Would it make you feel any better if the exact same code was labeled like this instead?
Not much. Actually, I don't care much about version numbers, since there are lots of well-established products out there with version numbers What matters, though, is code maturity. For any general application, we can afford to put up with a few bugs here and there. A filesystem, however, needs to be proved to be safe, since errors can easily be found only after your last good copy of a file has disappeared out of the bottom of your backup cycle. This is an area where it pays to be conservative.
I'm all for being nice to animals, and I don't normally have any beef with PETA. But that reaction is just stupid. The only way to improve a fly, mosquito or cockroach is to make it dead. The machine only extracts energy from the breakdown of insect organic material.
Seems to me this might be a good alternative to sticking dead people in the ground in expensive plastic-lined wooden boxes so they don't even compost properly.
Does this mean you have to contact the author of every work you quote in an essay?
No, of course not. You cite his work in the normal way, thus giving credit where it's due. It is understood, of course, that you are not lifting whole texts, but quotation is normal practice.
It would indeed be enough to keep the battery alive for shortish periods of time, but there is still the issue that current Li-ion batteries have a life roughly equivalent to the number of charge cycles they go through. Partial charges are reputed to count as much as full charges in this regard.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I've had a lot of bum batteries lately...
Lawyers do what they do because there are asswipes out there who will pay them. What bothers me here is that the MAFIAA keep saying they are going to discontinue their practice of going after individual downloaders and concentrating on sharers. So far, I have seen little or no evidence of this.
I haven't given up my landline, but if I do I'll need a solution like Cell2Tel or something to provide landline-type extension phones.
...or alternatively, some sort of cellphone signal relay or booster. There are several available, with big variations in price and usefulness depending on just how bad your signal is.
In any case, the fact that bluetooth adds another load to your phone battery besides the usual cell coverage, it occurs to me that any solution involving this might leave the device tied to a charger too much to be useful. I agree with the earlier poster: just carry the phone with you.
On the other hand, while we (may) no longer need a POTS phone, it's usually simple enough to just connect a VOIP phone, with as many extensions as you need. Most people are perfectly capable of coping with you having more than one phone number.
Nor do I, not even about Unix. I worked on Burroughs, Honeywell, Sperry/Univac, Prime, ICL and Data General machines (and probably a few more I've forgotten), and they all had closed OSs.
There was a time, before Microsoft and before Open Source, where a purchase of software meant that you were buying a copy of the source code.
I am curious as to what OS you have in mind. I have worked with computers since the '70s, and although it was customary for an assembler to be provided, I don't recall a single vendor that released the OS source code.
I was referring to market prices here in Australia, which tend to be artificially inflated.:-( IIRC I think I paid >AU$180 for Leopard not long after it came out.
Not that this really affects me; I have no intention of upgrading my Mac laptop to $TOMORROW's_BIG_CAT, and my Linux boxes take care of themselves without any $$ input.
Well, I guess there are always those who will bitch and moan about the price, but who cares? There are free alternatives. And in the non-free world, the price is comparable to that of a new release of OS X.
Ultimately it all comes down to choice. If you really want/have to use Windows, then pay for it and shut up.
I hold the phone to my left ear simply because I actually hear better through it. The industrial deafness thing bit me harder on the right ear for some reason...
Hmmm. Well, my ringtone is a recording of frogs going "greedeep... greedeep..."
Although I actually don't necessarily have a problem with paying the beasties royalties, I do have some difficulty establishing the exchange rate for frog dollars.
most people (except people on crack) won't mess with you for no good reason. Drug dealers in particular aren't interested in causing trouble or having trouble in there[sic] area.
Hmmm. Maybe you live in a nice neighbourhood. Where I was living not so long ago in a not so salubrious area of London, it was generally expedient to both (a) be very careful and (b) carry a weapon of some kind (however basic - a set of keys has served me well) for use as a last resort - since one can usually expect to be outnumbered.
It's this mentality of urban fear that shows how screwed up US cities really are.
True, but even so, TFA's author's actions are very much those of an optimist. He could easily have been shot or had the crap kicked out of him.
I would suggest that a pragmatic approach might be the ability to remotely disable the phone totally so that it has to be sent some sort of authenticated authorisation code to be used at all.
The only things I saw come back from India were excuses, delays and weak attempts at acting as though they knew what they were talking about.
Unfortunately, this is largely true. I often hear Indian, Asian and Chinese people carp at Western work practices, particularly our relatively short working hours. They usually have to shut up, though when it's pointed out that we actually get more done in those hours than they do in their longer day.
The CEO in the submission might be right about Westerners being unemployable under their conditions, but it seems simple enough to me: if all you want to pay is a monkey's wage, then all you'll get is a monkey.
You actually have no idea what Jobs has given to Charity, I suspect it is a lot more than you...
1. Indeed I don't, though I have read unsubstantiated reports that he hasn't donated any... and 2. That wouldn't be hard, since my annual income wouldn't be worth his time to pick up if he found it in the street.
Actually, I don't care - it's none of my business. I was just presenting the idea for what it's worth.
What's being suggested is all the same HEALTH benefits.
As a matter of curiosity, it would be interesting to see if Bill Gates would do the same thing as Jobs. I suspect the answer is of course yes, but Gates (whatever else one may think about him) has at least made a material contribution to the wellbeing of many others less fortunate.
I'm all for socialised health systems, but there's no escaping the fact that the care one may expect is in reality predicated on one's capacity to pay.
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Would it make you feel any better if the exact same code was labeled like this instead?
Not much. Actually, I don't care much about version numbers, since there are lots of well-established products out there with version numbers
What matters, though, is code maturity. For any general application, we can afford to put up with a few bugs here and there. A filesystem, however, needs to be proved to be safe, since errors can easily be found only after your last good copy of a file has disappeared out of the bottom of your backup cycle. This is an area where it pays to be conservative.
I'm all for being nice to animals, and I don't normally have any beef with PETA. But that reaction is just stupid. The only way to improve a fly, mosquito or cockroach is to make it dead. The machine only extracts energy from the breakdown of insect organic material.
Seems to me this might be a good alternative to sticking dead people in the ground in expensive plastic-lined wooden boxes so they don't even compost properly.
A more scary aspect of this is the question of what a school principal is doing creeping through the MySpace accounts of his former students.
Does this mean you have to contact the author of every work you quote in an essay?
No, of course not. You cite his work in the normal way, thus giving credit where it's due. It is understood, of course, that you are not lifting whole texts, but quotation is normal practice.
A nightly charge should be plenty.
It would indeed be enough to keep the battery alive for shortish periods of time, but there is still the issue that current Li-ion batteries have a life roughly equivalent to the number of charge cycles they go through. Partial charges are reputed to count as much as full charges in this regard.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I've had a lot of bum batteries lately...
Lawyers do what they do because there are asswipes out there who will pay them. What bothers me here is that the MAFIAA keep saying they are going to discontinue their practice of going after individual downloaders and concentrating on sharers. So far, I have seen little or no evidence of this.
I haven't given up my landline, but if I do I'll need a solution like Cell2Tel or something to provide landline-type extension phones.
...or alternatively, some sort of cellphone signal relay or booster. There are several available, with big variations in price and usefulness depending on just how bad your signal is.
In any case, the fact that bluetooth adds another load to your phone battery besides the usual cell coverage, it occurs to me that any solution involving this might leave the device tied to a charger too much to be useful. I agree with the earlier poster: just carry the phone with you.
On the other hand, while we (may) no longer need a POTS phone, it's usually simple enough to just connect a VOIP phone, with as many extensions as you need. Most people are perfectly capable of coping with you having more than one phone number.
Then why bother echoing anything at all? Why not just adopt the Unix default and echo nothing?
Alternatively, remembering the two physical constants: if you want to stop something moving, use duct tape. If you want something to move, use WD40.
The latter might work. Just so long as they don't get that WD40 on any duct tape, otherwise they'll blow up the Universe...
I assume they've tried hitting it? ;-)
If they did, they obviously needed to try a bigger hammer.
...but I honestly don't know
Nor do I, not even about Unix. I worked on Burroughs, Honeywell, Sperry/Univac, Prime, ICL and Data General machines (and probably a few more I've forgotten), and they all had closed OSs.
There was a time, before Microsoft and before Open Source, where a purchase of software meant that you were buying a copy of the source code.
I am curious as to what OS you have in mind. I have worked with computers since the '70s, and although it was customary for an assembler to be provided, I don't recall a single vendor that released the OS source code.
If 50% more is comparable.. :)
:-( IIRC I think I paid >AU$180 for Leopard not long after it came out.
I was referring to market prices here in Australia, which tend to be artificially inflated.
Not that this really affects me; I have no intention of upgrading my Mac laptop to $TOMORROW's_BIG_CAT, and my Linux boxes take care of themselves without any $$ input.
And how much did Microsoft pay you to write that?
I thought Windows was freeware...
Well, I guess there are always those who will bitch and moan about the price, but who cares? There are free alternatives. And in the non-free world, the price is comparable to that of a new release of OS X.
Ultimately it all comes down to choice. If you really want/have to use Windows, then pay for it and shut up.
I find it interesting, then, that orchestras are arranged with the violin sections on the left...
That's simply because the violin is played on the left shoulder, thus projectting most of the sound towards the instrumentalist's front and right.
I hold the phone to my left ear simply because I actually hear better through it. The industrial deafness thing bit me harder on the right ear for some reason...
Hmmm. Well, my ringtone is a recording of frogs going "greedeep... greedeep..."
Although I actually don't necessarily have a problem with paying the beasties royalties, I do have some difficulty establishing the exchange rate for frog dollars.
most people (except people on crack) won't mess with you for no good reason. Drug dealers in particular aren't interested in causing trouble or having trouble in there[sic] area.
Hmmm. Maybe you live in a nice neighbourhood. Where I was living not so long ago in a not so salubrious area of London, it was generally expedient to both (a) be very careful and (b) carry a weapon of some kind (however basic - a set of keys has served me well) for use as a last resort - since one can usually expect to be outnumbered.
It's this mentality of urban fear that shows how screwed up US cities really are.
True, but even so, TFA's author's actions are very much those of an optimist. He could easily have been shot or had the crap kicked out of him.
I would suggest that a pragmatic approach might be the ability to remotely disable the phone totally so that it has to be sent some sort of authenticated authorisation code to be used at all.
The only things I saw come back from India were excuses, delays and weak attempts at acting as though they knew what they were talking about.
Unfortunately, this is largely true. I often hear Indian, Asian and Chinese people carp at Western work practices, particularly our relatively short working hours. They usually have to shut up, though when it's pointed out that we actually get more done in those hours than they do in their longer day.
The CEO in the submission might be right about Westerners being unemployable under their conditions, but it seems simple enough to me: if all you want to pay is a monkey's wage, then all you'll get is a monkey.
You actually have no idea what Jobs has given to Charity, I suspect it is a lot more than you...
1. Indeed I don't, though I have read unsubstantiated reports that he hasn't donated any... and
2. That wouldn't be hard, since my annual income wouldn't be worth his time to pick up if he found it in the street.
Actually, I don't care - it's none of my business. I was just presenting the idea for what it's worth.
What's being suggested is all the same HEALTH benefits.
As a matter of curiosity, it would be interesting to see if Bill Gates would do the same thing as Jobs. I suspect the answer is of course yes, but Gates (whatever else one may think about him) has at least made a material contribution to the wellbeing of many others less fortunate.
I'm all for socialised health systems, but there's no escaping the fact that the care one may expect is in reality predicated on one's capacity to pay.
when my original Macbook Pro drank a glass of water as a stop gap measure.
What was it waiting for? Single-malt whisky?