It has nothing to do with lazy consumers or anything like that. All they are saying is that there are no more late fees. And there aren't any more late fees.
Furthermore, the new policy IS more forgiving. In the absolute worst case scenario you pay the price of the DVD after 37 days. (And if you come back before those 37 days are up, guess what its $1.25. That has to be better (more forgiving) that the old policy).
Now, I don't recall excatly the pricing of Blockbuster's old policy, but I don't think they stopped charging you late fees after 37 days, or ever (until you returned the video). And I'm sure after 37 days of not returning said tape you would have easily paid for the tape and then some (Feel free to whip out some numbers here if you want). They said no more late fees, you get no more late fees. They aren't trying to pull the wool over your eyes, they ARE being more forgiving.
I take issue with the fraud idea. They aren't charging late fees anymore. They just set it up so you buy the video implicitly if you keep it seven days after the due date. Thats really not that unreasonably. And $1.25 for keeping a movie for 37 days after its due date is not so terrible either.
What you wrote is not the same thing as what he wrote. The equivalent would be object->doThis(that, that); Or possibly even: object->doThisForThis(that, that);
Well no. Because if I side with you, I'll be siding with an individual, but if I side with you I'll be siding against the guy that got fired, but if side against him I'll be siding with Google which would be siding with a non-individual, which then --DOES NOT COMPUTE --
There's nothing you can do with sed and awk that you can't do in just plain sh. Having 656K for the shell and 311Kb for awk and 41Kb for sed when writing a small tool is ridiculous.
From what I understand of the article, cross-platform compatibilty on console just like anywhere else is only a problem if you use features avaible on one console not availble on another. If capcom had started on the PS2 the port to the GC might have looked the same in this case.
Well going by MS's definition, unsafe is managed, just still unsafe. Its not the same as unmanaged code (Again using MS's definitons of unsafe (as in the keyword, and managed and unmanaged). At least AFAIK.
I put the g in brackets! That means I was making a joke. You don't have to think it was funny. You can comment on my lack of humor, but don't act like I was actually arguing with you. I was joking! I'm still joking in fact. That comment was made in the spirit of kidding around. So's this one.
Pssst, don't mess with him man, thats Randal L. Schwartz you're arguing about Perl with. As in the Schwartzian transform Randall L. Schwartz. Do not meddle in the affairs of perl monks for they are subtle and quick to anger. <g>
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It has nothing to do with lazy consumers or anything like that. All they are saying is that there are no more late fees. And there aren't any more late fees.
Furthermore, the new policy IS more forgiving. In the absolute worst case scenario you pay the price of the DVD after 37 days. (And if you come back before those 37 days are up, guess what its $1.25. That has to be better (more forgiving) that the old policy).
Now, I don't recall excatly the pricing of Blockbuster's old policy, but I don't think they stopped charging you late fees after 37 days, or ever (until you returned the video). And I'm sure after 37 days of not returning said tape you would have easily paid for the tape and then some (Feel free to whip out some numbers here if you want). They said no more late fees, you get no more late fees. They aren't trying to pull the wool over your eyes, they ARE being more forgiving.
I take issue with the fraud idea. They aren't charging late fees anymore. They just set it up so you buy the video implicitly if you keep it seven days after the due date. Thats really not that unreasonably. And $1.25 for keeping a movie for 37 days after its due date is not so terrible either.
I'm so sorry for trying to make a joke. Please forgive me oh master of the intricacies of Godwin's Law.
I call GODWIN! ;)
Maybe, maybe not. GP sounds like he's just barely teetering on the edge of troll territory.
What you wrote is not the same thing as what he wrote. The equivalent would be object->doThis(that, that); Or possibly even: object->doThisForThis(that, that);
You do mean middle clicks, and not left clicks right?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
Well no. Because if I side with you, I'll be siding with an individual, but if I side with you I'll be siding against the guy that got fired, but if side against him I'll be siding with Google which would be siding with a non-individual, which then --DOES NOT COMPUTE --
Ah if only slashbots really were bots.
23 Skidoo!
There's nothing you can do with sed and awk that you can't do in just plain sh. Having 656K for the shell and 311Kb for awk and 41Kb for sed when writing a small tool is ridiculous.
From what I understand of the article, cross-platform compatibilty on console just like anywhere else is only a problem if you use features avaible on one console not availble on another. If capcom had started on the PS2 the port to the GC might have looked the same in this case.
But pedantic pissing contests are my favorite! ;)
Well if previous trends in computing are any indication, it will actually be the Playstation/370.
You might not realize it, but that example is actually agreeing with your parent. A subclass that does that is breaking the substituion principle.
Well going by MS's definition, unsafe is managed, just still unsafe. Its not the same as unmanaged code (Again using MS's definitons of unsafe (as in the keyword, and managed and unmanaged). At least AFAIK.
That coordinate system (origin in upper left corner) is pretty much par for the course in most APIs AFAIK.
Yes, thats all well and good, but wheres the library to add infix syntax to lisp?
I put the g in brackets! That means I was making a joke. You don't have to think it was funny. You can comment on my lack of humor, but don't act like I was actually arguing with you. I was joking! I'm still joking in fact. That comment was made in the spirit of kidding around. So's this one.
Pssst, don't mess with him man, thats Randal L. Schwartz you're arguing about Perl with. As in the Schwartzian transform Randall L. Schwartz. Do not meddle in the affairs of perl monks for they are subtle and quick to anger. <g>
s/car/Model T/
Ah, but do they have the same algorhyme?
any other journalistic source?
I thought I was gonna have to pay for it, but the great-grandparent filled me with hopes that you just dashed. *tear*
Really? It DEFINITLY comes with the S-Video adapter out of the box? Excellent. I was worrying about having to buy one.