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Comment: Re:Of course, it's only illegal if the house loses (Score 2) 144

A lot of vending machines are owned by small-time operators. Often semi-retired guys trying to make ends meet. You'll see them early in the morning at Costco loading up on items for that day's run. They split the revenue with the owner of the location of the machine. Not always, of course. The high-traffic locations get taken by the large operators, but there a lot of small-timers just trying to get by.

Sounds like you did a good thing. It's annoying that you cared more than the company, and some recognition and thanks would be nice, but then that's not why we do good things (at at least shouldn't be.)

Comment: Re:Words in common - Thai and English (Score 1) 323

by Paradise Pete (#43663831) Attached to: English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language
ay is shy in Thai (heh). It sounds (pretty much) the same as shy without the sh.
I'm probably somewhere around the same level as you, though at times I can give the illusion of knowing quite a bit more. Apart from being unable to make certain sounds, I've been told my accent is reasonably good. But I was also once told I pronounce some words like a five year old boy would, so make of that what you will. :-)

Comment: Re:Of course, it's only illegal if the house loses (Score 4, Interesting) 144

Yeah, fuck that poor slob who owns the vending machine. He can afford it.

So what was your limit? If the owner had forgotten to lock it would you have taken all the contents? How about if someone had accidentally left a crow bar nearby? Would you have pried open the machine? What's the line you won't cross?

Comment: $500 (Score 1) 232

by Paradise Pete (#43565397) Attached to: Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720
hahaha. Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? ha ha.That is the most expensive console in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine. Now it may sell a lot. I don't know. But we have our strategy. You can get an Ouya for $99, it's a very capable machine. I kinda look at that and I say well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot.

Comment: Re:Exciting development for MariaDB (Score 1) 215

by Paradise Pete (#43554111) Attached to: MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL

I don't see why. Open Source projects (and MariaDB is pretty solidly Free & Open Source...

The source code wouldn't be the problem. It depends on what was agreed in the sale. Surely some non-competes were signed. That's nearly automatic for any company buyout. Perhaps they have expired.

Comment: Re:You know... (Score 1) 351

From my experience, Google has quite good customer support. But only for their customers!

Not in my experience. We were spending more than US$100,000 a year on adwords and we still struggled to get more than a boilerplate answer to any inquiries. And actually speaking with someone was completely out of the question.

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