@sumdumass That won't work. The chemicals that are used to recreate the smells are probably themselves as expensive. After all they are "perfumes" too.
Well, then all forms of carbon should be too expensive to use anywhere - after all nanotubes are made of the stuff.
Perfumes are compositions of prefabricared standard odors. The exact composition is created by highly paid, highly trained artisans. The raw material is not that expensive; what you're paying for is development costs and exclusivity.
The smell might cause an alcoholic to relapse. It's tough enough to have to avoid certain parties etc, but if they couldn't even go outside life would pretty much turn to hell for alcoholics.
True. Microangelo was the greatest icon editor ever. And I agree, PSP's interface used to be far superior in termy of intuitive accessibility to programs like Photoshop. Photoshop was like Emacs, powerful but incomprehensible to the novice. PSP didn't do as much as PS, but it did it well and in an intuitive fashion (in fact, I still prefer it over Inkscape for vectoring).
Too bad PSP8+ was turned into an uninspired Photoshop clone, complete with too long loading time and horrible interface. Maybe we could talk Jasc/Corel into selling the PSP7 source code to the OSS community... I would welcome a Linux port of PSP7, even if it meant using a winelib'd program.
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No, Ant P said what happens; the GP explained why it happens.
I'm sorry, but dock icons that rise to meet you are a CGI too far for real world users.
I'm pretty sure that similar things can be said about the second mouse button or X11. I do find the Dock nice - it certainly beats task bars. For me, that is. In general, OS X is a great low-maintenance work environment, at least when the look and feel works for you.
Besides, I do agree that I wouldn't buy the 17" MBP. 13" is already pretty huge for a notebook.
I think their plan might be to bluff RedHat into settling, then use that as precedent for further cases (ie. bluff other companies into settling, as well). While RedHat could easily call the bluff, if it's more expensive than just giving Firestar money certain execs might decide that giving in would be the better decision, because this quarter's figures will be slightly better. I mean, we all know that execs operate on a rather exotic kind of logic. Firestar might really think they'll get away with suing people over a patent that has as much substance as deep space has.
I answered your and the sibling's post in one. I wasn't aware that anyone outside the USA (which are known to be CC-crazy) considered free credit cards normal. Over here they're pretty much a premium service.
There probably are, but all I know of have strings attached. My bank offers a free credit card, but only with an upgraded giro account, which comes at 4 EUR/month, has an interest rate of 0.00% and doesn't have free bank transfers. My current giro has 0 EUR/month, an interest rate of 1% and free transactions. I'm not insane enough to give that away for a Mastercard.
Another bank offers me a credit card with twelve months free of charge (from then 5 EUR/year) - provided I sign up with one of their advanced giros. That one doesn't cost money, but the online banking works via mTAN (TANs are sent to the user via SMS on demand; I very much prefer plain smartcard HBCI) and the bank doesn't even state the interest rate, which I presume to be somewhere below 0.0001%.
Quite honestly, what am I supposed to do with a credit card? Over here in Germany the most common form of payment is via cash and going to the bank whenever I need more of it (about once or twice a month) is convenient enough for me. Cash does not leave a paper trail, cash doesn't create paperwork when you lose it... The only reason why I'd ever need or want a credit card would be for overseas transactions, because apparently it's not possible to send bank transfers to the USA, despite things like the IBAN and SWIFT. I can even use my regular bank card as a sort-of debit card, although that's limited to this administrative district.
Maybe that's why free credit cards are uncommon over here - there just isn't enough of a market to spark that much of a competition.
I'm in Germany and Google Maps have only very recently started containing anything but low-res satellite pictures. I think I'm still occasionally getting the "Google Video is not supported for your country yet" error.
They're getting there, but they are taking their time.
Would you be prepared to pay 2% on every single purchase you made at an online store just so you don't have to "fill out forms"? This seems silly to me at best.
I would pay 2% on evry single purchase made if it means that I don't have to own a credit card. I occasionally order stuff overseas (e.g. at Thinkgeek). Since for some reason I can't make a standard EU bank transfer to a bank outside the EU and the USA seem reluctant to become an EU member, ordering anything overseas usually means having to use a credit card.
(And yes, even when using Paypal I have to provide a CC no. as for some reason they can't take money out of my account when I'm ordering something overseas. Making donations overseas works fine, though.)
I'm a student and I certainly don't have the money to pay for a credit card that I use about twice a year. Sure, I have relatives I can tunnel the payment through, but that adds additional delays and is only really worth it when I'm making a big payment. Paying 2% extra would make sense for small payments. At least more than paying for a credit card I don't need.
If Google GiveUsYourMoney works like PayPal but without requiring a credit card for most interesting transactions I'm all for it.
Don't worry. If the availability of things like Google Maps and Google Video are any indicator, Google Checkout will be available in Europe somewhere around 2008.
In fact, I bet I could pick some random card off the shelf, walk up to Linus Torvalds himself, and ask "does this work with linux?" and he wouldn't know, and would probably blow me off with the same sort of answer.
Also, writing "frist psot" or a variant of it in a post that clearly isn't the first post is a fine example of the trolls that make Slashdot what it is. A commmunity with mostly amusing trolls, that is.
I think it works as follows: Most criminals don't have access to the black market (and in countries where guns are hard to get there will be fewer of them on the black market as well, because the're harder to get). In a country where guns are only available to very few people and the restrictions placed on them is harsh (for example where (ignoring police/military use) only shooting clubs may own guns and they're restricted to.22 cal rifles) it's highly unlikely that a criminal is going to use a gun - after all even a small pistol is hard to get, awfully expensive (because whoever took the risk to hook you up with it will want extra pay for exactly that) and just having it is a serious crime, which means that as soon as you pull out the gun the police will be very interested in you (as a single muggging can suddenly develop into charges of armed assault, possession of firearms etc.).
OTOH, in a country where all you need to buy a 9mm handgun is a permit, it's pretty easy to obtain such a gun even if you don't have the permit.
Strong gun laws don't make pre-existing guns harmless, but if guns weren't allowed in the first place it's unlikely that they'll ever post a significant danger. That might be what the GP was talking about: When guns aren't allowed at all there are few of them in he country and criminals are unlikely to use them. When guns are plenty, so are gun users.
I think it sounds more like some kind of ammunition.
"I don't care whether they have the bigger guns. We're using APDU rounds; I want to see them try to trump that!"
"Well, sir, they're using SCOTUS rounds."
"Okay, we're fucked, then."
Alternatively, SCO might have decided to go international and call their main branch the Santa Cruz Operation of The United States.
I think it's because of the unwillingness of the chocolate bar rappers. I asked one and he told me that "nobody sticks his Golden Ticket into MC Snickers!"
...because it damn well is. And it does make sense - today's environment does not allow you to learn one thing and just keep doing that for the rest of your life. You have to keep learning and learning while doing at the same time. It makes sense that this environment doesn't allow the mental wiring to solidify.
Same here, although the friendships started online (I'm really bad at maintaining friendships with people who aren't geeks). I have a couple guys I only meet twice a year, but we are in close contact via IRC/IMs and on Fridays we meet on the IRC for a roleplaying session.
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@sumdumass That won't work. The chemicals that are used to recreate the smells are probably themselves as expensive. After all they are "perfumes" too.
Well, then all forms of carbon should be too expensive to use anywhere - after all nanotubes are made of the stuff.
Perfumes are compositions of prefabricared standard odors. The exact composition is created by highly paid, highly trained artisans. The raw material is not that expensive; what you're paying for is development costs and exclusivity.
The smell might cause an alcoholic to relapse. It's tough enough to have to avoid certain parties etc, but if they couldn't even go outside life would pretty much turn to hell for alcoholics.
True. Microangelo was the greatest icon editor ever. And I agree, PSP's interface used to be far superior in termy of intuitive accessibility to programs like Photoshop. Photoshop was like Emacs, powerful but incomprehensible to the novice. PSP didn't do as much as PS, but it did it well and in an intuitive fashion (in fact, I still prefer it over Inkscape for vectoring).
Too bad PSP8+ was turned into an uninspired Photoshop clone, complete with too long loading time and horrible interface. Maybe we could talk Jasc/Corel into selling the PSP7 source code to the OSS community... I would welcome a Linux port of PSP7, even if it meant using a winelib'd program.
No, Ant P said what happens; the GP explained why it happens.
Pretty much anything the editors do here, some bozo is gonna complain.
I tell you, next the editors are going to eat and sleep. The nerve!
I'm sorry, but dock icons that rise to meet you are a CGI too far for real world users.
I'm pretty sure that similar things can be said about the second mouse button or X11. I do find the Dock nice - it certainly beats task bars. For me, that is. In general, OS X is a great low-maintenance work environment, at least when the look and feel works for you.
Besides, I do agree that I wouldn't buy the 17" MBP. 13" is already pretty huge for a notebook.
Without someone willing to spend megadollars on a lawsuit the patent still works, valid or not.
I think their plan might be to bluff RedHat into settling, then use that as precedent for further cases (ie. bluff other companies into settling, as well). While RedHat could easily call the bluff, if it's more expensive than just giving Firestar money certain execs might decide that giving in would be the better decision, because this quarter's figures will be slightly better. I mean, we all know that execs operate on a rather exotic kind of logic. Firestar might really think they'll get away with suing people over a patent that has as much substance as deep space has.
Not to mention that the lawyers have the numerical advantage.
I answered your and the sibling's post in one. I wasn't aware that anyone outside the USA (which are known to be CC-crazy) considered free credit cards normal. Over here they're pretty much a premium service.
There probably are, but all I know of have strings attached. My bank offers a free credit card, but only with an upgraded giro account, which comes at 4 EUR/month, has an interest rate of 0.00% and doesn't have free bank transfers. My current giro has 0 EUR/month, an interest rate of 1% and free transactions. I'm not insane enough to give that away for a Mastercard.
Another bank offers me a credit card with twelve months free of charge (from then 5 EUR/year) - provided I sign up with one of their advanced giros. That one doesn't cost money, but the online banking works via mTAN (TANs are sent to the user via SMS on demand; I very much prefer plain smartcard HBCI) and the bank doesn't even state the interest rate, which I presume to be somewhere below 0.0001%.
Quite honestly, what am I supposed to do with a credit card? Over here in Germany the most common form of payment is via cash and going to the bank whenever I need more of it (about once or twice a month) is convenient enough for me. Cash does not leave a paper trail, cash doesn't create paperwork when you lose it... The only reason why I'd ever need or want a credit card would be for overseas transactions, because apparently it's not possible to send bank transfers to the USA, despite things like the IBAN and SWIFT. I can even use my regular bank card as a sort-of debit card, although that's limited to this administrative district.
Maybe that's why free credit cards are uncommon over here - there just isn't enough of a market to spark that much of a competition.
I'm in Germany and Google Maps have only very recently started containing anything but low-res satellite pictures. I think I'm still occasionally getting the "Google Video is not supported for your country yet" error.
They're getting there, but they are taking their time.
Would you be prepared to pay 2% on every single purchase you made at an online store just so you don't have to "fill out forms"? This seems silly to me at best.
I would pay 2% on evry single purchase made if it means that I don't have to own a credit card. I occasionally order stuff overseas (e.g. at Thinkgeek). Since for some reason I can't make a standard EU bank transfer to a bank outside the EU and the USA seem reluctant to become an EU member, ordering anything overseas usually means having to use a credit card.
(And yes, even when using Paypal I have to provide a CC no. as for some reason they can't take money out of my account when I'm ordering something overseas. Making donations overseas works fine, though.)
I'm a student and I certainly don't have the money to pay for a credit card that I use about twice a year. Sure, I have relatives I can tunnel the payment through, but that adds additional delays and is only really worth it when I'm making a big payment. Paying 2% extra would make sense for small payments. At least more than paying for a credit card I don't need.
If Google GiveUsYourMoney works like PayPal but without requiring a credit card for most interesting transactions I'm all for it.
Don't worry. If the availability of things like Google Maps and Google Video are any indicator, Google Checkout will be available in Europe somewhere around 2008.
In fact, I bet I could pick some random card off the shelf, walk up to Linus Torvalds himself, and ask "does this work with linux?" and he wouldn't know, and would probably blow me off with the same sort of answer.
Well, he probably wouldn't tell you that Windows NT is like Linux, but he might laugh in your face derisively.
Doorstop? Paperweight?
The MacBook is clearly a space heater.
Also, writing "frist psot" or a variant of it in a post that clearly isn't the first post is a fine example of the trolls that make Slashdot what it is. A commmunity with mostly amusing trolls, that is.
I think it works as follows: Most criminals don't have access to the black market (and in countries where guns are hard to get there will be fewer of them on the black market as well, because the're harder to get). In a country where guns are only available to very few people and the restrictions placed on them is harsh (for example where (ignoring police/military use) only shooting clubs may own guns and they're restricted to .22 cal rifles) it's highly unlikely that a criminal is going to use a gun - after all even a small pistol is hard to get, awfully expensive (because whoever took the risk to hook you up with it will want extra pay for exactly that) and just having it is a serious crime, which means that as soon as you pull out the gun the police will be very interested in you (as a single muggging can suddenly develop into charges of armed assault, possession of firearms etc.).
OTOH, in a country where all you need to buy a 9mm handgun is a permit, it's pretty easy to obtain such a gun even if you don't have the permit.
Strong gun laws don't make pre-existing guns harmless, but if guns weren't allowed in the first place it's unlikely that they'll ever post a significant danger. That might be what the GP was talking about: When guns aren't allowed at all there are few of them in he country and criminals are unlikely to use them. When guns are plenty, so are gun users.
Don't forget about Germany, where street gangs often lay entire cities to waste.
I think it sounds more like some kind of ammunition.
"I don't care whether they have the bigger guns. We're using APDU rounds; I want to see them try to trump that!"
"Well, sir, they're using SCOTUS rounds."
"Okay, we're fucked, then."
Alternatively, SCO might have decided to go international and call their main branch the Santa Cruz Operation of The United States.
I think it's because of the unwillingness of the chocolate bar rappers. I asked one and he told me that "nobody sticks his Golden Ticket into MC Snickers!"
...because it damn well is. And it does make sense - today's environment does not allow you to learn one thing and just keep doing that for the rest of your life. You have to keep learning and learning while doing at the same time. It makes sense that this environment doesn't allow the mental wiring to solidify.
Same here, although the friendships started online (I'm really bad at maintaining friendships with people who aren't geeks). I have a couple guys I only meet twice a year, but we are in close contact via IRC/IMs and on Fridays we meet on the IRC for a roleplaying session.
A little coaxing of the numbers, and string theory could prove the existance of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny and Jesus.
Observation is good enough for me. I don't need to invent twenty-three dimensions to prove my existence, thank you very much.
Okay, sir, enough is enough. Put down the pun and leave the thread with your hands behind your head!