So, a web company that ripped off it's name from somewhere else, who in turn ripped off a generic term for annual, is OK, trying to sue somebody that's in a different market because they claim to own every generic + book that deals with people? I'm sorry, but that's an asshole move at best, trademarking somebody else's idea and then using it to bludgeon other outfits for money.
Um, citation necessary, if a person uses their real name, they get guaranteed right to do so. Mike Rowe only lost his because it included Soft in the name of his store, thus causing conniptions for MS. Had he been using MikeRowe.com, he would've been fine.
Citation, I don't believe that's presently the case. Not that it means anything given how much activism has been going on with the SCOTUS lately. Ever since W started packing it with underqualified loonies.
Um doesn't it occur to you that they might put speed traps in the place where the most speeding occurs, because that's the most effectively way of catching scofflaws? I mean seriously, what you're suggesting is that they ought to be putting police where few people speed. Which is tantamount to posting a intell expert looking for Jihadists at the weekly mass. They put patrol cars there for a reason, some jurisdictions do genuinely run it as a speed trap, but most of the time they do it because that's where the problems tend to be. Unless they've deliberately changed signs to trick people into speeding, it's perfectly legitimate and a wise use of resources.
Nope, sorry, but what other explanation is there for HR employees to lie, make shit up, cheat workers out of their promised benefits? They're basically there to cover up for whatever the company wants covered up.
More than that it also depends upon how it's dealt with. It's a completely different situation if you've got proper auditing, revision tracking and revision control to if you're allowing the files to just be copied without such measures being in place. Not to mention how the accountability when a mistake is made gets handled and how clear the delegation of authority is.
Well, to be fair to MS it's one of the things they've always done well is opening up the platform to developers. Sure they've never been perfect, but at pretty much any stage they've been better than most of the competition. It's one of the reasons why Macs aren't the dominant platform.
They probably have, in order to break even a game with a budget of $50m would have to sell 1m copies at $50 a piece and keep every bit of that change to pay off the costs, as in probably not paying the IRS. Which is a risky move to say the least. A better move would probably be to cut the budget to a more reasonable figure and then either lower the asking price or accept a smaller number of purchases initially.
Not really, HR is generally highly competent, just not at what you think they're there for. Most companies have HR employees specifically so that they can be useless and make it as hard as possible for employees to get there benefits, preferably quitting before they're eligible. Sure it's a dumb way to run a business, but it happens. Usually if there's any corruption in a company it's found in HR first and spreads elsewhere.
If you think that's fucked up, imagine private security. Spend you're time being screwed over and reporting to pretty much everybody else including janitorial, then leaving. With the amount we see it's a wonder there isn't a lot more interest in securing our loyalty rather than expecting to scare us into being silent. My former employer definitely can't count on my silence now that I'm no longer on the pay roll, and I definitely said things to a few people on the way out that was pretty embarrassing to the company. But, I have documentation so they can pretty much just kiss my ass. My unemployment insurance application was quite the embarrassment to them as well.
The trick though is to document the problems and document some more. That way if they try to retaliate against you at least you've got some evidence to cover you're backside.
While Adam Smith agreed with you that IP shouldn't exist at all, in contemporary society the general agreement is that it's needed. The problem isn't that it exists, the problem is that it's become somewhat larger and more extreme than what is really necessary. Patents, trademarks and copyrights as they were up to the early part of the 20th century didn't cause a lot of trouble, mainly because they didn't last very long. You got it for a short period of time to make back your investment and after that it was public domain for everybody else. There's no compelling reason to completely get rid of IP, just to shrink it back to where it belongs. I'm curious what the point of my inventing something is if you can just immediately steal it and sell your own copy.
Wow, I'm astonished that you even bothered to post that. The US economy isn't dying, it's been worse and while we'll have a period of stagflation thanks to the massive debt and incompetence of the Bush administration and the shrink government crowd, it will ultimately pull out of it. Probably with higher taxes and almost certainly more services. The private sector is if anything else even less efficient than the public sector is thanks to the fact that we don't get a say at all in who runs those businesses.
Why should a person have to save money first before starting a business? There's no compelling reason for that restriction, you just have to make sure that the loans are being written with due dilligence and that the individuals receiving the loan have an actual business plan with contingency plans and a way of making money.
Of course corporations won't save us, there's a simple reason for that, we've been compensating them specifically too screw us over because the wealthy and the Libertarians like that. The rest are mostly too inept or incompetent to realize what's going on. But shrinking the government isn't going to solve that problem, if anything it's going to exasperate the situation as it was a vacuum of government that caused it in the first place.
My parents recently got an HP all in one, I'm quite impressed with the way it works. Seems to do a decent job with all the tasks I've set it to do, the only annoyance is that the wireless support seems to be a bit flaky, as in it doesn't seem to get along with my open-mesh set up.
No, and I wouldn't expect anybody would. It's sufficiently traumatic after the fact that the victim's memory wouldn't be reliable. There is however an NHTSA study from a while back that indicates that under certain situations that hybrids are more likely be involved in collisions with bicyclists and pedestrians than more traditional vehicles are. NHTSA study indicates hybrids have higher pedestrian crash rates
The main problem with the study is that there really aren't enough hybrids out there yet to know reliably what's going on, but the numbers are there.
That's not true. There isn't presently a problem, because hybrids in the US are still relatively uncommon, assuming that it will remain that way is questionable, unless something is done to make it so.
Bicycles are definitely a problem, mostly because of the assholes that ride around without adhering to the traffic laws. I remember being almost run over by one of those assholes riding at night without proper lighting. It's a problem, but it's not as big a problem as it is being hit by a car. Sure one can be killed by a bike, but for the most part they travel much more slowly and are significantly less massive than even a small motorcycle. It's possible to be killed by a bike, but it's not likely. On top of that, the bicyclist is almost as likely to be killed as the pedestrian is, which is most certainly not the case for even a small poorly designed car.
As somebody that gets migraines and consequently has trouble at times seeing, this is something that has had me deeply concerned. I need to have the audio feedback to double check that the vehicle is where I think it is, those Priuses are becoming an increasing problem as hybrid and electric technology becomes more prevalent. It's hardly just people that are idiots, it's people that have a hard time seeing, are momentarily distracted in addition to the people that don't look.
Sometimes there's glare and sometimes a person just doesn't see the vehicle for one reason for another. Attentional blindness is a bigger problem than most people realize it is and it can happen to anybody. Yes one ought to look both ways, but realistically, that's no excuse for not providing the reasonable complement of systems to alert people to the danger.
The first fatal car crash in the UK involved a vehicle that was rate limited down from 8mpg to 4mph hitting a pedestrian. It doesn't take a whole lot of speed to make for a fatal accident.
AMD will keep it compatible, or at least release a version which is unless there's a technical reason keeping them from doing it. It's something they've had a history of doing and something which has worked out well for them in the past. Part of AMDs legacy is keeping things compatible wherever possible, for the release of their first AMD64 chips to the various addons they've included in recent years and the revisions of chips which could be used in previous boards. I strongly suspect that they'll keep the pattern up wherever possible, if for no other reason than it has worked so well for them in the past.
I misread that at first, yes you're correct, discrete cards are somewhat problematic in that respect. However, it's not quite that bleak, with technology that's been coming for a while, it wouldn't surprise me if before too long the integrated on die graphics chip was teamed up with either an integrated or more likely discrete graphics card to somewhat bump the quality even further.
But there's a reason why AMD wants to do it, they've had a lot of good luck with integrating things and strategically moving and removing unnecessary buses. Not completely unlike what Woz was doing back in the late 70s by removing and consolidating chips in the original Apple computers.
They've been competing just fine, otherwise they'd be out of business. Intel has been creaming AMD on performance at the high end for some time, but at a cost, the price of the high end chips has been much higher than that of the high end AMD chips. And you really don't get that much more performance for your money. Sure if you really need that performance you're going to pay for it, but most people don't really need that last bit of performance. Still, it is overdue that AMD introduce a complete refresh like this, I just don't disagree that it's been as lopsided as you suggest. Intel has for as long as I can recall had a performance advantage over AMD, it just also pretty much always cost a lot more as well.
If you're willing to put forth the effort, there's a lot of really good indie music out there, it's just a bit of a challenge to find. Personally, it's been years since I bought anything from the RIAA since I find there behavior to be beyond disgusting. I'm sure they've chalked that small drop in sales up to pirates and are using it as justification to further erode my rights as we speak.
I'm just waiting for them to demand the right to break into people's houses and force them to buy the latest album by whomever it is they say is good.
I think the point is that you don't. The RIAA is mostly upset about sales being down, they don't care whether it's because you're not buying or pirating, they aren't getting the cut from the sale that doesn't happen. Additionally, making copies of work you've already paid for is bad because it deprives them of the additional income from everybody buying several copies of the tracks.
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Of course the guy always come first, women don't have need or use for a decent time piece. Consequently you're going to be waiting around.
So, a web company that ripped off it's name from somewhere else, who in turn ripped off a generic term for annual, is OK, trying to sue somebody that's in a different market because they claim to own every generic + book that deals with people? I'm sorry, but that's an asshole move at best, trademarking somebody else's idea and then using it to bludgeon other outfits for money.
Um, citation necessary, if a person uses their real name, they get guaranteed right to do so. Mike Rowe only lost his because it included Soft in the name of his store, thus causing conniptions for MS. Had he been using MikeRowe.com, he would've been fine.
Citation, I don't believe that's presently the case. Not that it means anything given how much activism has been going on with the SCOTUS lately. Ever since W started packing it with underqualified loonies.
Um doesn't it occur to you that they might put speed traps in the place where the most speeding occurs, because that's the most effectively way of catching scofflaws? I mean seriously, what you're suggesting is that they ought to be putting police where few people speed. Which is tantamount to posting a intell expert looking for Jihadists at the weekly mass. They put patrol cars there for a reason, some jurisdictions do genuinely run it as a speed trap, but most of the time they do it because that's where the problems tend to be. Unless they've deliberately changed signs to trick people into speeding, it's perfectly legitimate and a wise use of resources.
Nope, sorry, but what other explanation is there for HR employees to lie, make shit up, cheat workers out of their promised benefits? They're basically there to cover up for whatever the company wants covered up.
More than that it also depends upon how it's dealt with. It's a completely different situation if you've got proper auditing, revision tracking and revision control to if you're allowing the files to just be copied without such measures being in place. Not to mention how the accountability when a mistake is made gets handled and how clear the delegation of authority is.
Well, to be fair to MS it's one of the things they've always done well is opening up the platform to developers. Sure they've never been perfect, but at pretty much any stage they've been better than most of the competition. It's one of the reasons why Macs aren't the dominant platform.
They probably have, in order to break even a game with a budget of $50m would have to sell 1m copies at $50 a piece and keep every bit of that change to pay off the costs, as in probably not paying the IRS. Which is a risky move to say the least. A better move would probably be to cut the budget to a more reasonable figure and then either lower the asking price or accept a smaller number of purchases initially.
Not really, HR is generally highly competent, just not at what you think they're there for. Most companies have HR employees specifically so that they can be useless and make it as hard as possible for employees to get there benefits, preferably quitting before they're eligible. Sure it's a dumb way to run a business, but it happens. Usually if there's any corruption in a company it's found in HR first and spreads elsewhere.
If you think that's fucked up, imagine private security. Spend you're time being screwed over and reporting to pretty much everybody else including janitorial, then leaving. With the amount we see it's a wonder there isn't a lot more interest in securing our loyalty rather than expecting to scare us into being silent. My former employer definitely can't count on my silence now that I'm no longer on the pay roll, and I definitely said things to a few people on the way out that was pretty embarrassing to the company. But, I have documentation so they can pretty much just kiss my ass. My unemployment insurance application was quite the embarrassment to them as well.
The trick though is to document the problems and document some more. That way if they try to retaliate against you at least you've got some evidence to cover you're backside.
While Adam Smith agreed with you that IP shouldn't exist at all, in contemporary society the general agreement is that it's needed. The problem isn't that it exists, the problem is that it's become somewhat larger and more extreme than what is really necessary. Patents, trademarks and copyrights as they were up to the early part of the 20th century didn't cause a lot of trouble, mainly because they didn't last very long. You got it for a short period of time to make back your investment and after that it was public domain for everybody else. There's no compelling reason to completely get rid of IP, just to shrink it back to where it belongs. I'm curious what the point of my inventing something is if you can just immediately steal it and sell your own copy.
Wow, I'm astonished that you even bothered to post that. The US economy isn't dying, it's been worse and while we'll have a period of stagflation thanks to the massive debt and incompetence of the Bush administration and the shrink government crowd, it will ultimately pull out of it. Probably with higher taxes and almost certainly more services. The private sector is if anything else even less efficient than the public sector is thanks to the fact that we don't get a say at all in who runs those businesses.
Why should a person have to save money first before starting a business? There's no compelling reason for that restriction, you just have to make sure that the loans are being written with due dilligence and that the individuals receiving the loan have an actual business plan with contingency plans and a way of making money.
Of course corporations won't save us, there's a simple reason for that, we've been compensating them specifically too screw us over because the wealthy and the Libertarians like that. The rest are mostly too inept or incompetent to realize what's going on. But shrinking the government isn't going to solve that problem, if anything it's going to exasperate the situation as it was a vacuum of government that caused it in the first place.
My parents recently got an HP all in one, I'm quite impressed with the way it works. Seems to do a decent job with all the tasks I've set it to do, the only annoyance is that the wireless support seems to be a bit flaky, as in it doesn't seem to get along with my open-mesh set up.
No, and I wouldn't expect anybody would. It's sufficiently traumatic after the fact that the victim's memory wouldn't be reliable. There is however an NHTSA study from a while back that indicates that under certain situations that hybrids are more likely be involved in collisions with bicyclists and pedestrians than more traditional vehicles are. NHTSA study indicates hybrids have higher pedestrian crash rates
The main problem with the study is that there really aren't enough hybrids out there yet to know reliably what's going on, but the numbers are there.
That's not true. There isn't presently a problem, because hybrids in the US are still relatively uncommon, assuming that it will remain that way is questionable, unless something is done to make it so.
Bicycles are definitely a problem, mostly because of the assholes that ride around without adhering to the traffic laws. I remember being almost run over by one of those assholes riding at night without proper lighting. It's a problem, but it's not as big a problem as it is being hit by a car. Sure one can be killed by a bike, but for the most part they travel much more slowly and are significantly less massive than even a small motorcycle. It's possible to be killed by a bike, but it's not likely. On top of that, the bicyclist is almost as likely to be killed as the pedestrian is, which is most certainly not the case for even a small poorly designed car.
As somebody that gets migraines and consequently has trouble at times seeing, this is something that has had me deeply concerned. I need to have the audio feedback to double check that the vehicle is where I think it is, those Priuses are becoming an increasing problem as hybrid and electric technology becomes more prevalent. It's hardly just people that are idiots, it's people that have a hard time seeing, are momentarily distracted in addition to the people that don't look.
Sometimes there's glare and sometimes a person just doesn't see the vehicle for one reason for another. Attentional blindness is a bigger problem than most people realize it is and it can happen to anybody. Yes one ought to look both ways, but realistically, that's no excuse for not providing the reasonable complement of systems to alert people to the danger.
The first fatal car crash in the UK involved a vehicle that was rate limited down from 8mpg to 4mph hitting a pedestrian. It doesn't take a whole lot of speed to make for a fatal accident.
AMD will keep it compatible, or at least release a version which is unless there's a technical reason keeping them from doing it. It's something they've had a history of doing and something which has worked out well for them in the past. Part of AMDs legacy is keeping things compatible wherever possible, for the release of their first AMD64 chips to the various addons they've included in recent years and the revisions of chips which could be used in previous boards. I strongly suspect that they'll keep the pattern up wherever possible, if for no other reason than it has worked so well for them in the past.
I misread that at first, yes you're correct, discrete cards are somewhat problematic in that respect. However, it's not quite that bleak, with technology that's been coming for a while, it wouldn't surprise me if before too long the integrated on die graphics chip was teamed up with either an integrated or more likely discrete graphics card to somewhat bump the quality even further.
But there's a reason why AMD wants to do it, they've had a lot of good luck with integrating things and strategically moving and removing unnecessary buses. Not completely unlike what Woz was doing back in the late 70s by removing and consolidating chips in the original Apple computers.
They've been competing just fine, otherwise they'd be out of business. Intel has been creaming AMD on performance at the high end for some time, but at a cost, the price of the high end chips has been much higher than that of the high end AMD chips. And you really don't get that much more performance for your money. Sure if you really need that performance you're going to pay for it, but most people don't really need that last bit of performance. Still, it is overdue that AMD introduce a complete refresh like this, I just don't disagree that it's been as lopsided as you suggest. Intel has for as long as I can recall had a performance advantage over AMD, it just also pretty much always cost a lot more as well.
If you're willing to put forth the effort, there's a lot of really good indie music out there, it's just a bit of a challenge to find. Personally, it's been years since I bought anything from the RIAA since I find there behavior to be beyond disgusting. I'm sure they've chalked that small drop in sales up to pirates and are using it as justification to further erode my rights as we speak.
I'm just waiting for them to demand the right to break into people's houses and force them to buy the latest album by whomever it is they say is good.
I think the point is that you don't. The RIAA is mostly upset about sales being down, they don't care whether it's because you're not buying or pirating, they aren't getting the cut from the sale that doesn't happen. Additionally, making copies of work you've already paid for is bad because it deprives them of the additional income from everybody buying several copies of the tracks.