But if you get an erection during the lap-dance, surely you're acknowledging that she's performing a service for which you would normally pay, nullifying the prior express denial of interest in a business relationship.
Does that mean that when your grass grows back you can ask the kid who mowed your lawn for your money back? No.
Does that mean that when your treehouse, built out of wood you bought from your friendly neighborhood lumber yard 15 years ago, begins to rot because it was untreated lumber,you can demand your money back from the lumberyard? No.
IANAL, but natural processes (grass growing, wood decaying, penises becoming erect under proper stimulation) cannot affect a contract. In the case of the dancer, the man's denial of the lapdance was, in its own right, a verbal contract stating 'I will not pay you to dance naked in front of me'. Her dancing naked in front of him now cannot be charged for, under the terms of the previous verbal contract.
Either way, the fact remains that an explicit agreement is not required for the customer to be liable for payment.
I dont know about whereve you're from... but here in Ontario (and I'm pretty sure at least the rest of Canada), skilled trade is very organized in that respect.
Mechanics, Technicians, Electricians, Plumbers, etc... are required by law to provide an estimate before any work is done. This estimate provides the consumer with a list of what labour is to be done, approximately how long it will take (in hours), and what parts are required.
This must be signed before work is to commence, and the if the final price is going to be more than a marginal (10% I believe) difference from the original estimate, work must cease until the estimate is renegotiated.
I.e. You will pay us approximately this much for what we feel is 4 hrs work and X dollars worth of parts.
This must be signed by the customer and a person acting on behalf of the technician.
Sounds like a contract to me...
"Oh I disagree...
We had a contract, for likeness rights; remember?
As we are not only the character basis but obviously the artistic basis for your intellectual property, when said property was optioned to Miramax you were legally obligated to secure our permission to transfer the comic book to another medium.
Since you failed to do that, Banky, you find yourself in a very actionable position..."
In this case, all Stan is saying is: "Where's my mothefsckin' movie check?"
Whats next?
"Secure Wireless Through Plastic Cable Tubing!"
"Secure Wireless through Organic Transmission"... basically you print out your data iwth organic dyes on a piece of unbleached paper... hand it to the guy in the next cubicle... and make sure he burns it after he reads it (so the warchalkers don't pick it p off of the desk)
save for those rare occasions when no one is uploading from me, when it might reach 15K or so.
That's because you use ADSL, what is commonly used for residential DSL.
The way it works is that your DSL modem can both upload and download, but not at the same time (it's not full duplex). On top of that, the required ACKs use badwidth in the opposite direction of traffic.
If your upstream bandwidth is maed out by P2P or FTP leeches, you have no bandwidth left for ACKs.
I'm 6'1...
My point was that how much weight you gained is irrelevant... you have to take into account what age and what weight you were before to make an accurate picture
Hmm - I take it the server grade components only blow up after the server is linked on slashdot?
No, after the first slashdotting, the server merely melts.
If, by some miracle the server still accepts requests afterwards, it is not until the second slashdotting that it actually explodes...
The fact of the matter is not that Madrake is a RedHat based distro and you dont like RedHat. It is that Mandrake does all the setup for you, so someone with [even considerably] less knowledge in this field can just pop in the CD and linux will install, up to the point where they can chat on various IM networks, share their files with their friends onthe fasttrack and gnutella based networks, and play the majority of the multimedia they can play under Windows. This is the direction that Linux needs to go to get on the desktop.
On top of that, the beautiful thing about linux is this: if you don't like it; don't use it. There are many alternatives (I don't like Redhat/Mandrake either, but that doesn't make me criticize it). Stick with your Debian but if you start to complain that something's to hard, don't look for any sympathy. Until you use the easiest distro, you have nothing to complain about.
1. Lack of seperation between content and logic. Embedded logic code inside presentation can lead to a bewildering jungle of death for anyone who tries to maintain the code. Also, repeated logic must be maintained across all pages, instead of changing it in one place. (this goes for all ASP, PHP, perl type scripts)
2. Performance problems with interpreted languages
Ask these guys about compiling PHP scripts. Alternatively talk to these guys about caching your interpreted, 'compiled' code.
3. Can't take advantage of OO goodness. php is a flat procedural-like language, you can't do the robust object modeling, or any of the other spiffy OO things you can do with c++, java, (maybe.net) etc.
Ok one point... I give you that...
4. HTML lock in. Your code will forever live in HTML, if you want a different display format (unlikely) you're stuck. ie. what if you want to have a propriatary client instead of html on your plam, you have to rewrite all the logic.
This is total bullshit.
PHP fully supports ncurses for direct input.
Also, I personally have written quite a few small daemons with PHP which had their own UI. Example code to write your own can be found under this section of the PHP manual.
5. Fancy features availible in Java (maybe.net) first. Oracle Objects, native DB connectors, will probably be written for Java before anyone tries to implement them (if ever) in PHP. You might not need these features of a small site, so its not that big of a deal.
PHP supports many, if not most of the standard (and non-standard) databases available.
Not to flame, but I think you needed to be shown a little more of the world, it doesn't end at printf("Hello
Before you flame, the parse error was intentional...
if you have an ATI vid card w/TV Out, you can use their mulimedia center fullscreen on one monitor (mirrored on TV) and still use the other monitor for something else.
PowerDVD also supports this feature, although it is not free (as in beer)
How about a distributed project where millions of people around the world can correct spelling mistakes in Slashdot articles. Or cancel previously posted stories.
Because even if they figured out a way to port the application to every PC, Mac, superconputer, cell phone, PDA, refrigerator (et addendum)... They still would not get enough processing power to do it within any of our lifetimes.
Aside from the Britney Spears music that's pretty muych the very definition of my life...
Oh... that and instead of MTV I watch the Canadian equivalents: MuchLoud and EdgeTV...
Don't knock it 'till you've tried it... I have a blast...
But judging by the arguments about this, there's a subclass of rather vocal astronomers on both sides who are pretty anal and uncompromising - a bit like the scientific equivalent of birdwatchers
Or slashdot readers?
Anal Uncompromising/. Reader 1: Use Linux!!! Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 1: It's a Planet!!!
Anal Uncompromising/. Reader 2: Use BSD!!! Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 2: It's a Kuiper-Belt Object!!!
Anal Uncompromising/. Reader 1: So we both agree... We shouldn't use Windows... Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 1: So we both agree... it's not a star...
Anal Uncompromising/. Reader 2: I don't agree to that solely on the basis that you believe it to be true... do you have any proof? Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 2: I don't agree to that solely on the basis that you believe it to be true... do you have any proof?
Slashdot Mirror
But if you get an erection during the lap-dance, surely you're acknowledging that she's performing a service for which you would normally pay, nullifying the prior express denial of interest in a business relationship.
Does that mean that when your grass grows back you can ask the kid who mowed your lawn for your money back? No.
Does that mean that when your treehouse, built out of wood you bought from your friendly neighborhood lumber yard 15 years ago, begins to rot because it was untreated lumber,you can demand your money back from the lumberyard? No.
IANAL, but natural processes (grass growing, wood decaying, penises becoming erect under proper stimulation) cannot affect a contract. In the case of the dancer, the man's denial of the lapdance was, in its own right, a verbal contract stating 'I will not pay you to dance naked in front of me'. Her dancing naked in front of him now cannot be charged for, under the terms of the previous verbal contract.
Either way, the fact remains that an explicit agreement is not required for the customer to be liable for payment.
I dont know about whereve you're from... but here in Ontario (and I'm pretty sure at least the rest of Canada), skilled trade is very organized in that respect.
Mechanics, Technicians, Electricians, Plumbers, etc... are required by law to provide an estimate before any work is done. This estimate provides the consumer with a list of what labour is to be done, approximately how long it will take (in hours), and what parts are required.
This must be signed before work is to commence, and the if the final price is going to be more than a marginal (10% I believe) difference from the original estimate, work must cease until the estimate is renegotiated.
I.e. You will pay us approximately this much for what we feel is 4 hrs work and X dollars worth of parts.
This must be signed by the customer and a person acting on behalf of the technician.
Sounds like a contract to me...
"since every Mozilla article degrades to a flame fest of Microsoft greatness versus the rest of the world"
s/Microsoft/Open Source/
s/Open Source/Slashdot/
and you'll be right about 80% of the time...
Of course, the really funny thing is that Kevin Smith was saying this to Jason Lee, who is Stan Lee's son.
Yet another reason this comment was totally obligatory.
Stan Lee also appears in Mallrats.
And in Chasing Amy and Dogma IINM
Qouth Kevin Smith:
"Oh I disagree...
We had a contract, for likeness rights; remember?
As we are not only the character basis but obviously the artistic basis for your intellectual property, when said property was optioned to Miramax you were legally obligated to secure our permission to transfer the comic book to another medium.
Since you failed to do that, Banky, you find yourself in a very actionable position..."
In this case, all Stan is saying is: "Where's my mothefsckin' movie check?"
Whats next?
"Secure Wireless Through Plastic Cable Tubing!"
"Secure Wireless through Organic Transmission"... basically you print out your data iwth organic dyes on a piece of unbleached paper... hand it to the guy in the next cubicle... and make sure he burns it after he reads it (so the warchalkers don't pick it p off of the desk)
MIT's SuperArchive
Grabbe the link off of rootprompt in case any of you care
Now I can charge myself $99 a year!
That's all well and good, but if you forget to pay yourself, will you discontinue your account?
save for those rare occasions when no one is uploading from me, when it might reach 15K or so.
That's because you use ADSL, what is commonly used for residential DSL.
The way it works is that your DSL modem can both upload and download, but not at the same time (it's not full duplex). On top of that, the required ACKs use badwidth in the opposite direction of traffic. If your upstream bandwidth is maed out by P2P or FTP leeches, you have no bandwidth left for ACKs.
I'm 6'1...
My point was that how much weight you gained is irrelevant... you have to take into account what age and what weight you were before to make an accurate picture
Hell, I gained 150 lbs sitting in front of computers for the past 15 years...
Bear in mind, however, I was about 70lbs when I was 7 (I think that's about right anyways), so being 220 now @ 22 isn't too bad...
Hmm - I take it the server grade components only blow up after the server is linked on slashdot?
No, after the first slashdotting, the server merely melts.
If, by some miracle the server still accepts requests afterwards, it is not until the second slashdotting that it actually explodes...
The fact of the matter is not that Madrake is a RedHat based distro and you dont like RedHat. It is that Mandrake does all the setup for you, so someone with [even considerably] less knowledge in this field can just pop in the CD and linux will install, up to the point where they can chat on various IM networks, share their files with their friends onthe fasttrack and gnutella based networks, and play the majority of the multimedia they can play under Windows. This is the direction that Linux needs to go to get on the desktop.
On top of that, the beautiful thing about linux is this: if you don't like it; don't use it. There are many alternatives (I don't like Redhat/Mandrake either, but that doesn't make me criticize it). Stick with your Debian but if you start to complain that something's to hard, don't look for any sympathy. Until you use the easiest distro, you have nothing to complain about.
1. Lack of seperation between content and logic. Embedded logic code inside presentation can lead to a bewildering jungle of death for anyone who tries to maintain the code. Also, repeated logic must be maintained across all pages, instead of changing it in one place. (this goes for all ASP, PHP, perl type scripts)
.net) etc.
.net) first. Oracle Objects, native DB connectors, will probably be written for Java before anyone tries to implement them (if ever) in PHP. You might not need these features of a small site, so its not that big of a deal.
Try require() and include()
2. Performance problems with interpreted languages
Ask these guys about compiling PHP scripts. Alternatively talk to these guys about caching your interpreted, 'compiled' code.
3. Can't take advantage of OO goodness. php is a flat procedural-like language, you can't do the robust object modeling, or any of the other spiffy OO things you can do with c++, java, (maybe
Ok one point... I give you that...
4. HTML lock in. Your code will forever live in HTML, if you want a different display format (unlikely) you're stuck. ie. what if you want to have a propriatary client instead of html on your plam, you have to rewrite all the logic.
This is total bullshit.
PHP fully supports ncurses for direct input.
Also, I personally have written quite a few small daemons with PHP which had their own UI. Example code to write your own can be found under this section of the PHP manual.
5. Fancy features availible in Java (maybe
PHP supports many, if not most of the standard (and non-standard) databases available.
Not to flame, but I think you needed to be shown a little more of the world, it doesn't end at printf("Hello
Before you flame, the parse error was intentional...
It will play any media type, as long as you have the appropriate codec installed to decode the data.
if you have an ATI vid card w/TV Out, you can use their mulimedia center fullscreen on one monitor (mirrored on TV) and still use the other monitor for something else.
PowerDVD also supports this feature, although it is not free (as in beer)
How about a distributed project where millions of people around the world can correct spelling mistakes in Slashdot articles. Or cancel previously posted stories.
Because even if they figured out a way to port the application to every PC, Mac, superconputer, cell phone, PDA, refrigerator (et addendum)... They still would not get enough processing power to do it within any of our lifetimes.
"+1 Funny -1 Troll = 0 Ironic"
Alanis Morissette is neither funny nor a troll... Harpy maybe... or possibly a banshee? (Especially considering her appearance in Smith's Dogma).
Now the troll in LotR:FotR, that was a funny troll... I laughed my ass off when it bounded onto the screen...
So instead we patent the act of receiving monetary gain for the use of one's own ideas/IP...
:)
Then we sue all the patent holders
Aside from the Britney Spears music that's pretty muych the very definition of my life...
Oh... that and instead of MTV I watch the Canadian equivalents: MuchLoud and EdgeTV...
Don't knock it 'till you've tried it... I have a blast...
Oh wait, I'm sorry, Uranus is the Bowel Planet.
If 'Ur' CowBoyNeal... Uranus really is a planet...
But judging by the arguments about this, there's a subclass of rather vocal astronomers on both sides who are pretty anal and uncompromising - a bit like the scientific equivalent of birdwatchers
/. Reader 1: Use Linux!!!
/. Reader 2: Use BSD!!!
/. Reader 1: So we both agree... We shouldn't use Windows...
/. Reader 2: I don't agree to that solely on the basis that you believe it to be true... do you have any proof?
Or slashdot readers?
Anal Uncompromising
Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 1: It's a Planet!!!
Anal Uncompromising
Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 2: It's a Kuiper-Belt Object!!!
Anal Uncompromising
Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 1: So we both agree... it's not a star...
Anal Uncompromising
Anal Uncompromising Astronomer 2: I don't agree to that solely on the basis that you believe it to be true... do you have any proof?
Step 1. Inherit large 'space rock' from grandfather... /. telling the world of your latest procurement...
...
Step 2. Post to
Step 4. Profit!!!
First Post .....
oh, and imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
it just is trying to replace outdated and unreliable technology
With state of the art, un reliable technology.