I half agree with you. I would say good parenting before the fact is more effective than filters after the fact. People depend on filters because they are ineffective parents and have no trust in their parenting skills nor their children. A good parent will put a rational amount of trust in their child because they feel they have done the right thing when teaching their child, and won't feel the need for computer filters/logs, GPS trackers on the car, breathalyzer tests at home, etc. A good parent teaches their child, a poor parent imprisons their child.
That being said, porn is not in and of itself bad. Try teaching your kid about it rather than hiding them from it, and maiking it the forbidden fruit. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is danger.
That's not how it works though. Internet service is provided on a few channels of the bandwidth, and those channels can't be used for aything else regardless of whether or not they're being used. If every customer did nothing but email, they'd be using, say, 5% the alloted bandwidth, but from the perspective of the cableco, they're still 100% off limits. Throttling BT doesn't helpd putting in more HD channels, otherwise during network use spikes other people's tv channels would crap out. This is nothing but keeping people from using what they're paying for because the suits don't want to spend on the network. They've OVER over-sold far beyond the sweet spot. In the dialup days, you needed one modem for every 2.5-3 users. AOL sometimes had ten or twenty users per modem, hence their infamous busy signals at peak time.
agreed, that this is smaller than thought, and potentially less dangerous. I think the biggest reason they're even contemplating a repair is the fact that there's a small portion of the divot that is exposing the nomex felt under the tiles, meaning that would be the only protection for the aluminum frame. However, it's such a small portion of frame that is potentially exposed, hence all the testing. I think the felt exposure is all of three square centimeters.
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Precisely. As it stand, SCO would have to pull off a miracle to show an appeals court any kind of documentation of mistake or malfeasance by this judge. The chances of them even being HEARD by an appeals court (forget about winning) is so slim that I'd be astounded if even SCO had the chutzpah to file. At this point, IBM files for a summary dismissal of SCO's claims, and an summary judgment of their counter claims against SCO. It's gonna be a baaaaaaaaaad week in Utah.
You're right, and I'm 100% certain that John did all the packaging of the old games himself, by hand, using DEBUG on an 8086 and monochrome screen.
In reality, this was a business deal between id and Valve, and id probably handed over the playable binaries, and Value handed them to a small group to prepare for distribution and installation over Steam. So rather than blaming id, or claiming Valve did this with evil intent, let us combine two very powerful pieces of wisdom, "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence," and Occam's razor. It is most easily assumed that when Valve handed off the data to be packaged, the worked had the best of intentions by using DOSbox, but was inadequately informed about it's proper use and redistribution.
Actually, PNG doesn't support animation at all. The animated sister format is MNG. Animated GIFs are kind of a poor animation format anyway, but they're great for small-size effects on web pages. MNG support in browsers is non-existent, so this has paradoxically limited PNG's uptake (and made GIF more difficult to kill). GIF animation is limited, but perfect for the use case. MNG is using a sledge where a flyswatter is needed. PNG had a very good opportunity to leave no reason to still use GIF with APNG, and AFAIK, there was a pretty clear rejection of APNG with the chunk name proposal being voted down. GIF didn't kill MPEG, APNG wouldn't kill MNG, but it's rejected nonetheless.
Why do we feel this compulsion to take advantage of somebody else's bad luck, when that other entity is a corporation? Mostly because when you read all these corps' terms of service, they're set up to nickel and dime us to death. On the rare occasion when they screw themselves, we take a few moments to bathe in the schadenfreude. It's human nature to enjoy seeing one hoisted on their own petard.
You're right, they were damned either way. It's too bad more people couldn't just say, "Hey, if I were in that disaster, would I really want my gov't withholding aid because I couldn't show them the ID that got washed away with everything else I own?" Maybe we all need to realize nothing is perfect, anywhere, ever. There will always be fraud, and all we can do is minimize it where possible, and not blame the system for the fraudsters.
As someone who has tracked the project since it's inception (Mozilla.org in 1998, not just Phoenix) I can promise you there is no "influence" from Microsoft. Mozilla isn't opposed to working with Microsoft on things, but there is no influence, as there is even a strong anti-MS mentality among many employees. Many devs actually work on Macbook Pros with Parallels or VMware, as opposed to Windows PCs.
Also, if you thought Opera was less confusing to use than Firefox or IE, I am sooooooo glad I don't work at your company.;)
cygwin is only used to compile for Windows. You don't need it to run Firefox. Since 99.999% of users don't even know what compiling is, this isn't an issue. If you're a decent developer on multiple platforms, you probably have cygwin or least least decent Linux experience, so cygwin isn't a burden there either.
Oh dear lord. Email is not ruled by the same laws governing the USPS. There is no mail fraud here people! And conspiracy? Give me a break. At worst it's false advertising. It's like the name "Microsoft" just turns of the "rational thinking" switch.
I'd have to say that's because they designed a solution that was compact, well defined, and didn't overreach and try to solve world hunger. They just designed a solution to the problem at hand. When your project starts trying to solve problems that you didn't start out to solve, that's where issues creep in. It's the/other/ downside to feature creep. Creeping features have creeping bugs. I'm a sucker for well compartmentalized and focused design.
VMWare doesn't have any tools for DOS, so they recommend a third party tool called DOSidle so that when DOS is, well, idle, it won't continue to suckup 100% CPU doing nothing. It sounds like your hack is exploiting that flaw as well as 16/32bit thunking and memory emulation flaws. This is, mm, interesting. I'll have to play with this. On a box that I don't mind being rebooted spontaneously.;)
Carbon is turned into carbon black and sold to ink manufacturers and such. The water is converted to steam (and that steam is actually recycled through the system to heat other parts of the process) and the water ruynoff from that is either reused in the process or discharged as clean water. The methane and butane gases are captured and either used in plant to power the plant, or sold. Metals and such are sold on the open market. Ditto with the calcium and other minerals. It's incredibly efficient and clean.
What you're missing is the copyright on the GPL itself.
You can't just willy nilly make your own derivative GPL.
You could make up a whole new license, though, with similar principles. Close. From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?
You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar).
If you want to use our preamble in a modified license, please write to for permission. For this purpose we would want to check the actual license requirements to see if we approve of them.
Although we will not raise legal objections to your making a modified license in this way, we hope you will think twice and not do it. Such a modified license is almost certainly incompatible with the GNU GPL, and that incompatibility blocks useful combinations of modules. The mere proliferation of different free software licenses is a burden in and of itself.
You CAN, just strip the required bits, add yours, and call it something new.
I must be dead. I have 88GB on my DH account right now. And a year or so ago I pushed 380GB in traffic in one day. The biggest thing that DH cracks down on is CPU use, which they try to limit to about 30 CPU minutes a day.
I don't have any mod points left, so I'll just say, thank you. You summed up everything I thought perfectly. There's really nothing else to be said, IMO. Great comment.
I just bought one of these last week on a recommendation from a friend. I have big hands, about 3.75" across at the palm, and found this mouse to be a little small in the height for me, and too "thick" to comfortably hold with big hands. Also, it's a very light mouse. Many mice have a metal weight in them so that they have more substance, this mouse has none, so it's very light in the hand. This gives it s cheap feel, IMO, and the mouse buttons share that light-cheap feel too.
The shape is ok, but I for one would prefer if rather than vertical, it were angled at about 35-40 degrees. Sadly, I've been entirely unable to find a mouse that's a good cross between this type and an old fashioned Logitech USB wheel mouse.
In the end, I was very frustrated by my purchase, and wound up selling it on eBay over the weekend. I'm sure for some people it's great, my friend loves it and just bought another one before he suggested it to me, but I'm not it's target audience.
One word of warning, it's a high resolution mouse, 2400dpi or some such, so I had to turn the sensitivity down to the lowest setting or else every millimeter of movement had the cursor smashing into my monitor's bezel.;)
5 or 6 hundred, depending on the amount of flash.
2 year contract where you pay for a really expensive plan.
Prepaid plan for iPhones. Pardon me while I laugh until my lungs bleed.
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I half agree with you. I would say good parenting before the fact is more effective than filters after the fact. People depend on filters because they are ineffective parents and have no trust in their parenting skills nor their children. A good parent will put a rational amount of trust in their child because they feel they have done the right thing when teaching their child, and won't feel the need for computer filters/logs, GPS trackers on the car, breathalyzer tests at home, etc. A good parent teaches their child, a poor parent imprisons their child.
That being said, porn is not in and of itself bad. Try teaching your kid about it rather than hiding them from it, and maiking it the forbidden fruit. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is danger.
That's not how it works though. Internet service is provided on a few channels of the bandwidth, and those channels can't be used for aything else regardless of whether or not they're being used. If every customer did nothing but email, they'd be using, say, 5% the alloted bandwidth, but from the perspective of the cableco, they're still 100% off limits. Throttling BT doesn't helpd putting in more HD channels, otherwise during network use spikes other people's tv channels would crap out. This is nothing but keeping people from using what they're paying for because the suits don't want to spend on the network. They've OVER over-sold far beyond the sweet spot. In the dialup days, you needed one modem for every 2.5-3 users. AOL sometimes had ten or twenty users per modem, hence their infamous busy signals at peak time.
agreed, that this is smaller than thought, and potentially less dangerous. I think the biggest reason they're even contemplating a repair is the fact that there's a small portion of the divot that is exposing the nomex felt under the tiles, meaning that would be the only protection for the aluminum frame. However, it's such a small portion of frame that is potentially exposed, hence all the testing. I think the felt exposure is all of three square centimeters.
If you want to advance in this world, you have to care somewhat, otherwise you find out There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom!
1 in 50? Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!
Precisely. As it stand, SCO would have to pull off a miracle to show an appeals court any kind of documentation of mistake or malfeasance by this judge. The chances of them even being HEARD by an appeals court (forget about winning) is so slim that I'd be astounded if even SCO had the chutzpah to file. At this point, IBM files for a summary dismissal of SCO's claims, and an summary judgment of their counter claims against SCO. It's gonna be a baaaaaaaaaad week in Utah.
You're right, and I'm 100% certain that John did all the packaging of the old games himself, by hand, using DEBUG on an 8086 and monochrome screen.
In reality, this was a business deal between id and Valve, and id probably handed over the playable binaries, and Value handed them to a small group to prepare for distribution and installation over Steam. So rather than blaming id, or claiming Valve did this with evil intent, let us combine two very powerful pieces of wisdom, "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence," and Occam's razor. It is most easily assumed that when Valve handed off the data to be packaged, the worked had the best of intentions by using DOSbox, but was inadequately informed about it's proper use and redistribution.
You're right, they were damned either way. It's too bad more people couldn't just say, "Hey, if I were in that disaster, would I really want my gov't withholding aid because I couldn't show them the ID that got washed away with everything else I own?" Maybe we all need to realize nothing is perfect, anywhere, ever. There will always be fraud, and all we can do is minimize it where possible, and not blame the system for the fraudsters.
I don't believe you're blind. Juggle these chainsaws to prove it. ;)
As someone who has tracked the project since it's inception (Mozilla.org in 1998, not just Phoenix) I can promise you there is no "influence" from Microsoft. Mozilla isn't opposed to working with Microsoft on things, but there is no influence, as there is even a strong anti-MS mentality among many employees. Many devs actually work on Macbook Pros with Parallels or VMware, as opposed to Windows PCs.
;)
Also, if you thought Opera was less confusing to use than Firefox or IE, I am sooooooo glad I don't work at your company.
cygwin is only used to compile for Windows. You don't need it to run Firefox. Since 99.999% of users don't even know what compiling is, this isn't an issue. If you're a decent developer on multiple platforms, you probably have cygwin or least least decent Linux experience, so cygwin isn't a burden there either.
Oh dear lord. Email is not ruled by the same laws governing the USPS. There is no mail fraud here people! And conspiracy? Give me a break. At worst it's false advertising. It's like the name "Microsoft" just turns of the "rational thinking" switch.
That's why I work for myself. :)
I'd have to say that's because they designed a solution that was compact, well defined, and didn't overreach and try to solve world hunger. They just designed a solution to the problem at hand. When your project starts trying to solve problems that you didn't start out to solve, that's where issues creep in. It's the /other/ downside to feature creep. Creeping features have creeping bugs. I'm a sucker for well compartmentalized and focused design.
VMWare doesn't have any tools for DOS, so they recommend a third party tool called DOSidle so that when DOS is, well, idle, it won't continue to suckup 100% CPU doing nothing. It sounds like your hack is exploiting that flaw as well as 16/32bit thunking and memory emulation flaws. This is, mm, interesting. I'll have to play with this. On a box that I don't mind being rebooted spontaneously. ;)
Carbon is turned into carbon black and sold to ink manufacturers and such. The water is converted to steam (and that steam is actually recycled through the system to heat other parts of the process) and the water ruynoff from that is either reused in the process or discharged as clean water. The methane and butane gases are captured and either used in plant to power the plant, or sold. Metals and such are sold on the open market. Ditto with the calcium and other minerals. It's incredibly efficient and clean.
You can't just willy nilly make your own derivative GPL.
You could make up a whole new license, though, with similar principles. Close. From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGP
You CAN, just strip the required bits, add yours, and call it something new.
I must be dead. I have 88GB on my DH account right now. And a year or so ago I pushed 380GB in traffic in one day. The biggest thing that DH cracks down on is CPU use, which they try to limit to about 30 CPU minutes a day.
I don't have any mod points left, so I'll just say, thank you. You summed up everything I thought perfectly. There's really nothing else to be said, IMO. Great comment.
I just bought one of these last week on a recommendation from a friend. I have big hands, about 3.75" across at the palm, and found this mouse to be a little small in the height for me, and too "thick" to comfortably hold with big hands. Also, it's a very light mouse. Many mice have a metal weight in them so that they have more substance, this mouse has none, so it's very light in the hand. This gives it s cheap feel, IMO, and the mouse buttons share that light-cheap feel too.
;)
The shape is ok, but I for one would prefer if rather than vertical, it were angled at about 35-40 degrees. Sadly, I've been entirely unable to find a mouse that's a good cross between this type and an old fashioned Logitech USB wheel mouse.
In the end, I was very frustrated by my purchase, and wound up selling it on eBay over the weekend. I'm sure for some people it's great, my friend loves it and just bought another one before he suggested it to me, but I'm not it's target audience.
One word of warning, it's a high resolution mouse, 2400dpi or some such, so I had to turn the sensitivity down to the lowest setting or else every millimeter of movement had the cursor smashing into my monitor's bezel.
5 or 6 hundred, depending on the amount of flash. 2 year contract where you pay for a really expensive plan. Prepaid plan for iPhones. Pardon me while I laugh until my lungs bleed.
Nope. A nuclear bunker won't do it. You need one of these: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/images/mine.GIF.
Holy crap! When did they bury the CN tower? Those damn terrorists, now we have to bury our landmarks to guard them!
Yeah, right. And some long haired slacker will play the guitar with a bow.