Are corporations websites *that* badly coded that a minor change in browser *version* would cause it to not work? I can understand from IE6 to IE7 to IE8, due to all the usual IE BS; but other than that, chrome, FF, safari, IE8+, Opera... it shouldn't make a difference, it should just work; there's some extremely minor CSS differences i've run into between them, but nothing that would make a site break, or even make it "look horrible"
Even still, I suspect with 75 million customers buying games what, a couple per month, they're probably not even close to among MC/VISA's top customers; banks and larger retailers like Wal Mart I suspect are the big guys.
From Wikipedia: In 2009, Visa’s global network (known as VisaNet) processed 62 billion transactions with a total volume of $4.4 trillion.
I suspect Sony doesn't even make a drop in that bucket =/
That said, I'm sure MC/VISA will handle them slightly differently due to their larger volume, but I suspect they're still the ones calling the shots.
But if I'm being charged $2/GB overage fees, leaving it open could get very costly very quickly (in Canada here); until we have unlimited plans, there's no WAY I'm leaving my wifi open.
I don't understand how they're having such failures when it appears they're the only ones who can continue to supply and change crew at the ISS when the Space Shuttle is done; and most of the supplying has been done by them for a while.
I realize it's probably totally different rockets, but you think they could go from "most reliable rocket" to something other than three or four mishaps.
I learned most of my early programming skills and honed my math skills in playing a text based persistent browser-based game, Earth: 2025 (which has since closed and been cloned at Earth: Empires); most of the most fancy excel stuff I learned a decade ago was for calculating attacks and whatnot. I think text based games are a good way to learn as they have to have some good, engaging, content, and can't rely on faced-paced graphics or such things; it tends the genre towards using your brain more.
My immediate thoughts upon reading it were quite the opposite actually: Having a journal article written about this might make these issues more difficult for congress to ignore or dismiss as sensationalism; if they actually take note, those who are not already in the pockets of the recording industry may find it more difficult to follow those who are.
Any piece of solid, credible research that demonstrates the reality of the situation is welcomed by me; eventually - if enough of these sorts of things are published - the weight of the evidence may become too overbearing for even the recording industry to buy off elected officials.
I believe the shape is one of the most important factors - again, similar to a boat - as a design which perturbs the media (be it air or water) in which it is traveling less will cause less pressure waves, and hence less waves build up; often it is the engine intakes and the wing tips that are key - part of the reason planes moved to the swept-back wing configuration IIRC.
Part of the problem is the RIAA thinks that fair use isn't fair.
And they're bound to be able to change a few people's minds to their side with the way they throw around money; let's hope they don't change too many (more) politicians minds on that before people stand up as you suggest, because by that point it may simply be too late.
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Are corporations websites *that* badly coded that a minor change in browser *version* would cause it to not work? I can understand from IE6 to IE7 to IE8, due to all the usual IE BS; but other than that, chrome, FF, safari, IE8+, Opera... it shouldn't make a difference, it should just work; there's some extremely minor CSS differences i've run into between them, but nothing that would make a site break, or even make it "look horrible"
It's not like they're dropping support for html 4
I thought the way to try-before-you-buy was to download a cracked copy via some torrent....
I feel a song coming on...
Buying the law, buying the law
Buying the law, buying the law
Buying the law, buying the law
Buying the law, buying the law
(to the tune of Judas Priest - Breaking the Law)
Just need to rewrite the other verses...
Even still, I suspect with 75 million customers buying games what, a couple per month, they're probably not even close to among MC/VISA's top customers; banks and larger retailers like Wal Mart I suspect are the big guys. From Wikipedia: In 2009, Visa’s global network (known as VisaNet) processed 62 billion transactions with a total volume of $4.4 trillion. I suspect Sony doesn't even make a drop in that bucket =/ That said, I'm sure MC/VISA will handle them slightly differently due to their larger volume, but I suspect they're still the ones calling the shots.
But if I'm being charged $2/GB overage fees, leaving it open could get very costly very quickly (in Canada here); until we have unlimited plans, there's no WAY I'm leaving my wifi open.
Given my monitor for my HTPC is a 110" projector screen, I think I'd prefer that.
Ah my bad; that's what I get for skimming TFS; I somehow misread the "firing two top space..." as meaning lost two satellites previously.
I don't understand how they're having such failures when it appears they're the only ones who can continue to supply and change crew at the ISS when the Space Shuttle is done; and most of the supplying has been done by them for a while. I realize it's probably totally different rockets, but you think they could go from "most reliable rocket" to something other than three or four mishaps.
I learned most of my early programming skills and honed my math skills in playing a text based persistent browser-based game, Earth: 2025 (which has since closed and been cloned at Earth: Empires); most of the most fancy excel stuff I learned a decade ago was for calculating attacks and whatnot. I think text based games are a good way to learn as they have to have some good, engaging, content, and can't rely on faced-paced graphics or such things; it tends the genre towards using your brain more.
Mach 1 == 1,236 kilometres per hour (768 mph) (at sea level I presume)
Mach 10 -> 12,236 km/h or 7680 mph
Somewhat faster than the 10x60; (yes I realize TFA said something about 10x60mph)
Not if the track was a GIANT ring around the whole earth :) Then it would just rotate!
As long as you have it read out by GLaDOS; and perhaps append:
"For example, the apparatus may electrocute you. Good Luck, and Happy Voting."
err make that 4723... incidentally the typo is prime as well!
one of the factors of my ID is a 4 digit prime...?
4273 !
hard to compete with these god's of low-numberage...
...with a receipt for $0 in the box :)
My immediate thoughts upon reading it were quite the opposite actually: Having a journal article written about this might make these issues more difficult for congress to ignore or dismiss as sensationalism; if they actually take note, those who are not already in the pockets of the recording industry may find it more difficult to follow those who are.
Any piece of solid, credible research that demonstrates the reality of the situation is welcomed by me; eventually - if enough of these sorts of things are published - the weight of the evidence may become too overbearing for even the recording industry to buy off elected officials.
I believe the shape is one of the most important factors - again, similar to a boat - as a design which perturbs the media (be it air or water) in which it is traveling less will cause less pressure waves, and hence less waves build up; often it is the engine intakes and the wing tips that are key - part of the reason planes moved to the swept-back wing configuration IIRC.
Part of the problem is the RIAA thinks that fair use isn't fair. And they're bound to be able to change a few people's minds to their side with the way they throw around money; let's hope they don't change too many (more) politicians minds on that before people stand up as you suggest, because by that point it may simply be too late.