Collusion would be if eBay and PayPal were separate companies, but that is not the case.
PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later.
Would you be saying the same thing if it were the phone company disconnecting their phone service?
If they had an autodialer calling numbers to blast a recording of a bunch of hate speech, you are damn right I would want the phone company to disconnect their service.
Actually, the law basically states that if you are in the left lane and there is someone behind you, you are required to move over if it is safe to do so.
When driving on an interstate highway or full access controlled freeway, a person may not drive in the left lane, except when passing another vehicle. Exceptions include when no other vehicle is directly behind the vehicle being driven in the left lane, when traffic conditions/congestion make it impractical to drive in the right lane, when weather conditions make it necessary to use the left lane, when there is an obstruction or hazard in the right lane, or when the driver is changing lanes to yield to emergency or construction vehicles.
Xcode is free. Developing for OS X is free. The Xcode compiler is GCC - that is free. You are talking here about Flash on OS X, not on iOS (where a development licence is $99). Microsoft's.NET is equivalent to XCode - both are free, both can be used for mobile development, but that costs money.
I'll concede that Xcode is free, but developing for Windows Mobile devices does not require you to pay anything (It's just easier to do if you buy Visual Studio)
Of course Adobe is going to blame Apple. Are they going to blame Linus for "refusing to allow them to write the flash player properly" in Linux? It's not like that code is private. Why does the Linux flash player suck so much compared to the Windows one if that is the case?
This is amusing. I use both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 10.4), and I find that Flash runs 10x BETTER on Linux than it does on Windows. On Windows, if you right-click in a flash player, the whole browser locks up. In Linux, there is no issue (and it runs faster).
The problem is that you were using a MacBook Pro. Apple refuses to allow Adobe to write the Flash player properly for OSX, so an inferior product is a result.
It's funny how Apple purports itself to be an open platform while being exceedingly hostile towards developers. Even Microsoft gives away their compilers for free (including.NET). Apple requires you to pay for a development license to write for their platform. Palm (now HP) not only lets you choose to run unsigned code on WebOS, the SDK is freely available, AND you can modify the internal apps to suit your needs and desires.
Company A doesn't want Consumer 1 to use technology developed by Company B (as that could potentially result in fewer profits).
This is more along the lines of a hypothetical case of Microsoft preventing Oracle from being installed on a Windows server if Microsoft controlled the software distribution channel.
Apple should not be allowed to control what software is put on the device after it is sold to the consumer (just as Apple should have no say if someone wants to remove OSX from a Mac and install Ubuntu instead)
And with Android, it is worse because an application written for Android 2.1 may use OS features not available in 1.6 and there is no way to upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1 for almost every Android device with the exception of hacking the device which most users don't have the skills to do.
And with Windows, an application written for the 64-bit architecture won't run on a 32-bit processor, and an application that requires DirectX 11 won't work on hardware that doesn't support it. If you want to use the newer features, you have to target the newer platform. It's an age-old developer's conundrum... Should I target the new features or the wider audience?
You can argue that you can always upgrade the video card, but what if it's a laptop? What if it's a Dell Optiplex GX240 with a half-height AGP slot (I have one of those)?
I guess I live in the last century. My phone needs to do two things: make/receive phone calls and send/receive SMS messages. I own a computer to check email, browse the internet, and check my bank accounts (though I can call into the bank's IVR for that when I'm not at the computer). I have a separate portable device for music and video, which also has WiFi and can surf the internet and has Flash 9 support (which, admittedly, is less supported every day)
Of course, even though my phone has bluetooth, I don't own a "plastic cockroach" so even though I'm not on AT&T, I couldn't talk on the phone and surf the web at the same time anyway with the phone to my ear.
I have never encountered an open source desktop linux application that would not run on any desktop linux distribution.
Have you ever encountered a closed-source linux application that could be thrown at an arbitrary linux distribution? No? How about an arbitrary version of a single distribution?
How about the closed-source nVidia driver... which last time I checked would pretty much work on any arbitrary distribution (as long as you have at least the versions of the packages it requires or later). You can't use Windows 7 drivers on Windows 2000 either, so it doesn't count to try throwing it at an ancient version of a distribution. The 32-bit Adobe Flash 10 plugin for Firefox on x86 Linux is closed-source if I'm not mistaken and it doesn't have different versions for different distros either.
Actually, the issue is not one of licensing. The issue is that a minor product of one company is at risk of being abandoned due to the purchase of the company by another whose major product is a competitor. That said, the GPL has it's place. It is good for making the world a better place, but it is bad for business. If one could feed a family on sunshine and rainbows, the GPL would be good in most cases.
To put in plainly, if Microsoft released Windows under the GPL, anyone who legally acquired a copy of Windows could then take the source code, make trivial modifications, and redistribute it, and Microsoft would not see a dime from any of that. Why would anyone in their right mind use a license that undermines their business? (disregarding any argument that Windows would be made better as a result)
Note: This post was made from a computer running Ubuntu
Actually, the corp I belong to in EVE Online had a memorial to a former member who had died in real life (December 2007). He was notorious for screwing around, so in his memory, a group of about 200 people got themselves CONCORDed.
I've never had a computer that percussive maintenance actually worked on, but I have had a TV that did respond to that (old Zenith console TV complete with wood cabinet).
Eventually, that got really old with the picture and sound going out every few minutes.
3x Modulated Strip Miner II 1x Gistii B-type Shield Booster, 1x Invulnerability Field II, rest cap rechargers (or leave one out for a rock scanner. You should have plenty of cap.) 2x Mining Laser Upgrade II
(Alternately, if you are Mr. Moneybags, you can opt for a Pithii B-type which is just as good as a Gistii A-type)
This setup can and will tank cruiser rats, though not necessarily while you are actively mining (yes, you may need to shut the lasers off while you take care of the rats). Build up your drone skills. A set of Hammerhead II's will easily chew through rats.
If you have no clear record as to how you acquired the excess funding, then you are not entitled to use it. If money is ACH'd into your checking account due to a transposition of digits, you do not get to spend the money as you see fit. It is your responsibility to contact your financial institution to notify them of the error. If you spend the money in bad faith (knowing that you should not have received it), the police will come knocking when it is discovered.
Considering that there are a few people that posted an original comment to this story that still do not have that achievement, I'm going to guess that it's not the case. I still don't know what the real answer is, though I have that achievement.
(Of course, I'm now trying to get the achievement for posting in an April Fools Day story)
That's not actually a bad idea. Just because it's a drive up ATM, doesn't mean that the driver has to be the one using it. A blind passenger sitting in the rear seat behind the driver could use it.
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Collusion would be if eBay and PayPal were separate companies, but that is not the case.
PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later.
Would you be saying the same thing if it were the phone company disconnecting their phone service?
If they had an autodialer calling numbers to blast a recording of a bunch of hate speech, you are damn right I would want the phone company to disconnect their service.
I'll even post this as myself rather than as AC.
Actually, the law basically states that if you are in the left lane and there is someone behind you, you are required to move over if it is safe to do so.
From http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/rules_of_the_road/rr_chap04.html:
When driving on an interstate highway or full access controlled freeway, a person may not drive in the left lane, except when passing another vehicle. Exceptions include when no other vehicle is directly behind the vehicle being driven in the left lane, when traffic conditions/congestion make it impractical to drive in the right lane, when weather conditions make it necessary to use the left lane, when there is an obstruction or hazard in the right lane, or when the driver is changing lanes to yield to emergency or construction vehicles.
Or at the very least sign out of Google before you go to www.hotunderagehorserape.com (god I hope that's not a real site).
Under Rule #35, you are now legally required to create it.
Maybe not Monster, but Denon already does.
Xcode is free. Developing for OS X is free. The Xcode compiler is GCC - that is free. You are talking here about Flash on OS X, not on iOS (where a development licence is $99). Microsoft's .NET is equivalent to XCode - both are free, both can be used for mobile development, but that costs money.
I'll concede that Xcode is free, but developing for Windows Mobile devices does not require you to pay anything (It's just easier to do if you buy Visual Studio)
Of course Adobe is going to blame Apple. Are they going to blame Linus for "refusing to allow them to write the flash player properly" in Linux? It's not like that code is private. Why does the Linux flash player suck so much compared to the Windows one if that is the case?
This is amusing. I use both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 10.4), and I find that Flash runs 10x BETTER on Linux than it does on Windows. On Windows, if you right-click in a flash player, the whole browser locks up. In Linux, there is no issue (and it runs faster).
The problem is that you were using a MacBook Pro. Apple refuses to allow Adobe to write the Flash player properly for OSX, so an inferior product is a result.
It's funny how Apple purports itself to be an open platform while being exceedingly hostile towards developers. Even Microsoft gives away their compilers for free (including .NET). Apple requires you to pay for a development license to write for their platform. Palm (now HP) not only lets you choose to run unsigned code on WebOS, the SDK is freely available, AND you can modify the internal apps to suit your needs and desires.
You can quote me on this: "The iPad will never reach full market potential as long as people cannot play FarmVille on it."
This is software being used by the NSA. It is much better in their opinion to detect espionage than prevent it.
If it is being done by a government employee, they can "execute" a "termination" of employment.
It's actually a bit more convoluted:
Company A doesn't want Consumer 1 to use technology developed by Company B (as that could potentially result in fewer profits).
This is more along the lines of a hypothetical case of Microsoft preventing Oracle from being installed on a Windows server if Microsoft controlled the software distribution channel.
Apple should not be allowed to control what software is put on the device after it is sold to the consumer (just as Apple should have no say if someone wants to remove OSX from a Mac and install Ubuntu instead)
And with Android, it is worse because an application written for Android 2.1 may use OS features not available in 1.6 and there is no way to upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1 for almost every Android device with the exception of hacking the device which most users don't have the skills to do.
And with Windows, an application written for the 64-bit architecture won't run on a 32-bit processor, and an application that requires DirectX 11 won't work on hardware that doesn't support it. If you want to use the newer features, you have to target the newer platform. It's an age-old developer's conundrum... Should I target the new features or the wider audience?
You can argue that you can always upgrade the video card, but what if it's a laptop? What if it's a Dell Optiplex GX240 with a half-height AGP slot (I have one of those)?
You could always get a new phone too...
I guess I live in the last century. My phone needs to do two things: make/receive phone calls and send/receive SMS messages. I own a computer to check email, browse the internet, and check my bank accounts (though I can call into the bank's IVR for that when I'm not at the computer). I have a separate portable device for music and video, which also has WiFi and can surf the internet and has Flash 9 support (which, admittedly, is less supported every day)
Of course, even though my phone has bluetooth, I don't own a "plastic cockroach" so even though I'm not on AT&T, I couldn't talk on the phone and surf the web at the same time anyway with the phone to my ear.
I have never encountered an open source desktop linux application that would not run on any desktop linux distribution.
Have you ever encountered a closed-source linux application that could be thrown at an arbitrary linux distribution? No? How about an arbitrary version of a single distribution?
How about the closed-source nVidia driver... which last time I checked would pretty much work on any arbitrary distribution (as long as you have at least the versions of the packages it requires or later). You can't use Windows 7 drivers on Windows 2000 either, so it doesn't count to try throwing it at an ancient version of a distribution. The 32-bit Adobe Flash 10 plugin for Firefox on x86 Linux is closed-source if I'm not mistaken and it doesn't have different versions for different distros either.
Actually, the issue is not one of licensing. The issue is that a minor product of one company is at risk of being abandoned due to the purchase of the company by another whose major product is a competitor. That said, the GPL has it's place. It is good for making the world a better place, but it is bad for business. If one could feed a family on sunshine and rainbows, the GPL would be good in most cases.
To put in plainly, if Microsoft released Windows under the GPL, anyone who legally acquired a copy of Windows could then take the source code, make trivial modifications, and redistribute it, and Microsoft would not see a dime from any of that. Why would anyone in their right mind use a license that undermines their business? (disregarding any argument that Windows would be made better as a result)
Note: This post was made from a computer running Ubuntu
Actually, the corp I belong to in EVE Online had a memorial to a former member who had died in real life (December 2007). He was notorious for screwing around, so in his memory, a group of about 200 people got themselves CONCORDed.
RIP xxthaproducerxx
I only use TigerDirect. I have dealt with their customer service as well, and it was actually very pleasant.
Why would a pay more at NewEgg and still wait longer to get the product? (Even ground shipping is next day from TigerDirect for me)
I've never had a computer that percussive maintenance actually worked on, but I have had a TV that did respond to that (old Zenith console TV complete with wood cabinet).
Eventually, that got really old with the picture and sound going out every few minutes.
It's a Cap Recharger (probably meta 4).
3x Modulated Strip Miner II
1x Gistii B-type Shield Booster, 1x Invulnerability Field II, rest cap rechargers (or leave one out for a rock scanner. You should have plenty of cap.)
2x Mining Laser Upgrade II
(Alternately, if you are Mr. Moneybags, you can opt for a Pithii B-type which is just as good as a Gistii A-type)
This setup can and will tank cruiser rats, though not necessarily while you are actively mining (yes, you may need to shut the lasers off while you take care of the rats). Build up your drone skills. A set of Hammerhead II's will easily chew through rats.
If you have no clear record as to how you acquired the excess funding, then you are not entitled to use it. If money is ACH'd into your checking account due to a transposition of digits, you do not get to spend the money as you see fit. It is your responsibility to contact your financial institution to notify them of the error. If you spend the money in bad faith (knowing that you should not have received it), the police will come knocking when it is discovered.
Considering that there are a few people that posted an original comment to this story that still do not have that achievement, I'm going to guess that it's not the case. I still don't know what the real answer is, though I have that achievement.
(Of course, I'm now trying to get the achievement for posting in an April Fools Day story)
...and every day, the world gets one step closer to being able to do just that... reference
I'd rather have Thin Mints. :)
For the most part, the answers have never really been secret. It's just been a matter of knowing what questions to ask.
Whereas with the FOIA, you have to request the information you want, this is meant to be openly available to all.
Animals convert oxygen into carbon dioxide (by breathing*). Plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen (by photosynthesis). Fungi "breathe" like animals do.
My solution to global warming: Eat more steak and mushrooms and less vegetables.
*Simplification due to the various processes that animals use (i.e. lungs or gills)
That's not actually a bad idea. Just because it's a drive up ATM, doesn't mean that the driver has to be the one using it. A blind passenger sitting in the rear seat behind the driver could use it.