Thought I remembered something about slashcode automatically tagging any first post as 'Troll' as a defense mechanism... My memory might be wrong on that though.
I'm more familiar with it being used in the sense as it refers to the curve you have to climb, hence a 'steep' learning curve has you start on ground level and then climb the face of El Capitan to get to the top. Wiki says it started your way, but current usage is more often the way I see it.
Maybe we should just drop the saying all together and stick with "easy to learn" and "complex to learn"?
Had you read the article, you'd see where all the chips come from, because it's summarized right below that line on the first page.
Hint: if you have an electronic device that is NOT a desktop or laptop computer, the odds are somewhere around 99 out of 100 that it's using one or more ARM chips. This includes, but is not limited to, cell phones, GPSes, home routers, calculators, and portable gaming devices like the DS.
Slightly less than half (48 percent) said that they have never clicked on a spam e-mail. That's the good news, but that means the other half have clicked on or responded to spam. But why? The answers will undoubtedly horrify you. A full 12 percent said that they were interested in the product or service being offered—those erection drug and mail order bride ads do reach a certain market, it appears.
Seventeen percent said that they made a mistake when they did so—understandable—but another 13 percent said they simply had no idea why they did it; they just did. Another six percent "wanted to see what would happen."
And this is something you would expect people to do in an airport terminal waiting to board a plane and not arouse suspicion?
This is assuming, of course, the TSA lets you keep your screwdrivers.
I wasn't intending to imply that it's impossible to remove a MacBook battery, only that it would be impractical for people to do so in the circumstances the GP posed.
It's a disparity between "letter of the law" and "spirit of the law."
The spirit of the law means you go after stores that hook the stereo up to the PA system to create a specific environment for the customers. I can accept that; they have made a conscious effort to include music as part of their business plan and as such should compensate artists accordingly. (**For the sake of argument, let's assume the payments actually go to the artists.)
The letter of the law, though, means that any audible music requires licencing, including radios being played in the back room, even personal radios that the employee may have brought in. You can also swap radio with iPods or whatever other portable players are available. Same thing works with overly loud headphones.
Sadly, the spirit of the law requires people to have common sense and use their own judgment. The letter of the law is much easier to apply: send out the legal notice and have the barristers and judges at trial do the thinking.
Everyone here is going to talk about how outrageous it is for a supermarket to be charged for playing the radio, but the fact of the matter is that they use the radio to create a pleasant environment for their customers, which makes it a tool of commerce.
Sounded to me like they'd use a radio in the back that just happened to be in earshot of the front. This is opposed to the full speaker array across the store that keeps the place from being too quiet.
That's more akin to being charged a performance licence for your car radio while your windows are rolled down.
Solar is great as a suppliment, but you need to still provide a steady, reliable base load to the public as a whole. Some buildings stay in operation 24 hours a day, and I don't just mean businesses: hospitals, police stations for example.
People need power at night (sorry solar) on calm days (sorry wind) away from flowing water (sorry hydro-) and hot spots (sorry geothermal).
If cost allows one day, sure, I'll likely pick up some solar panels but on a nationwide scale, nuclear is a bigger priority.
So...out of curiousity, how many lawyers do you actually know and what do they make?
Maybe look up in your yellow pages for some local ones without the fancy one page ads and ask them.
if the other poster is correct that she dutifully *reported* the blogging income, and is a lawyer, meaning she should be able to quickly know the ins and outs of the law A divorce lawyer should know all the ins and outs of patent law then?
Take that axe and grind it where it belongs: the bureaucrats.
She reported herself. She was being a good person and reporting ALL income. The rare breed who'd probably pay local state tax on items purchased out of state.
From the Forbes article (it's linked from the linked article): When the check came in, Karin realized she had a legal obligation to disclose the income to New York State, even though doing so might reduce the weekly unemployment benefits she received.
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I can't see anything! All the keyboard crud fell into my eyes you insensitive clod!
Thought I remembered something about slashcode automatically tagging any first post as 'Troll' as a defense mechanism... My memory might be wrong on that though.
It's no surprise that the military customers would require a lower ruggedness spec than civilian users.
And then there's this story that utterly contradicts you: http://www.toughbookuniverse.com/?p=16
I was thinking the same thing about safety deposit boxes.
'Steep learning curve' goes both ways.
I'm more familiar with it being used in the sense as it refers to the curve you have to climb, hence a 'steep' learning curve has you start on ground level and then climb the face of El Capitan to get to the top. Wiki says it started your way, but current usage is more often the way I see it.
Maybe we should just drop the saying all together and stick with "easy to learn" and "complex to learn"?
The glib part of my line was I was that I'm using two different definitions of 'free market.'
There's the free market that businessmen promote (the first use) and the actual free market that we have little of (the second.)
'Free market' will end up going down in oxymoron history alongside 'jumbo shrimp' and 'military intelligence' at this rate...
Goes to show the biggest enemy of the free market is...the free market.
Had you read the article, you'd see where all the chips come from, because it's summarized right below that line on the first page.
Hint: if you have an electronic device that is NOT a desktop or laptop computer, the odds are somewhere around 99 out of 100 that it's using one or more ARM chips. This includes, but is not limited to, cell phones, GPSes, home routers, calculators, and portable gaming devices like the DS.
An amazingly common misconception. People don't actually buy things advertised by spam. Err, [citation needed]?
Here's mine: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/12-of-e-mail-users-try-to-buy-stuff-from-spam-e-mail.ars
And this is something you would expect people to do in an airport terminal waiting to board a plane and not arouse suspicion?
This is assuming, of course, the TSA lets you keep your screwdrivers.
I wasn't intending to imply that it's impossible to remove a MacBook battery, only that it would be impractical for people to do so in the circumstances the GP posed.
And how do you remove a MacBook battery?
You don't HAVE a girlfriend...
Yes I do, and she runs Linux as well!
That doesn't make it any less absurd.
It's a disparity between "letter of the law" and "spirit of the law."
The spirit of the law means you go after stores that hook the stereo up to the PA system to create a specific environment for the customers. I can accept that; they have made a conscious effort to include music as part of their business plan and as such should compensate artists accordingly. (**For the sake of argument, let's assume the payments actually go to the artists.)
The letter of the law, though, means that any audible music requires licencing, including radios being played in the back room, even personal radios that the employee may have brought in. You can also swap radio with iPods or whatever other portable players are available. Same thing works with overly loud headphones.
Sadly, the spirit of the law requires people to have common sense and use their own judgment. The letter of the law is much easier to apply: send out the legal notice and have the barristers and judges at trial do the thinking.
Everyone here is going to talk about how outrageous it is for a supermarket to be charged for playing the radio, but the fact of the matter is that they use the radio to create a pleasant environment for their customers, which makes it a tool of commerce.
Sounded to me like they'd use a radio in the back that just happened to be in earshot of the front. This is opposed to the full speaker array across the store that keeps the place from being too quiet.
That's more akin to being charged a performance licence for your car radio while your windows are rolled down.
You heard about Prop 8 too!
Still, that's faster than a Soon(tm) from Blizzard.
They charge the same and rake in more profit.
I'm more of a nuclear revolution person.
Solar is great as a suppliment, but you need to still provide a steady, reliable base load to the public as a whole. Some buildings stay in operation 24 hours a day, and I don't just mean businesses: hospitals, police stations for example.
People need power at night (sorry solar) on calm days (sorry wind) away from flowing water (sorry hydro-) and hot spots (sorry geothermal).
If cost allows one day, sure, I'll likely pick up some solar panels but on a nationwide scale, nuclear is a bigger priority.
So...out of curiousity, how many lawyers do you actually know and what do they make?
Maybe look up in your yellow pages for some local ones without the fancy one page ads and ask them.
if the other poster is correct that she dutifully *reported* the blogging income, and is a lawyer, meaning she should be able to quickly know the ins and outs of the law
A divorce lawyer should know all the ins and outs of patent law then?
Take that axe and grind it where it belongs: the bureaucrats.
So all we have to do is give everyone in the country $1/day and voila: 100% employment rate!
Maybe you should spend less time "commenting" and more time doing your job.
And don't give me that "oh, i'm on break or posting from home" crap. That just means you're not dedicated enough!
It's still around; it's in middle England.
She reported herself. She was being a good person and reporting ALL income. The rare breed who'd probably pay local state tax on items purchased out of state.
From the Forbes article (it's linked from the linked article): When the check came in, Karin realized she had a legal obligation to disclose the income to New York State, even though doing so might reduce the weekly unemployment benefits she received.
You're unemployed. A friend gives you $20 to help move some furniture. You've now received money and are no longer unemployed.
Yeah...that makes sense...
Considering minimum wage is $7.25/hr, that's not just a crappy job, that's in violation of Federal law.
Or, more likely, it wasn't a job.