Source: http://www.synonyms.net/synonym/surrender
surrender, yielding, capitulation, giving up, resignation, fall, forsaking, concession, surrender, resignation, conceding
Depending on your point of view these can apply as well: Withdraw, fall back, retreat.
So what does that say about English speaking countries?
I can come up with at least one example of the old user interface providing something ribbons were not making as easy to find. Under older versions of MS Word you double-click on the Header or Footer and you would be shown a toolbar that gave you options to insert Page Numbers, Total pages and so forth.
So if I wanted to, I could quickly do: Page/Total to get a 1/2 to show up at the bottom of the document.
Now under 2007, that toolbar dissapears and now I can insert Page numbers, none of which matched that exact format and none of which were simply a macro fill in. Hence, I had to dig through in order to find what I wanted. Go to Insert, and look about its not necessarily obvious. But eventually you can click on Quick Parts and Field and then select from a large list of macros.
Now that you do it once, you can create a template and never repeat the procedure. However, how was that any easier or more obvious then the old method?
MySQL caused a bit of a stir where I worked for the same reasons mentioned in the article. It is not always about doing the legwork, as anyone can pretty much take a few hours of research to find out licenses, variants in code and so forth.
What IS the problem however, is the fact that the GPL is a complex legal document and some companies don't want to pay the fees necessary for a small battalion of lawyers to confirm its use on a server platform or within a product. Its polar opposite the BSD license however is far easier for anyone to interpret and has a lot of legal precedence behind it.
The MySQL dual licensing issue reminds me of another project I encountered. iText PDF (http://www.itextpdf.com) is a Java open-source license that was traditionally released under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.
Oddly enough, just as their tutorials disappeared when the author of the library published a book. To which is used exclusively when asking for help in the forums, they also changed the license to the AGPL.
This seemed to be a way to force companies into buying their dual license. Apparently a lot of people used their product on a back-end servers to generate PDF invoices and so forth. By forcing the license change it meant that their changes to the code would have to be released and the viral nature of the AGPL forced the hands of many formerly legal products.
Fortunately, their MPL licensed version is only a few months older then their new code and oddly works with their Tutorial files they have hidden away in an old archive on Source forge.
Not that myself or my organization was opposed to licensing legally. However when you have a small, no fee, in house product being distributed within your organization and they are looking for 100$ US or more per instance for licensing fees, it rather makes it a hard pill to swallow.
MySQL had the same problem some of their fees seemed to range in the 300$ US per instance depending on the type of licensing involved and overhead of the company you used to get them. Some individuals at our organization recalls getting Oracle licenses for that price!
In a way, are these open source products or are they simply using the moniker as a way to attract people and force them into costly solutions?
What about OpenBSD? The core distro has apparently gone through the rigours of auditing and I am sure that is dealing with a fair amount of lines of code.
Sure OpenBSD does not offer every bell and whistle in their distribution. It certainly shows that it can be done if you have the will and resources to do it.
Not necessarily. Who does security of the perimeter around the air base? Who would defend the air base in war time conditions when the marines and army are out there holding the line?
Knowing how to defend your colleagues, the installation and yourself is not a waste of money. It's not like they are in a low risk job and will never be deployed overseas.
Of course if their training is almost meaningless and treated as a joke by those doing said training. Then I agree with you.
A lot of corporate Exchange accounts have limits on their size. So you have a PST to bypass that limitation, since an overflow prevents you from getting mail in at least our case!
When mounting a filesystem under OpenBSD you can specify that any file within that mount cannot be executed. I find that this is very much a valuable flag (noexec) when you are mounting
Of course if it is a script, nothing stops the person from calling the interpreter first. e.g. perl script.pl
Your forgetting the effect that drinking diet can have on someone. They feel that they can consume more of something else because they are being 'good' about what they drink.
I recall an article on MacDonald's being lower calorie per meal then Subway because of the same thinking. First of all people would load up on condiments at Subway then get cookies and a real non-diet soda.
When tallied together, it was better calorie wise to have a Big Mac combo with a diet coke. Reasoning being that since they knew what they were eating was bad, they would adjust accordingly. The reverse however does not seem to apply.
Got this link from a quick Google search: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2007/09/04/subway_diners_eat_more_calories.php
Not entirely unheard of if you are male, under 25, single and drive a car that is expensive to repair with a higher probability of causing accidents and damage. Insurance companies run profiles on everything and charge accordingly.
My insurance for a 6 year old Chrysler Neon was more expensive then a brand new Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 for example. Until recently, my wife paid less for insurance then I did. She has had three accidents in the last seven years and one of which was deemed at fault, while my record was clean.
That one always bothered me, since good behaviour was worth less then gender to the auto insurance industry.
SSBN's are not necessarily the trump card everyone makes them up to be. They are effective against other nuclear submarines such as the Alpha which is renowned for generating large amounts of self-noise.
They are not however overly effective against diesel-electric submarines that can move through the water with a lot less noise generation. I would assume that the Chinese has a fleet of Kilo-like class of diesel-electrics that would prevent or threaten naval operation close to their shores.
In the end, deterrence is one of the biggest factors. If stories from the Royal Australian Navy and their ilk is true and that they have been able to stalk and shadow carriers in their 'outdated' submarine technology, then the Americans would think twice before getting too close.
There is no stable government in Somalia either. The lack of social system, education and so forth has in fact failed not only the pirates by their society as a whole. This is not the reason for the rampant piracy, especially when dealing with ships that are brining in food supplies.
This is good old fashioned greed, until recently it has been pretty much a win-win for the pirates. They were seldom if ever confronted and the return on investment was massive. With those conditions in place it created an environment similar to what we had with Privateering.
They claim to care about the over-fishing, the illegal dumping and so forth, but it boils down to greed. Especially when you see that it is not fishing vessels that are hit, but supply tankers with big fat cargos worth millions.
If they were there as social activists, they would be boarding vessels that actually created their problems and keeping them on their shores as a political statement. Not claiming million dollar bounties and going after the next ripe and defenceless target.
That's why they are so vocal about recent warship involvement. Their goose is cooked if world navies crack down.
How come everyone's going so slow if it's called rush hour?
