They're not banning coke, they're requesting people make sure that there's no GPS in the coke can. Which, figuring Martin's statement is likely correct (effectively, a roughly coke can shaped wireless phone with a GPS), is pretty easy to do.
I should smack you, but you make it clear you don't understand english. =^^=
Unary is the next counting system down from binary - it has one digit. 0, 00, 000, 0000.... you get the idea.
And then how do you define negligence? I mean, I can count the number of coders I know who can write a large, extensive, massively bloated program with no bugs on the first go on one hand - in unary.
Face it, it's like finding a payware OS/2 program.
On one hand, it would help kill domains run by spammers, assuming they haven't gone to get a post office box
On the other hand, it would hinder somebody if they change their address - and forget to do so on their whois record.
On the third hand...well, as irrelevant as this sounds, you now have to get a DBA or a business license in order to put a business name on a post office box with the USPS, as I recently found out. This is as of 01Jan2004. So it's entirely probable that they won't just get a PO Box.
So what's there to stop ISPs from halting this crap on the DNS level by causing WhenU.com's domain to resolve to localhost? At the very least, that shou.d stem the implementation on random computers for it.
In which cace, you're in good company, since there are going to be a bunch of makeshift Red Cross shelters and millions in insurance payouts. (You did take out the earthquake policy, didn't you?)
Point here I'm trying to make is that, invariably, while they are certainly costly, the damage tends to be relatively trivial - just incredibly messy. We've weathered worse, and we've recovered from FAR worse (1906 SFO, anybody?). Lives can't be replaced, but buildings can - and it doesn't take that long.
And it could be worse. It could be a LOT worse. It could snow in the Los Angeles area. And stick. I think that would be exponentially more disastrous than any earthquake. I mean, we're talking about a population who can't handle driving in the rain. You do the math.
It's an earthquake. BFD. Yes, during Northridge, it levelled an apartment building, knocked over a freeway interchange ramp or two, and toppled the big screen at Anaheim Stadium, but that was really it. The damage and death toll for that six pointer was trivial.
And ten years ago, I heard it predicted by seismologists that there would be a 50/50 chance of a major earthquake hitting within the next thirty years.
I mean, come on, people, are we expecting The Big One to cause the entire state of California to break away at its borders, and we start floating around the Pacific Ocean in some sort of bad remake of Space:1999, with Arnold Schwarzenneger in charge of Earth Base California or something?
To measure this against a standard of "sales are down, it's dead" is the wrong way. As near as I can tell, people aren't going to buy a PDA unless there is a need/desire to either buy one for the first time or replace their current one - and the latter is more likely to happen if it's damaged, lunatic fringe notwithstanding. It is not a consumable product such as (say) coffee, where you will run out and accordingly replace it - you aren't going to run out of PDA like you do coffee. (You probably will run out of battery power, but that's an aside.) I mean, this is a totally different realm you're playing in here.
So as such, if sales are down, maybe it's not consumer apathy, but more likely that the consumer doesn't have the need to just replace their external brain arbitrarily?
It's pretty simple. If it is audible to the human ear, it is audible to a Shure SM58 wired to a high-falootin' sound card - or for the low budget, a condensor mic on a portable tape recorder. It's simple physics, and to misquote Scotty, ye canna change the laws o' physics by passin' laws in the legislation.
It's rare here in Orange County, but not uncommon. Two lightning storms I recall were in October 1982 and Labor Day weekend 1997. The first one was a precursor to a two minute hail storm; the latter one was somehow coincidental to the opening of phase two of a nearby shopping center, and touched off a small blaze in Tonner Canyon (just north of Brea).
Both were quite spectacular, and while I can't speak for the former light storm, the latter one was of no general danger - see, it was primarily focused on some hills surround the Brea Canyon area (in which Tonner is located), atop which is a transmitter station for a not to distant from here radio station. Of course, this means very tall metal towers that are protected against this sort of thing.
Remember, gang, as much as this seems like a victory, it's only a battle. The courts have for all intents dismissed SCO without prejudice - explicitly stating they can amend the complaint in the next month.
If you're wanting pr0n, you know where to get it. If you want to find something, you go to places like Google. All this article proves is that there are a bunch of lonely guys who want to masturbate, and apparently they outnumber people who are actually looking for something.
By coincidence, their stock dropped twenty-five cents at about fifteen minutes to market close - when the story was posted on the PR newswire. Check the headlines link for today for that timestamp.
Ask the client "Do you want mediocre? Cause that's what that site is, in the final analysis, and I can have it do exactly that if you want, but in the end it'll be mediocre - and I don't think that's what you want."
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They're not banning coke, they're requesting people make sure that there's no GPS in the coke can. Which, figuring Martin's statement is likely correct (effectively, a roughly coke can shaped wireless phone with a GPS), is pretty easy to do.
I should smack you, but you make it clear you don't understand english. =^^= Unary is the next counting system down from binary - it has one digit. 0, 00, 000, 0000.... you get the idea.
I'm partial to Mad and Cracked for the parody (though Mad isn't as funny as it used to be), along with Linux Journal, Sysadmin, and Guitar Player.
Face it, it's like finding a payware OS/2 program.
On one hand, it would help kill domains run by spammers, assuming they haven't gone to get a post office box On the other hand, it would hinder somebody if they change their address - and forget to do so on their whois record. On the third hand...well, as irrelevant as this sounds, you now have to get a DBA or a business license in order to put a business name on a post office box with the USPS, as I recently found out. This is as of 01Jan2004. So it's entirely probable that they won't just get a PO Box.
If this were the case, you could sue $developer for $foss_project.
Figure this - code is only as good as the coder.
Patenting the data that constitutes a weather forecast is like trying to patent water.
Ernie Ball.
So what's there to stop ISPs from halting this crap on the DNS level by causing WhenU.com's domain to resolve to localhost? At the very least, that shou.d stem the implementation on random computers for it.
Point here I'm trying to make is that, invariably, while they are certainly costly, the damage tends to be relatively trivial - just incredibly messy. We've weathered worse, and we've recovered from FAR worse (1906 SFO, anybody?). Lives can't be replaced, but buildings can - and it doesn't take that long.
And it could be worse. It could be a LOT worse. It could snow in the Los Angeles area. And stick. I think that would be exponentially more disastrous than any earthquake. I mean, we're talking about a population who can't handle driving in the rain. You do the math.
I can see it now. "California: 2004".
(Cue melodramatic funky yet inappropriate scifi theme from Space:1999)
I mean, come on, people, are we expecting The Big One to cause the entire state of California to break away at its borders, and we start floating around the Pacific Ocean in some sort of bad remake of Space:1999, with Arnold Schwarzenneger in charge of Earth Base California or something?
Not so much reinventing the weel as it is installing another wheel.
So as such, if sales are down, maybe it's not consumer apathy, but more likely that the consumer doesn't have the need to just replace their external brain arbitrarily?
It's pretty simple. If it is audible to the human ear, it is audible to a Shure SM58 wired to a high-falootin' sound card - or for the low budget, a condensor mic on a portable tape recorder. It's simple physics, and to misquote Scotty, ye canna change the laws o' physics by passin' laws in the legislation.
Both were quite spectacular, and while I can't speak for the former light storm, the latter one was of no general danger - see, it was primarily focused on some hills surround the Brea Canyon area (in which Tonner is located), atop which is a transmitter station for a not to distant from here radio station. Of course, this means very tall metal towers that are protected against this sort of thing.
You do the math.
Remember, gang, as much as this seems like a victory, it's only a battle. The courts have for all intents dismissed SCO without prejudice - explicitly stating they can amend the complaint in the next month.
Point here though is that you can sue for just about anything - however, whether you win is left as an exercise to the courts.
As benevolent as Bill is being with this, when are they going to release the source code?
I'm surprised that they haven't figured this out.
That's it. I'm going to report my local supermarkets for terrorism. I mean, anybody who stocks yogurt is just asking for trouble, you know?
If you're wanting pr0n, you know where to get it. If you want to find something, you go to places like Google. All this article proves is that there are a bunch of lonely guys who want to masturbate, and apparently they outnumber people who are actually looking for something.
By coincidence, their stock dropped twenty-five cents at about fifteen minutes to market close - when the story was posted on the PR newswire. Check the headlines link for today for that timestamp.
Ask the client "Do you want mediocre? Cause that's what that site is, in the final analysis, and I can have it do exactly that if you want, but in the end it'll be mediocre - and I don't think that's what you want."