No, because USians get upset about it. This is because they pledge allegiance to the flag. Denizens of other countries realise that a flag is a piece of material and pledge allegiance to crown / Dear Leader / whatever. No-one in Blighty, Oz, NZ, Canada, Russia, Egypt, Libya, even China and North Korea gives a rat's ass about their flag being burned because it's just a flag.
What is more interesting is that if you do go to the Bank of England (in Threadneedle Street) and present a crisp fiver demanding the sum as promised you get £5 worth of 24 carat gold.
FTFA: "In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that most people cannot distinguish them."
In ancient times the atmosphere was cleaner than now, and had a lot less light pollution from towns. Yet it apparently took "exceptional vision" to see Alcor and Mizar as separate stars. I must have phenomenal eyesight then to be able see them any night it isn't cloudy.
Even if that was agreed the rights are still non-assignable, so the author can cheerfully take the money and then sue anyway. It can't be considered breaking a contract as the contract was unenforceable in the first place.
Ease of access. Back in the heady days of sunrise periods for new releases it was a lot more difficult to copy tapes. In any case the releases were marked "for Rental Only" and had trailers on them for other forthcoming releases, either in cinemas or to a rental store near you. When the period was over the retail version was released, normally without trailers.
A reason posited for the increased price of a rental as distinct from retail was higher quality tape used in the processing as it was envisaged that it would get a lot more use in a variety of different players in a short space of time, as compared to the few times a retail version is actually played. This makes a certain kind of sense, but then again how many times does a six year old want to watch their favourite tape to the nearest thousand? (This, BTW, is why people HATE Disney and their short-release-window-at-extortionate-prices-then-delete strategy. At least with DVD it doesn't wear out as quick and is easier to make a backup of.)
Back to today: you rent a new release DVD for one night, aXXo rip it (and potentially torrent it), making yourself a clone while you're at it. Perhaps you'd have never bought it anyway but now you've made sure as you have a clone complete with scanned sleeve notes. Or you wait a week for someone else to do the same and seed the love. If you had to buy it before rental you'd either have had to have seen it at the cinema to know if you want to fork out for it or downloaded a cam.
Bang on. Blaming a coder who probably was the only one in the C(++) based company who knew a bit of VB (and probably never said he was a guru) for an environment issue makes not only you but the senior engineer a retard. Not only did the code go through invalid testing (by the senior engineer) for days, you have a completely bullshit project as you obviously lied to the client that this VB project could be done by a C++ software house.
Then you make the entirety of the codebase reliant on one person and blame him for it not working in an environment he was not apprised of (in other words, he either wrote it to work in your environment, or a generic one). Then you arbitrarily decide that this person should be at the beck and call of the office outside office hours just because it was a VERY LARGE customer and fire him for not being contactable.
You wankers. I hope he sued your ass off... oh, wait, this is the States where employers can act like slavery was never abolished.
"If the client had been there (not that I would have ever done this in front of the client, but how could management know this?), my firm would have lost millions of dollars."
And it would have served them damn well right. First they lie about why the inferior tool is being used, maintain the lie when you query the decision, then they ambush you with the inferior tool somehow being your fault at a demo when they already knew your thoughts about it (unless your immediate manager didn't convey them). The icing on the cake is when they have the nerve to not trust you after you decide "enough of this bullshit" and tell them categorically and artistically where they are wrong. Fuck 'em. I wouldn't have hung around with that bunch of tossers long enough to call the non-firing a miracle.
Other countries have money that looks so much like monopoly money that I honestly don't get how their people tell the real stuff from the counterfeitNo, that would be the States, where the notes are all the same size (as in Monopoly). Enlightened countries have different sized notes, different coloured notes, raised areas IN THE SHAPE OF THE NUMBER so anybody can tell what note they are holding without being able to see it. Bunch of backward colonials is all you are.
"this error was not pointed out during the development of IE 7"
Yes it was. 6 months ago, when the flaw was first publicised in IE6. Seeing as how the dev team on IE7 and the patch team on IE6 are different people, that makes two groups who didn't bother to do anything about it.
http://windizupdate.com/ should sort you out. Use the fox, install the plugin and accept the data request.
Alternatively, download Autopatcher and apply at your leisure.
So, I need to install ActivePerl, learn Perl and then use server side processing to present a stylesheet that is only used on the client? Your alternative is just as bad, meaning you have to maintain a database (with associated CRUD functionality so it is just as "flexible" as a plaintext file) and *still* use serverside processing for browser detection. Given that it is more difficult just using the headers sent by a browser to detect what it actually is (spoof IE in Safari and you make your lovely application/xhtml+xml site you spent ages on utterly worthless for Mac users).
Before this bollocks we could use the rubbishness of the browser against itself, which iwas the whole point of the hacks. It's far far easier and you don't need to be dicking about with multiple versions of anything. I've had stylesheets that worked with 6 different browsers, ordered by shoddyness DESC; to utilise cascading. Now we get told to use proprietary crap to snarf up the HTML.
I'm take door number 3, Hal.
To all the lamers above with the same unfunny and blatently obvious "joke":
Writing "to boldly use" is not splitting an infinitive as you can't do such a thing. The infinitive of "to verb" is "verb" (which, coincidentally in English, is also the imperative). Good luck splitting a single word. What is happening is an insertion into the conjunctive form which is grammatically valid. It is just the uninformed with their own inflated egos that seek to denigrate a valid word order with some bollocks about it "not being used in a business context". Tossers.
I'll see your Doctor Who and raise you a Blake's 7. All decent SF on TV has had to cope with a budget tighter than a gnat's chuff. Coincidentally, that means it was made by the BBC.
No-one said anything about restrictions to the periodic table isotopes, so T is fine in my book. It also hangs around a lot longer than Roentgenium before decaying (12.32 years compared to 9.26ms for Rg274).
[From article] Since when was "Schoolastic" a word? Scholastic more like (no Holmium required).
When not burbling about how affects house prices, the Daily Mail has been using the "make an answer out of chemical symbols" quiz question for years in the Saturday supplement...
But fdisk is still too far into M$ sofware land (you've got to boot into DOS). Simply press F2 / Del / whatever to get to the BIOS on bootup and issue a low-level format. I'd like to see an unerase program get data back from that.
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I stopped changing my watch from UTC to whatever timezone I was in over 20 years ago...
You do realise sucrose is a pentose, whereas glucose is a hexose right?
It's in my garage and it's staying there. I've told you kids before, if you keep throwing your toys over my fence you're not getting them back.
In case you didn't realise DCMA takedown notices are irrelevant outside USA and it doesn't matter if thousands were received or not
We have "public comment" in the UK as well. It's called public consultation and is equally ignored.
Except it is spelled with a P. Typos or not, those keys aren't that close together.
No, because USians get upset about it. This is because they pledge allegiance to the flag. Denizens of other countries realise that a flag is a piece of material and pledge allegiance to crown / Dear Leader / whatever. No-one in Blighty, Oz, NZ, Canada, Russia, Egypt, Libya, even China and North Korea gives a rat's ass about their flag being burned because it's just a flag .
What is more interesting is that if you do go to the Bank of England (in Threadneedle Street) and present a crisp fiver demanding the sum as promised you get £5 worth of 24 carat gold.
FTFA: "In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that most people cannot distinguish them."
In ancient times the atmosphere was cleaner than now, and had a lot less light pollution from towns. Yet it apparently took "exceptional vision" to see Alcor and Mizar as separate stars. I must have phenomenal eyesight then to be able see them any night it isn't cloudy.
Even if that was agreed the rights are still non-assignable, so the author can cheerfully take the money and then sue anyway. It can't be considered breaking a contract as the contract was unenforceable in the first place.
Ease of access. Back in the heady days of sunrise periods for new releases it was a lot more difficult to copy tapes. In any case the releases were marked "for Rental Only" and had trailers on them for other forthcoming releases, either in cinemas or to a rental store near you. When the period was over the retail version was released, normally without trailers. A reason posited for the increased price of a rental as distinct from retail was higher quality tape used in the processing as it was envisaged that it would get a lot more use in a variety of different players in a short space of time, as compared to the few times a retail version is actually played. This makes a certain kind of sense, but then again how many times does a six year old want to watch their favourite tape to the nearest thousand? (This, BTW, is why people HATE Disney and their short-release-window-at-extortionate-prices-then-delete strategy. At least with DVD it doesn't wear out as quick and is easier to make a backup of.) Back to today: you rent a new release DVD for one night, aXXo rip it (and potentially torrent it), making yourself a clone while you're at it. Perhaps you'd have never bought it anyway but now you've made sure as you have a clone complete with scanned sleeve notes. Or you wait a week for someone else to do the same and seed the love. If you had to buy it before rental you'd either have had to have seen it at the cinema to know if you want to fork out for it or downloaded a cam.
And why is it "London, England" (like you meant anywhere else EVER) if you can specify a bit of London and get away with the political entity?
Then you make the entirety of the codebase reliant on one person and blame him for it not working in an environment he was not apprised of (in other words, he either wrote it to work in your environment, or a generic one). Then you arbitrarily decide that this person should be at the beck and call of the office outside office hours just because it was a VERY LARGE customer and fire him for not being contactable.
You wankers. I hope he sued your ass off ... oh, wait, this is the States where employers can act like slavery was never abolished.
After being tossed out the door, the project lead told me, "My dad died, and it didn't hurt my productivity."
And I hope you came back with something similar to "Unlike you, you cunt, I loved my dad." After all, what are they going to do? Fire you?
"If the client had been there (not that I would have ever done this in front of the client, but how could management know this?), my firm would have lost millions of dollars."
And it would have served them damn well right. First they lie about why the inferior tool is being used, maintain the lie when you query the decision, then they ambush you with the inferior tool somehow being your fault at a demo when they already knew your thoughts about it (unless your immediate manager didn't convey them). The icing on the cake is when they have the nerve to not trust you after you decide "enough of this bullshit" and tell them categorically and artistically where they are wrong. Fuck 'em. I wouldn't have hung around with that bunch of tossers long enough to call the non-firing a miracle.
Other countries have money that looks so much like monopoly money that I honestly don't get how their people tell the real stuff from the counterfeitNo, that would be the States, where the notes are all the same size (as in Monopoly). Enlightened countries have different sized notes, different coloured notes, raised areas IN THE SHAPE OF THE NUMBER so anybody can tell what note they are holding without being able to see it. Bunch of backward colonials is all you are.
"this error was not pointed out during the development of IE 7" Yes it was. 6 months ago, when the flaw was first publicised in IE6. Seeing as how the dev team on IE7 and the patch team on IE6 are different people, that makes two groups who didn't bother to do anything about it.
http://windizupdate.com/ should sort you out. Use the fox, install the plugin and accept the data request. Alternatively, download Autopatcher and apply at your leisure.
So, I need to install ActivePerl, learn Perl and then use server side processing to present a stylesheet that is only used on the client? Your alternative is just as bad, meaning you have to maintain a database (with associated CRUD functionality so it is just as "flexible" as a plaintext file) and *still* use serverside processing for browser detection. Given that it is more difficult just using the headers sent by a browser to detect what it actually is (spoof IE in Safari and you make your lovely application/xhtml+xml site you spent ages on utterly worthless for Mac users). Before this bollocks we could use the rubbishness of the browser against itself, which iwas the whole point of the hacks. It's far far easier and you don't need to be dicking about with multiple versions of anything. I've had stylesheets that worked with 6 different browsers, ordered by shoddyness DESC; to utilise cascading. Now we get told to use proprietary crap to snarf up the HTML. I'm take door number 3, Hal.
Wasn't him. T'was Thom Yorke arseing about with similar kit.
To all the lamers above with the same unfunny and blatently obvious "joke": Writing "to boldly use" is not splitting an infinitive as you can't do such a thing. The infinitive of "to verb" is "verb" (which, coincidentally in English, is also the imperative). Good luck splitting a single word. What is happening is an insertion into the conjunctive form which is grammatically valid. It is just the uninformed with their own inflated egos that seek to denigrate a valid word order with some bollocks about it "not being used in a business context". Tossers.
I'll see your Doctor Who and raise you a Blake's 7. All decent SF on TV has had to cope with a budget tighter than a gnat's chuff. Coincidentally, that means it was made by the BBC.
No-one said anything about restrictions to the periodic table isotopes, so T is fine in my book. It also hangs around a lot longer than Roentgenium before decaying (12.32 years compared to 9.26ms for Rg274). [From article] Since when was "Schoolastic" a word? Scholastic more like (no Holmium required). When not burbling about how affects house prices, the Daily Mail has been using the "make an answer out of chemical symbols" quiz question for years in the Saturday supplement...
I note that clicking the gopher link listed at http://www.solutions.fi/index.cgi/news_2002_06_04 redirects me to http://www.infospace.com/info.gopher/ in IE but Mozilla 0.9.9 ignores the click on the link completely. Going to http://www.solutions.fi/iebug2/run.cgi gives me a broken QuickTime graphic in IE, but the text document in Mozilla. What's going on? Is this a bug or isn't it?
But fdisk is still too far into M$ sofware land (you've got to boot into DOS). Simply press F2 / Del / whatever to get to the BIOS on bootup and issue a low-level format. I'd like to see an unerase program get data back from that.