Nice rant. Doesn't alter the fact that threatening a complete stranger with exposure over their personal life unless they are paid off is extortion regardless of what legalese it is couched in. Nobody, not the victim, not their own lawyer, or the judge, or the feds would be fooled for a second.
A thing doesn't suddenly stop being extortion just because you get a lawyer involved. In fact, the lawyer would be the first to say it's extortion and would want nothing to do with it - assuming they like practicing law and freedom.
He lacks empathy, seeks attention, is self aggrandizing, flies off the handle if questioned, demeans others, perceives himself right about everything and has various other symptoms of NPD. So not the typical person or anywhere close.
The problem is that Trump says stuff and he means it. He's absolutely right in all matters. He's right even when he demonstrably isn't. He's right even when experts tell him he's full of shit. He's right even if it means reality is wrong. And don't dare tell him he is wrong because suddenly you're an enemy to be demeaned and mocked.
It's not hard to find articles that suggest he is suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder and I can easily believe it.
That's ample time to cover the initial setup and playing around with demos until buyer's remorse kicks in. And when you find it again in 6 months in the cupboard it will have some charge left so you can confirm to yourself it really was the stupidest thing you've bought of late.
If you need to aggressively hide the implementation there are other ways than doubling up the number of definitions and classes. Pimpls are just annoying, particularly when they're in code which has no reason to use them - I could sort of understand the purpose if the class was a library of some kind but I've encountered them in internal code where their only purpose is to be a pain in the ass when the class(es) need to be modified.
Make your APIs sane, make ownership obvious and only abstract as far as strictly necessary. And for god's sake don't use PImpls - they might make headers cleaner but they make code twice as hard to maintain and debug.
The answer is yes you can consume 4K video. And if you do and its encoded with HEVC, you take half the whack on your bandwidth cap. Of course I expect most people would be viewing videos encoded at lower resolutions and bitrates but the savings apply their too - if 4MBs HEVC can show an image subjectively the same as 7MBs AVC then it's a benefit. Not only do they use less bandwidth but they're less likely to suffer buffering issues, or step downs to lower bitrates.
I don't see why. The ads can simply say exclusive or inclusive of tax as appropriate. Businesses in Europe manage it depending on their clientele - wholesalers & suppliers will tend to say ex. VAT.
So it's not hard to work around. They could even state the range of prices "$3.29-$3.72", or "as low as $3.29" if that's what the lowest price inc tax is.
Besides, it's not like US pricing is exactly transparent without tax. Most chains don't even print their individual store prices online even if you drill down to the physical store you intend to buy from. I expect prices can vary wildly from one store to the next regardless of how taxes are displayed on a handful of promotional items.
Yes the tax is part of the price of the item. It comes out of your pocket regardless of what the label says. And if the label says $1 and the price is actually $1.08, it's a tad difficult to have the exact change ready. And hence stores in the US are overflowing with pennies to provide change because what they receive is less exact. And that in itself becomes a cost and burden on the business.
It would be FAR better to include the tax. And nor is it exactly difficult since much of the rest of the world manages it. If the cash machine can calculate the cost including taxes, then the stock systems in the store would be more than capable of printing the exact price on the label.
Some EU countries have begun rounding schemes to eliminate the 1 and 2 cent pieces from circulation. Here in Ireland it's still voluntary (probably for some legal reason) but really they should just get rid of the damned things. The weirdest practice I saw was in Bali where at the time they had some ludicrously small monetary value note (think 1/4 cent) that were a pain for everyone so they'd just hand out sweets instead.
I expect the US has it worse than Europe though because of it's ridiculous practice of adding tax onto everything at checkout making it extra difficult to have exact change ready.
Some people are severely ill, immuno-compromised or have other conditions which prevent them receiving the vaccine. Some people are too young to receive it.
Even if a person can receive it, no vaccine guarantees 100% immunity since diseases come in various strains which the vaccine might not offer total protection against .
So no is the answer. Diseases can and do spread because idiots refuse to vaccinate themselves and their kids.
If antivaxxers paid heed to evidence or thought critically there wouldn't be an antivax movement. They'll probably go a bit quiet about gardasil for a bit and start harping on about mercury or something else. Then that claim will be debunked (again) and they'll move onto something else ad nauseum. It's like whack-a-mole but with idiots. Most denialist causes employ remarkably similar tactics to deal with evidence to the contrary - cherry picking, straw men, quote mining, compiling lists of "experts", pseudoscience and so on.
The only problem systemd causes is it gives voice to people whining about systemd. In other respects it works as intended and completely satisfactorily.
A game's executable is only a fraction of the size of a download. Adding some code which only triggers on the first Sunday of the month, or when you choose to do the optional side quest on the 7th level, or when your inventory contains 20 mushrooms is not going to have any significant impact on the download size. It might require the company extra time to QA the game, but the impact on legit customers, even those who download it legally is negligible. For pirates, it becomes an enormous pain in the ass and prestige hit when the cracked title turns out to be broken for a litany of random hard to reproduce reasons.
They are only gaining some critical time at launch
And that's the point. They probably don't give so much of a damn if a game is cracked 3--6 months down the line because the vast majority of their sales are during the launch period. The more time it takes to crack a game the less sales they're going to lose as a result.
Personally I'm surprised that piracy is even a problem any more. It should be pretty straightforward to pad a game out with anti-piracy measures which take a frustrating amount of time to find and disable.
Depends where the guy is sitting. If its in some base in Afghanistan then yeah they're taking a risk even if it's a comparatively small one. But besides that, many medals don't involve personal risk as criteria.
People get medals for service (e.g. good conduct), campaigns (but not necessarily in combat), being overseas and so on. I don't see why there shouldn't be a recognition of someone who contributes even from afar.
It ain't that simple. North Korea has executed people (in a variety of horrible ways) for implementing reforms. They don't want to reform or are incapable of it. And South Korea has tried to engage in limited assistance, e.g. Kaesong Industrial Region and it usually acts as a lightning rod. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets shut down again.
South Korea shouldn't even bother trying to engage with them until the North thaws. The most likely chance of reform that is if / when dear leader drops dead or is bumped off. The sooner the better really before the dynasty has a chance to set up an heir.
C++ has largely been backwards compatible (even when it shouldn't). It means someone can recompile their code with a C++11 compiler and generally it still works.
Conversely feed your old Python, Perl or PHP code into the latest version and everything falls over in a heap.
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Nice rant. Doesn't alter the fact that threatening a complete stranger with exposure over their personal life unless they are paid off is extortion regardless of what legalese it is couched in. Nobody, not the victim, not their own lawyer, or the judge, or the feds would be fooled for a second.
A thing doesn't suddenly stop being extortion just because you get a lawyer involved. In fact, the lawyer would be the first to say it's extortion and would want nothing to do with it - assuming they like practicing law and freedom.
The study should have been called "measuring bit rot in open source drivers".
He lacks empathy, seeks attention, is self aggrandizing, flies off the handle if questioned, demeans others, perceives himself right about everything and has various other symptoms of NPD. So not the typical person or anywhere close.
It's not hard to find articles that suggest he is suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder and I can easily believe it.
That's ample time to cover the initial setup and playing around with demos until buyer's remorse kicks in. And when you find it again in 6 months in the cupboard it will have some charge left so you can confirm to yourself it really was the stupidest thing you've bought of late.
Why not feed corpses into a mincer and then plough them into a field?
If you need to aggressively hide the implementation there are other ways than doubling up the number of definitions and classes. Pimpls are just annoying, particularly when they're in code which has no reason to use them - I could sort of understand the purpose if the class was a library of some kind but I've encountered them in internal code where their only purpose is to be a pain in the ass when the class(es) need to be modified.
Make your APIs sane, make ownership obvious and only abstract as far as strictly necessary. And for god's sake don't use PImpls - they might make headers cleaner but they make code twice as hard to maintain and debug.
The answer is yes you can consume 4K video. And if you do and its encoded with HEVC, you take half the whack on your bandwidth cap. Of course I expect most people would be viewing videos encoded at lower resolutions and bitrates but the savings apply their too - if 4MBs HEVC can show an image subjectively the same as 7MBs AVC then it's a benefit. Not only do they use less bandwidth but they're less likely to suffer buffering issues, or step downs to lower bitrates.
So it's not hard to work around. They could even state the range of prices "$3.29-$3.72", or "as low as $3.29" if that's what the lowest price inc tax is.
Besides, it's not like US pricing is exactly transparent without tax. Most chains don't even print their individual store prices online even if you drill down to the physical store you intend to buy from. I expect prices can vary wildly from one store to the next regardless of how taxes are displayed on a handful of promotional items.
It would be FAR better to include the tax. And nor is it exactly difficult since much of the rest of the world manages it. If the cash machine can calculate the cost including taxes, then the stock systems in the store would be more than capable of printing the exact price on the label.
I expect the US has it worse than Europe though because of it's ridiculous practice of adding tax onto everything at checkout making it extra difficult to have exact change ready.
Even if a person can receive it, no vaccine guarantees 100% immunity since diseases come in various strains which the vaccine might not offer total protection against .
So no is the answer. Diseases can and do spread because idiots refuse to vaccinate themselves and their kids.
If antivaxxers paid heed to evidence or thought critically there wouldn't be an antivax movement. They'll probably go a bit quiet about gardasil for a bit and start harping on about mercury or something else. Then that claim will be debunked (again) and they'll move onto something else ad nauseum. It's like whack-a-mole but with idiots. Most denialist causes employ remarkably similar tactics to deal with evidence to the contrary - cherry picking, straw men, quote mining, compiling lists of "experts", pseudoscience and so on.
The only problem systemd causes is it gives voice to people whining about systemd. In other respects it works as intended and completely satisfactorily.
A game's executable is only a fraction of the size of a download. Adding some code which only triggers on the first Sunday of the month, or when you choose to do the optional side quest on the 7th level, or when your inventory contains 20 mushrooms is not going to have any significant impact on the download size. It might require the company extra time to QA the game, but the impact on legit customers, even those who download it legally is negligible. For pirates, it becomes an enormous pain in the ass and prestige hit when the cracked title turns out to be broken for a litany of random hard to reproduce reasons.
They are only gaining some critical time at launch
And that's the point. They probably don't give so much of a damn if a game is cracked 3--6 months down the line because the vast majority of their sales are during the launch period. The more time it takes to crack a game the less sales they're going to lose as a result.
Personally I'm surprised that piracy is even a problem any more. It should be pretty straightforward to pad a game out with anti-piracy measures which take a frustrating amount of time to find and disable.
Depends where the guy is sitting. If its in some base in Afghanistan then yeah they're taking a risk even if it's a comparatively small one. But besides that, many medals don't involve personal risk as criteria.
People get medals for service (e.g. good conduct), campaigns (but not necessarily in combat), being overseas and so on. I don't see why there shouldn't be a recognition of someone who contributes even from afar.
South Korea shouldn't even bother trying to engage with them until the North thaws. The most likely chance of reform that is if / when dear leader drops dead or is bumped off. The sooner the better really before the dynasty has a chance to set up an heir.
They could bombard Seoul with conventional artillery too. But they know it'd be an utterly suicidal course of action.
May I suggest Dumblandia?
I'm referring to perl 6 (& python 3 etc) here as if the context wasn't obvious enough.
C++ has largely been backwards compatible (even when it shouldn't). It means someone can recompile their code with a C++11 compiler and generally it still works. Conversely feed your old Python, Perl or PHP code into the latest version and everything falls over in a heap.