There hasn't been any confirmation that it will be a "reboot", even though the word keeps getting used. Doing a reboot where everything that has already been done is completely ignored and the same story is told a different way seems to me to not be the kind of thing that JMS would do, especially since I can't imagine trying to tell the entire story of the series in one movie, or even a few movies. I would think it's more likely to be an entirely different story set in the same universe, similar to Crusade and Legend of the Rangers.
Based on the ads that I see, either I've done a really good job of not giving Facebook much information about myself, or Facebook's data mining is really, really bad. Every once in a while I'll see an ad for someplace like Newegg, but most of the ads I see aren't even remotely interesting to me.
Minor correction: Rich Peverley hasn't played since his heart failure during the game in March. Rumor has it, though, that when he woke up in the hospital, he asked how much time was left in the period and wanted to get back on the ice.
Is there any circumstance where you think USA prosecutors should not be allowed to force foreign entities to hand over evidence without going through that country's legal system?
If they can be that wrong about something so fundamental, then how can they possibly claim to understand things or be right now?
It's not like they discovered that Andromeda is actually a 20-foot wide disco ball with funhouse mirrors making it look bigger than it really is. When you're talking about a branch of science that typically works in orders of magnitude, a factor of 2 is a pretty minor change.
Wake me when it has a 500 mile range, can be fully charged in 5 minutes, and will last more than 5 years. Oh, and it has to work in a non-streamlined vehicle like a loaded F-150 pickup.
Does a loaded F-150 even get 500 miles on a single tank of gas?
Nice but I need more range. 800 miles would be ideal.
800 miles in one day for a commercial vehicle? Unless your entire day is on a 75 MPH highway, that's probably well above what most states in the US allow for commercial drivers.
So here's the first thing I thought of after reading the summary. The quotes in the summary make it sound like a case of false advertising, deceptive practices, and/or fraud. While the FCC might not have the authority to do anything about the problem, what about the FTC? Can the FTC slap them around more than the FCC can?
If people are illegally sharing stuff, then get 4 pieces of paper, print stuff with ink, and mail it to them? Why bother wasting the ink, paper and postage to send the letters if no further actions are to be taken?
Yeah, they should save the paper, ink, and postage costs and distribute the letters through Bittorrent instead.
I thought the exact same thing, but the summary seems to say that it does change one thing: states that currently have taxes on Internet service are no longer allowed to have them. The word "permanent" is a bit weird, but apparently it only means "does not require annual renewal".
A quick search on Google showed that California's DMV was established in 1915, at which point they would definitely be working with people born in the 1890's.
This is the kind of crap that gave KDE 4 such a bad reputation. Labelling things as done when they are still major works in progress. If you don't think it's finished, don't call it a release candidate. Don't label it as a new major version. If it's not finished, then it's neither of those things.
That's completely true. The worst part is that it isn't the fault of the KDE developers. Your quote isn't in the release announcement, it's in the writeup on some website that most likely doesn't have any connection to the KDE developers (or, apparently, a clue). The release announcement says, "This is one last chance to test for bugs and check for problems before the final release next week." That is what a release candidate is.
KDE 4.0 was pretty much the same way. The developers proclaimed quite loudly that it was not meant for everyday desktop use, but that they felt it necessary to call it 4.0 so that the API would be frozen (this decision is certainly debatable). A few Linux distributions took software that they were clearly told was not ready for end users and gave it to end users.
It's just as annoying when there's nobody behind them. The person entering the road (or pedestrian crossing) could have gone sooner if the car had just kept going and gotten out of the way, instead of needing to wait to make sure the car is going to stop for you.
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There hasn't been any confirmation that it will be a "reboot", even though the word keeps getting used. Doing a reboot where everything that has already been done is completely ignored and the same story is told a different way seems to me to not be the kind of thing that JMS would do, especially since I can't imagine trying to tell the entire story of the series in one movie, or even a few movies. I would think it's more likely to be an entirely different story set in the same universe, similar to Crusade and Legend of the Rangers.
Because Apple already sued Nokia, HTC, and Motorola? Microsoft has gone after a couple of them as well.
So all of those cases in other countries that this article is about are just figments of our collective imaginations?
Based on the ads that I see, either I've done a really good job of not giving Facebook much information about myself, or Facebook's data mining is really, really bad. Every once in a while I'll see an ad for someplace like Newegg, but most of the ads I see aren't even remotely interesting to me.
Minor correction: Rich Peverley hasn't played since his heart failure during the game in March. Rumor has it, though, that when he woke up in the hospital, he asked how much time was left in the period and wanted to get back on the ice.
Is there any circumstance where you think USA prosecutors should not be allowed to force foreign entities to hand over evidence without going through that country's legal system?
Microsoft isn't a foreign entity.
It's an automobile.
It goes where the cloud doesn't.
Then why does my car have windshield wipers?
If they can be that wrong about something so fundamental, then how can they possibly claim to understand things or be right now?
It's not like they discovered that Andromeda is actually a 20-foot wide disco ball with funhouse mirrors making it look bigger than it really is. When you're talking about a branch of science that typically works in orders of magnitude, a factor of 2 is a pretty minor change.
Speaking of people that need to lay off the drugs...
Wake me when it has a 500 mile range, can be fully charged in 5 minutes, and will last more than 5 years. Oh, and it has to work in a non-streamlined vehicle like a loaded F-150 pickup.
Does a loaded F-150 even get 500 miles on a single tank of gas?
Nice but I need more range. 800 miles would be ideal.
800 miles in one day for a commercial vehicle? Unless your entire day is on a 75 MPH highway, that's probably well above what most states in the US allow for commercial drivers.
So here's the first thing I thought of after reading the summary. The quotes in the summary make it sound like a case of false advertising, deceptive practices, and/or fraud. While the FCC might not have the authority to do anything about the problem, what about the FTC? Can the FTC slap them around more than the FCC can?
innocuous things like urbandictionary.com
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If people are illegally sharing stuff, then get 4 pieces of paper, print stuff with ink, and mail it to them? Why bother wasting the ink, paper and postage to send the letters if no further actions are to be taken?
Yeah, they should save the paper, ink, and postage costs and distribute the letters through Bittorrent instead.
The layoffs from Microsoft are only about 5500, though. We already know the fate of Nokia.
I thought the exact same thing, but the summary seems to say that it does change one thing: states that currently have taxes on Internet service are no longer allowed to have them. The word "permanent" is a bit weird, but apparently it only means "does not require annual renewal".
Underdimensioned? Which one is it missing, height?
A quick search on Google showed that California's DMV was established in 1915, at which point they would definitely be working with people born in the 1890's.
Simple. He'll run around the lumbering heart attack who won't be able to move as fast thanks to inertia.
And then when he's 2 meters past, he'll suddenly fall to the ground and clutch his leg.
This is the kind of crap that gave KDE 4 such a bad reputation. Labelling things as done when they are still major works in progress. If you don't think it's finished, don't call it a release candidate. Don't label it as a new major version. If it's not finished, then it's neither of those things.
That's completely true. The worst part is that it isn't the fault of the KDE developers. Your quote isn't in the release announcement, it's in the writeup on some website that most likely doesn't have any connection to the KDE developers (or, apparently, a clue). The release announcement says, "This is one last chance to test for bugs and check for problems before the final release next week." That is what a release candidate is.
KDE 4.0 was pretty much the same way. The developers proclaimed quite loudly that it was not meant for everyday desktop use, but that they felt it necessary to call it 4.0 so that the API would be frozen (this decision is certainly debatable). A few Linux distributions took software that they were clearly told was not ready for end users and gave it to end users.
Also SQL -- yes, there is a distinct syntax associated with it, but is it a "programming language"?
If not, any of the variants of PL/SQL certainly are.
HTML is not a language. Sorry.
All these years, I guess I was wrong about what the L stood for.
HTML may not be a Turing-complete programming language (I haven't looked to see how much HTML5 added), but it is a "language".
You nailed it.
(Honestly I think he just likes driving a big ass truck, and the boat is an excuse.)
No, but you did.
It's just as annoying when there's nobody behind them. The person entering the road (or pedestrian crossing) could have gone sooner if the car had just kept going and gotten out of the way, instead of needing to wait to make sure the car is going to stop for you.
If weather and technical issues are going to cause delays like this, I don't see how SpaceX will ever be able to turn this into a viable industry.