If you're going to dig up ancient history, how about the American treatment of the blacks during the slavery years or the murder of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of First Nations people before that?
Every nation has it's dark days -- even Canada, which rounded up Japanese people and put them in camps.
Licenses for the version of code you downloaded and used to build a product are not revocable. If the upstream provider changes the license to something non-free, you can still use the old code and maintain it yourself.
The problem is not whether Qt was under a sufficiently free license, but whether businesses could guarantee to leech off the future maintenance and enhancements. A different kettle of fish entirely.
Businesses also balked at the idea that they would have to pay for Windows licenses for the toolkit, even though the prices for Qt were eminently reasonable compared to similar cross-platform products of it's early years, such as Neuron Data's Open Interface (now shipped by Blaze Software, I think.)
Remember when Sony was a "big" brand name? People would buy Sony everything. Apple just now holds that position with their customers. It's not a new phenomena.
You don't get the same multi-device purchases from other PC brands largely because they don't sell a breadth of products. Where is the Dell Android Phone, for example?
Powering down ensures that any cached passwords aren't in memory, regardless of the mounting status of individual volumes.
I wouldn't just take someone's word that the cache is cleared when the volume is dismounted if I were paranoid enough to be using TrueCrypt in the first place.
Given the shitty reputation Microsoft "security" services have for protecting a system compared to other products in the same marketspace, this is hardly a reason for keeping an XP box around. What did the last tests reported on Slashdot mention for Security Essentials? 70% detection rate?
In other words they're going to continue delivering a shitty product that doesn't actually do the job properly as a "band aid" for those who adamantly refuse to get rid of XP as they should.
You have 500 euro speakers, and you think they're "high quality"? I betcha it's a surround set to boot, which means you've actually got 2 x 250 euro pairs.
You can't even get entry level home stereo speakers for less than about $2000/pair. Anything less than that, and the tweeters have shit for response.
But you go ahead and stroke yourself that you've got a "quality" audio system.
*LOLOLOLOLOLOL*
Thanks for the laugh. I needed one.:P
It always blows me away that people automatically assume everyone else is "imagining" things because they can't hear a difference. You're like the bozos who complain that their shiny 1080p or 4K TV doesn't look any better than the old one, while using a DVD player or (*shudder*) videotapes.
You mean don't try to reason with the deaf who think playing 16/44.1 audio through a 24/192 chain is going to sound any better. Without 24/192 media, you're not going to hear shit.
Try a good audio card and good headphones or a *real* stereo.
If you can't hear the difference, it's because you're deaf or have never listened to live music to know how snares, cymbals, triangles, and brass should sound.
Riders in the US and the multi-law "budgets" passed by the Conservatives in Canada should be officially and permanently banned in both countries.
99% of the time, the regulations and laws enacted through such dirty tactics are things which would never be approved if they were voted on as single items.
And it's not like our legislators don't have time to vote on the items one at a time. Sure it'll cut into their busy golf and lunch schedules, but they're there to work for us, not enjoy kickbacks. Regardless of what the current status quo is for politicians.
No, the real question is, has politics stooped so low that political staff (and possibly politicians) feel entitled to act like petulant little children and expect to get away with it?
Your naivete would be cute if you were 6 and an innocent child.
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In my case, driving less has more to do with having given up my driver's license after I couldn't afford to keep a car any more.
It's amazing how far "walking distance" is when you don't have a choice. :)
The counters in digital clocks have furiously been counting clock ticks to the next second since the '70s, if not earlier.
When I think "business logic" I'm usually thinking "RDBMS interface".
What does Chrome's library do to deal with business data?
Nothing.
Ooohhhh. Look. I pissed off the Appletards again. :P
If you're going to dig up ancient history, how about the American treatment of the blacks during the slavery years or the murder of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of First Nations people before that?
Every nation has it's dark days -- even Canada, which rounded up Japanese people and put them in camps.
Flash the scripting and site building language may be dead, but the media player is most emphatically alive.
cbc.ca. global.ca ctvnews.ca cp24.com aljazeera.com presstv.com
Yeah, Flash is dead, except for at media sites.
Flash is still in use at 80% of the sites I visit.
Apple's management are jack-asses. Let the consumer harass them instead of whining to the websites that their iShiny's don't work.
Licenses for the version of code you downloaded and used to build a product are not revocable. If the upstream provider changes the license to something non-free, you can still use the old code and maintain it yourself.
The problem is not whether Qt was under a sufficiently free license, but whether businesses could guarantee to leech off the future maintenance and enhancements. A different kettle of fish entirely.
Businesses also balked at the idea that they would have to pay for Windows licenses for the toolkit, even though the prices for Qt were eminently reasonable compared to similar cross-platform products of it's early years, such as Neuron Data's Open Interface (now shipped by Blaze Software, I think.)
Businesses are greedy. Period.
People become fans of a brand.
What a shock.
Remember when Sony was a "big" brand name? People would buy Sony everything. Apple just now holds that position with their customers. It's not a new phenomena.
You don't get the same multi-device purchases from other PC brands largely because they don't sell a breadth of products. Where is the Dell Android Phone, for example?
Silly me. I just don't drag my laptop around by the power cord, and have the power cord dropping behind the desk.
I must be doing it wrong. Clearly the "Apple Way" of dragging laptops by their power cords is superior. :P
Powering down ensures that any cached passwords aren't in memory, regardless of the mounting status of individual volumes.
I wouldn't just take someone's word that the cache is cleared when the volume is dismounted if I were paranoid enough to be using TrueCrypt in the first place.
Given the shitty reputation Microsoft "security" services have for protecting a system compared to other products in the same marketspace, this is hardly a reason for keeping an XP box around. What did the last tests reported on Slashdot mention for Security Essentials? 70% detection rate?
In other words they're going to continue delivering a shitty product that doesn't actually do the job properly as a "band aid" for those who adamantly refuse to get rid of XP as they should.
*LMAO*
You have 500 euro speakers, and you think they're "high quality"? I betcha it's a surround set to boot, which means you've actually got 2 x 250 euro pairs.
You can't even get entry level home stereo speakers for less than about $2000/pair. Anything less than that, and the tweeters have shit for response.
But you go ahead and stroke yourself that you've got a "quality" audio system.
*LOLOLOLOLOLOL*
Thanks for the laugh. I needed one. :P
It always blows me away that people automatically assume everyone else is "imagining" things because they can't hear a difference. You're like the bozos who complain that their shiny 1080p or 4K TV doesn't look any better than the old one, while using a DVD player or (*shudder*) videotapes.
Furthermore, the fact that you can't hear a difference doesn't mean other people can't.
Fortunately for the world, you are not the one who gets to decide what is "reasonable" for others.
You mean don't try to reason with the deaf who think playing 16/44.1 audio through a 24/192 chain is going to sound any better. Without 24/192 media, you're not going to hear shit.
Shut your machine OFF before you get to the border; don't put it to sleep.
Luddite.
Try a good audio card and good headphones or a *real* stereo.
If you can't hear the difference, it's because you're deaf or have never listened to live music to know how snares, cymbals, triangles, and brass should sound.
The plugins work for 16/44.1 media, but not 24/192.
The plugin plays 16/44.1 FLAC just fine, but it chokes on 24/192.
Here's hoping they start by PROPERLY supporting FLAC, including 24/192 media.
The plugins currently available flat out do not work. And I hate using VLC for music.
Not likely.
Instead, they'll admit the CFL is a far more challenging league than the NFL. :P :P :P
Riders in the US and the multi-law "budgets" passed by the Conservatives in Canada should be officially and permanently banned in both countries.
99% of the time, the regulations and laws enacted through such dirty tactics are things which would never be approved if they were voted on as single items.
And it's not like our legislators don't have time to vote on the items one at a time. Sure it'll cut into their busy golf and lunch schedules, but they're there to work for us, not enjoy kickbacks. Regardless of what the current status quo is for politicians.
Your naivete would be cute if you were 6 and an innocent child.
In an adult, it's just sad.
Unless you are being threatened with rape or death yourself, murder is never justified.
But what else do you expect from a gun-toting cop, retired or otherwise? They've always thought they're above the law.
"I am the law."
-- Judge Dredd