You presume that most people using Open Source application $X are also skilled enough programmers that they could implement any desired missing features themselves, given the inclination. That has the mark of a self-fulfilling prophecy to me -- if non-developers are made to feel unwelcome, then only developers will bother using Open Source projects.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, ask those who can nicely to consider adding the features you want for you. If you can prove your idea is good, someone will be willing to help.
Have you tried using your touch-tone pad when prompted to say your SSN and PIN? Your bank may very well be different, but every automated phone system I've used has allowed me to do either.
Granted, someone with a tap on your line would still be able to determine your numbers by analyzing the touch tones just as easily as from hearing you say them...
You said that African males' penises are "really big for their age compared to western societies". That doesn't sound like fact to me -- it sounds like conjecture at best, racial stereotype at worst.
Perhaps there are some clinical studies of penis size that I'm not aware of, but the ones that I have seen effectively debunk the "blacks are bigger" myth -- the median length for men of African descent was slightly higher than that for men of European descent, but the difference in mean was negligible.
Besides, I don't see the correlation between sperm count and erectile virility that you seem to be making.
The only one whom people who get this sort of degree are cheating is themselves.
As well as legitimate degree-holders from any school whose name isn't deeply ingrained in the public consciouness as legitimate. Sure, everyone knows a degree from "the University of Pennsylvania" is legit. But what about "Pennsylvania Polytechnical College"? Or "Pennsylvania Institute of Technology"? Hint: I made up one of the latter two.
it'll be pretty obvious once they start fucking up their job royally because they don't know what they're doing.
The Peter Principle applies. They may never find themselves in a position where their fraudulence is exposed. Meanwhile, they coast by, collecting a paycheck while better employees struggle to pay back their student loans.
Of course, in proper English one does not ask "at where" something is located. That construction is a Texan colloquialism, possibly with etymological roots in Spanish grammar.
I will acknowledge that attempts to write in secondary languages can result in more spelling mistakes, odd phrasings and sentence structures, erroneous pluralization and verb conjugation, and so forth. But given the examples in the article, I doubt that there's a language in the world that eschews grammatical structure so wantonly. Sometimes incomprehensibility transcends language.
Speaking of the article, what's with page breaks occurring in the middles of sentences? That's extremely bad style.
Most musicians make their money from show attendance.
Proof? I know some moderately successful small-label acts, and they're just as likely to lose money or break even from touring as they are to make a profit.
On the other hand, the company I work at has hired nearly a dozen tech resources as contractors over the past two years, and except for one that was determined not to be a good fit for the position, all of them so far have been converted to full-time employees after 12 months on the job.
Companies tend to like making contract-to-perm offers these days not to screw members of the workforce, but to make sure that members of the workforce don't screw them. Is it justified? I'm not sure.
Here's a question for the "EULA's are unenforceable" crowd:
The consumer software industry is almost thirty years old. The practice of enclosing license agreements in boxed software has been around nearly as long.
In all that time, has there ever been a court ruling addressing the question of whether post-point-of-sale EULA's are valid? If not, why not?
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
And Slashdot editors are discovering that when you tack your thoughts onto a story as part of the story submission itself, you aren't subject to the moderations of the public the same way you would be if you posted a comment like everyone else has to.
Okay, not all of them. Just michael. And he's known that for a while.
If all windows systems were taken offline then almost all viruses and the like would disappear almost immediately along with spambots and other unpleasent creations of the black hat fraternity.
Along with 95% of the userbase, and all the content they create.
It's common for internet old-bies to long for a return to the days of 1993, but I don't see why anyone would want to.
I wonder whether google will bother to fight it; this could probably be settled with some $
I'm sure it could. But on the other hand, Google would really appreciate a legal precedent explicitly ruling that they are not liable for the content on sites they link to.
It doesn't seem to me like it would be a very hard case for them to win (IANAL).
If they got the jewelry and valuables, then Mr. House Owner needs to somehow protect them better. It's entirely their own fault if someone smashes in a window and takes them!
(IIRC the DS has the GBA CPU as a secondary CPU, which like the Z80 in the Mega Drive is also used for backwards compatability)
IIRC (and it has been like 10 years), the Sega Megadrive/Genesis's Z80 was used only for controlling the sound hardware. The adaptor for playing 8-bit Master System titles on the system had its own Z80 built-in which was used as a general-purpose CPU.
You have to use the same thumb to move that you use to make contact with the screen.
The D-pad and the ABXY buttons both function as traditional WASD-style forward-back-strafe movement, and touchscreen gestures are used for mouse-like targeting. No reason not to use both thumbs together.
Just like Sprite is a completely different product line than Coca-Cola.
Nintendo may not be applying the "Gameboy" brand to their newest portable console themselves, but if it has an LCD screen and a D-pad+buttons controller layout and a GB Advance cartridge slot and plays GB Advance games...
Not only is it "free", but it's also "free quality". Maybe it's gotten better since the last time we tried to run a high-traffic production app on it, but we were not at all happy with its reliability.
> (every one and their mom developed a framework) Doesn't mean you have to use them all.
But you do need to (or at least should) use one of the many frameworks. How do you choose? Do you want to risk committing a million-dollar project to a given framework, only for the developers abandon it shortly thereafter?
> free as in beer (and preferably as in speech also). That's Java.
Java is hardly "free as in speech". It's a more open standard than many of its contemporaries, sure, but ultimately it's still Sun's to do with as it pleases.
You just simply would drive up to the "gas station", the empty battery gets pulled out, and a charged one installed.
Done, no muss, no fuss, no waiting.
Let's remember that the batteries that power all-electric vehicles aren't exactly the shoebox-sized bricks we typically think of when we think of "car batteries". Even in hybrid cars, the battery array is large and unwieldy, and it is a challenge for engineers to find a location for it that doesn't constrain the amount of usable trunk space.
For battery-swap stations to be a feasible the battery design would need to be: - easy to access, which means sacrificing cargo storage; - easy to connect/disconnect, which means more contacts which will be exposed as failure points; and - easy to lift, which for a typical motorist might mean no more than 40 pounds and the form factor of an ATX PC case.
I don't see all, or even any, of these design changes happening in the near future. If battery exchange means taking 20 minutes to unbolt the connectors, hoist the old batteries out of the otherwise-unusable trunk with a crane, drop new batteries in, and bolt the connectors back on, then the car's range better be great enough to last 2-3 months or more on a single charge.
Ah, Slashdot. The place where you get modded down to "Score: 0, Flamebait" for suggesting that it is not okay to steal a piece of software outright if you don't like the conditions it's being offered for sale under.
Seriously, kids. Grow up. The entertainment media corporations don't owe you anything. You're not entitled to anything.
Go ahead and send Valve a $1500 invoice for the time you spent trying to get HL2 running. It'll sure make it easier for them to come after you for admittedly pirating their software, after they stop laughing of course.
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Either quit bitching or MAKE THE APP SUPPORT it.
You presume that most people using Open Source application $X are also skilled enough programmers that they could implement any desired missing features themselves, given the inclination. That has the mark of a self-fulfilling prophecy to me -- if non-developers are made to feel unwelcome, then only developers will bother using Open Source projects.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, ask those who can nicely to consider adding the features you want for you. If you can prove your idea is good, someone will be willing to help.
Have you tried using your touch-tone pad when prompted to say your SSN and PIN? Your bank may very well be different, but every automated phone system I've used has allowed me to do either.
Granted, someone with a tap on your line would still be able to determine your numbers by analyzing the touch tones just as easily as from hearing you say them...
"The above are facts so do not mod me down."???
You said that African males' penises are "really big for their age compared to western societies". That doesn't sound like fact to me -- it sounds like conjecture at best, racial stereotype at worst.
Perhaps there are some clinical studies of penis size that I'm not aware of, but the ones that I have seen effectively debunk the "blacks are bigger" myth -- the median length for men of African descent was slightly higher than that for men of European descent, but the difference in mean was negligible.
Besides, I don't see the correlation between sperm count and erectile virility that you seem to be making.
Why let them open 3? You can keep Windows pluralized with only 2!
You have to keep a spare slot open for the inevitable "An error has occured" modal dialog.
The only one whom people who get this sort of degree are cheating is themselves.
As well as legitimate degree-holders from any school whose name isn't deeply ingrained in the public consciouness as legitimate. Sure, everyone knows a degree from "the University of Pennsylvania" is legit. But what about "Pennsylvania Polytechnical College"? Or "Pennsylvania Institute of Technology"? Hint: I made up one of the latter two.
it'll be pretty obvious once they start fucking up their job royally because they don't know what they're doing.
The Peter Principle applies. They may never find themselves in a position where their fraudulence is exposed. Meanwhile, they coast by, collecting a paycheck while better employees struggle to pay back their student loans.
My spelling and grammar are not the greatest, but I married an English major to compensate.
And conversely, an English major married you to compensate for the miniscule earning power that English majors have...
Of course, in proper English one does not ask "at where" something is located. That construction is a Texan colloquialism, possibly with etymological roots in Spanish grammar.
"Where is the library" is sufficient.
I will acknowledge that attempts to write in secondary languages can result in more spelling mistakes, odd phrasings and sentence structures, erroneous pluralization and verb conjugation, and so forth. But given the examples in the article, I doubt that there's a language in the world that eschews grammatical structure so wantonly. Sometimes incomprehensibility transcends language.
Speaking of the article, what's with page breaks occurring in the middles of sentences? That's extremely bad style.
Most musicians make their money from show attendance.
Proof? I know some moderately successful small-label acts, and they're just as likely to lose money or break even from touring as they are to make a profit.
On the other hand, the company I work at has hired nearly a dozen tech resources as contractors over the past two years, and except for one that was determined not to be a good fit for the position, all of them so far have been converted to full-time employees after 12 months on the job.
Companies tend to like making contract-to-perm offers these days not to screw members of the workforce, but to make sure that members of the workforce don't screw them. Is it justified? I'm not sure.
Here's a question for the "EULA's are unenforceable" crowd:
The consumer software industry is almost thirty years old. The practice of enclosing license agreements in boxed software has been around nearly as long.
In all that time, has there ever been a court ruling addressing the question of whether post-point-of-sale EULA's are valid? If not, why not?
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
And Slashdot editors are discovering that when you tack your thoughts onto a story as part of the story submission itself, you aren't subject to the moderations of the public the same way you would be if you posted a comment like everyone else has to.
Okay, not all of them. Just michael. And he's known that for a while.
Editing != editorializing.
If all windows systems were taken offline then almost all viruses and the like would disappear almost immediately along with spambots and other unpleasent creations of the black hat fraternity.
Along with 95% of the userbase, and all the content they create.
It's common for internet old-bies to long for a return to the days of 1993, but I don't see why anyone would want to.
I wonder whether google will bother to fight it; this could probably be settled with some $
I'm sure it could. But on the other hand, Google would really appreciate a legal precedent explicitly ruling that they are not liable for the content on sites they link to.
It doesn't seem to me like it would be a very hard case for them to win (IANAL).
If they got the jewelry and valuables, then Mr. House Owner needs to somehow protect them better. It's entirely their own fault if someone smashes in a window and takes them!
Please.
How many does Linux support?
...YET.
Better perhaps to ask how many architectures does Linux NOT support.
As far as I know nobody's been able to get it to boot on an Intel 8008...
(IIRC the DS has the GBA CPU as a secondary CPU, which like the Z80 in the Mega Drive is also used for backwards compatability)
IIRC (and it has been like 10 years), the Sega Megadrive/Genesis's Z80 was used only for controlling the sound hardware. The adaptor for playing 8-bit Master System titles on the system had its own Z80 built-in which was used as a general-purpose CPU.
I think Nintendo's overall game library on the GBA is abhorrent
You think the largest gaming system library ever--supporting thousands and thousands of titles over fifteen years--is "abhorrent"?
You have to use the same thumb to move that you use to make contact with the screen.
The D-pad and the ABXY buttons both function as traditional WASD-style forward-back-strafe movement, and touchscreen gestures are used for mouse-like targeting. No reason not to use both thumbs together.
Gameboy is a completely different product line.
Just like Sprite is a completely different product line than Coca-Cola.
Nintendo may not be applying the "Gameboy" brand to their newest portable console themselves, but if it has an LCD screen and a D-pad+buttons controller layout and a GB Advance cartridge slot and plays GB Advance games...
there are no free (as in beer) quality servers
Apache Tomcat.
Not only is it "free", but it's also "free quality". Maybe it's gotten better since the last time we tried to run a high-traffic production app on it, but we were not at all happy with its reliability.
> (every one and their mom developed a framework)
Doesn't mean you have to use them all.
But you do need to (or at least should) use one of the many frameworks. How do you choose? Do you want to risk committing a million-dollar project to a given framework, only for the developers abandon it shortly thereafter?
> free as in beer (and preferably as in speech also).
That's Java.
Java is hardly "free as in speech". It's a more open standard than many of its contemporaries, sure, but ultimately it's still Sun's to do with as it pleases.
You just simply would drive up to the "gas station", the empty battery gets pulled out, and a charged one installed.
Done, no muss, no fuss, no waiting.
Let's remember that the batteries that power all-electric vehicles aren't exactly the shoebox-sized bricks we typically think of when we think of "car batteries". Even in hybrid cars, the battery array is large and unwieldy, and it is a challenge for engineers to find a location for it that doesn't constrain the amount of usable trunk space.
For battery-swap stations to be a feasible the battery design would need to be:
- easy to access, which means sacrificing cargo storage;
- easy to connect/disconnect, which means more contacts which will be exposed as failure points; and
- easy to lift, which for a typical motorist might mean no more than 40 pounds and the form factor of an ATX PC case.
I don't see all, or even any, of these design changes happening in the near future. If battery exchange means taking 20 minutes to unbolt the connectors, hoist the old batteries out of the otherwise-unusable trunk with a crane, drop new batteries in, and bolt the connectors back on, then the car's range better be great enough to last 2-3 months or more on a single charge.
Your "remedy" is a violation of law, which pretty much negates any claim to the moral or legal high ground you might have had.
Go ahead, take a software vendor to court over some imagined violation of consumer rights laws. See what happens, I dare you.
Ah, Slashdot. The place where you get modded down to "Score: 0, Flamebait" for suggesting that it is not okay to steal a piece of software outright if you don't like the conditions it's being offered for sale under.
Seriously, kids. Grow up. The entertainment media corporations don't owe you anything. You're not entitled to anything.
Go ahead and send Valve a $1500 invoice for the time you spent trying to get HL2 running. It'll sure make it easier for them to come after you for admittedly pirating their software, after they stop laughing of course.
"IgnoramusMaximus" is indeed an apt name for you.