I took you to task for putting words in another poster's mouth with your "translation:" snark. You responded with a non-sequitur. You then claimed some error on my part, which you have yet to state. Simply repeating your claim that I've made a mistake, without describing the mistake, does not support your claim, even if you do turn the snottiness up a notch on each iteration.
You want to put an end to this, simply state what mistake you believe I've made.
And who decided that the ultrahot coffee should be served in a flimsy foam cup that gets soft when the contents are really hot?
The cup didn't fail. She took the top off the cup, and spilled the contents. If the cup had melted or something, you'd have a point, but it didn't, so you don't.
Yes, apparently you're allowed to burn cars in France with impunity.
I wonder, should owners of cars that have been burned by mobs sue the manufacturers for failing to make them out of high-temperature titanium alloys that won't burn if hit with a Molotov cocktail?
If she drank the cofee her mouth would have burned.
That would be why smarter people tend to sip the coffee with a great deal of air, to test the temperature, and put it down and wait a while if it's too hot.
When you buy a hot drink, you should expect it to be hot!
Perhaps you did come to a different conclusion than mine because you didn't get burned by McD's coffee around 1991 or so, as I did.
More like, I came to the conclusion I did as a matter of principle.
I felt stupid but also annoyed at McD for serving coffee that plainly didn't need to be that hot.
So, rather than take responsibility for your own clumsiness, you decided to blame the vendor? Well, that may have worked for you as an ego-saving strategy, but it seems rather less than honest to me.
And no, i would not have come to a different conclusion if I had done the same thing to myself. I gave myself a very nasty cut with an X-Acto knife once. I didn't sue them for making it sharp.
Generally, the license to the patent includes a clause that says that the licensee can't get their money back if the patent is eventually ruled invalid.
That's not a "translation", it's an entirely different sentence in the same language. Trying to put words in someone else's mouth is a rather lame rhetorical device.
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You're a chick, aren't you? This whole exchange is just an extended, standard "if you don't know, I won't tell you" passive-aggression exercise.
-jcr
I think we can all agree on common-sense technology control, such as banning "assault capacitors" with a rating higher than 100uF.
You can have my 10 Farad capacitors when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Make sure they're fully discharged first, of course..
-jcr
Read it again, and this time comprehend what I was saying.
I have no trouble with comprehension. You can either come right out and say what you mean, or continue to be a pompous git. Your choice.
-jcr
Once upon a time, it used to be that only the military could fark up my garage door opener.
Only the military could buy batteries, transistors, inductors, capacitors, and resistors in your country?
Sounds pretty harsh.
-jcr
I never went looking for one, but I wonder if there are any TRS-80 emulators?
-jcr
Yeah yeah, I know this game. I point it out,
I took you to task for putting words in another poster's mouth with your "translation:" snark. You responded with a non-sequitur. You then claimed some error on my part, which you have yet to state. Simply repeating your claim that I've made a mistake, without describing the mistake, does not support your claim, even if you do turn the snottiness up a notch on each iteration.
You want to put an end to this, simply state what mistake you believe I've made.
-jcr
Hey dude, you painted yourself into this corner. Go off on tangents if you want, but you still haven't shown me an error on my part.
-jcr
I've already drawn attention to it once.
Nope, you've just said it's there. Support your claim, if you can.
-jcr
What happens is that the styrofoam cup gets soft.
Somehow, tens of millions of other customers seem to handle these allegedly defective cups without incident.
-jcr
Your claim, your burden of proof.
-jcr
...when Apple was the ONLY option in US education.
That was never the case.
-jcr
What mistake do you claim I've made?
-jcr
And who decided that the ultrahot coffee should be served in a flimsy foam cup that gets soft when the contents are really hot?
The cup didn't fail. She took the top off the cup, and spilled the contents. If the cup had melted or something, you'd have a point, but it didn't, so you don't.
-jcr
1) Frances laws != US Laws (thank god)
Yes, apparently you're allowed to burn cars in France with impunity.
I wonder, should owners of cars that have been burned by mobs sue the manufacturers for failing to make them out of high-temperature titanium alloys that won't burn if hit with a Molotov cocktail?
-jcr
The best solution is to stop the hazard at its source, clearly here the scalding coffee.
And what if other people don't want to live in a mommy society that attempts to child-proof the world?
-jcr
If she drank the cofee her mouth would have burned.
That would be why smarter people tend to sip the coffee with a great deal of air, to test the temperature, and put it down and wait a while if it's too hot.
When you buy a hot drink, you should expect it to be hot!
-jcr
Perhaps you did come to a different conclusion than mine because you didn't get burned by McD's coffee around 1991 or so, as I did.
More like, I came to the conclusion I did as a matter of principle.
I felt stupid but also annoyed at McD for serving coffee that plainly didn't need to be that hot.
So, rather than take responsibility for your own clumsiness, you decided to blame the vendor? Well, that may have worked for you as an ego-saving strategy, but it seems rather less than honest to me.
And no, i would not have come to a different conclusion if I had done the same thing to myself. I gave myself a very nasty cut with an X-Acto knife once. I didn't sue them for making it sharp.
-jcr
Perhaps, but they're certainly making amends.
-jcr
The GUI was fubar
I don't agree with you on that. It wasn't like photoshop, but it wasn't meant to be.
-jcr
I made it, then you illustrated it. Good job.
You don't win an argument simply by proclaiming that you have.
-jcr
Generally, the license to the patent includes a clause that says that the licensee can't get their money back if the patent is eventually ruled invalid.
-jcr
Do you imagine that you're making any point, by tossing out a non-sequitur?
-jcr
That's not a "translation", it's an entirely different sentence in the same language. Trying to put words in someone else's mouth is a rather lame rhetorical device.
-jcr
'If there were no Apple, it would be necessary for Microsoft to create one.' (apologies to Voltaire)
Nah.. If there were no Apple, Microsoft would be copying Sun. (shudder)
-jcr
If your app is 100% cocoa, then producing an Intel binary is as simple as a recompile.
Almost. I had a few developers who needed to tweak a few things to build for Intel, but most of them were done the first day of WWDC '05.
-jcr