> Perhaps the stock options are cheaper than the court battle?
That was my first reaction, too, but I keep coming back around to the thought that it just wouldn't be as effective in the long run as making an object lesson out of them. Stopping these guys isn't the only issue, right? Sega would also want to prevent other folks from carrying on the torch, so to speak... and it seems to me that handing out stock options to offenders just isn't a good way to deter the masses. It seems more likely to me that they'd show up with an army of lawyers, just to make sure the rest of us don't get any bright ideas.
I always like Operation Ako... it pokes fun at all the cliches in anime. You've got the random girl with super powers, mech battles in front of the school, alien invasions, etc etc etc. Quite amusing, actually.
True enough, educators are switching to Java all over the place, but I'm not sure that's really proof that you should start off with it. When I was in college, we cut our teeth on procedural languages, and picked up OO after we'd gotten the hang of basic programming. About the time I was graduating, they were swapping the intro programming courses to Java and OO in order to lower the number of students enrolling in the courses. Seems they were having a lot of trouble with indecisive people who thought computer science was easy enrolling in the courses. The more difficult early curriculum flushed a lot of the lollygaggers out of the pipes quick.
The Deitel & Deitel book you mention, though, IS an excellent book for beginning programmers. It's called Java: How To Program if I remember correctly. I have a copy lying around somewhere from my beginner days if you'd like the ISBN.
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That was my first reaction, too, but I keep coming back around to the thought that it just wouldn't be as effective in the long run as making an object lesson out of them. Stopping these guys isn't the only issue, right? Sega would also want to prevent other folks from carrying on the torch, so to speak... and it seems to me that handing out stock options to offenders just isn't a good way to deter the masses. It seems more likely to me that they'd show up with an army of lawyers, just to make sure the rest of us don't get any bright ideas.
That's just me, though. *shrug*
Never heard the car polish one myself, but I did try the toothpaste trick once... ruined my poor CD. How'd you pull it off?
Doh! You're right... sorry, it's been a while.
I always like Operation Ako... it pokes fun at all the cliches in anime. You've got the random girl with super powers, mech battles in front of the school, alien invasions, etc etc etc. Quite amusing, actually.
The Deitel & Deitel book you mention, though, IS an excellent book for beginning programmers. It's called Java: How To Program if I remember correctly. I have a copy lying around somewhere from my beginner days if you'd like the ISBN.