The parodies use the orignial tune. He does pay royalities on the tune to the original song maker. Check who is given credit for writing Weird Al's songs. It'll be him and the original song makers as well. Coolio got payed quite a bit in royalites from Amish Paradise. Just because it's a parady that some what close, doesn't mean that the record companies won't take their pound of flesh.
Yes we should force them to support those platforms. If the OS is designed well it really shouldn't be that big of a problem. I thought that was the purpose of the HAL anyway.
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Putting a disclaimer on a page doesn't either make it true or enforcable. Many things can override silly disclaimers. (Like laws conserning advertising fairness). They're usually there to scare people off from actually following through when harmed. Because if it's in a disclaimer, it must be true.
This is a school. If you think you can control 5,000 first, second, and third graders not to install stuff you're crazy. They probably know more about the silly machines than you do. And on top of that rebellious high schoolers. It'll be almost impossible.
The 1500 is only defined for 10Mb/100Mb ethernet. It's higher. Check your equipment, but most switches can handle much larger packets than 1500. And if you have to leave the local network you're probably going to be fragmenting anyway, so the impact won't be too bad.
By default the MTU size on a gigabit card is way too low. The efficency sucks because of that. Increase the MTU size and see how much better things become.
2) The software comes with a written offer to provide the source at a reasonable cost (e.g., not more than was paid for the actual software), good for 3 years or something, for ANYONE who asks.
No, you can only ask for the source if you have the accomping binaries. Anyone cannot ask for the source and get it. Most places let anyone get the sources for the programs, but they are not required to by any means.
Except an Ethernet card doesn't fall into this category at all. You always use an ethernet card with another application. It makes almost no sense any other way.
Except synchronization based on platform types will fail completely. x86's handle math differently based on their internal arch (athlons, PIV, PIII, 486). They even handle it differently within the same generation. PIII-Katmai handles floats differently that the PIII-Coppermine. The handling causes timing to be skewed and data to be skewed. Add to that all the processors are processing the data a different speeds. Any technique based on what your talking about would fail very quickly on anything other than a console. If a protocol is that dependant on the CPU Speed, arch, and OS, then the game's protocol is broken. World Calculations from the protocol should not be based on those things. I thought game designers learned all this when the IBM PC went from 4.77MHZ to 8MHz. Broke all sorts of games that assumed all PCs would be 4.77MHz. Things like timing loops wouldn't work right, games just crashed out of the box. If they're doing such silly crap again, then they need to go back to school and stop writing protocols.
No, Cisco routers only interoperate with other Cisco routers. Other brands must pretend to be Cisco routers for anything to work. Cisco's implementation of RIP and IGMP are completly non-standard and broken. There doesn't even appear to be a close attempt at a spec. Look at the protocols that the routers support. Most of them are Cisco propritary protocols. Cisco doesn't even try to interoperate and generally tries to break everyone else. And you saying they should be congraulated for this? They're no better than MS.
Actaully as routers go Cisco routers do some pretty dumb, non-standard things. Most other routers have completely different routines from the standard ones to talk to a Cisco router.
Most of the PCMCIA cards cannot be as full featured as integrated components. Ever seen a SBLive on PCMCIA or any video card on PCMCIA? It can't be done. There is enough room for things like ethernet cards, but anything more complicated will need a lot more room than a TypeIII card.
If an application needs to be written because the implementation of a VM has changed (i.e. Linux changed VM implementations, it does not have 2), then the application is broken, not the VM. APIs were invented for a reason.
ATTN to cable users: $50/mo is just about the equivilant of a T1 (more than $500). If you want guaranteed uptime then get a real connection
Or you're getting overcharged for a $500 dollar connection which provides you no more service or uptimes than a cable modem than a T1. The costs of guaranteed uptimes is not the main cost behind a T1. It's the phone companies margins. You can get T1 guarantees on DSL/Cable Modems for 1/10th to 1/20th of a T1's cost and even more bandwidth than a T1. Stop spreading such silly nonsense. The phone companies are required by the FCC to have uptime guarantees and meet those guarantees. It has guarantees it need to meet If they want to screw the consumer and fail to meet its requirements then the consumer has the right/duty to complain, sue, etc. The phone and cable companies cannot just do what they want because they already have the consumer's money.
Except sometimes a law isn't declared unconstitutional for many, many years after its passed and sometimes it's not known whether or not something is unconstitutional when it's passed. Besides this would give undue power to the supreme court to weaken the incumbient part in congress and seriously screw up the representational system in this country. It's a very bad idea.
Statisticlly when the challengers have just as much money as the incumbients the challengers are more likely to win. The current low-turnover is due to the 2-6 year fund raising by incumbients which usually results in a 10-1 money advantage. People who have the money to spend at the incumbients level will ususally win or come really close.
According to the Hiesenbergs uncertiantly priciple there when crossing a state line there is a probablity that you didn't cross it at all. It applies, even for very large things.
Even with all that oversight, the president still have 90 days to bomb Cuba before anyone can do anything about it. As long as he doesn't care about public opinion there is almost nothing to stop him.
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The parodies use the orignial tune. He does pay royalities on the tune to the original song maker. Check who is given credit for writing Weird Al's songs. It'll be him and the original song makers as well. Coolio got payed quite a bit in royalites from Amish Paradise. Just because it's a parady that some what close, doesn't mean that the record companies won't take their pound of flesh.
Yes we should force them to support those platforms. If the OS is designed well it really shouldn't be that big of a problem. I thought that was the purpose of the HAL anyway.
Putting a disclaimer on a page doesn't either make it true or enforcable. Many things can override silly disclaimers. (Like laws conserning advertising fairness). They're usually there to scare people off from actually following through when harmed. Because if it's in a disclaimer, it must be true.
This is a school. If you think you can control 5,000 first, second, and third graders not to install stuff you're crazy. They probably know more about the silly machines than you do. And on top of that rebellious high schoolers. It'll be almost impossible.
The 1500 is only defined for 10Mb/100Mb ethernet. It's higher. Check your equipment, but most switches can handle much larger packets than 1500. And if you have to leave the local network you're probably going to be fragmenting anyway, so the impact won't be too bad.
By default the MTU size on a gigabit card is way too low. The efficency sucks because of that. Increase the MTU size and see how much better things become.
2) The software comes with a written offer to provide the source at a reasonable cost (e.g., not more than was paid for the actual software), good for 3 years or something, for ANYONE who asks.
No, you can only ask for the source if you have the accomping binaries. Anyone cannot ask for the source and get it. Most places let anyone get the sources for the programs, but they are not required to by any means.
Except an Ethernet card doesn't fall into this category at all. You always use an ethernet card with another application. It makes almost no sense any other way.
Except synchronization based on platform types will fail completely. x86's handle math differently based on their internal arch (athlons, PIV, PIII, 486). They even handle it differently within the same generation. PIII-Katmai handles floats differently that the PIII-Coppermine. The handling causes timing to be skewed and data to be skewed. Add to that all the processors are processing the data a different speeds. Any technique based on what your talking about would fail very quickly on anything other than a console. If a protocol is that dependant on the CPU Speed, arch, and OS, then the game's protocol is broken. World Calculations from the protocol should not be based on those things. I thought game designers learned all this when the IBM PC went from 4.77MHZ to 8MHz. Broke all sorts of games that assumed all PCs would be 4.77MHz. Things like timing loops wouldn't work right, games just crashed out of the box. If they're doing such silly crap again, then they need to go back to school and stop writing protocols.
Or sony could mail a new disk to subscribers. Even DVD's are cheap when created in sets of 10,000.
No, Cisco routers only interoperate with other Cisco routers. Other brands must pretend to be Cisco routers for anything to work. Cisco's implementation of RIP and IGMP are completly non-standard and broken. There doesn't even appear to be a close attempt at a spec. Look at the protocols that the routers support. Most of them are Cisco propritary protocols. Cisco doesn't even try to interoperate and generally tries to break everyone else. And you saying they should be congraulated for this? They're no better than MS.
Actaully as routers go Cisco routers do some pretty dumb, non-standard things. Most other routers have completely different routines from the standard ones to talk to a Cisco router.
It could be that it just hasn't indexed your site yet. These things happen.
Do not taunt the playstation 6.
Most of the PCMCIA cards cannot be as full featured as integrated components. Ever seen a SBLive on PCMCIA or any video card on PCMCIA? It can't be done. There is enough room for things like ethernet cards, but anything more complicated will need a lot more room than a TypeIII card.
One slight problem with that logic is that they needed a lot of money to buy the tickets which generated the FF miles in the first place.
If an application needs to be written because the implementation of a VM has changed (i.e. Linux changed VM implementations, it does not have 2), then the application is broken, not the VM. APIs were invented for a reason.
SLA are regulated by states that is correct, but the actual transmission lines and their use/availablity is regulated by the FCC.
ATTN to cable users: $50/mo is just about the equivilant of a T1 (more than $500). If you want guaranteed uptime then get a real connection
Or you're getting overcharged for a $500 dollar connection which provides you no more service or uptimes than a cable modem than a T1. The costs of guaranteed uptimes is not the main cost behind a T1. It's the phone companies margins. You can get T1 guarantees on DSL/Cable Modems for 1/10th to 1/20th of a T1's cost and even more bandwidth than a T1. Stop spreading such silly nonsense. The phone companies are required by the FCC to have uptime guarantees and meet those guarantees. It has guarantees it need to meet If they want to screw the consumer and fail to meet its requirements then the consumer has the right/duty to complain, sue, etc. The phone and cable companies cannot just do what they want because they already have the consumer's money.
Except sometimes a law isn't declared unconstitutional for many, many years after its passed and sometimes it's not known whether or not something is unconstitutional when it's passed. Besides this would give undue power to the supreme court to weaken the incumbient part in congress and seriously screw up the representational system in this country. It's a very bad idea.
because its called strncpy?
But Rik's had the disadvantage of not working very well.
Statisticlly when the challengers have just as much money as the incumbients the challengers are more likely to win. The current low-turnover is due to the 2-6 year fund raising by incumbients which usually results in a 10-1 money advantage. People who have the money to spend at the incumbients level will ususally win or come really close.
According to the Hiesenbergs uncertiantly priciple there when crossing a state line there is a probablity that you didn't cross it at all. It applies, even for very large things.
Even with all that oversight, the president still have 90 days to bomb Cuba before anyone can do anything about it. As long as he doesn't care about public opinion there is almost nothing to stop him.