a kid with three parents may well have a hard time fitting into a legal system that assumes only two
A kid with three legal parents, perhaps, but that's not what's being discussed.
For instance, how would the divorce issues work out (custody, support, etc)?
Surely it would be dealt with in exactly the same way as egg donation, sperm donation, adoption, surrogacy etc. The two legal parents will be the legal parents, and no-one else gets a say.
I think he meant that something happening previously with no damage was the root cause. IIRC, cracking had been found on O-rings in the past but dismissed.
In 15min you've seen everything the game has to offer and you have to "invent" your own stories.
No, you've seen everything the game has to offer you. Other people are not you.
Disclaimer: not a Minecraft fan.
but honestly they better invest time in real art application(2d/3d) than playing Minecraft.
Yeah? Or what? What is it with this I-know-what's-best-for-you attitude? If it makes someone happy to spend hours building a blocky version of the Enterprise in a primitive virtual world, what's the big deal?
Beware that due to the difficulty of optimizing the background graphics this game requires about 900 MB of RAM to function, although this should allow it to run at full speed on a reasonably fast machine.
ARM architectures were already in use before ARM the company came into being and went into making mobile processors. They were the CPUs for the Acorn Archimedes and Risc PC.
Ah, I still remember that heady day at Acorn World in 1996 (I think it was), riding the train back clutching my precious StrongARM (not made by ARM themselves, apparently) upgrade. The unimaginable pow-ah!
Later upgrades put RAM on the CPU's daughterboard because the bus become the bottleneck.
Somewhat sadly neglected, my Risc PC now gathers dust in a damp garage, but it made me the aspiring-to-efficiency programmer I am today.
So he grossly overpaid for three reasons, one to take out a potential future competitor before they can grow to critical mass, two to avoid Google getting the company and using it as leverage for Google+ and three to arrest rumors that Whatapps would eventually lead to the fall of Facebook.
So... they paid 19 billion because they thought Facebook would be better off than if they didn't?
but why didn't they push for something like this before?
Because there wasn't deemed to be a need for it (especially if you go back about 13 years), and/or it wasn't worth the effort. Both are arguably still the case.
No, mod grandparent down (points-out-that-proposed-thing-could-be-vaguely-reminiscent-of-a-thing-in-a-popular-movie-but-doesn't-really-add-much-to-the-discussion)
Did Google do the math when they bought Motorola? Did HP do the math when they bought EDS/Autonomy? Did Sears do the math when they bought KMart? Did bank of America do the math when they bought CountryWide?
Yes, they did, just as companies involved in successful acquisitions do. Previous examples don't really have any bearing on this case.
I just don't see 19 billion of value in this purchase.
Nor do I, but it's a lot safer to assume that that's because I haven't spent the last six months poring over the books and working out every nuance of how to integrate WhatsApp into Facebook's ongoing plans with my teams of lawyers, strategists, and financial advisors, rather than because Facebook have suffered some kind of corporate mental breakdown.
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My DNA is already a mis-mash of genes from millions of ancestors. What would one more matter?
For god's sake WHY?
Because most people don't feel the way you do about family.
a kid with three parents may well have a hard time fitting into a legal system that assumes only two
A kid with three legal parents, perhaps, but that's not what's being discussed.
For instance, how would the divorce issues work out (custody, support, etc)?
Surely it would be dealt with in exactly the same way as egg donation, sperm donation, adoption, surrogacy etc. The two legal parents will be the legal parents, and no-one else gets a say.
My response to a "request" of this nature would be one word. "NO!"
Je ne comprende pas!
Death is a quite rare thing
Quite the opposite, actually.
I think the danger of GP being cited in any scientific papers is pretty low. I wouldn't want to put a number on it around here, though, obviously.
Why not tell us what is correct?
Just give the patient a fear pill.
No, Jonathan LaPaglia!
I think he meant that something happening previously with no damage was the root cause. IIRC, cracking had been found on O-rings in the past but dismissed.
In 15min you've seen everything the game has to offer and you have to "invent" your own stories.
No, you've seen everything the game has to offer you. Other people are not you.
Disclaimer: not a Minecraft fan.
but honestly they better invest time in real art application(2d/3d) than playing Minecraft.
Yeah? Or what? What is it with this I-know-what's-best-for-you attitude? If it makes someone happy to spend hours building a blocky version of the Enterprise in a primitive virtual world, what's the big deal?
To me, they're full of stupid puzzles and sophomoric quirkiness. What am I missing?
What you are missing is that nobody else on this planet is you. Your opinion is as valid as everyone else's, but it's not more valid.
To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges.
What stops a user keeping their wallet to themselves? Is there no mechanism for an individual to make payments without the use of an exchange?
What about letting several somebodies hold encrypted copies of your bitcoin wallet?
Even with todays technology
Luckily, by the time we're really ready to build a space elevator, we'll be using tomorrow's technology.
I do: volunteer 7 hours per week of your expert knowledge (or your strength and vigor, if you have no expert knowledge) to your community.
Volunteering isn't bartering. Assuming you meant bartering... in exchange for what?
My post was more to do with the other poster's implication that no-one listens to the radio any more because mp3 players exist.
the 2 most respectful Computer Science Universities of Paraguay
Respectful is nice. Respected would be better.
You have your mp3 player, so you're not changing radio stations.
Unless, of course, you're listening to the radio and, y'know, want to change stations.
There are always at least two points directly opposite each other on the Earth's surface with exactly the same temperature.
Pin Pong (Atari, 1974)
Beware that due to the difficulty of optimizing the background graphics this game requires about 900 MB of RAM to function, although this should allow it to run at full speed on a reasonably fast machine.
Why so much?
ARM architectures were already in use before ARM the company came into being and went into making mobile processors. They were the CPUs for the Acorn Archimedes and Risc PC.
Ah, I still remember that heady day at Acorn World in 1996 (I think it was), riding the train back clutching my precious StrongARM (not made by ARM themselves, apparently) upgrade. The unimaginable pow-ah!
Later upgrades put RAM on the CPU's daughterboard because the bus become the bottleneck.
Somewhat sadly neglected, my Risc PC now gathers dust in a damp garage, but it made me the aspiring-to-efficiency programmer I am today.
So he grossly overpaid for three reasons, one to take out a potential future competitor before they can grow to critical mass, two to avoid Google getting the company and using it as leverage for Google+ and three to arrest rumors that Whatapps would eventually lead to the fall of Facebook.
So... they paid 19 billion because they thought Facebook would be better off than if they didn't?
but why didn't they push for something like this before?
Because there wasn't deemed to be a need for it (especially if you go back about 13 years), and/or it wasn't worth the effort. Both are arguably still the case.
No, mod grandparent down (points-out-that-proposed-thing-could-be-vaguely-reminiscent-of-a-thing-in-a-popular-movie-but-doesn't-really-add-much-to-the-discussion)
Did Google do the math when they bought Motorola? Did HP do the math when they bought EDS/Autonomy? Did Sears do the math when they bought KMart? Did bank of America do the math when they bought CountryWide?
Yes, they did, just as companies involved in successful acquisitions do. Previous examples don't really have any bearing on this case.
I just don't see 19 billion of value in this purchase.
Nor do I, but it's a lot safer to assume that that's because I haven't spent the last six months poring over the books and working out every nuance of how to integrate WhatsApp into Facebook's ongoing plans with my teams of lawyers, strategists, and financial advisors, rather than because Facebook have suffered some kind of corporate mental breakdown.