when at the same time he says proprietary software is wrong. Well isn't it data that should be kept private? If so why would you make it public but for some sort of incentive. Oh I know we all belong to a utopian society where everyone works for free for the benefit of their fellow man. Sorry I forgot.
I know public education systems get criticized every time they teach anything that some consider to be a personal/parent choice (sex ed, religion etc). The argument is usually that the parent will teach the kid what they think they need to know and the state/schools should stay out of it.
I think that is complete and utter crap. Who decides what information is important? Say a kid is born to complete atheist parents, God/gods etc don't get mentioned in school so the child will never get exposed to those ideas. At best it slows the kid's exposure and adoption of the beliefs that he/she will chose, at worst it condones ignorance.
We as a society have gone far of course when we teach people that some knowledge shouldn't be taught. It seems contradictory that most of the western countries have a "freedom of religion" clause while at the same time they help enforce bias in the children towards the parents' beliefs. The child truly isn't free if they don't get equal access to information from which to make their own minds up.
The tabs are separate processes. That means that a lot more memory is going to be duplicated rather than shared. Ideally to ensure that one tab can't hang the whole app I think they will have to have an instance of their engine and any plugins running for each tab.
You might have something there. I think I've seen several MS talks on channel 9 where the guys say that they are adding feature X to the release because beta testers have requested it. Seems like beta release might equal "will this sell". Good thing bad thing, customer gets feature before they normally would have but at the expense of less vetted apps.
Fast random access, smaller form factor and much much less total materials; though is the stuff in it worse for the environment than the extra material in a DVD case, anyone know? Also your media is safer as there isn't any moving parts/it doesn't come out of the case.
I could see this being a cool idea for a rental machine you pick a movie it copies it to a blank thumbdrive and registers the thumbdrives code to a central server. You can then play it on an internet enabled computer/media centre. No more guessing required to figure out how many copies of a movie to keep. This would especially make sense once USB3 is common, they could fire movies on to the thing in a few seconds and as the resolution of movies goes up they'll probably be a larger capacity thumbdrive available that they can use.
Different development groups, different definitions of the term "beta". FF3 might have been closer to being a clean product before it shipped than IE 8 in beta. The proof will be in what is more popular. I think MS is going to continue to loss market share, but I also think it likely that IE 8 will "not suck". Not the nicest choice but good enough that grandma/corporate doesn't go looking for another browser.
can shut people up if they can prove that their product is flawed. But it is very hard to shut up a large company. Could you imagine giving a phone call to the television station saying that one of the companies that advertises on their station has a crappy product. They'd say sorry but they pay our bills.
Worse, the companies will be continuing to claim how great the new security system is, even as they furiously try to shut up anyone that has a counter claim.
Actually it is very easy for IT department heads to justify proprietary software over open software since they only have to point to many Microsoft and so called unbiased web sites that show Microsoft software has a much better Total Cost of Ownership than open software.
They actually might be right too. For example if you have an employ making 50k (relatively average) after benifits, insurance etc the actual cost of the employee is probably closer to 70k.
So you can think of the employees time in front of the computer as worth about one dollar every 3 minutes. It doesn't take many lacking features or experience with a program to quickly eat up the cost of the software. I mean the software is about 600 for Win and Office at my office, it doesn't take that much to justify that expense, especially when field specific software on a machine often goes for 5k or so.
Every woman I've ran into has some concept of how the process will go. Some more than others. Is your girlfriend the type that if you ask her about weddings and honeymoons has strong opinions about the type of dress, number of people, whether in a church or not etc etc? If so then chances are she has an idea of the type of ring she wants too.
Perhaps (if she has a friend that is tactful) see if her friend knows if she'd like it. Having a second person close to her say it is a great idea probably would be good to make sure. She may have discussed more about marriages with her friend (especially if you can find one that she was involved in, as chances are they talked for months about whether they liked the shoes, or the dress etc etc). Anyways extra points for creativity I think it is a great idea, hopefully she's open to it. Good luck:-)
I'm not going to comment on that one it would be too easy:)
As an expat canadian I wasn't aware of any such law but I was from Ontario perhaps they have a different law in Quebec. Anyways, fair competition only seems to make sense to me. Seems rather odd for a open source software organization to fight this fight though. Unless they represent for profit service companies I don't think they'll be able to prove any loss in court so the case could get thrown out on that grounds. They probably would have been better off getting a bunch of citizens to do a class action as they are ones that have a calculatable loss.
That said even if they loss the case, if it seems plausible to the court it might put the fear of God into the government (in the incarnation of a penguin no doubt) to at least consider open source and be prepared to justify their choosing MS anyways if that is what they do.
P.S. Just a general question why does/. put a space between the second and third paragraph for me not the first and second? I'm using the same flags everywhere else, double "bracketted p". Used to work fine before the new interface came out.
It would nearly be no effective punishment. Now that would be the crime for me:) I mean it would be like you could rob a bank and the worst that happened if you got caught was you had to give the money back, hehe.
I think the sentence is fair, the financial reward of the crime was removed and the guy deserves some time. I mean this is above and beyond lending your friend a copy of your stuff for "off site backup". He was out to make a profit and doing pirating in large scale.
This guy has a GPS in his pocket, perhaps we should get rid of it. Seems more like an inconvenience to the kidnappers no real security. If the chipped person has to have a "real" device with them to receive the short distance transmissions and send them off somewhere it might as well be just the bigger device.
for not being an expert of the patent process. They didn't hire you as a patent lawyer after all. But same time I think you have to do what is in your ability to do to support the patent process. You don't own the code they do so it isn't your call. They have the right to expect that you'd help them commercialize the product you develop. That said you are probably the only one that can make the process smoother in the sense that you know the innards of the problem and why your solution is innovative, so you do have some power.
Where I work we made printer drivers and presets for each floor of the building. All the users have to do is go to a website click on a link, then double click on the installer and keep pressing okay. Even with a 2 page instruction at the website where they get the download most can't figure out how to install it themselves, and this is at a research institute where everyone at least has a Bsc. That is the typical market for Apple users: people that have no desire to learn computers but just want to use it for a specfic task.
One thing that bugs me about Apple products is they take ease of use over functionality. For example power setting for laptop doesn't let you step down the speed of the CPU you just set it to some warm and fuzzy "Better Energy Savings" and hope the designers got it right. Often I need tools that a real UNIX would have so I got MacPorts and mode the hell out of it so that I can do what I'm used too.
Apple makes pretty good products. But in some ways their business practices are worse than Microsofts. They are so secretive that it is scary. They add to it by attacking the PC industry and saying how their product is better but all they will give you for information is press releases. At least MS is finally being more open with want is going on in the background with things like Channel 9 and versus blogs. There is a line where you have to protect company interests but it shouldn't compromise the customers' ability to make an informed choice.
Your right, I was a active mountain biker for a couple years in high school. Since then my legs have been very large even when I was down in the 80kg range. Now the rest of my frame matches:)
Good luck with the recovery. A friend of mine threw his ankle out (inflamed the tendon which irritated the nerves) he still isn't a 100% a year later. It is amazing how little bits can cause so much problem, I can't imagine something the size of a hamstring.
I up until recently lifted weights frequently. If losing weight is your goal, my experience is it won't work, but in a good way I guess. I put on weight and lost muscle but I still weigh more than I should. I'm 6'3", my "ideal" weight should be around 190lbs, I way 225 (after slacking off for half a year). But here's the kicker I still have 186lb lean. Since you need a certain amount of fat (protects organs, helps balance blood sugar etc), I can't get to my "right" weight without loosing a lot of muscle.
That said I think I look better than if I was my normal weight, and I can do things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise, eg. move around 6U disk arrays by myself if needed:)
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when at the same time he says proprietary software is wrong. Well isn't it data that should be kept private? If so why would you make it public but for some sort of incentive. Oh I know we all belong to a utopian society where everyone works for free for the benefit of their fellow man. Sorry I forgot.
I think that is complete and utter crap. Who decides what information is important? Say a kid is born to complete atheist parents, God/gods etc don't get mentioned in school so the child will never get exposed to those ideas. At best it slows the kid's exposure and adoption of the beliefs that he/she will chose, at worst it condones ignorance.
We as a society have gone far of course when we teach people that some knowledge shouldn't be taught. It seems contradictory that most of the western countries have a "freedom of religion" clause while at the same time they help enforce bias in the children towards the parents' beliefs. The child truly isn't free if they don't get equal access to information from which to make their own minds up.
The tabs are separate processes. That means that a lot more memory is going to be duplicated rather than shared. Ideally to ensure that one tab can't hang the whole app I think they will have to have an instance of their engine and any plugins running for each tab.
You might have something there. I think I've seen several MS talks on channel 9 where the guys say that they are adding feature X to the release because beta testers have requested it. Seems like beta release might equal "will this sell". Good thing bad thing, customer gets feature before they normally would have but at the expense of less vetted apps.
I could see this being a cool idea for a rental machine you pick a movie it copies it to a blank thumbdrive and registers the thumbdrives code to a central server. You can then play it on an internet enabled computer/media centre. No more guessing required to figure out how many copies of a movie to keep. This would especially make sense once USB3 is common, they could fire movies on to the thing in a few seconds and as the resolution of movies goes up they'll probably be a larger capacity thumbdrive available that they can use.
Different development groups, different definitions of the term "beta". FF3 might have been closer to being a clean product before it shipped than IE 8 in beta. The proof will be in what is more popular. I think MS is going to continue to loss market share, but I also think it likely that IE 8 will "not suck". Not the nicest choice but good enough that grandma/corporate doesn't go looking for another browser.
Very true, there may be a crapload of monitoring code running so they'll have better diagnositic abilities as they find problems for example.
Complete with authentic fake ears, hair, nose etc.
without fighting, then your doomed ;)
Worse, the companies will be continuing to claim how great the new security system is, even as they furiously try to shut up anyone that has a counter claim.
Actually it is very easy for IT department heads to justify proprietary software over open software since they only have to point to many Microsoft and so called unbiased web sites that show Microsoft software has a much better Total Cost of Ownership than open software.
They actually might be right too. For example if you have an employ making 50k (relatively average) after benifits, insurance etc the actual cost of the employee is probably closer to 70k.
So you can think of the employees time in front of the computer as worth about one dollar every 3 minutes. It doesn't take many lacking features or experience with a program to quickly eat up the cost of the software. I mean the software is about 600 for Win and Office at my office, it doesn't take that much to justify that expense, especially when field specific software on a machine often goes for 5k or so.
Perhaps (if she has a friend that is tactful) see if her friend knows if she'd like it. Having a second person close to her say it is a great idea probably would be good to make sure. She may have discussed more about marriages with her friend (especially if you can find one that she was involved in, as chances are they talked for months about whether they liked the shoes, or the dress etc etc). Anyways extra points for creativity I think it is a great idea, hopefully she's open to it. Good luck :-)
As an expat canadian I wasn't aware of any such law but I was from Ontario perhaps they have a different law in Quebec. Anyways, fair competition only seems to make sense to me. Seems rather odd for a open source software organization to fight this fight though. Unless they represent for profit service companies I don't think they'll be able to prove any loss in court so the case could get thrown out on that grounds. They probably would have been better off getting a bunch of citizens to do a class action as they are ones that have a calculatable loss.
That said even if they loss the case, if it seems plausible to the court it might put the fear of God into the government (in the incarnation of a penguin no doubt) to at least consider open source and be prepared to justify their choosing MS anyways if that is what they do.
P.S. Just a general question why does /. put a space between the second and third paragraph for me not the first and second? I'm using the same flags everywhere else, double "bracketted p". Used to work fine before the new interface came out.
It would nearly be no effective punishment. Now that would be the crime for me :) I mean it would be like you could rob a bank and the worst that happened if you got caught was you had to give the money back, hehe.
I think the sentence is fair, the financial reward of the crime was removed and the guy deserves some time. I mean this is above and beyond lending your friend a copy of your stuff for "off site backup". He was out to make a profit and doing pirating in large scale.
This guy has a GPS in his pocket, perhaps we should get rid of it. Seems more like an inconvenience to the kidnappers no real security. If the chipped person has to have a "real" device with them to receive the short distance transmissions and send them off somewhere it might as well be just the bigger device.
Yeah good point. Who really looks at the core files anyways?
some people prefer there nudity that way.
for not being an expert of the patent process. They didn't hire you as a patent lawyer after all. But same time I think you have to do what is in your ability to do to support the patent process. You don't own the code they do so it isn't your call. They have the right to expect that you'd help them commercialize the product you develop. That said you are probably the only one that can make the process smoother in the sense that you know the innards of the problem and why your solution is innovative, so you do have some power.
Segmentation fault: core dumped
One thing that bugs me about Apple products is they take ease of use over functionality. For example power setting for laptop doesn't let you step down the speed of the CPU you just set it to some warm and fuzzy "Better Energy Savings" and hope the designers got it right. Often I need tools that a real UNIX would have so I got MacPorts and mode the hell out of it so that I can do what I'm used too.
Apple makes pretty good products. But in some ways their business practices are worse than Microsofts. They are so secretive that it is scary. They add to it by attacking the PC industry and saying how their product is better but all they will give you for information is press releases. At least MS is finally being more open with want is going on in the background with things like Channel 9 and versus blogs. There is a line where you have to protect company interests but it shouldn't compromise the customers' ability to make an informed choice.
Hehe. More like miss directed mail, return to sender.
Good luck with the recovery. A friend of mine threw his ankle out (inflamed the tendon which irritated the nerves) he still isn't a 100% a year later. It is amazing how little bits can cause so much problem, I can't imagine something the size of a hamstring.
The DHS wants my pocket trash? Well who am I to hinder their efforts.
That said I think I look better than if I was my normal weight, and I can do things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise, eg. move around 6U disk arrays by myself if needed :)