You learn how it works and how to get it to work well. Just look at all that was learned when NASA tried porting humans to a new environment: the moon. More importantly, you learn how to design the system properly so that these sorts of efforts (and future ones that are more readily useful) can succeed with less struggle.
Run an emulator. Most of the time, you can even find an emulator for your own system that you can run on your own system, like vMac, a Mac Plus emulator, which runs on Macs as well as Windows95/98/NT.
Thirdly, we are talking about OS's that exist now. MacOS X is still in pre-beta (DR2, IIRC).
DR4, actually. It very much exists, at least for people in Apple's Developer Connection, which isn't the same as being publicly available, but which is still a far cry from not existing for anyone, like MS's X-box. It's actually pretty solid, from what playing I've done with it. The only scary part is the native (carbon) version of IE that ships with it.
Just in case you turn out to have been delirious while writing that post, to keep you from having to wake up thinking "I was completely out of my mind! Why didn't anyone stop and do something about it? Didn't anyone see me having a massive brain aneurism and think to call the paramedics?", I will take this opportunity to tell you: "I noticed. I took the time to do something about it. I decided to tell you you're wrong.":-)
He's saying that "stupid" is inherrent in the meaning of "American People" and is therefore redundant. Personally, I feel that the American People (We the People and all that jazz) were quite intelligent, but we have too many of those American people here screwing things up.
Oooh, please stay away from conspiracy laws as an example if you're trying to defend antitrust law, lest you undermine your (our) case. That, and don't overstate its simplicity, since the waters are rather muddy, though not completely impassable -- though antitrust law is positive law, it shares lots of the features (mostly deficits) of common law; namely, that what matters most (and more so than in other areas of law) is what the recent case law says.
That said, there is no rational reason why Microsoft couldn't have foreseen Jackson's verdict. Heck, the rest of us did. Pure unadulterated arrogance is all.
R/G color-blind people still have trouble with the colors used in traffic lights. They, however, make do via the fact that the relative positions of the colors is uniform.
You haven't been looking hard enough. Ostrich eggs are single cells, and at 6-8 inches, they're about twenty million microns wide. If you count the eggs of the extinct elephant bird (1ft), then you have single cells that are over thirty million microns wide.
It's the same problem I had with Jackson's remedy in the MS litigation, that OEMs who don't want to include a bundled MS app must be refunded the percentage of the fee corresponding to the percentage of operating system's total bytes that the app constitutes. What happens when MS includes a ten-DVD "tutorial" with its distribution, thereby severly diluting the byte-percentage of any of the functional parts of the OS (IE and the rest, not to call them functional;).
In this case, what if the company increases the total amount of "functionality" that the app performs, diluting the amount that won't perform if the linked-to code isn't present? How can you possibly account for such a scenario in such a definition?
But like with porn, you'll find a dozen other people with differing intuition who'll disagree with yours. That's precisely the problem with Justice Stewart's formulation of the principle. (You do know whose quote you've paraphrased, right?)
Yes, Junkbuster is a more full-featured package, but there's a world of difference between telling someone/anyone "here's a file, name it 'blah' and put it in 'blah folder'" and "he's a site, spend a while downloading junkbuster over your dialup connection, install it, set it up correctly, and maintain it". Ideally, everyone should do the latter, but it'd be a wonderful start for more people to do at least the former.
Only if you trust them to be running the same exact code they've released, which would be unreasonable for even innocent reasons, like the inevitable delay between making modifications and incorporating them into the public release. For example, the "bitchslap" function isn't in the latest open version of slash, IIRC, but I haven't looked very closely.
Linus himself has admitted he doesn't actually know every line of code in the Linux kernel. What he does have is a good sense of aesthetic architecture, a knack for delegating roles by carving up the project into little fiefdoms, and the earned respect of an entire community, among other qualities. Sun is having trouble acquiring these things, and it's little wonder they're taking the approach they've taken, though it should be noted that there's no reason to forestall a source release for want of people who understand it when releasing the source is the very event most necessary for such knowledge to arise.
The surface tension won't fight this level of gravity for you; we're not talking about a static object, and anyone who's lived near a volcano will tell you all about the insufficiency of surface tension in holding back molten rock. And while you're at it, you should factor in what'll happen when it all comes into contact with the atmosphere, particularly what it does to your air column, assuming you could construct this thing, which would run into all sorts of problems with detritus removal and the like, not to mention finding instruments that'll withstand temperatures that melt rock -- what're you going to do, hydrogen bomb your way through?;-)
Don't forget, the center of the earth is just chock full of molten stuff, and you'd burn up from that too (assuming your hole could maintain integrity in a fluid, which it couldn't).
HTTP and HTML are two completely different beasts -- the former is a protocol while the latter is a markup language (as one discovers by expanding the respective abbreviations) for describing files which happen to be commonly transfered by the former. BXXP will happily transfer HTML files. At this point, you should realize that your question doesn't make any sense.
The key of G-sharp has an F-double-sharp, giving it 8 sharps. You can have an arbitrary number of sharps when you account for double/triple/etc.-sharps.
The GPL is binding upon the one who distributes the software, not the user. Traditional click-wrap liscenses are binding upon the user. Therein lies the difference.
The Kerberos fiasco had absolutely nothing to do with the GPL.
Your relatively high post number (#43) indicates that you weren't trying to get first post, and yet you still wrote a semi-incoherent one-lined top-level post. Please enlighten us.:-/
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You learn how it works and how to get it to work well. Just look at all that was learned when NASA tried porting humans to a new environment: the moon. More importantly, you learn how to design the system properly so that these sorts of efforts (and future ones that are more readily useful) can succeed with less struggle.
Relive the magic: Temple of Asphai Trilogy. Just follow some of the directions here, and you should be on your way.
(And no, I don't know how to spell "naysayer")
Yes you do: "naysayer".
Run an emulator. Most of the time, you can even find an emulator for your own system that you can run on your own system, like vMac, a Mac Plus emulator, which runs on Macs as well as Windows95/98/NT.
Thirdly, we are talking about OS's that exist now. MacOS X is still in pre-beta (DR2, IIRC).
DR4, actually. It very much exists, at least for people in Apple's Developer Connection, which isn't the same as being publicly available, but which is still a far cry from not existing for anyone, like MS's X-box. It's actually pretty solid, from what playing I've done with it. The only scary part is the native (carbon) version of IE that ships with it.
Just in case you turn out to have been delirious while writing that post, to keep you from having to wake up thinking "I was completely out of my mind! Why didn't anyone stop and do something about it? Didn't anyone see me having a massive brain aneurism and think to call the paramedics?", I will take this opportunity to tell you: "I noticed. I took the time to do something about it. I decided to tell you you're wrong." :-)
He's saying that "stupid" is inherrent in the meaning of "American People" and is therefore redundant. Personally, I feel that the American People (We the People and all that jazz) were quite intelligent, but we have too many of those American people here screwing things up.
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Is this the Microsoft embraced-and-extended version of Root Administrator?
Oooh, please stay away from conspiracy laws as an example if you're trying to defend antitrust law, lest you undermine your (our) case. That, and don't overstate its simplicity, since the waters are rather muddy, though not completely impassable -- though antitrust law is positive law, it shares lots of the features (mostly deficits) of common law; namely, that what matters most (and more so than in other areas of law) is what the recent case law says.
That said, there is no rational reason why Microsoft couldn't have foreseen Jackson's verdict. Heck, the rest of us did. Pure unadulterated arrogance is all.
R/G color-blind people still have trouble with the colors used in traffic lights. They, however, make do via the fact that the relative positions of the colors is uniform.
You haven't been looking hard enough. Ostrich eggs are single cells, and at 6-8 inches, they're about twenty million microns wide. If you count the eggs of the extinct elephant bird (1ft), then you have single cells that are over thirty million microns wide.
It's the same problem I had with Jackson's remedy in the MS litigation, that OEMs who don't want to include a bundled MS app must be refunded the percentage of the fee corresponding to the percentage of operating system's total bytes that the app constitutes. What happens when MS includes a ten-DVD "tutorial" with its distribution, thereby severly diluting the byte-percentage of any of the functional parts of the OS (IE and the rest, not to call them functional ;).
In this case, what if the company increases the total amount of "functionality" that the app performs, diluting the amount that won't perform if the linked-to code isn't present? How can you possibly account for such a scenario in such a definition?
But like with porn, you'll find a dozen other people with differing intuition who'll disagree with yours. That's precisely the problem with Justice Stewart's formulation of the principle. (You do know whose quote you've paraphrased, right?)
Yes, Junkbuster is a more full-featured package, but there's a world of difference between telling someone/anyone "here's a file, name it 'blah' and put it in 'blah folder'" and "he's a site, spend a while downloading junkbuster over your dialup connection, install it, set it up correctly, and maintain it". Ideally, everyone should do the latter, but it'd be a wonderful start for more people to do at least the former.
Only if you trust them to be running the same exact code they've released, which would be unreasonable for even innocent reasons, like the inevitable delay between making modifications and incorporating them into the public release. For example, the "bitchslap" function isn't in the latest open version of slash, IIRC, but I haven't looked very closely.
Linus himself has admitted he doesn't actually know every line of code in the Linux kernel. What he does have is a good sense of aesthetic architecture, a knack for delegating roles by carving up the project into little fiefdoms, and the earned respect of an entire community, among other qualities. Sun is having trouble acquiring these things, and it's little wonder they're taking the approach they've taken, though it should be noted that there's no reason to forestall a source release for want of people who understand it when releasing the source is the very event most necessary for such knowledge to arise.
Regulatory oversight moves too slowly. There's only one way Steve Case will listen...:
It's time to send in Janet Reno and seize his children!
Amen brother, except you're thinking of durum.
The surface tension won't fight this level of gravity for you; we're not talking about a static object, and anyone who's lived near a volcano will tell you all about the insufficiency of surface tension in holding back molten rock. And while you're at it, you should factor in what'll happen when it all comes into contact with the atmosphere, particularly what it does to your air column, assuming you could construct this thing, which would run into all sorts of problems with detritus removal and the like, not to mention finding instruments that'll withstand temperatures that melt rock -- what're you going to do, hydrogen bomb your way through? ;-)
Don't forget, the center of the earth is just chock full of molten stuff, and you'd burn up from that too (assuming your hole could maintain integrity in a fluid, which it couldn't).
HTTP and HTML are two completely different beasts -- the former is a protocol while the latter is a markup language (as one discovers by expanding the respective abbreviations) for describing files which happen to be commonly transfered by the former. BXXP will happily transfer HTML files. At this point, you should realize that your question doesn't make any sense.
The key of G-sharp has an F-double-sharp, giving it 8 sharps. You can have an arbitrary number of sharps when you account for double/triple/etc.-sharps.
The GPL is binding upon the one who distributes the software, not the user. Traditional click-wrap liscenses are binding upon the user. Therein lies the difference.
Trade secret law, with a side order of copyright (for the distribution of the code by people other than Microsoft).
The Kerberos fiasco had absolutely nothing to do with the GPL.
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Your relatively high post number (#43) indicates that you weren't trying to get first post, and yet you still wrote a semi-incoherent one-lined top-level post. Please enlighten us.