I suggest you take a look into the Air France flight 8969 hijacking in December 24th, 1994. The purpose of that hijacking was to fly the aircraft to Paris and blow it up at a very low altitude, possibly with the Eiffle Tower as a target.
I will agree with this, we are currently looking to migrate a legacy UNIX system (in a language you have never heard of, Sculptor, with data stored in what essentially amounts to a proprietary CISAM file with no database engine but can only be accessed by said language) to an MS SQL driven system (yes, we looked at everything, and MS SQL and.Net came out top, and thats coming from me, the company UNIX guru).
I can tell you right now, SSIS is fantastic for what we want to do, especially integrating with the above legacy nightmare.
What's worse is, a share of the call revenue goes to the company operating the number (which is why BT can't offer free calls to 0845) which gives these companies an incentive to keep you on hold.. Thats ending later this year, number holders no longer get a cut of the call revenue for lo-call numbers.
AppleTV was previewed at an event on September 12th 2006, named on January 9th 2007, and started shipping on March 21st 2007.
There was a 6 month period between initial announcement and the customers getting them. Not many Apple products get that sort of a lead time, its usually 'announce, make available for ordering immediately, ship within 2 months'.
Because they take millions of dollars from gullible people I wonder how much each Church (catholic, baptist etc) in my town takes through Sunday offerings, tithing etc each month.....
There is nothing in US law which allows a President to direct his government to follow policy of not applying law against the Presidents actions and the current ability for the President to do so directly violates the democratic process in which legislative law is created within the United States. You have one person that currently has what amounts to more legislative power than the entire legislative branch - he has the ability to change the entire meaning of laws without oversight.
Its not a simple case of providing cases where a court has said its illegal or criminal, its the distinct absence of law or Constitutional writ permitting the President these powers that are widely used to change presented law.
The Supreme Court has on occasion totally ignored the existence of a signing statement that changed the interpretation of a law (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006)) but the matter still needs to be dealt with fully.
The problem with this is that the Executive Branch does not have the power to begin with - its an assumed power under executive order.
I just quickly read up on some of the powqers of the Executive Branch and its actually quite scary as to how many powers the President uses during his term in office that aren't actually codified in US law anywhere but seem to be used as wide ranging systems to get around law - executive orders and signing statements are the two most obvious ones, both used to circumvent laws meant to restrict certain acts and both are powers that are not granted by the Constitution nor current US law.
You people really need to do something about that!
Season 5 of B5 happened the way it did precisely because JMS didnt know until right near the end of Season 4 that Season 5 was going to be green lighted - he had no choice but to finish it off in Season 4 at that point, but the original plan was to finish it off in five seasons.
Yes, they are regular monthly patches. That means that they are withholding completed patches until the chosen day comes.
Microsoft used to release as and when. They got slated on Slashdot for it.
Microsoft then rolled patches into a monthly patch. They got slated on Slashdot for it.
Microsoft released some important patches outside of the monthly cycle since they switched to it. They got slated on Slashdot for it.
Yeah, theres no pattern there at all.
With Linux, you can install patches immediately if there is a need, or later once they have had some good testing if there is not an immediate need. With Microsoft, you may install them when they say you may install them.
So, I can install a patch when its been released or later on if I decide... in either of your cases? Wow, thats some industrial strength spin you have there!
I would rather have the option of scrimping, selling property and taking out loans etc to get the money, than living out my final days with the knowledge that my condition is treatable, but noone has invested the money to make the treatment because its not financially viable for them to do so.
Theres a significant hole in your faith that because its opensource, someone else can simply carry on - complexity of the code base.
Sure, I have the source code to the Linux kernel, Glibc, X.org, Firefox, Reiser, MySQL, Postgresql, its all there in a repository on my server so I'm fine if any of these projects failed for whatever reason. However, I know nothing about the code bases of any of those projects, I wouldn't know where to start to make modifications - it would take a significant time effort on my part to bring myself up to speed on any of those code bases, and we are talking months here before I would be confident to make a change and know the ramifications of that change.
This is one problem inherent in all complex code bases, and one that simply being open source does not fix. Thats why these central people are so important, and thats why yanking them out of a project with no preparation is a Very Bad Thing (tm).
I would actually recommend the PHP documentation as well - while the language itself leaves much to be desired, I have yet to find another project or language that provides concise, easy to read and useful documentation as the PHP website does - its simply brilliant.
Same with WMV. Seen Windows Media Player for the Mac? No? That's because they dropped it a while back, and killed all support for DRM-protected Windows Media on the Mac. (Instead they suggest that people use a third party QuickTime plugin that only handles unprotected WMV.)
Im pretty sure that Windows Media Player for Mac never handled protected WMV files at all (I am prepared to stand correct though), so there was nothing lost with the move to Flip4Mac.
I still feel that is an issue, because even if another party was interested, I some how doubt they would have this all organized and prepared like FreeBSD foundation was immediately.
How does the license address this in any way, shape or form? It doesnt, it would be an issue regardless but it still doesnt lock users in to the FreeBSD foundation.
Theres no obligation in any opensource project - FreeBSD or whomever - to exist in perpetuity and theres certainly no obligation to make it trivial for another body to replace them.
Looking at the history on wikipedia (checking the citations too), I see quite a lot of time being wasted between the Open Group and the XFree86 project. This isn't just a simple switch as your comment at least seemed to imply.
But it happened, didnt it. People were up and running under X.org releases of X11 pretty quickly after Xfree86 decided to change the license, and literally the very first release that people were using was 100% identical to the last 'safe' release by Xfree86, all it took was someone to setup the websites, ftp mirrors and source control repositories and they were in business. Theres no reason to suggest that it couldnt be done equally as well with any other opensource project, all it takes is one intact copy of the codebase and the will to do it.
I'm not arguing the differences between the GPL and BSD, just wondering about how possible it is for the FreeBSD foundation to privatize. Neither was I, I was just pointing out that both licenses are in the same boat with regard to license changes - what you have in your hand at that moment is no different after the event.
Thats the problem with peoples understanding of the BSD license, many people seem to think that because its trivially easy to essentially relicense it (by including it in projects with more restrictive licenses, or even closed source) then the code in their possession is threatened, when its not.
No, they couldnt - they can go private, but another party interested in a free project could always step in and take over the codebase just prior to the license change and go from there, exactly as what happened with the X11 codebase recently. So, no lock in available. The BSD license is absolutely no different to the GPL in that regard, what you have in your possession does not change license under your nose.
The error code given was just a random example off the top of my head - it was not meant to be indicative. Thank you however for your detailed reply, it goes to show that theres always help out there!:)
Ive been using MacOSX since 10.3 as my main desktop and laptop, and unfortunately I have to say that Ive had a fair number of cryptic error messages with little explanation, usually only a negative number to google with (as an example and not a real number, Error -39). As a regular on #macosx on freenode, I would say that my experiences are not exactly rare either.
When Windows XP was released, I distinctly remember the same 'theres nothing compelling to upgrade to XP for' pieces doing the rounds on Slashdot and other tech op-ed sites - people were predicting Microsofts failure, that XP wouldnt sell at all because it demanded huge hardware requirements, that XP had a Fisher Price interface that would scare buyers away and it would only really sell through forced OEM installations.
Im quietly confident that in 5 years time, when Vistas replacement is released, it will all happen again.
Article IV of the NPT has an obligation for nuclear weapon states to reduce their nuclear weapons stocks to a point where disarmament is a conclusion. NWS signatories have not held to this obligation as they have no final plans for total disarmament.
Intel's 64-bit offering was a hideous beast and they sold exactly twenty-nine of them. Where did this bit of FUD come from? The Itanium chips werent great sellers by any sense of the word, but both the Itanium and Itanium 2 sold vastly more than 'exactly twenty-nine'. Hell, one of the companies I do occasional work for has more Itanium and Itanium 2 systems than that (40 or so of each chip).
At the risk of sounding like a.... person replying to a comment on slashdot, recent recent Macs (Core 2 Duo Macbook Pros etc) do not have the TPM chip installed, only the first Intel Mac generations do. Its totally missing from ioreg on C2D Macs while present in ioreg on CD Macs.
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I suggest you take a look into the Air France flight 8969 hijacking in December 24th, 1994. The purpose of that hijacking was to fly the aircraft to Paris and blow it up at a very low altitude, possibly with the Eiffle Tower as a target.
I will agree with this, we are currently looking to migrate a legacy UNIX system (in a language you have never heard of, Sculptor, with data stored in what essentially amounts to a proprietary CISAM file with no database engine but can only be accessed by said language) to an MS SQL driven system (yes, we looked at everything, and MS SQL and .Net came out top, and thats coming from me, the company UNIX guru).
I can tell you right now, SSIS is fantastic for what we want to do, especially integrating with the above legacy nightmare.
AppleTV was previewed at an event on September 12th 2006, named on January 9th 2007, and started shipping on March 21st 2007.
There was a 6 month period between initial announcement and the customers getting them. Not many Apple products get that sort of a lead time, its usually 'announce, make available for ordering immediately, ship within 2 months'.
There is nothing in US law which allows a President to direct his government to follow policy of not applying law against the Presidents actions and the current ability for the President to do so directly violates the democratic process in which legislative law is created within the United States. You have one person that currently has what amounts to more legislative power than the entire legislative branch - he has the ability to change the entire meaning of laws without oversight.
Its not a simple case of providing cases where a court has said its illegal or criminal, its the distinct absence of law or Constitutional writ permitting the President these powers that are widely used to change presented law.
The Supreme Court has on occasion totally ignored the existence of a signing statement that changed the interpretation of a law (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006)) but the matter still needs to be dealt with fully.
The problem with this is that the Executive Branch does not have the power to begin with - its an assumed power under executive order.
I just quickly read up on some of the powqers of the Executive Branch and its actually quite scary as to how many powers the President uses during his term in office that aren't actually codified in US law anywhere but seem to be used as wide ranging systems to get around law - executive orders and signing statements are the two most obvious ones, both used to circumvent laws meant to restrict certain acts and both are powers that are not granted by the Constitution nor current US law.
You people really need to do something about that!
Season 5 of B5 happened the way it did precisely because JMS didnt know until right near the end of Season 4 that Season 5 was going to be green lighted - he had no choice but to finish it off in Season 4 at that point, but the original plan was to finish it off in five seasons.
Thankyou, you demonstrated my point precisely, twice.
Yes, they are regular monthly patches. That means that they are withholding completed patches until the chosen day comes.
Microsoft used to release as and when. They got slated on Slashdot for it.Microsoft then rolled patches into a monthly patch. They got slated on Slashdot for it.
Microsoft released some important patches outside of the monthly cycle since they switched to it. They got slated on Slashdot for it.
Yeah, theres no pattern there at all.
With Linux, you can install patches immediately if there is a need, or later once they have had some good testing if there is not an immediate need. With Microsoft, you may install them when they say you may install them.
So, I can install a patch when its been released or later on if I decideThe people on the islands want to be British - there have been many referendums on the matter. Thats the reason for the UK presence there.
It also has nothing to do with imperialism or colonialism - there were no indigenous inhabitants.
People need to remember that the Belgrano wouldnt have been sunk if the Argentinians never invaded the Falklands Islands....
I would rather have the option of scrimping, selling property and taking out loans etc to get the money, than living out my final days with the knowledge that my condition is treatable, but noone has invested the money to make the treatment because its not financially viable for them to do so.
There are worse things than being in debt.
Theres a significant hole in your faith that because its opensource, someone else can simply carry on - complexity of the code base.
Sure, I have the source code to the Linux kernel, Glibc, X.org, Firefox, Reiser, MySQL, Postgresql, its all there in a repository on my server so I'm fine if any of these projects failed for whatever reason. However, I know nothing about the code bases of any of those projects, I wouldn't know where to start to make modifications - it would take a significant time effort on my part to bring myself up to speed on any of those code bases, and we are talking months here before I would be confident to make a change and know the ramifications of that change.
This is one problem inherent in all complex code bases, and one that simply being open source does not fix. Thats why these central people are so important, and thats why yanking them out of a project with no preparation is a Very Bad Thing (tm).
I would actually recommend the PHP documentation as well - while the language itself leaves much to be desired, I have yet to find another project or language that provides concise, easy to read and useful documentation as the PHP website does - its simply brilliant.
Im pretty sure that Windows Media Player for Mac never handled protected WMV files at all (I am prepared to stand correct though), so there was nothing lost with the move to Flip4Mac.
It was cross-platform from the very start, Microsoft released Rotor for FreeBSD back in 2002.
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Shared Source CLI Provides Source Code for a FreeBSD Implementation of
How does the license address this in any way, shape or form? It doesnt, it would be an issue regardless but it still doesnt lock users in to the FreeBSD foundation.
Theres no obligation in any opensource project - FreeBSD or whomever - to exist in perpetuity and theres certainly no obligation to make it trivial for another body to replace them.
Looking at the history on wikipedia (checking the citations too), I see quite a lot of time being wasted between the Open Group and the XFree86 project. This isn't just a simple switch as your comment at least seemed to imply.
But it happened, didnt it. People were up and running under X.org releases of X11 pretty quickly after Xfree86 decided to change the license, and literally the very first release that people were using was 100% identical to the last 'safe' release by Xfree86, all it took was someone to setup the websites, ftp mirrors and source control repositories and they were in business. Theres no reason to suggest that it couldnt be done equally as well with any other opensource project, all it takes is one intact copy of the codebase and the will to do it.
I'm not arguing the differences between the GPL and BSD, just wondering about how possible it is for the FreeBSD foundation to privatize. Neither was I, I was just pointing out that both licenses are in the same boat with regard to license changes - what you have in your hand at that moment is no different after the event.
Thats the problem with peoples understanding of the BSD license, many people seem to think that because its trivially easy to essentially relicense it (by including it in projects with more restrictive licenses, or even closed source) then the code in their possession is threatened, when its not.
No, they couldnt - they can go private, but another party interested in a free project could always step in and take over the codebase just prior to the license change and go from there, exactly as what happened with the X11 codebase recently. So, no lock in available. The BSD license is absolutely no different to the GPL in that regard, what you have in your possession does not change license under your nose.
The error code given was just a random example off the top of my head - it was not meant to be indicative. Thank you however for your detailed reply, it goes to show that theres always help out there! :)
Ive been using MacOSX since 10.3 as my main desktop and laptop, and unfortunately I have to say that Ive had a fair number of cryptic error messages with little explanation, usually only a negative number to google with (as an example and not a real number, Error -39). As a regular on #macosx on freenode, I would say that my experiences are not exactly rare either.
When Windows XP was released, I distinctly remember the same 'theres nothing compelling to upgrade to XP for' pieces doing the rounds on Slashdot and other tech op-ed sites - people were predicting Microsofts failure, that XP wouldnt sell at all because it demanded huge hardware requirements, that XP had a Fisher Price interface that would scare buyers away and it would only really sell through forced OEM installations.
Im quietly confident that in 5 years time, when Vistas replacement is released, it will all happen again.
Article IV of the NPT has an obligation for nuclear weapon states to reduce their nuclear weapons stocks to a point where disarmament is a conclusion. NWS signatories have not held to this obligation as they have no final plans for total disarmament.
At the risk of sounding like a .... person replying to a comment on slashdot, recent recent Macs (Core 2 Duo Macbook Pros etc) do not have the TPM chip installed, only the first Intel Mac generations do. Its totally missing from ioreg on C2D Macs while present in ioreg on CD Macs.