We had a similar story from my Great-Aunt. After her second stroke, while in the hospital, she told her daughter to go through all of her husband's pants when she died (her husband had passed about a decade earlier, but she still had most, if not all, of his belongings). Of course this was after her second stroke, and she wasn't calling her daughter the correct name along with mixing stories together. About a week later she had her final, fatal stroke. When going through the house and estate her daughter thought, "Well, I'm going through all this stuff anyways, lets see if there was anything to this pants thing". In each pair of my Great-Uncle's pants was over $1,000 in cash, in each pocket. Due to their experiences during the depression neither of them ever trusted banks.
That is about right. Usually how it goes is 130,000 albums multiplied by $10 (released that limited are usually $10-15) and you get 1.3 million. Now for a young non-established artist the record company will give at best 10% (because of the risk of not getting their money back). So the artist is left with 130,000 now. But we are don't yet, for chances are the record company fronted the expenses of studio time, which can easily go above $200,000 depending on the studio, and the record compay will recoup this out of the artist's royalties. There are some really good independent labels, but on the other side there are some independent labels that are worse scammers than the majors.
I remember there was a pirate version that simplified the process a bit, one of the key things they did was re-encoded all of the FMVs so they didn't have to deal with that funky codec originally used.
The way digital photography is progressing I could actually imagine eventually just being able to take a picture of a CD and have a computer analyze the image to duplicate the binary data stored on it, and automatically run a hash through a database to check for corruption of commercial CDs. Kind of like how you can use webcams to scan barcodes today.
I think it depends on what is meant by overly friendly and going out of their way. I will go out of my way to help people all the time, but not that out of the way. I will open the door for someone carrying stuff within a dozen or so feet of me, but I would not run across the street to do so. Likewise, if I was driving from Toledo to Chicago I might take a detour to take a friend to South Bend. I would not go out of my way to New York though. I would be extremely suspicious if someone headed West offered to go far out of their way and give me a ride out East.
The key is should of. From my experience living in a rural area I can almost guarantee if/when he called the ISP a receptionist stated "Of course we offer internet packages alongside our TV offerings". Though unlikely, it is possible the receptionist would look at a coverage map, see the address is pretty close to where they have some cable, and state "It looks like we could probably have you hooked up". But unfortunately the receptionist is not the company, and has no input on where cables get extended to. In my experience it takes about a month to figure out why you can't get what you want to get from rural ISPs.
When your research paper is on topics such as Jay's Treaty of 1795 (also known as the Treaty of London), disparity between income and wealth, or inequality and poverty in Brazil Microsoft Word gets the job done just fine.
I tried to start using LaTeX when my primary computer was a Ubuntu desktop, but never really got it it figured out. Could you recommend an easy to use OS-X LaTeX editor with a nice tutorial?
While I like iWork (especially Numbers) as a word processor I find it lacking. For layout it is easily the best program I have ever used, but for writing a research paper I would rather use Microsoft Word. Last time I did a research paper on Open Office it severely screwed up my footnotes (which on a 50 page document with 1-6 footnotes per page is kind of a big deal). Unfortunately Microsoft Office 2004 seems slow on my MacBook (I'm told this is due to it being a non-universal application and running through Rosetta) so I am still looking forward for Microsoft Office 2008. I still have high hopes for iWork to continue to progress, Apple seems to be very good at looking at what people are doing and want to do with programs, and have seemed to always put effort into serving students in higher education.
Only if management allows it. If you make a deal with the devil, and expect it to be painless, you are a complete idiot. When entering a deal with Wal-Mart the management has decided the boost to their product being carried in Wal-Marts is worth the growing pains and potential dangers. If the brand has to massively expand to meet Wal-Mart's demand it pretty much decides to sell itself into slavery to Wal-Mart, for if Wal-Mart decides in the future not to carry their product then the young company is doomed. If the brand is well established and able to supply Wal-Mart with little or no expansion then the company has nothing to fear from losing Wal-Mart.
The issue is what is threatening to close a plant. A company I have worked for in the past has closed down plants when the employees joined a union. They didn't threaten to, they just did it. They terminated all employees at the plant, not just those that supported the union (the plants only require a simply majority vote to join a union, and only full time workers get to vote - due to the fact the union so far refuses to represent part time workers despite them paying the same union fees) so you can't say they are acting out on workers joining/trying to join a union, because they got the same treatment as up to 49% of the plant who didn't join/try to join a union. After this happens a couple times, it is clear that any plant that becomes union will be shut down, however since this is NEVER stated in writing, or spoken aloud, it is near impossible to prove this is a threat.
I worked for an oil pipeline maintenance company for a while, and in the states we did most of our work (Michigan and Illinois) both had programs where state workers would mark the location of all underground utilities for free, you just had to give three working days notice. In these states this issue shouldn't happen, unfortunately people dig without calling the service and shit happens. Also there is a problem that the service marked approximate locations, and every now and than the approximate location was far enough from the real location to be a problem. In Michigan the program is Miss Dig, and you can find out more at their website http://wwwa.missdig.org/MissDig/
Not any. Any that is already in the public eye maybe, but I don't know if I would go that far. This isn't looking at cars in your garage or back 40. If it was I would object. Likewise I would object to a camera in my house, but not at the park I frequent or around the city I live in.
Dude, did you read the Fermi Paradox? Going by your example; yes we are just a single plankton in a large ocean, but it is not hard to find plankton in the ocean. There should be other plankton all over the ocean, and we should have encountered another by now.
But if the system tries to locate a positive and then discards all else, well, it sounds useful to me.
Storing the data has some uses though. what if it is 12 hours before you discover your car is stolen? With the stored info they may be able to quickly figure out where the thieves went with the car. Also this may be useful in the case of kidnapping, if they can figure out a license plate number after the report. While I think there should be an expiration date, I think there are some very good reasons for a certain length of data retention.
What about non-lab classes with expensive professors? This is exactly what is happening here, the fees aren't covering the cost of the class so they are raising the fees. Just in this case the primary cost is the staff, and the fee is the credit hour.
Yes and no. I don't think the Slashdot Groupthink evaluates itself, so the issue never really comes up. I think you are correct when participants of the Groupthink evalute it though, as is seen by my modding (currently I see my view as 1 Informative, with 50% informative, 30% Overrated, and 20% Troll, so it appears to be imploding rather than exploding, but still caught in a zero-sum game).
Because the PS3 is made by Sony, and the division in control of it has demonstrated extreme arrogance. The Slashdot Groupthink is strongly against arrogance, which is why it is so slanted against Microsoft, Sony, IBM at time, Sun at times, Apple at times (although the Apple fanbase here lessens the effect), and even Nintendo in the past. The Slashdot Groupthink loves the Wii because Nintendo is actually putting its money on what the Slashdot Groupthink has been saying for years (gameplay is more important than graphics, games should be fun, etc.). They care about units sold because publishers and developers care about units sold, and they want to see more games for their fun system and for Sony to eat its hubris.
I have Comcast, and I run a Mac and a box that for a long time was Ubuntu/XP (now it is the Windows Home Server Release Candidate). At least with our service, after any power outage or reset of our modem I would have to boot up Windows and connect to the internet directly through the modem with IE before it would start working again (for some reason I couldn't figure out it wouldn't go through the router (a Buffalo flashed with DD-WRT and set to clone the desktops MAC address) and it wouldn't connect with Firefox, Opera, or with anything on Ubuntu). After the initial connection with Windows/IE then everything would work great, but it was still a pain to do that every time we had a minor outage or a problem with tech support (it seems one of their first things to do is remotely reset your modem).
I'll back him on on the video editing, as long as you have a ton of RAM. Video editing on a bottom of the line MacBook is just as bad as editing in Windows (on Windows I have used Avid, Pinnacle, and Premiere. On Mac I have used Premiere and Final Cut Pro).
I'd have cancelled the credit card and if necessary taken them to court.
Most of these companies have an arbitration clause, meaning your case will have an immediate and most likely successful motion to dismiss, and than you have to deal with the arbitrators hand chosen by the company. Good luck.
The vast majority of illegals don't live in the condition you describe. I know several people that hire illegals, and even know a family that works on a diary farm. Now there are illegals working in and living in absolutely destitute conditions, but there are also legal residents living in such conditions. In the central Michigan area I don't know a of a single situation of multiple families living in the same house, however in the metro Detroit area I know of several, both illegal and legal residents.
Remember that after disasters a lot of infrastructure is rendered unusable. What if you could quickly move in a couple of these to get cell towers, wireless internet, and radio communication lines back up and running.
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We had a similar story from my Great-Aunt. After her second stroke, while in the hospital, she told her daughter to go through all of her husband's pants when she died (her husband had passed about a decade earlier, but she still had most, if not all, of his belongings). Of course this was after her second stroke, and she wasn't calling her daughter the correct name along with mixing stories together. About a week later she had her final, fatal stroke. When going through the house and estate her daughter thought, "Well, I'm going through all this stuff anyways, lets see if there was anything to this pants thing". In each pair of my Great-Uncle's pants was over $1,000 in cash, in each pocket. Due to their experiences during the depression neither of them ever trusted banks.
Yes, but in the process the entire world is destroyed and recreated - making it impossible for them to stay in their current incarnation.
That is about right. Usually how it goes is 130,000 albums multiplied by $10 (released that limited are usually $10-15) and you get 1.3 million. Now for a young non-established artist the record company will give at best 10% (because of the risk of not getting their money back). So the artist is left with 130,000 now. But we are don't yet, for chances are the record company fronted the expenses of studio time, which can easily go above $200,000 depending on the studio, and the record compay will recoup this out of the artist's royalties. There are some really good independent labels, but on the other side there are some independent labels that are worse scammers than the majors.
I remember there was a pirate version that simplified the process a bit, one of the key things they did was re-encoded all of the FMVs so they didn't have to deal with that funky codec originally used.
The way digital photography is progressing I could actually imagine eventually just being able to take a picture of a CD and have a computer analyze the image to duplicate the binary data stored on it, and automatically run a hash through a database to check for corruption of commercial CDs. Kind of like how you can use webcams to scan barcodes today.
I think it depends on what is meant by overly friendly and going out of their way. I will go out of my way to help people all the time, but not that out of the way. I will open the door for someone carrying stuff within a dozen or so feet of me, but I would not run across the street to do so. Likewise, if I was driving from Toledo to Chicago I might take a detour to take a friend to South Bend. I would not go out of my way to New York though. I would be extremely suspicious if someone headed West offered to go far out of their way and give me a ride out East.
The key is should of. From my experience living in a rural area I can almost guarantee if/when he called the ISP a receptionist stated "Of course we offer internet packages alongside our TV offerings". Though unlikely, it is possible the receptionist would look at a coverage map, see the address is pretty close to where they have some cable, and state "It looks like we could probably have you hooked up". But unfortunately the receptionist is not the company, and has no input on where cables get extended to. In my experience it takes about a month to figure out why you can't get what you want to get from rural ISPs.
When your research paper is on topics such as Jay's Treaty of 1795 (also known as the Treaty of London), disparity between income and wealth, or inequality and poverty in Brazil Microsoft Word gets the job done just fine.
I tried to start using LaTeX when my primary computer was a Ubuntu desktop, but never really got it it figured out. Could you recommend an easy to use OS-X LaTeX editor with a nice tutorial?
While I like iWork (especially Numbers) as a word processor I find it lacking. For layout it is easily the best program I have ever used, but for writing a research paper I would rather use Microsoft Word. Last time I did a research paper on Open Office it severely screwed up my footnotes (which on a 50 page document with 1-6 footnotes per page is kind of a big deal). Unfortunately Microsoft Office 2004 seems slow on my MacBook (I'm told this is due to it being a non-universal application and running through Rosetta) so I am still looking forward for Microsoft Office 2008. I still have high hopes for iWork to continue to progress, Apple seems to be very good at looking at what people are doing and want to do with programs, and have seemed to always put effort into serving students in higher education.
Only if management allows it. If you make a deal with the devil, and expect it to be painless, you are a complete idiot. When entering a deal with Wal-Mart the management has decided the boost to their product being carried in Wal-Marts is worth the growing pains and potential dangers. If the brand has to massively expand to meet Wal-Mart's demand it pretty much decides to sell itself into slavery to Wal-Mart, for if Wal-Mart decides in the future not to carry their product then the young company is doomed. If the brand is well established and able to supply Wal-Mart with little or no expansion then the company has nothing to fear from losing Wal-Mart.
The issue is what is threatening to close a plant. A company I have worked for in the past has closed down plants when the employees joined a union. They didn't threaten to, they just did it. They terminated all employees at the plant, not just those that supported the union (the plants only require a simply majority vote to join a union, and only full time workers get to vote - due to the fact the union so far refuses to represent part time workers despite them paying the same union fees) so you can't say they are acting out on workers joining/trying to join a union, because they got the same treatment as up to 49% of the plant who didn't join/try to join a union. After this happens a couple times, it is clear that any plant that becomes union will be shut down, however since this is NEVER stated in writing, or spoken aloud, it is near impossible to prove this is a threat.
I worked for an oil pipeline maintenance company for a while, and in the states we did most of our work (Michigan and Illinois) both had programs where state workers would mark the location of all underground utilities for free, you just had to give three working days notice. In these states this issue shouldn't happen, unfortunately people dig without calling the service and shit happens. Also there is a problem that the service marked approximate locations, and every now and than the approximate location was far enough from the real location to be a problem. In Michigan the program is Miss Dig, and you can find out more at their website http://wwwa.missdig.org/MissDig/
Just read what is posted in every politics article here: slavery is freedom.
Not any. Any that is already in the public eye maybe, but I don't know if I would go that far. This isn't looking at cars in your garage or back 40. If it was I would object. Likewise I would object to a camera in my house, but not at the park I frequent or around the city I live in.
Dude, did you read the Fermi Paradox? Going by your example; yes we are just a single plankton in a large ocean, but it is not hard to find plankton in the ocean. There should be other plankton all over the ocean, and we should have encountered another by now.
But if the system tries to locate a positive and then discards all else, well, it sounds useful to me.
Storing the data has some uses though. what if it is 12 hours before you discover your car is stolen? With the stored info they may be able to quickly figure out where the thieves went with the car. Also this may be useful in the case of kidnapping, if they can figure out a license plate number after the report. While I think there should be an expiration date, I think there are some very good reasons for a certain length of data retention.
What about non-lab classes with expensive professors? This is exactly what is happening here, the fees aren't covering the cost of the class so they are raising the fees. Just in this case the primary cost is the staff, and the fee is the credit hour.
Yes and no. I don't think the Slashdot Groupthink evaluates itself, so the issue never really comes up. I think you are correct when participants of the Groupthink evalute it though, as is seen by my modding (currently I see my view as 1 Informative, with 50% informative, 30% Overrated, and 20% Troll, so it appears to be imploding rather than exploding, but still caught in a zero-sum game).
Because the PS3 is made by Sony, and the division in control of it has demonstrated extreme arrogance. The Slashdot Groupthink is strongly against arrogance, which is why it is so slanted against Microsoft, Sony, IBM at time, Sun at times, Apple at times (although the Apple fanbase here lessens the effect), and even Nintendo in the past. The Slashdot Groupthink loves the Wii because Nintendo is actually putting its money on what the Slashdot Groupthink has been saying for years (gameplay is more important than graphics, games should be fun, etc.). They care about units sold because publishers and developers care about units sold, and they want to see more games for their fun system and for Sony to eat its hubris.
I have Comcast, and I run a Mac and a box that for a long time was Ubuntu/XP (now it is the Windows Home Server Release Candidate). At least with our service, after any power outage or reset of our modem I would have to boot up Windows and connect to the internet directly through the modem with IE before it would start working again (for some reason I couldn't figure out it wouldn't go through the router (a Buffalo flashed with DD-WRT and set to clone the desktops MAC address) and it wouldn't connect with Firefox, Opera, or with anything on Ubuntu). After the initial connection with Windows/IE then everything would work great, but it was still a pain to do that every time we had a minor outage or a problem with tech support (it seems one of their first things to do is remotely reset your modem).
I'll back him on on the video editing, as long as you have a ton of RAM. Video editing on a bottom of the line MacBook is just as bad as editing in Windows (on Windows I have used Avid, Pinnacle, and Premiere. On Mac I have used Premiere and Final Cut Pro).
I'd have cancelled the credit card and if necessary taken them to court.
Most of these companies have an arbitration clause, meaning your case will have an immediate and most likely successful motion to dismiss, and than you have to deal with the arbitrators hand chosen by the company. Good luck.
The vast majority of illegals don't live in the condition you describe. I know several people that hire illegals, and even know a family that works on a diary farm. Now there are illegals working in and living in absolutely destitute conditions, but there are also legal residents living in such conditions. In the central Michigan area I don't know a of a single situation of multiple families living in the same house, however in the metro Detroit area I know of several, both illegal and legal residents.
Remember that after disasters a lot of infrastructure is rendered unusable. What if you could quickly move in a couple of these to get cell towers, wireless internet, and radio communication lines back up and running.