That's hardly fair to the driver, as being stuck in a traffic jam costs them more - and there are plenty of unforeseen events, such as detours for construction work or accidents.
You don't think this gets factored into the price? Regular price from A to B might be $10. However, the taxi company sees that there is heavy construction along the route, not to mention it's rush hour and the main route tends to get jammed. So the quoted price to the customer might be $17 to accomodate. Now it's up to the prospective customer whether that's worth it or if they should call a different taxi company and hope for a better rate.
Without stealing of ideas, we wouldn't have Open Office which implemented feature-for-feature what Microsoft Office has. Without stealing, we wouldn't have KDE and Gnome with implemented many features from Windows and OS X. How could open source survive without it?:)
I'm built too low. The fast ones go over my head. I got a hole in my glove. You keep pitchin' 'em and I keep missin' 'em. I gotta keep my eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag.
Luxury! Why, when I was a lad my father made me go into the back shed and pound nails into the soles of my feet for traction. We only dreamed of dentures!
It is being Slashdotted right now, so it's not known whether the limitation is the framework speed, the server it's on, available bandwidth, database performance, or something else.
One thing I've always wondered: why don't they ban nicotine? Smoke all you want, just mandate to the cigarette manufacturers that they need to produce nicotine-free smokes. I don't know much about tobacco, so that wouldn't work even in theory if nicotine is near-impossible to remove. And in practice, it won't work for many many more reasons.
36% of their highly redundant infrastructure was made unavailable, leaving 64% of the control servers online and fully capable of servicing the millions of bots under its control.
Domain Name: LIVINGWITHANERD.COM
Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
$ whois 208.109.181.199
OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc. OrgID: GODAD Address: 14455 N Hayden Road Address: Suite 226 City: Scottsdale StateProv: AZ PostalCode: 85260 Country: US
NetRange: 208.109.0.0 - 208.109.255.255 [etc...]
You're still effectively hosting your site with GoDaddy and your domain is registered through GoDaddy (WildWestDomains). Only difference is that Proud Domains profits from it too. If you haven't had a single problem with it, you have GoDaddy to thank for it!
My other comment was uncalled for, so my apologies.
I suggest you patent your contract avoidance system. You just write an app to ignore the agreement and yay! no agreement because the app did it.
I just find it interesting that you seem to think that Google's bot, for example, has entered into millions of agreements because of the terms of service on the millions of sites it has indexed. If you don't think that Google has entered into millions of agreements because of its bot, do you think they are operating under a theory of a "contract avoidance system" as you claim? Same goes for Microsoft, and every other search engine which indexes content on the web. If your theory is right, you may have hit the jackpot and you should be starting class actions against these companies... no doubt they have violated some provisions of all these millions of terms of service they have entered into contractual agreements under.
Of course your application is downloading and analysing material for your own personal gain.
Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22terms+of+service%22 There are 438,000,000 instances of "terms of service" that Google has indexed. Google has download, analyzed, and stored material from those sites for their own personal gain (selling advertising against the search results). By your claims, Google has entered into agreements on every one of these.
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Shame on me for having to double-check... I should have known it's definitely not a kdawson post.
What, you have something against PostScript?
(within it's very wide limits).
"It's" vs. "its"... there's an app for that.
Sorry, LACP is already taken. You Linux folken can't have it, it belongs to the network itself, (IEEE 802.3ad) :)
How about saying "Digg got the CLAP"? Surely that's not taken?
And all of us training robots to read and post to Slashdot at work.
That's hardly fair to the driver, as being stuck in a traffic jam costs them more - and there are plenty of unforeseen events, such as detours for construction work or accidents.
You don't think this gets factored into the price? Regular price from A to B might be $10. However, the taxi company sees that there is heavy construction along the route, not to mention it's rush hour and the main route tends to get jammed. So the quoted price to the customer might be $17 to accomodate. Now it's up to the prospective customer whether that's worth it or if they should call a different taxi company and hope for a better rate.
This movie is from the 80s... The Abyss. It even had a ship the Benthic Explorer, no doubt what this one was named after.
Thats impossible, even for a computer.
It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters.
Just find a open WLAN and use that ...
What a great idea. From the fine summary: "and no readily available Internet (WiFi or otherwise) in the location where we'll be staying".
The same old tired excuse -- did you even look at the article and linked blog entry?
Um... this is Slashdot, right?
Feeling trolly today?
A little. Hopefully the smiley tempered it.
Without stealing of ideas, we wouldn't have Open Office which implemented feature-for-feature what Microsoft Office has. Without stealing, we wouldn't have KDE and Gnome with implemented many features from Windows and OS X. How could open source survive without it? :)
I'm built too low. The fast ones go over my head. I got a hole in my glove. You keep pitchin' 'em and I keep missin' 'em. I gotta keep my eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag.
Luxury! Why, when I was a lad my father made me go into the back shed and pound nails into the soles of my feet for traction. We only dreamed of dentures!
It is being Slashdotted right now, so it's not known whether the limitation is the framework speed, the server it's on, available bandwidth, database performance, or something else.
Come on Slashdot... this is old news. The PlayStation Move was demonstrated a while back.
One thing I've always wondered: why don't they ban nicotine? Smoke all you want, just mandate to the cigarette manufacturers that they need to produce nicotine-free smokes. I don't know much about tobacco, so that wouldn't work even in theory if nicotine is near-impossible to remove. And in practice, it won't work for many many more reasons.
It would make a great Michael Bay movie.
Only if I could watch it on a DRM-free Blu-ray disk with a cheap Mac.
You forgot to ask for a pony too.
But what happens if the train breaks down? Will people need space suits to get to the nearest exit from the tunnel?
Maybe oxygen masks.
Connected to a tank of oxygen sufficiently large to fill the entire tunnel close to 1 atmosphere of pressure?
Any birds unlucky enough to get sucked in will suffocate. 4 birds, 1 stone!
Correction, sir, that's blown in.
36% of their highly redundant infrastructure was made unavailable, leaving 64% of the control servers online and fully capable of servicing the millions of bots under its control.
And for your information, honey is delicious and pre-eaten.
Technically, yes, but the bees didn't digest it and burn the calories out of it, or we'd call it 'poop' instead of 'honey.'
Odd question to ask, but since when does poop have no calories?
And, if I'm not mistaken, one of the few instances where Slashdot has self-censored. Check it out... no comments:
http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/12/10/0821224.shtml
Were comments disabled from the beginning, or only after they were so overwhelmingly negative did the comments get deleted and disabled?
$ host www.livingwithanerd.com
208.109.181.199
$ whois livingwithanerd.com
Domain Name: LIVINGWITHANERD.COM
Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
$ whois 208.109.181.199
OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID: GODAD
Address: 14455 N Hayden Road
Address: Suite 226
City: Scottsdale
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country: US
NetRange: 208.109.0.0 - 208.109.255.255
[etc...]
You're still effectively hosting your site with GoDaddy and your domain is registered through GoDaddy (WildWestDomains). Only difference is that Proud Domains profits from it too. If you haven't had a single problem with it, you have GoDaddy to thank for it!
My other comment was uncalled for, so my apologies.
I suggest you patent your contract avoidance system. You just write an app to ignore the agreement and yay! no agreement because the app did it.
I just find it interesting that you seem to think that Google's bot, for example, has entered into millions of agreements because of the terms of service on the millions of sites it has indexed. If you don't think that Google has entered into millions of agreements because of its bot, do you think they are operating under a theory of a "contract avoidance system" as you claim? Same goes for Microsoft, and every other search engine which indexes content on the web. If your theory is right, you may have hit the jackpot and you should be starting class actions against these companies... no doubt they have violated some provisions of all these millions of terms of service they have entered into contractual agreements under.
Of course your application is downloading and analysing material for your own personal gain.
Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22terms+of+service%22 There are 438,000,000 instances of "terms of service" that Google has indexed. Google has download, analyzed, and stored material from those sites for their own personal gain (selling advertising against the search results). By your claims, Google has entered into agreements on every one of these.