Wait, what? A successful strike from the snake would result in a bit more than mere blood loss. These are venomous snakes, remember. A bite which would make a big animal like a human sick for a few days will kill a little squirrel in pretty short order.
"From dinosaurs to bacteria, the number is near infinite..."
Pet peeve. No number that can be thought of is anywhere 'near' infinite.
Yes, in the domain of mathematics, the phrase "the number is near infinite" is nonsensical, but this is a report about a scientific event, it is not a scientific paper in and of itself. Clearly, the writer's intent was to convey an of the magnitude of the number. . . .
You did get that, didn't you?
If your code has ever behaved unexpectedly, then you obviously did not know what that code was going to do before you wrote it. Me, I always know what I intend my code to do before I write it, but I often need to change the way I implement my intentions before I'm done. Perhaps that's because I am a mere sysadmin rather than a programmer.
Wait a minute indeed! This service is going to pay for their bandwidth? What about the user's bandwidth? Shouldn't Warner compensate the rightful owner of the "license to view" for the bandwidth used to download content to which (s)he already has access? This is double dipping at its finest!
To be fair, life expectancy has been going up for the last 200(,000) odd years because in that time we have discovered and learned how to do something about some of the things that used to kill us early - you know, starting with predators, and moving on through weather and famine right up to bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, and influenza.
These days we have a tendency to live long enough for other things to kill us early. (Often it's ourselves - we haven't been able to do anything about that one yet!)
Life is an arms race, in which life only ever wins by beating its opponent, life.
Not on a planet of only women, but the topic of having a high percentage of women on the same cycle (i.e. ALL of them) was addressed in this series by Robert J. Sawyer.
Yea, this lawsuit is a complete waste of time, which is not surprising considering all the plaintiffs obviously waste quite a bit of time on a regular basis. It was quite obvious that Superpoke was a service, not a product; there's not even the slightest bit of ambiguity about that in this case. When you subscribe to a service, there is never any guarantee that it will continue indefinitely.
Yes, it's obvious that Superpoke was a service rather than a product, but the lawsuit is not necessarily a waste of time*. The ambiguity is in whether or not the virtual currency purchased was a product or a service. The virtual currency was clearly transferable, so it could probably be argued that it was a product rather than a service like Superpoke itself.
*These are people who spent $5M on virtual clothes for their virtual pets in a game! I think it's reasonable to accept that their values are somewhat different than are yours or mine. How can you possibly have any basis on on which to judge the value they place on their time?
I agree that companies should look out for their employees but for issues as evenly split between left and right as this one, I wonder if they will deter as many potential employees as entice new ones.
Wait just a minute there, mister! Exactly how should this deter any potential employees? The presence of legislation that allows two men or two women to marry each other has no impact on me or my heterosexual marriage. It should similarly have no impact on any heterosexual. All it does it take one step closer to ceasing the government sanctioned treatment of homosexuals as second class citizens with fewer rights than heterosexuals. How could that be a bad thing?
I think a more effective approach would be to improve remote locations so employees don't have to come to Washington to work for MS.
Perhaps, but the two are not mutually exclusive, are they?
since that movie Back to the Future, I've seen this pattern. Is everyone named Biff an idiot?
Then you fail at pattern recognition - or perhaps you have not seen all three. Yes, Biff Tannen is an idiot, and in every version of history/reality shown, he is an idiot. His descendant Griff Tannen is an idiot, and his ancestor Buford Tannen is an idiot. But there is only ever one Biff Tannen.
Really 1.5 well trained people can kill 100 people with gunfire? Apparently you've never played Warhammer 40k with space marines versus Tyranids. The sheer numbers allow the gun owners town. Now I realize that it wouldn't be the same, but it is similar. It's much like how the Revolutionaries were able to beat the English. Home field advantage and all that. Plus I doubt many military men are really going to fire on their own people.
No, I have never played Warhammer 40k with magical dinosaurs versus spacemen - or at all. But more importantly, you're not seriously trying to compare a fantasy video game to actual warfare, are you? It's not similar at all. In real war, there are no rules that cannot be broken, people do not lose their credits, they do not take an extra 30 hit points nor do they surrender their "cloaks of becoming", their Mithril armor or their Great Swords; they are not healed by mystical potions collected on their quest, or any other sort of magical bullshit. In real war, people get horribly maimed and they fucking DIE!
But I'll grant that you are almost right about one thing. People (military or otherwise) will not fire on their own people - they will however, quite readily redefine what constitutes "their own people". Take for example:
Romans vs Christians
Catholics vs Protestants
Colonists vs Monarchists
Confederates vs Unionists
Hatfields vs McCoys
Bloods vs Crips
just about any other conflict you care to name
That's why I said "almost right" just up there. Military men absolutely will fire on their own people under the right circumstances, and those really aren't too hard to come by. Simple weight of numbers would not be sufficient against the superior firepower of a professional military. It'd be like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
On the other hand, military men will target "terrorist" installations and encampments if ordered to do so, even if those terrorists are home-grown. And isn't one man's freedom fighter another man's terrorist?
Maybe in your country. In the US. according to 2005 figures, there were approximately 100,000,000 gun owners. While the current number of US. troop is 1. 5 million. So in essence, a revolt in America by gun owners is almost an assured win, if you can get them all on the same page.
Ya think so? Those 1.5 million have bigger budgets, superior weaponry, more basic guns, better armor and expert training. Regardless of any constitutional bleating about "a well-armed militia", the people of the US have no chance against their own military. No militia can be sufficiently well-armed to meet that force. I suspect that the primary purpose of the US flexing its military might every few years is not to convince the rest of the world that it is invincible, nor even to make profit for the Military-Industrial complex (although those are two highly favorable side-effects). No, it is to maintain the "balance" of power by dissuading its own populace from revolution. After all, the US was itself born of revolution, so any leader worth his salt knows that, all things being equal, the same is once again possible. That is why all things are very much not equal.
Oh dear. Buggy does not mean doesn't work. It means doesn't work well. Millions of people will buy a device like that and then discover that they have to reboot it every so often.
Irrelevant! They were all pretty much massive juggernauts with well-established reputations when they went on their respective forays into Open Source, not fledgling startups. Regardless of the success or otherwise of their OSS experience, their stories are not even remotely comparable to a startup selling Motion-Capture sensors.
Thank you very much for that explanation, Mr. Coward. Without it, I'm sure all of/. would have been dangerously at risk of not getting that very subtle pun. We are all safe from misunderstood humour, thanks to your efforts. Good job, sir.
You and I will walk down the street. You have your netbook, I'll have an iPad. Then we'll time who can check their stocks and email, or pull up the local map for directions the quickest. Perhaps we'll watch some videos.
And I'm driving my 3/4 ton pickup. You're both toast.
Not both. Only the numbnut who isn't paying attention to the world around him, and thinks he doesn't need to watch where he's going because he has an important stock to check, email to reply to, tweet to read, or Farmville update to post.
Which in turn is no different from how IT hates dealing with HR, how HR hates dealing with Payroll, how Payroll hates dealing with Accounting, how Accounting hates dealing with Marketing, how Marketing hates dealing with Legal, and how they all hate dealing with Management, who hates dealing with all of these Grunts doing the actual work.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
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Wait, what? A successful strike from the snake would result in a bit more than mere blood loss. These are venomous snakes, remember. A bite which would make a big animal like a human sick for a few days will kill a little squirrel in pretty short order.
Those little blue pills work wonders, don't they?
...or so I've heard.
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Yeah, I've definitely heard that!
"From dinosaurs to bacteria, the number is near infinite..."
Pet peeve. No number that can be thought of is anywhere 'near' infinite.
Yes, in the domain of mathematics, the phrase "the number is near infinite" is nonsensical, but this is a report about a scientific event, it is not a scientific paper in and of itself. Clearly, the writer's intent was to convey an of the magnitude of the number.
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You did get that, didn't you?
Socks? Ooh, Kinky!
If your code has ever behaved unexpectedly, then you obviously did not know what that code was going to do before you wrote it. Me, I always know what I intend my code to do before I write it, but I often need to change the way I implement my intentions before I'm done. Perhaps that's because I am a mere sysadmin rather than a programmer.
Wait a minute indeed! This service is going to pay for their bandwidth? What about the user's bandwidth? Shouldn't Warner compensate the rightful owner of the "license to view" for the bandwidth used to download content to which (s)he already has access? This is double dipping at its finest!
To be fair, life expectancy has been going up for the last 200(,000) odd years because in that time we have discovered and learned how to do something about some of the things that used to kill us early - you know, starting with predators, and moving on through weather and famine right up to bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, and influenza.
These days we have a tendency to live long enough for other things to kill us early. (Often it's ourselves - we haven't been able to do anything about that one yet!)
Life is an arms race, in which life only ever wins by beating its opponent, life.
Not on a planet of only women, but the topic of having a high percentage of women on the same cycle (i.e. ALL of them) was addressed in this series by Robert J. Sawyer.
Yea, this lawsuit is a complete waste of time, which is not surprising considering all the plaintiffs obviously waste quite a bit of time on a regular basis. It was quite obvious that Superpoke was a service, not a product; there's not even the slightest bit of ambiguity about that in this case. When you subscribe to a service, there is never any guarantee that it will continue indefinitely.
Yes, it's obvious that Superpoke was a service rather than a product, but the lawsuit is not necessarily a waste of time*. The ambiguity is in whether or not the virtual currency purchased was a product or a service. The virtual currency was clearly transferable, so it could probably be argued that it was a product rather than a service like Superpoke itself.
*These are people who spent $5M on virtual clothes for their virtual pets in a game! I think it's reasonable to accept that their values are somewhat different than are yours or mine. How can you possibly have any basis on on which to judge the value they place on their time?
You can't make it into fertilizer, but it's acceptable to sluice it away down the creek for other animals to drink? Poor justification.
I agree that companies should look out for their employees but for issues as evenly split between left and right as this one, I wonder if they will deter as many potential employees as entice new ones.
Wait just a minute there, mister! Exactly how should this deter any potential employees? The presence of legislation that allows two men or two women to marry each other has no impact on me or my heterosexual marriage. It should similarly have no impact on any heterosexual. All it does it take one step closer to ceasing the government sanctioned treatment of homosexuals as second class citizens with fewer rights than heterosexuals. How could that be a bad thing?
I think a more effective approach would be to improve remote locations so employees don't have to come to Washington to work for MS.
Perhaps, but the two are not mutually exclusive, are they?
We seem to have discovered another AC who needs to hand in his geek card.
since that movie Back to the Future, I've seen this pattern. Is everyone named Biff an idiot?
Then you fail at pattern recognition - or perhaps you have not seen all three. Yes, Biff Tannen is an idiot, and in every version of history/reality shown, he is an idiot. His descendant Griff Tannen is an idiot, and his ancestor Buford Tannen is an idiot. But there is only ever one Biff Tannen.
Hey, is your surname Tannen, by any chance?
is obligatory.
Really 1.5 well trained people can kill 100 people with gunfire? Apparently you've never played Warhammer 40k with space marines versus Tyranids. The sheer numbers allow the gun owners town. Now I realize that it wouldn't be the same, but it is similar. It's much like how the Revolutionaries were able to beat the English. Home field advantage and all that. Plus I doubt many military men are really going to fire on their own people.
No, I have never played Warhammer 40k with magical dinosaurs versus spacemen - or at all. But more importantly, you're not seriously trying to compare a fantasy video game to actual warfare, are you? It's not similar at all. In real war, there are no rules that cannot be broken, people do not lose their credits, they do not take an extra 30 hit points nor do they surrender their "cloaks of becoming", their Mithril armor or their Great Swords; they are not healed by mystical potions collected on their quest, or any other sort of magical bullshit. In real war, people get horribly maimed and they fucking DIE!
But I'll grant that you are almost right about one thing. People (military or otherwise) will not fire on their own people - they will however, quite readily redefine what constitutes "their own people". Take for example:
That's why I said "almost right" just up there. Military men absolutely will fire on their own people under the right circumstances, and those really aren't too hard to come by. Simple weight of numbers would not be sufficient against the superior firepower of a professional military. It'd be like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
On the other hand, military men will target "terrorist" installations and encampments if ordered to do so, even if those terrorists are home-grown. And isn't one man's freedom fighter another man's terrorist?
Maybe in your country. In the US. according to 2005 figures, there were approximately 100,000,000 gun owners. While the current number of US. troop is 1. 5 million. So in essence, a revolt in America by gun owners is almost an assured win, if you can get them all on the same page.
Ya think so? Those 1.5 million have bigger budgets, superior weaponry, more basic guns, better armor and expert training. Regardless of any constitutional bleating about "a well-armed militia", the people of the US have no chance against their own military. No militia can be sufficiently well-armed to meet that force. I suspect that the primary purpose of the US flexing its military might every few years is not to convince the rest of the world that it is invincible, nor even to make profit for the Military-Industrial complex (although those are two highly favorable side-effects). No, it is to maintain the "balance" of power by dissuading its own populace from revolution. After all, the US was itself born of revolution, so any leader worth his salt knows that, all things being equal, the same is once again possible. That is why all things are very much not equal.
Oh dear. Buggy does not mean doesn't work. It means doesn't work well. Millions of people will buy a device like that and then discover that they have to reboot it every so often.
Yes you get paid, but you're throwing a ball around a field, get over yourselves
It's possible to trivialize any career if you try. I bet you get paid for simply pushing bits around, so get over yourself.
True, but you don't have to try terrribly hard to trivialize a career in which one gets paid to play a game.
Irrelevant! They were all pretty much massive juggernauts with well-established reputations when they went on their respective forays into Open Source, not fledgling startups. Regardless of the success or otherwise of their OSS experience, their stories are not even remotely comparable to a startup selling Motion-Capture sensors.
Thank you very much for that explanation, Mr. Coward. Without it, I'm sure all of /. would have been dangerously at risk of not getting that very subtle pun. We are all safe from misunderstood humour, thanks to your efforts. Good job, sir.
Idiot!
capitalization is a tool of the weak minded
Check the spelling of your username, feeb.
You and I will walk down the street. You have your netbook, I'll have an iPad. Then we'll time who can check their stocks and email, or pull up the local map for directions the quickest. Perhaps we'll watch some videos.
And I'm driving my 3/4 ton pickup. You're both toast.
Not both. Only the numbnut who isn't paying attention to the world around him, and thinks he doesn't need to watch where he's going because he has an important stock to check, email to reply to, tweet to read, or Farmville update to post.
Intel! Make me a sammich!
Ah-ah-aah! You didn't say sudo.
The court also ruled that consumers are allowed to take a single bite into an apple so long as they bite from the bottom.
I thought they'd first have to kiss that bottom.
Which in turn is no different from how IT hates dealing with HR, how HR hates dealing with Payroll, how Payroll hates dealing with Accounting, how Accounting hates dealing with Marketing, how Marketing hates dealing with Legal, and how they all hate dealing with Management, who hates dealing with all of these Grunts doing the actual work.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!