In the same way that CDs are now classed as 8-track tapes, yes. They serve the same purpose, but they are completely different animals.
The judge's logic is correct: Many people today get their news from the internet, instead of the TV or radio. So this should be allowed to be televised via the same mediums.
It's not so much 'kicking the stool' as it is 'refusing to hold them up while they teeter on it'. Nobody has to do -anything- for them to hang themselves... They just have to refuse to get them out of their own mess.
phatsphere's correct. All the pre-orders are being refunded within the next 7 days, so none of us are out anything.
I will admit that I was taking a big chance on a company I'd never heard of with a product that was a lot cheaper than I thought it should be. I doubt the next version of the phone will be so cheap, now.
I really wish they'd just sold me the phone... Or given me the option.
Why don't you believe it? I see 2 different ways this could happen:
1) Someone finds a few apps that don't work at low res at all... Good apps like Google Earth or something.
2) The programmers assure him that it can be handled right up until the end, when they are forced to admit they can't do it after all because they finally found the fatal flaw in the plan.
As a programmer, I've had both things happen to me during a project. The first is just oversight and the second is usually due to some asinine quirk in the API that can't be worked around.
It's legal in the US, too. There's no law against it, so it's legal. In fact, the entire world lets you sell things that are allowed to be sold.
The GPL is the license that states whether or not it can be sold. There is nothing wrong with selling GPL software.
Now, criminal tactics like telling someone it's free and then charging them... Or only telling them there's a fee after they are fully involved... Those might not be legal there.
The internet, being truly world-wide, has countries involved which do not have the same laws that you have in your country. There is -always- somewhere to post those sites you would take down.
I haven't played, but everything I've heard about Braid, including Blow's post linked here, leads me to believe it's one of those 'create a bunch of mostly-random things that don't mean anything and force people to try to make it mean something' art pieces.
I really hate those because they sacrifice a potentially good story for some pseudo-intellectual crap. If people want to make up stories from random stuff, they don't need your help.
He consistently says 'It doesn't mean any 1 thing, it's whatever you want it to mean', etc. That's such bullshit that I don't even know where to start with it. That's a cop-out, pure and simple.
If programming and design could be done automatically, we wouldn't still have programmers. We can't even manage to automate creating simple apps. How could we possibly automate creating entire new games, which means new art, new rules, new everything.
On top of that, everyone finds something different in a game to be 'fun'. Some love challenge, some love adventure, some love collecting things... Attempts to make games that have everything anyone could love are usually pathetic flops.
Only if you never install updates. I just decided to try Gnome for a while and it's had an icon in the tool tray since the day after I installed it telling me to reboot.
Not that it's really any different than KDE, mind you. It's just funny that I -just- updated everything and installed Gnome and the next day I have to install more updates and reboot again.
That's because the question makes no sense. Nobody said it was a requirement of DTV.
DTV is the replacement for analog, and once analog is gone, DTV is what will be in its place. It already exists now, but as an option. Cutting analog makes it the only 'option'.
To ask the question he asked means he's either amazingly stupid or a troll.
I considered QT when I was looking for a good GUI for an open source project I was considering, but ended up rejecting it on licensing agreements. It has actually gotten better licensing twice since then, and now I would actually choose it.
That project, sadly, never happened because I never found a GUI toolkit I thought would do what I needed. How many other projects were similarly stalled like this?
It doesn't matter how rare the situations are, it only matters how they are handled. When you are -IN- the situation, the rarity is a complete non-issue.
What really matters is how often these matters are handled correctly (not treating the helper like a criminal) and how often incorrectly. Any 'rare' incident I've ever seen was not handled well. From that, combined with media reports (mostly via internet sources), I'm not likely to physically approach a child in distress, either. I'd find a mall guard, find a clerk at a store, or use my phone... But never approach the child.
And if I child was screaming 'leave me alone, go away!' and struggling against someone? I'd still do the same. Children are so misbehaved these days that you don't know if that's a parent or not. (And if the person isn't running away with all that screaming, they probably ARE a parent.)
A friend recently told me that Florida has 'good samaritan' laws that protect me from being prosecuted if I try to help someone. My response was 'How well do they hold up in court?' No answer.
Under!? Over! It's closer and easier to get to! When it's under, it's right against the wall and harder to grab at. Plus, it's easier to roll down than up, so if you can't see the end, you can get it easier.
Err... Yeah. It is. You might want that wall to actually have things on it other than your TV. The TV may not fit with the decor, and you want to hide it... Or you may just have more decor than wallspace. There are plenty of reasons to want a hide-away TV.
My solution was to completely disable text messaging (and picture, and email) for my account. Currently, SPAM wasn't the problem... Friends were. No matter how many times I told them it costs me money, they still thought it was worth spending my money to text message me something they could have told me for free by voice or in person. Or by email.
If it's popular because it's good, why is it still mostly used for piracy rather than other things?
Let me rephrase that: What it is used for other than piracy?
I have seen a couple really low-budget games that use it. (And both the game and video was shitty quality.) Some (really high-tech) people send their personal videos in it. I've not seen -anything- else use it.
So their comments are spot-on. It is what people use it for, and it got popular because people use it for that.
I can't believe they really expect 'strongly disagree' for an answer to that question. Nobody in their right mind could possibly answer it that way.
Actually, I can see 1 way to answer that in that fashion: If you assume that you aren't giving up on the project, but that you finished it as far as was feasible and learned from it. It really wracks my brain to see it that way, because any fool can see that you abandoned the project. With this kind of logic, any question can have any answer.
The company I work for sends their newhires out to these kinds of tests as well. I had to take one when I was hired.
The company used to have a problem with employees blowing up at each other and generally being rude. They started the testing for that reason and since then, that hasn't been a problem.
All these people arguing 'that doesn't work' and or 'you're excluding people that would help your company!' are forgetting something: You're already doing as well as you can. Dropping the practice might net you someone brilliant, but it'll also net you 2 more people out of every 10 (from your statistics, as I don't know ours) that will threaten to rip your company apart.
I love the company I work for and I think that's mainly because we don't hire people with personalities that don't fit in. We have a ton of diversity and the only exception to that is the 'jerk' personality. I don't think we need those people.
They've actually got some new whiz-bang chip that is supposed to do -anything-... General, audio, video... Anything. I can't imagine it works all that well, so I expect you are right about their impending doom. I mean, there's a reason that all the chips so far specialized in their area.
"Hey, why don't I write an optimized Javascript engine from scratch!"
Um, yeah... You do. At least, I do... And so do my other programmer friends. Projects like that come from someone saying "Hey, why couldn't you do it like X?" and trying it. Then it blossoms into a huge project from there.
Just because it fits in with what you think is their 'strategic vision' doesn't mean that the idea was passed down from on high.
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In the same way that CDs are now classed as 8-track tapes, yes. They serve the same purpose, but they are completely different animals.
The judge's logic is correct: Many people today get their news from the internet, instead of the TV or radio. So this should be allowed to be televised via the same mediums.
It's not so much 'kicking the stool' as it is 'refusing to hold them up while they teeter on it'. Nobody has to do -anything- for them to hang themselves... They just have to refuse to get them out of their own mess.
phatsphere's correct. All the pre-orders are being refunded within the next 7 days, so none of us are out anything.
I will admit that I was taking a big chance on a company I'd never heard of with a product that was a lot cheaper than I thought it should be. I doubt the next version of the phone will be so cheap, now.
I really wish they'd just sold me the phone... Or given me the option.
Why don't you believe it? I see 2 different ways this could happen:
1) Someone finds a few apps that don't work at low res at all... Good apps like Google Earth or something.
2) The programmers assure him that it can be handled right up until the end, when they are forced to admit they can't do it after all because they finally found the fatal flaw in the plan.
As a programmer, I've had both things happen to me during a project. The first is just oversight and the second is usually due to some asinine quirk in the API that can't be worked around.
I noticed the low screen resolution, but didn't think it would really be a problem... In fact, I thought it led to the phone being so cheap.
My current phone is dying, too... I was really looking forward to getting my Agora Pro at the end of the month.
It's legal in the US, too. There's no law against it, so it's legal. In fact, the entire world lets you sell things that are allowed to be sold.
The GPL is the license that states whether or not it can be sold. There is nothing wrong with selling GPL software.
Now, criminal tactics like telling someone it's free and then charging them... Or only telling them there's a fee after they are fully involved... Those might not be legal there.
The internet, being truly world-wide, has countries involved which do not have the same laws that you have in your country. There is -always- somewhere to post those sites you would take down.
I haven't played, but everything I've heard about Braid, including Blow's post linked here, leads me to believe it's one of those 'create a bunch of mostly-random things that don't mean anything and force people to try to make it mean something' art pieces.
I really hate those because they sacrifice a potentially good story for some pseudo-intellectual crap. If people want to make up stories from random stuff, they don't need your help.
He consistently says 'It doesn't mean any 1 thing, it's whatever you want it to mean', etc. That's such bullshit that I don't even know where to start with it. That's a cop-out, pure and simple.
If programming and design could be done automatically, we wouldn't still have programmers. We can't even manage to automate creating simple apps. How could we possibly automate creating entire new games, which means new art, new rules, new everything.
On top of that, everyone finds something different in a game to be 'fun'. Some love challenge, some love adventure, some love collecting things... Attempts to make games that have everything anyone could love are usually pathetic flops.
"On Linux, I never have to reboot."
Only if you never install updates. I just decided to try Gnome for a while and it's had an icon in the tool tray since the day after I installed it telling me to reboot.
Not that it's really any different than KDE, mind you. It's just funny that I -just- updated everything and installed Gnome and the next day I have to install more updates and reboot again.
That's because the question makes no sense. Nobody said it was a requirement of DTV.
DTV is the replacement for analog, and once analog is gone, DTV is what will be in its place. It already exists now, but as an option. Cutting analog makes it the only 'option'.
To ask the question he asked means he's either amazingly stupid or a troll.
I considered QT when I was looking for a good GUI for an open source project I was considering, but ended up rejecting it on licensing agreements. It has actually gotten better licensing twice since then, and now I would actually choose it.
That project, sadly, never happened because I never found a GUI toolkit I thought would do what I needed. How many other projects were similarly stalled like this?
This is indeed good news.
I do own a cat, actually. Used to have 2. Neither have ever messed with my toilet paper.
It doesn't matter how rare the situations are, it only matters how they are handled. When you are -IN- the situation, the rarity is a complete non-issue.
What really matters is how often these matters are handled correctly (not treating the helper like a criminal) and how often incorrectly. Any 'rare' incident I've ever seen was not handled well. From that, combined with media reports (mostly via internet sources), I'm not likely to physically approach a child in distress, either. I'd find a mall guard, find a clerk at a store, or use my phone... But never approach the child.
And if I child was screaming 'leave me alone, go away!' and struggling against someone? I'd still do the same. Children are so misbehaved these days that you don't know if that's a parent or not. (And if the person isn't running away with all that screaming, they probably ARE a parent.)
A friend recently told me that Florida has 'good samaritan' laws that protect me from being prosecuted if I try to help someone. My response was 'How well do they hold up in court?' No answer.
Under!? Over! It's closer and easier to get to! When it's under, it's right against the wall and harder to grab at. Plus, it's easier to roll down than up, so if you can't see the end, you can get it easier.
Seriously, what's this world coming to?
Or because they are repeated so often that nobody believes anything they say any more. Or a mix of the 2.
I use T-Mobile. All the 'spam' so far has come from my friends, except for maybe 3 messages in about 3 years.
Still, it's $.20 per message, so I decided to cut it out.
I spent about 20 minutes figuring out -how- to disable it via their website, and another 5 setting it.
Verizon may have something similar.
Err... Yeah. It is. You might want that wall to actually have things on it other than your TV. The TV may not fit with the decor, and you want to hide it... Or you may just have more decor than wallspace. There are plenty of reasons to want a hide-away TV.
20 cents, for me. It was just raised from 15.
My solution was to completely disable text messaging (and picture, and email) for my account. Currently, SPAM wasn't the problem... Friends were. No matter how many times I told them it costs me money, they still thought it was worth spending my money to text message me something they could have told me for free by voice or in person. Or by email.
No, it's popular because of piracy because piracy made it popular. I'm not using logic to say it's popular because of piracy. I'm using history.
If it's popular because it's good, why is it still mostly used for piracy rather than other things?
Let me rephrase that: What it is used for other than piracy?
I have seen a couple really low-budget games that use it. (And both the game and video was shitty quality.) Some (really high-tech) people send their personal videos in it. I've not seen -anything- else use it.
So their comments are spot-on. It is what people use it for, and it got popular because people use it for that.
I can't believe they really expect 'strongly disagree' for an answer to that question. Nobody in their right mind could possibly answer it that way.
Actually, I can see 1 way to answer that in that fashion: If you assume that you aren't giving up on the project, but that you finished it as far as was feasible and learned from it. It really wracks my brain to see it that way, because any fool can see that you abandoned the project. With this kind of logic, any question can have any answer.
Tenacity has its place, but so does sense.
The company I work for sends their newhires out to these kinds of tests as well. I had to take one when I was hired.
The company used to have a problem with employees blowing up at each other and generally being rude. They started the testing for that reason and since then, that hasn't been a problem.
All these people arguing 'that doesn't work' and or 'you're excluding people that would help your company!' are forgetting something: You're already doing as well as you can. Dropping the practice might net you someone brilliant, but it'll also net you 2 more people out of every 10 (from your statistics, as I don't know ours) that will threaten to rip your company apart.
I love the company I work for and I think that's mainly because we don't hire people with personalities that don't fit in. We have a ton of diversity and the only exception to that is the 'jerk' personality. I don't think we need those people.
They've actually got some new whiz-bang chip that is supposed to do -anything-... General, audio, video... Anything. I can't imagine it works all that well, so I expect you are right about their impending doom. I mean, there's a reason that all the chips so far specialized in their area.
"Hey, why don't I write an optimized Javascript engine from scratch!"
Um, yeah... You do. At least, I do... And so do my other programmer friends. Projects like that come from someone saying "Hey, why couldn't you do it like X?" and trying it. Then it blossoms into a huge project from there.
Just because it fits in with what you think is their 'strategic vision' doesn't mean that the idea was passed down from on high.