My programming job allows me to live 1/2 hour from work (walking - a bike, cab, or public transport would be faster), and my mortgage is also fine. It's good to live in a major city on the east coast.
I can't fathom why someone would travel 2 hours each way, every day, just to get to the place where you work. Maybe it's cheaper, but aren't the minutes of your life worth more than saving a few bucks? Even if you worked in NY you could find a reasonable (relative to the payscale and market) place to live that's 30 minutes away.
Suck it the fuck up, and use the emulator till there's a working firmware release.
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If you have to explain that you're trying to be funny, you've failed.
In English, Panzer doesn't mean tank
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The word "panzer" in English is a class noun that denotes a general type of tank, specifically German, usually of the WWII era.
Words in different languages mean different things, even if the sounds are the same, and even if the word is borrowed into another language. You're not insightful for your observation - you're ignorant of language and linguistics.
The terrists, don'cha know - Al Qaida or Iran or generic "militants," depending on who you ask. Funny how it never seems to be people who are pissed about the fact that the US is still occupying their country.
Prior to that screwup, they were a vast reservoir of credibility.
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First, mainframes have many reliability and redundancy features that aren't found or aren't common in other hardware. If you spend the money, you can get 100% uptime guarantees.
Second, there's a lot of software written for the mainframe that works. It does important stuff, and what it does is probably not exceedingly well documented, and porting all that shit to something new is a massive, risky, expensive task.
Why mess with what works, particularly if the vendor seems to be willing to keep the product line going? There's no pressing reason to move, apart from people's prejudices about the mainframe, and the benefits really don't come close to outweighing the costs/risks.
They're not religions, political parties, families, etc. They're businesses.
They don't need an adoring cult around them. They need to provide what the market demands. If people want to impute a personality or culture to a company, that's fine as far as that goes. But it's still pretty much bullshit.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Since we're now getting companies suing to prevent advances in the useful arts using powers granted through patent legislation, can we now find that contemporary patent law is a violation of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution?
And, yes, I'm aware that there's a lot of other stuff going on our federal govt. that's probably a violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution.
In a really and truly free country, the government should forcefully tell you where you can and can't sue someone.
No, but in a country with a rational and functioning legal system, it's reasonable to expect that certain courts wouldn't hand down decisions disproportionately favoring one class of litigant; nor would it be acceptable for a plaintiff to file suit in a locale where neither he nor the defendant are located or are significantly involved in, solely to get a favorable ruling.
East Texas is apparently well known as a venue for patent suits, as the judges there tend to find in favor of the plaintiff more than the national average.
ZapMedia claims in its suit that after filing for the patent, they went around to various tech companies - Apple included - and pitched the idea in great detail. This was before the launch of the iPod or iTunes.
I still think this shouldn't be a patentable thing, but the suit is less wildly without merit than the article linked in this story would suggest.
Ok, so I did actually know that (Ja govoryu po ruski), and it's entirely immaterial to the point at hand. The nuclear weapons in the second half of the sentence make the point as clearly, and with no ambiguity.
...if the government is refusing to take any preventative action, while over 7,000 rockets have fallen on the town, then suing the government seems a very reasonable action
Ok, so let me start by saying that I think suicide bombings and random rocket attacks on civilians are wrong, immoral, and inexcusable.
Now that I've gotten the obligatory "I'm not a terrorist apologist" crap out of the way, let me say this:
They should be suing to force their dumbshit government to start a serious peace process with the Palestinians and develop a working 2-state solution which provides security and prosperity for both peoples. The Israel's government's actions against the Palestinians - the harsh, collective punishment and indiscriminate killings - need to stop, and the Hamas government needs to be taken seriously and negotiated with.
And before anybody comments that Hamas has pledged to destroy Israel and how you negotiate with someone that believes that, I say, big fucking deal. The Soviets pledged to bury the US, and spent the better part of 50 years pointing enough nuclear weaponry at the other half of the earth to wipe out humanity several times over. Still, there were talks, and attempts to reduce the hostility and bring peace about. You can and must deal with your enemies.
Terrorism is a bad thing. But terrorism is just a tactic, and one that's used when the warfare situation is asymmetrical. The Israelis have a very modern, well equipped and well trained army, and they make extensive use of it in what they see as a battle to ensure their survival. The Palestinians have no military to speak of, and so it makes sense to them to resort to terrorist attacks in what they see as a battle to gain the right to self determination and freedom the control of Israel.
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My programming job allows me to live 1/2 hour from work (walking - a bike, cab, or public transport would be faster), and my mortgage is also fine. It's good to live in a major city on the east coast.
I can't fathom why someone would travel 2 hours each way, every day, just to get to the place where you work. Maybe it's cheaper, but aren't the minutes of your life worth more than saving a few bucks? Even if you worked in NY you could find a reasonable (relative to the payscale and market) place to live that's 30 minutes away.
Suck it the fuck up, and use the emulator till there's a working firmware release.
If you have to explain that you're trying to be funny, you've failed.
The word "panzer" in English is a class noun that denotes a general type of tank, specifically German, usually of the WWII era.
Words in different languages mean different things, even if the sounds are the same, and even if the word is borrowed into another language. You're not insightful for your observation - you're ignorant of language and linguistics.
Google says your mom does donkey shows in Tijuana.
Oh, right - it's harder for force upgrades like that.
At least it wouldn't be George W. Bush and his merry band of war criminals.
The terrists, don'cha know - Al Qaida or Iran or generic "militants," depending on who you ask. Funny how it never seems to be people who are pissed about the fact that the US is still occupying their country.
s/House Speaker/former House Speaker/
Stop the waste now!
Prior to that screwup, they were a vast reservoir of credibility.
First, mainframes have many reliability and redundancy features that aren't found or aren't common in other hardware. If you spend the money, you can get 100% uptime guarantees.
Second, there's a lot of software written for the mainframe that works. It does important stuff, and what it does is probably not exceedingly well documented, and porting all that shit to something new is a massive, risky, expensive task.
Why mess with what works, particularly if the vendor seems to be willing to keep the product line going? There's no pressing reason to move, apart from people's prejudices about the mainframe, and the benefits really don't come close to outweighing the costs/risks.
They're not religions, political parties, families, etc. They're businesses.
They don't need an adoring cult around them. They need to provide what the market demands. If people want to impute a personality or culture to a company, that's fine as far as that goes. But it's still pretty much bullshit.
Quote article one:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Since we're now getting companies suing to prevent advances in the useful arts using powers granted through patent legislation, can we now find that contemporary patent law is a violation of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution?
And, yes, I'm aware that there's a lot of other stuff going on our federal govt. that's probably a violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution.
Please, please, Sequoia - suing over this is exactly the right course of action for you.
I also suggest that you try to get a judge to order ISPs to remove the DNS records for Princeton and the state of New Jersey, while you're at it.
More about the hardcore torrents, please.
Japanese is a pro-drop language, in that you can leave out subjects or objects in speech if it's clear from discourse what you're talking about.
But Japanese definitely has a case system where the inflectional morphology is indicated by particles that follow the modified noun.
No, but in a country with a rational and functioning legal system, it's reasonable to expect that certain courts wouldn't hand down decisions disproportionately favoring one class of litigant; nor would it be acceptable for a plaintiff to file suit in a locale where neither he nor the defendant are located or are significantly involved in, solely to get a favorable ruling.
It's a federal court, so, the taxpayers of the US.
It's called venue or forum shopping, looking for a place to file suit where you're more likely to get a favorable result:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum-shopping
East Texas is apparently well known as a venue for patent suits, as the judges there tend to find in favor of the plaintiff more than the national average.
Yay America!
Have a look at:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/12/apple_sued_over_foundation_to_ipod_itunes_franchise.html
ZapMedia claims in its suit that after filing for the patent, they went around to various tech companies - Apple included - and pitched the idea in great detail. This was before the launch of the iPod or iTunes.
I still think this shouldn't be a patentable thing, but the suit is less wildly without merit than the article linked in this story would suggest.
There's noting to cut them out of with P2P. The MPAA is the industry's lobbying group, and exists to advance the interests of the various studios.
What schmuck modded that insightful?
Ok, so I did actually know that (Ja govoryu po ruski), and it's entirely immaterial to the point at hand. The nuclear weapons in the second half of the sentence make the point as clearly, and with no ambiguity.
Ok, so let me start by saying that I think suicide bombings and random rocket attacks on civilians are wrong, immoral, and inexcusable.
Now that I've gotten the obligatory "I'm not a terrorist apologist" crap out of the way, let me say this:
They should be suing to force their dumbshit government to start a serious peace process with the Palestinians and develop a working 2-state solution which provides security and prosperity for both peoples. The Israel's government's actions against the Palestinians - the harsh, collective punishment and indiscriminate killings - need to stop, and the Hamas government needs to be taken seriously and negotiated with.
And before anybody comments that Hamas has pledged to destroy Israel and how you negotiate with someone that believes that, I say, big fucking deal. The Soviets pledged to bury the US, and spent the better part of 50 years pointing enough nuclear weaponry at the other half of the earth to wipe out humanity several times over. Still, there were talks, and attempts to reduce the hostility and bring peace about. You can and must deal with your enemies.
Terrorism is a bad thing. But terrorism is just a tactic, and one that's used when the warfare situation is asymmetrical. The Israelis have a very modern, well equipped and well trained army, and they make extensive use of it in what they see as a battle to ensure their survival. The Palestinians have no military to speak of, and so it makes sense to them to resort to terrorist attacks in what they see as a battle to gain the right to self determination and freedom the control of Israel.
Yay! Someone understands science and statistical inference better than the average Slashdotter.