I see. So your stance is basically "I'm alright, Jack."
I will grant that if your entire interested in the console is for playing games, this probably won't be likely to adversely affect you. Directly. Unless you buy new games.
You can assert that, but I don't need to believe it. The reports I've read said "He re-enabled the Other OS option". And to me this sounds like he re-enabled the advertised features. There was a bit of back and forth after that, with Sony breaking it again, and geoholt fixing it again.
It *did* allow one to create games for the device that Sony wasn't selling, but that's not piracy. "Piracy" involved copying distributed games, and such game are already signed.
Anyone who believes this is associated in any way with "piracy" is probably using Sony news reports as his information source. (Possibly second hand quotes from them, so he doesn't know the source.)
FWIW, Meego is said to be a Linux variant that can run almost all the Android applications. And some others. (I.e., it's easier to run things that aren't Java.)
I don't really know the characteristics of the Earth crossing asteroids, but I suspect that they're mainly rock and metal. Volatiles would have boiled off. But a Lunar catapult might be an easier answer even if the asteroids are the right kind. (You *will*, of course, need to add volatiles later.) And of course the "Earth orbit" position in which it is built would need to be a very high Earth orbit. And in one where an escape trajectory would be skew to the lunar orbit.
Yes, this kind of thing would be quite slow. It's designed as a radiation shield for solar space that allows permanent habitation of a population. It's got worse mileage than an oil tanker. And it's also as slow as one. The preferred propulsion is probably a solar sail or an ion jet. And it never lands anywhere. Not even on an asteroid.
Ion jet. Well, a sort of an ion jet. I'm thinking more of a linear accelerator that throws away electrons and ions at near light speed. High thrust it isn't, but given a source of power it can be kept running on just incoming dust.
OTOH, I may have overstated it's speed. But remember that with a lack of other forces acting on it, acceleration is cumulative. I'm not saying that it could leave sol-space quickly, or that it could travel quickly once it did. It's SLOW! If it left sol-space it's only reasonable goal would be somewhere in the Oort cloud, to pick up supplies. (Or build an new model. It grows by copying itself and splitting the population.) But this requires fusion power, because the only fuel likely to be found out there is ice. (Methane, ammonia, water, all sources of hydrogen.) Closer in the same solar sail that's being used for propulsion could be used to supply power.
I don't think I *am* overestimating the amount of thrust that would be available. I think you're overestimating the speed that I expect. When I said centuries to get anywhere I was thinking of moving from Earth orbit to the orbit of a useful asteroid. (So it had better be a VERY closed eco-system. Which is the real problem. Capturing solar wind particles won't give you much oxygen. Some leakage can't be avoided, even if you never open an air lock. So occasionally you're going to need to mine it. But EVAs will generally be by robots that are stored in vacuum, so they don't need to open an air lock. Every trick you can use to conserve air and water WILL be used. Will *need* to be used.) And, as you indicated, once Earth orbit is left behind, that strong a gravity well will never be entered again. Perhaps it would need strap on rockets to leave orbiting Earth, but even those would need to be ion rockets. Just ones designed more for thrust and less for long term operation with minimal input.
Note that this *requires* solving the "closed ecosystem" problem. That's the main reason we couldn't start on this right now. The other problems are all simple engineering, that we already know ways to solve (though there may be better solutions).
E.g.: For power one can use a large mirror and a sterling steam engine. A large enough mirror would work most places in the solar system. (Exceptions are places like penumbras, etc.) Of course, if you got out around Pluto you'd need a rather large mirror.
O. Well if *that*'s the problem, build the ship in orbit. (Probably need to either capture an asteroid or build a lunar launcher.) Then hollow it out, spin it up, mount drives along the axis. Etc. It would be slow, but it would solve the problem. And if you wanted you could build it with multiple levels of habitable space, zero-gee labs (well, micro-gee) attached to the leading edge of the axis. Etc. It might take you a century to get anywhere, but that's ok. This is your HOME. You're just visiting somewhere as a tourist/explorer.
Problem solved. The next problem is coping with the population explosion, so the crew park alongside another asteroid and build an improved model. Then half the people move over, and there's room for everyone again. Eventually mobile (i.e., small enough to carry around in a space colony) fusion power is developed and some of these head out. But most will probably stay in sol-space.
After all, how many people who live in a city spend any appreciable amount of time outside anyway?
IANAL, but I believe the license makes a fork possible. But it's no minor job.
A successful fork is going to take a lot of work on the part of many people. You're probably talking about a project larger than Python, and that took a decade to build up. Red Hat could do it, but they're pretty much behind Gtk, so they're unlikely to. Novell is already being swallowed by MS. Mandrake has financial problems. Oracle could, but are quite unlikely to. (The fork would necessarily be pure GPL.) Intel doesn't have much reason to. Neither does Google.
Probably the best answer is a community effort, but that's going to take lots of organizing. After it's going successfully, lots of companies that don't have sufficient reason to run it themselves will have sufficient reason to sponsor a few developers, and occasionally make other donations. (Here's our new computer. Make it run on this.)
It's a major job. I hope somebody's up to it. (I may despise KDE4, but that doesn't mean I think it should die, it means *I* sure don't want to use it. And if the KDE developers had something real to do, perhaps they wouldn't futz up working software. [KDE3 was superb. I won't even use KDE4.]) But options are important. As it is I feel that KDE + Gnome is too few window managers. And so far I *think* KDE4 is better (for my purposes) than the others...though if Gnome3 turns out as bad as some forecasts have made it look, I may well find out.
Shorts are quite dangerous. They open you up to unlimited liability, and you can't always choose when to repay them. (It wouldn't surprise me if the stok moves up as well as down, though I agree with you that down is the long term direction.)
If you'd said "does not prove", I'd agree with you. "Indicate", though, I think I could go along with it indicates it. I'd say it multiplies my belief about as: let P("they did it at the behest of the CIA") = x (N.B.: 0 x 1) y:= (x * 1.1) z:= 1 - x x:= y / (y + z) approx.
Causation? Can you even define the beast? Correlation is all that we ever have. Well, correlation and our model of how the universe works. And that's built by fitting against prior correlations. The language may be mathematical, but the process is pre-verbal, and probably pre-birth. Causation just means "My model simplifies this to x yields y, so I don't need to think about other variables." A very useful short-cut, but not one to put much trust in, if you have the time to check things out.
The thing is, people tend to define conspiracy as "things that I don't believe are happening". If I said "management was conspiring against the workers unionizing", people would say "But that's not a conspiracy!". But it is. It's a typical conspiracy. And there are at least millions of them existing at any one time.
So what you probably mean is something like "I don't believe in secret all encompassing conspiracies". That's just a guess, but it seems plausible.
But guess what, there are secret conspiracies among powerful people. If you follow the news you can read a story about them every other day. "Is Oracle management conspiring to shut down MySQL?" I can't say either yes or no, but it's certainly plausible. And if so, that would be a secret conspiracy among powerful people.
The Manhattan project was a secret US conspiracy against the Axis. It was kept secret for YEARS, and involved thousands of people in multiple governments. Don't tell me that secret conspiracies among powerful people are impossible. There's historical record. And they aren't even that unusual. Consider ACTA. It may not have been totally secret, but it was sufficiently secret, or nearly so. That's a massive example of multiple governments conspiring against their own citizens.
So when you deride conspiracies all you're meaning is ":some people believe things that I consider foolish". That's quite a reasonable position, but it's not at all what your words are saying.
FWIW, very few citizens of German extraction were held in internment camps during WWII. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but it was a comparatively rare event. The Japanese were rounded-up whole-sale in certain states, and left alone in other states. One of the states where they were left alone was Hawaii. (Well, it wasn't a state at the time.) If it were done as a matter of security, then Hawaii would have been one of the places where it most needed to be done. So clearly the reason was something else.
Having spoken to some survivors of those camps, I think you paint an overly civilized picture of them.
The children were sent to what could properly be called "retraining schools" to encourage them into politically correct beliefs. Their property was stolen, and never repaid. Etc.
OTOH, you are correct. They were "internment camps", and most people survived them. They might have become impoverished and be forced to work as farm laborers, but they did live through the experience. Most of them.
Saying they were given homes is painting a very pretty picture on the actuality, but it's not totally false. Quite. Similarly for the rest of your statements.
But you are right, they weren't extermination camps. They were essentially POW camps for citizens of the US. And as far as I have been able to figure out the entire purpose of them was to allow the wealth of those so interred to be confiscated by others with powerful political connections. (You might notice that Hawaii, which had a larger proportion of Japanese citizens than did California didn't need or use any such camps. Nor were the German citizens on the east cost treated so. It appears to have been legalized racial discrimination for the purpose of confiscating wealth.)
Shouldn't be too hard. First you disassemble the drives and separate the platters. Second you sand the surface of each platter with coarse (or a mixture of coarse and fine) jewler's rouge. (As a side benefit, it contains ferrous oxide, so any attempt to read will probably destroy the read head.) Then you hit the platters several times with the ball end of a ball-peen hammer. After that use your ingenuity, depending on what tools are available. A metal punch is a nice touch. So is a welding torch. When each disk is in two or more pieces, THEN you throw it in several different garbage trucks. If you're prepared this whole process should take less than a couple of hours (including the throwing it into the garbage trucks). If you walk too the garbage trucks it will take longer.
N.B.: It's my understanding that these days the platters are metal plated onto glass. I doubt that it's tempered, so be prepared for splinters. And if one of your "tools on hand" is a kiln, you can skip most of the other steps, and just fire the platters.
The differences between the US and Zimbabwe are that the US is the world's #1 economy, Are you sure about that? Whose figures are you using, and what do they measure?
the US is a center of innovation, In patent and copyright lawsuits, perhaps. Otherwise... I think we lost that edge over 5 years ago, and more probably over a decade ago. And we're still declining.
the US preserves inalienable rights Have you looked at recent governmental proposals? Recent laws? Recent court decisions? It's true there's an occasional decision that supports individual rights, but they are few and far between. Ones that compromise or deny those rights, however, are much more frequent.
Because of the faith and credit of the US Because we can threaten to invade anyone who opposes our "vital interests"
There might be development, but I'm not at all sure I'll be interested. It basically depends on license, access, an capabilities. Capabilities is in the third place. It's already a complete language. The most important thing to do is to remove type erasure during compilation. But by the time they get around to that I'm pretty sure that, say, Vala will be ready to be used. Or possibly Go. Or D. All of which have decent licenses and access policies. (Java swamps them in terms of documentation, but Vala and D are already a lot faster. Not sure about Go.)
Then there's Python and Ruby. Python is currently in a feature freeze, but it sounds like they're fixing the global lock problem, so it will start being parallel capable. Ruby I'm less sure about, but it's also just come out with a new version with lots of nice capabilities. Both, of course, have their own collections of libraries. Which are native code, and thus a lot faster than Java. (At least potentially, if not always in practice.) Nobody seems to talk about handling memory paging, and I can't figure out whether this is because they don't need to or because they can't. What if I need a hashtable that won't fit into RAM? Do I get a memory overflow or does it page out the parts that haven't been used recently? I tend to suspect that there's automatic paging, but I sure with somebody would be explicit about it. (They talk about reading in entire files at one gulp as if it's nothing to worry about, and this only makes sense if there's automatic paging. But they never mention this explicitly. Yarrgh!) (I expect that it's automatic paging handled by the operating system, but it would sure be nice to be told this rather than just guessing.)
It's not clear to me on what basis the claim is made that MySQL either is or is not dead. Certainly there have been many forks, and also Oracle seems to be officially continuing it. (I believe that most current development reflects work that was done under Sun, so I'm not considering that as evidence. For that I'll take development done in the forthcoming year.)
Still, I can see lots of reasons that a form of MySQL would continue to be developed. This isn't proof that Oracle will see things the same way, and it certainly isn't proof that they do so currently.
I remain unsure about Java. Sufficiently so that I decided on Python for my current project despite the fact that Java would be faster, and leads itself more easily to parallel processing. (Running different [threads or processes] on different processors.) (Well, I also like the language better, but it was the uncertainties about the future of Java that decided me.) I had just about decided on Java when Oracle sued Google. I still have no idea what patents they are talking about, but I'd prefer to just avoid the problem.
What I got was: He got in a motorcycle accident, and had to spend time recovering. So he had a tutor rather than going to school. This allowed him to get individualized education. And he got an excellent tutor named Ms. Edwards.
I don't know about you, but the teachers I know generally put in 10 or more hours a day. Contact time isn't the only part of the job, you know. (And in our area one day a week there's a half day of school to theoretically allow the teachers to catch up on what they can't do during class. It helps, but not that much. Tests need to be corrected overnight. Essays need to be evaluated, etc. They might get lesson planning done during that time period, but some of that needs to be done overnight too.
Maybe 12 hours is closer to the average. Maybe 10. Not less. (Of course, some don't care, and don't bother. And *those* are the ones that we should get rid of.) Also, at least in the past that "summer vacation" was when the teachers took the professional classes required to keep their credentials current. It was definitely a lower pressure time of year, but definitely not free time.
They are, however, in an asymmetrical relationship. The teacher has power over the children, and, at least theoretically, not the reverse.
This means that when the teacher speaks harshly about the students, this should be seen as a threat. When the student speaks harshly about the teacher, no threat should be assumed.
I'm not sure that this theoretical picture, however, is quite accurate. I have encountered reports of teachers who are afraid to even criticize certain of their students for fear of threats to their lives (from the parents). I don't know how rational the fear is, but the threat was made, and apparently made seriously. In another case, the teacher was legally required to report evidence of physical child abuse (bruises, lash markes, etc.) but was afraid to. (I don't recall the resolution, but I suspect that no report was made.)
So as I said, the theoretical picture doesn't seem to match the reality. If, however, you believe the theory, then it makes perfect sense that the teacher not be allowed to criticize the students in public. So to people who have no direct contact with the schools, it may make sense. Personally, I'm unsure HOW it should be dealt with. Most teachers seem to be in a nearly intolerable position. *I* couldn't stand it. But many teachers seem to feel that they'd still rather be teachers than something else. (At least for awhile.) Possibly teachers college and university schools of education contribute to this. They may not prepare you to teach, but they certainly don't prepare you for anything else.
Well it was someone acting as an agent of Sony. And they were doing so in a context where it is reasonable to presume that they were representing Sony with Sony's knowledge and consent.
That, I think, is what is important for the trade secret status. (Caution: IANAL) OTOH, it's fairly clear that he didn't know what he was saying, and that may also be significant.
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I see. So your stance is basically "I'm alright, Jack."
I will grant that if your entire interested in the console is for playing games, this probably won't be likely to adversely affect you. Directly. Unless you buy new games.
You can assert that, but I don't need to believe it. The reports I've read said "He re-enabled the Other OS option". And to me this sounds like he re-enabled the advertised features. There was a bit of back and forth after that, with Sony breaking it again, and geoholt fixing it again.
It *did* allow one to create games for the device that Sony wasn't selling, but that's not piracy. "Piracy" involved copying distributed games, and such game are already signed.
Anyone who believes this is associated in any way with "piracy" is probably using Sony news reports as his information source. (Possibly second hand quotes from them, so he doesn't know the source.)
FWIW, Meego is said to be a Linux variant that can run almost all the Android applications. And some others. (I.e., it's easier to run things that aren't Java.)
That doesn't mean he's wrong this time. And I'm not certain he is, at least not completely.
The problem is, who's any better to trust? It sure wouldn't be MS.
I don't really know the characteristics of the Earth crossing asteroids, but I suspect that they're mainly rock and metal. Volatiles would have boiled off. But a Lunar catapult might be an easier answer even if the asteroids are the right kind. (You *will*, of course, need to add volatiles later.) And of course the "Earth orbit" position in which it is built would need to be a very high Earth orbit. And in one where an escape trajectory would be skew to the lunar orbit.
Yes, this kind of thing would be quite slow. It's designed as a radiation shield for solar space that allows permanent habitation of a population. It's got worse mileage than an oil tanker. And it's also as slow as one. The preferred propulsion is probably a solar sail or an ion jet. And it never lands anywhere. Not even on an asteroid.
Ion jet. Well, a sort of an ion jet. I'm thinking more of a linear accelerator that throws away electrons and ions at near light speed. High thrust it isn't, but given a source of power it can be kept running on just incoming dust.
OTOH, I may have overstated it's speed. But remember that with a lack of other forces acting on it, acceleration is cumulative. I'm not saying that it could leave sol-space quickly, or that it could travel quickly once it did. It's SLOW! If it left sol-space it's only reasonable goal would be somewhere in the Oort cloud, to pick up supplies. (Or build an new model. It grows by copying itself and splitting the population.) But this requires fusion power, because the only fuel likely to be found out there is ice. (Methane, ammonia, water, all sources of hydrogen.) Closer in the same solar sail that's being used for propulsion could be used to supply power.
I don't think I *am* overestimating the amount of thrust that would be available. I think you're overestimating the speed that I expect. When I said centuries to get anywhere I was thinking of moving from Earth orbit to the orbit of a useful asteroid. (So it had better be a VERY closed eco-system. Which is the real problem. Capturing solar wind particles won't give you much oxygen. Some leakage can't be avoided, even if you never open an air lock. So occasionally you're going to need to mine it. But EVAs will generally be by robots that are stored in vacuum, so they don't need to open an air lock. Every trick you can use to conserve air and water WILL be used. Will *need* to be used.) And, as you indicated, once Earth orbit is left behind, that strong a gravity well will never be entered again. Perhaps it would need strap on rockets to leave orbiting Earth, but even those would need to be ion rockets. Just ones designed more for thrust and less for long term operation with minimal input.
Note that this *requires* solving the "closed ecosystem" problem. That's the main reason we couldn't start on this right now. The other problems are all simple engineering, that we already know ways to solve (though there may be better solutions).
E.g.: For power one can use a large mirror and a sterling steam engine. A large enough mirror would work most places in the solar system. (Exceptions are places like penumbras, etc.) Of course, if you got out around Pluto you'd need a rather large mirror.
O. Well if *that*'s the problem, build the ship in orbit. (Probably need to either capture an asteroid or build a lunar launcher.) Then hollow it out, spin it up, mount drives along the axis. Etc. It would be slow, but it would solve the problem. And if you wanted you could build it with multiple levels of habitable space, zero-gee labs (well, micro-gee) attached to the leading edge of the axis. Etc. It might take you a century to get anywhere, but that's ok. This is your HOME. You're just visiting somewhere as a tourist/explorer.
Problem solved. The next problem is coping with the population explosion, so the crew park alongside another asteroid and build an improved model. Then half the people move over, and there's room for everyone again. Eventually mobile (i.e., small enough to carry around in a space colony) fusion power is developed and some of these head out. But most will probably stay in sol-space.
After all, how many people who live in a city spend any appreciable amount of time outside anyway?
It doesn't need to be. There's no usable C++ compiler.
IANAL, but I believe the license makes a fork possible. But it's no minor job.
A successful fork is going to take a lot of work on the part of many people. You're probably talking about a project larger than Python, and that took a decade to build up. Red Hat could do it, but they're pretty much behind Gtk, so they're unlikely to. Novell is already being swallowed by MS. Mandrake has financial problems. Oracle could, but are quite unlikely to. (The fork would necessarily be pure GPL.) Intel doesn't have much reason to. Neither does Google.
Probably the best answer is a community effort, but that's going to take lots of organizing. After it's going successfully, lots of companies that don't have sufficient reason to run it themselves will have sufficient reason to sponsor a few developers, and occasionally make other donations. (Here's our new computer. Make it run on this.)
It's a major job. I hope somebody's up to it. (I may despise KDE4, but that doesn't mean I think it should die, it means *I* sure don't want to use it. And if the KDE developers had something real to do, perhaps they wouldn't futz up working software. [KDE3 was superb. I won't even use KDE4.]) But options are important. As it is I feel that KDE + Gnome is too few window managers. And so far I *think* KDE4 is better (for my purposes) than the others...though if Gnome3 turns out as bad as some forecasts have made it look, I may well find out.
Shorts are quite dangerous. They open you up to unlimited liability, and you can't always choose when to repay them. (It wouldn't surprise me if the stok moves up as well as down, though I agree with you that down is the long term direction.)
If you fork it, you CAN'T sell out again, because you don't own the basic copyrights.
If you'd said "does not prove", I'd agree with you. "Indicate", though, I think I could go along with it indicates it. I'd say it multiplies my belief about as: := (x * 1.1) := 1 - x := y / (y + z)
let P("they did it at the behest of the CIA") = x (N.B.: 0 x 1)
y
z
x
approx.
Causation? Can you even define the beast? Correlation is all that we ever have. Well, correlation and our model of how the universe works. And that's built by fitting against prior correlations. The language may be mathematical, but the process is pre-verbal, and probably pre-birth. Causation just means "My model simplifies this to x yields y, so I don't need to think about other variables." A very useful short-cut, but not one to put much trust in, if you have the time to check things out.
The thing is, people tend to define conspiracy as "things that I don't believe are happening". If I said "management was conspiring against the workers unionizing", people would say "But that's not a conspiracy!". But it is. It's a typical conspiracy. And there are at least millions of them existing at any one time.
So what you probably mean is something like "I don't believe in secret all encompassing conspiracies". That's just a guess, but it seems plausible.
But guess what, there are secret conspiracies among powerful people. If you follow the news you can read a story about them every other day. "Is Oracle management conspiring to shut down MySQL?" I can't say either yes or no, but it's certainly plausible. And if so, that would be a secret conspiracy among powerful people.
The Manhattan project was a secret US conspiracy against the Axis. It was kept secret for YEARS, and involved thousands of people in multiple governments. Don't tell me that secret conspiracies among powerful people are impossible. There's historical record. And they aren't even that unusual. Consider ACTA. It may not have been totally secret, but it was sufficiently secret, or nearly so. That's a massive example of multiple governments conspiring against their own citizens.
So when you deride conspiracies all you're meaning is ":some people believe things that I consider foolish". That's quite a reasonable position, but it's not at all what your words are saying.
FWIW, very few citizens of German extraction were held in internment camps during WWII. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but it was a comparatively rare event. The Japanese were rounded-up whole-sale in certain states, and left alone in other states. One of the states where they were left alone was Hawaii. (Well, it wasn't a state at the time.) If it were done as a matter of security, then Hawaii would have been one of the places where it most needed to be done. So clearly the reason was something else.
Having spoken to some survivors of those camps, I think you paint an overly civilized picture of them.
The children were sent to what could properly be called "retraining schools" to encourage them into politically correct beliefs. Their property was stolen, and never repaid. Etc.
OTOH, you are correct. They were "internment camps", and most people survived them. They might have become impoverished and be forced to work as farm laborers, but they did live through the experience. Most of them.
Saying they were given homes is painting a very pretty picture on the actuality, but it's not totally false. Quite. Similarly for the rest of your statements.
But you are right, they weren't extermination camps. They were essentially POW camps for citizens of the US. And as far as I have been able to figure out the entire purpose of them was to allow the wealth of those so interred to be confiscated by others with powerful political connections. (You might notice that Hawaii, which had a larger proportion of Japanese citizens than did California didn't need or use any such camps. Nor were the German citizens on the east cost treated so. It appears to have been legalized racial discrimination for the purpose of confiscating wealth.)
Shouldn't be too hard. First you disassemble the drives and separate the platters. Second you sand the surface of each platter with coarse (or a mixture of coarse and fine) jewler's rouge. (As a side benefit, it contains ferrous oxide, so any attempt to read will probably destroy the read head.) Then you hit the platters several times with the ball end of a ball-peen hammer. After that use your ingenuity, depending on what tools are available. A metal punch is a nice touch. So is a welding torch. When each disk is in two or more pieces, THEN you throw it in several different garbage trucks. If you're prepared this whole process should take less than a couple of hours (including the throwing it into the garbage trucks). If you walk too the garbage trucks it will take longer.
N.B.: It's my understanding that these days the platters are metal plated onto glass. I doubt that it's tempered, so be prepared for splinters. And if one of your "tools on hand" is a kiln, you can skip most of the other steps, and just fire the platters.
The differences between the US and Zimbabwe are that the US is the world's #1 economy,
Are you sure about that? Whose figures are you using, and what do they measure?
the US is a center of innovation, ... I think we lost that edge over 5 years ago, and more probably over a decade ago. And we're still declining.
In patent and copyright lawsuits, perhaps. Otherwise
the US preserves inalienable rights
Have you looked at recent governmental proposals? Recent laws? Recent court decisions? It's true there's an occasional decision that supports individual rights, but they are few and far between. Ones that compromise or deny those rights, however, are much more frequent.
Because of the faith and credit of the US
Because we can threaten to invade anyone who opposes our "vital interests"
we can basically print as much money as we like.
There might be development, but I'm not at all sure I'll be interested. It basically depends on license, access, an capabilities. Capabilities is in the third place. It's already a complete language. The most important thing to do is to remove type erasure during compilation. But by the time they get around to that I'm pretty sure that, say, Vala will be ready to be used. Or possibly Go. Or D. All of which have decent licenses and access policies. (Java swamps them in terms of documentation, but Vala and D are already a lot faster. Not sure about Go.)
Then there's Python and Ruby. Python is currently in a feature freeze, but it sounds like they're fixing the global lock problem, so it will start being parallel capable. Ruby I'm less sure about, but it's also just come out with a new version with lots of nice capabilities. Both, of course, have their own collections of libraries. Which are native code, and thus a lot faster than Java. (At least potentially, if not always in practice.) Nobody seems to talk about handling memory paging, and I can't figure out whether this is because they don't need to or because they can't. What if I need a hashtable that won't fit into RAM? Do I get a memory overflow or does it page out the parts that haven't been used recently? I tend to suspect that there's automatic paging, but I sure with somebody would be explicit about it. (They talk about reading in entire files at one gulp as if it's nothing to worry about, and this only makes sense if there's automatic paging. But they never mention this explicitly. Yarrgh!) (I expect that it's automatic paging handled by the operating system, but it would sure be nice to be told this rather than just guessing.)
Yeah. I still fondly remember IBM IBSYS on the 7094 ... not.
Even JCL (Disk Operating System version) was better. Though I wouldn't say the same of Tape Operating System.)
It's not clear to me on what basis the claim is made that MySQL either is or is not dead. Certainly there have been many forks, and also Oracle seems to be officially continuing it. (I believe that most current development reflects work that was done under Sun, so I'm not considering that as evidence. For that I'll take development done in the forthcoming year.)
Still, I can see lots of reasons that a form of MySQL would continue to be developed. This isn't proof that Oracle will see things the same way, and it certainly isn't proof that they do so currently.
I remain unsure about Java. Sufficiently so that I decided on Python for my current project despite the fact that Java would be faster, and leads itself more easily to parallel processing. (Running different [threads or processes] on different processors.) (Well, I also like the language better, but it was the uncertainties about the future of Java that decided me.) I had just about decided on Java when Oracle sued Google. I still have no idea what patents they are talking about, but I'd prefer to just avoid the problem.
After you get a degree in education, you can't do much else. Sales, perhaps. But McDonald's wouldn't hire someone that old.
What I got was:
He got in a motorcycle accident, and had to spend time recovering. So he had a tutor rather than going to school. This allowed him to get individualized education. And he got an excellent tutor named Ms. Edwards.
I don't know about you, but the teachers I know generally put in 10 or more hours a day. Contact time isn't the only part of the job, you know. (And in our area one day a week there's a half day of school to theoretically allow the teachers to catch up on what they can't do during class. It helps, but not that much. Tests need to be corrected overnight. Essays need to be evaluated, etc. They might get lesson planning done during that time period, but some of that needs to be done overnight too.
Maybe 12 hours is closer to the average. Maybe 10. Not less. (Of course, some don't care, and don't bother. And *those* are the ones that we should get rid of.) Also, at least in the past that "summer vacation" was when the teachers took the professional classes required to keep their credentials current. It was definitely a lower pressure time of year, but definitely not free time.
They are, however, in an asymmetrical relationship. The teacher has power over the children, and, at least theoretically, not the reverse.
This means that when the teacher speaks harshly about the students, this should be seen as a threat. When the student speaks harshly about the teacher, no threat should be assumed.
I'm not sure that this theoretical picture, however, is quite accurate. I have encountered reports of teachers who are afraid to even criticize certain of their students for fear of threats to their lives (from the parents). I don't know how rational the fear is, but the threat was made, and apparently made seriously. In another case, the teacher was legally required to report evidence of physical child abuse (bruises, lash markes, etc.) but was afraid to. (I don't recall the resolution, but I suspect that no report was made.)
So as I said, the theoretical picture doesn't seem to match the reality. If, however, you believe the theory, then it makes perfect sense that the teacher not be allowed to criticize the students in public. So to people who have no direct contact with the schools, it may make sense. Personally, I'm unsure HOW it should be dealt with. Most teachers seem to be in a nearly intolerable position. *I* couldn't stand it. But many teachers seem to feel that they'd still rather be teachers than something else. (At least for awhile.) Possibly teachers college and university schools of education contribute to this. They may not prepare you to teach, but they certainly don't prepare you for anything else.
Well it was someone acting as an agent of Sony. And they were doing so in a context where it is reasonable to presume that they were representing Sony with Sony's knowledge and consent.
That, I think, is what is important for the trade secret status. (Caution: IANAL)
OTOH, it's fairly clear that he didn't know what he was saying, and that may also be significant.