So you'd be happy with me putting a web cam up pointing in through your bathroom window and streaming the pictures to the Internet. Personally I'd never look at the pictures myself, so I am not responsible for any invasion of privacy that might occur.
I bought a pair of good quality hiking boots in 2000. They cost me twice as much as my previous pair which lasted about two years and which I was very happy with. Eight years later, I still wear them most days as my normal footwear and they are not close to wearing out.
That's the main thing, good quality footwear lasts much much longer than the cheap stuff. Cheap shoes are definitely a false economy.
If you are on a plane that has been hijacked and you have reason to believe it is going to be crashed into a building, your choices are overpower the terrorists or die.
If you are on a bus with a madman stabbing the passenger next to him, there is still a good chance you can escape with your life without having to confront the killer.
Yes, but once the computer is assigned an IP address, ARP ties the MAC address to the IP address. You could then, in principle, log the mappings by dumping the router's ARP table at regular intervals.
Until the next time the MAC address changes and he claims it was a different friend or another new computer or something.
Basically, there's so many legitimate reasons for a MAC address to change on a port that all you've really done is make everybody's life a little bit more miserable.
No, actually the numbers don't mean anything. Of course there's going to be a steep rise of any new product just after its introduced as it goes from 0% to anything%. The important thing is that the growth must be sustained.
What if most of the 2.8% are people who would previously have bought a Windows PC and wiped it to put Linux on? It would mean Linux's installed base is not going up. Once they've all recycled their old PCs, the market share would them stay static. If it stays static at 3%, companies like Dell are going to look very hard at whether they continue to offer Linux as an option because the cost of supporting two operating systems instead of one is not zero.
No, I think you have got a story if it's at 4 or 5% this time next year and the trend is consistent. But bear in mind, the iPhone achieved a peak of 27% of the smartphone market in under a year and it's that sort of magnitude that counts as "good news".
If the military hadn't been complete assholes they would have paid him a bit and given him a pat on the back and the problem would never have arisen.
According to TFA he was promoted on the back of this work. I think that counts as a pat on the back and being paid a bit. On the other hand, he time limited the software which suggests to me that he always intended to screw the air force over, otherwise why do it?
Hi, my name is Daniel. Glad to meet ya. I carry a spare battery for any device I have that has batteries. Batteries not only run down, but they also fail. Being able to replace the battery is important in cases where usage of the device is necessary or critical. There are a lot of people who feel their phone is a critical need device. For those people, not having an instantly replaceable battery is unthinkable.
You failed to understand my point. While there are people for whom the mobile phone is critical, they are a very small percentage of the population. For those people, the iPhone is the wrong choice. For everybody else... well I think it's the wrong choice too, but sales suggest plenty of people disagree with me.
They are rarely, if ever, mission-critical devices.
Mobile phones are rarely mission critical. Not long ago I dropped mine into a toilet bowl and had to do without it until the phone company delivered a new one the next day. Surprisingly, my company failed to collapse in the mean time. By the way, a spare battery would have been completely useless and in my whole 12 years of owning a mobile phone, I've dropped more of them in toilets (i.e. one) than I've had battery failures.
Then comes along iPhone 3G at half the price of their old phone. The choice between replacing the battery (which costs a lot of money and time) in the iPhone and buying a new iPhone 3G becomes obvious. Your old iPhone became a disposable phone and the iPhone 3G became its replacement. By the time the battery in the iPhone 3G becomes tired, will there be ANOTHER iPhone at half the 3G's price released? Creating another disposable iPhone?
Maybe it's different in the States, but in the UK, the mobile phone market works exactly as if the phone is a disposable device. I'm actually surprised that the iPhone gained any traction here at all because people expect to be given a phone with their contract and expect to be offered a new one when their contract is about to expire. Nobody here keeps a phone long enough for the battery to die.
For business travel, being able to check and reply to my emails on the flight is probably worth $20.
No it isn't. Not unless you can demonstrate that answering your e-mails on the flight rather than waiting until the aeroplane has landed makes your company more than $20.
It worked for Debian's SSL snafu, although it took longer than I'd like.
A critical security bug remained undetected by the "many eyes" for nearly two years. If that's your definition of "it worked" I'd love to see a case of it not working.
If the definition of the process not working is that the bug remains undetected forever, then of course we'll never see any failures because any bug discovered no matter how long after it is introduced is automatically evidence for the "it works" side. I submit that such a definition is completely meaningless.
The Debian SSL snafu was a monumental screw up. Pretending otherwise doesn't do anybody any good.
A non-replaceable battery is just a poor design choice for a phone. It makes it much less functional for a lot of people.
I dispute that. Your case is actually pretty rare. In fact I don't know anybody who carries around a spare battery for their mobile phone. Apple made a design choice. Presumably they weighed up the loss of a very small section of the market against benefits (to them) of a non replaceable battery. The fact that people seem to be buying these things as fast as they are made suggests Apple did not make a poor choice.
The government has no business legislating against rudeness. Talking loudly on a mobile phone is obnoxious and rude, but so is talking loudly. Are you going to make that illegal? What about listening to MP3 players? Or queue jumping? Or picking your nose? Or farting?
Smoking in an enclosed space is obnoxious and rude, but it is also harmful. That's why it is banned in the workplace in the UK.
Only $20 per trip? Even if the cost to the airline justified the price, I think I'd probably just manage without World of Warcraft for the duration than pay $20 when the hotel at my destination will probably give it to me for free, or at least a lower price.
As a normal user looking for a workstation, Solaris is so late to the game that almost everyone is already invested in linux.
Quoted for irony. Solaris isn't late to the game, it's been squeezed out of the game by commodity hardware running Windows. Sun started as a manufacturer of high end desk top workstations and that is where Solaris originates from. In fact, Sun was manufacturing desktop workstations before either Linux or Windows existed.
I'm surprised that, as a member of the tiny Apple fan base, you write in that tone.
If you are not a member of the Apple fan base, I suggest the fact that you could be bothered to read at least the summary and post this, proves your assertion incorrect.
You can produce all the GPL software you want, and that still doesn't mean that your goals are in any way aligned with those of free software.
I don't think anybody claims Apple's aims are aligned with those of the FSF. Apple's aims are to provide a return on investment for their shareholders. This means they need to make devices that people will pay for. They seem to be quite successful at it.
And yet you claim that you're still "involved" with the FSF. And they ended the boycott not because they suddenly agreed with Apple, but because they felt that it wasn't useful anymore.
The most constructive thing you can do for the FSF is help them to make software that people want to use. Think about this, in spite of the fact that you can get Linux for free off the Internet, people still prefer to pay for Windows or Mac OS X or an iPhone instead of Openmoko. That should tell you where your priorities should lie.
but the FSF is doing what an activist organization on a small budget needs to do to get the job done.
No it isn't. The FSF need to produce software that people want to use. By the way, being able to open a terminal on a phone is not something that 99.9% of peope want to do.
No. The goal of transactions is to keep the data that is in the database consistent.
In fact, using transactions will increase the amount of lost data, assuming that the database is the only persistent data store in your system. Let's say you are inserting five records into your database and the power fails just after writing the second record. If there is no transaction, on reboot, the database will contain the two records written. If the five writes are wrapped in a transaction, on reboot, the database will contain the two records successfully written, but the DBMS will roll the database back to just before the first record was written, thus deliberately destroying some data.
The loss of data is a price that the developer chooses to pay because the integrity of the data is more important.
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So you'd be happy with me putting a web cam up pointing in through your bathroom window and streaming the pictures to the Internet. Personally I'd never look at the pictures myself, so I am not responsible for any invasion of privacy that might occur.
Outlook supports S/MIME.
I bought a pair of good quality hiking boots in 2000. They cost me twice as much as my previous pair which lasted about two years and which I was very happy with. Eight years later, I still wear them most days as my normal footwear and they are not close to wearing out.
That's the main thing, good quality footwear lasts much much longer than the cheap stuff. Cheap shoes are definitely a false economy.
No, they don't.
They sell support and services around the distribution. Even packaging the product up onto a CD with some printed manuals can be considered a service.
There's a big difference.
If you are on a plane that has been hijacked and you have reason to believe it is going to be crashed into a building, your choices are overpower the terrorists or die.
If you are on a bus with a madman stabbing the passenger next to him, there is still a good chance you can escape with your life without having to confront the killer.
Yes, but once the computer is assigned an IP address, ARP ties the MAC address to the IP address. You could then, in principle, log the mappings by dumping the router's ARP table at regular intervals.
Until the next time the MAC address changes and he claims it was a different friend or another new computer or something.
Basically, there's so many legitimate reasons for a MAC address to change on a port that all you've really done is make everybody's life a little bit more miserable.
As any fool knows, the T-800 software was written in 6502 assembler.
Not true.
I run an old PC with Linux on it as a firewall/NAT router on my Virgin Media (ex NTL) connection.
No, actually the numbers don't mean anything. Of course there's going to be a steep rise of any new product just after its introduced as it goes from 0% to anything%. The important thing is that the growth must be sustained.
What if most of the 2.8% are people who would previously have bought a Windows PC and wiped it to put Linux on? It would mean Linux's installed base is not going up. Once they've all recycled their old PCs, the market share would them stay static. If it stays static at 3%, companies like Dell are going to look very hard at whether they continue to offer Linux as an option because the cost of supporting two operating systems instead of one is not zero.
No, I think you have got a story if it's at 4 or 5% this time next year and the trend is consistent. But bear in mind, the iPhone achieved a peak of 27% of the smartphone market in under a year and it's that sort of magnitude that counts as "good news".
According to TFA he was promoted on the back of this work. I think that counts as a pat on the back and being paid a bit. On the other hand, he time limited the software which suggests to me that he always intended to screw the air force over, otherwise why do it?
FFS stop posting my e-mail address on the Internet. Now I'm going to get spammed.
You failed to understand my point. While there are people for whom the mobile phone is critical, they are a very small percentage of the population. For those people, the iPhone is the wrong choice. For everybody else... well I think it's the wrong choice too, but sales suggest plenty of people disagree with me.
Mobile phones are rarely mission critical. Not long ago I dropped mine into a toilet bowl and had to do without it until the phone company delivered a new one the next day. Surprisingly, my company failed to collapse in the mean time. By the way, a spare battery would have been completely useless and in my whole 12 years of owning a mobile phone, I've dropped more of them in toilets (i.e. one) than I've had battery failures.
Maybe it's different in the States, but in the UK, the mobile phone market works exactly as if the phone is a disposable device. I'm actually surprised that the iPhone gained any traction here at all because people expect to be given a phone with their contract and expect to be offered a new one when their contract is about to expire. Nobody here keeps a phone long enough for the battery to die.
No it isn't. Not unless you can demonstrate that answering your e-mails on the flight rather than waiting until the aeroplane has landed makes your company more than $20.
Or you could save yourself $20 and do without the Internet for a few hours.
In what sense is Brian May, world famous guitarist with Queen and physics PhD unsung?
A critical security bug remained undetected by the "many eyes" for nearly two years. If that's your definition of "it worked" I'd love to see a case of it not working.
If the definition of the process not working is that the bug remains undetected forever, then of course we'll never see any failures because any bug discovered no matter how long after it is introduced is automatically evidence for the "it works" side. I submit that such a definition is completely meaningless.
The Debian SSL snafu was a monumental screw up. Pretending otherwise doesn't do anybody any good.
I dispute that. Your case is actually pretty rare. In fact I don't know anybody who carries around a spare battery for their mobile phone. Apple made a design choice. Presumably they weighed up the loss of a very small section of the market against benefits (to them) of a non replaceable battery. The fact that people seem to be buying these things as fast as they are made suggests Apple did not make a poor choice.
I'm English too, but I disagree with you.
The government has no business legislating against rudeness. Talking loudly on a mobile phone is obnoxious and rude, but so is talking loudly. Are you going to make that illegal? What about listening to MP3 players? Or queue jumping? Or picking your nose? Or farting?
Smoking in an enclosed space is obnoxious and rude, but it is also harmful. That's why it is banned in the workplace in the UK.
Only $20 per trip? Even if the cost to the airline justified the price, I think I'd probably just manage without World of Warcraft for the duration than pay $20 when the hotel at my destination will probably give it to me for free, or at least a lower price.
Quoted for irony. Solaris isn't late to the game, it's been squeezed out of the game by commodity hardware running Windows. Sun started as a manufacturer of high end desk top workstations and that is where Solaris originates from. In fact, Sun was manufacturing desktop workstations before either Linux or Windows existed.
Too late. It's happened.
This shows that the moderation system sucks. The post is +5 informative and yet it's clearly false.
I'm surprised that, as a member of the tiny Apple fan base, you write in that tone.
If you are not a member of the Apple fan base, I suggest the fact that you could be bothered to read at least the summary and post this, proves your assertion incorrect.
I don't think anybody claims Apple's aims are aligned with those of the FSF. Apple's aims are to provide a return on investment for their shareholders. This means they need to make devices that people will pay for. They seem to be quite successful at it.
The most constructive thing you can do for the FSF is help them to make software that people want to use. Think about this, in spite of the fact that you can get Linux for free off the Internet, people still prefer to pay for Windows or Mac OS X or an iPhone instead of Openmoko. That should tell you where your priorities should lie.
No it isn't. The FSF need to produce software that people want to use. By the way, being able to open a terminal on a phone is not something that 99.9% of peope want to do.
No. The goal of transactions is to keep the data that is in the database consistent.
In fact, using transactions will increase the amount of lost data, assuming that the database is the only persistent data store in your system. Let's say you are inserting five records into your database and the power fails just after writing the second record. If there is no transaction, on reboot, the database will contain the two records written. If the five writes are wrapped in a transaction, on reboot, the database will contain the two records successfully written, but the DBMS will roll the database back to just before the first record was written, thus deliberately destroying some data.
The loss of data is a price that the developer chooses to pay because the integrity of the data is more important.