Most likely what you saw was the mobilesafari site. I have no good reason why it would appear to you in your normal browser except if it was a bug which occurred once while they introduced the new iphone version of their site.
I recommend you try setting your browser string to
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
Of course it would happen. The site owner wouldn't need to buy one copy of each book himself. Others could upload the books they like. Do you think one single person seeded everything on TPB?
I'm no precious snowflake. But I am better than a lot of other programmers, which is why they have been fired and I haven't. None of us are irreplaceable, but some of us are worth our money (and a whole lot more) and won't be fired. I make sure to treat my employer as a customer and supply him with high value products for the money he pays me every month.
I notice the world around me, and I feel for you that you are so desperate for a job - any job.
To paraphrase what someone once told me, in four years (more or less), you're going to be 35 anyway. There's not a damn thing you can do about that, except die. if you don't go to school and get your bachelor's degree, then will it be any easier for you if you're an "old man" without a CS degree?
On the other hand: If you can get a job now, then in four years you'll have four years of actual work experience which is worth far more than four years of schooling.
I have had my share of fresh out of school co-workers, and wouldn't recommend anyone with less than 5 years of work experience to my employer ever. I say go and get the work experience if you can. It'll be worth far more in four years. And with four years of work experience no one will care about a diploma which is outdated the year after you get it anyway.
Especially given that the image of giving birth is really gross - involving blood, guts, slime and goo. I'll take the image people having hot hot sex any day.
However Linux has a more sane Version Number system
... or at least it did until they started to add new features for every increment of 2.6.x. In the old days of MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX you would increment MINOR when adding new features and increment MAJOR when abandoning compatibility with old versions.
Whoa! Hold back on the anger kiddo. Are you looking for a job and missed an opportunity you really wanted? There are many reasons not to hire a guy. One could be a really bad attitude - kind of like the one you just demonstrated.
Well here it's just around. I know 3 Macbook users but I'll have to think a while to count all the Linux users I know.
Mind you, I live in Europe, I think Apple never caught on as much here.
I live in Europe as well. All the Linux users I know have switched to Macs now.
Come on, that wasn't off topic. That was fun! The summary is so very pro-google that even I think it's too much, and I wear my "Google - I'm feeling lucky" t-shirt with pride...
Replying to myself. I just came back from the meeting with the insurance company. Based on my current age I am going to pay approx. $272 for medical insurance...
My first instinct was to say that Halo would fall somewhere in between cola and cocaine. On second thought: NO! Halo is a toy! If a boy goes on a killing spree if someone takes his toy then the toy is NEVER to blame!
This boy is clearly sick and may need professional help.
Well, there public medical insurance, which is rather useless... I pay $300 for my insurance against critical illness (inability to work etc), and I have a meeting this afternoon with a second health insurance company which will pay for my use of private hospitals and medical clinics. I have yet to see how expensive that is going to be...
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to get the results you described.
Of course it would happen. The site owner wouldn't need to buy one copy of each book himself. Others could upload the books they like. Do you think one single person seeded everything on TPB?
So, with my free texting plan I can blackmail US telco customers. Sweet. Pay me $100 now or I will send you 1000 text messages.
And not even future fantasy, just plain fantasy. It starts out with "A long time ago in galaxy far far away"
I'm not the parent poster, but I agree with him.
I'm no precious snowflake. But I am better than a lot of other programmers, which is why they have been fired and I haven't. None of us are irreplaceable, but some of us are worth our money (and a whole lot more) and won't be fired. I make sure to treat my employer as a customer and supply him with high value products for the money he pays me every month.
I notice the world around me, and I feel for you that you are so desperate for a job - any job.
To paraphrase what someone once told me, in four years (more or less), you're going to be 35 anyway. There's not a damn thing you can do about that, except die. if you don't go to school and get your bachelor's degree, then will it be any easier for you if you're an "old man" without a CS degree?
On the other hand: If you can get a job now, then in four years you'll have four years of actual work experience which is worth far more than four years of schooling.
I have had my share of fresh out of school co-workers, and wouldn't recommend anyone with less than 5 years of work experience to my employer ever. I say go and get the work experience if you can. It'll be worth far more in four years. And with four years of work experience no one will care about a diploma which is outdated the year after you get it anyway.
Especially given that the image of giving birth is really gross - involving blood, guts, slime and goo. I'll take the image people having hot hot sex any day.
However Linux has a more sane Version Number system
... or at least it did until they started to add new features for every increment of 2.6.x. In the old days of MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX you would increment MINOR when adding new features and increment MAJOR when abandoning compatibility with old versions.
In Britain, ton is colloquially used to refer to 100 of a given unit.
I believe you are about right. About 100 people might be using Vista every day and have no problem with it ;)
Whoa! Hold back on the anger kiddo. Are you looking for a job and missed an opportunity you really wanted? There are many reasons not to hire a guy. One could be a really bad attitude - kind of like the one you just demonstrated.
If the book publishers are about to make the same mistakes as RIAA, then at least we know where they are heading now.
There goes my ability to say that I have a social life...
Well here it's just around. I know 3 Macbook users but I'll have to think a while to count all the Linux users I know. Mind you, I live in Europe, I think Apple never caught on as much here.
I live in Europe as well. All the Linux users I know have switched to Macs now.
Did netcraft confirm it?
The Germans who fought and lost in World War I were Nazis. I got it right.
With that kind of argument, you could prove that the Germans couldn't lose World War I...
Godwin's law!
I didn't read your post beyond those words. If you have a point try and make it without invoking Godwins's law...
Also, there's the "my cat accepted the terms - not me" aspect to eulas which can easily render them unenforcable...
Corporations exist to increase the public wealth.
No they don't.
They exist to increase their owners personal wealth. Increasing public wealth is a side effect of having employees.
Actually, in this instance their ethics are okay. Period.
Read the article. They were forced. Look a the Egyptian govenments ethics in stead.
Come on, that wasn't off topic. That was fun! The summary is so very pro-google that even I think it's too much, and I wear my "Google - I'm feeling lucky" t-shirt with pride...
You obviously have now idea what you are talking about when it comes to public education in this country.
Need I say anymore?
Replying to myself. I just came back from the meeting with the insurance company. Based on my current age I am going to pay approx. $272 for medical insurance...
What was the AC's point again?
My first instinct was to say that Halo would fall somewhere in between cola and cocaine. On second thought: NO! Halo is a toy! If a boy goes on a killing spree if someone takes his toy then the toy is NEVER to blame!
This boy is clearly sick and may need professional help.
Well, there public medical insurance, which is rather useless... I pay $300 for my insurance against critical illness (inability to work etc), and I have a meeting this afternoon with a second health insurance company which will pay for my use of private hospitals and medical clinics. I have yet to see how expensive that is going to be...
Buu huu...
In Denmark tax rates are:
- 39% of $0 to $48,300
- 44% of $48,300 to $58,000
- 59% of $58,000 and up
Actually it's a lot more complicated than that, but it boils down to approx. the rates above...