You have an alternative? An obscene amount of this sort of traffic is served up by a small number of providers. Usually offshore where the authorities don't care and they aren't the kind of ISP that businesses would typically want to be hosted by because any ISP that looks the other way while cybercriminals and in some cases organized crime runs amok, could very easily not notice somebody stealing your data.
The main problem there is that back in olden times people pretty much had to know things about computers to get online. These days not so much, anything more complicated than turning it on or accessing the internet (By which I really mean IE) is deemed to be too complicated and time consuming to worry about. And no amount of nagging or information seems to be able to penetrate their minds that it's a very serious risk with potential life changing consequences.
Heat was, as was fuel. But I think there were other issues such as balancing the thrust, properly controlling it and putting the individual back on the ground gently enough not to break any bones.
But it's not available on all systems, and where it is available it sucks. It's not now nor has it ever been a legitimate standard, if Macromedia, now Adobe, doesn't care about your platform, then you can pretty much expect to be locked out of large portions of the internet. Worse is the fact that there are sites out there that don't feel like offering an alternative for those without flash. Not to mention that flash sites are not ADA compliant as they don't allow access to the blind.
Those are very real problems and very serious ones which should have been remedied years ago. As it is large parts of the net are essentially walled off until gnash gets good enough to deal with them. But chances are by then there'll be new features to keep that from happening.
You have to remember that it's a small minority of people that are genuinely capable of educating themselves. Most people need it, the only problem is forcing those of us that don't need it and are in fact damaged by it to go. A rather unfortunate situation, but the Becks, Limbaughs and Bushes of the world demonstrate quite clearly the dangers of allowing people to essentially opt out of education.
For much of that time there wasn't a viable alternative and his business plan was to keep it that way. It's a bullshit argument people make that because there wasn't a gun involved that there must therefor have been a reasonable choice. Which is just something that Libertarians say so that they can sleep at night, the reality is that if you wanted to apply for a job and send in an electronic resume, good luck doing so with any other format than.doc because nobody would be looking at it. Or at work if you wanted to collaborate, you were stuck with Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc., all owned and sold by MS. And that was their business plan, make people an offer that they had little choice but to accept at a price that was much higher than what the market would bear were there any real competition.
No it doesn't. He started giving money away because his dad yelled at him about not giving anything back. William Gates Sr has been well known around Seattle for a long time. And one of the things he's known for is his generosity and more recently his push for an income tax on only high earners to compensate the state for the relative free ride that those individuals get under the current sales tax system.
The problem with that is that the cost of quality control would easily come out to being more than just producing it themselves. Particularly for more complicated fields like Pyschology, Biology and other more advanced subjects, it takes a long time to review the information to make sure that it's both appropriate and accurate.
Technically speaking that's not quite true, the newer ones have a bit more processing power and memory and use a USB cable instead of the old serial one, and they include it in some models. Additionally the resolution is a bit higher than on the older ones. But it's not really enough of an improvement to justify the lack of price drops over the intervening years.
Except that grub uses that space before it knows anything about the rest of the disk layout. Meaning that by putting it there, the likelihood of it accidentally nuking things while loading up modules to parse out the rest of the disk is greatly reduced. One of the issues that we've had for quite some time is that there's a very small amount of space dedicated to bootloaders by default, and some adjustment has to be made for more complicated set ups. Additionally by keeping it out of the user partitions there's a greatly reduced chance that grub will itself corrupt user data rather than just the easy to regenerate grub configuration files. Remember grub does have to write things there from time to time, rather than just read.
I had the same problem with FreeBSD and Win XP being nuked from the configuration file. There is a provision for doing just that so that the configuration gets updated correctly without further interaction from the user. Once I got tired enough of that to look for a solution, it didn't take long to find. I suspect there's a rather long list of OSes that are effected, probably the same list of OSes that require manual intervention the first time.
These sorts of screw ups make me think that perhaps commercial software companies ought not be be given a free pass for when a bug in their software nukes customer data. For free software whether it be opensource or just free, I can understand not requiring responsibility, if you're not making any money on it then you should be able to disclaim the risks and not be liable. But I do wonder how many of the bugs in Windows would exist if MS were responsible for breaches due to their shoddy code practices. Even if they weren't held responsible for user initiated stupidity.
That's my thought on the matter. Cash is usually to cover the cost of a resource and generally not expected if a person is being expected to contribute his or her time and effort. With/. users with sufficient karma are allowed to deactivate ads officially as a reward for contributing in other ways. I'd say in this case, that unless there's value being added which can't otherwise be had that donations or ads, but presumably not both, would be reasonable. But if you go that route all of a sudden that raises the expectations a great deal.
Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen are common components in high explosives. Unfortunately, they're also common components in many other things as well. But I suspect that the technology could have detected the car bomb used in the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma city. That is if I'm understanding things correctly.
Because ZOMG teh terrorists are going to attack. There's no legitimate reason, and the back scatter technique is likely to be even worse than what's been acknowledged as while the dose is for the whole body, the concentration of it ends up just inside the skin. Meaning that while it might be an acceptable amount of total radiation, it's focus in an area where you're at a heightened risk of skin cancer.
Personally, I won't be flying again until some sanity has returned. Choosing between being assaulted with radiation or assaulted by TSA staff is not what I'd consider a reasonable function of government. In normal contexts that would be regarded as threat of violence and intimidation so that you allow them to take indecent liberties with your body. It isn't a question as to whether or not it's a violation of the 4th, it's a question of why we're even having to ask.
Umm, dude, they already are doing it. Android uses.dex files which won't run on the standard runtime environment and it won't run the standard class files which all the other platforms support. Yet they claim that the applications are programmed using the Java programming language
Perhaps if you did some research you'd see what the problem is. You can't claim to allow use of the Java programming language and not follow the rules of the company that owns the rights to it. Google borrowed the trademark and the code and failed to live up to the agreement, I'm not sure how this could possibly be grey area.
As opposed to the guys that developed what is now known as ECMAscript and failed to demand that the various developers purporting to implement it did so in a compatible way? Trust me it's far more harmful for them to allow Google and others to claim to support the Java programming language, and then do so to the most minimalistic extent possible. You can't take class files and run them on Android devices and you can't take.dex files from Android and run them on the standard runtime environments which means that at best you're going to get confusion and splintering.
Ultimately, one of the most damaging things that a platform can suffer is incompatibility and unnecessary complication. While more pronounced in the world of consoles where winners and losers were often times just a function of the quality and ease of access of dev tools, it applies here as well.
Same difference, it's exactly the same problem, Google is using Oracle IP to compete against it's platform while claiming that it's compatible. Ultimately, Google is both infringing upon Oracles mark as well as their patents. From what I gather, the chose to file suit as a patent one rather than as a trademark one simply because it was easier to do. It's the same exact set of issues, just a bit easier to win.
When MS tried this during the 90s they wound up having to pay Sun $20m, the only reason why they're going the patent enforcement route is that the licensing has changed in the meantime so as to make it a bit more complicated to enforce in other ways.
Just because it's not the greatest language doesn't mean there's something wrong with it. Java does what it was designed to do quite well, it's just that any time you do cross platform via a virtual machine you're going to have to give up a bit in terms of performance, which is why developers avoid it when they can. However that's a bit like saying that a motorcycle is pointless because you can't drive from Burbank to Honolulu.
What is Android? Just scroll down to "Applications." Where it specifically states:
All applications are written using the Java programming language.
That is completely unambiguously indicating that it's Java. So, if it doesn't include all the libraries that Oracle says are a part of Java, then they're definitely infringing on at very least Oracle's trademark.
There's nothing inherently wrong with Java. It would've been incredibly irresponsible of Oracle to allow Google to create a wholly incompatible "Java" under the Java name. This isn't a legitimate way of showing what the future of Java could be, this is more like horning in on somebody else's trademark and trying to get something for nothing. Had Oracle looked the other way, they would've both lost their trademark as well as lost any relevance that Java had in the first place as Java's main point is relative ease of cross platform compatibility, which won't happen if there's that degree of difference between platforms.
It's definitely a conspiracy. Not to keep people away, but rather a conspiracy by employees of the Smithsonian to figure out if Glenn Beck's followers are capable of reading a book long enough to find the information they need. But then again, these are the same people that go to a person with no education and no knowledge of investing for investment advice. So I'm not sure that they could be described as particularly astute individuals.
Precisely, FreeBSD for a long time (Possibly still) shipped with two math emulators, one which was compiled in by default was kind of bogus but BSD licensed, the other which only included source was GPLed, but happened to work better. It was a bit of a pain, but ultimately worked, people didn't usually redistribute custom kernels anyways, so the requirements of the GPL weren't particularly restrictive on the typical user and everybody could have what they wanted.
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You have an alternative? An obscene amount of this sort of traffic is served up by a small number of providers. Usually offshore where the authorities don't care and they aren't the kind of ISP that businesses would typically want to be hosted by because any ISP that looks the other way while cybercriminals and in some cases organized crime runs amok, could very easily not notice somebody stealing your data.
The main problem there is that back in olden times people pretty much had to know things about computers to get online. These days not so much, anything more complicated than turning it on or accessing the internet (By which I really mean IE) is deemed to be too complicated and time consuming to worry about. And no amount of nagging or information seems to be able to penetrate their minds that it's a very serious risk with potential life changing consequences.
Heat was, as was fuel. But I think there were other issues such as balancing the thrust, properly controlling it and putting the individual back on the ground gently enough not to break any bones.
Which is why Boeing allows the pilot to override the plane's autopilot. I'd be curious as to how well an Airbus plane would manage that.
But it's not available on all systems, and where it is available it sucks. It's not now nor has it ever been a legitimate standard, if Macromedia, now Adobe, doesn't care about your platform, then you can pretty much expect to be locked out of large portions of the internet. Worse is the fact that there are sites out there that don't feel like offering an alternative for those without flash. Not to mention that flash sites are not ADA compliant as they don't allow access to the blind.
Those are very real problems and very serious ones which should have been remedied years ago. As it is large parts of the net are essentially walled off until gnash gets good enough to deal with them. But chances are by then there'll be new features to keep that from happening.
You have to remember that it's a small minority of people that are genuinely capable of educating themselves. Most people need it, the only problem is forcing those of us that don't need it and are in fact damaged by it to go. A rather unfortunate situation, but the Becks, Limbaughs and Bushes of the world demonstrate quite clearly the dangers of allowing people to essentially opt out of education.
For much of that time there wasn't a viable alternative and his business plan was to keep it that way. It's a bullshit argument people make that because there wasn't a gun involved that there must therefor have been a reasonable choice. Which is just something that Libertarians say so that they can sleep at night, the reality is that if you wanted to apply for a job and send in an electronic resume, good luck doing so with any other format than .doc because nobody would be looking at it. Or at work if you wanted to collaborate, you were stuck with Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc., all owned and sold by MS. And that was their business plan, make people an offer that they had little choice but to accept at a price that was much higher than what the market would bear were there any real competition.
No it doesn't. He started giving money away because his dad yelled at him about not giving anything back. William Gates Sr has been well known around Seattle for a long time. And one of the things he's known for is his generosity and more recently his push for an income tax on only high earners to compensate the state for the relative free ride that those individuals get under the current sales tax system.
The problem with that is that the cost of quality control would easily come out to being more than just producing it themselves. Particularly for more complicated fields like Pyschology, Biology and other more advanced subjects, it takes a long time to review the information to make sure that it's both appropriate and accurate.
Technically speaking that's not quite true, the newer ones have a bit more processing power and memory and use a USB cable instead of the old serial one, and they include it in some models. Additionally the resolution is a bit higher than on the older ones. But it's not really enough of an improvement to justify the lack of price drops over the intervening years.
Except that grub uses that space before it knows anything about the rest of the disk layout. Meaning that by putting it there, the likelihood of it accidentally nuking things while loading up modules to parse out the rest of the disk is greatly reduced. One of the issues that we've had for quite some time is that there's a very small amount of space dedicated to bootloaders by default, and some adjustment has to be made for more complicated set ups. Additionally by keeping it out of the user partitions there's a greatly reduced chance that grub will itself corrupt user data rather than just the easy to regenerate grub configuration files. Remember grub does have to write things there from time to time, rather than just read.
I had the same problem with FreeBSD and Win XP being nuked from the configuration file. There is a provision for doing just that so that the configuration gets updated correctly without further interaction from the user. Once I got tired enough of that to look for a solution, it didn't take long to find. I suspect there's a rather long list of OSes that are effected, probably the same list of OSes that require manual intervention the first time.
These sorts of screw ups make me think that perhaps commercial software companies ought not be be given a free pass for when a bug in their software nukes customer data. For free software whether it be opensource or just free, I can understand not requiring responsibility, if you're not making any money on it then you should be able to disclaim the risks and not be liable. But I do wonder how many of the bugs in Windows would exist if MS were responsible for breaches due to their shoddy code practices. Even if they weren't held responsible for user initiated stupidity.
That's my thought on the matter. Cash is usually to cover the cost of a resource and generally not expected if a person is being expected to contribute his or her time and effort. With /. users with sufficient karma are allowed to deactivate ads officially as a reward for contributing in other ways. I'd say in this case, that unless there's value being added which can't otherwise be had that donations or ads, but presumably not both, would be reasonable. But if you go that route all of a sudden that raises the expectations a great deal.
Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen are common components in high explosives. Unfortunately, they're also common components in many other things as well. But I suspect that the technology could have detected the car bomb used in the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma city. That is if I'm understanding things correctly.
Because ZOMG teh terrorists are going to attack. There's no legitimate reason, and the back scatter technique is likely to be even worse than what's been acknowledged as while the dose is for the whole body, the concentration of it ends up just inside the skin. Meaning that while it might be an acceptable amount of total radiation, it's focus in an area where you're at a heightened risk of skin cancer.
Personally, I won't be flying again until some sanity has returned. Choosing between being assaulted with radiation or assaulted by TSA staff is not what I'd consider a reasonable function of government. In normal contexts that would be regarded as threat of violence and intimidation so that you allow them to take indecent liberties with your body. It isn't a question as to whether or not it's a violation of the 4th, it's a question of why we're even having to ask.
I think I saw a movie like that, didn't he get caught screwing a pie?
Umm, dude, they already are doing it. Android uses .dex files which won't run on the standard runtime environment and it won't run the standard class files which all the other platforms support. Yet they claim that the applications are programmed using the Java programming language
Perhaps if you did some research you'd see what the problem is. You can't claim to allow use of the Java programming language and not follow the rules of the company that owns the rights to it. Google borrowed the trademark and the code and failed to live up to the agreement, I'm not sure how this could possibly be grey area.
As opposed to the guys that developed what is now known as ECMAscript and failed to demand that the various developers purporting to implement it did so in a compatible way? Trust me it's far more harmful for them to allow Google and others to claim to support the Java programming language, and then do so to the most minimalistic extent possible. You can't take class files and run them on Android devices and you can't take .dex files from Android and run them on the standard runtime environments which means that at best you're going to get confusion and splintering.
Ultimately, one of the most damaging things that a platform can suffer is incompatibility and unnecessary complication. While more pronounced in the world of consoles where winners and losers were often times just a function of the quality and ease of access of dev tools, it applies here as well.
Same difference, it's exactly the same problem, Google is using Oracle IP to compete against it's platform while claiming that it's compatible. Ultimately, Google is both infringing upon Oracles mark as well as their patents. From what I gather, the chose to file suit as a patent one rather than as a trademark one simply because it was easier to do. It's the same exact set of issues, just a bit easier to win.
When MS tried this during the 90s they wound up having to pay Sun $20m, the only reason why they're going the patent enforcement route is that the licensing has changed in the meantime so as to make it a bit more complicated to enforce in other ways.
Just because it's not the greatest language doesn't mean there's something wrong with it. Java does what it was designed to do quite well, it's just that any time you do cross platform via a virtual machine you're going to have to give up a bit in terms of performance, which is why developers avoid it when they can. However that's a bit like saying that a motorcycle is pointless because you can't drive from Burbank to Honolulu.
All applications are written using the Java programming language.
That is completely unambiguously indicating that it's Java. So, if it doesn't include all the libraries that Oracle says are a part of Java, then they're definitely infringing on at very least Oracle's trademark.
There's nothing inherently wrong with Java. It would've been incredibly irresponsible of Oracle to allow Google to create a wholly incompatible "Java" under the Java name. This isn't a legitimate way of showing what the future of Java could be, this is more like horning in on somebody else's trademark and trying to get something for nothing. Had Oracle looked the other way, they would've both lost their trademark as well as lost any relevance that Java had in the first place as Java's main point is relative ease of cross platform compatibility, which won't happen if there's that degree of difference between platforms.
It's definitely a conspiracy. Not to keep people away, but rather a conspiracy by employees of the Smithsonian to figure out if Glenn Beck's followers are capable of reading a book long enough to find the information they need. But then again, these are the same people that go to a person with no education and no knowledge of investing for investment advice. So I'm not sure that they could be described as particularly astute individuals.
Precisely, FreeBSD for a long time (Possibly still) shipped with two math emulators, one which was compiled in by default was kind of bogus but BSD licensed, the other which only included source was GPLed, but happened to work better. It was a bit of a pain, but ultimately worked, people didn't usually redistribute custom kernels anyways, so the requirements of the GPL weren't particularly restrictive on the typical user and everybody could have what they wanted.