That early avatar stuff was available though - I read it way back then. So if copyright only lasted 14 years then someone else could have taken it and made their own Avatar movie using it.
Of course that might be a good thing not a bad thing anyway...
Except that javascript can hold references too right? And hence you lose the A in DAG - javascript on one tree could hold a reference to another tree, which in turns hold a reference back to the first tree.
Javascript itself is a non-trivial runtime engine, and likely a source of a lot of leaks.
Sure it's possible to have browser without any memory leaks, just like it's possible to have one without any bugs. Not very likely, however.
Someone with a CS degree should have just spent a few years learning about regular languages, context-free languages, turing machines, relational algebra, and so on. In an ideal world they didn't touch a computer until second year.
Someone from a technical school should have spent the time learning the stuff that industry is using and hopefully picked up the generic concepts along the way.
Whether it's too risky depends on the expected profits and the expected risks. Making a program that cracks DRMed music files and uploads them to some shared file transfer site is likely too risky, though it would depend how much you expect to earn.
Personally I'd pick the job that lets me do whatever I like in my personal time and keep 100% of the revenue.
But I didn't say I had a problem with this, I had a problem with the comparson to a completely different program as if they were vaguely similar in some way.
I didn't say it was too risky, but feel free to just make stuff up.
Clearly this isn't just about what employees can do on their own time since the comparison the article and summary made was to google's 20% thing which is specifically not about employees own time. But feel free to not read.
For 20% of your company work time you can work on something still company related but of your choosing rather than dictated by your manager.
versus.
You can work on stuff related to the company's product on your own personal time at your own cost and you bear all the risk, but the company will have 30% of the revenue. Oh, and we'll give you a slice of pizza once a week.
House is still pretty good TV, Hugh Laurie makes up for a lot of short comings in other areas. Of course that's a matter of taste and many people disagree but it's pretty much independant of it being realistic.
it's not supposed to be realistic, it is after all a TV show. CSI isn't realistic either, nor is White Collar. House isn't about the medicine, it's about the characters. Just like West Wing wasn't about the runnings of Government but about the characters.
Yes if you treat House as a teaching video for Medicine you'll do exactly as well as if you used Blackadder Foes Forth as a teaching video for the army.
You mean by randomly trying every medication they have in the hospital and doing every test procedure they can do he finally stumbles upon it. Which is a little less cool than using a magical cane.
Are you sure it isn't just that they use the cheapest components that will last the warranty period (after which point it isn't there problem) since all that the buyer cares about is the price. You really think you can't find a fridge that costs twice as much but last much longer?
And once upon a time you used to actually repair things, whereas now people just buy something new every few years. Sure your old TV lasted for 15 years but there was also a local repair man who replaced a capacitor a couple of times.
It's a quote, maybe that is what he said and adding [sic] in a quote from a local police captain might be a wonderful way to get a whole load of traffic infringement stops in the next month.
Though strange to have "wouldn't have" in the same sentence.
The claim was "last in transitioning to new technology".
Just adding the new technology and keeping the old isn't transitioning. Apple has often been first in dumping the old and hence first to transition - though really it's been due to them being small enough and being the monopoly producer so that they could much more easily. If Dell decided to make some of those changes a big chunk of their customers would just buy from HP instead, for example.
And of course it's not your fault that you can't express yourself clearly, given that post you replied is has been modded up twice and down zero times (so far anyway).
I disagree. Just doing the action but providing an undo is a much better UI. Confirmations prompts are annoying and should be used as little as possible.
Do you really want your text editor to prompt for confirmation every time you delete a paragraph, line, or character? I doubt it, you just want it to have an undo operation.
The only time you want a confirmation prompt is when there's technical reasons that undo isn't practical - and when those technical reasons go away you should move to undo instead. Formatting a disk isn't practical to undo, deleting a file however is simple to undo using a recycle bin/trash can or some other interface.
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That early avatar stuff was available though - I read it way back then. So if copyright only lasted 14 years then someone else could have taken it and made their own Avatar movie using it.
Of course that might be a good thing not a bad thing anyway...
But they pay the phone company not you, which makes that just a tad pointless.
Yes if you ignore all the specs and standards and cripple the browser it is reasonably simple to avoid memory leaks.
That's why i said you assumed it wasn't, that step isn't valid if P=0 (it's the usual flaw in those 1=0 "proofs").
That form of math is frowned upon in mathematics.
There, but for having more than 2 brain cells, go I.
Except that javascript can hold references too right? And hence you lose the A in DAG - javascript on one tree could hold a reference to another tree, which in turns hold a reference back to the first tree.
Javascript itself is a non-trivial runtime engine, and likely a source of a lot of leaks.
Sure it's possible to have browser without any memory leaks, just like it's possible to have one without any bugs. Not very likely, however.
You ignored the P=0 solution, by assuming it wasn't in your third step..
They're different things.
Someone with a CS degree should have just spent a few years learning about regular languages, context-free languages, turing machines, relational algebra, and so on. In an ideal world they didn't touch a computer until second year.
Someone from a technical school should have spent the time learning the stuff that industry is using and hopefully picked up the generic concepts along the way.
Who cares? People can like what they like. People can think that Justin Bieber is better than the Mozart for all I care.
While you were reading Tolkien®, I was watching Evangelion
Or if it's not registered...
heck add a little footnote:
*Tolkien isn't the name of an author it is a trademark owned by The Tolkien Company.
Whether it's too risky depends on the expected profits and the expected risks. Making a program that cracks DRMed music files and uploads them to some shared file transfer site is likely too risky, though it would depend how much you expect to earn.
Personally I'd pick the job that lets me do whatever I like in my personal time and keep 100% of the revenue.
But I didn't say I had a problem with this, I had a problem with the comparson to a completely different program as if they were vaguely similar in some way.
I didn't say it was too risky, but feel free to just make stuff up.
Clearly this isn't just about what employees can do on their own time since the comparison the article and summary made was to google's 20% thing which is specifically not about employees own time. But feel free to not read.
Because no one in all of history has ever been sued for patent infringement or copyright infringement after releasing software,
That you hit your PC laptops with a hammer but don't do so to your MacBook pro says very little about the quality of either.
For 20% of your company work time you can work on something still company related but of your choosing rather than dictated by your manager.
versus.
You can work on stuff related to the company's product on your own personal time at your own cost and you bear all the risk, but the company will have 30% of the revenue. Oh, and we'll give you a slice of pizza once a week.
Why?
House is still pretty good TV, Hugh Laurie makes up for a lot of short comings in other areas. Of course that's a matter of taste and many people disagree but it's pretty much independant of it being realistic.
it's not supposed to be realistic, it is after all a TV show. CSI isn't realistic either, nor is White Collar. House isn't about the medicine, it's about the characters. Just like West Wing wasn't about the runnings of Government but about the characters.
Yes if you treat House as a teaching video for Medicine you'll do exactly as well as if you used Blackadder Foes Forth as a teaching video for the army.
Yeah that'll magically make everyone who needs medical attention be able to speak English.
tens of millions.
Plus some tourists.
Plus the people who can usually speak English but while in shock or just after suffering head trauma can't manage it for a little while.
Plus the people who have can speak English for every day life but can't quite pull off medical terminology.
You mean by randomly trying every medication they have in the hospital and doing every test procedure they can do he finally stumbles upon it. Which is a little less cool than using a magical cane.
Are you sure it isn't just that they use the cheapest components that will last the warranty period (after which point it isn't there problem) since all that the buyer cares about is the price. You really think you can't find a fridge that costs twice as much but last much longer?
And once upon a time you used to actually repair things, whereas now people just buy something new every few years. Sure your old TV lasted for 15 years but there was also a local repair man who replaced a capacitor a couple of times.
It's a quote, maybe that is what he said and adding [sic] in a quote from a local police captain might be a wonderful way to get a whole load of traffic infringement stops in the next month.
Though strange to have "wouldn't have" in the same sentence.
The claim was "last in transitioning to new technology".
Just adding the new technology and keeping the old isn't transitioning. Apple has often been first in dumping the old and hence first to transition - though really it's been due to them being small enough and being the monopoly producer so that they could much more easily. If Dell decided to make some of those changes a big chunk of their customers would just buy from HP instead, for example.
And of course it's not your fault that you can't express yourself clearly, given that post you replied is has been modded up twice and down zero times (so far anyway).
I disagree. Just doing the action but providing an undo is a much better UI. Confirmations prompts are annoying and should be used as little as possible.
Do you really want your text editor to prompt for confirmation every time you delete a paragraph, line, or character? I doubt it, you just want it to have an undo operation.
The only time you want a confirmation prompt is when there's technical reasons that undo isn't practical - and when those technical reasons go away you should move to undo instead. Formatting a disk isn't practical to undo, deleting a file however is simple to undo using a recycle bin/trash can or some other interface.
You want to restore one of the 500 files you just deleted. It'd be useful to view them before restoring them so you can just restore the one you want.