The closer people live to work, the less traffic is generated. You are on the road longer, using more lane-miles of roadway when you live 50 miles from work than someone who lives 10 miles from work.
Urban sprawl really does increase traffic congestion by encouraging people to drive longer distances.
I'll take a bet that IBM settles the case out of court.
Even though I have not even applied for law school yet, I would offer my services pro bono so that IBM can go all the way and prove SCO wrong. Moreover, I would like to see the judge order SCO to pay IBM's legal costs when this is all over.
In related news...
The Minister of Information is considering a position with Public Relations at M$. He is still negotiating salary, benefits, and diplomatic immunity.
That's right. When your neighbours have Firebirds, Thunderbirds, and especially Camaros in their front yards, they are white trash. What kind of neighbourhood do you live in?
Why did this get posted on Slashdot? She is obviously not the brightest star in the sky.
Even fanatics who believe the same things may not like the way Ms. MacDonald writes.
Her knowledge of technology is probably limited to using M$ Word (and no, she does not know how to kill Clippy)--not the kind of person who should be calling anyone a Luddite.
The real problem for the US was in the way spectrum is allocated by the FCC. The frequencies used most every other place in the world were already being used for something else. Also, each company that bid at auction was allocated a different part of the spectrum by the FCC.
So, not only do we have different frequencies, but we have different frequency ranges used by different companies, who often used different technologies.
Because of this, each mobile service provider has its own phone models. You cannot use the same phone to get service from Verizon and T-Mobile. If you switch service provider, you need to get a new phone.
That is a big part of why the US market is like that.
Linux has as many opportunities for exploitation as any other OS.
That is not necessarily true.
I would say that the way OS developers do their work can help prevent many security holes in the first place.
Open source allows everyone to look at the code. Anyone can find problems, and anyone can fix problems.
OpenBSD developers take it to the extreme with code audits and work extra hard to prevent buffer overflows.
This ptrace flaw was discovered and patched by Andrzej Szombierski.
In theory, every person putting together an OS should do code audits and be on the lookout for buffer overflows, but that does not always happen in reality.
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Don't blame urban planners for that. Blame civil engineers and elected officials who ignored the advice of urban planners.
Urban sprawl really does increase traffic congestion by encouraging people to drive longer distances.
I can see it now:
Sir, we have replace all the Space Shuttle code with a single-line of Perl script.
Did anyone notice the Pringles crisis caused by a tornado last Sunday?
Most likely, you will not have to come in at 2:00 AM to support ssh, VNC, etc.
Are you making fun of my programs?
Anyone (SCO, IBM, you, your mom) has had access to source code in any release of a Linux distribution.
Considering the crap that SCO produced, it would be very surprising if anyone used any code from SCO. What has SCO ever made that is worth copying?
Even though I have not even applied for law school yet, I would offer my services pro bono so that IBM can go all the way and prove SCO wrong. Moreover, I would like to see the judge order SCO to pay IBM's legal costs when this is all over.
SCO claims that Linux gained SMP support that IBM must have stolen from Project Monterey.
They are ignoring the fact that SCO never had good SMP support, and that Linux already blew away SCO by the time IBM became involved.
Finally, we can get rid of all those sites that use frames in such non-intuitive ways.
In related news...
The Minister of Information is considering a position with Public Relations at M$. He is still negotiating salary, benefits, and diplomatic immunity.
Will e-voting ever allow us to implement the Borda count method?
Because Zimbabwe produces more of some grains (i.e. maize) than the people of the country can use. Why not export it?
Conversely, Zimbabwe does not produce some crops that the people demand, so it also must import some.
Next year's meeting will be at the new Krispy Kreme in North Seattle (opening May 20).
Yeah, and we would love to pay SCO $999 for Linux, rather than download and run it for $0. Brilliant move, again, SCO!
That's right. When your neighbours have Firebirds, Thunderbirds, and especially Camaros in their front yards, they are white trash. What kind of neighbourhood do you live in?
Thank you for the laugh.
Which hot-swap features do Sun boxes not have? I can hot-swap everything but the backplane while Solaris keeps on running.
Even fanatics who believe the same things may not like the way Ms. MacDonald writes.
Her knowledge of technology is probably limited to using M$ Word (and no, she does not know how to kill Clippy)--not the kind of person who should be calling anyone a Luddite.
So, not only do we have different frequencies, but we have different frequency ranges used by different companies, who often used different technologies.
Because of this, each mobile service provider has its own phone models. You cannot use the same phone to get service from Verizon and T-Mobile. If you switch service provider, you need to get a new phone.
That is a big part of why the US market is like that.
Worse than that, 80% of U.S. military workers deployed to Kuwait in 1991 could not locate where they were on a map.
What good will it do to join a union if the employer tells you to take a hike and hires workers in India?
That is not necessarily true. I would say that the way OS developers do their work can help prevent many security holes in the first place.
Open source allows everyone to look at the code. Anyone can find problems, and anyone can fix problems.
OpenBSD developers take it to the extreme with code audits and work extra hard to prevent buffer overflows.
This ptrace flaw was discovered and patched by Andrzej Szombierski.
In theory, every person putting together an OS should do code audits and be on the lookout for buffer overflows, but that does not always happen in reality.
Less than one-quarter of the population in Wales can even speak Welsh. Apparently, at least one person can even read and write it.