You don't need to be told that you're a moron compared to your ancestors and that you'll never amount to anything. It's not a particularly good motivator. Especially when it's not true.
IBM and MS still have research labs. Pharmaceutical companies all have labs. I am sure many other industries have companies with similar facilities. Just because one lab that was famous amongst techies no longer exists does not mean that research has come to an end.
Safari is essentially only available on OS X. The Windows port is not pushed (heavily), and I don't really know why Apple bothered. I think it may have had something to do with their initial push to get iPhone apps to be web-apps. They didn't want Windows developers to be left out. Chrome is available on every major desktop OS. So there's really no comparison between the two in terms of market share.
Apple adhered to their legal requirements. The GPL does not state that one must send diffs back upstream. It says that the source code used to compile any provided binaries must be released.
The KDE developers wanted more than what their license required, so the GP is 100% correct when wrote "What KDE complained about was that they wanted more than the license required, which is feature-specific diffs."
You do know that Google does not provide diffs, patches or documentation back to the Linus, right? Just because you're a narrow-minded idiot doesn't make you correct.
A Winprinter, like a Winmodem, is a piece of hardware that doesn't know how to control itself. The Win- prefix indicates that the only drivers officially available are written for Windows. In the case of printers, it's a printer that can't rasterize.
It doesn't matter where he is. The OP isn't upgrading kernels, he's upgrading distributions. If his bosses care about kernel version changes, this idiot should be fired for making a mess of their systems.
No variant of the IBM PC had a hardware limit of 640 KB RAM. The upper 384 KB was reserved for hardware ROMs, but memory not used by ROMs was perfectly usable by application code. All other limits were put in place by DOS.
(There very well may have been PCs sold that did not have space for enough RAM chips to reach (above) 640 KB. That is not the issue under discussion.)
Until static storage (HDD, SSD, whatever) is as fast to access as main system memory, it's not fast enough. I am not sure why this is hard to understand. The purpose of a tool is to make operations more efficient. The less time taken, the more (time) efficient the process. If you're not trading anything for that efficiency gain, why would you not take it?
When I still drank carbonated beverages, I would never drink Pepsi unless it was the only thing around. I most definitely drank Coke for the flavor (though it was not my favorite). Pepsi tastes horrible to me.
* Well drillers can drill on your property if you want it or not if your neighbors sell their rights but your property is the only one around that can support a well.
That is completely immoral and is known elsewhere as theft and/or trespassing. I hope those who steal property this way are killed in a gas explosion.
In IE 8, changing the search provider is exactly as easy as it is under FF. Click the dropdown and choose a different provider. IE has fewer defaults installed, but one of the options is to "Find More Providers..." which takes you to a list that contains all the popular search engines and then some.
If a buy a car and turn around and sell it, that sale is not called theft. If I steal a car and turn around and sell it, that sale is not called theft. (Sale of stolen property is not, in and of itself, theft).
Doing the same with an electronic copy of a song, book or movie does not magically turn the sale (or gift) into theft. It is what it has always been -- infringement of the copyright.
Please remove from your mind the idea that a lost sale is theft. That is logically unsupportable. To paraphrase the sig of another/. poster, you now owe me millions of dollars because you haven't bought my iOS app!
Once you exercise your right to exclusivity (i.e. you give someone a copy), you have lost your exclusivity, according to your reasoning. If you think about it a little, you will realize that it doesn't matter how a second party obtains a copy; the exclusivity is the same.
No, it's only wrong in some situations. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a persistent internet connection, except for those who specifically don't want one.
Blizzard is obviously willing to sacrifice non-connected consumers. If playing D3 is so fucking important, maybe you shouldn't enlist in the US Army.
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You don't need to be told that you're a moron compared to your ancestors and that you'll never amount to anything. It's not a particularly good motivator. Especially when it's not true.
IBM and MS still have research labs. Pharmaceutical companies all have labs. I am sure many other industries have companies with similar facilities. Just because one lab that was famous amongst techies no longer exists does not mean that research has come to an end.
A problem somewhere... like maybe he's using a VPN. That's the problem here... nothing is reliable.
If a civilian beat someone up that badly, he'd be facing a few years in prison.
Cops should die. Painfully, slowly and messily.
Buying a car every 2.5 years (or 2 every 5) is extremely wasteful. Just because you can afford it doesn't mean it's not wasteful.
Safari is essentially only available on OS X. The Windows port is not pushed (heavily), and I don't really know why Apple bothered. I think it may have had something to do with their initial push to get iPhone apps to be web-apps. They didn't want Windows developers to be left out. Chrome is available on every major desktop OS. So there's really no comparison between the two in terms of market share.
Apple adhered to their legal requirements. The GPL does not state that one must send diffs back upstream. It says that the source code used to compile any provided binaries must be released.
The KDE developers wanted more than what their license required, so the GP is 100% correct when wrote "What KDE complained about was that they wanted more than the license required, which is feature-specific diffs."
You do know that Google does not provide diffs, patches or documentation back to the Linus, right? Just because you're a narrow-minded idiot doesn't make you correct.
A Winprinter, like a Winmodem, is a piece of hardware that doesn't know how to control itself. The Win- prefix indicates that the only drivers officially available are written for Windows. In the case of printers, it's a printer that can't rasterize.
It doesn't matter where he is. The OP isn't upgrading kernels, he's upgrading distributions. If his bosses care about kernel version changes, this idiot should be fired for making a mess of their systems.
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Ruminants on wheels?
No variant of the IBM PC had a hardware limit of 640 KB RAM. The upper 384 KB was reserved for hardware ROMs, but memory not used by ROMs was perfectly usable by application code. All other limits were put in place by DOS.
(There very well may have been PCs sold that did not have space for enough RAM chips to reach (above) 640 KB. That is not the issue under discussion.)
It's done so that the housing can be thinner and lighter. You may not care for the tradeoff, but millions do, and they matter to Apple and you don't.
There is a limit to how small/thin a device can be if soldering is not used. You may not care to have devices that break this limit, but millions do.
Until static storage (HDD, SSD, whatever) is as fast to access as main system memory, it's not fast enough. I am not sure why this is hard to understand. The purpose of a tool is to make operations more efficient. The less time taken, the more (time) efficient the process. If you're not trading anything for that efficiency gain, why would you not take it?
When I still drank carbonated beverages, I would never drink Pepsi unless it was the only thing around. I most definitely drank Coke for the flavor (though it was not my favorite). Pepsi tastes horrible to me.
* Well drillers can drill on your property if you want it or not if your neighbors sell their rights but your property is the only one around that can support a well.
That is completely immoral and is known elsewhere as theft and/or trespassing. I hope those who steal property this way are killed in a gas explosion.
In IE 8, changing the search provider is exactly as easy as it is under FF. Click the dropdown and choose a different provider. IE has fewer defaults installed, but one of the options is to "Find More Providers..." which takes you to a list that contains all the popular search engines and then some.
If a buy a car and turn around and sell it, that sale is not called theft. If I steal a car and turn around and sell it, that sale is not called theft. (Sale of stolen property is not, in and of itself, theft).
Doing the same with an electronic copy of a song, book or movie does not magically turn the sale (or gift) into theft. It is what it has always been -- infringement of the copyright.
Please remove from your mind the idea that a lost sale is theft. That is logically unsupportable. To paraphrase the sig of another /. poster, you now owe me millions of dollars because you haven't bought my iOS app!
Once you exercise your right to exclusivity (i.e. you give someone a copy), you have lost your exclusivity, according to your reasoning. If you think about it a little, you will realize that it doesn't matter how a second party obtains a copy; the exclusivity is the same.
Celibacy implies the ability to breed.
It would make more sense to leave intellectual discussions to those with intellect. But, as you have aptly demonstrated, you have neither.
And it's as likely to destroy the world as the chair you're sitting in.
That would depend on who's throwing it, would it not?
It's also a good thing we don't have a free market.
I hope you break your neck coming down off that high horse. "Completely unacceptable" my ass.
No, it's only wrong in some situations. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a persistent internet connection, except for those who specifically don't want one.
Blizzard is obviously willing to sacrifice non-connected consumers. If playing D3 is so fucking important, maybe you shouldn't enlist in the US Army.