Analog stations will stop broadcasting in a few years. Their signals are being taken away and replaced with HDTV signals. All othse with analog signals will need to get a converter, which can handle the conversion. It really, sucks. The TV stations get 4-6 times the amount of bandwidth (for free no less, those signals could easily raise a couple billion) and all they've been able to figure out with what to do with them is broadcast 4 channels instead of one. No interaction, no HDTV, just 4 channels instead of one. Really great. But anyway, everyone will be force to upgrade to digitial whether they want to or not. Digitial Cable, Digitial Signal Receivers for Analog TVs, and Digitial TVs. There is now way around it, since the FCC has said to make it so. Analog TVs are on the way out, really really fast, before anyone gets any silly ideas like they really aren't all that bad after all.
Except the PIII is a PII with a faster clock. The PIII should of been a lot faster on the same opimizaitions, since the core did not change at all. Guess what, it was faster. Are you sure you weren't think of the Pentium and the Pentium Pro / PII?
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Except it has been gutted and now the hull sits in the middle of the Smithsoninan Air & Space Annex in Dullas. I doubt they'd want to give it up. Besides, the Enterprise really, really wasn't complete. It had no sheilding, no engines, and not much else. It was a glorified glider.
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- mysql.org links to mysql.com
- the software is available without registration, I just tried it.
Neither of which was true before MySQL AB started to really bring the lawsuit to the public. Really look at the MySQL.org, it is trying to portray its self as the source of MySQL. It doesn't acknoledge MySQL AB, or try to give them credit for the work. It says it is the main support center for MySQL. MySQL AB has a valid complaint against the site.
- While I'd initially side with the MySQL AB folks, their press release is rediculous, as is their followup. This is not life and death, if they think NuSphere is violating the GPL they should have the FSF sue, or sue themselves and set a good precedent. I hate open source projects that go ape-crap. Please, give us some credit for inteligence. Looks like a lot of hot air to me. Aside from the legit trademark issue where we don't know what agreements were signed, I see a bit of posturing here.
It is not the FSF job to sue, but the copyright holder's job. I.e MySQL AB. FSF can only sue over the FSF's copyrighted software. They can assist another sueing over GPL violations but they are not a party in this suit.
- the software provided is under the GPL, a good thing
- Nusphere doesn't want to sign copyright over to mysql when that would mean mysql could then sell closed source versions for closed source products. That's their right, who cares it's all open sourced.
NuSphere does not provide all their modifications under open source. Their Gemini tables are not open sources at all. (Don't believe me, then go to their web site and look for the code. They're distributing there, but they are not distributing their additions to the code as well. I dare you to find the cod and show me where the code is? It's not there at all.) The code is nowhere. I don't think MySQL really cares if NuSphere's software has the copyright transfered or not. They do care about NuSphere misapproprating the GPL and their Trademarks in order to confuse who actually created MySQL.
Not the best, but the cheapest and easiest. Sometimes the data getting thrown around isn't all that much to any hit TCP/IP gives you really isn't that bad.
Except with the current techology, since it is mechanical the bigger the platters, the slower the drivers become. Due to more torque need to spin the platters and more effort to make sure the platters spin in a blanced settings. Making them physically bigger fights against speed. You can have a bigger drive, but it will be slower, not much of an improvement.
If there is no clear rulling from the current state or statutes to look at then other states are considered. This is how English Common Law works. Basicly the whole area could be considered a vacuum for all the states. Onces one state decides something, it can give guidence and precidence to another state's judge to do the same thing. They'll still have to basis it on the State's law, but it can lead them towards a correct, consistant direction.
Dennis Tito is a famous cosmonaut. An astronaut is lauched from the western hemisphere and a cosmonaut from the eastern hemisphere. He's not an astronaut, that's all.
Except the brillant people end up taking your job and leaving you out on the street, one way or another. This article is only about how a manager can keep his job, not keeping the programmer.
Errr...if time is money, and effort is time...how does it not equate that effort=time=money? We're talking not about taking a kid to the park (which would probably get you arrested nowadays.) We're talking about funding an institution. You seem to forget that.
English, Math, Social Studies change all the time. New ideas, formualas, and ways to teach math are available all the time. English is constantantly evolving. And we're learning more about the past than we every thought we would, this has lead to a re-interpretation of everything. It happens all the time. Part of this change involves actually getting kids exposed to computers and showing the right and wrong ways to use them. Computers are part of the "basics". Things have changed even in Kansas. Failure to realize that in the modern society is a failure of education.
Investing in children costs money, and the money just isn't there.There is a teacher shortage, but that is directly due to teacher salary. There simply is no money for anything. The government would rather give ill concevied tax uts to everyone instead of paying for education. When the government is ready to really, really invest in education, and pay teachers a reasonable wage then, things will begin to change. Till then , we're stuck on the same cycle of not enough money.
I doubt though that American Kids are the DUMBEST in the world. That seems a little drastic. We do score lower on test, but that is because we test everyone and not just those who'd pass the test. We end up with the same or more numbers of phds and master students per capita.
Except the frame buffer is a standard driver with a defined and known interface. And QT Embedded is a standard library with a defined and known interface. No-one is re-inventing the wheel. The drivers back in the DOS day's sucked. It really didn't change until first VESA, then Windows came a long and gave nice standard drivers. Linux isn't going back, just giving more options.
Except you failed to answer the other poster's arguments. Mainly that if they don't bother to use any GPL software, GPL doesn't effect them. Yea the kernel is GPL and the libraries are LGPL or BSD. This doesn't effect software vendors in any way shape or form. Oracle, Inprise both support Linux. If GPL was so bad, why do they release products for linux that are not covered by GPL? Could it be that they are just going to where the users are going? And they even support GPL if it prevents another competator from locking them out of the marketplace and dominating or fragmenting their market. Using Linux does not force GPL. Using a license is the choice, Stallman doesn't like you choice so bloody what? Who died and made Stallman god? He's not buying their software I bet. So get over you're GPL sucks rocks argument. Real people just don't care.
Don't feel so bad. There are a lot of Video4Linux drivers left out. The sony one is under heavy development and probably won't be included until it's done. There is no reason for including something that is under so much development in the kernel now. You can always patch, so what exactly is the problem.
Errr...except those people are actually real. Look at the Lunar Embassy for more information. Some people will do just about anything to convince others to give them money.
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There hasn't been any freon in cars for a while. All new cars are freon-free. They use something else that works just a well, but without killing the ozone.
If it ended before the second half of the end it would of been cool. There is just something about a movie that goes on a little too long for it's own good. This is one of them. It would of been more "Kubrick" if it ended before the second half. But the second half was cool in and of its self, but it just really didn't add anything to the movie I though.
Except it prevented another complete economic collaspe by preventing banks from transfering your savings into some risky dot-com because the investment wing thinks is a cool idea. (Remember the Savings and Loan junk bonds could of been a whole lot worse. What if all the banks had all their money in the stock market in 1987 when it just hemorraged cash.) Do you really want your checking to be on the whims of the stock market or you stock broker needing to sell more stocks to you, not because they are cool, but because the bank needs more money to cover the loans it's given out? These institutions must be seperate for the safety of the economy. Economies of scale be damned. I guess I should learn how to be a hobo now, so I'll have a leg up on everyone else when it all comes crashing down even harder. We used to not be so dependant on banks back in the 30's, but now we just can't live without them. Stupid global economy. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes, not repeat them, guess we just don't have enough old folks around who remember the depression.
(Example the pesario laptops are pure crap, while the armada is amazing. (it's like they
weren't even built by the same company)
They probably are built by different companies. A lot of OEM computers design and fab are out-sourced to Taiwanese departments or Taiwanese companies. They probably were built in the end by entirely different companies.
Yes. And, er, one wonders how some of these dynasties ended -- the first Han dynasty, if memory serves, ended in the disintegration of the nation into disparate kingdoms ruled by warlords. Not exactly a model system...
And who says the United States won't degenerate into the same given enough time t
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Analog stations will stop broadcasting in a few years. Their signals are being taken away and replaced with HDTV signals. All othse with analog signals will need to get a converter, which can handle the conversion. It really, sucks. The TV stations get 4-6 times the amount of bandwidth (for free no less, those signals could easily raise a couple billion) and all they've been able to figure out with what to do with them is broadcast 4 channels instead of one. No interaction, no HDTV, just 4 channels instead of one. Really great. But anyway, everyone will be force to upgrade to digitial whether they want to or not. Digitial Cable, Digitial Signal Receivers for Analog TVs, and Digitial TVs. There is now way around it, since the FCC has said to make it so. Analog TVs are on the way out, really really fast, before anyone gets any silly ideas like they really aren't all that bad after all.
Except the PIII is a PII with a faster clock. The PIII should of been a lot faster on the same opimizaitions, since the core did not change at all. Guess what, it was faster. Are you sure you weren't think of the Pentium and the Pentium Pro / PII?
Except it has been gutted and now the hull sits in the middle of the Smithsoninan Air & Space Annex in Dullas. I doubt they'd want to give it up. Besides, the Enterprise really, really wasn't complete. It had no sheilding, no engines, and not much else. It was a glorified glider.
- mysql.org links to mysql.com
- the software is available without registration, I just tried it.
Neither of which was true before MySQL AB started to really bring the lawsuit to the public. Really look at the MySQL.org, it is trying to portray its self as the source of MySQL. It doesn't acknoledge MySQL AB, or try to give them credit for the work. It says it is the main support center for MySQL. MySQL AB has a valid complaint against the site.
- While I'd initially side with the MySQL AB folks, their press release is rediculous, as is their followup. This is not life and death, if they think NuSphere is violating the GPL they should have the FSF sue, or sue themselves and set a good precedent. I hate open source projects that go ape-crap. Please, give us some credit for inteligence. Looks like a lot of hot air to me. Aside from the legit trademark issue where we don't know what agreements were signed, I see a bit of posturing here.
It is not the FSF job to sue, but the copyright holder's job. I.e MySQL AB. FSF can only sue over the FSF's copyrighted software. They can assist another sueing over GPL violations but they are not a party in this suit.
- the software provided is under the GPL, a good thing
- Nusphere doesn't want to sign copyright over to mysql when that would mean mysql could then sell closed source versions for closed source products. That's their right, who cares it's all open sourced.
NuSphere does not provide all their modifications under open source. Their Gemini tables are not open sources at all. (Don't believe me, then go to their web site and look for the code. They're distributing there, but they are not distributing their additions to the code as well. I dare you to find the cod and show me where the code is? It's not there at all.) The code is nowhere. I don't think MySQL really cares if NuSphere's software has the copyright transfered or not. They do care about NuSphere misapproprating the GPL and their Trademarks in order to confuse who actually created MySQL.
Not the best, but the cheapest and easiest. Sometimes the data getting thrown around isn't all that much to any hit TCP/IP gives you really isn't that bad.
Except with the current techology, since it is mechanical the bigger the platters, the slower the drivers become. Due to more torque need to spin the platters and more effort to make sure the platters spin in a blanced settings. Making them physically bigger fights against speed. You can have a bigger drive, but it will be slower, not much of an improvement.
If there is no clear rulling from the current state or statutes to look at then other states are considered. This is how English Common Law works. Basicly the whole area could be considered a vacuum for all the states. Onces one state decides something, it can give guidence and precidence to another state's judge to do the same thing. They'll still have to basis it on the State's law, but it can lead them towards a correct, consistant direction.
Dennis Tito is a famous cosmonaut. An astronaut is lauched from the western hemisphere and a cosmonaut from the eastern hemisphere. He's not an astronaut, that's all.
Actually you can call it Linux, you just can't sue anyone else who uses the name. That is why it is trademarked. There really is no other reason.
Except the brillant people end up taking your job and leaving you out on the street, one way or another. This article is only about how a manager can keep his job, not keeping the programmer.
Errr...if time is money, and effort is time...how does it not equate that effort=time=money? We're talking not about taking a kid to the park (which would probably get you arrested nowadays.) We're talking about funding an institution. You seem to forget that.
English, Math, Social Studies change all the time. New ideas, formualas, and ways to teach math are available all the time. English is constantantly evolving. And we're learning more about the past than we every thought we would, this has lead to a re-interpretation of everything. It happens all the time. Part of this change involves actually getting kids exposed to computers and showing the right and wrong ways to use them. Computers are part of the "basics". Things have changed even in Kansas. Failure to realize that in the modern society is a failure of education.
Investing in children costs money, and the money just isn't there.There is a teacher shortage, but that is directly due to teacher salary. There simply is no money for anything. The government would rather give ill concevied tax uts to everyone instead of paying for education. When the government is ready to really, really invest in education, and pay teachers a reasonable wage then, things will begin to change. Till then , we're stuck on the same cycle of not enough money.
I doubt though that American Kids are the DUMBEST in the world. That seems a little drastic. We do score lower on test, but that is because we test everyone and not just those who'd pass the test. We end up with the same or more numbers of phds and master students per capita.
Almost all the adds are for Spinner its self. Which makes no sense because you are already listening to it.
Except the frame buffer is a standard driver with a defined and known interface. And QT Embedded is a standard library with a defined and known interface. No-one is re-inventing the wheel. The drivers back in the DOS day's sucked. It really didn't change until first VESA, then Windows came a long and gave nice standard drivers. Linux isn't going back, just giving more options.
Except you failed to answer the other poster's arguments. Mainly that if they don't bother to use any GPL software, GPL doesn't effect them. Yea the kernel is GPL and the libraries are LGPL or BSD. This doesn't effect software vendors in any way shape or form. Oracle, Inprise both support Linux. If GPL was so bad, why do they release products for linux that are not covered by GPL? Could it be that they are just going to where the users are going? And they even support GPL if it prevents another competator from locking them out of the marketplace and dominating or fragmenting their market. Using Linux does not force GPL. Using a license is the choice, Stallman doesn't like you choice so bloody what? Who died and made Stallman god? He's not buying their software I bet. So get over you're GPL sucks rocks argument. Real people just don't care.
gcc-2.96 is the default version that ships with Redhat 7.1. If you don't like the default, tough cookies.
Don't feel so bad. There are a lot of Video4Linux drivers left out. The sony one is under heavy development and probably won't be included until it's done. There is no reason for including something that is under so much development in the kernel now. You can always patch, so what exactly is the problem.
Errr...except those people are actually real. Look at the Lunar Embassy for more information. Some people will do just about anything to convince others to give them money.
There hasn't been any freon in cars for a while. All new cars are freon-free. They use something else that works just a well, but without killing the ozone.
If it ended before the second half of the end it would of been cool. There is just something about a movie that goes on a little too long for it's own good. This is one of them. It would of been more "Kubrick" if it ended before the second half. But the second half was cool in and of its self, but it just really didn't add anything to the movie I though.
Except it prevented another complete economic collaspe by preventing banks from transfering your savings into some risky dot-com because the investment wing thinks is a cool idea. (Remember the Savings and Loan junk bonds could of been a whole lot worse. What if all the banks had all their money in the stock market in 1987 when it just hemorraged cash.) Do you really want your checking to be on the whims of the stock market or you stock broker needing to sell more stocks to you, not because they are cool, but because the bank needs more money to cover the loans it's given out? These institutions must be seperate for the safety of the economy. Economies of scale be damned. I guess I should learn how to be a hobo now, so I'll have a leg up on everyone else when it all comes crashing down even harder. We used to not be so dependant on banks back in the 30's, but now we just can't live without them. Stupid global economy. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes, not repeat them, guess we just don't have enough old folks around who remember the depression.
(Example the pesario laptops are pure crap, while the armada is amazing. (it's like they weren't even built by the same company)
They probably are built by different companies. A lot of OEM computers design and fab are out-sourced to Taiwanese departments or Taiwanese companies. They probably were built in the end by entirely different companies.
Yes. And, er, one wonders how some of these dynasties ended -- the first Han dynasty, if memory serves, ended in the disintegration of the nation into disparate kingdoms ruled by warlords. Not exactly a model system...
And who says the United States won't degenerate into the same given enough time t
I remember a day in the 80's where two songs named Wild Thing were at the top of the charts. I don't think the ASCAP works for name collision at all.
It could always be eCos that they picked up from cygnus.