Me: Do you have any pure mint extract? Employee: Yeah man, we've got some right over here. Me: This is the cosmetics aisle. It says "Not for human consumption." right on the bottle. Employee: Oh. But its organic man, its okay. Me: So are rhubarb leaves. Employee: Oh. Man. I dunno man.
IBM would have to do a lot more than support Oracle's SQL. They would have to support PL/SQL and all the hooks into very Oracle specific things like RMAN.
Due to significant differences between the ways Oracle and DB2 work, applications written to be fast on Oracle are probably not going to perform nearly as well on DB2, even if the application could be altered without much work to be faster on DB2.
Maybe not. I have never played games while on drugs (or been on drugs at all for that matter), but I have noticed that when I play games and am either significantly distracted (for example: on the phone or my mom is yelling at me to clean the basement) or not really paying hard attention (for example: overtired, or suffering from allergies), I play noticeably better. It isn't just that I think that I play better, I get better scores.
The instructions for the NY income tax return form (IT-200) explain that when you buy a product in a county other than your home county for use in your home county, you have to pay the sales tax difference. Matches were just an example. It applies to any item with a sales tax.
It doesn't even cope well with the paved world. If you buy a box of matches in Ontario County, NY, use half of the matches, drive to your home in Monroe County, NY, and then use the other half, you have to pay the difference between Monroe County tax and Ontario County tax on half the purchase price of the box of matches. Somehow you should get the tax difference on half the purchase price back if you do it the other way around, but good luck with that.
Just a way to make sure that they can arrest any citizen in the country on tax evasion charges any time they want.
That evil web crawler program, it should know when the old copy of a page is better than the newer copy and to keep the older copy in those cases, but take the newer one in all others.
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When you have a democracy and your government failed, you failed.
shit damn fuck
Just because you think it should be an inalienable right does not make it so.
Might makes right.
Open Source software can have software patents.
A conversation I had at an organic food shop:
Me: Do you have any pure mint extract?
Employee: Yeah man, we've got some right over here.
Me: This is the cosmetics aisle. It says "Not for human consumption." right on the bottle.
Employee: Oh. But its organic man, its okay.
Me: So are rhubarb leaves.
Employee: Oh. Man. I dunno man.
IBM would have to do a lot more than support Oracle's SQL. They would have to support PL/SQL and all the hooks into very Oracle specific things like RMAN.
Due to significant differences between the ways Oracle and DB2 work, applications written to be fast on Oracle are probably not going to perform nearly as well on DB2, even if the application could be altered without much work to be faster on DB2.
It does not make it obscure, it makes it unpredictable.
You may figure out the location of something once, but it will be somewhere else on a different computer, or even on the same computer after a reboot.
whooosh
Sure. There are some clear and concise laws that everybody understands.
Like the 2nd amendment.
Really? You think their lawyers haven't thought of this? You think they haven't gotten laws passed in their favor?
You really think some non-lawyers on /. are going to realize something simple that has escaped thousands of lawyers for decades?
If you are not a lawyer and cannot reference a specific law to prove your point, do not tell us what the law does and does not say.
But if they are selling flash drives in standard formats (e.g. CompactFlash, SD), you can just copy them bit for bit. That is what they don't want.
How do you know there wasn't a free flow of old Icelandic genes to Asia, and then other genes to Iceland?
DNS is still being used for exactly what it was designed for.
You've never met a woman, have you?
Maybe not. I have never played games while on drugs (or been on drugs at all for that matter), but I have noticed that when I play games and am either significantly distracted (for example: on the phone or my mom is yelling at me to clean the basement) or not really paying hard attention (for example: overtired, or suffering from allergies), I play noticeably better. It isn't just that I think that I play better, I get better scores.
The instructions for the NY income tax return form (IT-200) explain that when you buy a product in a county other than your home county for use in your home county, you have to pay the sales tax difference. Matches were just an example. It applies to any item with a sales tax.
Even if you plan on paying the tax on your income tax returns in April, you get to hold on to the money (and collect interest) until then.
It doesn't even cope well with the paved world. If you buy a box of matches in Ontario County, NY, use half of the matches, drive to your home in Monroe County, NY, and then use the other half, you have to pay the difference between Monroe County tax and Ontario County tax on half the purchase price of the box of matches. Somehow you should get the tax difference on half the purchase price back if you do it the other way around, but good luck with that.
Just a way to make sure that they can arrest any citizen in the country on tax evasion charges any time they want.
Won't fly. The shareholders will then claim to be victims as well.
As the stated goals are to provide access to a very small number of pages and limit bandwidth, caching is a great idea.
The reason copyright extends past death is not to benefit the copyright owner's offspring, it is to deter murder.
In that light, I'm okay with X years or life + Y years, so long as X and Y do not change.
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Conservatism is an untested ideology which has joined communism as excuses to grab more power.
He said nothing whatsoever about MS's customer support for MS products, which your anecdote is about.
He suggested that MS would not be a good provider of Linux support. Similarly, I am sure he would not buy support for MS Windows from Red Hat.
That evil web crawler program, it should know when the old copy of a page is better than the newer copy and to keep the older copy in those cases, but take the newer one in all others.