Price is surely a big part of the decision making process for any business, but it's definitely not the only part. Another very real reason that I see every day is the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. If a piece of software is open source, and the developer(s) decide to abandon the project, you can always branch the code and bring it in-house. If you went with a closed source vendor, good luck getting the source if the vendor decides to stop supporting that version of the software!
* Race - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Ethnicity
* Religion or sect - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Color - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* National origin - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Age (40 and over) - Federal: Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
* Sex - Federal: Equal Pay Act of 1963 & Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Familial status (Housing, cannot discriminate for having children, exception for senior housing)
* Sexual orientation (in some jurisdictions and not in others)
* Disability status - Federal: Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services of 1973 & Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
* Veteran status - Federal Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974
* Genetic Information - Federal: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
If you guys like geek rap, you should check out the artist named ytcracker. His album named "Nerd Entertainment System" is pure awesome. I'm not a huge fan of some of the later stuff, but it's very fun listening to a guy rapping about assembly opcodes, IRC, etc:)
Then you must make a buttload of money. 0x1337 is 4919 in decimal, which works out to a not-so-paltry $255788/year. That seems like pretty good money to me.
As I understand it, one of the main points in the GPL is that if you create a derivative work based on GPL'ed code, you are obligated to release the source to your modifications when distributing source/binaries to other folks. This is a different kind of "free" than "I can take this code and do whatever the fuck I want with it".
The mechanism that the GPL uses to enforce this is the copyright owned by the original creator of the work. If copyright were abolished, it would be legally OK if I took the source code to Firefox, created and released a derivative web browser, and refused to release any of the modified source to anyone.
Of course, since this is/., I'm sure you knew this:)
I've found that CRT refresh rates are also very noticeable if you don't look at the screen directly. When I look at a CRT monitor out of the corner of my eye, the flicker can be very apparent depending on the refresh rate (60hz is horrible!)
Playing the didgeridoo while looking at a CRT picture produces the wavy shear effect as well.
I admit, I was one of the torrent downloaders. I am a huge NIN fan, and when I read about the new album, I immediately went to the site to get it. Apparently several thousand other people did the same thing, because the download server was basically unavailable. So, I purchased the $10 double-album (which comes with the full 36'track download), and got the album via bittorrent while I waited for nin.com servers to become available.
I'd also like to point out that since the album is licensed under a Creative Commons license that explicitly gives you the right to "copy, distribute, display, and perform the work" (for non-commercial purposes), I can't really see how getting the album via a torrent could be considered 'wrong'.
I will be moving within the next month, and one of my considerations when looking at new homes is whether or not I'll be able to ditch Comcast. Has anybody here had good/bad experiences with Verizon's FIOS service?
I'm looking forward to the opportunity of voting with my dollar. Fuck you, Comcast.
Yea, he was kind of a douche, sorry about that. His points are extremely valid, though. I urge you to read up on SSH a bit - it would do more for you than recompiling mysql with SSL support would. An ssh tunnel is encrypted (that's the point) so no need for SSL support - plus, you get the added benefits that come with an extremely well tested security service.
TFA says nothing specific to 'user ids' - it says object ids in general. I assume this includes things like comment ids, event ids, etc - which makes overflowing the 32 bit limit much more reasonable.
So you're saying that every time the user entered the next correct character, they were essentially told that they'd guessed right? Meaning you drastically lowered the number of guesses a user would have to take before getting your entire password and breaking into your system?
Off topic, I know, but the geek in me loves to notice and dissect these things.
With respect to BMW car naming conventions, the model number makes quite a bit of sense if you know how to break it down. The first number tells you which "series" the car belongs to (3 series, 5 series, etc). The second two numbers refer to engine displacement (25 is 2.5 liters). The trailing characters that are sometimes used refer to various options (i=inline engine, x=all wheel drive, etc). So if you were to ask me to decide between a 318 and a 320, I'd probably pick the 320 for the bigger engine. Then I'd smack myself for picking a car that hasn't been in production since 1982.
God only knows why the chip manufacturers use the names they pick, though:) And don't get me started on video cards. *shudder*
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that makes me want to curl up into a little ball and cry for the rest of the day. thanks
no kidding. I'm sick of restarting firefox in a 32-bit environment just to use some fucking flash navigation system.
Price is surely a big part of the decision making process for any business, but it's definitely not the only part. Another very real reason that I see every day is the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. If a piece of software is open source, and the developer(s) decide to abandon the project, you can always branch the code and bring it in-house. If you went with a closed source vendor, good luck getting the source if the vendor decides to stop supporting that version of the software!
There's quite a few more in the US, actually:
(From wikipedia)
* Race - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Ethnicity
* Religion or sect - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Color - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* National origin - Federal: Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Age (40 and over) - Federal: Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
* Sex - Federal: Equal Pay Act of 1963 & Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Familial status (Housing, cannot discriminate for having children, exception for senior housing)
* Sexual orientation (in some jurisdictions and not in others)
* Disability status - Federal: Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services of 1973 & Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
* Veteran status - Federal Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974
* Genetic Information - Federal: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
..your website layout is a tragedy from 1998.
seriously, though, the last time I saw a layout that used that many pictures inside of HTML Table elements was on a porn site.
If you guys like geek rap, you should check out the artist named ytcracker. His album named "Nerd Entertainment System" is pure awesome. I'm not a huge fan of some of the later stuff, but it's very fun listening to a guy rapping about assembly opcodes, IRC, etc :)
Then you must make a buttload of money. 0x1337 is 4919 in decimal, which works out to a not-so-paltry $255788/year. That seems like pretty good money to me.
There are some more good photos of the pre- and post-launch rover up at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/new-latest-images-collection_archive_1.html. I especially like this one - I'd thought the rover was quite a bit smaller than that!
Good catch :) Thanks.
As I understand it, one of the main points in the GPL is that if you create a derivative work based on GPL'ed code, you are obligated to release the source to your modifications when distributing source/binaries to other folks. This is a different kind of "free" than "I can take this code and do whatever the fuck I want with it".
The mechanism that the GPL uses to enforce this is the copyright owned by the original creator of the work. If copyright were abolished, it would be legally OK if I took the source code to Firefox, created and released a derivative web browser, and refused to release any of the modified source to anyone.
Of course, since this is /., I'm sure you knew this :)
I've found that CRT refresh rates are also very noticeable if you don't look at the screen directly. When I look at a CRT monitor out of the corner of my eye, the flicker can be very apparent depending on the refresh rate (60hz is horrible!)
Playing the didgeridoo while looking at a CRT picture produces the wavy shear effect as well.
emacs, for starters
I admit, I was one of the torrent downloaders. I am a huge NIN fan, and when I read about the new album, I immediately went to the site to get it. Apparently several thousand other people did the same thing, because the download server was basically unavailable. So, I purchased the $10 double-album (which comes with the full 36'track download), and got the album via bittorrent while I waited for nin.com servers to become available.
I'd also like to point out that since the album is licensed under a Creative Commons license that explicitly gives you the right to "copy, distribute, display, and perform the work" (for non-commercial purposes), I can't really see how getting the album via a torrent could be considered 'wrong'.
I will be moving within the next month, and one of my considerations when looking at new homes is whether or not I'll be able to ditch Comcast. Has anybody here had good/bad experiences with Verizon's FIOS service?
I'm looking forward to the opportunity of voting with my dollar. Fuck you, Comcast.
In command mode, "Ctrl+W, s" splits the screen horizontally, and "Ctrl+W, v" splits the screen vertically as well :)
just sayin'
Yea, he was kind of a douche, sorry about that. His points are extremely valid, though. I urge you to read up on SSH a bit - it would do more for you than recompiling mysql with SSL support would. An ssh tunnel is encrypted (that's the point) so no need for SSL support - plus, you get the added benefits that come with an extremely well tested security service.
Good luck with whatever you choose!
Here you go.
TFA says nothing specific to 'user ids' - it says object ids in general. I assume this includes things like comment ids, event ids, etc - which makes overflowing the 32 bit limit much more reasonable.
Around here (Seattle area), we usually call it a movie theater.
OK, just making sure :)
So you're saying that every time the user entered the next correct character, they were essentially told that they'd guessed right? Meaning you drastically lowered the number of guesses a user would have to take before getting your entire password and breaking into your system?
I figured there would be some strange exceptions to the rule. Thanks for pointing that out :)
Off topic, I know, but the geek in me loves to notice and dissect these things.
:) And don't get me started on video cards. *shudder*
With respect to BMW car naming conventions, the model number makes quite a bit of sense if you know how to break it down. The first number tells you which "series" the car belongs to (3 series, 5 series, etc). The second two numbers refer to engine displacement (25 is 2.5 liters). The trailing characters that are sometimes used refer to various options (i=inline engine, x=all wheel drive, etc). So if you were to ask me to decide between a 318 and a 320, I'd probably pick the 320 for the bigger engine. Then I'd smack myself for picking a car that hasn't been in production since 1982.
God only knows why the chip manufacturers use the names they pick, though
o rly?