Comment Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score 1) 233
Pain, suffering and a lot of cash?
Just because im downloading it now, I want to mention that android sdk is freely avaliable for windows, mac and linux. Both 32 and 64bit
Pain, suffering and a lot of cash?
Just because im downloading it now, I want to mention that android sdk is freely avaliable for windows, mac and linux. Both 32 and 64bit
There is also the risk that they will get struck by space debris.
Not when you have a 1 gigawatt microwave laser cannon!
> I can see why the Internet would have increased literacy in the short term.
Don't forget the study looks only at writing produces by college students. I did not RTFA yet, but I have to wonder about the rest of the world at large.
>Not to be a troll, but pointing out the particular logical fallacies in use like that gives you a real air of 'douchebag'
>>Not a troll - that's an ad hominem.
Maybe, but you should leave sexuality out of it.
>The radio, book and movie versions of HHGTTG were all supposed to be different in their own way.
Mission accomplished.
In my view, we should now preface everything we say with "I think" or "In my opinion". I think. In my opinion, we would then be immune from such lawsuits, which I think are idiotic. At least that's my opinion. Hereby released into the public domain, in my view.
Legacy Locker is another one http://legacylocker.com/. There was also one a while back specifically for online gamers. If you failed to login in a certain period of time, your guild (or whatever) was notified of your apparent demise.
>Isn't this a case where the US Government should be sued since
Sovereign immunity makes that pretty difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
>There really needs to be some way to administer a small electric shock to both the submitter and the editor
Why "small"? I say give'em a Dr Emmett Brown 1.21 jiggowatt sized shock.
Going back to the mid-90's increasing numbers of cars and trucks have have some sort of "black box" tech. Why not your phone?
http://www.crashforensics.com/automobiledatarecorders.cfm
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/Cars/Problems/studies/record/chidester.htm
>any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
the problem is who gets to say who needs monitoring and who doesn't,
I'll do it.
No, really, you can totally trust me.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
>> trawling our private information on Facebook
"advertised" on a social networking site hardly qualifies as "private information".
>They've being completely reasonable:
I'm kind of bothered by the "permanently delete all copies" sort of language. They're demanding permanent deletion from computers over which he has no control (Wikimedia's). What about copies in his browser cache?
The whole thing is probably just posturing since it seems the allegedly offending party isn't under UK jurisdiction anyway. I;d suggest he never vacation there, though
Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget!