"Sun decided that to post a response to.NET on it's Java home page"
But, althopugh the link is indeed on java.sun.com, the writer turns out NOT to work for Sun, as one click on his name-link produces the following:
Madhu Siddalingaiah is a founding principle of SEA Corporation, a consulting and development firm. He has published numerous articles and books about Java technology and speaks at technology conferences around the world.
The point and purpsoe of the Copyright law is to promote the creation of intelelctual proeprty for the good of society at large.
Ask yourself if yo uwant to live in a world without movies like The Matrix, books like Snow Crash, software like your web browser. (Yes, I know Mosaic was written by the government-- how many of you use Mosaic or want to go back to it?)
All of which were created either directly or indirectly to make money. Their creators couldn't afford to do otherwise.
Unless you want to tear down all of capitalism, taking the profit potential out of art just ensures not much art will be created.
Bush is the main-stream conservative choice. One would assume that Bush and Buchannan would roughly track. Where there are more far right conservatives there shoudl be mreo main-0stream conservatives.
The terrible showing of Bush v. Gore in that county shows the LACK of a conservative base. nevertheless the Buchannan vote is way UP.
In fact, thus, tracking against Bush is one perfectly VALID way to measure the effect.
"I must confess, a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest." -- Simon and Garfunkle, The boxer
If you want to write stuff you own, just like anybody else in the software industry, youneed to do it on your own time and with your own resouces. Its best NEVER to let the code touch your machines at work and for what youa re doing privately to be different enough hen what youa re doing for yoru employer that they can't claim its derivative.
I meant to end this with a quote. A very bright Brittish school-boy said this to a friend of mine who was watching the boy slowly and methodicly build a construction project:
"I am in a great hurry, so I must work very, very slowly."
Out of the mouths of babes sometimes comes great wisdom.
Young men work fast, and work long, and have to in order to produce.
Older men work slower, shorter, and produce the same or better results because (hopefully) they've made most of their mistakes when they were young and learned from them.
"Line counting" is a legacy of IBM and one of the silliest thinsg ever to hit coding. 5 lines of code that do the work of 50 are easier to maintain and more likely to perform quickly.
When we are young, we use brute force. When we are older, we use elegance instead.
Ever left it parked for three days in the same spot? If so it looks abandoned to me so lkets elt someone take it.
Have you used your Dreacmcast in the past 2 weeks? If not, it looka to me like you've abandoned it, mind if I break in to your hosue and take it? After all, you obviosuly aren't using it so who am I hurting?
Giving the theaft of intellectual proerty a fancy new name doesn't change the fact that its theaft. Only the owner can decide if something is abandoned.
A REAL "abandonware" site would approach the copyright holders of each piece of sofwtare they wished to post and get permission to do so.
Otherwise its just another Warez site with classic warez and a fancy justification.
Start-ups and small companeis don't have the resource for daycare (though I have seen incubators that had facillities on site.)
Larger companies both have the resources and tend to employ more people with families. Yes, I think daycare (particualrly on-site) would be a GREAT benefit for those companies to offer-- and I may never have kids (medical issues.)
Between raising your child and lugging your child around with you or staying home with it. They are, in fact, orthogonal.
I was watched by a nanny during the day when iw as a baby. Frankly, i don't remember her. My mom would coeme home every evening and spend QUALITY time with me. This was made easier by teh afct that she didn't have to spend 24 horus a day with me.
As soon as I was old enough I wne to an academic pre-school during the day and, along with lessons at home, I eventually entered school at an advantage that lasted all the way up to and through college. (The stronegst part being, because I was always a bit ahead, I enjoyed school.)
In our genreation I have seen plenty of "stay at home parents" ho sit around watchign the TV aterh then their child. Worse, they plant the CHILD in frotn of the TV so that they wount bother them.
These people may stay at home, but in my bookj they aren't parents at all.
Some equal time with two jokes, one for eahc candidate, both of which are clearly true...
Al Gore:
Q: What does Tipper like most about being married to Al?
A: She gets to sleep with a differen't man every night.
GW Bush:
(This was part of a Jay Leno routine)
Jay ( to band leader): I've been loking at your crossword puzzle and its all wrong. Here it says " a four letter word for a container for narcotics, starting with B", you put down "Bong".
Yo uare touchign on much deeper trhuths abotu human beings that color any mass human endevoiur 9incouding Slashdot.)
(1) Human beings are fundementally herd animals. Most humans happily and blindly follow the pack, and apply social (or soemtiuems physical) pressure tovothers who don't. the afct that social pressure has an effeft even in "free thinkers" (even if just to upset them) again shows the pack nature.
(2) People are lazy. Thinking is work. The avergae man would rather not think. Said but true, the single biggest root cause of al lthis is simple intellectual laziness-- being unwilling to challenge one's own preconceptions. (Again, looka round Slashdot, we certainly aren't immmune to this, either.)
(3) Pleasure/pain response. At the end of the day, most people choose the easiest solution that 'feels the best'.
Some peopel don't fall into tehs etemptation and approach their religion, or politics, or other life decisions with a self-critical eye, and the prenoucnements of "auhtorities" with suspicion, but they are in the end very rare.
Look up information on Doug Trumbull's Showscan(tm). Showscan is 120fps film and the result is astounding. I've seen Showscan-- the Luxor's "Present" show in the Past, Present and Future trilogy is Showscan. Go to vegas and see it yourself.
What you get is vastly improved sense of "presence." Its much like the difference between vinal and CDs in audio but visually.
Luxor tells everybody that its a live show, and people believe it because it is so life-like.
I'm only half kidding, I udnerstand serious Quakeaholocs do this. I've never seen a system running at this rate but I HAVE seen real Showscan (120fps movie) and the effect is astounding. The sense of presance is most like what a CD sounds like the first time you hear one. The film just seems much more real. (So real that the attraction I saw it at pretends you are watching live people and all the reviews I've ever read bought the story hook, line and sinker. If your curious its the "Present" show in the Luxor's "Past, Present and Future" simulation trilogy.)
You need at least 120 FPS. Thats Showscan(tm).
I'm only half kkdding, I udnerstand serious Quakeaholocs do this. I've never seen a system running at this rate but I HAVE seen real Showscan (120fps movie) and the effect is astounding. The sense of presance is most like what a CD sounds like the first time you hear one. The film just seems much more real. (So real that the attraction I saw it at pretends you are watching live people and all the reviews I've ever read bought the story hook, line and sinker. If your curious its the "Present" show in the Luxor's "Past, Present and Future" simulation trilogy.)
This will probably be moderated down to flamebait. I'm really not looking for or intersted in flame wars. A community that cannot stand a critical eye is, one would suppose, the opposite of the stated slash-dot ethic so I encourage people NOt to post back to this, bot to THINK about this.
This sentance struck me as being typical of an undercurrent that runs through Slashdot...
"Typo sites are odd: I'm cool with most of them (parodies or ones that simply have an ad and a redirector to the real deal) but some really piss me off... like the Slashdot typo sites that frame slashdot with extra banner ads."
To paraphrase-- censorship of typo sites is bad... UNLESS they are typo sites that feed off ME and then THEY are bad.
To often on Slashdot I see impassioned arguments for the free tarde of intellectual property by thsoe who produce none, and other such convenient double standards.
Free speach isn't free speach unless it applies to everyone. Property rights aren't property rights unelss they apply to everyone. You can't deny someone elses right, be it their right to the fruits of their labor or their right to speak out, without in the end denying your own.
Slashdot Mirror
The etymology is "right to copy." You can look up its history in any good text on Copyright laws.
Catseye, amature etymologist and long time John Ciardi "Word in your ear" fan.
P.S. I think laws that say cars are owned by their manufacturers are bunk. I don't make cars.
See any parallels?
Who is "John Sun" ??
Maybe the name you were looking for is Scott McNealy, President of Sun Microsystems?
If your gonna try to poke fun at someone, its good manners to at least know who they are.
The article poster writes:
.NET on it's Java home page"
"Sun decided that to post a response to
But, althopugh the link is indeed on java.sun.com, the writer turns out NOT to work for Sun, as one click on his name-link produces the following:
Madhu Siddalingaiah is a founding principle of SEA Corporation, a consulting and development firm. He has published numerous articles and books about Java technology and speaks at technology conferences around the world.
The point and purpsoe of the Copyright law is to promote the creation of intelelctual proeprty for the good of society at large.
Ask yourself if yo uwant to live in a world without movies like The Matrix, books like Snow Crash, software like your web browser. (Yes, I know Mosaic was written by the government-- how many of you use Mosaic or want to go back to it?)
All of which were created either directly or indirectly to make money. Their creators couldn't afford to do otherwise.
Unless you want to tear down all of capitalism, taking the profit potential out of art just ensures not much art will be created.
I can easily make the counter argument.
Bush is the main-stream conservative choice. One would assume that Bush and Buchannan would roughly track. Where there are more far right conservatives there shoudl be mreo main-0stream conservatives.
The terrible showing of Bush v. Gore in that county shows the LACK of a conservative base. nevertheless the Buchannan vote is way UP.
In fact, thus, tracking against Bush is one perfectly VALID way to measure the effect.
"I must confess, a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest." -- Simon and Garfunkle, The boxer
Actually its a lot less.
SOAP around DCOM. Good ol Microsoft. They'll keep putting the ame crud ina differen't colored boxes til you buy it.
At least they are predictable.
It's theirs.
If you want to write stuff you own, just like anybody else in the software industry, youneed to do it on your own time and with your own resouces. Its best NEVER to let the code touch your machines at work and for what youa re doing privately to be different enough hen what youa re doing for yoru employer that they can't claim its derivative.
I meant to end this with a quote. A very bright Brittish school-boy said this to a friend of mine who was watching the boy slowly and methodicly build a construction project:
"I am in a great hurry, so I must work very, very slowly."
Out of the mouths of babes sometimes comes great wisdom.
Young men work fast, and work long, and have to in order to produce.
Older men work slower, shorter, and produce the same or better results because (hopefully) they've made most of their mistakes when they were young and learned from them.
"Line counting" is a legacy of IBM and one of the silliest thinsg ever to hit coding. 5 lines of code that do the work of 50 are easier to maintain and more likely to perform quickly.
When we are young, we use brute force. When we are older, we use elegance instead.
Copyrights expire.
This actually is not true:
"The copyright continues to exist, since there's no legal mechanism for it to become invalid. "
Copyrights have a fixed lifetime after which the work becoems public domain. This is how most public domain works come about.
Ever left it parked for three days in the same spot? If so it looks abandoned to me so lkets elt someone take it.
Have you used your Dreacmcast in the past 2 weeks? If not, it looka to me like you've abandoned it, mind if I break in to your hosue and take it? After all, you obviosuly aren't using it so who am I hurting?
Giving the theaft of intellectual proerty a fancy new name doesn't change the fact that its theaft. Only the owner can decide if something is abandoned.
A REAL "abandonware" site would approach the copyright holders of each piece of sofwtare they wished to post and get permission to do so.
Otherwise its just another Warez site with classic warez and a fancy justification.
Start-ups and small companeis don't have the resource for daycare (though I have seen incubators that had facillities on site.)
Larger companies both have the resources and tend to employ more people with families. Yes, I think daycare (particualrly on-site) would be a GREAT benefit for those companies to offer-- and I may never have kids (medical issues.)
Between raising your child and lugging your child around with you or staying home with it. They are, in fact, orthogonal.
I was watched by a nanny during the day when iw as a baby. Frankly, i don't remember her. My mom would coeme home every evening and spend QUALITY time with me. This was made easier by teh afct that she didn't have to spend 24 horus a day with me.
As soon as I was old enough I wne to an academic pre-school during the day and, along with lessons at home, I eventually entered school at an advantage that lasted all the way up to and through college. (The stronegst part being, because I was always a bit ahead, I enjoyed school.)
In our genreation I have seen plenty of "stay at home parents" ho sit around watchign the TV aterh then their child. Worse, they plant the CHILD in frotn of the TV so that they wount bother them.
These people may stay at home, but in my bookj they aren't parents at all.
Does it concern anyone else that in our generation chairs that are prefect cradles for our bodies for entire days have become a critical issue?
I remember when I was a kid reading the dire prediciton that we would let all our limbs atrify to the point of being human eggs.
Suddenly it doesn't seem as outrageous as it did...
"I don't care if the man sometimes can't speak straight. "
Its hard to talk with a septum burned out from sniffing coke.
The questions they chose not to answer as the ones they did.
"First, we kill the lawyers"
Shakespear
"Then, we kill any politicians still left."
Me
Some equal time with two jokes, one for eahc candidate, both of which are clearly true...
Al Gore:
Q: What does Tipper like most about being married to Al?
A: She gets to sleep with a differen't man every night.
GW Bush:
(This was part of a Jay Leno routine)
Jay ( to band leader): I've been loking at your crossword puzzle and its all wrong. Here it says " a four letter word for a container for narcotics, starting with B", you put down "Bong".
The right answer is Bush.
(My add on.)
Hey he smelled, but he didn't snort, right?
Yo uare touchign on much deeper trhuths abotu human beings that color any mass human endevoiur 9incouding Slashdot.)
(1) Human beings are fundementally herd animals. Most humans happily and blindly follow the pack, and apply social (or soemtiuems physical) pressure tovothers who don't. the afct that social pressure has an effeft even in "free thinkers" (even if just to upset them) again shows the pack nature.
(2) People are lazy. Thinking is work. The avergae man would rather not think. Said but true, the single biggest root cause of al lthis is simple intellectual laziness-- being unwilling to challenge one's own preconceptions. (Again, looka round Slashdot, we certainly aren't immmune to this, either.)
(3) Pleasure/pain response. At the end of the day, most people choose the easiest solution that 'feels the best'.
Some peopel don't fall into tehs etemptation and approach their religion, or politics, or other life decisions with a self-critical eye, and the prenoucnements of "auhtorities" with suspicion, but they are in the end very rare.
The rest, are sheep.
JK
"Four legs good! Two legs bad!"
The sheep- Animal Farm
Plain and simple.
Look up information on Doug Trumbull's Showscan(tm). Showscan is 120fps film and the result is astounding. I've seen Showscan-- the Luxor's "Present" show in the Past, Present and Future trilogy is Showscan. Go to vegas and see it yourself.
What you get is vastly improved sense of "presence." Its much like the difference between vinal and CDs in audio but visually.
Luxor tells everybody that its a live show, and people believe it because it is so life-like.
You need at least 120 FPS. Thats Showscan(tm).
I'm only half kidding, I udnerstand serious Quakeaholocs do this. I've never seen a system running at this rate but I HAVE seen real Showscan (120fps movie) and the effect is astounding. The sense of presance is most like what a CD sounds like the first time you hear one. The film just seems much more real. (So real that the attraction I saw it at pretends you are watching live people and all the reviews I've ever read bought the story hook, line and sinker. If your curious its the "Present" show in the Luxor's "Past, Present and Future" simulation trilogy.)
You need at least 120 FPS. Thats Showscan(tm). I'm only half kkdding, I udnerstand serious Quakeaholocs do this. I've never seen a system running at this rate but I HAVE seen real Showscan (120fps movie) and the effect is astounding. The sense of presance is most like what a CD sounds like the first time you hear one. The film just seems much more real. (So real that the attraction I saw it at pretends you are watching live people and all the reviews I've ever read bought the story hook, line and sinker. If your curious its the "Present" show in the Luxor's "Past, Present and Future" simulation trilogy.)
Cost about that, does great 3D and almost perfect DVD off of a vanilla DVD drive. I'm quite happy with it.
This will probably be moderated down to flamebait. I'm really not looking for or intersted in flame wars. A community that cannot stand a critical eye is, one would suppose, the opposite of the stated slash-dot ethic so I encourage people NOt to post back to this, bot to THINK about this.
This sentance struck me as being typical of an undercurrent that runs through Slashdot...
"Typo sites are odd: I'm cool with most of them (parodies or ones that simply have an ad and a redirector to the real deal) but some really piss me off... like the Slashdot typo sites that frame slashdot with extra banner ads."
To paraphrase-- censorship of typo sites is bad... UNLESS they are typo sites that feed off ME and then THEY are bad.
To often on Slashdot I see impassioned arguments for the free tarde of intellectual property by thsoe who produce none, and other such convenient double standards.
Free speach isn't free speach unless it applies to everyone. Property rights aren't property rights unelss they apply to everyone. You can't deny someone elses right, be it their right to the fruits of their labor or their right to speak out, without in the end denying your own.
Anything else is hypocracy and self-dillusion.
NWN is fairly exciting, but i'd hardly call it perfect
The design decision that you have to load all region maps into memory at server boot tiem is a pretty severe limitation.