Precision: Swap two digits and your letter to Grandma ends up Beyond Rangoon.
That's a serious problem, since as the article mentioned, they want to use these codes to replace addresses, instead of adding them on.
ZIP codes in the US aid sorting (because they are based on carrier routes instead of simple geographic area) and provide redundancy in the address, so if you mess up something in the address or zip code, there's enough info for a human to correct it. If people switched to using only the new code, that redundancy goes away.
If you have more than one level (we had an apartment with a loft) open up windows on top and bottom. With just the windows on the main level open, our apartment would hold around 20F above outside temperature, but with the top windows open we got such a breeze (even though all windows faced the same direction!) that the differential was less than 10F.
They haven't removed any features. They aren't removing features from existing products. They're considering removing features from new products they might offer.
I wish there were _any_ operating system that would do that. Unfortunately, given the proclivity of hardware vendors to make new devices which need new drivers, the proclivity of OS vendors to remove support for old hardware, and the proclivity of users to demand that both very old and very new software work perfectly, I don't see this situation happening anytime soon, for any OS.
But they don't even talk about upload, which is where DSL stomps all over cable's ass.
Why do you say that? Most DSL I've seen sold (around here at least) is ADSL, with a cap about the same as for the local cable company.
Read a typical cable modem service ToS some time -- go on, I dare you! You can't run anything but Windows, you can't run NAT, you can't run services, you can't leave your computer on when you're not in front of it. Now read a DSL ToS for comparison.
Most of those are untrue for OptOnline... you can't run servers, but the rest is ok. And many DSL providers are exactly the same... or may offer better plans, but at a price premium.
If Walter Bright decided to allow the FSF to use major portions of his C++ compiler, which he sells commercially (and includes, I believe, much better support for C++ templates than GCC), he would have to assign copyright of his code to the FSF, therefore preventing him from using it in releases of his commercial compiler in the future.
That's a lie. The copyright assignment for the FSF grants back a licence to use your contributions in any way you wish, including commercial software.
What will be interesting to see is if grades are better becuse of the scrutiny your parents may put you under.
No, that's irrelevant. What would be interesting to see is how grades with this increased scrutiny are correlated with success and happiness later in life. Most of the people I know with parents that controlling wake up one day, realize that they hate the stuff they're doing, are only continuing to do it because of what their parents will think, and don't know how to get from where they are to self-fulfillment.
I'll second the recommendation. I've been running it for a couple years now for our home jukebox. All our CDs are in it, and a input on our receiver acts like our own custom radio station.
Not really. It's focusing on identifying "mature and useable" projects. While other projects may become useable and mature within a year, it's unlikely that projects would fall off the list. For instance, Emacs has been useable and mature for over a decade (in my direct experience only).
A "Generally Regarded As Safe" list just makes it easier to justify use of a project on the list.
There's also a fourth approach that's worth recording.
4. Expose business rules and ISAM files via a business rule server of your own, and write the web site in whatever language you want that can talk to sockets.
At work, we do things this way. It was a win in our situation, because our business logic was pretty extensive, and rewriting all of it in another language so that raw database access would be safe would be an immense amount of work. OTOH, it has drawbacks, too, because you have to handle the network traffic yourself.
One of the big problems with this is serious questions will be raised about the viability of digital photography as a news medium.
There's no real reason to raise such questions. All photos used in news get digitized at some point. Even if you assume in a film-based workflow that the film goes directly to the editor's hands (not necessarily a good assumption), the film could have been digitized, modified and output to film, or even the raw negative could have been altered. It may be somewhat easier to prove alteration after the fact, but I doubt editors are scouring every frame of film that comes in for traces of alteration.
The issues of altered pictures in news have been with us for a long time, and have not substantially changed because of digital image capture.
Yes, Dell's really bad at heat management. When I got my Thinkpad, it _was_ the latest desktop replacement from IBM and it doesn't have heat issues. It gets warmer if I'm playing a 3d game for long enough (ie, high CPU and graphics card usage) but not enough to be dangerous. It's not even marginally uncomfortable in normal usage.
The problem in not XML as such, but programming parsers is hard, really hard.
Um, no, it's not. Parsing languages which you define has been basically understood for years. It's trickier to parse XML than it used to be, but only because XML has grown, not because the task is inherently difficult.
When I worked in a ResNet, we didn't just block the mac, we turned off the port on the hub. No worries about any spoofing. This required smart hubs, but I'm sure current equipment can do it just as well.
Hint: learn how to filter things into folders. Barrage of process information all goes into their own places. Important mail goes into the inbox. Problems solved.
Um... $40 a month is $360 for 9 months (guessing at cornell's school year). So yes, you _are_ paying more than they are.
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It's mostly the college administration that is upset by "Wash U", since they're ever seeking higher ratings in the USN&WR college ranking and feel that Wash U isn't "respectable" enough.
As far as I know, the women who went to Wash U don't feel any differently... no, just polled one alumna, my wife, and she doesn't care.
If you really want to upset Wash U alums remind them their school is responsible for foisting wu-ftpd on the world....
Open source was originally free software. The people who tried to trademark "open source" wrote an Open Source Definition, which coincidentally, is really really close to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
The term "Open Source" came about to try to cure the constant confusion people had with "free software" being free-beer or free-freedom. Obviously, "open source" has the same potential for confusion, as demonstrated by your response... it seems that another page of your source disagrees with you. In practice, people use "open source" to refer to practically anything under the sun where source is concerned, but you really shouldn't correct someone who is using a term more closely to to the original spirit than you are.
Have you looked at Teletruth's filings which explicitely point out how Verizon specifically got taxpayers to pay for upgrades which haven't even happened, yet are still being paid for? Read the rest of the stuff on that site, too... it's very educational.
Besides, why would you say the ILECs is doing so poorly right now? They're certainly not tanking like some industries, and although the general telecom isn't doing so well, that's also counting in things like the paging market (flying downward) and all the third-party DSL providers.
Yes, they're laying people off... they're also paying huge bonuses to their CEOs.
Make it very clear -- that Toys B Us only has to pay for the overhead of accounting for the tax. The customer pays the tax quite directly. Even the overhead is paid for by the customers indirectly but it is vanishingly small.
The problem is that the overhead of knowing precisely what to collect for every little jurisdiction in the US, knowing where to send the payment, and then actually doing sending those checks is only vanishingly small if you do lots of business. To Toys'R'Us it's not a big problem... they do lots of business in lots of places, and knowing what the tax rules there is easily taken care of by their revenue. But that overhead will be much bigger for a company that didn't have $2billion in revenue last quarter.
Can these companies be held liable under the RICOH act? In essensce, what they are doing is extorting the people of these states? They are demanding huge sums of money in order to provide broadband service.
I don't think it's really extortion, since it's unlikely they would build out broadband if they _did_ have exclusivity on their lines. Here's why:
The bells have copper going everywhere. It's very expensive to run new cables places, even without right-of-way considerations. That huge expense is the reason that it took so long for many cable companies to offer broadband in many areas (Cablevision still doesn't offer it in all their areas, I think). If you don't already have right-of-way, it's extremely unfeasible to run new cables. That's why the telecomm act required the bells to share their lines in the first place.
So, assuming for the moment this passed... why would the bells bother developing a new broadband network? Once they have exclusive use of those lines, what competition is forcing them to invest the money... rather than just jacking up the prices?
As Teletruth shows bells have defaulted on their promises in the past, choosing to rake in profits from their existing infrastructure rather than invest in new (expensive) work, even when they're allowed to charge for the infrastructure work!
You might say that cable modems are the competition that would drive them to invest, but so far the only response I've seen from Verizon is a bunch of ads telling how much worse cable modems are, while their service is the same price but slower, and not even available for my apartment. (6-year old construction, too... not like we were in an old neighborhood or something.)
Either way the legislation goes for the bells, I doubt their customers have to worry about seeing broadband any time soon.
Assuming the on-ramps are correctly designed, jumping on the expressway for something just a few exits away can save you a huge amount of time, since you don't have to deal with (e.g.) 10 stop lights, the people waiting to make left-hand turns, etc. I know of one place where going two exits on the expressway can save you that.
The major problems I've seen with snarls around on-ramps aren't that everyone is getting on, but that people are trying to get on and the ramp isn't long enough to get to speed and merge, and people have to stop at the top and wait for enough of an opening, and then once they pull in, they slow everyone behind them because they're merging into the expressway from a standstill.
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Precision: Swap two digits and your letter to Grandma ends up Beyond Rangoon.
That's a serious problem, since as the article mentioned, they want to use these codes to replace addresses, instead of adding them on.
ZIP codes in the US aid sorting (because they are based on carrier routes instead of simple geographic area) and provide redundancy in the address, so if you mess up something in the address or zip code, there's enough info for a human to correct it. If people switched to using only the new code, that redundancy goes away.
If you have more than one level (we had an apartment with a loft) open up windows on top and bottom. With just the windows on the main level open, our apartment would hold around 20F above outside temperature, but with the top windows open we got such a breeze (even though all windows faced the same direction!) that the differential was less than 10F.
and features don't get yanked out from under you
They haven't removed any features. They aren't removing features from existing products. They're considering removing features from new products they might offer.
except I WANT color highlighting to be printable! why is it that no programmer's editor cannot print the highlighting in color?
Emacs has been able to do that for a few years now....
No, they can screw, just not love....
According to Lucas...
I wish there were _any_ operating system that would do that. Unfortunately, given the proclivity of hardware vendors to make new devices which need new drivers, the proclivity of OS vendors to remove support for old hardware, and the proclivity of users to demand that both very old and very new software work perfectly, I don't see this situation happening anytime soon, for any OS.
But they don't even talk about upload, which is where DSL stomps all over cable's ass.
Why do you say that? Most DSL I've seen sold (around here at least) is ADSL, with a cap about the same as for the local cable company.
Read a typical cable modem service ToS some time -- go on, I dare you! You can't run anything but Windows, you can't run NAT, you can't run services, you can't leave your computer on when you're not in front of it. Now read a DSL ToS for comparison.
Most of those are untrue for OptOnline... you can't run servers, but the rest is ok. And many DSL providers are exactly the same... or may offer better plans, but at a price premium.
If Walter Bright decided to allow the FSF to use major portions of his C++ compiler, which he sells commercially (and includes, I believe, much better support for C++ templates than GCC), he would have to assign copyright of his code to the FSF, therefore preventing him from using it in releases of his commercial compiler in the future.
That's a lie. The copyright assignment for the FSF grants back a licence to use your contributions in any way you wish, including commercial software.
What will be interesting to see is if grades are better becuse of the scrutiny your parents may put you under.
No, that's irrelevant. What would be interesting to see is how grades with this increased scrutiny are correlated with success and happiness later in life. Most of the people I know with parents that controlling wake up one day, realize that they hate the stuff they're doing, are only continuing to do it because of what their parents will think, and don't know how to get from where they are to self-fulfillment.
I'll second the recommendation. I've been running it for a couple years now for our home jukebox. All our CDs are in it, and a input on our receiver acts like our own custom radio station.
It'll be out date with in a year....
Not really. It's focusing on identifying "mature and useable" projects. While other projects may become useable and mature within a year, it's unlikely that projects would fall off the list. For instance, Emacs has been useable and mature for over a decade (in my direct experience only).
A "Generally Regarded As Safe" list just makes it easier to justify use of a project on the list.
There's also a fourth approach that's worth recording.
4. Expose business rules and ISAM files via a business rule server of your own, and write the web site in whatever language you want that can talk to sockets.
At work, we do things this way. It was a win in our situation, because our business logic was pretty extensive, and rewriting all of it in another language so that raw database access would be safe would be an immense amount of work. OTOH, it has drawbacks, too, because you have to handle the network traffic yourself.
One of the big problems with this is serious questions will be raised about the viability of digital photography as a news medium.
There's no real reason to raise such questions. All photos used in news get digitized at some point. Even if you assume in a film-based workflow that the film goes directly to the editor's hands (not necessarily a good assumption), the film could have been digitized, modified and output to film, or even the raw negative could have been altered. It may be somewhat easier to prove alteration after the fact, but I doubt editors are scouring every frame of film that comes in for traces of alteration.
The issues of altered pictures in news have been with us for a long time, and have not substantially changed because of digital image capture.
Yes, Dell's really bad at heat management. When I got my Thinkpad, it _was_ the latest desktop replacement from IBM and it doesn't have heat issues. It gets warmer if I'm playing a 3d game for long enough (ie, high CPU and graphics card usage) but not enough to be dangerous. It's not even marginally uncomfortable in normal usage.
The problem in not XML as such, but programming parsers is hard, really hard.
Um, no, it's not. Parsing languages which you define has been basically understood for years. It's trickier to parse XML than it used to be, but only because XML has grown, not because the task is inherently difficult.
When I worked in a ResNet, we didn't just block the mac, we turned off the port on the hub. No worries about any spoofing. This required smart hubs, but I'm sure current equipment can do it just as well.
Hint: learn how to filter things into folders. Barrage of process information all goes into their own places. Important mail goes into the inbox. Problems solved.
Um... $40 a month is $360 for 9 months (guessing at cornell's school year). So yes, you _are_ paying more than they are.
It's mostly the college administration that is upset by "Wash U", since they're ever seeking higher ratings in the USN&WR college ranking and feel that Wash U isn't "respectable" enough.
As far as I know, the women who went to Wash U don't feel any differently... no, just polled one alumna, my wife, and she doesn't care.
If you really want to upset Wash U alums remind them their school is responsible for foisting wu-ftpd on the world....
Free software is software that is in the public domain and has the apropriate source code equally available.
So, you're saying that Linux isn't free software? Neither is Emacs, gcc, or anything in the GNU project? None of it is in the public domain....
Maybe you need to learn what the words you use mean.
Open source was originally free software. The people who tried to trademark "open source" wrote an Open Source Definition, which coincidentally, is really really close to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
The term "Open Source" came about to try to cure the constant confusion people had with "free software" being free-beer or free-freedom. Obviously, "open source" has the same potential for confusion, as demonstrated by your response... it seems that another page of your source disagrees with you. In practice, people use "open source" to refer to practically anything under the sun where source is concerned, but you really shouldn't correct someone who is using a term more closely to to the original spirit than you are.
Have you looked at Teletruth's filings which explicitely point out how Verizon specifically got taxpayers to pay for upgrades which haven't even happened, yet are still being paid for? Read the rest of the stuff on that site, too... it's very educational.
Besides, why would you say the ILECs is doing so poorly right now? They're certainly not tanking like some industries, and although the general telecom isn't doing so well, that's also counting in things like the paging market (flying downward) and all the third-party DSL providers.
Yes, they're laying people off... they're also paying huge bonuses to their CEOs.
Make it very clear -- that Toys B Us only has to pay for the overhead of accounting for the tax. The customer pays the tax quite directly. Even the overhead is paid for by the customers indirectly but it is vanishingly small.
The problem is that the overhead of knowing precisely what to collect for every little jurisdiction in the US, knowing where to send the payment, and then actually doing sending those checks is only vanishingly small if you do lots of business. To Toys'R'Us it's not a big problem... they do lots of business in lots of places, and knowing what the tax rules there is easily taken care of by their revenue. But that overhead will be much bigger for a company that didn't have $2billion in revenue last quarter.
Can these companies be held liable under the RICOH act? In essensce, what they are doing is extorting the people of these states? They are demanding huge sums of money in order to provide broadband service.
I don't think it's really extortion, since it's unlikely they would build out broadband if they _did_ have exclusivity on their lines. Here's why:
The bells have copper going everywhere. It's very expensive to run new cables places, even without right-of-way considerations. That huge expense is the reason that it took so long for many cable companies to offer broadband in many areas (Cablevision still doesn't offer it in all their areas, I think). If you don't already have right-of-way, it's extremely unfeasible to run new cables. That's why the telecomm act required the bells to share their lines in the first place.
So, assuming for the moment this passed... why would the bells bother developing a new broadband network? Once they have exclusive use of those lines, what competition is forcing them to invest the money... rather than just jacking up the prices?
As Teletruth shows bells have defaulted on their promises in the past, choosing to rake in profits from their existing infrastructure rather than invest in new (expensive) work, even when they're allowed to charge for the infrastructure work!
You might say that cable modems are the competition that would drive them to invest, but so far the only response I've seen from Verizon is a bunch of ads telling how much worse cable modems are, while their service is the same price but slower, and not even available for my apartment. (6-year old construction, too... not like we were in an old neighborhood or something.)
Either way the legislation goes for the bells, I doubt their customers have to worry about seeing broadband any time soon.
Assuming the on-ramps are correctly designed, jumping on the expressway for something just a few exits away can save you a huge amount of time, since you don't have to deal with (e.g.) 10 stop lights, the people waiting to make left-hand turns, etc. I know of one place where going two exits on the expressway can save you that.
The major problems I've seen with snarls around on-ramps aren't that everyone is getting on, but that people are trying to get on and the ramp isn't long enough to get to speed and merge, and people have to stop at the top and wait for enough of an opening, and then once they pull in, they slow everyone behind them because they're merging into the expressway from a standstill.