Because the only sites likely to implement it are the ones that nobody uses. FB is unlikely to ever use a standard format as it would make it too easy to leave, they'd have to start learning about integrity and ethical business practices if they wanted to participate in that.
The difference is that BoA and AT&T have a much stronger means by which to prevent people from leaving. Remember how MySpace was the social network before it pretty much collapsed over night? It wouldn't surprise me if that happened to FB in the near future when the cool kids find someplace else to hang out.
From what I gather, Google+ just makes it more convenient to restrict to whom you show the pictures. Which seems like a big improvement over FB, as you can show images of things that happened at a party to people who were there or typically go to those parties, but not ones parents.
Well, people that don't want to reward Intel's illegal behavior for a starter. I recently got a Llano based laptop and was shocked at how well the chip handles the things that I do on a day to day basis. Sure, there's no chance of playing The Witcher or DNF on it, but it handles casual gaming just fine, especially the older games that I tend to like to play.
In practice, the dual core is much more responsive than the celeron I was using a couple years back, even though it's a third slower than that older Intel chip.
It's not for those that want top speeds, but it was substantially less expensive than the Intel option. A $100 price difference is pretty significant these days in terms of the machines that most people use. And in practice, I'm not so sure that it is only a $100 price difference as you then don't need to shell out for a graphics chip or the circuitry to make that worse. I ended up spending several hundred dollars less than I would have for the Intel option. Personally, I'd rather spend the money upgrading the warranty or paying for a back up plan.
Doesn't matter how much the product costs, reviewers shouldn't be getting free products to review, traditionally they'll have to give them back when they're done. There are some exceptions in that you can't give back a movie or unread a book, but by and large it's a serious no no amongst reviewers wishing to be taken seriously.
I wish people would get their heads out of their asses and realize that punishment and pain have basically no correlation. It's that mentality which leads to our poor recidivism rate. And a lack of appropriate rehabilitation while the convicts are still in prison.
Unless, you've got some actual evidence to back up your assertion that this is more likely to keep the lad from getting into more trouble than his parents paying the fine.
The basis was that the programming was allegedly changed mid way through the match. Which was forbidden under the terms of that were agreed upon beforehand. I don't personally know how strong or what the evidence was that they were changing the algorithms between matches, but that would be cheating.
Or at least that's my understanding of that. I'm not much into chess at that level.
He had permission to use the source, it's GPL, since he didn't redistribute binaries he didn't need to provide the source.
Unfortunately, since the source wasn't available, it's hard to really know whether or not those programs were plagiarized, I'm not sure how one would know without having access to the source. This would be a little bit like charging somebody with plagiarism with only access to a retelling of the paper or story.
Because it uses the same Gecko version as Firefox, they opted to skip a version in the numbering system. It wouldn't have been as obnoxious had they not also skipped Firefox 4.1 in favor of Firefox 5.0.
Precisely why I use a mail client. I like the web interface, but having a copy on my disk makes it that much less likely that I'll lose any emails due to some sort of hardware failure on either end.
It's supposed to be the implementation that's the non-obvious, not the problem. Although, this is a software patent where implementation is apparently unimportant.
We'll see how long that lasts, considering how recent decisions appear to be more about chasing people away than making a better distro. I was using Ubuntu, but I won't be using it anymore, considering how much crap I got when I upgraded last time. I'm sorry, but if you're going to have a release be unstable, the user should be given a heads up that they're upgrading to a development release.
It could be worse, but given that things seem to be going in the Open CL direction, Linux should have the same access that MS does to the tools necessary to make that work.
That's frequently because of proprietary drivers and APIs to manage the power. My Thinkpad gets five to six hours of battery life, and the utility for stretching it only works under Windows, which means that I have to give that up if I want to run Linux on that particular computer.
For a desktop, it does cost you more to use more electricity. I'm not sure that it should be the only consideration, but now that my laptop can do most of what I want to do, there's no real reason for me to have a desktop other than gaming. The desktop at peak uses about 450 watts of electricty, granted it rarely if ever gets there, but then there's the monitor's use of energy. By contrast my laptop maxes out at 25 watts plus whatever electricity is wasted by the transformer.
Consequently, I might not even bother to replace my current desktop when it ultimately fails, seeing as most of the games I like to play run just fine on my laptop.
Yes, and they did eventually patch it out of XP as well. They still haven't acknowledged that it was a security hole large enough to fly a jumbo jet through, but at least they finally removed it.
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I disagree with that, they got lucky that they weren't harmed by it. They were still defrauded, assuming that LegalZoom did as alleged.
Because the only sites likely to implement it are the ones that nobody uses. FB is unlikely to ever use a standard format as it would make it too easy to leave, they'd have to start learning about integrity and ethical business practices if they wanted to participate in that.
The difference is that BoA and AT&T have a much stronger means by which to prevent people from leaving. Remember how MySpace was the social network before it pretty much collapsed over night? It wouldn't surprise me if that happened to FB in the near future when the cool kids find someplace else to hang out.
Some of us were calling it a steaming pile of shit before calling it a steaming pile of shit was cool.
From what I gather, Google+ just makes it more convenient to restrict to whom you show the pictures. Which seems like a big improvement over FB, as you can show images of things that happened at a party to people who were there or typically go to those parties, but not ones parents.
Well, people that don't want to reward Intel's illegal behavior for a starter. I recently got a Llano based laptop and was shocked at how well the chip handles the things that I do on a day to day basis. Sure, there's no chance of playing The Witcher or DNF on it, but it handles casual gaming just fine, especially the older games that I tend to like to play.
In practice, the dual core is much more responsive than the celeron I was using a couple years back, even though it's a third slower than that older Intel chip.
It's not for those that want top speeds, but it was substantially less expensive than the Intel option. A $100 price difference is pretty significant these days in terms of the machines that most people use. And in practice, I'm not so sure that it is only a $100 price difference as you then don't need to shell out for a graphics chip or the circuitry to make that worse. I ended up spending several hundred dollars less than I would have for the Intel option. Personally, I'd rather spend the money upgrading the warranty or paying for a back up plan.
So, that's why those fanbois arguments end up going nuclear.
Clearly, he didn't want us to know that it was Libreoffice.
How many stars should a product receive that breaks within a half hour of opening the product without being seriously abused by the purchaser?
Oh, 2 to 3 stars, I see that this is a scale that goes from good to great. Now, how would Mr. Sherman respond to that...
Doesn't matter how much the product costs, reviewers shouldn't be getting free products to review, traditionally they'll have to give them back when they're done. There are some exceptions in that you can't give back a movie or unread a book, but by and large it's a serious no no amongst reviewers wishing to be taken seriously.
I wish people would get their heads out of their asses and realize that punishment and pain have basically no correlation. It's that mentality which leads to our poor recidivism rate. And a lack of appropriate rehabilitation while the convicts are still in prison.
Unless, you've got some actual evidence to back up your assertion that this is more likely to keep the lad from getting into more trouble than his parents paying the fine.
You call the police and report a suspicious fellow pretending to be law enforcement.
The basis was that the programming was allegedly changed mid way through the match. Which was forbidden under the terms of that were agreed upon beforehand. I don't personally know how strong or what the evidence was that they were changing the algorithms between matches, but that would be cheating.
Or at least that's my understanding of that. I'm not much into chess at that level.
He had permission to use the source, it's GPL, since he didn't redistribute binaries he didn't need to provide the source.
Unfortunately, since the source wasn't available, it's hard to really know whether or not those programs were plagiarized, I'm not sure how one would know without having access to the source. This would be a little bit like charging somebody with plagiarism with only access to a retelling of the paper or story.
I'm not sure why an email client should have an RSS reader incorporated into it. Seems more appropriate for a web browser, but that's just me.
Because it uses the same Gecko version as Firefox, they opted to skip a version in the numbering system. It wouldn't have been as obnoxious had they not also skipped Firefox 4.1 in favor of Firefox 5.0.
Precisely why I use a mail client. I like the web interface, but having a copy on my disk makes it that much less likely that I'll lose any emails due to some sort of hardware failure on either end.
It's supposed to be the implementation that's the non-obvious, not the problem. Although, this is a software patent where implementation is apparently unimportant.
Wait, Google has a patent on banning sites for use of the blink tag?
You mean like the sorts of people that would point out that it's Schizo, not Skitso?
We'll see how long that lasts, considering how recent decisions appear to be more about chasing people away than making a better distro. I was using Ubuntu, but I won't be using it anymore, considering how much crap I got when I upgraded last time. I'm sorry, but if you're going to have a release be unstable, the user should be given a heads up that they're upgrading to a development release.
It could be worse, but given that things seem to be going in the Open CL direction, Linux should have the same access that MS does to the tools necessary to make that work.
That's frequently because of proprietary drivers and APIs to manage the power. My Thinkpad gets five to six hours of battery life, and the utility for stretching it only works under Windows, which means that I have to give that up if I want to run Linux on that particular computer.
For a desktop, it does cost you more to use more electricity. I'm not sure that it should be the only consideration, but now that my laptop can do most of what I want to do, there's no real reason for me to have a desktop other than gaming. The desktop at peak uses about 450 watts of electricty, granted it rarely if ever gets there, but then there's the monitor's use of energy. By contrast my laptop maxes out at 25 watts plus whatever electricity is wasted by the transformer.
Consequently, I might not even bother to replace my current desktop when it ultimately fails, seeing as most of the games I like to play run just fine on my laptop.
Yes, and they did eventually patch it out of XP as well. They still haven't acknowledged that it was a security hole large enough to fly a jumbo jet through, but at least they finally removed it.