It reminds me of the lowly tomato, a member of the poisonous nightshade family of plants, which for years was considered to be inedible. These days you can't get a salad without it.
Yeah, just like the kid who never does anything bad, bad things just seem to happen when they're around.
I doubt Microsoft is directly responsible but I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like lean on merchants to participate in the cashback and the merchants are compensating for their costs.
Interesting question would be what would happen if someone hacked up a Windows install disk where the EULA was editable or perhaps contains text about allowing the software to be installed as many times and wherever the user wanted. If activated with a valid license key, if clicking on "I agree" is the user agreeing to the contract then Microsoft activating the product must count as their part of the agreement, right?
Actually, these people are using the web correctly. The domain name is just supposed to be an easy way for humans to refer to particular computers, it's not supposed to be used as a global catalog of companies and organizations. It's only a particularly bad bit of early browser design that has persisted that means we are typing URLs into location bars.
That does remind me of when I managed a change machine at university. It would change 20p, 50p and £1 coins into 10p pieces. Some bright spark worked out (or heard) that you could wrap a 10p coin with tin foil and put it in the machine. Most times it would recognize the coin as 10 and just spit it out but one time in however many, it would take the coin and give change for 50p.
The fix? The machine had dip switches for what coins it would accept and there was one for 10p that was set to off. I set it to on. The fraudsters would put in their wrapped 10p and receive a nice, shiny unwrapped 10p in change. I saw a few in the collection bin for a couple of weeks and then it stopped.
I'm sure something like this could be done with focused microwaves. Could be a neat promotional thing to have a competition result on the inside peel of an orange.
Thing is, it's not the patent owners who "enforce" patents, it's the government. That suggests a solutions to patent issues for open formats right there.
Meh, it's a bit out of my league but I understand it can be bad. Companies can leverage credit against shares or issue new shares to raise money. This could have many diverse effects on the company, including to existing or new projects.
Mergers and acquisitions are also sometimes accomplished by the exchange of stocks and shares and, depending how things are constituted, low share prices could expose them to a takeover.
Plus, as you say, the employees and board members could be affected. Stock options are issued partly to encourage employees to stay in their positions. If they become worthless, there's less incentive for valuable employees to stay.
Do Garmin pay dividends? If not, this is one of the dangers of not doing so. Instead of the price being based on the (no doubt) good income that Garmin will continue to receive for the next several years, it's based on whether or not you can shift the shares onto someone else at a better price. Clouds of doom such as the Google announcement can have a devastating effect.
I think it'd be reasonable to presume a modern day Mayan would be unable to communicate with an ancient Mayan due to generational changes in dialect and word-set
I will add that I don't think the NHS is terrible and, to be honest, it's nice not to have to worry where the money is coming from. But it is starting to drown in the inevitable effluent from its socialist underpinnings and things will only get worse.
As someone who has also used both systems, I disagree with you.
And the very rich will go wherever the very best treatments are to be found. Which will, naturally, vary by treatment, some countries having more qualified specialists or pioneers in a given field than others. More routine procedures are what need to be compared.
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Start shooting stupid people?
You know, like v1agra sparn
It reminds me of the lowly tomato, a member of the poisonous nightshade family of plants, which for years was considered to be inedible. These days you can't get a salad without it.
Or a pizza?
So what you're basically saying is that if Microsoft went to the effort to write a good OS, it would be a good OS.
Glad we cleared that up.
Yeah, just like the kid who never does anything bad, bad things just seem to happen when they're around.
I doubt Microsoft is directly responsible but I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like lean on merchants to participate in the cashback and the merchants are compensating for their costs.
Interesting question would be what would happen if someone hacked up a Windows install disk where the EULA was editable or perhaps contains text about allowing the software to be installed as many times and wherever the user wanted. If activated with a valid license key, if clicking on "I agree" is the user agreeing to the contract then Microsoft activating the product must count as their part of the agreement, right?
Actually, these people are using the web correctly. The domain name is just supposed to be an easy way for humans to refer to particular computers, it's not supposed to be used as a global catalog of companies and organizations. It's only a particularly bad bit of early browser design that has persisted that means we are typing URLs into location bars.
That does remind me of when I managed a change machine at university. It would change 20p, 50p and £1 coins into 10p pieces. Some bright spark worked out (or heard) that you could wrap a 10p coin with tin foil and put it in the machine. Most times it would recognize the coin as 10 and just spit it out but one time in however many, it would take the coin and give change for 50p.
The fix? The machine had dip switches for what coins it would accept and there was one for 10p that was set to off. I set it to on. The fraudsters would put in their wrapped 10p and receive a nice, shiny unwrapped 10p in change. I saw a few in the collection bin for a couple of weeks and then it stopped.
They had to wildly exaggerate the amount of losses to get them to investigate.
You are the RIAA and I claim my five dollars.
Well, some of us do have two ears.
I'm sure something like this could be done with focused microwaves. Could be a neat promotional thing to have a competition result on the inside peel of an orange.
Thing is, it's not the patent owners who "enforce" patents, it's the government. That suggests a solutions to patent issues for open formats right there.
Meh, it's a bit out of my league but I understand it can be bad. Companies can leverage credit against shares or issue new shares to raise money. This could have many diverse effects on the company, including to existing or new projects.
Mergers and acquisitions are also sometimes accomplished by the exchange of stocks and shares and, depending how things are constituted, low share prices could expose them to a takeover.
Plus, as you say, the employees and board members could be affected. Stock options are issued partly to encourage employees to stay in their positions. If they become worthless, there's less incentive for valuable employees to stay.
Wow. I'm shocked to hear it's finally released. It was announced over 18 months ago and I was hot for it then.
Now? A bit too late I think. 18 months is forever when it comes to technology.
Do Garmin pay dividends? If not, this is one of the dangers of not doing so. Instead of the price being based on the (no doubt) good income that Garmin will continue to receive for the next several years, it's based on whether or not you can shift the shares onto someone else at a better price. Clouds of doom such as the Google announcement can have a devastating effect.
Many 2000 cars were still coming with cassette decks instead of CD players. I think you misunderstand how the market works.
I think it'd be reasonable to presume a modern day Mayan would be unable to communicate with an ancient Mayan due to generational changes in dialect and word-set
Not to mention the whole "being dead" thing.
This is why they should use a mouse. When you reach the end, you can pick it up and move it back to the middle. ;)
Problem is, the machine might need to produce that kind of radiation sometimes. Sometimes extreme measures are in order
The watchdog timer on the radiation module detects lack of input and shuts it down?
I will add that I don't think the NHS is terrible and, to be honest, it's nice not to have to worry where the money is coming from. But it is starting to drown in the inevitable effluent from its socialist underpinnings and things will only get worse.
As someone who has also used both systems, I disagree with you.
And the very rich will go wherever the very best treatments are to be found. Which will, naturally, vary by treatment, some countries having more qualified specialists or pioneers in a given field than others. More routine procedures are what need to be compared.
Most of them aren't and the system you want to replace it with is hopelessly... hopeless.
I went to a fair once and saw a six foot man eating chicken.
True story.
Google "NHS in crisis" then tell me that it's successfully resolved.