One show gets canned, another gets launched. Just as many people will get new jobs as people lose jobs if the show is canned - in many cases exactly the same people. By all means be disappointed if your favorite show comes to an end, but please don't be disappointed because of jobs lost.
Well, by that I meant everything you can get of the value of the damage that was done.
What was the damage done in this case? Well, suppose person A bought a lottery ticket and B stole it. The ticket then turns out to be a winning ticket. Then I think most people would consider that A should be recompensed the value of the winnings, not just the cost of the ticket. Similarly the damage done to the owners of the name 'googol' could be fairly substantial - if the Kasner family actually had any legal claim to that name. I expect they don't, but that's a different issue.
What's wrong with that? Some rich guy crashes into your car and damages it - you fight 'em for all the money you get. Some undocumented worker with no money hits you - it's not worth the effort to fight to get him to pay. It's completely sensible to choose how you pick fights with according to how much you can make out of them.
He he! I like your spin. I was going to write a comment quoting from the same ex-CIA director, said quotation having been made before the Enron and WorldCom scandals. You've chosen to spin it the other way from the obvious way I was going to take!
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Instead of "There is no God" my sig should be "'God' is just a grammatical construction" but that doesn't work as well.
Carbon based life forms use water for proper functioning and have a vested interest in maintaining a good water supply. What does a robot care about our water? A bit of charging and the occasional oil and they're happy.
Actually, one of the popular theories was that the library was burned down by Caliph Omar around 640AD. The modern verdict is that this is probably just Christian propaganda. See here for more info.
"The only book we need is the Koran, burn the rest!" Except for one thing, the evidence that the library of Alexandria was burned down my Muslims is slender and in fact Muslims preserved the literature of the ancient world that early Christians had lost or even tried to suppress.
...every hour to monitor my stocks and commodities. It would download the latest prices every hour. But they suddenly changed the format that the data was represented in and they occasionally added extra significant digits to the prices. Most commodities went through fine but when it reached Chinese tea the extra digit caused a buffer overrun in my code and it went into an infinite loop. The problem is, my cron job was expecting to see a return code, and when it didn't get one, due to a bug in my script it kept spawning new copies of the process in an attempt to get one. Basically I had a fork bomb and it brought my Linux server to a crashing halt...
...you can get a bogus degree. The University of Cambridge. After you get a BA you wait a few years (that's the 'life experience' bit) and you can then buy an MA. I keep meaning to send them my money to upgrade my BA.
Oh please! There's no need to read the work of Galileo today except out of historical interest. Same goes for Newton. Newton and Galileo wouldn't even recognise the use of the terms Galilean and Newtonian in modern physics. Physics and mathematics has moved on. Modern mathematical techniques are so much more efficient than the crude tools Newton had to work with, and no matter how smart you are you aren't going to figure out the 300 years of intervening developments by reading the original work.
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But they're more likely to replace it with "space warping teenaged archangel clairvoyant cop from the next millennium" than "Who wants to marry...".
It's Ediacaran, not Ediacarian.
What was the damage done in this case? Well, suppose person A bought a lottery ticket and B stole it. The ticket then turns out to be a winning ticket. Then I think most people would consider that A should be recompensed the value of the winnings, not just the cost of the ticket. Similarly the damage done to the owners of the name 'googol' could be fairly substantial - if the Kasner family actually had any legal claim to that name. I expect they don't, but that's a different issue.
What's wrong with that? Some rich guy crashes into your car and damages it - you fight 'em for all the money you get. Some undocumented worker with no money hits you - it's not worth the effort to fight to get him to pay. It's completely sensible to choose how you pick fights with according to how much you can make out of them.
He he! I like your spin. I was going to write a comment quoting from the same ex-CIA director, said quotation having been made before the Enron and WorldCom scandals. You've chosen to spin it the other way from the obvious way I was going to take!
Instead of "There is no God" my sig should be "'God' is just a grammatical construction" but that doesn't work as well.
Look at those pictures at the NS web site. If they aren't the fabled Sinclair Micro-Penis I don't know what is.
...with some software with the ability to self-replicate. God help the rest of the universe when life finally manages to get off this planet.
Carbon based life forms use water for proper functioning and have a vested interest in maintaining a good water supply. What does a robot care about our water? A bit of charging and the occasional oil and they're happy.
...mass destruction. I don't fancy having the US invaded by those folks at the UN.
Actually, one of the popular theories was that the library was burned down by Caliph Omar around 640AD. The modern verdict is that this is probably just Christian propaganda. See here for more info.
"The only book we need is the Koran, burn the rest!" Except for one thing, the evidence that the library of Alexandria was burned down my Muslims is slender and in fact Muslims preserved the literature of the ancient world that early Christians had lost or even tried to suppress.
Yup. This is a half decent book on the subject I read a few years back. The $64,000,000 question is of course "who burned it down?"
Wow! Never thought of that! Just think, all those companies out there designing electronics and nobody came up with your brilliant idea!
How long before we have to remove the part of your brain containing the information you just read here?
...every hour to monitor my stocks and commodities. It would download the latest prices every hour. But they suddenly changed the format that the data was represented in and they occasionally added extra significant digits to the prices. Most commodities went through fine but when it reached Chinese tea the extra digit caused a buffer overrun in my code and it went into an infinite loop. The problem is, my cron job was expecting to see a return code, and when it didn't get one, due to a bug in my script it kept spawning new copies of the process in an attempt to get one. Basically I had a fork bomb and it brought my Linux server to a crashing halt...
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Damn! Now I really do have to hand over my money to get an MA. Thanks for the info.
...you can get a bogus degree. The University of Cambridge. After you get a BA you wait a few years (that's the 'life experience' bit) and you can then buy an MA. I keep meaning to send them my money to upgrade my BA.
....but don't learn them from Newton.
Oh please! There's no need to read the work of Galileo today except out of historical interest. Same goes for Newton. Newton and Galileo wouldn't even recognise the use of the terms Galilean and Newtonian in modern physics. Physics and mathematics has moved on. Modern mathematical techniques are so much more efficient than the crude tools Newton had to work with, and no matter how smart you are you aren't going to figure out the 300 years of intervening developments by reading the original work.
The title says it all but I have to write this crap in the comment field to make /. accept it.