It's a linux box. I don't need to spend much time maintaining it, but I frequently try tweaks above my ability to correct in a timely manner. I'm sure I'd be breaking things in OS X if I don't install a linux distro.
...and upgrading?
Hardware: None whatsoever (yet). Though it would be much easier than upgrading a Mac.
Software: I run alphas;-)
How much data loss and time down do you suffer when your PC dies?
Hasn't happened, frankly. I've never suffered downtime that wasn't self-inflicted.
A couple hundred dollars of cost upfront is a lot cheaper than TCO on a PC...
Only if you stick to OEM computers. My $350 whitebox is a little better spec'd than a Mac Mini, for just over half the cost and shows no signs of dying just yet. If I decide to upgrade it, the relative savings goes up almost exponentially. If my computer completely dies ~2/3 of the way through the Mini's life cycle and I build a new one for the same price, not only will my TCO be lower but the new one will also be much better than it's predecessor.
European regulators requested that Redmond bundle multiple browsers on new PCs
Excuse me? I can understand requesting IE to be unbundled, but telling MS to bundle other browsers is just stupid. Let the OEMs do that. I hope the summary isn't having a rare moment of accuracy.
This solution could include registering source code but it might be better to protect a "program" or "solution" than to try to protect source code as if it is some kind of literary work, and then extend that to the compiled version of that source code.
Or the company could decide not to bother with copyright and settle for calling it a trade secret.
Dude, the guy is asking his question on Slashdot. The odds that he knows any women or has the guts to talk to them if he does are slim to none.
Which makes it the perfect filter method. All the mundane and even good ideas will fall by the wayside, while only the great or truly exceptional ideas motivate him enough to try.
I, for one, use my body as a way to get my head to important places.
I don't. I use my body to accomplish tasks and acquire information. It is unfortunate that physically separating my brain from my body is detrimental to both.
It's probably safe to assume that the Major/Minor version numbers are integers
I noticed.
Like the LOLing AC said, 5 !> 5. And so MajorVersion would return as false for 5.1. And since 1 !> 1, both 5.1and 6.1 would be eliminated by MinorVersion.
I would think that no laws apply in space. Sure, we have the moon treaty, but that's hardly a paninternational agreement.
The only rules that apply are those that others have the ability and will to enforce. Both factors severely reduce the number of people that will bother you up there.
Of course, if you upset enough people, you might not want to try coming back.
Now, put all of those single people in a more appropriately sized vehicle that takes a quarter of the pavement space. Or put four people in each car, instead of one. Either way... that's the waste of pavement space.
I decided that if you considered single-seat cars acceptable, you would have stated it more explicitly.
As it was, you seemed to be expressing disapproval of individual transportation.
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How much time are you spending building...
About an hour.
...maintaining...
It's a linux box. I don't need to spend much time maintaining it, but I frequently try tweaks above my ability to correct in a timely manner. I'm sure I'd be breaking things in OS X if I don't install a linux distro.
...and upgrading?
Hardware: None whatsoever (yet). Though it would be much easier than upgrading a Mac.
Software: I run alphas ;-)
How much data loss and time down do you suffer when your PC dies?
Hasn't happened, frankly. I've never suffered downtime that wasn't self-inflicted.
...12 high end Mac Pros for, say $5,000...
Last I checked, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink Mac Pro was closer to $23,000.
A couple hundred dollars of cost upfront is a lot cheaper than TCO on a PC...
Only if you stick to OEM computers. My $350 whitebox is a little better spec'd than a Mac Mini, for just over half the cost and shows no signs of dying just yet. If I decide to upgrade it, the relative savings goes up almost exponentially. If my computer completely dies ~2/3 of the way through the Mini's life cycle and I build a new one for the same price, not only will my TCO be lower but the new one will also be much better than it's predecessor.
People that are willing to put $1,000 into their PC probably don't want the limited choices offered by OEMs. They are going to build it from parts.
True but we'd have other issues.
It's working now.
As long as breaking DRM and decompiling binaries isn't illegal, I'm fine with that.
European regulators requested that Redmond bundle multiple browsers on new PCs
Excuse me? I can understand requesting IE to be unbundled, but telling MS to bundle other browsers is just stupid. Let the OEMs do that. I hope the summary isn't having a rare moment of accuracy.
This solution could include registering source code but it might be better to protect a "program" or "solution" than to try to protect source code as if it is some kind of literary work, and then extend that to the compiled version of that source code.
Or the company could decide not to bother with copyright and settle for calling it a trade secret.
Stallman suggests requiring proprietary software to also release its code within five years to even the balance of power.
Why not require the source code to be submitted with the copyright registration?
There's the events noted by brentonboy.
Unless, of course, that you're implying that THC works backwards through time, possibly erasing memories prior to smoking.
I hear that lead, accelerated to sufficient velocities, can have that effect.
Dude, the guy is asking his question on Slashdot. The odds that he knows any women or has the guts to talk to them if he does are slim to none.
Which makes it the perfect filter method. All the mundane and even good ideas will fall by the wayside, while only the great or truly exceptional ideas motivate him enough to try.
...are very noisey and cannot distinguish between colors and...
What does color have to do with this?
So what process creates the other half of the bell-curve, the photons at a lower energy than infra-red radiation?
/me checks electromagnetic spectrum
Looks like extremely low-energy photons are radio.
Assuming it actually is a bell curve.
You assume the good ones have worked on any of those.
I'm not sure halos are even part of Christian canon.
Faster and easier to incorporated the GPL'd code, and good PR to boot.
Put it here instead.
I, for one, use my body as a way to get my head to important places.
I don't. I use my body to accomplish tasks and acquire information. It is unfortunate that physically separating my brain from my body is detrimental to both.
That would depend on how they are being used. Personality? Maybe. Pure number crunching? Probably not.
The genetics part of the equation would be the easy part.
It's probably safe to assume that the Major/Minor version numbers are integers
I noticed.
Like the LOLing AC said, 5 !> 5. And so MajorVersion would return as false for 5.1. And since 1 !> 1, both 5.1 and 6.1 would be eliminated by MinorVersion.
I would think that no laws apply in space. Sure, we have the moon treaty, but that's hardly a paninternational agreement.
The only rules that apply are those that others have the ability and will to enforce. Both factors severely reduce the number of people that will bother you up there.
Of course, if you upset enough people, you might not want to try coming back.
Now, put all of those single people in a more appropriately sized vehicle that takes a quarter of the pavement space. Or put four people in each car, instead of one. Either way... that's the waste of pavement space.
I decided that if you considered single-seat cars acceptable, you would have stated it more explicitly.
As it was, you seemed to be expressing disapproval of individual transportation.