Maybe I'm extending the usual "not to be used in conjunction with any other offer" too far then; I never collect so I've never tried to use both offers at once.
But yeah, I wouldn't even think of tipping a delivery person, and only tip waiting staff if the service warrants it. I really do not understand the "must tip" mentality.
If it's behind a pay wall, then they just don't spider it unless the owner specifically requests to be added
The googlebot has no magic pay-wall busting technology; throw up a login screen and charge for accounts and Google can no more see it (without purchasing an account) than you or I can.
Actually, here in the UK that's not generally the case, unless you include the "10% off on collection" and similar offers you sometimes get - but then of course you can't use any other offer at the same time.
What you do tend to get is a minimum order price for delivery, but with the prices of the pizzas that's never been an issue for me.
The issue here is that MS is composed of total idiots
And yet, they are one of the computer industry's biggest players, and their software is on the vast majority of desktop machines. Even if you believe it's all because of anti-competitive practices and shady business deals, that still points at them being anything but total idiots.
It's less capable and exposes fewer services - yes, it's more secure. Almost all the old bugs will have been fixed, and none of the new ones will have been introduced (as the OS doesn't support the required software). Plus of course almost no-one is using it, so there's no point (beyond idle curiosity) to trying to find more exploits for it.
Open Source is not the same as Free (which is not the same as free).
That said, I wish the FSS had chosen something other than "free", as I suspect the vast majority of people would make the "no cost" connection rather than the "no strings attached" one.
Well, I'm using Firefox 3.5.7 and the "blue" demo was not smooth for me at all, while in Chrome it was. I didn't bother checking the CPU utilisation, but performance was visually unchanged even when running them both at the same time.
If by that you mean that of the browsers currently available, it came out first, then you're wrong; IE was released in late 1995, while Opera was released in December 1996 (from the Wikipedia pages on Internet Explorer and Opera.
If that's not what you mean, then what do you mean?
There is no reason why mass can't travel faster than light.
Yes there is; as the speed of a mass approaches light speed, the energy input required to further increase its speed tends to infinity.
If you really want to understand then you're going to have to look into special and general relativity, but be warned, some of the maths gets pretty hairy.
I don't see why not, and copyrights can certainly be transferred. The screwed-up bit, in my opinion, is this:
In 1980 Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle’s other works entered the public domain in Britain. In America the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976 gave an author or his heirs a chance to recapture lost rights; Conan Doyle’s daughter, Jean, did so in 1981.
So here in Britain they would appear to be in the public domain, as one would expect, but in the US his daughter was given the chance to say "no, actually, I'd like to keep the copyright for longer please"? Or am I misunderstanding that paragraph?
Some reading for you. Just because the AC doesn't want his data in the US doesn't mean he'd be happy with it being in China either, or that that is his only alternative.
The current method seems to hand them to idiots with the reading comprehension of a limp lettuce leaf.
While avoiding giving them to those of us who have been registered users and frequent readers/contributors for years and who have been at the karma cap since it was still displayed as a number.
In fact for a long time I couldn't even meta-moderate; I have no idea what crime I committed (nor to be honest do I care anywhere near enough to try to find out).
Police are just doing their job. They want their job to be easy and it is their boss's job to make sure they are not breaking the law
No, part of a police officer's job is to uphold the law, it is no more their boss's job to ensure they are not breaking it than it is my parents' job (given I am an adult) to make sure that I'm not breaking the law.
The Radeon HD5850 I bought towards the end of last year also has a DisplayPort output, and I was considering skipping DVI (my current monitor is VGA-only) and going to that when I upgrade my monitor.
if you don't want your laptops to be searched, you are free to leave, but if you want to enter we need to search your laptop
Need? Want I can see, and I appreciate that submitting to the search is a condition of being granted entry, but I really don't see where the need comes from.
I don't know how this can be related to US citizens (as a country should not be/is not allowed to refuse entry to its citizens)
So they can't refuse you entry; surely (assuming the law permits it) they can have you arrested and possibly charged for failing to comply?
There's a huge difference between staying at home ill, sat at my desk within easy reach of my bed if I need it (or even in bed if I game on a laptop), staying in the warm, and not having to struggle through a 90 minute commute, and going in to the office, being unproductive as I infect my co-workers with whatever nasty little germ I have.
Just because you're not too ill to sit at one desk, doesn't mean you're well enough to sit at another.
The kind of gracious pre-notification you are suggesting, in this day and age, needs to be earned. And D-Link hasn't earned it, with their history of GPL violations and delay on publication of security vulnerabilities.
And their customers, what have they done to earn the inevitable increase in attacks, other than to not know better than to buy D-Link products?
Netscape shot themselves in the foot by deciding to scrap their existing code base and make version 5 a complete rewrite. That gave MS all the time they needed to release IE 5 and then 6 and eat Netscape's market share.
Netscape Navigator 4 was a buggy, unstable piece of crap, but it was still better than IE4. IE5 was better than it, and so was IE6. That (to my mind at least) is why Netscape failed, and I speak as someone who has never used IE as their primary browser and most likely never will; I went from NS4 to Mozilla (which should tell you that I put up with Netscape for a long time despite its faults).
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Maybe I'm extending the usual "not to be used in conjunction with any other offer" too far then; I never collect so I've never tried to use both offers at once.
But yeah, I wouldn't even think of tipping a delivery person, and only tip waiting staff if the service warrants it. I really do not understand the "must tip" mentality.
If it's behind a pay wall, then they just don't spider it unless the owner specifically requests to be added
The googlebot has no magic pay-wall busting technology; throw up a login screen and charge for accounts and Google can no more see it (without purchasing an account) than you or I can.
Actually, here in the UK that's not generally the case, unless you include the "10% off on collection" and similar offers you sometimes get - but then of course you can't use any other offer at the same time.
What you do tend to get is a minimum order price for delivery, but with the prices of the pizzas that's never been an issue for me.
The issue here is that MS is composed of total idiots
And yet, they are one of the computer industry's biggest players, and their software is on the vast majority of desktop machines. Even if you believe it's all because of anti-competitive practices and shady business deals, that still points at them being anything but total idiots.
Not in the default configuration it can't.
It's less capable and exposes fewer services - yes, it's more secure. Almost all the old bugs will have been fixed, and none of the new ones will have been introduced (as the OS doesn't support the required software). Plus of course almost no-one is using it, so there's no point (beyond idle curiosity) to trying to find more exploits for it.
Good luck running it on modern hardware though.
How do you know they had enough time to fix it before going RTM?
Now, if it's not fixed in the service pack, then I think you can complain.
Open Source is not the same as Free (which is not the same as free).
That said, I wish the FSS had chosen something other than "free", as I suspect the vast majority of people would make the "no cost" connection rather than the "no strings attached" one.
Well, I'm using Firefox 3.5.7 and the "blue" demo was not smooth for me at all, while in Chrome it was. I didn't bother checking the CPU utilisation, but performance was visually unchanged even when running them both at the same time.
Opera is the longest running GUI Web browser
If by that you mean that of the browsers currently available, it came out first, then you're wrong; IE was released in late 1995, while Opera was released in December 1996 (from the Wikipedia pages on Internet Explorer and Opera.
If that's not what you mean, then what do you mean?
There is no reason why mass can't travel faster than light.
Yes there is; as the speed of a mass approaches light speed, the energy input required to further increase its speed tends to infinity.
If you really want to understand then you're going to have to look into special and general relativity, but be warned, some of the maths gets pretty hairy.
I don't see why not, and copyrights can certainly be transferred. The screwed-up bit, in my opinion, is this:
In 1980 Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle’s other works entered the public domain in Britain. In America the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976 gave an author or his heirs a chance to recapture lost rights; Conan Doyle’s daughter, Jean, did so in 1981.
So here in Britain they would appear to be in the public domain, as one would expect, but in the US his daughter was given the chance to say "no, actually, I'd like to keep the copyright for longer please"? Or am I misunderstanding that paragraph?
"Elementary" is equivalent to "basic"; you'd be wanting "elementarily", though I appreciate it obfuscates the joke slightly.
I understand the concept (enchanted equipment grants bonuses to specific skills, etc), but most of that post wasn't even in English...
Some reading for you. Just because the AC doesn't want his data in the US doesn't mean he'd be happy with it being in China either, or that that is his only alternative.
The current method seems to hand them to idiots with the reading comprehension of a limp lettuce leaf.
While avoiding giving them to those of us who have been registered users and frequent readers/contributors for years and who have been at the karma cap since it was still displayed as a number.
In fact for a long time I couldn't even meta-moderate; I have no idea what crime I committed (nor to be honest do I care anywhere near enough to try to find out).
Police are just doing their job. They want their job to be easy and it is their boss's job to make sure they are not breaking the law
No, part of a police officer's job is to uphold the law, it is no more their boss's job to ensure they are not breaking it than it is my parents' job (given I am an adult) to make sure that I'm not breaking the law.
The Radeon HD5850 I bought towards the end of last year also has a DisplayPort output, and I was considering skipping DVI (my current monitor is VGA-only) and going to that when I upgrade my monitor.
if you don't want your laptops to be searched, you are free to leave, but if you want to enter we need to search your laptop
Need? Want I can see, and I appreciate that submitting to the search is a condition of being granted entry, but I really don't see where the need comes from.
I don't know how this can be related to US citizens (as a country should not be/is not allowed to refuse entry to its citizens)
So they can't refuse you entry; surely (assuming the law permits it) they can have you arrested and possibly charged for failing to comply?
turning down social interactions to instead go raiding with their groups
That certainly can be a social interaction - just because people aren't sat in the same room talking face to face doesn't mean they're not talking.
an online fake environment
What's fake about it, in entertainment terms? In what ways are other forms of entertainment more real?
There's a huge difference between staying at home ill, sat at my desk within easy reach of my bed if I need it (or even in bed if I game on a laptop), staying in the warm, and not having to struggle through a 90 minute commute, and going in to the office, being unproductive as I infect my co-workers with whatever nasty little germ I have.
Just because you're not too ill to sit at one desk, doesn't mean you're well enough to sit at another.
The kind of gracious pre-notification you are suggesting, in this day and age, needs to be earned. And D-Link hasn't earned it, with their history of GPL violations and delay on publication of security vulnerabilities.
And their customers, what have they done to earn the inevitable increase in attacks, other than to not know better than to buy D-Link products?
Netscape shot themselves in the foot by deciding to scrap their existing code base and make version 5 a complete rewrite. That gave MS all the time they needed to release IE 5 and then 6 and eat Netscape's market share.
Netscape Navigator 4 was a buggy, unstable piece of crap, but it was still better than IE4. IE5 was better than it, and so was IE6. That (to my mind at least) is why Netscape failed, and I speak as someone who has never used IE as their primary browser and most likely never will; I went from NS4 to Mozilla (which should tell you that I put up with Netscape for a long time despite its faults).
I find it hard to believe that the performance drop will matter...to me.
To the server, maybe.
The server being slow because it's overloaded doesn't matter to you?
As an AC? How exactly is that supposed to work?