If you want to put restrictions on the use of your products, that's fine with me. If I want to ignore your silly posturing and pretense of omnipotent powers, and ridicule your pathetic pretense, that's also fine with me.
I play by the rules that I respect, and I disregard the rest. So do you.
Hey, I know plenty of girls who would be delerious to have a boyfriend with one job, leave alone two. Why, with two jobs, you should be able to get at least two girlfriends. Maybe twins. Not that you have time for that.
A few credit applications using the Dean of Students' home address and the names/ssns of ten or twenty lucky students would get some attention, I reckon!
Better yet is to express your disagreement by just copying and using the software as you see fit. It's about freedom, not about some perverse idiosyncratic set of personal moral ideals. Freedom as in free. As long as you are conforming to their bullshit, you are not free.
I don't agree with EULAs. In fact, I loudly proclaim my disagreement with every EULA that I click through. My wife finds it curious when I suddenly shout out "No, I do NOT agree, I'm just clicking this button so that I can use this software."
There is no agreement involved in clicking through a EULA. What IS involved is clicking.
Clicking != agreement.
When you open a child-proof cap on a bottle of asprin, you are NOT entering into a contract.
As someone who has had gun barrells pushed in his face and spent interminable days in a frigid concrete box without food or so much as a blanket
because I was willing to fulfill Thoreau's diktat,
I would like to say that they also disobey who just
groove on the tunes. If I am willing to suffer a higher cost for the purpose of fighting an unjust law, then I am all the more grateful for every individual who stands with me in refusal to accede
to the demands of evil, whether they chose to do it on the beach at Ibiza sipping a vex, or lying in worms and human excrement in the dark in Yangon
prison.
Nonsense. We're talking about 21st century entertainment here. People went to see "The Matrix" because it was so far out, the result of several long leaps outside of the formula. Japanese games *are* more innovative and strange, because Japanese game authors are encouraged and incented to write a "Blair Witch" or a "Matrix" instead of a "Rocky XXVII" or a "Spiderman 14".
Raytracing is "embarassingly parallel", and bog-simple to vectorize. If you wrote a little SSE2/3D-Now native DLL you could vastly accellerate the Java for this case -- or you could just use the -server switch, so that hotspot generated SSE code.
> "I think men are inherently incapable of doing an > adequate job of properly presenting female > characters in games."
For some value of "proper", yes. The extant body of work is sufficient evidence of this. However, your notion of propriety may be little more than a political power play.
But then, women are inherently incapable of doing an adequate job of properly presenting a video game, period, as can also be reasonably concluded by looking at the names in the credits on all the video games since Pong first brightened an oscilloscope.
People don't use secure systems because they are inconvenient. By making them more usable, it becomes feasible to enforce their use, hence improving effective security.
UML should be used as a round-tripping tool, otherwise it is soon irrelevant and misleading -- an impediment to understanding what the code is actually doing, and as much of a maintenance chore as bug fixing.
Any other use of UML is pure crap. Thus, any designer worth her paycheck is a coder, and any coder worth their paycheck is a designer. Fire the rest of them.
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Why care about J2SE? GCJ is superior in many regards, and if the otaku would stop fawning over Sun's every meandering stagger, and start using it, the world would be a better place.
Indeed, you can get 16GB into a single athlon64 dual cpu m/b, q.v. the review article on the tyan and iwill boards referenced by a slashdot article yesterday. One of these would be worth a whole rack's worth of 4U p3-850s.
Sather whomps Eiffel on design and openness. OCAML whomps all of the above on design and codability.
C# would be sheer madness. Java is excusable because of GCJ, but if you're looking to maintain code long-term, OCAML will allow you to avoid spaghetti objects, where aspects are spread over 50 different classes.
> I think PlayFair would have a tough time arguing > they don't meet that standard just because they > require you to have an authorized key to do the > unlocking of the AAC file yourself.
Ummm. Do too. Playfair requires an authorized key.
> This is about the most clear-cut case of the > DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions applying you > could get.
Excuse me? This is ludicrous. I hereby mock you. Playfair is designed to simply the process of converting an iTunes media file to a format playable on devices other than the iPod. This is precisely the definition of fair use established by the courts. Hell, it's obvious from even the NAME of the flipping project that it is designed to facilitate the exercise of fair use rights.
No, the C&D is pure, transparent barratry, which is, in fact, a violation of law. The act of sending the C&D is a legally culpable act.
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If you want to put restrictions on the use of
your products, that's fine with me. If I want to
ignore your silly posturing and pretense of omnipotent
powers, and ridicule your pathetic pretense, that's
also fine with me.
I play by the rules that I respect, and I disregard
the rest. So do you.
Hey, I know plenty of girls who would be delerious
to have a boyfriend with one job, leave alone two.
Why, with two jobs, you should be able to get at
least two girlfriends. Maybe twins. Not
that you have time for that.
A few credit applications using the Dean of Students'
home address and the names/ssns of ten or twenty
lucky students would get some attention, I reckon!
You never heard of Gummo or Zeppo?
Better yet is to express your disagreement by just copying and using the software as you see fit. It's about freedom, not about some perverse idiosyncratic set of personal moral ideals. Freedom as in free.
As long as you are conforming to their bullshit, you are not free.
I don't agree with EULAs. In fact, I loudly proclaim my disagreement with every EULA that I
click through. My wife finds it curious when I
suddenly shout out "No, I do NOT agree, I'm just
clicking this button so that I can use this software."
There is no agreement involved in clicking through
a EULA. What IS involved is clicking.
Clicking != agreement.
When you open a child-proof cap on a bottle of
asprin, you are NOT entering into a contract.
As someone who has had gun barrells pushed in his face and spent interminable days in a frigid concrete box without food or so much as a blanket because I was willing to fulfill Thoreau's diktat, I would like to say that they also disobey who just groove on the tunes. If I am willing to suffer a higher cost for the purpose of fighting an unjust law, then I am all the more grateful for every individual who stands with me in refusal to accede to the demands of evil, whether they chose to do it on the beach at Ibiza sipping a vex, or lying in worms and human excrement in the dark in Yangon prison.
> Then sue Apple and take it to the courts.
Why bother? I'd rather just listen to music.
In my car. On my boat. Streaming over my LAN.
Chill, dude. Only nasty henks sue people.
Your happiness will multiply when you get your
groove on.
Entertainment is mostly information these days.
Nonsense. We're talking about 21st century entertainment here. People went to see "The Matrix" because it was so far out, the result of several long leaps outside of the formula. Japanese games *are* more innovative and strange, because Japanese game authors are encouraged and incented to write a "Blair Witch"
or a "Matrix" instead of a "Rocky XXVII" or a "Spiderman 14".
Raytracing is "embarassingly parallel", and
bog-simple to vectorize. If you wrote a little
SSE2/3D-Now native DLL you could vastly accellerate
the Java for this case -- or you could just use the
-server switch, so that hotspot generated SSE code.
> "I think men are inherently incapable of doing an
> adequate job of properly presenting female
> characters in games."
For some value of "proper", yes. The extant body
of work is sufficient evidence of this. However,
your notion of propriety may be little more than a
political power play.
But then, women are inherently incapable of doing
an adequate job of properly presenting a video
game, period, as can also be reasonably concluded
by looking at the names in the credits on all the
video games since Pong first brightened an
oscilloscope.
There's more to DNS than A records. Ask if NS
will let you do DDNS, SRV records, or dynamic SRV.
People don't use secure systems because they are
inconvenient. By making them more usable, it
becomes feasible to enforce their use, hence
improving effective security.
hitest
UML should be used as a round-tripping tool, otherwise
it is soon irrelevant and misleading -- an impediment
to understanding what the code is actually doing, and
as much of a maintenance chore as bug fixing.
Any other use of UML is pure crap. Thus, any designer
worth her paycheck is a coder, and any coder worth their
paycheck is a designer. Fire the rest of them.
Now THAT is insightful. THIS is redundant.
Java is already open-source. It's called GCJ.
Why care about J2SE? GCJ is superior in many
regards, and if the otaku would stop fawning over
Sun's every meandering stagger, and start using it,
the world would be a better place.
Don't forget to ground each case independently.
Man o mister, ground loops suck to debug.
Indeed, you can get 16GB into a single athlon64
dual cpu m/b, q.v. the review article on the tyan
and iwill boards referenced by a slashdot article
yesterday. One of these would be worth a whole
rack's worth of 4U p3-850s.
Sather whomps Eiffel on design and openness.
OCAML whomps all of the above on design and codability.
C# would be sheer madness. Java is excusable
because of GCJ, but if you're looking to maintain
code long-term, OCAML will allow you to avoid
spaghetti objects, where aspects are spread over
50 different classes.
> I think PlayFair would have a tough time arguing
> they don't meet that standard just because they
> require you to have an authorized key to do the
> unlocking of the AAC file yourself.
Ummm. Do too. Playfair requires an authorized key.
Your cynicism is so thick I could cut it with a knife. No wonder, then, that you can't see through it.
Remember, you emotions are not the truth.
> This is a wild, unpredictable, capitalistic world, not a pre-school.
And as such, it has sound, enforcable rules.
> This is about the most clear-cut case of the
> DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions applying you
> could get.
Excuse me? This is ludicrous. I hereby mock you.
Playfair is designed to simply the process of
converting an iTunes media file to a format playable
on devices other than the iPod. This is precisely
the definition of fair use established by the courts.
Hell, it's obvious from even the NAME of the flipping
project that it is designed to facilitate the
exercise of fair use rights.
No, the C&D is pure, transparent barratry, which is,
in fact, a violation of law. The act of sending
the C&D is a legally culpable act.