IANAL, but the spirit of the law is no vacuous concept. When the letter of the law subverts the spirit, the result is a bad law that invites violations. In this case, Apple refuses to comply with the of the judge's decisions: A simple, clean apology is demanded, but while Apple says "so sorry," they also lift the middle finger. Twice.
I there any company that has so swiftly turned from the path of innovation to litigation, and proven itself a more sore loser than Apple? The cynic in me says that Apple is on the swift, sure way to suicide.
Well said. In fact, the blanket claim that some institution (company, government, etc.) is evil, takes people out of the equation, absolves them of blame, and simultaneously detracts from the fact that any solution must involve people. I think it is for that reason that freedom of speech and the use of protest actually are so important. Without such tools in the hands of the population the perpetrators (let's simply call them misguided, sloppy, and/or too caught up in their work) cannot even be made aware of the fact that they ought to look up, look around, and perhaps realize that their actions may be way out of line.
Indeed, during the press conference the following figures were stated at least twice:
Exit altitude: 128100 ft (39045m) [record]
Free fall time: 4m 20s
Free fall distance: 119826 ft (36529m)
Max velocity: 373 m/s (1342.8 km/h, 833.9 mph, Mach 1.24) [record]
A third record would be the maximum distance of ascent with a human-occupied balloon, which may exceed the 39045m of exit altitude, as the balloon appeared to descend somewhat before Baumgartner exited. Actually, if the telemetry information displayed on the feed can be trusted then he reached at least 39068m (128177 ft) at the time that he was first sticking his feet out into the open.
No matter the numbers, this is an impressive achievement!
Yes indeed, retarded snot suckers are editing this shit: Why are Michigan University students forging U.S. currency? Who is proposing the use of invisible nano QR codes? No answer is even hinted at in the summary:
Invisible nano QR codes have been proposed as a way to stop forgery of U.S currency by students of Michigan University.
Nothing to see here, move along!
There are times when I feel that a
Yeah, not being able to delete a folder of files sucks big-time:
Win7: "You need permission to do that"
Me: "Oh yeah? Why do you then FAIL TO ASK me when I'M ALREADY THE F-ING ADMIN?"
Win7: <shrug> <grin>
/me resorts to deleting files one at a time by manually descending through dozens of directories and mumbling, "f---ing retard O/S"
I think I'll stick with WinXP for the few things that still require Windows...
Linux FTW.
WinXP was Microsoft's very first operating system worthy of not being called a turd.
Windows Vista had some good ideas, but was a terrible (horrible, vile) implementation.
Windows7 seems to have fixed a lot of the aggravation that was Vista. It's the new XP.
Windows8 looks to be worse than vile. You cannot pay me to abuse myself with it.
We'll see what Window9 will bring, but at the current rate it will not redeem Microsoft.
I'm no fontographer, but I really like Gentium, and have for many years. It's capitals are not as tall as the ascenders, and the bow of h and n give a distinctive flavor to the text. With Gentium the two letters r and n run together (rn) look nothing like the letter m, but with Baskerville it is difficult to distinguish them.
Any other takers for Gentium?
Seems to me that when the government can violate the law with impunity, it is aiming for despotism. The law of the land is respected only so long as everybody (the government included) is held accountable by it equally.
I agree that hasty tweets differ from formal responses from the corporate ranks. The distinction does not invalidate the fact, however, that a well-formulated message invariably reflects more positive on the originator than a sloppy one. By what means the message was composed and disseminated should not need to be taken into account.
And if the spelling police doesn't come across as an obvious jerk, a correction may well be appreciated as a learning opportunity. I have suffered corrections at times, and even if they were intended as a pedantic thrill, I have usually taken the lesson and been glad for it.
Use of proper grammar is an indicator that the originator of the message cared about the message, and would rather have the message be heard loud and clear, than allow presentation to distract from its poignancy.
Whenever I read things like "id like to by a new car," I cringe inside, imagine some grunting ape who happened across a keyboard, and move on without thinking about the attempted message. If that was the intended effect, then "buy all means," have at it, folks!
Obviously I've had plenty of cold beer and should have been more
Althought today is not as bad as it has been, temperatures in the Washington D.C. area have been rather ugly in the past few days (today is relatively cool) with temperatures hitting 100F (38C) most of this week. Our thermostat is part of the in-house A/C system that measures inside and outside temperatures, but it doesn't report anywhere except to us.
Local power (Pepco) failed for 35 hours with Friday's Derecho storm. Because this kind of multi-day power failure hits us at least once a year, we spent a small fortune on a whole-house natural gas driven power generator that made our life quite comfy (except for the internet (Comcast) outage, but Comcast went out after the power went down, and came back before Pepco restored it, yay!) Although a whole-house generator is probably overkill (what you *need* is something to keep core services running: refrigerator, AC/heat, and water if you're running on (tasty) well water).
We have two A/C units in our house, and the generator knows how to alternate between them, so only one of them runs at any one time, which keeps the peak usage down. For the curious, this setup cost us between about $10-11k but the ability to weather this kind of situation in almost perfect comfort was (and will continue to be) worthwhile. The power supplied by the generator is not necessarily optimal: Our A/C units freaked out a few times, complaining about bad power quality, system failure, and whining about the filters needing replacement, but after regular power came back they went back to normal. No, not optimal, but far, far better than getting baked in the heat. The generator kicks in about 30s after the power grid dies, and keeps running for about 2 minutes after regular power comes back. For your computers you really want a UPS to tide you over the short glitches.
There, I hope this is useful for someone
96F (36C) outside today. Keeping the shades down, drinking cold beer, and being all cool on
No, according to my google-fu, Karlsruhe does NOT get 45C temperatures along with 90+% humidity for weeks or even months on end, not even close. Let's exchange weather for one month, and you'll be on your knees begging for air conditioning!
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
