If you buy a license to broadcast over specific wavelengths, the Feds will happily track down unauthorized broadcasters, arrest and possibly even fine & imprison them.
If you are using some unlicensed spectrum like the 2.4GHz band, you have no recourse. Any unlicenced radio communication is required to not interfere with other people's use of the spectrum, and accept any interference without recourse.
First you need to distribute the 20MB+ Adobe Reader...
Then you find out that Adobe uses a custom installer that doesn't accept command line arguements to modify various installation parameters.
So instead, you need to download a 150MB Installshield tweak tool to disable ad banners, the Yahoo search bar, etc. That generates a.MST file that you apply to the Adobe MSI...
Its an absolutely horrible program... but management types get suckered in by the new "advanced" features.
The rules of what contract law considers a signature vary depending on the context. Laws have been amended to allow for oral authorization over the phone or digital signatures online.
Writing 'See ID' on your card is an excercise in retardedness more than anything else.
The signature panel is not there to prove your identity... its there to show that you agreed to the terms of the cardmember agreement. (ie you agree to pay) It has NOTHING to do with your card's security.
When you sign a credit card draft, it says something to the tune of "I agree to adhere to the terms of the previously agreed to cardmember agreement". Your signing the card signals that you agreed to adhere to that agreement.
Its an outdated and silly mechanism that still exists because the precise meaning of electronic signatures still varies in some jurisdictions.
The company is arguing that he signed an agreement that assigned ownership of his work to the company.
Whether or not he released it as GPL in the past, if he made modifications to it during his tenure as an employee, he needs to withdraw the code that belongs to his company or pay his company damages for violating his contract.
So this never had the right to release it in the first place!
I'm sure that many of them have. There's only a few hundred people being held in Cuba.
The current or Fourth Geneva convention is an extension of the Third Geneva convention, signed in 1929. The fourth convention added protections for civilians.
The "enemy combatants" held at Guantamano are not part of an organized army, and do not conduct themselves within the laws of war. In WW1/WW2, ununiformed soldiers were routinely shot on sight upon discovery.
The newspapers adopt an Oracle-like pricing model for advertisers (since billions of people CAN see your ad online, we'll charge you $$$ for it to appear there) which hurts them. Their real problem is that newspaper management are old-school newpaper guys who think in terms of the circulation of folded 11x19 sheets.
That's BS. Papers are advertising-delivery mechanisms, always have been.
If the papers actually thought about finding ways of putting their "real" paper advertisements (ie. NOT click-thrus) in the online edition, they'd have more effective advertising.
Alot of people actually pay for papers just for the ads. I often buy the Sunday paper just for the supermarket flyers and department store ads.
Its not the issue of programming in a language other than VB6, its the issue of porting existing internal VB6 and VBA (especially within Excel) applications to VB.NET. This problem is compounded by the fact that many of the 3rd party libraries in use aren't being ported to VB.NET either.
Microsoft will probably start ripping VB6 runtimes from future versions of MS Office & Windows -- so it is a big issue.
Similar issues happened during the Perl4 -> Perl5 transition on a smaller scale. It was painful process, enough so that the Perl6 developers are actually implementing a Perl5 runtime in Perl6.
Allow people to bid on ads based on the site's placement in the Yahoo directory.
Sometimes Adwords ads get thrown off by content on a particular page. I was running a personal blog running google ads as more of an experiment than anything (I got like 100 hits a week, nothing huge). Once I posted that I had purchased my first home, all of the Google ads turning into cheesy mortgage broker ads, even though none of the other stories had anything to do with mortgages.
Weighting website category classification & keywords would yield better results.
There are people who dislike Linux CD-Burning tools or even those with older distros installed who don't feel like reading docs and upgrading their kernels window & managers to get a new cd-burning app.
So the Nero folks saw this as an opportunity to sell their excellent product.
Most people choose the best tools for the job. The availability of commercial tools does not harm "open and free" systems. Has the avaiability of Oracle, Informix & DB2 affected the development of MySQL or Postgres?
No -- if anything they've improved the free systems by raising the quality bar.
"I believe that you are confusing an RDBMS with an object store."
Excellent point... I've worked with some huge CORBA systems with semi-custom object databases and have seen firsthand the pain these systems can put you through.
One of the bigger vendors whose software we use claims to be porting their entire system to an Oracle or DB2 backed system instead.
Of course, they'll probally use some J2EE monstrosity to implement the new system, so performance will still suck.
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If you buy a license to broadcast over specific wavelengths, the Feds will happily track down unauthorized broadcasters, arrest and possibly even fine & imprison them.
If you are using some unlicensed spectrum like the 2.4GHz band, you have no recourse. Any unlicenced radio communication is required to not interfere with other people's use of the spectrum, and accept any interference without recourse.
Have you looked at Google Groups lately? It sucks to the point that it is completely unusable.
The only good thing that Google has done with Usenet is that they never bothered to "upgrade" groups.google.ca yet.
Look for travel abroad programs and such, or take a leave of absence after a year.
College was a rewarding experience... more rewarding than travel in alot of ways.
Have you ever used X en masse on a big network?
X is a network hog, and the slightest network issue will completely fuck your X sessions. RDP is a great protocol.
I agree. The Bose system brings out the subtle nuances of Cage's moving performance.
First you need to distribute the 20MB+ Adobe Reader...
.MST file that you apply to the Adobe MSI...
Then you find out that Adobe uses a custom installer that doesn't accept command line arguements to modify various installation parameters.
So instead, you need to download a 150MB Installshield tweak tool to disable ad banners, the Yahoo search bar, etc. That generates a
Its an absolutely horrible program... but management types get suckered in by the new "advanced" features.
Produce the highest fidelity output possible.
Just make sure you use Bose speakers, none of that Sony or Nakamichi junk.
The rules of what contract law considers a signature vary depending on the context. Laws have been amended to allow for oral authorization over the phone or digital signatures online.
Writing 'See ID' on your card is an excercise in retardedness more than anything else.
The signature panel is not there to prove your identity... its there to show that you agreed to the terms of the cardmember agreement. (ie you agree to pay) It has NOTHING to do with your card's security.
When you sign a credit card draft, it says something to the tune of "I agree to adhere to the terms of the previously agreed to cardmember agreement". Your signing the card signals that you agreed to adhere to that agreement.
Its an outdated and silly mechanism that still exists because the precise meaning of electronic signatures still varies in some jurisdictions.
You'd be suprised what gets through.
I once received a letter from an elderly relative in Ireland addressed to:
<my name>
<my town>
NY
USA
The company is arguing that he signed an agreement that assigned ownership of his work to the company.
Whether or not he released it as GPL in the past, if he made modifications to it during his tenure as an employee, he needs to withdraw the code that belongs to his company or pay his company damages for violating his contract.
So this never had the right to release it in the first place!
Univac knows all! All hail the Univac!
Who needs data integrity.
MySQL can run SELECT * faster than any database anywhere
I'd love to use bot nets to spot, stop or even patch new/unknown machines on my network.
I'm sure that many of them have. There's only a few hundred people being held in Cuba.
The current or Fourth Geneva convention is an extension of the Third Geneva convention, signed in 1929. The fourth convention added protections for civilians.
Actually, it isn't that cut and dry.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
The "enemy combatants" held at Guantamano are not part of an organized army, and do not conduct themselves within the laws of war. In WW1/WW2, ununiformed soldiers were routinely shot on sight upon discovery.
That is such an incredibly bad idea, I'm not sure where to start.
Do you really want the US Congress deciding what you can and cannot read?
If you do, you are the must incredibly naive person I have ever encountered... want to buy a bridge with a great view of Brooklyn?
The newspapers adopt an Oracle-like pricing model for advertisers (since billions of people CAN see your ad online, we'll charge you $$$ for it to appear there) which hurts them. Their real problem is that newspaper management are old-school newpaper guys who think in terms of the circulation of folded 11x19 sheets.
That's BS. Papers are advertising-delivery mechanisms, always have been.
If the papers actually thought about finding ways of putting their "real" paper advertisements (ie. NOT click-thrus) in the online edition, they'd have more effective advertising.
Alot of people actually pay for papers just for the ads. I often buy the Sunday paper just for the supermarket flyers and department store ads.
Honeywell is also known for making thermostats & furnace/boiler controllers.
What is the weapons systems reference there for? (Other than to slant the article against "evil" Honeywell?
Its not the issue of programming in a language other than VB6, its the issue of porting existing internal VB6 and VBA (especially within Excel) applications to VB.NET. This problem is compounded by the fact that many of the 3rd party libraries in use aren't being ported to VB.NET either.
Microsoft will probably start ripping VB6 runtimes from future versions of MS Office & Windows -- so it is a big issue.
Similar issues happened during the Perl4 -> Perl5 transition on a smaller scale. It was painful process, enough so that the Perl6 developers are actually implementing a Perl5 runtime in Perl6.
"Hot grits in every pot & a Beowulf cluster in every basement!"
Allow people to bid on ads based on the site's placement in the Yahoo directory.
Sometimes Adwords ads get thrown off by content on a particular page. I was running a personal blog running google ads as more of an experiment than anything (I got like 100 hits a week, nothing huge). Once I posted that I had purchased my first home, all of the Google ads turning into cheesy mortgage broker ads, even though none of the other stories had anything to do with mortgages.
Weighting website category classification & keywords would yield better results.
Give me a break.
There are people who dislike Linux CD-Burning tools or even those with older distros installed who don't feel like reading docs and upgrading their kernels window & managers to get a new cd-burning app.
So the Nero folks saw this as an opportunity to sell their excellent product.
Most people choose the best tools for the job. The availability of commercial tools does not harm "open and free" systems. Has the avaiability of Oracle, Informix & DB2 affected the development of MySQL or Postgres?
No -- if anything they've improved the free systems by raising the quality bar.
"I believe that you are confusing an RDBMS with an object store."
Excellent point... I've worked with some huge CORBA systems with semi-custom object databases and have seen firsthand the pain these systems can put you through.
One of the bigger vendors whose software we use claims to be porting their entire system to an Oracle or DB2 backed system instead.
Of course, they'll probally use some J2EE monstrosity to implement the new system, so performance will still suck.
At least the release of a new iPod iSock protective film isn't on the front page.