So you have two bad guys. Guess what? Last scene, both will die, while scared cast still alive will celebrate. Of course, the last image you will see will be a hint on how the bad guys will come back for your bucks.
I hadn't heard this claim before, and it really sheds some light on USA's postures.
Anyway, as you shouldn't believe anything you read on/., I went to find confirmation on this claim, and it seems its true (at least by Harvard School of Law):
A second, related long-term change was the transformation of the United States from a net consumer of intellectual property to a net producer. Until approximately the middle of the nineteenth century, more Americans had an interest in "pirating" copyrighted or patented materials produced by foreigners than had an interest in protecting copyrights or patents against "piracy" by foreigners. The shift in the "balance of trade" had a predictable effect on the stance taken by the United States in international affairs. In the early nineteenth century -- as Charles Dickens learned to his dismay -- the American government was deaf to the pleas of foreign authors that American publishers were reprinting their works without permission. n55 In the late twentieth century, by contrast, the United States has become the world's most vigorous and effective champion of strengthened intellectual-property rights. n56 Thus, for example, the American delegation successfully took a very hard line in the negotiation of the TRIPS agreement, demanding that other nations acquiesce in their generous version of patent and copyright laws. n57 And software piracy in China has triggered a much sterner reaction from the United States than has widespread human-rights violations. n58
Refer to the/. discussion Mozilla and bittorrent?, where the poster has an idea about using bittorrent as akamai. Quick answer: different tools, different uses.
There are books on these topics that were written several years ago. You should (or must) read Peopleware and The Mythical Man Month. Both of them have been revised recently to comment and argue about what has changed through the years (HINT: not much). How can they become so timeless? Because they talk about PEOPLE.
Use the "look inside" feature of Amazon, you will be able to read some interesting pages (they will make you want more). You can also read a sample chapter of Peopleware from their publishers.
What is the number one answer some people give when confronted to drugs funding terrorism? Legalize them! If people that want drugs could get them for a reasonable cost, it wouldn't be attractive for illegal entities. Remember the prohibition and all the Al Capone's it generated.
Can we say the same for software? If we moved to open source and/or abolished laws that condenm piracy all software would be available for prices slightly above their marginal cost, taking away the incentives for the high profit pirating activities.
If we do what Microsoft and the RIAA are looking for giving this statements, we will make software more scarse, and more money will go to terrorism, mafias, and illegal entities.
It's true that in most cases your clients and buyers won't value quality and won't pay more for it. But, what if building a quality product was cheaper and faster than building a buggy one?
Fh Ps: More about this in Tom de Marco's classic Peopleware.
They just keep one version of their site (no need to code multiple pages). It will look good on modern browsers that implement CSS (like IE and Mozilla), but it will also work flawlessly with not capable browsers (eg Netscape 4.76). You will only lose the fancy stuff, but you will able to access all the content. Try with Lynx or with a speech reader browser for blind people, it will work.
No tables, and looks great in the latest versions of Mozilla and Explorer. Not only that, try the same page with Lynx or Avantgo and see it working flawlessly with them too.
Ps: I am not trying to be anti-bush, I'm just trying to point out that you can't go changing friends (or president) for one (or more) stupid things they say. But in the meantime you are free to continue laughing at them.
Our philosophy at Elcod goes like 'if that piece of code is not doing anything useful, just wipe it out'. A versioning system (CVS for us) should take care of cases where you don't want to delete something because there is a remote probability that you may use it later.
Anyway, I'm surprised every time I see a supposedly mature software development shop that doesn't use something similar to CVS. And I've seen more than a few, in fact, most of them around here.
If you start building your prototype with solid testing and you apply effective refactoring your little prototype can grow into a solid and clean system.
Java has great tools for these jobs (junit and eclipse), but you can find similar tools for almost every other language. Give them a try.
Not my experience. At my office we have been using Eclipse (gtk version) with RedHat for several months and it has worked without major problems. I've also experienced eclipse with windows, and I have not felt differences between them.
Queen Rania al-Abdullah is one of the most visible first ladies in the Arab world, and has become a regular fixture on the society pages of London magazines.
Known for her affection for designer goods, she is also viewed by many as one of the world's best-dressed women.
But the queen who came from a family of Palestinian origin, recently came under fire for leaving the country at a time when Israel is stepping up military operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
King Abdullah II's family The royal couple have three children She was travelling abroad in May when her own family's home town, Tulkarm, was bombed to avenge a suicide attack on Israel.
"Her absence inflamed feelings in the [refugee] camps," a businessman from Amman told the UK newspaper the Sunday Telegraph.
Glamour
But to most people, Queen Rania is a glamorous figure and a champion for women and children's rights. She has founded numerous charities.
She is an outspoken critic of "honour killing" - the custom of men murdering any female relative found to have committed adultery or lost her virginity before marriage.
A doctor's daughter, she was born in Kuwait on 31 August 1970.
Queen Rania and French President Jacques Chirac at a state dinner The queen is known for her fashon sense She went to primary and secondary school in Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo.
From there she went on to a brief career in marketing at Citibank, before taking a job at Apple Computer in Amman.
She met her future husband at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they were engaged and by June they were married.
The king and queen now have three children, including a one-year-old baby.
Jordan's first lady is an active woman. Her hobbies, according to the Queen Rania web site, include water skiing, running and cycling
Suburban home
When King Abdullah Bin al-Hussein and Queen Rania al-Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, they brought a more populist approach to the Jordanian monarchy.
The royal couple have eschewed palace surroundings in favour of a suburban home outside Amman.
While her husband is known for mingling with his subjects in disguise, Queen Rania prefers to visit remote villages in the kingdom.
Her trips are unplanned and unannounced. She simply gets into her car and drives off with a pair of security guards in tow.
It is a library for C and C++ that generates codes for using (as a client) or providing (as a service) web services using the SOAP standard (based on XML).
If you give gSOAP a header file with the methods and structures of your code, it will generate all the needed methods and XML descriptors without giving you much trouble. From there it will be easy to serialize all your data in and out, and you won't have to care about the details of the XMLs. As an added benefit you will be able to share your data with software written in several other languages.
Are we starting this story again? The fact is that there are a lot of files that CAN NOT be compressed. Period.
See the rationale about it, thanks to the guys at news:comp.compression. There you will find the story behind some scams involving 'infinite' compression or 'universal' compressors.
Before writing that, did you consider that Thinking in Java is freely available on the internet?
Fh
Ps: Just to make it clearer, there might be reasons for buying a book composed of material that you may also get free on the Internet. According to Eckel's words, leaving the book online hasn't affected its sales.
Slashdot Mirror
So you have two bad guys. Guess what? Last scene, both will die, while scared cast still alive will celebrate. Of course, the last image you will see will be a hint on how the bad guys will come back for your bucks.
Sorry for the spoilers,
Fh
Sheesh... you must be new here!
Fh
``Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.''
Donald E. Knuth
Felipe Hoffa
Refer to the /. discussion Mozilla and bittorrent?, where the poster has an idea about using bittorrent as akamai. Quick answer: different tools, different uses.
Fh
There are books on these topics that were written several years ago. You should (or must) read Peopleware and The Mythical Man Month. Both of them have been revised recently to comment and argue about what has changed through the years (HINT: not much). How can they become so timeless? Because they talk about PEOPLE.
Use the "look inside" feature of Amazon, you will be able to read some interesting pages (they will make you want more). You can also read a sample chapter of Peopleware from their publishers.
Fh
Fh
What is the number one answer some people give when confronted to drugs funding terrorism? Legalize them! If people that want drugs could get them for a reasonable cost, it wouldn't be attractive for illegal entities. Remember the prohibition and all the Al Capone's it generated.
Can we say the same for software? If we moved to open source and/or abolished laws that condenm piracy all software would be available for prices slightly above their marginal cost, taking away the incentives for the high profit pirating activities.
If we do what Microsoft and the RIAA are looking for giving this statements, we will make software more scarse, and more money will go to terrorism, mafias, and illegal entities.
Fh
Ponder this:
It's true that in most cases your clients and buyers won't value quality and won't pay more for it. But, what if building a quality product was cheaper and faster than building a buggy one?
Fh
Ps: More about this in Tom de Marco's classic Peopleware.
That's exactly what I'm looking for!
They just keep one version of their site (no need to code multiple pages). It will look good on modern browsers that implement CSS (like IE and Mozilla), but it will also work flawlessly with not capable browsers (eg Netscape 4.76). You will only lose the fancy stuff, but you will able to access all the content. Try with Lynx or with a speech reader browser for blind people, it will work.
Fh
Try Wired News.
No tables, and looks great in the latest versions of Mozilla and Explorer. Not only that, try the same page with Lynx or Avantgo and see it working flawlessly with them too.
Fh
Oh my god, you killed Google!
mirror
So then you should get a different president.
Look at his quotes.
Fh
Ps: I am not trying to be anti-bush, I'm just trying to point out that you can't go changing friends (or president) for one (or more) stupid things they say. But in the meantime you are free to continue laughing at them.
Our philosophy at Elcod goes like 'if that piece of code is not doing anything useful, just wipe it out'. A versioning system (CVS for us) should take care of cases where you don't want to delete something because there is a remote probability that you may use it later.
Anyway, I'm surprised every time I see a supposedly mature software development shop that doesn't use something similar to CVS. And I've seen more than a few, in fact, most of them around here.
Fh
Not necessarily true.
If you start building your prototype with solid testing and you apply effective refactoring your little prototype can grow into a solid and clean system.
Java has great tools for these jobs (junit and eclipse), but you can find similar tools for almost every other language. Give them a try.
Fh
Not my experience. At my office we have been using Eclipse (gtk version) with RedHat for several months and it has worked without major problems. I've also experienced eclipse with windows, and I have not felt differences between them.
Fh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/16326 14.stm
Next time I'll check twice.
Fixed URL for your pleasure.
Queen Rania al-Abdullah is one of the most visible first ladies in the Arab world, and has become a regular fixture on the society pages of London magazines.
Known for her affection for designer goods, she is also viewed by many as one of the world's best-dressed women.
But the queen who came from a family of Palestinian origin, recently came under fire for leaving the country at a time when Israel is stepping up military operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
King Abdullah II's family
The royal couple have three children
She was travelling abroad in May when her own family's home town, Tulkarm, was bombed to avenge a suicide attack on Israel.
"Her absence inflamed feelings in the [refugee] camps," a businessman from Amman told the UK newspaper the Sunday Telegraph.
Glamour
But to most people, Queen Rania is a glamorous figure and a champion for women and children's rights. She has founded numerous charities.
She is an outspoken critic of "honour killing" - the custom of men murdering any female relative found to have committed adultery or lost her virginity before marriage.
A doctor's daughter, she was born in Kuwait on 31 August 1970.
Queen Rania and French President Jacques Chirac at a state dinner
The queen is known for her fashon sense
She went to primary and secondary school in Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo.
From there she went on to a brief career in marketing at Citibank, before taking a job at Apple Computer in Amman.
She met her future husband at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they were engaged and by June they were married.
The king and queen now have three children, including a one-year-old baby.
Jordan's first lady is an active woman. Her hobbies, according to the Queen Rania web site, include water skiing, running and cycling
Suburban home
When King Abdullah Bin al-Hussein and Queen Rania al-Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, they brought a more populist approach to the Jordanian monarchy.
The royal couple have eschewed palace surroundings in favour of a suburban home outside Amman.
While her husband is known for mingling with his subjects in disguise, Queen Rania prefers to visit remote villages in the kingdom.
Her trips are unplanned and unannounced. She simply gets into her car and drives off with a pair of security guards in tow.
And what is the attitude of slashdot editors to criticism? Just try parsing this page through the W3 XML Validator.
Maybe gSOAP is the answer for your needs.
It is a library for C and C++ that generates codes for using (as a client) or providing (as a service) web services using the SOAP standard (based on XML).
If you give gSOAP a header file with the methods and structures of your code, it will generate all the needed methods and XML descriptors without giving you much trouble. From there it will be easy to serialize all your data in and out, and you won't have to care about the details of the XMLs. As an added benefit you will be able to share your data with software written in several other languages.
Fh
Are we starting this story again? The fact is that there are a lot of files that CAN NOT be compressed. Period.
See the rationale about it, thanks to the guys at news:comp.compression. There you will find the story behind some scams involving 'infinite' compression or 'universal' compressors.
Fh
Yeah, but Bill Gates 'ownz' Corel.
Google cache has the analysis, and you can look more about it with the keywords 'Microsoft Corel stock'.
This, and more tricks at the google weblog.
Great job, Aaron Swartz!
Fh
Before writing that, did you consider that Thinking in Java is freely available on the internet?
Fh
Ps: Just to make it clearer, there might be reasons for buying a book composed of material that you may also get free on the Internet. According to Eckel's words, leaving the book online hasn't affected its sales.
Linus Torvalds in an interview to Business 2.0