and Best Buy would clearly be responsible for making sure the source code was available
Uh, no. For example, CompUSA used to sell various Linux distributions. They, of course, had a store in Boston that was within walking distance of FSF headquarters. They were not required to provide the source code.
Have you tried fixing any Mozilla bugs? I have and it's a royal pain in the ass. You first post your patch to the bug itself, which is simple enough. Then the main cabal of developers critique your patch, and if it doesn't exactly conform in every possible way to what they would have coded themselves, they will reject it with little, if any, explanation. After you finally get an explanation out of someone, you can continue to submit changes to see if any will appease them. Of course, you will have accidentally violated a minor style guideline, but this won't be pointed out to you until you've submitted changes for their other critiques six times. After you've fixed that issue, they'll think of some other hoop that you'll have to jump through even though the patch fixes all aspects of the defect at this point. After another 16 edits of the three line patch that doesn't have any security implications and doesn't change any portion of the API, they'll ask you for a unit test that wouldn't test anything but the API for which they already have unit tests.
I'm all for being careful and making a stable, secure product, but I expect people to not be completely retarded about the process of writing software. Not even the system that delivers EAMs has a process this annoying for fixing trivial defects.
And *that* is why Mozilla defects don't get fixed for years.
Building an entire site or app in shockwave or flash
If you're using Adobe products, you don't build websites with Flash, you build them with Flex. The applications then run on the Flash or Air platforms.
The reason we used them was because it was illegal to connect to the copper on a POTS line back
That became legal in 1968 with the Carterphone ruling. You probably had an acoustic coupler in 1974, because the modular jack wasn't introduced until 1976.
One has to wonder if this is another imperial/metric snafu.
Probably not. From the article:
The $27 million, Italian-built observation deck sports the biggest window ever flown in space. In all, there are seven windows that will offer 360-degree views.
The 11 astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex opened the door Friday to the $380 million Tranquility, also made in Italy for the European Space Agency. The door leading from Tranquility into the observation deck was opened soon afterward, and that's when shuttle pilot Terry Virts and Kay Hire encountered the cover problem.
So, now even submitters aren't reading the article? Damn...
I'm a peaceful Norwegian with two (many years ago) convictions for possession of small amounts (1-2 joints) of marihuana. My grandmother wants to take me to visit our family in Boston next year, and I'm not looking forward to it at all because of one thing only: US border control and visa stupidity.
The ironic part is that possession of that small an amount of marijuana isn't a criminal offense in Boston due to a law passed last year.
This is most useful when you are on a laptop and the battery might die in sleep.
Laptops don't need to use hybrid sleep mode, because they've had the ability for a while to hibernate when the battery starts to get low, thus saving the running state.
Oddly enough, in Windows, It IS on by default for desktops.
That's because hybrid sleep is meant for desktops, not laptops. Since desktops don't usually have a battery backup, a power outage will cause you to lose your running applications. Hybrid sleep was meant to fix this problem for desktops.
There is a better way: (http://easypark.bm/) Just launched in Bermuda.
It's just plain sad when a 21 mile long island with excellent public transportation and near perfect weather has a better parking payment option than Chicago.
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She already has one. Unfortunately, it's kdawson.
and Best Buy would clearly be responsible for making sure the source code was available
Uh, no. For example, CompUSA used to sell various Linux distributions. They, of course, had a store in Boston that was within walking distance of FSF headquarters. They were not required to provide the source code.
That made absolutely no sense.
neither you nor I fixed those bugs, either.
Have you tried fixing any Mozilla bugs? I have and it's a royal pain in the ass. You first post your patch to the bug itself, which is simple enough. Then the main cabal of developers critique your patch, and if it doesn't exactly conform in every possible way to what they would have coded themselves, they will reject it with little, if any, explanation. After you finally get an explanation out of someone, you can continue to submit changes to see if any will appease them. Of course, you will have accidentally violated a minor style guideline, but this won't be pointed out to you until you've submitted changes for their other critiques six times. After you've fixed that issue, they'll think of some other hoop that you'll have to jump through even though the patch fixes all aspects of the defect at this point. After another 16 edits of the three line patch that doesn't have any security implications and doesn't change any portion of the API, they'll ask you for a unit test that wouldn't test anything but the API for which they already have unit tests.
I'm all for being careful and making a stable, secure product, but I expect people to not be completely retarded about the process of writing software. Not even the system that delivers EAMs has a process this annoying for fixing trivial defects.
And *that* is why Mozilla defects don't get fixed for years.
Building an entire site or app in shockwave or flash
If you're using Adobe products, you don't build websites with Flash, you build them with Flex. The applications then run on the Flash or Air platforms.
Perl itself calls srand() if it hasn't been called (regardless of what platform it's running on). You don't need to do it explicitly.
JPEG is horrible for text. You should have used PNG.
The reason we used them was because it was illegal to connect to the copper on a POTS line back
That became legal in 1968 with the Carterphone ruling. You probably had an acoustic coupler in 1974, because the modular jack wasn't introduced until 1976.
One has to wonder if this is another imperial/metric snafu.
Probably not. From the article:
The $27 million, Italian-built observation deck sports the biggest window ever flown in space. In all, there are seven windows that will offer 360-degree views.
The 11 astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex opened the door Friday to the $380 million Tranquility, also made in Italy for the European Space Agency. The door leading from Tranquility into the observation deck was opened soon afterward, and that's when shuttle pilot Terry Virts and Kay Hire encountered the cover problem.
So, now even submitters aren't reading the article? Damn...
But yes, a titanium-headed hammer would be stupid. Titanium also has poor surface hardness, so it would get dented really badly.
Right, no one would make those.
I just don't want to pay the "KDE tax". I wonder if I could get a refund if I refuse to accept the license.
The slides can also be found here here on Azul Systems' website (i.e. the company Cliff works at).
some poor guy's machine through a dynamic DNS service!
Some poor guy? It's on an Amazon EC2 server!
but I can just picture trying to explain to the average Windows end user how to install and use Cygwin.
He's referring to the library, not the software environment. It's just a DLL that you package with your software.
but I did notice the internet's smug meter had dropped about 30%.
Norwegian detected.
Nobody in their right mind uses Playboy for masturbation.
So you prefer National Geographic, then?
I hate to break it to you but that statement is contradictory.
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone that is born New England is from Southy.
I'm a peaceful Norwegian with two (many years ago) convictions for possession of small amounts (1-2 joints) of marihuana. My grandmother wants to take me to visit our family in Boston next year, and I'm not looking forward to it at all because of one thing only: US border control and visa stupidity.
The ironic part is that possession of that small an amount of marijuana isn't a criminal offense in Boston due to a law passed last year.
thanks to the Freedom of Information Act that was passed by Democrats over the objections of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Scalia.
What you are referring to are the amendments to the FOIA in 1974. The FOIA itself was passed in 1966 and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
President Ford vetoed the amendments to FOIA, but was overridden by congress. The House voted 371-31 to override the veto, and the Senate voted 65-27.
If you want to read the full story, I suggest looking here, as there are links to scans of the actual documents involved.
Weirdly enough, Johnson was against FOIA, and Rumsfeld was originally for it.
This is most useful when you are on a laptop and the battery might die in sleep.
Laptops don't need to use hybrid sleep mode, because they've had the ability for a while to hibernate when the battery starts to get low, thus saving the running state.
Oddly enough, in Windows, It IS on by default for desktops.
That's because hybrid sleep is meant for desktops, not laptops. Since desktops don't usually have a battery backup, a power outage will cause you to lose your running applications. Hybrid sleep was meant to fix this problem for desktops.
There is a better way: (http://easypark.bm/) Just launched in Bermuda.
It's just plain sad when a 21 mile long island with excellent public transportation and near perfect weather has a better parking payment option than Chicago.
puts on sunglasses
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
No, but it does run Netbsd.
Has Netcraft confirmed that the patient is dying?
I went in to a local Shack to buy a soldering iron a couple months ago. They don't have them.
It depends on the store. The one near me has them.
I have no idea who sells soldering irons any more
The Lowes near me also has them.
I live near Boston, though, so if I need a soldering iron, I just go to "You Do It".