OTOH, perhaps Apple is so large now their left hand doesn't know what their right hand is doing.
Their right hand is cutting off the blood flow to the left hand. It'll find out soon enough. Adobe's response might be to not distribute MacOS X versions of Creative Suite 5 and its component apps. Lets see how long Mac OS X lasts without its artist groupies. Of course, then Apple would just focus on iPhone OS, and the world would be that much more screwed.
Does that correct past mistakes? Make other people's lives better because you never screwed them up? Suggest some sort of self prevention via time traveling baguette contraceptive, and you'll be on to something.
I saw a couple minutes of an episode of Dirty Jobs recently. At first I thought Mike Rowe was sifting through a table of entrails. It was actually a table full of slime and Unagi. Apparently they excrete slime.
This is a HUGE problem because the FF updater runs at whatever level the user that launched it runs. There is not currently the ability to have one admin update FF on 100 computers without going around to each and every computer and personally updating it. Contrast this with IE where the updates are rolled in with OS updates and can be easily be scheduled to run by the admin without a case by case access.
To suggest that you can be jailed for sending email is ludicrous.
By posting this comment, you have been found in contempt of the court's 'virtual presence'. A Warrant has been issued to CmdrTaco for your real name, email. and IP address(es), and a warrant for your arrest will soon be issued. If you are extra-national, extradition will be sought, and if your country does not agree to extradite, a CIA drone with Hellfire missile capability will be ordered by the court to conduct an "investigation". Just try to stop us. We're the &(@$*ing Judiciary! Our leaders are appointed for LIFE!
Now, if it had been a friend or two that e-mailed the judge, he might have just warned them off with a "that's not appropriate." But when enough people e-mail to fill his Inbox, it's quite clearly an attempt to influence the judge, and that's not OK.
Well, maybe judges need to be sequestered away from society like juries if they're so easily influenced.
If one were going to actually inflict harm upon another, why would they give them a heads up with a threat? You'd think they'd just do it. Ever notice in horror films that the guy who says "I'm gonna kill you" is always the one being killed. You'd almost think that a threat is an indication someone's not going to commit a crime. "Excuse me sir, I'm going to rob your convenient store at 11pm"...wtf?!?
As a long-term DM, Hero and Villain motivations and reactions are a minor point of pseudo-study for me... Threats of death are only effective when announced to people beyond the threatened individual: "X, I'm going to kill you if you don't do Y. Hear that, everybody? I'm going to kill X if he doesn't do Y!"
Why? Because if the criminal kills X, X can't do Y, which is the end goal for the criminal (getting X to do Y). But if X doesn't do Y, and the criminal kills X, and people knew one led to another, the criminal can say "A, I'm going to kill you if you don't do B. Hear that, everybody? I'm going to kill A if he doesn't do B!" and A will likely comply.
In fact, if getting A to do B is the real end goal, X and Y could be any random person and random act, one the criminal thinks X would refuse to do even under threat of death; just a show to get a point across to A. So, strangely, death threats against public figures are probably intended to cause action in people other than the original recipient (other people in the same class of public figure), assuming the criminals are evil supervillain masterminds. More likely they're just stupid idiots venting; and some of the stupid idiots actually do get even dumber and carry out their threats.
Programmer meticulously creates a resume in OpenOffice, prints to PDF, send to HR, who send it back demanding a Word Document (so that they can mark on it via sharepoint with the hiring manager). Programmer converts the.ODT to a.DOC, sends to HR. HR tells the Manager: don't bother; this guy can't even format a Word document.
Are you insinuating that Slashdot modding is deficient in any way? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
How can this be?
This can be because of guys like this http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1612984&cid=31791490 ...who admit they draw a distinction between "funny" and "flamebait" solely on whether the commenter uses the words "allegedly" or "like this".
Again, copyright shouldn't be about ideas but creative works. A creative work is neither imaginary or artificial, it's an idea realised by creative expression: the creator's work, so it is in the ownership of the creator by default. And so copyright protects the creator's property. Ideas are never denied to anyone.
How exactly does copyright protects the creator's property (the physical result of their work of creative expression)? Does it put it in a vault? Does it use laser-vibration sensors on glass? Does it insure the property so that the creator is compensated for loss in flood, fire, or other natural disaster?
It does none of these things. It _does_ prevent a specific type of creative expression that beginning creative people use: tracing (and its literary, film, and digital equivalents). But this prevention does not protect the original work, it instead protects the creator's ability to make money with that work for lifetime+20 years. It prevents idea expression. I was about to say it prevents idea transfer, but it doesn't do that, because in almost all creative works, idea transfer is the intended result. Instead, the transfered idea is not allowed to be re-expressed creatively by anyone other than the original creator unless it is sufficiently modified to be adjudicated to be an entirely different, albeit similar, idea.
Anyone know how these multiple charges occur within the system? I would think it hard to write a billing system so it could accidentally charge people dozens of times. Even if it had some glitch to try to repeatedly make charges, there should be some check to see if the account it up to be billed again. This isn't the first (or will it be the last) time I've heard of this kind of problem, so this must be a bigger problem than I would be inclined to think.
Disk space filled to capacity? Poorly written algorithm that doesn't take it into account because programmers don't think about hardware issues most of the time?
while true, do the following:
Read records 0 to End; for every record do the following:
is something owed and has a bill not been sent/money been siphoned from an account? then send a bill/transaction request for $X
mark account record to state that a bill has been sent or money has been siphoned. !!!ERROR, Could not write to disk!!!
if money was siphoned, mark the owe value as $0 !!!ERROR, Could not write to disk!!!
end foreach loop
end while loop
If it takes a minute to go through all of the records, it might have been 22 minutes of full disk space before someone in accounting noticed that there was an unexpected 2000% increase in income that hour.
This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will conversely bring OSS more users, testers and developers.
No.
hopefully cause less X, which will conversely bring more Y.
hopefully bring more X, which will conversely cause less Y.
hopefully bring more X, which will similarly bring more X
Yes, similarly.
And, on top of that, MS doesn't own the project, I do. "Shutting it down" is not an option for them.
Microsoft CEO: "Buy him out, boys!"
His name cannot be s (16831): "Hey, what the hell's going on?"
"Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks. Muhahaahahahaa!"
Can someone tell me why I would want a multitasking phone yet this study says it adversely affects brain learning?
Because a phone is not a brain? A mutitasking computer helps *me* to not multitask by doing things in the background for me. "You, program. Do this. Okay, now that that is being worked on, I can forget about it until it's done."
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A dime has no processor or RAM. If you can get Ubuntu on it, then I'll buy ten for a dollar.
Give me USB and root. Sold.
Do they have special glasses that improve overall story and character development? I tried beer goggles, but I end up forgetting most of the movie.
But the woman in the seat next to you will never forget you.
I'm still waiting for the magical how-to-make-Flash-not-suck guide from the people who claim that Flash does indeed work OK.
I think the trick is to renice the flash process to -20 and cross your fingers.
Photoshop for the iPhone is already on the App Store. Dunno if they will do an iPad version after the iPhone OS 4 changes...
Maybe they wrote it as a flash app.
OTOH, perhaps Apple is so large now their left hand doesn't know what their right hand is doing.
Their right hand is cutting off the blood flow to the left hand. It'll find out soon enough. Adobe's response might be to not distribute MacOS X versions of Creative Suite 5 and its component apps. Lets see how long Mac OS X lasts without its artist groupies. Of course, then Apple would just focus on iPhone OS, and the world would be that much more screwed.
No, the geeks at /. are in love with Woz's Apple, everyone else is in love with Steve's Apple.
That sounds dirty.
Does that correct past mistakes? Make other people's lives better because you never screwed them up? Suggest some sort of self prevention via time traveling baguette contraceptive, and you'll be on to something.
The Chinese can get the music without DRM because they have a lot more respect for copyright.
Hahahahahhahahahaahahahaa!
Snirk, hee
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I saw a couple minutes of an episode of Dirty Jobs recently. At first I thought Mike Rowe was sifting through a table of entrails. It was actually a table full of slime and Unagi. Apparently they excrete slime.
This is a HUGE problem because the FF updater runs at whatever level the user that launched it runs. There is not currently the ability to have one admin update FF on 100 computers without going around to each and every computer and personally updating it. Contrast this with IE where the updates are rolled in with OS updates and can be easily be scheduled to run by the admin without a case by case access.
Well, I've kludged together a batch file sent through psexec that copies the .mar file from an open SMB share, and does the updates manually like this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file#Steps_for_Windows
But it's a kludge, and I'm kludge averse these days.
[_] Enable computer power
The ultimately in security, I've done it!
I didn't see a "*($^#@$@^$&&&... NO CARRIER". I call shenanigans!
If you aspire to be Tony Stark, yes... but AluminumMan kind of lacks that spark...
The Fabulous Aluminium Man: just like Iron Man, but British and with lighter loafers.
To suggest that you can be jailed for sending email is ludicrous.
By posting this comment, you have been found in contempt of the court's 'virtual presence'. A Warrant has been issued to CmdrTaco for your real name, email. and IP address(es), and a warrant for your arrest will soon be issued. If you are extra-national, extradition will be sought, and if your country does not agree to extradite, a CIA drone with Hellfire missile capability will be ordered by the court to conduct an "investigation". Just try to stop us. We're the &(@$*ing Judiciary! Our leaders are appointed for LIFE!
Now, if it had been a friend or two that e-mailed the judge, he might have just warned them off with a "that's not appropriate." But when enough people e-mail to fill his Inbox, it's quite clearly an attempt to influence the judge, and that's not OK .
Well, maybe judges need to be sequestered away from society like juries if they're so easily influenced.
If one were going to actually inflict harm upon another, why would they give them a heads up with a threat? You'd think they'd just do it. Ever notice in horror films that the guy who says "I'm gonna kill you" is always the one being killed. You'd almost think that a threat is an indication someone's not going to commit a crime. "Excuse me sir, I'm going to rob your convenient store at 11pm"...wtf?!?
As a long-term DM, Hero and Villain motivations and reactions are a minor point of pseudo-study for me... Threats of death are only effective when announced to people beyond the threatened individual: "X, I'm going to kill you if you don't do Y. Hear that, everybody? I'm going to kill X if he doesn't do Y!"
Why? Because if the criminal kills X, X can't do Y, which is the end goal for the criminal (getting X to do Y). But if X doesn't do Y, and the criminal kills X, and people knew one led to another, the criminal can say "A, I'm going to kill you if you don't do B. Hear that, everybody? I'm going to kill A if he doesn't do B!" and A will likely comply.
In fact, if getting A to do B is the real end goal, X and Y could be any random person and random act, one the criminal thinks X would refuse to do even under threat of death; just a show to get a point across to A. So, strangely, death threats against public figures are probably intended to cause action in people other than the original recipient (other people in the same class of public figure), assuming the criminals are evil supervillain masterminds. More likely they're just stupid idiots venting; and some of the stupid idiots actually do get even dumber and carry out their threats.
Programmer meticulously creates a resume in OpenOffice, prints to PDF, send to HR, who send it back demanding a Word Document (so that they can mark on it via sharepoint with the hiring manager). Programmer converts the .ODT to a .DOC, sends to HR. HR tells the Manager: don't bother; this guy can't even format a Word document.
Are you insinuating that Slashdot modding is deficient in any way? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
How can this be?
This can be because of guys like this http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1612984&cid=31791490
...who admit they draw a distinction between "funny" and "flamebait" solely on whether the commenter uses the words "allegedly" or "like this".
Again, copyright shouldn't be about ideas but creative works. A creative work is neither imaginary or artificial, it's an idea realised by creative expression: the creator's work, so it is in the ownership of the creator by default. And so copyright protects the creator's property. Ideas are never denied to anyone.
How exactly does copyright protects the creator's property (the physical result of their work of creative expression)? Does it put it in a vault? Does it use laser-vibration sensors on glass? Does it insure the property so that the creator is compensated for loss in flood, fire, or other natural disaster?
It does none of these things. It _does_ prevent a specific type of creative expression that beginning creative people use: tracing (and its literary, film, and digital equivalents). But this prevention does not protect the original work, it instead protects the creator's ability to make money with that work for lifetime+20 years. It prevents idea expression. I was about to say it prevents idea transfer, but it doesn't do that, because in almost all creative works, idea transfer is the intended result. Instead, the transfered idea is not allowed to be re-expressed creatively by anyone other than the original creator unless it is sufficiently modified to be adjudicated to be an entirely different, albeit similar, idea.
Anyone know how these multiple charges occur within the system? I would think it hard to write a billing system so it could accidentally charge people dozens of times. Even if it had some glitch to try to repeatedly make charges, there should be some check to see if the account it up to be billed again. This isn't the first (or will it be the last) time I've heard of this kind of problem, so this must be a bigger problem than I would be inclined to think.
Disk space filled to capacity? Poorly written algorithm that doesn't take it into account because programmers don't think about hardware issues most of the time?
while true, do the following:
Read records 0 to End; for every record do the following:
is something owed and has a bill not been sent/money been siphoned from an account? then send a bill/transaction request for $X
mark account record to state that a bill has been sent or money has been siphoned. !!!ERROR, Could not write to disk!!!
if money was siphoned, mark the owe value as $0 !!!ERROR, Could not write to disk!!!
end foreach loop
end while loop
If it takes a minute to go through all of the records, it might have been 22 minutes of full disk space before someone in accounting noticed that there was an unexpected 2000% increase in income that hour.
This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will conversely bring OSS more users, testers and developers.
No.
hopefully cause less X, which will conversely bring more Y.
hopefully bring more X, which will conversely cause less Y.
hopefully bring more X, which will similarly bring more X
Yes, similarly.
</nazi style=grammar>
And, on top of that, MS doesn't own the project, I do. "Shutting it down" is not an option for them.
Microsoft CEO: "Buy him out, boys!"
His name cannot be s (16831): "Hey, what the hell's going on?"
"Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks. Muhahaahahahaa!"
If Mozilla can't figure out how to make an msi on their own, maybe they could get some help.
Can someone tell me why I would want a multitasking phone yet this study says it adversely affects brain learning?
Because a phone is not a brain? A mutitasking computer helps *me* to not multitask by doing things in the background for me. "You, program. Do this. Okay, now that that is being worked on, I can forget about it until it's done."
Not one Obi-wan Kenobi quote in the whole thread yet. None of you are geeks. You're just nerds. NERDS!