However what I'm referring to is problems where people paid through paypal, never got an item in return, and paypal said "sucks to be you. What do you want me to do about it?!"
I don't care how small a point font it was printed in,
as long as it was printed on the site when I registered, or sent to me in an e-mail update.
Now, the legality of defining their policy and having you click-thru is still up in the air with EULAs; just because its printed in legalese doesn't mean it will hold up in court.
But to give me a warm fuzzy, disclose it to me.
Why? Because there are a lot of rip-off artists on e-bay. If it makes it easier for law enforcement to find and fine these scummy ebayers, that is a GOOD THING.
Honestly, I'd rather have E-bay in my corner if I get screwed than to have them go the PayPal route.
However it is possible to make the argument that while it is technically correct to say that "highly evolved" has no implication on the quality of the final product (good/bad), common usage dictates that there is indeed an implication by the choice of the word "highly"- to say that it is evolved is one thing- but I think the word "highly" is more than just synonymous with "very", it also implies a linear progression in a 'positive' direction.
aren't parts of the early days stil laround on textfiles.com?
I still see a lot of the same comraderie, especially on regional mailing lists. For example, the dc-raves mailing list was a hotbed of strangers going out of their way to help out others get to parties, etc.
So community is out there, just in a different format.
Most users aren't too bright in terms of the REPLY-TO field... they just hit reply and their e-mail software takes care of that.
So this protects the spammers: 1) from Angry responses
2) from dead or over-filled e-mail accounts.
All the spammer wants to do is get their messages out there and get 1% of receivers to their intended website. They hate having to delete hundreds of useless e-mails!!;)
for someone to chastise another for not reading the article, and then lamenting a potential outcome that the article dismisses!
Specifically- given the already steep prices in the affected circle, the land value most likely won't increase, despite intial speculation. But don't take my word for it, read the article.
The full expression is de minimis non curat lex. This is a Latin phrase which means "the law does not care about very small matters". It can be used to describe a component part of a wider transaction, where it is in itself insignificant or immaterial to the transaction as a whole, and will have no legal relevance or bearing on the end result.
Is taking a pen from work stealing? What about paper?
Its one of those "crimes" that aren't crimes.
Who knows, maybe I'm just morally bankrupt and will go to hell for my life of free red pens and internet access.
if that's the case, I might as well download the YATTA quick time again!
I concur- as a problem determination guy- since the actual problem occured much earlier and since mission control has a copy of all telemetry data, etc., it would be nice to have every piece of data ever imaginable, however they can take initial theories and work backwards.
but I think the general consensus is that its all about group synchronization. Killer whales maintain pod cohesiveness through diving and respiratory synchronization (humans may have a vestige of this tendency in contagious yawning... quoted from What's new in neurofeedback
I think yawning is also an important way of telling your companions "Time to GET OUT OF MY HOUSE."
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touché!!!;)
your process improvement has a flaw...
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requiring the preview for posts (like/. has for Journal Entries) has one flaw: I can click preview, then immediately click send without actually having previewed. This is called "lying to your computer."
So let's rephrase: instead of It would be nice if at least one preview was required by/.,
change that to:
it would be nice if posters gave a rat's backside about what they were saying, instead of karma-whoring by being the first one to post one of the same 5 comments that gets made on every story.
So from now on, my posts will only be a ruse to hide a "Made You Look!" message inorder to make people look.
P.S.- dear reader, you've been had!;)
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Another point:
Given the almost instantaneous nature of e-mail and web-based/electronic communication, it is all too common for something to be written without even a cursory check-over before getting sent out.
We see that in terms of content (flame wars are usually the result of hot-headed reflexive replying) and also in terms of typos. If you just let your fingers fly and then hit "SEND", how much thought went into your post?
My assumption is that as you get used to electronic communication mediums you subconsciously notice a correlation between typos and inane comments that hold very little content, such as:"Frist Post! Y0U=TEH SUCK!"
An interesting metric for Slashdot to collect is how often the preview button is used before posting. Chances are I think its in the low 20% range. (I know, cuz I'm guilty;)
pretty soon KaZaA will start using SSH for its x-fers. This was a big topic for portioning at COMNET this week (at least in the Network Infrastructure seminars, everyone else was ga-ga over wireless and web services.)
OKay, KaZaA doesn't use SSH yet, but its been known to masquerade as/in other protocols... so it takes a little bit more keener insight to find it.
NOW go back to the comment "the ISP doesn't care"
and if they have to put forth effort? Please...
You have upgraded from a troll to a critical analysis!
And I think you have valid points- telling anyone "This is the way to get a promotion" is absolute crap- but thats a flavor of "advice" that everyone gives and no one has a clue about.
As for not documenting code, this dewd should put in a MAJOR revision. I work on legacy systems and I've seen places where the commentary in the code is just plain factually incorrect. Which is right? THe code? or the comment? Was the code changed by a developer 8 years ago and he didn't update the comment? WTF?! You need to get a consensus between the docs, the comments, and the code to figure it all out.
As for the glossary, maybe he needs to put a disclaimer on it (These are all my words and my meanings) and put that in the FRONT of the book, so you can speak the authors brand of geek from the get go.
If you aren't gonna e-mail these revisions to him, I'll do it for you!
This is a pretty good troll, my man. But its still a troll.
The only thing you attempt to refute, is HIS OWN glossary! I can say "to beeblbrox: act like a king while involved in shenannigans" and be correct. Why? Becuase its MY terminology I'm explaining.
The rest of your wide sweeping generalizations are baseless.
Grade: D+
Please have your parents sign this assessment and return to me.
I was a TA for data structures, and I was looking for elegant solutions and software engineering principles. I was also HIGH off the power of being a grader. Think: BOFH- except its Bastard Grader from hell.
Asking for a re-grade was tantamount to saying "My grade was too high, can you take a few MORE points off?"
My comments on why I took points off were meticulously detailed in my own notes. However only the problems (and my fabulous solutions) were written on the works I was grading; I never wrote how many points I took off for each infraction. This was intentional: I loved eliciting those "Why did I get 20 points off?" e-mails, CC'd to the professor. I would simply open my text file, search for the entry with "OMG! This kid can't fucking code!", look at my rationale, and then quickly 'reply to all' about the students short-comings and failures infront of the professor.
The only explanation for this cruel behavior: I must have a small penis.
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Ebay owns paypal.
It depends- if you have a secondary account attached to it, its no big deal.
yes, Ebay now owns paypal-
However what I'm referring to is problems where people paid through paypal, never got an item in return, and paypal said "sucks to be you. What do you want me to do about it?!"
Here is a link to Paypal's class action suits... read the front page story.
I don't care how small a point font it was printed in,
as long as it was printed on the site when I registered, or sent to me in an e-mail update.
Now, the legality of defining their policy and having you click-thru is still up in the air with EULAs; just because its printed in legalese doesn't mean it will hold up in court.
But to give me a warm fuzzy, disclose it to me.
Why? Because there are a lot of rip-off artists on e-bay. If it makes it easier for law enforcement to find and fine these scummy ebayers, that is a GOOD THING.
Honestly, I'd rather have E-bay in my corner if I get screwed than to have them go the PayPal route.
touché!
However it is possible to make the argument that while it is technically correct to say that "highly evolved" has no implication on the quality of the final product (good/bad), common usage dictates that there is indeed an implication by the choice of the word "highly"- to say that it is evolved is one thing- but I think the word "highly" is more than just synonymous with "very", it also implies a linear progression in a 'positive' direction.
double touché!
Hey- check out the quote: ... to Slashdot.org's highly-evolved Meta Moderation system.
wait, 'highly-evolved'?
Sounds like the work of an Online reputation manager!
aren't parts of the early days stil laround on textfiles.com?
I still see a lot of the same comraderie, especially on regional mailing lists. For example, the dc-raves mailing list was a hotbed of strangers going out of their way to help out others get to parties, etc.
So community is out there, just in a different format.
P.S.- Nice sig!
Which one to choose? Why, its trivial!
I guess even they couldn't stomach the idea of reading other people's spam.
Too bad, they could have compared prices on herbal viagra.
Most users aren't too bright in terms of the REPLY-TO field... they just hit reply and their e-mail software takes care of that.
;)
So this protects the spammers:
1) from Angry responses
2) from dead or over-filled e-mail accounts.
All the spammer wants to do is get their messages out there and get 1% of receivers to their intended website. They hate having to delete hundreds of useless e-mails!!
SPOT THE IRONY!!!
for someone to chastise another for not reading the article, and then lamenting a potential outcome that the article dismisses!
Specifically- given the already steep prices in the affected circle, the land value most likely won't increase, despite intial speculation. But don't take my word for it, read the article.
While you only really need one post to say DUPLICATE, I like this one because of the wit content. Tripe indeed!
Yup! It made my life as a grader for a Data Structures class a whole lot easier. Students respect the "RED PEN" on their assignments.
The full expression is de minimis non curat lex. This is a Latin phrase which means "the law does not care about very small matters". It can be used to describe a component part of a wider transaction, where it is in itself insignificant or immaterial to the transaction as a whole, and will have no legal relevance or bearing on the end result.
Is taking a pen from work stealing? What about paper?
Its one of those "crimes" that aren't crimes.
Who knows, maybe I'm just morally bankrupt and will go to hell for my life of free red pens and internet access.
if that's the case, I might as well download the YATTA quick time again!
"G....R.....double E....N....LEAVES!"
I concur- as a problem determination guy- since the actual problem occured much earlier and since mission control has a copy of all telemetry data, etc., it would be nice to have every piece of data ever imaginable, however they can take initial theories and work backwards.
I think the parent post meant "is one of them feynman" in a metaphorical way.
But in the same turn- his point was that Feynman was unique- and will be missed.
This guy is the man to ask...
but I think the general consensus is that its all about group synchronization.
Killer whales maintain pod cohesiveness through diving and respiratory synchronization
(humans may have a vestige of this tendency in contagious yawning... quoted from What's new in neurofeedback
I think yawning is also an important way of telling your companions "Time to GET OUT OF MY HOUSE."
touché!!! ;)
requiring the preview for posts (like /. has for Journal Entries) has one flaw:
/.,
;)
I can click preview, then immediately click send without actually having previewed. This is called "lying to your computer."
So let's rephrase:
instead of It would be nice if at least one preview was required by
change that to:
it would be nice if posters gave a rat's backside about what they were saying, instead of karma-whoring by being the first one to post one of the same 5 comments that gets made on every story.
So from now on, my posts will only be a ruse to hide a "Made You Look!" message inorder to make people look.
P.S.- dear reader, you've been had!
Another point:
;)
Given the almost instantaneous nature of e-mail and web-based/electronic communication, it is all too common for something to be written without even a cursory check-over before getting sent out.
We see that in terms of content (flame wars are usually the result of hot-headed reflexive replying) and also in terms of typos. If you just let your fingers fly and then hit "SEND", how much thought went into your post?
My assumption is that as you get used to electronic communication mediums you subconsciously notice a correlation between typos and inane comments that hold very little content, such as:"Frist Post! Y0U=TEH SUCK!"
An interesting metric for Slashdot to collect is how often the preview button is used before posting. Chances are I think its in the low 20% range. (I know, cuz I'm guilty
pretty soon KaZaA will start using SSH for its x-fers. This was a big topic for portioning at COMNET this week (at least in the Network Infrastructure seminars, everyone else was ga-ga over wireless and web services.)
OKay, KaZaA doesn't use SSH yet, but its been known to masquerade as/in other protocols... so it takes a little bit more keener insight to find it.
NOW go back to the comment "the ISP doesn't care"
and if they have to put forth effort? Please...
IBM E.O.L.'s a critical version of AIX,
;)
we buy the source!
(we did it with AIX 3.2.5, if they EOL we'll do it again).
You have upgraded from a troll to a critical analysis!
And I think you have valid points- telling anyone "This is the way to get a promotion" is absolute crap- but thats a flavor of "advice" that everyone gives and no one has a clue about.
As for not documenting code, this dewd should put in a MAJOR revision. I work on legacy systems and I've seen places where the commentary in the code is just plain factually incorrect. Which is right? THe code? or the comment? Was the code changed by a developer 8 years ago and he didn't update the comment? WTF?! You need to get a consensus between the docs, the comments, and the code to figure it all out.
As for the glossary, maybe he needs to put a disclaimer on it (These are all my words and my meanings) and put that in the FRONT of the book, so you can speak the authors brand of geek from the get go.
If you aren't gonna e-mail these revisions to him, I'll do it for you!
Its for freshman year CS majors, or anyone who takes an INTRO to programming class. I found a lot of the generalizations useful from that perspective.
This is a pretty good troll, my man.
But its still a troll.
The only thing you attempt to refute, is HIS OWN glossary! I can say "to beeblbrox: act like a king while involved in shenannigans" and be correct. Why? Becuase its MY terminology I'm explaining.
The rest of your wide sweeping generalizations are baseless.
Grade: D+
Please have your parents sign this assessment and return to me.
I was a TA for data structures, and I was looking for elegant solutions and software engineering principles. I was also HIGH off the power of being a grader. Think: BOFH- except its Bastard Grader from hell.
Asking for a re-grade was tantamount to saying "My grade was too high, can you take a few MORE points off?"
My comments on why I took points off were meticulously detailed in my own notes. However only the problems (and my fabulous solutions) were written on the works I was grading; I never wrote how many points I took off for each infraction. This was intentional: I loved eliciting those "Why did I get 20 points off?" e-mails, CC'd to the professor. I would simply open my text file, search for the entry with "OMG! This kid can't fucking code!", look at my rationale, and then quickly 'reply to all' about the students short-comings and failures infront of the professor.
The only explanation for this cruel behavior: I must have a small penis.