Seamstress work is still very much a manual process. There's a reason most clothing is manufactured in Mexico, Thailand, etc. Labor is a huge cost in clothes and I don't see that going away any time soon.
Books are entirely different, as the printing process requires little to no manual labor comparatively.
As a new resident of Minnesota, I'm having a hard time understanding what you are talking about. I understand at this time we do not have two seated senators. However, to my knowledge, after all court challenges are concluded, we will have either Norm Coleman or Al Franken as a senator.
I've seen them both on TV. Therefore, they are real people.
Servers aren't upgraded in a vacuum. Proper QA should include thorough testing to ensure the server, client libraries and application are all compatible.
Sure, a clean room implementation of client libraries is possible but it is pretty unlikely to be able to keep up with the DB maintainers. That's yet another reason(other than the long list I already have) to always use PostgreSQL. It's BSD, meaning you can do whatever you want, even roll it up and smoke it if you so choose.
I don't think anyone questions that MySQL AB sold the copyrights to Sun, or that they can't again be transferred to Oracle.
The copyright holder, also, in theory, reserves the right to revoke any licenses that were given out.
No, not in theory. Have you actually read the GPL? In GPLv3, read sections 8 and 10. In GPLv2, read section 4.
You obviously aren't aware of OSS projects where community contributions are only accepted with copyright assignment to the software maintainer.
You're correct that Sun, or Oracle(if they buy Sun) could litigate breach of license terms in MySQL, but so could any copyright holders that contribute to MySQL forks.
Well, even if the maintainers have the copyrights, that only means future versions can be closed source. They can't terminate the already-outstanding licenses without a breach of terms. They also own the trademarks to the MySQL also.
IMO, Sun lost the hearts and minds of the developers which is where the real value was. The trademarks and copyrights are worthless if the community views MySQL's direction is wrong and moves entirely to a fork.
This is a pretty fundamental problem for the RIAA. Most systems that allow listeners to use their fair use rights will also allow blanket copyright infringement.
DRM wasn't a good solution and really was a driving force for a lot of people I know to copy music.
I want my music in my car, on my shuffle, on my computer and who knows, maybe a little more on my flash card for when I'm at school and my shuffle is at home. RIAA would choose me to pay for each of those uses individually.
In industrial settings, cable breakage from mechanical flexing stresses isn't uncommon.
In residential or commercial use though, your typical ethernet cable shouldn't really degrade over time unless it is subjected to frequent connection. My personal experience leads me to believe cables running between patch panels and routers are pretty reliable, but those between cubicle walls and connected to laptop docking stations fail most frequently.
Pisses me off that the cheaper electronic devices get, the higher per-unit cost the Microsoft tax becomes. The net effect for consumers is they end up with less hardware for their dollar and netbook manufacturers get less profit.
I really hope the netbook manufacturers band together and just tell Microsoft this is a terrible idea and hold their ground. Microsoft may not bow to consumer demand, but they might to a unified OEM response.
I hate to ruin the party, but 70 lumens per watt is pretty terrible.
Sure, maybe that's a milestone for high power LED's, but it's not that useful compared to a low pressure sodium lamp that gets 160+ lpw. Also, both high pressure sodium and low pressure sodium lamps(2 most common street lamps) have a more pleasant spectrum on the eyes.
A pink or reddish tone is a lot better at illuminating streets than a faux white spectrum that has high peaks in the blue region.
Even 30 minutes of hard cardio? I'm not dinking around on the bike at 5 MPH, my heart rate is up over 120 for the entire 30 minutes.
My nutrition consists of: Roasted chicken, lettuce and cheese tortilla wrap around 10 AM. Usually a snack of yogurt or a cereal bar at noon. Dinner is typically cooked at home, either steamed vegetables, whole grain rice and beef or chicken. Other popular dinners are low carb meals such as BBQ ribs with salad or just a romaine salad with dressing, tomatoes, carots, mushrooms, etc., light croutons.
I'd say that is a lightweight, although maybe unbalanced diet. It's pretty low fat, low carbs, very very low refined sugar intake. I drink coffee, pomegranate juice(no added sugars at all, including HFCS) and milk. It does have only moderate dietary fiber and vitamins are probably lacking also.
I'm a male. No, I guess I misspoke. While 17% might not be obese, it certainly is higher than what is healthy for my gender.
Sure, lifestyle choices probably play a large part but there exist a plethora of examples such as myself who live predominantly healthy lifestyles and just don't lose weight. But what you also need to realize is that in the US at least, there have been huge changes in diet in the last 30 years.
Just think of all the things we consume that weren't in common use 50 years ago. Dextrins, high fructose corn syrup, calcium propionate, glycerides, modified food starch, genetically modified plants and hormone injected cows which in turn dramatically increases our intake of antibiotics, growth hormones, pesticide residues, MSG.
Face it. The average diet today doesn't look much like it did 50 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that our diet changes also have caused large changes in our bacterial ecosystems.
This would explain what was previously thought to be genetic obesity. I'm obese, as are most of my mothers family. My father is skinny and eats terrible food.
I eat very healthy and I exercise about 20-30 minutes a day(bike riding or swimming) and yet I still weigh 172 @ 17% body fat. Obviously for some people eating healthy and exercising isn't enough.
Whether its genetics or microbes, I don't really care. It does bother me though that people in general blame obese people for their weight. Maybe in a lot of cases that negative view is warranted, but probably for a lot of other cases like me, it isn't laziness.
Production of chemical weapons is illegal in the United States. We ratified the Chemical Weapons Ban and according to the OPCW, we have destroyed 45% of our stockpile.
Seeing as we had over 10,000 tons, I'd say we don't really need to produce any more as we already have more than anybody else.
You hit the nail on the head. There's a reason the EU is being more proactive with antitrust proceedings against Microsoft, and that is merely because MS is a strategic global resource for the US and a huge profit generator.
With MS being in the US, the US can dictate to an extent how certain MS operating system features work via legislation, and thus they can define how the world uses their PC's. As a specific example, I see trusted computing modules being legislatively required within 10 years. Already vast numbers of computers have TPM modules.
Certainly they have important uses, even in Open Source. TPM could make OSS voting machines a hell of a lot more secure than they are now. However, it could be a trojan horse in the future - designed to turn your PC into a media console machine at the will of the media conglomerates, advertisers and Microsoft.
Sure, this is all speculation. I think the important key here is that a monoculture in the consumer computing realm is destructive and only the foreign nations are willing to do something about it.
I actually find ITMS prices to be reasonable. Sure, I might find something cheaper if I searched around, but since ITMS has what I'm looking for normally and works conveniently with my iPod shuffle, I use it.
I download albums off TPB and if I like them, I buy them off iTunes. I will not support any type of physical distribution of music - that era is dead and gone and I don't want any music publishers to think otherwise.
Interestingly, digg did an interview with Trent Reznor of NIN recently and it was really intriguing. He had a lot of really insightful and balanced comments regarding the music industry and the direction of online content distribution.
I wish the music publishers would watch it, they might learn a thing or two.
I've found when transferring files across my local network, if I have any audio applications open I can't get more than 28-30 Mbps out of my wireless. If I close the audio application, I can often get over 40 Mbps.
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Seamstress work is still very much a manual process. There's a reason most clothing is manufactured in Mexico, Thailand, etc. Labor is a huge cost in clothes and I don't see that going away any time soon.
Books are entirely different, as the printing process requires little to no manual labor comparatively.
Exactly how does one get the constitution amended without support of their state representatives?
As a new resident of Minnesota, I'm having a hard time understanding what you are talking about. I understand at this time we do not have two seated senators. However, to my knowledge, after all court challenges are concluded, we will have either Norm Coleman or Al Franken as a senator.
I've seen them both on TV. Therefore, they are real people.
Servers aren't upgraded in a vacuum. Proper QA should include thorough testing to ensure the server, client libraries and application are all compatible.
Sure, a clean room implementation of client libraries is possible but it is pretty unlikely to be able to keep up with the DB maintainers. That's yet another reason(other than the long list I already have) to always use PostgreSQL. It's BSD, meaning you can do whatever you want, even roll it up and smoke it if you so choose.
I don't think anyone questions that MySQL AB sold the copyrights to Sun, or that they can't again be transferred to Oracle.
The copyright holder, also, in theory, reserves the right to revoke any licenses that were given out.
No, not in theory. Have you actually read the GPL? In GPLv3, read sections 8 and 10. In GPLv2, read section 4.
You obviously aren't aware of OSS projects where community contributions are only accepted with copyright assignment to the software maintainer.
You're correct that Sun, or Oracle(if they buy Sun) could litigate breach of license terms in MySQL, but so could any copyright holders that contribute to MySQL forks.
Did I get trolled?
Well, even if the maintainers have the copyrights, that only means future versions can be closed source. They can't terminate the already-outstanding licenses without a breach of terms. They also own the trademarks to the MySQL also.
IMO, Sun lost the hearts and minds of the developers which is where the real value was. The trademarks and copyrights are worthless if the community views MySQL's direction is wrong and moves entirely to a fork.
This is a pretty fundamental problem for the RIAA. Most systems that allow listeners to use their fair use rights will also allow blanket copyright infringement.
DRM wasn't a good solution and really was a driving force for a lot of people I know to copy music.
I want my music in my car, on my shuffle, on my computer and who knows, maybe a little more on my flash card for when I'm at school and my shuffle is at home. RIAA would choose me to pay for each of those uses individually.
Kind of funny considering the GPL would be powerless without copyrights. The entire basis of the FSF to enforce GPL compliance is copyright laws.
You could almost say that without copyright laws, the FSF probably wouldn't exist.
In industrial settings, cable breakage from mechanical flexing stresses isn't uncommon.
In residential or commercial use though, your typical ethernet cable shouldn't really degrade over time unless it is subjected to frequent connection. My personal experience leads me to believe cables running between patch panels and routers are pretty reliable, but those between cubicle walls and connected to laptop docking stations fail most frequently.
Insert toilet multiplexing reference here.
That is esentially the administrator password recovery tool.
Use "at" to schedule explorer to run. Kill explorer, wait 1 minute and yippy, you have explorer with system credentials(higher than admin).
Pisses me off that the cheaper electronic devices get, the higher per-unit cost the Microsoft tax becomes. The net effect for consumers is they end up with less hardware for their dollar and netbook manufacturers get less profit.
I really hope the netbook manufacturers band together and just tell Microsoft this is a terrible idea and hold their ground. Microsoft may not bow to consumer demand, but they might to a unified OEM response.
I hate to ruin the party, but 70 lumens per watt is pretty terrible.
Sure, maybe that's a milestone for high power LED's, but it's not that useful compared to a low pressure sodium lamp that gets 160+ lpw. Also, both high pressure sodium and low pressure sodium lamps(2 most common street lamps) have a more pleasant spectrum on the eyes.
A pink or reddish tone is a lot better at illuminating streets than a faux white spectrum that has high peaks in the blue region.
That was awesome. I hadn't seen that.
Even 30 minutes of hard cardio? I'm not dinking around on the bike at 5 MPH, my heart rate is up over 120 for the entire 30 minutes.
My nutrition consists of:
Roasted chicken, lettuce and cheese tortilla wrap around 10 AM. Usually a snack of yogurt or a cereal bar at noon. Dinner is typically cooked at home, either steamed vegetables, whole grain rice and beef or chicken. Other popular dinners are low carb meals such as BBQ ribs with salad or just a romaine salad with dressing, tomatoes, carots, mushrooms, etc., light croutons.
I'd say that is a lightweight, although maybe unbalanced diet. It's pretty low fat, low carbs, very very low refined sugar intake. I drink coffee, pomegranate juice(no added sugars at all, including HFCS) and milk. It does have only moderate dietary fiber and vitamins are probably lacking also.
I'm a male. No, I guess I misspoke. While 17% might not be obese, it certainly is higher than what is healthy for my gender.
Sure, lifestyle choices probably play a large part but there exist a plethora of examples such as myself who live predominantly healthy lifestyles and just don't lose weight. But what you also need to realize is that in the US at least, there have been huge changes in diet in the last 30 years.
Just think of all the things we consume that weren't in common use 50 years ago. Dextrins, high fructose corn syrup, calcium propionate, glycerides, modified food starch, genetically modified plants and hormone injected cows which in turn dramatically increases our intake of antibiotics, growth hormones, pesticide residues, MSG.
Face it. The average diet today doesn't look much like it did 50 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that our diet changes also have caused large changes in our bacterial ecosystems.
This would explain what was previously thought to be genetic obesity. I'm obese, as are most of my mothers family. My father is skinny and eats terrible food.
I eat very healthy and I exercise about 20-30 minutes a day(bike riding or swimming) and yet I still weigh 172 @ 17% body fat. Obviously for some people eating healthy and exercising isn't enough.
Whether its genetics or microbes, I don't really care. It does bother me though that people in general blame obese people for their weight. Maybe in a lot of cases that negative view is warranted, but probably for a lot of other cases like me, it isn't laziness.
Probably right. The numbers I read were for VX and mustard only, which does not encompass our entire arsenal.
Production of chemical weapons is illegal in the United States. We ratified the Chemical Weapons Ban and according to the OPCW, we have destroyed 45% of our stockpile.
Seeing as we had over 10,000 tons, I'd say we don't really need to produce any more as we already have more than anybody else.
You hit the nail on the head. There's a reason the EU is being more proactive with antitrust proceedings against Microsoft, and that is merely because MS is a strategic global resource for the US and a huge profit generator.
With MS being in the US, the US can dictate to an extent how certain MS operating system features work via legislation, and thus they can define how the world uses their PC's. As a specific example, I see trusted computing modules being legislatively required within 10 years. Already vast numbers of computers have TPM modules.
Certainly they have important uses, even in Open Source. TPM could make OSS voting machines a hell of a lot more secure than they are now. However, it could be a trojan horse in the future - designed to turn your PC into a media console machine at the will of the media conglomerates, advertisers and Microsoft.
Sure, this is all speculation. I think the important key here is that a monoculture in the consumer computing realm is destructive and only the foreign nations are willing to do something about it.
I actually find ITMS prices to be reasonable. Sure, I might find something cheaper if I searched around, but since ITMS has what I'm looking for normally and works conveniently with my iPod shuffle, I use it.
I download albums off TPB and if I like them, I buy them off iTunes. I will not support any type of physical distribution of music - that era is dead and gone and I don't want any music publishers to think otherwise.
Interestingly, digg did an interview with Trent Reznor of NIN recently and it was really intriguing. He had a lot of really insightful and balanced comments regarding the music industry and the direction of online content distribution.
I wish the music publishers would watch it, they might learn a thing or two.
I've found when transferring files across my local network, if I have any audio applications open I can't get more than 28-30 Mbps out of my wireless. If I close the audio application, I can often get over 40 Mbps.
Sounds expensive. Let's pay the mexicans to do it.
Maybe they were trying to steal copper and didn't realize it was fiber optic cable. Copper theft is at record highs right now.
Of course, thats about as likely as a ship dropping an anchor on an Mediterranean communications cable twice in two months....