That's too bad for them. It's an object, a piece of hardware. You bought it. It's yours. You know, your property, not licensed or anything. Opening a box you own does not make you automatically agree to anything...
Well, duh. Nothing to add to that. Read it wrong...
That is the killer argument then, Java cannot be case insensitive since u-umlaut would be equal to U, u would be equal to U, but u-umlaut would not be equal to u. No need for the rest of the discussion.
Just guessing here...So you have two different executables names Xconfigurator and xconfigurator or so, and you can't live without giving one another name?
But you do remember that Java source code is assumed to be Unicode, do you?
That would be the killer argument, if you could use all those Unicode characters in identifiers. But you can't, identifiers can only use characters from the ASCII subset. Since this discussion is about identifiers, this point is moot.
- SetSlower is a procedure that reduces the speed
- SetsLower is a function that gets a lower bound in a set of sets
I could argue that this is actually a disadvantage of case sensitivity, since it makes this sort of error-prone situation possible. Especially if they're in the same module so that this could be a problem, then a compiler error is just the clue you need that you should give them clearer names (like getLowerBoundInSets).
That is: Relying on case sensitivity for differentiating between function names is a bad idea anyway, so allowing it is a disadvantage.
That's nice, but doesn't really have anything to do with the issue. You can do the second thing in a case sensitive language (but you have to be consistent with it), and you can do the first thing in a non-case sensitivie language.
I think the only plus for case sensitivity in Java is the Object object = new Object() meme - difference between the class and an instance. I doubt whether that is worth it.
On a related note, I also think case sensitivity in the Unix file system sucks.
Quoth the article: The program only runs smoothly on modern graphics cards. If you have a very old version you may need to keep the window very small to play the game properly.
And I tell you, some people believe in a thing called "Moore's Law"... Nicely nostalgic article.
As a Canadian, I tend to downplay my own importance and that of my country.
I don't think you should. In most of the world, Canada is hardly ever mentioned, it's as if it was only a US/English operation. But I live in the Netherlands, and most of this country was liberated by Canadians, not Americans. As everywhere in Europe, the war cemetaries are huge, and many of them here are filled with Canadians... Canada deserves more recognition.
One, one part of that economy of scale is that it is very often useful for a company that has taken Free software and modified it for internal use, to release those modifications back to the original project. The advantages are that it is now someone else's job to keep your modifications compatible with new versions of the software, and that some other company may actually improve your code and also release it back, for you to use. The first of those (stay compatible) is my favorite reason for releasing stuff back.
The second point is: Have you tried SCID? I think it's a really great chess database application and it works on both Linux and Windows.
It's a nice idea, but I heard about some weird side effects of this law.
For one thing, in Belgium at least, pet stores were required to give two years warranty on animals... and if they died for whatever reason, they had to replace them.
Now that's just silly and I don't know if that was just confusion before the law came into effect or if it was Belgium-only or whatever, but I just wanted to mention it - it does sound like typical EU silliness...
It is important to show this, because at the moment some extremely draconian laws are being implemented, huge jail terms for downloading music. Their given justification is that downloading music hurts the industry so much, that something like that is necessary.
But of course, you believe that just because something is morally wrong, that immediately justifies absolutely any punishment that a law could give for it.
I read Kim Stanley Robinson's _The Years of Rice and Salt_ and I like it a lot. It was a Hugo nominee. It's an alternate history, where all of Europe was destroyed by the Plague (instead of only a third) and world history is shaped by the Chinese, the Indians and the world of Islam.
I'm reading _Quicksilver_ now, and it's actually really cool that they are many parallels. Alchemists, invention of the scientific method, the books keep reminding me of each other. Very nice.
I don't know if there are any people who find the first part of Quicksilver hard going: read on, the second part is brilliant:-)
Here's the frustrating thing. I've talked to so many self-proclaimed "Democrats" who have plenty of good ideas, but don't seem to cohesively and logically put all of it together. They'll make statements I completely agree with, but then turn around and claim that members of their beloved party are all for those statements - when they're clearly (and publically) opposed to them!
I'm looking from the outside, but it sure seems to me that Republicans are exactly the same.
Seriously though, as I'm sure many of these hackers/crackers will be heralded as (demi-)heroes by many visitors of Slashdot, and I understand that often the sentences for those caught are ridiculous, it should not be forgotten that they -did- commit a crime.
Yeah, that used to mean something. Nowadays, who hasn't downloaded an MP3?
for one thing this mean a court of law in a country (China) says virtual items are just the same as real. Likewise it means that there is a legitimate claim to such items, ie a person can own a item even if it is intangable.
It's ironic that this happens in China, which is Communist in name. A simplistic view of communism would be that private property doesn't exist - and now virtual private property (private virtual property) does exist.
A couple of months or so, Buma/Stemra's spokesman had a media interview, in which he said that they would not be suing consumers until there was a good commercial music download option for consumers in the Netherlands. Apparently, at that time they felt (correctly) that the country would be in an uproar if they started suing consumers over trading.
So if they started suing now, that would be in direct contradiction of their earlier statements (and it would be extremely unpopular, I could even see it leading to a law that makes music sharing over the Internet explicitly legal). In current law, downloading is legal, uploading is not.
And anyway, all they could get in a lawsuit is an order for the person to stop sharing, I think, as long as there's no commercial piracy involved.
You've been importing way more than you've been exporting for years now. For a while foreign investors used these dollars to buy up American companies and other investments, but at the moment that doesn't look very promising (and the interest on dollars is way too low). As a result, the world doesn't need any more of the dollars you give them so the dollar is now falling as a rock.
Pretty soon, the rest of the world will be too expensive instead.
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It's called "capitalism". Might be hard to explain to Americans. Ask people in Africa.
Because copyright only protects you from plagiarism, not from someone else's patent on the same thing?
Can the queen force her knights to fight for her in wars?
That's too bad for them. It's an object, a piece of hardware. You bought it. It's yours. You know, your property, not licensed or anything. Opening a box you own does not make you automatically agree to anything...
Well, duh. Nothing to add to that. Read it wrong...
That is the killer argument then, Java cannot be case insensitive since u-umlaut would be equal to U, u would be equal to U, but u-umlaut would not be equal to u. No need for the rest of the discussion.
Just guessing here...So you have two different executables names Xconfigurator and xconfigurator or so, and you can't live without giving one another name?
Now you're mixing things. 8.3 has nothing to do with this.
Name me ONE instance where it was nice in Linux that the file system was case sensitive.
But you do remember that Java source code is assumed to be Unicode, do you?
That would be the killer argument, if you could use all those Unicode characters in identifiers. But you can't, identifiers can only use characters from the ASCII subset. Since this discussion is about identifiers, this point is moot.
Source: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/ html/lexical.doc.html.
- SetSlower is a procedure that reduces the speed
- SetsLower is a function that gets a lower bound in a set of sets
I could argue that this is actually a disadvantage of case sensitivity, since it makes this sort of error-prone situation possible. Especially if they're in the same module so that this could be a problem, then a compiler error is just the clue you need that you should give them clearer names (like getLowerBoundInSets).
That is: Relying on case sensitivity for differentiating between function names is a bad idea anyway, so allowing it is a disadvantage.
That's nice, but doesn't really have anything to do with the issue. You can do the second thing in a case sensitive language (but you have to be consistent with it), and you can do the first thing in a non-case sensitivie language.
I think the only plus for case sensitivity in Java is the Object object = new Object() meme - difference between the class and an instance. I doubt whether that is worth it.
On a related note, I also think case sensitivity in the Unix file system sucks.
Quoth the article: The program only runs smoothly on modern graphics cards. If you have a very old version you may need to keep the window very small to play the game properly.
And I tell you, some people believe in a thing called "Moore's Law"... Nicely nostalgic article.
As a Canadian, I tend to downplay my own importance and that of my country.
I don't think you should. In most of the world, Canada is hardly ever mentioned, it's as if it was only a US/English operation. But I live in the Netherlands, and most of this country was liberated by Canadians, not Americans. As everywhere in Europe, the war cemetaries are huge, and many of them here are filled with Canadians... Canada deserves more recognition.
I found this: http://www.newscienceparadigms.com/astro/great_wal l.htm. Googled for 'wall light years sloan' after a few other tries :-)
Apparently an even bigger wall has been found, but I 'm no astronomer either :-)
Nice explanation. Two points:
One, one part of that economy of scale is that it is very often useful for a company that has taken Free software and modified it for internal use, to release those modifications back to the original project. The advantages are that it is now someone else's job to keep your modifications compatible with new versions of the software, and that some other company may actually improve your code and also release it back, for you to use. The first of those (stay compatible) is my favorite reason for releasing stuff back.
The second point is: Have you tried SCID? I think it's a really great chess database application and it works on both Linux and Windows.
It's a nice idea, but I heard about some weird side effects of this law.
For one thing, in Belgium at least, pet stores were required to give two years warranty on animals... and if they died for whatever reason, they had to replace them.
Now that's just silly and I don't know if that was just confusion before the law came into effect or if it was Belgium-only or whatever, but I just wanted to mention it - it does sound like typical EU silliness...
It is important to show this, because at the moment some extremely draconian laws are being implemented, huge jail terms for downloading music. Their given justification is that downloading music hurts the industry so much, that something like that is necessary.
But of course, you believe that just because something is morally wrong, that immediately justifies absolutely any punishment that a law could give for it.
I read Kim Stanley Robinson's _The Years of Rice and Salt_ and I like it a lot. It was a Hugo nominee. It's an alternate history, where all of Europe was destroyed by the Plague (instead of only a third) and world history is shaped by the Chinese, the Indians and the world of Islam.
I'm reading _Quicksilver_ now, and it's actually really cool that they are many parallels. Alchemists, invention of the scientific method, the books keep reminding me of each other. Very nice.
I don't know if there are any people who find the first part of Quicksilver hard going: read on, the second part is brilliant :-)
Here's the frustrating thing. I've talked to so many self-proclaimed "Democrats" who have plenty of good ideas, but don't seem to cohesively and logically put all of it together. They'll make statements I completely agree with, but then turn around and claim that members of their beloved party are all for those statements - when they're clearly (and publically) opposed to them!
I'm looking from the outside, but it sure seems to me that Republicans are exactly the same.
Seriously though, as I'm sure many of these hackers/crackers will be heralded as (demi-)heroes by many visitors of Slashdot, and I understand that often the sentences for those caught are ridiculous, it should not be forgotten that they -did- commit a crime.
Yeah, that used to mean something. Nowadays, who hasn't downloaded an MP3?
for one thing this mean a court of law in a country (China) says virtual items are just the same as real. Likewise it means that there is a legitimate claim to such items, ie a person can own a item even if it is intangable.
It's ironic that this happens in China, which is Communist in name. A simplistic view of communism would be that private property doesn't exist - and now virtual private property (private virtual property) does exist.
Why do Python when you can just run Jython inside Java inside MySQL?
*hide*
Very nice? At least the second and the fourth are pretty horrible. Far too much clutter, regardless of how it looks.
A couple of months or so, Buma/Stemra's spokesman had a media interview, in which he said that they would not be suing consumers until there was a good commercial music download option for consumers in the Netherlands. Apparently, at that time they felt (correctly) that the country would be in an uproar if they started suing consumers over trading.
So if they started suing now, that would be in direct contradiction of their earlier statements (and it would be extremely unpopular, I could even see it leading to a law that makes music sharing over the Internet explicitly legal). In current law, downloading is legal, uploading is not.
And anyway, all they could get in a lawsuit is an order for the person to stop sharing, I think, as long as there's no commercial piracy involved.
ESA has two as well - the part of Beagle that's going to land, and the part that's staying in orbit :-)
You've been importing way more than you've been exporting for years now. For a while foreign investors used these dollars to buy up American companies and other investments, but at the moment that doesn't look very promising (and the interest on dollars is way too low). As a result, the world doesn't need any more of the dollars you give them so the dollar is now falling as a rock.
Pretty soon, the rest of the world will be too expensive instead.