Yes and we decided against it as an organisation when we were looking to replace our Notes infrastructure. It costed more than Exchange did with no real benefits, so in the end we ended up with Exchange.
Case in point: MySQL. All MySQL developers are paid employees of Sun (well at least the ones who have commit rights). The OpenOffice.org is an example of where Sun pays staff to work on an open source project as well.
Linux will typically run the OOM killer and identify which process is the 'baddest' and kill it to free up memory. Windows might crash but it does that normally anyway.
So when are you going to upload your multigigabyte dump file to MS? More over beyond the minimal dumps, Windows won't handle dumps over 2GB by default anyway.
Why not use your actual Windows install with vmware? You'd probably need to crack the stupid WGA that'd keep thinking your hw config changed but VMware has an option to enable you to reuse an existing partition for its vm.
Whilst not as integrated as Time Machine, WD Anywhere Backup does a similar job under 10.4 and I got a copy of it with a Mac branded WD external hard drive. Appears to do the job nicely.
The GPL only applies to distribution. If he doesn't wish to distribute it any further then that is his wish. You cannot force someone to give you GPL code unless they distribute it or its products to you. Further more being the sole copyright owner he can change it so that it isn't GPL and then distribute it. None of the code would be GPL so you can't get him to give it to you. He cannot go out and change the licence on old code that has already been distributed because he has assigned the right of redistribution when he distributed those copies. GPL has no obligation on anyone but the distributor.
I don't think apple has the monopoly on that, they just provide a service that many distributors utilise to promote their product. It downloads off Apple provided servers and the companies themselves own the trailers anyway. not only that but people provide the trailers on their own sites as well. what they do have is some exclusive trailers that you don't see elsewhere, but given that beyond the cinemas, the distributors/producers I only see Apple being the one to show trailers. Apple is offering a service, something Microsoft can do if they so feel like it. Or Google. In fact I did a quick google of movie trailers and got a few results after Apple: http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Trailers/ (links into its database and has better search) http://movies.yahoo.com/trailers/ http://video.google.com/movietrailers.html (looks like this got forgotten however) http://movies.go.com/movie_trailers
There were also other sites that pointed back to Apple and others that pointed to the trailers at the distributors site as well. Apple hardly have a monopoly as there are many other options. Its just that they provide a lot useful integration as well.
I'm not in the UK but I would have thought that the whole innocent until proven guilty thing would come into play here where if it hasn't actually been proven in court then it isn't actually grounds to make arrests on. Given that the original premise is usually forgotten, surely if it might be challenged as a reason and found to be not accurate that the results of the entire search should then be thrown out on the basis it was an illegal search. The "crime" that has been committed is actually a civil one from what I can tell, not a a criminal one, so I fail to see why the police would involve themselves. You are infringing on the rights of another which results in civil action to restore damages to the party. As yet I haven't seen anyone thrown in jail for it, just sued for damages.
I read one that was replied to further up the discussion involving a Porsche and one a little further down (mentions BMW as well as Ferrari). I remember buying a Mac a few years ago because it was actually cheaper and better featured than the other options. I wanted a Unix base, and I had seen a lot of my friend try and fail with Linux on their laptop to get stuff like Wireless to work or have suspend and resume issues in Windows. I wanted a laptop that I could pick up and have faith that the pieces inside would play together nicely with the operating system running on it. To be honest I'm happy with my choice and haven't gone back. Its not perfect, but its getting there step by step. And Ferrari, Porsche or BMW aside, for me it was still cheaper or equivalent than the alternatives and I get higher quality software out of the box on top of that.
The XBox was the extension of DirectX, Microsoft's attempt to lock development into one platform from Microsoft. Moving to stuff like OpenAL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL) and OpenGL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL) is what I think EA is hinting at given that OpenGL support is available for every major platform. In fact I would suggest that Xbox is the last thing that developers are asking for given its the only one supporting DirectX with Windows. Providing for the missing open layers (e.g. the network ones) would be enough to make it one platform except for Windows/XBox. Though given that MS is working hard to destroy OpenGL I don't give much hope that they will do it. Though if you look at the members of the group you see players for every major platform except for Microsoft, and given that the XBox uses ATI/AMD GPU's the entire hardware graphics side of the gaming industry is interested in OpenGL.
Way to pro MS troll on a post that actually gave Microsoft a compliment! The problem in this case wasn't with Microsoft, in fact I never said there was a problem with Microsoft, the problem lies with DOCS. These days its improving sure but its still a piece of trash (case in point: why does DocsX exist?). I don't disagree that Microsoft Office is the best Office suite out there for those who are using its more advanced features however for the most part most users are happy with changing font size, making things bold or underline and adding images, but again thats not the point of my post. The point of my post is how bad DOCS has been for a large number of organisations and how messed up their software is. I'm sure you use it with no problem, you seem to be unable to misread with no problems either. In fact to reply to your title "Its not MS's fault", its true its not MS's fault at any point, its DOCS's fault.
evince appears to have the ability to return to a specific page on a pdf document you've opened previously. So if it has the ability to remember there must be a way to get it to jump to the right page, though it may not be obvious.
Docs...you've got to be kidding me right? This bloated ugly piece of trash rarely works properly, just look at the mess they made in their latest release. I'd pitch at it being worse than Windows Vista because Microsoft is at least in a position to improve on Vista, DOCS went back and rewrote their last version to get an upgrade because the one they had been working on didn't work properly and it had customers left right and centre complaining about it. We've got a DOCS deployment and Helpdesk is still fighting to get it working properly in their SOE, at least these days it properly supports Office 2000 (we had a hack at one point that prevented people clicking the cross on Excel because it broke the integration system). Last time I checked it had issues with Office 2003 let alone anything beyond that. If you're in the "real world" and on Windows, stay the hell away from DOCS.
In a way the independent labels already attempt this and examples like The Beatles where they created their own label because nobody will sign them. Online just makes this easier again instead of requiring a bit of dedication to get things to market that has been required in the past.
Until someone gets her side of the story we don't know that she didn't just say that and they were still paranoid. "What is that shirt ma'am?" "Oh its just a thing I did for school". Now take that response in paranoid mode, and use the silly justifications that people use (because I think you're a terrorists, you must be lying to me) to overlay the fact that the answer above is a legitimate response but it doesn't actually tell you anything. There is also the strange effect that people sometimes miss that expects people to have perfect hearing all the time as well...but we don't know enough about the actual events to make those suspicions.
I'm the same, I write slow and to write at any pace makes my notes unreadable even to me. However I can touch type, which means I can actually look at the lecture or any presentation and still take notes at a faster pace than what I hand write. Using a keyboard is then more useful than attempting to write because I have to look down to write.
Theres also a program called testdisk that scans the hard drive to recover partition information and rebuild the partition table: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Something about making the world more efficient and the Omnius controlling everything, perhaps not what you were after but this might come close:Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. I think there is also one about God being the only one that can create life as well. I'm surprised there weren't more Dune and Matrix quotes in this.
The ABC already has this in place much like the BBC does for some parts of their site. I was in the States a few months back and couldn't get the podcast on iTunes for some reason, went to the website and got a nice message saying "Come to Australia and you can download this." Also the ABC peers onto PIPE in Australia which used to be free traffic for people, now its a rather limited set of people for who its free to disappointingly.
The solution to this is simple, you use the Microsoft approach which is to keep old names of the functions around and wrapper them to the new names in the hope that people will start using the new name instead of using the old name. That said it shouldn't have been a problem anyway. I have translators who email me reminding me my English has mistakes from time to time (last one was writeable/writable, writable is supposed to be the right one but both come up as spelling errors in Safari anyway) so having a spellcheck intelligent enough to catch some things would be useful.
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Yes and we decided against it as an organisation when we were looking to replace our Notes infrastructure. It costed more than Exchange did with no real benefits, so in the end we ended up with Exchange.
Case in point: MySQL. All MySQL developers are paid employees of Sun (well at least the ones who have commit rights). The OpenOffice.org is an example of where Sun pays staff to work on an open source project as well.
Linux will typically run the OOM killer and identify which process is the 'baddest' and kill it to free up memory. Windows might crash but it does that normally anyway.
So when are you going to upload your multigigabyte dump file to MS? More over beyond the minimal dumps, Windows won't handle dumps over 2GB by default anyway.
"Complete memory dumps are not available on computers that have 2 or more gigabytes of RAM"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274598/
More information on recommended sizes for Windows page file wrt memory dumps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254649/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307973/
Why not use your actual Windows install with vmware? You'd probably need to crack the stupid WGA that'd keep thinking your hw config changed but VMware has an option to enable you to reuse an existing partition for its vm.
32-bit PPC would be a G4
Whilst not as integrated as Time Machine, WD Anywhere Backup does a similar job under 10.4 and I got a copy of it with a Mac branded WD external hard drive. Appears to do the job nicely.
The GPL only applies to distribution. If he doesn't wish to distribute it any further then that is his wish. You cannot force someone to give you GPL code unless they distribute it or its products to you. Further more being the sole copyright owner he can change it so that it isn't GPL and then distribute it. None of the code would be GPL so you can't get him to give it to you. He cannot go out and change the licence on old code that has already been distributed because he has assigned the right of redistribution when he distributed those copies. GPL has no obligation on anyone but the distributor.
I don't think apple has the monopoly on that, they just provide a service that many distributors utilise to promote their product. It downloads off Apple provided servers and the companies themselves own the trailers anyway. not only that but people provide the trailers on their own sites as well. what they do have is some exclusive trailers that you don't see elsewhere, but given that beyond the cinemas, the distributors/producers I only see Apple being the one to show trailers. Apple is offering a service, something Microsoft can do if they so feel like it. Or Google. In fact I did a quick google of movie trailers and got a few results after Apple:
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Trailers/ (links into its database and has better search)
http://movies.yahoo.com/trailers/
http://video.google.com/movietrailers.html (looks like this got forgotten however)
http://movies.go.com/movie_trailers
There were also other sites that pointed back to Apple and others that pointed to the trailers at the distributors site as well. Apple hardly have a monopoly as there are many other options. Its just that they provide a lot useful integration as well.
I'm not in the UK but I would have thought that the whole innocent until proven guilty thing would come into play here where if it hasn't actually been proven in court then it isn't actually grounds to make arrests on. Given that the original premise is usually forgotten, surely if it might be challenged as a reason and found to be not accurate that the results of the entire search should then be thrown out on the basis it was an illegal search. The "crime" that has been committed is actually a civil one from what I can tell, not a a criminal one, so I fail to see why the police would involve themselves. You are infringing on the rights of another which results in civil action to restore damages to the party. As yet I haven't seen anyone thrown in jail for it, just sued for damages.
I read one that was replied to further up the discussion involving a Porsche and one a little further down (mentions BMW as well as Ferrari). I remember buying a Mac a few years ago because it was actually cheaper and better featured than the other options. I wanted a Unix base, and I had seen a lot of my friend try and fail with Linux on their laptop to get stuff like Wireless to work or have suspend and resume issues in Windows. I wanted a laptop that I could pick up and have faith that the pieces inside would play together nicely with the operating system running on it. To be honest I'm happy with my choice and haven't gone back. Its not perfect, but its getting there step by step. And Ferrari, Porsche or BMW aside, for me it was still cheaper or equivalent than the alternatives and I get higher quality software out of the box on top of that.
The XBox was the extension of DirectX, Microsoft's attempt to lock development into one platform from Microsoft. Moving to stuff like OpenAL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL) and OpenGL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL) is what I think EA is hinting at given that OpenGL support is available for every major platform. In fact I would suggest that Xbox is the last thing that developers are asking for given its the only one supporting DirectX with Windows. Providing for the missing open layers (e.g. the network ones) would be enough to make it one platform except for Windows/XBox. Though given that MS is working hard to destroy OpenGL I don't give much hope that they will do it. Though if you look at the members of the group you see players for every major platform except for Microsoft, and given that the XBox uses ATI/AMD GPU's the entire hardware graphics side of the gaming industry is interested in OpenGL.
Way to pro MS troll on a post that actually gave Microsoft a compliment! The problem in this case wasn't with Microsoft, in fact I never said there was a problem with Microsoft, the problem lies with DOCS. These days its improving sure but its still a piece of trash (case in point: why does DocsX exist?). I don't disagree that Microsoft Office is the best Office suite out there for those who are using its more advanced features however for the most part most users are happy with changing font size, making things bold or underline and adding images, but again thats not the point of my post. The point of my post is how bad DOCS has been for a large number of organisations and how messed up their software is. I'm sure you use it with no problem, you seem to be unable to misread with no problems either. In fact to reply to your title "Its not MS's fault", its true its not MS's fault at any point, its DOCS's fault.
evince appears to have the ability to return to a specific page on a pdf document you've opened previously. So if it has the ability to remember there must be a way to get it to jump to the right page, though it may not be obvious.
Docs...you've got to be kidding me right? This bloated ugly piece of trash rarely works properly, just look at the mess they made in their latest release. I'd pitch at it being worse than Windows Vista because Microsoft is at least in a position to improve on Vista, DOCS went back and rewrote their last version to get an upgrade because the one they had been working on didn't work properly and it had customers left right and centre complaining about it. We've got a DOCS deployment and Helpdesk is still fighting to get it working properly in their SOE, at least these days it properly supports Office 2000 (we had a hack at one point that prevented people clicking the cross on Excel because it broke the integration system). Last time I checked it had issues with Office 2003 let alone anything beyond that. If you're in the "real world" and on Windows, stay the hell away from DOCS.
In a way the independent labels already attempt this and examples like The Beatles where they created their own label because nobody will sign them. Online just makes this easier again instead of requiring a bit of dedication to get things to market that has been required in the past.
then why not use a non-commercial version of the creative commons set of licences instead, they do exist and it would prevent this issue
Until someone gets her side of the story we don't know that she didn't just say that and they were still paranoid. "What is that shirt ma'am?" "Oh its just a thing I did for school". Now take that response in paranoid mode, and use the silly justifications that people use (because I think you're a terrorists, you must be lying to me) to overlay the fact that the answer above is a legitimate response but it doesn't actually tell you anything. There is also the strange effect that people sometimes miss that expects people to have perfect hearing all the time as well...but we don't know enough about the actual events to make those suspicions.
I'm the same, I write slow and to write at any pace makes my notes unreadable even to me. However I can touch type, which means I can actually look at the lecture or any presentation and still take notes at a faster pace than what I hand write. Using a keyboard is then more useful than attempting to write because I have to look down to write.
Except neither of those operating systems have the same level of difficulty with high performance network bandwidth and playing multimedia files.
Theres also a program called testdisk that scans the hard drive to recover partition information and rebuild the partition table: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Something about making the world more efficient and the Omnius controlling everything, perhaps not what you were after but this might come close:Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. I think there is also one about God being the only one that can create life as well. I'm surprised there weren't more Dune and Matrix quotes in this.
The ABC already has this in place much like the BBC does for some parts of their site. I was in the States a few months back and couldn't get the podcast on iTunes for some reason, went to the website and got a nice message saying "Come to Australia and you can download this." Also the ABC peers onto PIPE in Australia which used to be free traffic for people, now its a rather limited set of people for who its free to disappointingly.
The solution to this is simple, you use the Microsoft approach which is to keep old names of the functions around and wrapper them to the new names in the hope that people will start using the new name instead of using the old name. That said it shouldn't have been a problem anyway. I have translators who email me reminding me my English has mistakes from time to time (last one was writeable/writable, writable is supposed to be the right one but both come up as spelling errors in Safari anyway) so having a spellcheck intelligent enough to catch some things would be useful.
So by that token an orgy also makes sex better?