However, the following question bears asking: Why should media companies be allowed to shift the burden of risk involved in starting a new channel from themselves to their customers? This seems like an economic distortion to me. It seems more reasonable that if the channel is really worth watching, the company launching it would put compelling content on it, then to drive up demand, it would launch a media marketing blitz.
There's no reason the public should have to subsidize others' risk taking.
Wrong. Click-through agreements are clearly enforceable in many cases, particularly in the 7th Circuit; see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996).
Most decent USB keyboards have a built-in hub that will handle peripherals that don't pull a lot of power off the bus (e.g., mice, cameras, scanners, etc.) I plug my mouse into my keyboard and I still have 2 ports free.
They seem to use normal IDE drives, so they WILL eventually fail.
All disk drives will eventually fail, whether they're IDE/ATA, SCSI or Fibre Channel. With IDE, you lose tagged command queueing, seek performance generally isn't as good (8-9ms vs 4-5ms for the latter disks), and you don't get 15k RPM spindle speeds (7200-10k is the maximum for IDE).
But, for a single-disk unit such as the SNAP server, those factors aren't all that important.
If the traveller is using webmail, it works fine. Otherwise, the traveller needs to use SMTP AUTH to relay outgoing mail through his home base.
Were it only that simple -- my fiancee', who has an account in my domain, uses Cox High-Speed Internet to access the internet. Cox blocks all outgoing SMTP connections to servers other than its own. Her situation prevents me from setting up SPF records for my domain.
If everyone were to insist on SPF, she'd be completely unable to send e-mail at all unless I forced her to use my webmail system (SquirrelMail is nice, but it's no Outlook).
This doesn't seem like an optimal solution to me. Why shouldn't she be able to use any mail client she wishes from her home ISP, despite the fact that her mail is in a different domain?
When BitKeeper says "single host," they really mean "checkins appear to be from a single host." One can continue to clone repositories to other hosts, commit deltas from multiple hosts and do push/pull operations, but all deltas will be authored by the single user@host.
According to your logic, the public has the right to decrypt and listen to everyone's mobile phone conversations, including yours, because the RF signals travel through your body.
Wow, and I thought FUD was something only the commercial software vendors used against its competitors. I guess the Open Source community can't claim the moral high ground anymore.
Perhaps this is true, but because the status of the software and the intellectual property backing it is under serious legal dispute, any entity with substantial assets to lose would be foolish to employ it.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with X is that it's not device-independent and provides no way for applications to render to a printer as easily as they do to a screen.
Sadly, Y offers no help in this department. If someone is going to design a rational replacement for X, printing should be at the top of the list for design consideration.
Thanks for the info. The problem, however, is that manually "fixing" vendor-provided code exposes us to the risk of having Apple turn us away if we have to do a service call, since we're covered by an AppleCare contract.
I run a lab with an OS X server which relies on ssh for remote access, and all I wanted was a point patch to fix the ssh security hole announced two weeks ago.
However, Apple failed to provide us one. Instead, they rolled the patch into the 10.2.8 release, thus exposing anyone who upgraded solely for the security fix to additional instability caused by changes to other OS components.
I feel sorry for those server administrators who were unable to upgrade to 10.2.8 because it means the server is still vulnerable to the ssh security hole.
But applemusic.com has been registered since 1998 by Apple Computer. One might reasonably believe that if AppleCorps really cared all that much, they would have tackled this issue a lot earlier.
It's almost a necessity when one is working with laptops and docking stations. The display on a typical laptop has a lower maximum resolution than that of a typical monitor connected to a docking station.
Because FireWire carries device-pertinent information over it, and it automatically assigns address information on the bus, just like USB. In a FireWire topology, every device in the network knows what every other device is and can figure out what it does. Auto-configuration is really nice, and consumers want that.
802.11b is merely a link-layer protocol -- it doesn't do enough. You'd still need a transport-layer protocol (IP?). Assuming IP, then you'd need address assignment, then an application layer protocol on top of that. How are devices on the network going to identify one another and their capabilities? 802.11b offers no help in that department.
Mosquitos are attracted to CO2. If you can somehow place a large enough CO2 generator nearby that will attact the mosquitos to it (and drown/kill them within) instead of you, then you'll have a winner.
Compare the quality of the rendered output from xpdf/ggv with that of the real deal (Acrobat) and I think the answer is pretty obvious.
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Huh? That's not an abstract class. Using your example, without a mechanism to declare class Foo abstract, the language happily let me instantiate all the Foos I want.
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Why would they do that? It's not possible to "un-say" something.
You're absolutely correct.
However, the following question bears asking: Why should media companies be allowed to shift the burden of risk involved in starting a new channel from themselves to their customers? This seems like an economic distortion to me. It seems more reasonable that if the channel is really worth watching, the company launching it would put compelling content on it, then to drive up demand, it would launch a media marketing blitz.
There's no reason the public should have to subsidize others' risk taking.
Or, you could just go to the library and use the copy on reserve for free.
I don't think the optimization you speak of will work. What happens if the code in the loop changes the value of i?
Wrong. Click-through agreements are clearly enforceable in many cases, particularly in the 7th Circuit; see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996).
Most decent USB keyboards have a built-in hub that will handle peripherals that don't pull a lot of power off the bus (e.g., mice, cameras, scanners, etc.) I plug my mouse into my keyboard and I still have 2 ports free.
They seem to use normal IDE drives, so they WILL eventually fail.
All disk drives will eventually fail, whether they're IDE/ATA, SCSI or Fibre Channel. With IDE, you lose tagged command queueing, seek performance generally isn't as good (8-9ms vs 4-5ms for the latter disks), and you don't get 15k RPM spindle speeds (7200-10k is the maximum for IDE).
But, for a single-disk unit such as the SNAP server, those factors aren't all that important.
If the traveller is using webmail, it works fine. Otherwise, the traveller needs to use SMTP AUTH to relay outgoing mail through his home base.
Were it only that simple -- my fiancee', who has an account in my domain, uses Cox High-Speed Internet to access the internet. Cox blocks all outgoing SMTP connections to servers other than its own. Her situation prevents me from setting up SPF records for my domain.
If everyone were to insist on SPF, she'd be completely unable to send e-mail at all unless I forced her to use my webmail system (SquirrelMail is nice, but it's no Outlook).
This doesn't seem like an optimal solution to me. Why shouldn't she be able to use any mail client she wishes from her home ISP, despite the fact that her mail is in a different domain?
When BitKeeper says "single host," they really mean "checkins appear to be from a single host." One can continue to clone repositories to other hosts, commit deltas from multiple hosts and do push/pull operations, but all deltas will be authored by the single user@host.
Wrong. BitKeeper does not require open logging for single-user, single-host repositories.
According to your logic, the public has the right to decrypt and listen to everyone's mobile phone conversations, including yours, because the RF signals travel through your body.
Do you honestly support such a thing?
Wow, and I thought FUD was something only the commercial software vendors used against its competitors. I guess the Open Source community can't claim the moral high ground anymore.
Perhaps this is true, but because the status of the software and the intellectual property backing it is under serious legal dispute, any entity with substantial assets to lose would be foolish to employ it.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with X is that it's not device-independent and provides no way for applications to render to a printer as easily as they do to a screen.
Sadly, Y offers no help in this department. If someone is going to design a rational replacement for X, printing should be at the top of the list for design consideration.
Please read the whole thread before replying; I already explained above why installing a self-compiled replacement binary is sometimes not an option.
Thanks for the info. The problem, however, is that manually "fixing" vendor-provided code exposes us to the risk of having Apple turn us away if we have to do a service call, since we're covered by an AppleCare contract.
I run a lab with an OS X server which relies on ssh for remote access, and all I wanted was a point patch to fix the ssh security hole announced two weeks ago.
However, Apple failed to provide us one. Instead, they rolled the patch into the 10.2.8 release, thus exposing anyone who upgraded solely for the security fix to additional instability caused by changes to other OS components.
I feel sorry for those server administrators who were unable to upgrade to 10.2.8 because it means the server is still vulnerable to the ssh security hole.
But applemusic.com has been registered since 1998 by Apple Computer. One might reasonably believe that if AppleCorps really cared all that much, they would have tackled this issue a lot earlier.
It's almost a necessity when one is working with laptops and docking stations. The display on a typical laptop has a lower maximum resolution than that of a typical monitor connected to a docking station.
Because FireWire carries device-pertinent information over it, and it automatically assigns address information on the bus, just like USB. In a FireWire topology, every device in the network knows what every other device is and can figure out what it does. Auto-configuration is really nice, and consumers want that.
802.11b is merely a link-layer protocol -- it doesn't do enough. You'd still need a transport-layer protocol (IP?). Assuming IP, then you'd need address assignment, then an application layer protocol on top of that. How are devices on the network going to identify one another and their capabilities? 802.11b offers no help in that department.
Mosquitos are attracted to CO2. If you can somehow place a large enough CO2 generator nearby that will attact the mosquitos to it (and drown/kill them within) instead of you, then you'll have a winner.
Compare the quality of the rendered output from xpdf/ggv with that of the real deal (Acrobat) and I think the answer is pretty obvious.
Huh? That's not an abstract class. Using your example, without a mechanism to declare class Foo abstract, the language happily let me instantiate all the Foos I want.
Perhaps, but not owning a phone is not a physical handicap. Many blind people are blind from birth, with no possible cure over the horizon.