I believe one of the requirements for a valid CA non-compete is the specific listing of the companie(s) you agree not to seek employment with. A self-restraining order, in effect.
Australia is not an island. As the largest landmass on its/the Indo-Australian tectonic plate it's, by definition, a continent. Parent was not funny, but simply pleasantly ignorant.
Apparently the only fair reviews are those that are proportionally positive in respect to the square or the hype+publisher's net-rep. Oh wait, it's an IGN review (rolls eyes).
I have to honestly disagree that Doom 3 is a "good game" in any respects other than graphics technology. I can check out how well my current video card will run with entertaining benchmarks for free kthx.
I'm sorry I read the entire Hyperion quadrilogy and I have no idea why anyone thinks there's anything like the "cortical stack" mentioned by this reviewer (or the parent) contained within it. Dan Simmons firmly attaches the soul to the living body and any separation from that (Kassad's implied personality imprinting) a mere construct. The "Keats" persona is also a construct as is reaffirmed multiple times during the novel from differing individuals and perspectives.
Just FYI for those who HAVEN'T been through a court mandated DUI education course... Sitting in a car, intoxicated without keys is grounds for DUI. The basis for this is that it is possible you had the keys in the immediate past or would have them in the immediate future and pose a danger to the public. This is in the state of CA at least.
Humans are good at many things. Programmers specialize in learning computer (logical) grammer as our? profession. Spatial relationships are more powerful as nature has demonstrated over time (if you're into evolution). Perhaps one day we'll all have matrix-vision.
Most of humanity spends a large portion of their life learning their native language (abstraction). This does not necessarily mean humans are particularly adept at it. When you mention something casually like "just a matter of learning the grammar" you've highlighted the weakness of the CLI. A signifigant barrier to useage, like learning a new syntax, cannot be trivialized because it's trivial for those who are paid to do so time and time again. Adding another language, in the case of CLI, is completely unnecessary to most users. I believe an operating system does not need to have a CLI in a perfect world. In reality the CLI might be best hidden or buried rather than a casual tool.
My views lead to a dichotomy where developer machines use an OS or have a customized OS that's altogether different from worker-bee machines...but that's always been the reality.
Unfortunately the world is governed by the GUI of sight+physics. We adapt to CLI or logical abstractions when we are blinded (braille) but ultimately it is an abstraction for the GUI of physical reality. Just a thought.
I'm a little disappointed that a group of fairly die-hard anti-doubleclick geeks could only hobble it a few hours at 75%...it may simply have been more effective to introduce a nasty virus into their network, so we'll just call this attack a symbolic way to raise awareness of this historically nasty company. I much rather have heard that a more intrusive and smaller company like CoolWeb was attacked.
Might want to email the original author rather than attempt to tear down a compliment to a third party. Kinda silly. I personally DO think that breaking copyright laws to remove parts of a work I don't like qualifies as "added content" and therefore work worthy of praise...just as I think those who edit out the "naughty parts" of various media are within their rights to do so regardless of US copyright law. I did not look at Groklaw so I don't care what notices are posted regarding the content. I wanted just the facts ma'am, and he provided them.
Just because a convention is commonly used, doesn't mean it's right. Copyright law is still a hotly debated subject and altogether irrelevant as what's done is done and will be done again in regards to the production of altered original works. Thanks for your opinion, it's just as wrong, heh.
Thank you spoonyfork for giving us the facts succinctly as opposed to the facts mixed with the meaningless subjectivities (the op-ed article). Good post.
That article has such insightful editorializing about this "scripting language"
Zend in the clowns? (Op-Ed)...
Being busy with other projects when the announcement and early development releases were made, the first concrete information I became aware of was when a friend (primarily a PHP developer) wrote to me a few months ago, quite excited, to outline the new developments, send some sample code and provide links to the relevant URLs. Unhealthily interested myself, I dived into the information (beats working...) and had a total brain freeze:
"W.T.F.?"
The part of PHP which I'd always had the least respect for [OO specific functions] was the part they'd gone to great lengths to extend. Not only that, but they'd rewritten the engine just to support this new expansion. Looking for any non-object-orientation-geared improvements, the only solace to be found was in the aforementioned change to string indexing.
...oh I don't know, maybe because you might need destructors for making STANDALONE APPLICATIONS, which is now possible?
That article has such insightful editorializing about this "scripting language"
Zend in the clowns? (Op-Ed)...
Being busy with other projects when the announcement and early development releases were made, the first concrete information I became aware of was when a friend (primarily a PHP developer) wrote to me a few months ago, quite excited, to outline the new developments, send some sample code and provide links to the relevant URLs. Unhealthily interested myself, I dived into the information (beats working...) and had a total brain freeze:
"W.T.F.?"
The part of PHP which I'd always had the least respect for [OO specific functions] was the part they'd gone to great lengths to extend. Not only that, but they'd rewritten the engine just to support this new expansion. Looking for any non-object-orientation-geared improvements, the only solace to be found was in the aforementioned change to string indexing.
...oh I don't know, maybe because you might need destructors for making STANDALONE APPLICATIONS, which is now possible?
I read MOAPI all the way through when I first clicked the link a few months ago. I fail to see how this applies to the 3 laws when the story (MOAPI) makes some extreme and rather dangerous presuppositions about human nature and does not even use the 3 laws...MOAPI expounds on the idea that immortality and absolute control of reality somehow leads to a nebulous feeling of emptiness and futility leading to self-destructive decadence. Humans are animals, but MOAPI assumes they become internally neutral gods over an eternity...which is plain dumb.
Excuse me, but a felony where? What kind of virus? Is it a virus if it changes your homepage? You're not thinking this through...as well as you think you are.
No I don't think the GPL should be adhered to, nor do I support any other kind of copy-ambidexterity. I'm talking about copyright as a concept.
While mutual agreements have done well to promote commerce in the sphere of the all-time-in-memory, when telephone arrived (harbringer of long distance, instant communication) things changed. Now humanity shares and distributes and mutates information as long as there is a safe harbor to collect it in. Copyright had been largely successful in limiting and cryogenically freezing information for decades in the time before. As long as there are places [switzerland, palestine, etc.] where the DMCA/GPL holds no sway, efforts to enforce them are ridiculously ineffective to a degree. This degree instantly grows into a gaping hole of wasted effort in a number of seconds and matter of keystrokes. It's a liberal stance to say that you cannot effectively eliminate domestic (illicit) drug use, child pornography dealing, or other societally frowned upon 'illegal' human behaviors. I think it's also a demonstrable truth. I take this same esoteric stance in software. FSF has engaged in a long-term battle to change society using a not-so-new tactic. FSF intends in using the system to further their goals of shared access to all implementation methodologies. Make no mistake, that any attempt to create a social subsystem within a parent system, still leaves you at the mercy of the parent's keepers. While the idea that 'the SCO case strengthens the GPL as a functioning concept' has merit, it also shows that the GPL is no stronger than DRM (and vice versa). They can be swept away by the whims of those who enforce copyright, with a simple string of letters like 'possible Al-Queda Connection'. An an extreme (but chilling) example. In the case of the GPL it would be various governmental agencies. In the case of DRM the keepers would be those private industries funding the various governmental agencies;)
If I were a problem solver for any sufficently large major commercial body (RIAA), my (insane) logical recourse to better enforcing legal agreements (which are not being adhered to) would be to implement tighter monitoring on the populace. Take small test groups, try out implants, ID wristbands, omnicient camera networks, fingerprint scanners on keyboards, whatever the voices in your head tell you would be a BAD THING (tm) and implement it. Spin it.
What I am convinced of, is that the 1984 scenario stems from private industry propoganda in the not-too-far-future persuading a populace that tighter monitoring will save them money/keep their kids safer/fight the aliens (modified based on culture and/or economic system, and earth's invasion alert color), rather than insidious public bodies which can't seem to count ballots, much less function as intended.
Private legal agreements are just another form of interpersonal social despotism and I do not shake hands with a computer click-thru agreement or shrinkwrapped license and do not respect them. This is/. heresy! To suggest I don't support the GPL! But while I admire with the goals, I disagree with the approach. After all, with the FSF's ideological roots, I expect I am not the only one to disagree.
From the article: "The parties to the letter warned that the bill could interfere with computer security and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads."
Yeah, THAT'S THE POINT. The law will not interfere with computer security. The law will cause most major companies to have to resort to 3rd party gator-like advertisements which will affect computer security. What a way to spin it!
but in the old-school a Technician knows how to solder, hand code little diagnostic tests in Assembly language, troubleshoot the problem down to a component on the circuit board, and more.
That would be a mechanical engineer, not a technician. While it's all well and good that you think you know what a technician should be, you are obviously a little out of the mainstream. How can you consider yourself 'good' at anything if you have such an unrealistic holier-than-thou "everyone should be able to troubleshoot down to the hardware voltages" attitude?
However, between 1.4 and 1.5 there are substantially speed increases in the VM which bring it up to par with the fastest languages available.
Your link does not demonstrate this speed increase, but is the previously/. linked (questionable) language runtime speed comparison. Where is the study showing it's faster?
The Gravshell explains ALL the inconsistencies OBSERVED of 'Black Holes' which conflict with the 'official' story. Very quickly, will Gravshell become the status quo because the theory better meshes with observed reality? as it should?
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Um, no. Voyager 2 showed that in excrutiating detail. It's all theory and with all the certainty that a 12 unit sample that we can't even physically get to, brings.
Anything they review, rate, or judge is specifically designed to give back to the people who throw adv$$$ at them. Oh yes, and there's the little detail of complete idiots writing the copy. DOABV made way more money than about 30 other titles that did NOT make it into the year's worst.
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I believe one of the requirements for a valid CA non-compete is the specific listing of the companie(s) you agree not to seek employment with. A self-restraining order, in effect.
Australia is not an island. As the largest landmass on its/the Indo-Australian tectonic plate it's, by definition, a continent. Parent was not funny, but simply pleasantly ignorant.
Sounds exactly like the kind of book I would not like to buy.
Apparently the only fair reviews are those that are proportionally positive in respect to the square or the hype+publisher's net-rep. Oh wait, it's an IGN review (rolls eyes).
I have to honestly disagree that Doom 3 is a "good game" in any respects other than graphics technology. I can check out how well my current video card will run with entertaining benchmarks for free kthx.
I'm sorry I read the entire Hyperion quadrilogy and I have no idea why anyone thinks there's anything like the "cortical stack" mentioned by this reviewer (or the parent) contained within it. Dan Simmons firmly attaches the soul to the living body and any separation from that (Kassad's implied personality imprinting) a mere construct. The "Keats" persona is also a construct as is reaffirmed multiple times during the novel from differing individuals and perspectives.
Just FYI for those who HAVEN'T been through a court mandated DUI education course...
Sitting in a car, intoxicated without keys is grounds for DUI. The basis for this is that it is possible you had the keys in the immediate past or would have them in the immediate future and pose a danger to the public. This is in the state of CA at least.
Humans are good at many things. Programmers specialize in learning computer (logical) grammer as our? profession. Spatial relationships are more powerful as nature has demonstrated over time (if you're into evolution). Perhaps one day we'll all have matrix-vision.
Most of humanity spends a large portion of their life learning their native language (abstraction). This does not necessarily mean humans are particularly adept at it. When you mention something casually like "just a matter of learning the grammar" you've highlighted the weakness of the CLI. A signifigant barrier to useage, like learning a new syntax, cannot be trivialized because it's trivial for those who are paid to do so time and time again. Adding another language, in the case of CLI, is completely unnecessary to most users. I believe an operating system does not need to have a CLI in a perfect world. In reality the CLI might be best hidden or buried rather than a casual tool.
My views lead to a dichotomy where developer machines use an OS or have a customized OS that's altogether different from worker-bee machines...but that's always been the reality.
Unfortunately the world is governed by the GUI of sight+physics. We adapt to CLI or logical abstractions when we are blinded (braille) but ultimately it is an abstraction for the GUI of physical reality. Just a thought.
Sounds exactly like a book I would like to buy.
I'm a little disappointed that a group of fairly die-hard anti-doubleclick geeks could only hobble it a few hours at 75%...it may simply have been more effective to introduce a nasty virus into their network, so we'll just call this attack a symbolic way to raise awareness of this historically nasty company. I much rather have heard that a more intrusive and smaller company like CoolWeb was attacked.
Might want to email the original author rather than attempt to tear down a compliment to a third party. Kinda silly. I personally DO think that breaking copyright laws to remove parts of a work I don't like qualifies as "added content" and therefore work worthy of praise...just as I think those who edit out the "naughty parts" of various media are within their rights to do so regardless of US copyright law. I did not look at Groklaw so I don't care what notices are posted regarding the content. I wanted just the facts ma'am, and he provided them.
Just because a convention is commonly used, doesn't mean it's right. Copyright law is still a hotly debated subject and altogether irrelevant as what's done is done and will be done again in regards to the production of altered original works. Thanks for your opinion, it's just as wrong, heh.
Thank you spoonyfork for giving us the facts succinctly as opposed to the facts mixed with the meaningless subjectivities (the op-ed article). Good post.
I read MOAPI all the way through when I first clicked the link a few months ago. I fail to see how this applies to the 3 laws when the story (MOAPI) makes some extreme and rather dangerous presuppositions about human nature and does not even use the 3 laws...MOAPI expounds on the idea that immortality and absolute control of reality somehow leads to a nebulous feeling of emptiness and futility leading to self-destructive decadence. Humans are animals, but MOAPI assumes they become internally neutral gods over an eternity...which is plain dumb.
Excuse me, but a felony where? What kind of virus? Is it a virus if it changes your homepage? You're not thinking this through...as well as you think you are.
No I don't think the GPL should be adhered to, nor do I support any other kind of copy-ambidexterity. I'm talking about copyright as a concept.
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/. heresy! To suggest I don't support the GPL! But while I admire with the goals, I disagree with the approach. After all, with the FSF's ideological roots, I expect I am not the only one to disagree.
While mutual agreements have done well to promote commerce in the sphere of the all-time-in-memory, when telephone arrived (harbringer of long distance, instant communication) things changed. Now humanity shares and distributes and mutates information as long as there is a safe harbor to collect it in. Copyright had been largely successful in limiting and cryogenically freezing information for decades in the time before. As long as there are places [switzerland, palestine, etc.] where the DMCA/GPL holds no sway, efforts to enforce them are ridiculously ineffective to a degree. This degree instantly grows into a gaping hole of wasted effort in a number of seconds and matter of keystrokes. It's a liberal stance to say that you cannot effectively eliminate domestic (illicit) drug use, child pornography dealing, or other societally frowned upon 'illegal' human behaviors. I think it's also a demonstrable truth. I take this same esoteric stance in software. FSF has engaged in a long-term battle to change society using a not-so-new tactic. FSF intends in using the system to further their goals of shared access to all implementation methodologies. Make no mistake, that any attempt to create a social subsystem within a parent system, still leaves you at the mercy of the parent's keepers. While the idea that 'the SCO case strengthens the GPL as a functioning concept' has merit, it also shows that the GPL is no stronger than DRM (and vice versa). They can be swept away by the whims of those who enforce copyright, with a simple string of letters like 'possible Al-Queda Connection'. An an extreme (but chilling) example. In the case of the GPL it would be various governmental agencies. In the case of DRM the keepers would be those private industries funding the various governmental agencies
If I were a problem solver for any sufficently large major commercial body (RIAA), my (insane) logical recourse to better enforcing legal agreements (which are not being adhered to) would be to implement tighter monitoring on the populace. Take small test groups, try out implants, ID wristbands, omnicient camera networks, fingerprint scanners on keyboards, whatever the voices in your head tell you would be a BAD THING (tm) and implement it. Spin it.
What I am convinced of, is that the 1984 scenario stems from private industry propoganda in the not-too-far-future persuading a populace that tighter monitoring will save them money/keep their kids safer/fight the aliens (modified based on culture and/or economic system, and earth's invasion alert color), rather than insidious public bodies which can't seem to count ballots, much less function as intended.
Private legal agreements are just another form of interpersonal social despotism and I do not shake hands with a computer click-thru agreement or shrinkwrapped license and do not respect them. This is
No more time to waste thinking about this crap.
Why not have the messages sent to a website, an email, a fax, a blinky light, any other device in the office...
From the article:
"The parties to the letter warned that the bill could interfere with computer security and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads."
Yeah, THAT'S THE POINT. The law will not interfere with computer security. The law will cause most major companies to have to resort to 3rd party gator-like advertisements which will affect computer security. What a way to spin it!
but in the old-school a Technician knows how to solder, hand code little diagnostic tests in Assembly language, troubleshoot the problem down to a component on the circuit board, and more.
That would be a mechanical engineer, not a technician. While it's all well and good that you think you know what a technician should be, you are obviously a little out of the mainstream. How can you consider yourself 'good' at anything if you have such an unrealistic holier-than-thou "everyone should be able to troubleshoot down to the hardware voltages" attitude?
Doesn't change the facts.
However, between 1.4 and 1.5 there are substantially speed increases in the VM which bring it up to par with the fastest languages available.
/. linked (questionable) language runtime speed comparison. Where is the study showing it's faster?
Your link does not demonstrate this speed increase, but is the previously
Did you gloss over....
The Gravshell explains ALL the inconsistencies OBSERVED of 'Black Holes' which conflict with the 'official' story. Very quickly, will Gravshell become the status quo because the theory better meshes with observed reality? as it should?
physics of gravity and the math behind formation of bodies in space is well worked out
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Um, no. Voyager 2 showed that in excrutiating detail. It's all theory and with all the certainty that a 12 unit sample that we can't even physically get to, brings.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/inde
or just google for it.
Why would this make it to /.?
Anything they review, rate, or judge is specifically designed to give back to the people who throw adv$$$ at them. Oh yes, and there's the little detail of complete idiots writing the copy. DOABV made way more money than about 30 other titles that did NOT make it into the year's worst.