Some of the "advanced" features of MySQL 5 make it more palatable to me. (I have a hard time triggers or views advanced when SQLite and every other SQL db supports them.)
A lot of open source development web apps are targetted towards the lowest common denominator -- shared hosts that still use MySQL 4 -- so the adoption has been kind of slow. I have a couple GPL webapps which don't support MySQL due to the lack of triggers and views. Sure, you can fake it on the client side, but then again, you can fake an orgasm. I'd rather do it the proper way.
Ogg support isn't free. You can buy a hardware mp3 decoder chip fairly cheap. Every ogg player (both of them) do it in software. That means more expenses, more cpu, more ram, more firmware, more testing, etc.
Let's assume some random person is hauled into court allegedly for having music that he has not legitimately bought.
The only scenario where that might happen is if you're caught shoplifting.
The RIAA has never brought suit against someone in the terms that you describe. They've brought suit against people for distributing music, not posession. In which case, your proof would be a contract/license of some sort that gives you the right to distribute the music.
You're right, it was a quote. Which makes it even worse -- he didn't bother to check if the link worked. He didn't bother to check it the link was a stealth goatse.
You might look at drudgereport and see an ugly collection of links to other news sites. The reality is, it has had an effect on the news media. Traditional media has had it's ass wrecked by the blogosphere (reuter's doctored photos, CBS doctored national guard memos, etc) and it all dates back to Matt Drudge and a story about Monica Lewinsky.
In 1999, when Andover bought slashdot, they paid him a salary of $90,000 (with a 3-year employment contract). That doesn't include the $1.5 million paid for/. or the $3.5 million in stock grants.
Copland. Pink. Taligent. Hell, the entire 90s. They're still delaying/cancelling features with OS X. The difference is, they're not pre-announcing them, and they're releasing minor updates.
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I can't be the only who thinks of goatse when I see the bigfoots network logo...
Some of the "advanced" features of MySQL 5 make it more palatable to me. (I have a hard time triggers or views advanced when SQLite and every other SQL db supports them.)
A lot of open source development web apps are targetted towards the lowest common denominator -- shared hosts that still use MySQL 4 -- so the adoption has been kind of slow. I have a couple GPL webapps which don't support MySQL due to the lack of triggers and views. Sure, you can fake it on the client side, but then again, you can fake an orgasm. I'd rather do it the proper way.
Zonk, this was supposed to be posted under the special advertising section
Quoth the parent, "Since the change wouldn't cost the users anything".
Ogg support isn't free. You can buy a hardware mp3 decoder chip fairly cheap. Every ogg player (both of them) do it in software. That means more expenses, more cpu, more ram, more firmware, more testing, etc.
Attn Mods: this isn't an allegory about iPods, it's an allegory about gay sex:
"And now this," said Farmer Steve, placing a specimen of Farmer Sim's shriveled fruit in the sheriff's open mouth.
A+++++ Good first poster, highly recommended.
Or....maybe we should be angry at the academics who obviously are not running OpenOffice on Linux.
Nice tr(y|oll), but the OpenOffice dictionary doesn't recognize pluton either.
Anyhow, Word and OpenOffice both look like shit. If they want to be taken seriously, they should be using TeX, LaTex, or at least troff.
It's actually a reuters article. Hmm... in that case, perhaps it's not the best source for information.
Let's assume some random person is hauled into court allegedly for having music that he has not legitimately bought.
The only scenario where that might happen is if you're caught shoplifting.
The RIAA has never brought suit against someone in the terms that you describe. They've brought suit against people for distributing music, not posession. In which case, your proof would be a contract/license of some sort that gives you the right to distribute the music.
Python likes PHP's sloppy seconds.
Astroturf and slashvertisements top the list of stories that slashdot considers newsworthy.
My ass spectrometer could detect explosive diarrhea years ago.
After they simply read it, maybe they'll want to simply decode it as well.
You're right, it was a quote. Which makes it even worse -- he didn't bother to check if the link worked. He didn't bother to check it the link was a stealth goatse.
You might look at drudgereport and see an ugly collection of links to other news sites. The reality is, it has had an effect on the news media. Traditional media has had it's ass wrecked by the blogosphere (reuter's doctored photos, CBS doctored national guard memos, etc) and it all dates back to Matt Drudge and a story about Monica Lewinsky.
hehe ... too true. Slashdot used to allow onmouseover in the links...
slashdot sucks. They used to have very severe formkey problems. BTW -- if you're logged in, the ip doesn't matter.
you'd think he'd at least check it wasn't a goatse/last measure link.
1) it wouldn't be lossless and 2) most compression techniques use a dictionary of common used words.
Copland. Pink. Taligent. Hell, the entire 90s.
Copland. Pink. Taligent. Hell, the entire 90s. They're still delaying/cancelling features with OS X. The difference is, they're not pre-announcing them, and they're releasing minor updates.