In the case of a larger item that I once won, I negotiated with the 2nd place winner to pay the difference between his bid and mine, and have the shipper send it to him instead.
e.g. if the bids are:
Me: 1000 X: 980 Y: 950
Then the auction will end for me at 985 (or whatever the automatic increase is). So I got in touch with X, and offered it to him at 955+shipping (enough to outbid Y, which is what he'd have gotten it for if I hadn't bid). He agreed,
Wow, that would sound like a total scam to me. If I had gotten that email, I would have reported you both to the ebay fraud department.
Ah, legalese often confuses non-lawyers, and for good reason...
Yes, the lawyers makes the laws this way so that no one other than them can practice it without indoctrination. It keeps the barrier to entry high, and allows them to control the inflow of people who can practice it. This lets them keep their wages high.
"Space.com's Mystery Monday has an article proposing a hypothesis that our solar system's undulations directly affects biodiversity on earth through cosmic-ray exposure. There's data that, through the fossil record, shows us earth's biodiversity peaking again and again until a great cataclysmic period where it is greatly reduced. The theory essentially suggests that this 62 million year cycle can be attributed to how our solar system moves within the milky way galaxy which turns out to be a 64 million year cycle. It's a plausible explanation though very tough to prove, hopefully we don't have to wait around 64 million years to draw a conclusion on this hypothesis."
They accused US investigators of trying to coerce McKinnon into accepting a secret plea bargain by threatening him with a long prison sentence if he did not collaborate.
Hmmm... that's a strange thing to criticize... this is a pretty standard practice in US criminal law - cooperate, forfeit your right to a trial, and you get off easy.
Yep, ask Kevin Mitnick. Four and a half year in prison with no trial and no bail hearing. He only got out because he plead guilty. Welcome to the land of the free.
The little guy who grows the same crops as his grandfather had no problem to begin with.
You're obviously not up-to-speed with Monsanto. What happens is that a neighboring field cross-pollinates, or some seeds blow off of a passing truck, and all of a sudden, your "grandfather's strain" has been contaminated with the patented Monsanto genes. Somehow, they test your field and they sue you. You can't argue with the DNA, so you are SOL and they shut you down, even though you never wanted their genes to start with.
The users are at fault. For every $1 they inserted, they received $10 in credit. Unless they were blind, there is no way they could not know about this error.
First Time Deposit Bonus. Frequent Player Points. Real Dollars vs Play Dollars. Casino's 10th Aniversary Celebration. "This week only, there is a chance that you could win additional play credits when you use our new electronic play system." Whatever other harebrained promo they may have thought up.
Because some governments (and other institutions) are tired of the lock-in are passing rules that say that they will only buy products that have open formats.
This is Microsoft's way of having their product officially stamped as being "open."
Of course it isn't. Code tells you the "how," any novice can see how code is doing it's thing (that's what code is), and to a novice, coding is saying "how" to do something. Read their comments. That's what they think the task is: saying "how" to do something. They write code like:
Queue queue = new Queue();// put the element in the queue queue.put(element);
If you know the libraries and the spec backwards and forwards, and things are named and modularized appropriately (the difference between novices and someone good), you can work backwards to see the "what" -- what is this code trying to accomplish. Then you graduate to things like:
Queue remoteMsgQue= new Queue();// hold this message for later remoteMsgQue.put(recvdMsg);
Code can never tell you the "why," and it takes expert insight to figure that out, or to leave enough hints in the code. Someone who's been working for a long time would write:// use this queue to allow processing and receipt of remote messages asynchronously following the producer/consumer pattern Queue incomingMsgs= new Queue(); incomingMsgs.put(recvdMsg);
The biggest reason that corporate IT departments aren't particularly respected by the rest of the company is this blame the user culture that seems to pervade it.
Yes, but the biggest reason that corporate IT departments don't respect users is because users ask them to do things that are impossible.
User: "I want a way to buck up my data onto an unsecured machine securely."
IT: "There's no product on the market to do that, or if there is, you wont pay for it."
One of the best is strawman: building low-fidelity, low-cost prototypes for projects even if you know the approach isn't right.
Yes, it's an awesome idea until some PHB doesn't realize that software development is like and iceburg and forces dev to use the prototype as the production version.
and a parabolic, and various amplifiers... and this:
MAC of WiFi designed for up to 100 m, extending the range two orders of magnitude requires modifications
They never said how they accomplished that, but it was presumably done by hacking the firmware to change the collision detection and the back-off settings.
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Yep, and 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Wow, that would sound like a total scam to me. If I had gotten that email, I would have reported you both to the ebay fraud department.
Yes, the lawyers makes the laws this way so that no one other than them can practice it without indoctrination. It keeps the barrier to entry high, and allows them to control the inflow of people who can practice it. This lets them keep their wages high.
They lied.
P.S. lying is not evil.
Yep, ask Kevin Mitnick. Four and a half year in prison with no trial and no bail hearing. He only got out because he plead guilty. Welcome to the land of the free.
Dear Slashdot,
please do our homework for us.
Sincerely,
The National Security Space Office (NSSO), an office of the DoD
P.S. we won't use your ideas to kill or oppress people*
*actually, we will.
You're obviously not up-to-speed with Monsanto. What happens is that a neighboring field cross-pollinates, or some seeds blow off of a passing truck, and all of a sudden, your "grandfather's strain" has been contaminated with the patented Monsanto genes. Somehow, they test your field and they sue you. You can't argue with the DNA, so you are SOL and they shut you down, even though you never wanted their genes to start with.
No. No, my friend; you do not grasp the scale of this project.
Or the venerable Virus Creation Laboratory, ala '92.
First Time Deposit Bonus.
Frequent Player Points.
Real Dollars vs Play Dollars.
Casino's 10th Aniversary Celebration.
"This week only, there is a chance that you could win additional play credits when you use our new electronic play system."
Whatever other harebrained promo they may have thought up.
Because some governments (and other institutions) are tired of the lock-in are passing rules that say that they will only buy products that have open formats.
This is Microsoft's way of having their product officially stamped as being "open."
Of course it isn't. Code tells you the "how," any novice can see how code is doing it's thing (that's what code is), and to a novice, coding is saying "how" to do something. Read their comments. That's what they think the task is: saying "how" to do something. They write code like:
// put the element in the queue
// hold this message for later
// use this queue to allow processing and receipt of remote messages asynchronously following the producer/consumer pattern
Queue queue = new Queue();
queue.put(element);
If you know the libraries and the spec backwards and forwards, and things are named and modularized appropriately (the difference between novices and someone good), you can work backwards to see the "what" -- what is this code trying to accomplish. Then you graduate to things like:
Queue remoteMsgQue= new Queue();
remoteMsgQue.put(recvdMsg);
Code can never tell you the "why," and it takes expert insight to figure that out, or to leave enough hints in the code. Someone who's been working for a long time would write:
Queue incomingMsgs= new Queue();
incomingMsgs.put(recvdMsg);
Yes, but the biggest reason that corporate IT departments don't respect users is because users ask them to do things that are impossible.
User: "I want a way to buck up my data onto an unsecured machine securely."
IT: "There's no product on the market to do that, or if there is, you wont pay for it."
User: "It's all your fault!"
From TFA:
... does it run linux?
Yes, it's an awesome idea until some PHB doesn't realize that software development is like and iceburg and forces dev to use the prototype as the production version.
"But, it looks 90% done!"
GODWIN!!!!
Man. I was reading comments wondering when it was going to happen. Thanks for not breaking the law.
I think that somebody sent the wrong link and (surprise!) the editors didn't even follow it to check.
Here's a more useful one: All SPEC jAppServer2004 Results Published by SPEC
The benchmarks aren't standardized enough for any useful comparison. The hardware and configurations vary in almost every one.
I saw it, but I didn't get the ending.
Who's the father of Kisha's baby? Tyrone.
Tune in next week!
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Step 1) grow cities outward with urban sprawl until all arable farm land is consumed.
Step 2) build multi-level farms in the cities.
Step 3) profit
How about skipping the middle-man and making housing denser, not farming?
and a parabolic, and various amplifiers... and this:
They never said how they accomplished that, but it was presumably done by hacking the firmware to change the collision detection and the back-off settings.
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