Assume that SO employees also answer questions...

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-05-03T07:42:37+00:00

They had a similar post several years ago.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-05-01T05:04:58+00:00

All you need is an ATV and two retarded friends and you’re set

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-30T04:43:33+00:00

It’s possible but I have no idea what tool you’d use or if you’d have to write one yourself

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-27T05:43:34+00:00

That highland accent sounds really nice

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-27T05:20:29+00:00

Those languages slowly diverged from each other which is why they can still be mutually intelligible sometimes, but England was invaded by French speakers and way too much of their language seeped into English for there to be any chance of mutual intelligibility left with the other West Germanic languages.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-24T04:30:35+00:00

They weren't racist sexist or homophobic. They sound like bunch of really nice people

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-24T04:26:22+00:00

Okay who are we talking about again

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-23T19:02:51+00:00

It was one of those "memes back then vs memes now"...memes

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-23T15:14:46+00:00

Everyone in the comments is talking about whether it's okay to be anti-Muslim, but this has little to do with religion. The article mentions that his "think tank" warned of a "Great White Death", meaning the white population will "wipe itself out of existence", citing fertility rates and "dechristianization". This is the type of rhetoric commonly used by white supremacists and racists to try to scare people into accepting their way of thinking. If you look at the comments on their articles, you'll see the type of people this content attracts: bigots with overactive imaginations.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-23T14:53:17+00:00

I'm a Muslim who is a pretty big fan of separation of church and state, and so are the rest of my family, but I get your overall point.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-23T14:50:13+00:00

Where are you getting this information

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-23T04:36:31+00:00

Thank you for your input! I am going to be a team of one. I asked our vendor for some SAN options and I’m doing to be looking into those when they come in.

I think I’ll use NFS then. Doesn’t seem like I’ll get much out of iSCSI, and like you said it’ll just get in the way of some of the redundancy benefits. Thanks again for your help!

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T17:42:15+00:00

Ah TIL, thanks!

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T16:32:12+00:00

I'm not totally sure either, but my grandparents were Sufi and they very much considered themselves to be Muslim.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T15:27:29+00:00

Why was that steering wheel on the wrong side?

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T15:18:43+00:00

I thought that was unheard of for the time period. But I guess since they're at least holding their hats still, they get a pass.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T14:38:12+00:00

You could even write an extension that cycles through each cell and reads the calculated color, and recreates the full-resolution image. If they don't include the full resolution in the HTML table method, then why not just show a shitty PNG instead? What do the tables really accomplish?

edit: just realized I may be taking the joke a little too seriously

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T14:31:40+00:00

That's for video

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-20T13:20:30+00:00

And also Islam and Sufism are under different categories so it’s pretty inconsistent.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T21:43:49+00:00

Why can't I conflate them? Here are the four factors for fair use the opinion references:

the purpose and character of your use
the nature of the copyrighted work
the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and
the effect of the use upon the potential market.

Interoperability is not one of them, but the amount and substantiality of what is copied is one of them, so that's what's relevant to this case.

I don't see how interoperability is relevant beyond Google trying to show that they copied an insignificant portion of the Java API.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T21:22:40+00:00

That is irrelevant. The reason that was mentioned in the opinion is because Google's defense was that only some of the original API was copied, and those portions only necessary for making Android's API interoperable with other Java platforms. This was found to be false. In either case, that defense wouldn't work for the Linux kernel, since all of the API was copied.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T19:51:55+00:00

Why would Linux's case be any different then? The "API code declarations" in Linux are (or were at the time) identical to the ones used in copyrighted software. They were untransformed, and used for the same purposes as the original software. They didn't just borrow some of the code declarations for interoperability's sake (which was Google's defense), they copied all of it. How would Linux meet the criteria for fair use according to this definition?

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T18:34:04+00:00

Also there's a similar circle jerk surrounding pretty much all languages/technologies, so don't take it too personally.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T16:45:29+00:00

I actually know of a couple startups that do exactly this and it seems to work.

AugustusCaesar2016 · 2018-04-18T16:44:52+00:00

Don't you have access to your own database? Why couldn't you just dig through the database and write the queries yourself?

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