Comment Or a poster for your library (Score 3, Informative) 259
The librarian Jessamyn West has had a similar idea for years.
The librarian Jessamyn West has had a similar idea for years.
That being said, I wouldn't necessarily mind paying for a software subscription if I got to keep the most recent version that was released during the term of the contract. For expensive software that could be a win for everybody.
There's already a business model for that - maintenance contracts. Typically half the cost of the full application per year (after initial purchase), for which you get support and upgrades. If you stop paying maintenance you still get to keep your current software forever.
DIdn't they claim to have invented a particular (and difficult) aspect of recovering a clean signal from a noisy environment? (the noise being largely additional reflections of the initial signal). I believe the general consensus was that this was patent-worthy and worthy of recompense.
I'm about to move back to Sydney so this would be interesting to me. Can you tell me who it is?
eldavojohn, I applaud you
Ummm... Stuff That Matters perhaps?
It was obvious to at least some of us. Perhaps the grumblers are right and
You do know who you're replying to don't you?
I really haven't used a desktop client for email in years. Where's the gain for the user?
What I'd really like to see is improvement in the webmail interfaces available to us. Gmail is fast, but I find the interface limiting and clunky.
That's the gain for the user.
Sorry, 1 AUD = 1.04 USD - http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=AUD&To=USD
My personal peeve is people that hit Reply when Reply All is required. I deliberately included those other people in the original email, because they need to be part of the discussion, don't cut them out. You've just forced me to add them all back in again on my reply.
As JasterBobaMereel said earlier in the thread:
USA: FMVSS 208 requires that air-bags be engineered and calibrated to be able to "save" the life of an unbelted 50th-percentile size and weight "male" crash test dummy.
European ECE airbags are generally smaller and inflate less forcefully than U.S. airbags, because the ECE specifications are based on belted crash test dummies
Basically the law says you should belt up in both, but the safety standards in the USA assume you won't be
We have no simple way for me to write a cool hack of a little game today, and share it with thousands of Linux enthusiasts tomorrow.
Stick it on your website; create a PPA for Ubuntu; add it to SourceForge. There's a ton of ways to distribute something.
The hash on the following line would then be different.
Did the submitter (or editor, ha ha) even read the article? Or even read the article headline: "Why aren't you using FreeBSD?".
Nowhere does he mention the desktop except to say "There used to be a saying -- at least I've said it many times -- that my workstations run Linux, my servers run FreeBSD", and he finishes with "you may decide you'd be better off running FreeBSD on the next set of Web servers, SMTP relays, or application servers you build".
Staggering lack of reading comprehension.
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