So, let me get this right, the developers of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have 0 value in their work. The code they have written in will be ripped off and sold back to them, as proved by ClosedBSD, an improved BSD OS that I can buy.
> This encourages collaboration, and thus helps the advancement of software engineering.
I've never heard of anyone having phones confiscated in the cinema. I'm sure it just wouldn't happen here.
I can't fathom a provider having the functions of the phone turned off to prevent you from connecting to your PC. That's just crazy. Surely worth a class action in the land of the sue.
Those guys really stick the knife into you USians.
The most useful non-phone call features I use are :
Calendar - this is great, it has enriched my memory challenged life
IMAP email - Very handy, I use https://www.fastmail.fm/ for webmail / imap. The only downside is that the phone can't use SSL for the connection. IMAP's header only approach keeps the data use down. I often email myself while I'm out & about if there's some useful snippet of info I will forget. It will be there in my inbox when I get home.
Camera - quicker than using the keypad to note down any URIs, Emails, phone numbers, things in shops etc. etc. all sorts of stuff.
Bluetooth - exchanging data with other phone users, though it is not surprising that when I say "Bluetooth me your number" plenty of people reply "I don't know how, you're the first person to ask me".
The other stuff like Opera and Kodak Photo Share are almost useless. I've tried to use Opera a few times but it's so tedious, esp. filling in forms.
So, if I get this right, "dropped calls" is a meaasurement of how often a caller wandered outside of the coverage area, or radio cold spot.
So providers are trying to offset the capital costs of providing rurals with cell phones by gouging inner city users.
As the OP said, when hearing about US cell phone plans, us in the E.U. are flabbergasted at the things we hear. All except for data plans - I've heard stories of people using their phones to listen to internet radio on a US cross country trip.
I can get ANY of the people working in my office up and running FreeBSD with Firefox & Thunderbird & Gaim for communication and some sort of office suite. That covers most of the working lives of the office personnel I have come into contact with.
Then one will hear : "Person X has sent me a (powerpoint presentation) | (excel spreadsheet) | (word document) | (wmv file) and I can't view it".
That's the point at which confidence breaks down. One file unopened can scupper the willingness of people to make the change.
That's before we've even started to look for specialist applications.
eBay is not an auction site, it's an auction-style site =)
An auction has a legal definition, which eBay doesn't meet - that is : goods have to be available for physical visual inspection for at least 24 hours prior to auction time.
Auctions were used to return or disperse recovered stolen property (or just stolen). Once offered at auction, stolen property is not automatically returned to its owner should it be proven stolen later, unlike other stolen property.
This is why eBay describes itself as : "eBay, the world's largest online marketplace!"
and... "Experience the thrill of placing the winning bid on an auction-style item"
bah, they only recently added access to those APIs to the Python stuff, I hadn't even got round to looking at it yet. At least I have a heads up now to try and find my next phone model sans Restricted APIs
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The PostgreSQL extended query protocol doesn't require escaping of any value because it won't parsed as part of an sql statement, making injection a non issue. The only sql that is parsed is supplied by the source code.
People often only get as far as writing the simple query part of the protocol which takes a stream of potentially multiple commands mixed in with data supplied by potentially hostile third parties.
I've witnessed it these past two weeks while sniffing postgresql clients while writing my own as an exercise in Limbo
Postgresql also allows the use of named queries, who stay prepared for as long as the connection is open (unless deleted deliberately).
I don't know how long the parse & prepare phase takes but I know it is not zero so there could be some speed improvement too.
I'm not convinced libpq uses it to full advantage but I didn't do in depth research, just a nod to say that if you do serious postgresql programming you could well do with looking at writing your own protcol client.
All the fonts are configurable, even TrueType anti-aliased fonts.
Plan9/inferno uses bitmap fonts so you have to prepare each size you wish to use.
There are no menus, just key words.
Feel free to add spaces between them them any time, or remove some or add more, it's just text.
Menu bars on the left is a choice, you could re-write Acme to put them the other side if you thought it wise.
Yours add visual clutter for me, I already know that up is up and down is down, I don't need icons for that. I also don't need pixels in the middle of the bar to get hold of. Would you also like a little hand to tell you when your mouse is over the bar. Perhaps you would like it to animate a pretend grab when you click the button.
Some people seem to have the spare developer capacity to fiddle with crap like that.
0 is the appropriate amount of nodding dogs required in my Forumla 1 car.
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hehe no, I thought I was making it up !
So, let me get this right, the developers of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have 0 value in their work. The code they have written in will be ripped off and sold back to them, as proved by ClosedBSD, an improved BSD OS that I can buy.
> This encourages collaboration, and thus helps the advancement of software engineering.
Is this some sort of joke ?
You seem to have changed the part of the sentence that said "making mods for NWN2" and replaced it in your mind with "buy NWN2".
> There's even a Linux client with a very technical community. ie: everybody whinced when this was posted on slashdot! ;)
Yeah, I love hanging out with elitist assholes.
I've never heard of anyone having phones confiscated in the cinema. I'm sure it just wouldn't happen here.
I can't fathom a provider having the functions of the phone turned off to prevent you from connecting to your PC. That's just crazy. Surely worth a class action in the land of the sue.
Those guys really stick the knife into you USians.
The most useful non-phone call features I use are :
The other stuff like Opera and Kodak Photo Share are almost useless. I've tried to use Opera a few times but it's so tedious, esp. filling in forms.
So, if I get this right, "dropped calls" is a meaasurement of how often a caller wandered outside of the coverage area, or radio cold spot.
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So providers are trying to offset the capital costs of providing rurals with cell phones by gouging inner city users.
As the OP said, when hearing about US cell phone plans, us in the E.U. are flabbergasted at the things we hear. All except for data plans - I've heard stories of people using their phones to listen to internet radio on a US cross country trip.
That would cost serious money here : $2+ a Mb on basic plans with $150 pcm for 1Gb being the cheapest I have found (O2)
http://www.o2.co.uk/business/corporate/businessta
lol, I have used the same facts a few times so far but I write them from scratch.
I was discussing the MS/eBay issue with some of my pro-MS friends and even their reaction was "oh no, that's the end of eBay".
We imagined Clippy coming along with "Hello, seems like your hard drive has bad clusters, would you like to Buy a New One"
The investment isn't $500.
I can get ANY of the people working in my office up and running FreeBSD with Firefox & Thunderbird & Gaim for communication and some sort of office suite. That covers most of the working lives of the office personnel I have come into contact with.
Then one will hear : "Person X has sent me a (powerpoint presentation) | (excel spreadsheet) | (word document) | (wmv file) and I can't view it".
That's the point at which confidence breaks down. One file unopened can scupper the willingness of people to make the change.
That's before we've even started to look for specialist applications.
It is Office that cracks the whip, not Windows.
eBay is not an auction site, it's an auction-style site =)
... "Experience the thrill of placing the winning bid on an auction-style item"
An auction has a legal definition, which eBay doesn't meet - that is : goods have to be available for physical visual inspection for at least 24 hours prior to auction time.
Auctions were used to return or disperse recovered stolen property (or just stolen). Once offered at auction, stolen property is not automatically returned to its owner should it be proven stolen later, unlike other stolen property.
This is why eBay describes itself as : "eBay, the world's largest online marketplace!"
and
In what way is that anything like with bundling IE/Media Player in Windows while having a "monopoly" position in the OS market ?
Does Google have a monopoly in ANY sphere ?
It might be good but it's not god.
When ssh is your inter machine security model, you know something *must* be wrong.
Nice one, programability is my #1 reason for a phone, even if I don't get round to doing much with it =)
C++ and Java suck royally, python will have to do =)
> the real strengths of XML are better understood now than they were then
http://xmlsucks.com/
bah, they only recently added access to those APIs to the Python stuff, I hadn't even got round to looking at it yet. At least I have a heads up now to try and find my next phone model sans Restricted APIs
So I can't run Python code on Symbian 9.1 through Nokia Python ?
How does one learn the limits if nothing happens when they are crossed?
Of course, I was wrong about libpq. I've done them the service of actually reading about it again.
PQprepare & friends
Even php offers them.
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The PostgreSQL extended query protocol doesn't require escaping of any value because it won't parsed as part of an sql statement, making injection a non issue. The only sql that is parsed is supplied by the source code.
People often only get as far as writing the simple query part of the protocol which takes a stream of potentially multiple commands mixed in with data supplied by potentially hostile third parties.
I've witnessed it these past two weeks while sniffing postgresql clients while writing my own as an exercise in Limbo
Postgresql also allows the use of named queries, who stay prepared for as long as the connection is open (unless deleted deliberately).
I don't know how long the parse & prepare phase takes but I know it is not zero so there could be some speed improvement too.
I'm not convinced libpq uses it to full advantage but I didn't do in depth research, just a nod to say that if you do serious postgresql programming you could well do with looking at writing your own protcol client.
It's the Plan 9 from Bell Labs monoculture.
> if the mysql people slack off with security, you can drop them in favour of postgres, with practically no interruption and minimal retooling.
Going the other way is not so easy, if you use the features of a modern RDBMS instead of toy mysql.
Mysql is the Lowest Common Denominator database.
acme is not everything
this is my desktop : http://www.maht0x0r.net/desktop.jpg
I am indifferent to your opinion.
> It's obvious you're not interested in winning converts
take it, leave it, whatever
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ was all it took me.
It's Open Source, feel free.
All the fonts are configurable, even TrueType anti-aliased fonts.
Plan9/inferno uses bitmap fonts so you have to prepare each size you wish to use.
There are no menus, just key words.
Feel free to add spaces between them them any time, or remove some or add more, it's just text.
Menu bars on the left is a choice, you could re-write Acme to put them the other side if you thought it wise.
Yours add visual clutter for me, I already know that up is up and down is down, I don't need icons for that. I also don't need pixels in the middle of the bar to get hold of. Would you also like a little hand to tell you when your mouse is over the bar.
Perhaps you would like it to animate a pretend grab when you click the button.
Some people seem to have the spare developer capacity to fiddle with crap like that.
0 is the appropriate amount of nodding dogs required in my Forumla 1 car.
Of course, I wouldn't want to lie on /. now would I !