If the music industry puts restrictions on their "work", would people be as upset when those restrictions are violated? Do we get the same sort of reaction when the music industry's "license" is violated?
I'm not attempting to troll here, but just trying to see where people draw the line.
He isn't talking about users; he's talking about programmers who code for the system and sysadmins who administer the systems.
Take the 2 major (commercial) Linux distros, SuSE and Redhat/Fedora. Take a look at the addon packages for them, and see how you have specific packages for specific distros as well as the specific versions of the distros.
Imagine you're Adobe, for example. Now imagine having to release a dozen different versions of Acrobat, one for each distro/version/architecture, etc.
I know LSB is a step in the right direction, but just a step or two doesn't complete the journey. What we need is a real summit (maybe in one of the conferences) where we lock all the major players into a room and have a deathmatch, I mean, a discussion followed by an approved standard, for the filesystem hierarchy.
You can also set up triggers which will text your phone, send you an email, or something of that nature which will tell when something is empty or near empty.
AFAIK, RFID tags don't come with a built-in weighing machine. They won't be able to tell if a container is empty or near-empty. At the most they will be able to tell if a container is in the fridge or not.
The project isn't fully developed, but the ultimate vision is to have the stuffed animal interact with a child, doing such things as playing games and reading stories. Because the bear is on a network, a parent could also use it to interact with a child remotely -- communicating or even taking snapshots through an embedded camera
When will parents stop relegating their childrens' upbringing to toys (including TV) and start giving the children what is rightfully theirs: a human touch? If you can't be bothered to play a central role in your child's life, then don't have a child!
what you want to do is say nothing about her intention of staying in the US or her marriage to you and get her in on a tourist visa. Once she is safely in the US, she can apply for permanent resident status.
DON'T LISTEN TO THIS MORAN!
If the INS (BCS) finds out that she LIED to them (as this guy is obviously suggesting), then they will bar her from the US for 10 years or something.
Do not, under any circumstances, lie to the INS (BCS). You will regret it for the rest of your life if you get caught.
First: chances are, as a Japanese citizen, she can enter the US without a visa. Second: if you married her in Japan, her marriage will be recognized in the US. I know, because I was married in a foreign country.
Do you think you're the first servicemember to marry a foreigner? Of course not! Service men and women have been marrying locals in Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. for decades. The INS (BCS) knows how to deal with this. It will not be a problem; just go to the US embassy and talk to them. They'll set you up just fine.
This appears to be an
Asus Pundit with Linspire.
The music server component is a hacked-up Slimserver, as clarified by Robertson himself (see link for more answers from him).
3x alone will pay for the 9/10 ideas that fail, and 5x is just cheese.
How come? Suppose you invest $1MM each in 10 companies. 9 of them fail; your loss is $9MM. If you make 3x on your $1MM that succeeded, your gain ($3MM) would not cover your $9MM loss now, would it?
Your investors want their 10x (or whatever factor the VCs expect) money back. VCs expect a huge multiple return on their initial investment, not just their money back. Remember that only 1/10 VC-funded companies are successful; therefore, on average, a VC expects 10x from whichever company does succeed.
Your initial employees, whose sweat went into the company in the early stages, now want a big payoff; the IPO does that.
You want to grow your company fast and need a large chunk of cash (this was the traditional reason for IPOs). This cash can be used for acquisitions, equipment (huge data center near Portland?), etc.
The IPO is not for operating expenses, which would appear to be the thinking behind the question.
I RTFA (I know, I should burn my/. membership card), but I got the feeling that the entire article could be summarised in a paragraph or two. There was a lot of handwaving, and not enough nuts-and-bolts stuff. I was looking for simple examples, etc. but other than links to Google's myriad offerings, there wasn't much else.
FTA: Forms based on current Web standards are used in every Google search, every Amazon.com sale, every automated blog entry, every online tax payment, and every Web e-mail log-in.
Wow... I didn't know these all-powerful "forms" were everywhere!
Let's not be pedantic here. How about you remove only the bad credit history, leaving the good stuff. Then your credit rating would be perfect. Happy now?
No it is not. The USPS has not received a dime from the government for decades. In fact, it used to get reimbursed for the cheap rates it offers to non-profits; now it doesn't even get that. On top of this, it can't raise rates at will (rate changes have to be reviewed by the Postal Rate Commission), and it is mandated to serve each and every address.
For $0.37, you can send a letter from Maine to Guam. Compare these rates with those in Europe, for instance; or even in Canada. I have heard horror stories about Canada Post that you wouldn't believe.
As someone else also mentioned earlier, the reason people are so skeptical of such "studies" is that these go counter to their own experiences.
As someone said, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence". In a lot of peoples' opinion, the claim that Windows is more secure than Linux is just that, an extraordinary claim.
How would the authors of their study reconcile it with something like this one, which showed that a default installation of Windows got infected with a virus within 20 minutes?
1. Pick up "smart water"
2. Break into someone's house and spray his stuff with it
3. Walk over to the cops and request a search warrant
4. Have the stuff delivered to your house at HIS cost.
5. Sit back and laugh as he's led to jail
6. Profit?
If I bought MS Office, and MS is putting out patches for it, I have the right to get those patches. If MS refuses to service me, then they can refund my money.
Why should I have to jump through hoops just because Microsoft says so? I am the customer, dammit.
Microsoft may have the right to refuse Windows upgrade downloads, but why do they refuse downloads of "productivity" apps like MS Office suite? As long as the software application is duly licensed, what right does Microsoft have to force the user to run it under "Genuine Windows" only?
A better solution than using GPS would be to tax based on the miles driven. Every car (at least here in New York; probably in California too?) has to be inspected every year at a state-sanctioned inspection facility. Have the facility report the mileage, and when you renew the registration every year, pay a tax based on the mileage.
Mind you, I'm opposed to such a scheme; but I'm opposed to invasive GPSes sitting in my car even more.:-)
A better solution would be to limit the possibilities for each domain. For example: ".com" can be limited to just plain ASCII. On the other hand, ".cn" can have the Chinese characters.
Think about it: the aim of the IDN is so that the native readers of a non-ASCII language can use domains which make sense to them. If ASCII doesn't make sense, then what about the ".com"?
This whole IDN thing was designed improperly. I can't imagine why the designers didn't bother to take a look at the myriad character sets floating around out there. Just a cursory glance at the Unicode book would have given them second thoughts.
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If the music industry puts restrictions on their "work", would people be as upset when those restrictions are violated? Do we get the same sort of reaction when the music industry's "license" is violated?
I'm not attempting to troll here, but just trying to see where people draw the line.
plus, it is cold here, I could use some warmth
He isn't talking about users; he's talking about programmers who code for the system and sysadmins who administer the systems.
Take the 2 major (commercial) Linux distros, SuSE and Redhat/Fedora. Take a look at the addon packages for them, and see how you have specific packages for specific distros as well as the specific versions of the distros.
Imagine you're Adobe, for example. Now imagine having to release a dozen different versions of Acrobat, one for each distro/version/architecture, etc.
I know LSB is a step in the right direction, but just a step or two doesn't complete the journey. What we need is a real summit (maybe in one of the conferences) where we lock all the major players into a room and have a deathmatch, I mean, a discussion followed by an approved standard, for the filesystem hierarchy.
AFAIK, RFID tags don't come with a built-in weighing machine. They won't be able to tell if a container is empty or near-empty. At the most they will be able to tell if a container is in the fridge or not.
When will parents stop relegating their childrens' upbringing to toys (including TV) and start giving the children what is rightfully theirs: a human touch? If you can't be bothered to play a central role in your child's life, then don't have a child!
DON'T LISTEN TO THIS MORAN!
If the INS (BCS) finds out that she LIED to them (as this guy is obviously suggesting), then they will bar her from the US for 10 years or something.
Do not, under any circumstances, lie to the INS (BCS). You will regret it for the rest of your life if you get caught.
First: chances are, as a Japanese citizen, she can enter the US without a visa. Second: if you married her in Japan, her marriage will be recognized in the US. I know, because I was married in a foreign country.
Do you think you're the first servicemember to marry a foreigner? Of course not! Service men and women have been marrying locals in Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. for decades. The INS (BCS) knows how to deal with this. It will not be a problem; just go to the US embassy and talk to them. They'll set you up just fine.
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Does MSN censor search results?
Still, looks like a nice box.
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Does MSN censor search results?
How come? Suppose you invest $1MM each in 10 companies. 9 of them fail; your loss is $9MM. If you make 3x on your $1MM that succeeded, your gain ($3MM) would not cover your $9MM loss now, would it?
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Does MSN censor search results?
There can be multiple reasons.
- Your investors want their 10x (or whatever factor the VCs expect) money back. VCs expect a huge multiple return on their initial investment, not just their money back. Remember that only 1/10 VC-funded companies are successful; therefore, on average, a VC expects 10x from whichever company does succeed.
- Your initial employees, whose sweat went into the company in the early stages, now want a big payoff; the IPO does that.
- You want to grow your company fast and need a large chunk of cash (this was the traditional reason for IPOs). This cash can be used for acquisitions, equipment (huge data center near Portland?), etc.
The IPO is not for operating expenses, which would appear to be the thinking behind the question.---
Does MSN censor search results?
MSN censors Scientology search results?
MSN censors Scientology search results
I RTFA (I know, I should burn my /. membership card), but I got the feeling that the entire article could be summarised in a paragraph or two. There was a lot of handwaving, and not enough nuts-and-bolts stuff. I was looking for simple examples, etc. but other than links to Google's myriad offerings, there wasn't much else.
You misunderestimate their utility...
Forms based on current Web standards are used in every Google search, every Amazon.com sale, every automated blog entry, every online tax payment, and every Web e-mail log-in.
Wow... I didn't know these all-powerful "forms" were everywhere!
No it is not. The USPS has not received a dime from the government for decades. In fact, it used to get reimbursed for the cheap rates it offers to non-profits; now it doesn't even get that. On top of this, it can't raise rates at will (rate changes have to be reviewed by the Postal Rate Commission), and it is mandated to serve each and every address.
For $0.37, you can send a letter from Maine to Guam. Compare these rates with those in Europe, for instance; or even in Canada. I have heard horror stories about Canada Post that you wouldn't believe.
Care to suggest any BitTorrent sites? Ever since Suprnova shut down, I'm finding it harder to get my BBC fix.
Sitting here stateside, I would pay to be able to download some BBC shows. Most of the time there's no option but to download.
As someone said, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence". In a lot of peoples' opinion, the claim that Windows is more secure than Linux is just that, an extraordinary claim.
How would the authors of their study reconcile it with something like this one, which showed that a default installation of Windows got infected with a virus within 20 minutes?
1. Pick up "smart water"
2. Break into someone's house and spray his stuff with it
3. Walk over to the cops and request a search warrant
4. Have the stuff delivered to your house at HIS cost.
5. Sit back and laugh as he's led to jail
6. Profit?
If I bought MS Office, and MS is putting out patches for it, I have the right to get those patches. If MS refuses to service me, then they can refund my money.
Why should I have to jump through hoops just because Microsoft says so? I am the customer, dammit.
Fine, then they should have an option for people to return their software and get their money back.
Microsoft may have the right to refuse Windows upgrade downloads, but why do they refuse downloads of "productivity" apps like MS Office suite? As long as the software application is duly licensed, what right does Microsoft have to force the user to run it under "Genuine Windows" only?
Then why include it? It would have taken less time to edit it out, than to add the disclaimer.
Mind you, I'm opposed to such a scheme; but I'm opposed to invasive GPSes sitting in my car even more. :-)
Think about it: the aim of the IDN is so that the native readers of a non-ASCII language can use domains which make sense to them. If ASCII doesn't make sense, then what about the ".com"?
This whole IDN thing was designed improperly. I can't imagine why the designers didn't bother to take a look at the myriad character sets floating around out there. Just a cursory glance at the Unicode book would have given them second thoughts.