If it became the rage for adults to buy McDonald's Happy Meals, one does not get to blame McDonald's for misrepresenting an adult meal as a kid's meal. It remains a kid's meal that's being used for something other than its intended purposes. If those adults then begin to complain that the Happy Meal doesn't provide enough food, that's also not McDonald's fault.
Similarly, Facebook friends were created for linking up with FRIENDS, not random strangers you momentarily think you like. If this assumption is violated, other downstream assumptions will also be violated.
If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed,"
So its like books 4 and 5 then. I thought book 4 was the best in the series, though I think I'm in the minority since lots of people didn't like it because it didn't have a laugh a sentence.
And like the novelisation of Douglas Adams' game Starship Titanic, curiously called Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, written by Monty Python's Terry Jones. It tries to mimic DA's writing style and does it badly. It's not just not funny, it's not enjoyable. Oddly, its digital form on the game's website is more entertaining, in that all the words are given in alphabetical order.
Why would you think prison was about rehabilitation? Prison terms are specified by the crime committed, not by the estimation of the time required for sufficient behavior modification.
And parole is determined based on rehabilitation, not crime.
Parole only relates to early release, not release at the end of the sentenced term. They'll release someone at the end of the term regardless whether they've been determined to be rehabilitated.
These books should be public domain by now. God damn extended copyright might kill another production.
(before film is made) "Darned copyrights are keeping us from making a film!" (after the film is made) "People are violating our film's copyright and should be punished!"
It was a hard lesson, but I realized, if I am focused on making money and running a business, I make more money that when I'm focused on killing orcs and playing games. Seriously.
And trying to rush blindly into either of these without a balance of wisdom, intelligence, strength, dexterity, and charisma is a bad idea.
I ended up getting shunted to a nurse practitioner when I tried to see a doctor about numbness in the pinky and part of my ring finger in my left hand. She insisted it was carpel tunnel and had me wear a wrist brace.
I've only had a single biology class in high school and nothing beyond that, but this didn't make sense to me. I dug out an anatomy book and noticed that this area of the hand was served by the ulnar nerve and passed by my elbow. Rather than being careful with my wrist, I needed to be more careful with my elbow, which I had been propping up on my desk and the door of my car.
Granted, she's not a doctor, but I expect even RNPs have to take a physiology and anatomy course at some point in their studies.
I've had a cough for about eight years now. Is there a secret code word I can use to say "No, really, I _have_ looked into this before, several doctors have, and it's probably not horses because they've given me medication for horses and it doesn't work. Maybe it's zebras? I'm not supposed to be the one coming up with ideas, here. No, I don't want zebra medication, I'm just saying I want you to actually look into this, take some blood or ask a couple or non-basic questions. Can I please actually be diagnosed instead of given whatever samples of allergy medication [with the same active ingredient and a newer more-relaxing name!] got dropped off by a salesperson last week and that I really don't need?"
Curiously, this sounds similar to a customer service issue I had, probably coincidentally related to health care billing. To make a long story short, an entire remote office of a large software firm spent about nine months having ***ALL*** of our medical claims through our company-sponsored Blue Cross/Blue Shield medical plan denied. For those nine months, every customer service representative I talked to (as well as Human Resources at our own company!) insisted on looking for horses again, no matter the amount of pleading and demanding for something more. Nothing happened until it affected someone who reported directly to the CFO. He complained to his boss, then suddenly forward motion occurred.
Given this, I theorize that this occurs when nobody with any significant control over the situation really gives a crap. Doctors are human, too.
MS would probably claim that OpenOffice is GPL-licensed and therefore is legal "poison" to their copyright to Office for their developers to look at the source code.
Is there a reason they couldn't have had a discussion with the community when it was clear the standard had holes in it?
The blog post, however, explains the rationale. In particular, adblock was intended to be a mechanism to 'restore balance' in online advertising. Not to necessarily block ALL ads, but to give users the power to block excessively annoying ads, so that webmasters would tone back ads to an acceptable level (for fear of users blocking them entirely).
"Acceptable level" is subjective and often deliberately ignored by those sites that had previously raised their ads above what many considered acceptible, thus the reason why tools like ABP were created.
In other words, what's to keep bad actors from misusing this tag until it's meaningless?
The solution Microsoft is adding to Windows 7 for XP compatibility is, in fact, the same solution Apple used for OS 9 -> X.
As others have noted, most people won't be using this VM-based compatibility approach, they'll just be running their Windows XP and Vista software directly on Windows 7. This contrasts significantly with the Apple Mac OS situation.
As lewiscr says, it's usually the QuickTime based ones that insist on lower resolution and palette-based (8-bit) color depths. Most insist on installing themselves to your hard drive, but still insist on running with the CD anyway. It's the second step that usually breaks, where they're unable to find the CD after the installed. Some that get past that die for some reason shortly before or after displaying a splash screen. Using Windows XP compatibility features to set these to Windows 95 or 98 compatibility sometimes works, but often not.
This includes a number of interactive children's books on CD, nearly all JumpStart titles written for 95 or 98, a collection of middle school and high school study disks, a few Blues Clues titles, and so on.
We can a few to run (like Putt-Putt and Freddy Fish) to run for our younger kids, but most of the titles the older kids used when they were that age are pretty much useless now on any of the Windows XP machines in the house.
The solution Microsoft is adding to Windows 7 is the same solution Apple used for the OS 9 - X transition. Classic was a second operating system that ran essentially as a virtual machine.
They're apples and oranges.
OS 9 and OS X were completely different architectures. OS 9 was an evolution of the classic Mac OS, while OS X derived from Nextstep.
On the other hand, Windows 7 is compatible with Vista and is another evolutionary step of the NT architecture.
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Since you've hopped metaphors...
If it became the rage for adults to buy McDonald's Happy Meals, one does not get to blame McDonald's for misrepresenting an adult meal as a kid's meal. It remains a kid's meal that's being used for something other than its intended purposes. If those adults then begin to complain that the Happy Meal doesn't provide enough food, that's also not McDonald's fault.
Similarly, Facebook friends were created for linking up with FRIENDS, not random strangers you momentarily think you like. If this assumption is violated, other downstream assumptions will also be violated.
Facebook friends are often not even acquaintances. They are not your friends, no matter how Facebook refers to them.
That sounds more like User Error to me.
If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed,"
So its like books 4 and 5 then. I thought book 4 was the best in the series, though I think I'm in the minority since lots of people didn't like it because it didn't have a laugh a sentence.
And like the novelisation of Douglas Adams' game Starship Titanic, curiously called Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, written by Monty Python's Terry Jones. It tries to mimic DA's writing style and does it badly. It's not just not funny, it's not enjoyable. Oddly, its digital form on the game's website is more entertaining, in that all the words are given in alphabetical order.
Since VS.NET was released in 2001, if they had been involved in its development, that would also be possible, though granted somewhat unlikely.
Yes, that's better.
Since Scala's been out since early 2004, it's entirely possible to have had five years of experience with it.
I wonder if this is a practical step towards the ubiquitous "matter compilers" featured in Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
Why would you think prison was about rehabilitation? Prison terms are specified by the crime committed, not by the estimation of the time required for sufficient behavior modification.
And parole is determined based on rehabilitation, not crime.
Parole only relates to early release, not release at the end of the sentenced term. They'll release someone at the end of the term regardless whether they've been determined to be rehabilitated.
It's a shame that the Microsoft BSTR didn't become the dominant form of string, then these problems wouldn't be occurring.
A Microsoft BSTR is simply a length-prefixed string, which are themselves older than Microsoft.
These books should be public domain by now.
God damn extended copyright might kill another production.
(before film is made) "Darned copyrights are keeping us from making a film!"
(after the film is made) "People are violating our film's copyright and should be punished!"
No. the 286 and 386 are very different CPUs and the linux kernel cannot be compiled for it.
The full kernel, probably not, but there are things like the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS) that support Intel 8086 and 80286 CPUs.
It was a hard lesson, but I realized, if I am focused on making money and running a business, I make more money that when I'm focused on killing orcs and playing games. Seriously.
And trying to rush blindly into either of these without a balance of wisdom, intelligence, strength, dexterity, and charisma is a bad idea.
I'm not surprised either.
I ended up getting shunted to a nurse practitioner when I tried to see a doctor about numbness in the pinky and part of my ring finger in my left hand. She insisted it was carpel tunnel and had me wear a wrist brace.
I've only had a single biology class in high school and nothing beyond that, but this didn't make sense to me. I dug out an anatomy book and noticed that this area of the hand was served by the ulnar nerve and passed by my elbow. Rather than being careful with my wrist, I needed to be more careful with my elbow, which I had been propping up on my desk and the door of my car.
Granted, she's not a doctor, but I expect even RNPs have to take a physiology and anatomy course at some point in their studies.
I've had a cough for about eight years now. Is there a secret code word I can use to say "No, really, I _have_ looked into this before, several doctors have, and it's probably not horses because they've given me medication for horses and it doesn't work. Maybe it's zebras? I'm not supposed to be the one coming up with ideas, here. No, I don't want zebra medication, I'm just saying I want you to actually look into this, take some blood or ask a couple or non-basic questions. Can I please actually be diagnosed instead of given whatever samples of allergy medication [with the same active ingredient and a newer more-relaxing name!] got dropped off by a salesperson last week and that I really don't need?"
Curiously, this sounds similar to a customer service issue I had, probably coincidentally related to health care billing. To make a long story short, an entire remote office of a large software firm spent about nine months having ***ALL*** of our medical claims through our company-sponsored Blue Cross/Blue Shield medical plan denied. For those nine months, every customer service representative I talked to (as well as Human Resources at our own company!) insisted on looking for horses again, no matter the amount of pleading and demanding for something more. Nothing happened until it affected someone who reported directly to the CFO. He complained to his boss, then suddenly forward motion occurred.
Given this, I theorize that this occurs when nobody with any significant control over the situation really gives a crap. Doctors are human, too.
MS would probably claim that OpenOffice is GPL-licensed and therefore is legal "poison" to their copyright to Office for their developers to look at the source code.
Is there a reason they couldn't have had a discussion with the community when it was clear the standard had holes in it?
When I was comparing farming to a vineyard, it was reflecting how neither make any money unless you're lucky [...]
Should this really be surprising, as both involve growing plants and harvesting their produce for profit?
If it moves, it's an animal, eat it.
Plants can move, albeit too slowly to escape capture.
That's why we should all avoid vegetables and eat free-range meat. At least then your meal had a chance to flee.
farming is like owning a vineyard
Arguably, growing grapes IS FARMING.
The blog post, however, explains the rationale. In particular, adblock was intended to be a mechanism to 'restore balance' in online advertising. Not to necessarily block ALL ads, but to give users the power to block excessively annoying ads, so that webmasters would tone back ads to an acceptable level (for fear of users blocking them entirely).
"Acceptable level" is subjective and often deliberately ignored by those sites that had previously raised their ads above what many considered acceptible, thus the reason why tools like ABP were created.
In other words, what's to keep bad actors from misusing this tag until it's meaningless?
Although the other claymore would be equally as effective, I should think.
It's mentioned as an example of a valid address form, it doesn't express that it must or should be supported, nor how it should be interpreted.
I haven't experienced this compatibility of which you speak.
That's not what you said earlier:
software[...]that utterly fail to run properly
Pedants...
Fine. "I have yet to experience the level of compatibility you imply."
The solution Microsoft is adding to Windows 7 for XP compatibility is, in fact, the same solution Apple used for OS 9 -> X.
As others have noted, most people won't be using this VM-based compatibility approach, they'll just be running their Windows XP and Vista software directly on Windows 7. This contrasts significantly with the Apple Mac OS situation.
As lewiscr says, it's usually the QuickTime based ones that insist on lower resolution and palette-based (8-bit) color depths. Most insist on installing themselves to your hard drive, but still insist on running with the CD anyway. It's the second step that usually breaks, where they're unable to find the CD after the installed. Some that get past that die for some reason shortly before or after displaying a splash screen. Using Windows XP compatibility features to set these to Windows 95 or 98 compatibility sometimes works, but often not.
This includes a number of interactive children's books on CD, nearly all JumpStart titles written for 95 or 98, a collection of middle school and high school study disks, a few Blues Clues titles, and so on.
We can a few to run (like Putt-Putt and Freddy Fish) to run for our younger kids, but most of the titles the older kids used when they were that age are pretty much useless now on any of the Windows XP machines in the house.
The solution Microsoft is adding to Windows 7 is the same solution Apple used for the OS 9 - X transition. Classic was a second operating system that ran essentially as a virtual machine.
They're apples and oranges.