The absolute refusual of the mozilla team to implemente broken javascript. That's what keeps me using IE for the few internal apps I have here that refuse to work with any other browser.
That and java support, something that again, 90% of 3rd party developers cannot get right without using IE.
<sigh> Don't let the moz team take the low road. Don't support broken standards! Just grab your local clue-by-four and start hitting people who write broken web code.:-/
You completely miss the point that all those people who "become" non-working, were once working, and put their own money into Social Security. There may have been a decade or two where this wasn't universally true, but the VAST majority of people alive today put their fair share into Social Security.
de·moc·ra·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-mkr-s) n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
See, that was the whole POINT of Social Security. Sock away your money in a government backed investment vehicle so that when you retire, you are taken care of. What is so hard to understand about that?
The fact that every administration since Nixon has raided the Social Security fund for their pet military and economic projects shouldn't blind you to the fact that Social Security was working.
You apparently never dealt with the Enterprise Licensing revision (what was it, 4.0) in Summer of 2002. The significant difference is the VARs. Oracle has few, Microsoft has many. That's what gives the Microsoft machine price discipline.
Oracle doesn't need that (in fact it's not very desirable), since they don't have leverage to force^Wencourage you to use their products.
Yes, the Oracle sales machine is truly bad; what's even worse is that you think Oracle is better than SQL Server...;-)
Truly the ONLY great product Microsoft has ever made (even tho they bought it from)....
EULA's work because even if you choose not to accept them, your recourse is getting your money back. Whether your local retail outlet disallows such is irrelevant. If you paid for something, and detest the EULA, you have every right to return said software product, and any vendor refusing to refund your money is violating the law.
Which is why EULA's have had no serious challenges to date. Witness the "Great Redmond Refund Day" just last year. You too can talk your XP box back to Microsoft and demand your money back.
Yes, I do believe they specifically reserve that right in their EULA, although they would be forced to return the money he paid for said license, which is all the warranty they offer.
Part 2(B) of the GPL states: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
It's that pesky definition of "third party" that could bite them. I'm not sure where general consensus on the definition of this clause sits at the moment, however, so I'll drop it.:-)
3. Work all the bugs out
4. Get more useful tools that you don't have time to write.
Exactly how is one Open Source AV scanner monopolistically killing another Open Source AV scanner? Open Source is by definition anti-competitive to Closed Source. (Not quite what I want to say, but as close as I can get with a 151 hangover.)
RAV and AVG have consistently outperformed McAfee and Norton AV for me. Must be the proximity to the former Eastern bloc driving them to anti-virus perfection...
Actually they do have that right. Considering that at least one judicial body has decided that they are a "monopoly", Federal anti-trust laws apply to Microsoft.
It's a poor analogy because the government MANDATES all car manufacturers in the U.S. sell cars with seatbelts. It won't be long until airbags, front, passenger, side curtain are mandated as well.
I think the fear is that if the NSA has contractors working for them, and they want to mandate this system for any SELinux based software they right, then it's in the NSA's best interests to get the SELinux kernel changes into the mainstream kernel. Since no one is going to just trust an SELinux distribution that appears...
Providing SELinux to other classified agencies == distribution, thereby invoking that pesky little clause in the GPL that could fuck them royally if some Pro-GPL RMS fanboy in said classified agency decided to report them to groklaw.
So it'd be pretty pointless for say, giving gps coordinates to a hardened underground bunker deep in the jungle canopy? Makes you wonder why they didn't give the transmitters a few hundred(thousand?) more watts of power...
Reminds me of this time I was sitting in the gate at T.F.Greene airport waiting for a Southwest flight to Tampa... looked out the window, and there it was, an American Airlines aircraft with 666 for a tailnumber.
Now I'm not highly superstitious (tosses spilled salt over shoulder)... but I would think twice about getting on said plane (and still probably board it, damn $250 ticket)...
I use the Supertrak SX6000 in a raid 5 configuration. Stupid moron (me), never backed up the RAID config on the controller. So when the controller failed, I thought I was out 100+ GB of data.
Turns out that Promise stores array information on the disks themselves, so if you plug them back in order (disk0 on raid ide0, etc.) it boots the array just fine. My scream of joy nearly blew the roof off (after spending 3 days getting LVM working with SuSE 8.2 and the pti_st.o Promise Driver... fucking SuSE installer...
Needless to say, I'm continually dumbfounded by the inclusion of RAID 0... <sigh>
Mmm... 0+1, 4 disks to get reliable fast performance that I could have gotten by buying Seagate Cheetah's and SCSI... for the same price. yeah.:-)
You want to claim to me that a country like Jamaica or Haiti is capable of supporting the infrastructure to build fiber-optic routers and CAT scanners and be competitive on the open market? Not today. 10 years, maybe 5 from now, yes. Fact: There are many countries (hint: not the G8) who are incapable of maintaining significant industry and being competitive in the world economy. No arrogance involved.
As for Boeing, when your major customer is the U.S. government, you tend to do whatever they say...
OR we could just evolve the human race such that we don't need to live on rocks. One of the great bits about being space-faring with massive robotic and computer technology at our disposal is that we don't NEED to be planet-bound if we get out there in sustainable numbers.
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The absolute refusual of the mozilla team to implemente broken javascript. That's what keeps me using IE for the few internal apps I have here that refuse to work with any other browser.
:-/
That and java support, something that again, 90% of 3rd party developers cannot get right without using IE.
<sigh> Don't let the moz team take the low road. Don't support broken standards! Just grab your local clue-by-four and start hitting people who write broken web code.
You miss his point. If ham radio operators can destroy a systems' effectiveness then said system will not be successful, hence it's eventual death.
yea? See how well his nose works after 25 blistering hypersonic reentries from low earth orbit.
You completely miss the point that all those people who "become" non-working, were once working, and put their own money into Social Security. There may have been a decade or two where this wasn't universally true, but the VAST majority of people alive today put their fair share into Social Security.
de·moc·ra·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-mkr-s)
n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Entry: democracy
Function: noun
Definition: representation
Synonyms: capitalism, commonwealth, egalitarianism, emancipation, equalitarianism, equality, free enterprise, freedom, justice, laissez faire, liberal government, private ownership, representative government, republic, suffrage
Same damn thing.
See, that was the whole POINT of Social Security. Sock away your money in a government backed investment vehicle so that when you retire, you are taken care of. What is so hard to understand about that?
The fact that every administration since Nixon has raided the Social Security fund for their pet military and economic projects shouldn't blind you to the fact that Social Security was working.
No shit. I can't imagine waiting 4-8 weeks to get my domain configured, like waiting for my DSL to get plugged in...
You apparently never dealt with the Enterprise Licensing revision (what was it, 4.0) in Summer of 2002. The significant difference is the VARs. Oracle has few, Microsoft has many. That's what gives the Microsoft machine price discipline.
;-)
Oracle doesn't need that (in fact it's not very desirable), since they don't have leverage to force^Wencourage you to use their products.
Yes, the Oracle sales machine is truly bad; what's even worse is that you think Oracle is better than SQL Server...
Truly the ONLY great product Microsoft has ever made (even tho they bought it from)....
And exactly what court of law determined that?
EULA's work because even if you choose not to accept them, your recourse is getting your money back. Whether your local retail outlet disallows such is irrelevant. If you paid for something, and detest the EULA, you have every right to return said software product, and any vendor refusing to refund your money is violating the law.
Which is why EULA's have had no serious challenges to date. Witness the "Great Redmond Refund Day" just last year. You too can talk your XP box back to Microsoft and demand your money back.
Yes, I do believe they specifically reserve that right in their EULA, although they would be forced to return the money he paid for said license, which is all the warranty they offer.
We'd eliminate half the problems if we rejected outright any patent who's title was something like:
A method for doing X "on the Internet.
<sigh>
Part 2(B) of the GPL states:
:-)
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
It's that pesky definition of "third party" that could bite them. I'm not sure where general consensus on the definition of this clause sits at the moment, however, so I'll drop it.
3. Work all the bugs out
4. Get more useful tools that you don't have time to write.
Exactly how is one Open Source AV scanner monopolistically killing another Open Source AV scanner? Open Source is by definition anti-competitive to Closed Source. (Not quite what I want to say, but as close as I can get with a 151 hangover.)
RAV and AVG have consistently outperformed McAfee and Norton AV for me. Must be the proximity to the former Eastern bloc driving them to anti-virus perfection...
Actually they do have that right. Considering that at least one judicial body has decided that they are a "monopoly", Federal anti-trust laws apply to Microsoft.
It's a poor analogy because the government MANDATES all car manufacturers in the U.S. sell cars with seatbelts. It won't be long until airbags, front, passenger, side curtain are mandated as well.
I think the fear is that if the NSA has contractors working for them, and they want to mandate this system for any SELinux based software they right, then it's in the NSA's best interests to get the SELinux kernel changes into the mainstream kernel.
Since no one is going to just trust an SELinux distribution that appears...
Providing SELinux to other classified agencies == distribution, thereby invoking that pesky little clause in the GPL that could fuck them royally if some Pro-GPL RMS fanboy in said classified agency decided to report them to groklaw.
So it'd be pretty pointless for say, giving gps coordinates to a hardened underground bunker deep in the jungle canopy? Makes you wonder why they didn't give the transmitters a few hundred(thousand?) more watts of power...
Reminds me of this time I was sitting in the gate at T.F.Greene airport waiting for a Southwest flight to Tampa... looked out the window, and there it was, an American Airlines aircraft with 666 for a tailnumber.
Now I'm not highly superstitious (tosses spilled salt over shoulder)... but I would think twice about getting on said plane (and still probably board it, damn $250 ticket)...
I use the Supertrak SX6000 in a raid 5 configuration. Stupid moron (me), never backed up the RAID config on the controller. So when the controller failed, I thought I was out 100+ GB of data.
:-)
Turns out that Promise stores array information on the disks themselves, so if you plug them back in order (disk0 on raid ide0, etc.) it boots the array just fine. My scream of joy nearly blew the roof off (after spending 3 days getting LVM working with SuSE 8.2 and the pti_st.o Promise Driver... fucking SuSE installer...
Needless to say, I'm continually dumbfounded by the inclusion of RAID 0... <sigh>
Mmm... 0+1, 4 disks to get reliable fast performance that I could have gotten by buying Seagate Cheetah's and SCSI... for the same price. yeah.
You want to claim to me that a country like Jamaica or Haiti is capable of supporting the infrastructure to build fiber-optic routers and CAT scanners and be competitive on the open market? Not today. 10 years, maybe 5 from now, yes. Fact: There are many countries (hint: not the G8) who are incapable of maintaining significant industry and being competitive in the world economy. No arrogance involved.
As for Boeing, when your major customer is the U.S. government, you tend to do whatever they say...
Cheers.
Hence the need for QoS. VoIP phone calling Emergency Services goes active, all other traffic is shunted to /dev/null.
So how exactly does the military use GPS in the jungle?
OR we could just evolve the human race such that we don't need to live on rocks. One of the great bits about being space-faring with massive robotic and computer technology at our disposal is that we don't NEED to be planet-bound if we get out there in sustainable numbers.
How do you put a heatsink on backwards? Just curious... Cuz I've got two XP 2200+'s that won't boot (suspect dead mobos - ECS YOU FUCKS!)