I'm sorry, I thought it was GPL. In that case, substitute any GPL-based database system here.
Or better yet, substitute Oracle's "personal edition" that was (still is?) free and then assume that if that edition is free for personal use, it must also be free to distribute for any purpose! It'd be exactly the same situation as the GP's claim.
(Off topic: I just noticed a cool Google feature - type "Postgresql license" in, and I got: "PostgreSQL -- License: BSD". "Linux" -> "Linux -- License: GNU General Public License". "Hurd" didn't work (hehe).)
Actually it already happened once. Popular Science did an article on this a while back. Turns out we used to eat a banana nicknamed the Big Mike (unfortunately I don't see a Wikipedia article on it) but that was wiped out by disease, reversing the fortunes of several Latin America countries (see the history of the term Banana Republic). The PopSci article is pretty interesting, even if only for the history (if you're already familiar with the Cavendish issue).
First, why wouldn't you write the software so that it can use any database, instead of forcing MySQL? That always bugs me about...well, a lot of apps. It's a little more work up front but would insulate you from plenty of problems (like this one) quite effectively.
MySQL has never hidden their license fees, either. Sorry they can't provide you with totally free software, but they have to eat, too.
So this mythical company wouldn't read the software license before investing thousands of dollars? And I'm supposed to feel bad for them? Frankly if they can't even read the license, I'm not sure I'd want their software - they're obviously not thinking through everything, and I'd wonder if their software is the same way.
By the same token, they could just as easily use PostgreSQL then realize that they might have to distribute source code of their product, which they hadn't originally intended to do.
Car A/Cs do not work "harder" because you have the temperature set high; the compressor simply cycles on and off every so often, and adjusting the temperature is done by blending WARM air in. So it really doesn't matter what the temperature or the fan was set at.
I just wish they wouldn't use "CAUTION! SCIENCE CONTENT!" like it's torture to have to talk about science. That and their occasional butchering of statistics are the only things I don't like about the show.
Even $64K/year in Washington, DC (well, Alexandria, VA) is not much money. Sure you can live but don't think it's the "high life" - you certainly won't be buying a house or even a condo any time soon on that salary.
And getting to Step 10 is 18 years, I think - you can only increase one step per year for the first three steps, then one step every two years, then one step every three years. Sure you can usually go up in grade each year, but don't think patent examiners are making a lot of money.
I used Dvorak for several years then switched back. It wasn't worth the hassles as you mentioned.
In particular, Windows 2000 was horrible about switching between layouts. It was per-program (each program would be in whatever mode Windows was in when you started the program, so if you switched keyboard mode later without restarting the program, some programs would be in one mode and the rest in the other), plus it would affect the password screens and such - and you had to reboot to switch those back to Qwerty (such as when the techs needed to work on your PC - EVEN REMOTELY! - they'd type and get gibberish).
It also caused issues for my CueCat scanner at home.;) (Okay, that wasn't a big problem.)
It wasn't worth the trouble it caused, so I switched back and haven't regretted it.
That's what I use to mount the Windows partition on my drive - now, I have it set to RO because it's NTFS and when I set it up we not could write safely to NTFS. The GID and UID specify my group and user IDs of course. Change that last 1 to a 0 if you don't want it to auto-mount on boot, and add the word "user" in there if you want regular users to be able to mount/dismount the device (such as for removeable media).
Right. Even Tufte is quick to clarify that he's not saying that Powerpoint killed the Challenger or Columbia astronauts. When he made that clarification during his seminar, I had the feeling that people had accused him of blaming the Challenger explosion on Powerpoint.
Reminds me of the "hack" I saw of someone's main page yesterday: it was a wiki-based site! I had to laugh at the absurdity of it. It's still there right now, complete with a "Hacked by..." message, with the regular page still in the history.
(I saw it last night right after it happened and didn't want to register just to fix it - I assumed one of the regular site users would've fixed it by now. I decided the software that site has isn't what I was looking for.)
I've changed images on people, though - someone was using a high-resolution image I had of a logo off an Impala for their avatar on a forum. I found the forum and found the person - they had "What would Jesus do?" in their sig. So I changed the image to "What would Jesus think of your bandwidth theft?".
I saw an annoying, related trick from another company (Budget, I think): When we got there Saturday morning to pick up the truck, they wanted to charge us double the quoted price. Why? Because we didn't have proof that the insurance policy covered rentals. My brother (who actually was renting the truck) was furious - if they'd told him that in advance he could have easily had the proof with him when he went in.
They tried to call his insurance agent, who of course wasn't in (Saturday morning), and refused to do anything more. They conveniently "forget" to mention this little stipulation when you make the reservation, then expect that since you'll need the truck you'll pay the inflated rate.
We left without the truck and got one from U-Haul. They were helpful, though the truck wasn't in good shape. (I've had pretty good luck with U-Haul over the years, but I think it really depends on which locations you go to more than anything else - a few are good.)
At my commencement (not at Harvard, at a relatively small school in Pennsylvania), we had the guy from Adelphia Cable speak and he received an honorary Doctor of Public Services degree.
Actually the ones I have that have both versions (such as Princess Bride) you have to flip the disc over.
I prefer widescreen, and avoid pan-and-scan versions, so it doesn't really bother me, but I've always thought my proposal would've been a cool feature of DVDs.
It seems to me that it would've been easy to encode the pan-and-scan information (each frame would need a set of coordinates for the upper left, and even that could be further compressed since it doesn't change for each frame) in the datastream so that a DVD player could know what to play in fullscreen mode, while the rest of us could watch the widescreen version. Cheaper, too.
Are DVDs capable of that? I'm sure *someone* thought of it during the DVD design...
I used to do it by hand, too, but after I bought my first home I went the software route and have been quite happy. I've got better ways to spend time than worrying about taxes, and getting the refunds in a week or so is well worth the money spent.:) Also, at least one of the online tax preparation websites (a major one) works perfectly under Linux.
Also, if you have an unusual situation, such as moving between states like I did last year, it's MUCH easier to have it handled by the software (or an accountant). A couple years ago I moved from Maryland to Virginia, and I spent many hours figuring out the taxes. Last year I moved back to Maryland, and using the software made it much less frustrating even though the forms hadn't changed.
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I'm sorry, I thought it was GPL. In that case, substitute any GPL-based database system here.
Or better yet, substitute Oracle's "personal edition" that was (still is?) free and then assume that if that edition is free for personal use, it must also be free to distribute for any purpose! It'd be exactly the same situation as the GP's claim.
(Off topic: I just noticed a cool Google feature - type "Postgresql license" in, and I got: "PostgreSQL -- License: BSD". "Linux" -> "Linux -- License: GNU General Public License". "Hurd" didn't work (hehe).)
Actually it already happened once. Popular Science did an article on this a while back. Turns out we used to eat a banana nicknamed the Big Mike (unfortunately I don't see a Wikipedia article on it) but that was wiped out by disease, reversing the fortunes of several Latin America countries (see the history of the term Banana Republic). The PopSci article is pretty interesting, even if only for the history (if you're already familiar with the Cavendish issue).
First, why wouldn't you write the software so that it can use any database, instead of forcing MySQL? That always bugs me about ...well, a lot of apps. It's a little more work up front but would insulate you from plenty of problems (like this one) quite effectively.
MySQL has never hidden their license fees, either. Sorry they can't provide you with totally free software, but they have to eat, too.
So this mythical company wouldn't read the software license before investing thousands of dollars? And I'm supposed to feel bad for them? Frankly if they can't even read the license, I'm not sure I'd want their software - they're obviously not thinking through everything, and I'd wonder if their software is the same way.
By the same token, they could just as easily use PostgreSQL then realize that they might have to distribute source code of their product, which they hadn't originally intended to do.
Car A/Cs do not work "harder" because you have the temperature set high; the compressor simply cycles on and off every so often, and adjusting the temperature is done by blending WARM air in. So it really doesn't matter what the temperature or the fan was set at.
I just wish they wouldn't use "CAUTION! SCIENCE CONTENT!" like it's torture to have to talk about science. That and their occasional butchering of statistics are the only things I don't like about the show.
Even $64K/year in Washington, DC (well, Alexandria, VA) is not much money. Sure you can live but don't think it's the "high life" - you certainly won't be buying a house or even a condo any time soon on that salary.
And getting to Step 10 is 18 years, I think - you can only increase one step per year for the first three steps, then one step every two years, then one step every three years. Sure you can usually go up in grade each year, but don't think patent examiners are making a lot of money.
I used Dvorak for several years then switched back. It wasn't worth the hassles as you mentioned.
;) (Okay, that wasn't a big problem.)
In particular, Windows 2000 was horrible about switching between layouts. It was per-program (each program would be in whatever mode Windows was in when you started the program, so if you switched keyboard mode later without restarting the program, some programs would be in one mode and the rest in the other), plus it would affect the password screens and such - and you had to reboot to switch those back to Qwerty (such as when the techs needed to work on your PC - EVEN REMOTELY! - they'd type and get gibberish).
It also caused issues for my CueCat scanner at home.
It wasn't worth the trouble it caused, so I switched back and haven't regretted it.
These are all good points, but nobody said Star Trek had to make sense. :)
Buy stock. Most of these companies are public. Then you're the little guy and an investor that gets dividends.
By which I meant "could not". Sigh. If you want something done right these days, you gotta contract it out...
Easiest way to handle it is in your fstab:
That's what I use to mount the Windows partition on my drive - now, I have it set to RO because it's NTFS and when I set it up we not could write safely to NTFS. The GID and UID specify my group and user IDs of course. Change that last 1 to a 0 if you don't want it to auto-mount on boot, and add the word "user" in there if you want regular users to be able to mount/dismount the device (such as for removeable media).
$ tar cf test.tar
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Right. Even Tufte is quick to clarify that he's not saying that Powerpoint killed the Challenger or Columbia astronauts. When he made that clarification during his seminar, I had the feeling that people had accused him of blaming the Challenger explosion on Powerpoint.
Have we actually seen where they live? I don't recall seeing any houses or caves connected to the cavemen.
Reminds me of the "hack" I saw of someone's main page yesterday: it was a wiki-based site! I had to laugh at the absurdity of it. It's still there right now, complete with a "Hacked by..." message, with the regular page still in the history.
(I saw it last night right after it happened and didn't want to register just to fix it - I assumed one of the regular site users would've fixed it by now. I decided the software that site has isn't what I was looking for.)
I've changed images on people, though - someone was using a high-resolution image I had of a logo off an Impala for their avatar on a forum. I found the forum and found the person - they had "What would Jesus do?" in their sig. So I changed the image to "What would Jesus think of your bandwidth theft?".
I saw an annoying, related trick from another company (Budget, I think): When we got there Saturday morning to pick up the truck, they wanted to charge us double the quoted price. Why? Because we didn't have proof that the insurance policy covered rentals. My brother (who actually was renting the truck) was furious - if they'd told him that in advance he could have easily had the proof with him when he went in.
They tried to call his insurance agent, who of course wasn't in (Saturday morning), and refused to do anything more. They conveniently "forget" to mention this little stipulation when you make the reservation, then expect that since you'll need the truck you'll pay the inflated rate.
We left without the truck and got one from U-Haul. They were helpful, though the truck wasn't in good shape. (I've had pretty good luck with U-Haul over the years, but I think it really depends on which locations you go to more than anything else - a few are good.)
At my commencement (not at Harvard, at a relatively small school in Pennsylvania), we had the guy from Adelphia Cable speak and he received an honorary Doctor of Public Services degree.
Oops.
I don't remember much about what he said, so hopefully I won't end up like he did...
How does that song go?
If you believe in forever, then life is just a one night stand.
If there's a programmer heaven, well you know they've got a hell of a compiler!
No, wait, that's not it...
Except then you'd get impaled if someone pulled out in front of you while you have the right of way and are travelling within the speed limit.
Yes, but I happen to love driving and take it very seriously...so I can't support your automated highways solution. :)
Actually the ones I have that have both versions (such as Princess Bride) you have to flip the disc over.
I prefer widescreen, and avoid pan-and-scan versions, so it doesn't really bother me, but I've always thought my proposal would've been a cool feature of DVDs.
It seems to me that it would've been easy to encode the pan-and-scan information (each frame would need a set of coordinates for the upper left, and even that could be further compressed since it doesn't change for each frame) in the datastream so that a DVD player could know what to play in fullscreen mode, while the rest of us could watch the widescreen version. Cheaper, too.
Are DVDs capable of that? I'm sure *someone* thought of it during the DVD design...
I used to do it by hand, too, but after I bought my first home I went the software route and have been quite happy. I've got better ways to spend time than worrying about taxes, and getting the refunds in a week or so is well worth the money spent. :) Also, at least one of the online tax preparation websites (a major one) works perfectly under Linux.
Also, if you have an unusual situation, such as moving between states like I did last year, it's MUCH easier to have it handled by the software (or an accountant). A couple years ago I moved from Maryland to Virginia, and I spent many hours figuring out the taxes. Last year I moved back to Maryland, and using the software made it much less frustrating even though the forms hadn't changed.
Good point - thanks. :)