Sorry, I misplaced the word. I meant to tie it to the fact that Apple's Safari is incompatible with older versions of their OS, while a third-party one is not. They broke compatibility a while back too, not just recently (and the old Safari, while fast, crashes consistently on way too many sites). I agree with you on the misuse of the word, but I don't think this is a misuse regarding Apple.
Any time an important ranking system is devised, those being judged will figure out how to cheat the system. Given how important these rankings are perceived to be, this should be no surprise to anyone. I am more surprised this is a surprise.
I'm surprised you're surprised that people are acting surprised; they aren't surprised, they just act that way for effect.
Heating and cooling once a month would expand and contract the soil, obliterating footprints eventually.
Obviously, we must protect the moon from this heating and cooling at all costs! I propose a tin foil wrapping suspended above the entire surface to block the sun.
For some reason I thought Opera was a pay browser (or had ads or something making it not free-as-in-beer). Yesterday I happened to visit their page and apparently it's offered without charge for desktop platforms (and without source code, of course). Ironically, it's the only browser that still supports the older Mac OS X 10.3.9; Apple's own Safari hasn't for years, and Firefox 3.x doesn't either.
I do, however, suspect that this device, if ever rolled-out, would be used to "preview" the devices on-site and if it beeped and flashed a green light at them they'd send it off for full analysis.
How does that address the taint issue? The moment the device is put in, the machine is tainted.
Use it [phone wiring] as a guide line for ethernet.
Or use it AS ethernet wiring. The place I'm in has 6-conductor phone wiring, and I needed to connect two computers in different rooms. Only two of the phone conductors are being used for phone, and 10base-T Ethernet only needs four (2 for TX, 2 for RX). I had to play with the wire assignments to get it working reliably, most likely until I got each of the TX and RX on their own pairs. It works great now, though I have to force the link to 10 Mbit/sec for reliability. It's probably 100 feet of phone cable total between the machines. I do realize that I'm probably broadcasting all the data sent across the link.
The summary seems to confuse innate differences with the gender distribution in the workforce. If the two were directly related, then a change in the workforce would mean a change in innate skills, which are pretty unlikely to have changed that drastically in the past 100 years.
If the argument used to be that the low number of women in math wasn't proof that women were poor at math, then the greater number of women in math now is likewise not proof that women are good at math; the number of women in math is much more strongly influenced by other factors besides innate ability.
The difference between an RFC and a law is that you can reasonably expect people to follow the RFC because it is in their own best interest to do so. A law, on the other hand, will always have an exception, a border case, or some other mitigating circumstance that will require interpretation. That is the job of the courts and lawyers.
That's the genius of Microsoft: they apply these same principles to things like RFCs and protocol specifications.
The voice-only interfaces are toll-free numbers so there's no text message fee, and they work from a normal phone. But hell, I tried Micrsoft's yesterday and could not get it to recognize "traffic" at all; it kept hearing it as "travel" or some obscure city name. I even tried on a wired landline with a wired (non-cordless) phone.
Did I miss something, or are we or are we not talking about television? From all the outrage being flung around, you'd think we were talking about something vital and necessary, like food or medical care.
And access to important news and weather information, though I guess a radio is sufficient for that (and runs on batteries). But I think in many "modern" places these days, a source of distraction is essential to deal with the utter bullshit that is society (I don't watch TV, just find other more interactive things to occupy my time with).
And the submitter devoted about a third of the supposed summary to raising this pet peeve issue of his. That's what the comments are for. Why is it so hard to hold one's tongue and submit an objective summary of the subject?
Proponents say they are key to promoting innovation in today's knowledge- and service-based economy.
I wonder if "think of the economy!" will find itself alongside the well-worn excuses "think of the children!" and "think of the terrorists!" for ramming broken laws through.
Also, what about filament evaporation? Apparently it continually evaporates and condenses, making the filament become thin in some spots (thinner = hotter = more evaporation = even thinner). And since it's constantly evaporating, wouldn't that mean this special surface would quickly become normal?
not ALL method patents are bad. Method patents traditionally cover things like industrial processes and medical testing, things that actually do require innovation and/or substantial investment in FDA approval. The trick is in writing a rule that filters out crap from patents that actually do make public policy sense. It's harder than you might think to come up with a blanket rule that threads this needle.
Maybe we must simply accept that some forms of innovation cannot be encouraged in this manner, due to the amount of stagnation this manner simultaneously spawns.
So if I don't steal your car, but only borrow it for a day and return it washed and waxed with the gas tank full, what is the point of claiming damages? That is sheer greed. It is the antithesis of what the Free Software Movement is all about.
Terrible analogy, Mr. uh BadAnalogyGuy; claiming damages would discourage you from using my property without permission in the future. Doing such a thing prevents me from using the car for that day, which might be a big problem for me on some days. It also risks wrecking my car so that I won't have it for many days, without warning. On the other hand, it doesn't cost the free (or otherwise) software author anything to use his software for a day or the rest of your life, and he probably won't even know you're using it, for the same reason.
The problem of freeloaders is approached here with sticks. [...] Instead, try the carrots approach. Make users fall in love with your project, so they actually want to give back to the software.
A freeloader is someone who puts a load on things; using free software doesn't burden the author. Since no load is being put on anyone, there is no giving back, but simply giving. This is a big point of free software, that it costs virtually nothing to allow everyone to use the software freely, so artificially restricting this is just wasting a free resource. Personally I feel that others using free software I write is a gift to me, as it gives me an audience and thus feedback and motivation to improve my software creation skills.
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And remember that Microsoft is legally a person anyway.
That's also your paragraph quota for the rest of this month.
Thanks, it looks promising, as the latest release was just a couple of months ago. Two new, good browsers in two days, nice!
Sorry, I misplaced the word. I meant to tie it to the fact that Apple's Safari is incompatible with older versions of their OS, while a third-party one is not. They broke compatibility a while back too, not just recently (and the old Safari, while fast, crashes consistently on way too many sites). I agree with you on the misuse of the word, but I don't think this is a misuse regarding Apple.
I'm surprised you're surprised that people are acting surprised; they aren't surprised, they just act that way for effect.
Obviously, we must protect the moon from this heating and cooling at all costs! I propose a tin foil wrapping suspended above the entire surface to block the sun.
For some reason I thought Opera was a pay browser (or had ads or something making it not free-as-in-beer). Yesterday I happened to visit their page and apparently it's offered without charge for desktop platforms (and without source code, of course). Ironically, it's the only browser that still supports the older Mac OS X 10.3.9; Apple's own Safari hasn't for years, and Firefox 3.x doesn't either.
How does that address the taint issue? The moment the device is put in, the machine is tainted.
Or use it AS ethernet wiring. The place I'm in has 6-conductor phone wiring, and I needed to connect two computers in different rooms. Only two of the phone conductors are being used for phone, and 10base-T Ethernet only needs four (2 for TX, 2 for RX). I had to play with the wire assignments to get it working reliably, most likely until I got each of the TX and RX on their own pairs. It works great now, though I have to force the link to 10 Mbit/sec for reliability. It's probably 100 feet of phone cable total between the machines. I do realize that I'm probably broadcasting all the data sent across the link.
The summary seems to confuse innate differences with the gender distribution in the workforce. If the two were directly related, then a change in the workforce would mean a change in innate skills, which are pretty unlikely to have changed that drastically in the past 100 years.
If the argument used to be that the low number of women in math wasn't proof that women were poor at math, then the greater number of women in math now is likewise not proof that women are good at math; the number of women in math is much more strongly influenced by other factors besides innate ability.
That's the genius of Microsoft: they apply these same principles to things like RFCs and protocol specifications.
What's wrong with watching ships in the water?
The voice-only interfaces are toll-free numbers so there's no text message fee, and they work from a normal phone. But hell, I tried Micrsoft's yesterday and could not get it to recognize "traffic" at all; it kept hearing it as "travel" or some obscure city name. I even tried on a wired landline with a wired (non-cordless) phone.
And access to important news and weather information, though I guess a radio is sufficient for that (and runs on batteries). But I think in many "modern" places these days, a source of distraction is essential to deal with the utter bullshit that is society (I don't watch TV, just find other more interactive things to occupy my time with).
Goog-411 anyone? Been around for years too...
Only if the author creates a public help forum or publishes his email address, and spends time responding to such requests.
And the submitter devoted about a third of the supposed summary to raising this pet peeve issue of his. That's what the comments are for. Why is it so hard to hold one's tongue and submit an objective summary of the subject?
I wonder if "think of the economy!" will find itself alongside the well-worn excuses "think of the children!" and "think of the terrorists!" for ramming broken laws through.
Also, what about filament evaporation? Apparently it continually evaporates and condenses, making the filament become thin in some spots (thinner = hotter = more evaporation = even thinner). And since it's constantly evaporating, wouldn't that mean this special surface would quickly become normal?
Maybe we must simply accept that some forms of innovation cannot be encouraged in this manner, due to the amount of stagnation this manner simultaneously spawns.
Corporations are people too!
Terrible analogy, Mr. uh BadAnalogyGuy; claiming damages would discourage you from using my property without permission in the future. Doing such a thing prevents me from using the car for that day, which might be a big problem for me on some days. It also risks wrecking my car so that I won't have it for many days, without warning. On the other hand, it doesn't cost the free (or otherwise) software author anything to use his software for a day or the rest of your life, and he probably won't even know you're using it, for the same reason.
A freeloader is someone who puts a load on things; using free software doesn't burden the author. Since no load is being put on anyone, there is no giving back, but simply giving. This is a big point of free software, that it costs virtually nothing to allow everyone to use the software freely, so artificially restricting this is just wasting a free resource. Personally I feel that others using free software I write is a gift to me, as it gives me an audience and thus feedback and motivation to improve my software creation skills.
I'm using an interface like that right now, as I... well, as I type this reply!
I guess back in his day cell phones had a long wire... be thankful they're now wireless!