I believe the issue is whether the charges are publicly disclosed. He would have to know that the charges are in order to defend himself, but the nature of the charges might not see the public light of day without the negotiation.
What about the support aspect? RedHat can make some money just supporting their product since a lot of people (and specifically businesses) want to have someone they can just call to fix that technical problem they're having. When's the last time you needed tech. support on winzip? I hope never.
In case you care, Hogan's Alley was a old Nintendo (not original not super) which required the light gun. You shot cutouts of the badguys like a shooting gallery.
I certainly hope that commment is simply sarcasm, but I have this feeling that it's not. First off I have to agree that there is a lot of cr*p out there, but a good search engine (like google) will help you sort through it.
There's no reason that some company paying to have their site listed higher means that they have better content. In fact I often search for things such as published computer science papers and random pop-culture facts which no company would pay to rank. When I do search for something like software, which a company may have posted, I often find that free alternatives (which may be unsponsored personal projects) are often good enough, or even better. Rarely do I end up choosing the big companies product (which in your sort of search engine would be listed higher).
Any search which was solely based on the payment of the listed sites is subject to manipulation by any entity with enough cash. This means that hits which are actually closer in content to what I'm searching for will not be ranked as highly simply because they're personal or University projects.
Your calculation is simply computing the volume of space which we would consider a near miss. However, since the asteroids travel in a line the more meaningful measure would be a ratio of not the volume, but rather the area. Imagine an asteroid is headed toward us, the earth would look like a circle in the center of the near miss zone. Thus a ratio of (pi * 244000^2) to (pi * 4000^2) seems more appropriate when considering the odds of the rock hitting us. Still, I agree with the gist of your post: the near misses are still a lot more common than the hits.
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Ha, I've seen both, so take that. And occasionally the sidewalk in front, the ceiling above, the floor if the fall was forward, etc.
I believe the issue is whether the charges are publicly disclosed. He would have to know that the charges are in order to defend himself, but the nature of the charges might not see the public light of day without the negotiation.
Mmmmm, lick a pack of wolves.
Apparently the differences between 'too', 'to', and 'two' are too complicated too =). Oooooo feel the alliteration.
What about the support aspect? RedHat can make some money just supporting their product since a lot of people (and specifically businesses) want to have someone they can just call to fix that technical problem they're having. When's the last time you needed tech. support on winzip? I hope never.
In case you care, Hogan's Alley was a old Nintendo (not original not super) which required the light gun. You shot cutouts of the badguys like a shooting gallery.
I certainly hope that commment is simply sarcasm, but I have this feeling that it's not. First off I have to agree that there is a lot of cr*p out there, but a good search engine (like google) will help you sort through it.
There's no reason that some company paying to have their site listed higher means that they have better content. In fact I often search for things such as published computer science papers and random pop-culture facts which no company would pay to rank. When I do search for something like software, which a company may have posted, I often find that free alternatives (which may be unsponsored personal projects) are often good enough, or even better. Rarely do I end up choosing the big companies product (which in your sort of search engine would be listed higher).
Any search which was solely based on the payment of the listed sites is subject to manipulation by any entity with enough cash. This means that hits which are actually closer in content to what I'm searching for will not be ranked as highly simply because they're personal or University projects.
Your calculation is simply computing the volume of space which we would consider a near miss. However, since the asteroids travel in a line the more meaningful measure would be a ratio of not the volume, but rather the area. Imagine an asteroid is headed toward us, the earth would look like a circle in the center of the near miss zone. Thus a ratio of (pi * 244000^2) to (pi * 4000^2) seems more appropriate when considering the odds of the rock hitting us. Still, I agree with the gist of your post: the near misses are still a lot more common than the hits.