If Holy-wood is such the archvillain (MPAA, CSS, DMCA, Jack Valenti, judge Kaplan, et caetera), how come Slashdot is the first to jump on the people's opium bandwagon?
... intuitive and easy to use IDE; simplified GUI design and event handling; advanced error handling; advanced object oriented design including multiple inheritance, abstract classes, and garbage collection; full support for operator and function overloading; and portable (at compile-time) across various platforms.
Uses Object Pascal language; no bugs due to bad type matching; less chance of memory leaks; no undecypherable source code (because Pascal won't let you do "clever" tricks that in reality only obfuscate the source).
The GUI interface is a pleasure to use, with it's automatic source-code completion features which lets you pick and choose amongst the valid, legal field/methods/properties names.
The event handling is simple enough: you just plug an event handler into a table of possible events for every given component, and the code is called automagically when shit happens; no more parsing at the message stream.
Object Pascal's OOP has everything to offer to advanced OOP jocks. And the source code stays readable, too.
Garbage collection is no pain with Object Pascal; properly coded destructors is the name of the game here.
You will never overload enough Object Pascal functions... Full overloading is wholly supported.
Compiles on both your neighboorhood friendly Win32 or Linux platform.
'Nuff said. Don't listen to the C/C++ dopes, they're just toying around with a sophisticated front-panel toggle-switch array...
Movies cost a fortune, and the main income is still what flows through the box office. Now if a movie is released on DVD before it appears in theaters (and that happens very often), both movie theaters and studios would suffer.
Fuck'em. If they can't adapt, they should become extinct.
If it is because of the EULA, does that mean that a 12 year old can purchase the software, click through the EULA and make/sell copies of the software under the protection of the EULA being void due to his age?
You mean that any 16 year-old can purchase any electronics products, say, a DVD player, and reverse-engineer it's software, regardless of the licence (DVD-CCA) it's manufacturer had to adhere to?
Oxdung. It's the COURTS that do. They are part of the JUDICIARY branch of the State, not of the legislative (the government - national/legislative assembly - senate) nor executive (the president - governor - chancellor).
It's really tiring to see uneducated people call everything that comes from the State as being from the "government". The government is but a tiny part of the State.
Yes... we keep excellent records. ...
But it's very easy to stay compliant...
Can you tell what kind of company we are?
An intellectual property/patent law firm.
Love us or hate us... we practice what we preach.
I thought that cobblers had the worst shoes*...:):):)
Aside from the fact that we had to spend money to prove we were good, there is the fundamental constitutional issue. In a US court of law, the burden is on the accuser to prove our guilt. I hate that the BSA's strong-arm tactics have cowed not just companies, but the US citizens working at those companies, who apparently don't understand their own rights. The burden of proof should be on the accuser.
Since when does the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution apply to croporations?
You yankees are so much suckers to the idea that the State is bad simply forgot to take constitutional and legal safeguards against abuse by nongovernmemental entities.
There probably should be something, a couple of semesters in the history of Computer Science, just so that folks can really know and appreciate the technical barriers that had to be overcome.
Many navies have tallships to train cadet recruits in seamanship. Why wouldn't computer students have to write a program or two on punch cards and feed them to an old CDC pile of blinkenlights, and also toggle-in a bootstrap loader on a PDP-8 front-panel?
How about a program that checks every link, and yields an index according to how many times a particular page is referenced, so to present those pages that are linked the most as the more authoritative ones???
Now, that would be a killer book for those poor chaps that have to do a NT-to-Linux conversion, and have to grapple with the wonky Microsoft network oddities, file security, access privileges and whatnot you find on an NT server.
It would even be better with two or three real-life examples of server migration, both successful AND unsuccessful.
I did that 10 years ago with a Seagate 10 meg 5 1/2 MFM Hard drive, on my 386 ?
Some 15 years ago, I had a computer with a ST-225 drive. That sucker had a stepper motor mounted outside the "clean" enclosure. Since the axis was visible on the stepper motor, I simply glued a plastic needle (so if it dropped on the circuitry, it wouldn't short) on the end of the motor axis, and it would simply spin about when the head seeked.
Basically, I had the same fun without risking the drive's sanity.
Back in '83 I was standing outside a computer room when there was a head crash in a 12", IIRC, drive. Everybody hit the deck. Sounded like a bomb going off.
Back around that time, the company where I worked installed some new nifty IBM Winchester drives in the dinosaur pen. Those drives had their platters spinning around an horizontal axis that was parallel to the front of the drive housing.
Well, one of the IBM servoids said that his boss, when he was being trained at some remote IBM campus, was shown a video of a drive whose axis was deliberately seized, in order to demonstrate the power of the spinning disk platters, so the people who work them respect the, er, "mechanical handling constraints" they require...
The whole disk drive cabinet (as large as a clothes washing machine) simply went cartwheeling accross the room.
No wonder it took several minutes for the drive to spin up to speed...
The idea is that since Darwinian evolution no longer affects us, social evolution is all we've got left. I agree, the 19th century form is largely bunk. A lot of extremely successful people started off amongst the poor. Andrew Carnegie comes to mind.
But when those "poor" people became rich, they raised the barrier to entry, so other poor people would not become rich as easily...
Time to remind people again that "fittest" in this context does not mean "physically healthy or strong" but "adapted". So if somebody fits in well, he is "the fittest".
So, if a society, through it's croporations, think that it is better for the most people to be stupid (so they can be told to do anything at all) and unhealthy (so they can buy the cheapestly-made food), fat, stupid, obese people are the best adapted.
Hmmm, fits well with the observation of the average yankee I was able to do during my last trip to the US...
I don't know what planet you're from, but believe it or not, there are college degrees offered in fire protection. It takes a lot more than muscle to be a fireman...
I have met the fire chief of a major north-american metropolitan transit system. The guy is grossly overweight (if he's not 350 pounds, I'm a butterfly).
Well, this gentlemen has a few degrees in physics and chemistry, degrees he earned before becoming a rookie fireman.
So, just because he was "educated", he had to endure all sorts of hazing, like the fire-chief coming to him:
- "So, you have a degree in thermodynamics?"
- "Yup, chief!"
- "Well, then roll those lengths of hose"...
So, function calls for intelligence, and intelligence will always seep through...
No, you don't need a counterweight. If the cable is long enough so that the center of mass is in geostationary orbit it will just hang there by itself.
And the tidal forces will keep it neatly stretched, too.
A train containing an atomic (not thermonuclear) bomb crashes in the mountains 40 miles west of Denver. It detonates!
Utter bullshit. Mechanical impact will not detonate an atomic/thermonuclear bomb.
Did you know that an atomic bomb blew up in an airforce base near San-Francisco during the Corean war, killing one general, when the B-36 bomber that carried it crashed on take-off?
The nuclear explosion is dependent on the extremely precise timing of the detonation of dozens of classic explosive charges. If the timing is slightly out of what (by mere femtoseconds), it will "fizzle" but not detonate.
And the number of safeties in the detonator "mechanism" is so awfully high that it's a wonder the things ever detonate!
So, the cinematic notion that a bomb explodes in a train crash (both in the US and in Russia*) is laughable at best, and a bad joke at worst.
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* What was the name of that stupid movie, anyways? You know the one where a balkan diplomat smuggles an atomic bomb detonator in the U.N. building in New-York ?
You'd have to nail it high up for there to be any "damage". If you sever it at the bottom, you wind up with a free floating base that you can reattach. The point is that the entire elevator is in stable geosync orbit (actually, it's CM is in geosync), so that if the base is snapped, it doesn't fall.
In Clarke's Fountains of paradise, the beanstalk is actually built down from a heavy base in geostationary orbit.
...
Basically, the argument goes that if you have an elevator into space, then you can reuse energy, whilst if you have a propulsion system then you cannot. ...
Normally, we waste all of the energy on reentry because we don't use it for anything. With an elevator, the energy being exerted by gravity on the way down can be used to balance out the gravity being used to get other stuff up. Hence, you don't need as much energy overall to get stuff into orbit.
More than 50 years ago, the Virginian Railroad used electric trains with regenerative braking. Heavy coal drags trundling down the mountains were generating enough power to enable the empties to go up the mountain without having to kick-in the powerhouses.
It's amazing to see "modern" science re-inventing the hot technology railroads invented 50-100 years ago...
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If Holy-wood is such the archvillain (MPAA, CSS, DMCA, Jack Valenti, judge Kaplan, et caetera), how come Slashdot is the first to jump on the people's opium bandwagon?
- Uses Object Pascal language; no bugs due to bad type matching; less chance of memory leaks; no undecypherable source code (because Pascal won't let you do "clever" tricks that in reality only obfuscate the source).
- The GUI interface is a pleasure to use, with it's automatic source-code completion features which lets you pick and choose amongst the valid, legal field/methods/properties names.
- The event handling is simple enough: you just plug an event handler into a table of possible events for every given component, and the code is called automagically when shit happens; no more parsing at the message stream.
- Object Pascal's OOP has everything to offer to advanced OOP jocks. And the source code stays readable, too.
- Garbage collection is no pain with Object Pascal; properly coded destructors is the name of the game here.
- You will never overload enough Object Pascal functions... Full overloading is wholly supported.
- Compiles on both your neighboorhood friendly Win32 or Linux platform.
'Nuff said. Don't listen to the C/C++ dopes, they're just toying around with a sophisticated front-panel toggle-switch array...If this passes, I guess you'll see plenty of dead URLs floating in Boston Harbor...
No. Government makes laws; those are the dudes you elect. It is the STATE that has a judiciary function.
It's really tiring to see uneducated people call everything that comes from the State as being from the "government". The government is but a tiny part of the State.
* French proverb.
You yankees are so much suckers to the idea that the State is bad simply forgot to take constitutional and legal safeguards against abuse by nongovernmemental entities.
You only get what you deserve.
How about a program that checks every link, and yields an index according to how many times a particular page is referenced, so to present those pages that are linked the most as the more authoritative ones???
Windows NT explained to Linux dudes.
Now, that would be a killer book for those poor chaps that have to do a NT-to-Linux conversion, and have to grapple with the wonky Microsoft network oddities, file security, access privileges and whatnot you find on an NT server.
It would even be better with two or three real-life examples of server migration, both successful AND unsuccessful.
Basically, I had the same fun without risking the drive's sanity.
Well, one of the IBM servoids said that his boss, when he was being trained at some remote IBM campus, was shown a video of a drive whose axis was deliberately seized, in order to demonstrate the power of the spinning disk platters, so the people who work them respect the, er, "mechanical handling constraints" they require...
The whole disk drive cabinet (as large as a clothes washing machine) simply went cartwheeling accross the room.
No wonder it took several minutes for the drive to spin up to speed...
Hmmm, fits well with the observation of the average yankee I was able to do during my last trip to the US...
Well, this gentlemen has a few degrees in physics and chemistry, degrees he earned before becoming a rookie fireman.
So, just because he was "educated", he had to endure all sorts of hazing, like the fire-chief coming to him:
- "So, you have a degree in thermodynamics?"
- "Yup, chief!"
- "Well, then roll those lengths of hose"...
So, function calls for intelligence, and intelligence will always seep through...
Did you know that an atomic bomb blew up in an airforce base near San-Francisco during the Corean war, killing one general, when the B-36 bomber that carried it crashed on take-off?
The nuclear explosion is dependent on the extremely precise timing of the detonation of dozens of classic explosive charges. If the timing is slightly out of what (by mere femtoseconds), it will "fizzle" but not detonate.
And the number of safeties in the detonator "mechanism" is so awfully high that it's a wonder the things ever detonate!
So, the cinematic notion that a bomb explodes in a train crash (both in the US and in Russia*) is laughable at best, and a bad joke at worst.
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* What was the name of that stupid movie, anyways? You know the one where a balkan diplomat smuggles an atomic bomb detonator in the U.N. building in New-York ?
It is by leaving the cradle that one can devellop.
Konstantin Edouardovich Tsiolkowsky.
It's amazing to see "modern" science re-inventing the hot technology railroads invented 50-100 years ago...
Let's hope that dubya's goons won't be deployed to Taprobane to level that old temple and kick some monk-ass...