I think perhaps you were misreading the memory usage. Remember that each widget loads its own copy of the (rather large) shared webkit library which makes its apparent memory usage much larger than it is actually is. The Weather dashboard widget really only uses about 12MB of RAM and also the 150MB webkit which is shared with any other webkit-enabled application you have loaded.
If you're running Safari, or multiple widgets, then they're all sharing that same 150MB.
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It absolutely does if you're using the mysql libraries to connect to the mysql database. Rather than being sanely LGPL'd, the mysql connector libraries are GPL which precludes their use in non-GPL codebases. So, unless you're a GPL developer, you need to purchase a commercial license for mysql (or find a database with less restrictive licensing).
The fact that you're ignorant of this crucual detail (which is the foundation of mysql ab's ability to make money) reinforces the GP's point.
Man, you score +1 for attitude, but you're still brutally wrong when it comes to actually having a valid point.
For the vast majority of consumers, no video rental mechanism is bandwidth-throttled. Consumers don't want an entire station wagon full of movies delivered every night, so the higher bandwidth potential of USPS-delivered movies versus downloaded movies is not relevant to them.
The pacific ocean has a lot more water than lake michigan, but you can't fill up a bucket faster in the ocean than in the lake.
I also think that you'd have a tough time demonstrating that b&m video stores are still in business because they offer the ability to rent more movies at once. b&m video stores thrive because they provide lower latency than the alternatives -- you can walk in without having already decided what movie you want to watch that night. With netflix or other USPS-delivered rental options you have to decide days in advance what you plan to watch.
A download model will combine the best of both worlds -- allowing low latency flexibility of choice along with the convenience of not having to leave the house.
Good show on the attitude, though. I'm sure in some circles that can be an effective alternative to having a well-reasoned position.
Nice thought, but perhaps you're being overly broad with the phrase "opensource community." Code you've released under the GPL is not usable by the Mozilla people, the Apache people, any of the BSD projects, PostgreSQL and any number of other great and thriving open source projects which do not use the GPL. Heck, you've pretty much locked out even projects like MySQL and Asterisk who use the GPL alongside commercial licensing (and consequently cannot import pure GPL code)
I was going to make a joke about GOTO war versus GOSUB war but in light of the current trend of never letting soldiers leave when they were originally supposed to I figure GOTO is probably a lot closer to reality.
Maybe someday our soldiers will be able to RETURN.
Once again, it has nothing at all do to with being nice. It has everything to do with sounding like your opinion matters. You can be totally correct but if you persist in arguing at a second grade level and pretending that silly names are good arguments you should expect to be ignored.
You are not being vitriolic, truthful or not. You're being adolescent.
OK, then, I'm right. The effect you're actually experiencing is that everyone reading your post is stopping after the first few words and discarding your opinion as unreasoned and irrelevant.
He's not defending the President he's making fun of you and pointing out why your self-indulgant argument is having the opposite effect that you hoped for.
One can agree with you and yet still think that your grade-school name calling is an embarrassment and is counter-productive to your goals. When you scatter moronic insults like "preznit" in your comment you're just encouraging people to disregard what you're saying as unreasoned and ill-conceived. People who have legitimate and considered complaints rarely feel the need to stoop to such childish techniques. It's only the people who have knee-jerk and reactionary opinions who consider name-calling a legitimate or effective form of political debate.
In other words -- if that's all you've got, shut the hell up and leave the discussion to people who can actually make a point. There are countless legitimate and compelling complaints that can be leveled at the President and I'd much rather you got out of the way so people could make them without getting lumped in with idiots like yourself.
If there is a disagreement over who has what domain name, it is US law that decides the case if it goes to court.
Perhaps this is true for ownership of TLD delegations, but it's not at all true for domains that are available to the public. Domain disputes are conducted in the jurisdiction of the TLD that contains them. It's not a matter for US law if there's a dispute over a.co.uk domain, for instance.
I've been buying CDs for twenty years and ripping them to my computer for about seven. I've got over 600 CDs but I never had to rip them all in a row. I rip them as I buy them now and it's not a burden at all.
The point of having 15,000 songs on my iPod is the fact that I don't want to be continually bothered by having to select which of my music I have and which I've left at home. I want it all on my iPod so that if a particular song or album comes to mind I am assured of having that song available to me.
Sometimes I am in the mood to shuffle randomly, and I'd probably be happy with just a subset of my overall library, but sometimes I just want to listen to a specific thing and I don't want to have to face not having it because there wasn't enough room for it.
The word "piracy" used in this sense is absolutely not "RIAA propaganda." Rather, it is a perfectly accepted and valid definition of the word.
THe word "Piracy" in reference to the infringement of intellectual
property dates back to at least 1771 according to the Oxford English
Dictionary:
2. fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another
for one's own profit, without authority; infringement of the rights conferred
by a patent or copyright.
1771 LUCKOMBE Hist. Print. 76 They..would suffer by this act of piracy, since
it was likely to prove a very bad edition. 1808 Med. Jrnl. XIX. 520 He is
charged with 'Literary Piracy', and an 'unprincipled suppression of the source
from whence he drew his information'. 1855 BREWSTER Newton I. iv. 71 With the
view of securing his invention of the telescope from foreign piracy.
Perhaps it's time to accept the fact that language is constantly evolving and
embrace this usage of the word piracy which has enjoyed popular use for over
200 years now.
No, what the original poster was referring to is the long-rumored and now imminent switch by DirecTV from using the DirecTiVo DVRs they're currently selling to one which is of their own invention, developed in house. The new DVRs will not be TiVo-based, which is a cause of some anxiety for the millions of happy DirecTiVo DVR users in the world. It's uncertain if the in-house DVR solution will be as good as the TiVo boxes that are currently sold.
I've never been comfortable with multi-head setups, for all the reasons people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The Apple 30" is a great solution for people who prefer just a single display.
Now you're just back to banging your head against the "force" issue. The difference with music is that there's a clear and established body of people who are willing to pay for music. A subset of those people, though, are also willing to obtain the music through illicit means because it's unlikely that they will be caught and penalized for doing so.
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No, I don't think it proves that point at all.
At a fundamental level, there is no inherent difference between an insightful comment and a total misfire of logical thought, either.
I think perhaps you were misreading the memory usage. Remember that each widget loads its own copy of the (rather large) shared webkit library which makes its apparent memory usage much larger than it is actually is. The Weather dashboard widget really only uses about 12MB of RAM and also the 150MB webkit which is shared with any other webkit-enabled application you have loaded.
If you're running Safari, or multiple widgets, then they're all sharing that same 150MB.
I've never even heard of Mambo or Joomlaforge.
It absolutely does if you're using the mysql libraries to connect to the mysql database. Rather than being sanely LGPL'd, the mysql connector libraries are GPL which precludes their use in non-GPL codebases. So, unless you're a GPL developer, you need to purchase a commercial license for mysql (or find a database with less restrictive licensing).
The fact that you're ignorant of this crucual detail (which is the foundation of mysql ab's ability to make money) reinforces the GP's point.
Man, you score +1 for attitude, but you're still brutally wrong when it comes to actually having a valid point.
For the vast majority of consumers, no video rental mechanism is bandwidth-throttled. Consumers don't want an entire station wagon full of movies delivered every night, so the higher bandwidth potential of USPS-delivered movies versus downloaded movies is not relevant to them.
The pacific ocean has a lot more water than lake michigan, but you can't fill up a bucket faster in the ocean than in the lake.
I also think that you'd have a tough time demonstrating that b&m video stores are still in business because they offer the ability to rent more movies at once. b&m video stores thrive because they provide lower latency than the alternatives -- you can walk in without having already decided what movie you want to watch that night. With netflix or other USPS-delivered rental options you have to decide days in advance what you plan to watch.
A download model will combine the best of both worlds -- allowing low latency flexibility of choice along with the convenience of not having to leave the house.
Good show on the attitude, though. I'm sure in some circles that can be an effective alternative to having a well-reasoned position.
But I don't want to watch a car full of DVDs tonight -- I just want to watch one movie, and haven't decided which one yet.
It's not a bandwidth issue, it's a flexibility issue.
If it does I'll just use the opportunity to buy more shares.
I believe that would be criminal conversion, not theft. But what do I know? I'm just some asshole on slashdot.
Nice thought, but perhaps you're being overly broad with the phrase "opensource community." Code you've released under the GPL is not usable by the Mozilla people, the Apache people, any of the BSD projects, PostgreSQL and any number of other great and thriving open source projects which do not use the GPL. Heck, you've pretty much locked out even projects like MySQL and Asterisk who use the GPL alongside commercial licensing (and consequently cannot import pure GPL code)
I was going to make a joke about GOTO war versus GOSUB war but in light of the current trend of never letting soldiers leave when they were originally supposed to I figure GOTO is probably a lot closer to reality.
Maybe someday our soldiers will be able to RETURN.
Once again, it has nothing at all do to with being nice. It has everything to do with sounding like your opinion matters. You can be totally correct but if you persist in arguing at a second grade level and pretending that silly names are good arguments you should expect to be ignored.
You are not being vitriolic, truthful or not. You're being adolescent.
OK, then, I'm right. The effect you're actually experiencing is that everyone reading your post is stopping after the first few words and discarding your opinion as unreasoned and irrelevant.
He's not defending the President he's making fun of you and pointing out why your self-indulgant argument is having the opposite effect that you hoped for.
One can agree with you and yet still think that your grade-school name calling is an embarrassment and is counter-productive to your goals. When you scatter moronic insults like "preznit" in your comment you're just encouraging people to disregard what you're saying as unreasoned and ill-conceived. People who have legitimate and considered complaints rarely feel the need to stoop to such childish techniques. It's only the people who have knee-jerk and reactionary opinions who consider name-calling a legitimate or effective form of political debate.
In other words -- if that's all you've got, shut the hell up and leave the discussion to people who can actually make a point. There are countless legitimate and compelling complaints that can be leveled at the President and I'd much rather you got out of the way so people could make them without getting lumped in with idiots like yourself.
If there is a disagreement over who has what domain name, it is US law that decides the case if it goes to court.
.co.uk domain, for instance.
Perhaps this is true for ownership of TLD delegations, but it's not at all true for domains that are available to the public. Domain disputes are conducted in the jurisdiction of the TLD that contains them. It's not a matter for US law if there's a dispute over a
Why? Because you refuse to get an Internet connection to avoid the monthly bill?
Get your ass in #d, man.
Slacker.
I've been buying CDs for twenty years and ripping them to my computer for about seven. I've got over 600 CDs but I never had to rip them all in a row. I rip them as I buy them now and it's not a burden at all.
The point of having 15,000 songs on my iPod is the fact that I don't want to be continually bothered by having to select which of my music I have and which I've left at home. I want it all on my iPod so that if a particular song or album comes to mind I am assured of having that song available to me.
Sometimes I am in the mood to shuffle randomly, and I'd probably be happy with just a subset of my overall library, but sometimes I just want to listen to a specific thing and I don't want to have to face not having it because there wasn't enough room for it.
2. fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit, without authority; infringement of the rights conferred by a patent or copyright.
1771 LUCKOMBE Hist. Print. 76 They..would suffer by this act of piracy, since it was likely to prove a very bad edition. 1808 Med. Jrnl. XIX. 520 He is charged with 'Literary Piracy', and an 'unprincipled suppression of the source from whence he drew his information'. 1855 BREWSTER Newton I. iv. 71 With the view of securing his invention of the telescope from foreign piracy.
Perhaps it's time to accept the fact that language is constantly evolving and embrace this usage of the word piracy which has enjoyed popular use for over 200 years now.
Just keep trying out rationalizations until you've found a way to justify one. At $2499 it's now even easier to do so.
No, what the original poster was referring to is the long-rumored and now imminent switch by DirecTV from using the DirecTiVo DVRs they're currently selling to one which is of their own invention, developed in house. The new DVRs will not be TiVo-based, which is a cause of some anxiety for the millions of happy DirecTiVo DVR users in the world. It's uncertain if the in-house DVR solution will be as good as the TiVo boxes that are currently sold.
It would be a much better example if it were true.
I've never been comfortable with multi-head setups, for all the reasons people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The Apple 30" is a great solution for people who prefer just a single display.
DRM does what? I'm able to back up my DRM-encumbered iTunes Music Store files without needing to break the DRM at all and without violating the DCMA.
Now you're just back to banging your head against the "force" issue. The difference with music is that there's a clear and established body of people who are willing to pay for music. A subset of those people, though, are also willing to obtain the music through illicit means because it's unlikely that they will be caught and penalized for doing so.