That's as may be, but there's nothing in copyright law that says that it's ok as long as you can do it cheaply. (In fact under UK copyright law you are not allowed to rip CDs to other formats for use on an iPod, etc - there is no personal use exception.)
Intent is worthless if the language doesn't back it up by codifying it in the law.
Do you seriously believe the public would take up arms against this? Seriously?
The vast majority of the population won't care at all, let alone enough to pick up a gun and go up against armed police officers (or the army, if things really got that bad).
The "weird interface" makes perfect sense with multiple virtual desktops or multiple screens
Are you suggesting that different windows (i.e. different parts of the same program) should be put on different desktops?
The last thing I would want to do would be to have to switch desktops to find the window with the particular control I want to use. That might make more sense if you have the desktops visible at the same time on two different monitors, but there is still too much scope to lose windows behind other windows (imho of course - your mileage obviously does vary).
Kernighan's Law; I've seen it in action myself. One particularly good display was when a contractor working with me on a project wrote a very clever stored procedure to (essentially) calculate the contents of a shopping basket based on the audit records of adding things to it and removing them from it.
No end of bugs, and every time he tried to fix one, he introduced one or two more. Eventually his contract came to an end, and he left. One of the first things I did was to rewrite the code to use a DB table to store the stuff in. Not as clever or as elegant, but it did have the advantage of actually working being simple to understand.
Yes, but at times the House of Lords is the only thing standing between the House of Commons (the elected one) and some truly asinine, knee-jerk legislation.
By being unelected and essentially in the job for life, they don't have to worry about pandering to the populist cause of the moment and can (theoretically) take a more level-headed view on things.
Why do you think NuLabour has spent so much time and effort slowly chipping away at the Lords? They're tired of being forced to introduce less batshit insane laws...
He is the #1 threat to individual rights and freedoms in the UK
And that's with some pretty damn stiff competition for the title from Jack "Boots" Straw and Blunkett, too. I'd tip my hat to him, if I wore one, and didn't despise pretty-much everything he stands for.
Yes, and no - like Java,.NET is much bigger than just web apps, you can write pretty-much anything you want in it (with the usual caveat that you're probably not going to be writing anything too low-level, such as device drivers). There are plenty of client-side apps available written in.NET.
Actually if you turn all your links in to POST requests, what'll happen when someone hits the back button is their browser will pop up a dialogue box warning them that in order to redisplay the page, they'll need to resubmit some information. If they hit ok, it'll resubmit it and your app will be none the wiser. If they hit cancel, it'll kill the request and you'll never know.
That nice message is never going to be displayed to anyone.
The public, on the other hand, thinks erroneously that the grid should be infinitely reliable
No, they're right, it should be infinitely reliable, it's just not possible (or at least not financially feasible).
It is a paradox that the more reliable electric supply, the less well prepared the public becomes for outages
That's not a paradox at all - if something never breaks, you don't have any experience of coping when it does, and you don't bother putting any contingency plans in place.
No it wouldn't deter anything. People always assume the bullet-ridden corpses were just dumb, and they will be smart and not get caught.
And of course there will always be rumours that the bullet-riddled corpses *were different people*, and the real ones got away and are living it up on a tropical island somewhere.
No - the copyright holder has to sue. The FSF recommends that you assign the copyright of anything you release under the GPL to them, so they can go after any violations, but if you don't then you're on your own. You can't sue for copyright violation on behalf of someone else, they have to do it themselves.
Superb - I can't believe you got so many people to believe that slashdot would be able to tell that the word you just typed in was your password, without some way of marking it as such:)
Every day I'm increasingly convinced I was right to change my sig to what it currently is...
In 8+ years of programming in Java, I don't think I've *ever* caught ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - in fact I'd say that if you are catching it, you're doing something wrong.
To be fair to him, he did mention the cost of his groceries increasing - but yes, he does seem to be vastly underestimating the effect of increasing petroleum prices.
I have a cross trainer with a little display that shows things like time remaining, heart rate, calories burned, etc. 20 mins general burns me something like 150 kcal (from memory as I'm ill at the moment and haven't used it in a few days - it's definitely not 66 though)
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"Open source" just means you get access to the source, it doesn't mean that you get to modify, recompile or redistribute it.
We have to wait and see what licence terms it's released under.
That's as may be, but there's nothing in copyright law that says that it's ok as long as you can do it cheaply. (In fact under UK copyright law you are not allowed to rip CDs to other formats for use on an iPod, etc - there is no personal use exception.)
Intent is worthless if the language doesn't back it up by codifying it in the law.
Do you seriously believe the public would take up arms against this? Seriously?
The vast majority of the population won't care at all, let alone enough to pick up a gun and go up against armed police officers (or the army, if things really got that bad).
The "weird interface" makes perfect sense with multiple virtual desktops or multiple screens
Are you suggesting that different windows (i.e. different parts of the same program) should be put on different desktops?
The last thing I would want to do would be to have to switch desktops to find the window with the particular control I want to use. That might make more sense if you have the desktops visible at the same time on two different monitors, but there is still too much scope to lose windows behind other windows (imho of course - your mileage obviously does vary).
Kernighan's Law; I've seen it in action myself. One particularly good display was when a contractor working with me on a project wrote a very clever stored procedure to (essentially) calculate the contents of a shopping basket based on the audit records of adding things to it and removing them from it.
No end of bugs, and every time he tried to fix one, he introduced one or two more. Eventually his contract came to an end, and he left. One of the first things I did was to rewrite the code to use a DB table to store the stuff in. Not as clever or as elegant, but it did have the advantage of actually working being simple to understand.
Yes, but at times the House of Lords is the only thing standing between the House of Commons (the elected one) and some truly asinine, knee-jerk legislation.
By being unelected and essentially in the job for life, they don't have to worry about pandering to the populist cause of the moment and can (theoretically) take a more level-headed view on things.
Why do you think NuLabour has spent so much time and effort slowly chipping away at the Lords? They're tired of being forced to introduce less batshit insane laws...
this government most likely has only a few months to live
Most likely? It's coming to the end of its term, and legally must call a general election by (iirc) July 2010.
Easy - powerful friends.
1. They opened up .NET micro edition, which is aimed at e.g. mobile phone handsets .NET wrappers - look at Managed Direct X
2. Direct X has
What you're saying is akin to "Open GL? Couldn't they use C instead?"
He is the #1 threat to individual rights and freedoms in the UK
And that's with some pretty damn stiff competition for the title from Jack "Boots" Straw and Blunkett, too. I'd tip my hat to him, if I wore one, and didn't despise pretty-much everything he stands for.
Isn't .NET a back-end thing?
Yes, and no - like Java, .NET is much bigger than just web apps, you can write pretty-much anything you want in it (with the usual caveat that you're probably not going to be writing anything too low-level, such as device drivers). There are plenty of client-side apps available written in .NET.
No - no white button in Win 7, and even if there were, if the machine has locked-up a UI component wouldn't do much good.
GP is correct, the submitter is trying to be clever.
Now, there is no logical reason that the giant golden badger cannot exist
Well for one thing, it couldn't exist on Earth - it wouldn't be able to support its own weight, and would collapse.
Actually if you turn all your links in to POST requests, what'll happen when someone hits the back button is their browser will pop up a dialogue box warning them that in order to redisplay the page, they'll need to resubmit some information. If they hit ok, it'll resubmit it and your app will be none the wiser. If they hit cancel, it'll kill the request and you'll never know.
That nice message is never going to be displayed to anyone.
I do not believe that Firefox is configured by default to ask the user if they wish to accept cookies.
I don't condemn all software patents.
I do. Copyright protects software, there's no need for patent protection.
The public, on the other hand, thinks erroneously that the grid should be infinitely reliable
No, they're right, it should be infinitely reliable, it's just not possible (or at least not financially feasible).
It is a paradox that the more reliable electric supply, the less well prepared the public becomes for outages
That's not a paradox at all - if something never breaks, you don't have any experience of coping when it does, and you don't bother putting any contingency plans in place.
No it wouldn't deter anything. People always assume the bullet-ridden corpses were just dumb, and they will be smart and not get caught.
And of course there will always be rumours that the bullet-riddled corpses *were different people*, and the real ones got away and are living it up on a tropical island somewhere.
No - the copyright holder has to sue. The FSF recommends that you assign the copyright of anything you release under the GPL to them, so they can go after any violations, but if you don't then you're on your own. You can't sue for copyright violation on behalf of someone else, they have to do it themselves.
Superb - I can't believe you got so many people to believe that slashdot would be able to tell that the word you just typed in was your password, without some way of marking it as such :)
Every day I'm increasingly convinced I was right to change my sig to what it currently is...
Actually JavaScript being called JavaScript was a hideous decision - even now I read comments from people who think it's something to do with Java.
In 8+ years of programming in Java, I don't think I've *ever* caught ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - in fact I'd say that if you are catching it, you're doing something wrong.
To be fair to him, he did mention the cost of his groceries increasing - but yes, he does seem to be vastly underestimating the effect of increasing petroleum prices.
I have a cross trainer with a little display that shows things like time remaining, heart rate, calories burned, etc. 20 mins general burns me something like 150 kcal (from memory as I'm ill at the moment and haven't used it in a few days - it's definitely not 66 though)
You know the k in kcal is "kilo", not "kilogramme" right?
Also 1 calorie is (roughly) 4.2J - switching to joules doesn't get you out of the "kilo vs no prefix" problem :)