Not really. That's why they call it a monopoly. If you sell a PC without an OS, then MS jacks up the licensing price for the PC's that you sell w/Windows. None of the pc manufacturers can afford to have their margins eaten that badly, so they just ship everything with windows. Your only choices are basically 'ship all PCs with windows' or 'ship no PCs with windows', and you wouldn't get much business if you didn't have any Windows installations at all.
In my opinion, any file format that claims to be universal should have two properties: it should have an expressive structure, so other formats can be expressed in it, and it should be as lean as possible, so that converting from other formats amounts to removing information. I think that MusicXML fits neither.
Am I missing something or are those two properties mutually contradictory? If converting means removing stuff, then the format would have to be a subset of the original, but if it's expressive enough to express other formats, then would it not also have to be a superset?
I basically read that as "It must be both more and less than what we have, and MusicXML is neither of those things"
You don't have to know what the code means for it to be useful. If you're trying out a program you've never seen before, and it's just mysteriously failing without any output, you can google for it's error code for solutions to the problem.
Microsoft licenses Windows source code out to many companies and universities. They have probably just as many "eyes."
Problem there is that when MS licenses their source to all those places, the license has a lot of BS in it along the lines of "look but don't touch". Anybody can submit a patch to the kernel hackers, not so for MS.
The idea that the provider has something to do with your phone sounds crazy to me.
Oh yeah, it's terrible. Not only can you not switch phones between providers, you can't even switch phones between plans on the same provider! For example, if you want to go on a 3-year contract, then they offer you a handful of phones that you're allowed to have, but if you go with prepaid, it's a different set of phones. I've even asked them, "Can I use this phone on this other plan?" and they say "no".
Not all the cell providers are that bad, but that's generally the way it seems to be working when I go in the store.
You can switch SIM cards between providers on the same phone? Every time I talk about switching my fido SIM card into a roger's phone, they're always like "you can't do that" and whatnot.
That's what bugs me the most about cellphones, each provider has their own network, and each phone only works on one network. I wish cellphones were more like the internet; it doesn't matter who your ISP is, they all connect to the same internet.
Fido is pretty much exactly the same. They undercut every other cell provider for their per-minute rate, but their coverage is just absolutely terrible. I can use my fido phone anywhere in Edmonton, anywhere in Calgary (the two largest cities in this province), and anywhere on the highway in-between, but if I go anywhere else the phone becomes dead weight.
When I was in Jr. High, an article describing the explosion at Chernobyl was used in a touch-typing lesson. I had to type it out over and over and over until I had something like 60 WPM...
Putting your win2k box behind a NAT Router or a hardware firewall of some sort will block connections to that port from the internet. While not an optimal solution, it beats having the port open to the internet!;)
That's one of the hazards of running a windows-based software business... you pay Microsoft for windows licenses so that they can compete with you. MS takes your money and then uses it to fund a competing product, it really is a futile endeavor.
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Not really. That's why they call it a monopoly. If you sell a PC without an OS, then MS jacks up the licensing price for the PC's that you sell w/Windows. None of the pc manufacturers can afford to have their margins eaten that badly, so they just ship everything with windows. Your only choices are basically 'ship all PCs with windows' or 'ship no PCs with windows', and you wouldn't get much business if you didn't have any Windows installations at all.
Users with relatively predictable mail behavior (such as geeks, dweebs, and freaks) have generally received very few false positives
What about losers, dorks, and morons? Are they cursed with a high rate of false positives?
In my opinion, any file format that claims to be universal should have two properties: it should have an expressive structure, so other formats can be expressed in it, and it should be as lean as possible, so that converting from other formats amounts to removing information. I think that MusicXML fits neither.
Am I missing something or are those two properties mutually contradictory? If converting means removing stuff, then the format would have to be a subset of the original, but if it's expressive enough to express other formats, then would it not also have to be a superset?
I basically read that as "It must be both more and less than what we have, and MusicXML is neither of those things"
Tell me, which bicycles travel at 80mph? ;)
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baby steps, man, baby steps. First mars, then some other extrasolar planet.
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2000/07.htm l#20
http://tinyurl.com/2msyt
where you actually know what each code means
You don't have to know what the code means for it to be useful. If you're trying out a program you've never seen before, and it's just mysteriously failing without any output, you can google for it's error code for solutions to the problem.
Interesting idea, but I find it more useful to just have $? in my prompt directly.
It requires mod_rewrite, specifically. Gallery does it, for example.
Microsoft licenses Windows source code out to many companies and universities. They have probably just as many "eyes."
Problem there is that when MS licenses their source to all those places, the license has a lot of BS in it along the lines of "look but don't touch". Anybody can submit a patch to the kernel hackers, not so for MS.
I can vouch for the cashier thing. Talking to so many people every day really opened me up, but the hot waitresses idea sounds better... ;)
Total bullshit, Shakespeare preferred Ogg Vorbis.
I noticed the same problem on Fedora, I assumed it was because of their lack of mp3 support in the default install.
FWIW, k3b can burn audio CDs from Ogg Vorbis just great.
The idea that the provider has something to do with your phone sounds crazy to me.
Oh yeah, it's terrible. Not only can you not switch phones between providers, you can't even switch phones between plans on the same provider! For example, if you want to go on a 3-year contract, then they offer you a handful of phones that you're allowed to have, but if you go with prepaid, it's a different set of phones. I've even asked them, "Can I use this phone on this other plan?" and they say "no".
Not all the cell providers are that bad, but that's generally the way it seems to be working when I go in the store.
You can switch SIM cards between providers on the same phone? Every time I talk about switching my fido SIM card into a roger's phone, they're always like "you can't do that" and whatnot.
That's what bugs me the most about cellphones, each provider has their own network, and each phone only works on one network. I wish cellphones were more like the internet; it doesn't matter who your ISP is, they all connect to the same internet.
Fido is pretty much exactly the same. They undercut every other cell provider for their per-minute rate, but their coverage is just absolutely terrible. I can use my fido phone anywhere in Edmonton, anywhere in Calgary (the two largest cities in this province), and anywhere on the highway in-between, but if I go anywhere else the phone becomes dead weight.
When I was in Jr. High, an article describing the explosion at Chernobyl was used in a touch-typing lesson. I had to type it out over and over and over until I had something like 60 WPM...
I am serious! And stop calling me Shirley.
Jeebus, is it that hard to figure out?
several of the Linux and BSD distros use Python for their installers.
:)
Yeah, and you don't see Fedora calling itself "Pythonx"
Putting your win2k box behind a NAT Router or a hardware firewall of some sort will block connections to that port from the internet. While not an optimal solution, it beats having the port open to the internet! ;)
That's one of the hazards of running a windows-based software business... you pay Microsoft for windows licenses so that they can compete with you. MS takes your money and then uses it to fund a competing product, it really is a futile endeavor.
Must you rhyme all the time?!
I, for one, welcome our new drunken, farting overlords! ;)