Even if pet selling was illegal, adopting should still be an option.
So you can just take down the sign saying 'Pet Store', put up a sign saying 'Pet Adoption Center' and the law is utterly worthless except to signwriters.
It says you can't SELL animals, not that you can't give them away. This is to stop factory farming of pets, not ban having pets altogether.
Here's an idea. If you want to do that you could, you know, like, dude, ban factory farming of pets.
All this pointless law will do is ensure that when people want to buy a pet they'll have to drive a few miles to the nearest pet store outside Moscow-on-Sea. Or drive to the bad part of town and buy it from a street corner dog-dealer.
Even if they perform psychological screening, I doubt very much whether they're looking for the right traits, or whether this screening is performed often enough.
If you were screening for the TSA, who would you want more than 'suspicious, pessimistic people who act as though the entire nation is entrapped in some massive conspiracy theory'?
They're the front line of the War On Terror and stuff. Obviously they need to be paranoid conspiracy theorists who think every old lady is a suicide bomber.
Firefox 5.0 has changed the Firefox ABI; any extension that calls native code functions needs recompiling for 5.0, it may need changes to the code, calling it 4.1 wouldn't have changed this.
But it would have allowed those corporations to stick with 4.0 and continue getting security fixes until they had made those changes.
The reason is simple: BIOS vendors noticed Windows doesn't follow the standard well, and made the reasonable assumption that the vast majority of users would run windows. Thus they deviated from the standard in order to better support it.
I suspect it's more than there are people paid to clean up their turds in software, so companies don't care about crapping out defective hardware with a broken BIOS.
When I was writing video drivers for Windows we'd often have to incorporate workarounds for broken host chipsets; I'm guessing all the other video card manufacturers were doing the same and the chipset manufacturers either didn't realise their AGP bus implementation was a heap of steaming monkey crap or didn't care.
emember back when a ~50-80 watt CPU was considered a howling-mad-danger-to-self-and-others overclock/overvolt insanity demandng nerves of steel and custom cooling? Now boring retail CPUs have TDPs in the ~130 watt range
Only if you're still using a Pentium-4. Most of the new i5s have 95W or less TDP and real-world measurements show they rarely go over 60W.
The new i5 server/DVR I'm building should use less power than my old dual-core Atom when idle and only about 40W more under full load.
I suspected it was a phishing attempt of some sort, as although the link text goes to 'support.ea.com', the actual link goes to 'em.ea.com', with what looks to be a unique key in it.
I thought that was funny too, when the same email warned to be careful about suspicious emails.
NWN1 is one of the few games that actually didn't suck.
No, it sucked. 'Oh look, a room that's empty other than sixteen crates and barrels. Oh look, fifteen of the crates and barrels are empty. Oh look, I found a copper piece in the other barrel'.
I had to quit part-way through because I knew I'd go mad if I had to search through yet another room full of empty crates and barrels in the hope of finding something useful.
mother's maiden name must be relatively trivial to track down for most folks these days.
Fortunately my mother's maiden name is GMgDcbkxfT1Mk6T4znV3IQ.
But this is a pain because no-one in their right mind should be giving correct answers to these insecurity questions, but then they becomes yet more passwords that you have to remember for all these different sites.
I'd be willing to be that, considering the disclaimer that the autopilot must be monitored by the driver, the human operator is still liable.
Like the way that when an aircraft autopilot shuts down because it can't work out how to fly the plane, then it crashes, that's always due to 'pilot error'?
It'll be great fun when you're driving along reading the newspaper and suddenly the car autopilot shuts down. Good luck.
Amazon could even take the $10 out of the first $10 of profit for each book if this entry fee would otherwise demonstrably be a barrier to serious writers.
That would be a much better way of doing it, or just saying that they won't pay royalties on a book until it's made at least a certan number of dollars. I believe they currently only pay royalties when all books on an account have made some number of dollars, but if you're spamming 10,000 junk books then that won't stop you.
Actually, I believe that's prior AC's point: current freeway speeds are already quite a bit faster than any human can reasonably manage, insofar as not creating huge fucking traffic jams goes...
So, uh, the traffic is going too slow on the freeways due to traffic jams caused by traffic going too fast?
This notion that tradition publishers "keep" the vast majority of proceed is nonsense.
Uh, we're talking about ebooks. On Amazon.
If you're a typical traditionally published author, the publisher will get 70% of the cover price from Amazon for each ebook they sell, and then they'll give 25% of that to you, and then you'll give 15% of that to your agent. So the publisher will get more than three times as much money from each ebook sale as you do.
I love how you have to fork over 65% of the revenue to Amazon.
If you went through a traditional publisher, you'd probably fork over 85+%.
And, as mentioned, if you self-publish for $2.99 and above, you get to keep 70% from self-publishing, vs about 15% through a traditional publishing deal.
While I fully support a standard connector, I hope they realize that this will increase the electricity consumption of these devices, along with increasing the price of each charger.
When I measured my laptop's power consumption it was taking 25W at the wall; so turning off a light bulb would save more money.
Because the Model S does not compete with either of those cars. It competes with the BMW 7 series low end or high end 5 series, it competes with Midrange Mercs and their ilk, not econoboxes.
Because people who buy such cars are so totally worried about gas mileage. And never drive more than a hundred miles or so without stopping for several hours to refuel.
You could probably afford a $75k car. However you will need to adjust your lifes tradeoffs to get the car.
And I'm sure that lots of people will be happy to 'adjust their life tradeoffs' to buy a 'luxury sedan' that they can drive for a hundred miles (or whatever the real-world performance turns out to be) and then have to wait to be towed to the nearest power point.
Youtube videos also work this way. The video comes in faster than it is displayed and is buffered into a temp file (and there are ways to find and save this temp file as long as the browser isn't closed or the URL is changed).
Oh, I wish. I was trying to watch an HD video on Youtube recently and it spent more time buffering than playing... eventually I left it downloading then copied the temp file to a.mp4 and watched it in VLC.
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This just helps reinforce the state's reputation as anti-business. Just what it needs.
And encourages those who want to build a wall around California to keep stupid people out of the rest of America.
you're stupid. the law is about stopping breeders from allowing bad conditions.
And how does banning pet sales in Moscow-on-Sea do that? Why is Moscow-on-Sea allowing breeders to breed pets in bad conditions in the city?
Even if pet selling was illegal, adopting should still be an option.
So you can just take down the sign saying 'Pet Store', put up a sign saying 'Pet Adoption Center' and the law is utterly worthless except to signwriters.
It says you can't SELL animals, not that you can't give them away. This is to stop factory farming of pets, not ban having pets altogether.
Here's an idea. If you want to do that you could, you know, like, dude, ban factory farming of pets.
All this pointless law will do is ensure that when people want to buy a pet they'll have to drive a few miles to the nearest pet store outside Moscow-on-Sea. Or drive to the bad part of town and buy it from a street corner dog-dealer.
Actually, in absence of legal trade of animals, the animals will still be born but now there will be no choice but to have them killed.
Except that a lot of animals are bred solely to be sold.
Just like the people who demand we stop eating beef and drinking milk in order to save the cows are really trying to exterminate the cow race.
Or maybe you'd like HTML 5 some time around 2023?
The more I learn about HTML5, the less I want it at all.
Even if they perform psychological screening, I doubt very much whether they're looking for the right traits, or whether this screening is performed often enough.
If you were screening for the TSA, who would you want more than 'suspicious, pessimistic people who act as though the entire nation is entrapped in some massive conspiracy theory'?
They're the front line of the War On Terror and stuff. Obviously they need to be paranoid conspiracy theorists who think every old lady is a suicide bomber.
Somebody's gotta do it
Why?
Firefox 5.0 has changed the Firefox ABI; any extension that calls native code functions needs recompiling for 5.0, it may need changes to the code, calling it 4.1 wouldn't have changed this.
But it would have allowed those corporations to stick with 4.0 and continue getting security fixes until they had made those changes.
The reason is simple: BIOS vendors noticed Windows doesn't follow the standard well, and made the reasonable assumption that the vast majority of users would run windows. Thus they deviated from the standard in order to better support it.
I suspect it's more than there are people paid to clean up their turds in software, so companies don't care about crapping out defective hardware with a broken BIOS.
When I was writing video drivers for Windows we'd often have to incorporate workarounds for broken host chipsets; I'm guessing all the other video card manufacturers were doing the same and the chipset manufacturers either didn't realise their AGP bus implementation was a heap of steaming monkey crap or didn't care.
emember back when a ~50-80 watt CPU was considered a howling-mad-danger-to-self-and-others overclock/overvolt insanity demandng nerves of steel and custom cooling? Now boring retail CPUs have TDPs in the ~130 watt range
Only if you're still using a Pentium-4. Most of the new i5s have 95W or less TDP and real-world measurements show they rarely go over 60W.
The new i5 server/DVR I'm building should use less power than my old dual-core Atom when idle and only about 40W more under full load.
I'd bet that a new Star Wars product gets announced just after the new year.
Isn't there another Star Wars MMO in development? One that might not suck?
I suspected it was a phishing attempt of some sort, as although the link text goes to 'support.ea.com', the actual link goes to 'em.ea.com', with what looks to be a unique key in it.
I thought that was funny too, when the same email warned to be careful about suspicious emails.
NWN1 is one of the few games that actually didn't suck.
No, it sucked. 'Oh look, a room that's empty other than sixteen crates and barrels. Oh look, fifteen of the crates and barrels are empty. Oh look, I found a copper piece in the other barrel'.
I had to quit part-way through because I knew I'd go mad if I had to search through yet another room full of empty crates and barrels in the hope of finding something useful.
mother's maiden name must be relatively trivial to track down for most folks these days.
Fortunately my mother's maiden name is GMgDcbkxfT1Mk6T4znV3IQ.
But this is a pain because no-one in their right mind should be giving correct answers to these insecurity questions, but then they becomes yet more passwords that you have to remember for all these different sites.
I'd be willing to be that, considering the disclaimer that the autopilot must be monitored by the driver, the human operator is still liable.
Like the way that when an aircraft autopilot shuts down because it can't work out how to fly the plane, then it crashes, that's always due to 'pilot error'?
It'll be great fun when you're driving along reading the newspaper and suddenly the car autopilot shuts down. Good luck.
Amazon could even take the $10 out of the first $10 of profit for each book if this entry fee would otherwise demonstrably be a barrier to serious writers.
That would be a much better way of doing it, or just saying that they won't pay royalties on a book until it's made at least a certan number of dollars. I believe they currently only pay royalties when all books on an account have made some number of dollars, but if you're spamming 10,000 junk books then that won't stop you.
Actually, I believe that's prior AC's point: current freeway speeds are already quite a bit faster than any human can reasonably manage, insofar as not creating huge fucking traffic jams goes...
So, uh, the traffic is going too slow on the freeways due to traffic jams caused by traffic going too fast?
This notion that tradition publishers "keep" the vast majority of proceed is nonsense.
Uh, we're talking about ebooks. On Amazon.
If you're a typical traditionally published author, the publisher will get 70% of the cover price from Amazon for each ebook they sell, and then they'll give 25% of that to you, and then you'll give 15% of that to your agent. So the publisher will get more than three times as much money from each ebook sale as you do.
I love how you have to fork over 65% of the revenue to Amazon.
If you went through a traditional publisher, you'd probably fork over 85+%.
And, as mentioned, if you self-publish for $2.99 and above, you get to keep 70% from self-publishing, vs about 15% through a traditional publishing deal.
While I fully support a standard connector, I hope they realize that this will increase the electricity consumption of these devices, along with increasing the price of each charger.
When I measured my laptop's power consumption it was taking 25W at the wall; so turning off a light bulb would save more money.
Because the Model S does not compete with either of those cars. It competes with the BMW 7 series low end or high end 5 series, it competes with Midrange Mercs and their ilk, not econoboxes.
Because people who buy such cars are so totally worried about gas mileage. And never drive more than a hundred miles or so without stopping for several hours to refuel.
You could probably afford a $75k car. However you will need to adjust your lifes tradeoffs to get the car.
And I'm sure that lots of people will be happy to 'adjust their life tradeoffs' to buy a 'luxury sedan' that they can drive for a hundred miles (or whatever the real-world performance turns out to be) and then have to wait to be towed to the nearest power point.
Sure the Elantra is probably a little smaller inside, but I don't need anything bigger.
Plus the Elantra isn't spewing out a cloud of smug wherever you drive it.
Youtube videos also work this way. The video comes in faster than it is displayed and is buffered into a temp file (and there are ways to find and save this temp file as long as the browser isn't closed or the URL is changed).
Oh, I wish. I was trying to watch an HD video on Youtube recently and it spent more time buffering than playing... eventually I left it downloading then copied the temp file to a .mp4 and watched it in VLC.