A tool that does 90% of the job for free is better than a tool that does 100% of the job but that you can't afford to purchase.
I have yet to see a tool that does 100% of what a person needs. Even if you are paying for the software development, it never works just right. In the end, you wind up changing your process to match what the tool can provide.
That being said, even if the split were 60% to 80%, it could easily justify the OSS solution. After all, how many people use more that 30% of the capabilities of MS Office?
How about having the SMTP servers to a reverst lookup for those servers trying to send mail. A simple gethostbyaddr() call would filter quite a bit of spam (if who_you_say_you_are != who_your_ip_address_says_you_are then FLUSH). Those pieces of spam that use "legitimate" mail headers would have the ISPs either black listed or not providing service to spamers is short order.
I know some people will hate to hear this, but, like your insulin pump, maybe these types of devices should be considered medical devices. These things are not simple devides like a heart rate monitor, or bicycle trip computer. When you life is a product's hands you need someone like the FDA looking out for you.
Considering some of the poorly forged headers I have seen, wouldn't it be better to require some level of authentication by the mail relays in CA? A simple reverse lookup would filter the spam that I have been getting lately.
There's these handy little things called comments.
I have been using that comment technology for quite a while. Unfortunately, I am not the only one doing python development and I can't rely on everyone else being so diligent. Also, if someone messes up the indentation of a close comment (as when someone removes an if statement), resolving the scope can be fun (even with tabnanny).
I use tabs and haven't ever had a problem reading Python code, even complex programs written by others.
Once again, if I were the only one doing development I wouldn't have a problem. Unfortunately, some of my fellow developers use spaces for various reasons.
Does the absence of a } really throw you off so much you can't read?
It is always nice to have the scope delimiters semantically required by the language. That way you can't get into trouble. And I am not talking about an end brace, but something line "end if," "end for," or "end while." Kinda like the stuff you put in your commend, "dude."
As a python programmer, I loath its indentation sensitivity. It is hard to find the end of a block and heaven help the people who use tabs rather than spaces for indentation.
The lack of good line termination (sorry, but a caridge return doesn't cut it) is another problem.
Besides...you really gonna fill that 60Gigs with music? I don't think so.
I really like being able to use my iPod as a hard disk. I can download files to the iPod and take them to another Mac, Windows PC, or even Linux box, and moves the files without needing to burn CD ROMs. Saves time, space, and money (well, on CD-Rs at least).
I currently have 5 GB of music, and 2 GB of data stored on my 20 GB iPod.
The official reason is the extra production time it takes to edit the extended release. I'm not sure what an extra three months would really buy them, but that's the official line.
If Fox wins this, then the estate of Rudyard Kipling can sue Disney for their Jungle Book movies, or the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson can sue over the various versions of Treasure Island. Both of these were in the public domain when Disney made thier movies so if works can be brought back out of the public domain it could spell the end of some major corporations.
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A tool that does 90% of the job for free is better than a tool that does 100% of the job but that you can't afford to purchase.
I have yet to see a tool that does 100% of what a person needs. Even if you are paying for the software development, it never works just right. In the end, you wind up changing your process to match what the tool can provide.
That being said, even if the split were 60% to 80%, it could easily justify the OSS solution. After all, how many people use more that 30% of the capabilities of MS Office?
I wonder if he got that job just on the basis of his name...
No, I don't think the previous FTC commissioner was named Orson, too.
3) PROFIT?
That SCO may be run by this guy?
Have you ever looked at a mail header when that is done? It looks something like this
Received: from whitehouse.gov ([64.110.8.7]) by
A simple reverse lookup tells the recipient that the sender is bogus.
Open Relays get shut down by their ISP if they are used by spam, or the ISP gets black listed.
How about having the SMTP servers to a reverst lookup for those servers trying to send mail. A simple gethostbyaddr() call would filter quite a bit of spam (if who_you_say_you_are != who_your_ip_address_says_you_are then FLUSH). Those pieces of spam that use "legitimate" mail headers would have the ISPs either black listed or not providing service to spamers is short order.
I know some people will hate to hear this, but, like your insulin pump, maybe these types of devices should be considered medical devices. These things are not simple devides like a heart rate monitor, or bicycle trip computer. When you life is a product's hands you need someone like the FDA looking out for you.
Considering some of the poorly forged headers I have seen, wouldn't it be better to require some level of authentication by the mail relays in CA? A simple reverse lookup would filter the spam that I have been getting lately.
Where's my car?
Once again, if I were the only one doing development I wouldn't have a problem. Unfortunately, some of my fellow developers use spaces for various reasons.
It is always nice to have the scope delimiters semantically required by the language. That way you can't get into trouble. And I am not talking about an end brace, but something line "end if," "end for," or "end while." Kinda like the stuff you put in your commend, "dude."
The lack of good line termination (sorry, but a caridge return doesn't cut it) is another problem.
I currently have 5 GB of music, and 2 GB of data stored on my 20 GB iPod.
Tom's Hardware has an article on the Gainward version of the card. It is water cooled.
After the spammer harvests IP addresses of newly opened relays. Case is still open...
The official reason is the extra production time it takes to edit the extended release. I'm not sure what an extra three months would really buy them, but that's the official line.
If Fox wins this, then the estate of Rudyard Kipling can sue Disney for their Jungle Book movies, or the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson can sue over the various versions of Treasure Island. Both of these were in the public domain when Disney made thier movies so if works can be brought back out of the public domain it could spell the end of some major corporations.
I prefer 2BAD (or 2BADDEAD for you 32-bit people).
SI has no unit for weight.
What do you think a newton is? The force exerted by one gram begin accelerated at one G (or its weight at one G).
Its really fun to read the Windows version as well.
The Inquirer has another interesting article on the same topic.
on your taste in music. I doubt that Britney Spears could be classified as "intellectual."
The Inquirer has an article that takes a look at the GeForceFX. Hopefully things won't turn out as they did for 3DFX.