Imagine for a minute, that you bought your 360 on ebay for an inflated price to make your kid happy only to get shafted. And then have it take 3 weeks for him to get a replacement... you are into Feb. with a very sad kid and you wouldn't be so callous.
sorry, my children are raised better that that... and based on people *I* know with xboxes, it seems to me the number of defects is under 10% (unless my area of the country got the good batch)
Remember, in each of those situations the company in question is going out on a limb for you. When you bounced that check they fronted you the money. When you returned the movie late, you denied them a potential sale. When you paid your credit card late, you withheld money that was rightfully theirs. Your basically taking out a loan in each case; you signed an agreement and that's what you get...
Recent studies have shown that coffee (caffeinated, not decaf) has as high or higher antioxidant levels than tea. (Unfortunately I don't have a link to the study, its at home and I'm at work... check Google news)And as a previous poster noted you'd have to drink a helluva lot of tea to get the same amount of caffeine.
...not a (insert-language-here) programmer. Get that through your head. (the sooner, the better) A good CS major should be able to pick up any language because the concepts are mostly the same.
What happened to a computer language that is intuitive and very easy, that anybody can learn?
Security mostly. Scope is huge. Being able to define things that only exist within the curly braces is a blessing. Namespaces. Classes. Inheritance. All of that stuff that makes development such a joy. I'm not a computer scientist, I'm an aerospace engineer but I do simulation programming and all of these developments in object-oriented programming make my life so much easier. It is harder then when I was a kid and wrote my first programs in QBASIC, but man I'd much rather dig into a book and have to scratch my head a little learning C++ than go back to the old days...
The article talk about the.xxx domain being dropped from the agenda... and I quote "EU commissioner Viviane Reding is said to have called the head of ICANN Paul Twomey and threatened to withdraw all the EU's representatives unless the issue was pulled."
Looks like it was the EU's fault, not the typical scapegoat "various Christian extremist groups"
At least you could have removed all the caps in the sentance "Some say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer" and fooled me... sheesh...
Slashdot Mirror
It's the price you pay for being an inconvenience to the rest of us... They are giving you a financial incentive to change..
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They are based in Australia...
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No, no, no... they can saturate a 10MB/s connection easily. What they had problems with was database connections over a long distance (a problem with TCP, not windows)... which they rectified (using a concept called CTCP), check this paper out: http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.a spx?type=Technical%20Report&id=940
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Imagine for a minute, that you bought your 360 on ebay for an inflated price to make your kid happy only to get shafted. And then have it take 3 weeks for him to get a replacement... you are into Feb. with a very sad kid and you wouldn't be so callous.
sorry, my children are raised better that that... and based on people *I* know with xboxes, it seems to me the number of defects is under 10% (unless my area of the country got the good batch)
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http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170258&c id=14188093
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Remember, in each of those situations the company in question is going out on a limb for you. When you bounced that check they fronted you the money. When you returned the movie late, you denied them a potential sale. When you paid your credit card late, you withheld money that was rightfully theirs. Your basically taking out a loan in each case; you signed an agreement and that's what you get...
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Please read.... http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170258&c id=14188093 ...
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... run about 3% and are being replaced for free; please read http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170258&c id=14188093 and shut up...
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Agreed. My point is that he shouldn't be focusing on Java, he should take the classes they throw at him and learn the concepts, not the languages.
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Please read http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170258&c id=14188093 and shut up. Thanks.
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Aaah, but here is the golden ticket:
If I bought a new car and then later found out that I have to put 50/50 in the radiator all the time, I'd be pissed too.
Repeat after me: Being pissed does not give you the inherant right to sue. Thanks.
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So... because you don't have your priorities straight and you raised lousy kids you have a right to sue? Idiot.
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Recent studies have shown that coffee (caffeinated, not decaf) has as high or higher antioxidant levels than tea. (Unfortunately I don't have a link to the study, its at home and I'm at work... check Google news)And as a previous poster noted you'd have to drink a helluva lot of tea to get the same amount of caffeine.
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...not a (insert-language-here) programmer. Get that through your head. (the sooner, the better) A good CS major should be able to pick up any language because the concepts are mostly the same.
-everphilski-
What happened to a computer language that is intuitive and very easy, that anybody can learn?
Security mostly. Scope is huge. Being able to define things that only exist within the curly braces is a blessing. Namespaces. Classes. Inheritance. All of that stuff that makes development such a joy. I'm not a computer scientist, I'm an aerospace engineer but I do simulation programming and all of these developments in object-oriented programming make my life so much easier. It is harder then when I was a kid and wrote my first programs in QBASIC, but man I'd much rather dig into a book and have to scratch my head a little learning C++ than go back to the old days...
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guess Firefox isn't standard compliant then (there goes my karma from the grandparent post :) )
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Joke! :) sad but true
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Just hit refresh and the webserver won't get the HTTP_REFERRER (granted you'll have to manually delete the text file he serves you)
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This is a subscription service, iTunes is not.
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Napolean Dynamite
Idiot!
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department of culture
Well seeing as the culture used to make cheeses is bacteria, maybe the French are just a bunch of low life bacteria?
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Slashdot the Soap opera... come and see the softer side of /.
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Stallman's head became so big it can now be used as a floatation device in case of an emergency landing...
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147050/icann-go es-floppy-porn-domain
.xxx domain being dropped from the agenda... and I quote "EU commissioner Viviane Reding is said to have called the head of ICANN Paul Twomey and threatened to withdraw all the EU's representatives unless the issue was pulled."
The article talk about the
Looks like it was the EU's fault, not the typical scapegoat "various Christian extremist groups"
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At least you could have removed all the caps in the sentance "Some say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer" and fooled me... sheesh...
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