The instant that a single local sex offender can assault one million people in an hour, I will agree with you.
A spam email is equivalent to getting molested or raped? Hmm. Your cerebral prioritization algorithm is broken. It seems you don't at all care about how your computer feels when getting forcefully tons of spam mail inserted into the mail folder, you insensitive clod!
nother example, maybe a bit far fetched, but one I know well. In Europe, transport by train has two distict parts. One is the company who builds the tracks, and other is the company who runs the trains. And they cannot be the same company,
Well, since we are speaking about Germany here... the Deutsche Bahn owns and operates both the tracks and (most of) the trains on those tracks.
and the company who builds the tracks must be open to ANY company running trains in their tracks, if they pay the stipulated track access charges.
Next time you start claiming you know anything about a company, try to find out where it came from.
But also inform yourself about the specifics of the market. It's like saying that Microsoft has a monopoly on gaming consoles, because Microsoft both is a monopolist, and makes gaming consoles.
When Germany was introducing digital mobile phones, the market was decidedly split; there was the D1 network from the Bundespost (then the state monopolist of telecommunication, which later became Deutsche Telekom; D1 became T-Online when it was split off the main company) and the D2 network (by Mannesmann, which was later unfriendly taken over by Vodaphone). So the digital mobile market was split between those companies from the very beginning.
Another would be the E-Plus spinoff brand Simyo, which is offering a prepaid/contract hybrid without minimum charges or monthly fees where you either pay 9.9 ct/min* to all networks at any time or 15 ct/min to all mobile networks and nothing talking to landlines and other Simyo customers.
So if you are only calling landlines, it's completely free? Somehow I cannot really believe that... and indeed, a quick check on their page shows that there's a monthly fee of 15 for that option. Otherwise I would have switched immediately!:-)
Why shouldn't users get to link to "/reports/foo/seasonalreport?fiscalyear=2007&hideempty=true&orderby=lastname&format=pdf"? Short URLs make a lot of sense in a couple of situations, but most of the web has moved beyond those trivial cases.
First: Since it's in a subdirectory "reports", the "report" part of "seasonalreport" is redundant.
Second: The URL above may be generated by a GET form, but can simply redirect to an URL like/reports/foo/seasonal_2007_hideempty_bylastname.pdf
Note that your URL has 86 characters (14 characters longer than the recommended 72 character limit on emails), while my replacement URL has just 51 characters (short enough to fit into an email line). Moreover note that it provides for a nice and useful default file name in case someone wants to save the file to disk.
I think he means URLs like http://www.someone.com/somedir/somesubdir/somesubsubdir/page.php?foo=1074836786786785436578634257&bar=74835672896547832965478392564738295647328956473
Kind of like saying, 'The enemy has 281,474,976,710,656 rounds of ammunition, so in short, they can't damage our troops.'
No, it's like saying: "We have 281,474,976,710,656 rounds of ammunition, so in short, we'll not lose due to lack of ammunition - provided the ammunition won't become unusable at some point."
In fact I think a dedicated book-reader will never have any significant market share. What it needs is that everybody carries a PDA araund, that can also serve as a book reader. Until then, a genuine paperback has huge advantages:
- Cost: Cheap. If it gets wet or you losse it, no issue.
That entirely depends on the book.
- Reliable: Works. And everybody understands what it can and cannot do.
Are you really sure everyone understands all of that?
- Resilient: Works when damaged. Pretty hard to destroy to non-functionality unintentionally.
Well, unintentionally drop some glue on it, and see how well it works afterwards...
- Compatible: Works with eyeball mark one and light mark one. No vendor lock-in here.
Ever seen a Chinese book? Or a Japanese one? While the codes are well documented, it takes years to learn to break them, and even then the decoding is usually not perfect.
- Easy to use: Flip a page.
You never accidentally flipped several pages at once? Indeed, occasionally flipping pages can be quite difficult.
- Versatile: Can also double as fire-starter, toilet-paper, doorstop,...
Except for the doorstop use (which you can also do with ebooks), those uses all destroy the book.
- Durable: If stored carefully, will still work after decades
I'm sure if you carefully store away your ebook, it will still work in decades as well. Of course you might not find new content for it, but then, books cannot be reloaded with new content at all. Oh, and there have been issues with acid in the paper, where books started to dissolve after about 100 years...
- Non-surprising behaviour: No virusses, disk-crashes, empty batteries,...
Sneeze on a book once, and you'll have plenty of viruses on it.
The only advantage I see in a dedicated ebook is the following:
- Simpler transport and storage: Easier for the bookseller to make money.
You forgot: Opportunity for electronics companies and especially e-paper producers to make money.
And finally I shouldn't forget to add a big SCNR:-)
No no, that would be something along the lines of printing out the code and then throwing darts at the listing to figure out the incorrect line. I hear it is popular in Redmond, although they reputedly use chairs instead of darts. That makes sense: Since chairs are larger than darts, you have a much greater chance to hit the bugs.
As user of programs written in GCed languages, in my experience usually they are bad memory hogs. And don't tell me that memory is cheap. People constantly forget that we are not any more in the days of DOS, where there was essentially only one program running at any time.
Did you look at the "what the pilot sees" image? Looks very much like a computer game... indeed, modern 3D computer games look more realistic. Does the pilot get to see the real world at all?
Well, the most likely outcome would be that the "$x per vote to the political parties" bit gets approved, while the limitations on private/corporate donations don't get approved...
Imagine if the EU started trumping the local laws in any of it's member nations.
You don't have to imagine it. It actually happens (although the mechanism is a bit different: The nations are required to change their law to comply with the EU rules).
Of course power-less hovering exists for quite some time now. It's called Zeppelin. However, I don't expect private Zeppelins to become a major economic success:-)
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I wonder which password leads to the md5 hash 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 ...
Probably not. But if you crack Google with a SHA1 hash, I'm sure you get one.
A spam email is equivalent to getting molested or raped? Hmm. Your cerebral prioritization algorithm is broken. It seems you don't at all care about how your computer feels when getting forcefully tons of spam mail inserted into the mail folder, you insensitive clod!
Well, since we are speaking about Germany here
Well, at least that part is definitively true.
But also inform yourself about the specifics of the market. It's like saying that Microsoft has a monopoly on gaming consoles, because Microsoft both is a monopolist, and makes gaming consoles.
When Germany was introducing digital mobile phones, the market was decidedly split; there was the D1 network from the Bundespost (then the state monopolist of telecommunication, which later became Deutsche Telekom; D1 became T-Online when it was split off the main company) and the D2 network (by Mannesmann, which was later unfriendly taken over by Vodaphone). So the digital mobile market was split between those companies from the very beginning.
So if you are only calling landlines, it's completely free? Somehow I cannot really believe that
I guess it depends on if you consider following a broken link a problem for you, or just a problem of the owner of the web site containing the link.
If your enemy runs out of ammunition, I cannot imagine how it may negatively affect you.
First: Since it's in a subdirectory "reports", the "report" part of "seasonalreport" is redundant.
Second: The URL above may be generated by a GET form, but can simply redirect to an URL like
Note that your URL has 86 characters (14 characters longer than the recommended 72 character limit on emails), while my replacement URL has just 51 characters (short enough to fit into an email line). Moreover note that it provides for a nice and useful default file name in case someone wants to save the file to disk.
I think he means URLs like http://www.someone.com/somedir/somesubdir/somesubsubdir/page.php?foo=1074836786786785436578634257&bar=74835672896547832965478392564738295647328956473
No, it's like saying: "We have 281,474,976,710,656 rounds of ammunition, so in short, we'll not lose due to lack of ammunition - provided the ammunition won't become unusable at some point."
You forgot: Opportunity for electronics companies and especially e-paper producers to make money.
And finally I shouldn't forget to add a big SCNR
Of course "!!" denotes not the factorial of the factorial, but the double factorial.
As user of programs written in GCed languages, in my experience usually they are bad memory hogs. And don't tell me that memory is cheap. People constantly forget that we are not any more in the days of DOS, where there was essentially only one program running at any time.
It's a movie. A movie. Ya know, fiction.
That's what they tell you.I'm obviously reading too much Slashdot: I knew the complete message after interpreting just the first 8 bits in the subject ...
Here it is:
Whooooosh!
You have the ultimate AI which can replace humans?
Did you look at the "what the pilot sees" image? Looks very much like a computer game ... indeed, modern 3D computer games look more realistic. Does the pilot get to see the real world at all?
One comment, and already slashdotted? Wow, that's fast!
Well, the most likely outcome would be that the "$x per vote to the political parties" bit gets approved, while the limitations on private/corporate donations don't get approved ...
You don't have to imagine it. It actually happens (although the mechanism is a bit different: The nations are required to change their law to comply with the EU rules).
I see little evidence for that.
Of course power-less hovering exists for quite some time now. It's called Zeppelin. However, I don't expect private Zeppelins to become a major economic success :-)