Hahaha. That post made me laugh. The "graphic designer" is blind (the curves don't really match) and a complete idiot (to claim that it is easier to make the logo in question by "cookie cutting" Apple's logo). However, I hope that judges agree with Apple's reasoning, that the logo is comfusingly similar and bad for business. An so, drop Apple's logo since NYC has been called the Big Apple for decades...
Again, I am not into black holes (how would I be sending slashdot posts if I was... ok, lame joke sorry), but my point was that when you talk about the mass, charge, angular momentum etc. of a "black hole", you assign all these properties to an object with a size/shape defined by the event horizon. You can't say for example HOW mass is distributed beyond the event horizon, or if it even occupies space etc...
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize there was an argument. No offence meant.... Well, ok, some offence meant, but that was regarding your technobabble-generation skills. So, it seems you are not bad at technobabble after all, you just suck in physics ! And don't take it personal, it's the education system...;) Cheerz!
While black holes is not my area, I can tell you that when someone talks about the size of the black hole, they refer to the event horizon, since you can't really measure anything going on inside it. The mass of the black hole is the most defining characteristic.
Yeah, you really back up what you say by posting as an Anonymous Coward.
So, it was probably just a "rogue admin", maybe it was easier to get it pirated than to go through the proper channels, or maybe it was deemed too expensive for what it was offering. In any case it was willful infrigement and I think Sony BMG should pay 150.000 x the price of the software for each violation. Note that the number is not selected randomly - it is the equivalent of the cases where Sony BMG is suing. I should note that the software in question even offered a 30-day evaluation.
Hehe, you are right, I didn't notice the hidden post he was answering to - I must confess I was using IE7 last night and the thread navigation is not as good as on Firefox... No, USB can definately NOT be compared to SCSI... Sorry to GGP for the reply;)
I really haven't used SCSI much, but even so I do remember having seen many more SCSI connectors in my lifetime than what you describe. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector for example supports this. Maybe you are young and you only count the ones you can find in new devices? In any case, also remember that the number of adaptors is not the same as the number of connectors (nCr). While it would be "just" 6 for your proposed 4 connectors, the wikipedia describes 9 connectors (which would make 36 adapters) and the article implies there are even more.
Why do you say IE is worse? It is closely following with 17%!
That said, what bothers me more is that still, the official releases of the two most popular browsers (Firefox & IE) don't even pass Acid2. What is the point of struggling to get 100% on Acid 3?
Wait, you are saying that Bob didn't just go to take a piss, he really went to the restroom to meet someone for his other "needs" and so when you say Dave returns... hmm... no... I still don't get it.:D
I loved the joke, even though I probably missed part of the fun. For example I didn't get the part where Bob goes to the restroom and Dave returns. Thanks for the laugh!;)
After a public outcry on the censorship practices the police decided to suspect Nikki of aiding the distribution of material violating sexual chastity. They called him for questioning on Wednesday 20 February 2008.
Oh my god! I time-travelled 2 days in the future? Or maybe Finland is on GMT+42?
You're not alone. After having read about all the difficulty in writing software that take advantage of the multiple cores of Cell processors, I saw the title and said "it's about time they figured out how to do it!". But it about a much cleaner architecture after all, human cells. Anyway I don't see the/. crowd plunging into human cell programming just yet (and at least until there is gcc support).
Oh, and in case there is doubt about the cancellation email, this is what I got:
Greetings from Amazon.com.
We regret to inform you that an error caused the following item(s) to be displayed at an incorrect price:
Jazz in Paris
In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we are unable to offer this item for the incorrectly posted price. Therefore, we have cancelled your order for this item.
At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the millions of items on our site may be mispriced. We do, however, verify prices as part of our shipping procedures. If we discover that an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. This policy is posted in the Help section and is accessible through numerous other areas of our web site.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
We value your business and hope that you will give us a chance to serve you again in the future.
Sincerely,
Customer Service Department Amazon.com
Please note: this e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.
No, YOU missed the point. The article is simple libel. I ordered the Jazz set at $30 (I saw it on the FatWallet forum), knowing that it would probably cancel, and sure enough I did get the cancellation email Saturday morning. Ok, it is unusual that the order does not appear in my order history, but it wasn't a "real" order anyway. I hate it when idiots complain about such things when Amazon has the best retail policies - their price guarrantee and their free returns have saved me a lot of money and woe. I remember a little over a year ago I had bought a home theater amplifier on sale. But since I was to move shortly I never opened it until I was settled at the new appartment, bought speakers etc... It turned out to be about 5 months later when I opened it and found out it had a small problem. Amazon takes care of returns during the first month, so I had to go through the manufacturer. The manufacturer asked me to ship the (heavy) item - on my own cost of course, it would then be evaluated and a replacement, if needed, would ship out in 2-3 weeks. I wrote to amazon and politely explained my predicament and whether they would be able to help me, and two days later I had a replacement amp on my doorstep (I have prime so shipping is always 2-days), and a prepaid UPS voucher to send back the original amp on my cost. I have many other examples of good customer service from Amazon, but I believe this was quite indicative. The linked article was simply written by someone who is upset he didn't manage to get a freebie from a large retailer. This even happens to be the retailer with the best policies (which do state that price mistakes cannot be honored - duh!). Shame to the./ editor for picking up this trash.
He doesn't only get his physics wrong, but he even named the device erroneously. There is no greek word "perepiteia" (it might sound greek to you, but it sounds just silly to Greeks), instead he wanted to say "peripeteia" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripeteia). It could be his "mild dyslexia" at work, however he uses the "dyslexia" excuse for his bad performance in math - although all the dyslectics I have known don't have a problem with math (feel free to enlighten me on this, it is just my personal experience). Anyway, I just think it boils down to him not doing his "homework"... Personally, I wouldn't invest on his startup...
Are you refusing to undestand what I am saying on purpose? I said the church "is busy" since even now they try to come up with nice analogies between the bible and the current scientific findings. It is an ongoing process, I gave the example of the Big Bang, which is not a very old theory. My comment about "7 days for god is a few billion years" is where they started from, I am not saying anybody is still trying how to fit each day of creation in a geological epoch - they were doing that when evolution, age of the earth etc were recent findings.
No. Whenever there is a new scientific breakthrough, there are many people that try to show how it does not contradict the Bible and was even predicted by the bible if you read through the lines. For example I had heard an elaborate explanation about how the Big Bang theory is described in the bible. I don't recall specifics since I am really not interested in religion.
Nope, this is just here in the US. Actually, I have problems even explaining what Creationism is to most of my European friends. In the end they sort of figure it out ("Oh, it's like that hollow earth stuff").
The church in many European countries is busy trying to show that if the Bible is read like it is supposed to (i.e. not taken literally) it really does correspond with the scientific findings. 7 days for god is obviously some billion years for man they tell you and they take it from there, showing how through metaphors the scientific facts known to us were hidden in the text.
The article sort of looks like an Ebay ad. So, the billion dollar corporation has devoted one (whole) employee to fighting Romanian scammers and donated some pc's etc to the local police. Unless that one person is John Rambo, this is not enough. It is however enough for Ebay to claim "hey look, we 're doing something, when we don't even really have to". From the horror stories I have heard from people around me about Paypal (owned by Ebay) scams and the indifference with which Paypal deals (or more accurately does not deal) with them, I know that Ebay is doing far less than it should, even when their own payment system is involved, and even when the scammers are here in the US. Deal with that first - it is so much easier - and stop BSing us about hunting down Western Union scammers in Romania...
I have an X51v. I love the little VGA PPC and I carry it around with me for surfing, ssh, movies etc. But, it is NOT an e-reader. I am the type who prefers reading on the screen than on paper, but I still feel very uncomfortable reading books on my beloved PDA. My girlfriend's Sony e-reader (I hate Sony, but I got if for less than $100), while it cannot even search a dictionary or render pdf's that great, it is a whole different beast, very well suited for its purpose. I did not mention that my gf hates reading on her PC monitor yet loves the e-book. The screen is sharp, very relaxing, big enough and does not drain the battery. Comparing it to a PDA is like comparing Frame Maker to MS Word - sure you can create documents on Word, but come on, you cannot mention it in a DTP discussion! The point is, whoever thinks a PDA is an e-reader is really unqualified for this conversation. I would also want to hear how the Kindle stacks up against the eReader. There might be alternatives to the e-reader and the Kindle but they definitely do not include 4" LCD VGA solutions. I do feel for the parent poster, I don't leave home without my PDA, and I love the things I can do with it, but since I don't have an e-reader ( remember I gave it to the gf:) ), I just carry a book with me if I want to read - my eyes and my patience thank me for that;)
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Hahaha. That post made me laugh. The "graphic designer" is blind (the curves don't really match) and a complete idiot (to claim that it is easier to make the logo in question by "cookie cutting" Apple's logo).
However, I hope that judges agree with Apple's reasoning, that the logo is comfusingly similar and bad for business. An so, drop Apple's logo since NYC has been called the Big Apple for decades...
Again, I am not into black holes (how would I be sending slashdot posts if I was... ok, lame joke sorry), but my point was that when you talk about the mass, charge, angular momentum etc. of a "black hole", you assign all these properties to an object with a size/shape defined by the event horizon. You can't say for example HOW mass is distributed beyond the event horizon, or if it even occupies space etc...
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize there was an argument. No offence meant.... ;)
Well, ok, some offence meant, but that was regarding your technobabble-generation skills.
So, it seems you are not bad at technobabble after all, you just suck in physics !
And don't take it personal, it's the education system...
Cheerz!
Sorry to break this to you, but you are rather mediocre at technobabble.
While black holes is not my area, I can tell you that when someone talks about the size of the black hole, they refer to the event horizon, since you can't really measure anything going on inside it.
The mass of the black hole is the most defining characteristic.
Yeah, you really back up what you say by posting as an Anonymous Coward.
So, it was probably just a "rogue admin", maybe it was easier to get it pirated than to go through the proper channels, or maybe it was deemed too expensive for what it was offering. In any case it was willful infrigement and I think Sony BMG should pay 150.000 x the price of the software for each violation. Note that the number is not selected randomly - it is the equivalent of the cases where Sony BMG is suing.
I should note that the software in question even offered a 30-day evaluation.
Hehe, you are right, I didn't notice the hidden post he was answering to - I must confess I was using IE7 last night and the thread navigation is not as good as on Firefox... No, USB can definately NOT be compared to SCSI... Sorry to GGP for the reply ;)
I really haven't used SCSI much, but even so I do remember having seen many more SCSI connectors in my lifetime than what you describe. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector for example supports this. Maybe you are young and you only count the ones you can find in new devices?
In any case, also remember that the number of adaptors is not the same as the number of connectors (nCr). While it would be "just" 6 for your proposed 4 connectors, the wikipedia describes 9 connectors (which would make 36 adapters) and the article implies there are even more.
Why do you say IE is worse? It is closely following with 17%!
That said, what bothers me more is that still, the official releases of the two most popular browsers (Firefox & IE) don't even pass Acid2. What is the point of struggling to get 100% on Acid 3?
And this is "John Romero's about to make you his bitch!" John Romero!
Wait, you are saying that Bob didn't just go to take a piss, he really went to the restroom to meet someone for his other "needs" and so when you say Dave returns... hmm... no... I still don't get it. :D
I loved the joke, even though I probably missed part of the fun. ;)
For example I didn't get the part where Bob goes to the restroom and Dave returns.
Thanks for the laugh!
After a public outcry on the censorship practices the police decided to suspect Nikki of aiding the distribution of material violating sexual chastity. They called him for questioning on Wednesday 20 February 2008.
Oh my god! I time-travelled 2 days in the future? Or maybe Finland is on GMT+42?
Of course, but why is it that when I think about genetic debugging I imagine deformed creatures in cocoons pleading "kill me..."?
You're not alone. After having read about all the difficulty in writing software that take advantage of the multiple cores of Cell processors, I saw the title and said "it's about time they figured out how to do it!". /. crowd plunging into human cell programming just yet (and at least until there is gcc support).
But it about a much cleaner architecture after all, human cells. Anyway I don't see the
Oh, and in case there is doubt about the cancellation email, this is what I got:
Greetings from Amazon.com.
We regret to inform you that an error caused the following item(s) to
be displayed at an incorrect price:
Jazz in Paris
In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we are unable to
offer this item for the incorrectly posted price. Therefore, we have
cancelled your order for this item.
At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the
millions of items on our site may be mispriced. We do, however, verify
prices as part of our shipping procedures. If we discover that an
item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our
discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or
cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. This policy is
posted in the Help section and is accessible through numerous other
areas of our web site.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
We value your business and hope that you will give us a chance to
serve you again in the future.
Sincerely,
Customer Service Department
Amazon.com
Please note: this e-mail was sent from a notification-only address
that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this
message.
No, YOU missed the point. The article is simple libel. I ordered the Jazz set at $30 (I saw it on the FatWallet forum), knowing that it would probably cancel, and sure enough I did get the cancellation email Saturday morning. Ok, it is unusual that the order does not appear in my order history, but it wasn't a "real" order anyway. ./ editor for picking up this trash.
I hate it when idiots complain about such things when Amazon has the best retail policies - their price guarrantee and their free returns have saved me a lot of money and woe.
I remember a little over a year ago I had bought a home theater amplifier on sale. But since I was to move shortly I never opened it until I was settled at the new appartment, bought speakers etc... It turned out to be about 5 months later when I opened it and found out it had a small problem. Amazon takes care of returns during the first month, so I had to go through the manufacturer. The manufacturer asked me to ship the (heavy) item - on my own cost of course, it would then be evaluated and a replacement, if needed, would ship out in 2-3 weeks. I wrote to amazon and politely explained my predicament and whether they would be able to help me, and two days later I had a replacement amp on my doorstep (I have prime so shipping is always 2-days), and a prepaid UPS voucher to send back the original amp on my cost. I have many other examples of good customer service from Amazon, but I believe this was quite indicative.
The linked article was simply written by someone who is upset he didn't manage to get a freebie from a large retailer. This even happens to be the retailer with the best policies (which do state that price mistakes cannot be honored - duh!). Shame to the
He doesn't only get his physics wrong, but he even named the device erroneously. There is no greek word "perepiteia" (it might sound greek to you, but it sounds just silly to Greeks), instead he wanted to say "peripeteia" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripeteia). It could be his "mild dyslexia" at work, however he uses the "dyslexia" excuse for his bad performance in math - although all the dyslectics I have known don't have a problem with math (feel free to enlighten me on this, it is just my personal experience). Anyway, I just think it boils down to him not doing his "homework"... Personally, I wouldn't invest on his startup...
Just FYI, there are no "Mexicans" in this affair. "New Mexico" is part of the US, it is one of the states...
Are you refusing to undestand what I am saying on purpose? I said the church "is busy" since even now they try to come up with nice analogies between the bible and the current scientific findings. It is an ongoing process, I gave the example of the Big Bang, which is not a very old theory.
My comment about "7 days for god is a few billion years" is where they started from, I am not saying anybody is still trying how to fit each day of creation in a geological epoch - they were doing that when evolution, age of the earth etc were recent findings.
No. Whenever there is a new scientific breakthrough, there are many people that try to show how it does not contradict the Bible and was even predicted by the bible if you read through the lines. For example I had heard an elaborate explanation about how the Big Bang theory is described in the bible. I don't recall specifics since I am really not interested in religion.
Nope, this is just here in the US. Actually, I have problems even explaining what Creationism is to most of my European friends. In the end they sort of figure it out ("Oh, it's like that hollow earth stuff").
The church in many European countries is busy trying to show that if the Bible is read like it is supposed to (i.e. not taken literally) it really does correspond with the scientific findings. 7 days for god is obviously some billion years for man they tell you and they take it from there, showing how through metaphors the scientific facts known to us were hidden in the text.
The article sort of looks like an Ebay ad. So, the billion dollar corporation has devoted one (whole) employee to fighting Romanian scammers and donated some pc's etc to the local police. Unless that one person is John Rambo, this is not enough. It is however enough for Ebay to claim "hey look, we 're doing something, when we don't even really have to".
From the horror stories I have heard from people around me about Paypal (owned by Ebay) scams and the indifference with which Paypal deals (or more accurately does not deal) with them, I know that Ebay is doing far less than it should, even when their own payment system is involved, and even when the scammers are here in the US. Deal with that first - it is so much easier - and stop BSing us about hunting down Western Union scammers in Romania...
I have an X51v. I love the little VGA PPC and I carry it around with me for surfing, ssh, movies etc. But, it is NOT an e-reader. I am the type who prefers reading on the screen than on paper, but I still feel very uncomfortable reading books on my beloved PDA. :) ), I just carry a book with me if I want to read - my eyes and my patience thank me for that ;)
My girlfriend's Sony e-reader (I hate Sony, but I got if for less than $100), while it cannot even search a dictionary or render pdf's that great, it is a whole different beast, very well suited for its purpose. I did not mention that my gf hates reading on her PC monitor yet loves the e-book. The screen is sharp, very relaxing, big enough and does not drain the battery. Comparing it to a PDA is like comparing Frame Maker to MS Word - sure you can create documents on Word, but come on, you cannot mention it in a DTP discussion!
The point is, whoever thinks a PDA is an e-reader is really unqualified for this conversation. I would also want to hear how the Kindle stacks up against the eReader. There might be alternatives to the e-reader and the Kindle but they definitely do not include 4" LCD VGA solutions.
I do feel for the parent poster, I don't leave home without my PDA, and I love the things I can do with it, but since I don't have an e-reader ( remember I gave it to the gf
Yeah, if only more businesses did not test products enough before deployment, or read TFM when using delete commands...
AND THEN they send GEEK SQUAD to "fix" your computer. Talk about adding insult to injury!