This sounds reasonable, until you realize there isn't just one country in the world. Would you have to register your work in all 200 of them? Would this mean that it's okay to copy a work before it's released in your country?
Also, this would be problematic for open source software and especially GPL, because it basically wouldn't mean anything anymore (after the one free year).
You cannot convert back from JPEG to raw because JPEG compression is lossy.
Sure, but I believe nobody says he did that. Is there any reason why you couldn't take few RAW files, stitch them together and save the result as a RAW?
That's not how the legal system works. If Mr. Fox commited a crime, he should have been punished for that. And part of that punishment might be a ban to visit the henhouse in the future. But if Mr. Fox wasn't ever convicted of a crime, why do you want to punish him for something he might do in the future?
I think they are not that common. If you think they are so common because the surface is full of them, that's because there is nothing to clear them out over the ages (no vegetation, wind, flowing water or even geologic activity like volcanoes) compared with Earth.
Why not? What's the limiting factor (assuming sufficiently advanced technology)? Energy? Certainly not, with fusion. Freshwater? That's not it either, because with cheap fusion energy you can make it out of seawater. Food? I don't think so, making food doesn't have to deplete any resources.
Is using fossil fuels, depleting aquifers and salinizating soil sustainable? No, but that's not the only way. I don't see why having something like 10 billion people shouldn't be sustainable for a very long time.
If you're going to criticize something, at least get your facts straight. The C# yield keyword has nothing to do with Thread.yield(), it's for easier implementation of lazy iterators. And there is a very good reason why it is a feature of the language: it actually changes how the method behaves at a fairly deep level. Upon hitting the yield keyword, execution leaves the method and returns there only when another item from the iterator is requested. That's why it can't be just a library.
Look at this from the employer's point of view: if he can choose between someone who is, according to the data, likely to be a good employee or someone who is likely to be a bad employee, who should he choose?
Also, how is this different from a normal hiring procedure? There is still a chance that someone who could be great at the job will be rejected, because he didn't finish college or something like that. If this data-based approach actually works (I have no idea whether it does), then it should be a win for both sides: employer gets better employees and good potential employees have bigger chance to be selected.
My personal take is that Gene Roddenberry was an alien whose goal was to nudge us in the generally correct direction without apparently doing so. To do this, he (it?) created a TV series called 'Star Trek' in which all advances we'd need were demonstrated to agile minds. Once it has been conceptualized, if it is possible, someone somewhere will eventually do it...
1. As far as I know, you don't actually need to play the multiplayer or the iPhone game to get the best ending. But to get it without those, you need to play more singleplayer missions that you would otherwise. 2. The Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is not PvP (Player vs. Player). It's cooperative, you fight with a bunch of other people against waves of AI enemies.
Personally, I don't usually play multiplayer in games, but I thought that ME3 multiplayer was quite fun and not shoehorned in.
Yeah, with enough time and enough money, there is nothing that can't be done.
Nonsense. Considering how many limitations does a DLC like this one have (it has to run on PS3, it has to be small enough to be downloaded on a normal broadband connection, it has to have decent FPS, it has to be pretty), there are many things that are simply impossible, no matter how much money, time or talent do you throw at it.
HOW MANY YEARS have we been waiting for v5? I've HONESTLY lost count and any capacity to give a damn when we reached a decade -- Just looked it up, 12 years.
But HTML 5 is already here! It's just that it's not like the standards of old, it's a living standard. And if you don't like that, you're not agile enough.
So, if it takes thousand people to wear down the controller to the point that it no longer works, and I have the misfortune to be the thousandth one, I should be the one who pays the full price of the controller and the 999 people before me should pay nothing?
How far does that go? Can I invite all my friends into your house while you're at work? After all, why can't we use that empty house? It doesn't matter that it "belongs" to someone.
That's kind of what I was trying to point out in what you were saying. It doesn't make sense to switch because of a small problem, as you were advising. That's because all OSes (or distributions) have them.
Any time a system decides to make things more complicated for the end user with no benefits means its time to jump ship to a different system.
Really? So, if I don't like this problem with hosts file in Windows, I should switch to another OS, say Linux. Then Linux does some small change that makes it more complicated for me, so I should switch again? To what? Back to Windows? Am I supposed to switch OSes like this every few months?
I'm curious, do you have any more information about the next versions of.Net you're talking about? I'm sure people at Microsoft are already working on.Net 5, but aside from Roslyn, they didn't release anything yet.
I think that says more about the quality of his high school education than about what universities should be teaching.
Here in Czech Republic, universities teach only the subject you're studying (so you don't need to study any history, literature or physics to get a CS degree). But that's because all those subjects were already taught in high school. And I believe if done right, that's more than enough.
University shouldn't be about general education, that's what the earlier stages are for.
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This sounds reasonable, until you realize there isn't just one country in the world. Would you have to register your work in all 200 of them? Would this mean that it's okay to copy a work before it's released in your country?
Also, this would be problematic for open source software and especially GPL, because it basically wouldn't mean anything anymore (after the one free year).
You cannot convert back from JPEG to raw because JPEG compression is lossy.
Sure, but I believe nobody says he did that. Is there any reason why you couldn't take few RAW files, stitch them together and save the result as a RAW?
I do a ton of concurrent dev in Java and it is quite easy to write unit tests for.
How do you unit test race conditions?
That's not how the legal system works. If Mr. Fox commited a crime, he should have been punished for that. And part of that punishment might be a ban to visit the henhouse in the future. But if Mr. Fox wasn't ever convicted of a crime, why do you want to punish him for something he might do in the future?
But that doesn't say anything about the frequency of impacts on the Moon. Moon is much smaller target than Earth.
Moon Cloud! Suitable for off-Earth backup!
I think they are not that common. If you think they are so common because the surface is full of them, that's because there is nothing to clear them out over the ages (no vegetation, wind, flowing water or even geologic activity like volcanoes) compared with Earth.
Why not? What's the limiting factor (assuming sufficiently advanced technology)? Energy? Certainly not, with fusion. Freshwater? That's not it either, because with cheap fusion energy you can make it out of seawater. Food? I don't think so, making food doesn't have to deplete any resources.
Is using fossil fuels, depleting aquifers and salinizating soil sustainable? No, but that's not the only way. I don't see why having something like 10 billion people shouldn't be sustainable for a very long time.
If you're going to criticize something, at least get your facts straight. The C# yield keyword has nothing to do with Thread.yield(), it's for easier implementation of lazy iterators. And there is a very good reason why it is a feature of the language: it actually changes how the method behaves at a fairly deep level. Upon hitting the yield keyword, execution leaves the method and returns there only when another item from the iterator is requested. That's why it can't be just a library.
Look at this from the employer's point of view: if he can choose between someone who is, according to the data, likely to be a good employee or someone who is likely to be a bad employee, who should he choose?
Also, how is this different from a normal hiring procedure? There is still a chance that someone who could be great at the job will be rejected, because he didn't finish college or something like that. If this data-based approach actually works (I have no idea whether it does), then it should be a win for both sides: employer gets better employees and good potential employees have bigger chance to be selected.
Are you sure it's a good idea to defy the Guardian God-King of the holy land of Vvardenfell?
My personal take is that Gene Roddenberry was an alien whose goal was to nudge us in the generally correct direction without apparently doing so. To do this, he (it?) created a TV series called 'Star Trek' in which all advances we'd need were demonstrated to agile minds. Once it has been conceptualized, if it is possible, someone somewhere will eventually do it...
Okay, then why did he also create Andromeda?
1. As far as I know, you don't actually need to play the multiplayer or the iPhone game to get the best ending. But to get it without those, you need to play more singleplayer missions that you would otherwise.
2. The Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is not PvP (Player vs. Player). It's cooperative, you fight with a bunch of other people against waves of AI enemies.
Personally, I don't usually play multiplayer in games, but I thought that ME3 multiplayer was quite fun and not shoehorned in.
Yeah, with enough time and enough money, there is nothing that can't be done.
Nonsense. Considering how many limitations does a DLC like this one have (it has to run on PS3, it has to be small enough to be downloaded on a normal broadband connection, it has to have decent FPS, it has to be pretty), there are many things that are simply impossible, no matter how much money, time or talent do you throw at it.
In that case, do you ever leave anything the way you found it, if you use it? Pretty much anything physical can wear down.
HOW MANY YEARS have we been waiting for v5? I've HONESTLY lost count and any capacity to give a damn when we reached a decade -- Just looked it up, 12 years.
But HTML 5 is already here! It's just that it's not like the standards of old, it's a living standard. And if you don't like that, you're not agile enough.
So, if it takes thousand people to wear down the controller to the point that it no longer works, and I have the misfortune to be the thousandth one, I should be the one who pays the full price of the controller and the 999 people before me should pay nothing?
How far does that go? Can I invite all my friends into your house while you're at work? After all, why can't we use that empty house? It doesn't matter that it "belongs" to someone.
That's kind of what I was trying to point out in what you were saying. It doesn't make sense to switch because of a small problem, as you were advising. That's because all OSes (or distributions) have them.
Any time a system decides to make things more complicated for the end user with no benefits means its time to jump ship to a different system.
Really? So, if I don't like this problem with hosts file in Windows, I should switch to another OS, say Linux. Then Linux does some small change that makes it more complicated for me, so I should switch again? To what? Back to Windows? Am I supposed to switch OSes like this every few months?
Ehm, doesn't "more selective" imply "smaller"?
But it doesn't say which planet.
I'm curious, do you have any more information about the next versions of .Net you're talking about? I'm sure people at Microsoft are already working on .Net 5, but aside from Roslyn, they didn't release anything yet.
I think he meant WPF. But that does not wrap Win32 or anything like that, it's a “clean API refresh”.
I think that says more about the quality of his high school education than about what universities should be teaching.
Here in Czech Republic, universities teach only the subject you're studying (so you don't need to study any history, literature or physics to get a CS degree). But that's because all those subjects were already taught in high school. And I believe if done right, that's more than enough.
University shouldn't be about general education, that's what the earlier stages are for.