I think you may be confused - Sun sued Microsoft for breach of the Java licence terms when they added their own custom classes into the java.* package hierarchy (they'd have been fine putting them in com.microsoft.*). I believe Microsoft licences some patents from Sun (now Oracle, of course), some/all of which cover features implemented in C#. C# is only a fork of Java in the very loosest sense imaginable.
Advocate that something horrible should happen to somebody but don't act on it? Fine. If your speech causes somebody else to act on it, then the party committing the crime is guilty.
The more often something is said, the more normal and acceptable it becomes. The more acceptable it becomes, the more likely it is that the more extreme elements that exist in every society will feel empowered to take action - they'll reason that they're just doing what "everyone" is saying, that everyone would be *doing* if only they had the guts.
I don't expect either of us to convince the other, but it really isn't a case of people eschewing personal responsibility. If anything we are taking on *more* responsibility, by accepting that everything we do and say influences others, and so we have a responsibility to try to keep those influences positive (or at least not negative).
The Kingdom of England is also pretty much the first modern totalitarian state in the west
I have to assume that you've never even been here, let alone lived here. Either that or you really don't know what totalitarian means.
(Incidentally you're also the first person in my 36 years that I've heard refer to it in that way, except in a historical sense; it sounds weird.)
I don't know about all suppliers, but when I bought my OEM copy of XP Pro the hardware had to be non-peripheral, so no, a mouse would not suffice. That said a floppy drive would, and they're cheaper if anything.
Ok, then let's compare it to dual-layer DVDs, which store 8.5GB per disc (or 17GB if they're double-sided, which most aren't of course). The 100x claim is still off.
Doing that punishes far more innocent people (the ones that just work there and literally have no idea that anything like that is going on, it's all so far above their heads, and their families) than it does guilty.
Given that energy and/or matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another, I submit that nothing was "made" here
The process of assembling a chair from raw materials is called "making" a chair, not "converting lumber, nails, screws, glue, etc into" a chair.
In the same way, these particles have been made.
Doesn't matter if anyone gets prosecuted. Damages are $8 billion and counting, and News Corp is about to lose its credit rating.
Yes it most certainly does matter. I don't care what happens to the company as a whole, I want to see those who were actually responsible in court. In fact, the company as a whole going down because of the actions of a few mostly harms people who had no involvement in or knowledge of what was happening, until it was far too late.
3d movies... if you wear the special glasses and don't mind the 3d headache. Nor the price premium.
Well, I don't suffer the headaches, the price premium isn't that large at my local cinema, and my 11 year old daughter loves the effect (and to be honest, I'm pretty partial to it too). Seems pretty cool to me. (Obviously YMMV)
The rest of your points about tech will be/are being addressed, though I admit the rate of progress is frustrating.
Years ago I visited a friend while she was at university here in the UK. One of her housemates did indeed sleep in the attic, which had been converted into a bedroom. A friend of mine in Cornwall also slept in the attic, though that was out of choice - it was a bigger room than his old bedroom on the floor below.
So, rare yes, but it does happen.
Just because most people won't care about it doesn't mean it isn't a legitimate reason; legitimacy in no way requires or implies relevancy.
That said while I don't own any Apple devices, I've not bothered to root my Android phone.
if I stream a movie this evening, I'm probably not going to also watch a DVD
No, but you might stream a film this evening while waiting for the replacement to the DVD you returned yesterday or the day before to arrive. It really just depends how often you watch films; I've certainly hit 3 or 4 times a week (or more) myself when I've not had a lot else to do of an evening.
The operatives are exposed to any emissions for the entire time they're operating/supervising the scanners, which is a lot longer than any one passenger. That's why it's ok to give someone an x-ray in a hospital, etc, but the technicians stand behind a protective shield.
Personally I wouldn't depend on any third-party service to store any of my data. The potential for connectivity issues (at my end, theirs, or in-between), bankruptcy, disgruntled/malicious employees, security breaches, etc, all make me very wary indeed of entrusting my data to someone else's hard drive, and I really don't understand why anyone would do so. (I understand the arguments, I just personally believe that it's not worth the potential risks, especially for files that are essentially irreplaceable like photos.)
No, they're trying to drive page impressions (and therefore ad revenue and perceived site activity/relevance) by whipping the masses up into a frenzy. It's been like this for a long, long time, though it does seem to be getting worse lately.
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The number of deaths isn't what makes it interesting to Slashdot -- the Oslo shooting + bombing (rightly) didn't get reported here.
You'd have a point, if it weren't for the extensive reporting of Columbine, 9/11, et al.
He's already said he's in the UK - we don't have "duct tape" here.
I think you may be confused - Sun sued Microsoft for breach of the Java licence terms when they added their own custom classes into the java.* package hierarchy (they'd have been fine putting them in com.microsoft.*). I believe Microsoft licences some patents from Sun (now Oracle, of course), some/all of which cover features implemented in C#. C# is only a fork of Java in the very loosest sense imaginable.
Well, is Oracle making any money off Java?
Indirectly yes, as they sell a number of products that are written in/expose APIs for Java (e.g. WebLogic, Portal Server, etc)
Advocate that something horrible should happen to somebody but don't act on it? Fine. If your speech causes somebody else to act on it, then the party committing the crime is guilty.
The more often something is said, the more normal and acceptable it becomes. The more acceptable it becomes, the more likely it is that the more extreme elements that exist in every society will feel empowered to take action - they'll reason that they're just doing what "everyone" is saying, that everyone would be *doing* if only they had the guts.
I don't expect either of us to convince the other, but it really isn't a case of people eschewing personal responsibility. If anything we are taking on *more* responsibility, by accepting that everything we do and say influences others, and so we have a responsibility to try to keep those influences positive (or at least not negative).
The Kingdom of England is also pretty much the first modern totalitarian state in the west
I have to assume that you've never even been here, let alone lived here. Either that or you really don't know what totalitarian means. (Incidentally you're also the first person in my 36 years that I've heard refer to it in that way, except in a historical sense; it sounds weird.)
I don't know about all suppliers, but when I bought my OEM copy of XP Pro the hardware had to be non-peripheral, so no, a mouse would not suffice. That said a floppy drive would, and they're cheaper if anything.
Ok, then let's compare it to dual-layer DVDs, which store 8.5GB per disc (or 17GB if they're double-sided, which most aren't of course). The 100x claim is still off.
Doing that punishes far more innocent people (the ones that just work there and literally have no idea that anything like that is going on, it's all so far above their heads, and their families) than it does guilty.
If they thought to win over anyone in the FOSS camp with that kinda crap
I doubt very much that they were trying to do anything other than produce a mildly amusing video.
I'm afraid you lost that fight centuries ago.
Given that energy and/or matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another, I submit that nothing was "made" here
The process of assembling a chair from raw materials is called "making" a chair, not "converting lumber, nails, screws, glue, etc into" a chair. In the same way, these particles have been made.
Doesn't matter if anyone gets prosecuted. Damages are $8 billion and counting, and News Corp is about to lose its credit rating.
Yes it most certainly does matter. I don't care what happens to the company as a whole, I want to see those who were actually responsible in court. In fact, the company as a whole going down because of the actions of a few mostly harms people who had no involvement in or knowledge of what was happening, until it was far too late.
Here in the UK at least, a PTA is a Parent Teacher Association.
if an H-Bomb is "tiny"
An H-bomb is tiny on a planetary scale, let alone a stellar one.
3d movies ... if you wear the special glasses and don't mind the 3d headache. Nor the price premium.
Well, I don't suffer the headaches, the price premium isn't that large at my local cinema, and my 11 year old daughter loves the effect (and to be honest, I'm pretty partial to it too). Seems pretty cool to me. (Obviously YMMV)
The rest of your points about tech will be/are being addressed, though I admit the rate of progress is frustrating.
Years ago I visited a friend while she was at university here in the UK. One of her housemates did indeed sleep in the attic, which had been converted into a bedroom. A friend of mine in Cornwall also slept in the attic, though that was out of choice - it was a bigger room than his old bedroom on the floor below. So, rare yes, but it does happen.
Just because most people won't care about it doesn't mean it isn't a legitimate reason; legitimacy in no way requires or implies relevancy. That said while I don't own any Apple devices, I've not bothered to root my Android phone.
if I stream a movie this evening, I'm probably not going to also watch a DVD
No, but you might stream a film this evening while waiting for the replacement to the DVD you returned yesterday or the day before to arrive. It really just depends how often you watch films; I've certainly hit 3 or 4 times a week (or more) myself when I've not had a lot else to do of an evening.
And yet, people still complain of slow, bloated software, while the major browser manufacturers are all striving to increase JS and rendering speed...
That's as may be, but *I* am not new to hacker slang, and frankly, it sounds stupid.
Yes, the plural of ox is oxen. No, the plural of box is not boxen, nor is foxen the plural of fox.
Now you get off *my* lawn.
Except that you can expect the missing browser functionality to be added, or in the case of open source browsers potentially add it yourself.
Changing the laws of physics is a rather different matter.
The operatives are exposed to any emissions for the entire time they're operating/supervising the scanners, which is a lot longer than any one passenger. That's why it's ok to give someone an x-ray in a hospital, etc, but the technicians stand behind a protective shield.
Personally I wouldn't depend on any third-party service to store any of my data. The potential for connectivity issues (at my end, theirs, or in-between), bankruptcy, disgruntled/malicious employees, security breaches, etc, all make me very wary indeed of entrusting my data to someone else's hard drive, and I really don't understand why anyone would do so. (I understand the arguments, I just personally believe that it's not worth the potential risks, especially for files that are essentially irreplaceable like photos.)
No, they're trying to drive page impressions (and therefore ad revenue and perceived site activity/relevance) by whipping the masses up into a frenzy. It's been like this for a long, long time, though it does seem to be getting worse lately.