QR Codes actually have the information encoded in them. You're probably thinking of the similar technology called ShotCode (which uses circular barcodes).
"Have you seen one of these?" she asked, as she opened the lid. Lying in a nest of velvet was something that looked like a large, silver egg, about twice the size of the real eggs that Duncan had encountered in the Centennial Hotel.
"What is it?" he asked. "A piece of sculpture?"
"Pick it up---but be careful not to drop it."
Despite this warning, that was very nearly what he did. The egg was not particularly heavy, but it seemed alive--even squirming in his hand, though it showed no sign of any visible movement. However, when he looked at it more carefully, he could see faint opalescent bands flowing over the surface and momentarily blurring the mirror finish. They looked very much like waves of heat, yet there was no sensation of warmth.
"Cup it in both hands," Calindy instructed him, "and close your eyes."
Duncan obeyed, despite an almost irresistible impulse to see what was really happening to the extraordinary object he held. He felt completely disoriented, because it seemed that the sense of touch--the most reliable of all man's messengers from the external universe-was betraying him. For the very texture of the egg was constantly changing. It no longer felt like metal; unbelievably, it was furry. He might have been fondling some small wooled animal--a kitten, perhaps....
But only for seconds. The egg shivered, became hard and rough--it was made of sandpaper, coarse enough to grate the skin..... the sandpaper became satin, so smooth and silky that he wanted to caress it. There was barely time to obey the impulse when..... the egg was liquefying and becoming gelatinous. It seemed about to ooze through his fingers, and Duncan had to force himself not to drop it in disgust. O.nly the knowledge that this could not really be happening gave him strength to control the reflex...
. . it was made of wood; there was no doubt of that, for he could even feel the grain...
. . before it dissolved into myriads of separate bristles, each so sharp and distinct that he could feel them prickling his skin....
And there were sensations that he could not even name, some delightful, most neutral, but some so unpleasant that he could scarcely control his revulsion. At last, when within his cupped palms Duncan felt the unique, the incomparable touch of human skin, curiosity and amazement got the better of him. He opened his hands; the silver egg was completely unchanged, though now it felt as if it were carved from soap.
"What in heaven's name is it?" he cried.
"It's a tactoid. You haven't heard of them?"
'No."
"Fascinating, isn't it? It does to the sense of touch what a kaleidoscope does to vision. No, don't ask me how it works--something to do with controlled electrical stimulation."
"What's it used for?"
"Must everything have a purpose? It's just a toy--a novelty. Hut I had a very good reason for showing it to you."
Nitpick: Python can't actually return multiple values; it's just that the comma create a single value - a tuple - that aggregates the values passed to it.
When you do "return a, b", you're actually creating a tuple (a, b) and returning that.
You should check out Go: it's essentially static duck typing. You can pass any type of a function as long as it implements all the methods that function uses, but all is checked at compile time.
People posting hypothesis of what makes a language successful: if it predicts that Modula is extremely popular and PHP is essentially unknown, maybe you should revise it instead of blindingly post it just because you'd like that to be true.
Oh, but I wasn't saying we should go out against people who got the data from the thief, just against the thief himself. Sorry if I wasn't clear. No, if I got my private data copied by a burglar or cracker, I wouldn't demand that third-parties to stop its distribution.
They're probably expensive anyway, yes, but you can't consider all the games alike - a player on Micecraft probably eats way more resources than a player on your average FPS.
In fact, you can see that in their site: a slot for CS Condition Zero is 0.61E, but for the same game at 1000 fps it's 2.71E.
Yeap, and that's the title of the ZDNet article, which was then copied by ITProPortal, which not only didn't add anything worthwhile, but also managed to fuck up the title.
Not just law. Also, the constitution. Also, the senate. Also, the house. Also, the executive. Also, the judiciary.
All of each represent a very small part of the society.
Also, pretty much anyone who is well educated, formally or otherwise.
Oh, I couldn't find data that showed the acceptance of copyright by level of education, is it online?
Also, pretty much anyone who has created significant IP.
Well, that's called "biased people". I'm sure horse breeders disliked the car as well.
Yes, we will. And if they manage to defeat the ideas of copyright and patent without a suitable replacement, we'll see how many great new movies and songs they get to enjoy as well. Because the relationship there is very solid.
I don't doubt that getting money is sine qua non for the development of new content, but I find the claims that copyright is necessary for that money to flow to be far from proven.
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What about false positives, which are constantly happening with DMCA takedowns?
Not being a tool is not the same as being innocent.
QR Codes actually have the information encoded in them. You're probably thinking of the similar technology called ShotCode (which uses circular barcodes).
Feature phones are not dumb phones. A Nokia S40 is a typical feature phone and they often can read QR Codes, since they have cameras and J2ME support.
OK, now how does that work if you want to iterate over a dynamically generated sequence or a file read lazily without changing the iteration code?
"Have you seen one of these?" she asked, as she opened the lid.
Lying in a nest of velvet was something that looked like a large, silver egg, about twice the size of the real eggs that Duncan had encountered in the Centennial Hotel.
"What is it?" he asked. "A piece of sculpture?"
"Pick it up---but be careful not to drop it."
Despite this warning, that was very nearly what he did. The egg was not particularly heavy, but it seemed alive--even squirming in his hand, though it showed no sign of any visible movement. However, when he looked at it more carefully, he could see faint opalescent bands flowing over the surface and momentarily blurring the mirror finish. They looked very much like waves of heat, yet there was no sensation of warmth.
"Cup it in both hands," Calindy instructed him, "and close your eyes."
Duncan obeyed, despite an almost irresistible impulse to see what was really happening to the extraordinary object he held. He felt completely disoriented, because it seemed that the sense of touch--the most reliable of all man's messengers from the external universe-was betraying him. For the very texture of the egg was constantly changing. It no longer felt like metal; unbelievably, it was furry. He might have been fondling some small wooled animal--a kitten, perhaps ....
But only for seconds. The egg shivered, became hard and rough--it was made of sandpaper, coarse enough to grate the skin... .. the sandpaper became satin, so smooth and silky that he wanted to caress it. There was barely time to obey the impulse when... .. the egg was liquefying and becoming gelatinous. It seemed about to ooze through his fingers, and Duncan had to force himself not to drop it in disgust. O.nly the knowledge that this could not really be happening gave him strength to control the reflex...
. . it was made of wood; there was no doubt of that, for he could even feel the grain...
. . before it dissolved into myriads of separate bristles, each so sharp and distinct that he could feel them prickling his skin ....
And there were sensations that he could not even name, some delightful, most neutral, but some so unpleasant that he could scarcely control his revulsion.
At last, when within his cupped palms Duncan felt the unique, the incomparable touch of human skin, curiosity and amazement got the better of him. He opened his hands; the silver egg was completely unchanged, though now it felt as if it were carved from soap.
"What in heaven's name is it?" he cried.
"It's a tactoid. You haven't heard of them?"
'No."
"Fascinating, isn't it? It does to the sense of touch what a kaleidoscope does to vision. No, don't ask me how it works--something to do with controlled electrical stimulation."
"What's it used for?"
"Must everything have a purpose? It's just a toy--a novelty. Hut I had a very good reason for showing it to you."
"Oh, I know. 'The latest from Earth.'"
Not if they're Lua programmers.
Nitpick: Python can't actually return multiple values; it's just that the comma create a single value - a tuple - that aggregates the values passed to it.
When you do "return a, b", you're actually creating a tuple (a, b) and returning that.
In practice, it's mostly irrelevant, though.
It's also possible to write better x86 than a C/C++ compiler, so I hope you're writing everything in Assembly.
You should check out Go: it's essentially static duck typing. You can pass any type of a function as long as it implements all the methods that function uses, but all is checked at compile time.
This code can be written by a child after a couple of minutes of explanation:
Now translate that to assembly and count how many concepts the person would have to learn to write that code by themselves.
Can you iterate over values dynamically generated on demand by some function or class using the same syntax?
Maybe you should move past arrays and actually learn some data structures, if you think all an iterator does is "increment a pointer".
Bah. A proper cynic would say it's irrelevant who you vote for.
Here, through their NY branch. They have also opposed similar legislation here, here and here.
By the way, you're a disgusting individuals if you're OK with people's rights being trampled because they "don't deserve them".
It is in the EU. I'm not sure if it really helps, though.
You forgot marketing.
People posting hypothesis of what makes a language successful: if it predicts that Modula is extremely popular and PHP is essentially unknown, maybe you should revise it instead of blindingly post it just because you'd like that to be true.
Figure out what reviewers you usually agree with and weigh their reviews more heavily
I swear I'm not affiliated, but Criticker is awesome for that. The interface isn't all shiny, but the algorithm is solid.
Oh, but I wasn't saying we should go out against people who got the data from the thief, just against the thief himself. Sorry if I wasn't clear. No, if I got my private data copied by a burglar or cracker, I wouldn't demand that third-parties to stop its distribution.
On the other hand, often you can only recognize the importance of some piece of information when you actually need it.
They're probably expensive anyway, yes, but you can't consider all the games alike - a player on Micecraft probably eats way more resources than a player on your average FPS.
In fact, you can see that in their site: a slot for CS Condition Zero is 0.61E, but for the same game at 1000 fps it's 2.71E.
Yeap, and that's the title of the ZDNet article, which was then copied by ITProPortal, which not only didn't add anything worthwhile, but also managed to fuck up the title.
No, people will pay even if they share. The idea that you need copyright to make a living from creative works is flawed.
Not just law. Also, the constitution. Also, the senate. Also, the house. Also, the executive. Also, the judiciary.
All of each represent a very small part of the society.
Also, pretty much anyone who is well educated, formally or otherwise.
Oh, I couldn't find data that showed the acceptance of copyright by level of education, is it online?
Also, pretty much anyone who has created significant IP.
Well, that's called "biased people". I'm sure horse breeders disliked the car as well.
Yes, we will. And if they manage to defeat the ideas of copyright and patent without a suitable replacement, we'll see how many great new movies and songs they get to enjoy as well. Because the relationship there is very solid.
But is it really? It's kinda hard to believe when e.g. film piracy has been rising and at the same time the MPAA was having record profits, year after year, when studies like this appear or when people pay millions for a product that doesn't even exist yet.
I don't doubt that getting money is sine qua non for the development of new content, but I find the claims that copyright is necessary for that money to flow to be far from proven.