Just amend the "contract" as you would any other contract. Put a post-it note over the screen, with "I retain my first sale doctrine rights and in return will respect their copyright, with the exception of acceptable Fair Use." then click agree. It's akin to crossing out language you disagree with, and writing in your own. If you have any doubts about it, shoot a photo of it should you have to take a matter to court. It sounds ridiculous, but so is a EULA which is not presented to you until after you have purchased the commodity good, which upon opening, the reseller will refuse to accept as a return.
Or, avoid being fucked and go use pirated software, since lately it seems that "counterfeit" software is superior to the real thing since it is reportedly less annoying to install. Really though, you shouldn't do this. Although it is not "theft" it is wrong.
Best solution: choose F/OSS when possible, appropriate, and adequate.
So, it's usable as a night light, and not much else. In other words, it really doesn't exist as a practical lighting solution yet. Thanks for proving why this development is so revolutionary.
Imagine, the sort of panel lighting you see all the time in sci fi. If they can approximate black body spectrum of an incandescent, this would be amazing. I'd line the bottoms of shelves, and install panels on the ceilings and walls, under the edges of steps, under cupboards, even inside cupboards and closets and have light exactly where I need it. It seems that if this works, you can have light panels you can actually cut to size, which would allow for really creative, ultra-modern lighting installations. I would also install panels on the back of my televisions and monitors to provide ambient backlighting to increase the apparent contrast while watching movies.
I try to stick with 3500K CFLs; the 2700K are too depressing (like old incandescent lamps) and the 6000K lamps make people look sick. Plus, color rendition under the 6000K lamps is as bad as the 2700K lamps, but different. The 3500K lamps are not perfect but being closer to a true white they are the best CFL solution I've found. Unfortunately, the "true white" lamps are less common than the "soft white" and "daylight" color temps, especially when it comes to higher output bulbs.
> A lot of people miss leaded gasoline, because they miss the sweeter smell it gave off, vs. the harsher unleaded gasoline smell.
I have never heard of this. Some people miss it for the protection the lead gives the valves, and others miss it for the higher octane rating required for older high-compression engines.
> Or those people who often buy unpasteurized milk on the black market. Because they claim it tastes better and has nutrition. Does the difference in taste and a minor improvement in nutrition outweigh the serious illnesses you can get from it?
1. You misspelled grey market 2. It tastes MUCH better 3. If the cows are grass fed and not raised in a factory style setting, it's a non-issue. It's been found that grass-fed cows rarely need to be pumped full of antibiotics since grass itself has medicinal properties.
I'm fiscally conservative, and see conservation as a smart financial move. However, it has to be practical as well. How will these lights perform in cold weather? All my interior lights are CFL, but outdoors I've switched half of them back to higher-wattage incandescents than before (because the lower wattage units are not as available now) because once the temperature falls below 55F, CFLs take a very long time to reach full brightness.
Oh and one more thing: if they can cover the full color spectrum for proper color rendition and come in an actual white rather than "daylight" that makes everybody look ill or fugly yellow "soft white", they will be better than both CFL and LED lamps as well as incandescent for indoor purposes as well.:-)
If they're free of flicker and buzzing, are instant-on even below 55F, don't cost >$20 each, and are dimmable, I can't see anyone complaining.
The big problem with banning incandescents is that in uninsulated basements, garages, and directly outdoors, CFLs are utterly worthless during the winter unless you plan on keeping the lights on 24/7 to maintain operating temperature - which completely defeats the purpose of high efficiency lighting.
Why not use a laptop, then you can sit back with your feet up on your desk? That's how I used to work in a development environment - I had a couple of multiprocessor Pentium Pros under my desk for running builds, but any coding, reading, or writing documentation was done on my laptop, sitting back comfortably with my laptop on my lap, then I'd check in the code, and move my build and SQL scripts over as needed.
Unprofessional? Perhaps, if you're a client-facing sales "engineer" or technical account manager, but not compared to engineers shooting nerf guns or having wadded-paper fights.:-)
Not if you use it as a tool for teaching logic, critical thinking, and analytics. This would be a very good exercise for that. Present the "evidence" of various theories and let students analyze and debate it and come to their own conclusions. How can anyone argue against teaching logic and critical thinking, unless their purpose of trying to change curriculum is to engage in social engineering to support their own political agenda?
In any event, evolution vs. creationism doesn't really belong in primary school since it isn't practical knowledge to prepare one for the real world (I can't remember the last time knowing that humans are great apes came in useful except for making wisecracks). Physics, math and basic chemistry do, and there is not nearly enough focus on those subjects.
I'd go further than that. Show them both "theories" (better yet, also include FSM and Hindu "theories") and focus on teaching critical thinking and logic. Let the students examine the evidence, debate, and come to their own conclusion. This way, they will be better equipped to deal with life, and will think more critically in all aspects of daily life, ranging from politics to economics to lifestyle (e.g., do I eat that entire bag of doritos, or a salad with a couple of doritos on the side).
Yes, and they were going to openly support third-party developers with no Tivoization. The system was to be called iQon. It would have been great - being able to access CAN and OBD via the system would have made the cars super-easy to tune (and of course diagnose and reset codes), allowed for custom gauges, or whatever else floats your boat.
Wish You Were Here, Animals, the final cut (yeah I know, arguably a Waters solo album), Dark Side of the Moon. Pretty much everything from DSotM forward.
I'm sure that if you're willing to pay two to three times the current price for pizza to cover the $8.5K-$24K additional each employee will cost the company, then papa john's will happily cover 100% of health insurance costs for their employees. Are you willing to pay that increase for pizza?
I'd forgive them if they were to compensate me financially for libel, defamation of character, and unauthorized access to a computer device or service.
No, it'd be funny if Luke has a hen-pecking wife, and he had planned to go out with his friends. Imagine this: He rebuilt his uncle's farm, and is taking the day off getting ready to go out. He chugs down a mug of blue milk and starts walking out the door, calling for Artoo to get the landspeeder ready. Wife nags him to rake the dunes, and he whines "But I Wanted To Go To Tosche Station To Buy Some Power Converters, " like he did in Episode IV, "then down a few brews with Han." to which his nagging wife replies "You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done.":-D
Anakin may have been a bit of a whiner, but so was Luke.
Well he did say way back in the '80s (I think it was a Time or Newsweek interview) that he had envisioned three trilogies, and planned to revisit the concept with episodes 7 through 9 when the original actors are in their 50s and 60s. The time to do the prequel would have been the '80s.
what else is in the way of making 2013 the year of the Linux desktop?
The ongoing trend of saying "RTFM" to every question when TFM is either nonexistent, is written in geek terms a non-sysadmin will never comprehend, or the documentation simply sucks balls.
Regligious fanboyism of distro-vs-distro
RPM Hell (. . . and RPM is one of the better package managers!!)
Lack of a cohesive marketing effort; different projects and distros spend too much time competing and distinguishing themselves from one another rather than cooperating and distinguishing ALL of Linux from Windows as a legitimate alternative
F/OSS vs. binary blob holy war: why does it have to be so difficult (from a user's perspective) to get an NVIDIA card working properly? (or to get an ATI/AMD card to work at all;))
lack of working management tools for SAMBA (editing config files and managing samba users via CLI is still the best way) not to mention crappy SAMBA documentation and howtos that are just plain wrong
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-- Lack of support from third-party vendors and hardware makers (or inferior support where support does exist). I am back tor running Windows almost exclusively on my primary PC (my laptop) for:
- RAW support for my DSLR (DCRAW is horrible compared to Lightroom or even Canon's DPP raw processing)
- Adobe CS and photoshop plugins
- my embroidery machine and embroidery software
- My iPhone (like it or not, it's a great product but it's tied to iTunes)
- Games (less work to configure than futzing around with WINE or Crossover or Cedega**)
- CD/DVD publisher (Bravo SE) at the office
- Brother label printer
- SilverLight (Ick. see: Netflix)
** now discontinued(?) - which brings up another point: products/projects being abandoned/discontinued seemingly at random
You can't just join these boxes to the same domain without breaking some serious functionality. That's because each SBS box *must* hold all the FSMO roles.
. . . not to mention violating the licensing, unless it's for the express purpose of a 'swing' upgrade.
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Just amend the "contract" as you would any other contract. Put a post-it note over the screen, with "I retain my first sale doctrine rights and in return will respect their copyright, with the exception of acceptable Fair Use." then click agree. It's akin to crossing out language you disagree with, and writing in your own. If you have any doubts about it, shoot a photo of it should you have to take a matter to court. It sounds ridiculous, but so is a EULA which is not presented to you until after you have purchased the commodity good, which upon opening, the reseller will refuse to accept as a return.
Or, avoid being fucked and go use pirated software, since lately it seems that "counterfeit" software is superior to the real thing since it is reportedly less annoying to install. Really though, you shouldn't do this. Although it is not "theft" it is wrong.
Best solution: choose F/OSS when possible, appropriate, and adequate.
Wow, that is an authentic experience - it even jams just like the real thing! ;)
just kidding. I like the AR-15. It is prone to jamming though. :-(
So, it's usable as a night light, and not much else. In other words, it really doesn't exist as a practical lighting solution yet. Thanks for proving why this development is so revolutionary.
Imagine, the sort of panel lighting you see all the time in sci fi. If they can approximate black body spectrum of an incandescent, this would be amazing. I'd line the bottoms of shelves, and install panels on the ceilings and walls, under the edges of steps, under cupboards, even inside cupboards and closets and have light exactly where I need it. It seems that if this works, you can have light panels you can actually cut to size, which would allow for really creative, ultra-modern lighting installations. I would also install panels on the back of my televisions and monitors to provide ambient backlighting to increase the apparent contrast while watching movies.
I try to stick with 3500K CFLs; the 2700K are too depressing (like old incandescent lamps) and the 6000K lamps make people look sick. Plus, color rendition under the 6000K lamps is as bad as the 2700K lamps, but different. The 3500K lamps are not perfect but being closer to a true white they are the best CFL solution I've found. Unfortunately, the "true white" lamps are less common than the "soft white" and "daylight" color temps, especially when it comes to higher output bulbs.
> A lot of people miss leaded gasoline, because they miss the sweeter smell it gave off, vs. the harsher unleaded gasoline smell.
I have never heard of this. Some people miss it for the protection the lead gives the valves, and others miss it for the higher octane rating required for older high-compression engines.
> Or those people who often buy unpasteurized milk on the black market. Because they claim it tastes better and has nutrition. Does the difference in taste and a minor improvement in nutrition outweigh the serious illnesses you can get from it?
1. You misspelled grey market
2. It tastes MUCH better
3. If the cows are grass fed and not raised in a factory style setting, it's a non-issue. It's been found that grass-fed cows rarely need to be pumped full of antibiotics since grass itself has medicinal properties.
I'm fiscally conservative, and see conservation as a smart financial move. However, it has to be practical as well. How will these lights perform in cold weather? All my interior lights are CFL, but outdoors I've switched half of them back to higher-wattage incandescents than before (because the lower wattage units are not as available now) because once the temperature falls below 55F, CFLs take a very long time to reach full brightness.
Oh and one more thing: if they can cover the full color spectrum for proper color rendition and come in an actual white rather than "daylight" that makes everybody look ill or fugly yellow "soft white", they will be better than both CFL and LED lamps as well as incandescent for indoor purposes as well. :-)
If they're free of flicker and buzzing, are instant-on even below 55F, don't cost >$20 each, and are dimmable, I can't see anyone complaining.
The big problem with banning incandescents is that in uninsulated basements, garages, and directly outdoors, CFLs are utterly worthless during the winter unless you plan on keeping the lights on 24/7 to maintain operating temperature - which completely defeats the purpose of high efficiency lighting.
The incandescent lamp still used as the backlight for many digital watches is allowed on aircraft, and it gets much hotter than that.
Why not use a laptop, then you can sit back with your feet up on your desk? That's how I used to work in a development environment - I had a couple of multiprocessor Pentium Pros under my desk for running builds, but any coding, reading, or writing documentation was done on my laptop, sitting back comfortably with my laptop on my lap, then I'd check in the code, and move my build and SQL scripts over as needed.
Unprofessional? Perhaps, if you're a client-facing sales "engineer" or technical account manager, but not compared to engineers shooting nerf guns or having wadded-paper fights. :-)
Not if you use it as a tool for teaching logic, critical thinking, and analytics. This would be a very good exercise for that. Present the "evidence" of various theories and let students analyze and debate it and come to their own conclusions. How can anyone argue against teaching logic and critical thinking, unless their purpose of trying to change curriculum is to engage in social engineering to support their own political agenda?
In any event, evolution vs. creationism doesn't really belong in primary school since it isn't practical knowledge to prepare one for the real world (I can't remember the last time knowing that humans are great apes came in useful except for making wisecracks). Physics, math and basic chemistry do, and there is not nearly enough focus on those subjects.
I'd go further than that. Show them both "theories" (better yet, also include FSM and Hindu "theories") and focus on teaching critical thinking and logic. Let the students examine the evidence, debate, and come to their own conclusion. This way, they will be better equipped to deal with life, and will think more critically in all aspects of daily life, ranging from politics to economics to lifestyle (e.g., do I eat that entire bag of doritos, or a salad with a couple of doritos on the side).
Yes, and they were going to openly support third-party developers with no Tivoization. The system was to be called iQon. It would have been great - being able to access CAN and OBD via the system would have made the cars super-easy to tune (and of course diagnose and reset codes), allowed for custom gauges, or whatever else floats your boat.
A free Windows 8 license is not a gift. . . it's a punishment! ;)
Wish You Were Here, Animals, the final cut (yeah I know, arguably a Waters solo album), Dark Side of the Moon. Pretty much everything from DSotM forward.
I'm sure that if you're willing to pay two to three times the current price for pizza to cover the $8.5K-$24K additional each employee will cost the company, then papa john's will happily cover 100% of health insurance costs for their employees. Are you willing to pay that increase for pizza?
I didn't think so.
I'd forgive them if they were to compensate me financially for libel, defamation of character, and unauthorized access to a computer device or service.
No, it'd be funny if Luke has a hen-pecking wife, and he had planned to go out with his friends. Imagine this: He rebuilt his uncle's farm, and is taking the day off getting ready to go out. He chugs down a mug of blue milk and starts walking out the door, calling for Artoo to get the landspeeder ready. Wife nags him to rake the dunes, and he whines "But I Wanted To Go To Tosche Station To Buy Some Power Converters, " like he did in Episode IV, "then down a few brews with Han." to which his nagging wife replies "You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done." :-D
Anakin may have been a bit of a whiner, but so was Luke.
Well he did say way back in the '80s (I think it was a Time or Newsweek interview) that he had envisioned three trilogies, and planned to revisit the concept with episodes 7 through 9 when the original actors are in their 50s and 60s. The time to do the prequel would have been the '80s.
More importantly, try to get the common consumer to care.
Oh, and I forgot the most important one:
User reports a bug or makes a feature request - in regard to a really glaring, obvious issue or shortcoming.
Developer response: WIll not fix. It's more boring than developing new features. (or) it's open source, fix it yourself!
Yeah, brilliant marketing there. Way to win friends (for Microsoft and Apple) and influence people (to go back to proprietary OSes)
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Lack of support from third-party vendors and hardware makers (or inferior support where support does exist). I am back tor running Windows almost exclusively on my primary PC (my laptop) for:
- RAW support for my DSLR (DCRAW is horrible compared to Lightroom or even Canon's DPP raw processing)
- Adobe CS and photoshop plugins
- my embroidery machine and embroidery software
- My iPhone (like it or not, it's a great product but it's tied to iTunes)
- Games (less work to configure than futzing around with WINE or Crossover or Cedega**)
- CD/DVD publisher (Bravo SE) at the office
- Brother label printer
- SilverLight (Ick. see: Netflix)
** now discontinued(?) - which brings up another point: products/projects being abandoned/discontinued seemingly at random
Well, no, they'd need red too as of several years ago. ;)
. . . not to mention violating the licensing, unless it's for the express purpose of a 'swing' upgrade.