and at every company I've worked at IT also has other perks like frequently getting less restricted access to internet/web (or just getting access to the web at all) while at work. My guess is that is some companies IT department set the internet policies. No internet access for normal users means less crap to scrape off computers, etc. Even when it is a PHB who sets policy, they are more likely to listen to the IT staff, being that the IT staff are the technical experts.
My Mac Pro came with a Mighty Mouse. The scroll ball is really neat, but the fact that if you hold your mouse like an artist tends to (only using your fingers instead of laying your entire hand on it) it tends to interpret left-clicks as right-clicks.
Actually, that is the reverse of the problem most people have. if you keep your hand on the mouse all the time, and try to right-click it interprets it as a left click. You must raise your index finger to right click. That is for backwards compatability of "click the whole mouse at once = left click" that was the only option on the older Mac mice.
Well, AIUI, the Root domain is in the control of ICAAN. The domain registries (NICs) have more or less full control over the top-level domain they control, subject to any restrictions ICANN places on them (which can be very extensive in some cases). (In a few cases, such as.arpa and.int, the IANA is the registry, and the IANA is part of ICANN).
Some domains, such as.com,.org,.net, etc have an elaborate system of registrars, which is really just a mess. Often it means that the domain that you "own", is not owned by you at all, but by the registrar, or other intermediary.
What I find odd about the registrar system is that in theory its purpose is to cut down the number of organizations ICANN has to deal with in terms of domain registration. In reality, ICANN has no involvement with the domain registration process. the Registry (such as Verisign for.com) is the one who would need to deal with the end customers. So this is a needless layer of corruption and abstraction. That is especially true considering that Verisign is not just a NIC, but also a registrar. So they need to deal with end customers anyway. That is one of the reasons that I would prefer to buy a domain in a ccTLD, rather than a gTLD. I definately prefer to work directly with the NIC, than with one of a long chain of intermediaries.
Firetrucks almost always come equipped with a mechanism by which a License plate can be attached. Some states do not require license plates on Fire trucks because the truck number is sufficient to verify registration, and identify the vehicle. In these cases fake plates are sometimes used, such as "1-800-GRAB-DUI" or other public service messages, other times no plates are used. (Patrol cars in come states have exactly the same system in place). In Ohio, AFAICT this is true of Firetrucks, patrol cars, and school-buses.
Now even if a plate is not legally necessarily,the BMV can still issue one if requested (however, AFAICT, the BMV is not obligated to do so).
In other places, firetrucks have special license plates, or use the standard government license plates.
a hardcore gamer would accept 2d sprites if the game was good, some would even take ASCII
Are we talking NetHack here? I would definitely call that a hardcore game, as it can take months or longer before you have beaten the game even once, and it has an extremely high replay value.
I hold the same to be true for all mechanisms whereby the earth, life, and the universe were created.
I believe that is your problem. Evolution DOES NOT address creation of the earth, of life, or of the Universe.
Evolution explains only what has happened since life was created and the present.
If the tetrachromatic mutation affects a single dominant gene in the X chromosome, why is it that it is only expressed phenotypically in females? Men have a single X chromosome too -- in fact, we are more adversely affected by inherited traits such as colour-blindness for the precise reason that we only have a single copy (thus a recessive mutation would be more likely to be manifested, since there's no "normal" version of the gene to suppress it).
The X codes for red and green cones. The fourth color perception comes from the case that one one the Red or one of the Green genes are faulty creating cones with a different color sensitivity. Thus in effect a fourth type of cone would be generated in said woman.
That gene in a male would distort color perception but the male would still end up with only 3 types of cones. They would have a partial colorblindness. They would be an anomoly, as they would be able to see part of the spectrum the missing cone should be able to see, but not all of it. (More common colorblindness is caused by a mutation in which one type of cone simply does not work.)
At least That is what I understand based on the information in TFA.
More importantly, they can't see in IR. To me, having heat vision would be way cooler.
Actually even "normal" people can see in IR, albeit only somewhat utsidr thw "visibile" part of the spectrum.
However The eyes are not very sensitive to this region, so heat vision is out of the question.
I first found out about this when looking straight down the beam of a Class I (ultra low output) Laser
with a wavelength of 832-852 nm. This is the laser found in my laser mouse. When I look directly down the beam
I see a red dot. (Well sort of like a dot. A bit blurry, but I would expect that.
That's the law. If you are classified as an hourly worker you MUST take at least a 30 minute lunch break and have a 15 minute break for every 4 hours you work. Overtime is also regulated in a similar way.
The article is overly negative. These labor laws are actually generally for intended for employee protection, not protection of the profit.
Take for example this quote:
.. ordered to take at least 30 minutes off for lunch so that they don't rack up billable time while grabbing a sandwich in their cubicle...
The real reason for this rule is to protect the employees. It is really intended for people like foundry employees. The law makes the lunch break manditory so that the company cannot force employees to work through lunch and not eat. By being mandatory the company cannot coerce the employees into claiming they skipped the lunch break by choice, when in fact management told them that they would be fired if they did not skip lunch.
The breaks have a very similar reason. Now I admit that these laws seem broken. Google's hourly employees really have no risk ob being coerced into skipping lunch or breaks. It would be nice if Google would demonstrate that these changes are merely being made to comply with the law, by paying for lunch and the breaks. The fact that they are not is somewhat concerning.
Finally I will note that the requirement of receiving management approval for overtime does not seem to be for the protection of the worker. That one does exist only for the protection of profit.
The problem I would have with the Google work environment is that it all appears to be geared to getting you to spend as many hours as possible at the office.
That is, the free food, and fun corporate events are all nice and everything; but my sense is that in return you're pretty much expected to work extremely long hours, to make your job your life.
IMO, it's extremely important -- crucial even -- to have a separate work life and home life. Work hard from 9-to-5 but then drop everything and go home, spend the evening with your wife and family. Forget about work and come back fresh the next day. Google doesn't seem to emphasize that. It appears when you work at Google, you work there 24/7. I don't think that's necessarily a healthy approach.
Still -- looks like a very fun place to work. If you are allowed to go home at the end of the day.;-)
I'm wounding if perhaps you have conflated cause and effect. It seems possible that Google has many employees who are basically workaholics. They enjoy their job, and don't mind staying late. Could it be that Google is just catering to its employees desires, rather than trying to entice workers to become workaholic?
From a review: "This isn't a perfect simulation of what real Glass does - it won't blur the area behind the title bar. This is because there's no way of building a bitmap file that will have such an effect. But given the limitations of what you can do with existing bitmap formats, Kenny's utility is as good as it's possible to get".
Um.. unless i'm missing something the only way that could be true is if the blurring is done by the image on the screen not being constant, but changing to create a blur effect. In which case an animated image would be needed.
Otherwise if it was static it would be prefectly possible to get a bitmap showing said effect as in someway.
The real truth is that a messy desk is actually a vertical FIFO sort -- most recently used thing on top.
Don't you mean LIFO (Last-in, First-out) sort? Even that is a broken analogy though. It is really more of a stack where elements are popped from whatever position and pushed on the front. (As such it should be implemented as a doubly linked list internally if memory allows [stacks are bad at allowing elements deep inside themselves to be popped], but the interface to the user is stack-like). It tends to have 2 attributes. Frequently used items tend to be near the top, and recently used items tend to be near the top. Thus in most cases you narrow down your search time significantly as you are most likely to be needing something recently used or frequently used.
I was under the impression that copyright confers rights regarding copying and distribution, not use. If I buy a book that has, printed on the cover, a copyright license saying that I'm not allowed to read the book, as far as I know that's legally unenforcable -- once you sold it to me, I'm legally free to do whatever I want with it except distribute copies. (And, of course, anything it would be illegal to do with any object, like beat someone to death with it.)
True. Although there may be limitations on creating copies that are not distributed. I've heard it both ways.
Have you ever used Application Packages?.... Its not just drag/drop install.... But drag drop copy/backup/ etc. For instance, the other day I needed a copy of Epson CD creator (it comes on the driver disk supplied with my R300, but this had long since disappeared), but since I had upgraded to a new Mac, this wasn't installed. Epson didn't want to help as they claimed this software was no longer supported, and no downloads exist for it on their website. In other words, I was buggered....
HOWEVER, Finding an old backup from the old mac, I just mounted it, copied Epson CD creator over, and it WORKED. In any other scenario, using Win, or Linux, this would not have worked out this way.
Why not include all the dependent libraries with the app anyhow? Disk space is well cheap, and there is nothing stopping a process moving/deleting duplicate libraries from the application when the system detects a new app in the apps folder, and invisibly copying them back to the application before copying the app elsewhere. Applications in OS x are as easy to manage as mp3's or jpegs... Why cant linux be like this?
As a previous replier points out, this is roughly equivalent to statically linking libraries, rather than using shared libraries. It has a few downsides: larger packages (can be a pain especially if bandwidth is limited for some reason), and problems with security vulnerabilities in a library.
If one is willing to concede that a larger package size is a reasonable price to pay for ease-of-use, then I believe the second problem can be alleviated. The idea: since Application Packages are just folders (marked as bundles, and/or having a magic file extension) it is entirely possible for a Package to contain another Package. So we introduce the idea of a Library Package. These would live in/Libraries/. An application would include the needed Library Packages inside it. When the application is run, the It (or the OS) checks that needed Library Packages already exist in/Libraries/, and that the versions in the Application Package are not newer than those in/Libraries/. The Library Packages in the Application Package are then extracted to/Libraries/ as needed. This helps with the security, as if a Library Package is updated (by whatever means, a Library package could even be installed by drag-and-drop, much like Application Packages) all Application Packages that use it benefit. One potential problem is that this sort-of breaks drag-and-drop uninstall. One could easily see/Libraries/ filling up with unused cruft.
Theoretically, Mac Application packages can do this now, although the auto-installing of a Library Package might violate some Apple guideline.
All they have to do is run the text through their English -> Arabic translator and then back to English. (for some reason the Arabic translator does a better job of keeping the general meaning of the original phrase better than their other language translators)
That will be enough to make the story partially readable, but moderately different.
For instance I put in a current headline: "US Troops Raid Shiite Areas of Baghdad"
And got back: "American forces raid Shiite areas of Baghdad"
Of course, it's not always that intelligible, but hey..it's a start.
Some interesting translations though the other filters and back:
Chinese (either simplified or traditional): U.S. forces bombed Baghdad Shiite district
German: US troop assault Shiite of ranges from Baghdad
Japanese: The american troop air-raids the Baghdad Shiite area
Korean: The american unit attacks suddenly Shiite areas of Baghdad
Russian: U.S. troops raided the Shiite areas of Baghdad
The Korean result was one of most reasonable translations besides the Arabic and Russian, although this might be because it could not find a translation for Shiite.
I think the best was the russian. A tense change and an optional article ("the") was added.
The percentage is not a rule. You can use 100% and still be fair use in some circumstances. Lets say somebody writes a 100 line poem. If you were to write a large (perhaps thousand page) book that picks the poem apart line by line and analyzes it in great depth, that book may end up containing the entire poem. That is fine though. After all the amount of new material far outweighs the original.
This is largely reposting ideas I've already expressed, but since you don't seen to get it, I'll keep trying.
What's the big deal about teens and sex anyway? In my experience, young people rather enjoy it and don't need to be protected from predators any more then anyone else does (anyone who forces non-consensual physical activity on another, regardless of the age of the victim or the attacker, is a criminal and should be treated as such). The ability to engage in any consensual physical activity is a right (regardless of the age of the participants).
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Statutory rape laws are unethical and have noting to do with rape. If sex is forced (regardless of the age of the participants) it is unethical and rape. If sex is consensual (regardless of the age of the participants), it is a personal matter and should not be regulated by law.
One can argue that any sexual contact between an adult and a young enough youth is coercive because young children do not know about sex so they cannot initiate the contact. The adult must be the one to lure or trick the kid into acting. I agree that sex between adults and pre-mature children is wrong, however, setting any hard age limit is unethical and impractical. If you set the limit too low (say five years old)...there will certainly be a large group of abused children who wouldn't be protected by the law. If you set the limit too high (eight-teen years old for example), than a large group of sexually mature people would be denied their human right to physical intimacy with those of their choosing. There is no "just right" limit because children mature at different times. Human beings are unique. What we need is a legal system that protects all humans from sexual exploitation and doesn't single out arbitrary groups of people of certain genders, races, or ages for discrimination. Age should be taken into consideration, along with other factors, on a case by case basis when deciding if sexual contact was rape or not.
I agree that the age of consent idea, and therefore statutory rape idea is nonsense. If two 16-year olds have sex, is that a problem? Almost certainly not.
In cases where sex was not forced, then what is important is determining if the alleged victim was unable to consent. Age should be one factor. An age cutoff is not reasonable.
However it is unlikely that the broken system would be abolished. It would help there was a consistent age of consent, 15 or 16 is fairly reasonable. Universally having a clause that allows sex in all cases when the participants are within 2 or so years of each other would also help. (I really should go by number of days, rather than comparing subtracted the integer ages or you could have the case were sex between to people is legal, but then one has a birthday, and sex between them is then illegal until the other's birthday. Clearly that would be absurd.) Lastly, we really need to fix the rape laws.
A simple definition of rape would be: Sex in which one (or more) participants did not consent or was unable to consent.
But that is too simplistic. There would be exceptions. Some test cases:
Two people had sex. One was unable to consent to sex. The other was reasonably unaware that the first unable to consent to having sex. Not rape
Depending on the circumstances, this might be unfortunate, but there really was not a crime.
Notice that if this was applied in all cases, it would help even without messing with the age of consent. If an adult had sex with a minor who was under the age of consent, who lied about his/her age, and the adult had no reason to suspect the other was lying, then the adult would not be guilty of statutory rape.
Two people who were both unable to give consent have sex with each other. Further, both were unaware that the other was unable to give consent (probably due to the same reason that they are unable to give consent). not rape
Common sense tells me this would be the cheaper route for Nvidia to take, but then I am not privy to whatever restrictive licensing arrangements Nvidia may have made with third parties.
You have successfully identified one source of problems. If Nvidia using technology they licensed from another company, they may be unable to disclose details about that technology for legal reasons. Then there are concerns of trade secrets. It turns out that a video drivers have do a fair amount of the work. Even when the chip is doing the work, the driver may reveal quite a bit about how the the hardware side of the card works. It could even reveal clever ways which the card has optimized some of the processes. This could give an advantage to the competition without guaranteeing that the competition would reveal their tricks too.
Finally, a company like Nvidia may be concerned about letting another party write the drivers. If the drivers are unstable or just don't work it could reflect badly on the product or company. I suspect that if the company were to take the chance, they would mostly likely find that the open source driver would be better than the Windows driver. But the key is to convince the company to take the chance.
Even on XP it is horrible trying to install Visual Studio.
It has the longest install process I have ever seen. I'm quite certain that something is faulty in the installer.
I'm quite confident that the install process for Visual Studio involves something like: Extract all the files.
I'll admit that visual studio is a large program, but it is still too long.
It is as though the files in the installer are stored in a highly compressed (CPU-bound decompression) file that does not support random access.
Thus for each extract each file, the entire blob is decompressed.
After all, what else could take 3 hours to copy a few GB from a CD to the PC. I've seen faster torrents.
Perhaps you should take a look at the Windows Mobile offerings (You would want a windows mobile phone, not a windows mobile "smartphone") (In the WM world "smartphone means underpowered with no touchscreen). For example take a look at the PPC6700. It is somewhat large, but the face has clean design. There is a slide out keyboard, althiugh you do not need to use it. The system comes with several Graffiti-like systems, including natural handwriting modes. And that is only one of many phones that HTC makes. Most of their phones (unlike the ppc6700) are for GSM carriers, but they do a a fairly large selection. I'm betting there is something you would be satisfied with.
There are two different levels of integration of Google's checkout service. One of them is more minimal, and easier to integrate. You need to use google's order management system with this. You are also FORBIDDEN to use this integration level if you accept any type of coupon code on your web site.
There is a more complicated system that allows more features and allows you to integrate this into your normal invoicing system. It requires some significant programming, and it requires you to be able to inject information into your invoicing system. It looks like some companies find it easier to setup a second invoicing system then trying to inject the
information int their main system. This is not acceptable and WILL cause problems. This is the sort of thing that causes orders to be cancled for no valid reason without alerting the buyer.
Basically the API is very complex and if a merchant messes it up there will be problems, and the user experience will be less than satisfactory.
remember waguely it is in a.pax archive but I am not sure
While it is obviously not your fault if Apple chose to use the.pax file extention, the whole
pax thing annoys me. It is just a minor update to the tar archive format. GNU tar supports it just fine
and calls it "POSIX tar". I really don't understand why POSIX chose to rename the format. It serves only to cause
confusion.:(
It is entirely possible that when apple releases Leopard they will release a firmware upgrade that improves the boot selector. Remember that Apple most likely looks upon that part of the firmware as part of the boot camp technology (Although obviously it is not part of the Boot Camp application).
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Even when it is a PHB who sets policy, they are more likely to listen to the IT staff, being that the IT staff are the technical experts.
What I find odd about the registrar system is that in theory its purpose is to cut down the number of organizations ICANN has to deal with in terms of domain registration. In reality, ICANN has no involvement with the domain registration process. the Registry (such as Verisign for .com) is the one who would need to deal with the end customers. So this is a needless layer of corruption and abstraction. That is especially true considering that Verisign is not just a NIC, but also a registrar. So they need to deal with end customers anyway. That is one of the reasons that I would prefer to buy a domain in a ccTLD, rather than a gTLD. I definately prefer to work directly with the NIC, than with one of a long chain of intermediaries.
Firetrucks almost always come equipped with a mechanism by which a License plate can be attached. Some states do not require license plates on Fire trucks because the truck number is sufficient to verify registration, and identify the vehicle. In these cases fake plates are sometimes used, such as "1-800-GRAB-DUI" or other public service messages, other times no plates are used. (Patrol cars in come states have exactly the same system in place). In Ohio, AFAICT this is true of Firetrucks, patrol cars, and school-buses. Now even if a plate is not legally necessarily,the BMV can still issue one if requested (however, AFAICT, the BMV is not obligated to do so).
5 499.html and http://www.dmvnv.com/pdfforms/sp30.pdf for example
In other places, firetrucks have special license plates, or use the standard government license plates.
See: http://forums.firehouse.com/archive/index.php/t-6
Evolution explains only what has happened since life was created and the present.
That gene in a male would distort color perception but the male would still end up with only 3 types of cones. They would have a partial colorblindness. They would be an anomoly, as they would be able to see part of the spectrum the missing cone should be able to see, but not all of it. (More common colorblindness is caused by a mutation in which one type of cone simply does not work.)
At least That is what I understand based on the information in TFA.
I first found out about this when looking straight down the beam of a Class I (ultra low output) Laser with a wavelength of 832-852 nm. This is the laser found in my laser mouse. When I look directly down the beam I see a red dot. (Well sort of like a dot. A bit blurry, but I would expect that.
More interesting is this site: http://amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html
Take for example this quote:
The real reason for this rule is to protect the employees. It is really intended for people like foundry employees. The law makes the lunch break manditory so that the company cannot force employees to work through lunch and not eat. By being mandatory the company cannot coerce the employees into claiming they skipped the lunch break by choice, when in fact management told them that they would be fired if they did not skip lunch.The breaks have a very similar reason. Now I admit that these laws seem broken. Google's hourly employees really have no risk ob being coerced into skipping lunch or breaks. It would be nice if Google would demonstrate that these changes are merely being made to comply with the law, by paying for lunch and the breaks. The fact that they are not is somewhat concerning.
Finally I will note that the requirement of receiving management approval for overtime does not seem to be for the protection of the worker. That one does exist only for the protection of profit.
As a previous replier points out, this is roughly equivalent to statically linking libraries, rather than using shared libraries. It has a few downsides: larger packages (can be a pain especially if bandwidth is limited for some reason), and problems with security vulnerabilities in a library.
If one is willing to concede that a larger package size is a reasonable price to pay for ease-of-use, then I believe the second problem can be alleviated. The idea: since Application Packages are just folders (marked as bundles, and/or having a magic file extension) it is entirely possible for a Package to contain another Package. So we introduce the idea of a Library Package. These would live in /Libraries/. An application would include the needed Library Packages inside it. When the application is run, the It (or the OS) checks that needed Library Packages already exist in /Libraries/, and that the versions in the Application Package are not newer than those in /Libraries/. The Library Packages in the Application Package are then extracted to /Libraries/ as needed. This helps with the security, as if a Library Package is updated (by whatever means, a Library package could even be installed by drag-and-drop, much like Application Packages) all Application Packages that use it benefit. One potential problem is that this sort-of breaks drag-and-drop uninstall. One could easily see /Libraries/ filling up with unused cruft.
Theoretically, Mac Application packages can do this now, although the auto-installing of a Library Package might violate some Apple guideline.
Chinese (either simplified or traditional): U.S. forces bombed Baghdad Shiite district
German: US troop assault Shiite of ranges from Baghdad
Japanese: The american troop air-raids the Baghdad Shiite area
Korean: The american unit attacks suddenly Shiite areas of Baghdad
Russian: U.S. troops raided the Shiite areas of Baghdad
The Korean result was one of most reasonable translations besides the Arabic and Russian, although this might be because it could not find a translation for Shiite. I think the best was the russian. A tense change and an optional article ("the") was added.
The percentage is not a rule. You can use 100% and still be fair use in some circumstances. Lets say somebody writes a 100 line poem. If you were to write a large (perhaps thousand page) book that picks the poem apart line by line and analyzes it in great depth, that book may end up containing the entire poem. That is fine though. After all the amount of new material far outweighs the original.
I agree that the age of consent idea, and therefore statutory rape idea is nonsense. If two 16-year olds have sex, is that a problem? Almost certainly not. In cases where sex was not forced, then what is important is determining if the alleged victim was unable to consent. Age should be one factor. An age cutoff is not reasonable.
However it is unlikely that the broken system would be abolished. It would help there was a consistent age of consent, 15 or 16 is fairly reasonable. Universally having a clause that allows sex in all cases when the participants are within 2 or so years of each other would also help. (I really should go by number of days, rather than comparing subtracted the integer ages or you could have the case were sex between to people is legal, but then one has a birthday, and sex between them is then illegal until the other's birthday. Clearly that would be absurd.) Lastly, we really need to fix the rape laws.
A simple definition of rape would be: Sex in which one (or more) participants did not consent or was unable to consent. But that is too simplistic. There would be exceptions. Some test cases:
Finally, a company like Nvidia may be concerned about letting another party write the drivers. If the drivers are unstable or just don't work it could reflect badly on the product or company. I suspect that if the company were to take the chance, they would mostly likely find that the open source driver would be better than the Windows driver. But the key is to convince the company to take the chance.
It is as though the files in the installer are stored in a highly compressed (CPU-bound decompression) file that does not support random access. Thus for each extract each file, the entire blob is decompressed.
After all, what else could take 3 hours to copy a few GB from a CD to the PC. I've seen faster torrents.
Perhaps you should take a look at the Windows Mobile offerings (You would want a windows mobile phone, not a windows mobile "smartphone") (In the WM world "smartphone means underpowered with no touchscreen). For example take a look at the PPC6700. It is somewhat large, but the face has clean design. There is a slide out keyboard, althiugh you do not need to use it. The system comes with several Graffiti-like systems, including natural handwriting modes. And that is only one of many phones that HTC makes. Most of their phones (unlike the ppc6700) are for GSM carriers, but they do a a fairly large selection. I'm betting there is something you would be satisfied with.
There is a more complicated system that allows more features and allows you to integrate this into your normal invoicing system. It requires some significant programming, and it requires you to be able to inject information into your invoicing system. It looks like some companies find it easier to setup a second invoicing system then trying to inject the information int their main system. This is not acceptable and WILL cause problems. This is the sort of thing that causes orders to be cancled for no valid reason without alerting the buyer.
Basically the API is very complex and if a merchant messes it up there will be problems, and the user experience will be less than satisfactory.
It is entirely possible that when apple releases Leopard they will release a firmware upgrade that improves the boot selector. Remember that Apple most likely looks upon that part of the firmware as part of the boot camp technology (Although obviously it is not part of the Boot Camp application).