Glad to hear someone making the distinction between (coercively) open source code and truly free code. Freedom means, simply, not placing restrictions upon others. GPL is not free, it IS open, but it is coercive as well. It is quite different from freedom in any usual sense of the word.
The parent is a good example for those who claim punctuation and formatting are not important. (Also, if you are not going to use underscores in variables made up of multiple words, please use capitalization. It took me longer than it should to figure out what timenotaffected is...)
Only on slashdot could supporting murder (whish is what 9/11/2002 was) be called "outspoken political views that don't match what is generally accepted in the United States?". Uh, I hate to bring just a tiny bit of common sense to this, but murder IS BAD. It is generally accepted that killing is not a good thing. It is not a political statement, it is a bad act. Why do so many seem to hate Bush and/or the US so much that they come to see murder as some sort of abstract "political act"?
Phone numbers "come free...with...buying phone service"? Uh, is it just me, or does that sound odd, like "the pizza comes free with ordering the box". What are you paying for if not a phone number? Even if you never receive any inbound calls, the network still needs to be able to identify you. Without a phone number, what type of phone "service" can you have?
Just one example: Defective cd player ejected improperly, CD ended up stuck between drawer and reader. Gathered quite a few scratches. (And all without using a hammer.)
Try getpid() or getuid() on an NT machine... I suppose it is minimally posix compliant, but, if I recall correctly (and it has been a few years) getpid (and getuid) return 0.
However, people older than eight who read comic books are much smaller subset of people older than eight, whereas people 8 and under who read comic books are a significant subset of people 8 and under, so I am not sure Marvel necessarily undercharged.
Actually, it isn't a failure on Marvel's part, they got their check. It is a failure on the part of the advertisers who are placing their ads in the wrong location.
I don't know if I agree. There are advertisements I see so often I intentionally avoid those products. I think you're crediting advertising with more influence than it actually has.
More likely he's saying there is number which can be represented precisely by a sum of numbers in the form k/(10^x) which cannot be precisely represented by a sum of numbers in the form k/(2^x), where k and x are both integers.
If you mean you can't compress gif images, that would be because they are already compressed. Compressing a second time usually does very little. (Try gzipping a.gz file, and you'll see what I mean.)
If you mean GIFs are larger than JPEGs, that would be the difference between lossy and loss-less files. A file reproducing every bit would almost always be larger than one producing 9x9 sample areas (just an example, the sample area depends on the quality of the JPEG)
Which is one of the reasons that TRO's (especially "streamlined" TRO procedures, such as domestic abuse TRO's) are so easily abused.
Before the flaming starts, I am not saying that TRO's for abuse should not be issued, just that the procedures which allow the truly abused quick relief also allow the unscrupulous to use them to harrass others.
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Except the shortage of valid domain names (which are ven vaguely memorable or pronounceable) would then come into play.
Best argument against the "secret API": actual SQL Server performance. If this is the result of a secret API, I'll stick with the public APIs.
More likely Xerox PARC comments still hanging around...
Glad to hear someone making the distinction between (coercively) open source code and truly free code. Freedom means, simply, not placing restrictions upon others. GPL is not free, it IS open, but it is coercive as well. It is quite different from freedom in any usual sense of the word.
The parent is a good example for those who claim punctuation and formatting are not important. (Also, if you are not going to use underscores in variables made up of multiple words, please use capitalization. It took me longer than it should to figure out what timenotaffected is...)
Only on slashdot could supporting murder (whish is what 9/11/2002 was) be called "outspoken political views that don't match what is generally accepted in the United States?". Uh, I hate to bring just a tiny bit of common sense to this, but murder IS BAD. It is generally accepted that killing is not a good thing. It is not a political statement, it is a bad act. Why do so many seem to hate Bush and/or the US so much that they come to see murder as some sort of abstract "political act"?
Is it just me, or is he starting to sound like the chess-playing version of Ezra Pound (well, minus the pro-fascist propaganda)?
Phone numbers "come free...with...buying phone service"? Uh, is it just me, or does that sound odd, like "the pizza comes free with ordering the box". What are you paying for if not a phone number? Even if you never receive any inbound calls, the network still needs to be able to identify you. Without a phone number, what type of phone "service" can you have?
Just one example: Defective cd player ejected improperly, CD ended up stuck between drawer and reader. Gathered quite a few scratches. (And all without using a hammer.)
Half english. Play is english. Poly is greek, just used prominently in english.
Try getpid() or getuid() on an NT machine... I suppose it is minimally posix compliant, but, if I recall correctly (and it has been a few years) getpid (and getuid) return 0.
However, people older than eight who read comic books are much smaller subset of people older than eight, whereas people 8 and under who read comic books are a significant subset of people 8 and under, so I am not sure Marvel necessarily undercharged.
Actually, it isn't a failure on Marvel's part, they got their check. It is a failure on the part of the advertisers who are placing their ads in the wrong location.
I don't know if I agree. There are advertisements I see so often I intentionally avoid those products. I think you're crediting advertising with more influence than it actually has.
Killing a desk jockey for a big company is ok because he isn't an average american? Not one of the good guys?
Seems kind of a strange way to look at things.
Or a change which sends Brian Benben through a series of unrelated mediocre melodramas spread throughout several decades...
s/was/is/
At least it doesn't say Dtrace was a scalable,, three-tier, object-oriented, java-driven solution engine...
More likely he's saying there is number which can be represented precisely by a sum of numbers in the form k/(10^x) which cannot be precisely represented by a sum of numbers in the form k/(2^x), where k and x are both integers.
If you mean GIFs are larger than JPEGs, that would be the difference between lossy and loss-less files. A file reproducing every bit would almost always be larger than one producing 9x9 sample areas (just an example, the sample area depends on the quality of the JPEG)
How is correcting ym own typos a "troll"? Did the moderator not bother to see who wrote the parent and grandparent?
Amazing new application solves all problems with PDD (Pipe-Delimited Data)...
<MESSAGE>
<SALUTATION>
<STRING>
ATTENTION
</STRING>
</SALUTATION>
<JUSTIFICATION>
<STRING>
due to high power costs
</STRING>
</JUSTIFICATION>
And so on...
One of my employers created an XML database interface that used 3 pages of text to do what I could do in three lines of SQL.
Which is one of the reasons that TRO's (especially "streamlined" TRO procedures, such as domestic abuse TRO's) are so easily abused.
Before the flaming starts, I am not saying that TRO's for abuse should not be issued, just that the procedures which allow the truly abused quick relief also allow the unscrupulous to use them to harrass others.