This problem isn't common but it happens regularly.
So what you are saying is that it is common?
Common means it happens with a high frequency. Regular means it happens with a steady frequency.
When something happens once a year, it is regular. When something happens once a second, it too is regular. One of those however is more common of an occurrence than the other.
If an event happens every 100 years, give or take 20 years, it is NOT regular (Nor is it most likely common) However an event that happens every random 30-120 seconds, it is very NOT regular, but arguably common.
And so far, they've been holding anybody who makes a copyrighted work available as any downloadable file (over HTTP, FTP, or any flavor of P2P) you're doing so willingly. Nobody's ever been able to prove that they unwillingly installed such file-sharing programs.
The method of distribution doesn't matter at all.
unwillingly in this case would refer to, for example, downloading an.mp3 named after a Nine Inch Nails song off of their album that was given away for free, but instead it turns out to be something else like Metallica.
Copyright infringement was committed, however until you listened to the song, you were under the impression that you DID have distribution permissions for that song.
For music sharers, this type of claim would not at all be true, and it would be obvious once you see more than one thing being shared (One mistake is possible, two is rare, more than that is not an excusable mistake)
What bits of equipment would you remove to compensate for the extra weight?
I hate to say it, but sounds like the on-board secondary backup espresso machine will need to go:{
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There is already a perfectly good free DBMS It's called PostgreSQL. It's fast, what's even more important, it's correct and it's tried and tested. Get it here [postgresql.org].
I'm confused on your suggestion. You want Monty to take PostgreSQL, change it's license to closed source, and sell it as a product?
If not, I don't see why you would suggest it over MySQL, which is what he is trying to do that with currently.
As long as the iPhone is a closed platform with the only way to get apps through the app store
Minor detail in the grand scheme of things, but it is not the _only_ way. It is just the only non-contract-violating way.
Running one app on your computer while the phone is connected is all that is required to jail break these days. Then you have access to both other apt repositories of software, and other app stores. I even run my own apt repository of software that can even be restored through a full phone wipe and restore!
Not that I am excusing apples overall behavior. I too wish the phone came stock this way (Hell, I wish Microsoft would hurry up and steal apt, it would make using Windows so much less painful!)
But thinking that there is one and only one way to use your iPhone just because Apple said so is not being honest, even if they would love for everyone to believe that.
This should be a lesson on how not to design a Rover. Getting out of a sand trap isn't hard if you think about it beforehand and plan accordingly
Ah HA! I found you! I've been looking for you for many years, and here you were hiding on slashdot.
I just wanted to insult you, being that it is your own personal fault this poor rover is stuck.
Get your ass back to NASA and tell them all these things you have been to mars to see and think about and plan for accordingly! Before any more rovers are lost!
Put away the ranger, and become who you were meant to be!
Religious beliefs arose out of one of the characteristics that makes us human - our seemingly innate desire to ask questions about reality and know chains of cause-and-effect.
That is the first half, but you conveniently neglect to fill in the other half of what religious beliefs are for.
Yes, you are right, religious beliefs arose out of our innate desire to ask questions and know about cause and effect. Religious belief came to fruition when man took advantage of those desires to fill them with whatever answers gave them power over that man and others.
Carl Sagan said, "An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God." For him there was no dogma, just a tremendous appreciation for the wonders of our universe.
But Carl Sagan was wrong. That is not what an Atheist is, so the rest is moot.
That's the thing with religious people. There are three options here, A B and C. Atheists are all in C.
Religious people state there is no C and C can't be possible, so clearly they are in A or B. That is false. Nothing they say past that has any bearing on reality, other than making them look dumb for arguing it.
And in case you are one of those religious types, A = believe god exists B = believe god does NOT exist C = Does not know either way because no proof for A NOR B has been seen.
It's the same when I say I do not know if intelligent alien life exists. I do not know. There is no proof either way. Please stop saying that statement means "I state intelligent alien life can not possible ever exist in any way" because it is clearly not what I said. Thanks
You can't have ethics without believing in a faerie?
Nope, at least not according to the religious.
That's why no matter how good of a person you are, you need to be put to death on a burning stake if you don't believe.
I also think it's used as an excuse of poor personal morals, when doing something you know is wrong but in the name of God. Makes everything OK and warm inside see?
they are not our enemies, they do the job we give them.
Really... You give them the job of tazering a 16 year old boy 19 times, for not standing up when ordered by police, because he is too busy screaming that his back is broken... source
And you give them the job of dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair when he comes to the police station to ask for help... source
And you give them the job of murdering tens of thousands of innocent people whos only crime was living in the same apartment complex as as drug user or dealer. source
And you give them the job of destroying peoples laptops for having the audacity of knowing what the law says.. source, hell just scroll up to the TSA article on slashdot...
You sir are a bad horrible person, and represent a major problem in our country.
So this warrant was issued two years ago, he fled the country, started a new life, and there is (as far as I can tell) no evidence of him dealing drugs after that.
This is America, where you aren't allowed to start over and have a new life after realizing a mistake such as helping other people.
In the eyes of our police force, just because he stopped selling doesn't mean he isn't a horrible person that deserves prison time, but he's also never allowed to make a life for himself after supposedly 'paying his dues'. It is only acceptable to never let these people work or live in society again.
While granted the entire basis of our legal system is stated as rehabilitation, their actions over the last 300 years show the exact opposite is true in reality.
And if our police force has shown us anything, it is that a murderer is not worth going after because it will be too hard, yet someone selling $50 worth of pot is totally worth the tens of thousands (or more in this case) of dollars to track them down and ruin their life.
Compaq never had a good brand reputation to lose. They've made junk computers since day one. HP at least used to have a reputation as the best maker of printers - they still make good printers, but now I mostly think of them as the makers of the worst computers.
You do realize of course that the very computer you are using to bash Compaq would not be in existence if it wasn't for Compaq, right?
Nor would the computer of the person that modded you insightful:P
They were the ones that clean room reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS that every computer from the 80s until just a couple years ago makes use of. Even the past couple years, MOST "PC compatible" systems sold today still contain that IBM PC BIOS.
Compaq created and sold the first 100% IBM PC compatible computers, and that was one of the driving forces that turned the PC hobby into the PC industry it is today.
And the problem with being a janitor or just another facilities maintenance person is... what exactly?
The problem with being a janitor or just another facilities maintenance person is that janitors and maintenance people get treated like shit, despite the fact they are there taking care of things so you don't have to.
The entire problem being discussed is how people can be treated due to their job. Despite the fact there is a whole lot more work going on in IT than is involved with cleaning (no argument on maintenance however) and people in both professions are treated similarly unfairly by others who feel they are 'above' that type of thing.
However the cost of doing so would place it far far far outside of me being able to ever use it, and fairly far outside of millionaires wanting to use it. Yes it would probably cost that much.
However adding 6+ zeros after the price tag just to guarantee such a thing would not make people fly safer, it would make people not fly, and thus flying would disappear as an industry.
On second thought, I guess making the price of all tickets in the multiple millions of dollars WOULD provide safety in a round-a-bout way. Can't die on a plane if you can never afford to be on a plane;}
Really? Everyone was already downloading and listening to MP3s a good while back before the first iPod was released to the market and iTunes was launched. I mean, Napster was up and running since around 1999 and, way before that, IRC was swarming with channels dedicated to transferring MP3 albums through DCC file transfers.
So if "everyone" was downloading MP3's in 1999, why did IRC (EFnet for sake of over exageration) only have a max user count in the 6 digits when there are billions of people on the planet included in "everyone"?
I think by "everyone" you mean a very small group of technically minded folk that easily numbers under a billion.. probably closer to a million.
Unless of course one out of every 1000-10000 people counts as everyone now.
I'll leave it to you to explain why only a million technically minded people actually knew what MP3's were let alone used them pre-apple, and why tens of millions of non-technical people now enjoy MP3's due to Apple...
Say what you will, Google has transformed the decade far more than Jobs and Apple have.
Well for one, no one said that Google has not, nor wasn't first.
Second, Google's owners got the same reward... last time (IE before Jobs)
So what's the big deal?
You already got what you wanted (Google to be recognized) and now that the award is given to Jobs, you still complain as if he doesn't deserve one at all for anything, or there can only be one person of the decade, or that the award matters in any way...
The big problem is that even if you do it perfectly so that you do no harm whatsoever, the odds are a number of those machines will have unrelated problems that you'll be blamed for.
On the other hand, perhaps my hackable-but-on-the-internet machine is that critical system that will kill hundreds of bunnies if it goes offline, and the system you just complained about the cleaning action is the one that automatically hacked mine.
With that logic, you should have the same amount of sympathy for me and my total disregard for those bunnies lives as you do about the other system.
So to keep the bunnies from dying, we must remove the other system from the Internet, to prevent it from potentially hacking my extremely out of date and vulnerable system that is so critical!
The face of the magnetic 'sphere' that is facing the sun (and thus the solar wind and all the magnetically charged particles that come with) push against the magnetic field, so that part of the planet surface sees it much closer inward.
On the other side of the planet, it gets stretched further from the earths surface, and tapers off towards the end due to the charged particles flowing around it (Think an airplane wing, but in all three dimensions instead of two)
In fac, it is the flow of these charged particles, starting at the side of our magnetic field facing the sun, that are pushed faster, and end up following the magnetic field and in to the earths pole. This causes the auroras in the sky at the poles.
If the magnetic field ends up weakening, the field lines could even split and earth would have multiple poles wandering around the surface until two other fields met up and merged later on. If that was to happen, the multiple poles would redirect charged particles from space down on more heavily populated areas of the planet and possibly have some health affects on us fragile humans. The up side is you will have many auroras at night over many spots on earth.
Actually I think you mistook the subject I was speaking of, however reading back over my post (and using the main article as context instead of just the parent poster, as I was doing when I wrote it) and I can totally see how I would be misread.
I was not referring to the Apple vs Microsoft people nor THAT opinion being stated as fact.
I was actually referring to the people who literally post to every research article and say the same "This can't be used to make money, so those scientist guys are wasting all their time and money", and to the ones who post to every article on any new piece of technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Billy Jim Bob Soft, _anything_) as "I wouldn't like that so this product is pointless and should not exist" and such.
Personally I own and love my iPhone (jb of course), however most iPhone articles here are guaranteed to get a larger percentage of posts that *insert non-iPhone phone* is better and how it is... I have no complaint with opinions, and even don't mind (actually prefer) to know the weaknesses of the things I own.
Most distros now push kernel updates more often - and they require reboots.
You should check out and install ksplice, as you already have a system with apt.
Between the two, you can do seamless full upgrades to user-space AND the kernel in memory. Fully up to date system with no rebooting required (At least until you upgrade to the 2.8.0 kernel... Maybe not even then)
Yes, there is a real burden here. A "brick" store only has to deal with exactly ONE tax rate, which is the rate for their physical location.
So to compare the two, it would be more like the government requiring all brick and mortar stores in the USA to collect sales tax not on where the item was SOLD, but for where the customer lived.
The comparable burden that the store would be required to ask all customers where they live, have tax tables for the entire country to charge accordingly, and also be responsible for the money when the customer lies.
Only then would it be 'fair' and comparable to forcing an online store to do the same* thing.
* Admittedly Amazon probably does sell items out of more than one state, but most small online shops only SELL physical items out of one warehouse.
Why do brick and mortar stores only have to collect sales tax for the place the sale happened, but online stores must collect sales tax for the state the customer was physically in when making the sale with you in your state/city/county?
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This problem isn't common but it happens regularly.
So what you are saying is that it is common?
Common means it happens with a high frequency.
Regular means it happens with a steady frequency.
When something happens once a year, it is regular. When something happens once a second, it too is regular.
One of those however is more common of an occurrence than the other.
If an event happens every 100 years, give or take 20 years, it is NOT regular (Nor is it most likely common)
However an event that happens every random 30-120 seconds, it is very NOT regular, but arguably common.
And so far, they've been holding anybody who makes a copyrighted work available as any downloadable file (over HTTP, FTP, or any flavor of P2P) you're doing so willingly. Nobody's ever been able to prove that they unwillingly installed such file-sharing programs.
The method of distribution doesn't matter at all.
unwillingly in this case would refer to, for example, downloading an .mp3 named after a Nine Inch Nails song off of their album that was given away for free, but instead it turns out to be something else like Metallica.
Copyright infringement was committed, however until you listened to the song, you were under the impression that you DID have distribution permissions for that song.
For music sharers, this type of claim would not at all be true, and it would be obvious once you see more than one thing being shared (One mistake is possible, two is rare, more than that is not an excusable mistake)
What bits of equipment would you remove to compensate for the extra weight?
I hate to say it, but sounds like the on-board secondary backup espresso machine will need to go :{
There is already a perfectly good free DBMS
It's called PostgreSQL. It's fast, what's even more important, it's correct and it's tried and tested. Get it here [postgresql.org].
I'm confused on your suggestion. You want Monty to take PostgreSQL, change it's license to closed source, and sell it as a product?
If not, I don't see why you would suggest it over MySQL, which is what he is trying to do that with currently.
As long as the iPhone is a closed platform with the only way to get apps through the app store
Minor detail in the grand scheme of things, but it is not the _only_ way. It is just the only non-contract-violating way.
Running one app on your computer while the phone is connected is all that is required to jail break these days.
Then you have access to both other apt repositories of software, and other app stores.
I even run my own apt repository of software that can even be restored through a full phone wipe and restore!
Not that I am excusing apples overall behavior. I too wish the phone came stock this way (Hell, I wish Microsoft would hurry up and steal apt, it would make using Windows so much less painful!)
But thinking that there is one and only one way to use your iPhone just because Apple said so is not being honest, even if they would love for everyone to believe that.
This should be a lesson on how not to design a Rover. Getting out of a sand trap isn't hard if you think about it beforehand and plan accordingly
Ah HA! I found you! I've been looking for you for many years, and here you were hiding on slashdot.
I just wanted to insult you, being that it is your own personal fault this poor rover is stuck.
Get your ass back to NASA and tell them all these things you have been to mars to see and think about and plan for accordingly! Before any more rovers are lost!
Put away the ranger, and become who you were meant to be!
Religious beliefs arose out of one of the characteristics that makes us human - our seemingly innate desire to ask questions about reality and know chains of cause-and-effect.
That is the first half, but you conveniently neglect to fill in the other half of what religious beliefs are for.
Yes, you are right, religious beliefs arose out of our innate desire to ask questions and know about cause and effect. Religious belief came to fruition when man took advantage of those desires to fill them with whatever answers gave them power over that man and others.
And that is not a good thing.
Carl Sagan said, "An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God." For him there was no dogma, just a tremendous appreciation for the wonders of our universe.
But Carl Sagan was wrong. That is not what an Atheist is, so the rest is moot.
That's the thing with religious people.
There are three options here, A B and C. Atheists are all in C.
Religious people state there is no C and C can't be possible, so clearly they are in A or B.
That is false. Nothing they say past that has any bearing on reality, other than making them look dumb for arguing it.
And in case you are one of those religious types,
A = believe god exists
B = believe god does NOT exist
C = Does not know either way because no proof for A NOR B has been seen.
It's the same when I say I do not know if intelligent alien life exists. I do not know. There is no proof either way.
Please stop saying that statement means "I state intelligent alien life can not possible ever exist in any way" because it is clearly not what I said. Thanks
You can't have ethics without believing in a faerie?
Nope, at least not according to the religious.
That's why no matter how good of a person you are, you need to be put to death on a burning stake if you don't believe.
I also think it's used as an excuse of poor personal morals, when doing something you know is wrong but in the name of God. Makes everything OK and warm inside see?
You are correct in that the OEM drivers built into Windows 7 do not support Apple hardware.
Just install the drivers off the OS X DVD into Windows 7 and all that hardware will work.
If your complaint is the drivers are not built into Win7, then you are complaining at the wrong company. Apple does not make Windows 7...
they are not our enemies, they do the job we give them.
Really... You give them the job of tazering a 16 year old boy 19 times, for not standing up when ordered by police, because he is too busy screaming that his back is broken... source
And you give them the job of dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair when he comes to the police station to ask for help... source
And you give them the job of murdering tens of thousands of innocent people whos only crime was living in the same apartment complex as as drug user or dealer. source
And you give them the job of destroying peoples laptops for having the audacity of knowing what the law says.. source, hell just scroll up to the TSA article on slashdot...
You sir are a bad horrible person, and represent a major problem in our country.
So this warrant was issued two years ago, he fled the country, started a new life, and there is (as far as I can tell) no evidence of him dealing drugs after that.
This is America, where you aren't allowed to start over and have a new life after realizing a mistake such as helping other people.
In the eyes of our police force, just because he stopped selling doesn't mean he isn't a horrible person that deserves prison time, but he's also never allowed to make a life for himself after supposedly 'paying his dues'.
It is only acceptable to never let these people work or live in society again.
While granted the entire basis of our legal system is stated as rehabilitation, their actions over the last 300 years show the exact opposite is true in reality.
And if our police force has shown us anything, it is that a murderer is not worth going after because it will be too hard, yet someone selling $50 worth of pot is totally worth the tens of thousands (or more in this case) of dollars to track them down and ruin their life.
There is an old saying that applies here: Never ascribe to malice that which can readily be explained by incompetance.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive you know...
Compaq never had a good brand reputation to lose. They've made junk computers since day one. HP at least used to have a reputation as the best maker of printers - they still make good printers, but now I mostly think of them as the makers of the worst computers.
You do realize of course that the very computer you are using to bash Compaq would not be in existence if it wasn't for Compaq, right?
Nor would the computer of the person that modded you insightful :P
They were the ones that clean room reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS that every computer from the 80s until just a couple years ago makes use of. Even the past couple years, MOST "PC compatible" systems sold today still contain that IBM PC BIOS.
Compaq created and sold the first 100% IBM PC compatible computers, and that was one of the driving forces that turned the PC hobby into the PC industry it is today.
Does your internet and VOIP work when the power goes out?
Yes. Yes they do.
Don't blame VoIP for the fact you didn't install a UPS on your phone equipment when what you really wanted was a UPS on your phone equipment.
And the problem with being a janitor or just another facilities maintenance person is... what exactly?
The problem with being a janitor or just another facilities maintenance person is that janitors and maintenance people get treated like shit, despite the fact they are there taking care of things so you don't have to.
The entire problem being discussed is how people can be treated due to their job.
Despite the fact there is a whole lot more work going on in IT than is involved with cleaning (no argument on maintenance however) and people in both professions are treated similarly unfairly by others who feel they are 'above' that type of thing.
But that's the point here. What do Macs or iPods have to do with GSM?
Even limiting things to GSM in the iPhone for a minute, Apple purchased Infineon GSM/EDGE RF chips to be used in the iPhone.
Is this not Infineons problem? Is not Infineon the company Nokia should be suing since they are the ones selling unlicensed chips?
The answer: No.
I would say Yes, we Can.
However the cost of doing so would place it far far far outside of me being able to ever use it, and fairly far outside of millionaires wanting to use it. Yes it would probably cost that much.
However adding 6+ zeros after the price tag just to guarantee such a thing would not make people fly safer, it would make people not fly, and thus flying would disappear as an industry.
On second thought, I guess making the price of all tickets in the multiple millions of dollars WOULD provide safety in a round-a-bout way. Can't die on a plane if you can never afford to be on a plane ;}
Really? Everyone was already downloading and listening to MP3s a good while back before the first iPod was released to the market and iTunes was launched. I mean, Napster was up and running since around 1999 and, way before that, IRC was swarming with channels dedicated to transferring MP3 albums through DCC file transfers.
So if "everyone" was downloading MP3's in 1999, why did IRC (EFnet for sake of over exageration) only have a max user count in the 6 digits when there are billions of people on the planet included in "everyone"?
I think by "everyone" you mean a very small group of technically minded folk that easily numbers under a billion.. probably closer to a million.
Unless of course one out of every 1000-10000 people counts as everyone now.
I'll leave it to you to explain why only a million technically minded people actually knew what MP3's were let alone used them pre-apple, and why tens of millions of non-technical people now enjoy MP3's due to Apple...
Say what you will, Google has transformed the decade far more than Jobs and Apple have.
Well for one, no one said that Google has not, nor wasn't first.
Second, Google's owners got the same reward... last time (IE before Jobs)
So what's the big deal?
You already got what you wanted (Google to be recognized) and now that the award is given to Jobs, you still complain as if he doesn't deserve one at all for anything, or there can only be one person of the decade, or that the award matters in any way...
So what's the big deal?
The big problem is that even if you do it perfectly so that you do no harm whatsoever, the odds are a number of those machines will have unrelated problems that you'll be blamed for.
On the other hand, perhaps my hackable-but-on-the-internet machine is that critical system that will kill hundreds of bunnies if it goes offline, and the system you just complained about the cleaning action is the one that automatically hacked mine.
With that logic, you should have the same amount of sympathy for me and my total disregard for those bunnies lives as you do about the other system.
So to keep the bunnies from dying, we must remove the other system from the Internet, to prevent it from potentially hacking my extremely out of date and vulnerable system that is so critical!
Do magnetic fields get bent?
Yes actually they do.
The face of the magnetic 'sphere' that is facing the sun (and thus the solar wind and all the magnetically charged particles that come with) push against the magnetic field, so that part of the planet surface sees it much closer inward.
On the other side of the planet, it gets stretched further from the earths surface, and tapers off towards the end due to the charged particles flowing around it (Think an airplane wing, but in all three dimensions instead of two)
In fac, it is the flow of these charged particles, starting at the side of our magnetic field facing the sun, that are pushed faster, and end up following the magnetic field and in to the earths pole. This causes the auroras in the sky at the poles.
If the magnetic field ends up weakening, the field lines could even split and earth would have multiple poles wandering around the surface until two other fields met up and merged later on.
If that was to happen, the multiple poles would redirect charged particles from space down on more heavily populated areas of the planet and possibly have some health affects on us fragile humans.
The up side is you will have many auroras at night over many spots on earth.
Actually I think you mistook the subject I was speaking of, however reading back over my post (and using the main article as context instead of just the parent poster, as I was doing when I wrote it) and I can totally see how I would be misread.
I was not referring to the Apple vs Microsoft people nor THAT opinion being stated as fact.
I was actually referring to the people who literally post to every research article and say the same "This can't be used to make money, so those scientist guys are wasting all their time and money", and to the ones who post to every article on any new piece of technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Billy Jim Bob Soft, _anything_) as "I wouldn't like that so this product is pointless and should not exist" and such.
Personally I own and love my iPhone (jb of course), however most iPhone articles here are guaranteed to get a larger percentage of posts that *insert non-iPhone phone* is better and how it is... I have no complaint with opinions, and even don't mind (actually prefer) to know the weaknesses of the things I own.
Most distros now push kernel updates more often - and they require reboots.
You should check out and install ksplice, as you already have a system with apt.
Between the two, you can do seamless full upgrades to user-space AND the kernel in memory. Fully up to date system with no rebooting required (At least until you upgrade to the 2.8.0 kernel... Maybe not even then)
http://www.ksplice.com/
Yes, there is a real burden here. A "brick" store only has to deal with exactly ONE tax rate, which is the rate for their physical location.
So to compare the two, it would be more like the government requiring all brick and mortar stores in the USA to collect sales tax not on where the item was SOLD, but for where the customer lived.
The comparable burden that the store would be required to ask all customers where they live, have tax tables for the entire country to charge accordingly, and also be responsible for the money when the customer lies.
Only then would it be 'fair' and comparable to forcing an online store to do the same* thing.
* Admittedly Amazon probably does sell items out of more than one state, but most small online shops only SELL physical items out of one warehouse.
Why do brick and mortar stores only have to collect sales tax for the place the sale happened, but online stores must collect sales tax for the state the customer was physically in when making the sale with you in your state/city/county?