IANAL but my understanding is that non-compete clauses are binding in California if you are compensated for your lost opportunities (not just your lost income, but lost business opportunities as well.).
The compensation requirement makes enforceable non-compete clauses very rare in California
She has been raising her public profile a lot in the last 12 months so her quitting after a couple lateral "promotions" is not really unexpected.
The surprise is that the Yahoo board did not snag Elop for his ability to build Yahoo's partnership with Microsoft. That would have been typical Yahoo board behavior.
I tend to use the latest beta user agent string from safari with my app name and version added to the end for iOS. For android apps I use the same user agent string and add "-a" to version number.
As most developers seem to develop for iOS first I wouldn't be surprised if several android apps besides mine identify themselves similarly to websites.
Which is why nobody uses Linux and instead uses one of the multitude of BSD licensed kernels instead.
Oh... Linux has far higher adoption than all the BSD licensed kernels combined. (OSX is not BSD licensed, and nobody uses Darwin (Hell, even Jordan Hubard only says Darwin is "probably not impossible"to compile and distribute as a binary, so I think we can safely count the number of people actually using the BSD licensed version of Darwin at zero.
If the goal of BSD licensed operating systems is widespread usage. The BSD license has had a spectacular failure in that regards: the UNIX wars. The BSD license allowed vendors to fragment the code enough to allow Windows NT 4 to displace UNIX resulting in a net fewer people using the code. (using other standards Darwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are all successes, but usage is the criteria you put forth as the measurement of success.)
There are times that BSD licensing makes more sense than the GPL, but the GPL has proven to be very useful in getting competitors to cooperate, even when there is almost no trust between them (Oracle, RedHat, and Microsoft all contribute code to the Linux kernel to meet the business needs of the three companies. If the license didn't require them to share their changes the would not and you would need the special oracle kernel to run the oracle database server and the Microsoft kernel to properly run Linux in a Microsoft VM
Well Circuit City tried the rank the sales staff from 1 to 10 with 10 being best and fire all the 7, 8, 9, and 10 employees. That seems to kill your business in 90 days.
If I did google searches from the command line it would look something like this:
# lynx google.com
I would then type in my search query just like any other browser and hit space to see the next page of results or the [J] or [K] keys to navigate through the links and hit enter to view any specific result.
Modern command line interfaces such as tcsh, bash, zsh, and others have little to do with the limited CLI interfaces from thirty years ago. There has been 40 years of programmers and administrators making small incremental improvements to make the day to day lives of programmers and system administrators easier.
The modern CLIs are interactive and have lots of features, and if used under X11 they can be used to launch image views as needed.
I use a modern desktop, but the CLI is open when I am coding or doing data manipulation as there really isn't a better way of doing that./p.
I agree that php without a framework is completely impossible.
Unfortunately all the frameworks are their own languages so to speak so php is sort of a thousand different dialects that don't really translate that well from one to another.
Also, the bugs and gotcha's tend to bubble up through the frameworks.
If we ever built high speed rail taking the train would be a lot more viable. LAX to SFO with no checkin and an average speed of 165mph it would be a two hour trip.
Of course that happening in a sane way probably needs California to partition so that Sacramento has no say in the matter.
I always wonder what people mean by Apple having "good hardware"
It can't mean that the plastic edges are smoothed so you don't cut your self on the computer, because they frequently have not done that.
It can't mean that parts are engineered to hold up to regular wear and tear, because the original mag safe power cords didn't, and blaming user error for normal wear and tear seams common.
It can't mean that the open firmware that boots the computer is normally programmed to spec, as it normally isn't (NetBSD has identified over 30 out of spec versions of apple firmware)
It can't mean that they produce laptops that never have problems with the keyboard melting because REV A of the 15 inch macbook pro did melt keyboards.
I live with a former editor of mac week and have a dozen Macs around the house and am constantly amazed at the repair bills on them. (They really do seem to have a 18 month life span if you use the machine full time )
Also, I don't know of a manufacturer that makes substantially better stuff, but just because everything else is garbage doesn't make Apple products good.
As one of the GNOME users that found GNOME 3.0 a horrible step backwards about 98% of the things that I hated about it have been addressed. (I hated the things I ran into daily, for the two days I used it.)
I think that GNOME3 classic will win people back over time, most of the critical desktop applets from gnome2 have been rewritten to work with GNOME3
Personally I think that GNOME 3 had the same problem as KDE4 it just wasn't really usable for most people as a lot of the applets that people used on a regular basis had not been ported.
Warning:This is a rant from someone that has spent a lot of time at the command line for work for far too many years. If seeing 'sed -i' doesn't make you ask "BSD or GNU?" you probably won't find much here that you agree with.
Well if you want the nostalgia ancient versions of the gnu utilities, OSX is great.
If you want the set time function to be the easiest way to check the time in another city it is great.
If you want window resize to only happen if you grab the lower right corner OSX is great
If you want applications to stay running despite all the windows being closed it is great. (I understand why one would want that behavior, but from experience most mac users don't get that closing the windows doesn't close the app and reboot in order to free up the memory from all the open applications.)
You get the joy of a weird user land that is a mixture of old GNU utilities and BSD utilities so you get to keep typing COMMAND -v to remember what you are using. Also most server scripts assume that RHEL and Debian stable are the oldest GPL things that they have to support so you get the joy of either porting the scripts or installing a new userland that uses current software.
You will get the joy of having your drop down menus on the other monitor if you have a two monitor setup.
You get to pay top dollar for low cost Chinese goods. (There is high quality Chinese manufacturing, but Apple sure isn't going to pay for it, when they can get an iPhone built for $20 plus materials.)
On the upside you will be able to run Adobe Creative Suite
On the serious upside, you can pay $100 a year to become an iOS developer download xcode and install any software you want on your iOS devices without rooting them or otherwise trashing the iOS security (really, from a *N*X persons perspective it's the only reason I can think of to put up with all the other stuff)
RPM generally lets you install to what ever file location you want via options, much more so than dpkg.
Debian's philosophy is that files being placed in the wrong place is a release blocking bug, so the end user needing to do this means fix the package instead of providing a flag for the dpkg to work around the issue.
Apt gets a lot of credit for being the user interface of Debian policy, but Debian policy means that apt has potentially less to do than yum, so it can therefore be a slightly less capable tool.
Half my systems, more or less, have/usr mounted read only and about a 10% have/boot mounted read only.
The rational for mergin/bin and/lib into/usr is that you don't need them to bring up a minimal shell if you are using initrd and have busybox compiled into initrd.
The compatibility with other operating systems is sort of BS though, as it skirts the issue of most ports based software being installed in/usr/local/bin so you still need to use env to get a portable bash script.
I was skeptical until I remembered that my debian boxes all have busybox compiled into intird and it is reasonable to make busy box already has to mount/, and/boot, so why not have it mount/usr as well. Further if busybox can mount/usr it makes it more usable as a rescue shell.
The idea that Desktop software sucks so lets do what windows does is just stupid however.
They have had a google chrome extension for a long time (a couple years?) that has been hosted by google, So, I think this is due to some recent event of some sort with regards to Google.
The artwork dates to when neanderthals were in Europe, but not before the earliest evidence of homo sapiens in Europe.
It seems unlikely that the art was done by neanderthals, and if it was it was probably done by neanderthals imitating homo sapiens. (there is a reason that "to ape' means to copy.
I make this assumption based on the fact that cave art seems to show up with other evince of homo sapiens, but there have been no finds of cave art that are dated earlier than any evidence of humans.
Also, the theory of complexity of art is obviously pulled out of said scientists arses . Scientists that claim that an drawing of a circle as art predates recognizable drawings of the physical world are obviously more recent need to take a look at the verifiable date of the Mona Lisa, and any single geometric shape at a MOMA and explain why their hypothosis that directly contradicts verifiable data about artwork should be viewed as anything other than B.S.
To clarify: When you create things in 3d you have a shadow, or no shadow and a reflection to create the appearance of three dimensions.
Every version of KDE I have used has some icons with the sun in one position (say 9am) and the window chrome having the sun in another position (say 3pm). It looks like a bad photoshop job where you can just tell that everything was cut and paste with no concern for the overall look and feel.
Maybe the folks over at Linux Mint will polish up KDE so it doesn't look wrong. But until then, GNOME or a consistent flat desktop is what I'll use.
I realize you don't have any, but if you try getting it to work you will discover that pulse audio is the only solution on linux.
Pulse audio exists because OSS, ESD, ALSA, jack, and whatever else there is cannot provide universal plug and play audio for linux. Pulse Audio has had a long road to travel, and it is not truly finished, but it is getting close to plug and play audio in a lot of situations.
I have a couple pass phrase dictionaries and they have found a not insignificant number of pass phrases.
Most of the time, I just need to find a password that hashes to the same as your password. That might not seem important, but when your password/pass phrase is longer than the hash and you are reduced to brute forcing the password a collision is not less likely just because you added more characters.
md5 and sha1 are optimized to reduce collisions in the ASCII code space, which means that when you use high Unicode characters you are using the weak area of the algorithm to secure whatever it is you are securing with your password.
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What functionality are you talking about? Office Libre (And Open Office as well) does everything that M$ office does except crashing!
Oh, I don't know, the ability to find and replace carriage returns. (I know fix it myself, but the thing takes for ever to build.)
IANAL but my understanding is that non-compete clauses are binding in California if you are compensated for your lost opportunities (not just your lost income, but lost business opportunities as well.).
The compensation requirement makes enforceable non-compete clauses very rare in California
Welcome to California.
She has been raising her public profile a lot in the last 12 months so her quitting after a couple lateral "promotions" is not really unexpected.
The surprise is that the Yahoo board did not snag Elop for his ability to build Yahoo's partnership with Microsoft. That would have been typical Yahoo board behavior.
You mean like using lucene and mysql for a website? I haven't done that since ... oh wait I did that for the last four websites I've done.
Lucene's MLT query is really useful. I woudn't want use Lucene for storing authentication hashes though.
The question is not which is better, the question is when should you use each of them.
I suspect it depends on the app maker.
I tend to use the latest beta user agent string from safari with my app name and version added to the end for iOS. For android apps I use the same user agent string and add "-a" to version number.
As most developers seem to develop for iOS first I wouldn't be surprised if several android apps besides mine identify themselves similarly to websites.
12 months?
Which is why nobody uses Linux and instead uses one of the multitude of BSD licensed kernels instead.
Oh ... Linux has far higher adoption than all the BSD licensed kernels combined. (OSX is not BSD licensed, and nobody uses Darwin (Hell, even Jordan Hubard only says Darwin is "probably not impossible"to compile and distribute as a binary, so I think we can safely count the number of people actually using the BSD licensed version of Darwin at zero.
If the goal of BSD licensed operating systems is widespread usage. The BSD license has had a spectacular failure in that regards: the UNIX wars. The BSD license allowed vendors to fragment the code enough to allow Windows NT 4 to displace UNIX resulting in a net fewer people using the code. (using other standards Darwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are all successes, but usage is the criteria you put forth as the measurement of success.)
There are times that BSD licensing makes more sense than the GPL, but the GPL has proven to be very useful in getting competitors to cooperate, even when there is almost no trust between them (Oracle, RedHat, and Microsoft all contribute code to the Linux kernel to meet the business needs of the three companies. If the license didn't require them to share their changes the would not and you would need the special oracle kernel to run the oracle database server and the Microsoft kernel to properly run Linux in a Microsoft VM
Well Circuit City tried the rank the sales staff from 1 to 10 with 10 being best and fire all the 7, 8, 9, and 10 employees. That seems to kill your business in 90 days.
If I did google searches from the command line it would look something like this:
# lynx google.com
I would then type in my search query just like any other browser and hit space to see the next page of results or the [J] or [K] keys to navigate through the links and hit enter to view any specific result.
Modern command line interfaces such as tcsh, bash, zsh, and others have little to do with the limited CLI interfaces from thirty years ago. There has been 40 years of programmers and administrators making small incremental improvements to make the day to day lives of programmers and system administrators easier.
The modern CLIs are interactive and have lots of features, and if used under X11 they can be used to launch image views as needed.
I use a modern desktop, but the CLI is open when I am coding or doing data manipulation as there really isn't a better way of doing that./p.
Well that post might be a candidate for the super rare +5 offtopic mod. (a mod even rarer than +5 troll)
I agree that php without a framework is completely impossible.
Unfortunately all the frameworks are their own languages so to speak so php is sort of a thousand different dialects that don't really translate that well from one to another.
Also, the bugs and gotcha's tend to bubble up through the frameworks.
If we ever built high speed rail taking the train would be a lot more viable. LAX to SFO with no checkin and an average speed of 165mph it would be a two hour trip.
Of course that happening in a sane way probably needs California to partition so that Sacramento has no say in the matter.
I always wonder what people mean by Apple having "good hardware"
I live with a former editor of mac week and have a dozen Macs around the house and am constantly amazed at the repair bills on them. (They really do seem to have a 18 month life span if you use the machine full time )
Also, I don't know of a manufacturer that makes substantially better stuff, but just because everything else is garbage doesn't make Apple products good.
As one of the GNOME users that found GNOME 3.0 a horrible step backwards about 98% of the things that I hated about it have been addressed. (I hated the things I ran into daily, for the two days I used it.)
I think that GNOME3 classic will win people back over time, most of the critical desktop applets from gnome2 have been rewritten to work with GNOME3
Personally I think that GNOME 3 had the same problem as KDE4 it just wasn't really usable for most people as a lot of the applets that people used on a regular basis had not been ported.
Warning:This is a rant from someone that has spent a lot of time at the command line for work for far too many years. If seeing 'sed -i' doesn't make you ask "BSD or GNU?" you probably won't find much here that you agree with.
Well if you want the nostalgia ancient versions of the gnu utilities, OSX is great.
If you want the set time function to be the easiest way to check the time in another city it is great.
If you want window resize to only happen if you grab the lower right corner OSX is great
If you want applications to stay running despite all the windows being closed it is great. (I understand why one would want that behavior, but from experience most mac users don't get that closing the windows doesn't close the app and reboot in order to free up the memory from all the open applications.)
You get the joy of a weird user land that is a mixture of old GNU utilities and BSD utilities so you get to keep typing COMMAND -v to remember what you are using. Also most server scripts assume that RHEL and Debian stable are the oldest GPL things that they have to support so you get the joy of either porting the scripts or installing a new userland that uses current software.
You will get the joy of having your drop down menus on the other monitor if you have a two monitor setup.
You get to pay top dollar for low cost Chinese goods. (There is high quality Chinese manufacturing, but Apple sure isn't going to pay for it, when they can get an iPhone built for $20 plus materials.)
On the upside you will be able to run Adobe Creative Suite
On the serious upside, you can pay $100 a year to become an iOS developer download xcode and install any software you want on your iOS devices without rooting them or otherwise trashing the iOS security (really, from a *N*X persons perspective it's the only reason I can think of to put up with all the other stuff)
That is sort of surprising as PCBSD is based on kde, and it seems pretty popular among FreeBSD developers that use a full desktop environment.
RPM generally lets you install to what ever file location you want via options, much more so than dpkg.
Debian's philosophy is that files being placed in the wrong place is a release blocking bug, so the end user needing to do this means fix the package instead of providing a flag for the dpkg to work around the issue.
Apt gets a lot of credit for being the user interface of Debian policy, but Debian policy means that apt has potentially less to do than yum, so it can therefore be a slightly less capable tool.
Half my systems, more or less, have /usr mounted read only and about a 10% have /boot mounted read only.
The rational for mergin /bin and /lib into /usr is that you don't need them to bring up a minimal shell if you are using initrd and have busybox compiled into initrd.
The compatibility with other operating systems is sort of BS though, as it skirts the issue of most ports based software being installed in /usr/local/bin so you still need to use env to get a portable bash script.
I was skeptical until I remembered that my debian boxes all have busybox compiled into intird and it is reasonable to make busy box already has to mount /, and /boot, so why not have it mount /usr as well. Further if busybox can mount /usr it makes it more usable as a rescue shell.
The idea that Desktop software sucks so lets do what windows does is just stupid however.
They have had a google chrome extension for a long time (a couple years?) that has been hosted by google, So, I think this is due to some recent event of some sort with regards to Google.
However, if you have private keys that are trusted by other people (llke using them to sign software) you really need to put a password on them.
The artwork dates to when neanderthals were in Europe, but not before the earliest evidence of homo sapiens in Europe.
It seems unlikely that the art was done by neanderthals, and if it was it was probably done by neanderthals imitating homo sapiens. (there is a reason that "to ape' means to copy.
I make this assumption based on the fact that cave art seems to show up with other evince of homo sapiens, but there have been no finds of cave art that are dated earlier than any evidence of humans.
Also, the theory of complexity of art is obviously pulled out of said scientists arses . Scientists that claim that an drawing of a circle as art predates recognizable drawings of the physical world are obviously more recent need to take a look at the verifiable date of the Mona Lisa, and any single geometric shape at a MOMA and explain why their hypothosis that directly contradicts verifiable data about artwork should be viewed as anything other than B.S.
Lots of things start out as proof of concept and then become profitable. (Twitter, Facebook, Google, just to name a few.)
To clarify: When you create things in 3d you have a shadow, or no shadow and a reflection to create the appearance of three dimensions.
Every version of KDE I have used has some icons with the sun in one position (say 9am) and the window chrome having the sun in another position (say 3pm). It looks like a bad photoshop job where you can just tell that everything was cut and paste with no concern for the overall look and feel.
Maybe the folks over at Linux Mint will polish up KDE so it doesn't look wrong. But until then, GNOME or a consistent flat desktop is what I'll use.
Blue tooth audio devices?
I realize you don't have any, but if you try getting it to work you will discover that pulse audio is the only solution on linux.
Pulse audio exists because OSS, ESD, ALSA, jack, and whatever else there is cannot provide universal plug and play audio for linux. Pulse Audio has had a long road to travel, and it is not truly finished, but it is getting close to plug and play audio in a lot of situations.
Maybe, maybe not. I haven't checked.
I have a couple pass phrase dictionaries and they have found a not insignificant number of pass phrases.
Most of the time, I just need to find a password that hashes to the same as your password. That might not seem important, but when your password/pass phrase is longer than the hash and you are reduced to brute forcing the password a collision is not less likely just because you added more characters.
md5 and sha1 are optimized to reduce collisions in the ASCII code space, which means that when you use high Unicode characters you are using the weak area of the algorithm to secure whatever it is you are securing with your password.