Seriously, the Microsoft licensing is what you are worried about? In this scenario, I'd have a shotgun in my office waiting for Big Blue or Computer Associates to come busting through. This is a mainframe dude, where "insert shaft/no lube" licensing models are standard procedure.
Sounds like something out the new corporate zombie game, Licensed4Enterprise.
The US government probably prevents you from selling your open source software to Cuba or Iran. If I read section 7 correctly, that counts as a "condition imposed on you". So really you lose all rights to using that code?
Let's look at that again:
If, for any reason, conditions are imposed on you that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
Though IANAL, the second "distribute" seems to be in the same context as the first. That is, if you can't distribute in some context without violating the license, you can't distribute in that context at all. I don't think the "at all" is intended to mean "in any context".
In the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market, they have a 28% share in the USA and 10% worldwide. There are almost a quarter million SMBs in the USA alone.
Republicans cost FAR more. Do some research: U.S. government debt. During the administration of George W. Bush, 5 trillion dollars of debt was added to U.S. government debt.
Ummm... try again. The President does not set the budget. He may suggest what he wants, but it is CONGRESS who holds the purse strings. Better take a look who was in charge of Congress during those years.
And Republicans held a majority in Congress for six of those eight years, and notoriously did whatever the President wanted. This does not bolster your counter-argument.
It's still permission, albeit blanket permission to perform a class of activities. The average person does not have that permission and can't do it legally.
In fact, any attempt to launch nuclear weapons at Iran would probably set off the Russian early warning systems and they would just retaliate before our missiles hit their targets.
Probably not. If the United States were to launch nuclear weapons at Iran, it would probably be from SSBN(s). The flight time for a SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile) is less than 8 minutes. Most early warning systems can detect that fast... but they have a human in the loop, and alerting that human (Obama, Putin, whoever), getting a decision, and sending that decision back to the military can easily take more than 8 minutes.
Is a nuclear-tipped cruise missile like the AGM-86 or AGM-129 insufficiently bunker-busting for an Iran mission? Those fly at low altitude and I presume would be hard to detect, and the latter has stealth characteristics.
The health care industry has MASSIVE inertia. Sometimes it takes legislation to force these things to move forward.
Claims processing is one of the most expensive parts of the process, so you'd think this would be an area where lots of savings could be realized. Even electronic claims have still not fully penetrated the American health care system completely. Many times paper claims are scanned in after being mailed or faxed. Others are submitting claims electronically, but using dialup connections.
This is similar to email, if you think about it. So many are using the same SMTP protocol described decades ago, getting everyone to move to something more secure and spam-free would be nice, but is really hard to do. Changing health care's direction is similar. That ship is a beast to turn.
A similar thing, though probably unrelated to the leap second - my parents VHS clock has been flashing 12:00 since 1986.
To be fair, this could be due to a combination of a few conditions:
(1) frugal parents (2) cheap VCR that loses the time when it loses power, even momentarily (3) a sufficient number of instances of (2) to smother the desire for correct time on the VCR
The loose structure also lowers the barriers of entry to slap together a Notes database. A person can know enough to be productive/dangerous without having a clue about referential integrity, primary keys, or tables.
Do we want to lower the barriers to entry of the control rooms of planes, ships, trains, etc?
Spammers will exist and profit until everyone on the Internet starts treating their e-mail addresses with the same privacy and regard that they extend to their home telephone numbers.
Similarly you can press m-a (or some other letter) to mark a place with the label 'a'. Then you can:'a,.s/foo/bar/g to replace foo with bar from label 'a' to the current line.
You can also !}foo to run command foo on the paragraph following the current position. This is great for running sort on a collection of lines to be sorted or fmt to format the paragraph within line widths.
Everyone keeps assuming the sharks will control the laser beams. Why not a laser-emitting weapon that instead uses the shark as a biological guidance and propulsion system?
Fact is, all of the research shows that any conversation while driving is dangerously distracting. It takes attention off the road, and the brain takes nearly 3/4 of a second to shift focus back. If someone is on the phone (hands free or not), or yelling at their kids they are equally distracted and if something happens in front of them that doesn't give them 3/4 of a second window to react, they will get into an accident.
I talk to passengers in the car and on the cellphone while I'm driving much as I do while I'm gaming, with the idle CPU cycles of my brain.
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Democrat-controlled Congress was in power for the last two years of Bush's term
I think you meant to say "Democrat slight majority", since they only had 49% of the Senate and 53% of the House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110th_United_States_Congress#Party_summary
The 53% majority wasn't enough to stop the documented record number of filibusters by the Republican minority, effectively stopping the Democrats from doing anything they wanted.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/110.htm
Seriously, the Microsoft licensing is what you are worried about? In this scenario, I'd have a shotgun in my office waiting for Big Blue or Computer Associates to come busting through. This is a mainframe dude, where "insert shaft/no lube" licensing models are standard procedure.
Sounds like something out the new corporate zombie game, Licensed4Enterprise.
The US government probably prevents you from selling your open source software to Cuba or Iran. If I read section 7 correctly, that counts as a "condition imposed on you". So really you lose all rights to using that code?
Let's look at that again:
If, for any reason, conditions are imposed on you that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
Though IANAL, the second "distribute" seems to be in the same context as the first. That is, if you can't distribute in some context without violating the license, you can't distribute in that context at all. I don't think the "at all" is intended to mean "in any context".
Perhaps a lawyer could clarify this.
No kidding, have you ever been to Duluth...?
It's not so bad during both weeks of summer.
And Dell ? Who uses Dell.
In the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market, they have a 28% share in the USA and 10% worldwide. There are almost a quarter million SMBs in the USA alone.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/corporate/about_dell/FYIR_08_Slide_9.jpg
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html
Apparently quite a lot of business use Dell.
Republicans cost FAR more. Do some research: U.S. government debt. During the administration of George W. Bush, 5 trillion dollars of debt was added to U.S. government debt.
Ummm... try again. The President does not set the budget. He may suggest what he wants, but it is CONGRESS who holds the purse strings. Better take a look who was in charge of Congress during those years.
And Republicans held a majority in Congress for six of those eight years, and notoriously did whatever the President wanted. This does not bolster your counter-argument.
It's still permission, albeit blanket permission to perform a class of activities. The average person does not have that permission and can't do it legally.
Our community defined that barely-preborn or just-born children are subhuman (and we're about to do so again, via the FOCA).
[...] the thought-police censors known as "slashdot moderators" will tag me as flame bait [...]
I can't imagine why. After all, Molotov cocktails really help warm up the target building.
You don't need permission. It's called HAM RADIO.
Actually, don't you need a license to do that? That sounds like a form of permission to me.
In fact, any attempt to launch nuclear weapons at Iran would probably set off the Russian early warning systems and they would just retaliate before our missiles hit their targets.
Probably not. If the United States were to launch nuclear weapons at Iran, it would probably be from SSBN(s). The flight time for a SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile) is less than 8 minutes. Most early warning systems can detect that fast... but they have a human in the loop, and alerting that human (Obama, Putin, whoever), getting a decision, and sending that decision back to the military can easily take more than 8 minutes.
Is a nuclear-tipped cruise missile like the AGM-86 or AGM-129 insufficiently bunker-busting for an Iran mission? Those fly at low altitude and I presume would be hard to detect, and the latter has stealth characteristics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-86_ALCM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-129_ACM
The health care industry has MASSIVE inertia. Sometimes it takes legislation to force these things to move forward.
Claims processing is one of the most expensive parts of the process, so you'd think this would be an area where lots of savings could be realized. Even electronic claims have still not fully penetrated the American health care system completely. Many times paper claims are scanned in after being mailed or faxed. Others are submitting claims electronically, but using dialup connections.
This is similar to email, if you think about it. So many are using the same SMTP protocol described decades ago, getting everyone to move to something more secure and spam-free would be nice, but is really hard to do. Changing health care's direction is similar. That ship is a beast to turn.
I thought you were trying to be funny, and I was responding in kind. Some mod was having a bad day and modded us both "-1 Troll".
A similar thing, though probably unrelated to the leap second - my parents VHS clock has been flashing 12:00 since 1986.
To be fair, this could be due to a combination of a few conditions:
(1) frugal parents
(2) cheap VCR that loses the time when it loses power, even momentarily
(3) a sufficient number of instances of (2) to smother the desire for correct time on the VCR
<3 is supposed to be a heart!? And all this time I thought it was mammaries or butt-cheeks, depending on the context.
It's actually "asshat".
The loose structure also lowers the barriers of entry to slap together a Notes database. A person can know enough to be productive/dangerous without having a clue about referential integrity, primary keys, or tables.
Do we want to lower the barriers to entry of the control rooms of planes, ships, trains, etc?
Sometimes barriers to entry are a GOOD thing.
So when the server melted down from the Slashdot effect, was there a runaway reaction that caused a smaller, satellite server to be ejected?
This is talking about the false positive rate. Shouldn't we be more concerned with the false negative rate?
Spammers will exist and profit until everyone on the Internet starts treating their e-mail addresses with the same privacy and regard that they extend to their home telephone numbers.
You asked for it, wearing that address.
Similarly you can press m-a (or some other letter) to mark a place with the label 'a'. Then you can :'a,.s/foo/bar/g to replace foo with bar from label 'a' to the current line.
You can also !}foo to run command foo on the paragraph following the current position. This is great for running sort on a collection of lines to be sorted or fmt to format the paragraph within line widths.
Most of these are just RTFM, though.
From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."
Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, [...]
Don't forget the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, both subsequently struck down as abridging First Amendment rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act
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GOTO is what your CPU is actually doing 80% of the time.
And your car's engine spends all of its time repeatedly causing small explosions with volatile petroleum.
The driver is generally recommended to let the engine do this and not try to intervene or do it themselves.
An electromagnetic field cannot exist inside a conductor.
I think you meant that an external electromagnetic field is canceled inside a conductive shell.
Everyone keeps assuming the sharks will control the laser beams. Why not a laser-emitting weapon that instead uses the shark as a biological guidance and propulsion system?
Fact is, all of the research shows that any conversation while driving is dangerously distracting. It takes attention off the road, and the brain takes nearly 3/4 of a second to shift focus back. If someone is on the phone (hands free or not), or yelling at their kids they are equally distracted and if something happens in front of them that doesn't give them 3/4 of a second window to react, they will get into an accident.
I talk to passengers in the car and on the cellphone while I'm driving much as I do while I'm gaming, with the idle CPU cycles of my brain.
"Yes, dear."
"Uh huh."
"That sounds nice."