Yes but the translated, biased versions are copyrighted. Only the orginals (and any translations more than 70 years old) are public domain. It may be "open source" but it is certainly not using the GNU license.
I moved from my own server (which we ran for almost 9 years) to gmail recently, and couldn't be happier -- I wouldn't doubt that my tiny company is saving thousands per year of maintenance and upgrades, and having our own domain name isn't a big deal anymore. It also offers transportability if one of my employees moves on or if we bring someone on for a contract gig.
You might want to rethink that policy. What happens when a client or supplier has JaneEmployee@gmail.com in their address book and keeps sending orders/inquiries etc. to that address after Jane leaves to work for your competitor? Even if Jane left on good terms, she now may have access (even if inadvertantly) to confidential company information. And god forbid if Jane was a disgruntled employee who left on bad terms.
Huh?!? C++ is a tremendously type dependant language, which is a very different thing from being type safe. If you type x = y * 3; where x is an unsigned integer and y is a float, a "type safe" language would generate a type-mismatch error at compile. A "type unsafe" language (like C++) would auto-cast without telling you and leave you scratching your head for hours trying to figure out why the results are not what you expected. Yes, that's a programmer error, but a good language should be designed to catch programmer errors at the earliest possible point (compile time).
If you have any kind of data which needs to be kept private (we have HIPPA compliance to worry about at our medical office), using Google desktop is a bit scary.
How is that scary? It's just indexing data that is already on your computer. The fact that a file is "hidden" in a subdirectory 10 levels deep in an odd file format doesn't make it any more secure, just harder to find. Security by obscurity doesn't work. If a hacker has access to your machine, he can just as easily index your files from the outside as he can by looking in the Google Desktop index file.
The same goes for these Vista metatags of course. If you have a file called cc-num.txt and tag it with "This is an unencrypted text file containing all my credit card numbers and ATM passwords" the problem is not with the tag that makes it slightly easier for someone else to find the information, but the fact that you have such a file on your computer in the first place! If it's confidential information, then encrypt it. Thinking other people can't find a file because you don't index or tag it is only deceiving yourself.
That's great. I'm moving all of my scripts to Python now. If the guy's name is Guido, it's gotta be good!
The Holy Grailhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/fullcredits#wr iters was my favourite Python script. I know John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin wrote a lot of the Python scripts but I've never heard of this Guido guy who supposedly created Python. He must have left the group early on.
This isn't a republican versus democrat issue,... It is the Feds versus the States and the Feds versus the People. I wouldn't say Dubya (or Clinton or anyone else) is alone in violating the rights they're precluded from violating.
True enough. After all, Clinton forced the DCMA on us; is using the law to prevent the distribution of LC5 any worse than using it to stop the distrubution of DeCSS?
Which gives me an idea. Since most DRM schemes are essentially a form of strong encryption, could this "Homeland Security" law be used to prevent the export of media (DVDs, iTunes songs, Microsoft Reader eBooks, etc.) that are encoded with DRM? If someone manages to use this law to force media companies to sell their products unencumbered with DRM and restore fair use to consumers, then maybe it's not such a bad law after all.
Also, graphical ads are almost certain to be less relevent to the search results than the current text based ads (which is the other reason most people don't mind them). I'm sure mass-market advertisers like Coke or Ford would love to get graphical ads on Google, but how many people are searching for 'cola' or 'crappy+cars'?
Are you seriously suggesting that Virgin is the "little guy" who could only make it in because the barrier of entry is so low? Virgin Mobile is backed by a huge corporation that apparently loves to throw money at things. An astronomical barrier of entry wouldn't stop them if they had it in mind to run a mobile phone service.
I never said they were a "little guy" (though their Canadian operation is small compared to the established carriers); the original poster said no new cellular operators would start up (post Clearnet/Fido mergers) and rates would stay high, and Virgin's entry to the Canadian market is counter to both of those points.
As far as cost-of-entry goes, Virgin's COE is probably much lower than Clearnet's or Fido's was since those companies installed at least some of their own towers whereas Virgin is just leasing bandwidth from Bell Mobility.
Telus bought clearnet, Rogers bought Fido. Do you think they bought those cell carriers to compete, or to increase margins?
I don't know about Fido & Rogers, but Telus was a mostly western company and Clearnet mostly eastern. After the merge, they had solid national coverage. It seems more like a fast and cheap way for Telus to expand into eastern Canada rather than getting rid of a rival.
The barrier to entry for the cell market is very high now. We probably won't see a new cell providor in Canada for a long time now, and rates will stay where they are.
Is that why Virgin Mobile just started up this year? With lower rates than everyone else?
The thing that really stops major competition in the cellphone world is not cost-of-entry for new providers, it's things like service-provider locks on phones and non-transferable phone numbers. I doesn't matter how many providers there are if you can't easily switch from one to the other.
Any software that is out of warranty also must go or be removed from the network. So those NT4 and 9x machines you might have running around (I hope you don't), need to be taken care of.
Software EULAs are designed to prevent software from having anything resembling a warranty. I think you mean, "is technical support available".
The real problem with eBay is that it has no real competitors - there's noone else that you could turn to if you want to buy or sell stuff online really (not counting some special cases like putting used books/CDs on amazon), so eBay can get away with pretty much everything.
There are competitors out there, you just have to look. eBid (http//www.ebid.net/) is a great auction site with no listing fees. It doesn't have as many buyers and sellers as eBay, but that's sure to change as more and more people get fed up with eBay and it's sidekick Paypal (http://www.paypalsucks.com/).
Complaining about eBay and continuing to buy and sell there because "there's no competition" is like complaining about IE but continuing to use it because you're unwilling to try FireFox/Opera/etc.
I completely agree with previous posters who have said that if Blackberry service is shut down for all subscribers for a few weeks that some long overdue revision of the patent system will have a greater chance of happening.
Yeah, and if some big record company like Sony/BMG were to release audio CDs with buggy, privacy-violating copy protection; I bet the government would jump right in with a long overdue revision of the copyright laws. $sys$NOT!
Dats a nice web store ya gots there pal. It would be a shame if somethin' was to happen to it, you know what I'm sayin'?
Me and my 'associates' operate an organization dat provides 'protection' for a modest monthly fee. Send your credit card number to eddie_the_knife@mafia.com
No, but they are a tool to help parenting. Ratings are not censorship, it's just a standardized way of knowing what's in a game before you buy it (kind of like the ingredients list on a cereal box). I monitor what my kids play, but 'd rather find out that a game my kid wants has sex/graphic violence/foul language/etc BEFORE I shell out 70 bucks.
It should be tiered system; $100/yr for businesses (.com.net.xxx), $1/yr for personal sites (.home?), free for verified non-profits (.org). That would also make them inforce the original intended uses for TLDs (which is currently not done).
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Sorry but I gotta side with the professor. Don't use goto in C++.
"Not recommended" and "don't ever use it" are two differenet things. If it was never meant to be used, it wouldn't be in the language. The goal of the test mentioned was to write the shortest possible piece of code, not the most maintainable or most elegant.
"The goto can also be important in the rare cases in which optimal efficency is essential." - Stroustrap, The C++ Programming Language
"Code involving a goto can always be written without one, though perhaps at the price of some repeated tests or an extra variable." - Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Programming Language
If you don't know who Stroustrap and K&R are, you have no right commenting on C/C++ issues. I have to side with the original poster, the prof was a dogmatic asshole (and so are you).
Sega also liked to push product out the door before everyone else to get a headstart on the competition (Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast). In the end, it was often more of a liability than an advantage since the latecomers had a more polished product and Sega was always the least capable system of each console generation.
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Yes but the translated, biased versions are copyrighted. Only the orginals (and any translations more than 70 years old) are public domain. It may be "open source" but it is certainly not using the GNU license.
Why limit it to the "F"s? Let's bring back all the premature Fox cancelings: Dark Angel, Strange Realms, Lone Gunmen, Wonderfalls,...etc.
Yeah, tech didn't help Al Gore and he INVENTED the freakin' internet. http://www.sethf.com/gore/
You might want to rethink that policy. What happens when a client or supplier has JaneEmployee@gmail.com in their address book and keeps sending orders/inquiries etc. to that address after Jane leaves to work for your competitor? Even if Jane left on good terms, she now may have access (even if inadvertantly) to confidential company information. And god forbid if Jane was a disgruntled employee who left on bad terms.
Huh?!? C++ is a tremendously type dependant language, which is a very different thing from being type safe. If you type x = y * 3; where x is an unsigned integer and y is a float, a "type safe" language would generate a type-mismatch error at compile. A "type unsafe" language (like C++) would auto-cast without telling you and leave you scratching your head for hours trying to figure out why the results are not what you expected. Yes, that's a programmer error, but a good language should be designed to catch programmer errors at the earliest possible point (compile time).
How is that scary? It's just indexing data that is already on your computer. The fact that a file is "hidden" in a subdirectory 10 levels deep in an odd file format doesn't make it any more secure, just harder to find. Security by obscurity doesn't work. If a hacker has access to your machine, he can just as easily index your files from the outside as he can by looking in the Google Desktop index file.
The same goes for these Vista metatags of course. If you have a file called cc-num.txt and tag it with "This is an unencrypted text file containing all my credit card numbers and ATM passwords" the problem is not with the tag that makes it slightly easier for someone else to find the information, but the fact that you have such a file on your computer in the first place! If it's confidential information, then encrypt it. Thinking other people can't find a file because you don't index or tag it is only deceiving yourself.
George Jefferson wouldn't have put up with any crap from that jive honky Mr. Spacely.
The Holy Grail http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/fullcredits#wr iters was my favourite Python script. I know John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin wrote a lot of the Python scripts but I've never heard of this Guido guy who supposedly created Python. He must have left the group early on.
True enough. After all, Clinton forced the DCMA on us; is using the law to prevent the distribution of LC5 any worse than using it to stop the distrubution of DeCSS?
Which gives me an idea. Since most DRM schemes are essentially a form of strong encryption, could this "Homeland Security" law be used to prevent the export of media (DVDs, iTunes songs, Microsoft Reader eBooks, etc.) that are encoded with DRM? If someone manages to use this law to force media companies to sell their products unencumbered with DRM and restore fair use to consumers, then maybe it's not such a bad law after all.
Is it too late to trade-mark the name 'philter'?
Google's servers are already pushed to the limit according to this article.http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp? doc_id=85804&WT.svl=news1_2 Graphical ads are sure to slow them down even further.
Also, graphical ads are almost certain to be less relevent to the search results than the current text based ads (which is the other reason most people don't mind them). I'm sure mass-market advertisers like Coke or Ford would love to get graphical ads on Google, but how many people are searching for 'cola' or 'crappy+cars'?
I never said they were a "little guy" (though their Canadian operation is small compared to the established carriers); the original poster said no new cellular operators would start up (post Clearnet/Fido mergers) and rates would stay high, and Virgin's entry to the Canadian market is counter to both of those points.
As far as cost-of-entry goes, Virgin's COE is probably much lower than Clearnet's or Fido's was since those companies installed at least some of their own towers whereas Virgin is just leasing bandwidth from Bell Mobility.
I don't know about Fido & Rogers, but Telus was a mostly western company and Clearnet mostly eastern. After the merge, they had solid national coverage. It seems more like a fast and cheap way for Telus to expand into eastern Canada rather than getting rid of a rival.
The barrier to entry for the cell market is very high now. We probably won't see a new cell providor in Canada for a long time now, and rates will stay where they are.
Is that why Virgin Mobile just started up this year? With lower rates than everyone else?
The thing that really stops major competition in the cellphone world is not cost-of-entry for new providers, it's things like service-provider locks on phones and non-transferable phone numbers. I doesn't matter how many providers there are if you can't easily switch from one to the other.
Software EULAs are designed to prevent software from having anything resembling a warranty. I think you mean, "is technical support available".
There are competitors out there, you just have to look. eBid (http//www.ebid.net/) is a great auction site with no listing fees. It doesn't have as many buyers and sellers as eBay, but that's sure to change as more and more people get fed up with eBay and it's sidekick Paypal (http://www.paypalsucks.com/).
Complaining about eBay and continuing to buy and sell there because "there's no competition" is like complaining about IE but continuing to use it because you're unwilling to try FireFox/Opera/etc.
...or some dumbass will call the cops on you for "hacking" into his open, unsecured WiFi network. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/07/florida_man_a rrested.html
Yeah, and if some big record company like Sony/BMG were to release audio CDs with buggy, privacy-violating copy protection; I bet the government would jump right in with a long overdue revision of the copyright laws. $sys$NOT!
Me and my 'associates' operate an organization dat provides 'protection' for a modest monthly fee. Send your credit card number to eddie_the_knife@mafia.com
No, but they are a tool to help parenting. Ratings are not censorship, it's just a standardized way of knowing what's in a game before you buy it (kind of like the ingredients list on a cereal box). I monitor what my kids play, but 'd rather find out that a game my kid wants has sex/graphic violence/foul language/etc BEFORE I shell out 70 bucks.
It should be tiered system; $100/yr for businesses (.com .net .xxx), $1/yr for personal sites (.home?), free for verified non-profits (.org). That would also make them inforce the original intended uses for TLDs (which is currently not done).
"Not recommended" and "don't ever use it" are two differenet things. If it was never meant to be used, it wouldn't be in the language. The goal of the test mentioned was to write the shortest possible piece of code, not the most maintainable or most elegant.
If you don't know who Stroustrap and K&R are, you have no right commenting on C/C++ issues. I have to side with the original poster, the prof was a dogmatic asshole (and so are you).
I looked at the SETI@HOME data yesterday, and last night I had a dream about a glass forest. Coincidence?
Sega also liked to push product out the door before everyone else to get a headstart on the competition (Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast). In the end, it was often more of a liability than an advantage since the latecomers had a more polished product and Sega was always the least capable system of each console generation.
If it is as easy to hack as the original XBOX, then it does indeed have the lowest Total Cost of Ownership since there's no need to buy games.
No, "Firefox of Opera" is the broadway musical version of an old Clint Eastwood movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/