The EU could make it a condition of the takeover that they sell either the Oracle Database or the MySQL Database to a third party. That sort of thing quite often happens in anti-trust investigations.
They won't be directly concerned about keeping MySQL free and open source, but they may be concerned that having two major database servers owned by the same company reduces competition.
Quite a lot of the GNU software is owned by the Free Software Foundation. Apache, Mozilla, X.org and Samba are owned by their respective foundations. OpenOffice.org and MySQL are owned by Sun.
The only major project on a typical distro I can think of that is owned by the individual contributors is linux.
When Google receives takedown notices, they take the link down, and replace it with a link to a copy of the letter they received asking them to take the link down. This letter generally contains the offending URL.
Dutch court judgements can be enforced in other EU countries including Sweden where they live. They just need to register the judgement in the Swedish courts, then all the Swedish enforcement options are open to them.
They sorted that problem out about 10 years ago when Windows 2000 shipped. Security is what they need to fix now. It is a lot better now than in the days of XP SP1, but still not good enough.
Well not really. The sudden concern for netbook users was caused by the possibility that people might switch to linux. When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
That's what we have in Britain, but the polls close at 10pm (or 9pm for local elections) and you generally don't know the result until early the following morning, unless you live in Sunderland South.
You have a list of results by ballot box adding up to the total result for the election.
You select some of these ballot boxes and check that the figures on the screen are the same as what's in the box.
Optionally, you let the candidates chose a selection of boxes they want to have checked - they can pick ones where they think there might be problems or they got less votes than they expected.
You select your candidate / party / referendum option on screen. The computer prints out a ballot paper and records your vote. You put the ballot paper in the ballot box. The returning officer selects a sample of ballot boxes at random and checks them to the computer.
- When there's a number of windows, but none have focus, and one uses alt-f4, one immidiately gets a shutdown dialog. I just want to close my apps dammit!
You should always send your reumes as pdf files unless they specifically ask for it in another format. Then you can be sure it will look the same on their screen as on yours and it looks more professional anyway.
MySQL's business plan is to sell proprietary licences to people who don't want a free version for whatever reason, and to use this money to fund development of the software. You wouldn't be able to do this with a forked version of the software so you would have to rely a lot more on donations and volunteers to fund development work. Also, the people who don't want to use a free database program would go somewhere else for a proprietary solution, so this would dilute the network effect of other people developing their programs round a MySQL platform.
It attempts to prove that one music service has better sound quality than another, which if you are a consumer deciding which one to sign up to, is very useful information.
Because you don't get to see which track you are listening to. In a double blind listening test, the person playing it to you doesn't get to see which one it is either.
Sampling rate is in Hertz not bits. You probably need more than one bit for each sample you take. Then you get, for a CD a bit rate of about 1.4Mbits/s. After compression, you end up with the lower bitrates in mp3s and so on.
Does it matter? When comparing salaries vs cost of living, they are looking at USD/USD for living and the US and CNY/CNY or INR/INR for living in their home country. If you change the exchange rate, it doesn't change the purchasing power of their home currency.
Do doesn't. It means less jobs for the rest of you. They are taking their jobs with them when they leave, very probably serving the same customers as they did before, at lower cost to them, and the money they were previously spending in California, supporting other Californian jobs is now being spent in India and China supporting other Indian and Chinese jobs.
No it doesn't. There is no detectable trace of whatever it is supposed to be in their potions, and they are no better than placebos in proper double blind trials.
It is because they want their customers to think it is possible to beat the house. That way they will make more money from them. The vast majority of people aren't good enough at maths to do card counting, and those that are do their gambling for hedge funds in Mayfair where they can make a lot more money.
We have open access in Britain on BT lines (but not Virgin Media, Kingston or Wight Cable lines), and it doesn't mean paying by the minute. Some charge by the megabyte, but there are also unlimited plans available. So, for example, you can get an unlimited plan from Telefonica O2 for £7.34 over BT lines if you also have a cellphone plan with them.
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The EU could make it a condition of the takeover that they sell either the Oracle Database or the MySQL Database to a third party. That sort of thing quite often happens in anti-trust investigations.
They won't be directly concerned about keeping MySQL free and open source, but they may be concerned that having two major database servers owned by the same company reduces competition.
Quite a lot of the GNU software is owned by the Free Software Foundation. Apache, Mozilla, X.org and Samba are owned by their respective foundations. OpenOffice.org and MySQL are owned by Sun.
The only major project on a typical distro I can think of that is owned by the individual contributors is linux.
When Google receives takedown notices, they take the link down, and replace it with a link to a copy of the letter they received asking them to take the link down. This letter generally contains the offending URL.
Dutch court judgements can be enforced in other EU countries including Sweden where they live. They just need to register the judgement in the Swedish courts, then all the Swedish enforcement options are open to them.
Yes, I always call it a spell chequer, in honour of the poem "owed to a spell chequer".
They sorted that problem out about 10 years ago when Windows 2000 shipped. Security is what they need to fix now. It is a lot better now than in the days of XP SP1, but still not good enough.
Well not really. The sudden concern for netbook users was caused by the possibility that people might switch to linux. When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
That's what we have in Britain, but the polls close at 10pm (or 9pm for local elections) and you generally don't know the result until early the following morning, unless you live in Sunderland South.
You have a list of results by ballot box adding up to the total result for the election.
You select some of these ballot boxes and check that the figures on the screen are the same as what's in the box.
Optionally, you let the candidates chose a selection of boxes they want to have checked - they can pick ones where they think there might be problems or they got less votes than they expected.
How about this?
You select your candidate / party / referendum option on screen.
The computer prints out a ballot paper and records your vote.
You put the ballot paper in the ballot box.
The returning officer selects a sample of ballot boxes at random and checks them to the computer.
- When there's a number of windows, but none have focus, and one uses alt-f4, one immidiately gets a shutdown dialog. I just want to close my apps dammit!
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
You should always send your reumes as pdf files unless they specifically ask for it in another format. Then you can be sure it will look the same on their screen as on yours and it looks more professional anyway.
You can run CUPS on your Ubuntu box without any problems. Why should MySQL be any different?
MySQL's business plan is to sell proprietary licences to people who don't want a free version for whatever reason, and to use this money to fund development of the software. You wouldn't be able to do this with a forked version of the software so you would have to rely a lot more on donations and volunteers to fund development work. Also, the people who don't want to use a free database program would go somewhere else for a proprietary solution, so this would dilute the network effect of other people developing their programs round a MySQL platform.
It attempts to prove that one music service has better sound quality than another, which if you are a consumer deciding which one to sign up to, is very useful information.
I rip mine to a lossless format for that reason. It generally works out at about 480 or so, which isn't that much more 320.
Because you don't get to see which track you are listening to. In a double blind listening test, the person playing it to you doesn't get to see which one it is either.
Well it is to decide whether Spotify or Sky Songs is better. A double blind listening test is a good way to decide that.
Sampling rate is in Hertz not bits. You probably need more than one bit for each sample you take. Then you get, for a CD a bit rate of about 1.4Mbits/s. After compression, you end up with the lower bitrates in mp3s and so on.
If you are in China, you are mostly using your Reminbi to buy Chinese made goods, so the exchange rate doesn't matter.
Does it matter? When comparing salaries vs cost of living, they are looking at USD/USD for living and the US and CNY/CNY or INR/INR for living in their home country. If you change the exchange rate, it doesn't change the purchasing power of their home currency.
Do doesn't. It means less jobs for the rest of you. They are taking their jobs with them when they leave, very probably serving the same customers as they did before, at lower cost to them, and the money they were previously spending in California, supporting other Californian jobs is now being spent in India and China supporting other Indian and Chinese jobs.
No it doesn't. There is no detectable trace of whatever it is supposed to be in their potions, and they are no better than placebos in proper double blind trials.
It is because they want their customers to think it is possible to beat the house. That way they will make more money from them. The vast majority of people aren't good enough at maths to do card counting, and those that are do their gambling for hedge funds in Mayfair where they can make a lot more money.
We have open access in Britain on BT lines (but not Virgin Media, Kingston or Wight Cable lines), and it doesn't mean paying by the minute. Some charge by the megabyte, but there are also unlimited plans available. So, for example, you can get an unlimited plan from Telefonica O2 for £7.34 over BT lines if you also have a cellphone plan with them.