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your mom?

Are you kidding?

here is an explanation of April Fools:
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

It's still April 1st, so apparently you don't get it.
Maybe this simple explanation is simple enough for you:
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

Now do you get it?

If you spoke in English I probably only would have had to read that once to understand what you were saying. Apparently you also should have reread my post because, while you got the general point, you totally missed the message.

Thanks for the ad hominem, didn't hear one the whole day.

You don't buy a Mac and sell it (we'll go more reasonable, here) 3 years later for 10% more than a PC. Your $500 PC is now worth $100, while your $1500 Mac is still worth (er, will sell for) $1000. In other words, your Mac is worth selling and your PC isn't.

You are greatly exaggerating here trying to amend your point.

Three year old macs don't go for $1000 because your own source disagrees with you. Moreover, 5 year old g5 imacs go for $300 (which isn't much) and then the price falls steeply. I'm quite certain that those prices will fall even even more in the future as their market expands somewhat and more systems get in the market. That 10 year cost of ownership you mention in your previous post is a complete nonsense considering the facts.

That reselling thing may work for you but I never sold any of my computers, I donate them to less fortunate people when I buy new ones. That craving for the resell value just reminds me of a car culture they have in Bosnia. The car is not a car unless its a mercedes. So a large population of people drive around in complete trash of ancient mercedes (which traded like 5 owners before) cars which cost double of triple more than a two times newer and better non-mercedes cars. My point is that even if you can have a higher resell value, doesn't make that product better when buying it.

Minesweeper is serious business!
http://tinyurl.com/2ah8xc

I'd say he was referring to wireless... If you want regular internet in canada get Teksavvy http://tinyurl.com/6xne5a (zomg 1st time i used ubiquity on /. to tinyurl something) not shaw :S.... double the cap for the same price (though slower dl). I find dl speed doesn't matter a whole lot since you won't cap dl speed without upload to match. Anyways pretty much no sites aside from google come in at 2MB/s. AND teksavvy is one of the few isps in canada fighting against all the internet bs going on lately.

http://tinyurl.com/cfm5dr

Hell-if-I-know. If you need one that bad, it seems they have them on Amazon

What does iron do that the chromium builds don't?

http://tinyurl.com/dysfod

Can't say IE, because Firefox is available elsewhere.

IE is shipped out of the box, and some websites are IE-only. That is finally shifting, recently.

Can't say Microsoft Office, simply because there is nothing better out there.

You might argue that OpenOffice isn't better, but right now, it simply doesn't have a chance, when so much development time is spent reverse engineering old Windows formats.

Linux doesn't care about developers

I would think a developer would care about being able to completely customize their environment, in pretty much any way they want.

There is also the fact developing for Linux is a pain in the ass since there is no standard development stack.

Why does there have to be? Your basic components are there -- if your app links against glibc and runs on X, it'll work.

Oh, you want to talk about GNOME/KDE? Why does that matter? KDE apps run on GNOME, and vice versa. That's not a pain in the ass, that's choice, and you have the same kind of choice with Windows -- you're not forced to use MFC.

Or distribution.

Ubuntu.

An ISV makes a program, they don't want it breaking with every cleverly named alliteration release of your operating system.

And yet, somehow, most of the commercial programs which have been released haven't broken because of that.

In fact, in one breath, you whine that developers are forced to use "hard-to-learn and outdated technology", and in the other, you whine that backwards compatibility is broken. Which is it? I'll bet not a line of the code for the 'cp' command has changed in decades, so why should an ISV be worried?

On the other hand, most OS X programs at least require Tiger, if not Leopard. New OS X releases frequently break tons of apps.

Even Microsoft's own programs can break from one version of Windows to another. Example: Remember HD-DVD? Vista was already out when I started working on it, but HDiSim, Microsoft's HD-DVD software simulator, only ran on XP. Not 2k, not Vista, had to be XP. Oh, and it only worked on a specific version of Windows Media Player -- I believe it was 10. Not 9, not 11.

And this was pretty big, by the way -- HD-DVD was arguably a flagship product. If even Microsoft can't maintain backwards compatibility on Windows, yet all my old Linux apps still work, I don't know WTF you're whining about.

And, in Apples case, you're made to learn a crappy language that has absolutely no use outside Mac OS and Iphone development.

With how coherent the rest of your comment is, I don't know if I'd call it "crappy" or not, but it certainly works on Windows. If this particular whine is about Cocoa not being portable, well, neither is Win32, unless you're counting Wine -- yet, surprisingly, it's possible to write portable apps in C, even C++.

No results found for "Chris Rock quote You're supposed to take care of your kids".

http://tinyurl.com/cxj84j

You can also add "preview" to the url, like

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6rywju

And if you let TinyURL store a cookie then you can turn previews on for everything.

I like the greasemonkey script you linked to better. But turning on previews for all TinyURL links has the advantages of catching them if they're coming in from, say, a twitter client.

TinyURL

HugeURL

This is the site you were looking for.

http://tinyurl.com/6rywju

Tiny url is not all bad, this is one example of a positive use.

Slashdot won't even let me type (really: paste) it in. So I have to enter it via tinyurl. The preview link is here [http://preview.tinyurl.com/dapfpm]. That URL was found traversing through the proxy when accessing a Youtube video. Later I repeated the same video (which was rather lame) and didn't get anything as long. I think they dynamically insert all the ads and stuff in the URLs.

Using a cookie, TinyURL allows you to enable previews, i.e., view where a TinyURL points to before following the link.

Sure they can TinyURL

No, because the long URL is still out there. For example: http://tinyurl.com/c9fjov translates into http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/11/16-22/pervert.jpg.

Just a FYI, you can turn on previews in TinyURL. I do it myself in case someone tries to slip in a tubgirl or anything like that. Can do so here: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php I do agree it's used far too much for no good reason though.

That's nothing. This is the most disgusting shit you'll ever see on the Internet.

Sure they can

TinyURL

Statistically, 40% to 50% of them also tried marijuana

PUUUULLLEEEZE, let's not start making up usage statistics wildly.

In case anyone is curious, teen marijuana usage is down significantly year-over-year (U of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/c5krlp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://tinyurl.com/6b9ut6, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://tinyurl.com/cvocb2). The non-government-funded research my company performs continues to agree with this as well, so let's not get all crazy and assume The Man is behind these stats, either.

Whether or not 50% those eeevviiiilll district attorneys and prosecutors ever smoked marijuana is up for debate. IMHO, if half of them did, they would be less likely to prosecute. Maybe that's why they became prosecutors and not public defenders in the first place.

Statistically, 40% to 50% of them also tried marijuana

PUUUULLLEEEZE, let's not start making up usage statistics wildly.

In case anyone is curious, teen marijuana usage is down significantly year-over-year (U of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/c5krlp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://tinyurl.com/6b9ut6, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://tinyurl.com/cvocb2). The non-government-funded research my company performs continues to agree with this as well, so let's not get all crazy and assume The Man is behind these stats, either.

Whether or not 50% those eeevviiiilll district attorneys and prosecutors ever smoked marijuana is up for debate. IMHO, if half of them did, they would be less likely to prosecute. Maybe that's why they became prosecutors and not public defenders in the first place.

Statistically, 40% to 50% of them also tried marijuana

PUUUULLLEEEZE, let's not start making up usage statistics wildly.

In case anyone is curious, teen marijuana usage is down significantly year-over-year (U of Maryland: http://tinyurl.com/c5krlp, Marijuana Public Policy: http://tinyurl.com/6b9ut6, Partnership for Drug-Free America: http://tinyurl.com/cvocb2). The non-government-funded research my company performs continues to agree with this as well, so let's not get all crazy and assume The Man is behind these stats, either.

Whether or not 50% those eeevviiiilll district attorneys and prosecutors ever smoked marijuana is up for debate. IMHO, if half of them did, they would be less likely to prosecute. Maybe that's why they became prosecutors and not public defenders in the first place.

I took it to mean 'feel' - and I agree. Many keyboard have lousy, ugly feel, not conducive to fast, steady typing. Mushy, indistinct, distracting.

Coincidentally, I just found an IBM Model F clicky keyboard last week (for all of two dollars and fifty cents), and had hoped to be able to use it, but it turns out that it's almost certainly not an AT-type (so a simple adaptor won't help), maybe not even an XT-type (so even an only slightly expensive adaptor/converter will help), and the connector isn't even really a DIN5, but some weirdo variant on that with the pins spaced out further. There's basically no hope of being able to use it on a current machine, and it was probably custom built for some kind of dedicated terminal back in 1980-bloody-5. Which is a shame, 'cos the typing feel of it is just spiffy.

Pics here: http://tinyurl.com/c2kban

I take the opposite view. I have one album up for sale on iTunes and Amazon and another being uploaded right now - http://tinyurl.com/cdx44l I don't actually want to be represented by the PRS, but I have no choice. There is no opt out. You will collect royalties on my behalf whether or not I want you to. If I wish my music to be available free for streaming on Internet radio, you will not let me. So who's worse, Google for throwing the baby out with the bathwater, or the PRS for extortion?

Now, /this/ is what you can rightly call theft of copyright. As far as I am aware, this sort of wholesale misappropriation of artists' rights is fairly common in the West and once again emphasizes the point that copyright was created for the benefit of large organizations, not for the individual creators.

As a musician myself, I was compelled to comment there. They won't put it up though.

I take the opposite view. I have one album up for sale on iTunes and Amazon and another being uploaded right now - http://tinyurl.com/cdx44l I don't actually want to be represented by the PRS, but I have no choice. There is no opt out. You will collect royalties on my behalf whether or not I want you to. If I wish my music to be available free for streaming on Internet radio, you will not let me. So who's worse, Google for throwing the baby out with the bathwater, or the PRS for extortion?

You MUST read this to understand both the GOOD and the DANGER:

http://tinyurl.com/ddfdvy

Make sure you buy some palladium metal for an investment opportunity of a lifetime. Also buy some SWC stocks.

Does this mean Apples are vulnerable?

No. Macs are imperious to rootkits. Now check out this super cool beta version of Safari:

Good call on OS2, it's right under their noses. Like you said WTF. BTW, I've bookmarked an interesting video with Avi Rubin on e-voting machine security that kinda sorta relates. http://tinyurl.com/dehz2q

Well the grandfather of all meme's would beg to differ.

http://tinyurl.com/nrexj

This post is so misleading and so wrong... you managed to put together all the fallacies there are about intellectual property.

Please take a look at this, and start forgetting about the labor theory of value (or property)

http://tinyurl.com/5c4289

"...most scientific papers are wrong, most current event news items will become irrelevant and or not current within a day."

Indeed, to wit: http://tinyurl.com/c32xgh

China has saved ~50% GDP for many years, USA has saved very little. This space race is unlikely to swing America's way; don't look over your shoulder, it's the sky that's watching...

Can't say it better than Key Trends in Globalisation does http://tinyurl.com/dkmdht

Therefore adding domestic and international savings together gives a lower bound for the real value of China's savings, using official exchange rates, of $1,110 billion and a probable upper bound, using PPP figures, equivalent to $1,938 billion. This equates to savings rates for China of 56 per cent, if official exchange rates are used, and 50 per cent if a PPP exchange rate is used.

If even the lower figure is taken, that is 50 per cent of GDP, a necessary corollary is that China's total savings in absolute terms will be as large as those of the US when its economy is only half the size of that of the US. If the higher percentage is used then China's total savings will exceed those of the US before it is half the size of the US economy.

It may, therefore, already be the case that China's total savings have reached in absolute terms those of the US. More probably its savings are still somewhat lower than those of the US in absolute terms but they are already approaching it.

While China's GDP will not overtake that of the US in absolute terms for some time, China has therefore either already overtaken the US as the world's greatest source of finance for investment or will do so in a relatively short time frame.

Superpowers, ready? On your marks, get set...

It's important to know the actual text of the legislation:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2008/0027/latest/DLM1122643.html

92A Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers
            (1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer.
            (2) In subsection (1), repeat infringer means a person who repeatedly infringes the copyright in a work by using 1 or more of the Internet services of the Internet service provider to do a restricted act without the consent of the copyright owner.

The bits that are interesting are:

1) The definition of ISP is anyone who provides access to anyone else - libraries, schools, businesses are all ISPs.
2) There is no definition of "repeat offender"
3) There is no definition of what is an acceptable policy.
4) There is no punishment for fraudulent complaints.

Add to that the TCF (large ISPs) draft policy:
http://tinyurl.com/tcf-draft-pdf

which is a 4 strikes and you're out policy, with no ability to have the evidence tested in court.

Now, initially the TCF policy stated that you could challenge the complaint and that would be the end of it - it was up to the copyright holder to pursue you further. However, the RIANZ then came back and said that they wanted to be the sole determiner of guilt.

This law starts from the assumption that if the RIANZ says you are guilty of violating copyright, then you _are_ guilty, and you get a warning. Collect 4, and your internet connection is removed. Since they have to remove the connection of repeat offenders, it could be reasonable to expect to not be able to get another one (ref: Google and "Wise Beard Man": http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=605 ).

S92C, which covers hosts, is even stronger, you don't get any warnings. You have to pull the content, or you lose your connection instantly.

Mr Smith, when asked, considers the Prince vs Baby video (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ
) as well as linking to the video to be a violation of copyright, and worthy of a notice and violation letter.

There are a number of Lucas Kindle titles on Amazon.

The marketwatch URL is not being parsed correctly here on slashdot,
so I made a tiny URL of it.

http://tinyurl.com/32qx7h

Patents in this field were controversial enough, actually by Gates' own admission, even before Bilski.

Then again, lawmakers should never have allowed such ambiguity to persist for litigants in costly court cases to figure out the validity of countless doubtful patents where none should have been granted in the first place.

experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution.

What kind of dumbass no-nothing "experts" are we referring to here? I have beaten major cancers, Lyme's Disease spirocheates (coiled flagella bacteria that multiply in the billions all through your spine and brain, and their fluids inhabiting a human being using our energy for its super growth rate) and beat Meniere's Syndrome to a bloody pulp with NUTRITION PRODUCTS. My DNA and genes knew what to do just FINE. Weak Puny Humans eh? hahahahahahaha => http://tinyurl.com/6k2wkd

Purely friend 2 friend based networks seem of quite limited use (come on, who knows anyone on the Internet really?).

There are implementations of Pseudonymous P2P clients like GNUnet which are much less trust reliant (more usable and robust). The only problem is, that they are somewhat alpha state and quite cumbersome to set up, and there are not too much files there. There are also a bunch of other approaches (here is a list of software: http://tinyurl.com/cvrvg7 )

Problem is, the *AA will probably run to the next congressman with bribes as soon as this kind of stuff gets mature and wide spread and will create a new law that makes proxying iProperty illegal, then start leeching..

What they are also doing (right now) is forcing everyone to keep traffic logs. They will probably want to extend it to make it querriable centrally (you know, to protect the children) and use it to track down people. Wait, the last one involves intelligence.. OK, forget about that.

Apparently Barack Obama has been giving his wife some special stimulation. [SFW]

Why think when you can actually check?

http://tinyurl.com/dg5h7z

...

See link 1, click once. Read the last two paragraphs. To me that seems like a published position.

Click the "back" button. Read the next few links.

Enjoy.

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this will explain it:
http://tinyurl.com/c47wnu

AC wrote:
"This is the USA and the US constitution does not apply."
perryizgr8 responded:
and what exactly do you mean by that, sir?
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While I can't claim to know what the AC was thinking, my best documented example relating to his statement would be the original and fairly central U.S. Constitutional function of trial by Jury. (see below)

The Constitutional Relationship Between the People and the Law

IMO: While our original constitutional republic was not very democratic, except for a few gains such as the extension of the franchise, the people have lost much of the power, defensive or otherwise, that they originally had.

Oh come on. Are you really seriously arguing that gasoline usage is not connected to price at all over the long term?

Really? http://tinyurl.com/ak5qrk

Ok, so it's diesel. But it comes out of the same hole in the ground.

There's more information on this here: http://tinyurl.com/bctrq3

Firstly, if you are restricting the redistribution then what you are asking for is not "Libre". Redistribution is one of the four freedoms of a Free Software License. If you don't fulfill that you are not asking for a Free License, you are asking for an OPEN SOURCE license (which contrary to popular belief means ONLY that the source code is available, not that you automatically have the right to do with it as you please).

Anyay, what you are asking in the summary can be done. It is (fairly) common to grant clients the right to use the source code for approved purposes. The Torque game engine has one such license. Several web-based "Enterprise" application I use at work have such licenses. I don't believe any of those use any particular standard license. I would suggest beginning your search here. Perhaps I should have just used Let me google that for you.

Suggesting that you could replace a MS-SQL server with SQLite basically forces anybody in the know to ignore every other point you make.

You're assuming that the person using MS-SQL Server knows what they're doing. How do you know it's more than just a glorified Access database?

MySQL is good, unless you need a highly performent query analyzer.

In other words, the query analyzer is slow? Because the queries work well enough.

Postgres is good, unless you need actual replication features.

Like these?

SQLite is good, if your datastore is less than 1GB.

Another quick Google, and we find these limits -- by default, the maximum database size is just under 32 terabytes.

Not that I'm suggesting it's a good choice at that point, especially with multiple processes. But it does make it kind of hard to take you seriously with that kind of imagined limit, unless you're suggesting there's a practical, performance wall after 1 gig.

kick6 wrote:
What amendment changed "government of the people, by the people, for the people" to "government of the politicians, by the politicians, for the corporations.?"
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Rhetorical question: Would you describe SCOTUS as of the people, or by the people, or for the people?

However let us not blame SCOTUS for everything. I think that the following relatively unknown "amendment," of the U.S. citizen's right to organize politically, was done fully in accord with the U.S. Constitution. It was done by wealth and politicians working together after 1880.

QUOTE FROM 1927
Here in the last generation, a development has taken place which finds an analogy nowhere else. American parties have ceased to be voluntary associations like trade unions or the good government clubs or the churches. They have lost the right freely to determine how candidates shall be nominated and platforms framed, even who shall belong to the party and who shall lead it. The state legislatures have regulated their structure and functions in great detail.
SOURCE:
American Parties and Elections,
by Edward Sait, 1927 (Page 174)
Quoted from:
The tyranny of the two-party system,
by Lisa Jane Disch c2002

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