I have veggies delivered by a bunch of hippies, and have never yet been disappointed. There's *lots* of small companies doing that sort of thing all over the country.
Shades of the fiasco where the army bought helicopters from some yankee company and can't fly them because without the source code they can't be certified as being safe and airworthy!
until now, you had two options: electric heaters that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand.
This statement appears to be somewhat at odds with reality. The use of electricity to heat water on demand (and heat it VERY quickly) for showers is common. Which backward third-world shit-hole are you in that you've not seen them?
In the hypothetical situation where members of my profession were forced to do something immoral - like, say, writing backdoors into my software for the government - then I'd quit and become a trucker. So assuming that you are correct about the "cab rank" rule then I hold you to the same standards as I hold myself. You are morally obligated to stop lawyering and pursue an honourable career instead - such as trucking, or plumbing, or sweeping the streets.
If you want to obliquely suggest killing any group of people because you think this will solve the problem I suggest you review and include (in reverse order):
4. Artists who continue to participate in the corrupt entertainment industry
3. The MPAA for ruthlessly trying to protect its own profits and interests
2. Politicians for being so pathetically weak that they can be bought and sold like prostitutes
1. Yourself and everyone else who does not fall into 4, 3 or 2 but who (a) funds the MPAA and the artists by buying their crap
You forgot to mention the lawyer scum that *choose* to work for the MPAA.
... they're just reselling the Sparc laptops that Tadpole and Naturetech have already been making for ages. As you can see by the image in the top left of this page.
The OED is - occasionally - used in court to determine the meaning of a word in dispute. See this story from the OED Newsletter which states:
" The courts do use our dictionaries in support of arguments about the commonly accepted meanings of words, but the legal authority comes from the court's decision, not from the dictionary's definition. "
" 2 fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit, without authority; infringement of the rights conferred by a patent or copyright. "
It goes on to illustrate this with a few quotation, the earliest of which dates from 1771.
Originally, different countries in the EU were going to be in different DVD regions. This was illegal, and so the 15 EU countries were all put in the same region. The solution, therefore, is for the EU to admit a few third world backwater jurisdictions to membership. I propose Sao Tome, Pitcairn Island, Bhutan, Kaliningrad, Rhode Island, and Macao. Hey presto, no region locking.
What on earth makes you think that? Being a spamming scumbag is *already* against the AUP for pretty much every ISP and nothing is done about violators. Why should this make any difference?
So on the one hand we have a respectable news organisation like the BBC telling us there was an attempt to break in to the site. On the other, we have some loser with a blog telling us about third-hand rumours from a mailing list.
It boils down to two choices - either the blogger is making shit up; or the police are being their usual incompetent selves. I find neither option to be more believable than the other.
I recommend that students are taught properly so that they can - given enough time - solve problems using paper, pencil, and log/sine tables, and understand the operations that are going on. Then, and only then, should they be allowed to use programmable calculators, computers, or what-have-you. Even then, using computers should not be required.
If a teacher is setting problems which are too large to be solved by hand, then the teacher is setting the wrong problems. Maths lessons should be about learning how to do stuff, not about producing pretty pictures.
So some wanker on some wanky TV show watched only by other wankers did something. Big hairy deal. What makes this either "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"?
a UK group called the Open Source Consortium is being officially launched today... The question of whether this is useful or even wanted in the US still remains to be answered.
The question of whether this is useful or even wanted in the UK also remains to be answered.
Plenty of 0800 numbers don't accept calls from payphones, because they are charged a considerable amount more for the incoming calls. There's even a bit defined in the SS7 protocol for "I'm a payphone, ignore me".
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I have veggies delivered by a bunch of hippies, and have never yet been disappointed. There's *lots* of small companies doing that sort of thing all over the country.
Shades of the fiasco where the army bought helicopters from some yankee company and can't fly them because without the source code they can't be certified as being safe and airworthy!
+1, funny
Getting a life
This statement appears to be somewhat at odds with reality. The use of electricity to heat water on demand (and heat it VERY quickly) for showers is common. Which backward third-world shit-hole are you in that you've not seen them?
In the hypothetical situation where members of my profession were forced to do something immoral - like, say, writing backdoors into my software for the government - then I'd quit and become a trucker. So assuming that you are correct about the "cab rank" rule then I hold you to the same standards as I hold myself. You are morally obligated to stop lawyering and pursue an honourable career instead - such as trucking, or plumbing, or sweeping the streets.
You forgot to mention the lawyer scum that *choose* to work for the MPAA.
"make sure you have a good shark for a lawyer" translates to "pay your union subs".
... they're just reselling the Sparc laptops that Tadpole and Naturetech have already been making for ages. As you can see by the image in the top left of this page.
The OED is - occasionally - used in court to determine the meaning of a word in dispute. See this story from the OED Newsletter which states:
" The courts do use our dictionaries in support of arguments about the commonly accepted meanings of words, but the legal authority comes from the court's decision, not from the dictionary's definition. "
Yes, it is piracy. From the OED:
" 2 fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit, without authority; infringement of the rights
conferred by a patent or copyright. "
It goes on to illustrate this with a few quotation, the earliest of which dates from 1771.
DDJ's reviewer also liked it, making the very good point that Dave Cross's book isn't really about perl.
You mis-spelt "mutilation".
Originally, different countries in the EU were going to be in different DVD regions. This was illegal, and so the 15 EU countries were all put in the same region. The solution, therefore, is for the EU to admit a few third world backwater jurisdictions to membership. I propose Sao Tome, Pitcairn Island, Bhutan, Kaliningrad, Rhode Island, and Macao. Hey presto, no region locking.
What on earth makes you think that? Being a spamming scumbag is *already* against the AUP for pretty much every ISP and nothing is done about violators. Why should this make any difference?
It boils down to two choices - either the blogger is making shit up; or the police are being their usual incompetent selves. I find neither option to be more believable than the other.
Was A9 ever anything more than redundant?
If a teacher is setting problems which are too large to be solved by hand, then the teacher is setting the wrong problems. Maths lessons should be about learning how to do stuff, not about producing pretty pictures.
Damn, so you mean I could have published my A-level statistics project in Nature 12 years ago? Bah!
So some wanker on some wanky TV show watched only by other wankers did something. Big hairy deal. What makes this either "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"?
The question of whether this is useful or even wanted in the UK also remains to be answered.
if only i had moderation points today ...
Plenty of 0800 numbers don't accept calls from payphones, because they are charged a considerable amount more for the incoming calls. There's even a bit defined in the SS7 protocol for "I'm a payphone, ignore me".
He was doing well until the "rar rar america" bit. At that point, he lost the plot, and I stopped reading.
Anyone using such a horrible made-up word should be shot. If you want long compound words, German is --> that way.