Because it did. This was the inevitable result of upping the FDIC insurance to an unwarranted 100k back in the early 80s, Greenspan's incompetent policy of being easy in good times and even easier in terrible times. Combined with tax rates on short term investments which are and were far too low to discourage irresponsible short term trading.
Not to mention policies in place which coddle and encourage incompetent business practices to flourish without the need to worry about failing.
Or in other words, if you look at all those things, it's not really too hard to see where business was having it's say. I'm not sure how anybody could seriously suggest that it's anybody else but leaders of industry that were pushing the hardest for those ill conceived ideas to be put into practice and throwing a hissy fit if the Fed even hinted that interest rates might go back where they belong.
They may think that, but they're wrong. The law is pretty explicit that loading a program into RAM or other means of duplication which are mandatory to make use of licensed copyright work are not prohibited.
Which means that while Apple can decide how many computers a copy of OSX is installed on, they cannot dictate how many different computers a portable installation of OSX on an external disk can be used on over the course of a day or year. Doing so would go above and beyond what copyright law itself protects. Now, they probably could write it into the license that you can't do that, however, that would be a completely different issue.
Once it's been placed onto a CD, DVD, or HDD, it's been copied, which is moot because copyright addresses distribution as in copying not the copies themselves.
The answer to that is no, they don't understand the concept of SNR.
Which is obvious since some of the names on the list are extremely common names in various parts of the world and all they list is the name. Which has been obvious for many years given that they haven't actually been able to analyze all of the information they've been given. It would be just as effective to just pull over or tap random people on the list. Possibly more so since they'd at least know if those particular people were or were not terrorists.
Oh, no, he understood that Win 95 must never come into contact with the internet. It's sort of like in Gremlins, except that the tubes get all fuzzy and slurp up your cappuccino.
I have no problem with PDFs, there are a number of free and commercial applications out there that can work with them.
Flash on the other hand is absolutely an abomination that must be wiped from the net. They still haven't released a proper version for *BSD and they commonly don't bother with less popular OSes. If they want it to be used for this sort of purpose then they need to get their act together and make it available for all operating environments on an equal basis. Which I don't think they have the resources to do.
Strikes me as a bit odd that they would've not realized that the rounding error was going to propagate. Especially considering how these days you would do financial calculations in the integer number of cents in a transaction to avoid this funny stuff.
At the very least they probably should've calculated out for the period of time that the rounding errors would become larger than the tic and just skipped one to get caught up again.
I'm curious as to why you think that's such a problem. I'm sure that some people are going to hate the limit on that, however, I doubt that most people will even notice. Even the much hated ITMS only sold a small hand full of songs to the majority of iPod owners being far too few to represent a meaningful lock in.
Not to mention if they're screwing around with somebody else's work, that's got to be some sort of copyright violation right there. Granted Shakespeare and Cervantes are in the public domain, but there's a lot of more recent work where people might not notice that Amazon has been ruining the book with this bullshit. Pretty much any decent writers pays a lot of attention to the specific words used, this sort of thing strips all that out and harms the work.
Because Apple uses dubious means to prevent people from running OSX on computers they don't bless. There's always going to be a market for it as long as Apple refuses to allow for people to just install on whatever hardware they want.
As for unethical, it's not unethical in the least unless you're stealing the code directly. It's hypocritical beyond belief whenever somebody says that it's unethical to use Apple software in a way that Apple doesn't approve. Makes me wonder what that makes anybody that runs software based heavily on designs lifted from elsewhere.
For the same reason why we allow corporations to book deductions without corresponding gains and be considered people for most things. Because puppies will be smashed, little girls sold as fuel and socialists will force their universal health care on us against our wishes, duh.
That's bullshit, you know perfectly well that they won't do it. The loss of revenue from losing the court system and numerous other perks that aren't available in cheaper jurisdictions will ensure that. It's something they claim even though nobody in their right mind believes that they would do it. But there's enough cowards in the state that keep voting for people that promise to appease large corporations.
Sure they whine about the tax burden, but they don't pay as much as most people do and they get a hell of a lot more out of it than they ought to.
Umm, buffet owners generally assume that people are going to pick the best parts and price according to a weighted average. The fact that people generally do so is factored into the price sort of like how espresso stand owners know that almost invariably the customers will have their free drink be much more expensive than the ones they were earning punches on.
Those things get factored in for and if you don't do it you're probably a sucker.
This on the other hand is completely different as by convention one is supposed to file suit in the person/company's home district rather than at an arbitrary district of your choosing. On top of that MS is booking profits in Nevada on the licenses to avoid paying the taxes from the state that it mainly exists in. MS would never move to Nevada as the cost of doing most of their business would be much higher. It's no accident that Bungie, Nintendo of America, MS and Amazon are all local to western Washington. Furthermore it's highly unlikely that MS would've moved Bungie to Kirkland if it was of better business sense to move it to Nevada.
That's just rationalizing it, Hulu doesn't have that many commercials in a show. Last I checked it was like 2 minutes of commercials tops for a typical episode.
It's not a hoax, it really happened. However this is old news, the PRS has already apologized for the demands and promised not to try to collect on the royalties.
Which is why some teachers like my mother use open source books. The cost to produce is probably higher, but the books end up being sold to students for somewhat less than $30. Which when you consider that a really good deal usually is at least double that, it makes a lot of sense.
Plus, there's far more control over when they go into a new edition and can make minor corrections for things as needed, without necessarily requiring a new printing.
And this is in some way unexpected? I'm not sure why they would bother to off shore if it cost the same amount, considering that the skills aren't exactly something that the US has a monopoly over. The only significant reason why one would want to, is that if you outsource to India, you can have tech support answered by the next morning, which for a lot of people is a huge advantage even without a cost savings.
It's the internet, people rarely care enough to track a particular person down from information sniffed from packets. It's unlikely that anybody is going to care enough about some random internet person to look for information if it isn't provided. Not that that's really a proper answer, but it's not like you can't make up an internet persona. Hell lots of people do it just for the hell of it.
As opposed to the rest of the world where people get where they are by hard work and ingenuity.
Yes, sexism exists, but it's not like feminists are saints either. Notice the shrinking portion of degrees earned by men in recent years, or how mysteriously benefits don't count as a part of the pay package when it's inconvenient to casting women as victims of oppression? Or how about the rather extreme form of censorship visited on people that point out that women are just as likely to be abusers as men.
It's a tad hard to take people decrying sexism directed at women seriously when so often those accusations are used as a tool to further women's position at the expense of men's regardless of how the positions in a particular area were arrived at.
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Because it did. This was the inevitable result of upping the FDIC insurance to an unwarranted 100k back in the early 80s, Greenspan's incompetent policy of being easy in good times and even easier in terrible times. Combined with tax rates on short term investments which are and were far too low to discourage irresponsible short term trading.
Not to mention policies in place which coddle and encourage incompetent business practices to flourish without the need to worry about failing.
Or in other words, if you look at all those things, it's not really too hard to see where business was having it's say. I'm not sure how anybody could seriously suggest that it's anybody else but leaders of industry that were pushing the hardest for those ill conceived ideas to be put into practice and throwing a hissy fit if the Fed even hinted that interest rates might go back where they belong.
They may think that, but they're wrong. The law is pretty explicit that loading a program into RAM or other means of duplication which are mandatory to make use of licensed copyright work are not prohibited.
Which means that while Apple can decide how many computers a copy of OSX is installed on, they cannot dictate how many different computers a portable installation of OSX on an external disk can be used on over the course of a day or year. Doing so would go above and beyond what copyright law itself protects. Now, they probably could write it into the license that you can't do that, however, that would be a completely different issue.
Once it's been placed onto a CD, DVD, or HDD, it's been copied, which is moot because copyright addresses distribution as in copying not the copies themselves.
But isn't a guy with a Lisp a programmer?
The answer to that is no, they don't understand the concept of SNR.
Which is obvious since some of the names on the list are extremely common names in various parts of the world and all they list is the name. Which has been obvious for many years given that they haven't actually been able to analyze all of the information they've been given. It would be just as effective to just pull over or tap random people on the list. Possibly more so since they'd at least know if those particular people were or were not terrorists.
Which is why he should be encased in carbonite, duh. That way he makes a handle lair decoration and isn't helping the good guys.
Oh, no, he understood that Win 95 must never come into contact with the internet. It's sort of like in Gremlins, except that the tubes get all fuzzy and slurp up your cappuccino.
I have no problem with PDFs, there are a number of free and commercial applications out there that can work with them.
Flash on the other hand is absolutely an abomination that must be wiped from the net. They still haven't released a proper version for *BSD and they commonly don't bother with less popular OSes. If they want it to be used for this sort of purpose then they need to get their act together and make it available for all operating environments on an equal basis. Which I don't think they have the resources to do.
Strikes me as a bit odd that they would've not realized that the rounding error was going to propagate. Especially considering how these days you would do financial calculations in the integer number of cents in a transaction to avoid this funny stuff.
At the very least they probably should've calculated out for the period of time that the rounding errors would become larger than the tic and just skipped one to get caught up again.
I'm curious as to why you think that's such a problem. I'm sure that some people are going to hate the limit on that, however, I doubt that most people will even notice. Even the much hated ITMS only sold a small hand full of songs to the majority of iPod owners being far too few to represent a meaningful lock in.
Not to mention if they're screwing around with somebody else's work, that's got to be some sort of copyright violation right there. Granted Shakespeare and Cervantes are in the public domain, but there's a lot of more recent work where people might not notice that Amazon has been ruining the book with this bullshit. Pretty much any decent writers pays a lot of attention to the specific words used, this sort of thing strips all that out and harms the work.
Because Apple uses dubious means to prevent people from running OSX on computers they don't bless. There's always going to be a market for it as long as Apple refuses to allow for people to just install on whatever hardware they want.
As for unethical, it's not unethical in the least unless you're stealing the code directly. It's hypocritical beyond belief whenever somebody says that it's unethical to use Apple software in a way that Apple doesn't approve. Makes me wonder what that makes anybody that runs software based heavily on designs lifted from elsewhere.
Of course, even Frontpage barfs when you put that many marquee and blink tags in a single page.
For the same reason why we allow corporations to book deductions without corresponding gains and be considered people for most things. Because puppies will be smashed, little girls sold as fuel and socialists will force their universal health care on us against our wishes, duh.
That's bullshit, you know perfectly well that they won't do it. The loss of revenue from losing the court system and numerous other perks that aren't available in cheaper jurisdictions will ensure that. It's something they claim even though nobody in their right mind believes that they would do it. But there's enough cowards in the state that keep voting for people that promise to appease large corporations.
Sure they whine about the tax burden, but they don't pay as much as most people do and they get a hell of a lot more out of it than they ought to.
Umm, buffet owners generally assume that people are going to pick the best parts and price according to a weighted average. The fact that people generally do so is factored into the price sort of like how espresso stand owners know that almost invariably the customers will have their free drink be much more expensive than the ones they were earning punches on.
Those things get factored in for and if you don't do it you're probably a sucker.
This on the other hand is completely different as by convention one is supposed to file suit in the person/company's home district rather than at an arbitrary district of your choosing. On top of that MS is booking profits in Nevada on the licenses to avoid paying the taxes from the state that it mainly exists in. MS would never move to Nevada as the cost of doing most of their business would be much higher. It's no accident that Bungie, Nintendo of America, MS and Amazon are all local to western Washington. Furthermore it's highly unlikely that MS would've moved Bungie to Kirkland if it was of better business sense to move it to Nevada.
That's just rationalizing it, Hulu doesn't have that many commercials in a show. Last I checked it was like 2 minutes of commercials tops for a typical episode.
It's not a hoax, it really happened. However this is old news, the PRS has already apologized for the demands and promised not to try to collect on the royalties.
It's a trick question, patents aren't real so they never existed.
Which most manufacturers don't do anymore due to the high cost of replacing the window.
Which is why some teachers like my mother use open source books. The cost to produce is probably higher, but the books end up being sold to students for somewhat less than $30. Which when you consider that a really good deal usually is at least double that, it makes a lot of sense. Plus, there's far more control over when they go into a new edition and can make minor corrections for things as needed, without necessarily requiring a new printing.
The SEC must really suck if IBM was displaying evidence of wrong doing in a publicly accessible website designed to direct random visitors to read.
And this is in some way unexpected? I'm not sure why they would bother to off shore if it cost the same amount, considering that the skills aren't exactly something that the US has a monopoly over. The only significant reason why one would want to, is that if you outsource to India, you can have tech support answered by the next morning, which for a lot of people is a huge advantage even without a cost savings.
It's the internet, people rarely care enough to track a particular person down from information sniffed from packets. It's unlikely that anybody is going to care enough about some random internet person to look for information if it isn't provided. Not that that's really a proper answer, but it's not like you can't make up an internet persona. Hell lots of people do it just for the hell of it.
As opposed to the rest of the world where people get where they are by hard work and ingenuity.
Yes, sexism exists, but it's not like feminists are saints either. Notice the shrinking portion of degrees earned by men in recent years, or how mysteriously benefits don't count as a part of the pay package when it's inconvenient to casting women as victims of oppression? Or how about the rather extreme form of censorship visited on people that point out that women are just as likely to be abusers as men.
It's a tad hard to take people decrying sexism directed at women seriously when so often those accusations are used as a tool to further women's position at the expense of men's regardless of how the positions in a particular area were arrived at.
Am I the only one wondering how long before the BSA gets malware put into the software so that those pirates send them $100 for the privilege?