I hope you're planning on making it interoperate with the cygwin packaging system. Cygwin's a great piece of software which is, IMO, let down by its obscure and difficult-to-use setup program. A new, friendlier way of installing and updating cygwin components would be a great asset. And if it worked with other OSS stuff as well, that would be a huge asset.
One thing I would suggest is that you make it easy for somebody to package a standalone.exe that doesn't require your system, but which can interoperate with your system easily -- perhaps by having a version of your system that can wrap up a package with a copy of the relevant parts of itself in a.exe file.
Democracy is a form of government, like communism or monarchy. A Republic is a type of state, like a kingdom or an emirate.
And the US is both: a republic with democratic government. So why was the poster I was replying to trying to make them sound like they were exclusive things and something couldn't possibly *be* both?
Democracy: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Republic: a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
(source for both defs, dictionary.com)
The difference is what, precisely? Other than that "republic" is a more precise term than "democracy" which is somewhat vague about the exact mechanism, nothing relevant.
Unless these recommendations can implemented in shared hosting environments they are of no real use to someone like me - ie web application designer
There are plenty of shared hosting providers who will let you use any apache/php settings you choose. I have a virtual server with bytemark, and have so far been quite happy with it. It doesn't cost a fortune, and is quite capable.
Speaking as somebody who runs PHP in a threaded environment, PHP is actually pretty damned stable in one (i.e., it has *never* crashed for me). As I understand it, as long as you stay away from the less frequently-used extensions, you'll be fine.
Google is a US corporation. Of what concern are European privacy laws to it?
The concern is over the fact that they trade with people in the EU. US corporations that trade in the EU are required to follow EU laws; if they aren't, they may be fined by the EU (e.g. Microsoft), and if they do not pay their fines to the EU then they face having any of their property that is within the EU confiscated. This would include any money in transit from their European customers to them.
This just goes to show that the whole copyright system is absurdly broken.
This has little or nothing to do with the copyright system. Just because somebody claims to hold copyright on a video and somebody else jumps to remove it doesn't mean they actually do hold that copyright.
As has been suggested above, there's a very good argument that this is actually a copyright-free video (no creative input was put into making it; it is a straightforward reproduction of what actually occurred), and google is reacting to a request they don't actually need to react to. If anything, it suggest's google's lawyers are broken.
You seem to be under the illusion that apple actually care. They're almost certainly proceeding with this lawsuit solely because of the doctrine that states that if they don't, they might find it harder to do so in the future.
Parody has successfully been used as a defence against trademark infringements, also. See this excellent article on the subject. It seems tricky to make the defence work, but it can be done.
But one thing that was interesting was one of my co-workers told me how Costco got away with [selling videos before the release date] all the time. They were such a huge retail channel for Disney videos, Disney couldn't afford to threaten Costco, so they just had to take a "grin and bear it" posture in those cases, filing a protest but unable to make threats.
Err... I may be missing something here, but: Costco's a wholesaler. Of course they sell stuff before the release date -- if they don't, the retailers they're selling to won't be able to have it in store on the release date.
What the hell? Tobacco isn't illegal, and not only is prostitution legal in Rhode Island (set your user-agent to googlebot and npr will show you the written transcript) as well as parts of Nevada, Canada, most of Europe and parts of Asia.
Yet there are many jurisdictions (including mine) where carrying advertisements for either of them is illegal. They're activities that are often tolerated by society, but encouraging them is not considered good in most places.
For every person who goes out into the world and gets a good job on the basis of a qualification they didn't earn, someone who did earn that qualification loses out. That almost certainly damages both people who did earn the qualification and the people who would hire them.
And, frequently, the people who didn't also. They're likely to get fired from that job they're not qualified for fairly soon, whereas if they'd studied a bit harder (which they might have done had they not been able to fall back on an essay writing service), they might have learned something useful.
You should have done what everyone else does: fake an illness (depression's quite easy) and get a doctor's note, then ask for an extension. Works 9 times out of 10, and is less embarassing to admit to later on.:)
I know I've seen plenty of shady ads on there that had nothing to do with academic essays. Why shouldn't those be banned too?
Absolutely. Multi-level/"network" marketing schemes should be the next to go. They prey on the unwary and uneducated and should be stopped. Then vanity presses. There's a lot of advertising going on for dubious businesses on google's networks, and I know of several people who refuse to run google ads on their sites because of the type of advert they attract. (And then theres scam.com, who seem to relish in the dubious google ads that accumulate on their site -- e.g., from the batch I just loaded, "I made $204,000 last month not MLM no selling get paid daily this works"... yeah, right.).
Googles intermingle top placement ads with the top search results. While they are subtly different, top placement ads often times look like search results.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone be confused about this (and yes, I do know what I'm talking about -- my company sometimes does web usability testing, and ease of finding a site is one of the things we test). It's pretty clear what's an advert and what isn't on google's results page.
It means that at some point soon, application writers are going to stop making new applications that are compatible with your device, and you may have to upgrade it to a newer model with a different operating system. But the OS will be backwards compatible, so this shouldn't be too much of an issue.
That might be the point, but it doesn't mean it *is* fair use. It's an edge case that I wouldn't want to have to decide about. It might be fair use, but then again it might not. The google decision recently reported will be a trivial case compared to this one, if it ever gets contested.
All this is good for is for the people who can't type 100wpm with reasonable accuracy. I don't think I would be able to speak much faster (at a normal speed) any faster than I could type. Plus, I only think so fast. So...Everyone should learn to type at 100wpm and the problem is solved.
As I understand it, typical speaking rate is about 150WPM. With 95% accuracy, you'll have to make about 8 corrections per minute, bringing it down to about 130WPM. You'll also probably find you can think faster when you're speaking your thoughts rather than typing them, as it's a more natural action to us. Unless you spend a *lot* of time thinking & typing. Most novelists I've heard talking about speech recognition find it more convenient, for instance, and they type a lot more than most people do.
Because making such a dramatic change to the system now is infeasible, because it will break searching, which is an essential feature of the world wide web. Yes, early web developers should have spotted that this would be an issue and required the existence of a robots.txt file (or siilar) with opt-in semantics.
Just don't use Lavazza in a filter machine or any of those other methods discussed above. It's horrible and bitter if you try to use it for anything other than Espresso.
I prize Kona because its "perfect" bean is the smallest I have ever encountered, enabling a better medium roast without undercooking, or a perfect french without burning. I have found small beans all over the world, each making a fine cuppa', but it is Kona that still makes my heart sing.
I've never tried Kona, but back when I used to roast for myself I found Kenyan Peaberry to be good for similar reasons.
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I hope you're planning on making it interoperate with the cygwin packaging system. Cygwin's a great piece of software which is, IMO, let down by its obscure and difficult-to-use setup program. A new, friendlier way of installing and updating cygwin components would be a great asset. And if it worked with other OSS stuff as well, that would be a huge asset.
.exe that doesn't require your system, but which can interoperate with your system easily -- perhaps by having a version of your system that can wrap up a package with a copy of the relevant parts of itself in a .exe file.
One thing I would suggest is that you make it easy for somebody to package a standalone
> The difference is what, precisely?
By the definitions above, a level of indirection.
In democracy the people execute their power either directly or indirectly (by directly chosen reps).
In the republic they execute their power either indirectly (by directly chosen reps) or double-indirectly (by indirectly chosen reps).
An insignificant difference, given that the US (which was the subject of discussion) is in the indirect category, so either term applies.
Democracy is a form of government, like communism or monarchy.
A Republic is a type of state, like a kingdom or an emirate.
And the US is both: a republic with democratic government. So why was the poster I was replying to trying to make them sound like they were exclusive things and something couldn't possibly *be* both?
it is the usa, a republic, not a democracy
Democracy: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Republic: a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
(source for both defs, dictionary.com)
The difference is what, precisely? Other than that "republic" is a more precise term than "democracy" which is somewhat vague about the exact mechanism, nothing relevant.
Unless these recommendations can implemented in shared hosting environments they are of no real use to someone like me - ie web application designer
There are plenty of shared hosting providers who will let you use any apache/php settings you choose. I have a virtual server with bytemark, and have so far been quite happy with it. It doesn't cost a fortune, and is quite capable.
Speaking as somebody who runs PHP in a threaded environment, PHP is actually pretty damned stable in one (i.e., it has *never* crashed for me). As I understand it, as long as you stay away from the less frequently-used extensions, you'll be fine.
It could be worse. I don't know if IIS runs under Wine, but if it did that would be LIMP.
Google is a US corporation. Of what concern are European privacy laws to it?
The concern is over the fact that they trade with people in the EU. US corporations that trade in the EU are required to follow EU laws; if they aren't, they may be fined by the EU (e.g. Microsoft), and if they do not pay their fines to the EU then they face having any of their property that is within the EU confiscated. This would include any money in transit from their European customers to them.
This just goes to show that the whole copyright system is absurdly broken.
This has little or nothing to do with the copyright system. Just because somebody claims to hold copyright on a video and somebody else jumps to remove it doesn't mean they actually do hold that copyright.
As has been suggested above, there's a very good argument that this is actually a copyright-free video (no creative input was put into making it; it is a straightforward reproduction of what actually occurred), and google is reacting to a request they don't actually need to react to. If anything, it suggest's google's lawyers are broken.
You seem to be under the illusion that apple actually care. They're almost certainly proceeding with this lawsuit solely because of the doctrine that states that if they don't, they might find it harder to do so in the future.
Parody has successfully been used as a defence against trademark infringements, also. See this excellent article on the subject. It seems tricky to make the defence work, but it can be done.
But one thing that was interesting was one of my co-workers told me how Costco got away with [selling videos before the release date] all the time. They were such a huge retail channel for Disney videos, Disney couldn't afford to threaten Costco, so they just had to take a "grin and bear it" posture in those cases, filing a protest but unable to make threats.
Err... I may be missing something here, but: Costco's a wholesaler. Of course they sell stuff before the release date -- if they don't, the retailers they're selling to won't be able to have it in store on the release date.
What the hell? Tobacco isn't illegal, and not only is prostitution legal in Rhode Island (set your user-agent to googlebot and npr will show you the written transcript) as well as parts of Nevada, Canada, most of Europe and parts of Asia.
Yet there are many jurisdictions (including mine) where carrying advertisements for either of them is illegal. They're activities that are often tolerated by society, but encouraging them is not considered good in most places.
For every person who goes out into the world and gets a good job on the basis of a qualification they didn't earn, someone who did earn that qualification loses out. That almost certainly damages both people who did earn the qualification and the people who would hire them.
And, frequently, the people who didn't also. They're likely to get fired from that job they're not qualified for fairly soon, whereas if they'd studied a bit harder (which they might have done had they not been able to fall back on an essay writing service), they might have learned something useful.
You should have done what everyone else does: fake an illness (depression's quite easy) and get a doctor's note, then ask for an extension. Works 9 times out of 10, and is less embarassing to admit to later on. :)
I know I've seen plenty of shady ads on there that had nothing to do with academic essays. Why shouldn't those be banned too?
Absolutely. Multi-level/"network" marketing schemes should be the next to go. They prey on the unwary and uneducated and should be stopped. Then vanity presses. There's a lot of advertising going on for dubious businesses on google's networks, and I know of several people who refuse to run google ads on their sites because of the type of advert they attract. (And then theres scam.com, who seem to relish in the dubious google ads that accumulate on their site -- e.g., from the batch I just loaded, "I made $204,000 last month not MLM no selling get paid daily this works"... yeah, right.).
Googles intermingle top placement ads with the top search results. While they are subtly different, top placement ads often times look like search results.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone be confused about this (and yes, I do know what I'm talking about -- my company sometimes does web usability testing, and ease of finding a site is one of the things we test). It's pretty clear what's an advert and what isn't on google's results page.
It means that at some point soon, application writers are going to stop making new applications that are compatible with your device, and you may have to upgrade it to a newer model with a different operating system. But the OS will be backwards compatible, so this shouldn't be too much of an issue.
"Full backward compatibility will be retained for legacy palm apps, which accounts for 90% of Palm's loyal userbase"
:)
So I don't have to throw out my copy of CodeWarrior yet?
That might be the point, but it doesn't mean it *is* fair use. It's an edge case that I wouldn't want to have to decide about. It might be fair use, but then again it might not. The google decision recently reported will be a trivial case compared to this one, if it ever gets contested.
All this is good for is for the people who can't type 100wpm with reasonable accuracy. I don't think I would be able to speak much faster (at a normal speed) any faster than I could type. Plus, I only think so fast. So...Everyone should learn to type at 100wpm and the problem is solved.
As I understand it, typical speaking rate is about 150WPM. With 95% accuracy, you'll have to make about 8 corrections per minute, bringing it down to about 130WPM. You'll also probably find you can think faster when you're speaking your thoughts rather than typing them, as it's a more natural action to us. Unless you spend a *lot* of time thinking & typing. Most novelists I've heard talking about speech recognition find it more convenient, for instance, and they type a lot more than most people do.
Well, that's clearly what he wants to do, but without knowing the keywords in question it'll be a bit tricky...
Because making such a dramatic change to the system now is infeasible, because it will break searching, which is an essential feature of the world wide web. Yes, early web developers should have spotted that this would be an issue and required the existence of a robots.txt file (or siilar) with opt-in semantics.
Just don't use Lavazza in a filter machine or any of those other methods discussed above. It's horrible and bitter if you try to use it for anything other than Espresso.
I prize Kona because its "perfect" bean is the smallest I have ever encountered, enabling a better medium roast without undercooking, or a perfect french without burning. I have found small beans all over the world, each making a fine cuppa', but it is Kona that still makes my heart sing.
I've never tried Kona, but back when I used to roast for myself I found Kenyan Peaberry to be good for similar reasons.