Yes, but then you get problems like: How do you cope with living in a space vessel the size of a closet with an ex and her new boyfriend?
It's not the logistics of intercourse that are the real problem. It's the social consequences of living with humans in intimate relationships. You can separate sex from intimacy, but intimacy is part of the reason that masturbation isn't enough.
There are also problems such as: How do we handle astronauts with differing sex drives? What happens if *no* astronauts are willing to engage in intercourse with a given astronaut? What about astronauts with spouses on Earth? Are they more or less desirable for space travel?
It's a bad idea to use this kind of thing for version control, IMX. The documentation through TFA is very... sparse.
Q: What happens to old snapshots when the disk begins to fill up? Q: How do I manage snapshots? Q: Are snapshots atomic? Q: What happens when a snapshot fails? What can cause a snapshot to fail?
Windows Server 2003's Shadow Copies works in much the same way, AFAICT, and MS goes out of their way to caution against using Shadow Copies as a replacement for backup or version control. I expect this kind of thing will be used for the same uses as Linux: it [probably] allows you to access locked files, and lets you recover accidentally deleted or modified files.
On a demand-price curve. With a near-zero opportunity cost to produce copies of already written software, it's far better to sell 100,000 copies at $100 then 1,000 copes at $1,000.
I do not believe Adobe prices their software fairly. They never have. It's the reason that they have so many problems with piracy. I think they base their pricing on how much they want to earn per copy. They have so many patents and copyrights that nobody can compete with them, so they establish a premium price because there can be no competition. Adobe doesn't even *try* to meet home consumer demand. They are a software cartel, and they're abusing the fact that there is a demand for their software at *any* price to create a market economy.
As opposed to Adobe, who opens the SDK and gives away the player for free, but charges six or seven times the actual value of the product for server software.
IANAL, but UW could have said they were not the responsible party and so the subpoena was for the wrong party and that's why they didn't need to comply with it (if, for example, they had contracted network operations out), but that's not true. UW owns the network, so they will have the information (if anyone does).
RIAA: On the basis of fact and belief, we allege people did this on your network. Give us the information so we can find them. UW: Make us. RIAA: OK. See you in court. UW: No you won't. RIAA: Bastards! Judge: Give them the info. UW: OK.
Basically, UW made no effort to aid RIAA, but they will (obviously) comply with a lawful judge's order.
No, these won't be included because the patches are for MySQL 4.0. To give you an idea, MySQL 4.0 is what shipped with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). It's that old. Mysql.com doesn't even host binaries for MySQL 4.0 anymore!
4.0 is not actively developed at all, and lacks basic requirements such as subqueries, accurate math for DECIMAL or NUMERIC types (they're identical to FLOAT in 4.x so decimal errors for aggregate functions are common), and VIEWs. That's in addition to the normal flaws for data integrity in MySQL (MyISAM database engine, fsync disabled by default) that make it one of the least ACID compliant databases around that can still understand SQL.
This is like Google releasing patches for Apache 1.2.
"Blogosphere" is one of those awful dot-bomb era buzzwords, bandied about by marketdroids and the press to make them look cool and informed about the Internet.
It'd be fine if this were the final project for a 300 level programming class, or some program on SourceForge maintained by one person, or any program in an alpha or beta state (ignoring all obvious MS beta jokes).
However, this is supposed to be commercial, top-quality, enterprise-grade software designed to be used by 90% of the business world, according to Microsoft. It should be the most well-behaved application ever.
Re:Will anyone gain anything from this? Not Linux
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Someone is using Group Policy or registry-based policy to modify the default behavior of Automatic Updates. By default, the client asks "Reboot Now" and "Reboot Later". That's it. By default, there is no timer.
about:config is all undocumented. Some of the features, like auto image resizing, are fairly straightforward, but the vast majority of features are so obscure that they're useless. About:config was supposed to be for FireFox Beta, because the UI had fallen behind the front end. What excuse will FireFox 3.0 have? Cripes, you can still change data types!
Honestly, have you ever *not* had an about:config experience go like this: 1. Look for feature, and cannot find it. 2. Complain on forum or submit request. 3. Be told arbitrary about:config setting already fixes it.
About:config is like word-of-mouth preferences. They're undocumented, unintuitive, and certainly not something an average user would or should ever use. Here's something to think about. If you changed the dot context of each property into a tree heirarchy, about:config is indistiguishable from the Windows registry.
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I could swear Sun Tzu turns a full rotation with every other post here.
Sun Tzu + Slashdot + magnets & wire = new source for renewable energy?
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There's no way Firefox could get the 14% usage share it has today with such a serious memory problem.
Most people a Windows users. They're used to serious problems with everyday programs.
In the original X-Wing, you could assign other pilots to be your wingmen. It didn't help much -- they flew faster and were more aggressive -- but it was nice. The better pilots were very good at certain roles, particularly capital ship bombing and dogfighting. The higher ranked pilots would also listen to your commands better. It was especially nice when the expansion pack came with Top Ace pilots (the highest rank) which were very difficult to get. You pretty much had to beat the game to get a Top Ace rank.
The problem was, if the pilots died the file got wiped (they had a 75% chance of being rescued if you won, 0% if you lost). Until I discovered that the pilot file was just data about how good they were and the name of the file was the pilot name. I wrote a batch script to copy pilots when I ran out. I had a Red squadron, a Gold squadron, and a Blue squadron.
Tell me again how a more secure Windows OS becomes good news for Symantec.
The key is to maintain the install base. Nowhere do they state that "you don't need antivirus with Windows" or "you don't need to backup with Windows". 'Everyone knows' you need antivirus and backup software no matter how secure your OS! Heck, most OEM PCs that ship with Windows come with Norton AV, Norton firewall, and Norton Ghost (no longer a disk imager, it's just regular backup now -- a wrapped Veritas product I bet). The ones that don't, come with McAfee!
*Symantec* released the report. How many products does Symantec make for non-Windows OSs? Or was their research "Windows XP with Norton Internet Security Suite 2007 installed"?
This is not news. This is a Symantec marketing campaign disguised as a press release disguised as a research report.
Never mind the false conclusion that fewer patches = more secure. Never mind that both OS X (which had MOAB) and RHEL both include a lot more software than the base OS for Windows.
I'd be perfectly fine with DRM, too, if it meant I could listen to it anywhere from any applicable device but I couldn't give a copy to my friends who don't own it.
True, but DirectX is a *lot* more than just Direct3D & DirectDraw. There are also the DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectInput and DirectPlay (networking) APIs. That's a whole lot of code you don't need to reproduce.
I'd say it will hurt the popularity of DirectX 10, but not affect the popularity of DirectX 9 at all. Once the installed base of Vista increased in 12-18 months, you might start to see some games out there that really demand DX10.
That's what impeachment proceedings are for. Although those are limited to high crimes and misdemeanors, which the framers probably didn't intend to extend to perjuring yourself about extramarital affairs.
There are also House and Senate run investigations, such as the ones Joe McArthy and Oliver North each became infamous for. These don't typically result in findings of law (you've committed this crime) but findings of fact (you did something grossly unethical, morally reprehensible, nigh treasonous, or were generally an overall asshat).
Legislature can end-run right around the fact that the DoJ is Executive branch.
"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country." -- Woodrow Wilson
Many of history's greatest men would not have their beliefs be entirely welcome today. Ford, at least, was simply a businessman.
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Yes, but then you get problems like:
How do you cope with living in a space vessel the size of a closet with an ex and her new boyfriend?
It's not the logistics of intercourse that are the real problem. It's the social consequences of living with humans in intimate relationships. You can separate sex from intimacy, but intimacy is part of the reason that masturbation isn't enough.
There are also problems such as:
How do we handle astronauts with differing sex drives?
What happens if *no* astronauts are willing to engage in intercourse with a given astronaut?
What about astronauts with spouses on Earth? Are they more or less desirable for space travel?
It's a bad idea to use this kind of thing for version control, IMX. The documentation through TFA is very... sparse.
Q: What happens to old snapshots when the disk begins to fill up?
Q: How do I manage snapshots?
Q: Are snapshots atomic?
Q: What happens when a snapshot fails? What can cause a snapshot to fail?
Windows Server 2003's Shadow Copies works in much the same way, AFAICT, and MS goes out of their way to caution against using Shadow Copies as a replacement for backup or version control. I expect this kind of thing will be used for the same uses as Linux: it [probably] allows you to access locked files, and lets you recover accidentally deleted or modified files.
On a demand-price curve. With a near-zero opportunity cost to produce copies of already written software, it's far better to sell 100,000 copies at $100 then 1,000 copes at $1,000.
I do not believe Adobe prices their software fairly. They never have. It's the reason that they have so many problems with piracy. I think they base their pricing on how much they want to earn per copy. They have so many patents and copyrights that nobody can compete with them, so they establish a premium price because there can be no competition. Adobe doesn't even *try* to meet home consumer demand. They are a software cartel, and they're abusing the fact that there is a demand for their software at *any* price to create a market economy.
As opposed to Adobe, who opens the SDK and gives away the player for free, but charges six or seven times the actual value of the product for server software.
Or they're not as interested in correcting them.
Some people say the same thing about an operating system. They tend to get mocked as luddites here on SlashDot, or tools of Microsoft.
Not saying I disagree with you. Just trying to give you some perspective.
Hey, I always thought "release" sounded a bit like urination, but you don't hear me complaining.
IANAL, but UW could have said they were not the responsible party and so the subpoena was for the wrong party and that's why they didn't need to comply with it (if, for example, they had contracted network operations out), but that's not true. UW owns the network, so they will have the information (if anyone does).
RIAA: On the basis of fact and belief, we allege people did this on your network. Give us the information so we can find them.
UW: Make us.
RIAA: OK. See you in court.
UW: No you won't.
RIAA: Bastards!
Judge: Give them the info.
UW: OK.
Basically, UW made no effort to aid RIAA, but they will (obviously) comply with a lawful judge's order.
No, these won't be included because the patches are for MySQL 4.0. To give you an idea, MySQL 4.0 is what shipped with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). It's that old. Mysql.com doesn't even host binaries for MySQL 4.0 anymore!
4.0 is not actively developed at all, and lacks basic requirements such as subqueries, accurate math for DECIMAL or NUMERIC types (they're identical to FLOAT in 4.x so decimal errors for aggregate functions are common), and VIEWs. That's in addition to the normal flaws for data integrity in MySQL (MyISAM database engine, fsync disabled by default) that make it one of the least ACID compliant databases around that can still understand SQL.
This is like Google releasing patches for Apache 1.2.
You mean like "dot-bomb"?
It'd be fine if this were the final project for a 300 level programming class, or some program on SourceForge maintained by one person, or any program in an alpha or beta state (ignoring all obvious MS beta jokes).
However, this is supposed to be commercial, top-quality, enterprise-grade software designed to be used by 90% of the business world, according to Microsoft. It should be the most well-behaved application ever.
Someone is using Group Policy or registry-based policy to modify the default behavior of Automatic Updates. By default, the client asks "Reboot Now" and "Reboot Later". That's it. By default, there is no timer.
Not much, I got two monitors!
Obviously, you're not familiar with the *nix development model: Solve half the problem, and then pipe the result it to STDOUT.
about:config is all undocumented. Some of the features, like auto image resizing, are fairly straightforward, but the vast majority of features are so obscure that they're useless. About:config was supposed to be for FireFox Beta, because the UI had fallen behind the front end. What excuse will FireFox 3.0 have? Cripes, you can still change data types!
Honestly, have you ever *not* had an about:config experience go like this:
1. Look for feature, and cannot find it.
2. Complain on forum or submit request.
3. Be told arbitrary about:config setting already fixes it.
About:config is like word-of-mouth preferences. They're undocumented, unintuitive, and certainly not something an average user would or should ever use. Here's something to think about. If you changed the dot context of each property into a tree heirarchy, about:config is indistiguishable from the Windows registry.
Sun Tzu + Slashdot + magnets & wire = new source for renewable energy?
Most people a Windows users. They're used to serious problems with everyday programs.
Any time I have to go into about:config, FireFox's dev team has failed.
In the original X-Wing, you could assign other pilots to be your wingmen. It didn't help much -- they flew faster and were more aggressive -- but it was nice. The better pilots were very good at certain roles, particularly capital ship bombing and dogfighting. The higher ranked pilots would also listen to your commands better. It was especially nice when the expansion pack came with Top Ace pilots (the highest rank) which were very difficult to get. You pretty much had to beat the game to get a Top Ace rank.
The problem was, if the pilots died the file got wiped (they had a 75% chance of being rescued if you won, 0% if you lost). Until I discovered that the pilot file was just data about how good they were and the name of the file was the pilot name. I wrote a batch script to copy pilots when I ran out. I had a Red squadron, a Gold squadron, and a Blue squadron.
*Symantec* released the report. How many products does Symantec make for non-Windows OSs? Or was their research "Windows XP with Norton Internet Security Suite 2007 installed"?
This is not news. This is a Symantec marketing campaign disguised as a press release disguised as a research report.
Never mind the false conclusion that fewer patches = more secure. Never mind that both OS X (which had MOAB) and RHEL both include a lot more software than the base OS for Windows.
I'd be perfectly fine with DRM, too, if it meant I could listen to it anywhere from any applicable device but I couldn't give a copy to my friends who don't own it.
You know, the same way vinyl works?
True, but DirectX is a *lot* more than just Direct3D & DirectDraw. There are also the DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectInput and DirectPlay (networking) APIs. That's a whole lot of code you don't need to reproduce.
I'd say it will hurt the popularity of DirectX 10, but not affect the popularity of DirectX 9 at all. Once the installed base of Vista increased in 12-18 months, you might start to see some games out there that really demand DX10.
That's what impeachment proceedings are for. Although those are limited to high crimes and misdemeanors, which the framers probably didn't intend to extend to perjuring yourself about extramarital affairs.
There are also House and Senate run investigations, such as the ones Joe McArthy and Oliver North each became infamous for. These don't typically result in findings of law (you've committed this crime) but findings of fact (you did something grossly unethical, morally reprehensible, nigh treasonous, or were generally an overall asshat).
Legislature can end-run right around the fact that the DoJ is Executive branch.
"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation ... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country." -- Woodrow Wilson
Many of history's greatest men would not have their beliefs be entirely welcome today. Ford, at least, was simply a businessman.