By the way, air launch is one of the most dangerous methods. In-flight collision is invariably fatal. Remember the drone that killed the SR-71 motherplane? The idea is silly.
So we're ignoring all the ground launch disasters because you've a single example of an aircraft being hit by a drone?
Good thing you don't run NASA - Apollo 1 would've doomed the lunar missions.
You can't build Free Software on a non-Free foundation.
And people wonder why OSS advocates get dismissed as zealots...
Freedom is Freedom. OO.org's developers are Free to choose a non-Free foundation to build on. That's Freedom.
Because you are Free, you are Free to fork the Freely-available code for OO.org and do whatever the hell you like with it. Hell, make it only work on GNU/Hurd if you like.
But trying to turn MacOS into linux is as silly as trying to turn a Volkswagon Jetta into a 1 ton truck. With enough time and energy, it is possible, but why not buy a truck in the first place?
I was thinking it'd be more like changing a BMW Z4 into a Ford Pinto....
I believe what the poster meant was their absurd policy (at least, it was their policy the last time I had to move a domain away from them) that if a domain is within 90 days of needing renewal, you must renew it before they'll release it for transfer.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they'd held up registrations 94 or so days from renewal so it'd be 90 days when they wound up dealing with 'em.
As Toby on The West Wing put it, "This aircraft rolled off the production line 18 months ago, and you're telling me I can flummox it with a gadget I bought at RadioShack?"
And what of the full-content feeds, where the entire post can be aggregated, giving the users no reason to click through?
That's generally where we see ads - BoingBoing.net's feed is a good example. I've no problem with that, and I can't imagine BoingBoing loses any sleep over being dropped by the occasional aggregator.
Comcast, or whoever you get your cable from gets the pricethey get for a channel by guaranteeing a certain number of subscribers. If you could pick each channel individually, they couldn't make that guarantee as large of number, and economies of scale would break down.
On the other hand, many of us would subscribe to a single channel if we could.
I, as an example, would happily pay for a SciFi channel subscription. Hell, I'd pay 1/4 to 1/2 of what a cable package would cost me. Instead, I'm left using BitTorrent to get Stargate and BSG and whatnot.
I'll bet there's an Indonesian company that can produce a working power plant using it.
Sure, but an American megacorp would probably sieze most of the market, with no royalties paid.
If an Indonesian entity (be it a university lab, a company, whatever) tried to patent something so incredibly useful... do you imagine for a minute that this would keep some large US company with good political connections from getting the US patent on it, and making a mint?
A deficiency in the United States' implementation of intellectual property does not damn the entire concept of it.
The more likely scenario, however, is that the American megacorp would purchase the lab, making both sides quite happy.
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Perhaps I'm missing something about #2... but...
$sorted_array = array_multisort($array, [arguments]);
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Can you explain what you think Ruby on Rails does that is so great, and I don't see it.
You can have a basic database driven dynamic site up in five minutes with five lines of code - and only one of those typed yourself.
Uh, isn't your post sorta like saying we should never try space travel because we'd have to fill the universe with breathable oxygen?
I had a stock Dell, replaced it with a Mini.
When I got the Mini up and running, I turned off the Dell. The difference was very, very noticable.
You slingshot around the two large objects, using their gravity for speed. The Apollo missions used figure-eight patterns, too.
By the way, air launch is one of the most dangerous methods. In-flight collision is invariably fatal. Remember the drone that killed the SR-71 motherplane? The idea is silly.
So we're ignoring all the ground launch disasters because you've a single example of an aircraft being hit by a drone?
Good thing you don't run NASA - Apollo 1 would've doomed the lunar missions.
You can't build Free Software on a non-Free foundation.
And people wonder why OSS advocates get dismissed as zealots...
Freedom is Freedom. OO.org's developers are Free to choose a non-Free foundation to build on. That's Freedom.
Because you are Free, you are Free to fork the Freely-available code for OO.org and do whatever the hell you like with it. Hell, make it only work on GNU/Hurd if you like.
But trying to turn MacOS into linux is as silly as trying to turn a Volkswagon Jetta into a 1 ton truck. With enough time and energy, it is possible, but why not buy a truck in the first place?
I was thinking it'd be more like changing a BMW Z4 into a Ford Pinto....
99% of the time the conversation will not be about something important ("I'm at the store, do you need something?"...)
Uh... saves gas, time, money... I'd say that's rather useful.
I believe what the poster meant was their absurd policy (at least, it was their policy the last time I had to move a domain away from them) that if a domain is within 90 days of needing renewal, you must renew it before they'll release it for transfer.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they'd held up registrations 94 or so days from renewal so it'd be 90 days when they wound up dealing with 'em.
Mine's that the combat systems in ships would generate sounds to give sound cues and feedback.
Hearing a ship pass you would be valuable, for example.
What I'd love to see would be a sci-fi movie that implemented that, and had it cut out due to battle damage. All of a sudden, silence.
As Toby on The West Wing put it, "This aircraft rolled off the production line 18 months ago, and you're telling me I can flummox it with a gadget I bought at RadioShack?"
And what of the full-content feeds, where the entire post can be aggregated, giving the users no reason to click through?
That's generally where we see ads - BoingBoing.net's feed is a good example. I've no problem with that, and I can't imagine BoingBoing loses any sleep over being dropped by the occasional aggregator.
That's because you're leaving the spaces in the URL.
W EB&SECTION=HOME A PWEB&SECTION=HOME E B&SECTION=HOME
http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/TOPHEADS.rss?SITE=AP
http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/WORLDHEADS.rss?SITE=
http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/USHEADS.rss?SITE=APW
Strange that an advertisement post complains about advertisements...
If it can't be fixed immediately, I see no problem with disabling it while a fix is worked on.
Err, you seem to be forgetting Livemotion (the direct competitor to flash).
Tells you something about its market share, doesn't it?
Yeah, and KIA is a competitor to Rolls Royce in the luxury car market...
Usability tests showed, however, that some users had difficulty adjusting to the thumb movements.
So, usability tests showed a bit of a learning curve on a new, very different way of doing things?
Fancy that.
XP Pro was able to do that upon release.
I just switched to Mac, but let's not be making stuff up about PCs to make 'em seem better - they already win in many other ways.
Which is a valid point.
It'd be a valid point if Verizon didn't have to design, upgrade, maintain and run their networks too.
Saying "It's a dumb idea because there'd be work involved" is not valid criticism.
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
Should've included the link.
Some entertainingly wrong comments in the discussion there, heh.
Comcast, or whoever you get your cable from gets the pricethey get for a channel by guaranteeing a certain number of subscribers. If you could pick each channel individually, they couldn't make that guarantee as large of number, and economies of scale would break down.
On the other hand, many of us would subscribe to a single channel if we could.
I, as an example, would happily pay for a SciFi channel subscription. Hell, I'd pay 1/4 to 1/2 of what a cable package would cost me. Instead, I'm left using BitTorrent to get Stargate and BSG and whatnot.
I'll be buying the BSG DVD sets. Mmmmm, BSG.
I'll bet there's an Indonesian company that can produce a working power plant using it.
... do you imagine for a minute that this would keep some large US company with good political connections from getting the US patent on it, and making a mint?
Sure, but an American megacorp would probably sieze most of the market, with no royalties paid.
If an Indonesian entity (be it a university lab, a company, whatever) tried to patent something so incredibly useful
A deficiency in the United States' implementation of intellectual property does not damn the entire concept of it.
The more likely scenario, however, is that the American megacorp would purchase the lab, making both sides quite happy.