It takes clout to stand up to Microsoft. Smaller companies have little choice but to toe the Microsoft line and act as Windows pimps for their Redmond masters, but the huge players--IBM, HP, and Dell (if Dell had any backbone) can push back a bit
You got that backwards. There are plenty of small companies right now that are offering preloaded Linux systems without making you jump through hoops, like System 76. It's the 'huge players' who fear the penguin.
If I punch a punching bag, the bag moves but I don't. That is because my fist has the energy which transfers to the bag. I don't go flying backwards as the article suggests. Friction, dude. Try the experiment again on roller skates. Or better yet, watch a hockey fight.
This "feature" was used for passing request parameters into the script. So there was a legitimate need for it, it was just implemented in a really bone-headed way, since it allowed the overriding of local variables if you weren't careful. This was fixed in version 5 - unfortunately, this meant breaking backwards compatibility, since most older scripts relied on the old way of passing parameters. So a lot of servers out there (I'm assuming yours is among them) are still stuck using PHP 4.
I wanted to like PHP, I really did. But shit like this just does not inspire confidence.
The difference between OS X and Linux is that the base OS X installation is huge, and already includes many shared libraries. For example, you can assume that libcurl will be always available on OS X - not so on Linux. You seem to be saying that OS X apps don't depend on shared libraries, which is just not true.
I would like to see GUI tools get the smarts to automatically figure out dependencies across all formats, allowing all distros to become package agnostic.
The package formats are easy. The real bastard is that each distro has subtle differences in how the packages and the dependencies are organized. The only way that I can see to fix that is to design a universal package tree, and convince all the major distros to conform to it. Which is not impossible, but it aint easy, either. And it might cause other problems.
I dug around on Google News, but it seems like all the articles are just copies of the same vague Reuters feed. So I can't figure out what the hell this is either. But I have a feeling it's just Firefox, OpenOffice and a few other cross-platform apps bundled together in a slick package.
Yeah, you can make your own broken, dysfunctional widgets in Java, but it's a moderately advanced task. Flash, on the other hand, makes this process much more convenient.
But none of that matters, really. It was Microsoft that killed Java applets, not any design decision that Sun might have made. The early versions of Java had problems, but those could have been fixed (well, by now, most of them have been fixed.) Microsoft could have included a normal Java runtime as part of the default OS, just like they're now doing with Flash; but instead they pulled that whole J++ bullshit, which resulted in years of lawsuits.
It's no coincidence that Java is biggest right now on servers and cell phones; those are the platforms where MS doesn't have a monopoly, and can't dictate the rules.
dell + linux works just fine [I imagine acer+linux or hp+linux work fine too... just have personal exp. with dell]
I do have experience with an Acer laptop and Linux. It sucked! Getting the on-board wireless to work was a huge project, and I couldn't get suspend or the volume control keys to work at all.
Desktops are generally OK, but some laptops just do not play nice with anything but Windows. If you want to run Linux, do some research before you buy. That's what I should have done - unfortunately, that was kind of an emergency purchase, since my old laptop died suddenly while I was on the road.
Removing the financial incentive is the only effective way to stop spam. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to do that.
I like the idea of making restitution to the victims, but I don't think your plan would work. You can't send money by email, so you'd have to somehow find out the names and addresses of the owners. And how do you do that? By sending out mass emails telling people that they can get a check for $1.00 if they provide their name and address? How many responses do you think you'd get? And keep in mind, in a real life situation it'd probably be 100,000 addresses, not 100, and the amount for each address would be much less than $1.00. (How much less? I don't know, but I bet somebody here has a rough idea how much spammers are paying for addresses nowadays.)
I won't get into whether or not it's a good idea, because I honestly think it doesn't matter... but what the hell did you mean by "in a country like India"? What exactly is it about the Republic of India that gives this idea more credence than it would have elsewhere?
By the way, didn't they do something like this to the White House and a few other buildings? I seem to remember something about that, but now it's back.
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The clients who don't know what they want aren't so bad - most of them will accept whatever you give them. The real problem is with the ones who do know what they want, but can't describe it properly. Or the ones who want the impossible (but those are usually easy to spot early on).
Exactly. Use the right tools for the job. If you really need support for MS Office documents and Exchange, then you're obviously better off using Windows. If you'd rather use Linux, then you should just ditch MS entirely, because MS is doing everything in their power to prevent their products from interoperating with Linux.
No, that wouldn't work. If an address doesn't exist, the receiving server usually sends the bounce immediately (or at least within several minutes). If a bounce arrives several hours after the message is sent, then the spammers would know that it's not a "real" bounce.
Depending on your digestive system, you can eat your cake and still have it for up to several hours afterwards.
Actually, some of the atoms from the cake will be absorbed into your bloodstream and wind up distributed in various parts of your body, where they might stay for years (even until the end of your life).
A cake is more than just a mixture of certain ingredients, it's a structure. The moment you bite into it, the structure starts breaking down. So we can reduce this to a semantic problem: at which point in the breakdown process does the cake stop being a cake? I would argue that this happens when it's chewed up and swallowed, but it's hard to draw a clear line.
Buy me another cake and I'll tell you more on this subject.
Batteries are inefficient. The energy wasted on battery leakage would probably cancel out any profits. Or maybe not... anybody here qualified to work out the math on this?
And even if people do it - so what? It just means that they increase the peak capacity of the grid as a whole. The power companies would want to encourage that sort of thing.
Also, if you think Shias and Sunnis can't get along, wait until you see the clash between drunken Leaf and Oiler fans.
Sadly true. So far, the brutal dictatorship of Tim Horton has been keeping those sectarian animosities in check, but attempts to impose a western-style democracy on Canada could backfire like a moose in the headlights.
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It takes clout to stand up to Microsoft. Smaller companies have little choice but to toe the Microsoft line and act as Windows pimps for their Redmond masters, but the huge players--IBM, HP, and Dell (if Dell had any backbone) can push back a bit
You got that backwards. There are plenty of small companies right now that are offering preloaded Linux systems without making you jump through hoops, like System 76. It's the 'huge players' who fear the penguin.
It's not open-source yet. These things take time, be patient. I think they said they'll finish the process by the middle of 2007.
And pirating software isn't even a criminal act. At worst, it's a civil tort.
Does it really take that much thinking to realize that you can't give someone access to data and not give them access at the same time?
Yeah, you would think that, wouldn't you. But apparently, the best minds of the entertainment industry still can't grasp that one.
This "feature" was used for passing request parameters into the script. So there was a legitimate need for it, it was just implemented in a really bone-headed way, since it allowed the overriding of local variables if you weren't careful. This was fixed in version 5 - unfortunately, this meant breaking backwards compatibility, since most older scripts relied on the old way of passing parameters. So a lot of servers out there (I'm assuming yours is among them) are still stuck using PHP 4.
I wanted to like PHP, I really did. But shit like this just does not inspire confidence.
The difference between OS X and Linux is that the base OS X installation is huge, and already includes many shared libraries. For example, you can assume that libcurl will be always available on OS X - not so on Linux. You seem to be saying that OS X apps don't depend on shared libraries, which is just not true.
I would like to see GUI tools get the smarts to automatically figure out dependencies across all formats, allowing all distros to become package agnostic.
The package formats are easy. The real bastard is that each distro has subtle differences in how the packages and the dependencies are organized. The only way that I can see to fix that is to design a universal package tree, and convince all the major distros to conform to it. Which is not impossible, but it aint easy, either. And it might cause other problems.
I dug around on Google News, but it seems like all the articles are just copies of the same vague Reuters feed. So I can't figure out what the hell this is either. But I have a feeling it's just Firefox, OpenOffice and a few other cross-platform apps bundled together in a slick package.
Yeah, you can make your own broken, dysfunctional widgets in Java, but it's a moderately advanced task. Flash, on the other hand, makes this process much more convenient.
But none of that matters, really. It was Microsoft that killed Java applets, not any design decision that Sun might have made. The early versions of Java had problems, but those could have been fixed (well, by now, most of them have been fixed.) Microsoft could have included a normal Java runtime as part of the default OS, just like they're now doing with Flash; but instead they pulled that whole J++ bullshit, which resulted in years of lawsuits.
It's no coincidence that Java is biggest right now on servers and cell phones; those are the platforms where MS doesn't have a monopoly, and can't dictate the rules.
dell + linux works just fine [I imagine acer+linux or hp+linux work fine too ... just have personal exp. with dell]
I do have experience with an Acer laptop and Linux. It sucked! Getting the on-board wireless to work was a huge project, and I couldn't get suspend or the volume control keys to work at all.
Desktops are generally OK, but some laptops just do not play nice with anything but Windows. If you want to run Linux, do some research before you buy. That's what I should have done - unfortunately, that was kind of an emergency purchase, since my old laptop died suddenly while I was on the road.
Removing the financial incentive is the only effective way to stop spam. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to do that.
I like the idea of making restitution to the victims, but I don't think your plan would work. You can't send money by email, so you'd have to somehow find out the names and addresses of the owners. And how do you do that? By sending out mass emails telling people that they can get a check for $1.00 if they provide their name and address? How many responses do you think you'd get? And keep in mind, in a real life situation it'd probably be 100,000 addresses, not 100, and the amount for each address would be much less than $1.00. (How much less? I don't know, but I bet somebody here has a rough idea how much spammers are paying for addresses nowadays.)
I won't get into whether or not it's a good idea, because I honestly think it doesn't matter... but what the hell did you mean by "in a country like India"? What exactly is it about the Republic of India that gives this idea more credence than it would have elsewhere?
By the way, didn't they do something like this to the White House and a few other buildings? I seem to remember something about that, but now it's back.
The clients who don't know what they want aren't so bad - most of them will accept whatever you give them. The real problem is with the ones who do know what they want, but can't describe it properly. Or the ones who want the impossible (but those are usually easy to spot early on).
it's not like people aren't bothering to measure and track the amount of solar radiation that actually reaches the surface of the earth.
"Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured!" - Plan 9 From Outer Space
Exactly. Use the right tools for the job. If you really need support for MS Office documents and Exchange, then you're obviously better off using Windows. If you'd rather use Linux, then you should just ditch MS entirely, because MS is doing everything in their power to prevent their products from interoperating with Linux.
No, that wouldn't work. If an address doesn't exist, the receiving server usually sends the bounce immediately (or at least within several minutes). If a bounce arrives several hours after the message is sent, then the spammers would know that it's not a "real" bounce.
Depending on your digestive system, you can eat your cake and still have it for up to several hours afterwards.
Actually, some of the atoms from the cake will be absorbed into your bloodstream and wind up distributed in various parts of your body, where they might stay for years (even until the end of your life).
A cake is more than just a mixture of certain ingredients, it's a structure. The moment you bite into it, the structure starts breaking down. So we can reduce this to a semantic problem: at which point in the breakdown process does the cake stop being a cake? I would argue that this happens when it's chewed up and swallowed, but it's hard to draw a clear line.
Buy me another cake and I'll tell you more on this subject.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304 989/
The summary is wrong. Apple specifically said that the fix is in response to a report from MOAB.
Batteries are inefficient. The energy wasted on battery leakage would probably cancel out any profits. Or maybe not... anybody here qualified to work out the math on this?
And even if people do it - so what? It just means that they increase the peak capacity of the grid as a whole. The power companies would want to encourage that sort of thing.
Moderate drinking is harmless - even in large quantities.
If we'd implemented the Evil Bit back in the day, this wouldn't be an issue.
the US and UK would like nothing better than to leave
Depends on who you mean by US and UK, doesn't it?
Most of the regular folks in these two countries do want to leave. But the decider-in-chief is doing everything he can to prolong the occupation.
Also, if you think Shias and Sunnis can't get along, wait until you see the clash between drunken Leaf and Oiler fans.
Sadly true. So far, the brutal dictatorship of Tim Horton has been keeping those sectarian animosities in check, but attempts to impose a western-style democracy on Canada could backfire like a moose in the headlights.
BTW, congratulations on getting rid of that whole "shilling" and "guinea" nonsense.