Ah, this must be some strange use of the term "fine-grained" I wasn't previously aware of.
Tell me, using your "fine-grained" user/group/other permissions, how would you go about implementing granting read/write access to a folder to 5 users and read-only access to another 3 users while denying everyone else access to said folder.
... Which is funny, because quite a few vending machines seem perfectly happy with RETURNING a dollar coin. This has happened to me on more than on occasion, where I put in a dollar, an item was sold out, I hit the button that is supposed to return the money, but it returned a dollar coin. Inserted the dollar coin again, and it was rejected by the machine.
This would mean that Canadians... or pretty much every other place that dares sell Cuban cigars somehow have the obligation now to deny US citizens from buying Cuban cigars. The purchasing of Cuban cigars is perfectly legal pretty much anywhere outside the US.
IF the company is run entirely OUTSIDE the US, all US citizens are entering the store, so to speak, just like any other American tourist entering a store outside the US is.
UNLESS the company has any physical presence in the US it is not in ANY way shape or form the company's obligation to "discriminate against" Americans by following US-only based laws; anymore than it is the obligation of ANY US firm WITHOUT physical presence in, say China or Saudi Arabia to follow censorship laws in the respective countries.
I would like to note that I am explicitly specifying "physical presence" in the text above so as to mute all the "what about Google in China!, what about Yahoo in France or Germany!" whining voices. Google has a physical presence in China and Yahoo has a physical presence in France and Germany meaning they are legal entities in said countries and have to abide by laws there.
How and why exactly should dealing with private companies working for government agencies be any different than dealing with the government agency directly?
Using a different analogy, the mobster ordering the hit is just as, if not more, guilty than the hitman doing the job.
Good old Windows NT 4.0 and HAL voodoo
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I once added a TV Tuner card to my homebrewed NT machine. No matter how hard I tried, it simply refused to operate, even with NT specific drivers for the card, it would always give an error saying it was unable to share an IRQ. The manual for the card said that the only devices using IRQ 9 (still remember the IRQ) should be the TV Tuner card and the video card. After a bit of digging I was finally able to determine that IRQ 9 was indeed being shared by more than just the tuner card and the video card; my ZIP Zoom card was also using IRQ 9.
For those who don't know what a Zip Zoom card was, it was a stripped down SCSI controller mainly used for external Zip SCSI drives.
After a few months of being unable to use both my Zip drive and tuner card at the same time, I grew weary of plugging/unplugging the cards based on when I wanted to use them and finally decided to do something about it.
The first step I took was to take a second look at the offending IRQ and changing it. The Zip zoom controller had a few jumpers you enabling you to change the port and IRQ. Finding out that the offending IRQ was 9 I thought it was a simple task at moving the IRQ jumper and therefore assigning a different IRQ.
I still get the same error. Move the jumper to its original position, same error. This is when things start to get weird. I keep moving the jumper between positions and NT still keeps saying it's using IRQ9. I boot into Linux and shuffle the jumpers back and forth and amazingly Linux says the IRQ for the card changes.
I then take a closer look at the card and its documentation and notice that the only IRQs the card supports are IRQ 5 and 7 (and NT reports it as having IRQ 9); I still remember the "hmm... this is odd" feeling I got when I found that out.
Long story short, it turns out that NT's HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) decided that my Zip Zoom card belonged best at IRQ 9 and assigned IRQ9 to it accordingly. I was then able to change the IRQ for the zip zoom card so that it used the a different IRQ than IRQ9; thus enabling my to finally use my Zip drive at the same time as my TV Tuner card.
And this is different from the numerous MySql books that get reviewed here, how exactly?
If anything SQL Server behaviour is a lot closer to that of Oracle and PostgreSQL (and possibly DB2, I don't know) than MySql can ever hope to achieve!
This is where the contractor who owns the backhoe goes to the local planning office and gets the underground utility plans for that particular area. This is also where the backhoe operator digs with extreme caution using an assistant who monitors the shovel on the backhoe until he finds 1) a layer of sand different than the surrounding soil, 2) coloured ribbon designating the voltage (red for high voltage grid cable, yellow for lower voltage), 3) after manually digging having found the first two, the conduit containing the cable!
I happened to be that assistant for a number of summers and I can only think of one occasion where the cable was hit in any way and when that happened, it only nicked the cable itself. This only happened because the cable in question was not detailed on any plans available, it was sitting a lot higher in the ground than regulations say it should and it was 40 years old from before regulations required that all cable would not be laid in the ground except in conduits that lie on a bit of sand different than the surrounding soil, that conduit then has a layer of sand different than the surrounding soil at a certain thickness, onto which a coloured ribbon goes designating whether it's a high voltage grid cable or a lower voltage cable, onto which yet another layer of sand goes.
IF, for some reason the backhoe operator fails to follow these precautions, then there's no reason why he won't make the exact same mistake and hit a gas pipe and cause a major explosion.
Well, I for one apologise on behalf of the thousands of scientists from all over the globe for rigging the temperature meters. I mean, how could thousands of bonafide meteorologist be possibly right when their opinions are at odds with an article that can be summed up as "boo hoo, I don't like what Al Gore is saying so I'm going to cook up some facts of my own!".
If you are going to say with a straight face that global warming as evidenced by hotter and hotter summers for instance is not a fact, I suggest you take a good look at the way glaciers in the Northern hemisphere have been rapidly growing smaller and smaller by each heat-record breaking year after another. Of course, glacier shrinkage _could_ just be a part of a huge scientific plot to get everybody to think that this "global warming" is a fact. Surely Al Gore put them up to it!
P.s. 2005, also known as "last year" was the hottest year on record. You can continue believing all you want about 1998 being the hottest year on record, but sadly for you, that does NOT change the fact that it isn't.
Going by your logic it would make perfect sense to rename the English Premier League to "World Premier League", given the fact that there are _many_ non-English players playing in the English Premier League.
Biggest difference here is that the World Cup is played at a national level whereas the World Series is played at a league level.
Learning the basic difference between the Nordic (Scandinavian) country of Sweden/Sverige and a country called Switzerland/Swiss/Suisse/Schweiz/Svizzera located between Italy, France and Germany would be a nice start before tooting your horn about either country's laws.
You pay your bills once per month. So, why not get paid once per month?
I know some people in the US that were originally paid monthly and then shortly after having been put on the bi-weekly pay noticed that for some reason they were more prone to spend almost beyond their means on the bi-weekly pay instead of the monthly pay.
The part about getting paid any and all wages the day after you are no longer with the company for some reason sounds quite good though.
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Poor cat. Being left alone in a box without air or water or food for all that time.
Even if the cat had plenty of food in that damn box it would have died of old age a looong time ago.
Ah, this must be some strange use of the term "fine-grained" I wasn't previously aware of.
Tell me, using your "fine-grained" user/group/other permissions, how would you go about implementing granting read/write access to a folder to 5 users and read-only access to another 3 users while denying everyone else access to said folder.
This is a fairly simple example.
Maybe not bootable in the wild, but about a little over a year ago ZFS was successfully booted on Solaris on X86 according to this blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/zfs_boot
Maybe they did notify their customers, via Email :-)
... Which is funny, because quite a few vending machines seem perfectly happy with RETURNING a dollar coin.
This has happened to me on more than on occasion, where I put in a dollar, an item was sold out, I hit the button that is supposed to return the money, but it returned a dollar coin. Inserted the dollar coin again, and it was rejected by the machine.
Took me all of 3 seconds Googleing for "brillant site:thedailywtf.com".
Paula's Brillant Bean:
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/40043/ShowPost.aspx
That's only because coke is produced in metric countries, weed is homegrown in the US of A :-)
If you try to write a message to someone a URL that contains gallery.php or download.php, the entire message will not be delivered at all.
That's just it,
I, personally, am not quite sure that you really are aware.
Sorry, doesn't fly.
This would mean that Canadians... or pretty much every other place that dares sell Cuban cigars somehow have the obligation now to deny US citizens from buying Cuban cigars. The purchasing of Cuban cigars is perfectly legal pretty much anywhere outside the US.
IF the company is run entirely OUTSIDE the US, all US citizens are entering the store, so to speak, just like any other American tourist entering a store outside the US is.
UNLESS the company has any physical presence in the US it is not in ANY way shape or form the company's obligation to "discriminate against" Americans by following US-only based laws; anymore than it is the obligation of ANY US firm WITHOUT physical presence in, say China or Saudi Arabia to follow censorship laws in the respective countries.
I would like to note that I am explicitly specifying "physical presence" in the text above so as to mute all the "what about Google in China!, what about Yahoo in France or Germany!" whining voices. Google has a physical presence in China and Yahoo has a physical presence in France and Germany meaning they are legal entities in said countries and have to abide by laws there.
How and why exactly should dealing with private companies working for government agencies be any different than dealing with the government agency directly?
Using a different analogy, the mobster ordering the hit is just as, if not more, guilty than the hitman doing the job.
I once added a TV Tuner card to my homebrewed NT machine. No matter how hard I tried, it simply refused to operate, even with NT specific drivers for the card, it would always give an error saying it was unable to share an IRQ. The manual for the card said that the only devices using IRQ 9 (still remember the IRQ) should be the TV Tuner card and the video card.
After a bit of digging I was finally able to determine that IRQ 9 was indeed being shared by more than just the tuner card and the video card; my ZIP Zoom card was also using IRQ 9.
For those who don't know what a Zip Zoom card was, it was a stripped down SCSI controller mainly used for external Zip SCSI drives.
After a few months of being unable to use both my Zip drive and tuner card at the same time, I grew weary of plugging/unplugging the cards based on when I wanted to use them and finally decided to do something about it.
The first step I took was to take a second look at the offending IRQ and changing it. The Zip zoom controller had a few jumpers you enabling you to change the port and IRQ. Finding out that the offending IRQ was 9 I thought it was a simple task at moving the IRQ jumper and therefore assigning a different IRQ.
I still get the same error. Move the jumper to its original position, same error. This is when things start to get weird. I keep moving the jumper between positions and NT still keeps saying it's using IRQ9. I boot into Linux and shuffle the jumpers back and forth and amazingly Linux says the IRQ for the card changes.
I then take a closer look at the card and its documentation and notice that the only IRQs the card supports are IRQ 5 and 7 (and NT reports it as having IRQ 9); I still remember the "hmm... this is odd" feeling I got when I found that out.
Long story short, it turns out that NT's HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) decided that my Zip Zoom card belonged best at IRQ 9 and assigned IRQ9 to it accordingly. I was then able to change the IRQ for the zip zoom card so that it used the a different IRQ than IRQ9; thus enabling my to finally use my Zip drive at the same time as my TV Tuner card.
This is what I call voodoo.
And this is different from the numerous MySql books that get reviewed here, how exactly?
If anything SQL Server behaviour is a lot closer to that of Oracle and PostgreSQL (and possibly DB2, I don't know) than MySql can ever hope to achieve!
This is finally starting to change.
The relatively new Canon SLR XT has a USB 2.0 High Speed interface.
How come I never seem to get mod points when there's a comment like that that truly deserves being modded up?
This is where the contractor who owns the backhoe goes to the local planning office and gets the underground utility plans for that particular area.
This is also where the backhoe operator digs with extreme caution using an assistant who monitors the shovel on the backhoe until he finds 1) a layer of sand different than the surrounding soil, 2) coloured ribbon designating the voltage (red for high voltage grid cable, yellow for lower voltage), 3) after manually digging having found the first two, the conduit containing the cable!
I happened to be that assistant for a number of summers and I can only think of one occasion where the cable was hit in any way and when that happened, it only nicked the cable itself. This only happened because the cable in question was not detailed on any plans available, it was sitting a lot higher in the ground than regulations say it should and it was 40 years old from before regulations required that all cable would not be laid in the ground except in conduits that lie on a bit of sand different than the surrounding soil, that conduit then has a layer of sand different than the surrounding soil at a certain thickness, onto which a coloured ribbon goes designating whether it's a high voltage grid cable or a lower voltage cable, onto which yet another layer of sand goes.
IF, for some reason the backhoe operator fails to follow these precautions, then there's no reason why he won't make the exact same mistake and hit a gas pipe and cause a major explosion.
Or Art Vandelay perhaps?
Well, I for one apologise on behalf of the thousands of scientists from all over the globe for rigging the temperature meters. I mean, how could thousands of bonafide meteorologist be possibly right when their opinions are at odds with an article that can be summed up as "boo hoo, I don't like what Al Gore is saying so I'm going to cook up some facts of my own!".
If you are going to say with a straight face that global warming as evidenced by hotter and hotter summers for instance is not a fact, I suggest you take a good look at the way glaciers in the Northern hemisphere have been rapidly growing smaller and smaller by each heat-record breaking year after another. Of course, glacier shrinkage _could_ just be a part of a huge scientific plot to get everybody to think that this "global warming" is a fact. Surely Al Gore put them up to it!
P.s.
2005, also known as "last year" was the hottest year on record.
You can continue believing all you want about 1998 being the hottest year on record, but sadly for you, that does NOT change the fact that it isn't.
Not quite.
Going by your logic it would make perfect sense to rename the English Premier League to "World Premier League", given the fact that there are _many_ non-English players playing in the English Premier League.
Biggest difference here is that the World Cup is played at a national level whereas the World Series is played at a league level.
Learning the basic difference between the Nordic (Scandinavian) country of Sweden/Sverige and a country called Switzerland/Swiss/Suisse/Schweiz/Svizzera located between Italy, France and Germany would be a nice start before tooting your horn about either country's laws.
Not to mention those ghastly info pages. I flatout refuse to use a tool that simply states "read the info page" in its man page.
Another popular contact lense mistake that may occur on the way back from the pub.
Attempting to remove a non-existing contact lense.
"The next generation of processors will be clockless"
Maybe not too far off given the ARM9 core is clockless. See: The article on SlashDot itself!
There in lies the REAL problem with Cringely, and I suppose it's the reason why he still gets paid.
For every BS prediction he makes, there is some grain of truth in it.
Why bi-weekly and bi-weekly alone?
You pay your bills once per month. So, why not get paid once per month?
I know some people in the US that were originally paid monthly and then shortly after having been put on the bi-weekly pay noticed that for some reason they were more prone to spend almost beyond their means on the bi-weekly pay instead of the monthly pay.
The part about getting paid any and all wages the day after you are no longer with the company for some reason sounds quite good though.
... is a standard feature on all mobile phones on my mobile phone...
... you have many mobile phones on your mobile phone?
So