If the UN allows Libya to be a voting member and you think the US is better than that because they wouldn't, I'd say the UN is more tolerant than the US regardless of the attitudes its member nations.
Just repeating and repeating them won't make your non-arguments any better. First, they need to post news like these because of the AB you seem to to like. Their investors have the right to know about major deals.
As for the porting, from the MySQL about page:
We want the MySQL server to be:
- The best and the most used database in the world
What people are worried about is not dying from bird flu. The number of people that die from human flu is larger by orders of magnitude, but there is a vaccine. What people worry about is that the bird flu virus and the human flu virus might combine to create *another* flu virus that affects humans as badly as the other human flu viruses do, and which we're not in any way close to mass producing a vaccine for, similar to what happened in the 50ies in Asia and also in 1918 worldwide.
Since when is giving free software to people running non-free operating systems a _bad_ thing? They're spreading Freedom-as-in-Speech to a world that lacks it. What could _not_ be good about that? They're giving freedom of choice to people that need it. They're infecting SCO users with OSS ideas. Why the fuck would someone who understands the whole OSS idea not like what MySQL is doing here?
The key fact some OSS zealots miss is that SCO users only USE products from SCO, they ARE NOT ACTUALLY SCO. Granted, SCO pays MySQL. They're still not who's going to profit from the deal the most. The actual users are going to be. They may be forced to use SCO software. Occam's razor dictates they are because using it voluntarily is, at this time, indefinitely harder to explain.
Please stop trying to keep those poor souls from switching to open source software.
I've actually recently read a novel that partially covers this! In Ben Bova's "Mercury", the space elevator is cut in halves, half of it falls down on earth causing mayhem, the other half disappears in space.
You can use almost any shell. Originally, the default shell wasn't bash anyway, but csh. It's still included. So is ksh, they made a lot of fuss about that one since it's widely used in commercial Unices. There's zsh, and tcsh. All of these you don't even need to install yourself. Oh, and the included bash is a version 2 bash, but you can of course install bash 3, too.
WLAN works too, with that special subset of available chipsets, and several different drivers to choose from, so definitely not out of the box. On the other hand, during my university time I've sometimes had my Linux notebook double as a (real) WLAN access point (using hostap for my Prism2 based PCMCIA card) when only one ethernet hookup was available, which is something other OSes (including Mac OS X) can't do easily and which is way more stable for large groups of users than access pointless (pun intended) WLAN. (Mac OS X probably can, but you'd need to learn how to use the command line tools...)
Just for the record, the recent hurricane was *not*, by far, the worst natural disaster in recorded history. It wasn't even the worst natural disaster in a year (although it involved lots of water, too, but the tsunami of 2004 killed an estimated 200 khumans and rendered much more land inhabitable)! The 1556 earthquake of Shensi, China, killed an estimated 840 khumans when there only were about 500 Mh as compared to current figures of 6.500 Mh. Scaled up to 21st century numbers, that's more than there are people in the US capable of thinking for themselves.
To get to know "evaluate JavaScript" in the DOM Inspector, try this:
Open the DOM Inspector on a page containing a form.
Select the form in the tree on the left side of the window.
Click the tiny arrow in the title bar of the right display and choose JavaScript Object as display mode. A node called "target" should appear, which you can unfold.
Now right click target and click execute javascript.
Enter "target.submit()" to simulate a user hitting the form's submit button.
To sum it all up, it's like the JavaScript console, only you can select an object in the DOM tree that will be known as target to your JavaScript code.
Since this is Slashdot, maybe add to Germany's record all the GPL copyright infringement lawsuits the netfilter team won against GPL violators in Germany.;)
You could connect more-than-1-button mice to Macs for a long time. Since the advent of USB you can use any standard PC USB mouse with Macs and they do know what to do with the extra buttons. For example, on a two button mouse a right click will have the same effect as command-left click, so even applications that don't even care about the difference will work with a two button mouse flawlessly. Mac OS X also supports scroll wheels without any configuration necessary. If you want more than one button or a wheel, just go ahead and plug in a wheel mouse.
The trash can icon changes into an eject icon when you drag a floppy.
Honestly I don't know which is better. Dragging the icon fits in nicely with the overall feel of the slot-in drive in my Mac, but I *can* press a button right next to it too if I like (F12, and the key also has the eject icon).
I think if you believe configuration options have been stripped out on Firefox because you're too stupid to handle them, and you believe you'd need to edit a 10 page configuration file to change them, you're a bit off. Possibly too stupid to locate them on about:config, though, but that's of course only half as bad.
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You might find the following link useful.
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If the UN allows Libya to be a voting member and you think the US is better than that because they wouldn't, I'd say the UN is more tolerant than the US regardless of the attitudes its member nations.
As for the porting, from the MySQL about page:
We want the MySQL server to be:
- The best and the most used database in the world
- Available and affordable for all
They're just working toward these goals.
Unfortunately, Disney and Pfizer have bought enough Senators to choke the Panama Canal
That is not the worst suggestion concerning what to do with some Senators I have heard by far.
What people are worried about is not dying from bird flu. The number of people that die from human flu is larger by orders of magnitude, but there is a vaccine. What people worry about is that the bird flu virus and the human flu virus might combine to create *another* flu virus that affects humans as badly as the other human flu viruses do, and which we're not in any way close to mass producing a vaccine for, similar to what happened in the 50ies in Asia and also in 1918 worldwide.
The key fact some OSS zealots miss is that SCO users only USE products from SCO, they ARE NOT ACTUALLY SCO. Granted, SCO pays MySQL. They're still not who's going to profit from the deal the most. The actual users are going to be. They may be forced to use SCO software. Occam's razor dictates they are because using it voluntarily is, at this time, indefinitely harder to explain.
Please stop trying to keep those poor souls from switching to open source software.
I've actually recently read a novel that partially covers this! In Ben Bova's "Mercury", the space elevator is cut in halves, half of it falls down on earth causing mayhem, the other half disappears in space.
You can use almost any shell. Originally, the default shell wasn't bash anyway, but csh. It's still included. So is ksh, they made a lot of fuss about that one since it's widely used in commercial Unices. There's zsh, and tcsh. All of these you don't even need to install yourself. Oh, and the included bash is a version 2 bash, but you can of course install bash 3, too.
WLAN works too, with that special subset of available chipsets, and several different drivers to choose from, so definitely not out of the box. On the other hand, during my university time I've sometimes had my Linux notebook double as a (real) WLAN access point (using hostap for my Prism2 based PCMCIA card) when only one ethernet hookup was available, which is something other OSes (including Mac OS X) can't do easily and which is way more stable for large groups of users than access pointless (pun intended) WLAN. (Mac OS X probably can, but you'd need to learn how to use the command line tools...)
If I'm not mistaken, he only wrote TFA, he doesn't seem to be responsible for posting it to Slashdot.
I second the flame against Cowboy Neal.
Just for the record, the recent hurricane was *not*, by far, the worst natural disaster in recorded history. It wasn't even the worst natural disaster in a year (although it involved lots of water, too, but the tsunami of 2004 killed an estimated 200 khumans and rendered much more land inhabitable)! The 1556 earthquake of Shensi, China, killed an estimated 840 khumans when there only were about 500 Mh as compared to current figures of 6.500 Mh. Scaled up to 21st century numbers, that's more than there are people in the US capable of thinking for themselves.
Yeah, these analogies, like myself, never work out.
That is not how steganography works.
Steganography works by encoding data within visible pixels.
I doubt that many people anywhere would lust after a cheap "simcar for people who can't afford real cars."
Coincidentally, http://www.smart.com/ exists.
They are supposed to bring knowledge, information and education to the dirt poor. Of course, the dirt poor have to play along.
:D
Maybe you should only be able to order beer and cigarettes online. Then advertise for the local library on the beer shop page.
To get to know "evaluate JavaScript" in the DOM Inspector, try this:
Open the DOM Inspector on a page containing a form.
Select the form in the tree on the left side of the window.
Click the tiny arrow in the title bar of the right display and choose JavaScript Object as display mode. A node called "target" should appear, which you can unfold.
Now right click target and click execute javascript.
Enter "target.submit()" to simulate a user hitting the form's submit button.
To sum it all up, it's like the JavaScript console, only you can select an object in the DOM tree that will be known as target to your JavaScript code.
DENIC comes to mind, they're running the second largest registry database world-wide after .com; they should be able to do it.
I usually compile on a tmpfs on those machines that have enough RAM (though you better not try that with OOo :D)
Germany is just a US-established democracy, not a real democracy.
Since this is Slashdot, maybe add to Germany's record all the GPL copyright infringement lawsuits the netfilter team won against GPL violators in Germany. ;)
You could connect more-than-1-button mice to Macs for a long time. Since the advent of USB you can use any standard PC USB mouse with Macs and they do know what to do with the extra buttons. For example, on a two button mouse a right click will have the same effect as command-left click, so even applications that don't even care about the difference will work with a two button mouse flawlessly. Mac OS X also supports scroll wheels without any configuration necessary. If you want more than one button or a wheel, just go ahead and plug in a wheel mouse.
The trash can icon changes into an eject icon when you drag a floppy.
Honestly I don't know which is better. Dragging the icon fits in nicely with the overall feel of the slot-in drive in my Mac, but I *can* press a button right next to it too if I like (F12, and the key also has the eject icon).
Most notably, OpenOffice's native format is based on zipped XML which can be manipulated by other software quite easily.
Microsoft are just patenting what Sun's been doing for a while now.
I think if you believe configuration options have been stripped out on Firefox because you're too stupid to handle them, and you believe you'd need to edit a 10 page configuration file to change them, you're a bit off. Possibly too stupid to locate them on about:config, though, but that's of course only half as bad.
Packet filters will have what?
What's wrong with iptables -A FORWARD -s protected.server.ip -d protected.server.ip -j DROP?