If you don't like it, don't use it. Oh, but it makes development faster by abstracting away nuts-and-bolts details so you can focus on the features that make your product unique? Then use it but stop whining. Sounds too much like sour grapes.
I love it. This will happen. It will move to whatever country does not prosecute the owners. As will other great ideas that our old laws disallow. Kudos to them and all the other thought leaders. Prosperity is inevitable to the country that shelters companies like this.
As a matter of fact, I take great caution when crossig the street and try to impress the same healthy respect of traffic on my kids. It's unlikley anyone can conceal a car on their person and use it in a momemt of passion... as seems to happen too often with firearms.
Guns are not bad. Neither are bombs or biological weapons. The uncertain variable has always been human nature. People get angry, jealous, upset. Check out the firearm violence new sometime. In my area, most of the non-drug related deaths are accidents and crimes of passion.
My understanding is that some of the highest tech computer hardware anywhere resides at the Las Alamos site. I wonder how much of this precious hardware was outside of the hardended structures protecting the radioactive junk.
I agree with you 100% and suggest you purchase landmines, grenades, armor piercing rounds, saw your shotgun and whatever else makes you feel safer. Meanwhile, I will just try to avoid you since what makes me feel safer is avoiding dangerous situations and people able to do me great harm.
As much as I would like to produce freeware that helps the development community by sharing the problems I've solved, my employers don't let me give away the code from work and my wife wont let me create freeware on her time. Cheers to those that have the community sense, the skill, and the time to enrich the state of computing for us all.
Since when is an open standard a bad thing? Let the proprietry systems make money for their inventors until an open system comes out. Nothing wrong with a company gaining business advantage because they have what we want.
But all the really good stuff happens once everyone shares a standard. And with that *fact* in mind, its just a good thing when an open standard (such as MP4) arrives that can compete and possibly overshadow proprietery standards on merit alone. (Remember life before MP3?)
Isn't Slashdot like a bathroom wall? Folks pen their comments/opinions/philosohies/babble etc on it. The management does not alter it.
As unlikely as it seems, what if someone wrote "secrets" about Kerberos on the bathroom wall of a movie theater? Is the management liable for not removing it? What about walls of abondoned buildings or sides of city buses? Will a city be sued for not removing those items which are business secrets? What about unsolicited email that contains such content? Am I liable if I forward it to my pals? Where does all this nonsense stop?
If the world were right, a secret that I want to keep is my problem to keep. If I make the mistake of telling the wrong person (because they tell someone they should not) too bad for me.
But thats not how the world is. We've built these things called copyright laws that make keeping secrets the state's business instead of the companies' or individuals that profit from them.
This in my opinion in a fundamental mistake because it invariably creates the conflict: protect free speech or police a business secret?
Sometimes shit happens. Why does most of the gun related shit seem to happen here to us in the USA? Could easy unmonitored access to firearms have *anything* to do with it?
Should all the kids at columbine have been packing? Should I send my kid to school with a firearm? I won't. The best way to get shot is to pull out a gun.
Second amendment lets you bear arms. Does not say which. Should folks keep their own cannons, grenades, etc too? If you reason that these arms are for times of civil war, why not?
I don't know about you, but I would rather take my chances through the courts and quirky political process than count on my neighbor "Jim" the gun owner to "shoot" those federals whey they get out of hand.
On the one hand, it was once popular to copyright program code instead of to patent it. As horrible as it seems (and it is horrible), a copyright (or patent) on HTML would not be unprecedented. However, anyone that appreciates the pace of inovation would surly agree that such actions would be like pissing on the fire of innovation.
What was with the engineers at Intel that built this piece of junk chipset? Didn't they realize people were gonna try to use it? I hope none of them still work there.
1. I don't agree that society hates curiosity or intelligence. Quite the contrary is self evident at the macroscopic level. Being smart can leverage success and respect. (Anecdotes about smart kids being teased by bullies are microscopic examples of kids being kids. Anecdotes about smart folks that are poor beg the question: What are they doing to make money? Anecdotes about clearly intelligent people that are not respected beg the question: Are they assholes?)
2. Everyone is welcome to their opinion and I respect yours. However, I don't share it. I see tremendous value in recognizing what details matter to your purpose and which are only a distraction. Everyone does not have to be a computer programmer. Some people have better things to do and learn. (Yes, knowing computers is not the be-all in this world.) Some folks you may not respect have invested their time into developing skills and amassing knowledge in areas in which you or I appear to be simple idiots.
I applaud the folks that are smart enough to dig into what interests them and get through what is just in their way.
Like you are really in the "guts" of a computer when you use a "real" operating system. How "raw" does a computer have to be so it doesn't breed ignorant users? I vote for toggle switches on the front panel instead of a keyboard? Those monitor things make us lazy and ignorant too. Lets just go for binary light patterns.
While we're at it, It's dangerous to forget how a real car works. It's a shame more people dont have to crank the engine to start it and "prime" the "carb". What's gonna happen to us when the engine computers die? Actually, cars are just plain bad since that technology could come to an end for too many reasons. Let's all ride horses before we lose that skill.
Thank god his job change did not put him into a postoffice. The combination of a "Doom" mentality and whatever it is that postal work does to people could not be a good thing.
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It's unlikley anyone can conceal a car on their person and use it in a momemt of passion
Guns are not bad. Neither are bombs or biological weapons. The uncertain variable has always been human nature. People get angry, jealous, upset. Check out the firearm violence new sometime. In my area, most of the non-drug related deaths are accidents and crimes of passion.
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But all the really good stuff happens once everyone shares a standard. And with that *fact* in mind, its just a good thing when an open standard (such as MP4) arrives that can compete and possibly overshadow proprietery standards on merit alone. (Remember life before MP3?)
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As unlikely as it seems, what if someone wrote "secrets" about Kerberos on the bathroom wall of a movie theater? Is the management liable for not removing it? What about walls of abondoned buildings or sides of city buses? Will a city be sued for not removing those items which are business secrets? What about unsolicited email that contains such content? Am I liable if I forward it to my pals? Where does all this nonsense stop?
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But thats not how the world is. We've built these things called copyright laws that make keeping secrets the state's business instead of the companies' or individuals that profit from them.
This in my opinion in a fundamental mistake because it invariably creates the conflict: protect free speech or police a business secret?
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Should all the kids at columbine have been packing? Should I send my kid to school with a firearm? I won't. The best way to get shot is to pull out a gun.
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I don't know about you, but I would rather take my chances through the courts and quirky political process than count on my neighbor "Jim" the gun owner to "shoot" those federals whey they get out of hand.
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Eventually big technology companies lose their edge.
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2. Everyone is welcome to their opinion and I respect yours. However, I don't share it. I see tremendous value in recognizing what details matter to your purpose and which are only a distraction. Everyone does not have to be a computer programmer. Some people have better things to do and learn. (Yes, knowing computers is not the be-all in this world.) Some folks you may not respect have invested their time into developing skills and amassing knowledge in areas in which you or I appear to be simple idiots.
I applaud the folks that are smart enough to dig into what interests them and get through what is just in their way.
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While we're at it, It's dangerous to forget how a real car works. It's a shame more people dont have to crank the engine to start it and "prime" the "carb". What's gonna happen to us when the engine computers die? Actually, cars are just plain bad since that technology could come to an end for too many reasons. Let's all ride horses before we lose that skill.
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