If you are sending unsolicited "Auction notifications" then you are indeed a spammer
Geeh, you think a lot of people would complain about not receiving notification when they received it but deleted it because they thought it was spam??
Did you read the post? Do you have an idea of how online auctions might work? Are you an idiot?
She isn't the stuntwoman on last or even (m)any of the episodes of Sheena. A Denise Loden did the last one but the lady I was actually looking for a picture of was Vicki Phillips who did most of the stunt doubling in the series.
Now, if you can find Vicki Phillips page which lists her tv credit list for the Sheena show you'll see how far off Google can lead, but I think you'll have to use something other than Google to find it. She's actually quite an attractive lady under the makeup so you've got a further incentive.
Just curiosity you say? Sure......whatever you say.:)
Sorry, but is it really that serious? I read the article but I wasn't able to listen to the.wmv. The article didn't seem that gloomy, only some glitches. The rover is still responding but didn't send the data that was expected.
Don't tell me the.wmv told you that all hope was lost. Please?:)
Reading your letter just now, sofar it seems very well written, very good!. But I do have to disagree with one of your points: [...] the fact that publically distributed GPL'ed software must [...] Be distributed free of charge, excluding any applicable distribution, transferral and/or warranty fees.
I don't think the GPL says any such thing, you can charge whatever you like, as long as you give whoever you sell your software the same rights. In the end it doesn't matter much, since not many are going to pay a lot of money for software that will (ultimately) be available free elsewhere. But I don't think the GPL forbids charging as much as you want.
I realize you're joking, but actually Roosevelt was adamantly opposed to anybody making a profit from the war and I think most Americans at the time would have been appalled at the idea.
You can read it on any good site about the battle of Britain I guess....I think the pilots were actually lost and didn't so much mistake anything for an airfield but just dropped their bombs to get the hell back home
Unfortunatly they were over London at the time. Churchill retaliated by bombing Berlin while Hitler had promised that no bombs would ever fall on the fatherland. Bombs falling on Berlin enraged him so that he ordered the luftwaffe to change their tactic from the taking on the RAF to bombing english cities.
I believe it is what ultimately won the battle of britain and perhaps the war, since being left alone for a bit meant the RAF could recuperate, Hitler couldn't invade because of the RAF, etc. etc.
Sorry no links, but they shouldn't be hard to find.
Personally, I'll remember only that we WERE the good guys. Does that mean that we didn't do anything bad? No, and anyone who thinks it does is frankly pretty stupid. War sucks completely. Completely. But there is such a thing as a good and bad side to things nevertheless.
Agreed for the most part, there is however a pretty big gap between self-loathing and thinking about the morality of your actions.
But, I ask you to look carefully and imagine a world in which the Nazis had won. Was it worth doing just about anything - including killing helpless civilians, yes, even children - to end that?
Yes and yes again, but that doesn't mean we should never look back and reflect on what happened...and it certainly doesn't mean we can never critisize the things that shouldn't have happened. That, I feel, is one of the reasons that made (makes?) us the good side.
Don't know if I'm so sure about that, I think there are only 1 or 2 things that they really did wrong (or rather, right for all of us offcourse)
Why didn't the Germans invade England?
Because they didn't have air superiority over the channel and lacked amphibious capabilities. The Allied raid on Deppe in '42 showed that it was folly to attack without specialized ships and craft. Had the Nazis gone across in 40-41 in ferries and river barges they'd have failed.
You're right, the question should should have been: why did they give up on England or rather give up on pummeling the RAF. I think the battle of Britain is the one point in the war where they could have won everything.
The RAF was on the brink of collapsing, giving the germans the air superiority they needed to invade. If they could have subdued England it would have been very bad for all of us indeed.
Luckilly for us Hitler was an idiot so he was dead set on going against Russia and wanted vengeance for the bombing of Berlin, but I think it was pretty close.
The documentation on php.net is leaps and bounds better than the documentation on any other website I've found. The user comments are very helpful - quite often, my question is answered by one or more of the comments.
Amen, three cheers for whoever maintains it, it's the best I've ever come across.
Just for laughs compare it to the PostgreSQL docs where I believe most user contribute notes are about how lacking the documentation is:).
Well in their defense, the history part wasn't mentioned in the original article, I just clicked a bit further.
So my guess is you've been posting here for a while and like a good little slasdotter, didnt bother to read the article and decided to rely on amature reporters and editors to provide all the information you needed to make decisions.
Well to both of you, the company isn't exactly claiming to be the first to think of it.
From their, a bit scant 'history' page:
It must be pointed out that the root of TheWheel(TM) technology is far from new.
There is nothing wrong with taking an old technology and improving on it. It's a good idea and if it works as they claim, I hope they all get filthy rich from it:).
In the case of global warming, it is scientifically impossible to assign any cause to a past trend in global temperature. In order to do so, you would need to have a controlled experiment, where you take two identical Earths, remove a hypothetical cause of global warming from one, and then observe the long-term climate change in each.
Your view of science seems a little warped to me. A lot of science isn't based on empirical proof but on observations and careful deductions. You cannot measure and quantify everything. Luckilly scientists are smarter than that.
You could maybe, say, look at a planet with a co2 atmosphere and see that is a lot warmer than it should be.
Then you could do some experiments with co2 to see how it behaves and figure that it's probably the cause.
Then maybe other scientists are looking at the cause for global warming and deduce that co2 might be the culprit.
Not science? It is absolutely science.
Debateble? Maybe.
A reason to keep driving obscenely big suv's? A definite no!
Most countries that don't have double jeopardy laws do have other safeguards to prevent abuse. Letting the prosecution pay all legal costs of the defendant for one.
They will not bring cases to trial wich are not ready because of that furhtermore judges do not take kindly to this sort of behaviour as it is deemed (rightly so) as an abuse of power.
A prosecutor who did this would not be a prosecutor or even a lawyer for very long. There are better safeguards against abuse than letting real criminals walk after one mistake by prosecutors.
All agreed, it's the grandparent who keeps hinting ar gross wrongdoings by countries who don't have the perfect system as America does.
Personally I think a lot can be said against or for say, trial by jury, or doubly jeopardy laws, but to assume that they are unambiguously better and that any country not implementing them is therefore not civilized...well silly isn't quit the word I'm looking for.
Believe me it is quit possible to love you own country and still see it's faults, and still think about how other contries do things, not talking to you here obviously more to the trollish grandparent
That's the second time you said that! Now come up with some examples of the worst government abuses by far in the developed world or apologize to everyone present.
I'd say watergate , Iran / contra not to mention quantanamo are pretty bad casses of government abuse myself, but then that's probably because I'm not as free as Americans and I've probably been indoctrinated by my evil government to think that.
Most people who own a computer got it with a Microsoft OS and Microsoft promised them to be connected to the Internet whithout any hassles.
Your car analogy doesn't work. I am not required (nor are you) to know anything about cars in order to drive one, all I need to know (and have a license for) is how to drive one safely. You do need your car tot be safe which is why most people have it checked up regularly.
Most people have their computers checked up regularly by their local geek in the same way, so as far as they know they are up-to-date. You'd make them responsible for not following bugtraq close enough.
For your analogy to work it would take software vendors (Microsoft foremost) to go out of their way to notify users of deficiencies in the product they bought (you know, the way car manufacturors actually do when their cars tend to explode or in any other way hurt people EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CHECKED UP!!).
As someone who can smell bullshit a mile away I can tell you that, nobody who makes any quality product whatsoever, would ever stoop to insulting people anonymously.
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If you are sending unsolicited "Auction notifications" then you are indeed a spammer
Geeh, you think a lot of people would complain about not receiving notification when they received it but deleted it because they thought it was spam??
Did you read the post? Do you have an idea of how online auctions might work? Are you an idiot?
She isn't the stuntwoman on last or even (m)any of the episodes of Sheena. A Denise Loden did the last one but the lady I was actually looking for a picture of was Vicki Phillips who did most of the stunt doubling in the series.
:)
Now, if you can find Vicki Phillips page which lists her tv credit list for the Sheena show you'll see how far off Google can lead, but I think you'll have to use something other than Google to find it. She's actually quite an attractive lady under the makeup so you've got a further incentive.
Just curiosity you say? Sure......whatever you say.
it forces the sender to successfully perform a computation.
Huh? How do you figure that would work? How do you force a sender to successfully perform a computation?
Any client side solution like this is bound to be circumvented.
[..] a spacecraft using a Microsoft powered OS made it to Mars and the ESA's spacecraft using a non-Microsoft OS didn't.
:)
Oh no, it definetly made it, no problems there!
Sorry, but is it really that serious? I read the article but I wasn't able to listen to the .wmv. The article didn't seem that gloomy, only some glitches. The rover is still responding but didn't send the data that was expected.
.wmv told you that all hope was lost. Please? :)
Don't tell me the
Do you get to sue Tiger Woods if you buy it? :)
Reading your letter just now, sofar it seems very well written, very good!. But I do have to disagree with one of your points:
[...] the fact that publically distributed GPL'ed software must [...] Be distributed free of charge, excluding any applicable distribution, transferral and/or warranty fees.
I don't think the GPL says any such thing, you can charge whatever you like, as long as you give whoever you sell your software the same rights. In the end it doesn't matter much, since not many are going to pay a lot of money for software that will (ultimately) be available free elsewhere. But I don't think the GPL forbids charging as much as you want.
I realize you're joking, but actually Roosevelt was adamantly opposed to anybody making a profit from the war and I think most Americans at the time would have been appalled at the idea.
You can read it on any good site about the battle of Britain I guess....I think the pilots were actually lost and didn't so much mistake anything for an airfield but just dropped their bombs to get the hell back home
Unfortunatly they were over London at the time. Churchill retaliated by bombing Berlin while Hitler had promised that no bombs would ever fall on the fatherland. Bombs falling on Berlin enraged him so that he ordered the luftwaffe to change their tactic from the taking on the RAF to bombing english cities.
I believe it is what ultimately won the battle of britain and perhaps the war, since being left alone for a bit meant the RAF could recuperate, Hitler couldn't invade because of the RAF, etc. etc.
Sorry no links, but they shouldn't be hard to find.
Personally, I'll remember only that we WERE the good guys. Does that mean that we didn't do anything bad? No, and anyone who thinks it does is frankly pretty stupid. War sucks completely. Completely. But there is such a thing as a good and bad side to things nevertheless.
Agreed for the most part, there is however a pretty big gap between self-loathing and thinking about the morality of your actions.
But, I ask you to look carefully and imagine a world in which the Nazis had won. Was it worth doing just about anything - including killing helpless civilians, yes, even children - to end that?
Yes and yes again, but that doesn't mean we should never look back and reflect on what happened...and it certainly doesn't mean we can never critisize the things that shouldn't have happened. That, I feel, is one of the reasons that made (makes?) us the good side.
Because the Germans couldn't win.
Don't know if I'm so sure about that, I think there are only 1 or 2 things that they really did wrong (or rather, right for all of us offcourse)
Why didn't the Germans invade England?
Because they didn't have air superiority over the channel and lacked amphibious capabilities. The Allied raid on Deppe in '42 showed that it was folly to attack without specialized ships and craft. Had the Nazis gone across in 40-41 in ferries and river barges they'd have failed.
You're right, the question should should have been: why did they give up on England or rather give up on pummeling the RAF. I think the battle of Britain is the one point in the war where they could have won everything.
The RAF was on the brink of collapsing, giving the germans the air superiority they needed to invade. If they could have subdued England it would have been very bad for all of us indeed.
Luckilly for us Hitler was an idiot so he was dead set on going against Russia and wanted vengeance for the bombing of Berlin, but I think it was pretty close.
The documentation on php.net is leaps and bounds better than the documentation on any other website I've found. The user comments are very helpful - quite often, my question is answered by one or more of the comments.
:).
Amen, three cheers for whoever maintains it, it's the best I've ever come across.
Just for laughs compare it to the PostgreSQL docs where I believe most user contribute notes are about how lacking the documentation is
Well, while the article was pretty lame, It obviously wasn't talking about your office
On the other hand, there's always more wine *pops open bottle* ...cheers :)
Well in their defense, the history part wasn't mentioned in the original article, I just clicked a bit further.
So my guess is you've been posting here for a while and like a good little slasdotter, didnt bother to read the article and decided to rely on amature reporters and editors to provide all the information you needed to make decisions.
*grin*, just kidding, have a nice holliday!
As do I. As I said, I'm in favor of this system.
Understood, I took your post as a blase, been there, done that, got the t-shirt kinda post. Sorry for getting it wrong.
Well to both of you, the company isn't exactly claiming to be the first to think of it.
:).
From their, a bit scant 'history' page: It must be pointed out that the root of TheWheel(TM) technology is far from new.
There is nothing wrong with taking an old technology and improving on it. It's a good idea and if it works as they claim, I hope they all get filthy rich from it
In the case of global warming, it is scientifically impossible to assign any cause to a past trend in global temperature. In order to do so, you would need to have a controlled experiment, where you take two identical Earths, remove a hypothetical cause of global warming from one, and then observe the long-term climate change in each.
Your view of science seems a little warped to me. A lot of science isn't based on empirical proof but on observations and careful deductions. You cannot measure and quantify everything. Luckilly scientists are smarter than that.
You could maybe, say, look at a planet with a co2 atmosphere and see that is a lot warmer than it should be.
Then you could do some experiments with co2 to see how it behaves and figure that it's probably the cause.
Then maybe other scientists are looking at the cause for global warming and deduce that co2 might be the culprit.
Not science? It is absolutely science.
Debateble? Maybe.
A reason to keep driving obscenely big suv's? A definite no!
Most countries that don't have double jeopardy laws do have other safeguards to prevent abuse. Letting the prosecution pay all legal costs of the defendant for one.
They will not bring cases to trial wich are not ready because of that furhtermore judges do not take kindly to this sort of behaviour as it is deemed (rightly so) as an abuse of power.
A prosecutor who did this would not be a prosecutor or even a lawyer for very long. There are better safeguards against abuse than letting real criminals walk after one mistake by prosecutors.
All agreed, it's the grandparent who keeps hinting ar gross wrongdoings by countries who don't have the perfect system as America does.
Personally I think a lot can be said against or for say, trial by jury, or doubly jeopardy laws, but to assume that they are unambiguously better and that any country not implementing them is therefore not civilized...well silly isn't quit the word I'm looking for.
Believe me it is quit possible to love you own country and still see it's faults, and still think about how other contries do things, not talking to you here obviously more to the trollish grandparent
In theory, yes that could happen. In reality, the DA would simply try to nail you on some bullshit charge
Soooo, what you're saying is that the system is really the same only you have bullshit charges instead of appeals??
That's the second time you said that! Now come up with some examples of the worst government abuses by far in the developed world or apologize to everyone present.
I'd say watergate , Iran / contra not to mention quantanamo are pretty bad casses of government abuse myself, but then that's probably because I'm not as free as Americans and I've probably been indoctrinated by my evil government to think that.
I suspect whoever wrote this is an idiot!
:)
Anyone who uses urls for their user-feedback is an idiot.
That really should be all the info you need
Most people who own a computer got it with a Microsoft OS and Microsoft promised them to be connected to the Internet whithout any hassles.
Your car analogy doesn't work. I am not required (nor are you) to know anything about cars in order to drive one, all I need to know (and have a license for) is how to drive one safely. You do need your car tot be safe which is why most people have it checked up regularly.
Most people have their computers checked up regularly by their local geek in the same way, so as far as they know they are up-to-date. You'd make them responsible for not following bugtraq close enough.
For your analogy to work it would take software vendors (Microsoft foremost) to go out of their way to notify users of deficiencies in the product they bought (you know, the way car manufacturors actually do when their cars tend to explode or in any other way hurt people EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CHECKED UP!!).
As someone who can smell bullshit a mile away I can tell you that, nobody who makes any quality product whatsoever, would ever stoop to insulting people anonymously.