How about if you just mind your own business and quit looking for things to bitch about. Pay the fee and get the app, or don't and move on. One or the other.
And if they ignore the ruling what happens? Just because a court in some country rules against you doesn't necessarily mean that there's any consequence.
From one of the other links posted earlier:
"he 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City has entered a non-final judgment of U.S. $2.7 billion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
I don't exactly know why there needs to be a Yahoo de Mexico, but that puts them on the hook for whatever amount the corrupt Mexican court wants to decide.
I don't know what kind of reputation "THE DIPLOMAT" has in the field of journalism, but this article is just pure crap. Despite the title, the article has almost nothing to do with high speed rail in China.
Yes, it's a very weird and completely pointless article. It really does start off talking about high speed rail, but then inexplicably jumps to corruption in the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and then proceeds to jump back and forth between the two topics for no apparent reason, making absolutely no worthwhile comments about either.
I would be very suspicious of a company whose business model depends on them getting a bunch of friends and relatives to buy as many hard drives as they can from Costco.
WTF!!!
If BackBlaze is a legitimate company that needs a lot of hard drives, why can't they just buy them from the various distributors/wholesalers. Where do you think Costco gets their drives.
The whole concept of online file storage makes no sense. Especially for consumes and especially in the U.S. where speeds are slow and costs are high. Getting your data into the "cloud" is extremely slow due to the fact that all ISPs severely restrict upload speeds. Then, once you finally get it all uploaded, getting it back will be difficult, even if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with decent speed, because you are probably one of the many millions of people whose only choice for broadband internet is the local cable monopoly, which means you probably have a monthly bandwidth cap, so good luck downloading all that data that will use up 2 or 3 months of your allowed quota.
Or you could just buy a couple of 2 or 3 TB drives and be done with it.
It is not mandatory for advertisers to honour the "Do not track" flag. Internet users need to turn the option on themselves, or they have not expressed their desire to not be trackedthemselves, only to accept the default settings as Microsoft deems fit.
Complete irrelevant bullshit. Every piece of software ever created, every product ever created, comes with certain default settings. That's how the world works. Get over it already. And if you're Internet Explorer, you're the problem.
One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn't lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn't jump close enough and go, "Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won't see me for three minutes?"'
It's called over-thinking. You probably also take joy in telling small children that there is no Santa Claus.
Exactly right. It would be nice if companies like Google would grow some balls and just say "OK. Fuck you. We're closing all our operations in your country".
Why exactly does Google need an office in Brazil anyway?. I've heard of this thing called The Internet that lets you communicate and do business will people all over the world without having to actually be in their country.
Wasn't the whole point of this to encourage advertisers to not track
Yes, that is the idea. However, DNT is entirely voluntary. And if you really thought that advertisers were going to honor DNT, then you are extremely stupid.
Consumers expect free - due to open source movement.
Only dirty open source hippies expect things to be free. The rest of us are perfectly willing to pay for things. But it's hard to believe that people, and especially businesses, will actually fall for this scam.
For example, I still have Office 2003. I bought it, I paid for it, and unless someone from Microsoft shows up at my house and points a gun at my head, I can continue to use it forever. If this subscription scam had been in place back in 2003, it would have cost me nearly $1000 so far -- about 5 times what I actually paid,
10 year old versions of Windows and Office are "good enough" for most people. This is a blatant cash grab, nothing else.
The executive in charge of Google+ is Vic Gundotra. But his name isn't really Vic. Mr. Gundrota is Indian and his real first name is Vivek. Yes that's right. The person mandating that you must use your real name, is using a phoney name.
Then there are the celebrities, like Fifty Cent and Lady Gaga who are allowed to use their fake names.
Most businesses are starting or have already switched to Windows 7 since support for XP officially ends in 18 months.
The ending of support is irrelevant. What "support" could you possibly need for XP? Anyone who is currently running XP will continue to do so until their last computer dies and cannot be repaired.
Businesses are switching to Windows 7 only because all the new computers they buy come with Windows 7 installed. If they could still get new computers with Windows XP installed, they would buy them.
I'm no fan of Internet Explorer, but that's just complete bullshit. IE 8 isn't that old and not that bad. It isn't as good as Firefox or Chrome, but it's not that bad.. I really wonder if there is any legitimate technical reason for not allowing IE8, or if it's just anti-Microsoft bias -- sort of the reverse of what used to happen back when IE was the dominant browser.
For example, years ago when Firefox was just starting to become popular, there were some bank and credit card websites that would not allow me to use Firefox, they insisted that I had to use IE. So I changed Firefox's user agent string to IE and those sites worked just fine. In other words, there was no legitimate technical reason for not allowing browsers other than IE. Just ignorance and/or bias that was not based on any reality.
Company-wise, their IPO certainly was a bigger mistake than using HTML5 in iOS.
The IPO was inevitable and unavoidable. It was a bad idea, but it was inevitable and unavoidable.
First, Facebook had already taken more than a billion dollars from investors, including half a billion from Goldman-Sachs alone. So that means that an IPO (aka pump and dump) was inevitable.
Second, Facebook is the new MySpace and everyone knows it. An IPO (aka pump and dump) is the fastest way to cash in on the latest fad before the bubble pops.
Not surprising when we're burning so much food by turning it into ethanol and putting it in our cars.
The corn being wasted on ethanol production is trivial, and affects no one outside of the United States. Yes, there are people starving in the world. And if you set aside the politically correct bullshit, you find that every single one of them is starving for the same reason:
(A) They lack the basic intelligence needed to produce or obtain food or (B) They live in an area where environmental conditions make food production difficult (desert, etc.)
Both of these are their own fault and no one else. As a comedian once said. "If there's no food where you live -- MOVE!!"
visiting each and relaying the juiciest parts of his transcripts to the reader. In doing so, this book takes on an interesting form with a meaty dense center to each chapter (the actual dialogues) surrounded by the light and fluffy bread of Holt's expert writing about the settings, weather and food of his travels. While this consequently lacks the characteristics of a heady hard hitting original philosophical work, these sandwiches should prove quite palatable for most readers.
Wow.
Just wow.
That is the biggest steaming pile of shit I've ever read.
Mozilla says they have "now plugged the main cause of memory leaks in Firefox add-ons." Er, the same memory leaks they assured us weren't happening or weren't their fault?
I have to give them credit. The Firefox devs have quite a sense of humor.
I remember when they claimed that Firefox's excessive memory usage was a feature not a bug -- i.e., Firefox was caching pages. Which is really great except that it wasn't true.
the browser is finally switching to a "silent" update model, like Chrome. (No doubt in answer to endless complaints about their rapid release cycle.
So people have been complaining about Firefox's Rapid Release Cycle -- more correctly called Rapid Version Number Inflation -- and so Firefox's solution is to continue doing it and just not tell you about it.
Well, sure, but they won't be buying a new one every two years, and the margins for HP and Dell and such will be razor-thin.
Their profits are actually quite good. But then you subtract all the money they pay to incompetent executives, and all the money they waste on pointless mergers and acquisitions, and suddenly they are losing money.
I would fire the whole board and start fresh there. Get some good leadership at the top!
And how exactly would you do that? The whole system is corrupt and completely rigged for the specific purpose of preventing that from happening. Things like special classes of stock which are only given to select insiders and that give them increased numbers of votes over the "regular" shareholders , making it impossible for "dissident" or "activist" shareholders to have any power.
Commodity PCs might be boring, but they are still needed and there is still a big market for them. The real problem is here:
HP has spent more than $40 billion on dozens of acquisitions
HP, like too many other companies, has reduced its R&D to almost nothing and tried to get new products and ideas by just going out and buying other companies.
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so unless he's lying about that >
Well, there you go.
How about if you just mind your own business and quit looking for things to bitch about. Pay the fee and get the app, or don't and move on. One or the other.
Where the hell are they going to find water? Shipping it surely isn't an option....
Don't call me Shirley.
And if they ignore the ruling what happens? Just because a court in some country rules against you doesn't necessarily mean that there's any consequence.
From one of the other links posted earlier:
"he 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City has entered a non-final judgment of U.S. $2.7 billion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
I don't exactly know why there needs to be a Yahoo de Mexico, but that puts them on the hook for whatever amount the corrupt Mexican court wants to decide.
You just stop giving a fuck about what people think of you?.
Better idea: Stop giving a fuck about Facebook.
Seriously. Why are people still paying any attention to that crap.
I don't know what kind of reputation "THE DIPLOMAT" has in the field of journalism, but this article is just pure crap. Despite the title, the article has almost nothing to do with high speed rail in China.
Yes, it's a very weird and completely pointless article. It really does start off talking about high speed rail, but then inexplicably jumps to corruption in the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and then proceeds to jump back and forth between the two topics for no apparent reason, making absolutely no worthwhile comments about either.
has much stigma due to Hans Reiser
Really? You can't just judge it based on it's features and performance?
So if Linus Torvalds ever commits a crime, you'll stop using Linux?
I would be very suspicious of a company whose business model depends on them getting a bunch of friends and relatives to buy as many hard drives as they can from Costco.
WTF!!!
If BackBlaze is a legitimate company that needs a lot of hard drives, why can't they just buy them from the various distributors/wholesalers. Where do you think Costco gets their drives.
The whole concept of online file storage makes no sense. Especially for consumes and especially in the U.S. where speeds are slow and costs are high. Getting your data into the "cloud" is extremely slow due to the fact that all ISPs severely restrict upload speeds. Then, once you finally get it all uploaded, getting it back will be difficult, even if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with decent speed, because you are probably one of the many millions of people whose only choice for broadband internet is the local cable monopoly, which means you probably have a monthly bandwidth cap, so good luck downloading all that data that will use up 2 or 3 months of your allowed quota.
Or you could just buy a couple of 2 or 3 TB drives and be done with it.
It is not mandatory for advertisers to honour the "Do not track" flag. Internet users need to turn the option on themselves, or they have not expressed their desire to not be trackedthemselves, only to accept the default settings as Microsoft deems fit.
Complete irrelevant bullshit. Every piece of software ever created, every product ever created, comes with certain default settings. That's how the world works. Get over it already. And if you're Internet Explorer, you're the problem.
One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn't lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn't jump close enough and go, "Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won't see me for three minutes?"'
It's called over-thinking. You probably also take joy in telling small children that there is no Santa Claus.
change the law or don't operate there.
Exactly right. It would be nice if companies like Google would grow some balls and just say "OK. Fuck you. We're closing all our operations in your country".
Why exactly does Google need an office in Brazil anyway?. I've heard of this thing called The Internet that lets you communicate and do business will people all over the world without having to actually be in their country.
Wasn't the whole point of this to encourage advertisers to not track
Yes, that is the idea. However, DNT is entirely voluntary. And if you really thought that advertisers were going to honor DNT, then you are extremely stupid.
Consumers expect free - due to open source movement.
Only dirty open source hippies expect things to be free. The rest of us are perfectly willing to pay for things. But it's hard to believe that people, and especially businesses, will actually fall for this scam.
For example, I still have Office 2003. I bought it, I paid for it, and unless someone from Microsoft shows up at my house and points a gun at my head, I can continue to use it forever. If this subscription scam had been in place back in 2003, it would have cost me nearly $1000 so far -- about 5 times what I actually paid,
10 year old versions of Windows and Office are "good enough" for most people. This is a blatant cash grab, nothing else.
Or famous.
The executive in charge of Google+ is Vic Gundotra. But his name isn't really Vic. Mr. Gundrota is Indian and his real first name is Vivek. Yes that's right. The person mandating that you must use your real name, is using a phoney name.
Then there are the celebrities, like Fifty Cent and Lady Gaga who are allowed to use their fake names.
Google gets a +1 for hypocrisy.
Or Firefox or Safari.
Most businesses are starting or have already switched to Windows 7 since support for XP officially ends in 18 months.
The ending of support is irrelevant. What "support" could you possibly need for XP? Anyone who is currently running XP will continue to do so until their last computer dies and cannot be repaired.
Businesses are switching to Windows 7 only because all the new computers they buy come with Windows 7 installed. If they could still get new computers with Windows XP installed, they would buy them.
I'm no fan of Internet Explorer, but that's just complete bullshit. IE 8 isn't that old and not that bad. It isn't as good as Firefox or Chrome, but it's not that bad.. I really wonder if there is any legitimate technical reason for not allowing IE8, or if it's just anti-Microsoft bias -- sort of the reverse of what used to happen back when IE was the dominant browser.
For example, years ago when Firefox was just starting to become popular, there were some bank and credit card websites that would not allow me to use Firefox, they insisted that I had to use IE. So I changed Firefox's user agent string to IE and those sites worked just fine. In other words, there was no legitimate technical reason for not allowing browsers other than IE. Just ignorance and /or bias that was not based on any reality.
Company-wise, their IPO certainly was a bigger mistake than using HTML5 in iOS.
The IPO was inevitable and unavoidable. It was a bad idea, but it was inevitable and unavoidable.
First, Facebook had already taken more than a billion dollars from investors, including half a billion from Goldman-Sachs alone. So that means that an IPO (aka pump and dump) was inevitable.
Second, Facebook is the new MySpace and everyone knows it. An IPO (aka pump and dump) is the fastest way to cash in on the latest fad before the bubble pops.
Not surprising when we're burning so much food by turning it into ethanol and putting it in our cars.
The corn being wasted on ethanol production is trivial, and affects no one outside of the United States. Yes, there are people starving in the world. And if you set aside the politically correct bullshit, you find that every single one of them is starving for the same reason:
(A) They lack the basic intelligence needed to produce or obtain food
or
(B) They live in an area where environmental conditions make food production difficult (desert, etc.)
Both of these are their own fault and no one else. As a comedian once said. "If there's no food where you live -- MOVE!!"
visiting each and relaying the juiciest parts of his transcripts to the reader. In doing so, this book takes on an interesting form with a meaty dense center to each chapter (the actual dialogues) surrounded by the light and fluffy bread of Holt's expert writing about the settings, weather and food of his travels. While this consequently lacks the characteristics of a heady hard hitting original philosophical work, these sandwiches should prove quite palatable for most readers.
Wow.
Just wow.
That is the biggest steaming pile of shit I've ever read.
Mozilla says they have "now plugged the main cause of memory leaks in Firefox add-ons."
Er, the same memory leaks they assured us weren't happening or weren't their fault?
I have to give them credit. The Firefox devs have quite a sense of humor.
I remember when they claimed that Firefox's excessive memory usage was a feature not a bug -- i.e., Firefox was caching pages. Which is really great except that it wasn't true.
the browser is finally switching to a "silent" update model, like Chrome. (No doubt in answer to endless complaints about their rapid release cycle.
So people have been complaining about Firefox's Rapid Release Cycle -- more correctly called Rapid Version Number Inflation -- and so Firefox's solution is to continue doing it and just not tell you about it.
Brilliant.
Well, sure, but they won't be buying a new one every two years, and the margins for HP and Dell and such will be razor-thin.
Their profits are actually quite good. But then you subtract all the money they pay to incompetent executives, and all the money they waste on pointless mergers and acquisitions, and suddenly they are losing money.
I would fire the whole board and start fresh there. Get some good leadership at the top!
And how exactly would you do that? The whole system is corrupt and completely rigged for the specific purpose of preventing that from happening. Things like special classes of stock which are only given to select insiders and that give them increased numbers of votes over the "regular" shareholders , making it impossible for "dissident" or "activist" shareholders to have any power.
Commodity PCs might be boring, but they are still needed and there is still a big market for them. The real problem is here:
HP, like too many other companies, has reduced its R&D to almost nothing and tried to get new products and ideas by just going out and buying other companies.