When you talked about giving the police "means to charge you" I though you meant "criminal charges", the ones that get you jailed.
If you meant otherwise, I am sorry. I am not from the US, so I probably don't know enough about their legal system, other than what wikipedia and yro./. could teach me.
About talking out of my ass, as of now, I'm afraid I can't do that. I think it would be a useful skill, though. I'll see if I can learn how to do it, and I'll get back to you as soon as I get any progress.
It's not a stupid law. It's a bad law. Your explanation is a good reason to be afraid. That is the old practice of creating criminals out if thin air. Why should you go to jail because you flashed your own cellphone that you bought with your own money? Once you start giving away your freedom for nothing, it's a slippery slope ending in a bad place.
Please explain. Saddam Hussein was not armed by the UN. Iraq was not invaded by the UN. Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda before invasion, so we can safely say that Saddam Hussein is not responsible for that. I wouldn't give that much credit to the UN for helping Saddam do anything.
Well, they got themselves in their position. Tough luck they got to their position, and they lost their ability to integrate technologies. Ubuntu is better because they bundle PDF and office productivity software. If MS can't, well, tough luck. It's their fault, not the fault of their competition.
Mods on crack. What you said is the first thing that comes to mind.
If you think it through, laws of probability hit us. Most of the time, an extra minute will not impact the amount of work you do one day. Once or twice a year, 16:54 will be a better time than 16:55 to start a test/deployment cycle, and a fix for a bug will be committed one day earlier, allowing other devs to update their libraries and integrate a day earlier, possibly impacting productivity. The thing is that, while one minute a day does not add up, having one extra minute a day, in the long run, might impact productivity in and intuitively small amount.
Oracle brings lots of advantages, but only in theory. In practice, it needs more babysitting than other dbs, only the babysitters are more expensive. And most of the ones I have met rely more on black magic than actual knowledge to do their jobs. I haven't worked a lot with MySQL, but I can tell you that Oracle does not scale easily. Postgres does scale very easily, and everything is nice and easy to maintain for anyone with unix-like experience, even if you don't have certified DBAs. It has most of the extensions that Oracle has, and hooks+examples to implement your own. Heck, I even think that even MsSQL server is more reliable and scalable _in_practice_ than Oracle.
Now that we are sharing anecdotes.. I could never get any serious work done with msoffice. I knew how to do everything in WordPerfect, but msword seems nonsense to me. Accepting the fact that I need to jump through hoops just to align part of a line both to the right and the other part to the left took me years. While I was in the uni, papers with formulas on msword were a PITA. When OO came along, writing formulas became sensible, if not easy. I had tried LaTeX, but writing is not that much of a part of my life. OO seems to be familiar enough for those of us who learned with wysiwyg editors, but powerful enough or those of us who occasionally need to write more than a couple of pages.
It's never needed, if your idea of OOP is Java. Just because Java can't do it, it doesn't mean it's not OOP. There is a lot of non-OO stuff in Java, and a lot of OO that Java does not support. Like multiple inheritance. When you have a nice mix of objects, that are supposed to mix and match capabilities, of course you could use interfaces for multiple inheritance, but then you would have to encapsulate helper objects. And your constructors would look like shit. With multiple inheritance, you could make the original classes very small, and just mix and match them, all very beautiful. Of course, modern IDEs can help you with encapsulation, but constructors are awful.
Linux is not an operating system. GNU is an operating system, and Linux is its most used kernel. Most development targets GNU, specifically glibc and stuff. Without Linux, we would have other kernels, and porting would not even be necessary in some cases. Without GNU, everything would have to be rewritten, at least, for BSD.
I always thought that TinyERP was great, its only handicaps being its name, and the lack of a nice and pretty web client. Right now they have a good web client, and they changed their name to OpenERP. I have no excuse now.
Since I am practically a Marxist, I couldn't give two shits about marketing anything. I am so cynical about most things, that to see people actually care about and work for something they believe in, it makes me want to do better myself.
Probably you should stop saying you are practically a marxist, and say something more fashionable, like anarcho-capitalist or something like that. Marxists are everything but cynical. They accuse _other_ people of being cynical. You can't be cynical and keep hoping for the construction of a new world, a new man, or something like that.
And being motivated at work for a corporation is not very compatible with marxism, either. You might go to work, because you need to put food on your table, or something like that. Being motivated to benefit your exploiter is not a very marxist thing.
IANAM, BTW, but I play one on TV.
a Marxist asset, either. If it was some kind of cooperative thing, maybe.
Well, if copyright ceased at death, then killing artists would be even more in the interest of business. That is not good for the artists. I dislike copyrights for most things, and I think a good compromise would be reasonable fixed terms, like 10 years after it becomes public, and only if you register it. Right now there is no need for editorials to do the actual publishing. The only services they provide is promotion and distribution, actual publishing is cheap enough right now for authors to publish themselves.
Hmmm... maybe you replied the wrong post. I was posting in your general direction, only not so assertive, because I don't have the argumentative means, only my personal experience.
About abortion, I live in an South American country. That kind of treatment is something few can afford here. I think it comes down to money right now. The choice has to take into account whether what you can afford is a good life for the kid. It is a difficult choice, and I would understand both sides.
Everybody might have health complications. I am happy to live, even if I have thyroid dysfunction, and early graying.
Shorter lifespans are not so much of an issue. People smoke, eat a lot, and don't exercise, everyday, everywhere.
That leaves us with the central issue: the mental "retardation" problem. In my case, I wouldn't mind having a much lower IQ than I have now. Most people I know do, and they are happy. I don't think rational abilities are that much important for a good life.
I know several individuals with the syndrome, and they seem to like living a lot. They are not drooling pieces of furniture, they are real people with feelings, hopes, and limitations, just like us. It's true they never grow up, but who needs to?
I think the issue is that they don't do real work, so they can't be assured a decent living in most societies. I understand getting rid of them is the easiest solution, but I don't think it's the only one.
If you have 1 maniacal individual order a platoon of soldiers to slaughter a village, the individual human soldiers may refuse to follow the order.
If we judge from what has happened in the past in Central and South America, soldiers do not refuse to follow that kind of order. You might be wrong in that the order is neither maniacal nor individual, but it has been just part of the strategy.
Aside from that, I agree with you that robots might be even worse, if only because dead robots don't stop support for more wars, and dead soldiers do that.
Trademarks usually do not harm all those collectives you named, and some others. The big problem is that the "intellectual property" term is working here, not letting us have a good discussion of the issue.
Trademarks are the name of the thing, and contain its reputation, thus copying the name might harm the reputation. Plus, the public doesn't lose a lot when buying a "large dino" toy, instead of a an unlicensed "godzilla" toy.
Patents are a different beast, because nowadays they don't help anyone but the patent holder, and they harm lots of people by not letting them use ideas to build things, for a very long time (20 years, usually).
Copyrights are arguable, but it seems that, at least, they are too long. Here is where loss of culture happens. In my case, I could not learn OS with Bic-Shaw's OS book, because one of them was dead and they would not publish the book anymore (yes, I'm old). Copyrights were to blame for that.
So, my point is that we should not use that "ip" term, because it hinders our ability to think clearly about all these issues.
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When you talked about giving the police "means to charge you" I though you meant "criminal charges", the ones that get you jailed.
If you meant otherwise, I am sorry. I am not from the US, so I probably don't know enough about their legal system, other than what wikipedia and yro./. could teach me.
About talking out of my ass, as of now, I'm afraid I can't do that. I think it would be a useful skill, though. I'll see if I can learn how to do it, and I'll get back to you as soon as I get any progress.
It's not a stupid law. It's a bad law.
Your explanation is a good reason to be afraid.
That is the old practice of creating criminals out if thin air. Why should you go to jail because you flashed your own cellphone that you bought with your own money?
Once you start giving away your freedom for nothing, it's a slippery slope ending in a bad place.
Please explain.
Saddam Hussein was not armed by the UN.
Iraq was not invaded by the UN.
Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda before invasion, so we can safely say that Saddam Hussein is not responsible for that.
I wouldn't give that much credit to the UN for helping Saddam do anything.
Well, they got themselves in their position. Tough luck they got to their position, and they lost their ability to integrate technologies.
Ubuntu is better because they bundle PDF and office productivity software. If MS can't, well, tough luck. It's their fault, not the fault of their competition.
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3. Have a friend submit the idea to Google
Is you offer just for females?
Mods on crack. What you said is the first thing that comes to mind.
If you think it through, laws of probability hit us.
Most of the time, an extra minute will not impact the amount of work you do one day.
Once or twice a year, 16:54 will be a better time than 16:55 to start a test/deployment cycle, and a fix for a bug will be committed one day earlier, allowing other devs to update their libraries and integrate a day earlier, possibly impacting productivity.
The thing is that, while one minute a day does not add up, having one extra minute a day, in the long run, might impact productivity in and intuitively small amount.
Oracle brings lots of advantages, but only in theory.
In practice, it needs more babysitting than other dbs, only the babysitters are more expensive.
And most of the ones I have met rely more on black magic than actual knowledge to do their jobs.
I haven't worked a lot with MySQL, but I can tell you that Oracle does not scale easily.
Postgres does scale very easily, and everything is nice and easy to maintain for anyone with unix-like experience, even if you don't have certified DBAs.
It has most of the extensions that Oracle has, and hooks+examples to implement your own.
Heck, I even think that even MsSQL server is more reliable and scalable _in_practice_ than Oracle.
Now that we are sharing anecdotes..
I could never get any serious work done with msoffice. I knew how to do everything in WordPerfect, but msword seems nonsense to me.
Accepting the fact that I need to jump through hoops just to align part of a line both to the right and the other part to the left took me years.
While I was in the uni, papers with formulas on msword were a PITA. When OO came along, writing formulas became sensible, if not easy.
I had tried LaTeX, but writing is not that much of a part of my life.
OO seems to be familiar enough for those of us who learned with wysiwyg editors, but powerful enough or those of us who occasionally need to write more than a couple of pages.
Same here. Only I never thought of Gentoo as such a good idea, only messed around with LFS.
You know slashdot is not what it used to be, when the explanation for the joke is Score:5, Insightful, and the actual joke is Score:2
It's never needed, if your idea of OOP is Java.
Just because Java can't do it, it doesn't mean it's not OOP.
There is a lot of non-OO stuff in Java, and a lot of OO that Java does not support.
Like multiple inheritance.
When you have a nice mix of objects, that are supposed to mix and match capabilities, of course you could use interfaces for multiple inheritance, but then you would have to encapsulate helper objects.
And your constructors would look like shit.
With multiple inheritance, you could make the original classes very small, and just mix and match them, all very beautiful.
Of course, modern IDEs can help you with encapsulation, but constructors are awful.
Is anyone else reminded of the religous teacher confiscating a biology book from a student, and writing a letter to their pro-evolution parents?
The accurate term is normal parents.
Linux is not an operating system.
GNU is an operating system, and Linux is its most used kernel.
Most development targets GNU, specifically glibc and stuff.
Without Linux, we would have other kernels, and porting would not even be necessary in some cases.
Without GNU, everything would have to be rewritten, at least, for BSD.
I always thought that TinyERP was great, its only handicaps being its name, and the lack of a nice and pretty web client.
Right now they have a good web client, and they changed their name to OpenERP. I have no excuse now.
(sorry about that last line, an editing error)
Since I am practically a Marxist, I couldn't give two shits about marketing anything. I am so cynical about most things, that to see people actually care about and work for something they believe in, it makes me want to do better myself.
Probably you should stop saying you are practically a marxist, and say something more fashionable, like anarcho-capitalist or something like that.
Marxists are everything but cynical. They accuse _other_ people of being cynical. You can't be cynical and keep hoping for the construction of a new world, a new man, or something like that.
And being motivated at work for a corporation is not very compatible with marxism, either. You might go to work, because you need to put food on your table, or something like that. Being motivated to benefit your exploiter is not a very marxist thing.
IANAM, BTW, but I play one on TV.
a Marxist asset, either. If it was some kind of cooperative thing, maybe.
Well, if copyright ceased at death, then killing artists would be even more in the interest of business. That is not good for the artists.
I dislike copyrights for most things, and I think a good compromise would be reasonable fixed terms, like 10 years after it becomes public, and only if you register it.
Right now there is no need for editorials to do the actual publishing. The only services they provide is promotion and distribution, actual publishing is cheap enough right now for authors to publish themselves.
I am sexier than Ron Jeremy, and their mother is way hotter than I.
Aah, I love rephrased witty comments!
Hmmm... maybe you replied the wrong post.
I was posting in your general direction, only not so assertive, because I don't have the argumentative means, only my personal experience.
About abortion, I live in an South American country. That kind of treatment is something few can afford here. I think it comes down to money right now. The choice has to take into account whether what you can afford is a good life for the kid. It is a difficult choice, and I would understand both sides.
Well, if my children were not to be sexier than Ron Jeremy, I would consider abortion.
Everybody might have health complications. I am happy to live, even if I have thyroid dysfunction, and early graying.
Shorter lifespans are not so much of an issue. People smoke, eat a lot, and don't exercise, everyday, everywhere.
That leaves us with the central issue: the mental "retardation" problem.
In my case, I wouldn't mind having a much lower IQ than I have now. Most people I know do, and they are happy. I don't think rational abilities are that much important for a good life.
I know several individuals with the syndrome, and they seem to like living a lot. They are not drooling pieces of furniture, they are real people with feelings, hopes, and limitations, just like us. It's true they never grow up, but who needs to?
I think the issue is that they don't do real work, so they can't be assured a decent living in most societies. I understand getting rid of them is the easiest solution, but I don't think it's the only one.
If you have 1 maniacal individual order a platoon of soldiers to slaughter a village, the individual human soldiers may refuse to follow the order.
If we judge from what has happened in the past in Central and South America, soldiers do not refuse to follow that kind of order. You might be wrong in that the order is neither maniacal nor individual, but it has been just part of the strategy.
Aside from that, I agree with you that robots might be even worse, if only because dead robots don't stop support for more wars, and dead soldiers do that.
Trademarks usually do not harm all those collectives you named, and some others.
The big problem is that the "intellectual property" term is working here, not letting us have a good discussion of the issue.
Trademarks are the name of the thing, and contain its reputation, thus copying the name might harm the reputation. Plus, the public doesn't lose a lot when buying a "large dino" toy, instead of a an unlicensed "godzilla" toy.
Patents are a different beast, because nowadays they don't help anyone but the patent holder, and they harm lots of people by not letting them use ideas to build things, for a very long time (20 years, usually).
Copyrights are arguable, but it seems that, at least, they are too long. Here is where loss of culture happens. In my case, I could not learn OS with Bic-Shaw's OS book, because one of them was dead and they would not publish the book anymore (yes, I'm old). Copyrights were to blame for that.
So, my point is that we should not use that "ip" term, because it hinders our ability to think clearly about all these issues.