From the article comments: Note that the satellite is pointing in the wrong direction on purpose. This is standard procedure to prevent a malfunctioning satellite from interfering with other services.
Because the rules say that it's no longer awarded posthumously, unless the winner died after it was announced. What's the point of having a rule if it is just ignored?
In this case, I think there is some gray area. The actual rule states
Work produced by a person since deceased shall not be considered for an award. If, however, a prizewinner dies before he has received the prize, then the prize may be presented.
Since he was alive while it was being considered, that portion has been met. When was it actually decided that it would be awarded to them? If they decided between September 30th and today, then he probably wouldn't have qualified. However they had decided earlier in September and just announced it today, which I would imagine probably was what happened, then I would say he would qualify without any special exception being made.
It's not as if a facebook account is required to get a drivers license, vote, be employed, whatever. It's a private company that is free to partner with another company to provide a service. Vote with your money and don't use the service. If enough people do so, then maybe Spotify will notice and change their practice. Or maybe they will feel that a pool of 800m potential subscribers is enough for them.
Given that no one was ever going to be doing rapid data entry on a phone, it made more sense to use top-to-bottom order, because the reverse order of tenkey exists only to make rapid multi-digit data entry faster (i.e. zero under the thumb, pinkie for enter, and most common digits under the fingers as per Benford's Law
How does top down or bottom up change what fingers are over what key? Zero and enter could still have their same position, and the only difference between the ordering is flipping the top and bottom row. Your same fingers still press the same keys.
What I'm trying to get at is that everyone is jumping on Microsoft for this, when really it has little to do with them (aside from mandating that UEFI secure boot be enabled by default). Microsoft
And they aren't mandating UEFI secure boot be enabled by default. They are only mandating it if you want to put a little sticker on the device that says "Designed for Windows 8".
If you are buying a PC because it has a little sticker on the device that says Windows 8, then you are almost guaranteed to be in the group that could care less whether it's enabled or not as you aren't going to be putting Linux, OpenBSD, etc on it.
You do realize that you often times see advertisements for cable on satellite and advertisements for satellite on cable. Not to mention advertisements for shows on a different channel.
You do realize that the majority of the time the satellite ads you see are injected at the network level, not at the cableco's local level. And cable ads are injected at the local affiliate level and not at the satellite co level. Right?
The first Blackberry phone came out in 1999. The patent was filed in 1996 and issued in 1999. I don't think it really matters when the first iPhone was conceived.
God no. Visual basic is a very syntax sensitive language with huge libraries. It is like the anti-beginner language. Even microsoft's other major.NET offering(C#) is better.
How is C# "better" with regard to syntax sensitivity or library size? They are the same libraries. And VB is far more forgiving syntax wise with allowing case insensitivity, automatic type casting between select data types, not getting caught up with a statement like if (foo = bar) {...} when it should have been if (foo == bar) {...} .
It's forgiving nature can be a mixed blessing as it can also foster poor practices when transitioning to other languages that aren't as forgiving.
What the hell is a "voice 2.0 company"? Do I need to pay some type of a voice maintenance package to upgrade to voice 2.0? Where there any point releases to patch my voice 1.0 company that fixed bugs or maybe had some trivial new feature?
With 135 years between releases 1.0 and 2.0, they probably should speed up the release cycle some. Hopefully they don't pull a Mozilla and come out with voice 3.0 in three months and immediately EOL voice 2.0.
No. Their value is what someone would pay you for them, not what you paid for it. A standard $30k car that you bought 10 years ago isn't worth $30k anymore because no one would pay you $30k for it. A stock that you bought at $20 that has dropped to $10 will only get you $10 if you traded it.
It doesn't say if the 18 months is relative to the trademark filing date, or the lawsuit filing date. 18 months from when the Chromium OS project was launched (November 2009) would have been April this year.
Please give us an external storage connected to the Internet so we can upload it by SFTP.
Good thing you are using SFTP. You wouldn't want to use something out in the open that could be intercepted unencrypted. Just think of the damage that would happen if the national media got a hold of those emails...
A red light violation occurs when a vehicle travels across the limit line when the traffic signal is red.
It is not a violation if the vehicle has already passed the limit line at the time the signal turned red. At no time will a citation be issued if the vehicle crosses the limit line while the traffic signal is still yellow.
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Agreed, except that we should start at 100,000.
So that's like what, 100 people or so?
From the article comments:
Note that the satellite is pointing in the wrong direction on purpose. This is standard procedure to prevent a malfunctioning satellite from interfering with other services.
Because the rules say that it's no longer awarded posthumously, unless the winner died after it was announced. What's the point of having a rule if it is just ignored?
In this case, I think there is some gray area. The actual rule states
Since he was alive while it was being considered, that portion has been met. When was it actually decided that it would be awarded to them? If they decided between September 30th and today, then he probably wouldn't have qualified. However they had decided earlier in September and just announced it today, which I would imagine probably was what happened, then I would say he would qualify without any special exception being made.
Don't like it? Don't use the service.
It's not as if a facebook account is required to get a drivers license, vote, be employed, whatever. It's a private company that is free to partner with another company to provide a service. Vote with your money and don't use the service. If enough people do so, then maybe Spotify will notice and change their practice. Or maybe they will feel that a pool of 800m potential subscribers is enough for them.
Heaven forbid Google would like to see what they would be spending $6b on.
How does top down or bottom up change what fingers are over what key? Zero and enter could still have their same position, and the only difference between the ordering is flipping the top and bottom row. Your same fingers still press the same keys.
And they aren't mandating UEFI secure boot be enabled by default. They are only mandating it if you want to put a little sticker on the device that says "Designed for Windows 8".
If you are buying a PC because it has a little sticker on the device that says Windows 8, then you are almost guaranteed to be in the group that could care less whether it's enabled or not as you aren't going to be putting Linux, OpenBSD, etc on it.
You do realize that the majority of the time the satellite ads you see are injected at the network level, not at the cableco's local level. And cable ads are injected at the local affiliate level and not at the satellite co level. Right?
What feature is SOOOOO important of a LMS that requires an add-on or functionality that is broken by a version upgrade to Firefox?
...or just walking on the dirt.
Half the pages already have google ads inserted into them. They are just eliminating the additional server request...
The first Blackberry phone came out in 1999. The patent was filed in 1996 and issued in 1999. I don't think it really matters when the first iPhone was conceived.
The same thing that happens when the coal is burnt up completely, we run out of oil, the natural gas burns up...we stop using that source.
Are those for boy or girls? Or just universal?
How is C# "better" with regard to syntax sensitivity or library size? They are the same libraries. And VB is far more forgiving syntax wise with allowing case insensitivity, automatic type casting between select data types, not getting caught up with a statement like
if (foo = bar) {...}
when it should have been
if (foo == bar) {...} .
It's forgiving nature can be a mixed blessing as it can also foster poor practices when transitioning to other languages that aren't as forgiving.
What the hell is a "voice 2.0 company"? Do I need to pay some type of a voice maintenance package to upgrade to voice 2.0? Where there any point releases to patch my voice 1.0 company that fixed bugs or maybe had some trivial new feature?
With 135 years between releases 1.0 and 2.0, they probably should speed up the release cycle some. Hopefully they don't pull a Mozilla and come out with voice 3.0 in three months and immediately EOL voice 2.0.
Sounds well suited for a job at Geek Squad.
No. Their value is what someone would pay you for them, not what you paid for it. A standard $30k car that you bought 10 years ago isn't worth $30k anymore because no one would pay you $30k for it. A stock that you bought at $20 that has dropped to $10 will only get you $10 if you traded it.
Do the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments apply to non US citizens?
It doesn't say if the 18 months is relative to the trademark filing date, or the lawsuit filing date. 18 months from when the Chromium OS project was launched (November 2009) would have been April this year.
What does having fingers or not have to do with it?
Good thing you are using SFTP. You wouldn't want to use something out in the open that could be intercepted unencrypted. Just think of the damage that would happen if the national media got a hold of those emails...
Apparently not always...
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Damnit. Last sentence was mine. Not the FAQ.