Thanks for saying that, it saves me pointing it out. The "tidying up" argument is total, utter bullshit. You must release or make available the code used to make the binary. It's not optional, and releasing some similar, sanitised code at a later date is not sufficient. If you're not ready to release the source, you're not ready to distribute the binary.
britneyspears: im eatin a donut lol i now i shoodnt but there so delish
britneyspears: donut stuck
britneyspears: cant breeth
britneyspears: srsly sum1 dial 9!1
britneyspears: help mi u fckrz
The entertainment world was rocked today by new of the untimely death of troubled diva Britney Spears...
I think we may have different ideas on what "useful" means.
iTnews has since been informed that Minister McDonald was referring to Commonwealth Censorship Minister Brendan O'Connor.
Well, how charmingly honest of them. In a more sophisticated regime, that would be "Minister for the Protection of Cute Children's Precious, Precious Innocence."
Aaaah... "Captain Cyborg"! I can't believe this chap (or robochap as he'd describe himself) is still getting funding for his joke research. I guess Reading University don't mind being laughed at, as long as they're being talked about.
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On the other hand, it would let my D&D group get together create a rich and vivid shared history without all that awkward talking that we currently have to endure. Now if they could just find a way to remove the requirement to be physically present as well we could be on to a winner.
Providing cloud services != "using it" though. I doubt that Amazon and Google have been "using" cloud services - in the sense of resources that are shared with external customers - for "over a decade". Try just over 3 years.
See, what I'm getting at is the vaguery surrounding what "cloud computing" actually is. Who's providing it, who's using it, and who's just scamming money from jumping on the bandwagon and consulting their way to an early retirement by layering a new lexicon on top of Software As A Service.
If you're the default Free Tech Support Guy for a friends and family circle, and you've mandated Mozilla apps as a condition of said support, then you might get a bit tired of getting worried calls asking about their "internets popup point net problem".
Granted, that's pretty much what you signed up for, but it does worry Joe and Josephine User when their internets start acting up. Yes, Mozilla, I'm looking at you here.
Darn skippy it's a great book, and I don't mean "a great book for its time", I mean that the works of Wells remain as superbly well written and thought provoking books even today.
To Mr W. was broached the idea: "I believe that if one set up a few obstacles on the floor, volumes of the British Encyclopedia and so forth, to make a Country, and moved these soldiers and guns about, one could have rather a good game, a kind of kriegspiel."...
Primitive attempts to realise the dream were interrupted by a great rustle and chattering of lady visitors. They regarded the objects upon the floor with the empty disdain of their sex for all imaginative things.
Doesn't it make you want to clench a pipe in your teeth, and strangle a prostitute? Stirring stuff.
So, you're advocating that instead of you choosing to give your money to hookers, distilleries, and the people who made the computer that you're using to read this, that the government take that money away from you and give it to NASA, who'll use it to buy $500 hammers?
My question to you is this: why do you hate hookers?
From reading the patent (gasps!) it looks like it's just a "Yeah, the stuff in the prior art, but with another AC/DC converter". I expect they filed a shedload of patents for variant designs, then just sued over whichever one Toyota was already implementing.
The difference is that Toyota patents the things that they make. They're being attacked by a patent troll who copied-and-pasted Toyota's patent and added "yeah, that, but with another AC/DC converter in it". In crayon.
Damn skippy. My bank was persistently shotgunning emails through a 3rd party remailer. Bad enough, but when I whoised the remailer, their address was listed as a trailer park. And banks expect us to be vigilant and suspicious?
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And that's different from Software As A Service how?
That, plus, you know, Superman's Fortress of Solitude. We all scoffed at the crystals, but who's laughing now?
Yes, I'm sure the revolution will start any second now. Tweet when it kicks off, will you?
It'd be fun to watch ruthless robotic attack drones taking on Predator UAVs though.
Thanks for saying that, it saves me pointing it out. The "tidying up" argument is total, utter bullshit. You must release or make available the code used to make the binary. It's not optional, and releasing some similar, sanitised code at a later date is not sufficient. If you're not ready to release the source, you're not ready to distribute the binary.
Presumably armed FBI agents are en route to neutralize notorious terrorist hacker David Chen even now. 50 years in Gitmo is too good for him.
britneyspears: donut stuck
britneyspears: cant breeth
britneyspears: srsly sum1 dial 9!1
britneyspears: help mi u fckrz
The entertainment world was rocked today by new of the untimely death of troubled diva Britney Spears...
I think we may have different ideas on what "useful" means.
Yes, I do. I don't see the relevance to this situation, although I'm sure you'll get plenty of PlusGoods for referencing 1984 anyway.
Then I RTFA:
Well, how charmingly honest of them. In a more sophisticated regime, that would be "Minister for the Protection of Cute Children's Precious, Precious Innocence."
It's fail hard by design. The solution is to change the design, and it's cheaper to do that earlier rather than later.
Well, quite.
I get to throw my Windows 7 Install Party early!
On the other hand, it would let my D&D group get together create a rich and vivid shared history without all that awkward talking that we currently have to endure. Now if they could just find a way to remove the requirement to be physically present as well we could be on to a winner.
Providing cloud services != "using it" though. I doubt that Amazon and Google have been "using" cloud services - in the sense of resources that are shared with external customers - for "over a decade". Try just over 3 years.
See, what I'm getting at is the vaguery surrounding what "cloud computing" actually is. Who's providing it, who's using it, and who's just scamming money from jumping on the bandwagon and consulting their way to an early retirement by layering a new lexicon on top of Software As A Service.
And I'm sure you deal with those issues by assuring them that you've got top men working on it. Top. Men.
Super! Where do I sign up with the 3rd parties that have been providing cloud services to Amazon and Google for over a decade?
Perhaps we need to define our terms first.
If you're the default Free Tech Support Guy for a friends and family circle, and you've mandated Mozilla apps as a condition of said support, then you might get a bit tired of getting worried calls asking about their "internets popup point net problem".
Granted, that's pretty much what you signed up for, but it does worry Joe and Josephine User when their internets start acting up. Yes, Mozilla, I'm looking at you here.
Lies! Hasbro just dealt with that problem by suing people. Surely that means the PDFs are now completely unavailable?
Darn skippy it's a great book, and I don't mean "a great book for its time", I mean that the works of Wells remain as superbly well written and thought provoking books even today.
If you haven't read them, then close this tab and do so right now. If you need convincing that Wells is One Of Us, then consider he also wrote the first (published) wargame rules: Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
Doesn't it make you want to clench a pipe in your teeth, and strangle a prostitute? Stirring stuff.
Whoa, you can make what now? Are you sure you aren't thinking of anti-gravity?
So, you're advocating that instead of you choosing to give your money to hookers, distilleries, and the people who made the computer that you're using to read this, that the government take that money away from you and give it to NASA, who'll use it to buy $500 hammers?
My question to you is this: why do you hate hookers?
From reading the patent (gasps!) it looks like it's just a "Yeah, the stuff in the prior art, but with another AC/DC converter". I expect they filed a shedload of patents for variant designs, then just sued over whichever one Toyota was already implementing.
The difference is that Toyota patents the things that they make. They're being attacked by a patent troll who copied-and-pasted Toyota's patent and added "yeah, that, but with another AC/DC converter in it". In crayon.
When we get a "-1, Statement of the Bloody Obvious that Every 3rd Nerd Will Be Compelled to Make", we can use that.
Damn skippy. My bank was persistently shotgunning emails through a 3rd party remailer. Bad enough, but when I whoised the remailer, their address was listed as a trailer park. And banks expect us to be vigilant and suspicious?