The reason we require the offer to be valid for any third party is so that people who receive the binaries indirectly in that way can order the source code from you.
And if I want to keep my mods private I will charge one million USD for the source. I am allowed to do this because I initially charged that much for initially distributing the binaries (to one of my shell companies, of course, which then redistributed to you). When I receive payment, the source will be mailed to you in leather-bound hardcopy, in 6pt dingbats font, and you will find that there is a 100,000 to 1 comment-to-code ratio. Enjoy your source distribution!:)
Why didn't the original guy sell the flour at $5/bag? Does he like leaving money on the table? Or was competition keeping his price low? or were the townspeople unwilling to pay that much? In the latter two cases the "asshole" won't profit from his gambit, and in the first one, well, he's taking advantage of the seller's poor business practices.
What the heck does family income have to do with blood cell cancer? It doesn't care if you are rich or poor, and therefore there's no point for a study to "control" for it.
Family A earns $250,000 and can afford a fairly nice house. Family B earns $25,000 and can't afford to pay much rent. Pop Quiz: which family is more likely to be living directly underneath high power lines? If exposure to high power radiation is taken out of the equation, which family is more likely to have someone develop leukemia due to poor diet or exposure to something else? If you don't understand why this is relevant: 1) What are you doing on slashdot? 2) You should go back to school and take some basic science and statistics courses before opining on any more scientific matters.
P.S. Please also refrain from voting or serving on any civil lawsuit juries. Thanks.
Having done computer repairs for heavy smokers, I would void the warranty just for the damage it does to the electronics. There is nothing as disgusting as the inside of a smoker's computer. After a few months, the tar will have completely enveloped the heatsink, power supply, and every fan in the system. Sometimes it's so thick that the air cans can't blow it out. I've replaced a lot of fried motherboards because of this.
What do you mean by more expensive? OpenSolaris with ZFS costs the same as Linux. And yes, You'll have to get up a lot less often in the middle of the night, since a few bad sectors aren't going to force a fail of the entire disk.
Linux seriously needs to find a workaround to its licensing squabbles and find a way to get a rock-solid ZFS in the kernel. Right now, ZFS on OpenSolaris is simply wonderful, and this is what I am deploying for file service at all my customer sites now. The scary thing about file system corruption is that it is often silent, and can go on for a long time, until your system crashes, and you find that all of your backups are also crap. I've replaced a couple of linux servers (and more than a couple of Windows servers) after filesystem and disk corruption compounded by naive RAID implementations (RAID[1-5] without end-to-end checksumming can make your data *less* safe), and my customers couldn't be happier. Having hourly snapshots and a fast in-kernel CIFS server fully integrated with ZFS ACLS (and with support for NTFS-style mixed case naming) is jut icing on the cake.
Now if only I could have an Opensolaris desktop with all the nice linux userland apps available. Oh wait, I can!
I think the wailing we're about to hear is the sound of thousands of imperative-language programmers being dragged, kicking and screaming, into functional programming land. Even the functional languages not specifically designed for concurrency do it much more naturally than their imperative counterparts.
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The reason we require the offer to be valid for any third party is so that people who receive the binaries indirectly in that way can order the source code from you.
And if I want to keep my mods private I will charge one million USD for the source. I am allowed to do this because I initially charged that much for initially distributing the binaries (to one of my shell companies, of course, which then redistributed to you). When I receive payment, the source will be mailed to you in leather-bound hardcopy, in 6pt dingbats font, and you will find that there is a 100,000 to 1 comment-to-code ratio. Enjoy your source distribution! :)
Why they don't require some kind of photo on a soc card is beyond me
Since we now get our social security cards when we're still infants, that would look a little funny.
Why didn't the original guy sell the flour at $5/bag? Does he like leaving money on the table? Or was competition keeping his price low? or were the townspeople unwilling to pay that much? In the latter two cases the "asshole" won't profit from his gambit, and in the first one, well, he's taking advantage of the seller's poor business practices.
What the heck does family income have to do with blood cell cancer? It doesn't care if you are rich or poor, and therefore there's no point for a study to "control" for it.
Family A earns $250,000 and can afford a fairly nice house. Family B earns $25,000 and can't afford to pay much rent. Pop Quiz: which family is more likely to be living directly underneath high power lines? If exposure to high power radiation is taken out of the equation, which family is more likely to have someone develop leukemia due to poor diet or exposure to something else? If you don't understand why this is relevant: 1) What are you doing on slashdot? 2) You should go back to school and take some basic science and statistics courses before opining on any more scientific matters.
P.S. Please also refrain from voting or serving on any civil lawsuit juries. Thanks.
if you ever change your mind and want them to come back, it's extremely difficult to get that word out.
Salon doesn't have a paywall anymore?
Having done computer repairs for heavy smokers, I would void the warranty just for the damage it does to the electronics. There is nothing as disgusting as the inside of a smoker's computer. After a few months, the tar will have completely enveloped the heatsink, power supply, and every fan in the system. Sometimes it's so thick that the air cans can't blow it out. I've replaced a lot of fried motherboards because of this.
I'm not George W. Bush. Where's my prize?
the guy who drinks two pots of coffee a day.
Newb.
A friend is about to give a victim's statement on a murder case
She's been murdered, and she's going to give a statement?
Sure, you can watch Happy Days reruns
How about Night of the Living Dead?
You may think you're just being snarky, but there's real science to support this.
What do you mean by more expensive? OpenSolaris with ZFS costs the same as Linux. And yes, You'll have to get up a lot less often in the middle of the night, since a few bad sectors aren't going to force a fail of the entire disk.
Maybe this form of transparent aluminum would be a bit more practical.
going down the shitter.
Another source of free energy! I'll be installing a generator on my toilet this afternoon.
Commies.
Psychoanalyze away.
I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
1. Two elephant bees fighting over conjoined twin nuns
Why do you say that?
2. Two baby elephants high-fiving with their trunks as they crush something under their front feet.
Do you get high often?
3. Two tribeswomen carrying buckets and exchanging hearts
Earlier you said you were high?
4. Cross section of uterus, fallopian tubes, and vagina
Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
5. Moth
How do you reconcile the people you hang around with?
6. Dragonfly impaled on a cross-section of a starfruit
You mentioned that you were high?
7. Two female baboons kissing with their breasts touching
Are you afraid of sex?
8. Evolution... legged and tailed creatures crawling out of the ocean
Is it because of your life that you are going through all this?
9. Cross section of uterus and vagina of a woman giving birth to conjoined twins
Perhaps this has something to do with problems at school?
10. Two queens wearing grey hats and flowing red robes stealing baby crabs as they fight off the green-clawed mother crabs
You sick bastard.
At least they filed the patents in parallel.
Heh. Back in the day, I was once shipped a nine-track tape drive, along with the driver... on a nine-track tape.
A pig flu over the cuckoo's nest.
Linux seriously needs to find a workaround to its licensing squabbles and find a way to get a rock-solid ZFS in the kernel. Right now, ZFS on OpenSolaris is simply wonderful, and this is what I am deploying for file service at all my customer sites now. The scary thing about file system corruption is that it is often silent, and can go on for a long time, until your system crashes, and you find that all of your backups are also crap. I've replaced a couple of linux servers (and more than a couple of Windows servers) after filesystem and disk corruption compounded by naive RAID implementations (RAID[1-5] without end-to-end checksumming can make your data *less* safe), and my customers couldn't be happier. Having hourly snapshots and a fast in-kernel CIFS server fully integrated with ZFS ACLS (and with support for NTFS-style mixed case naming) is jut icing on the cake. Now if only I could have an Opensolaris desktop with all the nice linux userland apps available. Oh wait, I can!
But they keep moving around...
I use to be a big nVidia guy, but those days are nearing their end.
Congratulations on your new diet.
SUPERCONDUCTING BPL!
*cough*Erlang*cough*
I think the wailing we're about to hear is the sound of thousands of imperative-language programmers being dragged, kicking and screaming, into functional programming land. Even the functional languages not specifically designed for concurrency do it much more naturally than their imperative counterparts.
I was in a bad mood... so I modded you Overrated :). Then I thought better of it...