I really don't think that analogy fits very well. I was a release day Xbox 360 owner, yup I waited in line outside a Best Buy for 18 hours. Sure it may seem extreme, but it was a fun experience. My Xbox 360 has worked flawlessly since release, and only recently fell victim to the Red Ring of Death. 5 minutes on Microsoft's Xbox support site, I had an order placed for a return shipping box and prepaid shipping label, arrived 3 days later. Shipped my Xbox 360 back 1 day later, 8 days later, I received a brand new Xbox 360, no charge involved. I know people have horror stories but generally my experience was very good. So calling an Xbox 360 a condemned building I think is a bit extreme.
If killed by a mob, you lose 10% durability and are transported to the nearest Graveyard where you have two options. Option 1. Talk to the Spirit at the Graveyard to be ressurected at the cost of taking 25% more durability loss, and a temporary debuff. Or Option 2, walk as a ghost, to your corpse and resurrect yourself without the aforementioned penalities. If killed by an enemy player, you don't take the initial 10% durability. If killed while in a battleground, the graveyards in battlegrounds have spirits that automatically ressurect people every 30 seconds, so as to keep the action going.
1. The math used in the link assumes 40/h weeks for an entire summer? Google paid for the project, NOT for the hours. I could have just as easily worked 5 hours on a project and make several hundred dollars per hour. 2. It was more like a grant, or even a contract. There was no requirement that the participant work X hours, or a particular timeframe. Google paid for the project, not for the hours worked on it. 3. Google Summer of Code != (does not equal for the layman) Current Plans to work on OO.o. 4. Your original argument stated below minimum wage, which last time I checked, was WELL below $9.30/h.
What about other projects? Should we boycott Linux because thousands of Linux developers have been underpaid, or even gasp, not paid at all for contributions they've made to the kernel? Maybe you should think about boycotting Slashdot, the infrastructure is supported by open source applications written by developers who were either paid very low, or not paid at all.
So again, I ask, what do you have to actually back up the statement that Google is going to underpay Indians and Chinese people to work on OO.o?
Do you have any facts, references, sources of information, some kind of substantial data to back up your theory that Google is planning on hiring cheap Chinese or Indian workers to work on OO.o and paying them below minimum wage, or even below an accepted industry standard of wage for that particular job?
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Looks like a scare tactic into making you pay for another subscription. The "debt" is what you owe if you wish your subscription to continue, not what you have past due. Doesn't say anything about reporting the debt to a collection agency. Also makes a statement about "not wanting you to miss another issue" which sounds like the mouth of a marketing person, and not a person trying to collect a debt.
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
Roughly translates to:
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him locked into the platform than it is to be concerned with the legality of the license."
No they only distribute it to immature children who don't know any better (parents anyone?), and then spread it amongst their friends, breeding a new generation of helpless addicts.
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Pfft, we already won.
Albeit the show remains cancelled, all the Farscape fans really wanted was a proper ending.
And we got it, a 4 - 5 episode Mini Series coming Fall 2004 to finish out the show.
My take is on this is more than likely he knows he was scammed. He would rather believe a lie he knows is a lie than accept the fact he was swindled for all he's worth.
It's easier to blame "corrupt foriegn governments" than it is to blame yourself for being taken in by it. I think the poor guy is just too embarrassed to admit he was swindled.
But did anyone else get the impression off this article like they were really poking fun of him instead of covering a real piece of news. Kinda like, "Look at this stupid old guy, haha"
You know what else is a little odd:
Jim Stratton can be reached at jstratton@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5379.
That just screams, "please send donations." Makes you stop and think, who's scamming who..
Others like myself never see a pay check or go to the bank. My pay is direct deposited into my account. I have a VISA Checkcard.
If I decide to go to a Steakhouse, I have three choices for payment:
1) One, make a stopover at the nearest ATM and spend 2 extra dollars because its probably not my banks.
2) Drive further too my bank's ATM but waste more time and gas.
3) Pay with my checkcard, at the expensive of 3 - 5 minutes I would have normally spent chatting with the people I had dinner with.
Now which is more Convenient.
Nothing says 'anonymous' more than cash, and cash still goes places where American Express/Visa/whatever have not been, and probably never will be. Bills still talk a lot louder than plastics...
Really? Can you order a CD off Amazon with cash? How about the latest OpenBSD? How about from Canada?
And it doesn't cost anything for the 'privlege' of spending your own damn money when you use cash...
It sure does. Unless you carry your cash around with you all the time you still need to access it from an ATM which can carry fees, drive to the bank and withdraw, not to mention there are probably fees your bank charges.
Kinda tells you something, when the world of 'credit' is starting to favor people who the creditors know will default and be indentured for years upon years to come......
No where have I charged on credit either.
It's also not as anonymous as you'd think. While maybe for small charges, you spend cash on anything large, again unless you store your cash under your bed or in a hole in the back yard, there are records of you withdrawing money. Think you're so anonymous paying with that 20? It got dispensed with the serial numbers recorded from somebody. The teller, the ATM. Theres cameras there.
"Cyber-bullies have their victims on an electronic tether," Stutzky says. "The kids on the receiving end can't get out of range."
Sure they can. They can just not care.
The single most important advice I ever received as a child about bullies is just ignore them. It's simple advice we all can use.
There is no way school policy can extend into the Internet and the Home. How can the school enforce a policy to ban say websites that make fun of kids and teachers when said website doesn't exist on any of the school's servers and was created in a persons free time? Impossible! (save for libel though.)
With the exception of extreme circumstances (which applies to anything), the best way to deal with bullies is to ignore them. It's not fun making fun of someone if they just don't give a damn. Hell make a website saying how stupid and gay I am. If I don't care, get upset about it or let it affect my life in any way, how long is it going to remain funny to do?
Another middle school girl received text messages about her choice of shoes: "Where did your mommy buy those shoes -- the bargain basement?" Girls tend to be bullied most about their appearance and their choice of clothes, Stutzky notes.
Wow. Words can really hurt. Grow up, just say "Yeah" or simply "No" and move on.
I agree. A major airline pilot holds the lives of a lot of people in their hands. I wouldn't mind if they got paid twice that as long as they were well trained and happy.
Last thing I want is a depressed pilot worrying about bills when the left engine fails. Last thing I want to enter his mind is "fuck it" when that happens.
PostgreSQL is more feature rich than MySQL. Whether or not it's more "advanced" depends on what you are using it for.
And no, I know MySQL has transactions through InnoDB, however MySQL doesn't have stored procedures, which also means no triggers. PostgreSQL not only has procedures but it has inheritance, overloading, and support for pl/PHP, pl/Perl, pl/Python and a host of other languages you can write stored procedures in.
Theres a bunch of differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL, neither of which make either one better overall. It's a matter of the application of each which determines if one is better.
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This saddens me...
I really don't think that analogy fits very well. I was a release day Xbox 360 owner, yup I waited in line outside a Best Buy for 18 hours. Sure it may seem extreme, but it was a fun experience. My Xbox 360 has worked flawlessly since release, and only recently fell victim to the Red Ring of Death. 5 minutes on Microsoft's Xbox support site, I had an order placed for a return shipping box and prepaid shipping label, arrived 3 days later. Shipped my Xbox 360 back 1 day later, 8 days later, I received a brand new Xbox 360, no charge involved. I know people have horror stories but generally my experience was very good. So calling an Xbox 360 a condemned building I think is a bit extreme.
Probably just means your First Life is just fine. ;)
If killed by a mob, you lose 10% durability and are transported to the nearest Graveyard where you have two options. Option 1. Talk to the Spirit at the Graveyard to be ressurected at the cost of taking 25% more durability loss, and a temporary debuff. Or Option 2, walk as a ghost, to your corpse and resurrect yourself without the aforementioned penalities. If killed by an enemy player, you don't take the initial 10% durability. If killed while in a battleground, the graveyards in battlegrounds have spirits that automatically ressurect people every 30 seconds, so as to keep the action going.
The logic in that post is flawed:
1. The math used in the link assumes 40/h weeks for an entire summer? Google paid for the project, NOT for the hours. I could have just as easily worked 5 hours on a project and make several hundred dollars per hour.
2. It was more like a grant, or even a contract. There was no requirement that the participant work X hours, or a particular timeframe. Google paid for the project, not for the hours worked on it.
3. Google Summer of Code != (does not equal for the layman) Current Plans to work on OO.o.
4. Your original argument stated below minimum wage, which last time I checked, was WELL below $9.30/h.
What about other projects? Should we boycott Linux because thousands of Linux developers have been underpaid, or even gasp, not paid at all for contributions they've made to the kernel? Maybe you should think about boycotting Slashdot, the infrastructure is supported by open source applications written by developers who were either paid very low, or not paid at all.
So again, I ask, what do you have to actually back up the statement that Google is going to underpay Indians and Chinese people to work on OO.o?
Do you have any facts, references, sources of information, some kind of substantial data to back up your theory that Google is planning on hiring cheap Chinese or Indian workers to work on OO.o and paying them below minimum wage, or even below an accepted industry standard of wage for that particular job?
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Looks like a scare tactic into making you pay for another subscription. The "debt" is what you owe if you wish your subscription to continue, not what you have past due. Doesn't say anything about reporting the debt to a collection agency. Also makes a statement about "not wanting you to miss another issue" which sounds like the mouth of a marketing person, and not a person trying to collect a debt.
1. Greed
2. IP Lawyers (actually, all lawyers)
3. Software Patents
4. Patents on Business Methods
5. Patents on Math
Who wants to innovate when all of the above could get you, your children, and your children's children sued, or worse, jailed.
Eating
P utting Pants on
Drinking Liquids
Sleeping
Walking
Breathing
Blinking
Tieing my Shoes
Wiping my Ass
- Prostitutes
- Drugs
- Gambling
Anyone have any ideas where the remaining people live? I'd like to move there. I can feel my blood pressure lowering just thinking about it.
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
Roughly translates to:
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him locked into the platform than it is to be concerned with the legality of the license."
The executives are handing out 1 million dollar bonuses to each other and patting themselves on the back.
Its like the lottery, your chances of winning are slim.
But it does happen
And someone does win.
In this case, it only takes 1 asteroid to hit hard 1 time to wipe out the human species entirely.
I think it's worth some thought and effort. If you go by the spacing between major hits, a lot of scientists say we're about due.
Yeah its not like Asteroids ever caused any mass extinctions in the past.. .. Oh wait, thats right, Dinosaurs.
No they only distribute it to immature children who don't know any better (parents anyone?), and then spread it amongst their friends, breeding a new generation of helpless addicts.
Pfft, we already won.
Albeit the show remains cancelled, all the Farscape fans really wanted was a proper ending.
And we got it, a 4 - 5 episode Mini Series coming Fall 2004 to finish out the show.
My take is on this is more than likely he knows he was scammed. He would rather believe a lie he knows is a lie than accept the fact he was swindled for all he's worth.
It's easier to blame "corrupt foriegn governments" than it is to blame yourself for being taken in by it. I think the poor guy is just too embarrassed to admit he was swindled.
But did anyone else get the impression off this article like they were really poking fun of him instead of covering a real piece of news. Kinda like, "Look at this stupid old guy, haha"
You know what else is a little odd:
Jim Stratton can be reached at jstratton@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5379.
That just screams, "please send donations." Makes you stop and think, who's scamming who..
While this may be true for some.
Others like myself never see a pay check or go to the bank. My pay is direct deposited into my account. I have a VISA Checkcard.
If I decide to go to a Steakhouse, I have three choices for payment:
1) One, make a stopover at the nearest ATM and spend 2 extra dollars because its probably not my banks.
2) Drive further too my bank's ATM but waste more time and gas.
3) Pay with my checkcard, at the expensive of 3 - 5 minutes I would have normally spent chatting with the people I had dinner with.
Now which is more Convenient.
Nothing says 'anonymous' more than cash, and cash still goes places where American Express/Visa/whatever have not been, and probably never will be. Bills still talk a lot louder than plastics...
Really? Can you order a CD off Amazon with cash? How about the latest OpenBSD? How about from Canada?
And it doesn't cost anything for the 'privlege' of spending your own damn money when you use cash...
It sure does. Unless you carry your cash around with you all the time you still need to access it from an ATM which can carry fees, drive to the bank and withdraw, not to mention there are probably fees your bank charges.
Kinda tells you something, when the world of 'credit' is starting to favor people who the creditors know will default and be indentured for years upon years to come......
No where have I charged on credit either.
It's also not as anonymous as you'd think. While maybe for small charges, you spend cash on anything large, again unless you store your cash under your bed or in a hole in the back yard, there are records of you withdrawing money. Think you're so anonymous paying with that 20? It got dispensed with the serial numbers recorded from somebody. The teller, the ATM. Theres cameras there.
Bring on the trolls!
"Cyber-bullies have their victims on an electronic tether," Stutzky says. "The kids on the receiving end can't get out of range."
Sure they can. They can just not care.
The single most important advice I ever received as a child about bullies is just ignore them. It's simple advice we all can use.
There is no way school policy can extend into the Internet and the Home. How can the school enforce a policy to ban say websites that make fun of kids and teachers when said website doesn't exist on any of the school's servers and was created in a persons free time? Impossible! (save for libel though.)
With the exception of extreme circumstances (which applies to anything), the best way to deal with bullies is to ignore them. It's not fun making fun of someone if they just don't give a damn. Hell make a website saying how stupid and gay I am. If I don't care, get upset about it or let it affect my life in any way, how long is it going to remain funny to do?
Another middle school girl received text messages about her choice of shoes: "Where did your mommy buy those shoes -- the bargain basement?" Girls tend to be bullied most about their appearance and their choice of clothes, Stutzky notes.
Wow. Words can really hurt. Grow up, just say "Yeah" or simply "No" and move on.
I agree. A major airline pilot holds the lives of a lot of people in their hands. I wouldn't mind if they got paid twice that as long as they were well trained and happy.
Last thing I want is a depressed pilot worrying about bills when the left engine fails. Last thing I want to enter his mind is "fuck it" when that happens.
Now really, would it be that -bad- if most of America were addicted to salads? :)
PostgreSQL is more feature rich than MySQL. Whether or not it's more "advanced" depends on what you are using it for.
And no, I know MySQL has transactions through InnoDB, however MySQL doesn't have stored procedures, which also means no triggers. PostgreSQL not only has procedures but it has inheritance, overloading, and support for pl/PHP, pl/Perl, pl/Python and a host of other languages you can write stored procedures in.
Theres a bunch of differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL, neither of which make either one better overall. It's a matter of the application of each which determines if one is better.
How much time before over 1,000 people mirror it world wide? $5 in the next 30 minutes.