Free speech doesn't include copyrighted material, and you should know that. But this type of thing shows yet another manner that the DMCA can be used to harass or silence legitimate speech.
Actually, in the US, it does. It's called Fair Use.
I don't really see much connection between that and the GP's comment, though. Moreso, this has nothing to do with free speech, since they're not censoring you, you can have your stuff reinstated and they'll have to sue next. Not to mention that you can counter-sue.
Excuse me, but... Didn't the genius that wrote that realize that clicking on the CHECKBOX in the SUBSCRIPTION window would subscribe and unsubscribe to folders?! I mean, why would you need subscribe and unsubscribe button if you already have the checkbox?
I admit. I wish Yahoo! (a personification thereof) would get assraped by every dick-endowed creature on this planet (and not only, but that would be just day dreaming). Sue me.
Actually, you're wrong. I don't have any numbers, but I'm pretty sure jabber is in the top five, at the very least. And, yes, unlike the other pieces of shit out there, you can easily add a friend on another server. So, while technically, they might not have that many users, they still can talk to more people than other IM networks. As a side note, most of my friends use a jabber account, be it Google or something else. Thankfully.
Well, basically, because it lacks many of the decent features of other RDBMSs (I won't say real RDBMS:-P), some of which are even OpenSource (see PostgreSQL and Firebird), while having quite a few misfeatures (the authentication model is utterly retarded. You have users, identified by user at host. And, you then have users - identified by user AND host - for table privileges. And databases. And columns. Heck, am I the only one that thinks that anything with more than 10 users will give you headaches for the years to come?), performance issues (SELECT * FROM foo is fine and all, but... The first thing that comes to mind is a cron script that runs every ten minutes and ANALYZEs a table, twice. It would refuse to use its index otherwise and take about 50 seconds, instead of half a second. And, let's just say that many a time I've found its locking mechanism getting stuck while trying to acquire a lock. That is, if - and, yes, this does belong in the misfeature bit - it won't give out an exclusive lock to two threads), compatibility issues (SQL is optional for it), and (and this one's actually pretty subjective), being marketed as 'Enterprise', nowadays.
Some of its design decisions (threads v.s. processes, they used to say transactions suck and they won't implement them, lack of focus on features at the beginning) were questionable, to say the least. Some of the way they implemented them is pretty mindboggling. The way InnoDB breaks whenever you as much as blow in the general direction of its huge ass files...
And, uhm, there are many examples I could give you, but I'm off home.:-)
I'm confused here. The sun is (pretty much) unmoving, and emits a (pretty much) spherically symmetrical gravitational field. So wherever the Earth is, the 'gravitational attraction vector' is going to be pointing to the sun - as that's the direction of the gravitational field. As the mass of the sun is (pretty much) unchanging, there will be no changes to the gravitational field over time, and things continue just as in newtonian physics.
But the Earth moves and gravity will be pulling it towards where (relative to the Earth) the Sun was 8 minutes ago.
That being said, I've no idea what that would mean for the orbit, but, my gut feeling is that it's not going to affect the orbit, since, over a full revolution, it cancels out...
I would say close to 0. This isn't about performance, it's about making it easier to set up, getting rid of both the act of running a tracker and the requirement of having a host up 24/7 you could run programs on.
Actually, I like hardware detection in Debian, as opposed to the one in Knoppix. Last time I played around with it, Knoppix was using kudzu. No offense to Red Hat, but discover is at least an order of magnitude better. Also, I did have some specific issues with it not detecting a certain NIC I had (Some onboard NIC, that uses sk98lin as the module.)
Also, Knoppix does have its own packages and I've had a couple of issues when 'upgrading' to Sid.
Personally, I'm using Sid + experimental and the only thing that's missing/too old is X.Org. And KDE 3.4, but I don't use that anyway.
Hm. I've an idea. Gonna try to get a script that periodically (every couple of minutes) looks at new/. stories and searches for files bigger than... 5MiB?, downloads them then makes.torrents. Problem is, you can't use mirrors people put up, so this would work better if a subscriber did it. Alas, this is something I'll have to do some other day, as I'm off for now.
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I don't really see much connection between that and the GP's comment, though. Moreso, this has nothing to do with free speech, since they're not censoring you, you can have your stuff reinstated and they'll have to sue next. Not to mention that you can counter-sue.
You know... I've noticed that too. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out why people do it.
I could suggest one. Evolution. Because, well, it's not the software's fault he can't understand how a checkbox works.
Excuse me, but... Didn't the genius that wrote that realize that clicking on the CHECKBOX in the SUBSCRIPTION window would subscribe and unsubscribe to folders?! I mean, why would you need subscribe and unsubscribe button if you already have the checkbox?
A key that's not password protected, to be correct.
I admit. I wish Yahoo! (a personification thereof) would get assraped by every dick-endowed creature on this planet (and not only, but that would be just day dreaming). Sue me.
> Google Talk - barely in the Top 10 IMs.
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Actually, you're wrong. I don't have any numbers, but I'm pretty sure jabber is in the top five, at the very least. And, yes, unlike the other pieces of shit out there, you can easily add a friend on another server. So, while technically, they might not have that many users, they still can talk to more people than other IM networks.
As a side note, most of my friends use a jabber account, be it Google or something else. Thankfully.
> Google Blog Search - far behind Technorati
http://www.google.com/search?q=Technorati+google+
Well, basically, because it lacks many of the decent features of other RDBMSs (I won't say real RDBMS :-P), some of which are even OpenSource (see PostgreSQL and Firebird), while having quite a few misfeatures (the authentication model is utterly retarded. You have users, identified by user at host. And, you then have users - identified by user AND host - for table privileges. And databases. And columns. Heck, am I the only one that thinks that anything with more than 10 users will give you headaches for the years to come?), performance issues (SELECT * FROM foo is fine and all, but... The first thing that comes to mind is a cron script that runs every ten minutes and ANALYZEs a table, twice. It would refuse to use its index otherwise and take about 50 seconds, instead of half a second. And, let's just say that many a time I've found its locking mechanism getting stuck while trying to acquire a lock. That is, if - and, yes, this does belong in the misfeature bit - it won't give out an exclusive lock to two threads), compatibility issues (SQL is optional for it), and (and this one's actually pretty subjective), being marketed as 'Enterprise', nowadays.
:-)
Some of its design decisions (threads v.s. processes, they used to say transactions suck and they won't implement them, lack of focus on features at the beginning) were questionable, to say the least. Some of the way they implemented them is pretty mindboggling. The way InnoDB breaks whenever you as much as blow in the general direction of its huge ass files...
And, uhm, there are many examples I could give you, but I'm off home.
I can't refrain from commenting... MySQL, good product? Ha! Really, picked a bad example.
There's something deeply disturbing about the parent having been modded 'Informative'...
Say I want a maximized terminal. Or my browser window, I want to have all the screen dedicated to it.
What does Firefox/Mozilla Project lose in this case? 50 bytes of bandwidth for each source download per user?
That being said, I've no idea what that would mean for the orbit, but, my gut feeling is that it's not going to affect the orbit, since, over a full revolution, it cancels out...
Sued them? On what grounds? "Using our services for things we don't approve of!" is not something that will win you any lawsuit.
It already _was_ published, on the Intarweb! The fact that they spent the time to gather it doesn't make them immature. Nor a tabloid.
I would say close to 0. This isn't about performance, it's about making it easier to set up, getting rid of both the act of running a tracker and the requirement of having a host up 24/7 you could run programs on.
Actually, I like hardware detection in Debian, as opposed to the one in Knoppix. Last time I played around with it, Knoppix was using kudzu. No offense to Red Hat, but discover is at least an order of magnitude better.
Also, I did have some specific issues with it not detecting a certain NIC I had (Some onboard NIC, that uses sk98lin as the module.)
Also, Knoppix does have its own packages and I've had a couple of issues when 'upgrading' to Sid.
Personally, I'm using Sid + experimental and the only thing that's missing/too old is X.Org. And KDE 3.4, but I don't use that anyway.
Hm. I've an idea. Gonna try to get a script that periodically (every couple of minutes) looks at new /. stories and searches for files bigger than... 5MiB?, downloads them then makes .torrents.
Problem is, you can't use mirrors people put up, so this would work better if a subscriber did it.
Alas, this is something I'll have to do some other day, as I'm off for now.
Yegads... Informative?
Mplayer (with the default codecs, I think. It's what Marillat provides for his Debian package) says:
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm:faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder)
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
> http://bragi.wolfheart.ro/DualPhotography.mp4.torr ent
To make things clear, the above URL is for the full clip.
http://bragi.wolfheart.ro/DualPhotography.mp4.torr ent
You'd only pay for the amount of juice you actually consumed on that particular battery pack before you swapped it out.
This would mean you either have to go to the same company to replace your battery, or that you'd pay the wrong people.
It could work if you'd pay the full price when getting a new battery, minus what's left in your current battery.
Did you sit around a campfire and told stories about zombie processes too?