I think phase 3 is "Taking all the customers you have successfully locked into using your software and giving them the butt-fucking they so richly deserve,"
The just have a different definition of what "open source" means than you and I. "Open Source" to Microsoft means that they are free to incorporate other people's work into their software with any reciprocation or release of the modified code. Unfortunately many companies feel this way open source code.
Please go to your world atlas and compare the land area of the SE England with that of the US or China. Think it might be just a tiny bit easier to cover all of SE England with cell towers than all of the US or China?
Escaping a municipal totalitarian regime: priceless.
You forget to take into consideration that fact that most decisions are not based on pure economic return, but rather on someone getting pissed off enough by something that it becomes the proverbial "last straw" that forces them to make a change. Those with the motivation to create something new will go elsewhere. Those that don't give a shit will remain and either quit blogging or do it under a pseudonym. Eventually asshole laws like this make criminals of us all.
the current annual consumption of He is 30000 tons (3e10g). Hold on -- since helium is lighter than air, shouldn't the annual consumption be a negative number of tons?!? Ok, it's mass not weight... never mind. But I'm still a little concerned about how they accurately weigh this stuff.
The ability to bullshit people into thinking that you know what you are doing despite the fact that half your job consists of trial-and-error attempts to work around the constraints imposed by other people that managed to bullshit people into thinking they knew what they were doing.
So what is stopping a DeBeers-like cartel from buying it all up, storing it, and reselling it at a tremendous profit? One seller being too stupid to charge market prices for a fixed resource doesn't automatically negate all the laws of economics.
The internet interprets taxation as damage and routes around it. What Philly is really saying is that if you want to contribute to toe 'net, you should move outside of city limits. Doesn't this type of attitude ultimately shrink their tax base, not grow it?
Because obviously every civilization will follow a technology development timeline similar to ours! I still think the correct approach is to search for radio signals of all frequencies that can't be explained by current science as having been produced by natural causes. Then, even though you never find an alien intelligence, you still get some new science out of creating explanations for the weird signals.
Once we get fusion reactors perfected, won't there be an abundant supply of helium? We only need enough helium to hold out until then. If we run low, the law of supply and demand should make it prohibitively expensive to waste the stuff on parties and get-well balloons.
The ambulance ride should have been covered by your baby's health insurance. You did have health insurance on the baby, didn't you? I refuse to use ambulance services now after my girlfriend passed out at work. They called me, I drove to her work from mine, where they refused to let me talk to her, so I drove to the hospital to wait -- and got their 10 minutes before the ambulance did! And of course, they charged her $500 for this life-and-death rush to the hospital.
Companies have a right to use video surveillance and monitor company email accounts (and web usage) provided they tell the employees up front that they are doing that. It's not the acts themselves that are a problem, it is the lack of transparency about them. And of course, the corporate officers and board should be held to exactly the same standards as the rest of the work force. CEOs should download lesbian midget porn and email their mistresses on their own time with their own equipment, not using company time or resources. Likewise, they should not be exempt from video surveillance -- even in their private offices. It makes a lot more work for the janitorial staff when they have to clean up after people having sex in the private offices...
According to this article, "If there are too many errors, the CD player will interpolate samples to get
a reasonable value. This way you don't get nasty clicks and pops in your
music, even if the CD is dirty and the errors are uncorrectable." Either Andy McFadden is full of shit, or you are.
II refuse to believe there was actually a 50/50 ratio of males to females in attendance at these events, which would be necessary for speed dating unless it was a same-sex type affair.
What makes you think some sexually transmitted diseases, e.g. syphilis, don't already do this, e.g. mess with your brain and make you more promiscuous?
Even when myths gave them a couple of neurons still working, then they'd be riddled with a crippling OCD, so they'd irresistably stop and count the grains in a pile of rice or whatever.
So Sesame Street's depiction of "The Count" is spot on then.
For a data CD, either the read head reads the bit correctly or it doesn't. Audio CDs, however, are designed to be fault tolerant and interpolate misread bits, so you can actually play a scratched CD with some loss of quality. So yes, if you are correctly reading all the bits on both CDs, then there is no difference. However, if the error rate on one audio CD is significantly different from that on another CD, you may be able to hear a difference. I have heard home-recorded audio CDs that just sounded BAD, and attributed it to misaligned write heads on the CD writer.
Do you also have sex with every person who happens to come within 10 feet of you? Of course not! I only have sex with the people that are female, attractive, and come within reaching distance (with various body parts) of me! How the heck do you expect me to have sex with someone who is 9 feet away when my dick is only 1 foot long?
For the record, no, I don't have a facebook account.
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I think phase 3 is "Taking all the customers you have successfully locked into using your software and giving them the butt-fucking they so richly deserve,"
The just have a different definition of what "open source" means than you and I. "Open Source" to Microsoft means that they are free to incorporate other people's work into their software with any reciprocation or release of the modified code. Unfortunately many companies feel this way open source code.
They come out of college knowing everything they need to be readily trained.
More importantly, they come out of college knowing people they will need to know to get job referrals.
Please go to your world atlas and compare the land area of the SE England with that of the US or China. Think it might be just a tiny bit easier to cover all of SE England with cell towers than all of the US or China?
Escaping a municipal totalitarian regime: priceless.
You forget to take into consideration that fact that most decisions are not based on pure economic return, but rather on someone getting pissed off enough by something that it becomes the proverbial "last straw" that forces them to make a change. Those with the motivation to create something new will go elsewhere. Those that don't give a shit will remain and either quit blogging or do it under a pseudonym. Eventually asshole laws like this make criminals of us all.
the current annual consumption of He is 30000 tons (3e10g). Hold on -- since helium is lighter than air, shouldn't the annual consumption be a negative number of tons?!? Ok, it's mass not weight... never mind. But I'm still a little concerned about how they accurately weigh this stuff.
The ability to bullshit people into thinking that you know what you are doing despite the fact that half your job consists of trial-and-error attempts to work around the constraints imposed by other people that managed to bullshit people into thinking they knew what they were doing.
Damn you, Thanksgiving Day Parade!!!
So what is stopping a DeBeers-like cartel from buying it all up, storing it, and reselling it at a tremendous profit? One seller being too stupid to charge market prices for a fixed resource doesn't automatically negate all the laws of economics.
The internet interprets taxation as damage and routes around it. What Philly is really saying is that if you want to contribute to toe 'net, you should move outside of city limits. Doesn't this type of attitude ultimately shrink their tax base, not grow it?
Perhaps she should find someone better. She did. Of course, she's divorced from him too now.
I have to agree, I've met lots of "humans" that quite obviously are not sentient. In fact, many of them are currently quite active in the Tea Party.
Because obviously every civilization will follow a technology development timeline similar to ours! I still think the correct approach is to search for radio signals of all frequencies that can't be explained by current science as having been produced by natural causes. Then, even though you never find an alien intelligence, you still get some new science out of creating explanations for the weird signals.
It is possible in particle accelerators or nuclear reactors, although the production cost is currently many times the market price of gold.
Damn. There's goes another one of my business plans down the drain!
Once we get fusion reactors perfected, won't there be an abundant supply of helium? We only need enough helium to hold out until then. If we run low, the law of supply and demand should make it prohibitively expensive to waste the stuff on parties and get-well balloons.
Park Rangers should hand out copies of Nash's "Wilderness and the American Mind" the way Gideons hand out the Bible to hotels.
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Now get me the hell out of here!
The ambulance ride should have been covered by your baby's health insurance. You did have health insurance on the baby, didn't you? I refuse to use ambulance services now after my girlfriend passed out at work. They called me, I drove to her work from mine, where they refused to let me talk to her, so I drove to the hospital to wait -- and got their 10 minutes before the ambulance did! And of course, they charged her $500 for this life-and-death rush to the hospital.
Companies have a right to use video surveillance and monitor company email accounts (and web usage) provided they tell the employees up front that they are doing that. It's not the acts themselves that are a problem, it is the lack of transparency about them. And of course, the corporate officers and board should be held to exactly the same standards as the rest of the work force. CEOs should download lesbian midget porn and email their mistresses on their own time with their own equipment, not using company time or resources. Likewise, they should not be exempt from video surveillance -- even in their private offices. It makes a lot more work for the janitorial staff when they have to clean up after people having sex in the private offices...
According to this article, "If there are too many errors, the CD player will interpolate samples to get a reasonable value. This way you don't get nasty clicks and pops in your music, even if the CD is dirty and the errors are uncorrectable." Either Andy McFadden is full of shit, or you are.
II refuse to believe there was actually a 50/50 ratio of males to females in attendance at these events, which would be necessary for speed dating unless it was a same-sex type affair.
What makes you think some sexually transmitted diseases, e.g. syphilis, don't already do this, e.g. mess with your brain and make you more promiscuous?
Just imagine what it will be like to clean your car after a zombie bird craps on it!
Even when myths gave them a couple of neurons still working, then they'd be riddled with a crippling OCD, so they'd irresistably stop and count the grains in a pile of rice or whatever.
So Sesame Street's depiction of "The Count" is spot on then.
For a data CD, either the read head reads the bit correctly or it doesn't. Audio CDs, however, are designed to be fault tolerant and interpolate misread bits, so you can actually play a scratched CD with some loss of quality. So yes, if you are correctly reading all the bits on both CDs, then there is no difference. However, if the error rate on one audio CD is significantly different from that on another CD, you may be able to hear a difference. I have heard home-recorded audio CDs that just sounded BAD, and attributed it to misaligned write heads on the CD writer.
Do you also have sex with every person who happens to come within 10 feet of you? Of course not! I only have sex with the people that are female, attractive, and come within reaching distance (with various body parts) of me! How the heck do you expect me to have sex with someone who is 9 feet away when my dick is only 1 foot long?
For the record, no, I don't have a facebook account.