come to me with "when I print, I get an error message that says 'xyz 123', when I opened the print thingy (que) there are like 200 jobs in there, I tried rebooting and a different printer but no go, can you help?"
Why? All they want to do is a print a document. When they can't print it, they call the folks who can fix that (presumably you). Their job isn't to troubleshoot the problem - it's to write that document and print it. By definition, they can't be wasting your time to bring the problem to you, because that's your job. If they can take some steps to make it easier for you, you should be thanking them - but not holding it against them if they don't.
Technology may not be your thing, and that is fine. But problem solving better be on your list of skills, or you are going to be a huge liability for me, yourself and who ever we work for. Not just with technology, but with anything.
. Solving problems within their domain of expertise is what they do for a living. Solving problems within your domain of expertise is what you do for a living. Where's the fuzzy line?
I may be abnormal, but I have degrees in business, computers and I'm finishing up my accounting degree. I say that, to say this... the same set of problem solving skills are used in all these fields. The only difference is the background knowledge needed to make it work.
That's rather key isn't it? If they don't have the background knowledge of computers, they lack the ability to do even simple troubleshooting - no matter that the basics of troubleshooting are the same the world over. "Printer queue? What's that? Wait, I can use other printers? How do I do that?"
What really pisses me off about disabling that stupid dog is the way he turns his back on me, and slowly saunters off the screen. No, you stupid mutt! I want you gone NOW, none of this insouciance from you!
Yep, if you press Alt-F4 in your web browser of choice, he comes back.
That I agree with on both counts; but it doesn't seem that this is what most people are referring to when they talk about the hypocrisy involved .
I think you're missing a key point in this. There's a difference between what's natural, the culturally agreed-upon behaviors expected of civilized people. While I think our (U.S.) attitude towards nudity, sex, and the body human is ridiculous, I'm also aware that we can't just make it go away by proclaiming loudly "But it's natural".
Further, making your case by saying "monkeys do it" is counterproductive. People /strongly/ dislike being reminded of our probable simian heritage. So what you get is a kneejerk response that says, "But that's what makes us civilized" instead of any chance at reasonable discourse - consequently missing any opportunity to convince people of your point of view.
It used to be just about procreation and there was zero emotion or intimacy attached,
Sources? Anytime something feels good to do, there's going to be emotion involved. Whether it's sex or murder, there's emotion. The monkeys probably enjoy it too ;)
The purpose of the statement was to expose as hypocritical MS claims about the effects of software piracy on local economies. Please do try and keep up at the back of the class.
So you're saying paying taxes is the same as putting money into the local economy? I must have missed that lesson...
Actually for Flash you should take a look at these instructions which will work cross-platform.
The unfortunate truth of the matter is that Flash /is/ a de facto standard. It runs on the platforms that the vast majority of the computing world uses, and most folks don't ever have to do anything to configure it.
If you haven't read it, then don't bother. 6 or 7 linux distros (half of which are outdated - fedora 9 beta anyone?), open office 3, firefox 3, and ibm lotus symphony. I can't fathom how this made it to the front page. I kept clicking 'next' thinking that I'd find the content of the article just around the corner.
Free health care and you pay less in taxes than Americans.
You just brought to mind an interesting dilemma I'm going to have when my wife and I have kids. We met online... so that means I'm going to be stuck in the old "do as I say, not as I did" rut, which never works...
Double jeopardy prevents you from being tried for the same crime again. There is nothing stopping them from prosecuting you for those other 15 rapes while you are already in jail.