"I've avoided a bidding war that would have cost one of us more than the item was worth."
The item is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Determine what the item is worth to you and place that as the maximum bid and then you will never pay for more than what the item is worth to you. It's as simple as that.
I believe sniping is a waste of time. I can see people thinking they'll get a better deal if they bid lower. Remember, your highest bid doesn't show. E-bay will automatically get you the best deal possible by only showing an amount just over the current highest bid.
So, if an item was at $10. You're willing to pay $20. People have a tendancy to think, Oh, i can get it for $11 and bid $11 at last minute. Why not just put down $20 now. It will show as $11. Then if someone tries to snipe you at $12, you'll automatically beat them out at $13. Which is still under the $20 you were willing to pay.
I'll often do like $20.03 instead of $20, just as a tie breaker incase someone's got the same $20 limit as me.
When my wife became afraid to goto her car.. sit on her porch.. even look out her window. I crowned myself.
'The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.' - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"morally you have no authority to force people to leave land that you do not own."
I have moral OBLIGATION to keep my neighborhood free from inappropriate activity. Sex & drugs, while common amongst teenagers, does not belong in car parked in a residential neighborhood. It is illegal to smoke pot. It is illegal to perform lude acts in public. They were doing both. They were stupid enough to continue after they were warned. And I left the rest in the hands of the local law enforcement.
I had a car vandalized in a public parking lot. Went inside to the help desk to report and ask for the local police departments numbers. They brought out their phone book and looked it up. It said to call 911. I thought it was rather weird and just marked it up to a small town thing. When I reported the vandalism, I wasn't questioned about it not being an emergancy.
Another time, in a bigger city, there was a couple of teenagers who decided the street infront of my house was a good place to neck. After a few weeks of this, I made it clear to them that they needed to go somewhere else, but they were unresponsive and kept returning. I called the police dispatcher and explained the situation. They told me that there was nothing they could do, but recommended calling 911 and saying there was a suspecious vehicle. Which I did. 2 minutes later, two police cars blocked them in, searched their car, put the male in handcuffs and hauled him off for something and had the parents of the girl pick her up.
There is no situtation you should ever use a GOTO in C in.
In your examples. 1) If you can create a condition where a goto is to be placed, you can add that same condition to the top loop in the nest and let it exit out gracefully.
2) Use a clean-up function. It will return to the correct place without all the spagetti code.
I know KDE has a setting that mimics the windows keyboard shortcuts. As for looking exactly the same...Well...Windows XP didn't look like Windows 95/98. Vista isn't going to look like XP. Give users SOME credit. If they can find the "Start Menu" then they're good to go.
As for games, I've been impressed with several games available for Linux. America's Army, Neverball, Tremulous and Frozen Bubble are my favorites in no particular order. For each and every one of those, I was able to download an install file and double click it to install the game. No command line compilation was needed.
If I were you, I'd buy a cheap second hard drive for your machine. Something around 30GB's will be more than enough. Then install Linux on that hardrive, makeing your machine a dual boot. This way, you're father will have an inexpensive way to test out linux. If he doesn't like it, he can still use 98 and you can use linux. If for some reason, you decide that linux is not for you too, then you can always change the extra HD over to an extra drive for Win98.
"Either with your mistakes or your attention to detail." (Fragmented Sentence -1)
"Hopefully, I didn't miss any of my mistakes " (Missing Punctuation -1)
"And FYI, I reread this post twice." (Started sentence with 'And' -1)
7/10
You get a C, biatch!
Mr. Asav, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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"I've avoided a bidding war that would have cost one of us more than the item was worth."
The item is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Determine what the item is worth to you and place that as the maximum bid and then you will never pay for more than what the item is worth to you. It's as simple as that.
You'll still get it for $Y though. Since maximum bid isn't shown unless matched or beatin.
I believe sniping is a waste of time. I can see people thinking they'll get a better deal if they bid lower. Remember, your highest bid doesn't show. E-bay will automatically get you the best deal possible by only showing an amount just over the current highest bid.
So, if an item was at $10. You're willing to pay $20. People have a tendancy to think, Oh, i can get it for $11 and bid $11 at last minute. Why not just put down $20 now. It will show as $11. Then if someone tries to snipe you at $12, you'll automatically beat them out at $13. Which is still under the $20 you were willing to pay.
I'll often do like $20.03 instead of $20, just as a tie breaker incase someone's got the same $20 limit as me.
"They have no privacy--all that's left is "public."
The definition of privacy is 'the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others'. It's not THAT hard to get out of the view of others.
"where do you expect them to go"
Back country roads. Behind store buildings. Closed city parks. I mean, come on. Make a little effort? As the saying goes... "Get a room!"
"Who crowned you as King of the Neighborhood?"
When my wife became afraid to goto her car.. sit on her porch.. even look out her window. I crowned myself.
'The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.' - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"morally you have no authority to force people to leave land that you do not own." I have moral OBLIGATION to keep my neighborhood free from inappropriate activity. Sex & drugs, while common amongst teenagers, does not belong in car parked in a residential neighborhood. It is illegal to smoke pot. It is illegal to perform lude acts in public. They were doing both. They were stupid enough to continue after they were warned. And I left the rest in the hands of the local law enforcement.
At no point in your rambling, did you even come close to an intelligent thought. I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul.
The human race would be much better off if noone feared eternal damnation.
I had a car vandalized in a public parking lot. Went inside to the help desk to report and ask for the local police departments numbers. They brought out their phone book and looked it up. It said to call 911. I thought it was rather weird and just marked it up to a small town thing. When I reported the vandalism, I wasn't questioned about it not being an emergancy.
Another time, in a bigger city, there was a couple of teenagers who decided the street infront of my house was a good place to neck. After a few weeks of this, I made it clear to them that they needed to go somewhere else, but they were unresponsive and kept returning. I called the police dispatcher and explained the situation. They told me that there was nothing they could do, but recommended calling 911 and saying there was a suspecious vehicle. Which I did. 2 minutes later, two police cars blocked them in, searched their car, put the male in handcuffs and hauled him off for something and had the parents of the girl pick her up.
They never returned.
Since the competition is sto stiff, the smart ones would provide incorrect answers to the cheaters.
There is no situtation you should ever use a GOTO in C in.
In your examples.
1) If you can create a condition where a goto is to be placed, you can add that same condition to the top loop in the nest and let it exit out gracefully.
2) Use a clean-up function. It will return to the correct place without all the spagetti code.
NEVER USE A GOTO!
Would love to, but I am having difficultly finding websites to support your claim. Can you provide?
Not to worry. The mice will rebuild it. It may prove difficult getting the dolphins to return though.
"Using a 7900GTX with a 2Ghz P4 would be silly."
2Ghz would be fine. I wouldn't go lower than 1.5 though.
1) Distribute Music and Movies freely.
2) ???
3) Profit!
I know KDE has a setting that mimics the windows keyboard shortcuts. As for looking exactly the same...Well...Windows XP didn't look like Windows 95/98. Vista isn't going to look like XP. Give users SOME credit. If they can find the "Start Menu" then they're good to go.
As for games, I've been impressed with several games available for Linux. America's Army, Neverball, Tremulous and Frozen Bubble are my favorites in no particular order. For each and every one of those, I was able to download an install file and double click it to install the game. No command line compilation was needed.
I assumed it just went on and on until you finally died or ran out of time. Do you have to go left or right to beat it?
If I were you, I'd buy a cheap second hard drive for your machine. Something around 30GB's will be more than enough. Then install Linux on that hardrive, makeing your machine a dual boot. This way, you're father will have an inexpensive way to test out linux. If he doesn't like it, he can still use 98 and you can use linux. If for some reason, you decide that linux is not for you too, then you can always change the extra HD over to an extra drive for Win98.
"Either with your mistakes or your attention to detail." (Fragmented Sentence -1) "Hopefully, I didn't miss any of my mistakes " (Missing Punctuation -1) "And FYI, I reread this post twice." (Started sentence with 'And' -1) 7/10 You get a C, biatch!
Mr. Asav, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
3. Beer should ideally have sawdust and maybe some mouse droppings in it.
Bartender, bring me a beer and don't skimp on the Mickey(tm).
No worries...Our friends in Austrailia have been secretly experimenting with flying cars.
Then where did the chicken come from?
and Mc Donalds Egg McMuffin came after the Chicken Which evolved into the McGriddle
Puff, puff, give, motha fucka!