That is not why it was recalled. The law in question outlaws "use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations" and while it does ban the swastika in public, it also states:
Whoever domestically disseminates or produces, stocks, imports or exports or makes publicly accessible through data storage media for dissemination domestically or abroad, means of propaganda [...] shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine. [...]
Given that nothing has caught up with Vim or Emacs in terms of the speed one can edit a text file, I think we should ditch all other programs than can edit text as there is obviously no need for them.
I think Oracle pushing Netbeans would be a good thing. More competition is good and I have no problem with having more choice.
Maybe they have never considered the fact that there is a correlation between the state of the economy and the amount of pirated software. Maybe they should consider that their prices are far too high to be able to afford. As for harming the economy, my money tends to go towards food rather than software. It isn't like I am saving the money and pirating software, I don't have any money to save.
It isn't banned for religious use (religious symbols cannot be banned in Germany). It seems as though people haven't even read the laws they are debating. What a surprise.
In the UK, the segway is only legal on private land. You are not allowed to use a motorized vehicle on the pavement, but the segway hasn't met the requirements to drive on the road, namely the safety standards (Source) In other words, it is totally useless.
If you want to get around a major city a folding bike is far better. You can take it on any means of transport and then ride when you get close to your destination. I guarentee that a folding bike and the tube will allow you to get round London far faster than a segway.
Data communication in a foolproof way. Writing a threaded program is easy if the program is simple. You can even get a bit more performance out of a program using multiple threads if you use locking. If you use locking, you end up with the possibility of race conditions, deadlock and other nightmares.
Extending this to something like a game engine is much harder. Say we split our physics and rendering into two threads. How does the physics thread update the render thread? We could just lock the whole scene graph, but then we don't get much of a performance increase, if at all. We then could use two buffers. The renderer renders the data from one, and the physics thread updates the other. When we are ready to update the frame, we just swap the buffers. Then we end up with some input lag. There are still complications. What happens if we add an AI thread. How does that add data to the buffer in a way that doesn't conflict with the physics thread?
We could use lock free lists, which are very hard to get right. Even some implementations that I have seen end up locking the heap, which we want to avoid. But even then we end up with some issues.
Don't get me started on debugging threaded applications. Finding that while it works fine on one and two cores. 0.1% of the time on a quad core there is a deadlock.
So to sum it up. Anyone can write a threaded application where it is easy to split the tasks. If you are designing it from the ground up, it is even easier. If you need to write performance critical maintainable code that involves a lot of communication, it suddenly gets much harder.
he had no problems using Napster, and how he was finding songs on there from back when he was a kid, how he could find anything he wanted, and how simple it was to get whatever song he wanted...
I believe the industry is just trying to make sure my dentist doesn't start downloading songs again.
Then the solution is not to sue the dentist, but to give him options to get the music he wants cheaply and easily. By cheaply, I don't mean the current prices that they are ripping me off with. 12p a track sounds reasonable. 10p to the artist, 1p to the publisher, and 1p to the distributer. When they try and sell me a digital album for £8 - £10, I just give up. Do they think I am made of money? Why should I pay a large amount of money for something that costs them nothing to reproduce?
One big issue the industry will hit is that when people my age (late teens) get to the point when we are the dentist, we won't have any problem pirating things. We won't have any problems with computer illiteracy. We will know where to find the programs that encrypt the traffic. If we don't, we just ask a friend who does.
In cities roller skates are one of the fastest methods around. Followed by push bikes (even if you follow the laws exactly). Folding bikes are even better as you can also use public transport when needed.
If Western countries simply prohibited Saudi nationals from staying for any length longer than a vacation or business trip, it'd be easier to keep out suspected Islamic terrorists. If Western governments would also start shutting down Saudi-financed mosques and Islamic schools, that'd be even better.
We can't do that. Do you know how much oil comes from Saudi Arabia?
If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA.
I don't seem to remember many countries (Apart from the Japanese) who have tried to fight the US in the last 100 years. It always seems to be the US deciding who to fight.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but screw it. What if someone made a game glorifying Rhwanda? Cambodia? I realize its not the same thing, but there are certain "battles" that shouldn't be immortalized as heroic actions.
You don't understand. We are the good guys, hence the people who we shoot at are the bad guys, so it is OK to kill them.
On a more serious note, I also hope they cover the shooting by the US of civilians who were protesting about the closure of a school, and the killings by US troops in the later protest about killings in the earlier protest. Maybe about the use of White phosphorus in civilian areas?
Sure, both sides committed acts that could (and should) be considered war crimes, however, if you are going to make a documentary style game, you may as well try and ensure it isn't biased 100% towards the US. One can hope
You're assuming that it can't be opened to let wind through or something.
You still have a large flat object longer than the width of the boat that will always orientate itself to the wind. A huge weather vane in effect. Take a look at a harbor and see how boats are tied up. Right next to each other. You are not going to make many friends if you keep smashing the adjacent boats shroud.
A rigid wing would be lethal in a harbor, as you can't take it down easily, and if the wind changed, suddenly you have a boat that is attempting to move and a boom swinging about.
Another large bonus of a fabric sail is that it will flap when my sail isn't set correctly or when I am sailing to much into the wind. A rigid sail wouldn't.
Fabric is lighter, and I assure you, the last thing you want is a lot of weight high up. It makes the boat a lot more likely to roll, and you already have a large surface area that the wind can push.
Let me guess before looking, hundreds of PDF files with those annoying black lines through that parts people are really interested in.
I remember reading somewhere about a method of removing the black lines by calculating what the word could be based on the font used (letter spacing). I am not sure how far it got, and weather you could input a context.
And some information is always better than no information.
Computer Misuse Act (1990) forbids the unauthorized modification of computer material. How is changing the desktop not modification of computer material?
While weapons in space will come, the US shouldn't put weapons into space, or at least it shouldn't be the first to do so. If the US does put weapons into space, you would possibly end up with an arms race with China, and given how China (or more to the point, the US) is at present, I very much doubt the US could win it.
However, should the US get this deal, there won't be an arms race with China, Iran is a long way off weapons in space. (Given that it is building weapons that we have had for 50 years), and the Islamic extremest are never going to get close.
Both the US and China have the capability to destroy space based satellites, so it isn't as if putting weapons up there is going to be the all destroying weapon. The cost of a weapon that takes down a satellite is very very low compared to putting a satellite up their. If all countries have weapons that do this, how long do you thing the US is going to have GPS in the next war? About as long as it takes for the country you are invading to launch 20 missiles
I think the US should be putting its efforts into fixing its economy, rather than putting something pointless into space to make other nations feel threatened and have to expand their arsenal.
Watch how fast https becomes ubiquitous. When everyone is encrypting everything, the RIAA will be utterly powerless.
Wait until people go back to swapping data on disks.
Uploading a music collection onto a 16 Flash drive and downloading it at a friends house doesn't take very long, and transfers many thousands of tracks. I doubt the record industry is ever going to stop that.
It is all moot anyway, as in 20 years time, the people who grew up pirating music will be in Government.
The police are for policing child abuse. If the Internet Archive has indecent pictures of children, the police should be informed, as blocking it doesn't protected the children from more abuse in any way. (See the "Its for the children" thing works both ways) It is almost if the IWF has a different view of child abuse than British law.
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Whoever domestically disseminates or produces, stocks, imports or exports or makes publicly accessible through data storage media for dissemination domestically or abroad, means of propaganda [...] shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine. [...]
Given that nothing has caught up with Vim or Emacs in terms of the speed one can edit a text file, I think we should ditch all other programs than can edit text as there is obviously no need for them.
I think Oracle pushing Netbeans would be a good thing. More competition is good and I have no problem with having more choice.
Maybe they have never considered the fact that there is a correlation between the state of the economy and the amount of pirated software. Maybe they should consider that their prices are far too high to be able to afford. As for harming the economy, my money tends to go towards food rather than software. It isn't like I am saving the money and pirating software, I don't have any money to save.
Does it run on Linux? I mean I know this question is often used in jest, but I'm serious.
If it does then next year will truly be the year of Linux on the desktop
It isn't banned for religious use (religious symbols cannot be banned in Germany). It seems as though people haven't even read the laws they are debating. What a surprise.
In the UK, the segway is only legal on private land. You are not allowed to use a motorized vehicle on the pavement, but the segway hasn't met the requirements to drive on the road, namely the safety standards (Source) In other words, it is totally useless.
If you want to get around a major city a folding bike is far better. You can take it on any means of transport and then ride when you get close to your destination. I guarentee that a folding bike and the tube will allow you to get round London far faster than a segway.
Maybe we should add a warning signal for the birds. Like a really loud noise.
They tried that with the concord but it didn't work, so they gave up on the idea.
Data communication in a foolproof way. Writing a threaded program is easy if the program is simple. You can even get a bit more performance out of a program using multiple threads if you use locking. If you use locking, you end up with the possibility of race conditions, deadlock and other nightmares.
Extending this to something like a game engine is much harder. Say we split our physics and rendering into two threads. How does the physics thread update the render thread? We could just lock the whole scene graph, but then we don't get much of a performance increase, if at all. We then could use two buffers. The renderer renders the data from one, and the physics thread updates the other. When we are ready to update the frame, we just swap the buffers. Then we end up with some input lag. There are still complications. What happens if we add an AI thread. How does that add data to the buffer in a way that doesn't conflict with the physics thread?
We could use lock free lists, which are very hard to get right. Even some implementations that I have seen end up locking the heap, which we want to avoid. But even then we end up with some issues.
Don't get me started on debugging threaded applications. Finding that while it works fine on one and two cores. 0.1% of the time on a quad core there is a deadlock.
So to sum it up. Anyone can write a threaded application where it is easy to split the tasks. If you are designing it from the ground up, it is even easier. If you need to write performance critical maintainable code that involves a lot of communication, it suddenly gets much harder.
he had no problems using Napster, and how he was finding songs on there from back when he was a kid, how he could find anything he wanted, and how simple it was to get whatever song he wanted...
I believe the industry is just trying to make sure my dentist doesn't start downloading songs again.
Then the solution is not to sue the dentist, but to give him options to get the music he wants cheaply and easily. By cheaply, I don't mean the current prices that they are ripping me off with. 12p a track sounds reasonable. 10p to the artist, 1p to the publisher, and 1p to the distributer.
When they try and sell me a digital album for £8 - £10, I just give up. Do they think I am made of money? Why should I pay a large amount of money for something that costs them nothing to reproduce?
One big issue the industry will hit is that when people my age (late teens) get to the point when we are the dentist, we won't have any problem pirating things. We won't have any problems with computer illiteracy. We will know where to find the programs that encrypt the traffic. If we don't, we just ask a friend who does.
In cities roller skates are one of the fastest methods around. Followed by push bikes (even if you follow the laws exactly). Folding bikes are even better as you can also use public transport when needed.
If Western countries simply prohibited Saudi nationals from staying for any length longer than a vacation or business trip, it'd be easier to keep out suspected Islamic terrorists. If Western governments would also start shutting down Saudi-financed mosques and Islamic schools, that'd be even better.
We can't do that. Do you know how much oil comes from Saudi Arabia?
Everyone is doing the setup lines for jokes like:
"Well, with a title like that, there are going to be security holes everywhere"
Surely Google wouldn't bother with fighting a court case, if it was a smallish country like Sweden, they would just buy the country...
If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA.
I don't seem to remember many countries (Apart from the Japanese) who have tried to fight the US in the last 100 years. It always seems to be the US deciding who to fight.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but screw it. What if someone made a game glorifying Rhwanda? Cambodia? I realize its not the same thing, but there are certain "battles" that shouldn't be immortalized as heroic actions.
You don't understand. We are the good guys, hence the people who we shoot at are the bad guys, so it is OK to kill them.
On a more serious note, I also hope they cover the shooting by the US of civilians who were protesting about the closure of a school, and the killings by US troops in the later protest about killings in the earlier protest.
Maybe about the use of White phosphorus in civilian areas?
Sure, both sides committed acts that could (and should) be considered war crimes, however, if you are going to make a documentary style game, you may as well try and ensure it isn't biased 100% towards the US. One can hope
You're assuming that it can't be opened to let wind through or something.
You still have a large flat object longer than the width of the boat that will always orientate itself to the wind. A huge weather vane in effect. Take a look at a harbor and see how boats are tied up. Right next to each other. You are not going to make many friends if you keep smashing the adjacent boats shroud.
A rigid wing would be lethal in a harbor, as you can't take it down easily, and if the wind changed, suddenly you have a boat that is attempting to move and a boom swinging about.
Another large bonus of a fabric sail is that it will flap when my sail isn't set correctly or when I am sailing to much into the wind. A rigid sail wouldn't.
Fabric is lighter, and I assure you, the last thing you want is a lot of weight high up. It makes the boat a lot more likely to roll, and you already have a large surface area that the wind can push.
Let me guess before looking, hundreds of PDF files with those annoying black lines through
that parts people are really interested in.
I remember reading somewhere about a method of removing the black lines by calculating what the word could be based on the font used (letter spacing). I am not sure how far it got, and weather you could input a context.
And some information is always better than no information.
Computer Misuse Act (1990) forbids the unauthorized modification of computer material. How is changing the desktop not modification of computer material?
We will then have to attempt to understand why the ice caps are melting and the world isn't heating up.
Google that 30 percent were published in the U.S., 30 percent in industrialized countries
So does this mean that the US isn't counted a a industrialized country?
Or that all the books from industrialized countries are from the US.
While weapons in space will come, the US shouldn't put weapons into space, or at least it shouldn't be the first to do so.
If the US does put weapons into space, you would possibly end up with an arms race with China, and given how China (or more to the point, the US) is at present, I very much doubt the US could win it.
However, should the US get this deal, there won't be an arms race with China, Iran is a long way off weapons in space. (Given that it is building weapons that we have had for 50 years), and the Islamic extremest are never going to get close.
Both the US and China have the capability to destroy space based satellites, so it isn't as if putting weapons up there is going to be the all destroying weapon. The cost of a weapon that takes down a satellite is very very low compared to putting a satellite up their.
If all countries have weapons that do this, how long do you thing the US is going to have GPS in the next war? About as long as it takes for the country you are invading to launch 20 missiles
I think the US should be putting its efforts into fixing its economy, rather than putting something pointless into space to make other nations feel threatened and have to expand their arsenal.
July 1609 ... and three hundred and sixty years later, humans walked on its surface.
Everything comes full circle in the end
Watch how fast https becomes ubiquitous. When everyone is encrypting everything, the RIAA will be utterly powerless.
Wait until people go back to swapping data on disks.
Uploading a music collection onto a 16 Flash drive and downloading it at a friends house doesn't take very long, and transfers many thousands of tracks. I doubt the record industry is ever going to stop that.
It is all moot anyway, as in 20 years time, the people who grew up pirating music will be in Government.
The police are for policing child abuse. If the Internet Archive has indecent pictures of children, the police should be informed, as blocking it doesn't protected the children from more abuse in any way. (See the "Its for the children" thing works both ways)
It is almost if the IWF has a different view of child abuse than British law.