Everybody who posts from a logged-in account, with a very few exceptions, is just as anonymous to their peers here as anyone who posts as Anonymous Coward.
There is a long legal history of companies not being allowed to send unsolicited merchandise that you much return if you don't want to pay for it. Collectable stamp companies used to do this. They will still let subscribers be part of their 'approval' programs, where collectable stamps are sent out periodically, but the customers need to be in a formal agreement with them.
Prior to the new laws, companies would put ads in pulp magazines like 'buy this big bunch of foreign stamps for only ten cents!' and once they had your address they'd start sending you bunches of stamps unsolicited and then bill you if you didn't send them back.
Apple is abusive, but they're still insignificant, and growing in insignificance as Android takes over. Because of their cult-like following, they only really adversely impact their small elite customer base. 'The rest of us'(tm) just sorta watch the abuse happening.
Apple wishes they were big enough and important enough to get attention from the anti-trust guys.
Assembly language is a high level language. It has macros and all sorts of constructs and stuff. I think the OP meant 'machine code.' If you've ever hand assembled machine code, or disassembled it from a hex dump, you know the difference.
The better question is whether they paid him for his downtime when he could have been doing whatever revenue-producing work he does using the Apple hardware.
A customer still using a 2011 MBP isn't a customer. They are an infidel and should be made to suffer. They were enlightened by their Mac experience and at this point close to apostasy due to their failure to upgrade regularly.
No, the reason that it's so much more expensive to put someone to death is that it's fashionable at the moment for super-rich liberals to hurl their money at the cases where criminals face an execution. It's sort of a blood sport for celebrities to keep people perpetually in court with their life in limbo.
How many innocent lives are you prepared to sacrifice to forgo spending all that tax money?
What are the percentages? 0.001 percent? How much arsenic should be tolerated in our drinking water? You're fucking nuts if you answer 'zero percent' because you just committed a divide-by-zero error and dumped core?
There are odds of bad deals in any social endeavor. We don't shut down the freeways because there's a non-zero chance of someone completely innocent dying on one during rush hour.
Actually, there's racial discrimination in calling some people 'black' and other people 'white.' Especially when it involves people who wouldn't really even be considered 'white' in the racist past when 'any percentage of non-European blood' made somebody non-white.
But our government loves to sort people out into categories. Just like the South African government used to.
If we can me completely certain that there never will be an error in a capitol crime sentencing, I would advocate immediately dropping the killer in a wood chipper head first.
That's a little like saying that since we cannot be completely certain that the plane will not crash, nobody should ever be allowed to fly in an airplane. Or that since we can never be certain that there won't be a horrible side effect, penicillin should be rigorously prohibited.
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Well, Amp hours directly convert to coulombs. I x T.
Is OSS gaming supposed to remain at 1999 levels?
Everybody who posts from a logged-in account, with a very few exceptions, is just as anonymous to their peers here as anyone who posts as Anonymous Coward.
There is a long legal history of companies not being allowed to send unsolicited merchandise that you much return if you don't want to pay for it. Collectable stamp companies used to do this. They will still let subscribers be part of their 'approval' programs, where collectable stamps are sent out periodically, but the customers need to be in a formal agreement with them.
Prior to the new laws, companies would put ads in pulp magazines like 'buy this big bunch of foreign stamps for only ten cents!' and once they had your address they'd start sending you bunches of stamps unsolicited and then bill you if you didn't send them back.
Many 80286 motherboards had cache ram on them.
Mainly he wants to sell you his old PS2 so he can afford a PS4.
Thank goodness mom is there to remind you what a sucky deal that would be.
Apple is abusive, but they're still insignificant, and growing in insignificance as Android takes over. Because of their cult-like following, they only really adversely impact their small elite customer base. 'The rest of us'(tm) just sorta watch the abuse happening.
Apple wishes they were big enough and important enough to get attention from the anti-trust guys.
Sounds like a chat program that would be useful in a room full of computers, i.e. in a Jr. High School classroom.
Assembly language is a high level language. It has macros and all sorts of constructs and stuff. I think the OP meant 'machine code.' If you've ever hand assembled machine code, or disassembled it from a hex dump, you know the difference.
It has to do with the Department of Energy wanting the capability to monitor and regulate energy usage.
So that some day, you can be fined because your kid keeps leaving the refrigerator door open.
Just last week I bought a Fridgidaire Dishwasher.
It has a mechanical timing control, though. Spammers ain't gonna infect a shaded-pole synchronous motor...
The can is clearly labeled 'refrigerate after opening' but you probably gobble down the whole can.
I, personally, prefer WalMart's generic 'luncheon meat' to the real branded Spam. The WalMart stuff just tastes better.
Steer far clear of the Kroeger 'spam' though. Yech.
The better question is whether they paid him for his downtime when he could have been doing whatever revenue-producing work he does using the Apple hardware.
Hey, who cares what the supermodel looks like when she's 30?
We sure don't!
3. Keep remaining good hand clear of the Genius Bar.
That's the Ford Pinto memo, eh? I doubt if anybody is going to leak Apple's modern equivalent.
Not that anybody is gonna die like with the Pinto, but the pangs of Mac withdrawal could be debilitating.
A customer still using a 2011 MBP isn't a customer. They are an infidel and should be made to suffer. They were enlightened by their Mac experience and at this point close to apostasy due to their failure to upgrade regularly.
The Shiney must make certain that they suffer!
You work for Google, in sales. Amiright?
You're only stuck with the keyboard layout on the laptop that you bought. In other words: you made your choice.
Furthermore, you had your choice. And that's the point.
What part of 'the spectrum' does that place them on?
Is there a pharmaceutical treatment yet?
No, the reason that it's so much more expensive to put someone to death is that it's fashionable at the moment for super-rich liberals to hurl their money at the cases where criminals face an execution. It's sort of a blood sport for celebrities to keep people perpetually in court with their life in limbo.
But what's the benefit of capital punishment? Revenge? Justice? Deterrence? Closure?
It's common practice for shepherds to shoot a sheep-killing dog. Farmers do away with work animals that kill the livestock all the time.
How many innocent lives are you prepared to sacrifice to forgo spending all that tax money?
What are the percentages? 0.001 percent? How much arsenic should be tolerated in our drinking water? You're fucking nuts if you answer 'zero percent' because you just committed a divide-by-zero error and dumped core?
There are odds of bad deals in any social endeavor. We don't shut down the freeways because there's a non-zero chance of someone completely innocent dying on one during rush hour.
Actually, there's racial discrimination in calling some people 'black' and other people 'white.' Especially when it involves people who wouldn't really even be considered 'white' in the racist past when 'any percentage of non-European blood' made somebody non-white.
But our government loves to sort people out into categories. Just like the South African government used to.
That's a little like saying that since we cannot be completely certain that the plane will not crash, nobody should ever be allowed to fly in an airplane. Or that since we can never be certain that there won't be a horrible side effect, penicillin should be rigorously prohibited.