The only reason males tend to be stronger is to fight other males. A genetic mix between two organisms helps survival (sort of not putting all your genes in one form). As males we are able to insert our DNA into another organism in order to reproduce. While male support after that point is helpful and historically beneficial (for humans) it is not absolutely necessary and could certainly be performed by other females in the community. So my 'Parasites With Benefits' comment.
We're parasites that benefit the host by creating more diversity in offspring than asexual reproduction.;)
The males can fertilize the hermaphrodites, but the hermaphrodites can fertilize themselves as well. This is gross, and as a guy, kind of feels like nature telling me I'm non-essential.
Check this out about boas. I sometimes wonder if we're just PWBs. Parasites With Benefits
I never thought of it before but I recently moved and went online to USPS to forward my mail. All that was required was the old address, the new address and a credit card charge of $1 to confirm identity. Once a crook gets a card in your name they can forward your mail.
You know what, if you intent to sell your photos yourself and have full copyright on them, what about not uploading them all around the internet and giving them right to use them?
My personal TOS says that by sending files to my computer websites agree that I take sole ownership of said files. They all seem to agree since every time I get on the web, sites are constantly sending me files.
Yes and technically it was Netscape's main source of revenue albeit that revenue never exceeded the interest Microsoft could draw from their cash on hand. Netscape also made some bad decisions but that doesn't excuse Microsoft from their behavior. It certainly didn't help when Intel's Vice President testified that a senior Microsoft executive told him their intent was to extinguish Netscape by cutting off their air supply. It was interesting to follow at the time as virtually everyone in the industry (remember double-stack and DOS 6.x?) lined up to testify against Microsoft (not always for altruistic reasons of course) and Microsoft started spending millions on lobbyist. Something they had pretty much not done at all before that point.
I don't think everything brought against Microsoft is/was valid , but as a whole Microsoft was spending most of their efforts in stifling competition as opposed to selling their own products on merit and cost. An attitude that saw Internet Explorer development nearly disappear once 95%+ market share was reached around 2003 not to return until features for other browsers (how long were tabs around before MS added them in IE 7) were so much better that people(consumers) didn't care if some sites didn't work because they were written exclusively for IE 6. How much time passed between XP and Windows Vista? If Microsoft had spent half as much time working on their own business as opposed to working to undermine the business model of others, perhaps the rest of the industry wouldn't have left them behind.
I honestly don't know what would've happened without Microsoft having to divert resources from undermining others to defending itself from anti-trust but I doubt they would've put those resources into 'innovating'. Microsoft innovation seems to me to be almost exclusively vendor lock. Had Microsoft been split into say two companies, one for applications and one for operating systems they would probably be doing better now than they are since those entities would then be able to focus on product instead of codependency.
It's just a thought and I don't necessarily want to argue it (because it's a stretch) but one could suggest that Microsoft did 'jack up the price' on Internet Explorer once the competition was gone by freezing development of IE for more than half a decade.
I won't pretend my memory is perfect but I do seem to recall that Netscape was free for students but not for business. I want to say it's retail price for business was $49.99. This seems to support my memory as well as this one from 1998, 3 years after Internet Explorer 1.0.
it would take only a change in cloud cover of 1-2% to cause the observed recent warming signal
Are you sure? Clouds reflect a lot of solar radiation as well. It's one of the legitimate debates concerning how the earth's temperature is (self) regulated. Raise the temp a little, increase cloud cover, increase albedo. Raise temp, decrease snow caps, decrease albedo. Increase CO2, increase algae, decrease CO2. These are some of the factors taken into consideration by those who choose to spend their time studying it.
None of this had anything to do with anti-competitive behavior, other than that Microsoft could use it's massive war chest to out-develop everyone else, and frankly there is no law against that.
To a point. When you use your massive war chest to create a product that you give away for free just to cut revenue of a competitor (to put them out of business) then antitrust violation of the law is up to judges to interpret. If you own 90%+ of a market and you refuse to sell (at wholesale prices) to any distributor that offers competing options then once again it's left to judges to interpret. The barrier to entry for software is naturally minimal. Microsoft consistently used their OS dominance to make that barrier artificially higher (whether they would've succeeded without these tactics is another debate altogether). Courts in multiple countries have agreed with that viewpoint although I admit I don't think they always did it for the right reasons. Sort of like sending Al Capone to jail for tax evasion, it wasn't the pinnacle of reasons he belonged behind bars but he deserved the punishment none the less.
Without the anti-trust judgement it is pure speculation how things would have turned out since. What we do know is that things moved on to cell phones and Internet 'portals' like Google while Windows remained dominant on PCs. Without the DOJ watching them it's difficult to say if/how MS would've leveraged Windows in these fields.
Yeah, about that...Office for Mac was never a port.
Just considering that Excel came out on the Mac 2 years before the Windows version (the first Windows version being 2.05 to align with the Mac version) I would have to agree with you.
You're missing the point. Obama released his long form birth certificate. There has to be something else now to latch on to. Bin Laden's kill photos are the obvious choice. What else is the media supposed to talk about with everything else going so well in America?
As for snow, there's an awful lot of it in Antarctica - which, conversely, is one of the driest places on Earth.
Antarctica is technically a desert with an average of 6.5 inches of precipitation a year. There's a lot of 'snow' from accumulation, not because it snows there a lot. Warm weather = more precipitation (overall and to a point). Any climatologist that ever said otherwise lacks a fundamental understanding of how weather works. 'Wet' in weather typically defines precipitation. I think overall we're on the same page though.
I do not consider myself a coder so I ask this with humble ignorance. Would finding a memory leak in someone else's code be partially dependent on how well documented and ordered the other person's code is?
declare my_background {
print ("Too long?"[$tl]);
tldr="Too long; didn't read";
if !(tl) {
print("I'm self-taught (a lot from well-documented code). I can write 'hello world' in 40 languages:) I once wrote a program on my TI 81 that calculated photon electron orbit interaction. The hardest thing about it was how little memory there was (2400 bytes and I had other programs in there). I made it ask for all the variables, so long as you gave it enough it would tell you all the other ones. Of course by the time I took the test I knew those equations very well but I still 'cheated' because of the satisfaction in using a program that I wrote.
I can actually write HTML and CSS (I don't consider them coding since they're really just formating). I understand how to use PHP and SQL even if only conceptually. I haven't done much with PHP outside of 'hello world' and a simple form/calculation following an example. I can hack existing PHP code and I get it but I haven't tried to write anything complicated from scratch. When I do write something myself I tend to write out comments like an outline first and then I go back and fill in code. When it does what I want it to I tend to keep going back to it with the goal of making it do the same thing but with less code. I can accomplish anything with Google.");
}
else {
print (tldr+":)");
}
}
I did write lot of stuff for my enjoyment. still, the assembly bump mapping demo doesn't really seems to me a good thing ti show off. also, it doesn't run on windows. or linux, for that matter.
Considering how often parentheses, curly brackets and angled brackets are used in code, it must be even harder when your shift key doesn't work most of the time.
I don't even know why it's lose your privacy or pay. TV and Radio profited for decades with complete anonymity for the user. They even made enough to produce content. Facebook, Google et al could monetizing advertising without infringing the privacy of the user. It's just a matter of making $500 million vs $5billion.
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I wonder how the summary somehow left out that these warrentless searches are of commercial disc replication plants.
The first line of the summary is.
If you run a CD or DVD duplication company
Just sayin'
That's what this this and this and maybe this is for.
The only reason males tend to be stronger is to fight other males. A genetic mix between two organisms helps survival (sort of not putting all your genes in one form). As males we are able to insert our DNA into another organism in order to reproduce. While male support after that point is helpful and historically beneficial (for humans) it is not absolutely necessary and could certainly be performed by other females in the community. So my 'Parasites With Benefits' comment.
;)
We're parasites that benefit the host by creating more diversity in offspring than asexual reproduction.
The males can fertilize the hermaphrodites, but the hermaphrodites can fertilize themselves as well. This is gross, and as a guy, kind of feels like nature telling me I'm non-essential.
Check this out about boas. I sometimes wonder if we're just PWBs. Parasites With Benefits
There could be a civilisation on that planet equal to 1900 and we couldn't talk to them.
They could also be equivalent to 2500 and we might not be able to talk to them.
Why does that statistic even matter?
Because statistics are fun!
If it happens even once, it's too often.
It's risk(cost)/benefit. People die in car accidents more than once and it sucks but we don't give up driving.
If it happens due to Sony's negligence, it's too often.
Fair enough for the consumer but from Sony's standpoint it's back to cost/benefit.
I never thought of it before but I recently moved and went online to USPS to forward my mail. All that was required was the old address, the new address and a credit card charge of $1 to confirm identity. Once a crook gets a card in your name they can forward your mail.
You know what, if you intent to sell your photos yourself and have full copyright on them, what about not uploading them all around the internet and giving them right to use them?
My personal TOS says that by sending files to my computer websites agree that I take sole ownership of said files. They all seem to agree since every time I get on the web, sites are constantly sending me files.
Yes and technically it was Netscape's main source of revenue albeit that revenue never exceeded the interest Microsoft could draw from their cash on hand. Netscape also made some bad decisions but that doesn't excuse Microsoft from their behavior. It certainly didn't help when Intel's Vice President testified that a senior Microsoft executive told him their intent was to extinguish Netscape by cutting off their air supply. It was interesting to follow at the time as virtually everyone in the industry (remember double-stack and DOS 6.x?) lined up to testify against Microsoft (not always for altruistic reasons of course) and Microsoft started spending millions on lobbyist. Something they had pretty much not done at all before that point.
I don't think everything brought against Microsoft is/was valid , but as a whole Microsoft was spending most of their efforts in stifling competition as opposed to selling their own products on merit and cost. An attitude that saw Internet Explorer development nearly disappear once 95%+ market share was reached around 2003 not to return until features for other browsers (how long were tabs around before MS added them in IE 7) were so much better that people(consumers) didn't care if some sites didn't work because they were written exclusively for IE 6. How much time passed between XP and Windows Vista? If Microsoft had spent half as much time working on their own business as opposed to working to undermine the business model of others, perhaps the rest of the industry wouldn't have left them behind.
I honestly don't know what would've happened without Microsoft having to divert resources from undermining others to defending itself from anti-trust but I doubt they would've put those resources into 'innovating'. Microsoft innovation seems to me to be almost exclusively vendor lock. Had Microsoft been split into say two companies, one for applications and one for operating systems they would probably be doing better now than they are since those entities would then be able to focus on product instead of codependency.
It's just a thought and I don't necessarily want to argue it (because it's a stretch) but one could suggest that Microsoft did 'jack up the price' on Internet Explorer once the competition was gone by freezing development of IE for more than half a decade.
arghh.. it's = its
I won't pretend my memory is perfect but I do seem to recall that Netscape was free for students but not for business. I want to say it's retail price for business was $49.99. This seems to support my memory as well as this one from 1998, 3 years after Internet Explorer 1.0.
it would take only a change in cloud cover of 1-2% to cause the observed recent warming signal
Are you sure? Clouds reflect a lot of solar radiation as well. It's one of the legitimate debates concerning how the earth's temperature is (self) regulated. Raise the temp a little, increase cloud cover, increase albedo. Raise temp, decrease snow caps, decrease albedo. Increase CO2, increase algae, decrease CO2. These are some of the factors taken into consideration by those who choose to spend their time studying it.
None of this had anything to do with anti-competitive behavior, other than that Microsoft could use it's massive war chest to out-develop everyone else, and frankly there is no law against that.
To a point. When you use your massive war chest to create a product that you give away for free just to cut revenue of a competitor (to put them out of business) then antitrust violation of the law is up to judges to interpret. If you own 90%+ of a market and you refuse to sell (at wholesale prices) to any distributor that offers competing options then once again it's left to judges to interpret. The barrier to entry for software is naturally minimal. Microsoft consistently used their OS dominance to make that barrier artificially higher (whether they would've succeeded without these tactics is another debate altogether). Courts in multiple countries have agreed with that viewpoint although I admit I don't think they always did it for the right reasons. Sort of like sending Al Capone to jail for tax evasion, it wasn't the pinnacle of reasons he belonged behind bars but he deserved the punishment none the less.
Without the anti-trust judgement it is pure speculation how things would have turned out since. What we do know is that things moved on to cell phones and Internet 'portals' like Google while Windows remained dominant on PCs. Without the DOJ watching them it's difficult to say if/how MS would've leveraged Windows in these fields.
Yeah, about that...Office for Mac was never a port.
Just considering that Excel came out on the Mac 2 years before the Windows version (the first Windows version being 2.05 to align with the Mac version) I would have to agree with you.
You're missing the point. Obama released his long form birth certificate. There has to be something else now to latch on to. Bin Laden's kill photos are the obvious choice. What else is the media supposed to talk about with everything else going so well in America?
As for snow, there's an awful lot of it in Antarctica - which, conversely, is one of the driest places on Earth.
Antarctica is technically a desert with an average of 6.5 inches of precipitation a year. There's a lot of 'snow' from accumulation, not because it snows there a lot. Warm weather = more precipitation (overall and to a point). Any climatologist that ever said otherwise lacks a fundamental understanding of how weather works. 'Wet' in weather typically defines precipitation. I think overall we're on the same page though.
It's probably still orbiting the sun, but yeah I wouldn't necessarily call it a satellite.
BTW, wasn't Britain supposed to get drier winters with no snow because of 'global warming', not wetter ones? When did that change?
citation needed
I do not consider myself a coder so I ask this with humble ignorance. Would finding a memory leak in someone else's code be partially dependent on how well documented and ordered the other person's code is?
:) I once wrote a program on my TI 81 that calculated photon electron orbit interaction. The hardest thing about it was how little memory there was (2400 bytes and I had other programs in there). I made it ask for all the variables, so long as you gave it enough it would tell you all the other ones. Of course by the time I took the test I knew those equations very well but I still 'cheated' because of the satisfaction in using a program that I wrote.
declare my_background {
print ("Too long?"[$tl]);
tldr="Too long; didn't read";
if !(tl) {
print("I'm self-taught (a lot from well-documented code). I can write 'hello world' in 40 languages
I can actually write HTML and CSS (I don't consider them coding since they're really just formating). I understand how to use PHP and SQL even if only conceptually. I haven't done much with PHP outside of 'hello world' and a simple form/calculation following an example. I can hack existing PHP code and I get it but I haven't tried to write anything complicated from scratch. When I do write something myself I tend to write out comments like an outline first and then I go back and fill in code. When it does what I want it to I tend to keep going back to it with the goal of making it do the same thing but with less code. I can accomplish anything with Google.");
}
else {
print (tldr+":)");
}
}
I'm confused. Are you complaining because your an EE major and don't have time to write a program as a prerequisite to becoming a software developer?
I did write lot of stuff for my enjoyment. still, the assembly bump mapping demo doesn't really seems to me a good thing ti show off. also, it doesn't run on windows. or linux, for that matter.
Considering how often parentheses, curly brackets and angled brackets are used in code, it must be even harder when your shift key doesn't work most of the time.
I don't even know why it's lose your privacy or pay. TV and Radio profited for decades with complete anonymity for the user. They even made enough to produce content. Facebook, Google et al could monetizing advertising without infringing the privacy of the user. It's just a matter of making $500 million vs $5billion.
Try here. Let me know how it works out.
If we are so consumed about this issue then lets get our representatives to enact laws to stop this practice.
There are ways to deal with this other then extreme, over the top methods like invading offices overseas,
So if what Google is doing is illegal in S. Korea, what is over the top about raiding Google's S. Korean office.
But where is the death certificate?