The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law
The Netherlands does not use common law but instead uses civil law, where: "laws are written into a collection, codified, and not determined [...] by judges".
While you all bask in your nostaliga over here, I'll be over there both watching Olivia Wilde talk about the movie and watching the non-slashdotted trailer.
There is no such thing as "real Coca-Cola". Or if there is, the majority of what goes for "Coca-Cola" isn't "real Coca-Cola".
Coca-Cola is created from concentrate or syrup. This concentrate is shipped to bottlers who add their own sweetners and other additives, which causes local variations. Then it is combined with water from different sources, causing even more variations. Coca-Cola, even in a can or bottle, tastes differently all over the place.
Then add to that the abomination that is fountain-based Coca-Cola, which is syrup mixed with carbonated tap water. This means that the Coca-Cola from your local city-water-fed McDonald's tastes differently from the Coca-Cola served in the well-water-fed McDonald's just out of town.
You should count yourself lucky if you've ever had two servings of Coca-Cola that tasted the same.
Not allowing subscription fees to pay for other city projects - this on the other hand is not necessarily fair.
And that's why the blog's writer is highlighting it, because he doesn't want the bill to succeed. However, the opposite of that is to not allow revenue from other city project to subsidize the Greenlight project, and that does seem fair. It would be anti-competitive if they can only offer a lower price by making up for the relative loss with income from other sources.
From skimming the bills it just looks like they want Greenlight to operate like an ISP that is independent of the City, and that has the same costs and disadvantages as other ISPs.
All you need for your streaming media to work is a bigger buffer. If you download your shows during off-peak times (or during peak times at lower-than-bearable-to-watch speeds) and watch them from your harddrive after the download completes, you won't have this problem.
If everyone picks option "d", then Hulu will come out with "Hulu Downloader" to make it easy to schedule downloads of your favorite shows.
d) Everything stays priced the same as now, without throttling or download caps So pick a, b, or c. And stop kidding yourself that you can pick d
What's wrong with picking d? It just means that at peak times, when your ISP has to process more data than it has bandwidth for, everyone's transfer rate goes down. This happens until those watching streaming video get fed up with the "buffering..." and go do something else, at which point everyone else's transfer rate goes back up.
Nobody has to pay more, no schemes are necessary, and those ISPs who also happen to be Cable TV operators get to rejoice in the fact that streaming video failed. Everyone is happy.
As for IE... well, you'll keep the old system for a few more weeks, but you're only like 14% of our users, and you keep shrinking.
Ah, yes. The old "if it hurts, then just stop doing it" treatment. Of course the number of IE users keeps shrinking, as they find that this site doesn't work with their browser of choice!
As an Opera user I'm still using the old-school no-beta, no-beta2 version of Slashdot, and I sincerely hope the day will never come that I have to choose between Opera and Slashdot.
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The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law
The Netherlands does not use common law but instead uses civil law, where: "laws are written into a collection, codified, and not determined [...] by judges".
While you all bask in your nostaliga over here, I'll be over there both watching Olivia Wilde talk about the movie and watching the non-slashdotted trailer.
So not THAT great, but still rather awesome.
Really?
const double good = 100.0;
const double great = 150.0;
const double awesome = 300.0;
const double THAT = 1.5;
const double rather = 0.7;
THAT * great > rather * awesome
1.5 * 150 > 0.7 * 300
225 > 210
Oh cool, I guess it does work out. Nice.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Wargames. Ferris Bueller never hacked into any goverment computers.
Build system integration (:!make & or M-x shell make)
Integration. I do not think it means what you think it means.
There is no such thing as "real Coca-Cola". Or if there is, the majority of what goes for "Coca-Cola" isn't "real Coca-Cola".
Coca-Cola is created from concentrate or syrup. This concentrate is shipped to bottlers who add their own sweetners and other additives, which causes local variations. Then it is combined with water from different sources, causing even more variations. Coca-Cola, even in a can or bottle, tastes differently all over the place.
Then add to that the abomination that is fountain-based Coca-Cola, which is syrup mixed with carbonated tap water. This means that the Coca-Cola from your local city-water-fed McDonald's tastes differently from the Coca-Cola served in the well-water-fed McDonald's just out of town.
You should count yourself lucky if you've ever had two servings of Coca-Cola that tasted the same.
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Maybe that nicely conductive tin-foil jockstrap is a bad idea after all...
Can you imagine a more epic fail for a virus scanner
Can you all please stop saying "epic fail"? I know /b/ is down, but damn.
2009 H1N1 flu virus
Colloquially known as the heinie virus of 2009.
Not allowing subscription fees to pay for other city projects - this on the other hand is not necessarily fair.
And that's why the blog's writer is highlighting it, because he doesn't want the bill to succeed. However, the opposite of that is to not allow revenue from other city project to subsidize the Greenlight project, and that does seem fair. It would be anti-competitive if they can only offer a lower price by making up for the relative loss with income from other sources.
From skimming the bills it just looks like they want Greenlight to operate like an ISP that is independent of the City, and that has the same costs and disadvantages as other ISPs.
Cue free-market v.s socialism debates.
All you need for your streaming media to work is a bigger buffer. If you download your shows during off-peak times (or during peak times at lower-than-bearable-to-watch speeds) and watch them from your harddrive after the download completes, you won't have this problem.
If everyone picks option "d", then Hulu will come out with "Hulu Downloader" to make it easy to schedule downloads of your favorite shows.
Population densitiy.
South Korea: 498 people per square km
Japan: 337 people per square km
United States of America: 31 people per square km
d) Everything stays priced the same as now, without throttling or download caps
So pick a, b, or c. And stop kidding yourself that you can pick d
What's wrong with picking d? It just means that at peak times, when your ISP has to process more data than it has bandwidth for, everyone's transfer rate goes down. This happens until those watching streaming video get fed up with the "buffering..." and go do something else, at which point everyone else's transfer rate goes back up.
Nobody has to pay more, no schemes are necessary, and those ISPs who also happen to be Cable TV operators get to rejoice in the fact that streaming video failed. Everyone is happy.
RFC 5233 mentions it.
That's not true. Per RFC 2822 (only relevant pieces quoted):
In other words, per the RFC, the local-part of an email address can contain a "+" (as well as a variety of other non-alphanumeric characters.
(The lameness filter is not very well suited for quoting RFC content.)
create some way for readers to weigh in
Like the Firehose?
As for IE... well, you'll keep the old system for a few more weeks, but you're only like 14% of our users, and you keep shrinking.
Ah, yes. The old "if it hurts, then just stop doing it" treatment. Of course the number of IE users keeps shrinking, as they find that this site doesn't work with their browser of choice!
As an Opera user I'm still using the old-school no-beta, no-beta2 version of Slashdot, and I sincerely hope the day will never come that I have to choose between Opera and Slashdot.
Seriously? This is how you "improve" slashdot? You ignore the myriad things that can be improved and you do this?
I feel like I'm playing a bad sequel to a video game. Slashdot 2: same bugs, now with achievements!
Bah, humbug.
People can't notify you of unexpected things.
Proof that you're wrong: Your mom and I had a great time last night.
Proof that I'm right: that's not unexpected.
I shouldn't be notified that my windows may explode unexpectedly?
People can't notify you of unexpected things. That's why they're called unexpected.
(Yes, I replied twice and contradicted myself. Big whoop.)
I shouldn't be notified that my windows may explode unexpectedly?
You want to be notified of everything that may happen unexpectedly? Seriously? Because then we're going to be here a while...
It will work for glasses too, but you will have to stare directly at the sun for half an hour to remove scratches.
and in the case of at least one of them, has won rave reviews
{{citation needed}}
On a guitar there are many different ways to play the same note. There are even many different ways to play the same chord (group of notes).
burdgeoning
Ack. The pain!
Be careful with your big words there, sonny. You might hurt someone.
burgeoning