Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.
True, you tell him "we will put in some coutermeasures to block the evil Google search engine from accessing your content" and then go about your business and create the robots.txt file. It's just a start, sure Google has a way to go around that.
GW-BASIC is an evolution of MS-BASIC. IBM didn't remove BASIC from the PCs, it was included in ROM even in the IBM PS/2 (I know because I used it a lot). BASICA is the IBM-branded interpreter that relies upon the in-ROM BASIC and adds disk, graphics andsome more "features". GW-BASIC is the MS "version" of BASIC for IBM-compatibles that has all of the interpreter in the file, so it doesn't need the one in ROM.
As for who invented what, I think we'll never know for sure but if they didn't create the interpreter (history says they did, but it has a tendency of reflecting the opinion of whoever is writing it) at least they introduced "pirating" into the PC field (if we conveniently ignore that it was "prior art" on other platforms already).
USA, you are being royally screwed. And I should know it, it is a daily occurrence down south.
Not only USA. In my country we have just implemented number portability and they will charge a one-time fee to every client, even if you never use the portability service!
Excessive, maybe. Necessary SOMETIMES, yes! Mobiles on cars should be controlled in some way, either by law or technology.
I myself was almost run over not long ago while crossing the street on foot by a woman chatting on her blackberry while driving (and using both hans to drive AND chat!) because she didn't see me or the red light!
When the Spaniards arrived, all codices and other writings containing any Mayan text were destroyed. - - deleted - -
Pure ignorance! In today's world the "conquistadores" and "descubridores" would be tried by genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity (or a combination of these).
Exactly why should we worry about a calendar developed by a civilization that worshiped corn?
Maybe because they had a calendar that was several times more precise than the one used by their "discoveres" (conquerors/killers) even by some od today's day to day use calendars.
About the corn thing, what would be the difference between a man-like figure, a cob of corn or an elephant in regards to being used a a representation of a superior being that explains what we can't?
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"