I know! When I first saw my colleague use a Texas Instruments TI-2500 DataMath calculator I found it absurd because the slide rule did all that already. I mean, come on - the slide rule for goodness sake! It was hardly an innovation over the abacus. Honestly, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Unless you publish a blog detailing how you made the device, how are they going to prove you made the device? For that matter, how will you be able to prove it was your cat that pressed the "I accept" button? Seems flawed. Though not as flawed as an EULA that legally binds the person who clicks on "I accept" to its terms, because the same logic applies here: how do the software creators know that it was you who clicked on the "I accept" button?
Don't most legal contracts need to be countersigned by witnesses? Last time I installed a legal copy of Windows, nobody witnessed me click on the "I accept" button.
It's for Joe public. No, HTML is not that hard to you and me, but my wife has no idea what it even is, let alone work out the wonders of CSS markup. Facebook takes all that away from ordinary, non-IT people. They fire up a web browser, and that's it.
Yet it requires no mail software to setup, and you don't have to actually create the web page - even through templates. Hence its success, and its domination over MySpace. It's easy to use!
You know, for a second I believed you, but then you started talking about the RTA "point to point [speed] check". This is a massive hoax and you fell for it, sucker!
In NSW, Australia we use automated tolling extensively already. Unfortunately, we don't have a unified tolling system Australia wide, so those from other states such as Victoria or Queensland who don't have our eTags get charged a lot of money. Last time I checked they billed you the cost of the toll plus a $10 "administration fee", which is downright highway robbery.
Looks to me like there are a fair few more than 134 people who are decidedly pissed off that the exploit occured. I suspect that if they'd let it go on then they would have, like in RL, skewed the market and caused a crash. Then they would have lost a lot of dedicated players, I would think.
Did I just read this correctly? "Two girls which put one cable to their own small switch in room caused entire MAN to go down." What sort of sick porno college did you go to?
Oh bravo sir! I thought we were talking about symbols? You were busy telling me, I believe, that Vista is a symbol that is meant to represent the best of their company to consumers. I didn't actually disagree. I did point out that Microsoft don't actually highlight only Vista as their best product, and in fact I provided you with two examples of what business and server people think give them value. Yes, they have to pay for it via CALs. But I thought we were talking about symbols and Microsoft here?
Perhaps I was not clear, however. When I said "for those who use Microsoft server OSes". Silly me.
In terms of what the general non-technical, MS Word and game playing public, this is largely true. To those who use server OSes like Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and things like Sharepoint I would say that this isn't the case.
It's not so simple as all of that. The RGB colourspace has a range of colours that can't be represented in the CMYK colourspace, and vice versa. Therefore you need to setup a rendering intent to convert between the two. Most people nowadays profile their screen with a spider, then apply the profile to their image. Then they get the final CMYK output profile and do softproofing to emulate what will be seen on the printer. From there they tweak the image till it looks like what they want it to look like in the final printout.
Alternatively, if they are smart, they embed their colour profile into their document or image and send this to the printer and tell them to use the colour profile.
But then again, most graphics designers send their work to the printer, the printer then tries to make it look good, prints off a proof on an Epson or HP proofing printer to ask if they think it looks like it should, and the designer is happy. Obviously the better the printer's sense of colour the less times they need to send the designer back a proof.
I sure am, but then again I'm not claiming I'm smarter than you are. I actually didn't so much prove anything as right out said that I didn't understand what was being said. I don't really feel any shame in that.
I'm still confused. You say that "You can't see the world as it is. It is not possible". If that is true, then you're statement is self-contradictory because you are saying that you are seeing the world as it is, which is that seeing the world as it is is not possible. And thus relativism withers on the vine of postmodernism.
Perhaps you are having issues with facing reality? I know it's tough, but when you mature a little in a few years time it should be possible to start coping.
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And may it ever be that way. I think the world should be spared of any more obfuscated code. :-)
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I know! When I first saw my colleague use a Texas Instruments TI-2500 DataMath calculator I found it absurd because the slide rule did all that already. I mean, come on - the slide rule for goodness sake! It was hardly an innovation over the abacus. Honestly, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Unless you publish a blog detailing how you made the device, how are they going to prove you made the device? For that matter, how will you be able to prove it was your cat that pressed the "I accept" button? Seems flawed. Though not as flawed as an EULA that legally binds the person who clicks on "I accept" to its terms, because the same logic applies here: how do the software creators know that it was you who clicked on the "I accept" button?
Don't most legal contracts need to be countersigned by witnesses? Last time I installed a legal copy of Windows, nobody witnessed me click on the "I accept" button.
Hmmmm... there's irony. Talking about the ease of HTML markup, and I miss closing the italics tag.
It's for Joe public. No, HTML is not that hard to you and me, but my wife has no idea what it even is, let alone work out the wonders of CSS markup. Facebook takes all that away from ordinary, non-IT people. They fire up a web browser, and that's it.
Yet it requires no mail software to setup, and you don't have to actually create the web page - even through templates. Hence its success, and its domination over MySpace. It's easy to use!
There are still admin fees. Very small though.
You know, for a second I believed you, but then you started talking about the RTA "point to point [speed] check". This is a massive hoax and you fell for it, sucker!
In NSW, Australia we use automated tolling extensively already. Unfortunately, we don't have a unified tolling system Australia wide, so those from other states such as Victoria or Queensland who don't have our eTags get charged a lot of money. Last time I checked they billed you the cost of the toll plus a $10 "administration fee", which is downright highway robbery.
So yeah, eTags and electronic tolling sucks.
Yet another person to misuse the {{fact}} template I initially created. Sigh.
Looks to me like there are a fair few more than 134 people who are decidedly pissed off that the exploit occured. I suspect that if they'd let it go on then they would have, like in RL, skewed the market and caused a crash. Then they would have lost a lot of dedicated players, I would think.
lol! I certainly got a good reaction there.
Dude, the "Post Anonymously" checkbox is next to the "No Karma Bonus" button!
Did I just read this correctly? "Two girls which put one cable to their own small switch in room caused entire MAN to go down." What sort of sick porno college did you go to?
Was that before or after you fought for your right to party?
I rather think it's the other way around: the GNAA traumatized their monkey.
If it was, the jails would be more full than usual. Perhaps it's time to implement perjury in this context!
I know! Think of all those hungry zombies. Can't have humans avoid them too frequently. They might (un)die of hunger.
Speaking for myself, none of my cats were ever bullied at school.
Oh bravo sir! I thought we were talking about symbols? You were busy telling me, I believe, that Vista is a symbol that is meant to represent the best of their company to consumers. I didn't actually disagree. I did point out that Microsoft don't actually highlight only Vista as their best product, and in fact I provided you with two examples of what business and server people think give them value. Yes, they have to pay for it via CALs. But I thought we were talking about symbols and Microsoft here?
Perhaps I was not clear, however. When I said "for those who use Microsoft server OSes". Silly me.
In terms of what the general non-technical, MS Word and game playing public, this is largely true. To those who use server OSes like Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and things like Sharepoint I would say that this isn't the case.
It's not so simple as all of that. The RGB colourspace has a range of colours that can't be represented in the CMYK colourspace, and vice versa. Therefore you need to setup a rendering intent to convert between the two. Most people nowadays profile their screen with a spider, then apply the profile to their image. Then they get the final CMYK output profile and do softproofing to emulate what will be seen on the printer. From there they tweak the image till it looks like what they want it to look like in the final printout.
Alternatively, if they are smart, they embed their colour profile into their document or image and send this to the printer and tell them to use the colour profile.
But then again, most graphics designers send their work to the printer, the printer then tries to make it look good, prints off a proof on an Epson or HP proofing printer to ask if they think it looks like it should, and the designer is happy. Obviously the better the printer's sense of colour the less times they need to send the designer back a proof.
I hear the drop bears hibernate in the winter.
I sure am, but then again I'm not claiming I'm smarter than you are. I actually didn't so much prove anything as right out said that I didn't understand what was being said. I don't really feel any shame in that.
I'm still confused. You say that "You can't see the world as it is. It is not possible". If that is true, then you're statement is self-contradictory because you are saying that you are seeing the world as it is, which is that seeing the world as it is is not possible. And thus relativism withers on the vine of postmodernism.
Perhaps you are having issues with facing reality? I know it's tough, but when you mature a little in a few years time it should be possible to start coping.