Why in the world are we dependent on the _______ in the first place? Relying so much on such a uncontrollable beast is a recipe for disaster anyway, even without terrorists.
1. Internet 2. Electrical grid 3. Interstate Highway system (or your national trasnportation system of choice.) 4. Petroleum infrastructure 5. Microsoft Corp. (Hey, it's Slashdot.) 6. Postal system 7. Telephone network 8. Municipal water supply
Lotus Domino (the "Exchange" part of Lotus Notes) is still available for Unix (AIX and Solaris) Linux and Windows. And IBM still makes money selling it, though not as much as they did.
The Lotus Notes client (the "Outlook" part) is available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (depending on distro.) And IBM still makes money selling it, though not as much as they did.
And yes, it can do some amazing things. But with an awful, awful UI and only middling cross-platform feature parity.
SC is bringing in technology and knowledge based industry to dig itself out of the hole it's found itself in
Poster is dead on.
It may shock some people to learn this, but the ill-conceived attempt at secession that began in South Carolina a century and a half ago failed miserably. As a result, South Carolina is still part of the United States. Thus there is no impediment for companies and individuals seeking employment to set up shop there.
As a result, a historically (and currently) poor public education system doesn't necessarily doom a region to economic stagnation. Low taxes, a business-friendly climate, lower cost-of-living, and mild winters do wonders when it comes to recruiting from out of state. The net result is a substantial population migration southward over the past decade or so. You could argue that South Carolina saves a bundle on education by making other states pay the bills.
(/me does not live in South Carolina, and has no connection to the state.)
By that logic, automakers wouldn't ever introduce new technology.
Power steering? What if the pump fails during a hard turn? Air bags? What if some idiot doesn't buckle up and gets killed by the bag? Seat belts? What if the latch weakens with age and breaks during the impact? Windshield wipers? What if they crap out in the middle of a heavy rainstorm?!
Sooner or later the technology becomes mature enough that the benefits outweigh the risk of liability. At that point, the manufacturer slaps another disclaimer into the owners' manual and adds the cost of doing business to the sticker.
Nov 14, 2006 was the last time WebKit was updated.
With the latest patches, according to Secunia, Safari has 4 outstanding unpatched advisories, of which the most severe is "Less critical."
By comparison, Firefox 2 has 3 unpatched Secunia advisories, with the most severe also being "Less critical."
IE6 has 20 unpatched advisories, with the most severe rated "Moderately critical." IE7 has 7 unpatched advisories, with the most severe also rated "Moderately critical."
In essence false positives alone would make it all worthless.
Yeah, but even a false positive could be considered "just cause" to conduct further investigation and surveillance, if you twist things enough. Which means more happily employed government agents, higher budgets, and a higher number of "successfully concluded terrorism investigations" for the politicians to trumpet.
And if they, through pure chance, come across, say, a drug dealer or tax dodger...well, that wasn't a false positive at all, now, was it?
I know that most people don't realize, at this point, that having the physical media is an advantage. Wait till iTunes has been the primary purchasing point for people at around the time when hardware failure starts to take a toll.
When these people lose their entire music collection and have no way to restore it, then we'll see what they think about their past choices.
NetBoot is Apple's centralized application system. Not the same as terminal services, but it neatly solves the administration and licensing issues. (Warning: PDF)
I've mentioned this before, recently, but....technically, income from illegal activity, including sales of illicit drugs, is taxable income and must be reported to the IRS, along with payment for taxes due. The feds don't distinguish between legal and illegal income.
And (before someone else says it) a tax return declaring income from illegal activities can't be used against you to prove your participation in criminal activities. Failure to declare and pay your taxes, however, is probably as likely to land you in jail as the actual crimes. But that probably doesn't occur to most criminals, so your point probably stands.
Why the hell couldn't New Scientist provide a link to this paper?
Why would any for-profit media publisher willingly provide a means for a viewer to leave their site?
Now, they could, as you suggested, create little "infoboxes" that expand to provide background on the topic at hand...but that requires so much more editorial effort, yet still generates no additional pageviews.
Basically, they embrace web publishing for their own selfish reasons
The word wasn't "fortune," though. It was "fortunately." Unlike "fortune," "fortunately" does not imply that luck was involved. It simply means that it was a beneficial arrangement. The sentence in the summary does not imply, in any way, that mere luck is responsible for the arrangement of the avionics and entertainment systems. You invented that ridiculousness on your own. "Fortunately" is derived from "fortune," but that does not mean that they carry the same meaning, as any dictionary will tell you.
Another example...if I give you "a murderous look" it does not mean (or even imply) that I killed you, attempted to kill you, or even contemplated a violent act toward you. "Murder" and "murderous" are not as close in definition as they are in derivation.
Well, a 'good' user interface is very subjective, and even OSX has many carry over design flaws that were good in the 80s but are quite outdated today, yet Apple still sells the concepts as 'easy' or the 'best'. Take the Menu bar, and how many users just don't get the 'multi-application' usage concept because the flipping bar confuses them, so they close and flip between applications.
Contrary to popular opinion, "Good User interface" does not mean "Identical to what Windows users are accustomed to." Dissociating windows and applications makes as much sense today as it did in the '80s. Mimicking the MS Windows paradigm is not a path to superior user experience.
People can hate Windows concepts and MS, sure, but MS spends a lot of money with real people to ensure their crap is easy to use.
TheNetAvenger is making a ridiculous assertion. Cancel or Allow?
If Apple is the God of user interfaces and that is what you see as them doing well, why don't they actually create a new user interface paradigm, yet the new concepts for UI come from the OSS world and even MS. Remember this the next time you drag and drop text in a document, MS did it first.Yup. If they did it first....I guess that would mean NeXT did it zeroth. Sure.
Putting aside the fact that passengers, child or adult, are an integral part of travel, whereas cell phones are not, there is a clear distinction between cell phones and other distractions (passengers, radios, makeup, a latte or a Double Whopper with Cheese)
Cell Phones demand immediate and constant attention.
In-car passengers shut up when they notice that the driver is trying to merge onto the interstate, or make a turn across the oncoming lane. It's automatic. Similarly, drivers don't generally do other things while performing difficult driving tasks.
Cell phones, however, don't lend themselves to being ignored or put down while a driver is doing something important. In this, they're unique among driving distractions (except, perhaps, for a steaming hot latte that you just spilled on your crotch.)
What it comes down to is you cannot tax illegal behaviour. Our courts would never accept it.
Count yourself lucky, I guess. In the US, it is, for example, illegal not to declare your income from criminal activity to the IRS for taxation. (Which is why so many mobsters were eventually nailed for "tax evasion" as opposed to racketeering, extortion, theft, or murder.)
Further, I'm willing to bet that paying the tax would not protect you from a civil suit from the RIAA.
Let's get this one out of the way first: the Inspiron 1200 was not one of the models listed in the recall program.https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
I would like to know if the battery in the defective unit was one of the batteries subject to recall. If it was, then the owner bears some responsibility.
IANAL (and this is not legal advice, yadda yadda...) but I think that, in order to prove that in court, you'd have to prove that A) the battery was one of the Sony recalled batteries B) The customer could reasonably be expected to have been aware that the battery in his laptop was one of the recalled batteries C) Despite knowing that the battery was dangerous and subject to recall, the customer did nothing to get a replacement
But more than this, the maker of the battery was likely of Sony origin and quality. Which would only add a co-defendant in the lawsuit, if the guy were to go down that road.
And really, what is Dell supposed to say to claims of "you've burned my house down?"
Excellent point. If someone accused me of that, all I'd say is, "No comment." The next thing I'd say is, "Let's talk confidential settlement. Howzabout I give you a million dollars for your house, without admitting any liability?"
No, governments thrive on paperwork and meetings. That's what bureaucrats live for; it's what makes them get up in the morning.
This is about ticket revenue. See, right now, it's hard to cite pedestrians. New York loves to hand out tickets, but too few New Yorkers drive cars. Brooklyn desperately needs to find a way to give out more citations to pedestrians, and this is the perfect way.
Disney owns the rights to all of the movies Pixar produced. This was the case even before Pixar was bought out by Disney.
Pixar couldn't sell DRM-free DVDs of A Bug's Life than it could sell copies of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They'd be sued into oblivion by the studio that actually owns the rights.
1. Try to greet people, even if they're just walking by. Send at least one friendly and approachable person.
2. As someone else said, take the resumes. Worst case, just shred them when you get back, but take them and thank the student.
3. "Go to our website and apply" is synonymous with "Go away now, you've taken up enough of our time." (Even when that's not what was intended.) Give people a "personal" email address/business card instead. (Even if it's a temporary one you create just for this purpose.) This should actually filter out some of the less serious candidates, and then you can reply and say, "Go to company.com/hr and fill out the application so we can get you into the system."
4. Send both an HR/manager type and a programmer/engineer/scientist/accountant (whatever you're trying to recruit) so that you can answer both "How do I get hired" and "What would I be doing" questions in a sensible way.
5. Obviously, it helps to send someone who attended the school that's hosting the fair.
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Why in the world are we dependent on the _______ in the first place? Relying so much on such a uncontrollable beast is a recipe for disaster anyway, even without terrorists.
1. Internet
2. Electrical grid
3. Interstate Highway system (or your national trasnportation system of choice.)
4. Petroleum infrastructure
5. Microsoft Corp. (Hey, it's Slashdot.)
6. Postal system
7. Telephone network
8. Municipal water supply
Lotus Domino (the "Exchange" part of Lotus Notes) is still available for Unix (AIX and Solaris) Linux and Windows. And IBM still makes money selling it, though not as much as they did.
The Lotus Notes client (the "Outlook" part) is available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (depending on distro.) And IBM still makes money selling it, though not as much as they did.
And yes, it can do some amazing things. But with an awful, awful UI and only middling cross-platform feature parity.
Don't watch much television, do you?
SC is bringing in technology and knowledge based industry to dig itself out of the hole it's found itself in
Poster is dead on.
It may shock some people to learn this, but the ill-conceived attempt at secession that began in South Carolina a century and a half ago failed miserably. As a result, South Carolina is still part of the United States. Thus there is no impediment for companies and individuals seeking employment to set up shop there.
As a result, a historically (and currently) poor public education system doesn't necessarily doom a region to economic stagnation. Low taxes, a business-friendly climate, lower cost-of-living, and mild winters do wonders when it comes to recruiting from out of state. The net result is a substantial population migration southward over the past decade or so. You could argue that South Carolina saves a bundle on education by making other states pay the bills.
(/me does not live in South Carolina, and has no connection to the state.)
Ice will just make it worse.
Only thing worse than a hollow article is a wrong one.
By that logic, automakers wouldn't ever introduce new technology.
Power steering? What if the pump fails during a hard turn?
Air bags? What if some idiot doesn't buckle up and gets killed by the bag?
Seat belts? What if the latch weakens with age and breaks during the impact?
Windshield wipers? What if they crap out in the middle of a heavy rainstorm?!
Sooner or later the technology becomes mature enough that the benefits outweigh the risk of liability. At that point, the manufacturer slaps another disclaimer into the owners' manual and adds the cost of doing business to the sticker.
Nov 14, 2006 was the last time WebKit was updated.
With the latest patches, according to Secunia, Safari has 4 outstanding unpatched advisories, of which the most severe is "Less critical."
By comparison, Firefox 2 has 3 unpatched Secunia advisories, with the most severe also being "Less critical."
IE6 has 20 unpatched advisories, with the most severe rated "Moderately critical." IE7 has 7 unpatched advisories, with the most severe also rated "Moderately critical."
Even Slashdot's being overrun by these pump-and-dump spammers....
In essence false positives alone would make it all worthless.
Yeah, but even a false positive could be considered "just cause" to conduct further investigation and surveillance, if you twist things enough. Which means more happily employed government agents, higher budgets, and a higher number of "successfully concluded terrorism investigations" for the politicians to trumpet.
And if they, through pure chance, come across, say, a drug dealer or tax dodger...well, that wasn't a false positive at all, now, was it?
""In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception."
Source: http://thecontent.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/itunes
Try that after you've scratched your CDs beyond playability.
Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac...
... (Repeat 17 more times)
PC: and I'm a PC.
PC2: and I'm another PC
PC3: and I'm another PC
Mac: So what are you guys working on?
PC: We're working on this year's budget. We need the numbers for your department.
Mac: Okay, send it over.
(Pause)
Mac: Here you go.
(Pause)
PC 6: What's wrong with this file?
PC 11: I don't know, it's formatted all wrong.
PC 8: I'll bet it's Mac's fault. Hey, Mac?
Mac: It looks fine to me...
PC 3: Mac, look, you're a cool guy and we really like you, but you can't just go off and mess up a document like that!
Mac: But...but...it looks fine in OO.o!
PC 19: Oh oh oh? Listen, I don't have time to play games, I need your numbers in that file without any screwing around!
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
To be fair, the screen (which had previously been damaged) was destroyed in the process.
NetBoot is Apple's centralized application system. Not the same as terminal services, but it neatly solves the administration and licensing issues. (Warning: PDF)
I've mentioned this before, recently, but....technically, income from illegal activity, including sales of illicit drugs, is taxable income and must be reported to the IRS, along with payment for taxes due. The feds don't distinguish between legal and illegal income.
And (before someone else says it) a tax return declaring income from illegal activities can't be used against you to prove your participation in criminal activities. Failure to declare and pay your taxes, however, is probably as likely to land you in jail as the actual crimes. But that probably doesn't occur to most criminals, so your point probably stands.
Why the hell couldn't New Scientist provide a link to this paper?
Why would any for-profit media publisher willingly provide a means for a viewer to leave their site?
Now, they could, as you suggested, create little "infoboxes" that expand to provide background on the topic at hand...but that requires so much more editorial effort, yet still generates no additional pageviews.
Basically, they embrace web publishing for their own selfish reasons
Oh, I see you got that. Sorry!
The word wasn't "fortune," though. It was "fortunately." Unlike "fortune," "fortunately" does not imply that luck was involved. It simply means that it was a beneficial arrangement. The sentence in the summary does not imply, in any way, that mere luck is responsible for the arrangement of the avionics and entertainment systems. You invented that ridiculousness on your own. "Fortunately" is derived from "fortune," but that does not mean that they carry the same meaning, as any dictionary will tell you.
Another example...if I give you "a murderous look" it does not mean (or even imply) that I killed you, attempted to kill you, or even contemplated a violent act toward you. "Murder" and "murderous" are not as close in definition as they are in derivation.
Contrary to popular opinion, "Good User interface" does not mean "Identical to what Windows users are accustomed to." Dissociating windows and applications makes as much sense today as it did in the '80s. Mimicking the MS Windows paradigm is not a path to superior user experience.TheNetAvenger is making a ridiculous assertion. Cancel or Allow?
If Apple is the God of user interfaces and that is what you see as them doing well, why don't they actually create a new user interface paradigm, yet the new concepts for UI come from the OSS world and even MS. Remember this the next time you drag and drop text in a document, MS did it first.Yup. If they did it first....I guess that would mean NeXT did it zeroth. Sure.
Putting aside the fact that passengers, child or adult, are an integral part of travel, whereas cell phones are not, there is a clear distinction between cell phones and other distractions (passengers, radios, makeup, a latte or a Double Whopper with Cheese)
Cell Phones demand immediate and constant attention.
In-car passengers shut up when they notice that the driver is trying to merge onto the interstate, or make a turn across the oncoming lane. It's automatic. Similarly, drivers don't generally do other things while performing difficult driving tasks.
Cell phones, however, don't lend themselves to being ignored or put down while a driver is doing something important. In this, they're unique among driving distractions (except, perhaps, for a steaming hot latte that you just spilled on your crotch.)
in and confiscating all of their hardware
I'd love to see the looks on the Feds' faces when they show up to seize all of Google's servers.
Why bother? Just use one of the logo stickers that came with your iPod.
What it comes down to is you cannot tax illegal behaviour. Our courts would never accept it.
Count yourself lucky, I guess. In the US, it is, for example, illegal not to declare your income from criminal activity to the IRS for taxation. (Which is why so many mobsters were eventually nailed for "tax evasion" as opposed to racketeering, extortion, theft, or murder.)
Further, I'm willing to bet that paying the tax would not protect you from a civil suit from the RIAA.
Let's get this one out of the way first: the Inspiron 1200 was not one of the models listed in the recall program.https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
I would like to know if the battery in the defective unit was one of the batteries subject to recall. If it was, then the owner bears some responsibility.
IANAL (and this is not legal advice, yadda yadda...) but I think that, in order to prove that in court, you'd have to prove that A) the battery was one of the Sony recalled batteries B) The customer could reasonably be expected to have been aware that the battery in his laptop was one of the recalled batteries C) Despite knowing that the battery was dangerous and subject to recall, the customer did nothing to get a replacement
But more than this, the maker of the battery was likely of Sony origin and quality.
Which would only add a co-defendant in the lawsuit, if the guy were to go down that road.
And really, what is Dell supposed to say to claims of "you've burned my house down?"
Excellent point. If someone accused me of that, all I'd say is, "No comment." The next thing I'd say is, "Let's talk confidential settlement. Howzabout I give you a million dollars for your house, without admitting any liability?"
No, governments thrive on paperwork and meetings. That's what bureaucrats live for; it's what makes them get up in the morning.
This is about ticket revenue. See, right now, it's hard to cite pedestrians. New York loves to hand out tickets, but too few New Yorkers drive cars. Brooklyn desperately needs to find a way to give out more citations to pedestrians, and this is the perfect way.
Disney owns the rights to all of the movies Pixar produced. This was the case even before Pixar was bought out by Disney.
Pixar couldn't sell DRM-free DVDs of A Bug's Life than it could sell copies of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They'd be sued into oblivion by the studio that actually owns the rights.
1. Try to greet people, even if they're just walking by. Send at least one friendly and approachable person.
2. As someone else said, take the resumes. Worst case, just shred them when you get back, but take them and thank the student.
3. "Go to our website and apply" is synonymous with "Go away now, you've taken up enough of our time." (Even when that's not what was intended.) Give people a "personal" email address/business card instead. (Even if it's a temporary one you create just for this purpose.) This should actually filter out some of the less serious candidates, and then you can reply and say, "Go to company.com/hr and fill out the application so we can get you into the system."
4. Send both an HR/manager type and a programmer/engineer/scientist/accountant (whatever you're trying to recruit) so that you can answer both "How do I get hired" and "What would I be doing" questions in a sensible way.
5. Obviously, it helps to send someone who attended the school that's hosting the fair.