if you buy a house directly from the vendor, who do you pay the agent's commission to?
that's right, there is no agent and no commission.
why should amazon pay them a commission if they do not bring amazon business? if they falsely claim that they did (which is what they seem to be doing) then they are defrauding amazon, even if no one else has a claim to a commisson on the sale.
Yes, but the moon rotates (as it orbits around Earth). If you put the telescope on the equator, you'd see just as much of the sky in the course of a month as you would from the equator on Earth -- that is, just about all of it.
still, if you put the scope in orbit you can point it where you like when you like. and it doesn't have to stand against gravity, so it can be as big as you like.
in the early days, the inability to point a telescope at will caused some short-period variable stars to be misread as long-period, becuase their actual period was close to 24 hours.
Faith means beliving something you haven't proven. I believe, on faith, that Cleveland exists.
no. you believe on evidence that cleveland exists. the evidence isn't as strong as having been there, but neither is it as vacuous as the evidence on which the religious believe in their gods.
belief based on evidence has a probablity value attached. if youv'e been to clevelan then the probability is 1. if not, it is, say, 0.99999; you would be very surprised to discover that it is a myth. the probability you attach to the existance of a town mentioned by an aquaintance telling a "true" story may be 0.3; you would not be very surprised to discover that he invented it.
you need not, and should not, require all belief to be at either 0 or 1.
They are prosecuting the chain mail sending people, and they sollicit forwarding of those types of SPAMs.
looking at the ftc site, i see no such restriction. for example this page says "Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to uce@ftc.gov." they do have a particular interest in fake "remove" instructions.
yes indeed, and it is just as clumsy and unreliable as you would expect from government bureaucrats. i've been trying to log in to my account for two days now.
buying a DRM-enabled device does have an effect even if you don't use the feature: the more DRM-supporting boxes there are in people's hands, the less the RIAA will have to worry about losing customers who can't play DRM-encumbered music.
Vaporising the explosive = setting the explosive off!
only if you vapourize it very very fast. if it takes a while, say 100ms, then all you get is a brief local breeze. and probably a cloud of noxious gas.
i'm afraid you're a bit late with this idea. length and time have been defined in non-earth-centric terms for years now. (and yes, the speed of light figures strongly in this.) the only basic unit still defined by a physical reference standard is mass, and people are working on replacing that too.
the number of days in a year is (so far) beyond our control, but at least we could metricize the year: ten months in a year, of 36.5 days each. february starts at noon!
i once tracked an application problem down to code that appended to a buffer. if the buffer wasn't large enough, it would double its size before appending to it. if double wasn't enough, well, that's what you get for being greedy!
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i once worked with a cheap little dot-matrix printer with the same feature.
it printed 80-char lines. it also had a wide-char mode, which did 40 chars. if you put it in wide mode and printed more than 40 chars on a line the print head hit the right-end stop and sat there smoking! i made a couple of mad dives for the power cord after accidentally printing binary files.
it is interesting that the number of lines of code is given to two decimal places. remarkable precision for an author who does not seem terribly concerned with getting the details right.
I use the OO features in the high level language, but extensions are usually simple enough so that they don't need it.
ah, i see. what high-level languages do you favour? (is this question going to start a religious war?) i have dabbled with perl and tcl/tk a bit, and smalltalk even less, but never got into them. are there high-level languages with strong OO? in perl it seems to be just tacked on, even more so than C++ tacks it on to C.
the STL is still the best thing about C++ and is just about the only reason I would use it instead of C
an interesting comment. i use and like the stl, but the main reason i use C++ instead of C is that i far prefer object-oriented design and coding. i find C-style programming pretty painful since i started with OO (many years ago). do you not like OO, or is there something about the type of programming you do that makes it unimportant?
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if you buy a house directly from the vendor, who do you pay the agent's commission to? that's right, there is no agent and no commission.
Amazon's system is set up to allow this.
i didn't realize that. well, if that's how amazon set it up, it's their problem if they pay commissions for nothing.
if you buy a house directly from the vendor, who do you pay the agent's commission to?
that's right, there is no agent and no commission.
why should amazon pay them a commission if they do not bring amazon business? if they falsely claim that they did (which is what they seem to be doing) then they are defrauding amazon, even if no one else has a claim to a commisson on the sale.
many probably would have agreed to send their Amazon referrals to KaZaa
when you buy a car, who do you give the saleman's commission to?
half the sky would be blocked by the moon
Yes, but the moon rotates (as it orbits around Earth). If you put the telescope on the equator, you'd see just as much of the sky in the course of a month as you would from the equator on Earth -- that is, just about all of it.
still, if you put the scope in orbit you can point it where you like when you like. and it doesn't have to stand against gravity, so it can be as big as you like.
in the early days, the inability to point a telescope at will caused some short-period variable stars to be misread as long-period, becuase their actual period was close to 24 hours.
How hard would it be to put a camera on the moon?
harder than putting one in orbit (since you have to land it), and half the sky would be blocked by the moon.
Because the legalese of the Bible isn't important if you get the theme.
the nice thing about biblical themes is that there are so many to choose from.
Faith means beliving something you haven't proven. I believe, on faith, that Cleveland exists.
no. you believe on evidence that cleveland exists. the evidence isn't as strong as having been there, but neither is it as vacuous as the evidence on which the religious believe in their gods.
belief based on evidence has a probablity value attached. if youv'e been to clevelan then the probability is 1. if not, it is, say, 0.99999; you would be very surprised to discover that it is a myth. the probability you attach to the existance of a town mentioned by an aquaintance telling a "true" story may be 0.3; you would not be very surprised to discover that he invented it.
you need not, and should not, require all belief to be at either 0 or 1.
. . . ask the public to help them sort them out. pyramid@spam.ftc.gov, nigerian_scam@spam.ftc.gov, porn@spam.ftc.gov etc.
pre-sorted garbage. good idea!
They are prosecuting the chain mail sending people, and they sollicit forwarding of those types of SPAMs.
looking at the ftc site, i see no such restriction.
for example this page says "Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to uce@ftc.gov." they do have a particular interest in fake "remove" instructions.
how much data could be fitted in one *cubic* inch!
that depends on the surface area of your cubic inch of material. this technique will only work on a surface.
Canada Post runs epost.ca
yes indeed, and it is just as clumsy and unreliable as you would expect from government bureaucrats. i've been trying to log in to my account for two days now.
buying a DRM-enabled device does have an effect even if you don't use the feature: the more DRM-supporting boxes there are in people's hands, the less the RIAA will have to worry about losing customers who can't play DRM-encumbered music.
Vaporising the explosive = setting the explosive off!
only if you vapourize it very very fast. if it takes a while, say 100ms, then all you get is a brief local breeze. and probably a cloud of noxious gas.
For those that wish not to fill in a number of required (!!) fields such as postal address, birth year, last name, etc...
it accepted a birth year of 1776 from me.
you counted the time between midnight and 1am 2 times in one day
of course he did. how else could he arrive at the required conclusion?
the more interesting question is, what is special about 59 milliseconds?
i'm afraid you're a bit late with this idea. length and time have been defined in non-earth-centric terms for years now. (and yes, the speed of light figures strongly in this.) the only basic unit still defined by a physical reference standard is mass, and people are working on replacing that too.
the number of days in a year is (so far) beyond our control, but at least we could metricize the year: ten months in a year, of 36.5 days each. february starts at noon!
Coal grows on plants?!?
it did, about 100-million years ago!
i once tracked an application problem down to code that appended to a buffer. if the buffer wasn't large enough, it would double its size before appending to it. if double wasn't enough, well, that's what you get for being greedy!
i once worked with a cheap little dot-matrix printer with the same feature.
it printed 80-char lines. it also had a wide-char mode, which did 40 chars. if you put it in wide mode and printed more than 40 chars on a line the print head hit the right-end stop and sat there smoking! i made a couple of mad dives for the power cord after accidentally printing binary files.
it is interesting that the number of lines of code is given to two decimal places. remarkable precision for an author who does not seem terribly concerned with getting the details right.
Surely the other side of this panel would be simultaneously heating my living room.
oh, so that's why the air conditioner i put in the middle of my living room isn't coolling it!
you can convert any distance measurement to any other distance measurement but it still doesn't mean that one is defined in terms of the other
but in this case, the inch is, in fact, officially defined in terms of centimeters. i don't know when that happened, but it was years ago.
I use the OO features in the high level language, but extensions are usually simple enough so that they don't need it.
ah, i see. what high-level languages do you favour? (is this question going to start a religious war?) i have dabbled with perl and tcl/tk a bit, and smalltalk even less, but never got into them. are there high-level languages with strong OO? in perl it seems to be just tacked on, even more so than C++ tacks it on to C.
the STL is still the best thing about C++ and is just about the only reason I would use it instead of C
an interesting comment. i use and like the stl, but the main reason i use C++ instead of C is that i far prefer object-oriented design and coding. i find C-style programming pretty painful since i started with OO (many years ago). do you not like OO, or is there something about the type of programming you do that makes it unimportant?