Anyone who imagines this is a way to bankrupt a company, as opposed to just giving them money, is as dumb as this idea is.
How is it giving them money when the transaction ends up being a net loss for the receiver when the processing fees are applied? To top that off they also want people to ask for the payment to be reversed which also adds further processing fees on the company receiving the money.
Come again? Anyone who wants to "punish" me by sending me 13 cents, by all means feel free.
If 30 million people each pay one Sek, how does that not pay the fine? And does Sweden not have some sort of teeth to their court-imposed penalties whereby simply not paying means people go to jail?
There are these things called processing fees. The point is to send them an amount that is less than the amount it takes the process the incoming amounts and as such they use money on each transaction. This is pretty standard for services like Paypal or other internet money transfers.
Come on, who ever complained about Microsoft "stealing" any of the existing languages supportted by
Actually there have been many criticisms of IronPython and Managed C++ in the usual "embrace, extend" whining on this site and on other tech sites.
So using an existing concurrent language would make a lot of sense and annoy no-one.
Bullshit. People would whine no matter what because it's Microsoft.
Isn't this kind of ironic, Oracle?
Since Oracle doesn't host the site there is no "irony" in this situation.
Of course most of it they stole from Java, with an attempt to add refinements here and there.
Because Java didn't take anything from any other languages and then refine them? You can't name a single thing in Java that can't be traced back to a previous language.
Next question asked is WHY has Microsoft have to invent one when there are others available already?
Because you would whine and bitch about them "stealing" the language if they were to co-opt another concurrent programming language to run in their
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
