"Do you know why SERIOUS businesses "throw" money at proprietary software? Because one of the first clauses in any OSS license states that the software comes with NO WARRANTY"
For all the money we throw at Oracle, we don't get any warranty. Not only that, we still have to make a separate contract for support.
>This involved: >- detection of arbitrary cycles >- planning for how to deal with them >- relatively elaborate creation of tools to support plan
I would even speculate that there is an element of "avoiding being caught executing the plan." Does that imply a guilty conscience to some degree, or only fear of his handlers?
>Now, if the filesystem commit happens right between, 3 and 4, the truncation hits the disk, but the new content does not (yet).
But it does write to the journal to say that it did. This isn't a subtle thing, but people are missing something fundamental about the nature of the bug.
My dad considered "Instant-On" to be a much more important feature on a TV than color, and I don't disagree with his reasoning. (Some of you kids might not remember, but it was pretty common to switch from a very good monochrome TV to a relatively crappy color TV.)
I had an 80286 Tandy once with DOS 3.3 in ROM. I loved it, but unfortunately, cheapish 80386 machines were already out so I didn't use that computer for very long.
These days I just use iMacs and Macbook Pro's (my workplace is a 100% OSX shop), and I rarely, if ever, boot anything since OSX does such a good job at sleeping.
Basically I switched from Linux to OSX; I haven't really used Windows much since about 1996. Didn't everybody already switch to Linux back then anyway?
The C specification already requires the compiler to deal with that, and it's been the case since K&R. No matter what the implementation defines as NULL, comparing or assigning 0 in a pointer context always works.
Either the market can bear the higher cost, or it cannot. And if it can, and if that helps alleviate the shortfall government's budget deficit, then so be it. If the market *can't* bear the higher cost, then the companies *can't* "pass the costs on to the consumer", since that's the definition of the price level the consumer won't pay.
>No, it's a terrible argument. K-12, as I understand it (it's a US term, and I'm not intimately familiar with the US educational system), ends at age 12.
No, it ends at "grade 12", which is the final year of compulsory education, and most students matriculate at age 18.
It's not really true, but if you go in playing this "cynical bastard" card, you won't be competitive enough to get that second interview -- not even in a shop where your interviewers are *also* cynical bastards.
don't just wish for "a goddess" or you will end up with Kali-Ma. Trust me on this.
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It strikes me that people mark "1996" as significant to the net, because I see the beginning of the contemporary era as around 93-94. That was when "the internet" had its big transition from the motivated few (or those who were *required* to use it), to a mass-market consumer product. Everything else follows from that, and the only reason 1996 seems significant to me is, that was the year I went from being paid hourly as a system administrator to a salary as a network engineer, and *that* is correlated to explosive sales.
Why announce anything? That just makes it more awkward (and probably makes it less likely) to continue working as a contractor or whatever. Tell the people who are immediately affected by your departure, unless they are the ones initiating your departure. Then if you show up at some point in the future, it's not weird. Why tell anyone you are leaving who doesn't need to know?
When I left my last job, I told exactly two people: My immediate manager, and the director of the institute. Other than this I kept it very, very quiet that I was leaving. Certainly, I didn't do the usual "send an all-staff email to let everyone know what a waste of air I think they are." I've seen so many of those, and they always seem totally petty and stupid and are always very bridge-burning.
>Even if you -do- want a FaceBook profile, there's no reason it cannot consist of "I'm >named X. Y. to see a gazillion of my pictures/poems/essays/whatever, visit my homepage at >[url]"
I know that, and I also know a whole lot of people for whom Facebook is their first online experience. Quite a few of them have put original material on Facebook, often in the form of discussion. When Facebook tried to change its terms, it potentially affected publishing contracts and future marketability of creative work. This created a backlash with a level of outrage the company wasn't prepared to handle.
"Correct, it doesn't need a signature. However, some proof of a 'meeting of the minds' is required."
This is an easier hurdle than proving that consideration changed hands, when it didn't. It's the main reason EULA's aren't contracts. On the other hand, if you have a contract, you can make acceptance of a given EULA a clause in that contract. The Windows EULA is binding if your business has a contract with a vendor for a site license, and that contract says you accept the EULA.
>Don't like that they can re-use your "private" data?
I don't like that they claim to have a license to my copyrighted creative works, without seeking my consent and providing valuable consideration. Most of my facebook network consists of professional, publish writers. There are so many problems with facebook's unilateral and perpetual claim, that we don't even know where to begin.
It's one thing to claim a license in order to make it legal for your users to post on a site you host, but it's another thing entirely to claim a perpetual, non-revocable license to publish, create derivative works, etc.
A buyer's market also lets you tell a HOA to STFU. Get to the closing table, never having signed anything to do with any HOA. Offer to walk away if the seller or any agent presses the matter. The money's in the escrow account, the title is on the table, and you're going to walk away if this HOA thing isn't struck. You'll get the house, no HOA.
>I hope you arent referring to Cuba Missile Crisis, because that indeed was very long ago.
It was not "very long ago." The same government is ruling Cuba today, and plenty of us personally remember.
They did what they did, and people who are in power in the USA, haven't excused them just yet. It's not *my* position, so don't complain to me about it.
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"Do you know why SERIOUS businesses "throw" money at proprietary software? Because one of the first clauses in any OSS license states that the software comes with NO WARRANTY"
For all the money we throw at Oracle, we don't get any warranty. Not only that, we still have to make a separate contract for support.
>This involved:
>- detection of arbitrary cycles
>- planning for how to deal with them
>- relatively elaborate creation of tools to support plan
I would even speculate that there is an element of "avoiding being caught executing the plan."
Does that imply a guilty conscience to some degree, or only fear of his handlers?
>Now, if the filesystem commit happens right between, 3 and 4, the truncation hits the disk, but the new content does not (yet).
But it does write to the journal to say that it did.
This isn't a subtle thing, but people are missing something fundamental about the nature of the bug.
>add a clear end-mark that allows to check whether the file was written completely.
Why do you assume the file was persisted in top-down fashion? Better make that "end-mark" a checksum.
The Philo T. Farnsworth of voice commo, Antonio Meucci?
The bad news is there might be a sales tax on downloads.
The far, far worse news is you are in Missinhippie. Get out while you can.
My dad considered "Instant-On" to be a much more important feature on a TV than color, and I don't disagree with his reasoning. (Some of you kids might not remember, but it was pretty common to switch from a very good monochrome TV to a relatively crappy color TV.)
I had an 80286 Tandy once with DOS 3.3 in ROM. I loved it, but unfortunately, cheapish 80386 machines were already out so I didn't use that computer for very long.
These days I just use iMacs and Macbook Pro's (my workplace is a 100% OSX shop), and I rarely, if ever, boot anything since OSX does such a good job at sleeping.
Basically I switched from Linux to OSX; I haven't really used Windows much since about 1996. Didn't everybody already switch to Linux back then anyway?
The C specification already requires the compiler to deal with that, and it's been the case since K&R. No matter what the implementation defines as NULL, comparing or assigning 0 in a pointer context always works.
http://c-faq.com/null/ptrtest.html
Either the market can bear the higher cost, or it cannot. And if it can, and if that helps alleviate the shortfall government's budget deficit, then so be it. If the market *can't* bear the higher cost, then the companies *can't* "pass the costs on to the consumer", since that's the definition of the price level the consumer won't pay.
On the other hand, getting your ass kicked by a guy in a wheelchair is humiliating everywhere. I hope it happens to you soon.
>No, it's a terrible argument. K-12, as I understand it (it's a US term, and I'm not intimately familiar with the US educational system), ends at age 12.
No, it ends at "grade 12", which is the final year of compulsory education, and most students matriculate at age 18.
AT&T is the problem with the iPhone. If I could get an iPhone with Verizon service I would have bought every generation so far.
>Looking for work?
>There aren't any jobs left!
It's not really true, but if you go in playing this "cynical bastard" card, you won't be competitive enough to get that second interview -- not even in a shop where your interviewers are *also* cynical bastards.
don't just wish for "a goddess" or you will end up with Kali-Ma. Trust me on this.
It strikes me that people mark "1996" as significant to the net, because I see the beginning of the contemporary era as around 93-94. That was when "the internet" had its big transition from the motivated few (or those who were *required* to use it), to a mass-market consumer product. Everything else follows from that, and the only reason 1996 seems significant to me is, that was the year I went from being paid hourly as a system administrator to a salary as a network engineer, and *that* is correlated to explosive sales.
Why announce anything? That just makes it more awkward (and probably makes it less likely) to continue working as a contractor or whatever. Tell the people who are immediately affected by your departure, unless they are the ones initiating your departure. Then if you show up at some point in the future, it's not weird. Why tell anyone you are leaving who doesn't need to know?
When I left my last job, I told exactly two people: My immediate manager, and the director of the institute. Other than this I kept it very, very quiet that I was leaving. Certainly, I didn't do the usual "send an all-staff email to let everyone know what a waste of air I think they are." I've seen so many of those, and they always seem totally petty and stupid and are always very bridge-burning.
>Even if you -do- want a FaceBook profile, there's no reason it cannot consist of "I'm
>named X. Y. to see a gazillion of my pictures/poems/essays/whatever, visit my homepage at
>[url]"
I know that, and I also know a whole lot of people for whom Facebook is their first online experience. Quite a few of them have put original material on Facebook, often in the form of discussion. When Facebook tried to change its terms, it potentially affected publishing contracts and future marketability of creative work. This created a backlash with a level of outrage the company wasn't prepared to handle.
"Correct, it doesn't need a signature. However, some proof of a 'meeting of the minds' is required."
This is an easier hurdle than proving that consideration changed hands, when it didn't. It's the main reason EULA's aren't contracts. On the other hand, if you have a contract, you can make acceptance of a given EULA a clause in that contract. The Windows EULA is binding if your business has a contract with a vendor for a site license, and that contract says you accept the EULA.
Most EULA's are perfectly valid and enforceable when made part of a contract.
>Don't like that they can re-use your "private" data?
I don't like that they claim to have a license to my copyrighted creative works, without seeking my consent and providing valuable consideration.
Most of my facebook network consists of professional, publish writers. There are so many problems with facebook's unilateral and perpetual claim, that we don't even know where to begin.
It's one thing to claim a license in order to make it legal for your users to post on a site you host, but it's another thing entirely to claim a perpetual, non-revocable license to publish, create derivative works, etc.
Dealers don't like them either. Takes all the finesse out of the job.
Makes it a live-action video blackjack.
Saying what he posted during voir dire will keep him off any jury.
A buyer's market also lets you tell a HOA to STFU. Get to the closing table, never having signed anything to do with any HOA.
Offer to walk away if the seller or any agent presses the matter. The money's in the escrow account, the title is on the table,
and you're going to walk away if this HOA thing isn't struck. You'll get the house, no HOA.
>I hope you arent referring to Cuba Missile Crisis, because that indeed was very long ago.
It was not "very long ago." The same government is ruling Cuba today, and plenty of us personally remember.
They did what they did, and people who are in power in the USA, haven't excused them just yet. It's not *my* position, so don't complain to me about it.