You can get a Sansa Clip+ for £20-30 plus a 128GB microSD card for about £60. Slap Rockbox on it and you've got something smaller and with better sound than an iPod.
Not everyone would agree the conviction was wise or necessary. IE's share was trending down long before that point. For those people who don't even know what search engine they are using, there's no point giving them a choice or forcing a choice (or random selection) on them, because they are clearly not experiencing sufficient detriment to know or care there's an issue. They can switch from MySpace when they want to, so suggesting they need someone to hold their hands to switch search engine is patronising.
I was talking about the user, but actually, the startup cost of a new search engine is pretty low. There is very little cost to running your own web spider, basically a few bucks a day for several million pages. Of course you have to buy the expertise to run and tune it but in startup terms these are not exactly ridiculous. Google obviously has a depth of expertise that would be difficult to match but I don't think it's impossible to compete with them if you're sufficiently determined.
Arrr, you be doing it wrong, matey. When I werrrre a lad, us pirates we just debited, debited, debited. None of this-ere creditin' lark. Where's me rum?
Yes, but unlike traditional monopoly, there's no cost of switching and no cost of entry. If you are the only person selling burgers in the world, you can bully your suppliers not to sell to anyone else, you can price your competition out of business, you can buy up sites and not use.
None of those things apply on the internet. If I found another search engine that worked better than Google, I'd switch tomorrow. So far, no dice.
Depends on where you are. Generally, the "air rights" exist but legislation says you can't assert them (this is true in much of the US, as I understand it). In other areas, the law says the remoteness of trespass is too great to merit damages (the UK). Other jurisdictions (France) simply say bugger off, you never had any rights to the airspace over your property anyway.
A lot of the labour cost of running an airline is pretty invisible (ground crew, engineering and so forth). I suspect that would be a large part of your answer. State ownership/subsidy, I suspect, also plays a part.
Well, the thing is - they go to jail, they almost certainly don't get clean, they come out harder and more desperate. They go to rehab, maybe they clean up, maybe they don't, but the chances of them doing so have to be higher.
To me, though, the really stupid thing is leaving decisions about the judicial process in the hands of the victims.
Gosh, how clever of you. You'd better phone up US High Command and let them know about these problems they've clearly never considered. I'm sure they'll be very grateful.
There is a big difference between notional exercises and the use of real world force. No-one who actually knows what they're talking about gives any credence to clusterfucks (in every sense) like the one you link to.
And bear in mind the firepower America can bring to bear if it chooses.
I think part of the problem is that for other professions, there's a fairly well defined transition between university education and real world application. When you graduate from a civil engineering program, you don't get put to designing bridges from day one. There's a very clearly defined career path and learning structure to get you from academically capable to I-trust-this-guy's-bridges-to-not-collapse. That doesn't exist in programming, except sporadically.
Why in the name of Goodness does this inane stream-of-consciousness rambling get published here? And more to the point, why can't he be given an auther ID so we can filter his nonsense out?
To keep this vaguely on topic, the answer is efficiency. If that's not good enough for you, fuck off and run a retail store until you have a clue.
I've seen several versions of this letter floating around. Frankly, I think it would be interesting to learn more about the people involved and their backgrounds.
Please don't assume that the diet of an Olympic athlete consuming ~12,000 calories a day has any relevance to what is a generally healthy diet for you.
Mastercard is the network that ties together you, the merchant, and your account provider. I don't think Mastercard have ever offered their own accounts, though Visa used to (I remember UK credit cards that were nothing but the Visa logo).
Wrong. You do own the airspace. In some jurisdictions, you can in theory sue airlines for trespass and win nugatory damages. In others, the law has been specifically changed to allow overflight.
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Quite. I cycle in central London. I would die every other day if I didn't take responsibility for dealing with other drivers' mistakes.
You can get a Sansa Clip+ for £20-30 plus a 128GB microSD card for about £60. Slap Rockbox on it and you've got something smaller and with better sound than an iPod.
Damn kids. Push off and don't come back till you've been here since '98.
How does blowing up a roundabout prove anything? (I haven't watched Mythbusters, but I gather this is how they test everything)
Invariably when a motorist is "stuck" behind a cyclist they are "stuck" for a few seconds and would have to wait at the next red light anyway.
Not everyone would agree the conviction was wise or necessary. IE's share was trending down long before that point. For those people who don't even know what search engine they are using, there's no point giving them a choice or forcing a choice (or random selection) on them, because they are clearly not experiencing sufficient detriment to know or care there's an issue. They can switch from MySpace when they want to, so suggesting they need someone to hold their hands to switch search engine is patronising.
I was talking about the user, but actually, the startup cost of a new search engine is pretty low. There is very little cost to running your own web spider, basically a few bucks a day for several million pages. Of course you have to buy the expertise to run and tune it but in startup terms these are not exactly ridiculous. Google obviously has a depth of expertise that would be difficult to match but I don't think it's impossible to compete with them if you're sufficiently determined.
Arrr, you be doing it wrong, matey. When I werrrre a lad, us pirates we just debited, debited, debited. None of this-ere creditin' lark. Where's me rum?
Rubbish. What does a web page from ten years ago have to do with what I'm searching for now?
None of those things apply on the internet. If I found another search engine that worked better than Google, I'd switch tomorrow. So far, no dice.
Salmon are tough bastards. I wouldn't worry about them too much.
People usually die before their body produces its own antibodies. Receiving someone else's antibodies will not stop their body producing them.
Depends on where you are. Generally, the "air rights" exist but legislation says you can't assert them (this is true in much of the US, as I understand it). In other areas, the law says the remoteness of trespass is too great to merit damages (the UK). Other jurisdictions (France) simply say bugger off, you never had any rights to the airspace over your property anyway.
A lot of the labour cost of running an airline is pretty invisible (ground crew, engineering and so forth). I suspect that would be a large part of your answer. State ownership/subsidy, I suspect, also plays a part.
To me, though, the really stupid thing is leaving decisions about the judicial process in the hands of the victims.
I think I speak for many of us here when I say, "eh? Come again?"
Gosh, how clever of you. You'd better phone up US High Command and let them know about these problems they've clearly never considered. I'm sure they'll be very grateful.
And bear in mind the firepower America can bring to bear if it chooses.
I think part of the problem is that for other professions, there's a fairly well defined transition between university education and real world application. When you graduate from a civil engineering program, you don't get put to designing bridges from day one. There's a very clearly defined career path and learning structure to get you from academically capable to I-trust-this-guy's-bridges-to-not-collapse. That doesn't exist in programming, except sporadically.
To keep this vaguely on topic, the answer is efficiency. If that's not good enough for you, fuck off and run a retail store until you have a clue.
I've seen several versions of this letter floating around. Frankly, I think it would be interesting to learn more about the people involved and their backgrounds.
No, the figures listed are the average *difference* in loss, not the average loss.
Please don't assume that the diet of an Olympic athlete consuming ~12,000 calories a day has any relevance to what is a generally healthy diet for you.
Mastercard is the network that ties together you, the merchant, and your account provider. I don't think Mastercard have ever offered their own accounts, though Visa used to (I remember UK credit cards that were nothing but the Visa logo).
Wrong. You do own the airspace. In some jurisdictions, you can in theory sue airlines for trespass and win nugatory damages. In others, the law has been specifically changed to allow overflight.