I paid a bit more for using aluminum gears, rather than plastic parts,
LOL what? I've never heard of plastic gears, your mechanic may have meant some kind of retainer for the gears, not the actual gears. Automatic transmissions are typically tough little buggers that have to put up with a lot of force, plastic wouldn't hold up 10 minutes as a gear. All in all 700$ doesn't sound like too much to do what is essentially a complete rebuild on your tranny.
That's not as bad as it sounds. There's a lot of interest in keeping wine up to date, and they do a good job. In addition using wine as a shim has the potential to support more platforms than just Linux.
And on the other side of that restriction is boost, not vacuum. The vacuum can only appear after the restriction, not before. Quit arguing things you don't understand. Diesels == no vacuum, it's a fact. Otherwise diesels would be giving up a huge amount of their efficiency because they'd be wasting energy making vacuum and reducing their effective compression ratio at the same time.
Kinda funny, cos I ain't a dupe account. But go right on thinking it, just like thinking diesels produce vacuum, just cos you think it doesn't make it true.
He has a good point, It's remarkably hard to generate vacuum in a diesel engine since they don't have a throttle plate. What they have is relative vacuum at 14.7 psi compared to the 20psi (or higher typically on a turbo diesel) of the boost side. Without a vacuum pump diesels don't generate any relative vacuum compared to normal atmospheric pressure. The "vacuum" produced by the turbo itself is nowhere near enough to recover for any usable purpose, since compared to anything but the intake tract it's not vacuum at all and is in fact the same as the air pressure everywhere else in the car. Running your power brakes off of it would be impossible as would running any other vacuum accessory like the door locks. But you go right on thinking there's vacuum produced by your turbo. Just don't go building anything more complex than a lego star wars kit.
If Microsoft has code that has uncertain origins tracing back someplace embarrassing for them, and another code base with all that code replaced with home written code. Why would they bother using the embarrassing code for retail builds and risk losing rights to their own software just so they can continue wasting resources maintaining two code bases? There's no grand conspiracy quit being paranoid.
Because if they didn't they would have been sued over it by now. Microsoft isn't dumb and documenting the source of code is easy with any revision control system supporting multiple users.
Ah, but how do we know it is not true? Since it is closed source we can never be completely certain and just have to take someone's word for it....which is really the whole point of the argument for OS.
Because 1) Microsoft documents the heredity of their code well. They're not stupid. And B) the source code is widely available, both through legitimate channels like Microsoft's shared source programs and channels that are a bit shadier like bit torrent. Don't you think someone would have pointed anything embarrassing to Microsoft like this by now?
But, if they actually strip IE from the whole system and remove the HTML Application functionality, it would cut out a portion of the OS that's (at least somewhat) useful that isn't really connected to the issue at hand.
Oh I hope they do. Those type applications are so annoying and I would love to see them disappear entirely.
Let's get real here for a minute. Virtually every legal case is decided by who has the most money to hire the most lawyers. So most legal "battles" are only between evenly-matched opponents, which is not the case you describe above. In reality, the company would threaten the consultant and because they have more resources the consultant would quickly back down.
No, the only credible legal case we're likely to see (and have seen, I've followed this) is a company that uses combined proprietary/GPL code and then a rival copies their product whole cloth (maybe changing a few logos here and there) and then starts selling it claiming that "GPL infection" means the original company can't assert copyright. THIS is the scenario most companies are concerned about.
This is exactly the situation he describes. The consultant would presumably distribute it to someone whom he has the most to gain from distributing it to. Humans are inherently selfish. The consultant isn't likely to use his own resources to provide said product to the public. He's likely to simply provide it to a competitor which costs him significantly less and possibly gives him a net gain if the company decides to pay him for it. Now you have a legal "battle" between two evenly-matched opponents.
Hopefully he doesn't need to pry excel from the accounting professors. I've never had an accounting professor that let us use excel. Everything had to be done on paper. The professors are supposed to be teaching accounting, not excel.
I name all of my physical machines after some variation on truth, typically truth in a foreign language (Verita, Pravda). I name my virtual machines running on those machines after guns (Colt, Beretta).
Dude you are the one not getting it. With email you assume whatever you send will be intercepted. As such you don't send sensitive information unencrypted via email. So it doesn't matter if it's intercepted or not. You just don't send information that shouldn't be intercepted via email unless you encrypt it.
Really? why the hell do companies bother to put mail servers behind firewalls then... oh year because after transit you have the content sitting on the server.
You do understand that if that content is intercepted during transit that it doesn't magically disappear from the interceptors hard drive once it is received right?
Think about it. If a virus program did some key logging for bank URLs then spread itself a bit, then self destructed... hmmmmm They are seeing more sophisticated virus programs now, and fortunately beginning to look for them. Sadly, you'll have some pretty incredibly long scan times to find some types of malicious software: none of this 45 minute scan by Symantec etc.
Presumably you mean worm programs not virus programs. Virus programs are typically very obvious as they modify the executables on the system they infect. These modifications are easily detected as the checksums (md5, crc, whatever) change and someone notices.
FDR, Lincoln, and any serious President would do the same thing.
Lincoln? Lincoln!?!? The worst president ever and you use him as an example of a serious president? The guy divided the country in two, suspended due process and more or less made a mockery of the position he held and you count him as a serious president?!
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I paid a bit more for using aluminum gears, rather than plastic parts,
LOL what? I've never heard of plastic gears, your mechanic may have meant some kind of retainer for the gears, not the actual gears. Automatic transmissions are typically tough little buggers that have to put up with a lot of force, plastic wouldn't hold up 10 minutes as a gear. All in all 700$ doesn't sound like too much to do what is essentially a complete rebuild on your tranny.
That's not as bad as it sounds. There's a lot of interest in keeping wine up to date, and they do a good job. In addition using wine as a shim has the potential to support more platforms than just Linux.
I think the 10K includes developing all versions of the game, it probably included visual studio and the sdk for the Wii.
I'm on a XP Pro box now (SP3) with autorun. I have several vista and xp boxes with autorun.
And on the other side of that restriction is boost, not vacuum. The vacuum can only appear after the restriction, not before. Quit arguing things you don't understand. Diesels == no vacuum, it's a fact. Otherwise diesels would be giving up a huge amount of their efficiency because they'd be wasting energy making vacuum and reducing their effective compression ratio at the same time.
Kinda funny, cos I ain't a dupe account. But go right on thinking it, just like thinking diesels produce vacuum, just cos you think it doesn't make it true.
He has a good point, It's remarkably hard to generate vacuum in a diesel engine since they don't have a throttle plate. What they have is relative vacuum at 14.7 psi compared to the 20psi (or higher typically on a turbo diesel) of the boost side. Without a vacuum pump diesels don't generate any relative vacuum compared to normal atmospheric pressure. The "vacuum" produced by the turbo itself is nowhere near enough to recover for any usable purpose, since compared to anything but the intake tract it's not vacuum at all and is in fact the same as the air pressure everywhere else in the car. Running your power brakes off of it would be impossible as would running any other vacuum accessory like the door locks. But you go right on thinking there's vacuum produced by your turbo. Just don't go building anything more complex than a lego star wars kit.
If Microsoft has code that has uncertain origins tracing back someplace embarrassing for them, and another code base with all that code replaced with home written code. Why would they bother using the embarrassing code for retail builds and risk losing rights to their own software just so they can continue wasting resources maintaining two code bases? There's no grand conspiracy quit being paranoid.
How do you know MS documents that well?
Because if they didn't they would have been sued over it by now. Microsoft isn't dumb and documenting the source of code is easy with any revision control system supporting multiple users.
Ah, but how do we know it is not true? Since it is closed source we can never be completely certain and just have to take someone's word for it....which is really the whole point of the argument for OS.
Because 1) Microsoft documents the heredity of their code well. They're not stupid. And B) the source code is widely available, both through legitimate channels like Microsoft's shared source programs and channels that are a bit shadier like bit torrent. Don't you think someone would have pointed anything embarrassing to Microsoft like this by now?
But, if they actually strip IE from the whole system and remove the HTML Application functionality, it would cut out a portion of the OS that's (at least somewhat) useful that isn't really connected to the issue at hand.
Oh I hope they do. Those type applications are so annoying and I would love to see them disappear entirely.
Did he not in that same post inform you that he was not an attorney and as such any advice he was giving you is not legal advice?
Let's get real here for a minute. Virtually every legal case is decided by who has the most money to hire the most lawyers. So most legal "battles" are only between evenly-matched opponents, which is not the case you describe above. In reality, the company would threaten the consultant and because they have more resources the consultant would quickly back down. No, the only credible legal case we're likely to see (and have seen, I've followed this) is a company that uses combined proprietary/GPL code and then a rival copies their product whole cloth (maybe changing a few logos here and there) and then starts selling it claiming that "GPL infection" means the original company can't assert copyright. THIS is the scenario most companies are concerned about.
This is exactly the situation he describes. The consultant would presumably distribute it to someone whom he has the most to gain from distributing it to. Humans are inherently selfish. The consultant isn't likely to use his own resources to provide said product to the public. He's likely to simply provide it to a competitor which costs him significantly less and possibly gives him a net gain if the company decides to pay him for it. Now you have a legal "battle" between two evenly-matched opponents.
All the "Activesync Protocol" is, is good old PPP.
Umm what? It looks like he's just using ppp to connect the device up to his computer. ActiveSync is as much PPP as email is ethernet.
Well, I think it would be a bit presumptuous to call the Registry a "Database", don't you think?
Well, I think it would be a bit presumptuous to call MySQL a "Database", don't you think?
So the grammar sucks. It's still better than the grammar of most posters here.
Timmy, great article, by the way. 99% of your readers have no idea what it's about.
Only 1% of Slashdot readers know how to use Google translate?
Hah I got you beat. mines 0123, now all i gotta do is live to 2045.
Hopefully he doesn't need to pry excel from the accounting professors. I've never had an accounting professor that let us use excel. Everything had to be done on paper. The professors are supposed to be teaching accounting, not excel.
I name all of my physical machines after some variation on truth, typically truth in a foreign language (Verita, Pravda). I name my virtual machines running on those machines after guns (Colt, Beretta).
Gmail doesn't use Gmail.com.
It doesnt?
Weird. Did you perhaps mean gmail doesn't exclusively use gmail.com?
Dude you are the one not getting it. With email you assume whatever you send will be intercepted. As such you don't send sensitive information unencrypted via email. So it doesn't matter if it's intercepted or not. You just don't send information that shouldn't be intercepted via email unless you encrypt it.
Really? why the hell do companies bother to put mail servers behind firewalls then... oh year because after transit you have the content sitting on the server.
You do understand that if that content is intercepted during transit that it doesn't magically disappear from the interceptors hard drive once it is received right?
Think about it. If a virus program did some key logging for bank URLs then spread itself a bit, then self destructed... hmmmmm They are seeing more sophisticated virus programs now, and fortunately beginning to look for them. Sadly, you'll have some pretty incredibly long scan times to find some types of malicious software: none of this 45 minute scan by Symantec etc.
Presumably you mean worm programs not virus programs. Virus programs are typically very obvious as they modify the executables on the system they infect. These modifications are easily detected as the checksums (md5, crc, whatever) change and someone notices.
FDR, Lincoln, and any serious President would do the same thing.
Lincoln? Lincoln!?!? The worst president ever and you use him as an example of a serious president? The guy divided the country in two, suspended due process and more or less made a mockery of the position he held and you count him as a serious president?!