My fridge did not clearly indicate that keeping my food cold would cost me money in electricity. The hid that fact away in the "manual." I'm outraged.
Really? Every fridge I've ever seen in a store has a great big sticker on the front with a dollar amount for the expected electricity cost.
If people aren't aware that making an electronic device do work uses more electricity, it's their issue.
Usually, a fridge or freezer uses less electricity when it is full than when it is empty. So, the more work you ask it to do, the less it costs. Maybe it's not so obvious.
Your SSN isn't readable. Anyone who says otherwise has either tapped the actual fiber that runs the cardreaders, or the layout has changed from the past.
Or has their own card reader to swipe your card through. All it has is your SSN + an extra digit, which is incremented each time you lose your card.
Why exactly does the card have to have your SSN, rather than some other unique (and unguessable) key? Here's a trick. Find yourself a magstripe writer, and the SSN of student (not hard, they're everywhere). Write SSN followed by 1 on a card, and see where you can go.
Wait, what was the problem again? Someone might find out your SSN? If you ask me, the school should be more worried about unauthorized access, theft, etc.
Yes, you can somewhat stop people from putting image requests to your server in their pages, but you can't stop people from snarfing your images.
So now they have my images, and put them on their own site, which doesn't cost me any bandwidth. Sounds like a good thing to me.
The reason to stop them linking to images on my server is to save me bandwidth, not to prevent people from stealing my images. (That's what copyright is for.:-)
I don't think so--most mail order purchases say something like "CA residents add X % sales tax." or a few other states. That's because the company that you're ordering from operates from CA (or whatever). IANAL, but I beleive that you only have to pay sales taxes if you're buying from a company that operates from the state you currently are in.
AFAIK, most states require the tax to be paid on anything consumed within their state. So, technically, your order from a CA merchant to, say, NY, should have NY tax paid on it.
The problem comes in that NY has no power to enforce their laws on a "foreign" retailer. They can come after you, the buyer, but that's very hard. The retailer could collect that tax, and present it to NY, but that would only drive you away to another vendor, so they don't.
Basically, all these internet stores and mail-order catalogs are aiding and abetting you in your quest to deprive your state of revenue it has declared it is allowed to collect.
How do you propose NY (or any other state) can find out about all those transactions that end with merchandise shipped into their state, and collect taxes on it?
By the way, my number one problem with C++ error handling is the lack of a finally feature. If you want a block of code to be aware of exceptions while not actually trapping them, you have two choices:
Catch all exceptions, then rethrow. The problems with this approach is that any C++ value (including numbers and any kind of pointer) can be an exception, and even among C++ classes there is no guaranteed base exception class
You don't need to have a base type for exceptions. This is what catch(...) is for.
try { // stuff that could throw
}
catch(...) { // my cleanup, which isn't dependent on the exception
throw;// optional, of course
}
Well, there are a couple of differences. You can still buy a car, it's not like your choices are "lease or walk".
Plus, there's no such thing as a free car, as there is with free (as in beer) software. So MS is really shooting itself in the foot here. They push "lease or walk", and we fight back with "or Linux, or BSD, or HURD, etc..."
Ingredients: Ketchup, FD&C Blue #something, FD&C Yellow #something
If I recall correctly. (My kids had some at BK a couple months ago.) They just throw so much coloring in there that you can't see the red anymore. Tasted the same, according to my wife.
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Really? Every fridge I've ever seen in a store has a great big sticker on the front with a dollar amount for the expected electricity cost.
Usually, a fridge or freezer uses less electricity when it is full than when it is empty. So, the more work you ask it to do, the less it costs. Maybe it's not so obvious.
In Firefox, if I click on a link that wants to open up a new window, it opens up a whole new window instead of just a tab.
They've got a fix for that. See Bug 172962 (and don't forget that bugzilla won't let you click through that)
Or has their own card reader to swipe your card through. All it has is your SSN + an extra digit, which is incremented each time you lose your card.
Why exactly does the card have to have your SSN, rather than some other unique (and unguessable) key? Here's a trick. Find yourself a magstripe writer, and the SSN of student (not hard, they're everywhere). Write SSN followed by 1 on a card, and see where you can go.
Wait, what was the problem again? Someone might find out your SSN? If you ask me, the school should be more worried about unauthorized access, theft, etc.
The GPL is viral. Thats the whole point of the GPL. Microsoft says thats a negative. Stallman says it's a positive.
Have you looked up the meaning of viral? "of, relating to, or caused by a virus" I don't think that quite applies.
I think infectious would apply better, but it still has a negative connotation. Perhaps transitive?
Yes, you can somewhat stop people from putting image requests to your server in their pages, but you can't stop people from snarfing your images.
So now they have my images, and put them on their own site, which doesn't cost me any bandwidth. Sounds like a good thing to me.
The reason to stop them linking to images on my server is to save me bandwidth, not to prevent people from stealing my images. (That's what copyright is for. :-)
I don't think so--most mail order purchases say something like "CA residents add X % sales tax." or a few other states. That's because the company that you're ordering from operates from CA (or whatever). IANAL, but I beleive that you only have to pay sales taxes if you're buying from a company that operates from the state you currently are in.
AFAIK, most states require the tax to be paid on anything consumed within their state. So, technically, your order from a CA merchant to, say, NY, should have NY tax paid on it.
The problem comes in that NY has no power to enforce their laws on a "foreign" retailer. They can come after you, the buyer, but that's very hard. The retailer could collect that tax, and present it to NY, but that would only drive you away to another vendor, so they don't.
Basically, all these internet stores and mail-order catalogs are aiding and abetting you in your quest to deprive your state of revenue it has declared it is allowed to collect.
How do you propose NY (or any other state) can find out about all those transactions that end with merchandise shipped into their state, and collect taxes on it?
- Catch all exceptions, then rethrow. The problems with this approach is that any C++ value (including numbers and any kind of pointer) can be an exception, and even among C++ classes there is no guaranteed base exception class
You don't need to have a base type for exceptions. This is what catch(...) is for.What does this case have to do with anti-trust legislation? This is a civil case, over patent infringement. Totally unrelated.
Plus, there's no such thing as a free car, as there is with free (as in beer) software. So MS is really shooting itself in the foot here. They push "lease or walk", and we fight back with "or Linux, or BSD, or HURD, etc..."
Ingredients: Ketchup, FD&C Blue #something, FD&C Yellow #something
If I recall correctly. (My kids had some at BK a couple months ago.) They just throw so much coloring in there that you can't see the red anymore. Tasted the same, according to my wife.