My brother met his wife on World of Warcraft, and since they lived states apart at the time they had "web dates." They used to have a date night where they'd get on the cells and watch the same movie. They did all sorts of creative things to keep the relationship going, before she finally moved to live with him and they got married. So sorry Gates, couple's who met online have been doing this stuff for ages.
I live about 30 miles from the East Texas court most of these tech patent disputes take place at. The only (see: ONLY) high-speed service in my area is Suddenlink. The alternative sold out a few years ago. Well, lo-and-behold, everytime I mistype a URL I don't get a 404 -- I get a search result (all clad in ads) with "Suddenlink" across the top of the page. This is why so many people are worried about ISP's screwing up the Internet. First, even if Suddenlink argues they're doing me a favor, why do they get to decide which search engine my 404 is sent to? Second, that makes it awfully tempting for Suddenlink to monitor my Internet activity for targeted advertising in their 404 redirect page. And third, what the buggar are the data retention policies for the site they redirect to?
"We've found possible traces of water maybe sorta kinda that could maybe imply there was water on Mars. So, you guys aren't gonna cut our funding, right Obama?"
Oh for bullocks sake. "Requires both courage and vision" ? Oh yeth, soooo courageous and progressive! DARING! A tour de force of epic proportions! Cry me a bleeding serious-as-a-heart-attack river. Right, because educated men just want to make tons and tons of children, but if you make the women smart the population problem goes away because they refuse to be baby factories. Bullocks. The reason it improves society is because well treated girls make for healthier, happier, and more caring mothers, which means the next generation has better parental care. Women being bold and progressive with more rights has little to do with it -- it's just a means to an ends (better upbringing.) And there's absolutely nothing "Daring" or "Courageous" about treating girls well. It's not because the third world "lacks vision" that they aren't sending their girls to school, it's because they're too busy fighting mass starvation and disease. Give them stability, and the rest will follow.
My parents have run a business for the past twenty years. We have lots of big wavers and warnings to our customers: "X company that made your Y might try to weasel out of paying, if they do, please don't expect us to pay for your repairs.", "Special orders usually come in within two weeks, but we've seen them get delayed up to two months on many occasions." Etc etc etc. I can't count how many times I've seen my dad hand over a waver -- usually it shuts people up and they apologize. Of course, my dad's very tactful, he knows how to make people pipe down (say, by not challenging their egos.)
On that note, I've met plenty of uppity pool folk, I know EXACTLY how you feel... and they are indeed the worst!
I think an additional DNS layer of sorts would be most fitting. That way, sockets AND lightbulbs can change without extensive reconfiguration. Further, it means I don't need to replace all of my current sockets to upgrade my house.
It's not an EPIC FAIL, it's marketing at its finest. I've never heard of VIPRE until this morning when I saw the news. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it all up just to get attention. If not, that's probably the most profitable false positive in history (save me the medical diagnosis puns...)
Undoubtedly the serious revenue damages would have exceeded five hundred billion dollars a week. Oh, and legal precedence means the G might not get off so slippery next time.
The media companies have stood up against rampant piracy to protect artistic expression and innovation! This is truly a victory for The American People.
To sum up the article: Google wants to let users avoid commercials for $2.00. In case you folks haven't noticed, your average "hour long" prime time TV show is about 45-50 minutes, the rest is nothing but commercials. We are already forced to watch commercials, this just gives people the option to skip them at a fee. In otherwords, things aren't changing, we're just being given the option to opt-out for two bucks.
You were going for karma with that post, obviously. I explicitly said... "all new apps will be required to account for such exceptional cases (something everyone should do already, but this will magnify the issue.)" Unless we're dealing with enterprise level code, it's ridiculous to wrap everything in except/try/catch/etc clauses. Some things can be assumed not to fail (like having a functional camera.) Suddenly allowing the user to willy-nilly disable core services makes writing silly fart apps extra complex for no reason.
That could induce explosions. Consider the following line of code: displayUserName(getUserNameFromWeb()); That line of code will not function if it doesn't have web access. You can restrict the options of the app, but this will cause two things: existing apps that require certain features will suddenly stop working, and all new apps will be required to account for such exceptional cases (something everyone should do already, but this will magnify the issue.)
No, I compared it to something else which also could have been dismissed at hype. "Look! I compared this to something which was over-hyped. Ergo this is also over-hyped." Well hey look, I just compared it to color TV too.
It's supposed to make your data less completely-controlled by a single mega corporation. Security will be an issue no matter who controls the data, what matters here though is the gatekeeper.
Again, small machete versus large machete. Clipping a couple of inches would slightly alter how it's held, while maintaining the ability to use all of your fingers comfortably. Similarly, larger pocket knives are not machetes. You actually need to use a device to see if it's suited for a particular class. Yes, they're incredibly similar, but it's also like a sliding QWERTY versus a desktop keyboard. There's that fine grained line where you go from using your thumbs to using your full hands to type. Likewise, the iPod is more like a "mini touch" device, which changes the experience just as drastically as a sliding QWERTY versus a full sized keyboard.
I can call this my "opinion," but I actually used an iPad for a few days, the experience was DRASTICALLY different than an iPod. And shrinking the iPad slightly would likely maintain the tablet usability. But in all honesty, these things actually exist, try it out for yourself. If you still disagree, then I admit I may be wrong (maybe I'm just nuts? But seriously, first hand experience suggests I'm not.)
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My brother met his wife on World of Warcraft, and since they lived states apart at the time they had "web dates." They used to have a date night where they'd get on the cells and watch the same movie. They did all sorts of creative things to keep the relationship going, before she finally moved to live with him and they got married. So sorry Gates, couple's who met online have been doing this stuff for ages.
I live about 30 miles from the East Texas court most of these tech patent disputes take place at. The only (see: ONLY) high-speed service in my area is Suddenlink. The alternative sold out a few years ago. Well, lo-and-behold, everytime I mistype a URL I don't get a 404 -- I get a search result (all clad in ads) with "Suddenlink" across the top of the page. This is why so many people are worried about ISP's screwing up the Internet. First, even if Suddenlink argues they're doing me a favor, why do they get to decide which search engine my 404 is sent to? Second, that makes it awfully tempting for Suddenlink to monitor my Internet activity for targeted advertising in their 404 redirect page. And third, what the buggar are the data retention policies for the site they redirect to?
"We've found possible traces of water maybe sorta kinda that could maybe imply there was water on Mars. So, you guys aren't gonna cut our funding, right Obama?"
Are you sure? Because there are plenty of feminist twits who say that sort of thing all the time and mean it whole heartily.
Oh for bullocks sake. "Requires both courage and vision" ? Oh yeth, soooo courageous and progressive! DARING! A tour de force of epic proportions! Cry me a bleeding serious-as-a-heart-attack river. Right, because educated men just want to make tons and tons of children, but if you make the women smart the population problem goes away because they refuse to be baby factories. Bullocks. The reason it improves society is because well treated girls make for healthier, happier, and more caring mothers, which means the next generation has better parental care. Women being bold and progressive with more rights has little to do with it -- it's just a means to an ends (better upbringing.) And there's absolutely nothing "Daring" or "Courageous" about treating girls well. It's not because the third world "lacks vision" that they aren't sending their girls to school, it's because they're too busy fighting mass starvation and disease. Give them stability, and the rest will follow.
This tech really works!
Everyone who thinks this is absurd has implicitly argued that profiling -- racial, gender, and otherwise -- works.
My parents have run a business for the past twenty years. We have lots of big wavers and warnings to our customers: "X company that made your Y might try to weasel out of paying, if they do, please don't expect us to pay for your repairs.", "Special orders usually come in within two weeks, but we've seen them get delayed up to two months on many occasions." Etc etc etc. I can't count how many times I've seen my dad hand over a waver -- usually it shuts people up and they apologize. Of course, my dad's very tactful, he knows how to make people pipe down (say, by not challenging their egos.)
On that note, I've met plenty of uppity pool folk, I know EXACTLY how you feel... and they are indeed the worst!
I think an additional DNS layer of sorts would be most fitting. That way, sockets AND lightbulbs can change without extensive reconfiguration. Further, it means I don't need to replace all of my current sockets to upgrade my house.
It's not an EPIC FAIL, it's marketing at its finest. I've never heard of VIPRE until this morning when I saw the news. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it all up just to get attention. If not, that's probably the most profitable false positive in history (save me the medical diagnosis puns...)
Global water shortage ensues as people rush to the bathroom after eating so much Chinese food.
Undoubtedly the serious revenue damages would have exceeded five hundred billion dollars a week. Oh, and legal precedence means the G might not get off so slippery next time.
I'm sure -- upon hearing these huge damages record labels have had -- the judge will promptly fine everyone involved infinity billion dollars.
IT'S OVER... well actually it's about 31, I forgot to declare my int long.
The media companies have stood up against rampant piracy to protect artistic expression and innovation! This is truly a victory for The American People.
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To sum up the article: Google wants to let users avoid commercials for $2.00. In case you folks haven't noticed, your average "hour long" prime time TV show is about 45-50 minutes, the rest is nothing but commercials. We are already forced to watch commercials, this just gives people the option to skip them at a fee. In otherwords, things aren't changing, we're just being given the option to opt-out for two bucks.
Spare the robotic heart'd overlord jokes.
(DISCLAIMER: I can make these kinds of jokes because the story ended well.)
You were going for karma with that post, obviously. I explicitly said... "all new apps will be required to account for such exceptional cases (something everyone should do already, but this will magnify the issue.)" Unless we're dealing with enterprise level code, it's ridiculous to wrap everything in except/try/catch/etc clauses. Some things can be assumed not to fail (like having a functional camera.) Suddenly allowing the user to willy-nilly disable core services makes writing silly fart apps extra complex for no reason.
That could induce explosions. Consider the following line of code: displayUserName(getUserNameFromWeb()); That line of code will not function if it doesn't have web access. You can restrict the options of the app, but this will cause two things: existing apps that require certain features will suddenly stop working, and all new apps will be required to account for such exceptional cases (something everyone should do already, but this will magnify the issue.)
No UR MOM.
No, I compared it to something else which also could have been dismissed at hype. "Look! I compared this to something which was over-hyped. Ergo this is also over-hyped." Well hey look, I just compared it to color TV too.
It's supposed to make your data less completely-controlled by a single mega corporation. Security will be an issue no matter who controls the data, what matters here though is the gatekeeper.
Is around to see it, then obviously it must not exist or be exploitable.
Again, small machete versus large machete. Clipping a couple of inches would slightly alter how it's held, while maintaining the ability to use all of your fingers comfortably. Similarly, larger pocket knives are not machetes. You actually need to use a device to see if it's suited for a particular class. Yes, they're incredibly similar, but it's also like a sliding QWERTY versus a desktop keyboard. There's that fine grained line where you go from using your thumbs to using your full hands to type. Likewise, the iPod is more like a "mini touch" device, which changes the experience just as drastically as a sliding QWERTY versus a full sized keyboard.
I can call this my "opinion," but I actually used an iPad for a few days, the experience was DRASTICALLY different than an iPod. And shrinking the iPad slightly would likely maintain the tablet usability. But in all honesty, these things actually exist, try it out for yourself. If you still disagree, then I admit I may be wrong (maybe I'm just nuts? But seriously, first hand experience suggests I'm not.)