I remember an explanation of why this wasn't double-jeopardy from an earlier article, by a Swede, which I'll try to summarize:
First of all, Sweden doesn't have double-jeopardy--they believe that the criminal justice system makes mistakes at times, and that while the defense can make a mistake in the first trial and always have recourse, the prosecution should have at least one level of recourse. They realize that they don't want the prosecution to be able to fire off appeal after appeal after appeal, so they were limited to two.
Maybe their reaction is partly due to the pre-release version numbers. Tech marketing has conditioned consumers to equate bigger numbers with better products, therefore something with a 0.x version number can't be good.
You can compare the Windows installer to the Linux installer all you want, but they don't do the same things. To be more accurate, compare the Linux installer to the combination of the Windows installer, the ATI/nVidia driver installer, the Creative sound card installer, the MS Office installer, and the installers of all the other useful Windows applications that don't come bundled with Windows that I've forgotten.
Really, Linux installers may seem cryptic at times, but they're mostly pretty good. <flamebait>Except for SlackWare--that installer's way too cryptic.</flamebait>
Note that employees of the Social Security Administration are the only citizens in this country (except U.S. Senators and members of congress) who are exempt from paying social security taxes.
I didn't know that--kind of makes me feel special to not have had to pay that when I worked over the summer as a flagger for the Miami County (Ohio) Highway Department.
According to the branding document, "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" are temporary names, to be replaced by "Browser" and "Mail" when the switch to the stand-alone applications occurs. The branding document was overly optimistic about when this would happen.
I've been mildly successful using the Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser document. I tell people if they read that through and still think IE is the best, I won't bother them about it again. Of course, I'll probably bother them at the FB 1.0 release anyway.
Ahh. So the inverse of the number of defects found per lines of code indicates quality. I just assumed there was something important about the overall design of the program--thank you for correcting me.
...but the Southbound lanes are open. Now all they need is the Northbound lanes, removal of the elevated interstate, grass planted, etc. But they're getting close to being done.
Since the 30's, the advances in flight have been pretty much of the non-visible sort. Except for the actual engine (invention of the jet), an F-15 is conceptually not much different than a P-51. Wings, body, pilot, engine(s). Or DC-3 and 747.
Mostly true. However, the F-117 and the B-2 (which you mention elsewhere), are slightly different--wings, pilot, engine. The body wouldn't exist except for the fact that they stuck a cockpit where the two wings meet.
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I remember an explanation of why this wasn't double-jeopardy from an earlier article, by a Swede, which I'll try to summarize:
First of all, Sweden doesn't have double-jeopardy--they believe that the criminal justice system makes mistakes at times, and that while the defense can make a mistake in the first trial and always have recourse, the prosecution should have at least one level of recourse. They realize that they don't want the prosecution to be able to fire off appeal after appeal after appeal, so they were limited to two.
He's saying the government tried to change the name, not you. Obviously he's not agreeing with your argument and then laughing at you.
You can compare the Windows installer to the Linux installer all you want, but they don't do the same things. To be more accurate, compare the Linux installer to the combination of the Windows installer, the ATI/nVidia driver installer, the Creative sound card installer, the MS Office installer, and the installers of all the other useful Windows applications that don't come bundled with Windows that I've forgotten.
Really, Linux installers may seem cryptic at times, but they're mostly pretty good. <flamebait>Except for SlackWare--that installer's way too cryptic.</flamebait>
According to the branding document, "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" are temporary names, to be replaced by "Browser" and "Mail" when the switch to the stand-alone applications occurs. The branding document was overly optimistic about when this would happen.
There's much more than tabbed browsing in Firebird. I suggest reading the why document before passing judgement.
Tabbed browsing is nice, but the real reasons I use FB are Find as You Type, Custom Keywords, and the Web Developer Toolbar.
I've been mildly successful using the Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser document. I tell people if they read that through and still think IE is the best, I won't bother them about it again. Of course, I'll probably bother them at the FB 1.0 release anyway.
Ahh. So the inverse of the number of defects found per lines of code indicates quality. I just assumed there was something important about the overall design of the program--thank you for correcting me.
I don't doubt that MySQL's source is better than that of, say, OracleSQL's, but how do you assign a number to the difference?
...but the Southbound lanes are open. Now all they need is the Northbound lanes, removal of the elevated interstate, grass planted, etc. But they're getting close to being done.
Perl5 is only 9 years old, so it's still fair game.
Hmm--you just admitted to violating a federal law, and slashdot logs IPs...
Generally ISPs have privacy policies, so you could always sue their ass.
I got a 505 and assumed it didn't go through the first time.
See GNU Octave and Scilab.
The gist of the movie was ok, but some parts didn't make complete sense, especially the "ok you really need to shutup and die now" scene.
See GNU Octave and Scilab.
Except for the fact that some of us just won't have jobs--then the pay really sucks.
Mr. Wizard's ok, but they have to have Julius Sumner Miller.
If you insist.
I believe Griff was Biff's grandson.
I do occasionally, so I change my user-agent and the site happily lets me in.
It says "powered by Sun", not "supported by Sun".