It's not over-inflated. $2.2 trillion is the amount specified by law. It's a simple formula, there's no room for debate (unless Fax disputes its own boasts).
Will the plaintiffs get this money? No, of course not. Will the court fine Fax.com this amount? Quite possibly. Their entire business model is founded on illegality, AFAICS.
Well, that's just common sense, surely. You don't want 90% of your resume to be "extracurricular" stuff, even if you've just left school (although in that case it's much more understandable).
The cost needed to run a successful campaign in the US is already ridiculous. And this weeds out people who cannot obtain truckloads of corporate money - surely not a good thing.
How high does it have to go before you would start having doubts?
6.1SP3 fails to handle code that translates a SAX2 event stream to HTML using Xerces (SAX2) and Xalan (XSL); I'm dead in the water with this because our application depends on SAX2 streams
Just a guess: Have you made sure that you've downloaded the latest versions of Xerces and Xalan and that they are ahead of any other versions on the CLASSPATH? The bootclasspath also needs to be taken into account if you are using Sun JDK 1.4 or IBM JDK 1.3+, which both ship with Xerces.
It has a bug where I always have to set the cell size, because it picks an infinitely thin cell size on my machine. I'm pretty sure it's my fault, I just can't find a resolution for it.
I saw the same issue. A certain font that ships with Red Hat exposes this bug. If you disable this font, it'll work again. Can't remember which one, but try searching the bug database.
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Ah, when you put it that way, I don't have such a problem. I think in theory the government should not go beyond its constitutional mandates without passing an amendment - in practice that's difficult to achieve.
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Um, buddy... I hate to break it to you, but that's not centrist by the rest of the world's standards.
Yes, which just goes to show capitalism doesn't work for healthcare.
Suck on that, libertarians!
Also, I should point out that, despite libertarians' consistent inability to grasp this basic point, government underfunding in particular cases does not prove that socialised healthcare can't work.
Most people hold a multibillion dollar corporation to different standards than a ragtag band of volunteers. Is that so wrong?
Besides, the poster has a point. In case you haven't been keeping up lately:
Microsoft gets worried about their bad record in terms of security - reflected in anti-hacking insurance premiums amongst other things. Which are calculated by actuaries, of course - not random Slashdot posters.
Microsoft made a big song-and-dance to the press about their month-long code stoppage and
security awareness initiative within the company.
Since then, has their security record improved? Does the fact that they have no plans to fix this bug, ever strike you as a little odd?
Contrast that to the fact that the Konq people already have a fix available for testing, and I think you'll find that even were we to hold a multibillion dollar corporation to exactly the same standard as a handful of volunteers - which would be absurd, in the general case - it looks like Konquerer is going to come out ahead.
People who bogusly defend multibilllion dollar corporations against altruistic volunteers annoy me.
Another suggestion: check that the BIOS reports the same C/H/S parameters as Linux does for the hard drive. If not, try to change the BIOS parameters to make them the same.
He did more for current computing with his relentless evangelism of Gnutella/P2P than anyone
Uh no. You overinflate the importance of Gnutella to "current computing". I'd say Xerox PARC for example easily did more for current computing than Gene Kan.
P2P is not a new idea, just an idea whose time has come.
No, you're confusing backwards compatibility with forwards compatibility - the ability to run apps developed for a newer API. No version of Java is forwards compatible, so the problem you mentioned already exists.
What this article is talking about is breaking backwards compatibility, which means you wouldn't be able to run J3 apps on J2 VMs. This is not so much of a problem for users since they can just use old VMs, It is mainly an issue for developers not users, and non-stupid developers are not going to choose between platforms based on whether they have to click a few times to download a new development kit or whether it's already installed.
even if there is a remote shell opened on my machine
In case you didn't already know this, you can easily check if there is: run netstat -a -n -p|less and check for any suspicious ports or processes. Better still, run pstree -p|less and check for any suspicious processes, whether they're connected to the network or not.
. If you don't have that money to spend on the program, i.e., it isn't worth that much to you
I think you are confused. This seems to me to be a fallacy of "subjective value" economics. Suppose I'm dirt poor and I can't afford a $1,000 piece of software. Then, I win the lottery, at which point I can afford it, but it's worth less to me. But I buy it anyway. But judging the worth of the item to me by the price I'm willing to pay suggests that I value it more after I win the lottery than before, which is false.
If you can't even do some simple error checking of what your device drivers are doing, I blame the OS, not the hardware.
If a hardware driver has to run in supervisor mode on the processor - and this is true of many Linux drivers as well - there's only a limited amount that the kernel can do to prevent it fux0ring things up. The difference I think is that open source kernel drivers for/in stable kernels tend not to crash very much, because of the peer review thing. Unless they're quite obscure drivers that hardly any developers use.
Microsoft has the ability (I know AT least since Win98) that Windows automatically backs up the registry periodically (ie, at shutdown or boot, major hardware change, etc).
Irrespective of the whether the rest of his post is right, that's not true. Windows 2000 does not backup the SOFTWARE hive automatically, although it does back up the other even more important one, SYSTEM I think (this is completely moronic, because the system is almost unusable without an uptodate SOFTWARE hive). If you have a power cut, as I discovered to my cost, your registry may be corrupted beyond Windows ability to repair it. Your only option (unless there's some expensive payware I don't know about) is to completely reinstall Win2K.
You might say that I should have backed it up myself. But that would be nonsense. Is this covered anywhere in the getting started documentation? (I didn't see a copy of that, actually, because we have a site license and I just installed it from a CD) Does it say when you first install: "Tip of the Day: Windows 2000 is a crappy operating system, so you'd damn well back up your registry after every change if you don't want to have to reinstall everythign after a power cut!"
What's missing, though, is the ability to understand any question that the system doesn't have a canned "template" for. The fact that he uses the comparatively small number of words that most people tend to use when interacting with alice, just illustrates his limited ambitions.
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Those damn commie villagers were getting uppity and needed to be got under control, i.e. blown to bits.
Will the plaintiffs get this money? No, of course not. Will the court fine Fax.com this amount? Quite possibly. Their entire business model is founded on illegality, AFAICS.
Otherwise our government would have a bigger budget than the United States government, which doesn't sound plausible...
The cost needed to run a successful campaign in the US is already ridiculous. And this weeds out people who cannot obtain truckloads of corporate money - surely not a good thing.
How high does it have to go before you would start having doubts?
Just a guess: Have you made sure that you've downloaded the latest versions of Xerces and Xalan and that they are ahead of any other versions on the CLASSPATH? The bootclasspath also needs to be taken into account if you are using Sun JDK 1.4 or IBM JDK 1.3+, which both ship with Xerces.
Just put them in a dedicated directory, I can't see any problems with that.
I saw the same issue. A certain font that ships with Red Hat exposes this bug. If you disable this font, it'll work again. Can't remember which one, but try searching the bug database.
That's right-wing.
Suck on that, libertarians!
Also, I should point out that, despite libertarians' consistent inability to grasp this basic point, government underfunding in particular cases does not prove that socialised healthcare can't work.
Besides, the poster has a point. In case you haven't been keeping up lately:
- Microsoft gets worried about their bad record in terms of security - reflected in anti-hacking insurance premiums amongst other things. Which are calculated by actuaries, of course - not random Slashdot posters.
- Microsoft made a big song-and-dance to the press about their month-long code stoppage and
security awareness initiative within the company.
- Since then, has their security record improved? Does the fact that they have no plans to fix this bug, ever strike you as a little odd?
Contrast that to the fact that the Konq people already have a fix available for testing, and I think you'll find that even were we to hold a multibillion dollar corporation to exactly the same standard as a handful of volunteers - which would be absurd, in the general case - it looks like Konquerer is going to come out ahead.People who bogusly defend multibilllion dollar corporations against altruistic volunteers annoy me.
Uh no. You overinflate the importance of Gnutella to "current computing". I'd say Xerox PARC for example easily did more for current computing than Gene Kan.
P2P is not a new idea, just an idea whose time has come.
What this article is talking about is breaking backwards compatibility, which means you wouldn't be able to run J3 apps on J2 VMs. This is not so much of a problem for users since they can just use old VMs, It is mainly an issue for developers not users, and non-stupid developers are not going to choose between platforms based on whether they have to click a few times to download a new development kit or whether it's already installed.
In case you didn't already know this, you can easily check if there is: run netstat -a -n -p|less and check for any suspicious ports or processes. Better still, run pstree -p|less and check for any suspicious processes, whether they're connected to the network or not.
Is that too much to ask?
I think you are confused. This seems to me to be a fallacy of "subjective value" economics. Suppose I'm dirt poor and I can't afford a $1,000 piece of software. Then, I win the lottery, at which point I can afford it, but it's worth less to me. But I buy it anyway. But judging the worth of the item to me by the price I'm willing to pay suggests that I value it more after I win the lottery than before, which is false.
If a hardware driver has to run in supervisor mode on the processor - and this is true of many Linux drivers as well - there's only a limited amount that the kernel can do to prevent it fux0ring things up. The difference I think is that open source kernel drivers for/in stable kernels tend not to crash very much, because of the peer review thing. Unless they're quite obscure drivers that hardly any developers use.
Irrespective of the whether the rest of his post is right, that's not true. Windows 2000 does not backup the SOFTWARE hive automatically, although it does back up the other even more important one, SYSTEM I think (this is completely moronic, because the system is almost unusable without an uptodate SOFTWARE hive). If you have a power cut, as I discovered to my cost, your registry may be corrupted beyond Windows ability to repair it. Your only option (unless there's some expensive payware I don't know about) is to completely reinstall Win2K.
You might say that I should have backed it up myself. But that would be nonsense. Is this covered anywhere in the getting started documentation? (I didn't see a copy of that, actually, because we have a site license and I just installed it from a CD) Does it say when you first install: "Tip of the Day: Windows 2000 is a crappy operating system, so you'd damn well back up your registry after every change if you don't want to have to reinstall everythign after a power cut!"
I think not.