Valve Software's Half-Life 2 has been submitted to the BBFC for certification, we've learnt this afternoon, news which adds credence to recent rumours that Vivendi is shortly to announce that the hotly anticipated first-person shooter sequel has finally 'gone gold'.
It is not his property, society provided him with it, he only borrows it, now society is choosing anther course of action. Perhaps his expectations are wrong.
I have had that same idea. Give *everyone* welfare (or Income Support or whatever it's called in your country). I think that would do a lot of good. There is much bad feeling from those who feel they unfairly support the jobless. There is a whole bunch of govt. workers assigned to monitoring the jobless for qualification for benefits, a bunch of people who spend their days chasing fraud (though it wouldn't be eliminated).
To get *any* help here one has to prove that one is "actively seeking work" such that those who cannot prove that are just left to fend for themselves potentially forcing them into criminality or at least, for many of them, some kind of downward spiral can ensue.
Modern manufacturing and other advances in our society is rightly reducing the job pool for many many people. We should take provision for this and I think our polititians don't even want to talk about tackling such huge social changes, they'd rather shoot a few foreigners and look "powerful".
People used to talk about the redistribution of wealth.
Technology *has* brought millions of man hours of leisure time.
Sadly it is not evenly distributed and instead those with valuable skills work harder and those with less valuable skills find themselves looking for something to do.
We could work toward a 4 day week / 3 day weekend and redistribute both time *and* money, how popular would *that* make a candidate:) ?
I donh't know US law but here in the uk we have the "resonable person" test for such things.
Laws are drafted such that for example a "reasonable person would fear for their safety".
or "removed from the property with reasonable force"
thus the legislators can be vague and the courts decide what is reasonable
consesquently saying "I wrote it to make hundreds of emails to fill up my hard disk" would be countered by the prosecution and the judge would direct the jury as s/he saw fit (unless it's magistrate court where it's just the judges)
A patent was supposed to grant you a monopoly on your invention in return for describing said invention such that when the King decided your monopoly expires then other members of the kingdom could share the knowledge.
Thus when source code is the documentation one could argue that presenting such code is *already* a pre-requisite.
Speaking as a Everquest Master Fisherman, obviously you don't know the stat building satisfaction of levelling.
Sure, it's only point is to change slightly the gameplay of the game, but that's enough.
hey EverQuest, 1999 called, they want their graphics back
Everquest is a 1999 game, it graphics engine has been updated since then, you should be kind to your wife and buy her the expansion pack.
What do you do with your spare time that's so worthwhile? You're here interacting with no-one save for this store and forward nonsense and then we'll probably never converse again. Heck, I don't even know who you are.
You are underestimating the power of a chatroom with avatars and graphics and pointless stuff to do and friends to do it with.
Sometimes you can get out a pack of standard cards and a pack of beer and some friends and have yourself a game.
Clearly your expectations of passing time are different to mine, but there's no need to be beligerent about it.
I think perhaps the modularity argument fell out of the new view of working with includes.
I don't think it add's much burden on the programmer in return for simplicity.
If you ship a new library you will list the dependencies in the docs / example file.
I've done quite a bit of programming in plan9 c which uses this particular method of inclusion and not run into any problems with it (not that my programming is a significant sample size).
In plan9 top level includes make porting to different architectures much simpler. Instead of a bunch of #ifdefs in the included files to decide what to do for each architecture, they use architecture appropriate headers. (at least I think I remember it that way, I don't have the source handy to check:)
Clever tricks, hmm. There's *always* a "cleverer" programmer.
I'm in the section that distrusts clever things:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
because the Australian Game rating system only goes up to 15
so *all* games that would be classified 18 in other parts of the world are automatically banned for sale in Australia
American Pie the original was classified 15 but, according to this bbc report American Pie 2 was classified R which means that if it was an Autralian Computer Game, it too would be banned for sale.
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Valve Software's Half-Life 2 has been submitted to the BBFC for certification, we've learnt this afternoon, news which adds credence to recent rumours that Vivendi is shortly to announce that the hotly anticipated first-person shooter sequel has finally 'gone gold'.
It is not his property, society provided him with it, he only borrows it, now society is choosing anther course of action. Perhaps his expectations are wrong.
I have had that same idea. Give *everyone* welfare (or Income Support or whatever it's called in your country). I think that would do a lot of good. There is much bad feeling from those who feel they unfairly support the jobless. There is a whole bunch of govt. workers assigned to monitoring the jobless for qualification for benefits, a bunch of people who spend their days chasing fraud (though it wouldn't be eliminated).
To get *any* help here one has to prove that one is "actively seeking work" such that those who cannot prove that are just left to fend for themselves potentially forcing them into criminality or at least, for many of them, some kind of downward spiral can ensue.
Modern manufacturing and other advances in our society is rightly reducing the job pool for many many people. We should take provision for this and I think our polititians don't even want to talk about tackling such huge social changes, they'd rather shoot a few foreigners and look "powerful".
People used to talk about the redistribution of wealth.
Technology *has* brought millions of man hours of leisure time.
Sadly it is not evenly distributed and instead those with valuable skills work harder and those with less valuable skills find themselves looking for something to do.
We could work toward a 4 day week / 3 day weekend and redistribute both time *and* money, how popular would *that* make a candidate
the money isn't yours, it belongs to the govt.
one of the greatest, well it certainly has some competition
Vietnam
Korea
Bay of Pigs
I donh't know US law but here in the uk we have the "resonable person" test for such things.
Laws are drafted such that for example a "reasonable person would fear for their safety".
or "removed from the property with reasonable force"
thus the legislators can be vague and the courts decide what is reasonable
consesquently saying "I wrote it to make hundreds of emails to fill up my hard disk" would be countered by the prosecution and the judge would direct the jury as s/he saw fit (unless it's magistrate court where it's just the judges)
There is some code you can't buy, for everything else, there's Microsoft.
huh? this makes no sense
A patent was supposed to grant you a monopoly on your invention in return for describing said invention such that when the King decided your monopoly expires then other members of the kingdom could share the knowledge.
Thus when source code is the documentation one could argue that presenting such code is *already* a pre-requisite.
Speaking as a Everquest Master Fisherman, obviously you don't know the stat building satisfaction of levelling.
Sure, it's only point is to change slightly the gameplay of the game, but that's enough.
hey EverQuest, 1999 called, they want their graphics back
Everquest is a 1999 game, it graphics engine has been updated since then, you should be kind to your wife and buy her the expansion pack.
What do you do with your spare time that's so worthwhile? You're here interacting with no-one save for this store and forward nonsense and then we'll probably never converse again. Heck, I don't even know who you are.
You are underestimating the power of a chatroom with avatars and graphics and pointless stuff to do and friends to do it with.
Sometimes you can get out a pack of standard cards and a pack of beer and some friends and have yourself a game.
Clearly your expectations of passing time are different to mine, but there's no need to be beligerent about it.
bah url failed
try again
I used the NMEA output of my usb gps to drive multimap requests
4 55 3105809694&lat=50.956740380761
:)
mutlimap takes lat/log coordinates so it really is a no brainer
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lon=-4.1
hehe check the street name
I think perhaps the modularity argument fell out of the new view of working with includes.
I don't think it add's much burden on the programmer in return for simplicity.
If you ship a new library you will list the dependencies in the docs / example file.
I've done quite a bit of programming in plan9 c which uses this particular method of inclusion and not run into any problems with it (not that my programming is a significant sample size).
In plan9 top level includes make porting to different architectures much simpler. Instead of a bunch of #ifdefs in the included files to decide what to do for each architecture, they use architecture appropriate headers. (at least I think I remember it that way, I don't have the source handy to check
Clever tricks, hmm. There's *always* a "cleverer" programmer.
I'm in the section that distrusts clever things
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan
you read it wrong
.c
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Simple rule: include files should never include include files.
it means that if one has
#include "plan9.h";
then plan9.h shouldn't have any #includes
*not* that you push them into the
then when you include plan9.h in *your* program you can choose which libs plan9.h & plan9.c can have access to.
main.h
#include "9p.h";
#include "plan9.h";
you can then plug in your *another* implementation of 9p.h
main2000.h
#include "9p2000.h";
#include "plan9.h";
thus plan9.h doesn't bind you to an implementation
in your plan (as I am reading it) you would suggest
main.h
#include "plan9.h";
plan9.h
#include "9p.h";
then how to write main2000.h ?
object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
-- Rob Pike
others
to match your expectations ?
should I also partake in your 'dude' affectation ?
just being honest
I don't need to be a carpenter to know when the table is broken.
if *you* want to do something about it, switch off the computer and stop using the other electric devices.
The UK is being used as a testbed for biometric ID cards.
Soon we will be issued them with our Passports & Driving Licences
Your head must be in the sand too then, as you are using a computer. Not the most eco-friendly device around.
How do you determine the gender of planets ?
It is an "it" not a her.
Plus your analysis is idiotic.
It was the victim who owned manhunt, not the murderer!
u rder_claim/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/manhunt_m
don't you mean Net$cape ?
why would they ban this game?
because the Australian Game rating system only goes up to 15
so *all* games that would be classified 18 in other parts of the world are automatically banned for sale in Australia
American Pie the original was classified 15 but, according to this bbc report American Pie 2 was classified R which means that if it was an Autralian Computer Game, it too would be banned for sale.
when I was at university here in the UK I used to streal money from the unlocked dorm rooms
plus la change