From eBay's website, When you list an item on eBay, you're charged an Insertion Fee.... Based on that, I'd say that it could be argued that you're simply the seller, and eBay is being hired by the seller to function as the auctioneer.
This can be strengthened by pointing out that eBay is the one who handles the bidding process itself, not the seller.
But then again, I may not have any clue what I'm talking about;o)
Gotta vote against ya, and go with the parent. Following the parent, there are two distinct options for updating: Firefox, and My Extensions and Themes. That's on my Gentoo system, Firefox 1.0
That would imply that one can update Firefox through that menu. Not sure if it actually works or not, though. I just tried it, and it stated that no updates were available.
I wonder how Portage would handle it, too... I imaagine that it would assume 1.0 was still installed, and not the update. *shrug* So I waste some time the next time I 'emerge sync && emerge -u world'... I'll probably be at work or sleeping anyhow.
And a "smart" kid would take a look at the movie listings, pick a movie, and do exactly what you stated...
... and then go do whatever else they want to for the duration of the movie.
For the record, I've been out of my parent's place for a few years. And I considered myself a "good kid" (never drank, smoked, did drugs, etc.). They had their suspicions a couple times (they were wrong), but they discussed it with me.
BR.
But if my parents had put me under the same scrutiny as the parent poster suggests, my first two paragraphs would've been my response.
It's possible... but not fun;o). I've got it working under Gentoo fairly easily, using portage.
It looks really nice, too. The only problem I've noticed is some "color flickering" when rglow is enabled. It's not enough to really bother much, though.
On the other hand, when I upgrade my video card within the next couple months, NVidia will be my choice:o).
If I was a pilot (I am, but only a private ASEL, and not current), I'd want both.
Redundancy is a good thing. Electrical and mechanical things break down. Most of us on Slashdot ought to realize that. If your GPS goes down while you're taking a crosscountry trip in the family car, hopefully you brought a set of maps with you. If not, you stop by the next the gas station. Kinda hard to do that in an aircraft. If that GPS goes down, I bet you'd like to take advantage of that ILS system, regardless of its limitations.
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Remind me not to post before I have my morning coffee... as for evidence, notice I used break tags but couldn't engage my brain well enough to use bold tags.
*helpless shrug* If I remember right, I even previewed it, and missed it. I either need more sleep or more caffeine;o)
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I'm not too thrilled about it "going gold." So it's [B]finally[/B] going to be released. Booyah.
What would really make my day is if they declared HL2 went gold [B]and[/B] they have a Linux client. Because until they get that second part down, the first is rather meaningless (for me at least).
And don't tell me to get Windows if I want to game. I have my reasons:o).
And now an additional 2% have heard of him, and will recognize his name (for the next few weeks) as that whacko from the Liber-whatever party that got arrested.
Not me. I followed the link to their page, then clicked on "What exactly are Libertarians?", or however they phrased it.
Then I went, "Oh. That sounds like my feelings. I agree with that."
Remember, most of the people who represent us don't have the time to read every fucking piece of legislation that crosses their desk. These things are hundreds of pages long.
And maybe if they were held responsible for reading each and every piece of legislation that came across their desk, rather than passing this kind of crap on, our government would actually be respectable, instead of the corrupted, bloated, and mostly unintelligible mass that it is currently.
Wizard: "Do you know how old your document is?
Me:"Five minutes."
Wizard: "Do you know what program you use to edit it?"
Me: "Yeah. Vim."
Wizard: "I'm sorry. I don't recognize that program."
Me: Reboots into my Linux system and mkreiserfs' the Windows drive.
I'd personally love it if they told Wal-Mart to go &%#@ themselves if they don't like the situation.
Sierra's in a situation where they should be able to tell Wal-Mart to take it or leave it. Wal-Mart ought respect it, given their "supplier strategies" (Force your suppliers to drop their prices continuously so you can drop yours, irregardless of whether it's healthy for your suppliers' health. Or so I've heard, or read.) Sierra has a unique product (Halflife 2), and one that isn't exactly an impulse buy currently. It's more of a "hardcore gamer - gotta go out and get my Halflife 2 fix right *now*" kind of buy. In other words, if it's not sold at Wal-Mart, I'd bet that most consumers will have no problem going to Best Buy or EB to pick it up... they'll be actively seeking it.
Give it a few months (or a year), let demand for it slide, and then it might be worth dickering with Wal-Mart.
On the other hand, I have zip, zero, and nada for marketing and supplying experience. Just the average consumer experience here. *shrug*
N.B.: By the way, I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart. I worked for them for a summer after highschool, in their Electronics Dep't, just for some extra cash. They treat their employees like crap, get anti-union rhetoric shoved in their face if they bring up their shoddy treatment if they bring it up in conversation, *and* have to deal with the type of customer that Wal-Mart's marketing strategy attracts on a daily basis. Their supplying strategy just irritates me further. So you could consider me biased:o)
Not sure if you're a troll or not, but I'll feed you nonetheless;o).
There's a difference between something being doable and something that's "doable and makes sense, too." I haven't ran across the grandfather post's problem, but the solution isn't intuitive. If a word processor converts a line of underscores into what looks like a line, it'd better be a line. Not some wierd formatting quirk.
As a side note, that's one of the reason's I moved away from Microsoft products in general, and towards Linux. Because, most of the time, Linux (or more appropriately, Gentoo) just makes sense to me. If something makes sense to me, it's easier and quicker to use.
Granted, I'm running GRUB (on a Gentoo system), not LILO, but can't you just boot off a LiveCD and reinstall LILO to the MBR? I seem to remember doing this a couple times during my time spent dual booting...
Nah... you've got it all wrong. Ever consider that an "appreciation day" is simply a reminder to say "Hey, thanks"? Some people appreciate a pat on the back every now and then (apparently not you).
They tried it with Internet Explorer, and we finally nailed them.
Apparently we didn't nail them too hard... they keep trying their shady practices anyway. Maybe this time we can try a little bit harder?
I happen to like Google... I'd like to see that they stick around for a while.
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Here's another reminder to myself to preview my statments first... if nothing else, spell check:o)
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Keep in mind, I've never heard of Godwin's law before (don't do much "usenetting," or any other sort of posting).
Godwin's law, as originally stated, was (approximately) that any discussion thread on usenet (and similar systems), if it did not die first, would eventually warp into something that would provoke a mention of NAZIs - and that the NAZI reference indicated that it had wandered from interesting topics to topics that had been rehashed so many times that they were no longer interesting - at least to old hands (such as Godwin) who had other things to spend their time and internet access on.
Ok. Simplified and paraphrased, it states that a thread, if it does not die off, eventually it provoke a NAZI reference.
Sounds like common sense, to me at least. If a thread dies, the law holds, regardless of a mention of NAZI's or not, via the "if it did not die first" statement.
If the thread has not died, then either a mention of NAZI's has occurred, or not. If it has, the law holds true.
If the mention has not occurred, then the law still holds true, since it leads to one of the above events.
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IANAL, but...
;o)
From eBay's website, When you list an item on eBay, you're charged an Insertion Fee.... Based on that, I'd say that it could be argued that you're simply the seller, and eBay is being hired by the seller to function as the auctioneer.
This can be strengthened by pointing out that eBay is the one who handles the bidding process itself, not the seller.
But then again, I may not have any clue what I'm talking about
Gotta vote against ya, and go with the parent. Following the parent, there are two distinct options for updating: Firefox, and My Extensions and Themes. That's on my Gentoo system, Firefox 1.0
That would imply that one can update Firefox through that menu. Not sure if it actually works or not, though. I just tried it, and it stated that no updates were available.
I wonder how Portage would handle it, too... I imaagine that it would assume 1.0 was still installed, and not the update. *shrug* So I waste some time the next time I 'emerge sync && emerge -u world'... I'll probably be at work or sleeping anyhow.
Depends on your definition of criminal... go down to your public library, and pick up a copy of 1984, please.
And a "smart" kid would take a look at the movie listings, pick a movie, and do exactly what you stated...
... and then go do whatever else they want to for the duration of the movie.
For the record, I've been out of my parent's place for a few years. And I considered myself a "good kid" (never drank, smoked, did drugs, etc.). They had their suspicions a couple times (they were wrong), but they discussed it with me.
BR. But if my parents had put me under the same scrutiny as the parent poster suggests, my first two paragraphs would've been my response.
... new suspense-thriller "Installing XP SP2".
You mean "new suspense-thriller 'Repairing the BSOD on boot after installing XP SP2."
it isn't quite as big of a concern since they'll probably have their servers up for 5 or 8 years.
Which is fine, if at the end of the that period, they release a patch that kills the need for that authentication. Or earlier, preferably.
Just playing devil's advocate, though... I'm just as annoyed with this authentication as anybody else is.
It's possible... but not fun ;o). I've got it working under Gentoo fairly easily, using portage.
:o).
It looks really nice, too. The only problem I've noticed is some "color flickering" when rglow is enabled. It's not enough to really bother much, though.
On the other hand, when I upgrade my video card within the next couple months, NVidia will be my choice
If I was a pilot (I am, but only a private ASEL, and not current), I'd want both.
Redundancy is a good thing. Electrical and mechanical things break down. Most of us on Slashdot ought to realize that. If your GPS goes down while you're taking a crosscountry trip in the family car, hopefully you brought a set of maps with you. If not, you stop by the next the gas station. Kinda hard to do that in an aircraft. If that GPS goes down, I bet you'd like to take advantage of that ILS system, regardless of its limitations.
Remind me not to post before I have my morning coffee... as for evidence, notice I used break tags but couldn't engage my brain well enough to use bold tags.
;o)
*helpless shrug* If I remember right, I even previewed it, and missed it. I either need more sleep or more caffeine
I'm not too thrilled about it "going gold." So it's [B]finally[/B] going to be released. Booyah.
:o).
What would really make my day is if they declared HL2 went gold [B]and[/B] they have a Linux client. Because until they get that second part down, the first is rather meaningless (for me at least).
And don't tell me to get Windows if I want to game. I have my reasons
And now an additional 2% have heard of him, and will recognize his name (for the next few weeks) as that whacko from the Liber-whatever party that got arrested.
Not me. I followed the link to their page, then clicked on "What exactly are Libertarians?", or however they phrased it.
Then I went, "Oh. That sounds like my feelings. I agree with that."
Remember, most of the people who represent us don't have the time to read every fucking piece of legislation that crosses their desk. These things are hundreds of pages long.
And maybe if they were held responsible for reading each and every piece of legislation that came across their desk, rather than passing this kind of crap on, our government would actually be respectable, instead of the corrupted, bloated, and mostly unintelligible mass that it is currently.
You know... that explains a great deal ;o)
Wizard: "Do you know how old your document is?
Me:"Five minutes."
Wizard: "Do you know what program you use to edit it?"
Me: "Yeah. Vim."
Wizard: "I'm sorry. I don't recognize that program."
Me: Reboots into my Linux system and mkreiserfs' the Windows drive.
I'd personally love it if they told Wal-Mart to go &%#@ themselves if they don't like the situation.
:o)
Sierra's in a situation where they should be able to tell Wal-Mart to take it or leave it. Wal-Mart ought respect it, given their "supplier strategies" (Force your suppliers to drop their prices continuously so you can drop yours, irregardless of whether it's healthy for your suppliers' health. Or so I've heard, or read.) Sierra has a unique product (Halflife 2), and one that isn't exactly an impulse buy currently. It's more of a "hardcore gamer - gotta go out and get my Halflife 2 fix right *now*" kind of buy. In other words, if it's not sold at Wal-Mart, I'd bet that most consumers will have no problem going to Best Buy or EB to pick it up... they'll be actively seeking it.
Give it a few months (or a year), let demand for it slide, and then it might be worth dickering with Wal-Mart.
On the other hand, I have zip, zero, and nada for marketing and supplying experience. Just the average consumer experience here. *shrug*
N.B.: By the way, I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart. I worked for them for a summer after highschool, in their Electronics Dep't, just for some extra cash. They treat their employees like crap, get anti-union rhetoric shoved in their face if they bring up their shoddy treatment if they bring it up in conversation, *and* have to deal with the type of customer that Wal-Mart's marketing strategy attracts on a daily basis. Their supplying strategy just irritates me further. So you could consider me biased
A fallible business model is one that doesn't survive in the marketplace, not one that is torn down by people breaking the law.
So what happens when an industry lobbies (successfully) to have that business model propped up by laws, in order to survive?
Not sure if you're a troll or not, but I'll feed you nonetheless ;o).
There's a difference between something being doable and something that's "doable and makes sense, too." I haven't ran across the grandfather post's problem, but the solution isn't intuitive. If a word processor converts a line of underscores into what looks like a line, it'd better be a line. Not some wierd formatting quirk.
As a side note, that's one of the reason's I moved away from Microsoft products in general, and towards Linux. Because, most of the time, Linux (or more appropriately, Gentoo) just makes sense to me. If something makes sense to me, it's easier and quicker to use.
Instead, try to raise common Joe's level of understanding so that he may understand the science...
If it's a joint account, I don't see why they wouldn't (at least from a logical point of view).
'Course, who said our legal system was logical?
*sigh*
...like destroying the MBR, and thus, LILO...
Granted, I'm running GRUB (on a Gentoo system), not LILO, but can't you just boot off a LiveCD and reinstall LILO to the MBR? I seem to remember doing this a couple times during my time spent dual booting...
Nah... you've got it all wrong. Ever consider that an "appreciation day" is simply a reminder to say "Hey, thanks"? Some people appreciate a pat on the back every now and then (apparently not you).
They tried it with Internet Explorer, and we finally nailed them.
Apparently we didn't nail them too hard... they keep trying their shady practices anyway. Maybe this time we can try a little bit harder?
I happen to like Google... I'd like to see that they stick around for a while.
Here's another reminder to myself to preview my statments first... if nothing else, spell check :o)
Keep in mind, I've never heard of Godwin's law before (don't do much "usenetting," or any other sort of posting).
;o)
Godwin's law, as originally stated, was (approximately) that any discussion thread on usenet (and similar systems), if it did not die first, would eventually warp into something that would provoke a mention of NAZIs - and that the NAZI reference indicated that it had wandered from interesting topics to topics that had been rehashed so many times that they were no longer interesting - at least to old hands (such as Godwin) who had other things to spend their time and internet access on.
Ok. Simplified and paraphrased, it states that a thread, if it does not die off, eventually it provoke a NAZI reference.
Sounds like common sense, to me at least. If a thread dies, the law holds, regardless of a mention of NAZI's or not, via the "if it did not die first" statement.
If the thread has not died, then either a mention of NAZI's has occurred, or not. If it has, the law holds true.
If the mention has not occurred, then the law still holds true, since it leads to one of the above events.
Or I could just be nitpicking
Apparently the moderators didn't think so ;o).