Reading the actual quotes from Microsoft, what they are saying is that if you are developing a server application, you need to expect that there may not be a GUI and you should develop the application with that understanding. Microsoft never said that a GUI may not be available to install, but that applications should be able to handle the case of their not being a GUI. This is drastically different from what the headline is implying.
Not defending the practice, but there were a few issues in play here.
1) This was from 2007, a lot has changed since 2007 with valve and steam. The company has learned some hard lessons, but at least they are learning instead of sticking their heads in the sand like EA. 2) At the time Valve had agreements with certain retailers as well as governments which paid the proper import taxes, etc, which gave those retailers exclusive license to sell their games in those countries because those retailers knew how to handle all the import issues. The cheap retailers that people were buying these from were buying US licenses and selling the CDkeys internationally avoiding these taxes.
Things have gotten better, but the international scene isn't cut and dried.
I doesn't matter, it could be an infinite year rate. The assumption is that they have to pay that $30 million up front (which may be incorrect) but if they do its like buying physical items. Compare this to you going out and buying DVDs at $30 a pop. If my monthly income is $150 dollars I can buy at most 5 new DVDs each month if I spent my entire paycheck on DVDs. And if they don't have to pay it up front, its like putting it on a credit card hoping your salary will increase in the future. Or in Netflix case, their subscriber base.... Firefox attempts to suggest a spelling correction for Netflix as "Linette". WTF..
As you should, them revoking the certificate wouldn't do you any good until your browser Firefox gets an update which contains the revoked certificate information. Certificate revokation doesn't automatically propegate to all users.
Well theoretically they would each be started by separate big bangs, and possibly even have slightly different laws of physics. So yes Universe is what we are calling our enclosure that contains our physical realm, with multiverse being the larger unit.
But but, they add liquidity.//Well they do, but its pretty worthless.
Incase you are curious what I mean by liquidity. In a traditional market if I want to sell my stocks especially if I have a lot of them, it might take hours to find buyers for all my stocks. The speed traders make the market more liquid so I can sell my stocks anytime instantly (though not necessarily as good as a price I would have gotten by waiting). If I don't wish for that liquidity I could sell higher, but might it might not sell or I'd have to wait the more traditional time frame at least.
It wouldn't have to be $5tn worth a platinum, nothing legally requires the metal value to equal the coinage value. Though I would hope they put some serious security into it, and keep it from being stolen. Maybe some RDIF inside it that has to be firmware updated everytime it changes ownership, similar to a bitcoin. So if it was stolen it would be worthless without the original owners encryption key for verification.
On the other hand you can certainly make an argument that 1) Low MPG vehicles hurt our national defense. 2) Pollution in general leads to false externalization that has to be paid for in some manor. 3) There currently aren't 56 mpg cars that was reasonably prices, if automakers are agreeing to this, they know that in the future they will be able to do and produce enough cars over that mark to average with the large cars under that mark, that they can appeal to all requirements.
Also new automated driving that will be here soon, will significantly increase the MPG that the typical person can achieve.
It seems they are talking about new ideas versus old intrenched ideas. Over 10% of society has an unshakable belief in God (old idea), the idea that there is no God is a new one, and while common, its only an "unshakable idea" among less than 10% I'd be willing to assume. Once it becomes the new faith of over 10% it will grow like wildfire and eventually overtake the old idea. Unless of course some new pro God idea comes in behind it.
Yes, but its seems to be a sign of an eventually end of life for OS X server. This would be like Microsoft releasing XP as a replacement for 2000 and saying there wouldn't be a 2003 server released. Of course Apple may backtrack and add the true server features for additional money.
"Suppose you set it up to look for one terrorist at Heathrow airport. The system is likely to flag up 650 000 people a year (based on 65 million passengers a year)"
Eh, probably not, as many of those people are repeat visitors, and the guys who you arrested because they looked like your terrorist are unlikely to come back and try again:)//And of course if your terrorist is non-white you can reduce your search space significantly on that as well.
Selling through Amazon is pretty easy and you don't have to be a business to do so. There are 3 methods for selling stuff through Amazon. 1) Books and console games, (maybe some other things) Amazon will just pay you for the item, you don't have to sell it to the end buys, Amazon just buys it from you. 2) You can list an item on Amazon and once it is sold you ship it to buyer and Amazon collects the money and deposits it into your bank account (yes they can remove it from your account if they have to refund, etc) 3) You can pay Amazon a storage fee of about 50 cents per cubic foot per month and ship your stuff to them, they will store it for you and ship it out as it gets sold, you hardly have to do anything.
Eh? We aren't staring any cyber war. But we must be prepared to defend against a cyber war. Do you just expect us to sit back and let our infrastructure get hacked?
Note, it doesn't ban incandescent, it restricts how much power they use, which bans the generic cheap incandescent but doesn't ban all of them. For instance a 1490-2600 lumen bulb (about a 90 - 100 watt typical general bulb) would be restricted to using a maximum of 72 watts. A better incandescent can do that, and a fluorescent can do that in 15 watts.
A little bit of reading shows that CS101 is for people who essentially have no computer experience. I don't think its part of a CS major as much as it is a class other majors can take to meet a computer requirement.
I don't pay a percentage of earnings from paypal. They charge me about 3.5% when I am being paid via Credit Card, which is pretty much in line with every other merchant. They charge me nothing if they pay via a paypal balance.
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Reading the actual quotes from Microsoft, what they are saying is that if you are developing a server application, you need to expect that there may not be a GUI and you should develop the application with that understanding. Microsoft never said that a GUI may not be available to install, but that applications should be able to handle the case of their not being a GUI. This is drastically different from what the headline is implying.
Not defending the practice, but there were a few issues in play here.
1) This was from 2007, a lot has changed since 2007 with valve and steam. The company has learned some hard lessons, but at least they are learning instead of sticking their heads in the sand like EA.
2) At the time Valve had agreements with certain retailers as well as governments which paid the proper import taxes, etc, which gave those retailers exclusive license to sell their games in those countries because those retailers knew how to handle all the import issues. The cheap retailers that people were buying these from were buying US licenses and selling the CDkeys internationally avoiding these taxes.
Things have gotten better, but the international scene isn't cut and dried.
Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price.
Why stop there, 30,000 is way too high for me.
I doesn't matter, it could be an infinite year rate. The assumption is that they have to pay that $30 million up front (which may be incorrect) but if they do its like buying physical items. Compare this to you going out and buying DVDs at $30 a pop. If my monthly income is $150 dollars I can buy at most 5 new DVDs each month if I spent my entire paycheck on DVDs. ... Firefox attempts to suggest a spelling correction for Netflix as "Linette". WTF..
And if they don't have to pay it up front, its like putting it on a credit card hoping your salary will increase in the future. Or in Netflix case, their subscriber base.
As you should, them revoking the certificate wouldn't do you any good until your browser Firefox gets an update which contains the revoked certificate information. Certificate revokation doesn't automatically propegate to all users.
Hold on, I thought News Corp has effectively shut down the FAA and they were running just essential safety services.
Well theoretically they would each be started by separate big bangs, and possibly even have slightly different laws of physics. So yes Universe is what we are calling our enclosure that contains our physical realm, with multiverse being the larger unit.
But but, they add liquidity. //Well they do, but its pretty worthless.
Incase you are curious what I mean by liquidity. In a traditional market if I want to sell my stocks especially if I have a lot of them, it might take hours to find buyers for all my stocks. The speed traders make the market more liquid so I can sell my stocks anytime instantly (though not necessarily as good as a price I would have gotten by waiting). If I don't wish for that liquidity I could sell higher, but might it might not sell or I'd have to wait the more traditional time frame at least.
"Since SOME control systems are connected to the internet".
It wouldn't have to be $5tn worth a platinum, nothing legally requires the metal value to equal the coinage value. Though I would hope they put some serious security into it, and keep it from being stolen. Maybe some RDIF inside it that has to be firmware updated everytime it changes ownership, similar to a bitcoin. So if it was stolen it would be worthless without the original owners encryption key for verification.
On the other hand you can certainly make an argument that
1) Low MPG vehicles hurt our national defense.
2) Pollution in general leads to false externalization that has to be paid for in some manor.
3) There currently aren't 56 mpg cars that was reasonably prices, if automakers are agreeing to this, they know that in the future they will be able to do and produce enough cars over that mark to average with the large cars under that mark, that they can appeal to all requirements.
Also new automated driving that will be here soon, will significantly increase the MPG that the typical person can achieve.
Its a new idea to many people. Sorta like how freedom isn't a new idea, but it is for many of the people in the Middle East.
It seems they are talking about new ideas versus old intrenched ideas. Over 10% of society has an unshakable belief in God (old idea), the idea that there is no God is a new one, and while common, its only an "unshakable idea" among less than 10% I'd be willing to assume. Once it becomes the new faith of over 10% it will grow like wildfire and eventually overtake the old idea. Unless of course some new pro God idea comes in behind it.
Yes, but its seems to be a sign of an eventually end of life for OS X server. This would be like Microsoft releasing XP as a replacement for 2000 and saying there wouldn't be a 2003 server released. Of course Apple may backtrack and add the true server features for additional money.
"Suppose you set it up to look for one terrorist at Heathrow airport. The system is likely to flag up 650 000 people a year (based on 65 million passengers a year)"
Eh, probably not, as many of those people are repeat visitors, and the guys who you arrested because they looked like your terrorist are unlikely to come back and try again :) //And of course if your terrorist is non-white you can reduce your search space significantly on that as well.
Tulalip is also a Native American tribe and a town and bay in Washington north of Seattle.
I have Netflix but I hardly ever used it, so when the notice came out I switched to their 4.99 plan. Its slightly less than I use now, but meh.
Selling through Amazon is pretty easy and you don't have to be a business to do so. There are 3 methods for selling stuff through Amazon.
1) Books and console games, (maybe some other things) Amazon will just pay you for the item, you don't have to sell it to the end buys, Amazon just buys it from you.
2) You can list an item on Amazon and once it is sold you ship it to buyer and Amazon collects the money and deposits it into your bank account (yes they can remove it from your account if they have to refund, etc)
3) You can pay Amazon a storage fee of about 50 cents per cubic foot per month and ship your stuff to them, they will store it for you and ship it out as it gets sold, you hardly have to do anything.
Eh? We aren't staring any cyber war. But we must be prepared to defend against a cyber war. Do you just expect us to sit back and let our infrastructure get hacked?
Note, it doesn't ban incandescent, it restricts how much power they use, which bans the generic cheap incandescent but doesn't ban all of them.
For instance a 1490-2600 lumen bulb (about a 90 - 100 watt typical general bulb) would be restricted to using a maximum of 72 watts.
A better incandescent can do that, and a fluorescent can do that in 15 watts.
A little bit of reading shows that CS101 is for people who essentially have no computer experience. I don't think its part of a CS major as much as it is a class other majors can take to meet a computer requirement.
Gah! That stoney stare!
I got into all my car accidents when I was young and foolish, well before I had a cellphone.
I don't pay a percentage of earnings from paypal. They charge me about 3.5% when I am being paid via Credit Card, which is pretty much in line with every other merchant. They charge me nothing if they pay via a paypal balance.