I can send and receive from my old accounts, and... I don't have to be at my PC to check my email.
That's got nothing to do with Thunderbird, really. Gmail is user agent and service provider combined; Thunderbird is just a user agent. As long as you know your provider details, you can access your email from any computer with telnet if you have to. I generally have a smart phone with me anywhere I go these days, so if I'm not near my computer, it's just as useful for retrieving email as thunderbird.
Plus, as I run my own mailserver, I keep control of my own mail, instead of trusting and hoping Google will do it for me.
Stored procedures and other extension-fu are generally a bad idea... not portable when you need to switch SQL implementations.
How many times have you switched SQL implementations on a project? Personally, I've never seen it done. Unless everyone involved is extremely careful to follow only very restrictive ANSI standards, chances are stuff will break. Hell, even LIMIT clauses are generally proprietary. If you think you're going to be switching database backends: 1) Do your research first, and use the right one from the beginning 2) Use an ORM that supports both
How arrogant is it of a person secure in their subsistence to say "No, we could save you from starvation with this plant, but you won't pay for it every year, since we engineered it to be sterile, and besides, you haven't bought your 2012 seed licence, so fuck you."
Well, yeah. But this isn't trying to measure contacts, it's just using that as a metric. It's trying to measure "connectedness". The Harold Camping follower in the sandwich board at my rail station probably "interacts" with a hell of a lot of people. I wouldn't say he has a connection with them though.
It's not/really/ the ink vendors, either. When you buy official "ink", what you're really buying is a junk of hardware with a few mils of ink in it. If you want a cheap inkjet, get a continuous flow system. You can buy ink in volume, and you don't have to pay the extortionate amounts for the redundant hardware they sell you with each refill.
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The proof against God was my personal favourite. Or maybe the "careless talk costs live" detour.
Fine, I'll tell you. Looking in the eyes is a bit hard, given the medium. And I'll have to go sort-a.
It wasn't because everyone suddenly realised Sony had particularly porous security. I'm sure that their Greek web-portal's security had bugger-all to do with the security of the PSN. You speak like Sony's security is some monolithic entity; in reality, there's probably at least a dozen different teams responsible for security, from the ones who work on their DRM, the engineers who designed the PSN, the various CMSes used to run a multitude of public facing websites, and the internal network security of dozens of Sony offices around the world.
What happened is, Sony became a "cool" target. Part of it is due to their behaviour, part of it was to do with a successful high-profile attack against them, and a large part of it is to do with the herd behaviour of the groups that do this sort of thing. It makes them feel good, like they are fighting "the man", and it gives them a whole lot of attention, because defacing some other company's server wouldn't get merely as much press as another Sony victim.
That's why we have libel laws; and the UK libel laws are even more favourable toward the libeled party than US ones. Preventing people from speaking for fear that they may commit libel is prior restraint, and is generally considered to be bad.
So your saying, by doing this they're going to drive customers away from Sony, reduce their income stream, and eventually remove them from the world of global commerce?
Because not only is he passionate about the subject, but he has a financial dog in the ring. Mac stories submitted by mac fans are fine; mac stories spreading anti-Windows FUD, with the submitter listed as sjobs, are suspect.
The thing about kids is that they are never even half of your workforce
Thing thing about "kids" is that they stop being kids. The Baby Boomers were kids at some stage; do you think companies could have gotten by in the last decade if they just didn't hire any boomers? Then again, the fact that you think someone's choice of social network is a good indicator of their employment potential doesn't give me great faith in your logical faculty.
You don't have to "defend your patent or lose it". That's trademarks. Really, the whole "IP" concept is stupid. There are more differences between copyright, trade marks, patents and trade secrets than there are areas of commonality.
It might be a "lost sale", or a "lost opportunity", but it's not a loss. If you never got the money, you never lost the money. It's like the movie industry claiming massive losses because all the money people might have spent on movies was instead spent on video games. Or Holden complaining that every sale made by Ford is "costing them money", because if people weren't buying Fords they'd be buying Holdens instead.
Otherwise I'd be listing 6.5 billion lost sales on my tax return, to represent the losses caused by the population of earth not purchasing my software.
Why? I mean, assuming you still had the hardware to read them, why not spend some time taking the data off and archiving them? Trashing hoarded hardware which takes up a heap of physical space is one thing, storing software which takes up an infinitesimal proportion of ever-increasing storage capacity is another.
This developer is wrong. Second hand sales cost them nothing. Not making a sale to someone isn't a monetary loss. This sense of entitlement from copyright holders - that somehow it is their moral right to get paid, not on the basis of units shipped, but whenever anybody looks at their creation - needs to get stepped on, hard.
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I can send and receive from my old accounts, and... I don't have to be at my PC to check my email.
That's got nothing to do with Thunderbird, really. Gmail is user agent and service provider combined; Thunderbird is just a user agent. As long as you know your provider details, you can access your email from any computer with telnet if you have to. I generally have a smart phone with me anywhere I go these days, so if I'm not near my computer, it's just as useful for retrieving email as thunderbird.
Plus, as I run my own mailserver, I keep control of my own mail, instead of trusting and hoping Google will do it for me.
Stored procedures and other extension-fu are generally a bad idea... not portable when you need to switch SQL implementations.
How many times have you switched SQL implementations on a project? Personally, I've never seen it done. Unless everyone involved is extremely careful to follow only very restrictive ANSI standards, chances are stuff will break. Hell, even LIMIT clauses are generally proprietary. If you think you're going to be switching database backends:
1) Do your research first, and use the right one from the beginning
2) Use an ORM that supports both
Also, don't listen to clueless Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot who don't know anything but the subject at hand - but comment anyway
How arrogant is it of a person secure in their subsistence to say "No, we could save you from starvation with this plant, but you won't pay for it every year, since we engineered it to be sterile, and besides, you haven't bought your 2012 seed licence, so fuck you."
Fixed that for you
Well, yeah. But this isn't trying to measure contacts, it's just using that as a metric. It's trying to measure "connectedness". The Harold Camping follower in the sandwich board at my rail station probably "interacts" with a hell of a lot of people. I wouldn't say he has a connection with them though.
"junk" should have been "chunk". Freudian slip there.
It's not /really/ the ink vendors, either. When you buy official "ink", what you're really buying is a junk of hardware with a few mils of ink in it. If you want a cheap inkjet, get a continuous flow system. You can buy ink in volume, and you don't have to pay the extortionate amounts for the redundant hardware they sell you with each refill.
The proof against God was my personal favourite. Or maybe the "careless talk costs live" detour.
Fine, I'll tell you. Looking in the eyes is a bit hard, given the medium. And I'll have to go sort-a.
It wasn't because everyone suddenly realised Sony had particularly porous security. I'm sure that their Greek web-portal's security had bugger-all to do with the security of the PSN. You speak like Sony's security is some monolithic entity; in reality, there's probably at least a dozen different teams responsible for security, from the ones who work on their DRM, the engineers who designed the PSN, the various CMSes used to run a multitude of public facing websites, and the internal network security of dozens of Sony offices around the world.
What happened is, Sony became a "cool" target. Part of it is due to their behaviour, part of it was to do with a successful high-profile attack against them, and a large part of it is to do with the herd behaviour of the groups that do this sort of thing. It makes them feel good, like they are fighting "the man", and it gives them a whole lot of attention, because defacing some other company's server wouldn't get merely as much press as another Sony victim.
But people with really, really bad customer "service" give people a reason to try and violate that security.
That's why we have libel laws; and the UK libel laws are even more favourable toward the libeled party than US ones. Preventing people from speaking for fear that they may commit libel is prior restraint, and is generally considered to be bad.
As long as it is popular within the hacker community to expose Sony's flaws, we are likely to continue seeing successful attacks against them.
It almost seems as if deliberately screwing people over doesn't really pay off, doesn't it?
So your saying, by doing this they're going to drive customers away from Sony, reduce their income stream, and eventually remove them from the world of global commerce?
Wow, that sounds...terrible
Because not only is he passionate about the subject, but he has a financial dog in the ring. Mac stories submitted by mac fans are fine; mac stories spreading anti-Windows FUD, with the submitter listed as sjobs, are suspect.
The thing about kids is that they are never even half of your workforce
Thing thing about "kids" is that they stop being kids. The Baby Boomers were kids at some stage; do you think companies could have gotten by in the last decade if they just didn't hire any boomers? Then again, the fact that you think someone's choice of social network is a good indicator of their employment potential doesn't give me great faith in your logical faculty.
Why? What possible use would it be for you to have the right to duplicate it - unless you happen to be a tattoo artist?
No, Stallman owns a butter knife, and thinks it is a katana.
If it really was, the beast would've been slain decades ago.
You don't have to "defend your patent or lose it". That's trademarks. Really, the whole "IP" concept is stupid. There are more differences between copyright, trade marks, patents and trade secrets than there are areas of commonality.
Just like making "one true scotsman" arguments on slashdot doesn't make you a logician?
It might be a "lost sale", or a "lost opportunity", but it's not a loss. If you never got the money, you never lost the money. It's like the movie industry claiming massive losses because all the money people might have spent on movies was instead spent on video games. Or Holden complaining that every sale made by Ford is "costing them money", because if people weren't buying Fords they'd be buying Holdens instead.
Otherwise I'd be listing 6.5 billion lost sales on my tax return, to represent the losses caused by the population of earth not purchasing my software.
Why? I mean, assuming you still had the hardware to read them, why not spend some time taking the data off and archiving them? Trashing hoarded hardware which takes up a heap of physical space is one thing, storing software which takes up an infinitesimal proportion of ever-increasing storage capacity is another.
Australia, but don't hurry over; our parties suck too.
"I know my party's screwing up with the power they have, but if you give us more power, then I promise we'll do better."
And for the record, I'm not even an American, so I don't have a horse in this race; I think both your parties suck.
This developer is wrong. Second hand sales cost them nothing. Not making a sale to someone isn't a monetary loss. This sense of entitlement from copyright holders - that somehow it is their moral right to get paid, not on the basis of units shipped, but whenever anybody looks at their creation - needs to get stepped on, hard.
Yeah, but most radon doesn't.