Check your own damn reception, don't think you have a right for your wireless device to be able communicate. You don't.
Also don't go into basements, lifts, machine areas. Shit, don't go into the west wing of the building I work in: there's a lot of steel in it, and the best mast is to the east.
There's a lot missing in this equation as presented.
The asteroid, small as it is on the scale of things, weighs a lot. A real lot.
This means that changing the delta-V to get the metals to Earth will require a lot of energy. We may well be able to do that with the Sun one day. However, there is also the gravitational field energy to be considered. Merging the gravity wells will release an awful lot of energy, which will then need to be soaked up somehow, or we'll make carbon emission worries look like wondering vaguely if you left the gas on.
In short we'd better build that space elevator and a portable solar sail before we even think about mining asteroids on a grand scale.
If they advertised 'No Limits' then they better sell without limits. They must provide what I paid them to provide or I and a lot of others will be taking them to the small claims court for a refund.
If they misjudged what capacity they needed to do that, then I understand their distress, but it doesn't make it OK to take my money then screw me over. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em twice and fuck 'em in the ear.
That's like saying "Unlimited free refills" on coffee, then charging after the third cup, saying "I didn't realise you might drink four". Give me my damn coffee!
I may not be a pilot, but I'm a good physicist and a reasonable engineer.
As another poster said, relying on millions of travellers to do the right thing is not sane safety engineering. If you really believe it might only need one passenger to forget he has his phone on him to cause a crash under GPS landing, then I will never fly again.
For example, you can put high/low pass filters on the antenna to massively reduce the pickup of irrelevent frequencies and the industry should be doing. This is why we have radio band licencing and frequency separation!
It is literally always possible to create edge cases whenever there is an in/out division (I think yours is pretty obviously not a GPL issue btw - the libraries are in no way combined), so I'm afraid I'd call that a straw man (although I don't believe you are deliberately trolling, unless you are also trolling yourself;-).
You could equally well licence some proprietary code and then come up with edge cases, eg SCO claiming duplication of 'methods and concepts' is not covered by their UnixWare licence to IBM, although IBM was licenced to 'study'. See what I mean? I can do it for any licence term, whether GPL or not.
Anyway, I was talking about being forced to disclose! You didn't actually disagree with that in any way, just posted a wholly new point. Or have I missed your point completely?
I agree - but the dairy issues aren't endangering entire ecosystems, are they? They are just wasting our money. On the other hand, the fishing issues are, and I understand that Spain fishes and consumes a *lot* of fish...
Absolutely true. There is so much evidence (decreasing size of fish in catch, fewer shoals) that the 'but there must be loads, we never have any problem finding them' line is wearing very thin.
I vote we ban fish-finder technologies from all EU waters.
You're AC, so you'll prolly never read this but: if any net novice can show how to 'watch the stream for illegal content' then I'm a potato. Do you actually believe computers can read jpgs (let alone mpgs) and interpret the content correctly for legality automatically?
Anyway your whole point is irrelevent. There is a list of file names. The files themselves are elsewhere. Assuming that we could infer paedophilia from names, would you then say that a phone book shouldn't list paedophiles - even if they have a phone?
Good idea, stupidly implemented. AFter all, the browser clearly has http stack access code in it, so why the fuck implement access to a an httm stack through an ActiveX object instead?
Linux is extraordinarily difficult to use if you are not a trained computer professional.
No, I can't accept that sweeping statement. It isn't any harder to use than Windows. Most WMs use the same structure anyway - start->menu->program for example. If you really think the setting panel (or whatever is called) is easy to use then I think you have been borged too long.
Anyway, I have no idea what your puzzle does and I use Linux lots. There's literally no need to ever use a command line with a modern distro. My g/f with no experience of computers whatsoever found using linux a doddle.
You might think it is a pain for an amateur to get a Linux box to see a printer... Well, I have news: it's difficult for an amateur on a Windows box too, yet alone, say, install a new driver.
I'm not trying to shout you down here, but I can't believe you've even tried a modern distro like, say Xandros (although there are plenty of novice-user-friendly ones now).
You can do exactly the same with an Oracle DB. Just take the database files, move them to the machine you want them on and mount them in an instance. Really easy.
Prolly the same for SQL Server too, but I don't know much about that.
The only reason you didn't need to install any new program to use it on the target machine is because MS has built Access code into the install base of the OS. So the price of your convenience is wasted disk space on every MS box ever built, for which we all pay.
I know all that: I'm unhappy about accepting that analysis too, because since then, people have had the loophole of 'oh, it wasn't murder, it was justified in the eyes of God'
After all, the original Israelites only had Moses's word that God had told them to do it. For all we know, he just heard from their scouts (if they had such a thing) that there was a fertile valley and told them God wanted them to take it and kill the inhabitants.
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It is now. Deal with it.
Check your own damn reception, don't think you have a right for your wireless device to be able communicate. You don't.
Also don't go into basements, lifts, machine areas. Shit, don't go into the west wing of the building I work in: there's a lot of steel in it, and the best mast is to the east.
Justin.
There's a lot missing in this equation as presented.
The asteroid, small as it is on the scale of things, weighs a lot. A real lot.
This means that changing the delta-V to get the metals to Earth will require a lot of energy. We may well be able to do that with the Sun one day. However, there is also the gravitational field energy to be considered. Merging the gravity wells will release an awful lot of energy, which will then need to be soaked up somehow, or we'll make carbon emission worries look like wondering vaguely if you left the gas on.
In short we'd better build that space elevator and a portable solar sail before we even think about mining asteroids on a grand scale.
Justin.
If they advertised 'No Limits' then they better sell without limits. They must provide what I paid them to provide or I and a lot of others will be taking them to the small claims court for a refund.
If they misjudged what capacity they needed to do that, then I understand their distress, but it doesn't make it OK to take my money then screw me over. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em twice and fuck 'em in the ear.
That's like saying "Unlimited free refills" on coffee, then charging after the third cup, saying "I didn't realise you might drink four". Give me my damn coffee!
Justin.
I may not be a pilot, but I'm a good physicist and a reasonable engineer.
As another poster said, relying on millions of travellers to do the right thing is not sane safety engineering. If you really believe it might only need one passenger to forget he has his phone on him to cause a crash under GPS landing, then I will never fly again.
For example, you can put high/low pass filters on the antenna to massively reduce the pickup of irrelevent frequencies and the industry should be doing. This is why we have radio band licencing and frequency separation!
Justin.
This is cobblers, and even it it wasn't the correct answer is to shield the cockpit, not rely on everyone obeying the stewardess.
J.
It is literally always possible to create edge cases whenever there is an in/out division (I think yours is pretty obviously not a GPL issue btw - the libraries are in no way combined), so I'm afraid I'd call that a straw man (although I don't believe you are deliberately trolling, unless you are also trolling yourself ;-).
You could equally well licence some proprietary code and then come up with edge cases, eg SCO claiming duplication of 'methods and concepts' is not covered by their UnixWare licence to IBM, although IBM was licenced to 'study'. See what I mean? I can do it for any licence term, whether GPL or not.
Anyway, I was talking about being forced to disclose! You didn't actually disagree with that in any way, just posted a wholly new point. Or have I missed your point completely?
Cheers,
Justin.
No-ones ever, AFAIK, forced a company to disclose its own code. They've all been given the choice of rewriting without the GPLed code or disclosing.
"First think we do, let's kill all the lawyers" especially ones who can't read, don't understand, and use FUD to get business.
Justin.
1) Invent interesting tech
2) Develop product
3) ???
4) Profit!
Justin.
Why should any of us accept the phrase "Trusted Computing"? It's intended to be doublespeak, we should applaud RMS him for pointing it out.
J.
J.
I agree - but the dairy issues aren't endangering entire ecosystems, are they? They are just wasting our money. On the other hand, the fishing issues are, and I understand that Spain fishes and consumes a *lot* of fish...
J.
I very much doubt IBM will let go for cash, if they think they have a case. Similarly, if they don't have one, that'll become clear too.
In short, I suspect this will definitely result in laundry in public, the only question is 'is it dirty?'
J.
I'd probably just set the alpha channel to zero for all of them.
God that's a sad geek joke.
J.
Absolutely true. There is so much evidence (decreasing size of fish in catch, fewer shoals) that the 'but there must be loads, we never have any problem finding them' line is wearing very thin.
I vote we ban fish-finder technologies from all EU waters.
Justin.
Please ensure your facts are at least vaguely right!
About a minutes googling confirms that the Spanish fleet gets over half of the total EU fishing subsidy, while the British fleet gets about 5%.
(Incidentally, British waters contain about 40% of the fish. I (am English and) reckon we should quit the EU ASAP.)
Apart from that, I agree with you.
Justin.
You're AC, so you'll prolly never read this but: if any net novice can show how to 'watch the stream for illegal content' then I'm a potato. Do you actually believe computers can read jpgs (let alone mpgs) and interpret the content correctly for legality automatically?
Anyway your whole point is irrelevent. There is a list of file names. The files themselves are elsewhere. Assuming that we could infer paedophilia from names, would you then say that a phone book shouldn't list paedophiles - even if they have a phone?
Justin.
I could argue with you, but... well... bleh.
These people are only counting paid-for Linux... so I'd say Windows vs Unix comparisons should treat Linux as Unix.
Justin.
Pay attention... a large part of his point was that, without a backport to IE6, we'll still have to write sites to handle this shit for ten years.
The web needs a backport in order to move forward at a vaguely usefil pace!
Justin.
Good idea, stupidly implemented. AFter all, the browser clearly has http stack access code in it, so why the fuck implement access to a an httm stack through an ActiveX object instead?
Still, good idea.
Justin.
Are you one of the people who says 'the planet is going to get warmed anyway, buy an SUV'?
The logic's pretty much identical.
Justin.
No, I can't accept that sweeping statement. It isn't any harder to use than Windows. Most WMs use the same structure anyway - start->menu->program for example. If you really think the setting panel (or whatever is called) is easy to use then I think you have been borged too long.
Anyway, I have no idea what your puzzle does and I use Linux lots. There's literally no need to ever use a command line with a modern distro. My g/f with no experience of computers whatsoever found using linux a doddle.
You might think it is a pain for an amateur to get a Linux box to see a printer... Well, I have news: it's difficult for an amateur on a Windows box too, yet alone, say, install a new driver.
I'm not trying to shout you down here, but I can't believe you've even tried a modern distro like, say Xandros (although there are plenty of novice-user-friendly ones now).
Justin.
You can do exactly the same with an Oracle DB. Just take the database files, move them to the machine you want them on and mount them in an instance. Really easy.
Prolly the same for SQL Server too, but I don't know much about that.
The only reason you didn't need to install any new program to use it on the target machine is because MS has built Access code into the install base of the OS. So the price of your convenience is wasted disk space on every MS box ever built, for which we all pay.
J.
Keep it up for a year and they'll have ooh, 0.1% of the population in prison.
Oh, hang on, that isn't that impressive, is it.
Maybe you're right.
J.
I know all that: I'm unhappy about accepting that analysis too, because since then, people have had the loophole of 'oh, it wasn't murder, it was justified in the eyes of God'
After all, the original Israelites only had Moses's word that God had told them to do it. For all we know, he just heard from their scouts (if they had such a thing) that there was a fertile valley and told them God wanted them to take it and kill the inhabitants.
Justin.