I don't seem to see anywhere that Mrs W was drunk at the time of the accident that occurred when she was 17 (emphasis on the word accident, or was the vast, right-wing conspiracy prescient enough to anticipate that she'd one day be first lady and covered it up?). I also don't see where she was married and driving (drunk) late at night with a young member of the opposite sex who was not her spouse.
Maintaining a large, heterogenous environment (where administrative control may be decided by political or monetary reasons) is not easy to do. This may explain why you see so many really bright sysadmins at.edu's, but even they have difficulty breaking the political & financial layers.
True. I do, however, prefer that to the Microsoft model of "users of versions prior to X.yz must pay us $300 and still have to redo a whole lot of things"...
I know of many cases where MS screwed you on forward compatibility, but can you cite one on backward compatibility?
You're assuming that one actually wants to hack on thew code, versus building, installing & using it.
When MS cuts support for a certain version of Word, how does that affect your backwards compatibility? Stuff that worked before will continue to work. It affects your forward compatibility. Different thing.
Properly crafted license agreements include a clause fpr source code escrow. So when little, proprietary company goes tits-up, you get the source.
That would be like what Microsoft does to Office app users... only recently has the onslaught of "Your document can't be read by version X of Word because it was generated by version Y" stopped. Seems to me that for stuff like this, it would be simple to implement a translation utility to morph the data structures from version X to version Y (with the tacit assumption that features unique to version Y will be eliminated when translated into version X)
That's an example of not maintaining forward compatibility, i.e., trying to open a Word 2003 document with Word 95. I'm talking the other way round where installing the newest version of some OS app requires significant reworking of your existing stuff created in an earlier version.
Open Source seems to ignore this whenever it becomes inconvenient to pay attention to it. Yes, there are exceptions. But it is not infreqeunt to encounter somethign akin to, 'users of verions prior to X.yz must completely redo a whole lot of things because we changed underlying structures'
Sexual violence is a way of life in prison, whether you're happy about it or not. My little brother and I are not stupid enough to do things assuming that, "we're smarter than they are and won't get caught".
It keeps my asshole in a nice, undilated state.
If you think you're smarter than they are, I wish you and your asshole the best of luck.
By observations, church pipe organs seem to be able to produce some pretty low & loud notes. I don't recall seeing any chambers like this in the cathedrals I've visited
Does anybody else remember when this guy was writing nightclub reviews for the SJ Mercury News 15 or so years ago (no, not the Modem Driver guy, he came later)?
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I dunno. How many ports can you knock on with two bits?
I don't seem to see anywhere that Mrs W was drunk at the time of the accident that occurred when she was 17 (emphasis on the word accident, or was the vast, right-wing conspiracy prescient enough to anticipate that she'd one day be first lady and covered it up?). I also don't see where she was married and driving (drunk) late at night with a young member of the opposite sex who was not her spouse.
Ummm... you don't have any?
Then it's a sport. :)
Maintaining a large, heterogenous environment (where administrative control may be decided by political or monetary reasons) is not easy to do. This may explain why you see so many really bright sysadmins at .edu's, but even they have difficulty breaking the political & financial layers.
Fair enough, I've never used Publisher.
True. I do, however, prefer that to the Microsoft model of "users of versions prior to X.yz must pay us $300 and still have to redo a whole lot of things"... I know of many cases where MS screwed you on forward compatibility, but can you cite one on backward compatibility?
When MS cuts support for a certain version of Word, how does that affect your backwards compatibility? Stuff that worked before will continue to work. It affects your forward compatibility. Different thing.
Properly crafted license agreements include a clause fpr source code escrow. So when little, proprietary company goes tits-up, you get the source.
That's an example of not maintaining forward compatibility, i.e., trying to open a Word 2003 document with Word 95. I'm talking the other way round where installing the newest version of some OS app requires significant reworking of your existing stuff created in an earlier version.
Open Source seems to ignore this whenever it becomes inconvenient to pay attention to it. Yes, there are exceptions. But it is not infreqeunt to encounter somethign akin to, 'users of verions prior to X.yz must completely redo a whole lot of things because we changed underlying structures'
or he's starting to show signs of being realistic.
I don't see this as the be-all, end-all for spam, but I do find it a very interesting and potentially very effective arrow for my spam-killer quiver.
Cheese it, it's the cops!
Sheesh.
Neither is breaking the law.
You sure seem touchy about the subject.
Let me guess, you answered, "husband" when your cellmate asked you that question too, right?
Sexual violence is a way of life in prison, whether you're happy about it or not. My little brother and I are not stupid enough to do things assuming that, "we're smarter than they are and won't get caught".
It keeps my asshole in a nice, undilated state.
If you think you're smarter than they are, I wish you and your asshole the best of luck.
Helen Keller. I would however be hard-pressed to name a smart AC.
...cute young guy like that isn't ever going to want for cigarettes while he's in the joint.
As long as there's high demand, one keeps raising prices. Why should music be any different from anything else?
...a use for those outlets in airplane bathrooms.
By observations, church pipe organs seem to be able to produce some pretty low & loud notes. I don't recall seeing any chambers like this in the cathedrals I've visited
The question I have is, "why?" Is the guy making up for some other "shortcoming"?
Am I the only one who thinks he still should be?