My version is using the Nullsoft FLAC Decoder v3.03 and I haven't had any trouble with playing FLAC either. Maybe GP will elaborate...

I'm sure it just doesnt have enough harmonic waveletude or cool-toned intangible warbles, so he deemed it inferior.

Back on topic, the only thing to hope for is that they don't fuck up a perfect product

Oracle should just have engaged an outsourcing company like Infosys, HCL or TATA if they wanted to pay Indian wages. They are experts at bending the work permit/visa rules.

So GP indeed may be jumping to conclusions on that account. As for the rest of your argumentation, yes, one punch from a strong guy could kill a 71-year-old

As a retired cop, who was being afforded a special right to carry a gun in a gun-free theatre, that the vast majority of 71 year olds would not be allowed to do, I would hold him to a much standard --- he knew, or should have known how to most safely handle the situation, and he clearly did not do the right thing.

Even if he won't be serving any jail time, he deserves the conviction, so he can have the felony on his record --- which will prevent him from ever legally carrying a gun again, for the rest of his life.

Here's where your argument falls flat. Without his gun, that 71-yo might be dead on the floor after being assaulted without provocation by a man 30 years younger.

No... the 71 year old was clearly acting carelessly; he started the argument apparently by harrassing the texter repeatedly, then taking actions to provoke them further, and with his gun -- placed a large number of innocent bystanders in apparent lethal danger, by shooting in a dark theatre.

Note that the shots he fired killed one person, and the wife was shot and injured as well.

Aside from the fact, the 71 year old's argument with the texter was more disruptive than the texting;

He had clearly been able to flee or escape the situation, as evidence by the fact, that he had left earlier, which negates the argument of self-defense. The 71 year old was being apparently stubborn, and reacting in an a manner not proper in a civilized society.

This was a retired COP. Even under the most fascist gun control regime, this is the kind of guy that's going to STILL be armed.

Not in England, he wouldn't be; the majority of cops aren't allowed to carry firearms either, only the firearms division.

The fact is, there was an argument and it got physical. We'll have to wait for FACTS before we can judge the events, instead of making them up to justify our point of view.

To be clear... it seems that was not an argument. The old man was harassing the person who was texting, which resulted in loud rebukes and other defensive actions.

In that case, the argument of self-defense would be invalid. Clearly; aggravated 2nd degree murder.

The shooter should be hanged.

Well he's not texting anymore. And the guy with the gun isn't shooting people anymore. I think this is a win for movie-go'ers.

Except the ones present during the altercation, that got the shit scared out of them.

By the way loud argument and shooting are both way more disruptive than texting

I motion that guns be banned from theatres, and there should be signs hung up that say "Please check your weapons at the door," and "No shooting during the movie.".

Solaris has actually been quite good since Solaris 10.

Solaris 10 was developed and released (in 2005) by Sun, five years before Oracle acquired them.

I used to run Solaris on my UltraSPARC boxes at home until Oracle made that very difficult.

I'm afraid that SPARC and Solaris are now nothing but historical curiosities to all but the wealthiest who are locked in to Oracle's platform.

It's too bad Oracle won't invest any time to port some of the better aspects of Solaris to Linux.

There's no point. While Oracle tries to milk the cash cow and sweat their assets, Linux will gradually overtake Solaris all on its own.

Oracle will begin the fade into obscurity like the other dinosaurs before it (ICL, Tandem, DEC, Compaq, HP, Microsoft...)

Nobody hires IBM because they're cheap. You hire IBM because you want it done right the first time, on time. That said, that's a $15 per customer for what is I'm guessing a monthly billing process.

12 people built and ran instagram before it was bought out by facebook. They created $1.2 billion dollars of value. That's $100 million each. To generate $100 million in value in the manufacturing sector requires considerably more resources, long term investments and planning. And employees. And management.
 
The mail order company I worked for, their online division kept growing and growing the share of sales but they didn't lay off anyone in the mail order division due to loyalty to the employees. But they also didn't hire anyone new. Newcomers to their market don't even have a printed catalog anymore, and mail orders are processed by the IT staff on an ad hoc basis. Newcomer companies just have 2-3 employees where legacy companies have 20 or more along with 10 years of paper records to store and organize.
 
Yesterday I wrote a script that automates 80% of my coworker's job which was manual data entry for our system, which will allow our department to shed 1-2 jobs over the next 2-3 years.
 
Heck the financial industry used to be 100% manually processed and employed many many thousands of people across the country, now most trades are processed through four or five "large" firms who employ a couple hundred employees each in just a few cities.
 
Brick and mortar retail is seeing a decline matched almost dollar for dollar with gains in online retail, especially on holiday sales events.
 
If you don't see the data, it's because you're actively avoiding looking for it.

CENTRAL SERVICES!

We do the work, You do the pleasure!

Google resents NSA intrusion, because it horns in on their turf...

The whole system is a bit broken to be honest, and feels like shoehorning answers.

On rewatch now, I find that Generations and Insurrection aren't too bad, aside from making Worf the butt-of-jokes. I find TSFS ok too, aside from the campy hair cuts. And I actually accepted the reboot, at least it was an original story.

This last travesty I hated, but it would have been so easy to fix. Just call Cumberbach "Harrison" all the way through, don't make any reference to Khan or eugenics. Remove the stupid "KHAAANNN" shout, remove the galaxy-spanning transporter, and think of a better fix than the super-blood.

The opening scene on the red planet was great, I accepted Pegg hanging a lantern on hiding the ship underwater, fine with the volcano solution (despite the term "cold fusion"

It all went downhill when they brought Khan in, crashing out below TMP and Nemesis.

It did inspire me to start reading the books though.