So you promise to update your application forever whenever a problem with such a library is found?
Why not? That's standard procedure for the vast majority of real-world commercial software.
Shared libraries were a stupid idea when Linux did them, they were a stupid idea when Windows did them, and they're a stupid idea now that storage is free. It's way past time to ditch the whole concept.
US export law is no joking matter. It is impossible to exaggerate how goofy the rules are, and how much trouble you can get in for violating them. It doesn't matter if you're a hacker in a basement or a Fortune 100 defense contractor -- you do not want to mess around with these people.
More here. I think my favorite is the veterinary supply wholesaler in Waukee, Iowa who was fined $250,000 for sixteen unlicensed exports of cattle prods to Mexico.
The NHS example is just another extreme, which is effectively a strawman for the universal healthcare as an idea. NHS is just a poorly implemented version.
Yeah, I know, and Communism is just a poorly implemented version of Marxism, right?
It's the same thing that movie stars / record artists go through after they hit their 'peak'; they may still be on top, but since they measure themselves by relative or dynamic amounts (delta), as opposed to absolute amounts, a lack of change seems like they are failing.
Clearly Ballmer's next step should be to hire some storyboard consultants and videographers, and leak a sex tape.
Weird, are you sure you haven't transposed "iOS" and "Android"? iOS apps generally use text button labels, while Android apps look like something Howard Carter found in a dark and dusty prop warehouse.
There was a stagecoach owner who needed to hire a new driver. Three men came in to be interviewed. In addition to all of his other questions, the owner asked each of them "How close can you drive to the edge of a cliff without going over?" The first responded "I can get so close that the edge of the iron rim lines up exactly with the cliff edge." The second said "I can get so close that the half of the rim hangs over the edge." The third said "I don't know. I stay as far away from the edge as possible."
Smart guy. This is also how you stand out from the crowd in programming job interviews.
"First question: What is the correct order of operations for 3+4*5&0xFF&&12|34/9%6...?"
"I have no idea. I always use parenthesis when there's any possibility of confusion. Even if I know how the expression will be evaluated, the next programmer to look at my code might not."
Not sure if you're trolling, joking, or just an idiot. You can't point to an example of a Fukushima-like population center wiped out due to radiation from coal because the effects are distributed invisibly among the entire population of the planet. The solution to pollution is dilution, and coal plants get rid of their radioactive waste by 'diluting' it right into our lungs.
You won't see any earnest young reporters taking us through the pulmonary ward at the local nursing home, or the hospice where a wide cross-section of people regularly die of cancers that we normally associate with smoking. Jane Fonda isn't going to picket the ICU at the hospital where people succumb to pneumonia they might otherwise have survived. Nothing in those places is glowing green, melting through concrete floors, or setting off radiation alarms. That's not how coal pollution kills people.
I sincerely hope IHBT, in which case I will STFU and HAND.
Some people are so fervent in their malice for religion that it's a religion unto itself
Extremism in defense of reality is no vice.
Science does not exist diametrically opposed to religion, and there are plenty of scientists that say as much.
True, but that only means that being a scientist doesn't make you any less prone to delusion. Historically, there have been numerous scientists with various mental and moral failings. Scientists are still people, not so different from you and me.
Religion is what allows civilization to not just progress through a social evolution, but to survive. Humanity needs religion as a whole, because our brains are wired that way.
Meanwhile, back in reality, people are rightfully starting to worry about the combination of Atomic Age weaponry that modern science has given us and the and Bronze Age morality that the world's mainstream religions have saddled us with.
Ever read the Bible? How about the Koran? Ever imagine going back in time and giving those guys nukes? How does your "civilization" look in that scenario?
To the Slashtard horde everything is obvious after the fact. Don't dare to ask them why no one else did it before said company did it because all you will get will be blubbering excuses.
And to ancephalic ACs like yourself, it's best for society if twenty-year government-enforced monopolies are awarded to the first person to encounter a given problem and adopt the most obvious solution, even if said monopoly has the effect of stalling further progress in an entirely new industry.
See the Amazon one-click patent, for instance. Nobody had done that before, because nobody needed to. There can be only one winner in a foot race to the patent office, and it's not the consumer.
It is the responsibility of any inventor to do a patent search first to understand the patent landscape and determine where they have freedom to operate.
Bullshit. You have absolutely no affirmative obligation to perform a patent search. In fact, it amounts to negligence to do so, because the USPTO's policy of rubber-stamping everything that crosses their desks means that whatever you're going to do almost certainly is covered by multiple trivial patents. If it can be shown that you were aware of those patents, any damage awards will be trebled.
Something like "number of automobile companies by year" and such for various industries
What would that prove? It's possible that the optimal number of automobile companies in a given market is small. If that's what the market says, then that's what the market says.
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Just dress up like a physicist. Problem?
So you promise to update your application forever whenever a problem with such a library is found?
Why not? That's standard procedure for the vast majority of real-world commercial software.
Shared libraries were a stupid idea when Linux did them, they were a stupid idea when Windows did them, and they're a stupid idea now that storage is free. It's way past time to ditch the whole concept.
Yo momma's such a crack ho, she turned coke into a verb!
US export law is no joking matter. It is impossible to exaggerate how goofy the rules are, and how much trouble you can get in for violating them. It doesn't matter if you're a hacker in a basement or a Fortune 100 defense contractor -- you do not want to mess around with these people.
Some examples of the evidence you're asking for.
More here. I think my favorite is the veterinary supply wholesaler in Waukee, Iowa who was fined $250,000 for sixteen unlicensed exports of cattle prods to Mexico.
The NHS example is just another extreme, which is effectively a strawman for the universal healthcare as an idea. NHS is just a poorly implemented version.
Yeah, I know, and Communism is just a poorly implemented version of Marxism, right?
More like, should we transition from horses and buggies to llamas and rowboats?
Because that's what Microsoft is now expecting us to do with Windows 8.
It's the same thing that movie stars / record artists go through after they hit their 'peak'; they may still be on top, but since they measure themselves by relative or dynamic amounts (delta), as opposed to absolute amounts, a lack of change seems like they are failing.
Clearly Ballmer's next step should be to hire some storyboard consultants and videographers, and leak a sex tape.
It will probably look better than Windows 8.
Honestly, I though the Cheetos factor would sink the iPad, too. Didn't happen.
I do however find atheists and named religions out book thumping and ridiculing anyone that believes differently than them.
Extremism in defense of reality is no vice.
Fucking null hypothesis. How does it work?
Weird, are you sure you haven't transposed "iOS" and "Android"? iOS apps generally use text button labels, while Android apps look like something Howard Carter found in a dark and dusty prop warehouse.
Dude, just stop. Whatever they're paying you, it's not worth your dignity.
... my business is treating it as a minor, avoidable catastrophe and reacting accordingly.
The Yalta conference.
Do you live in Austin, though? If so, your observations won't apply anywhere else in Texas.
The thing is, whoever is giving the lethal injection can very easily decide on the spur of the moment to "do it wrong."
If I were going to be executed and were given a choice of method, I'd never choose lethal injection, just for that reason.
There was a stagecoach owner who needed to hire a new driver. Three men came in to be interviewed. In addition to all of his other questions, the owner asked each of them "How close can you drive to the edge of a cliff without going over?" The first responded "I can get so close that the edge of the iron rim lines up exactly with the cliff edge." The second said "I can get so close that the half of the rim hangs over the edge." The third said "I don't know. I stay as far away from the edge as possible."
Smart guy. This is also how you stand out from the crowd in programming job interviews.
"First question: What is the correct order of operations for 3+4*5&0xFF&&12|34/9%6...?"
"I have no idea. I always use parenthesis when there's any possibility of confusion. Even if I know how the expression will be evaluated, the next programmer to look at my code might not."
"Second question: can you start Monday at 9?"
... is that this time, it's three GameCubes duct-taped together?
Not sure if you're trolling, joking, or just an idiot. You can't point to an example of a Fukushima-like population center wiped out due to radiation from coal because the effects are distributed invisibly among the entire population of the planet. The solution to pollution is dilution, and coal plants get rid of their radioactive waste by 'diluting' it right into our lungs.
You won't see any earnest young reporters taking us through the pulmonary ward at the local nursing home, or the hospice where a wide cross-section of people regularly die of cancers that we normally associate with smoking. Jane Fonda isn't going to picket the ICU at the hospital where people succumb to pneumonia they might otherwise have survived. Nothing in those places is glowing green, melting through concrete floors, or setting off radiation alarms. That's not how coal pollution kills people.
I sincerely hope IHBT, in which case I will STFU and HAND.
Some people are so fervent in their malice for religion that it's a religion unto itself
Extremism in defense of reality is no vice.
Science does not exist diametrically opposed to religion, and there are plenty of scientists that say as much.
True, but that only means that being a scientist doesn't make you any less prone to delusion. Historically, there have been numerous scientists with various mental and moral failings. Scientists are still people, not so different from you and me.
Religion is what allows civilization to not just progress through a social evolution, but to survive. Humanity needs religion as a whole, because our brains are wired that way.
Meanwhile, back in reality, people are rightfully starting to worry about the combination of Atomic Age weaponry that modern science has given us and the and Bronze Age morality that the world's mainstream religions have saddled us with.
Ever read the Bible? How about the Koran? Ever imagine going back in time and giving those guys nukes? How does your "civilization" look in that scenario?
To the Slashtard horde everything is obvious after the fact. Don't dare to ask them why no one else did it before said company did it because all you will get will be blubbering excuses.
And to ancephalic ACs like yourself, it's best for society if twenty-year government-enforced monopolies are awarded to the first person to encounter a given problem and adopt the most obvious solution, even if said monopoly has the effect of stalling further progress in an entirely new industry.
See the Amazon one-click patent, for instance. Nobody had done that before, because nobody needed to. There can be only one winner in a foot race to the patent office, and it's not the consumer.
It is the responsibility of any inventor to do a patent search first to understand the patent landscape and determine where they have freedom to operate.
Bullshit. You have absolutely no affirmative obligation to perform a patent search. In fact, it amounts to negligence to do so, because the USPTO's policy of rubber-stamping everything that crosses their desks means that whatever you're going to do almost certainly is covered by multiple trivial patents. If it can be shown that you were aware of those patents, any damage awards will be trebled.
So -- isn't there a kickstarter for wannabe-litigators?
Closest thing would probably be Intellectual Ventures. Their business plan is basically centered on becoming the Wal-Mart of patent trolls.
Something like "number of automobile companies by year" and such for various industries
What would that prove? It's possible that the optimal number of automobile companies in a given market is small. If that's what the market says, then that's what the market says.