There are people who want a new OS every two years or so. By skipping this release, they're screwing those people who paid for a subscription, as they don't get anything out of it
There are people who want to keep using an OS as long as it suits their needs. But since the new Office won't run on legacy systems, and the old Office won't read the new Office's documents, these people have no choice but to upgrade.
The right thing to do is to release a new OS every two years or so, but continue supporting legacy systems.
Hmm. "this guy" was supposed to be a link to the comment that showed that the only real restriction listed was related to the network TOS. Not sure why it didn't show up; it was there in "Preview".
In addition to what this guy says, the people who own the copyright are allowed to put additional restrictions on top of the GPL. It's people who want to modify or redistribute it who cannot add more restrictions.
For example, i can write a program and put it on my website and say, "You can use this program under the terms of the GPL so long as you jump up and down first and call yourself a beagle." However, once they downloaded it, i couldn't stop them from making it available on their website without the jumping/beagle clause.
You should take your own advice. The modernized version of Archimedes' Law says that the upward force exerted on a floating object is equal to the mass of the water it displaces times the acceleration due to gravity. And Newton showed that the downward force on an object is equal to its own mass times the acceleration due to gravity.
Now, since the ice cube is neither sinking nor rising, we know that the net force on it is zero. Therefore:
(mass of displaced water) * (g) == (mass of entire ice cube) * (g)
Cancel the g's. The mass of the displaced water is equal to the mass of the entire ice cube. When the ice melts, the water line doesn't move.
What, you say? Just because i say it's mine doesn't make it mine? What, i have to get the international community to recognize it first, and they don't?
Oh well.
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I know! The double-standards are mind-boggling! One day, Slashdot hive mind says it prefers emacs, and the next day, they prefer vi! It's amazing that you can hear different things from different people sometimes!
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Sites have been suddenly deprived of their legitimated traffic, and are been forced to pay AdWords, Google Sponsor programs to survive.
I'm not sure what the word "legitimated" means, but you make it sound like web sites are entitled to their Google ranking. Google can do whatever they want. As long as its users are happy with their search results, capitalism is working the way it should.
Instead of being mad at Google for wanting to be paid money for driving more traffic to your site (you other option being to do nothing and still have Google drive slightly less traffic to your site, for free), you should be thanking them for years of sending you customers for free.
Thank god, someone else who knows that select and start aren't part of the code. For some reason, i have a pet peeve over people who add "start" or "select start" to the end, which are not part of the code.
Though you screwed up the second and third buttons.
No, select and start are not part of the code. The code is uuddlrlrBA. After that, you can do whatever you want. For example, uuddlrlrballldddbbaabba and then start.
A couple that's friends with my Dad go to Vegas almost monthly, and always come back winners. They play video blackjack and craps.
I'm sorry, but they're either exagerrating or they haven't been doing it very long. Check the odds. Unless you're Rain Man, you can't possibly beat the house on blackjack, and even if you are Rain Man, you can't beat the house on craps.
Here are the only ways to make money, long-term, on gambling:
Play blackjack, perfectly, counting all the cards. This will put the house advantage at somewhere between 0.00 and -0.01. If you make even one mistake an hour, you've blown your advantage.
Play video poker when there's a huge jackpot. Even so, you need a bankroll that's approximately the size of the jackpot, and you'll lose most of it before you hit the jackpot. And if someone else hits it first, you've lost a ton of money. When the jackpot is big enough to have a chance of winning, there will be a lot of competitors trying to get it before you.
Play Pai-Gow Poker against stupid people
Play poker against other players (i.e. not against the house). This one actually works pretty well, long-term. But it takes a lot of work.
It was called the Great Compromise, and it was essential to getting the original 13 colonies (except VA, NY, NC and PA, which were huge) to join the union.
Otherwise, about 35 of the current states would never think of joining the union -- their needs would never be represented. When the founders of California were deciding how big to make their state, they knew the rules, and they decided to make it huge. That had a number of advantages, but one disadvantage is that their votes count for less. And that's the same decision you have to make when you decide where to live. California has beaches, Wyoming voters have a larger proportional representation.
It is possible to have a good public transit system, though. I grew up on Long Island, and the LIRR was terrific (if a bit filthy).. trains run all night and at least for the lines that ran near my town, i almost never had to stand when i was doing the rush-hour commute thing.
Now i live in Manhattan, and the subways are terrific (if a bit more filthy).. that's why everyone from CEOs to homeless people ride them.
I'm sorry that your BART service is too crowded -- a friend of mine from SF once told me how she would get on a train in the wrong direction so that she could sit down, go two stops to the terminating station, and have a seat all the way home.
But i think that local and commuter mass transit can work really well if enough of an investment is made (running trains all night is a huge help too).. it's long distance train service that i think blows. With Amtrak, you pay for a ticket, go to the train station, and, um, wait around because your train is delayed an hour. Or, you can pay double and get a ride on the luxury train (on the east coast, it's called the Metroliner or Acela), which is basically the same train except it leaves on time.
What other industry could survive like that? "You can either pay us a reasonable rate and be almost certain to sit around in the station while your train is delayed forever, or you can pay us double, and for that, we'll actually provide you the service we advertise."
So when Gilette sells razors at a loss, and i buy them, use them to decorate my walls, and never buy the razor blades, i am doing something that should be illegal?
How about when the Wright brothers used popsicle sticks to make an airplane, instead of using them to make popsicles, as the manufacturer originally intended?
Wondering how some Slashdot reader was able to break this story a full hour before any other source?
Simple.
Check out http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/2002/Kotelly/ -- they forgot to forbid people to get a directory listing, so it was easy for someone to just keep hitting Reload until some new files appeared. Nice going, webmaster@dcd.uscourts.gov!:)
1. The post office will, in turn, be forced to raise the fees for bulk rate mail which, in turn, hurts the senders of it.
2. Don't write return to sender on the envelope. Instead, pull out the "No postage necessary" business reply mail envelope, and mail it back. Better, chop up those catalogs Lands End keeps sending you, and stuff those in the envelopes first. Their special discount rates only apply to the first ounce, so if you stuff it up they pay significantly more.
HACZBY : FADABOI CORPZ : MVDOMIZN HELLO TO KOTARI ON UNDERNET
Well, this shouldn't take the FBI long. A quick Google search shows that Undernet's Kotari owns the domain www.kotari.com, which he's recently taken down but still shows whois records..
Full details of why this has the potential to break things are on the XML news site Cafe Con Leche... Please read that before making uninformed comments.
Okay, i read it. Time for some uninformed comments!
Microsoft is really overstepping its bounds here. The DOJ needs to hit it hard.
IBM invented XML, so they can do what they want.
XML isn't even supposed to contain newlines, so what's the difference?
If we don't make this change, none of the XML parsers will be able to run after January 1, 2000
If you don't like the new XML, take public transportation.
What does downtown Manhattan have to do with anything? The Javits Center is on 42nd street, within easy walking distance from the Port Authority, or a short shuttle bus ride (which is provided for big conventions) from Grand Central or Penn Station.
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Your link is messed up -- it should be a .gov.
The complaint is twofold:
There are people who want a new OS every two years or so. By skipping this release, they're screwing those people who paid for a subscription, as they don't get anything out of it
There are people who want to keep using an OS as long as it suits their needs. But since the new Office won't run on legacy systems, and the old Office won't read the new Office's documents, these people have no choice but to upgrade.
The right thing to do is to release a new OS every two years or so, but continue supporting legacy systems.
Hmm. "this guy" was supposed to be a link to the comment that showed that the only real restriction listed was related to the network TOS. Not sure why it didn't show up; it was there in "Preview".
In addition to what this guy says, the people who own the copyright are allowed to put additional restrictions on top of the GPL. It's people who want to modify or redistribute it who cannot add more restrictions.
For example, i can write a program and put it on my website and say, "You can use this program under the terms of the GPL so long as you jump up and down first and call yourself a beagle." However, once they downloaded it, i couldn't stop them from making it available on their website without the jumping/beagle clause.
Your sig spells "Hilary" wrong.
You should take your own advice. The modernized version of Archimedes' Law says that the upward force exerted on a floating object is equal to the mass of the water it displaces times the acceleration due to gravity. And Newton showed that the downward force on an object is equal to its own mass times the acceleration due to gravity.
Now, since the ice cube is neither sinking nor rising, we know that the net force on it is zero. Therefore:
(mass of displaced water) * (g) == (mass of entire ice cube) * (g)
Cancel the g's. The mass of the displaced water is equal to the mass of the entire ice cube. When the ice melts, the water line doesn't move.
No, it's my territory!
What, you say? Just because i say it's mine doesn't make it mine? What, i have to get the international community to recognize it first, and they don't?
Oh well.
I know! The double-standards are mind-boggling! One day, Slashdot hive mind says it prefers emacs, and the next day, they prefer vi! It's amazing that you can hear different things from different people sometimes!
Sites have been suddenly deprived of their legitimated traffic, and are been forced to pay AdWords, Google Sponsor programs to survive.
I'm not sure what the word "legitimated" means, but you make it sound like web sites are entitled to their Google ranking. Google can do whatever they want. As long as its users are happy with their search results, capitalism is working the way it should.
Instead of being mad at Google for wanting to be paid money for driving more traffic to your site (you other option being to do nothing and still have Google drive slightly less traffic to your site, for free), you should be thanking them for years of sending you customers for free.
Thank god, someone else who knows that select and start aren't part of the code. For some reason, i have a pet peeve over people who add "start" or "select start" to the end, which are not part of the code.
Though you screwed up the second and third buttons.
No, select and start are not part of the code. The code is uuddlrlrBA. After that, you can do whatever you want. For example, uuddlrlrballldddbbaabba and then start.
That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. How do you think the landing site was able to communicate with Earth if they were on the far side?
I'm sorry, but they're either exagerrating or they haven't been doing it very long. Check the odds. Unless you're Rain Man, you can't possibly beat the house on blackjack, and even if you are Rain Man, you can't beat the house on craps.
Here are the only ways to make money, long-term, on gambling:
Maybe my geometry is no good, but i don't see where the number eight comes in.
It was called the Great Compromise, and it was essential to getting the original 13 colonies (except VA, NY, NC and PA, which were huge) to join the union.
Otherwise, about 35 of the current states would never think of joining the union -- their needs would never be represented. When the founders of California were deciding how big to make their state, they knew the rules, and they decided to make it huge. That had a number of advantages, but one disadvantage is that their votes count for less. And that's the same decision you have to make when you decide where to live. California has beaches, Wyoming voters have a larger proportional representation.
It is possible to have a good public transit system, though. I grew up on Long Island, and the LIRR was terrific (if a bit filthy) .. trains run all night and at least for the lines that ran near my town, i almost never had to stand when i was doing the rush-hour commute thing.
.. that's why everyone from CEOs to homeless people ride them.
.. it's long distance train service that i think blows. With Amtrak, you pay for a ticket, go to the train station, and, um, wait around because your train is delayed an hour. Or, you can pay double and get a ride on the luxury train (on the east coast, it's called the Metroliner or Acela), which is basically the same train except it leaves on time.
Now i live in Manhattan, and the subways are terrific (if a bit more filthy)
I'm sorry that your BART service is too crowded -- a friend of mine from SF once told me how she would get on a train in the wrong direction so that she could sit down, go two stops to the terminating station, and have a seat all the way home.
But i think that local and commuter mass transit can work really well if enough of an investment is made (running trains all night is a huge help too)
What other industry could survive like that? "You can either pay us a reasonable rate and be almost certain to sit around in the station while your train is delayed forever, or you can pay us double, and for that, we'll actually provide you the service we advertise."
Fish don't have shins.
So when Gilette sells razors at a loss, and i buy them, use them to decorate my walls, and never buy the razor blades, i am doing something that should be illegal?
How about when the Wright brothers used popsicle sticks to make an airplane, instead of using them to make popsicles, as the manufacturer originally intended?
Wondering how some Slashdot reader was able to break this story a full hour before any other source?
/ -- they forgot to forbid people to get a directory listing, so it was easy for someone to just keep hitting Reload until some new files appeared. Nice going, webmaster@dcd.uscourts.gov! :)
Simple.
Check out http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/2002/Kotelly
1. The post office will, in turn, be forced to raise the fees for bulk rate mail which, in turn, hurts the senders of it.
2. Don't write return to sender on the envelope. Instead, pull out the "No postage necessary" business reply mail envelope, and mail it back. Better, chop up those catalogs Lands End keeps sending you, and stuff those in the envelopes first. Their special discount rates only apply to the first ounce, so if you stuff it up they pay significantly more.
Quiet, you fool! You'll ruin everything!
HACZBY : FADABOI
CORPZ : MVDOMIZN HELLO TO KOTARI ON UNDERNET
Well, this shouldn't take the FBI long. A quick Google search shows that Undernet's Kotari owns the domain www.kotari.com, which he's recently taken down but still shows whois records..
I'm having trouble with the math -- i know that it's a log scale, so:
10^3.1 = 1,258
10^4.0 = 10,000
10,000 / 1258 = 7.94, not 2512.
Am i doing something wrong?
Okay, i read it. Time for some uninformed comments!
What does downtown Manhattan have to do with anything? The Javits Center is on 42nd street, within easy walking distance from the Port Authority, or a short shuttle bus ride (which is provided for big conventions) from Grand Central or Penn Station.