Actually, most of the world outside the US has come to the conclusion that oil deposits are inorganic in nature. It explains a lot, including why some old dry wells are spontaneously refilling from some deeper source.
And hell, being bought out by Microsoft has become a tradition. There are dozens of startups out there doing their damndest to TRY to get bought out by Microsoft. If you can prove an idea in a startup and get enough word of mouth to get noticed, it's a much, much quicker paycheck to let Microsoft buy you. No slow building of your customer base, no bugfixes, no updates to support new APIs in Windows. Just a quick windfall payment, and then all those pesky details become Someone Else's Problem.
While you've got a point, you're not comparing the right things. MSN seems to intentionally be a portal site. And yes, it's cluttered and ugly, and we both hate it, but some people don't. It's there for them. However, it doesn't seem fair to compare it to www.google.com, because it's not the competitor. The actual competitor for www.google.com is www.live.com. And that is relatively clean and simple.
And the idea that somehow a combined Yahoo! and Microsoft will be able to take on Google in search and advertising must be one of those faith-based initiatives. Two times clueless is still clueless.
Not necessarily. When you're talking about creating a market like Google's AdSense, having more customers competing for the space is going to raise prices and increase the quality of the ads. And more than doubling your market share, as this purchase would do, is a great way to get more customers. The more market share you can offer them, the more it's worth it for smaller places to bother with putting ads in your system as well as Google's.
Its theft whatever the exact legal definition. The alternative to downloading illegally is to purchase by chosing to do this you deprive the nominal owner of a sale. There is no moral difference to lifting a CD from a record store.
You forgot the third option: not listening to their music at all. Which still deprives them of a sale. Is that theft too?
What's wrong with the PS2 as a DVD player? For $120 it does progressive scan, which looks fine on a 32" 720 LCD. The only thing it's missing is a shortcut button to go to the root menu, and that's not nearly irritating enough to make it worth buying a whole new player.
There will always be benefits to be had from the classic way of doing things, but new tools enable people to climb to new heights. The brain only has so many cycles, If they don't need to be wasted with pointers and bleedingly-effecient machine code then save those brain cycles for algorithms and interface design.
The point isn't that you should spend all your development cycles on pointers. The point is that even when you're using a language that handles that junk for you, you should have some idea of what it's doing. I've seen good programmers, people I would consider to be way better than me in many respects, tripped up by the way managed languages abstract away the concept of pointers by making all objects automatically act as references. And I remember in my own Java courses in college, that not only was it strange trying to wrap your head around the language implicitly treating objects as pointers, but not a single person, student OR teacher, could explain that internal memory system properly. Pointers and memory references are still there in Java and C#, you just don't use C++ style notation for it. But if you don't understand it, it's going to bite you.
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b) Place illegal pornography on your computer, leading to serious prison time
Has that ever actually happened? People keep bringing it out as a scary scenario, but I've yet to hear of an actual example of this being done to somebody.
Because the court decided the price of the book was the total cost to the customer after the book cost itself AND ground shipping were taken into account. So if the book is $7.99 and ground shipping is $2, then the total cost to the customer is $9.99. By Amazon not charging the customer that $2 they have, in the eyes of the court, discounted the book by 20%.
IMO, it sounds like the court went out of their way to find a definition that would allow them to bully an American company in order to protect French book sellers.
Actually, by including the shipping in the cost calculation, they were choosing the interpretation that was most lenient to Amazon. They could have been total dicks and said "shipping doesn't count, and your prices are way too low", but they tried to factor in every cost to meet the bar set by the law.
This is more like walking up to someone, asking them if you can have 10 dollars please, and being arrested for theft when they willingly give it to you.
I did read the article, actually. It consists of the writer seeing a patent that could, potentially, be used in scary ways, getting a bunch of outraged quotes from random people who know nothing about the intended use, and writing a shock piece.
This has the obvious drawback of making the banana very vulnerable to diseases, and in fact the first mass-produced seedless banana (the 'Gros Michel' banana) had to be replaced in the 50s-60s because its plantations were wrecked by a nasty fungus.
This is exactly my point. Cloning one specific plant or animal many thousands of times to the point that the entire commercial growing operation is essentially one organism leaves a huge risk for disease to wipe the whole thing out. Now, with the banana it was kind of unavoidable, since the lack of seeds made cloning the only way to cultivate more plants. But since cows don't taste significantly better without reproductive organs, the same need doesn't exist here. So why tempt disease?
Well, the key is, this isn't intended for use in a work environment. It's something the research branch came up with to help streamline product research and focus groups, matching up people who are having difficulty with the same aspect of a test program, or identifying frustration early so they can ask about the cause and help the user move on instead of becoming increasingly angry. Everyone here trying to apply it to a regular 9 to 5 job setting is obviously going to get the wrong idea.
I don't think people object to eating cloned meat if that were the only factor. At least, not the people who understand some basic science. I think the larger objection is that this will limit diversity in the gene pool even faster than current breeding already is. And we've seen how well that worked out for the banana in the 50s, when it was effectively cloned by horticultural methods.
Something about what you said triggered an idea. There's always the chance that, given the quality of most workers, these people really ARE worth what they're demanding. And if there are places out there willing to let them start higher up the chain instead of "work your way up from the bottom the way we all have", then they're right to seek those places out. These managers who are convinced that everyone has to pay their dues like they did when they were young, well, they may have to realize that this isn't the case anymore. At least if they want to hire and keep people who know what they're doing.
That's true, but it's true of the job market whether you have a degree or not, right? There are more opportunities, more connections to be made, and more chances to be part of something new on the coasts. Unless you work in Ethanol, and even then, the cutting edge experimental plants are in Georgia and Oregon, not the midwest.
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Yep, "faint young sun" got some hits. Thanks! This looks interesting...
Actually, most of the world outside the US has come to the conclusion that oil deposits are inorganic in nature. It explains a lot, including why some old dry wells are spontaneously refilling from some deeper source.
The only result for "early quiet sun" is a hit on some site talking about early Brian Eno recordings...
True. Maybe they'll realize it and do something about it. Either way, at least the layout is a lot cleaner than MSN.
How reliable is that site? Because it also claims that Colombia and part of Germany are completely absent from the internet...
And hell, being bought out by Microsoft has become a tradition. There are dozens of startups out there doing their damndest to TRY to get bought out by Microsoft. If you can prove an idea in a startup and get enough word of mouth to get noticed, it's a much, much quicker paycheck to let Microsoft buy you. No slow building of your customer base, no bugfixes, no updates to support new APIs in Windows. Just a quick windfall payment, and then all those pesky details become Someone Else's Problem.
While you've got a point, you're not comparing the right things. MSN seems to intentionally be a portal site. And yes, it's cluttered and ugly, and we both hate it, but some people don't. It's there for them. However, it doesn't seem fair to compare it to www.google.com, because it's not the competitor. The actual competitor for www.google.com is www.live.com. And that is relatively clean and simple.
What's wrong with the PS2 as a DVD player? For $120 it does progressive scan, which looks fine on a 32" 720 LCD. The only thing it's missing is a shortcut button to go to the root menu, and that's not nearly irritating enough to make it worth buying a whole new player.
You know firefox falls into compatibility mode without a doctype tag, right?
Even worse, they use Java.
This is more like walking up to someone, asking them if you can have 10 dollars please, and being arrested for theft when they willingly give it to you.
I did read the article, actually. It consists of the writer seeing a patent that could, potentially, be used in scary ways, getting a bunch of outraged quotes from random people who know nothing about the intended use, and writing a shock piece.
You obviously don't understand sarcasm.
Well, the key is, this isn't intended for use in a work environment. It's something the research branch came up with to help streamline product research and focus groups, matching up people who are having difficulty with the same aspect of a test program, or identifying frustration early so they can ask about the cause and help the user move on instead of becoming increasingly angry. Everyone here trying to apply it to a regular 9 to 5 job setting is obviously going to get the wrong idea.
I don't think people object to eating cloned meat if that were the only factor. At least, not the people who understand some basic science. I think the larger objection is that this will limit diversity in the gene pool even faster than current breeding already is. And we've seen how well that worked out for the banana in the 50s, when it was effectively cloned by horticultural methods.
Ah, but 172800 seconds is significant. 1+7+2+8+0+0 = 18, which is (9*1)+(9*1), which is 9(1+1). 9/11!
No, no, these diamond-laced cables give my Britney recordings that extra "pop" that makes you really want to get up and dance. I swear.
Something about what you said triggered an idea. There's always the chance that, given the quality of most workers, these people really ARE worth what they're demanding. And if there are places out there willing to let them start higher up the chain instead of "work your way up from the bottom the way we all have", then they're right to seek those places out. These managers who are convinced that everyone has to pay their dues like they did when they were young, well, they may have to realize that this isn't the case anymore. At least if they want to hire and keep people who know what they're doing.
That's true, but it's true of the job market whether you have a degree or not, right? There are more opportunities, more connections to be made, and more chances to be part of something new on the coasts. Unless you work in Ethanol, and even then, the cutting edge experimental plants are in Georgia and Oregon, not the midwest.