ITYM "MySQL/Informix/DB2". Seriously, IBM is already doing this duplication thing. They've gone and made the client common (whether you use Informix or DB2 or Cloudscape on your server, you can use the same "free" (but not open-source) client code). It might be interesting to see if IBM did the same to MySQL. I have no idea how similar Informix and DB2 were to begin with, but MySQL seems very different at that level, so it may be tougher to do.
The two sides (in and out) of your can are only at a few hundred Kelvin, and the rate of IR leaving one side for the other is very low (and being only a few Kelvin apart, the net rate is going to be even lower). The sun, however, is at a few million Kelvin, and thus sends out IR at a much higher rate.
Anything that hurts the advertisers using AdSense hurts Google. If Google doesn't listen to their customers (i.e., advertisers), those advertisers will go elsewhere. If elsewhere doesn't exist, I'm sure Yahoo! or Microsoft or someone will start an "elsewhere" to go to.
I'm not advocating the civil disobedience (or slamming it, for that matter), merely noting that it really doesn't matter where it hits - Google's ability to get advertisers to use their service will be impacted.
And here I thought the OP was going to talk about sci-fi shows like CSI (any), or even to a lesser degree L&O, but then I realised that those aren't Fox shows. So I immediately assumed it was 24, which makes CSI:NY look like a reality show.
As a Canuckian who realises that we already have two- or three-tiered health care already, despite all the politicians who deny it (a base level, like the US's medicare, but a bit more pervasive; another level for those who can afford extra health insurance above that; and yet another level for those who get health insurance from their employer, none of which are unlimited health care options), and can't imagine a purely government-run system working pretty much at all, I'll just point out the difference for you: it's a matter of who is making the calls on whether the procedure you want/need is covered. In the case of publicly-funded health care, it's the bureaucracy who calls the shots: people who are beholden only to their next level of management, and the overall budget they've been assigned by the government. An arbitrary line is drawn that weighs cost and perceived lifespan should the procedure be done, and if you fall on the bad side of the line, you're denied with basically no recourse.
In the case of private, for-profit health care, there is an obvious bias toward profitability. It's a delicate line to toe, because if you make an obviously bad decision, you'll end up in court and lose all the profit and then some from that customer, and you'll also get bad PR, which hurts profitability. The former is easier to deal with (bury the plaintiff with your corporate lawyers), but the latter can be a bit more difficult with plaintiffs that show a backbone. Of course, there's the obvious way around both: deny every claim to start with, and pay out all claims that appeal. As long as that doesn't get out, you'll probably pay out next to nothing, with few lawsuits and little in the way of negative PR.
Not that I'm particularly a fan of Democrats, and in fact prefer the Repubs on almost (not quite) every issue, but I suspect that if you just scratch "Democrat" from both occurrences in your post, you'd probably still be right.
Chuck Norris doesn't need to stimulate the economy of a nation of 300+ million people. He just stands there and the economy stimulates... er, nevermind.
And this is why I've moved to openrc. Even when I do reboot (which is generally not very often), I can go from the "shutdown" command to my X login screen in about 30 seconds. From cold boot to X login screen is generally about 10-15 seconds. From cold boot to being able to ssh in from another machine is about 6 or 7 seconds. I'm pretty sure that, by tweaking the dependencies of stuff in/etc/init.d, I could shave a bit more time off that, but that may be getting a bit more dangerous. (I don't go for overclocking, for example - I prefer simpler ways of getting speed, such as more RAM, faster disks, etc.)
As an interesting oddity, our local blue-bag recycle programme takes styrofoam for recycling. I have no idea what they do with it, but it's on the list of things to recycle, so we throw all of our packing styrofoam that we get from online orders and what have you in there. We were shocked to find out it was recyclable...
Thus far, the most insightful reply has been the one that points out the mods are using their moderation as a weapon.
Seriously, from a purely scientific perspective, that single-celled organism has the full DNA of a human being unique from his/her mother. I've never seen anything in biology (perhaps someone can point me to widely accepted consensus otherwise?) that indicates that the human embryo is anything other than a distinct, individual human being at an earlier stage of life than the 98-year-old on her death bed. There is no point, earlier, or later, with such a drastic change in being than the moment of conception. All phases after this are merely natural and expected growth, as directed by genes and environment. That embryo is both definitively human, and definitively unique, at least according to all definitions that biology can use. (People saying that the embryo can't reproduce are missing the point: 1. neither can a 2-month-old child who is obviously a human being, and 2. they can when they split to form identical twins, though that's obviously asexual reproduction, not the sexual reproduction we normally use.)
As for the anti-biotics strawman, you have a DNA-matching problem.
The whole fact that life begins at conception is biological/scientific. Granting of "personhood" is a legal distinction that has no basis in science. If it were, then African Americans (or anyone else with black skin) would never have been enslaved, and women would have always had a vote. The fact is, science shows that the child is a distinct lifeform from its mother from the moment of conception, and the law has chosen to ignore that until the child is completely removed from the womb.
As long as we get our terminology right ("life" vs "personhood"), there is no dispute.
Other than USB memory sticks, most USB devices seem to require a special app anyway. Even when it's just a VFAT device that can be accessed by simply mounting it on Linux. So, I don't see the problem, other than, perhaps, actually producing said "driver" (which probably also is mostly GPLd already).
Seriously? I thought they'd be able to get away with full reuse of libraries and such. How many copies of the UAC or the BSOD do you really need at a time? There should only ever be one VM at a time not doing either of those two things...
"First, the idea to commit the crime had to come from government agents and not the person accused of the crime." A woman, no matter how provocatively dressed, simply standing there does not give the idea to commit solicitation. The accused came up with that prejudice all on his own. Further, simply assuming she's a hooker isn't criminal (no matter what non-hookers think about their sultry outfits). The fact that he stops to talk to her is of his own volition. IFshe initiates the conversation, say stopping a passer-by, then that changes everything. That's why vice cops never ever initiate the conversation. They will never be the first to bring up "business" to avoid this part of entrapment.
"Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime." If the accused says, "You know what, I changed my mind" and starts to walk or drive away, the cop can't say, "Wait up, I'll knock off 10%." Also, simply standing there so he can walk up and solicit is not entrapment, it's merely providing opportunity. If she wasn't there, and a real hooker was, he'd still commit the offense, thus it's not entrapment.
"And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him." This gets back to who started the conversation about sex. If the cop starts the conversation, then there's reasonable doubt that the accused was ready and willing to talk about sex for money, but if he initiates the topic, then, again, if the woman wasn't a cop but really was a hooker, then he would still have committed the crime, and thus not entrapment.
WRT RIAA, of course, it fails to meet the "officer of the law" part. That said, I could see someone attempting it anyway by putting forth a theory that the RIAA became a law unto themselves, and thus were obviously officers of their law. If I were on that jury, I probably could be convinced that the RIAA was acting that way.
If your model fails to account for certain basics of humanity, such as the desire to maximise profits at a minimum cost, which is, at its most core, the cause of basically every market crash if you dig deep enough, then your model fails. In that greed, we always learn what will maximise our profits, but we apparently don't learn that a crash is inevitable. If that means someone will have to reverse engineer your model in order to maximise their profits, they will do so. Assuming otherwise isn't just hubris, it's unfounded arrogance.
To be honest, large amounts, if not nearly all, of our residential construction in Canada is done in feet and inches. And then, our municipal permits, etc., are done in metric. Annoying.
The fact you have choices for which OS to install on your computer proves Microsoft is, in fact, *not* a monopoly. PsyStar vs. Apple is actually a great example for WHY Microsoft is not a monopoly. If you buy a PC from PsyStar you can choose OS X or Windows. The lawsuit shines light on the scenario greedy scumbags have thrust upon the consumers against their will, a scenario that obfuscates real issues with half-truths or complete fallacies about software licenses, end user agreements, and monopolistic practices. Because you have the freedom to choose Dell, HP, Apple, PsyStar or any other PC vendor, means you have the freedom to buy a PC with an OS other than from Microsoft.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
For starters, you must be a techie. For you to think that a monopoly is an absolute measurement shows that you think this way.
A monopoly is not a company that is exclusive in an industry. It's a company that has such an effective control over its industry that most people pretty much equate the company with the industry. And, as most people here point out, that's not illegal. When you use the control in one industry (OS) to project into another industry (Office), THAT is illegal. That you have competitors in the first industry is only significant if those competitors have significant mindshare and people treat the competitor as similar enough to weigh their options.
Apple's mindshare is rising enough to start to threaten the monopoly status of Microsoft. That doesn't mean that PsyStar has any bearing on it. Their mindshare is close enough to zero to make Linux on the Desktop look like a reality.
Remember: a healthy industry has two major competitors slugging each other out at about 40% marketshare each, a third competitor between 15 and 20% marketshare, largely ignored by the first two, and then a myriad of minor competitors making up the rest of the market, filling niche needs in that market. A dominated, but not monopolistic, industry has its number one company at about 60% marketshare, a number two at 30-40%, a number three company trying to get double digit percentages, and possibly a few others eeking out their living in niche markets. The desktop operating system market is not anywhere near these. Microsoft is sitting over 80%, Mac is somewhere around 5-10%, and others are filling niche roles. The server operating system market is not, from what I can tell, hugely different, though Mac and Linux might have their numbers reversed.
The amount of effort they have to put out is the same for one or ten? Really? So, ten different machines aren't more likely than a single machine to have more problems? Sure, there'll undoubtedly be some overlap, but that's what large-scale pricing is for. You shouldn't be paying ten times a single-server cost when you buy ten licenses, whether that's RHEL, SLES, Windows Server, or any other software. But, you will definitely be a bigger risk for a higher call count than someone who only has one server. And staffing those call centers do cost real bucks. And they need to have appropriate worst-case staffing to meet demand within their designated goals (e.g., 90% of calls answered within 5 minutes, 95% of the time, or whatever their numbers are).
I used to run RHEL - my employer gave me the option of RHEL or SLES, and SLES simply didn't have all the desktop tools (and SLED didn't have the server tools), so I chose RHEL. Eventually, a few years ago, I gave up on that and went to Gentoo. But that wasn't about cost - it was about flexibility.
Yeah, until you update a package that breaks [vendor]'s supplied system administration tools, whether that be by accident (bug injection/exposure) or on purpose (bug fixed, but the tool relied on the broken behaviour). That seems like a fairly technical reason to me...
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ITYM "MySQL/Informix/DB2". Seriously, IBM is already doing this duplication thing. They've gone and made the client common (whether you use Informix or DB2 or Cloudscape on your server, you can use the same "free" (but not open-source) client code). It might be interesting to see if IBM did the same to MySQL. I have no idea how similar Informix and DB2 were to begin with, but MySQL seems very different at that level, so it may be tougher to do.
Common sense: FAIL
The two sides (in and out) of your can are only at a few hundred Kelvin, and the rate of IR leaving one side for the other is very low (and being only a few Kelvin apart, the net rate is going to be even lower). The sun, however, is at a few million Kelvin, and thus sends out IR at a much higher rate.
"This Presidency is brought to you by Coca Cola(TM), 'The Coke side of Politics', and Ford, where Lobbying is Job 2, right after Quality."
Anything that hurts the advertisers using AdSense hurts Google. If Google doesn't listen to their customers (i.e., advertisers), those advertisers will go elsewhere. If elsewhere doesn't exist, I'm sure Yahoo! or Microsoft or someone will start an "elsewhere" to go to.
I'm not advocating the civil disobedience (or slamming it, for that matter), merely noting that it really doesn't matter where it hits - Google's ability to get advertisers to use their service will be impacted.
+1, Kool-aid
And here I thought the OP was going to talk about sci-fi shows like CSI (any), or even to a lesser degree L&O, but then I realised that those aren't Fox shows. So I immediately assumed it was 24, which makes CSI:NY look like a reality show.
As a Canuckian who realises that we already have two- or three-tiered health care already, despite all the politicians who deny it (a base level, like the US's medicare, but a bit more pervasive; another level for those who can afford extra health insurance above that; and yet another level for those who get health insurance from their employer, none of which are unlimited health care options), and can't imagine a purely government-run system working pretty much at all, I'll just point out the difference for you: it's a matter of who is making the calls on whether the procedure you want/need is covered. In the case of publicly-funded health care, it's the bureaucracy who calls the shots: people who are beholden only to their next level of management, and the overall budget they've been assigned by the government. An arbitrary line is drawn that weighs cost and perceived lifespan should the procedure be done, and if you fall on the bad side of the line, you're denied with basically no recourse.
In the case of private, for-profit health care, there is an obvious bias toward profitability. It's a delicate line to toe, because if you make an obviously bad decision, you'll end up in court and lose all the profit and then some from that customer, and you'll also get bad PR, which hurts profitability. The former is easier to deal with (bury the plaintiff with your corporate lawyers), but the latter can be a bit more difficult with plaintiffs that show a backbone. Of course, there's the obvious way around both: deny every claim to start with, and pay out all claims that appeal. As long as that doesn't get out, you'll probably pay out next to nothing, with few lawsuits and little in the way of negative PR.
Not that I'm particularly a fan of Democrats, and in fact prefer the Repubs on almost (not quite) every issue, but I suspect that if you just scratch "Democrat" from both occurrences in your post, you'd probably still be right.
Chuck Norris doesn't need to stimulate the economy of a nation of 300+ million people. He just stands there and the economy stimulates ... er, nevermind.
And this is why I've moved to openrc. Even when I do reboot (which is generally not very often), I can go from the "shutdown" command to my X login screen in about 30 seconds. From cold boot to X login screen is generally about 10-15 seconds. From cold boot to being able to ssh in from another machine is about 6 or 7 seconds. I'm pretty sure that, by tweaking the dependencies of stuff in /etc/init.d, I could shave a bit more time off that, but that may be getting a bit more dangerous. (I don't go for overclocking, for example - I prefer simpler ways of getting speed, such as more RAM, faster disks, etc.)
As an interesting oddity, our local blue-bag recycle programme takes styrofoam for recycling. I have no idea what they do with it, but it's on the list of things to recycle, so we throw all of our packing styrofoam that we get from online orders and what have you in there. We were shocked to find out it was recyclable...
"This week only, we're having a tufer sale! That's right, two for the price of one!"
Actually, in this case, they're actionable. Um... nevermind.
Thus far, the most insightful reply has been the one that points out the mods are using their moderation as a weapon.
Seriously, from a purely scientific perspective, that single-celled organism has the full DNA of a human being unique from his/her mother. I've never seen anything in biology (perhaps someone can point me to widely accepted consensus otherwise?) that indicates that the human embryo is anything other than a distinct, individual human being at an earlier stage of life than the 98-year-old on her death bed. There is no point, earlier, or later, with such a drastic change in being than the moment of conception. All phases after this are merely natural and expected growth, as directed by genes and environment. That embryo is both definitively human, and definitively unique, at least according to all definitions that biology can use. (People saying that the embryo can't reproduce are missing the point: 1. neither can a 2-month-old child who is obviously a human being, and 2. they can when they split to form identical twins, though that's obviously asexual reproduction, not the sexual reproduction we normally use.)
As for the anti-biotics strawman, you have a DNA-matching problem.
Blanket bans are wrong.
Is that a blanket ban on blanket bans?
The whole fact that life begins at conception is biological/scientific. Granting of "personhood" is a legal distinction that has no basis in science. If it were, then African Americans (or anyone else with black skin) would never have been enslaved, and women would have always had a vote. The fact is, science shows that the child is a distinct lifeform from its mother from the moment of conception, and the law has chosen to ignore that until the child is completely removed from the womb.
As long as we get our terminology right ("life" vs "personhood"), there is no dispute.
Other than USB memory sticks, most USB devices seem to require a special app anyway. Even when it's just a VFAT device that can be accessed by simply mounting it on Linux. So, I don't see the problem, other than, perhaps, actually producing said "driver" (which probably also is mostly GPLd already).
Seriously? I thought they'd be able to get away with full reuse of libraries and such. How many copies of the UAC or the BSOD do you really need at a time? There should only ever be one VM at a time not doing either of those two things...
Ok, let's look at the rules for entrapment.
WRT RIAA, of course, it fails to meet the "officer of the law" part. That said, I could see someone attempting it anyway by putting forth a theory that the RIAA became a law unto themselves, and thus were obviously officers of their law. If I were on that jury, I probably could be convinced that the RIAA was acting that way.
linear models assume systems don't learn, iirc
Apparently, neither do they.
If your model fails to account for certain basics of humanity, such as the desire to maximise profits at a minimum cost, which is, at its most core, the cause of basically every market crash if you dig deep enough, then your model fails. In that greed, we always learn what will maximise our profits, but we apparently don't learn that a crash is inevitable. If that means someone will have to reverse engineer your model in order to maximise their profits, they will do so. Assuming otherwise isn't just hubris, it's unfounded arrogance.
To be honest, large amounts, if not nearly all, of our residential construction in Canada is done in feet and inches. And then, our municipal permits, etc., are done in metric. Annoying.
The fact you have choices for which OS to install on your computer proves Microsoft is, in fact, *not* a monopoly. PsyStar vs. Apple is actually a great example for WHY Microsoft is not a monopoly. If you buy a PC from PsyStar you can choose OS X or Windows. The lawsuit shines light on the scenario greedy scumbags have thrust upon the consumers against their will, a scenario that obfuscates real issues with half-truths or complete fallacies about software licenses, end user agreements, and monopolistic practices. Because you have the freedom to choose Dell, HP, Apple, PsyStar or any other PC vendor, means you have the freedom to buy a PC with an OS other than from Microsoft.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
For starters, you must be a techie. For you to think that a monopoly is an absolute measurement shows that you think this way.
A monopoly is not a company that is exclusive in an industry. It's a company that has such an effective control over its industry that most people pretty much equate the company with the industry. And, as most people here point out, that's not illegal. When you use the control in one industry (OS) to project into another industry (Office), THAT is illegal. That you have competitors in the first industry is only significant if those competitors have significant mindshare and people treat the competitor as similar enough to weigh their options.
Apple's mindshare is rising enough to start to threaten the monopoly status of Microsoft. That doesn't mean that PsyStar has any bearing on it. Their mindshare is close enough to zero to make Linux on the Desktop look like a reality.
Remember: a healthy industry has two major competitors slugging each other out at about 40% marketshare each, a third competitor between 15 and 20% marketshare, largely ignored by the first two, and then a myriad of minor competitors making up the rest of the market, filling niche needs in that market. A dominated, but not monopolistic, industry has its number one company at about 60% marketshare, a number two at 30-40%, a number three company trying to get double digit percentages, and possibly a few others eeking out their living in niche markets. The desktop operating system market is not anywhere near these. Microsoft is sitting over 80%, Mac is somewhere around 5-10%, and others are filling niche roles. The server operating system market is not, from what I can tell, hugely different, though Mac and Linux might have their numbers reversed.
The amount of effort they have to put out is the same for one or ten? Really? So, ten different machines aren't more likely than a single machine to have more problems? Sure, there'll undoubtedly be some overlap, but that's what large-scale pricing is for. You shouldn't be paying ten times a single-server cost when you buy ten licenses, whether that's RHEL, SLES, Windows Server, or any other software. But, you will definitely be a bigger risk for a higher call count than someone who only has one server. And staffing those call centers do cost real bucks. And they need to have appropriate worst-case staffing to meet demand within their designated goals (e.g., 90% of calls answered within 5 minutes, 95% of the time, or whatever their numbers are).
I used to run RHEL - my employer gave me the option of RHEL or SLES, and SLES simply didn't have all the desktop tools (and SLED didn't have the server tools), so I chose RHEL. Eventually, a few years ago, I gave up on that and went to Gentoo. But that wasn't about cost - it was about flexibility.
Next thing you're going to tell me is that the plural of moose isn't meese. Stupid pedants.
Yeah, until you update a package that breaks [vendor]'s supplied system administration tools, whether that be by accident (bug injection/exposure) or on purpose (bug fixed, but the tool relied on the broken behaviour). That seems like a fairly technical reason to me...