I don't know what the GP was talking about, but Yelp is probably the best site of that variety. Great for real cities, not bad in suburban areas. Plus, Google Earth has an overlay for Yelp built in.
I don't know how well it will work for Bill's Deli in more rural areas. Eventually, perhaps, but I don't see it happening soon.
Sure. But that's just a lack of users, both locals and tourists. I suppose if there was a real standard for registering your restaurant online, more small business owners would do it. Though I doubt there's a large number of people driving lost around genuinely rural areas, looking for something to eat.
Slow IPC was a big issue until fairly recently. And at the moment, it would be a bad idea to start a new F/OSS microkernel OS, because we're only a few years away from having some very powerful "next generation" microkernels to work with. L4 is fast enough, but doesn't really do much to take advantage of the fact that it's microkernel. Coyotos is the project to watch, unless someone writes an L4.Sec implementation before then.
But this is just another layer of security through obscurity. I've seen some anti-DRM tools that simply intercept the connection attempts to DRM servers and return back seemingly valid responses. They can revoke all the keys they want on their servers but if the connection to the server is intercepted and a bogus ACK is sent back instead then the DRM is defeated yet again.
That works until they start using SSL cert pairs, or any other public key encryption method. Then you're back to slogging through with a debugger, and trying to figure out where the heavily-obscured public key is, so you can replace it.
Unfortunately, there is another option. if you can force your uses to connect to yourservers before they can use your product, you can have new keys developed (and restricted) much faster than they can be hacked. WoW does not have a piracy problem.
Your analogy doesn't work. Online games are unpirateable because they are interactive, and require constant access to the server. Media files are different. Regardless of how the keys are stored or transmitted, the user's software needs to be able to send decrypted bits to the sound and video drivers. If nothing else, it will always be possible to copy them at that level. Being able to get a DRM-stripped copy in the original format is a neat trick, but not necessary.
Pretty much. I don't see anything inconsistent or hypocritical about the license or its proponents. Linus will clearly keep using the GPL2, as that's the license everyone contributes to Linux under. But those who do want to inject some extra "morality" into their software license are free to do so.
The ruler is not just a king, he's a God, so disagreeing with him is immoral, but it's also illegal, and you can get your head cut off," Torvalds continued
That's moronic. If you don't like the license, don't use it. If someone else's code is licensed only under the GPL3...tough, it's not your code. Don't use it. Anyway, aside from GCC, there are plenty of BSD alternatives to most GNU projects. If many people don't like the license, they'll contribute to those instead, or fork an older GPL2 version.
And when the huckster is a politician, we all become the victims. Promoting critical thought matters, even if the individual examples can sometimes seem trivial.
Have you used a Linux desktop in the past few years? The freedesktop.org specs require a certain amount of metadata for application "shortcuts", which are used by KDE and Gnome to categorize and describe nearly every application in the menu. If you're willing to spend five seconds looking at your options, you'll have no difficulty finding a Linux equivalent for any common task.
Does Rachel actually fry stuff in extra virgin olive oil? That's just plain stupid. The high heat of frying ruins the taste and creates nasty, harmful compounds.
I don't think the OP meant deep-fry, but rather saute. Personally, as I'm deathly allergic to peanuts, I do like to cook with cheap olive oil. But anyone who does that with extra virgin (even the fake stuff) is an idiot with way too much money.
I used to be obsessed with tagging my MP3s. Then along came PicardQt, which finally makes MusicBrainz usable. The macros you use to specify the renaming pattern are still poorly documented, but otherwise it's superb. Dump a few folders in and see how it works. When there are errors or incomplete data, sign up for an account and fix it for everyone. It's a beautiful system, now that they finally have a decent client and a better fingerprinting algorithm.
She's an exception, then. While it is often very difficult to get a residency/work visa in another country, it usually only takes a few years of residence before you're eligible for naturalization. France in particular only requires five years.
But that's a crucial point, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but copyright law is written to protect the exclusive right to *reproduce* and *distribute* a work. The person on the receiving end isn't guilty of copyright infringement, except in the case of BitTorrent, etc where there is no line between distributer and receiver.
I haven't been following the development of Hellgate all that closely, aside from playing the Mythos alpha a bit, but I can't help but think that the "elite" pricing is a terrible idea. $10/month for updates and a few small bonuses is crazy. The pricing model that Guild Wars uses would have made a lot more sense, and given them an excuse to announce a new expansion every few months, rather than a vague promise to add new content. Not to mention that people who join up a year after release will presumably get all the same content as those who have been paying for a year ($120). When you give people who have paid for the game second-class status, it's bound to cause resentment.
It may be philosophically appealing, but current evidence suggests that it's unlikely. Of course, given how much we don't know about the universe, who can say.
Heh, go ahead and try it. The best you can do is make sure that the users are Limited accounts.
I admit I have minimal experience managing Windows workstations, but I was under the impression that Active Directory is a *lot* more powerful than that.
It's not Google Maps, but time to wake up. Don't know where you live, but it's pretty nice for NYC. It's linked from every location on Yelp, which is a splendiferous website, if you're not already aware of it.
And though it can't help you with schedules, Google Maps/Earth already plot metro stops, which is usually sufficient for me.
Instead of going through all that crap, why not just lock down the system files? The equivalent to your full system wipe on Linux would be regenerating the user's home directory, because that's the only bit they should be able to screw up. That's about five seconds rather than five minutes.
I haven't seen that, but I've seen the same people constantly prefix the most outlandish claims with "objectively", as if saying it makes it true. Just Google for "objectively pro-terrorist".
Actually, I don't really see the problem. Microsoft already releases their source code, or at least large parts of it, to some educational institutions. Why would it be a problem to release it to a government agency, under similar terms?
The most memory I've ever seen Azureus use was about 40 MB, and that was with over a dozen torrents running at once.
Wow, over a dozen! That's amazing! Try seeding a couple hundred torrents (mostly idle, obviously) with Azureus, then get back to me. It brings my E6600 with 2 gigs of RAM to its knees, on Linux or Windows.
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Slow IPC was a big issue until fairly recently. And at the moment, it would be a bad idea to start a new F/OSS microkernel OS, because we're only a few years away from having some very powerful "next generation" microkernels to work with. L4 is fast enough, but doesn't really do much to take advantage of the fact that it's microkernel. Coyotos is the project to watch, unless someone writes an L4.Sec implementation before then.
Whatever happened to the rule that "jokes" are supposed to be funny?
And when the huckster is a politician, we all become the victims. Promoting critical thought matters, even if the individual examples can sometimes seem trivial.
Have you used a Linux desktop in the past few years? The freedesktop.org specs require a certain amount of metadata for application "shortcuts", which are used by KDE and Gnome to categorize and describe nearly every application in the menu. If you're willing to spend five seconds looking at your options, you'll have no difficulty finding a Linux equivalent for any common task.
I used to be obsessed with tagging my MP3s. Then along came PicardQt, which finally makes MusicBrainz usable. The macros you use to specify the renaming pattern are still poorly documented, but otherwise it's superb. Dump a few folders in and see how it works. When there are errors or incomplete data, sign up for an account and fix it for everyone. It's a beautiful system, now that they finally have a decent client and a better fingerprinting algorithm.
She's an exception, then. While it is often very difficult to get a residency/work visa in another country, it usually only takes a few years of residence before you're eligible for naturalization. France in particular only requires five years.
"What Matt meant to say, according to his lawyers..."
Ah, for the days when The Simpsons was actually funny.
But that's a crucial point, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but copyright law is written to protect the exclusive right to *reproduce* and *distribute* a work. The person on the receiving end isn't guilty of copyright infringement, except in the case of BitTorrent, etc where there is no line between distributer and receiver.
I haven't been following the development of Hellgate all that closely, aside from playing the Mythos alpha a bit, but I can't help but think that the "elite" pricing is a terrible idea. $10/month for updates and a few small bonuses is crazy. The pricing model that Guild Wars uses would have made a lot more sense, and given them an excuse to announce a new expansion every few months, rather than a vague promise to add new content. Not to mention that people who join up a year after release will presumably get all the same content as those who have been paying for a year ($120). When you give people who have paid for the game second-class status, it's bound to cause resentment.
It may be philosophically appealing, but current evidence suggests that it's unlikely. Of course, given how much we don't know about the universe, who can say.
It's not Google Maps, but time to wake up. Don't know where you live, but it's pretty nice for NYC. It's linked from every location on Yelp, which is a splendiferous website, if you're not already aware of it.
And though it can't help you with schedules, Google Maps/Earth already plot metro stops, which is usually sufficient for me.
Instead of going through all that crap, why not just lock down the system files? The equivalent to your full system wipe on Linux would be regenerating the user's home directory, because that's the only bit they should be able to screw up. That's about five seconds rather than five minutes.
I haven't seen that, but I've seen the same people constantly prefix the most outlandish claims with "objectively", as if saying it makes it true. Just Google for "objectively pro-terrorist".
Actually, I don't really see the problem. Microsoft already releases their source code, or at least large parts of it, to some educational institutions. Why would it be a problem to release it to a government agency, under similar terms?