ok, the Tories aren't anywhere near the neo-cons, but really, left of the Donkey?? i can't help thinking back to the Thatcher/Reagan days when Tories & GOP seemed pretty close.
it may technically be obscurity, but it's an obscurity that's backed by legislation and the courts. and that's enough to satisfy the studios.
without DRM (however effective it is), there's no difference between downloading a web page and downloading an unprotected version of their content. IANAL, but i'm pretty sure that's not an actionable position.
you're not going to see premium content (ie movies, TV) on the web without it.
i used to do web video hosting for a major movie studio. their web distribution policy explicitly required all their content to be protected with DRM wherever it's shown on the web (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, wherever).
a DRM-free web is a (movie|tv)-free web. at least for now.
which do you think is greater, a) the number of people wanting to view/show Flash content on [your platform of choice], or b) the number of people wanting to view/show Flash content on Apple mobile devices.
i don't know about you but i prefer to be alone while i'm taking a dump, and I generally flush before opening the door. so, if someone is in there with me flushing before i leave, then i'd probably be a little pissed.
oh, the irony is thick here. dell actually has pretty good support for old operating systems - just go to their driver download page for a reasonably old system, you'll see drivers for various windows versions, OS/2, potentially linux drivers, if available, etc...
the irony here is that Sony's support for running older/newer versions of operating systems on its Viao PCs is atrocious. if you want to upgrade to the latest version of windows you'll often be met with support advice which can be summarized simply: "buy a new Viao".
Disclaimer: I used to work for Sony. I would NEVER buy another piece of hardware from them except maybe to replace my 10-year-old 7506's.
what? someone complains that the docs are bad so it's their responsibility to fix it? hey, i can see that the docs are bad, and i have NO idea what they should say - should I fix it? would you want me to fix it? NO. the GGP's complaint is valid.
err... since your ssh terminal session is all text, it's probably the thing that'll benefit most from higher resolution. assuming you're not using bitmap fonts.
yeah, there's a also a mistaken suggestion that there's a correlation between the severity of the bug and the cost of fixing it.
in general there isn't.
you might have a crashing, data-destroying bug that's trivial to fix. or you might have a minor UI annoyance that would require a complete re-write in order to fix, possibly introducing a whole slew of new bugs.
unless you have a deep understanding of the architecture of the application, there's absolutely no way to judge which class a given bug is in.
MSSQL's TIMESTAMP is non-standard. so if you're trying to port 'standard' SQL code from the mythical standard DBMS in the sky, then you've got some work cut out for you.
the problem is that there's some guy in another department that relies on that rule, but probably doesn't even know it exists - he's not an engineer, he's a user. but your rewrite goes into production and the company gets sued because that guy makes some mistake because you missed some behavior he depends on but didn't even know existed... rinse, repeat for every crazy 'WTF?' piece of code you removed.
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ok, the Tories aren't anywhere near the neo-cons, but really, left of the Donkey?? i can't help thinking back to the Thatcher/Reagan days when Tories & GOP seemed pretty close.
Hmmm... A vertical shaft containing oil. Isn't that already a blackhole?
it may technically be obscurity, but it's an obscurity that's backed by legislation and the courts. and that's enough to satisfy the studios.
without DRM (however effective it is), there's no difference between downloading a web page and downloading an unprotected version of their content. IANAL, but i'm pretty sure that's not an actionable position.
yes RTMPE is not 100% secure, but neither are banks. but that doesn't mean you just leave your cash in a pile on the sidewalk outside your house.
wait, HTML5 supports a DRM-enabled video codec?
you're not going to see premium content (ie movies, TV) on the web without it.
i used to do web video hosting for a major movie studio. their web distribution policy explicitly required all their content to be protected with DRM wherever it's shown on the web (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, wherever).
a DRM-free web is a (movie|tv)-free web. at least for now.
which do you think is greater, a) the number of people wanting to view/show Flash content on [your platform of choice], or b) the number of people wanting to view/show Flash content on Apple mobile devices.
you cannot quote fictional characters - they are incapable of writing original works.
if I quote:
I'm quoting Shakespeare, not Hamlet.
if I quote:
I'm quoting Lucas, not Yoda.
Now, certainly, Lucas is no Shakespeare, but unless quoting Shakespeare is also emotionally immature, then, well, you're full of shit.
5) "..and Boom!"
i don't know about you but i prefer to be alone while i'm taking a dump, and I generally flush before opening the door. so, if someone is in there with me flushing before i leave, then i'd probably be a little pissed.
oh, the irony is thick here. dell actually has pretty good support for old operating systems - just go to their driver download page for a reasonably old system, you'll see drivers for various windows versions, OS/2, potentially linux drivers, if available, etc...
the irony here is that Sony's support for running older/newer versions of operating systems on its Viao PCs is atrocious. if you want to upgrade to the latest version of windows you'll often be met with support advice which can be summarized simply: "buy a new Viao".
Disclaimer: I used to work for Sony. I would NEVER buy another piece of hardware from them except maybe to replace my 10-year-old 7506's.
how do you think they worked out who to put in the death camps?
what? someone complains that the docs are bad so it's their responsibility to fix it? hey, i can see that the docs are bad, and i have NO idea what they should say - should I fix it? would you want me to fix it? NO. the GGP's complaint is valid.
if they record the strength of the signal they could easily triangulate.
err... since your ssh terminal session is all text, it's probably the thing that'll benefit most from higher resolution. assuming you're not using bitmap fonts.
I prefer to look at is as half 'knee'.
of course, you should never directly refer to that directory, making its stupidity irrelevant.
you should always call SHGetKnownFolderPath to refer to special locations.
have you ever tried to build any of those apps on windows?
good luck with that.
little-endian mode, though. with all the alignment/interrupt performance issues that brought.
i just hope your boss is smart enough to know this so that once your company fails he'll warn all your potential future employers not to hire you.
yeah, there's a also a mistaken suggestion that there's a correlation between the severity of the bug and the cost of fixing it.
in general there isn't.
you might have a crashing, data-destroying bug that's trivial to fix. or you might have a minor UI annoyance that would require a complete re-write in order to fix, possibly introducing a whole slew of new bugs.
unless you have a deep understanding of the architecture of the application, there's absolutely no way to judge which class a given bug is in.
distilling the above: /can/ use sucky interfaces to it even though good ones exist.
- you
- SQL isn't strandardized
- most installers suck
easily answered:
- use the good interfaces (they exist)
- neither is anything else (useful)
- use non-sucky installers (they exist)
MSSQL's TIMESTAMP is non-standard. so if you're trying to port 'standard' SQL code from the mythical standard DBMS in the sky, then you've got some work cut out for you.
MSSQL's lock escalation isn't as efficient as Oracle's, but that doesn't make it a toy.
the problem is that there's some guy in another department that relies on that rule, but probably doesn't even know it exists - he's not an engineer, he's a user. but your rewrite goes into production and the company gets sued because that guy makes some mistake because you missed some behavior he depends on but didn't even know existed... rinse, repeat for every crazy 'WTF?' piece of code you removed.
well, you get my point.
really? aren't ISPs free to deny service to whomever they want?