The teacher points out a new surveillance camera designed to monitor the kids' bad behavior. The kids point out it could also monitor the teacher's bad teaching, and the teacher runs over to cover it with his jacket.
Why? A very SCO-alike lawsuit came up concerning code under a BSD license ten years ago. The code was BSD itself, and the University of California had its day in court, and won.
Slashdot, that bastion of anti-MS sentiment, runs articles about.NET, and reviews about.NET books. This is because.NET is and will be the standard development environment for the foreseeable future. You don't need that much advertising, you just become sort of invisible because everyone uses you by default. And it isn't like the advertising has stopped either: I still see Visual Studio.NET ads on Slashdot.
It's like a head trip and really scary to zoom till there's giganting mouse pointer filling your screen. Like you're gonna fall into the space between two pixels or something, maaan. Must be totally wicked when you're high.
Apparently the studly thing to do if you are a ricer type, is to have pr0n running on the video screens on the backs of your headrests. That way everybody you drive past can get either offended or dangerously distracted. I have personally seen this once, and there was also a news item about it.
The problem is that until recently, theft had a specific, legal meaning: taking possession of property while depriving the owner of same. Look it up, it's in black's Law Dictionary.
If depriving someone of money they expect to make constitutes theft, then theft suddenly becomes expanded to ancompass a range of things. Blocking banner ads is theft. Skipping commercials is theft. (Remember the Turner Broadcasting guy?) Buying only sale items from a supermarket is theft. Sure, you bought and paid for every item, but you're still stealing: you're stealing the money they expected to make by selling you more items at full price than you paid for on sale.
Under linux, most programming languages worth working with have ways of loading and calling the functions in DLLs, either natively or via simple wrappers. These are usually called FFIs (Foreign Function Interfaces).
"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." --Article 29, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You only have rights inasmuch as the local government or UN says you do. And if they, being much more largely supported by multinationals than by individuals, decide that you should lose your job for the good of the economy, well, so be it.
Another example, you own a field and someone grows weed on it, does that make you liable? I double that, too...
Under the RAVE Act, now federal law, YES. Up to 20 years in prison, even if someone SMOKES weed on your property.
Sorry, but Mozilla is still an also-ran.
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On Mac, IE will be replaced by Safari. That's the default browser that everyone will use, since it comes bundled with the operating system, and is enabled by default. In addition, because it's made by Apple, serious Mac-tards won't touch anything else.
IE will dominate on Windows for as long as there is a Windows. It's built into the operating system, and comes enabled by default. Not even knowledgeable people want to download entirely new browsers.
The only place where Moz will be "king" is on the also-ran Linux and BSD platforms.
On HP Pavilions and other idiot boxes, there is often a link that says something like "Sign on to the internet". What browser do you think comes up when that link is clicked? Not Mozilla. Not Opera.
Let me give you my assurance that Rez is well worth buying, with or without its optional masturbation gadget. I got my copy brand new. at the full $50 list price nearly a year ago. It remains the jewel of my PS2 collection.
I've heard this neologism before, in much the same sense as "benchmarketing", i.e., a sardonic sense wherein it's implied that marketers without any technical knowledge are the ones designing the product.
But if my boss ever uses the words "marketecture" or "tarchitecture" straight-facedly, I'm quitting.
It wasn't just the spiky hair. Sonic is rendered with simple shapes and solid colors, and he has a streamlined look about him that conveys speed and grace. Combine that with the fast-twitch gameplay and smooth physics of his platformers, and you have a memorable game with a memorable hero.
The only 16-bit knockoff character who even came close to Sonic was Konami's Sparkster the Rocket Knight. (Find an old cartridge or ROM of Rocket Knight Adventures; it's surprisingly fun.)
Of course, Sega has always had a plethora of good character designs; consider Ulala, the heroine of Space Channel 5. It isn't often that you come across a female game character who's deliberately sexy without being shamelessly exploitative. Ulala has a style all her own... well, not really since Lady Miss Kier is suing Sega over her look, but still, she is a refreshing character.
Now, watch Apple send cease-and-desist letters to the rumor sites reporting these "leaks" to add that dash of realism. If it's so secret that Apple has to send out the lawyers, it'll generate more buzz!
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remember that one?
The teacher points out a new surveillance camera designed to monitor the kids' bad behavior. The kids point out it could also monitor the teacher's bad teaching, and the teacher runs over to cover it with his jacket.
Shoot, by that metric, who knows how many thousands of lives Slashdot has claimed? And don't get me started on Quake or EverQuest.
Why? A very SCO-alike lawsuit came up concerning code under a BSD license ten years ago. The code was BSD itself, and the University of California had its day in court, and won.
Slashdot, that bastion of anti-MS sentiment, runs articles about .NET, and reviews about .NET books. This is because .NET is and will be the standard development environment for the foreseeable future. You don't need that much advertising, you just become sort of invisible because everyone uses you by default. And it isn't like the advertising has stopped either: I still see Visual Studio .NET ads on Slashdot.
It's like a head trip and really scary to zoom till there's giganting mouse pointer filling your screen. Like you're gonna fall into the space between two pixels or something, maaan. Must be totally wicked when you're high.
Apparently the studly thing to do if you are a ricer type, is to have pr0n running on the video screens on the backs of your headrests. That way everybody you drive past can get either offended or dangerously distracted. I have personally seen this once, and there was also a news item about it.
These are federal employees who sincerely believe that they are doing their bit to enforce legitimate laws that protect every day people.
They need to be educated, not demonized.
The problem is that until recently, theft had a specific, legal meaning: taking possession of property while depriving the owner of same. Look it up, it's in black's Law Dictionary.
If depriving someone of money they expect to make constitutes theft, then theft suddenly becomes expanded to ancompass a range of things. Blocking banner ads is theft. Skipping commercials is theft. (Remember the Turner Broadcasting guy?) Buying only sale items from a supermarket is theft. Sure, you bought and paid for every item, but you're still stealing: you're stealing the money they expected to make by selling you more items at full price than you paid for on sale.
And no, IANAL.
Under linux, most programming languages worth working with have ways of loading and calling the functions in DLLs, either natively or via simple wrappers. These are usually called FFIs (Foreign Function Interfaces).
Sorry, no can do. I find Visual Basic to be aesthetically offensive enough to be nightmare-inducing.
Then again, I feel the same way about Perl, too.
"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." --Article 29, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You only have rights inasmuch as the local government or UN says you do. And if they, being much more largely supported by multinationals than by individuals, decide that you should lose your job for the good of the economy, well, so be it.
My favorite is:
"Java - All the power of C++ with the blazing speed of Smalltalk."
Lemme guess... "When it's done" isn't good enough?
Mojib Ribbon's hero is, appropriately enough, named Mojibri.
Under the RAVE Act, now federal law, YES. Up to 20 years in prison, even if someone SMOKES weed on your property.
On Mac, IE will be replaced by Safari. That's the default browser that everyone will use, since it comes bundled with the operating system, and is enabled by default. In addition, because it's made by Apple, serious Mac-tards won't touch anything else.
IE will dominate on Windows for as long as there is a Windows. It's built into the operating system, and comes enabled by default. Not even knowledgeable people want to download entirely new browsers.
The only place where Moz will be "king" is on the also-ran Linux and BSD platforms.
"You're Satan, aren't you?"
"You may have won this round, Siskel, but we shall meet again!"
I'd like to think that Hell still hasn't vanquished Siskel .
On HP Pavilions and other idiot boxes, there is often a link that says something like "Sign on to the internet". What browser do you think comes up when that link is clicked? Not Mozilla. Not Opera.
Let me give you my assurance that Rez is well worth buying, with or without its optional masturbation gadget. I got my copy brand new. at the full $50 list price nearly a year ago. It remains the jewel of my PS2 collection.
I've heard this neologism before, in much the same sense as "benchmarketing", i.e., a sardonic sense wherein it's implied that marketers without any technical knowledge are the ones designing the product.
But if my boss ever uses the words "marketecture" or "tarchitecture" straight-facedly, I'm quitting.
A practitioner of gluttony is called a glutton; a practitioner of villainy is caled a villain; so by those criteria, God is an iron.
but on the screens in the movie they used what looked like Java. Even at Evil M$-like Company.
It wasn't just the spiky hair. Sonic is rendered with simple shapes and solid colors, and he has a streamlined look about him that conveys speed and grace. Combine that with the fast-twitch gameplay and smooth physics of his platformers, and you have a memorable game with a memorable hero.
The only 16-bit knockoff character who even came close to Sonic was Konami's Sparkster the Rocket Knight. (Find an old cartridge or ROM of Rocket Knight Adventures; it's surprisingly fun.)
Of course, Sega has always had a plethora of good character designs; consider Ulala, the heroine of Space Channel 5. It isn't often that you come across a female game character who's deliberately sexy without being shamelessly exploitative. Ulala has a style all her own... well, not really since Lady Miss Kier is suing Sega over her look, but still, she is a refreshing character.
Now, watch Apple send cease-and-desist letters to the rumor sites reporting these "leaks" to add that dash of realism. If it's so secret that Apple has to send out the lawyers, it'll generate more buzz!
Hey, worked for the Harry Potter book...
"IE is the only browser that matters."