how many of them where paid? how many that went to court were held up?
I don't know much but I happened to be in Gwinnett traffic court last week, and that particular judge was knocking the fine down to $75 from $150. I believe all the people I saw plead no contest instead of guilty, which I thought was crazy - you only get one per five years; I last used one about 7 years ago for going 24mph over the limit.
I was in traffic court in Gwinnett last week. I got to leave fairly early, but while I was waiting I'd guess that almost half of the people before me were for tickets for using their phone at lights. The judge knocked all their fines in half from $150 to $75. Even the judge made a joke about the surprising number of people in for that. He also explained a couple of times that technically you have to be off the road, and it's not just texting - any use besides making a call is illegal (although he didn't mention if dialing was).
Why does the summary say the company is going out of business? They're still selling the larger items and that article doesn't say anything about them closing - in fact, it says they're working on new stuff.
I had an AOL (artificial optic lens?) implanted around 1996 due to a cataract from eye injury. Black lights at places used to give me a headache due to...i'm not sure, i thought it was the disparity between what my two different eyes were seeing (they glow a bright purple to the damaged eye). It's been so long that it no longer causes headaches, but it's still...odd.
When I asked my opthamologist about it he said something about "a UV filter" in the lens.
He also wanted to replace the lens with a newer & better one only a few years after the surgery...but I'm squeamish about it, understandably (having stitches cut out of your eye with a scalpel is a bit disconcerting).
I'm encouraged by all the privacy advocates here...but wonder how many people (correctly) denigrating this device, Michigan police, etc. will--in the next breath--trip over themselves to grant the State any other power it wants...say, "Net Neutrality" or pretty much any infringement on property rights.
I'm not phone division at Nokia...not even on the phone-based software team, and I've gotten less-sensitive prototypes to carry months ahead of release.
Thankfully I've never lost one...although I do tend to break them...
We even have super-sensitive prototypes since we're mixed with phone software guys...I could see somebody carrying one out temporarily if they didn't care too much about their job.
Google had a web accelerator back in the day. It's one of the earliest apps I remember Google launching. "Wow, they're giving away their software and bandwidth for free? Not related to their search engine? What's the catch?" They pulled it pretty quickly after it started deleting databases.
I'm getting pretty old and my memory's getting foggy, so I could be wrong...it's hard to remember back to the "advances" that were happening in ~1999-2001 while I was drunk on my new GATech dorm internet power. So if it was another company then I apologize in advance.
I'm on the server software team, so I'm not completely sure about the client - but as I understand it, the client's hitting our CCDS server to save you the step of putting in server names / ports/etc. The service was written for Nokia Messaging, and is used there, but is also valid for the client to configure its built-in client.
/just finished implementing push, non-POP Hotmail support for Nokia Messaging not too long ago
My wife's a print Graphic Designer. When she's looking for jobs, at least half of the "Graphic Designer" positions require HTML, and then I get to hear the tirade of yelling.
After Taxes and Health Insurance, it can easily amount to $5 or less an hour. Some people have to do it because they don't have the education or skills to meet the jobs available in their area. Likewise they don't have the money to move elsewhere.
It happens, I've seen it. Now take that and try to raise a family.
Not only would I not try to raise a family, but I didn't even think about buying a house until I was getting married. And I make good money. And don't think I "need" to spend anything on television...so I choose not to.
You can repeat or make up an infinite amount of sob stories, but really - it's not that hard to refrain from having a family. Most people don't wake up one day all of a sudden having 3 kids and a minimum-wage job. For the most part, they got themselves in the situation.
You do realize that many of our states are the size of and have the population of most other countries?
You do realize how terrible the Federal government is here?
I'm guessing no, since you don't understand our system of federalism or that we're a constitutional republic or how our Constitution (with amendments) prevents states from reinstating slavery while still severely limiting the Feds' powers.
(/me looks up poster-with-very-low-ID's information)
Nope, you're a Russian in California. You have no idea how our (currently very broken) system of federal government is supposed to work, or how to get it back to a working state.
I have BellSouth/AT&T's $42.95 6mbit DSL with no phone line. My monthly bill after all the fees and no phone line crap is $47.95. Rock solid and always get the full speed.
I agree with most everything except the McCain comment. He's just as guilty as most of congress. He also believes taxpayers should buy troubled mortgages.
These very same banks were required, by regulation, to provide bad loans.
And also....
These loans were mostly all bought by Freddie and Fannie, with the assumption that no matter how bad their decisions were, the government would spend any amount of taxpayer money to keep these quasi-private companies alive. Funny how that works. Perhaps the government shouldn't be in the mortgage business.
Since this comment was made by ValuJet, I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and shut my eyes and scream "nyah nyah nyah" and hope that I don't hear anything that disagrees with my existing biases.
I challenge you to show me an unregulated market where the government doesn't have its hands in it in some way. Go ahead...I'm waiting.
And WTF? libertarians support the PATRIOT act or unilateral action against sovereign nations? you know some funny libertarians, and I'm glad I haven't met them.
And if the library you're using has an obscure bug then you could also end up wasting days of work either having to track down a bug or write your own library.. sometimes it will be fine, but sometimes you might not be saving yourself any time at all, depending on whether the library is open source, how many other people have used it and bugfixed it etc.
having worked in professional software for quite a few years now...using open source libraries and systems as a base...
you're better off working from the system that "somebody else" supports than writing your own
you can write amazing and bug-free software yourself...but somewhere along the way you're going to run across a bug in the vm or OS or hardware or protocol specification that you're running on that you're going to have to work around.
it's much easier...in a professional sense...to hit a bug in an OSS project than in some library or system or hardware from some closed-source shop that you're going to have to fight through bureaucracies to get fixed.
exceptions exist, of course...but it's much better to say to your manager "hey we can work around this bug by spending xxx hours or we can invest in fixing the OSS project in xxx/2 hours" than saying "hey we can work around this bug by spending xxx hours or we can push this back to XYZCorp and spend xxx^2 hours getting it fixed"
that's my experience, anyway, and you may be in a different software industry that has different outcomes than mine
oh, and yes, always prototype and get something working....and then optimize before they realize you're even finished with the prototype. it's part of being good at what you do. if you're stupid or a bad programmer or engineer then don't try to follow this advice.
It offers no mechanism to correct imbalances that inevitably arise in society
Yes, everybody must be equal. Fascist much?
It cannot adapt to the conflict that "maximum personal liberty" is nonlinear and NP-complete unless you live in a single-issue society.
I disagree.
What is best for the individual is sometimes in conflict with what is best for society, or for the world at large and libertarianism doesn't accept that as a compelling justification.
I'm glad that YOU know which of my rights I should surrender. Please, let me surrender them to you! If it's in the interest of society, in your mind, then you must be right!
Wow, you really have no concept of people ever learning or changing, do you? To you, once you have an opinion, you will never ever change it no matter what facts you're presented with or what you learn. Am I right?
Back when Bob Barr was a Republican I was too, because I'd never given it any thought (being from a public school system).
Now I know better, and I'm more libertarian-minded than Barr (I believe in states' rights, but he wants to give them a little too much power, and he is wrong on immigration), but I'm still supporting him as the best candidate in the race, and volunteering again tomorrow.
Some people can admit to being wrong...obviously you're not one of them or can't identify with anybody any different than yourself.
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you don't know what pattern matching is. the rest of your post doesn't make too much more sense, either.
how many of them where paid? how many that went to court were held up?
I don't know much but I happened to be in Gwinnett traffic court last week, and that particular judge was knocking the fine down to $75 from $150. I believe all the people I saw plead no contest instead of guilty, which I thought was crazy - you only get one per five years; I last used one about 7 years ago for going 24mph over the limit.
I was in traffic court in Gwinnett last week. I got to leave fairly early, but while I was waiting I'd guess that almost half of the people before me were for tickets for using their phone at lights. The judge knocked all their fines in half from $150 to $75. Even the judge made a joke about the surprising number of people in for that. He also explained a couple of times that technically you have to be off the road, and it's not just texting - any use besides making a call is illegal (although he didn't mention if dialing was).
Why does the summary say the company is going out of business? They're still selling the larger items and that article doesn't say anything about them closing - in fact, it says they're working on new stuff.
I had an AOL (artificial optic lens?) implanted around 1996 due to a cataract from eye injury. Black lights at places used to give me a headache due to...i'm not sure, i thought it was the disparity between what my two different eyes were seeing (they glow a bright purple to the damaged eye). It's been so long that it no longer causes headaches, but it's still...odd.
When I asked my opthamologist about it he said something about "a UV filter" in the lens.
He also wanted to replace the lens with a newer & better one only a few years after the surgery...but I'm squeamish about it, understandably (having stitches cut out of your eye with a scalpel is a bit disconcerting).
I'm encouraged by all the privacy advocates here...but wonder how many people (correctly) denigrating this device, Michigan police, etc. will--in the next breath--trip over themselves to grant the State any other power it wants...say, "Net Neutrality" or pretty much any infringement on property rights.
I'm not phone division at Nokia...not even on the phone-based software team, and I've gotten less-sensitive prototypes to carry months ahead of release.
Thankfully I've never lost one...although I do tend to break them...
We even have super-sensitive prototypes since we're mixed with phone software guys...I could see somebody carrying one out temporarily if they didn't care too much about their job.
Google had a web accelerator back in the day. It's one of the earliest apps I remember Google launching. "Wow, they're giving away their software and bandwidth for free? Not related to their search engine? What's the catch?" They pulled it pretty quickly after it started deleting databases.
I'm getting pretty old and my memory's getting foggy, so I could be wrong...it's hard to remember back to the "advances" that were happening in ~1999-2001 while I was drunk on my new GATech dorm internet power. So if it was another company then I apologize in advance.
The DRM is already cracked. It's easy to convert Amazon books to an open format.
/ or so my friend told me
I'm on the server software team, so I'm not completely sure about the client - but as I understand it, the client's hitting our CCDS server to save you the step of putting in server names / ports /etc. The service was written for Nokia Messaging, and is used there, but is also valid for the client to configure its built-in client.
My wife's a print Graphic Designer. When she's looking for jobs, at least half of the "Graphic Designer" positions require HTML, and then I get to hear the tirade of yelling.
So, individuals should have the right to murder other people, if it suits their needs?
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying.
Way to add a lot of value to the thread.
Not only would I not try to raise a family, but I didn't even think about buying a house until I was getting married. And I make good money. And don't think I "need" to spend anything on television...so I choose not to.
You can repeat or make up an infinite amount of sob stories, but really - it's not that hard to refrain from having a family. Most people don't wake up one day all of a sudden having 3 kids and a minimum-wage job. For the most part, they got themselves in the situation.
You do realize that many of our states are the size of and have the population of most other countries?
You do realize how terrible the Federal government is here?
I'm guessing no, since you don't understand our system of federalism or that we're a constitutional republic or how our Constitution (with amendments) prevents states from reinstating slavery while still severely limiting the Feds' powers.
(/me looks up poster-with-very-low-ID's information)
Nope, you're a Russian in California. You have no idea how our (currently very broken) system of federal government is supposed to work, or how to get it back to a working state.
I have BellSouth/AT&T's $42.95 6mbit DSL with no phone line. My monthly bill after all the fees and no phone line crap is $47.95. Rock solid and always get the full speed.
I agree with most everything except the McCain comment. He's just as guilty as most of congress. He also believes taxpayers should buy troubled mortgages.
Or, more likely.....
These very same banks were required, by regulation, to provide bad loans.
And also....
These loans were mostly all bought by Freddie and Fannie, with the assumption that no matter how bad their decisions were, the government would spend any amount of taxpayer money to keep these quasi-private companies alive. Funny how that works. Perhaps the government shouldn't be in the mortgage business.
Since this comment was made by ValuJet, I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and shut my eyes and scream "nyah nyah nyah" and hope that I don't hear anything that disagrees with my existing biases.
I challenge you to show me an unregulated market where the government doesn't have its hands in it in some way. Go ahead...I'm waiting.
And WTF? libertarians support the PATRIOT act or unilateral action against sovereign nations? you know some funny libertarians, and I'm glad I haven't met them.
And if the library you're using has an obscure bug then you could also end up wasting days of work either having to track down a bug or write your own library.. sometimes it will be fine, but sometimes you might not be saving yourself any time at all, depending on whether the library is open source, how many other people have used it and bugfixed it etc.
having worked in professional software for quite a few years now...using open source libraries and systems as a base...
you're better off working from the system that "somebody else" supports than writing your own
you can write amazing and bug-free software yourself...but somewhere along the way you're going to run across a bug in the vm or OS or hardware or protocol specification that you're running on that you're going to have to work around.
it's much easier...in a professional sense...to hit a bug in an OSS project than in some library or system or hardware from some closed-source shop that you're going to have to fight through bureaucracies to get fixed.
exceptions exist, of course...but it's much better to say to your manager "hey we can work around this bug by spending xxx hours or we can invest in fixing the OSS project in xxx/2 hours" than saying "hey we can work around this bug by spending xxx hours or we can push this back to XYZCorp and spend xxx^2 hours getting it fixed"
that's my experience, anyway, and you may be in a different software industry that has different outcomes than mine
oh, and yes, always prototype and get something working....and then optimize before they realize you're even finished with the prototype. it's part of being good at what you do. if you're stupid or a bad programmer or engineer then don't try to follow this advice.
It offers no mechanism to correct imbalances that inevitably arise in society
Yes, everybody must be equal. Fascist much?
It cannot adapt to the conflict that "maximum personal liberty" is nonlinear and NP-complete unless you live in a single-issue society.
I disagree.
What is best for the individual is sometimes in conflict with what is best for society, or for the world at large and libertarianism doesn't accept that as a compelling justification.
I'm glad that YOU know which of my rights I should surrender. Please, let me surrender them to you! If it's in the interest of society, in your mind, then you must be right!
Wow, you really have no concept of people ever learning or changing, do you? To you, once you have an opinion, you will never ever change it no matter what facts you're presented with or what you learn. Am I right?
Back when Bob Barr was a Republican I was too, because I'd never given it any thought (being from a public school system).
Now I know better, and I'm more libertarian-minded than Barr (I believe in states' rights, but he wants to give them a little too much power, and he is wrong on immigration), but I'm still supporting him as the best candidate in the race, and volunteering again tomorrow.
Some people can admit to being wrong...obviously you're not one of them or can't identify with anybody any different than yourself.
And don't forget McCain's efforts to remove him from the PA ballot. They lost the first round, but just appealed. McCain is a true maverick patriot!
Troll?
I've got funny, interesting, and informative...but not troll...
BTW it's true and not exactly inflammatory...gj mods.