"The" discoverer of the structure of DNA was a group of seven people three of whom won a Nobel prize for it.. Watson, Crick, Wilkins, Stokes,Wilson, Franklin and Gosling
Rosalind Franklin died of Cancer before she could be nominated for the Nobel prize...
If you don't have a recent backup, that is offsite, and you have tested you can restore from it
YOU DON'T HAVE A BACKUP!!!!
If your backup is RAID - it is not a backup If your backup is a mirror server - it is not a backup If your backup is on site - it is not a backup If your backup has not been tested - it is not a backup
This will protect your from fire, flood, burglary, and hackers....
Well said.......and the old bugbear of "Facebook will steal your personal info" is solved in a similar manner - if you don't tell facebook it cannot tell anyone else
Why put your phone number on Facebook - everyone who needs it has it already, or can ask me for it, *all* my friends and family do not need to know it and neither does Facebook....
My Facebook profile has just enough for people to tell it's me, and no more.
.mp3 - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile.avi - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile.txt - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile... Whereas Kindle/iPod/iPhone/Sony products/Windows products are well know to contain many restrictive and invasive countermeasures to stop me using the content in legitimate ways that I paid for...
Session musicians - already paid Studio Engineers - already paid Studio rental - already paid Production costs - already paid Cover artist - already paid Distribution costs - already paid
The only people who get paid copyright fees are the production company and the artist, I personally do not care about the production company (and if the music is more than a year old, they will have already been paid in full, or are incompetent) and if pay the artist anything even 1 cent it would be more than will ever see by me buying the music legitimately
Options invest a lot of money in Bond movie with well know star(s), and you are practically guarenteed a return on your investment, or try a brand new movie with unknowns and hope for the best...
When one bad movie can kill a studio, they tend to play it safe...
Intel currently makes more money in Europe than it does in the US?...and has more employees outside the US than in it... it is only nominally a US company?
Now take a e-reader to the beach and see if you can read it in bright sunlight, when it have been sandblasted and sprinkled with saltwater, and overheated....
A book will survive this, at least long enough to read it, no e-reader will (and they cost a lot more)
this will be a real problem only when e-readers a cheap/disposable....
Except.... The manufacturer still has the contents of the box and so do you even after you have eaten it......and actually most of your food implicitly already has some of these clauses
the manufacturer only guarantees they have followed the relevant health and safety laws (which should stop most of these) but does not guarantee the food free of hazardous materials and is not a health risk
what makes you think it is possible for the BNP to ever get into power? With our admittedly flawed electorial system this is actually very unlikely (or would be the will of the people)
and what makes you think this could not happen elsewhere? Get someone in power in the USA and they can emend the constitution, so they can rewrite it, so they can basically do what they like if they have the will of the majority of the senate, representatives and the president....A certain GW Bush did keep prisoners on flimsy non-admissible evidence in an offshore prison outside the laws and scrutiny of the US legal system for years, all apparently within the restrictions of the constitution
If you knew about sorting and had actually learnt it you would know that Quicksort is the default because is is usually the quickest and most efficient method, but on some datasets it can be slow or inefficient, and there are "better" sorting methods for that data...
You do not need to optimise quicksort (the version you are using is probably already more optimised than you can make it...), you need to optimise your use of it... i.e. use it where it is appropriate, and use something else where it is not!
Number of times you have had to pick a different sorting/searching algorithm by choosing a different library or routine, I hope is many times - and how did you decide which to pick, did you try each by trial and error, or did you remember (or look up) which were likely to be the best candidates in the current situation and try just them?
It's not what you know from memory, it's not what you can lookup, it's what you know/remember where and how to lookup the answer... learning how to use a variety of basic algorithms will help you in the future to use the most appropriate
BSD/Apache means people will try and make money from the code (since they have code others don't)
GPL means people will try and make money from a service that uses the code (Support, additional modules, customisations etc...)
It's simple BSD/Apache means you get the base code.. but not the enhancements - but it is easy for a company to make money directly, GPL means you get all the code - but it is difficult to make money directly, they have to make money indirectly instead
If your business model relies on *only* you having all the code then GPL code is not for you (LGPL is another story) use BSD/Apache code or write it yourself....
12th Dec 2012... end of the long cycle count in the Mayan calendar - A time of celebration and considered to be a time of change (like most cycle ends in the calendar) but also considered lucky to witness, research indicated the Mayans considered that nothing significant would happen on this date, except the next cycle would begin, and history would start to repeat from 11 August 3114 BC so expect people to be building some large buildings in stone (Stonehenge, Newgrange, ĦaÄar Qim etc...) and the reinvention of writing in the not too distant future...
If it's mine then I should be able to use it in any way I like *EVEN IF* I use it to break the law.. that's my problem
Freedom of speech should mean I can *discuss* anything I like, it's only doing it that might be illegal
if this stands up in court then not only is illegal to subvert copyright restrictions but it is also illegal to discuss subverting them.... when will it be illegal to discuss DCMA?
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"The" discoverer of the structure of DNA was a group of seven people three of whom won a Nobel prize for it .. Watson, Crick, Wilkins, Stokes ,Wilson, Franklin and Gosling
Rosalind Franklin died of Cancer before she could be nominated for the Nobel prize ...
Ctrl-X/V/C works everywhere ... Firefox on Windows and FireFox on Linux works the save as far as I can see ...?
The only time I have problems with Ctrl-X/V/C is on Windows when someone is using the Multi-cpliboard that comes with MSOffice!
Try running a PS3 or Xbox game on Windows .... strange it does not work ....
If you don't have a recent backup, that is offsite, and you have tested you can restore from it
YOU DON'T HAVE A BACKUP!!!!
If your backup is RAID - it is not a backup
If your backup is a mirror server - it is not a backup
If your backup is on site - it is not a backup
If your backup has not been tested - it is not a backup
This will protect your from fire, flood, burglary, and hackers ....
Well said .... ...and the old bugbear of "Facebook will steal your personal info" is solved in a similar manner - if you don't tell facebook it cannot tell anyone else
Why put your phone number on Facebook - everyone who needs it has it already, or can ask me for it, *all* my friends and family do not need to know it and neither does Facebook ....
My Facebook profile has just enough for people to tell it's me, and no more.
.mp3 - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile .avi - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile .txt - cannot contain virus/rootkit when used as a datafile ... ...
Whereas Kindle/iPod/iPhone/Sony products/Windows products are well know to contain many restrictive and invasive countermeasures to stop me using the content in legitimate ways that I paid for
Session musicians - already paid
Studio Engineers - already paid
Studio rental - already paid
Production costs - already paid
Cover artist - already paid
Distribution costs - already paid
The only people who get paid copyright fees are the production company and the artist, I personally do not care about the production company (and if the music is more than a year old, they will have already been paid in full, or are incompetent) and if pay the artist anything even 1 cent it would be more than will ever see by me buying the music legitimately
Options invest a lot of money in Bond movie with well know star(s), and you are practically guarenteed a return on your investment, or try a brand new movie with unknowns and hope for the best ...
When one bad movie can kill a studio, they tend to play it safe...
England, Scotland, at least two states (then separate countries) ... I make that more than 2?
It was to sell Windows and development tools and IIS
If you developed for Windows/IE/IIS then you use those, and people you sell to use them etc ...
You make Windows cheap to companies, make IE free, so they will pay to use MSSQL/IIS/Sharepoint and not use alternatives
Intel currently makes more money in Europe than it does in the US? ...and has more employees outside the US than in it ... it is only nominally a US company?
About the same time they decided not to use UTF-8 like every other website ....
Now take a e-reader to the beach and see if you can read it in bright sunlight, when it have been sandblasted and sprinkled with saltwater, and overheated....
A book will survive this, at least long enough to read it, no e-reader will (and they cost a lot more)
this will be a real problem only when e-readers a cheap/disposable ....
Easy they do what they would have had to do in the past when they didn't have another shuttle ready -
Call the Russians and get them to send up a rescue Soyuz - they might only be able to save a few but that's better than none ....
Except.... The manufacturer still has the contents of the box and so do you even after you have eaten it ... ...and actually most of your food implicitly already has some of these clauses
the manufacturer only guarantees they have followed the relevant health and safety laws (which should stop most of these) but does not guarantee the food free of hazardous materials and is not a health risk
And all of these apply to a book ....
...only couple of things wrong with this,
what makes you think it is possible for the BNP to ever get into power? With our admittedly flawed electorial system this is actually very unlikely (or would be the will of the people)
and what makes you think this could not happen elsewhere? Get someone in power in the USA and they can emend the constitution, so they can rewrite it, so they can basically do what they like if they have the will of the majority of the senate, representatives and the president ....A certain GW Bush did keep prisoners on flimsy non-admissible evidence in an offshore prison outside the laws and scrutiny of the US legal system for years, all apparently within the restrictions of the constitution
If you knew about sorting and had actually learnt it you would know that Quicksort is the default because is is usually the quickest and most efficient method, but on some datasets it can be slow or inefficient, and there are "better" sorting methods for that data ...
You do not need to optimise quicksort (the version you are using is probably already more optimised than you can make it...), you need to optimise your use of it ... i.e. use it where it is appropriate, and use something else where it is not!
Number of times you have had to pick a different sorting/searching algorithm by choosing a different library or routine, I hope is many times - and how did you decide which to pick, did you try each by trial and error, or did you remember (or look up) which were likely to be the best candidates in the current situation and try just them?
It's not what you know from memory, it's not what you can lookup, it's what you know/remember where and how to lookup the answer... learning how to use a variety of basic algorithms will help you in the future to use the most appropriate
What do you mean "your" operating environment? Windows is theirs!
BSD/Apache means people will try and make money from the code (since they have code others don't)
GPL means people will try and make money from a service that uses the code (Support, additional modules, customisations etc ...)
It's simple BSD/Apache means you get the base code.. but not the enhancements - but it is easy for a company to make money directly, GPL means you get all the code - but it is difficult to make money directly, they have to make money indirectly instead
If your business model relies on *only* you having all the code then GPL code is not for you (LGPL is another story) use BSD/Apache code or write it yourself ....
My experience is that BSD licensed software tends to have a closed version that I have no access to and that has all the features I want
Apache licensed software is very open (but there are closed versions as above) but the open versions seem to be "complete"
GPL'd software seems to be mostly complete and open....?
Note this is only my (limited) experience but GPL'd software feels more open ...?
12th Dec 2012 ... end of the long cycle count in the Mayan calendar - A time of celebration and considered to be a time of change (like most cycle ends in the calendar) but also considered lucky to witness, research indicated the Mayans considered that nothing significant would happen on this date, except the next cycle would begin, and history would start to repeat from 11 August 3114 BC so expect people to be building some large buildings in stone (Stonehenge, Newgrange, ĦaÄar Qim etc ...) and the reinvention of writing in the not too distant future ...
Try the works of the Marquis de Sade ... ... or some ancient love poetry that is very explicit ...
I've got a Zen .... with a HDD? ...and it uses a proprietary interface ... but this is supported in Linux ...
If it's mine then I should be able to use it in any way I like *EVEN IF* I use it to break the law .. that's my problem
Freedom of speech should mean I can *discuss* anything I like, it's only doing it that might be illegal
if this stands up in court then not only is illegal to subvert copyright restrictions but it is also illegal to discuss subverting them .... when will it be illegal to discuss DCMA?