Right, who would have ever thought that taking pictures of your stuff, then posting those pictures online would let people know what kind of stuff you have?
I don't understand. Under what basis can they bring a lawsuit? It is not illegal to treat the federal government the same as all your other customers!
Oracle had a contract to sell software to the government. The contract said Oracle had to report to the government the discount prices they charged other companies. Oracle agreed to, and signed this contract. Oracle lied to the government when it reported these prices. Oracle broke their contract.
When a body accelerates all its components are accelerated at the same rate.
Not quite. Acceleration starts at a specific point and "pushes" its way through the object at the speed of sound in the material of the object. If you had a 10 mile long metal bar and were strong enough to shove one end, the other end wouldn't move instantly. Your force would start a compression wave along the metal bar, traveling at the speed of sound though the metal, until it reached the other end. Same with a rocket, the engines apply acceleration at their connection point and the acceleration pushes its way through the materiel. This is why they have to be built out of such strong stuff, it has to be able to withstand the compression forces of the acceleration without fracturing due to stress.
so how will you be controlling who sees what, unless you're planning to make everybody register on your site, which doesn't really work anyway?
OpenID might work. There are already quite a few registrars that are pretty large, so odds are a lot of people already have an OpenID account and don't realize it.
Except for when they constantly popup those little "toast" messages telling you to buy the iPhone version, or to ask you to vote for them in some "best of whatever" competitions. Don't get me wrong, I like Trillian enough that i paid for the pro version, but they still do some very annoying things.
Also their xmpp support is very lacking. No bookmarks, and it leaves you disconnected from any chat rooms after it reconnects to the server when disconnected.
A prediction: there will be some settlement, where the "victims" can claim $10 in coupons for discounted games, but the lawyers will make a few hundred thousand or a million
Its the lawyers doing all the work here, how much money do you expect for doing nothing but signing your name, you don't even have to show up in court.
Could somebody explain to me what the container brings?
My understanding is that some containers bring features such as multiple audio tracks, multiple sub titles. The sound and video are stored separately inside the container (this is why sound can get out of sync sometimes, they are 2 separate streams of data playing simultaneously). Some containers like mkv can provide different auto streams for things like different languages, as well as subtitles and many many other different kinds of metadata. The container is almost like a zip archive with all the different parts living inside it with additional data storage.
This I always felt was the best proof that humans were on the moon, as opposed to say that the whole thing was faked in a movie studio.
I tried that logic with someone who says it was faked. Their reaction was to say that "Ohh sure, we had rockets that could go to the moon, but they couldn't support human life. The reflectors were dropped there autonomously from lunar orbit".
Of course, if nobody ever wins anything, they'll eventually stop playing, but you could easily set rules to feedback just enough money to keep them interested. Maybe return 80 cents on the dollar, but have code make sure that nobody can ever break even.
Most folks just don't know and just don't care. I mean, if you are stupid enough to leave your car doors unlocked, it doesn't mean that someone can get in to ride.
Except that's not what google is doing. Its more akin to driving around and recording license plate numbers of cars and what coordinates they were seen at.
Visual Studio 2010 still hasn't fixed one of the major bugs that has been around since.NET 1.0. When you run a forms based program in debug mode on an x64 system, and the form's load event throws an exception, the program will happily continue running without reporting the exception. Execution skips directly to the end of the load sub without running any lines of code after the exception, yet the program continues to run as if nothing went wrong. Everything works as expected if you are working on an x86 box though. You will rip your hair out trying to figure out what's going on if you don't know about this.
I have to disagree with you. When people say "Life isn't fair" they are usually talking about situations that ARE created by humans (just do a google search for the term and look at the results).
It also comes across in the GP as if he's saying "when life isn't fair to others then that's just life, but when life isn't fair to me then its wrong".
if you stick with the short term numbers, we'd all be provided with cocaine in a freudian utopia. the long term effects of paying children money for marks in school is not clear, and in many ways seemingly dangerous.
You are right (except for the dangerous part). perhaps someone should do a study on it. Hey wait, that's what started your whole rant in the first place.
people in paying jobs who don't produce lose the option of continuing their paying job. a child who is paid for letter grades in school, by the school, and does not produce is not punished in any way.
Sure they are. If you don't produce the A then you don't get money for the A.
i'd much rather see a system that kept an account for all children that wasn't paid until graduation, and if you ever received a D the money in the account was cut by half. if you ever received an F the money was wiped out, and if you ever got a C, you wouldn't receive any new money for that grading cycle.
That's a little bit over the top... That would be like if I missed a day of work I wouldn't be paid for that pay period at all.
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Right, who would have ever thought that taking pictures of your stuff, then posting those pictures online would let people know what kind of stuff you have?
Oracle had a contract to sell software to the government.
The contract said Oracle had to report to the government the discount prices they charged other companies.
Oracle agreed to, and signed this contract.
Oracle lied to the government when it reported these prices.
Oracle broke their contract.
Shivering Isles was a full on expansion pack, not DLC.
This looks like the same concept behind Microsoft's Surface AKA Big-Ass Table.
Not quite. Acceleration starts at a specific point and "pushes" its way through the object at the speed of sound in the material of the object. If you had a 10 mile long metal bar and were strong enough to shove one end, the other end wouldn't move instantly. Your force would start a compression wave along the metal bar, traveling at the speed of sound though the metal, until it reached the other end. Same with a rocket, the engines apply acceleration at their connection point and the acceleration pushes its way through the materiel. This is why they have to be built out of such strong stuff, it has to be able to withstand the compression forces of the acceleration without fracturing due to stress.
Just watch their video!
http://tv.devexpress.com/#dxhelmet.movie
OpenID might work. There are already quite a few registrars that are pretty large, so odds are a lot of people already have an OpenID account and don't realize it.
Except for when they constantly popup those little "toast" messages telling you to buy the iPhone version, or to ask you to vote for them in some "best of whatever" competitions.
Don't get me wrong, I like Trillian enough that i paid for the pro version, but they still do some very annoying things.
Also their xmpp support is very lacking. No bookmarks, and it leaves you disconnected from any chat rooms after it reconnects to the server when disconnected.
I didn't say is was a GOOD idea :)
For the publicity. NASA is in serious need of some.
Its the lawyers doing all the work here, how much money do you expect for doing nothing but signing your name, you don't even have to show up in court.
The pilot's job is the feed the dog. The dog's job is to stop the pilot from touching the controls.
My understanding is that some containers bring features such as multiple audio tracks, multiple sub titles. The sound and video are stored separately inside the container (this is why sound can get out of sync sometimes, they are 2 separate streams of data playing simultaneously). Some containers like mkv can provide different auto streams for things like different languages, as well as subtitles and many many other different kinds of metadata. The container is almost like a zip archive with all the different parts living inside it with additional data storage.
I tried that logic with someone who says it was faked. Their reaction was to say that "Ohh sure, we had rockets that could go to the moon, but they couldn't support human life. The reflectors were dropped there autonomously from lunar orbit".
I gave up trying shortly after that.
You mean do what physical casinos do?
It's free, not Free.
It is software, and it doesn't cost anything, therefore, it's free software.
Except that's not what google is doing. Its more akin to driving around and recording license plate numbers of cars and what coordinates they were seen at.
Doesn't sound like it effectively controls anything if it can be so easily bypassed.
Visual Studio 2010 still hasn't fixed one of the major bugs that has been around since .NET 1.0.
When you run a forms based program in debug mode on an x64 system, and the form's load event throws an exception, the program will happily continue running without reporting the exception. Execution skips directly to the end of the load sub without running any lines of code after the exception, yet the program continues to run as if nothing went wrong. Everything works as expected if you are working on an x86 box though. You will rip your hair out trying to figure out what's going on if you don't know about this.
Details can be found here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/vsdebug/thread/69a0b831-7782-4bd9-b910-25c85f18bceb
I think that's sort of the point of this experiment, trying to find way to get people to care.
It isn't free if you have to work for it.
I have to disagree with you. When people say "Life isn't fair" they are usually talking about situations that ARE created by humans (just do a google search for the term and look at the results).
It also comes across in the GP as if he's saying "when life isn't fair to others then that's just life, but when life isn't fair to me then its wrong".
You are right (except for the dangerous part). perhaps someone should do a study on it. Hey wait, that's what started your whole rant in the first place.
Sure they are. If you don't produce the A then you don't get money for the A.
That's a little bit over the top... That would be like if I missed a day of work I wouldn't be paid for that pay period at all.
Apparently YOU do though, as evident in your post he was replying to.