If it took you days to figure out how to run find(1) and expand(1) (or indent(1) if you wanted to get fancy), then maybe you don't deserve the big bucks!
On the other hand, if you simply have so much code that it took days for your script to run, then you have my sympathy.:)
How about a classic model-M-style keyboard on a laptop? With real bucking-springs? (They still make the model-M, but not, as far as I know, for laptops.)
Of course, it would be a significant increase in weight and thickness, and would add to the price. But I still think it might be worth it.
Prioritizing by type of packet is fine, and isn't a Net Neutrality issue. As long as you're doing so consistently, you're still neutral.
Prioritizing by source or destination of the packet is not fine, and, when done in order to try to extract money from non-customers, should be classified and prosecuted as extortion.
(And if you think that's a distinction which requires lawyers to parse, you're crazy.)
I was going to mention that, but honestly, he's not thrilled with that being what he's best known for. "I used to say, and I'm still inclined to say occasionally, that I hate it. I hate the Game of Life."
It's being developed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Mozilla, and has been demoed in beta versions of Chrome and MS-Edge already. Mozilla is merely the first out the door with an official release.
Correction to my previous post. A real silver bullet fired directly through your CPU will solve your bug problems, because you'll no longer be able to run software--hence, no bugs. Aside from that, silver bullets that fix all your problems are imaginary.:D
No, code reuse obviously does not endanger secure software development. It was hard enough for the experts to get ssh right, and you think you're just going to whip one up from scratch? Yer a freakin' idiot if you think that!
Code reuse (like pretty much everything else associated with software development) has risks and benefits. Learn what those risks and benefits are, and stop searching for magical "silver bullets" that fix all your problems. Because they don't exist.
You want to be behind so you can skip the commercials!
And you typically don't want to be caught watching a game that has already been decided.
Oh no, the horror! Wait, what? I think most people don't want to know the final score till they've seen the game, but I've never met anyone who "didn't want to be caught" watching a completed game. What kind of bizarre personal insecurities cause that? Watching the game on delay has been popular since the VCR appeared, never mind the DVR. (And with the VCR, you had to wait till the game finished before you could start watching.)
Actually, there is. The problem is proving it. They're allowed to make honest mistakes, and if you want one punished for lying, you have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it was a lie and not an honest mistake. Good luck with that!
But if you can prove it, they can be fined or in extreme cases, disbarred.
That has nothing to do with the GPL. Copyright is a complicated mess. The GPL is relatively straightforward. (Especially by comparison.)
The GPL says: you can follow these simple rules, or go obey regular copyright law. Google chose to obey copyright law, and wrote their own version of Java not based on Oracle's GPL'd code. That's how they got into trouble. If Dalvik had been GPL'd from the start, Google would have been just fine.
Actually, homeopathy doesn't disagree. Homeopathy says they magically turn into cures if they're sufficiently dilute.
Too many people mock homeopathy merely for its magical increasing-dilution-is-stronger claims, and forget to mock it for its toxins-reverse-effect-at-a-certain-dilution-level claims.:)
And really, if you think about it, it's all perfectly logical. Diluting lessens the problem, so if you keep diluting, eventually the problem becomes zero, and therefore, if you keep diluting, simple extrapolation shows that the problem level must go negative at that point, if it's truly still lessening. And a negative problem is a cure. QED.:D
Now now, don't mock the poor AI. It's impressive enough that it was able to parse the summary well enough to post its complaint. Expecting it to reliably understand figurative language and idioms is really a bit much, given the state of the art.
I mean, if an actual human had posted that comment, it would be pretty laughable, but people on Slashdot are supposed to be reasonably intelligent, so I have to assume it was an experimental AI.:)
As an American, I think that describing the UK or Ireland as having "a lack of language barriers" to be hopelessly naive.
"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." -- George Bernard Shaw
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Germany had a higher percentage of people who are fluent in American English than the UK or Ireland.:)
Anyway, according to the EU, Ireland speaks Irish Gaelic, and when the UK leaves, there will no longer be any officially-English-speaking countries in the EU. That's going to have some interesting repercussions! (Unless Scotland manages to wrangle a way to stay when the rest of the UK leaves. Which I know they desperately want to do.)
But yeah, Brexit could be a real boon for Ireland. Possibly enough to make up for the fact that their current biggest trading partner is planning to leave the union. I'd certainly be looking at Dublin as a strong alternative to London. If I were the Irish government, I'd be out pitching "we're not leaving!" to all sorts of companies!
I certainly would! Yes, in the rare and unlikely circumstance that there's a problem the autopilot can't deal with better than the human, that could be a problem, but I'm more than willing to play odds tilted massively in my favor.
Yes, it might be even better if the human was paying attention and able to take over in an emergency. But we don't always get everything we want. Attentive autopilot and inattentive human is a great improvement over what we have now: frequently inattentive humans with no backup at all.
The Federal government can't claim copyright, for pretty much the reasons you suggest. But that's because the Feds decided to apply that logic to themselves. Individual states are not required to do the same, and many don't. Sadly.
A new policy (a pilot program) in the US is that federal agencies must (with some important exceptions) release at least 20% of any in-house code they develop as open source.
On hearing this, my brother quickly whipped up a script to print every fifth letter in a text file.:)
Getting rid of Java completely is the long term plan. You can already (thanks to Debian) tell it to build without Java, and it will compile everything but Base, which is the only component left using Java.
"...Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown." You read that right -- any YouTube video covering any war or natural disaster is considered inappropriate for advertising.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you didn't read that right. "Controversial subjects...related to X" is not the same as "any video covering X".
There are plenty of ways to criticize this decision without resorting to ridiculous hyperbole. Although, I suppose for some people, ridiculous hyperbole is how they make their bread-and-butter, and such people do seem like the most likely to be affected by all this, so I suppose I'm not surprised.:)
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Making Trump mad would probably be counted as an unexpected-but-pleasant bonus to this by most Scots. :)
If it took you days to figure out how to run find(1) and expand(1) (or indent(1) if you wanted to get fancy), then maybe you don't deserve the big bucks!
On the other hand, if you simply have so much code that it took days for your script to run, then you have my sympathy. :)
How about a classic model-M-style keyboard on a laptop? With real bucking-springs? (They still make the model-M, but not, as far as I know, for laptops.)
Of course, it would be a significant increase in weight and thickness, and would add to the price. But I still think it might be worth it.
Prioritizing by type of packet is fine, and isn't a Net Neutrality issue. As long as you're doing so consistently, you're still neutral.
Prioritizing by source or destination of the packet is not fine, and, when done in order to try to extract money from non-customers, should be classified and prosecuted as extortion.
(And if you think that's a distinction which requires lawyers to parse, you're crazy.)
This is a tragedy! The entire economy of East Texas is based on accepting bribes from patent holders. What are they going to do now!? :D
French people don't have access to the Internet?
Are you using Fedora or something? Debian configured systemd to leave /var/log/messages working just the way it always has.
I was going to mention that, but honestly, he's not thrilled with that being what he's best known for. "I used to say, and I'm still inclined to say occasionally, that I hate it. I hate the Game of Life."
It's being developed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Mozilla, and has been demoed in beta versions of Chrome and MS-Edge already. Mozilla is merely the first out the door with an official release.
Correction to my previous post. A real silver bullet fired directly through your CPU will solve your bug problems, because you'll no longer be able to run software--hence, no bugs. Aside from that, silver bullets that fix all your problems are imaginary. :D
One of the best examples of Betteridge's Law of headlines I've seen in quite a while! :)
No, code reuse obviously does not endanger secure software development. It was hard enough for the experts to get ssh right, and you think you're just going to whip one up from scratch? Yer a freakin' idiot if you think that!
Code reuse (like pretty much everything else associated with software development) has risks and benefits. Learn what those risks and benefits are, and stop searching for magical "silver bullets" that fix all your problems. Because they don't exist.
You want to be behind so you can skip the commercials!
And you typically don't want to be caught watching a game that has already been decided.
Oh no, the horror! Wait, what? I think most people don't want to know the final score till they've seen the game, but I've never met anyone who "didn't want to be caught" watching a completed game. What kind of bizarre personal insecurities cause that? Watching the game on delay has been popular since the VCR appeared, never mind the DVR. (And with the VCR, you had to wait till the game finished before you could start watching.)
That's because it's a summary of an article about an ad for another company. (I assume. Unless you work for the company that sponsored this survey.)
There's no penalty for lawyers lying.
Actually, there is. The problem is proving it. They're allowed to make honest mistakes, and if you want one punished for lying, you have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it was a lie and not an honest mistake. Good luck with that!
But if you can prove it, they can be fined or in extreme cases, disbarred.
That has nothing to do with the GPL. Copyright is a complicated mess. The GPL is relatively straightforward. (Especially by comparison.)
The GPL says: you can follow these simple rules, or go obey regular copyright law. Google chose to obey copyright law, and wrote their own version of Java not based on Oracle's GPL'd code. That's how they got into trouble. If Dalvik had been GPL'd from the start, Google would have been just fine.
Actually, homeopathy doesn't disagree. Homeopathy says they magically turn into cures if they're sufficiently dilute.
Too many people mock homeopathy merely for its magical increasing-dilution-is-stronger claims, and forget to mock it for its toxins-reverse-effect-at-a-certain-dilution-level claims. :)
And really, if you think about it, it's all perfectly logical. Diluting lessens the problem, so if you keep diluting, eventually the problem becomes zero, and therefore, if you keep diluting, simple extrapolation shows that the problem level must go negative at that point, if it's truly still lessening. And a negative problem is a cure. QED. :D
Now now, don't mock the poor AI. It's impressive enough that it was able to parse the summary well enough to post its complaint. Expecting it to reliably understand figurative language and idioms is really a bit much, given the state of the art.
I mean, if an actual human had posted that comment, it would be pretty laughable, but people on Slashdot are supposed to be reasonably intelligent, so I have to assume it was an experimental AI. :)
But is it web scale?
how can you be an IT professional of any kind [...]
I'm not. I'm a software developer.
As an American, I think that describing the UK or Ireland as having "a lack of language barriers" to be hopelessly naive.
"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." -- George Bernard Shaw
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Germany had a higher percentage of people who are fluent in American English than the UK or Ireland. :)
Anyway, according to the EU, Ireland speaks Irish Gaelic, and when the UK leaves, there will no longer be any officially-English-speaking countries in the EU. That's going to have some interesting repercussions! (Unless Scotland manages to wrangle a way to stay when the rest of the UK leaves. Which I know they desperately want to do.)
But yeah, Brexit could be a real boon for Ireland. Possibly enough to make up for the fact that their current biggest trading partner is planning to leave the union. I'd certainly be looking at Dublin as a strong alternative to London. If I were the Irish government, I'd be out pitching "we're not leaving!" to all sorts of companies!
I certainly would! Yes, in the rare and unlikely circumstance that there's a problem the autopilot can't deal with better than the human, that could be a problem, but I'm more than willing to play odds tilted massively in my favor.
Yes, it might be even better if the human was paying attention and able to take over in an emergency. But we don't always get everything we want. Attentive autopilot and inattentive human is a great improvement over what we have now: frequently inattentive humans with no backup at all.
The Federal government can't claim copyright, for pretty much the reasons you suggest. But that's because the Feds decided to apply that logic to themselves. Individual states are not required to do the same, and many don't. Sadly.
A new policy (a pilot program) in the US is that federal agencies must (with some important exceptions) release at least 20% of any in-house code they develop as open source.
On hearing this, my brother quickly whipped up a script to print every fifth letter in a text file. :)
Getting rid of Java completely is the long term plan. You can already (thanks to Debian) tell it to build without Java, and it will compile everything but Base, which is the only component left using Java.
"...Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown." You read that right -- any YouTube video covering any war or natural disaster is considered inappropriate for advertising.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you didn't read that right. "Controversial subjects...related to X" is not the same as "any video covering X".
There are plenty of ways to criticize this decision without resorting to ridiculous hyperbole. Although, I suppose for some people, ridiculous hyperbole is how they make their bread-and-butter, and such people do seem like the most likely to be affected by all this, so I suppose I'm not surprised. :)