Comment Re:Trust (Score -1) 136
No.
M$ is the acceptable shorthand for Microsoft Corporation, commonly used by those who dislike them.
And, if you have been paying any attention to the activities of that company, this will include you.
No.
M$ is the acceptable shorthand for Microsoft Corporation, commonly used by those who dislike them.
And, if you have been paying any attention to the activities of that company, this will include you.
'twas a CFL, or more specifically a box of six at about $5 each. it took a while before I settled on a brand that lasted longer than six months.
I have bought a few LED ones too - they have good emitters, but the cheap mains capacitors in the ballasts let them down, blowing after a relatively short period.
I would still really like to see CFL and LED bulbs come out with separate ballasts. Then you can just replace the part that's failed.
+1
Are you serious?
Here's my priorities for a smart-watch, in decreasing order of importance. Satisfy all of these and I'll consider wearing one:
C. It's C all the way down.
This.
ISPs are now a basic utility. They provide bandwidth through which you perform your online activities. That "series of tubes" analogy, while simplistic, applies quite well here. You're renting a small tube.
In no way should a utility be liable for the actions of its customers. When a psychopath electrocutes puppies in their garage is the electricity company held liable?
When someone floods their neighbours basement with a garden hose is the water company liable?
Then it should not be so for ISPs, who should as a result have no just cause to snoop on what goes through their "tubes".
Legally this isn't the case in most jurisdictions, but it damn well should be.
They were probably paid lots of money by a certain monopolist to cripple the PC version so as to not make their XBox version look so bad in side-by-side comparisons. The lowest common denominator wins again.
Title explanation: Recall that Halo for PC was never released. A pity because it looked quite good. What eventually came out on the PC was a low-quality port of the XBox version.
Hell, I'd settle for standard 60fps over the crappy juddery 30fps all the consumer cameras seem to have today.
You know, like we had ten years ago but with higher resolution and not interlaced.
It sometimes helps to picture the Slashdot community as a room full of Comic Book Guys. It's probably not far from reality.
FWIW, I think this is a pretty cool project.
Because if they tried to do that, their supporters would then "take a dim view" of their actions. Yeah, that'll show 'em.
Yes indeed, "not again". The US system of taxes on prizes is utterly ludicrous. No way should the recipient of a prize be liable for any kind of payment. Tax the prizes if you must, but that will be payable by the organization that issues the prize.
And don't get me started on a slightly OT rant about the retarded situation that permits US mobile carriers to charge customers to receive SMS messages.
There could be a relationship there.
More likely though is that children grow in bursts and you may have had such a growth spurt coincide with the surgery. Children who have become accustomed to their bodies having certain parameters (height, mass, limb length, etc), can and do often appear clumsy and less coordinated overall for a period when these parameters suddenly change. Although I suspect this is more evident in teenagers.
Would, then, damage caused by exposure to other chemicals such as ethanol not also be flushed in infants?
I find that highly doubtful.
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11