Grandparent was talking about a lawyer being able to take an advantageous position anything for their employer. Lawyers generally aren't interested in stuffing their employer.
I think Queen Bitch is a much more appropriate term here.
When Professor Dorothy Bishop raised concerns, Professor Greenfield responded: “it’s not really for Dorothy to comment on how I run my career”.
It certainly looks like that she is saying these things to pander to a a certain group of people which she believes will further her career. It is not certain that this is the case, but I'd bet on it.
I've spoken about something extremely similar with the psychologist I have been seeing. From what I remember what the psychologist said was "Apart from scaring the living shit out of you, I can't see the purpose of him doing that to you" and he said that I have never experienced any love in my life. This sort of corporal punishment is shown to be really bad for a persons development. Please see the video entitled "Dr Drew livid over videotaped whipping" in this link.
Personally it has manifested in my life by the fact that neither me or my brother have never had a girlfriend and we are now in our late twenties, that I have tried to kill myself with bad results to my body (some loss of sexual function for one, although the psychologist thinks it is psychological), and that me and my brother are fairly socially outcast. Though perhaps there was a lot of plain bad luck, I believe we wouldn't be as broken as we are if our environment had been better. I've had a psychiatrist that I was seeing say "You could shoot the bastard, but it won't do you any good.", this was just after a couple of questions, I hadn't even told him about my life, just that I have had thoughts of revenge.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot more beatings and that she was locked in an almost empty room for weeks, apart from school and living necessities. From what I have seen, it looks like this guy is worse than my father. Part of me likes the idea of his balls being sawn off*.
* Although if that happened I actually don't believe I would take any satisfaction out of it, I just find this whole thing horrible.
The amount of passion that such an unimportant thing to others not directly involved with RMS talks is just amazing. The old phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" is completely apt here.
It would be nice if the parent post was visible. The only thing that I could think of that would increase the attack surface is that it will be implemented as an extension. This really shouldn't be a problem as Mozilla will surely look this over very carefully.
The funny thing is that it's pretty much direct result of piracy.
No, it isn't.
Much closer to the truth is that this is a result of creating a software product for "non-traditional" gamers. These people find it appealing because they cannot lose in any meaningful way in the game. They are solely designed to addict and suck as much money from certain vulnerable individuals. I cannot see any way that users of these games benefit at all from them.
Please note that the article is only about "social" games, such as those on Facebook, and the iPad or iPhone or whatever. It also says that the figures bandied about are that 95% of the population who touch a "social" game spend nothing. Here is what it says about those that do spend the money:
Do players buy energy? What sorts of players buy energy? The short answer is: actual idiots. The long answer is: people who don’t understand why they have so much real-world money.
So, unscrupulous individuals have found a way to sucker feeble-minded people with stupid half-formed pseudo-games. They are worse than casinos. Do not touch these things. Anybody playing them needs to be hit with a cluebat, hard.
Please read the TFA, even if it is a somewhat epic in length, it is some of the best writing I have encountered.
How many factory workers do you think would want to work where there is absolutely no guarantee they will ever be paid anything, in exchange for the possibility of getting more money later?
I'm going to answer your rhetorical question. Hardly any person would want to be a factory worker under those conditions. However, this is not the case with a musical performer, as the circumstances are completely different. Although it requires a lot of practice to be good (I've played the trumpet), the other benefits are well worth it, such as it being fun, and the social standing and recognition. In fact these incentives are so great that a lot of people will perform music free, or almost for free.
Now, to your first paragraph. Copyright is a monopoly on distribution, after it expires, or indeed, even if there is no copyright, then copies of the recording of the performance can still be sold by the performer. Recordings are not the main product by a performer anyway, the performances are. They can be done until the person is not able to perform any more, and they get the money up front.
Now about the solution you have asked for, well, reducing copyright terms from the ridiculous values they are now, to something much more reasonable, say the original 14 years, perhaps double. I wouldn't call it 'brilliant' as you have sarcastically put in there, but it is obviously better for the public good, which is the whole point of copyright.
That is still giving a select group of people preferencial treatment for no reason. If something like that goes for "artists" then it should go for anyone. At the moment they can hire an accountant just like other people.
Even if it's just preserving the exception information to bubble up.
I do that. It preserves all exception/error information and can be used easily as long as the original source code is accessible. Although that is Java and not C++, this method has worked for me. As a mediocre programmer it is one of the areas of my code which I don't actually dislike.
HTML Formatted with ecode does not give you indentation, and elements will not help either. Plain old text mode with ecode does give indentation. This has saved some time. Thank you.
I would just like to post a link to my other comment which shows the way I handle exceptions. I believe this is superior because I can see every exception that gets thrown in the one stack trace, and that all the exception logging can be handled in one area of the program. It has worked very well for me.
And of course, don't forget how try-with-resources fixes common bugs where an exception in closeFile gets swallowed, or overrides the original exception...
This is what I do these days to avoid these problems:
try {
input = new FileInputStream("example.txt"); // Reading and processing of file content goes here } catch (Exception e) {
e.initCause(exception);
exception = e; } finally {
try
{
if (input != null)
input.close;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.initCause(exception);
exception = e;
} // For other statements in the finally clause the same thing can be repeated }
// Throw exception if one has been thrown if (exception != null)
throw exception;
// Return value from method
Handling exceptions this way has the advantage that I can see exactly what has happened even if statements in the finally clause throw an exception after another exception has been thrown. It also doesn't matter if many exceptions get thrown in the finally clause, they are all recorded in the stack trace. That is just the basics, helper classes can be created to make this even easier to write with fewer lines of code. Some exceptions may need to be caught and wrapped in another exception. For instance, SQLException has the SQLState and vendorCode properties which do not print in the stack trace. This means that another exception needs to be created to wrap SQLException and put these properties in its detail message.
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Grandparent was talking about a lawyer being able to take an advantageous position anything for their employer. Lawyers generally aren't interested in stuffing their employer.
I think Queen Bitch is a much more appropriate term here.
When Professor Dorothy Bishop raised concerns, Professor Greenfield responded: “it’s not really for Dorothy to comment on how I run my career”.
It certainly looks like that she is saying these things to pander to a a certain group of people which she believes will further her career. It is not certain that this is the case, but I'd bet on it.
I cried when I watched this video.
I've spoken about something extremely similar with the psychologist I have been seeing. From what I remember what the psychologist said was "Apart from scaring the living shit out of you, I can't see the purpose of him doing that to you" and he said that I have never experienced any love in my life. This sort of corporal punishment is shown to be really bad for a persons development. Please see the video entitled "Dr Drew livid over videotaped whipping" in this link.
Personally it has manifested in my life by the fact that neither me or my brother have never had a girlfriend and we are now in our late twenties, that I have tried to kill myself with bad results to my body (some loss of sexual function for one, although the psychologist thinks it is psychological), and that me and my brother are fairly socially outcast. Though perhaps there was a lot of plain bad luck, I believe we wouldn't be as broken as we are if our environment had been better. I've had a psychiatrist that I was seeing say "You could shoot the bastard, but it won't do you any good.", this was just after a couple of questions, I hadn't even told him about my life, just that I have had thoughts of revenge.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot more beatings and that she was locked in an almost empty room for weeks, apart from school and living necessities. From what I have seen, it looks like this guy is worse than my father. Part of me likes the idea of his balls being sawn off*.
* Although if that happened I actually don't believe I would take any satisfaction out of it, I just find this whole thing horrible.
Which one?
The name of the company was on the road, so to speak: StreetScooter (road roller)
I know it is an artifact of Google Translate, but I like the name 'Road Roller'.
Except that it is super easy to do most things, and much easier to die.
nohup rm -rf /&
This particularly evil one came as a fortune on this site.
There is this concept you need to learn about called hypocrisy. BitZtream was just pointing it out.
The amount of passion that such an unimportant thing to others not directly involved with RMS talks is just amazing. The old phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill" is completely apt here.
Appearing on stage next to a banner might produce the opportunity to talk about why he disagrees with such things...
What could possibly go wrong?
It would be nice if the parent post was visible. The only thing that I could think of that would increase the attack surface is that it will be implemented as an extension. This really shouldn't be a problem as Mozilla will surely look this over very carefully.
I apologize for this comment. I was enormously tired.
Pick up that can.
They're not that dumb.
Of course, there are people — like me — who would never spend money on one of those games. That’s actually ninety-five-ish percent of the people.
And then there are the people — statistics show they are middle-aged women — who will gladly spend upward of $10,000 on one game in less than a year.
So TFA is quite accurate here, according to your experience.
Portal and Portal 2. OK, GLaDOS literally insults you, but the game design itself doesn't. It's excellent.
The funny thing is that it's pretty much direct result of piracy.
No, it isn't.
Much closer to the truth is that this is a result of creating a software product for "non-traditional" gamers. These people find it appealing because they cannot lose in any meaningful way in the game. They are solely designed to addict and suck as much money from certain vulnerable individuals. I cannot see any way that users of these games benefit at all from them.
Please note that the article is only about "social" games, such as those on Facebook, and the iPad or iPhone or whatever. It also says that the figures bandied about are that 95% of the population who touch a "social" game spend nothing. Here is what it says about those that do spend the money:
Do players buy energy? What sorts of players buy energy? The short answer is: actual idiots. The long answer is: people who don’t understand why they have so much real-world money.
So, unscrupulous individuals have found a way to sucker feeble-minded people with stupid half-formed pseudo-games. They are worse than casinos. Do not touch these things. Anybody playing them needs to be hit with a cluebat, hard.
Please read the TFA, even if it is a somewhat epic in length, it is some of the best writing I have encountered.
There is no moral or philosophically defensible position that says someone needs to own a song or a movie for 70 years.
Does that mean that not even bullshit can be used to defend it? That's truly awe-inspiring.
How many factory workers do you think would want to work where there is absolutely no guarantee they will ever be paid anything, in exchange for the possibility of getting more money later?
I'm going to answer your rhetorical question. Hardly any person would want to be a factory worker under those conditions. However, this is not the case with a musical performer, as the circumstances are completely different. Although it requires a lot of practice to be good (I've played the trumpet), the other benefits are well worth it, such as it being fun, and the social standing and recognition. In fact these incentives are so great that a lot of people will perform music free, or almost for free.
Now, to your first paragraph. Copyright is a monopoly on distribution, after it expires, or indeed, even if there is no copyright, then copies of the recording of the performance can still be sold by the performer. Recordings are not the main product by a performer anyway, the performances are. They can be done until the person is not able to perform any more, and they get the money up front.
Now about the solution you have asked for, well, reducing copyright terms from the ridiculous values they are now, to something much more reasonable, say the original 14 years, perhaps double. I wouldn't call it 'brilliant' as you have sarcastically put in there, but it is obviously better for the public good, which is the whole point of copyright.
That is still giving a select group of people preferencial treatment for no reason. If something like that goes for "artists" then it should go for anyone. At the moment they can hire an accountant just like other people.
The phrase is "Infinity minus a day". It takes a lawyer to come up with that.
Even if it's just preserving the exception information to bubble up.
I do that. It preserves all exception/error information and can be used easily as long as the original source code is accessible. Although that is Java and not C++, this method has worked for me. As a mediocre programmer it is one of the areas of my code which I don't actually dislike.
HTML Formatted with ecode does not give you indentation, and elements will not help either. Plain old text mode with ecode does give indentation. This has saved some time. Thank you.
I would just like to post a link to my other comment which shows the way I handle exceptions. I believe this is superior because I can see every exception that gets thrown in the one stack trace, and that all the exception logging can be handled in one area of the program. It has worked very well for me.
And of course, don't forget how try-with-resources fixes common bugs where an exception in closeFile gets swallowed, or overrides the original exception...
This is what I do these days to avoid these problems:
Handling exceptions this way has the advantage that I can see exactly what has happened even if statements in the finally clause throw an exception after another exception has been thrown. It also doesn't matter if many exceptions get thrown in the finally clause, they are all recorded in the stack trace. That is just the basics, helper classes can be created to make this even easier to write with fewer lines of code. Some exceptions may need to be caught and wrapped in another exception. For instance, SQLException has the SQLState and vendorCode properties which do not print in the stack trace. This means that another exception needs to be created to wrap SQLException and put these properties in its detail message.