It doesn't surprise me at all, think of it from their point of view. System administrators tend to get fired for not installing updates; especially with all the recent viruses runing around wreaking havoc on the world's unpatched servers. This means that system administrators (who want to keep their jobs) will convince their employers to fork over the money to buy the updates.
So since microsoft is likely to experience a fairly small drop in patch downloads compared to the increase in price, it will increase their total revenue. And we all know that microsoft is all about increasing total revenue.
I just love the fact that when I clicked the "shameless Googling" link Google told me that there was a Slashdot story about this posted 32 minutes ago.
Nico Melendez of the Transportation Security Administration will not confirm that the name David Nelson is on the "no-fly" or "selectees" list. But he does say that people who want to see if their name is on either list or who want to make a complaint, can call the agency's contact center at 866-289-9673 or send an e-mail to TellTSA@tsa.dot.gov.
Does this sound odd to anyone else? He won't give out a piece of information to the reporter, but then he turns around and says that anyone else who wants it can have it.
One must wonder if he didn't have rich friends if his case would even be noticed by anybody.
According to the article there are 43 other cases like this. None of them were profiled by major news sites; I think its reasonable to assume that these were the people without any rich friends.
Just don't bet any money that you'll win against a known cheater. Or if you're cautious, don't bet money against anyone that you don't know to be an honest person.
If I want a content summary I'll read the blurb on the back or inside cover, usually when I read a review I'm looking for an informed opinion of someone who's actually read the thing.
They wouldn't have to change their liscence agreements at all. Just deal with the robots.txt file.
All bots (or spiders or whatever you like to call them) that surf the internet are supposed to check for a file named robots.txt in the root directory of any url (ex: http://slashdot.org/robots.txt). This file contains a list of directories that robots should not visit. If you don't want any bots to see your site just say
User-Agent : * Disallow:/
See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html for more information.
If you're going to that, why not publish this book under Prentice Hall's new open source lisence scheme?
This way you will also have paper copies available for those of us that would rather read it that way, and you get a well respected publishing label attached to the project.
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It's news because CNN said it was news. It's too bad that that's the only reason people need these days....
Sure nasa could easily respond with some press releases, or a PR department, but the real problem is that crackpots don't go away. If nasa starts answering questions, people are bound to think up more and more, until nasa has spent millions trying to shut these guys up. It's a lost cause.
I think nasa realized that no matter what they do, there will always be crackpots bothering them, if not about the moon then about aliens or something else. That's why they've chosen not to waste their time/money on this.
whoops!
The newer versions of eiffel support a new syntax for the creation of objects. Instead of saying !!io
now you say
create io
So HELLO_WORLD should look like this:
creation make
feature
make is
local io:BASIC_IO
do
create io
io.put_string("%N Hello World!!!!")
end --make
end -- class HELLO_WORLD
The newer versions of eiffel support a new syntax for the creation of objects.
Instead of saying
!!io
now you say
create io
So HELLO_WORLD should look like this:
creation
make
feature
make is
local
io:BASIC_IO
do
create io
io.put_string("%N Hello World!!!!")
end --make
end -- class HELLO_WORLD
Just thought I should point out, the RIAA is an american organization, and this is happening in finland. Although I wouldn't be surprised to see the RIAA try and pull something like this, we still shouldn't attribute these evils to them until they actually are guilty of them.
What right does anyone have to do this. I mean, you americans can issue all the laws you want violating your own privacies. But when you try and plan to spy on citizens of other countries it starts to bother me...
Now i can tell if the chicks on playboy are all real or digitally altered. This is a great leap forward for internet porn, I can't wait until it becomes mainstream.
It's taken off already, just not with FPS games. Many Starcraft: Brood War games are shown on television in eastern asia (mostly korea) every day. Gaming is considered a sport there, and people make their livings off of it just like people do with baseball or hockey in north america.
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It doesn't surprise me at all, think of it from their point of view. System administrators tend to get fired for not installing updates; especially with all the recent viruses runing around wreaking havoc on the world's unpatched servers. This means that system administrators (who want to keep their jobs) will convince their employers to fork over the money to buy the updates. So since microsoft is likely to experience a fairly small drop in patch downloads compared to the increase in price, it will increase their total revenue. And we all know that microsoft is all about increasing total revenue.
I just love the fact that when I clicked the "shameless Googling" link Google told me that there was a Slashdot story about this posted 32 minutes ago.
From the article:
"Wolfenstein will be required to have the latest version of Even Balance's PunkBuster Anti-Cheat software on their systems in order to compete."
Just don't bet any money that you'll win against a known cheater. Or if you're cautious, don't bet money against anyone that you don't know to be an honest person.
If I want a content summary I'll read the blurb on the back or inside cover, usually when I read a review I'm looking for an informed opinion of someone who's actually read the thing.
They wouldn't have to change their liscence agreements at all. Just deal with the robots.txt file.
All bots (or spiders or whatever you like to call them) that surf the internet are supposed to check for a file named robots.txt in the root directory of any url (ex: http://slashdot.org/robots.txt). This file contains a list of directories that robots should not visit. If you don't want any bots to see your site just say
See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html for more information.
Two Words:
Junkyard Wars
If you're going to that, why not publish this book under Prentice Hall's new open source lisence scheme? This way you will also have paper copies available for those of us that would rather read it that way, and you get a well respected publishing label attached to the project.
It's news because CNN said it was news. It's too bad that that's the only reason people need these days....
Sure nasa could easily respond with some press releases, or a PR department, but the real problem is that crackpots don't go away. If nasa starts answering questions, people are bound to think up more and more, until nasa has spent millions trying to shut these guys up. It's a lost cause. I think nasa realized that no matter what they do, there will always be crackpots bothering them, if not about the moon then about aliens or something else. That's why they've chosen not to waste their time/money on this.
Spammer makes millions submitting the same story to slashdot over and over again.
whoops!
The newer versions of eiffel support a new syntax for the creation of objects. Instead of saying
!!io
now you say
create io
So HELLO_WORLD should look like this:
creation make
feature
make is
local io:BASIC_IO
do
create io
io.put_string("%N Hello World!!!!")
end --make
end -- class HELLO_WORLD
The newer versions of eiffel support a new syntax for the creation of objects. Instead of saying !!io now you say create io So HELLO_WORLD should look like this: creation make feature make is local io:BASIC_IO do create io io.put_string("%N Hello World!!!!") end --make end -- class HELLO_WORLD
Just thought I should point out, the RIAA is an american organization, and this is happening in finland. Although I wouldn't be surprised to see the RIAA try and pull something like this, we still shouldn't attribute these evils to them until they actually are guilty of them.
Final Saga or 7th Fantasy?
What right does anyone have to do this. I mean, you americans can issue all the laws you want violating your own privacies. But when you try and plan to spy on citizens of other countries it starts to bother me...
Now i can tell if the chicks on playboy are all real or digitally altered. This is a great leap forward for internet porn, I can't wait until it becomes mainstream.
Even the professional rides are quite dangerous, I definately wouldn't want to ride on a homemade one.
Sounds neat, but i dont think I want wiring clamp pinching my ass everywhere I go.
Hell I'd go to the moon, its probably the only place left where you can escape modern advertising. Now thats what I really need in a vacation.
It's taken off already, just not with FPS games. Many Starcraft: Brood War games are shown on television in eastern asia (mostly korea) every day. Gaming is considered a sport there, and people make their livings off of it just like people do with baseball or hockey in north america.