I hope it's not like those machines they have at the dry cleaners', or all the contents will end up in the footwell (or the back seat, depending which way up they hang them).
Rather than entering their maximum bid like they should, these people put in an amount less than their max, then see if anyone raises them, then they raise their price, etc
The max is, well, the maximum you'd be prepared to pay. Not what you absolutely intend to pay in any circumstances - any rational person would be happy to pay less. Isn't that how auctions are supposed to work - you try to bid just enough, but not too much?
Why is it that software developed for people who develop software is often total crap? You'd think that if there could be only one type of software that was reliable, reasonably featured and easy to use, developmers' tools would be it. Maybe that old proverb that the barefoot child is the cobbler's son has some basis in fact...
If you pay for a cheap unit and they give you an expensive one with the additional features disabled instead, you have no cause to whine about it being disabled
You have every cause, it's stupid and wasteful and it treats the customer as a mug. It's like selling the same engine as a 2.5 litre and 3 litre, the difference being that on the former you pull one of the spark plugs out.
You can bet if it was M$ doing it, every other post would contain 'crippleware' 'intentional hobbling' (probably 'DRM' too) and get modded up for it.
Females are not worth more - they are worth equal.
There's some evidence that females are better at language. One of the consequences is that they can spot such things as conditional statements - and distinguish them from plain assertions of the protasis.
No one is sure how they do this. Maybe it involves actually reading the post and checking if it has "if" in it somewhere.
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... I was too till he missed out perl.
I just knew you'd say that.
Thanks for pointing that out. In return, I'd like to draw your attention to the joke, which is about 20 feet above your head.
Seems like this story's like adding a shutdown script to autoexec.bat
I hope it's not like those machines they have at the dry cleaners', or all the contents will end up in the footwell (or the back seat, depending which way up they hang them).
Only a small proportion are anti-American; the majority are Anti-everyone-who-isn't-French.
Right. You'll be telling us the pedia^H peado^H kiddy fiddlers existed before Al Gore invented the intarwebs next.
Why is it that software developed for people who develop software is often total crap? You'd think that if there could be only one type of software that was reliable, reasonably featured and easy to use, developmers' tools would be it. Maybe that old proverb that the barefoot child is the cobbler's son has some basis in fact...
CowboyNeal.
Whasatyasay? It's not a poll? Like, no way!!!
Carly? Is that you?
You can bet if it was M$ doing it, every other post would contain 'crippleware' 'intentional hobbling' (probably 'DRM' too) and get modded up for it.
I liked Duke Nukem, any chance of a follow-up?
No one is sure how they do this. Maybe it involves actually reading the post and checking if it has "if" in it somewhere.