It depends how it is done. If, like the original Qt license, the license says that the software cannot be used on those platforms without paying the fee, then you are correct, it is non-Free software. But if anyone is free to compile the source themselves, but the authors make a convenient binary package available for a fee, then it is still Free software.

By measuring the actual emissions using regularly calibrated test equipment (not blindly trusting what the car's uncalibrated sensors are telling you). The visual inspection is to ensure that the emissions are not also coming out from other places they shouldn't be.

The US government holds that Bitcoin is property not legal tender.

Legal tender has a very specific and limited meaning relating to payment of debts - if you owe a debt, then an offer of legal tender to settle it cannot be refused. Not being legal tender is not a barrier to something being used in commerce, even by the government. If both parties agree, they can use whatever payment system they want (as long as the IRS is kept happy by declaring a US$ equivalent where required).

"Go to bed NOW or you don't get to go to your friend's house tomorrow" is very obviously exclusive to an adult -- but to a kid, they figure they' ve got options.

I'd say the opposite. The kid is thinking if I go to my bed now, I am definitely going to my friends house, and I can get straight out of bed again, because once I've fulfilled the request the outcome is decided and the threat of not going to my friend's house cannot be pulled out again for another situation. It's the adult that figures the options they are giving are not exclusive, and may very well decide the child is not going to their friend's house even though they went to bed NOW as requested.

Sometimes it depends on context, like a lot of written English, but a big clue is that there is no word 'xor' in the English language, and another clue is that it is common to see 'and/or' written when the author explicitly wants to include the possibility that both options may be true at the same time.

My eight year old son has one. I think the real purpose of it is to introduce 7-10 year olds to how to use a dictionary by providing something heavily simplified that they can understand easily, rather than providing a comprehensive word list.

Confirmed that they have replaced acorn with arm in the 2007 edition. The definition reads "Arms are weapons".

Any framework like this will generate a functional but crappy difficult to use UI on top of your data in minutes. Making a decently usable UI though is hard work compared to the UI centric tools with data binding he is used to coming from a MS background. Also, Cake is a web app framework, and the original poster is specifically interested in a traditional client-server architecture.

I'm pretty sure most font systems already DO do this.

Usually not the font systems themselves, as the font system API needs to be designed to let you use fonts in the way that suits your application, and not have random substitutions happen behind your back (though the font system provides the API functions to figure out what a good substitution font will be). But higher level UI libraries, like GTK, Qt, MFC, Windows Forms,Core Text, Skia etc will do it.

one can almost always treat utf8 as a byte stream. except in the rare case where one needs to know where character boundaries are.

UTF-8 is designed to be treated as a byte stream - even when detecting character boundaries. If a byte is >0x7F and <0xC0, then it is not a character boundary. If you want to be really strict, filter out the invalid bytes (0xC0, 0xC1, >0xF4), then everything else is a character boundary.

Too late, Kim Jong Un ordered the general who bought the HP printer to be executed already, and ordered his brother to buy a Canon inkjet to replace it. The brother was also executed for bring imperialist Japanese goods into Korea, but at least they have a new national printer now. Both the PCs are now being studied by North Koreas elite hacking squad to see if the files can be removed without recompiling the whole system from scratch, but the results are not promising so we may see more outage on the North Korean netblock again this week.

You really shouldn't link so brazenly to hackers' command-and-control servers on a public forum like this. Someone might get hurt.

Try burning your country's flag in public sometime, and ask the same question of the police officers who will undoubtedly show up.

Even before this attack, there wasn't a single mainstream publication in the U.S. or Europe that would dare publish any depiction of Mohammad, or probably even any criticism of him. These terrorists were just eliminating one of the few remaining forums that was still willing to take on Islam.

Drawing depictions of Mohammad is not "taking on Islam". It is trolling. There is no purpose to it other than baiting the nutjobs that would murder your whole office for the offense you cause them.

By the time they got to multi-core, Intel had moved to a RISC architecture internally anyway.