I think they tried. Trouble is, email is so widely used that they haven't had much success renaming it. they did succesfully rename FAQ to FAQ though.... Same acronym, but it stands for "Foire Aux Questions" (List of questions) in French.
We use "Check" for the checklist meaning of the word in Britain. Cheque is only used for a signed piece of paper to transfer money.
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Of course I doubt the literacy of the rest of the 506 million is as high as 97%
97% is pretty much par for the course for a modern western society. I think the world's highest is 98% (In South Korea - Partly explained by the fact that they have probably the best designed alphabet in the world)
Of course its a terrible idea. I wasn't being serious.
It's just that it comes from the same school of thought that says theat elections should be run as cheaply as possible. If we're going to use capitalism to justify using voting machines, then we use the same reason to justify vote buying.
Not fantastic logic on my part, I readily admit, but really I wanted to make the point that capitalism and government are not always a good mix.
It's certainly a useful (if inefficient) feature of many very high level languages. If you try to write to an element out of range of an array, the array simply gets extended, and the value put in the right place.
I haven't really used it much, and was just trying to help a friend solve some problems she was having. I'll persuade her to bitch directly about her problems on your forum.
Professional photographers often use extremely long reels of film. I guess some of them want to take two photos a second in bursts of about 20-40, and changing cards every few sets would be more hassle than the photographer really wants.
If its trying to be a high level scripting language, why does it distinguish between strings and vars, and why does it require that array lengths are fixed?
C-script seems to have all the disadvantages of a high level scripting language with all the disadvantages of C.
They tried that. It took 5 days of argueing over the rules for the court to decide whether the victor was theperson who was still standing, or the person lieing on the ground in a pool of blood.
Sadly, we don't have the guarenteed right to do this. The government could choose to legislate to allow these, but that would mean allocating a chunk of frequency to these devices that would be better used for public radio broadcasting (at least presumably in the eyes of the government). Unfortunate, but thts the way it is.
although what MS wants to think and what the law is isn't always the same thing.
It probably is in this case. It previously belonged to Microsoft. Microsoft was entitled to give it away to whoever they wanted. Essentially, it belongs to whoever MS thinks they gave them to.
They can probably get the subpoenas thrown out on a technicality quite easily. The rest of the arguments are a little trickier. Declaring laws unconstitutional can always be a problem.
I have no problem with modchips. They do have potential legal uses. Playing imported games is one of the more common ones. It's just that the grandparent suggested that anything - whether it has legal uses or not - should be legal to sell.
Why should we allow tools that have no possible legal use? Surely this can only be considered Aidin and abetting. Just because you don't know what the crime is doesn't mean that you don't know that someone is planning to commit a crime.
If they bothered to turn up in court, I guess their argument would be something like that. The cost of n licences for them was $x. They make y% profit on the sale of the whole bundle, Hence, the refund should only be $(x+ y% of x))
The thing is, it would cost them more than $200 to turn up and argue this.
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However, in light of all this, the managers want us to switch to BSD/OS X.
BSD is a perfectly adequate kernel. If it supports your hardware, then it should be quite simple to just switch over.
Ah well. That was obviously a bit of Korean tourist propaganda then.
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I think they tried. Trouble is, email is so widely used that they haven't had much success renaming it. they did succesfully rename FAQ to FAQ though.... Same acronym, but it stands for "Foire Aux Questions" (List of questions) in French.
We use "Check" for the checklist meaning of the word in Britain. Cheque is only used for a signed piece of paper to transfer money.
Of course I doubt the literacy of the rest of the 506 million is as high as 97%
97% is pretty much par for the course for a modern western society. I think the world's highest is 98% (In South Korea - Partly explained by the fact that they have probably the best designed alphabet in the world)
Of course its a terrible idea. I wasn't being serious.
It's just that it comes from the same school of thought that says theat elections should be run as cheaply as possible. If we're going to use capitalism to justify using voting machines, then we use the same reason to justify vote buying.
Not fantastic logic on my part, I readily admit, but really I wanted to make the point that capitalism and government are not always a good mix.
This leads to another question...
Why can't I buy people's votes? If I have a vote that I don't want, and someone wants a vote, they should be allowed to buy mine.
It's called "the silly season". The government's on holiday, so is everyone else. There's a lack of news. Clive Sinclair fills up those column inches
It's certainly a useful (if inefficient) feature of many very high level languages. If you try to write to an element out of range of an array, the array simply gets extended, and the value put in the right place.
I haven't really used it much, and was just trying to help a friend solve some problems she was having. I'll persuade her to bitch directly about her problems on your forum.
Professional photographers often use extremely long reels of film. I guess some of them want to take two photos a second in bursts of about 20-40, and changing cards every few sets would be more hassle than the photographer really wants.
If its trying to be a high level scripting language, why does it distinguish between strings and vars, and why does it require that array lengths are fixed?
C-script seems to have all the disadvantages of a high level scripting language with all the disadvantages of C.
I mean something like this:
char **array;
array = malloc(sizeof(char *) * DIM_Y);
for(int y = 0; y < DIM_Y; y++)
{
array[i] = malloc(sizeof(char) * length[i]);
}
Yeah, but the scripting language's support for arrays really sucks.
They tried that. It took 5 days of argueing over the rules for the court to decide whether the victor was theperson who was still standing, or the person lieing on the ground in a pool of blood.
You can't.
Sadly, we don't have the guarenteed right to do this. The government could choose to legislate to allow these, but that would mean allocating a chunk of frequency to these devices that would be better used for public radio broadcasting (at least presumably in the eyes of the government). Unfortunate, but thts the way it is.
although what MS wants to think and what the law is isn't always the same thing.
It probably is in this case. It previously belonged to Microsoft. Microsoft was entitled to give it away to whoever they wanted. Essentially, it belongs to whoever MS thinks they gave them to.
How can RIAA claim any loss in salse when the people sharing files do not have the dispoable income to purchase Cds in the firs tplace?
Theypeople uploading files don't. The people downloading files do. They're only suing the uploaders.
Because moderators don't know shit
They can probably get the subpoenas thrown out on a technicality quite easily. The rest of the arguments are a little trickier. Declaring laws unconstitutional can always be a problem.
I have no problem with modchips. They do have potential legal uses. Playing imported games is one of the more common ones. It's just that the grandparent suggested that anything - whether it has legal uses or not - should be legal to sell.
Why should we allow tools that have no possible legal use? Surely this can only be considered Aidin and abetting. Just because you don't know what the crime is doesn't mean that you don't know that someone is planning to commit a crime.
Wouldn't it overrule the agreement if the court demanded to know how much the licence cost?
If they bothered to turn up in court, I guess their argument would be something like that. The cost of n licences for them was $x. They make y% profit on the sale of the whole bundle, Hence, the refund should only be $(x+ y% of x))
The thing is, it would cost them more than $200 to turn up and argue this.
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