"If the bailment is for the benefit of both the bailee and the bailor, then the bailee owes a duty of reasonable or ordinary care."
Reasonable care does not included protection from meteors falling from the sky. Extraordinary care, which might or might not include meteor protection, would be expected only if the bailment were for the benefit of the bailee alone, which is not the case here.
Not only that, warehouses generally make depositors sign a contract specifying the terms of the warehouse's liability, which usually excludes damages due to "Acts of God".
Remember, kids, DON'T TAKE LEGAL ADVICE FROM SLASHDOT!
> This would have been a problem back when there were CPUs other than Intel, but that's just not the case anymore. Any CPU can emulate an X86 to drive devices if necessary. At this point, X86 is a universal virtual machine.
What a ridiculous thing to say. You are aware that there are millions more ARM CPUs manufactured per year than x86 ones, right? And that Linux distributions like oh say Android are designed to run on them? "Just do it in x86 and let everyone else emulate an x86" might work if the only computers that existed were your own personal desktops, but you don't really have that narrow a view of computing, do you? And do you have any idea how horrible performance would be on an ARM if it had to implement Bochs inside of every single device driver?
Since you apparently don't understand the difference, I'll spell it out for you:
You put your hand on the hot plate. It burns. Experimental variable: location of hand Extraneous variables: none Valid conclusion (if it's reproducible): Moving your hand to the hot plate caused it to burn.
Now, this isn't a perfect argument: you can do things like argue that all the extraneous variables are obviously not really important given what we know about ecology or whatever -- but it certainly demands a more reasoned response than ignorant mocking.
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WTF. I thought your moderations remained in effect as long as you posted anonymously...
Oh, well. I posted the parent comment and now my moderation (to an overlooked AC comment earlier in the thread) got undone now. Damn.
Well you're going to die off when the human race dies off anyway. I personally don't get any satisfaction from my mutated genetic code being around as long as possible; I'd rather have a good life while I'm here. But if you want to let your pop science interpretation of evolution define the meaning of life for you, be my guest. I just hope you don't act like a sociopath and then say "evolution made me do it!111!!".
Yeah. Get it. You have kids; you have the whole "parental mind warp" thing that comes with it going (anyone who thinks Steve Jobs's reality distortion field is bad hasn't observed some parents...), and it makes me personally very happy that you love your children so much you'd probably be willing to cause a global thermonuclear holocaust and kill off the entire rest of the planet just so your oh so wonderful spawn could live.
But that doesn't really help solve the problem. Obviously children dying is bad, and we obviously want to stop that, but we also don't want them to sink into further dependence. And, a MAJOR part of the problem, actually... is those children. Overpopulation is one of the worst aggravating factors of Africa's crisis.
Since we can't really kill the children, and we don't really want to let them die, we feed them. Then those children reach breeding age and soon afterwards create more children, which also need food. And the circle continues.
So what do we do? Well, a number of approaches have been proposed, including teaching the children how to not make more children the instant they become fertile. But it's really painfully obvious that we need to look further ahead than "stop them from starving", because we're just making the hole deeper. If you're sympathetic to their plight because you also reproduced, try to look for ways to stop the plight in the future, not just mitigate it in the present.
Ogg Vorbis is an awesome music codec, producing smaller files than MP3 for the same level of quality. Ogg Theora is a rather mediocre-to-poor video codec, producing larger files than most alternatives (MPEG4, for instance) for the same level of quality. To top it off, it also taxes the CPU more than alternatives, which is still important for really high bitrate videos. Given the current level of quality of the Theora codec, it wouldn't make any sense for YouTube to switch to it for its videos, even if YouTube had the desire to do so.
It would be nice if YouTube supported in-browser Theora once Firefox 3.1 is released. It would also be nice if Theora were a good enough codec for that to be practical for them.
It would be helpful if you posted a link to the bug in the OOo bug tracker. Without being able to look at the bug entry, I can only speculate that it's likely as not it's a bug in the print driver or something and not OOo itself.
I'm using the AMD64 version of Opera, and Flash works fine (uses the same nspluginwrapper thing as Firefox). I can't get Java working, though; the only browser on my computer that works with both Flash and Java now is Konqueror:(
No, I wasn't joking. We must have had different experiences; I had WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux installed on my machine right up until a year ago, when, even with all the compatibility libraries installed, the thing just wouldn't run anymore:(
Virtualization still requires running actual Windows, just inside an emulator. WINE allows running Windows programs without doing that.
OpenGL isn't in the Linux kernel right now; it's done through an X11 library. That could be extended if it's needed, but I'm not sure it is; it's possible to play Q3 in Linux while also running Compiz.
Actually, the original purpose was dual: they wanted to provide a way to natively run Windows binaries, and also provide a method for porting Win32 applications to Linux. Both efforts are still ongoing, but there's never been much uptake for the porting approach. WordPerfect 2000 for Linux was the flagship success of the porting project, and it was years ago (and the native WordPerfect 8.x was better anyway). I think it's fair to say that the main goal of Wine at this point is to provide a method to run Win32 applications natively in Linux, and that a secondary goal is to provide a porting library.
If Firefox "takes out" Xorg, that implies a bug in Xorg, not necessarily one in Firefox. In fact, the Xorg bug could conceivably be a security issue, so that's more severe.
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Good comment, but you would have looked more intelligent if you'd managed to spell "mammal" correctly.
---linuxrocks123
Do you know if Webe Web was ever actually convicted? I've searched Google and can't find anything about it past the indictment.
---linuxrocks123
cite please
oh man ... so you had gotten the password right? Did you at least have backups??? :(
---linuxrocks123
You're full of shit.
If the warehouse is holding others' goods, it's because the others wanted them to and because the warehouse is getting paid for it:
http://contracts.lawyers.com/Bailment.html
"If the bailment is for the benefit of both the bailee and the bailor, then the bailee owes a duty of reasonable or ordinary care."
Reasonable care does not included protection from meteors falling from the sky. Extraordinary care, which might or might not include meteor protection, would be expected only if the bailment were for the benefit of the bailee alone, which is not the case here.
Not only that, warehouses generally make depositors sign a contract specifying the terms of the warehouse's liability, which usually excludes damages due to "Acts of God".
Remember, kids, DON'T TAKE LEGAL ADVICE FROM SLASHDOT!
---linuxrocks123
> This would have been a problem back when there were CPUs other than Intel, but that's just not the case anymore. Any CPU can emulate an X86 to drive devices if necessary. At this point, X86 is a universal virtual machine.
What a ridiculous thing to say. You are aware that there are millions more ARM CPUs manufactured per year than x86 ones, right? And that Linux distributions like oh say Android are designed to run on them? "Just do it in x86 and let everyone else emulate an x86" might work if the only computers that existed were your own personal desktops, but you don't really have that narrow a view of computing, do you? And do you have any idea how horrible performance would be on an ARM if it had to implement Bochs inside of every single device driver?
---linuxrocks123
Rabbits are cute...
Since you apparently don't understand the difference, I'll spell it out for you:
You put your hand on the hot plate. It burns.
Experimental variable: location of hand
Extraneous variables: none
Valid conclusion (if it's reproducible): Moving your hand to the hot plate caused it to burn.
Amphibians are dying out.
Experimental variable: "Global warming"
Extraneous variables: f***ing everything
Valid conclusion: none
Now, this isn't a perfect argument: you can do things like argue that all the extraneous variables are obviously not really important given what we know about ecology or whatever -- but it certainly demands a more reasoned response than ignorant mocking.
WTF. I thought your moderations remained in effect as long as you posted anonymously...
Oh, well. I posted the parent comment and now my moderation (to an overlooked AC comment earlier in the thread) got undone now. Damn.
Well you're going to die off when the human race dies off anyway. I personally don't get any satisfaction from my mutated genetic code being around as long as possible; I'd rather have a good life while I'm here. But if you want to let your pop science interpretation of evolution define the meaning of life for you, be my guest. I just hope you don't act like a sociopath and then say "evolution made me do it!111!!".
He confessed and led police to the body AFTER the jury convicted him, dumbass.
There should be a Godwin's law equivalent for commenting about dating habits when the article is unrelated...
Yeah. Get it. You have kids; you have the whole "parental mind warp" thing that comes with it going (anyone who thinks Steve Jobs's reality distortion field is bad hasn't observed some parents...), and it makes me personally very happy that you love your children so much you'd probably be willing to cause a global thermonuclear holocaust and kill off the entire rest of the planet just so your oh so wonderful spawn could live.
But that doesn't really help solve the problem. Obviously children dying is bad, and we obviously want to stop that, but we also don't want them to sink into further dependence. And, a MAJOR part of the problem, actually ... is those children. Overpopulation is one of the worst aggravating factors of Africa's crisis.
Since we can't really kill the children, and we don't really want to let them die, we feed them. Then those children reach breeding age and soon afterwards create more children, which also need food. And the circle continues.
So what do we do? Well, a number of approaches have been proposed, including teaching the children how to not make more children the instant they become fertile. But it's really painfully obvious that we need to look further ahead than "stop them from starving", because we're just making the hole deeper. If you're sympathetic to their plight because you also reproduced, try to look for ways to stop the plight in the future, not just mitigate it in the present.
Ogg Vorbis is an awesome music codec, producing smaller files than MP3 for the same level of quality. Ogg Theora is a rather mediocre-to-poor video codec, producing larger files than most alternatives (MPEG4, for instance) for the same level of quality. To top it off, it also taxes the CPU more than alternatives, which is still important for really high bitrate videos. Given the current level of quality of the Theora codec, it wouldn't make any sense for YouTube to switch to it for its videos, even if YouTube had the desire to do so.
It would be nice if YouTube supported in-browser Theora once Firefox 3.1 is released. It would also be nice if Theora were a good enough codec for that to be practical for them.
> That's like saying a Model-T isn't ancient because it's newer than the horse-and-buggy.
Any horse older than a Model-T should be checked for the zombie virus.
It would be helpful if you posted a link to the bug in the OOo bug tracker. Without being able to look at the bug entry, I can only speculate that it's likely as not it's a bug in the print driver or something and not OOo itself.
This is different from Franklin. Franklin copied Apple ROMs; Psystar is just supporting the EFI standard.
I'm using the AMD64 version of Opera, and Flash works fine (uses the same nspluginwrapper thing as Firefox). I can't get Java working, though; the only browser on my computer that works with both Flash and Java now is Konqueror :(
No, I wasn't joking. We must have had different experiences; I had WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux installed on my machine right up until a year ago, when, even with all the compatibility libraries installed, the thing just wouldn't run anymore :(
Virtualization still requires running actual Windows, just inside an emulator. WINE allows running Windows programs without doing that.
OpenGL isn't in the Linux kernel right now; it's done through an X11 library. That could be extended if it's needed, but I'm not sure it is; it's possible to play Q3 in Linux while also running Compiz.
Actually, the original purpose was dual: they wanted to provide a way to natively run Windows binaries, and also provide a method for porting Win32 applications to Linux. Both efforts are still ongoing, but there's never been much uptake for the porting approach. WordPerfect 2000 for Linux was the flagship success of the porting project, and it was years ago (and the native WordPerfect 8.x was better anyway). I think it's fair to say that the main goal of Wine at this point is to provide a method to run Win32 applications natively in Linux, and that a secondary goal is to provide a porting library.
It looks like Mozilla agrees with you. The name for the island on the current version of the site at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ is indeed given as Taiwan.
I really wish I had mod points. You're exactly right, and you articulated your point well.
If Firefox "takes out" Xorg, that implies a bug in Xorg, not necessarily one in Firefox. In fact, the Xorg bug could conceivably be a security issue, so that's more severe.