If you've got some marvelous solution on how to block out arbitrary radio interference, patent the damn thing and make billions. I'm sure the airlines would be one of your first customers.
every single person should have their mouths taped shut.
But then they wouldn't be able to buy the $5 Cokes. How do you expect the poor MPAA people to be able to afford to eat, with that and the existence of DeCSS and DVD region hacks?
sure, there's another project ('Chimera') to create a Mac OS X-friendly version of Mozilla
They need to change their name. Chimera is a web browser developed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. UNLV has a right to the name, they were first!
At Comdex before the DeCSS fiasco, a vendor was advertising a DVD playback card that had "CSS support to play Hollywood movies" (undoubtedly with all the restrictions on copying/using the output that would entail).
I predicted the whole DVD fiasco here
on November 21, 1998.
Wow! So cutting edge! Suse 8 had KDE 3 ages ago, now Slackware 8.1 is out and has it, and we should be excited that Debian has finally come out with support for a now quite obsolete version of KDE.
Heck if you want technology that is that old, go back to DOS. Or FreeDOS so you can still be a "Open-Source Supporter".
Hope this isn't modded as flamebait.
P.S. They are hiding the karma scores now. That sucks.
Visit slashdot, hit ctrl-I and notice the rendering mode. "Quirks mode" instead of "Standards compliant mode".
Slashdot should follow web standards and set a GOOD example for the community, especially considering their prominence, influence, and the appearance of hypocracy if we preach about standards and do not follow them.
If the CBDTPA (S 2048) passes, and Palladium becomes the "certified security technology", it will be illegal to sell PCs or PC hardware which are capable of running Linux.
Linux on the desktop won't happen if it is illegal.
It didn't have transactions, and the only way to get them now is to use InnoDB (this is NOT used by default), which isn't completely integrated. InnoDB and BDB are taken from other projects, and would be better on their own.
MySQL developers have made claims that transactions and rollbacks are a bad thing! I kid you not.
They claimed one could have atomicity without rollback. Okay, so what do you do if a SQL statement which is part of a (user emulated) "transaction" fails. You are stuck halfway through, or else you might have to do a SQL statement that undoes what you did (good luck). And if that SQL statement fails, you are hosed.
MySQL does not (by default) support Atomicity, Consistancy, Isolation and Durability (ACID).
Their developers appear to not know the meaning of these terms.
MySQL isn't truly open source.
MySQL isn't a real database, it is a SQL interface to a file system. MySQL isn't much better than using flat files, and due to the complexity, is often worse.
PostgreSQL has none of these problems. And the performance is much better than the old versions.
Only use MySQL if you don't care about your data. Yeah, it might be fine for a web counter where if it gets hosed, big deal.
If you care about your data and need a REAL database which is actually Open Source, use PostgreSQL.
When my cell batteries goes "DEAD" (i.e. the phone powers off), if I wait a bit, I can get it to turn on for a bit (but only 2 seconds of "talk" time).
One time it took a few times to make it unrevivably dead. (I let it go dead because it had a memory effect [less and less capacity over time], even though the manual said that could not happen. My fix worked, BTW).
Some batteries may have a stronger "revival" effect than others.
It probably has something to do with chemical reactions and the capacitance of the cell.
In the US, all products must carry an implied warranty of merchantability
(gdb) show warranty
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Yeah, and if people just starting to use your product line have a VERY bad experience, what are the chances they'll be interested in buying the more expensive stuff you want to sell?
His "dip into a wading pool" resulted in a shark attack.
I don't think he's going to go that route again.
Either he'll go to a competitor, or just forget about PDAs entirely.
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Ebay has enough money to buy a judge if they so desired.
And the main function of the civil court system is to make sure the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
If you've got some marvelous solution on how to block out arbitrary radio interference, patent the damn thing and make billions. I'm sure the airlines would be one of your first customers.
CDMA/Spread Spectrum.
And on Southwest Airlines, they even take into account the weight of the passengers. ;)
Next there will be a story on how stupid people can't join the FBI.....
They can't?
Could've fooled me.
Let me guess, you are one of the the coders working on Windows...
every single person should have their mouths taped shut.
But then they wouldn't be able to buy the $5 Cokes. How do you expect the poor MPAA people to be able to afford to eat, with that and the existence of DeCSS and DVD region hacks?
;)
sure, there's another project ('Chimera') to create a Mac OS X-friendly version of Mozilla
They need to change their name. Chimera is a web browser developed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. UNLV has a right to the name, they were first!
Computers are now being used extensively in the medical field for everything from life-support, diagnosis, treatment, medical records and billing.
Hacks on billing systems will just cause financial damage, but hacks on the other types of systems CAN KILL.
Hacking SCADA and industrial control systems can KILL and/or cause MAJOR property and environmental damage.
Security holes can literally TAKE one's life.
Judge Kaplan didn't let EXCEPTIONS WRITTEN INTO THE DMCA ITSELF prevent him from ruling against the DeCSS defendants.
Don't count on judges to uphold the law.
(Unless of course, the side that is right is also the side with the most money - which is rarely the case)
At Comdex before the DeCSS fiasco, a vendor was advertising a DVD playback card that had "CSS support to play Hollywood movies" (undoubtedly with all the restrictions on copying/using the output that would entail).
I predicted the whole DVD fiasco here on November 21, 1998.
the inclusion of KDE 2.2 for the first time
Wow! So cutting edge! Suse 8 had KDE 3 ages ago, now Slackware 8.1 is out and has it, and we should be excited that Debian has finally come out with support for a now quite obsolete version of KDE.Heck if you want technology that is that old, go back to DOS. Or FreeDOS so you can still be a "Open-Source Supporter".
Hope this isn't modded as flamebait.
P.S. They are hiding the karma scores now. That sucks.
Want to get in shape?
:)
Migrate from UNIX to Windows. You'll get a lot of exercise walking to the server room to reboot crashed systems.
The site works fine in Mozilla 1.0, but try this.
Visit slashdot, hit ctrl-I and notice the rendering mode. "Quirks mode" instead of "Standards compliant mode".
Slashdot should follow web standards and set a GOOD example for the community, especially considering their prominence, influence, and the appearance of hypocracy if we preach about standards and do not follow them.
Try going to validator.w3.org and entering slashdot.org.
It is quite disheartening to see just how non-compliant the site is.
Currently, all the world uses the Metric System except for the US.
Liberia uses the same system we use.
If the CBDTPA (S 2048) passes, and Palladium becomes the "certified security technology", it will be illegal to sell PCs or PC hardware which are capable of running Linux.
Linux on the desktop won't happen if it is illegal.
It didn't have transactions, and the only way to get them now is to use InnoDB (this is NOT used by default), which isn't completely integrated. InnoDB and BDB are taken from other projects, and would be better on their own.
MySQL developers have made claims that transactions and rollbacks are a bad thing! I kid you not.
They claimed one could have atomicity without rollback. Okay, so what do you do if a SQL statement which is part of a (user emulated) "transaction" fails. You are stuck halfway through, or else you might have to do a SQL statement that undoes what you did (good luck). And if that SQL statement fails, you are hosed.
MySQL does not (by default) support Atomicity, Consistancy, Isolation and Durability (ACID).
Their developers appear to not know the meaning of these terms.
MySQL isn't truly open source.
MySQL isn't a real database, it is a SQL interface to a file system. MySQL isn't much better than using flat files, and due to the complexity, is often worse.
PostgreSQL has none of these problems. And the performance is much better than the old versions.
Only use MySQL if you don't care about your data. Yeah, it might be fine for a web counter where if it gets hosed, big deal.
If you care about your data and need a REAL database which is actually Open Source, use PostgreSQL.
See this article:
Why Not MySQL.
Keeping awake is based on your core temperature, not that of the skin.
Not drinking:
Low skin temperature with decent core temperature - awake, uncomfortable (which tends to keep one AWAKE), won't go into cardiac arrest.
Drinking:
Not so low skin temperature, but dangerously low core temperature: stupor, impaired judgement, and eventually, cardiac arrest, i.e. you are dead.
Do I really have to say which of the above is better?
Yes freezing doesn't "revive" the battery.
Cutting power draw to zero does.
When my cell batteries goes "DEAD" (i.e. the phone powers off), if I wait a bit, I can get it to turn on for a bit (but only 2 seconds of "talk" time).
One time it took a few times to make it unrevivably dead. (I let it go dead because it had a memory effect [less and less capacity over time], even though the manual said that could not happen. My fix worked, BTW).
Some batteries may have a stronger "revival" effect than others.
It probably has something to do with chemical reactions and the capacitance of the cell.
Let's go whole hog and make money in powers of 2.
$1, $2, $4, $8, etc. denominations.
It would make it so much easier for geeks to count, and make writing software for ATMs so much simpler.
;)
People in other countries use the same numbering system we do!
;)
10 means 10 for everyone (except for geeks that see at as 2 in binary or 8 in octal, or 16 in hex
Buy by credit card.
If they won't give you a refund, do a chargeback.
In the US, all products must carry an implied warranty of merchantability
(gdb) show warranty
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
(gdb)
Yeah, and if people just starting to use your product line have a VERY bad experience, what are the chances they'll be interested in buying the more expensive stuff you want to sell?
His "dip into a wading pool" resulted in a shark attack.
I don't think he's going to go that route again.
Either he'll go to a competitor, or just forget about PDAs entirely.
Debian doesn't even support the 2.4 kernel, for crying out loud!
Let's go back to 1999!
Debian is always WOEFULLY out of date.
Just because it is free doesn't mean it is good.
Just look at BSD!
(just kidding about that last one!)