Benefits can be non-monetary, like flexible working hours, ability to work from home for some percentage of your time, ability to work on your own projects for some percentage of your time, etc. Rising stock prices are only tangentially related to the money in your bank, unless you have a boatload of stock. If the shares I own in a previous employer doubled in price, I might make as much as £50 extra per year.
Thanks for pointing this out - I'm currently in the market for an HTC Desire (though am still tempted by an iPhone), and Vodafone was one of the providers I was looking at. The apparent 500MB/month data limit was already putting me off a bit (compared to T-Mobile's 3GB one), but this probably clinches it for me.
Well, except for those who have Vodafone phones... I'm sure there'll be some trickery on there to prevent users from getting apps from anywhere but the Vodafone store.
And before you know it, Orange, T-Mobile, etc have all done the same, and there is your fragmentation.
The only thing I can think of is to off-load the number-crunching to the client machines, thus negating the need for a (farm of) hugely powerful server(s). For any one given process it'll be slower client-side in JS like this, but once the number of concurrent users increases it could quickly become prohibitively expensive to increase the number of servers enough to keep performance acceptable.
Of course that all depends on the nature of the computations, the expected size of the user base, potential to charge fees, hardware costs, etc; he may just be a masochist;)
Never mind that, as the OP hints if the plugin is crashing because something in its input is causing it to barf the last thing you want is to just restart it with the same input; chances are it'll just barf again...
Yes, apparently it is; when I bought mine about 8 months ago it came in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB flavours; now it comes in 8GB, 32GB and 64GB flavours. Sucks a little, the 32GB one is now only about £20 more than I paid for the 16GB one. Ain't tech great?
You'd be surprised at the number of people who think that's what they want, but if they got it would then complain that Facebook didn't work properly, or Google mail or maps, etc.
A retailer is not obliged to replace or refund a product. They are only required by law to *repair* the product. If they choose to do the former, then goodie for you, consider yourself lucky.
From the GP's link to which.co.uk:
If you buy a product that turns out to be faulty, you can choose to 'reject' it: give it back and get your money back. However, the law gives you only a 'reasonable' time to do this – what is reasonable depends on the product and how obvious the fault is....
You have the right to get a faulty item replaced or repaired, if you're happy with this (or if it's too late to reject it). You can ask the retailer to do either, but they can normally choose to do whatever would be cheapest.
So unless you're claiming to know more than Which, yes you can return the product (under certain circumstances) and you can ask to have it replaced, though the retailer can choose to repair it instead.
Corporations want to be people, remember? So, if they're being an ass, multiple-personality-disorder isn't a defense.
Funny, because it would be a defence for a real person, or would at least be mitigating circumstances that would change the nature of the sentence if found guilty (insane people are generally committed to secure hospitals and treated, rather than prison).
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Yeah, pretty sure; I like high-res displays far too much for "little" to ever really do it for me. Even my 15" laptop feels restrictive in that respect. (Hell, so does my 19" CRT, hence I'm currently lusting after a 25" or so that'll do 1900x1200). That said I do want a smartphone (probably an HTC Desire), but certainly not as a replacement for either of my real computers.
Not to mention it's impossible to rectify a mistake or miscarriage of justice. (Which is most of the reason why I'm against the death penalty, though that's somewhat beside the point)
Hard drive/permanent storage device, interprets input data (TV signals, EPG, etc) - I'd say yes, it's a single-purpose computer.
Is banning someone from a computer restraint of trade these days?
I wouldn't say it's a restraint of trade - though depending on how you define computer ("an electronic machine which is used for storing, organizing and finding words, numbers and pictures, for doing calculations and for controlling other machines" according to the CALD) anything from a phone to a cash register (or even an ATM) might qualify.
Even if the ruling was actually specifically about "personal computers", that still potentially includes smartphones, PDAs, etc.
They have them for primitive types, actually, and had for ages - java.lang.Integer for int etc.
No, that's not the same thing. Integer (and Long, etc) are objects, not primitives. The GP's point was that in Java you can't say e.g.
int i = null;
I've not tried that (and don't have a JDK installed on this machine) but I would expect a compile-time error. (I've not tried it in C# either for that matter)
No, it absolutely is a victory - it says that when giving your opinion on a point of science you don't have to fear being sued by someone who doesn't like it.
I for one feel happier thinking that publicly proclaiming intelligent design to be bogus won't land me in court.
Not true. Strict liability means you can be prosecuted for the result of your actions, etc, even if you did not intend for any harm to be done. It does not mean that someone can frame you and you have no defence, and there have been cases in the UK where people have beaten a charge of being in possession of child porn by demonstrating that it was downloaded by a virus without their knowledge or consent.
Unfortunately in the UK they publish names of anyone accused of sex crimes in local newspapers
Really? I've not heard of or seen such a list - unless you mean in a "local man Joe Bloggs was arrested on Friday on suspicion of $crime" type story?
you need a licence to talk to a child in the UK
Bullshit. There have been controversial rules passed recently requiring anyone who has regular, official contact with children to register, yes - so a football coach teaching minors would indeed be affected. A licence to talk to a child though? Rubbish.
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And is completely locked. Why ? Why not leaving a way for other, non-average users, to do a bit more if they wanted to ?
Because that leaves the door wide open for the average user to fuck it up as much as they do their PCs, and you're back to square one.
That's all well and good, but you're missing the real point - Windows XP, Vista and 7 are separate products; even if it were true, it is in no way analogous to what's happening here. The analogous situation would be an essentially-mandatory update to a given Windows version that removed functionality.
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Benefits can be non-monetary, like flexible working hours, ability to work from home for some percentage of your time, ability to work on your own projects for some percentage of your time, etc. Rising stock prices are only tangentially related to the money in your bank, unless you have a boatload of stock. If the shares I own in a previous employer doubled in price, I might make as much as £50 extra per year.
My daughter's mum was 23 when she had our daughter. If my daughter follows suit, that would make her 46 or 47 and me 48 or 49.
That's nothing though; one of my friends is a teacher, teaching girls of 15 - 16. She's 31, and is older than a couple of their parents.
Thanks for pointing this out - I'm currently in the market for an HTC Desire (though am still tempted by an iPhone), and Vodafone was one of the providers I was looking at. The apparent 500MB/month data limit was already putting me off a bit (compared to T-Mobile's 3GB one), but this probably clinches it for me.
Well, except for those who have Vodafone phones... I'm sure there'll be some trickery on there to prevent users from getting apps from anywhere but the Vodafone store.
And before you know it, Orange, T-Mobile, etc have all done the same, and there is your fragmentation.
The only thing I can think of is to off-load the number-crunching to the client machines, thus negating the need for a (farm of) hugely powerful server(s). For any one given process it'll be slower client-side in JS like this, but once the number of concurrent users increases it could quickly become prohibitively expensive to increase the number of servers enough to keep performance acceptable.
Of course that all depends on the nature of the computations, the expected size of the user base, potential to charge fees, hardware costs, etc; he may just be a masochist ;)
It also ensures that the ad is loaded, and thus counts as a view; important for a company that makes money selling advertising.
I don't expect Chrome's model to ever change in this respect.
Never mind that, as the OP hints if the plugin is crashing because something in its input is causing it to barf the last thing you want is to just restart it with the same input; chances are it'll just barf again...
Yes, apparently it is; when I bought mine about 8 months ago it came in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB flavours; now it comes in 8GB, 32GB and 64GB flavours. Sucks a little, the 32GB one is now only about £20 more than I paid for the 16GB one. Ain't tech great?
How does NoScript block inline images? A huge proportion of ads are served as part of the page (or in iframes), not by JS.
You'd be surprised at the number of people who think that's what they want, but if they got it would then complain that Facebook didn't work properly, or Google mail or maps, etc.
A retailer is not obliged to replace or refund a product. They are only required by law to *repair* the product. If they choose to do the former, then goodie for you, consider yourself lucky.
From the GP's link to which.co.uk:
So unless you're claiming to know more than Which, yes you can return the product (under certain circumstances) and you can ask to have it replaced, though the retailer can choose to repair it instead.
What? Of course you count the tile that was already there. You're right that the bonus is 50 points though.
Dammit! You made me lose!
Corporations want to be people, remember? So, if they're being an ass, multiple-personality-disorder isn't a defense.
Funny, because it would be a defence for a real person, or would at least be mitigating circumstances that would change the nature of the sentence if found guilty (insane people are generally committed to secure hospitals and treated, rather than prison).
Yeah, pretty sure; I like high-res displays far too much for "little" to ever really do it for me. Even my 15" laptop feels restrictive in that respect. (Hell, so does my 19" CRT, hence I'm currently lusting after a 25" or so that'll do 1900x1200). That said I do want a smartphone (probably an HTC Desire), but certainly not as a replacement for either of my real computers.
Not to mention it's impossible to rectify a mistake or miscarriage of justice. (Which is most of the reason why I'm against the death penalty, though that's somewhat beside the point)
Is an Android phone a computer?
You can run arbitrary apps on it, so yes it is.
What about your Tivo?
Hard drive/permanent storage device, interprets input data (TV signals, EPG, etc) - I'd say yes, it's a single-purpose computer.
Is banning someone from a computer restraint of trade these days?
I wouldn't say it's a restraint of trade - though depending on how you define computer ("an electronic machine which is used for storing, organizing and finding words, numbers and pictures, for doing calculations and for controlling other machines" according to the CALD) anything from a phone to a cash register (or even an ATM) might qualify.
Even if the ruling was actually specifically about "personal computers", that still potentially includes smartphones, PDAs, etc.
No, that's not the same thing. Integer (and Long, etc) are objects, not primitives. The GP's point was that in Java you can't say e.g.
int i = null;
I've not tried that (and don't have a JDK installed on this machine) but I would expect a compile-time error. (I've not tried it in C# either for that matter)
No, it absolutely is a victory - it says that when giving your opinion on a point of science you don't have to fear being sued by someone who doesn't like it.
I for one feel happier thinking that publicly proclaiming intelligent design to be bogus won't land me in court.
Not true. Strict liability means you can be prosecuted for the result of your actions, etc, even if you did not intend for any harm to be done. It does not mean that someone can frame you and you have no defence, and there have been cases in the UK where people have beaten a charge of being in possession of child porn by demonstrating that it was downloaded by a virus without their knowledge or consent.
Of course, IANAL, this is not legal advice, etc.
The Article was dated 1st April - so we don't really know it's true.
Which is part of the reason why I object to serious news outlets participating in April Fool's jokes.
Unfortunately in the UK they publish names of anyone accused of sex crimes in local newspapers
Really? I've not heard of or seen such a list - unless you mean in a "local man Joe Bloggs was arrested on Friday on suspicion of $crime" type story?
you need a licence to talk to a child in the UK
Bullshit. There have been controversial rules passed recently requiring anyone who has regular, official contact with children to register, yes - so a football coach teaching minors would indeed be affected. A licence to talk to a child though? Rubbish.
And is completely locked. Why ? Why not leaving a way for other, non-average users, to do a bit more if they wanted to ?
Because that leaves the door wide open for the average user to fuck it up as much as they do their PCs, and you're back to square one.
Windows XP, Adobe Reader 8; clicking on that link I get an error popup (not a warning) and no calculator.
The original proof of concept PDF does give me the expected warning.
That's all well and good, but you're missing the real point - Windows XP, Vista and 7 are separate products; even if it were true, it is in no way analogous to what's happening here. The analogous situation would be an essentially-mandatory update to a given Windows version that removed functionality.