it could be fixed by having funny count as +1 karma for the post, but no higher than +0 applied after all moderation is done, so funny cancels troll, offtopic, or overrated but +5 funny wouldn't give karma
I was not aware that robotic manufacturing destroyed entire downtown areas by closing down locally owned retail establishments. My beef with wally world is not over their cheaply made goods so much as the pressure they put on suppliers (they use their size to squeeze every drop they can from the suppliers) and their competition tactics where they will open multiple stores in an area to shut down competition then close all but one a few years later.
I doubt MS would do that, unlike previos versions Longhorn is competing with a powerful, secure (for windows), stable(for windows) and easy to use OS as it's old version. XP was competing against 2000 (pretty damned good stability and could be secured well by a proper IT staff) but also against 98/ME (piss poor stability in many configuraions, piss poor local security [contributed to piss poor stability], solid remote security by virtue of almost nothing facing the network)
My point is that if longhorn has features that fuck with mixed environments without giving much benefits it will do poorly. 2000 was good enough in an office environment, but XP provided a solid platform common to office and home environments. I am certainly no lover of MS, but I do use XP Pro on my computer and it is perfectly acceptable most of the time (excluding the time it decided to trash my OS partition) and it is a good platform for running Free software (Openoffice.org, gaim, firefox, foobar2000, thunderbird, eclipse, Bloodshed Dev-C++, DC++, bzflag, The gimp.
also some closed stuff like nero, ut2k4 retail, Half Life 2 - EMPORiO release, and Everquest.
it should be hard wired, and both being open source apps they should have at least 95% accurate file excahnge very soon, and aim for 100% within a year. If the open source office app market is even remotely splintered MS can point at it and say it's a mess of incompatable formats rather than the single standardized* set of MS formats.
standardized from the FUD/marketspeak point of view, but still too easy a target. The major Open source apps absolutely need to have excellant cross app compatability when logical, so OpenOffice should be able to read and export to.xcf, gimp should be able to render.sxd files into a bitmap. Also apps need to be able to communicate with each other a bit such as loading up an instance of the gimp (or any other program) to work on an image embedded in an openoffice document sort of like the old OLE stuff that ms office used to use, except not launching apps inside each other, just send a signal to the gimp (or any other aware image editor) so that it would modify it's save dialog to have a "save back to source app" which would hand the finished product back automagically rather than saving to disk forcing the user to go delete the image from the original document and import the new version, it just "becomes" the image (but maintains the ability to "undo" reverting to the image as it was before it was saved back.
or even better don't try to make an end run around IT at work, eventually it will show up in some sort of log or management console, or someone from IT will walk by with you running firefox. Then you can tell HR how clever you are as they kick your ass to the curb, if IT are assclowns and force everyone to use IE and that causes a virus or spyware problem then IT looks bad, if you run firefox off your thumb drive then you look like a security risk or a "rebel" and you are likely to get canned. Personally I love Firefox and hate iexplode, but not enough to risk getting fired over. (unless of course your job really blows and you want to get fired)
A company could GPL-licence software that used a patent they owned and then sue users and distributers later for infringing on that patent. It would be a terrible, but legal, thing to do.
Probably not, I am pretty sure the court would consider such an action to be in bad faith, or failing to mitigate infringement, or willfully contributing to the infringement.
maybe they just used internet explorer components to load the pages, which would have been doubleplus bad, as a spammer could inject viral code by finding a single exploit.
Simple, the victems of Union Carbide had two properties which made them ineligible for sympathy in the US.
1. They are not American 2. They are brown
I am certain that a disaster killing 1 million or more non-white non-americans would get less than a week of coverage, and only one front page and one feature story. Then 15 years later there would be a $disaster_site Revisited TV special and nobody would watch it.
I thought that was the whole point of having an order in which operators were resolved, so such things could be done, though the code would certainly be more legible if it were seperated into descrete statements.
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Do you happen to have a link to some of the Zelda 2 manual Art? My manual has long been lost/crumbled to dust and i wanted to show some friends why the manual art for zelda 2 was so awesome.
How about ranking creditors as well, creditors who make lots of "transactions" without conumer complaints and errors have their reports valued more than companies with large numbers of reporting errors.
Bush doesn't seem to mind criticism from the american people, after all, it wasn't Bush who had people fired from their jobs over unflattering information being released (I'm not talking about withing the campaigns, i am talking about calling in favors from corporations in order to fuck with enemies)
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it could be fixed by having funny count as +1 karma for the post, but no higher than +0 applied after all moderation is done, so funny cancels troll, offtopic, or overrated but +5 funny wouldn't give karma
I was not aware that robotic manufacturing destroyed entire downtown areas by closing down locally owned retail establishments. My beef with wally world is not over their cheaply made goods so much as the pressure they put on suppliers (they use their size to squeeze every drop they can from the suppliers) and their competition tactics where they will open multiple stores in an area to shut down competition then close all but one a few years later.
if by efficient you mean destructive than yes, walmart is indeed efficient.
I doubt MS would do that, unlike previos versions Longhorn is competing with a powerful, secure (for windows), stable(for windows) and easy to use OS as it's old version. XP was competing against 2000 (pretty damned good stability and could be secured well by a proper IT staff) but also against 98/ME (piss poor stability in many configuraions, piss poor local security [contributed to piss poor stability], solid remote security by virtue of almost nothing facing the network)
My point is that if longhorn has features that fuck with mixed environments without giving much benefits it will do poorly. 2000 was good enough in an office environment, but XP provided a solid platform common to office and home environments. I am certainly no lover of MS, but I do use XP Pro on my computer and it is perfectly acceptable most of the time (excluding the time it decided to trash my OS partition) and it is a good platform for running Free software (Openoffice.org, gaim, firefox, foobar2000, thunderbird, eclipse, Bloodshed Dev-C++, DC++, bzflag, The gimp.
also some closed stuff like nero, ut2k4 retail, Half Life 2 - EMPORiO release, and Everquest.
it should be hard wired, and both being open source apps they should have at least 95% accurate file excahnge very soon, and aim for 100% within a year. If the open source office app market is even remotely splintered MS can point at it and say it's a mess of incompatable formats rather than the single standardized* set of MS formats.
.xcf, gimp should be able to render .sxd files into a bitmap. Also apps need to be able to communicate with each other a bit such as loading up an instance of the gimp (or any other program) to work on an image embedded in an openoffice document sort of like the old OLE stuff that ms office used to use, except not launching apps inside each other, just send a signal to the gimp (or any other aware image editor) so that it would modify it's save dialog to have a "save back to source app" which would hand the finished product back automagically rather than saving to disk forcing the user to go delete the image from the original document and import the new version, it just "becomes" the image (but maintains the ability to "undo" reverting to the image as it was before it was saved back.
standardized from the FUD/marketspeak point of view, but still too easy a target. The major Open source apps absolutely need to have excellant cross app compatability when logical, so OpenOffice should be able to read and export to
HTML support is indeed a feature .... which shall remain disabled on all of my machines.
or even better don't try to make an end run around IT at work, eventually it will show up in some sort of log or management console, or someone from IT will walk by with you running firefox. Then you can tell HR how clever you are as they kick your ass to the curb, if IT are assclowns and force everyone to use IE and that causes a virus or spyware problem then IT looks bad, if you run firefox off your thumb drive then you look like a security risk or a "rebel" and you are likely to get canned. Personally I love Firefox and hate iexplode, but not enough to risk getting fired over. (unless of course your job really blows and you want to get fired)
A company could GPL-licence software that used a patent they owned and then sue users and distributers later for infringing on that patent. It would be a terrible, but legal, thing to do.
Probably not, I am pretty sure the court would consider such an action to be in bad faith, or failing to mitigate infringement, or willfully contributing to the infringement.
maybe they just used internet explorer components to load the pages, which would have been doubleplus bad, as a spammer could inject viral code by finding a single exploit.
Simple, the victems of Union Carbide had two properties which made them ineligible for sympathy in the US.
1. They are not American
2. They are brown
I am certain that a disaster killing 1 million or more non-white non-americans would get less than a week of coverage, and only one front page and one feature story. Then 15 years later there would be a $disaster_site Revisited TV special and nobody would watch it.
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Proud to be an american
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I thought that was defined as the default left to right order, of course i could be wrong.
impossible like this
green assumes each line counts only once, red and blue count each intersection as breaking a segment into two parts.
do the top, middle, left, and right lines count as one or two segments each?
is the curve allowed to cross itself?
I thought that was the whole point of having an order in which operators were resolved, so such things could be done, though the code would certainly be more legible if it were seperated into descrete statements.
5) x= (x << 3)-x;
so rendering up to four split screen video streams is hard? ...ok if you say so.
do everyone a favor and post .flac files instead, smaller size for the same quality
well usually the reason camera phones such shit is the lens, not the image resolution.
why the fuck is parent modded flamebait?
just because Samus will show her b00bs or something
Where can I pre-order the DVD?
Do you happen to have a link to some of the Zelda 2 manual Art? My manual has long been lost/crumbled to dust and i wanted to show some friends why the manual art for zelda 2 was so awesome.
How about ranking creditors as well, creditors who make lots of "transactions" without conumer complaints and errors have their reports valued more than companies with large numbers of reporting errors.
How does the fact that Microsoft writes the standard make it proprietary?
so what if they are written by Microsoft, so long as the format is available to everyone and is not patent encumbered it is open enough.
Bush doesn't seem to mind criticism from the american people, after all, it wasn't Bush who had people fired from their jobs over unflattering information being released (I'm not talking about withing the campaigns, i am talking about calling in favors from corporations in order to fuck with enemies)
Yes, a NAT firewall is effective against remote exploits, but will do nothing against malicious web pages and other IE based vulnerabilities.