He gives one example of an attempt to avoid null pointer errors in Java next:
public String getFirstName(Person person) {
return person?.getName()?.getGivenName();
}
But is it a good idea to use null to mean "no value specified"? What would be better, and what are the tradeoffs? Storing 0 or ""? Storing a special (constant/static) instance object nullValue?
He's not talking about software keyboards a la iPhone.
He's talking about Swype. It's from the same guy who invented T9.
You don't peck the softkeys. You just trace a motion through the letters of a word. E.g., "sad" would be s, left to a, right to d, without taking your finger off the screen. You don't even have to be precise; it has a dictionary, and you can add your own words. Lift your finger for a space.
Just tried it again with Opera and gedit. Not only does the clipboard get cleared when Opera is closed, the Paste option isn't even enabled in gedit's Edit menu after Opera closing.
Assuming you closed out the entire Chromium process (and not just the window that contained the text), I'd just have to chalk it up the same Ubuntu weirdness that leads to some people having great sound and network, while others are left surfing Ubuntu Forums.
One of the things I don't get about NY is the number of "former X" buildings/spaces. If the Port Authority needed a Bus Terminal (and a huge one at that), doesn't it need one now?
The "former meat-packing district": doesn't meat need to be packed anymore in New York City? Or do people just buy their meat unpacked?
And is everyone in NY just selling ads, suing people, or serving coffee anymore?
Would it be OK with you if they also exposed the nefarious deeds of Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan and India? (Actually the deeds of the board members and CEOs of those countries, not the countries themselves.)
I think that would partially depend on whistleblowers in those countries being willing to provide Wikileaks with the raw data.
>- Oh, man, I hope for the sake of this guy, he never takes anything and just uses it without any payment upfront. No video, no song, no book, no other mechanic's tools.
Comparing some sap to SAP is more than unfair: -They used the copyrighted material for profit -SAP's a huge corporation, not a small business or a sole proprietorship -They themselves earn their profits under IP laws -They have the ability to afford competent counsel
They did not just pick up a screwdriver to tighten a rearview mirror when a mechanic happened to be out.
What do you want to bet that serious and well-planned out crimes won't include:
Goldman Sachs UK (where to start) Paypal UK (seizure of users' money without refund) Microsoft UK (organized monopoly abuse) Intel UK (organized monopoly abuse) and anyone else who's a paymaster?
Paypal has withheld your gummy bear for 180 days. Because you accessed the gummy bear from a location other than your usual location, we will also hold your $.25 while our anti-fraud department investigates.
To increase trust in the Paypal community, verify your account. To verify, fax a recent utility bill, send your debit card PIN and a half-chewn gummy bear as a DNA sample.
Never link your "real" bank account to Paypal. Only ever link a transactional account that you only put the amount of money in that you want to transfer to Paypal, or clear it to your real account when you withdraw from Paypal.
It's sad that you have to do this, though. Once you give Paypal your bank account info, it has total access to your money.
Well, I'm a fuddy-duddy too. And I thought "blog" as a shortcut for weblog was ridiculous. I still think "webinar" is nutty. But I fight it less.
Basically I accept that, now, with publishing tools in the hands of the masses instead of copy editors, they're going to come up with their own neologisms.
There's plenty still to be done, and the community itself is the biggest critic of Linux and friends, but the GP's point is right about familiarity.
Every camera has a different way to turn the flash on/off. Somehow people manage.
A children of 5 years old can (and do) run Linux.
As to the GGP, ("I want to edit pictures" --> "Gimp" or "I want to make a flier" -> "inkscape or scribus or XYZoffice"): My Ubuntu has "GIMP Image Editor" and "Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor" in the Applications: Graphics menu. OpenOfffice apps (and presumably Scribus Desktop Publishing) are under Office.
To me that's a lot easier to follow than $XYZ_SOFTWARE_COMPANY/$APP_NAME.
There's nothing inherently about "Illustrator" that says "vector graphics".
And users aren't going to be messing with repositories. They're going straight to Applications: Ubuntu Software Center. Click and install.
The nuttiest thing about this is that "facebook" is a common noun. It's not used in all areas as a synonym for "yearbook", but it is in some.
Before Facebook, a facebook was simply a compilation of pictures of members of a class to allow them to get to know each other.
Basically, if you have money, there is a different (self-made) law for you. It's basically might makes right, but with only the threat of violence as opposed to actual bloodshed.
>I also don't understand why you put law in quotes.
To contrast two usage of the word "law": one, rules held sacred by society and thought to have been framed on first moral principles for the betterment of all, and two, a use of violence or the threat of violence for private gain, as a manifestation of rent-seeking behavior, and brought about by bribery, whether legalized or not.
One of the stupidest aspects of copyright "law" is this:
You can't quote to refute a work. Say you think Al Gore's science is wrong, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she's talking about, or Cheney's a liar.
The best and most effective refutation would be to quote entire chapters, and refute them line-by-line or paragraph-by-paragraph.
Since your work would be possibly larger than theirs, you're not exactly just copying their work for profit. In fact quoting for refuting is probably the highest and best use for advancing the useful arts and sciences.
Yet copyright "law" can be and is used to shut down debate.
The thing is, while people have talked about the underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc., but has anybody established that punching a hole would take down the whole plane?
Didn't Mythbusters "refudiate" the notion that shooting a gun on a plane would crash it?
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He gives one example of an attempt to avoid null pointer errors in Java next:
public String getFirstName(Person person) {
return person?.getName()?.getGivenName();
}
But is it a good idea to use null to mean "no value specified"? What would be better, and what are the tradeoffs? Storing 0 or ""? Storing a special (constant/static) instance object nullValue?
He's not talking about software keyboards a la iPhone.
He's talking about Swype. It's from the same guy who invented T9.
You don't peck the softkeys. You just trace a motion through the letters of a word. E.g., "sad" would be s, left to a, right to d, without taking your finger off the screen. You don't even have to be precise; it has a dictionary, and you can add your own words. Lift your finger for a space.
Watch a video demo. Other cool stuff. It's owned by Nokia, but available for Android as well.
Has the FCC taken control of the telephone system? It's the same thing.
AT&T doesn't get to block calls originating from Google, why should they get to block Internet traffic between Google and users?
Just tried it again with Opera and gedit. Not only does the clipboard get cleared when Opera is closed, the Paste option isn't even enabled in gedit's Edit menu after Opera closing.
Assuming you closed out the entire Chromium process (and not just the window that contained the text), I'd just have to chalk it up the same Ubuntu weirdness that leads to some people having great sound and network, while others are left surfing Ubuntu Forums.
What are you running?
I just tried out the scenario above in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04).
Ctrl+C copy text from Chromium. Ctrl+V pasted it in gedit. Works.
Then close Chromium. Ctrl+V in gedit again. Nothing.
Usually this doesn't matter because you have the source app still open, but still.
One of the things I don't get about NY is the number of "former X" buildings/spaces. If the Port Authority needed a Bus Terminal (and a huge one at that), doesn't it need one now?
The "former meat-packing district": doesn't meat need to be packed anymore in New York City? Or do people just buy their meat unpacked?
And is everyone in NY just selling ads, suing people, or serving coffee anymore?
Same for all the other "formers".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables
It doens't load web bugs until you tell it to.
Fastmail.fm does the same.
Actual (most) US homes do have 240 volt service. They just use it only for the water heater and clothes dryer.
You could probably have an electrician hook up a 240 volt outlet for your car, too.
Similar to how the Constructicons combined to form Devastator, imaginary property lawyers are combining with the mob^H^H^H RIAA, and Obama's Intellectual Property Rights Task Force to form $0.
I hope they don't merge the chair right in, otherwise we'll have to say problem is intermelded with chair, keyboard, and desk!
Would it be OK with you if they also exposed the nefarious deeds of Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan and India? (Actually the deeds of the board members and CEOs of those countries, not the countries themselves.)
I think that would partially depend on whistleblowers in those countries being willing to provide Wikileaks with the raw data.
Thanks for a breath of fresh air.
It has unfortunately become a Slashdot trend to hate Oracle, even for no reason whatsoever.
1.3 bil is small potatoes for SAP.
>- Oh, man, I hope for the sake of this guy, he never takes anything and just uses it without any payment upfront. No video, no song, no book, no other mechanic's tools.
Comparing some sap to SAP is more than unfair:
-They used the copyrighted material for profit
-SAP's a huge corporation, not a small business or a sole proprietorship
-They themselves earn their profits under IP laws
-They have the ability to afford competent counsel
They did not just pick up a screwdriver to tighten a rearview mirror when a mechanic happened to be out.
Hehe, caught me. "chewn" is a word you'll find in the Urban Dictionary as opposed to Wiktionary.
What do you want to bet that serious and well-planned out crimes won't include:
Goldman Sachs UK (where to start)
Paypal UK (seizure of users' money without refund)
Microsoft UK (organized monopoly abuse)
Intel UK (organized monopoly abuse)
and anyone else who's a paymaster?
Paypal has withheld your gummy bear for 180 days. Because you accessed the gummy bear from a location other than your usual location, we will also hold your $.25 while our anti-fraud department investigates.
To increase trust in the Paypal community, verify your account. To verify, fax a recent utility bill, send your debit card PIN and a half-chewn gummy bear as a DNA sample.
Never link your "real" bank account to Paypal. Only ever link a transactional account that you only put the amount of money in that you want to transfer to Paypal, or clear it to your real account when you withdraw from Paypal.
It's sad that you have to do this, though. Once you give Paypal your bank account info, it has total access to your money.
Well, I'm a fuddy-duddy too. And I thought "blog" as a shortcut for weblog was ridiculous. I still think "webinar" is nutty. But I fight it less.
Basically I accept that, now, with publishing tools in the hands of the masses instead of copy editors, they're going to come up with their own neologisms.
There's plenty still to be done, and the community itself is the biggest critic of Linux and friends, but the GP's point is right about familiarity.
Every camera has a different way to turn the flash on/off. Somehow people manage.
A children of 5 years old can (and do) run Linux.
As to the GGP, ("I want to edit pictures" --> "Gimp" or "I want to make a flier" -> "inkscape or scribus or XYZoffice"): My Ubuntu has "GIMP Image Editor" and "Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor" in the Applications: Graphics menu. OpenOfffice apps (and presumably Scribus Desktop Publishing) are under Office.
To me that's a lot easier to follow than $XYZ_SOFTWARE_COMPANY/$APP_NAME.
There's nothing inherently about "Illustrator" that says "vector graphics".
And users aren't going to be messing with repositories. They're going straight to Applications: Ubuntu Software Center. Click and install.
The nuttiest thing about this is that "facebook" is a common noun. It's not used in all areas as a synonym for "yearbook", but it is in some.
Before Facebook, a facebook was simply a compilation of pictures of members of a class to allow them to get to know each other.
Basically, if you have money, there is a different (self-made) law for you. It's basically might makes right, but with only the threat of violence as opposed to actual bloodshed.
>I also don't understand why you put law in quotes.
To contrast two usage of the word "law": one, rules held sacred by society and thought to have been framed on first moral principles for the betterment of all, and two, a use of violence or the threat of violence for private gain, as a manifestation of rent-seeking behavior, and brought about by bribery, whether legalized or not.
who thinks he has a trademark on Face."
A friend of Templeton Peck.
One of the stupidest aspects of copyright "law" is this:
You can't quote to refute a work. Say you think Al Gore's science is wrong, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she's talking about, or Cheney's a liar.
The best and most effective refutation would be to quote entire chapters, and refute them line-by-line or paragraph-by-paragraph.
Since your work would be possibly larger than theirs, you're not exactly just copying their work for profit. In fact quoting for refuting is probably the highest and best use for advancing the useful arts and sciences.
Yet copyright "law" can be and is used to shut down debate.
The thing is, while people have talked about the underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc., but has anybody established that punching a hole would take down the whole plane?
Didn't Mythbusters "refudiate" the notion that shooting a gun on a plane would crash it?
Or is all this just theater?