The idiots in the Senate aren't any smarter than us, but they are full-time lawmakers and usually started out in law practice.
Yep. And if they had been really good at it, they probably would still be practicing lawyers. Seriously, there aren't too many possible reasons for a body as solidly dominated by lawyers, as compared to other professions, to be so bad at producing good laws (ie. that can withstand judicial constitutional review).
Yep, And as a lactose intoleree, dairy-free Sorbetto is just wonderful... until you run out. I have yet to find a decent cheese substitute though, but then I'm of French descent and my standards for cheese are pretty high.
How much would they pay in credit card processing fees?
Nowhere near 30%, even if they had the worst Visa rate in history.
How much would it cost said developers to market their apps without a central App Store?
Unless you get lucky on your first few days when you get listed as a new app, or you manage to get a well-known reviewer or blogger to list your app in a top 10 list, you're going to be lost in Apple's 50,000 app list. You will still have to market your app. On Android however, you can sell the app directly and don't have to go through the Android market, so most of that money that would go to Apple or the Android Market can go to real marketing instead if you so wish.
I expect that that's the real reason why there aren't as many paid apps on Android Market. If you're just a small one man shop doing beer/fart apps, then the Market might be worthwhile, but for any publisher larger than than a few people, they're better off setting up a hosted server and running their own virtual storefront. Put a free version on the Android Market and point people to the private store if they're ready to purchase the full version.
If people pay with Visa, then the major advantages of the Market are
Higher consumer confidence in the Market's security practices regarding credit card information as compared to a small shop
Better availability (it's going to be more expensive to match Google's infrastructure than most vendors would be prepared to spend)
It also allows the developer to not have to go through lengthy PCI/DSS certification to set up their store to accept Visa/MC. However, considering Android Market support for paid apps is still quite limited, the value proposition from the Market's cut isn't sufficient for anything other than non-profits and others providing free apps, or the smallest app vendors. It wouldn't be for most Apple vendors either if the App Store didn't have a captive audience of users and developers.
Yah. The two games I would really like to see are Dungeon Keeper II (EA) and Alpha Centauri (Firaxis). I also would like to see Sid Meier's Pirates (Y2K). I own them all but can't seem to get DK II to run on my AMD64 and would like to play the others under Wine without DRM issues. I'll probably pick up a copy of MOOII, even though I own it and can play it under WinXP, just to future proof my playing ability by getting rid of the DRM.
It's a little like plausable deniability. It doesn't matter how good the encryption is as long as it's hard enough to crack that the DMCA clauses against unauthorized decryption come into effect.
My understanding is that Rackspace can only be held responsible for content they host if they attempt to regulate it. If they didn't attempt to regulate it as they're doing here, they would have protection.
Even if that's true in a legal sense, it's not the only consequence they are risking. A friend of mine described Terry Jones' plan on his Facebook update as "Florida Neo-Nazis planning Kristallnacht 2.0". While they're not quite organizing pogroms and cross burnings yet, book burnings are the first step down that slippery slope. A wise man doesn't stand beside a fanatic unless they share goals, because there's too high a chance of being collateral damage.
The problem is that Rackspace is essentially declaring here that they themselves do not support free speech, and they will apply their legal right to limit speech they don't like.
As someone pointed out, as a hosting provider, Rackspace does not have common carrier status, benefits, and obligations. As a result, if a hosted web site contains slanderous accusations or hate speech, they may become a legal, physical, or virtual target. Their network could get DDOSed as a result, they could find themselves as co-defendants in a lawsuit if violence erupts as a result of the pastors comments and actions, or their premises could be picketed or otherwise physically affected. Rackspace have responsibilities to their other customers, their employees, and their owners or shareholders, and they have decided that those responsibilities are more important than defending the speech rights of a bigoted church pastor. Can't say I blame them. If the pastor wants to keep offending people, he can pay more for a T1 or T3 to the church and run some servers to continue his unpalatable propaganda. Good luck getting it installed within 2 days though.
And then there's your sig, which shows the limits of your support of free speech.
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
For security purposes, perhaps. But for productivity purposes, failing closed causes people not to be able to get anything done. Failing open is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is noticed before too long.
Well, you generally run a stateful firewall because you're concerned about security, not because you think and extra packet inspection step is going to increase productivity. If people can't get anything done, you'll hear about it in short order and know to fix it. If you've left the system open and nobody notices any effects, then you may not find out until the next penetration test, which could be either a) quite a while later or b) done by a black hat.
No, you're an idiot. If it's not the GPL,then it's merely a "compatible" license and it isn't really Open Source.
Anything that doesn't enforce freedom for the modified code is not really Open Source. It's being a fence-sitting coward.
Real Open Source developers aren't afraid to make a statement and stand up for what's right.
You're confusing "Free Software", as in the Free Software Foundation that started the GPL, with Open Source. Free Software licences use copyright to enforce source distribution requirements for redistributed modified code. Open Source just indicates that the source is available. For the BSD/MIT/PostgreSQL licences they also state that the authors are not liable, and original development credit has to be given in any derivative work. The key words are right there in the names: Free, as in the defence of freedoms and associated rights, vs. Open Source, where the source is made available with the code (i.e. open for viewing).
The BSD and MIT open source licences precede the GPL by quite a time margin. The PostgreSQL licence doesn't coerce developers to release the source for any updates that they make, just to give appropriate credit to the PostgreSQL developers. However, many of the same software freedoms exist with BSD/MIT/PostgreSQL as with GPL. At any time, should anybody take core PostgreSQL development into a direction which is unacceptable to the rest of the community, or should the main organizations involved in PostgreSQL development terminate their support for continued open development (either due to business goals or lack of funds), any group can take over the existing code base, fork it and continue development in an open manner. The PostgreSQL licence doesn't coerce the release of modifications or patents back into the commons the way the GPL does, but it provides many of the other freedoms available from the GPL. This process has been successfully demonstrated, most notably with the double forking over a span of decades from X Consortium->xFree86->x.Org, through the use of the X11/MIT licence
Oh well, IHPBT since you now appear to be trying to start a flame war.
I thought I read somewhere that phones don't tend to implement the full GPS protocol but somehow supplement it with cell tower info. Would all cell phones "with a GPS" work as well as a real GPS receiver out in the bush far from cellular coverage?
More to the point, I expect stock option compensation also allows them to dodge income taxes. They probably pay capital gains tax on the price differential when they exercise the stock options, instead of higher income tax percentages on an equivalent income. No wonder they're willing to keep their official income within the lowest tax bracket if the really big paycheck is deferred income that's taxed far lower than the regular employees.
While it may not have been his point, his quote from the summary indicating that the outer cooling tank depleted first would seem to indicate that chances are the heat source is external to the device (aka the sun). Also engineers aren't stupid - if a device needs to be kept cool with a non-renewable coolant, they'll probably try to use a power source like solar panels that generate less heat than something like an RPG. The heat put out by whatever electronics are used for image capture, processing and transmission is likely to be much lower than the heat from incident radiation of unshielded solar radiation for most of its orbit duration.It's probably not a coincidence that this has happened shortly after a major solar flare spewed more energetic particles our way than usual.
Not surprisingly, if you actually RTFA, you'll see an "artist's conception" painting showing a large combination solar panel/solar shade. That said, the article also indicates that the instrument's inner cooling layer is liquid hydrogen (not surprising if it needs to be at 12K since not many things get that cold this close to the sun), so the outer cooling layer which has gone dry was most likely using much warmer liquid nitrogen as a buffer to limit the cooling requirements for the LH layer. If the liquid nitrogen has evaporated then the liquid hydrogen won't last much longer either since it is now carrying the heat load for both cooling layers.
More to the point, there's evidence that subsequent births affects the womb and hormonal mix in ways that affect child development and personality in at least one significant way. So it wouldn't be surprising if it had other developmental effects.
"(on average)"
MMVII and MMVIII - 2 out of 11
vs. MM, MMI, MMV, MMX
and the others are 4 letters in either Roman or Arabic numerals. So on average it hasn't been true since 2010.
Indeed, unless eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, and every other network store has a server co-located in Mom&Pop ISP's data centre (or another one in the same state) handling all transactions for that ISP, then any of M&P's clients performing transactions with those stores are performing transactions clearly covered by the Commerce clause. Therefore any interference or influence that M&P ISP may exert on those transactions would also necessarily be covered by the Commerce clause. This might still leave open a whole bunch of abuses possible against non-commercial entities (for instance open P2P networks). That said it's unlikely that such a strict interpretation would be enforced - there are many other things regulated under the guise of the Commerce clause where the relationship is much more tenuous.
Exclusiveness contracts with distributors and retailers is another common tactic. See contracts from Pepsi and Coke in the 80's, O/S distribution contracts from Microsoft prior to the first US anti-trust action.
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Yep. And if they had been really good at it, they probably would still be practicing lawyers. Seriously, there aren't too many possible reasons for a body as solidly dominated by lawyers, as compared to other professions, to be so bad at producing good laws (ie. that can withstand judicial constitutional review).
Yep, And as a lactose intoleree, dairy-free Sorbetto is just wonderful... until you run out. I have yet to find a decent cheese substitute though, but then I'm of French descent and my standards for cheese are pretty high.
Nowhere near 30%, even if they had the worst Visa rate in history.
Unless you get lucky on your first few days when you get listed as a new app, or you manage to get a well-known reviewer or blogger to list your app in a top 10 list, you're going to be lost in Apple's 50,000 app list. You will still have to market your app. On Android however, you can sell the app directly and don't have to go through the Android market, so most of that money that would go to Apple or the Android Market can go to real marketing instead if you so wish.
I expect that that's the real reason why there aren't as many paid apps on Android Market. If you're just a small one man shop doing beer/fart apps, then the Market might be worthwhile, but for any publisher larger than than a few people, they're better off setting up a hosted server and running their own virtual storefront. Put a free version on the Android Market and point people to the private store if they're ready to purchase the full version.
If people pay with Visa, then the major advantages of the Market are
It also allows the developer to not have to go through lengthy PCI/DSS certification to set up their store to accept Visa/MC. However, considering Android Market support for paid apps is still quite limited, the value proposition from the Market's cut isn't sufficient for anything other than non-profits and others providing free apps, or the smallest app vendors. It wouldn't be for most Apple vendors either if the App Store didn't have a captive audience of users and developers.
Yah. The two games I would really like to see are Dungeon Keeper II (EA) and Alpha Centauri (Firaxis). I also would like to see Sid Meier's Pirates (Y2K). I own them all but can't seem to get DK II to run on my AMD64 and would like to play the others under Wine without DRM issues. I'll probably pick up a copy of MOOII, even though I own it and can play it under WinXP, just to future proof my playing ability by getting rid of the DRM.
It's a little like plausable deniability. It doesn't matter how good the encryption is as long as it's hard enough to crack that the DMCA clauses against unauthorized decryption come into effect.
Even if that's true in a legal sense, it's not the only consequence they are risking. A friend of mine described Terry Jones' plan on his Facebook update as "Florida Neo-Nazis planning Kristallnacht 2.0". While they're not quite organizing pogroms and cross burnings yet, book burnings are the first step down that slippery slope. A wise man doesn't stand beside a fanatic unless they share goals, because there's too high a chance of being collateral damage.
The problem is that Rackspace is essentially declaring here that they themselves do not support free speech, and they will apply their legal right to limit speech they don't like.
As someone pointed out, as a hosting provider, Rackspace does not have common carrier status, benefits, and obligations. As a result, if a hosted web site contains slanderous accusations or hate speech, they may become a legal, physical, or virtual target. Their network could get DDOSed as a result, they could find themselves as co-defendants in a lawsuit if violence erupts as a result of the pastors comments and actions, or their premises could be picketed or otherwise physically affected. Rackspace have responsibilities to their other customers, their employees, and their owners or shareholders, and they have decided that those responsibilities are more important than defending the speech rights of a bigoted church pastor. Can't say I blame them. If the pastor wants to keep offending people, he can pay more for a T1 or T3 to the church and run some servers to continue his unpalatable propaganda. Good luck getting it installed within 2 days though.
And then there's your sig, which shows the limits of your support of free speech.
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
It is if you work at the US patent office.
RMS is rational. He just has a very different set of priorities from most of the rest of the world.
Mixed references.
For security purposes, perhaps. But for productivity purposes, failing closed causes people not to be able to get anything done. Failing open is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is noticed before too long.
Well, you generally run a stateful firewall because you're concerned about security, not because you think and extra packet inspection step is going to increase productivity. If people can't get anything done, you'll hear about it in short order and know to fix it. If you've left the system open and nobody notices any effects, then you may not find out until the next penetration test, which could be either a) quite a while later or b) done by a black hat.
No, you're an idiot. If it's not the GPL,then it's merely a "compatible" license and it isn't really Open Source. Anything that doesn't enforce freedom for the modified code is not really Open Source. It's being a fence-sitting coward. Real Open Source developers aren't afraid to make a statement and stand up for what's right.
You're confusing "Free Software", as in the Free Software Foundation that started the GPL, with Open Source. Free Software licences use copyright to enforce source distribution requirements for redistributed modified code. Open Source just indicates that the source is available. For the BSD/MIT/PostgreSQL licences they also state that the authors are not liable, and original development credit has to be given in any derivative work. The key words are right there in the names: Free, as in the defence of freedoms and associated rights, vs. Open Source, where the source is made available with the code (i.e. open for viewing).
"PostgreSQL is released under the PostgreSQL License, a liberal Open Source license, similar to the BSD or MIT licenses"
The BSD and MIT open source licences precede the GPL by quite a time margin. The PostgreSQL licence doesn't coerce developers to release the source for any updates that they make, just to give appropriate credit to the PostgreSQL developers. However, many of the same software freedoms exist with BSD/MIT/PostgreSQL as with GPL. At any time, should anybody take core PostgreSQL development into a direction which is unacceptable to the rest of the community, or should the main organizations involved in PostgreSQL development terminate their support for continued open development (either due to business goals or lack of funds), any group can take over the existing code base, fork it and continue development in an open manner. The PostgreSQL licence doesn't coerce the release of modifications or patents back into the commons the way the GPL does, but it provides many of the other freedoms available from the GPL. This process has been successfully demonstrated, most notably with the double forking over a span of decades from X Consortium->xFree86->x.Org, through the use of the X11/MIT licence
Oh well, IHPBT since you now appear to be trying to start a flame war.
I thought I read somewhere that phones don't tend to implement the full GPS protocol but somehow supplement it with cell tower info. Would all cell phones "with a GPS" work as well as a real GPS receiver out in the bush far from cellular coverage?
More to the point, I expect stock option compensation also allows them to dodge income taxes. They probably pay capital gains tax on the price differential when they exercise the stock options, instead of higher income tax percentages on an equivalent income. No wonder they're willing to keep their official income within the lowest tax bracket if the really big paycheck is deferred income that's taxed far lower than the regular employees.
While it may not have been his point, his quote from the summary indicating that the outer cooling tank depleted first would seem to indicate that chances are the heat source is external to the device (aka the sun). Also engineers aren't stupid - if a device needs to be kept cool with a non-renewable coolant, they'll probably try to use a power source like solar panels that generate less heat than something like an RPG. The heat put out by whatever electronics are used for image capture, processing and transmission is likely to be much lower than the heat from incident radiation of unshielded solar radiation for most of its orbit duration.It's probably not a coincidence that this has happened shortly after a major solar flare spewed more energetic particles our way than usual.
Not surprisingly, if you actually RTFA, you'll see an "artist's conception" painting showing a large combination solar panel/solar shade. That said, the article also indicates that the instrument's inner cooling layer is liquid hydrogen (not surprising if it needs to be at 12K since not many things get that cold this close to the sun), so the outer cooling layer which has gone dry was most likely using much warmer liquid nitrogen as a buffer to limit the cooling requirements for the LH layer. If the liquid nitrogen has evaporated then the liquid hydrogen won't last much longer either since it is now carrying the heat load for both cooling layers.
I really don't see what's flamebait about the parent post, especially since it actually has an informative link.
Don't give up the day job.
More to the point, there's evidence that subsequent births affects the womb and hormonal mix in ways that affect child development and personality in at least one significant way. So it wouldn't be surprising if it had other developmental effects.
So on average it hasn't been true since 2000. And that statement will still be valid next year.
FTFM.
"(on average)"
MMVII and MMVIII - 2 out of 11
vs. MM, MMI, MMV, MMX
and the others are 4 letters in either Roman or Arabic numerals. So on average it hasn't been true since 2010.
Huh? John Sculley is the ex-Pepsi-Cola exec who nearly ran Apple into the ground, not Steve Jobs.
Interestingly enough, that hasn't been true for the year since MM.
So the bot is like a peephole optimizer?
Indeed, unless eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, and every other network store has a server co-located in Mom&Pop ISP's data centre (or another one in the same state) handling all transactions for that ISP, then any of M&P's clients performing transactions with those stores are performing transactions clearly covered by the Commerce clause. Therefore any interference or influence that M&P ISP may exert on those transactions would also necessarily be covered by the Commerce clause. This might still leave open a whole bunch of abuses possible against non-commercial entities (for instance open P2P networks). That said it's unlikely that such a strict interpretation would be enforced - there are many other things regulated under the guise of the Commerce clause where the relationship is much more tenuous.
Exclusiveness contracts with distributors and retailers is another common tactic. See contracts from Pepsi and Coke in the 80's, O/S distribution contracts from Microsoft prior to the first US anti-trust action.