It turned out that when small files were deleted all of the space wouldn't become free. My customer wrote thousands upon thousands of 150-200 byte files a day and deleted just as many. The entire team and my customer agreed this was clearly a bug. When brought up with Compaq (who had recently aquired Digital) the technical rep investigated and reported "this is not a bug, the code is being executed exactly how it's written."
You could have written a small program that repeatedly created and deleted small files, until the disk filled up, then demonstrated this on the rep's disk. "Oh I'm sorry, your disk is full, even though there are no more files than there were before I ran this demo."
Practices like selecting some unique feature of the MS software that is not duplicated by FOSS software, like the BSOD) or a proprietary protocol or format,and making that a requirement of the contract has been a standard practice of writing contract specs since, well, forever. It allows only one provider to "qualify".
Even simpler, just add "provider's name exactly matches Microsoft" as a requirement.
implies that it destroyed all life on the planet (the "life it was sent to find"). Instead, it sounds like its life detector merely destroys signs of life in the samples it's testing.
Perhaps it's not that we're wrong about there being some group of people screwing us over, just that we finger the wrong one. If so, the solution is to go after the correct one, so that nobody is screwing us over.
All the limitations you covered are inherent engineering ones. This limit for Windows 7 Starter Edition is entirely arbitrary. Along with imaginary property come imaginary limitations. It's all arbitrary.
"three strikes and you're out for 5 minutes" means that that account is locked out for 5 minutes, not just the remote machine that tried to log in. Duh?
[in] an interview McMaster gave to Fox News on Monday, in which he likened the site 'to a hotel or motel owner that knows prostitution is going on on their premises and fails to do anything about it especially after having been told.'
And here I thought Craigslist was just a website! I'll have to find out where my local Craigslist flea market is, and what its hours are.
Well actually I forgot to include the cost of a police force to keep people from copying the imaginary works without paying you, but usually you can get the citizens of your country to pay for that.
A skilled trade is an excellent way to make a good living; and is a way to do what you enjoy. cars need to be repaired, plumbing fixed, houses built and repaired. Those skills are both valuable and not easily replicated if you do quality work.
Yeah, but try getting paid every time someone makes use of your work; ain't gonna happen. Making imaginary things pays better, and new laws are increasing that every few years (already, it can pay my kids after I die).
So basically, "We aren't aware of any compromised data, so we're assuming there are none. Also, we don't know the type of virus or its origin, so we're likewise assuming it has no type and came from nowhere."
I don't think it's dyslexia; people read things with a quick glance, based on outlines of words and types of lines (lots of near-verticals, in this case). The $99 for a computer also suggested it from a place like Wal-Mart.
And you don't even need to require payment for music, just suggest a donation, which can be easily set up without any programming. Amazon's service would basically be like doing this and having only 40% of people make a donation when they download anyway. And even if you get fewer, it might still be enough (as opposed to as much as possible, which is based on greed).
obsolete - old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; gone into disuse; disused; neglected.
Turntables are none of these; they're still in use, still being produced, still having their designs improved, and still fashionable among a significant number of people.
This pattern, the so-called Axis of Evil, just shouldn't be there. Now an independent researcher from Canada says the pattern may be caused by the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space[...]
Does that mean that to get a clear view we need space crafts beyond the boundry?
That or to know the shape of the boundary so we can correct for it. Before we knew it was asymmetrical, we couldn't correct properly for it, thus we did need a craft outside it in order to reveal our error.
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You could have written a small program that repeatedly created and deleted small files, until the disk filled up, then demonstrated this on the rep's disk. "Oh I'm sorry, your disk is full, even though there are no more files than there were before I ran this demo."
I submit this as the next headline: Mars Robot May Spontaneously Undergo Nuclear Fusion, Releasing Huge Amounts of Energy that Melt Planet
Even simpler, just add "provider's name exactly matches Microsoft" as a requirement.
implies that it destroyed all life on the planet (the "life it was sent to find"). Instead, it sounds like its life detector merely destroys signs of life in the samples it's testing.
I think he meant a real one, not an inflatable.
Perhaps it's not that we're wrong about there being some group of people screwing us over, just that we finger the wrong one. If so, the solution is to go after the correct one, so that nobody is screwing us over.
Yes, exactly. Or they could advertise "2.2 GHz processor (reduced rate when running Microsoft Windows, due to licensing restrictions)."
All the limitations you covered are inherent engineering ones. This limit for Windows 7 Starter Edition is entirely arbitrary. Along with imaginary property come imaginary limitations. It's all arbitrary.
"three strikes and you're out for 5 minutes" means that that account is locked out for 5 minutes, not just the remote machine that tried to log in. Duh?
And here I thought Craigslist was just a website! I'll have to find out where my local Craigslist flea market is, and what its hours are.
Well actually I forgot to include the cost of a police force to keep people from copying the imaginary works without paying you, but usually you can get the citizens of your country to pay for that.
Yeah, but try getting paid every time someone makes use of your work; ain't gonna happen. Making imaginary things pays better, and new laws are increasing that every few years (already, it can pay my kids after I die).
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How is being accused of theft something you do? It's something someone else does to you.
Yeah, but the user might accidently follow the instructions in the file "malware", which ask that he execute "rm -rf *".
You repeat yourself.
So basically, "We aren't aware of any compromised data, so we're assuming there are none. Also, we don't know the type of virus or its origin, so we're likewise assuming it has no type and came from nowhere."
I guess this lays to rest the question "But who will sack the sackers?"
I don't think it's dyslexia; people read things with a quick glance, based on outlines of words and types of lines (lots of near-verticals, in this case). The $99 for a computer also suggested it from a place like Wal-Mart.
And you don't even need to require payment for music, just suggest a donation, which can be easily set up without any programming. Amazon's service would basically be like doing this and having only 40% of people make a donation when they download anyway. And even if you get fewer, it might still be enough (as opposed to as much as possible, which is based on greed).
I read "Wal Mart" at first too. W and M look similar, both with the up-down pattern, and "Wal Mart" is a more common phrase than "Wall Wart" for sure.
Unfortunately, having the high congress present kills he mood pretty quickly.
obsolete - old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; gone into disuse; disused; neglected.
Turntables are none of these; they're still in use, still being produced, still having their designs improved, and still fashionable among a significant number of people.
Well, at least Bush now has a good excuse for thinking there were WMD in Iraq. Maybe that Onion parody of him finding an error in Fermi calculations wasn't so far-fetched!
That or to know the shape of the boundary so we can correct for it. Before we knew it was asymmetrical, we couldn't correct properly for it, thus we did need a craft outside it in order to reveal our error.