all these analogies are bad because neither BayTSP nor your ISP are very analogous to "the cops". this is more like an annoying neighborhood watch person writing down a list of everyone they don't like the looks of and sending it to local stores as a list of people they shouldn't serve. the watch person should make their list more vigilantly or else mind their own damned business and the stores should ignore the list since in this case they have clear evidence that it's bad, but this isn't the same as arresting the wrong person.
let's be honest though, a large part of France and Russia's vocal objection to the war was that they were making a ton of money brokering oil-for-foodprograms that would go away when Saddam went away. they were right for the wrong reasons
but if you had all your "car stuff" in a bag in your car so that you could easily move it to a new car, you wouldn't refer to it as "basically a car in a bag"
splitting a task in a way that works well in parallel is a problem whether you're using threads or concurrency though, so i wouldn't say either method is particularly easy for someone who has a background in designing more linear solutions
You're missing the point- if you're upset with winning the auction at $50 then that should not have been your maximum bid.
Maximum Bid = Highest price you are willing to pay... not an ridiculous amount to guarantee that you win (or you WILL get burned).
how is "Maximum Bid = Highest price you are willing to pay" any more useful of a statement than "Minimum Bid = Lowest price you are willing to accept"? yet you seem to think that buyers should use one of them as a maxim, but it's ok for the seller to play games to avoid his end?
Google and the like are only hurting themselves and those that advertise through AdWords by allowing parked domains to serve ads.
If you're paying Google $1500/month in advertising, do you really want your ad to show up on some parked domain that came up because someone can't spell microsoft.com? Google AdWords are pay-per-click, so if the user accidentally ends up there but still clicks your ad because they think it is relevant to them than what's the difference?
any argument stating that "you can already do this" only weakens the argument that these countries are being unreasonable for expecting them to let you do it
the grandparent's point wasn't that email is not confidential, but that internet hiccups, mailserver load surges, or brief mailserver outage due to any number of reasons could also cause the mailer to need to resend an email. if your financial provider's system isn't going to retry emails when the SMTP server is briefly unavailable you're likely going to have a problem later with any of those problems even if you don't use this method
Well those apps will be part of their 'version' of linux *shrug* apps that work in Linux are not a part of the Linux kernel, therefore the demands within the license of the Linux kernel in regards to modification aren't relevant. it's doubtful that any part of the PageRank algorithm that needs to be kept secret is embedded at the kernel level
I just don't see why they should have to redistribute any of their code if they have made a specialised version of linux for their own purposes, unless it is a part of the license that they have to do that? Presumably a lot of their modifications would be useless to anyone that won't be running a large collection of computers that are all just searching a massive database (though a lot of people would find that useful I admit). the license says that if they distribute their version of the Linux OS, they have to distribute the code for that version (GPLv3 was supposedly going to go further than that i believe). but again, it's doubtful that this would affect the secrecy of the PageRank algorithm or the people that try to game it.
If you are right then two terms for the same thing is already too many and we don't need something as silly as "FOSS". You can disagree about the dichotomy but only a stroustrupian philosopher will dodge the issue with concatenation of all the options. the two terms don't mean the same thing, he's saying that the FOSS term is a superset of both of the other terms that is useful for most people. the words "doberman" and "rottweiler" don't mean the same thing as each other, but "dog" summarizes both of them adequately enough for most people
Would you really like it if spammers could view Google's source to learn more about PageRank and scwew awound with your search results? why would PageRank be built into their version of Linux? i'm sure the sorting/filtering apps are just apps and therefore not covered by the GPL even if they distributed them
$50/year for updates when you have to (and will) shell out $130 for your update box?
it might convince those that skip OS releases otherwise. i'm still using Panther due to the fact that the Tiger upgrades seemed to be marginal for the cost of upgrade (please, someone extoll the virtues of Spotlight some more, i don't care)
I have several rifles that fire bullets that travel faster than the speed of sound. They don't make a sonic boom. They make a hell of a racket from the shell firing, but it isn't a sonic boom. Basically unless you're firing or moving something significantly large (a jet), there isn't going to be an audible sonic boom. even the tip of a bullwhip makes a sonic boom, and that's not particularly large. but i was under the impression that you need to be along the path of flight to hear the full effect of a sonic boom, so i don't think you would hear it when firing a rifle (where the flight path starts in front of you and continues away from you) as it's not building up a continuous shockwave that passes you all at once
With the amount of money you save not launching cruise missiles, you can afford to build more launchers. Let's say the launcher costs a billion dollars and the projectiles are $2000. You will then "save" $998,000 every time you launch a railgun projectile and you need launch only 1002 projectiles to get your launcher and the ammo for "free". and that's not all! act now and we'll throw in this rail-gun cozy to keep it clean and looking new. folks this is not just a naval weapons platform, it's a family heirloom
It makes sense though, why notify a user of updates that said user won't be able to install anyway? (for lack of admin rights) so that they can notify someone that does have the rights (but it's probably them anyway)
I can't find one online retailer that is selling either the wii or ps3 at retail that's because you blinked, Amazon sold out of their first allotment in like 15 seconds? online retailers made out like bandits, it wasn't brick-and-mortar stores that were requiring buyers to pay for huge bundles to get the console (huge bundles = guaranteed sales on games, mandatory purchase of marked up nintendo-branded memory cards, console replacement plans)
can't they fake GPS using the signal strength from the local cellphone towers to judge position? i thought cell providers were already working on such a system.
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all these analogies are bad because neither BayTSP nor your ISP are very analogous to "the cops". this is more like an annoying neighborhood watch person writing down a list of everyone they don't like the looks of and sending it to local stores as a list of people they shouldn't serve. the watch person should make their list more vigilantly or else mind their own damned business and the stores should ignore the list since in this case they have clear evidence that it's bad, but this isn't the same as arresting the wrong person.
so the only question would be whether your package got lost with 1 or 2 locks on it
maybe they'll start shipping Dell Voltmeters that don't register any current less than 139 volts free with the purchase of any laptop
let's be honest though, a large part of France and Russia's vocal objection to the war was that they were making a ton of money brokering oil-for-food programs that would go away when Saddam went away. they were right for the wrong reasons
but if you had all your "car stuff" in a bag in your car so that you could easily move it to a new car, you wouldn't refer to it as "basically a car in a bag"
splitting a task in a way that works well in parallel is a problem whether you're using threads or concurrency though, so i wouldn't say either method is particularly easy for someone who has a background in designing more linear solutions
Maximum Bid = Highest price you are willing to pay... not an ridiculous amount to guarantee that you win (or you WILL get burned).
how is "Maximum Bid = Highest price you are willing to pay" any more useful of a statement than "Minimum Bid = Lowest price you are willing to accept"? yet you seem to think that buyers should use one of them as a maxim, but it's ok for the seller to play games to avoid his end?i'm convinced that if you took just the bolded parts from that story you could piece them together into a much better article
If you're paying Google $1500/month in advertising, do you really want your ad to show up on some parked domain that came up because someone can't spell microsoft.com? Google AdWords are pay-per-click, so if the user accidentally ends up there but still clicks your ad because they think it is relevant to them than what's the difference?
any argument stating that "you can already do this" only weakens the argument that these countries are being unreasonable for expecting them to let you do it
the grandparent's point wasn't that email is not confidential, but that internet hiccups, mailserver load surges, or brief mailserver outage due to any number of reasons could also cause the mailer to need to resend an email. if your financial provider's system isn't going to retry emails when the SMTP server is briefly unavailable you're likely going to have a problem later with any of those problems even if you don't use this method
$50/year for updates when you have to (and will) shell out $130 for your update box?
it might convince those that skip OS releases otherwise. i'm still using Panther due to the fact that the Tiger upgrades seemed to be marginal for the cost of upgrade (please, someone extoll the virtues of Spotlight some more, i don't care)I have several rifles that fire bullets that travel faster than the speed of sound. They don't make a sonic boom. They make a hell of a racket from the shell firing, but it isn't a sonic boom. Basically unless you're firing or moving something significantly large (a jet), there isn't going to be an audible sonic boom. even the tip of a bullwhip makes a sonic boom, and that's not particularly large. but i was under the impression that you need to be along the path of flight to hear the full effect of a sonic boom, so i don't think you would hear it when firing a rifle (where the flight path starts in front of you and continues away from you) as it's not building up a continuous shockwave that passes you all at once
then they can use that time to find a new job?
someone please post the projected cost for the 15,000 floppy discs the parent poster will need to store this movie
don't worry, there's a link to click to say you didn't receive that frame of the video and they'll send it again
can't they fake GPS using the signal strength from the local cellphone towers to judge position? i thought cell providers were already working on such a system.