If CUPS was closed, then these changes would leave Linux users in a real bind. However, since it is open, the features being removed are being picked up by a different project. That is how OSS is supposed to work -- if the developers drop support for something, but the users want it, they have access to the code and can add it back.
In practice, that hasn't happened with Avahi support in CUPS since Apple insisted on Bonjour only APIs a few years ago. It is possible to configure Avahi to advertise CUPS printer queues by manually editing configuration files, but this is a huge step backwards from CUPS 0.9 when configuring a printer and ticking the "Share via DNS-SD" box just worked, whatever DNS-SD implementation you were using.
Had he flown on to China, there is a very good chance he would have been denied entry because of the long time difference between his visa expiry and his return ticket.
In theory, China can block entry if he cannot present a ticket out of the country within the term of the visa. In practice though, only the airlines ever check return tickets. So no, I wouldn't call it a "very good chance", I'd call it a very slim chance, which would probably only eventuate if the Chinese immigration inspector found some other reason why he did not want to allow entry, and was looking for a reason that would be simpler to justify.
See also "time-sharing", "client-server" and "thin clients". Much of the evolution of computers has been a power struggle between centralization by technology producers and decentralization by users. "The cloud" is just more of the same.
But this time its different. I know we said that last time, but this time it really is. I'd trade in some salary for stock options if I were you.
You're talking about sales of physical product, where that 30% is needed to cover store rental, wages of the checkout staff, shelf stackers and those guys that stand around chatting amongst themselves and belittling customers that dare to ask them questions about the product, and other assorted overheads. They also don't have the ability to block other stores from competing with them, and they are not direct competitors to Microsoft in any market.
Sure, you can get by on the regular day-to-day parenting stuff on minimal means. You can't, however, pay for a decent education and provide for your children while they're in school without significant amounts of money, either cash or credit. How do you propose he deals with his kids future, assuming they're less than 10 years away from college given the submitter's age.
As an observer from outside the US, I'd say you're overdue for the sequel to the American Revolution.
No, Apple Juice is juice from apples, sometimes concentrated then diluted with water. Does the US really allow flavored sugar water to be sold as Apple Juice?
Most likely what happened is the girl saw someone else getting chicken nuggets after they were told their lunch was not healthy enough, and hid her lunch to get some of the same. Then when her mother asks why she hasn't eaten her lunch, she parrots what she heard the teacher saying to the other kid, claiming it was said to her (and by this stage, with the way four year old brains work, she will have even convinced herself of this so there won't be any telltale signs that it is a lie).
Maybe things are different in the US, but in UK bankruptcy law, employee salaries come third in line behind Inland Revenue and secured creditors (ie, bank loans), but ahead of other creditors such as suppliers, customers and patent abusers.
Nice to see public domain money going into the hands of a private corporation that had no involvement in the composition and performance of that public domain music.
There are myriad ways to make a rectangular phone with rounded corners and a big screen and not make it look exactly like an iPhone. Samsung chose instead to make their phone look uncannily like an iPhone.
What exactly is it about this Samsung phone (and I'm not entirely clear here on which one you mean, as the design patent lawsuits I've seen so far have been about tablets) apart from being rectangular with rounded corners and having a screen that is large compared to the overall frontal area, that makes it look uncannily like an iPhone?
A single round button? No, Samsung devices either have no visible button or a square one and a couple of capacitive buttons that only become visible when the backlight is on.
The color black? The fact it has a speaker and microphone on it like every other phone made since 1875?
Try to look at it from the perspective of someone trying to run a business.
From the point of view of someone trying to run a business, it is foolish to invest billions in R&D on something that is trivial to copy and then rely on imaginary property protection laws to give you a return on your investment.
Speaking as an American, I want the European version of privacy and the American version of Free Speech.
You do realize that in a significant proportion of the EU, it is compulsory to carry Government issued ID on your person at all times and produce it on demand to law enforcement officials who request it.
I suspect what you really mean is that you'd like to cherry pick bits of privacy law from both Europe and US.
The problem of the second option is that you just informed your employer of the existence of this idea that you had while working for them, so they may end up claiming legal ownership even after you resort to option 1 when option 2 fails.
In Islam, on the other hand, the validity of rajm as a divinely prescribed punishment is disputed only by the liberal minority.
Death by stoning is on the law books of 7 countries, of which only Iran and Iraq seem to be using it as a punishment with any regularity. The rest of the Islamic world is hardly a "liberal minority". The last death by stoning occurred extrajudicially in the US where a Christian fanatic believed that the Bible demanded that homosexuals be stoned to death.
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found relatively widespread popular support for stoning as a punishment for adultery in Egypt (82% of respondents in favor of the punishment), Jordan (70% in favor), Indonesia (42% in favor), Pakistan (82% favor) and Nigeria (56% in favor).
Note that Nigeria's population is only 47% Muslim (vs Indonesia's 88%), so blaming Muslims for being the only source of intolerance in this world is obviously overlooking something.
Albinos are extremely rare. Women are over 50% of the population. A lack of Albinos in leadership roles in open source projects is not in any way comparable to a lack of women in those roles.
And regarding the tablets, Samsung's 10.1" is clearly designed primarily for landscape orientation (from the position of the logo, and camera), and does not have any home button, vs the iPad which is clearly designed for portrait (based on the home button position, and camera on iPad 2).
IIRC, Samsung also announced a phone around the same time, which was very similar to current Galaxy devices, down to the single square button at the bottom, though the top and bottom were more rounded than current models, thus not invalidating the "square with rounded corners" design patent.
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In practice, that hasn't happened with Avahi support in CUPS since Apple insisted on Bonjour only APIs a few years ago. It is possible to configure Avahi to advertise CUPS printer queues by manually editing configuration files, but this is a huge step backwards from CUPS 0.9 when configuring a printer and ticking the "Share via DNS-SD" box just worked, whatever DNS-SD implementation you were using.
In theory, China can block entry if he cannot present a ticket out of the country within the term of the visa. In practice though, only the airlines ever check return tickets. So no, I wouldn't call it a "very good chance", I'd call it a very slim chance, which would probably only eventuate if the Chinese immigration inspector found some other reason why he did not want to allow entry, and was looking for a reason that would be simpler to justify.
But this time its different. I know we said that last time, but this time it really is. I'd trade in some salary for stock options if I were you.
Given that Samsung was demonstrating a 4000 pixel TV at CES, they do seem to be the one company still investing in higher resolutions.
You're talking about sales of physical product, where that 30% is needed to cover store rental, wages of the checkout staff, shelf stackers and those guys that stand around chatting amongst themselves and belittling customers that dare to ask them questions about the product, and other assorted overheads. They also don't have the ability to block other stores from competing with them, and they are not direct competitors to Microsoft in any market.
And coming at it from the other side, would MS let Apple take 30% from every sale?
As an observer from outside the US, I'd say you're overdue for the sequel to the American Revolution.
Juggers chug. Joggers jog.
No, Apple Juice is juice from apples, sometimes concentrated then diluted with water. Does the US really allow flavored sugar water to be sold as Apple Juice?
Most likely what happened is the girl saw someone else getting chicken nuggets after they were told their lunch was not healthy enough, and hid her lunch to get some of the same. Then when her mother asks why she hasn't eaten her lunch, she parrots what she heard the teacher saying to the other kid, claiming it was said to her (and by this stage, with the way four year old brains work, she will have even convinced herself of this so there won't be any telltale signs that it is a lie).
Right. She should have some Coca Cola (TM) to go with those McNuggets.
Maybe things are different in the US, but in UK bankruptcy law, employee salaries come third in line behind Inland Revenue and secured creditors (ie, bank loans), but ahead of other creditors such as suppliers, customers and patent abusers.
Nice to see public domain money going into the hands of a private corporation that had no involvement in the composition and performance of that public domain music.
What exactly is it about this Samsung phone (and I'm not entirely clear here on which one you mean, as the design patent lawsuits I've seen so far have been about tablets) apart from being rectangular with rounded corners and having a screen that is large compared to the overall frontal area, that makes it look uncannily like an iPhone?
A single round button? No, Samsung devices either have no visible button or a square one and a couple of capacitive buttons that only become visible when the backlight is on.
The color black? The fact it has a speaker and microphone on it like every other phone made since 1875?
From the point of view of someone trying to run a business, it is foolish to invest billions in R&D on something that is trivial to copy and then rely on imaginary property protection laws to give you a return on your investment.
You do realize that in a significant proportion of the EU, it is compulsory to carry Government issued ID on your person at all times and produce it on demand to law enforcement officials who request it.
I suspect what you really mean is that you'd like to cherry pick bits of privacy law from both Europe and US.
At what viewing distance are you making these claims about whether the screen is or isn't as high resolution as the eye can detect?
The problem of the second option is that you just informed your employer of the existence of this idea that you had while working for them, so they may end up claiming legal ownership even after you resort to option 1 when option 2 fails.
Or more recently, a homosexual was stoned to death in the US in 2011.
Death by stoning is on the law books of 7 countries, of which only Iran and Iraq seem to be using it as a punishment with any regularity. The rest of the Islamic world is hardly a "liberal minority". The last death by stoning occurred extrajudicially in the US where a Christian fanatic believed that the Bible demanded that homosexuals be stoned to death.
Note that Nigeria's population is only 47% Muslim (vs Indonesia's 88%), so blaming Muslims for being the only source of intolerance in this world is obviously overlooking something.
Albinos are extremely rare. Women are over 50% of the population. A lack of Albinos in leadership roles in open source projects is not in any way comparable to a lack of women in those roles.
Conversely, the Galaxy S2 has 1GB of RAM when running 2.3.2, and I didn't notice it increase when I installed ICS.
And regarding the tablets, Samsung's 10.1" is clearly designed primarily for landscape orientation (from the position of the logo, and camera), and does not have any home button, vs the iPad which is clearly designed for portrait (based on the home button position, and camera on iPad 2).
IIRC, Samsung also announced a phone around the same time, which was very similar to current Galaxy devices, down to the single square button at the bottom, though the top and bottom were more rounded than current models, thus not invalidating the "square with rounded corners" design patent.