If that's all there is then there is clearly no GPL violation.. otherwise you'd be in violation of the GPL if you browsed to a website using a GPL webserver.. heck, you'd be in violation of the GPL if you ran a non-GPL CGI program on a GPL webserver.
Two applications communicating via sockets is not a violation - it's actually very common (for example talking to bugzilla via its http interface.. I know of some very expensive proprietary packages that do that). That's not a derived work it's a collective work - which is *not* forbidden by the GPL.
I admit I'd not heard of the 'twin towers' before 9/11, but up until reading your post I'd assumed that the name implied that that there were, well, two of them.
Are you saying there were 7? The news reports didn't seem to bear that out - there were clearly two in the pictures.
For instance I can set a 20 min pizza timer and go play a video game, pause it, and walk out with <5 seconds left on the timer.
Me too, but then I'd always assumed everyone did that.
I also always wake up about a minute before the alarm goes off. I guess it's my brain knowing the time it is based on audible clues like cars starting at the same time each morning etc. that I'm not really aware of.
Except few compilers will actually use the cores. I have vs.net currently compiling on an X2 and it's not apprecialbly faster than my previous machine... bacause one core is basically unused. With a 4 core 3 cores would be unused, and it'd still be no faster. Under linux you can do things like make -j3 of course.
2 cores/CPUs is damn near essential for compiling as the compiler (especially on windows) can lock the UI completely on a single core by maxing out the CPU. 4 cores I can't really see the advantage right now.
It already has a black screen of death. Favourite for causing it is to plug in certain brands of firewire hard drive (once did it with a USB network card too).
If the OS itself hasn't failed just the GUI you get the spinning wheel of death..
Never heard of any kind of option that "hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI".. possibly a 3rd party app he's installed.
One place I worked even had someone in teaching this stuff, along with time management etc. The school system doesn't teach it any more and parents who should be the ones passing on the knowledge are often ignorant of the way to handle money themselves... with a large number of young employees it's a good investment for any company.
Now as a senior manager as we get bigger I'll be doing the same thing.
Firstly, the first time I read that I had to think about it... my 'I know crap all about america.. how am I to answer that?' filter kicked in and it took the second read to work out it was a trick. Don't use local knowledge - something like 'The ball is red. What colour is the ball?' is more neutral.
Secondly the sentence structure is overcomplex... a *lot* of people don't have a high reading age - the same reason newspapers aim their text to be readable by an average 8 year old.
Thirdly it's in english. You'd have to translate to all the common languages.. probably easier to stick to letters/numbers.
Kitchen knives (knives are only sharpened on one side.. a lot of righties don't realize this...). Potato peelers. Doors. Just about any exhibition (my instinct is to go anticlockwise and they're always laid out clockwise.. I've done a lot of them backwards!). Laptops (why is the power button always on the right? Not to mention the CDROM drive.. it's a bitch to get CDs out sometimes..) etc. My printer has its controls on the right (OTOH I compensate as all my hardware is on my left where I can easily reach it). We live in a right handed world.
All minor inconveniences compared to a real disability like blindness I guess but it does give a perspective.. imagine being left handed but instead of invonveniences like spilling your tea on the keyboard because you had to reach across to find the cdrom eject button you have major road blocks to normal life simply because some bozo thought that everyone was the same and couldn't be arsed writing a decent website.
.perhaps Mr. McInerney hasn't heard of DVI cables?
Perhaps you haven't heard of DRM?
Once a signal is DRM'd you can't output it over a digital signal unless all devices along that path support the encryption (in this case HDCP). HDCP graphics cards are as rare as hens teeth (manufacturers have been caught more than once claiming their cards are HDCP compliant when they weren't anything of the sort.. I'll believe there's an HDCP compliant card when I see proof that it's recognised as such by vista.. which btw. is the only HDCP compliant OS...)
So what's to stop you and few friends logging in and poisoning their data?
If you type 'Penis' to every picture for example, (a) google will return these images in a search for 'Penis', and (b) you might get lucky and be paired with someone else doing the same thing.. and able to rack up the points for pretty much zero effort.
If the school bus breaks down your child is under the care of the school and it's up to them to notify the parents. Which they will, unless they want their ass sued. Mobile phones do not help.
And no I can't conceive of any situation, because a child is *always* under the care of a responsible adult. Generations grew up without mobile phones - why now?
To talk to someone on a cellphone requires a lot of attention that should be given 100% to driving. Even more than most of the other examples you cite.
That's why it's *illegal* in most countries to drive whilst using one. Not that it needs a new law.. driving with one hand on the wheel (illegal), driving without paying attention to the road (illegal), etc.
If they're that prone to wandering off and that young either push them in a pram (for the very young) or on a leesh (up to about 8 years old). Beyond that they're old enough to find their own way back (I was wandering around on my own younger than that even).
Long term it's a bad thing to have that kind of dependency. Children have to learn that they're going to spend most of their life basically on their own and have to learn to wing it - that means putting them in (relatively safe) situations where they *can't* just call mommy and have her put it all right again. School is an ideal training ground for that... you spoil that when they have a mobile phone they can basically use as a security blanket.
EVE Online was the most boring game I ever played... no grouping, no real interaction with other players at all (might as well have been a solo game), and the 'tasks' are all 'take this box from here to here'.
OTOH I only played it for a month. If they deal with the absolute lack of content maybe it might be worth trying again if as you say the problem is that the first few months are the boring ones.
Using OEM licenses on computers other than the one they came with is illegal.
Bullshit. You can get OEM Windows licenses with a mouse or keyboard (in fact it's the cheapest way to get them, short of buying in bulk from fire damaged stock (one company I worked with licensed all their machines that way - far cheaper than a volume license deal)).
How you handle that really depends on your eyesight. After a couple of minutes of looking at it I start to get headaches, so it's always firmly off on any machine that I use.
Another one if your network has ipv6 enabled (yeah I know its unlikely...) is to bounce it through sixxs.net, when its up*
<offtopic rant> gblon01 has been up for a total of 2 days in the last two weeks. If ipv6 is *ever* to be taken seriously then the people providing it need to take it seriously too. As it is it's a f..ing joke. </offtopic rant>
I had one the other week posting various combinations of viagra, vlzagra, v1zAgra, etc. presumably from a zombie network since every one I reported came from a different ISP.
Was getting several hundred of them an hour for nearly a week before I worked out a rule to stop them - spamassassin still marks them 0.1 + 10.0 with my rule.
Yeah bayes is pretty much beaten - either massive chunks of text appended to the emailor it all uses made up words, or a combination of the two.
A favourite is to just send the email as a huge.gif so there's not enough to filter on, then fill the text portion with a dump of about 500 words of text from a legitimate site.
I've gone back to hard blocking with RBLs and using sender verification so that no email with a bad return address gets through (blocks some badly configured mailing lists but hey they need to fix their systems as I'm not interested in mail I can't reply to). Those two together block about 10,000 spams a day, with about another 1000 or so getting through to spamassassin and caught there - leaving about 20-30 a day hitting the inbox.
Only 60%? I passed the 60% mark 2 years ago. My current stats are 98% spam 2% legitimate mail - it's a bitch to filter the last few percent (the majority is easy... check for a valid to address and do sender verification.. that kills 90% of it right there (unfortunately along with some mail from systems that insist on having invalid return addresses (hello cisco! Sort out your broken email system!)).
I currently block over 11 thousand spams a day.. and that's for a small company with 4 employees. I'd hate to think what an ISP has to cope with.
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So how many jigabytes does your hard drive have?
If that's all there is then there is clearly no GPL violation.. otherwise you'd be in violation of the GPL if you browsed to a website using a GPL webserver.. heck, you'd be in violation of the GPL if you ran a non-GPL CGI program on a GPL webserver.
Two applications communicating via sockets is not a violation - it's actually very common (for example talking to bugzilla via its http interface.. I know of some very expensive proprietary packages that do that). That's not a derived work it's a collective work - which is *not* forbidden by the GPL.
substantial fire that raged in 7
I admit I'd not heard of the 'twin towers' before 9/11, but up until reading your post I'd assumed that the name implied that that there were, well, two of them.
Are you saying there were 7? The news reports didn't seem to bear that out - there were clearly two in the pictures.
For instance I can set a 20 min pizza timer and go play a video game, pause it, and walk out with <5 seconds left on the timer.
Me too, but then I'd always assumed everyone did that.
I also always wake up about a minute before the alarm goes off. I guess it's my brain knowing the time it is based on audible clues like cars starting at the same time each morning etc. that I'm not really aware of.
Hm, I thought Afghanistan and Iraq was liberated already by the great Uncle Sam???
Nah... they haven't run out of bullets yet.
Once they stop shooting us. *then* we'll be able to liberate them.
Except few compilers will actually use the cores. I have vs.net currently compiling on an X2 and it's not apprecialbly faster than my previous machine... bacause one core is basically unused. With a 4 core 3 cores would be unused, and it'd still be no faster. Under linux you can do things like make -j3 of course.
2 cores/CPUs is damn near essential for compiling as the compiler (especially on windows) can lock the UI completely on a single core by maxing out the CPU. 4 cores I can't really see the advantage right now.
It already has a black screen of death. Favourite for causing it is to plug in certain brands of firewire hard drive (once did it with a USB network card too).
If the OS itself hasn't failed just the GUI you get the spinning wheel of death..
Never heard of any kind of option that "hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI".. possibly a 3rd party app he's installed.
You need some serious hardware and graphics to drive it - I couldn't get it to a playable level on less than an X2 processor and fast nvidia card.
One place I worked even had someone in teaching this stuff, along with time management etc. The school system doesn't teach it any more and parents who should be the ones passing on the knowledge are often ignorant of the way to handle money themselves... with a large number of young employees it's a good investment for any company.
Now as a senior manager as we get bigger I'll be doing the same thing.
Firstly, the first time I read that I had to think about it... my 'I know crap all about america.. how am I to answer that?' filter kicked in and it took the second read to work out it was a trick. Don't use local knowledge - something like 'The ball is red. What colour is the ball?' is more neutral.
Secondly the sentence structure is overcomplex... a *lot* of people don't have a high reading age - the same reason newspapers aim their text to be readable by an average 8 year old.
Thirdly it's in english. You'd have to translate to all the common languages.. probably easier to stick to letters/numbers.
Kitchen knives (knives are only sharpened on one side.. a lot of righties don't realize this...). Potato peelers. Doors. Just about any exhibition (my instinct is to go anticlockwise and they're always laid out clockwise.. I've done a lot of them backwards!). Laptops (why is the power button always on the right? Not to mention the CDROM drive.. it's a bitch to get CDs out sometimes..) etc. My printer has its controls on the right (OTOH I compensate as all my hardware is on my left where I can easily reach it). We live in a right handed world.
All minor inconveniences compared to a real disability like blindness I guess but it does give a perspective.. imagine being left handed but instead of invonveniences like spilling your tea on the keyboard because you had to reach across to find the cdrom eject button you have major road blocks to normal life simply because some bozo thought that everyone was the same and couldn't be arsed writing a decent website.
.perhaps Mr. McInerney hasn't heard of DVI cables?
Perhaps you haven't heard of DRM?
Once a signal is DRM'd you can't output it over a digital signal unless all devices along that path support the encryption (in this case HDCP). HDCP graphics cards are as rare as hens teeth (manufacturers have been caught more than once claiming their cards are HDCP compliant when they weren't anything of the sort.. I'll believe there's an HDCP compliant card when I see proof that it's recognised as such by vista.. which btw. is the only HDCP compliant OS...)
So what's to stop you and few friends logging in and poisoning their data?
If you type 'Penis' to every picture for example, (a) google will return these images in a search for 'Penis', and (b) you might get lucky and be paired with someone else doing the same thing.. and able to rack up the points for pretty much zero effort.
If the school bus breaks down your child is under the care of the school and it's up to them to notify the parents. Which they will, unless they want their ass sued. Mobile phones do not help.
And no I can't conceive of any situation, because a child is *always* under the care of a responsible adult. Generations grew up without mobile phones - why now?
To talk to someone on a cellphone requires a lot of attention that should be given 100% to driving. Even more than most of the other examples you cite.
That's why it's *illegal* in most countries to drive whilst using one. Not that it needs a new law.. driving with one hand on the wheel (illegal), driving without paying attention to the road (illegal), etc.
If they're that prone to wandering off and that young either push them in a pram (for the very young) or on a leesh (up to about 8 years old). Beyond that they're old enough to find their own way back (I was wandering around on my own younger than that even).
Long term it's a bad thing to have that kind of dependency. Children have to learn that they're going to spend most of their life basically on their own and have to learn to wing it - that means putting them in (relatively safe) situations where they *can't* just call mommy and have her put it all right again. School is an ideal training ground for that... you spoil that when they have a mobile phone they can basically use as a security blanket.
EVE Online was the most boring game I ever played... no grouping, no real interaction with other players at all (might as well have been a solo game), and the 'tasks' are all 'take this box from here to here'.
OTOH I only played it for a month. If they deal with the absolute lack of content maybe it might be worth trying again if as you say the problem is that the first few months are the boring ones.
Using OEM licenses on computers other than the one they came with is illegal.
Bullshit. You can get OEM Windows licenses with a mouse or keyboard (in fact it's the cheapest way to get them, short of buying in bulk from fire damaged stock (one company I worked with licensed all their machines that way - far cheaper than a volume license deal)).
Cleartype does blur - it's how it works.
How you handle that really depends on your eyesight. After a couple of minutes of looking at it I start to get headaches, so it's always firmly off on any machine that I use.
Another one if your network has ipv6 enabled (yeah I know its unlikely...) is to bounce it through sixxs.net, when its up*
<offtopic rant>
gblon01 has been up for a total of 2 days in the last two weeks. If ipv6 is *ever* to be taken seriously then the people providing it need to take it seriously too. As it is it's a f..ing joke.
</offtopic rant>
Orbitings easy - you just have to fall towards the ground and miss.
It's *not* orbiting that's the hard bit.
I had one the other week posting various combinations of viagra, vlzagra, v1zAgra, etc. presumably from a zombie network since every one I reported came from a different ISP.
Was getting several hundred of them an hour for nearly a week before I worked out a rule to stop them - spamassassin still marks them 0.1 + 10.0 with my rule.
Yeah bayes is pretty much beaten - either massive chunks of text appended to the emailor it all uses made up words, or a combination of the two.
.gif so there's not enough to filter on, then fill the text portion with a dump of about 500 words of text from a legitimate site.
A favourite is to just send the email as a huge
I've gone back to hard blocking with RBLs and using sender verification so that no email with a bad return address gets through (blocks some badly configured mailing lists but hey they need to fix their systems as I'm not interested in mail I can't reply to). Those two together block about 10,000 spams a day, with about another 1000 or so getting through to spamassassin and caught there - leaving about 20-30 a day hitting the inbox.
Only 60%? I passed the 60% mark 2 years ago. My current stats are 98% spam 2% legitimate mail - it's a bitch to filter the last few percent (the majority is easy... check for a valid to address and do sender verification.. that kills 90% of it right there (unfortunately along with some mail from systems that insist on having invalid return addresses (hello cisco! Sort out your broken email system!)).
I currently block over 11 thousand spams a day.. and that's for a small company with 4 employees. I'd hate to think what an ISP has to cope with.