I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home
Preventing that would be the responsibility of the parents. If the parents can't stop it, then there are probably larger issues than the kid just eating healthily.
The point of a bribe is to offer the bribee something they want. If they offer bikes or musical instruments, there's a better chance of the bribees thinking "Sod it, who wants a stupid bike anyway?" and giving up.
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Well, the last time I tried it it looked awful and performed poorly. Add to that the learning curve of any new app and I really couldn't be bothered.
I may give it another go after my current project ends - I'm using Eclipse at the moment and certain aspects are driving me nuts.
If you would know, canada,europe and US are all part of Western Civilization. There are differences, but not as great as a difference between US and middle east
That's true, but there are still plenty of people in the UK at least who are less than happy with the ever-present US influences in popular culture.
As does mine, but that's the OP's point. Our birth certificates record two middle names, not two middle name.
Yes, he was being that pedantic.
For what it's worth, I generally can't fit my whole name on forms either, and a number of systems lopp off or other wise lose my second middle initial.
All it takes is for Congress to give the word and the fingerprint-the-foreigners policy could be used on American citizens as well at the nations airports.
Speaking as a foreigner, I have to say that my heart bleeds for you.
I'm in the UK and we're in the process of switching to chip and pin, and it's not about time-saving, it's about security. The point being that if you use a signature and lose the card, the signature is right there on the card, easily copied. The PIN isn't (unless you write it on there yourself, of course, but that would be stupid...)
Just to confirm, that's my experience using google.co.uk as well.
Other than that, the drag and drop thing is awesome. You guys are starting to make the rest of us poor web developers look bad;-) (At least I don't do the front end stuff, so it's not exactly my fault when we don't measure up)
Intermissions = more time per single showing of the film = less shows per day = less theater profit
On a long (~3hr) film, a 10 minute intermission really isn't going to make that much difference. It also allows people to go buy more drinks, popcorn, etc, especially if you have ushers wander up and down the aisles with the stuff.
Of course, it may well not be up to the cinema, and as the movie distributors/studios make their money from the ticket sales and not the food, it's not in their interests to put a break in.
Seriously, what the hell does downloading something have to do with buying something.
Because some peope, given the choice of downloading a copy of acceptable quality for free or buying a slightly higher quality copy for $$ will take the download and keep the money. Duh.
You can't be bound by a contract you've not agreed to; you can't agree to a contract you've not seen.
Legally, that is - even if I say "I agree to this contract despite not having seen it" I'd be amazed if it would be held binding by a court. IANAL, I'm a UKian, YMMV, etc.
No parent will ever buy a DVD like this - imagine having to authorise playback every time your kid wants to watch a moive. Mine sometimes changes her mind 4 or 5 times over the course of an hour. She can swap disks fine herself...
Besides that, how would you give such a crippled DVD as a gift? Or order one online, for that matter.
We *dont'* use Struts, we use a framework we developed ourselves. When we first started doing Java projects, around 5 years ago, Struts wasn't really up to the job. It's matured a lot since then, of course, but so has our framework, and so far we've not found a compelling reason to switch.
I know you're joking, but how much more has been invented since the mid-19th century than before? I know that it's not an entirely fair comparison (as advances in science and engineering tend to snowball), but I'd be interested to see the results all the same.
With the missile silos, you've got to convince at least two human beings that the signal they've received really *is* from the president, and that he really, really *does* mean to launch at Nebraska.
An orbital platform is most likely going to be unmanned, so "all" you have to do is figure out the right signals and frequency, and convince a machine that it should fire. Ok, so I'd imagine that it may have a built-in proscription against firing on American soil, but hey, just shoot at China, or North Korea, and sit back and watch the fireworks.
(For that matter, if they're precise enough, they may not have any such proscription, just in case there's ever a need to take out targets on American soil, eg in time of invasion or even a massive civil uprising)
You don't use Servlets if your resulting page has a lot of pure HTML.
Well now, that really depends on your architecture. For example, where I work our inhouse framework uses a single Dispatcher servlet to dispatch actions to the relevant Handler classes. Those classes do more or less processing, but the end result is *always* displayed by a JSP - we *never* use a Java class to output an entire page.
You can do the same with Servlets - just put anything the JSP needs into the request, then get a reference to the RequestDispatcher from the request and call its forward method, passing in the URI of the JSP.
Yes, because all proprietary software is that bad.
By way of an example, if you're an MSDN subscriber you can access all your serial keys online on MS's subscriber website.
By way of another example, Oracle doesn't use any technological means to enforce its licensing policies at all. It's up to you to pay them for the product - you can download the full software from their website. Use it in production and you have to pay, but they don't try to *force* you to pay.
By all means, boycott pay-for/closed source software if you like, but don't try to make out that all such vendors are as uncooperative as the one in the article.
Here in the UK, I think that legally-speaking you'd be in the clear. You could probably expect your insurance company to be really, really difficult regarding any claim you made, though.
Reencoding 60 mins of video to 720p WMV-HD takes me 8 hours on a 3GHz P4.
As an aside, that's what I keep telling people who doubt the need for more CPU speed: video encoding is still far from real-time. Even granny is going to want to be reencoding videos to email to the grand-kids soon, and she doesn't have the *time* to wait that long.
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I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home
Preventing that would be the responsibility of the parents. If the parents can't stop it, then there are probably larger issues than the kid just eating healthily.
The point of a bribe is to offer the bribee something they want. If they offer bikes or musical instruments, there's a better chance of the bribees thinking "Sod it, who wants a stupid bike anyway?" and giving up.
Well, the last time I tried it it looked awful and performed poorly. Add to that the learning curve of any new app and I really couldn't be bothered.
I may give it another go after my current project ends - I'm using Eclipse at the moment and certain aspects are driving me nuts.
If you would know, canada,europe and US are all part of Western Civilization. There are differences, but not as great as a difference between US and middle east
That's true, but there are still plenty of people in the UK at least who are less than happy with the ever-present US influences in popular culture.
As does mine, but that's the OP's point. Our birth certificates record two middle names, not two middle name.
Yes, he was being that pedantic.
For what it's worth, I generally can't fit my whole name on forms either, and a number of systems lopp off or other wise lose my second middle initial.
All it takes is for Congress to give the word and the fingerprint-the-foreigners policy could be used on American citizens as well at the nations airports.
Speaking as a foreigner, I have to say that my heart bleeds for you.
He's a subscriber; that may have given him enough time.
He may also have already read the article linked to form elsewhere, of course.
More sevices available = more users, it's that simple.
I'm in the UK and we're in the process of switching to chip and pin, and it's not about time-saving, it's about security. The point being that if you use a signature and lose the card, the signature is right there on the card, easily copied. The PIN isn't (unless you write it on there yourself, of course, but that would be stupid...)
Just to confirm, that's my experience using google.co.uk as well.
;-)
Other than that, the drag and drop thing is awesome. You guys are starting to make the rest of us poor web developers look bad
(At least I don't do the front end stuff, so it's not exactly my fault when we don't measure up)
Intermissions = more time per single showing of the film = less shows per day = less theater profit
On a long (~3hr) film, a 10 minute intermission really isn't going to make that much difference. It also allows people to go buy more drinks, popcorn, etc, especially if you have ushers wander up and down the aisles with the stuff.
Of course, it may well not be up to the cinema, and as the movie distributors/studios make their money from the ticket sales and not the food, it's not in their interests to put a break in.
Seriously, what the hell does downloading something have to do with buying something.
Because some peope, given the choice of downloading a copy of acceptable quality for free or buying a slightly higher quality copy for $$ will take the download and keep the money. Duh.
You can't be bound by a contract you've not agreed to; you can't agree to a contract you've not seen.
Legally, that is - even if I say "I agree to this contract despite not having seen it" I'd be amazed if it would be held binding by a court. IANAL, I'm a UKian, YMMV, etc.
No parent will ever buy a DVD like this - imagine having to authorise playback every time your kid wants to watch a moive. Mine sometimes changes her mind 4 or 5 times over the course of an hour. She can swap disks fine herself...
Besides that, how would you give such a crippled DVD as a gift? Or order one online, for that matter.
We *dont'* use Struts, we use a framework we developed ourselves. When we first started doing Java projects, around 5 years ago, Struts wasn't really up to the job. It's matured a lot since then, of course, but so has our framework, and so far we've not found a compelling reason to switch.
Seriously, who cares? Ballmer is well-known for being outspoken, and company execs regularly make bold predictions, especially about their rivals.
How is this news?
I know you're joking, but how much more has been invented since the mid-19th century than before? I know that it's not an entirely fair comparison (as advances in science and engineering tend to snowball), but I'd be interested to see the results all the same.
That's easy to circumvent though, just use a more PC-like computer and make it removable.
So, an iPod Photo qualifies then.
With the missile silos, you've got to convince at least two human beings that the signal they've received really *is* from the president, and that he really, really *does* mean to launch at Nebraska.
An orbital platform is most likely going to be unmanned, so "all" you have to do is figure out the right signals and frequency, and convince a machine that it should fire. Ok, so I'd imagine that it may have a built-in proscription against firing on American soil, but hey, just shoot at China, or North Korea, and sit back and watch the fireworks.
(For that matter, if they're precise enough, they may not have any such proscription, just in case there's ever a need to take out targets on American soil, eg in time of invasion or even a massive civil uprising)
You don't use Servlets if your resulting page has a lot of pure HTML.
Well now, that really depends on your architecture. For example, where I work our inhouse framework uses a single Dispatcher servlet to dispatch actions to the relevant Handler classes. Those classes do more or less processing, but the end result is *always* displayed by a JSP - we *never* use a Java class to output an entire page.
You can do the same with Servlets - just put anything the JSP needs into the request, then get a reference to the RequestDispatcher from the request and call its forward method, passing in the URI of the JSP.
Yes, because all proprietary software is that bad.
By way of an example, if you're an MSDN subscriber you can access all your serial keys online on MS's subscriber website.
By way of another example, Oracle doesn't use any technological means to enforce its licensing policies at all. It's up to you to pay them for the product - you can download the full software from their website. Use it in production and you have to pay, but they don't try to *force* you to pay.
By all means, boycott pay-for/closed source software if you like, but don't try to make out that all such vendors are as uncooperative as the one in the article.
Here in the UK, I think that legally-speaking you'd be in the clear. You could probably expect your insurance company to be really, really difficult regarding any claim you made, though.
Reencoding 60 mins of video to 720p WMV-HD takes me 8 hours on a 3GHz P4.
As an aside, that's what I keep telling people who doubt the need for more CPU speed: video encoding is still far from real-time. Even granny is going to want to be reencoding videos to email to the grand-kids soon, and she doesn't have the *time* to wait that long.
Well, I was going to say "And the difference is?" but yeah, that works too.
The point of any punishment is:
a) to punish the wrongdoer
b) to dissuade others from following suit