You can still manually open Safari and go to the Dropbox website to buy more storage from the phone. What does it matter if the user clicked on a link in the app to do so?
These may be Apple's rules but they are sure are ridiculous and rather over-reaching.
Great. So now when a friend or acquaintance says something nice about a product or service, I won't be able to trust their opinion because I won't know if they were paid to say it or not.
Nice job polluting Twitter and other sites with stupid marketing and more distrust in what people say. It's freaking bad enough already.
They could improve the taste quite a bit by simply using real sugar instead of HFCS, which is bad for you anyway.
There's been some resistance against HFCS in the market, but it's not been strong enough. We need more people to refuse to eat that garbage. When I was at the liquor store browsing mixers, only ONE out of maybe eight to nine mixers used real sugar. The rest used HFCS. It's sad.
Let's say I'm going to run around the city and start randomly machine-gunning down kids whose parents don't wear a shirt that says "Zorin is awesome". I'd give plenty of warning to people to MAKE SURE THEY WEAR this shirt, then I'd carry out my threat.
How does warning people I'm going to murder their for not doing something pointless and trivial make me any less of a murderer when I go around shooting kids in the streets for something ridiculous that their parents didn't do?
This is basically the equivalent of what happened in biblical Egypt. It does not excuse the god in the bible from being a vengeful, murderous entity.
>But the brake-torquing fans are going to be pissed!:D
This is absolutely horrible for your transmission's torque converter. Car makers have every reason to prevent this as it will stop dumbasses from ruining their torque converters and trying to make warranty claims. And I'm all for preventing it too as fewer warranty claims means lower cost of ownership in the long run.
Besides, doing this doesn't really gain you much performance.
I've been a geek all my life, am 34 years old and have never even SEEN a "Consumer stand-alone Audio CD recorders", much less owned one. So yeah, about "as rare as unicorns" is probably quite accurate.
Who the heck ever bought or used these things anyway? From some basic research they seem fairly clunky; you have to record audio at 1X (realtime) from a source, like copying vinyl to tape back in the old days. On top of that, they had copy restrictions (SCMS) in place, and if you screwed up when recording, the screw-up was permanent. Sounds incredibly inconvenient compared to just burning a music CD from iTunes!
Not to mention paying more for media. These devices seem like a lose-lose-lose situation.
That's easy to mitigate with a sacraficial layer of plexiglass over the front. Once it gets scratched and damaged enough, just replace it. This is what they do for posters and TV screens in the subway.
I *live* in South Florida, and have experienced these "angry Cubans" first hand. They're a very tiny percentage of the population, and a lot of them aren't quite all there anymore. It's not worth factoring their opinion into this.
Cuba as a communist country is nowhere near as bad as China when it comes to human rights issues, and we really should be trading with them; it's hypocrisy not to!
Isn't it time to forgive Cuba? I mean, yes they were nasty to us in the 60s but that was ages ago. This embargo is doing more harm than good at this point.
This grudge the US has against them is ridiculous at this point. And we can't even use the excuse "but they're COMMIES!!!" because so are the Chinese and we trade plenty with them!
I think a better solution would be for commercial software developers to stop assuming every system you install their software on has a graphical display available.
It's even more insulting when you're installing a command line application, and the installer is graphical. WTF? And many times it's implemented in a very bloated manner, with a JVM that takes 30-40 seconds to start.
CLI based installers are the best. Not to mention they're likely a lot easier to write. The best of both worlds, yet commercial developers don't go there. Arrgh.
When you consider how reliable the Metrocard system is, I wouldn't call this a failure by any means.
Also, MTA Is a big enough customer that they probably still get direct support from IBM for OS/2. If the system is supported, then it's not really "out of date".
I hear some ATMs (as in bank machines) still run OS/2 too. It's a very robust system and had a lot of popularity in embedded commercial "appliance" devices.
Even though 3D is a gimmick, 3D sets are still a good idea to buy due to response time.
For 3D to work, the pixel response time has to be VERY fast. So you are guaranteed a set with very good response time if you buy one that has 3D ability. Even if you never use the 3D ability, you will benefit!
I'd really like to learn more about this fantasy land you live in.
Enterprise users use a hell of a lot more than just E-mail and web. Office is a big one, for example. Also, depend on the business, there are other more specialized applications.
I really wish I could live in your fantasyland, it would make being an IT guy a hell of a lot easier.:)
Standard -48VDC current distribution requires four times the current as 208V AC distribution for the same amount of power. Have you seen DC cabling at data centers that use it? If we're going to start using DC in data centers we need to come up with a higher voltage standard, otherwise we're going to spend all the savings on more copper (which is expensive!) to carry those extra amps.
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You can still manually open Safari and go to the Dropbox website to buy more storage from the phone. What does it matter if the user clicked on a link in the app to do so?
These may be Apple's rules but they are sure are ridiculous and rather over-reaching.
You'd likely do just as well simply removing the compressor and coils and simply using a couple fans to replace the air in the unit every few minutes.
Not to mention use less power.
Great. So now when a friend or acquaintance says something nice about a product or service, I won't be able to trust their opinion because I won't know if they were paid to say it or not.
Nice job polluting Twitter and other sites with stupid marketing and more distrust in what people say. It's freaking bad enough already.
They could improve the taste quite a bit by simply using real sugar instead of HFCS, which is bad for you anyway.
There's been some resistance against HFCS in the market, but it's not been strong enough. We need more people to refuse to eat that garbage. When I was at the liquor store browsing mixers, only ONE out of maybe eight to nine mixers used real sugar. The rest used HFCS. It's sad.
Okay...
Let's say I'm going to run around the city and start randomly machine-gunning down kids whose parents don't wear a shirt that says "Zorin is awesome". I'd give plenty of warning to people to MAKE SURE THEY WEAR this shirt, then I'd carry out my threat.
How does warning people I'm going to murder their for not doing something pointless and trivial make me any less of a murderer when I go around shooting kids in the streets for something ridiculous that their parents didn't do?
This is basically the equivalent of what happened in biblical Egypt. It does not excuse the god in the bible from being a vengeful, murderous entity.
IN THIS HOUSE WE OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!!! - Homer Simpson
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>19 - Logo - 0.652%
People still use this? I remember this being a toy language for kids to learn how to program.
Why is this even a criminal case? Shouldn't it be a civil case between the copyright holders and Megaupload?
The DOJ shouldn't be involved at all.
THIS IS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAX DOLLARS. And yes I'm saying it in all caps because it's important.
This is common sense.
The fact that this even has to be discussed is reprehensible. A warrant should always be required for any breach of privacy.
We've become far too lax in letting "authority" into our lives.
If they're smart, the "override" will happen near the bottom of the brake pedal travel. IE, only in a panic situation.
I should add that if you want to drive like this, just get a manual transmission. It's more fun for racing anyway.
>But the brake-torquing fans are going to be pissed! :D
This is absolutely horrible for your transmission's torque converter. Car makers have every reason to prevent this as it will stop dumbasses from ruining their torque converters and trying to make warranty claims. And I'm all for preventing it too as fewer warranty claims means lower cost of ownership in the long run.
Besides, doing this doesn't really gain you much performance.
I've been a geek all my life, am 34 years old and have never even SEEN a "Consumer stand-alone Audio CD recorders", much less owned one. So yeah, about "as rare as unicorns" is probably quite accurate.
Who the heck ever bought or used these things anyway? From some basic research they seem fairly clunky; you have to record audio at 1X (realtime) from a source, like copying vinyl to tape back in the old days. On top of that, they had copy restrictions (SCMS) in place, and if you screwed up when recording, the screw-up was permanent. Sounds incredibly inconvenient compared to just burning a music CD from iTunes!
Not to mention paying more for media. These devices seem like a lose-lose-lose situation.
If they implement their own TCP-like layer over UDP, there's no reason it can't be just as reliable.
It's kind of hard to do things like roaming using TCP because endpoint IPs can change.
That's easy to mitigate with a sacraficial layer of plexiglass over the front. Once it gets scratched and damaged enough, just replace it. This is what they do for posters and TV screens in the subway.
I *live* in South Florida, and have experienced these "angry Cubans" first hand. They're a very tiny percentage of the population, and a lot of them aren't quite all there anymore. It's not worth factoring their opinion into this.
Cuba as a communist country is nowhere near as bad as China when it comes to human rights issues, and we really should be trading with them; it's hypocrisy not to!
Isn't it time to forgive Cuba? I mean, yes they were nasty to us in the 60s but that was ages ago. This embargo is doing more harm than good at this point.
This grudge the US has against them is ridiculous at this point. And we can't even use the excuse "but they're COMMIES!!!" because so are the Chinese and we trade plenty with them!
I think a better solution would be for commercial software developers to stop assuming every system you install their software on has a graphical display available.
It's even more insulting when you're installing a command line application, and the installer is graphical. WTF? And many times it's implemented in a very bloated manner, with a JVM that takes 30-40 seconds to start.
CLI based installers are the best. Not to mention they're likely a lot easier to write. The best of both worlds, yet commercial developers don't go there. Arrgh.
When you consider how reliable the Metrocard system is, I wouldn't call this a failure by any means.
Also, MTA Is a big enough customer that they probably still get direct support from IBM for OS/2. If the system is supported, then it's not really "out of date".
I hear some ATMs (as in bank machines) still run OS/2 too. It's a very robust system and had a lot of popularity in embedded commercial "appliance" devices.
Even though 3D is a gimmick, 3D sets are still a good idea to buy due to response time.
For 3D to work, the pixel response time has to be VERY fast. So you are guaranteed a set with very good response time if you buy one that has 3D ability. Even if you never use the 3D ability, you will benefit!
Fucking shit, someone get that woman a sandwich or three.
She looks a stiff breeze could break her in two. How is this in any way sexy? Why is that anorexic look considered sexy?
Ugh. Sick of the standards for beauty in this society.
Given that Firefox is free, 2.5% of revenues from Mozilla would be $0.00, and still satisfy the agreement. Right?
I'd really like to learn more about this fantasy land you live in.
Enterprise users use a hell of a lot more than just E-mail and web. Office is a big one, for example. Also, depend on the business, there are other more specialized applications.
I really wish I could live in your fantasyland, it would make being an IT guy a hell of a lot easier. :)
Standard -48VDC current distribution requires four times the current as 208V AC distribution for the same amount of power. Have you seen DC cabling at data centers that use it? If we're going to start using DC in data centers we need to come up with a higher voltage standard, otherwise we're going to spend all the savings on more copper (which is expensive!) to carry those extra amps.
>forgone interest that could've been earned on the difference in principal
Yes... that and a couple bucks gets me a candy bar.
Have you SEEN interest rates lately? :)