We don't need unions for programmers... We have it pretty good already. As many others have noted, a union will most likely encourage mediocrity and stop rewarding individuals that excel.
However, we do need more representation at the government level.. i.e., lobbyists. We need to prevent the rampant abuses of the H1-B visa system, and get rid of tax breaks for companies that ship more and more jobs out of the country. I believe wholeheartedly in capitalism, so companies should be free to go after whatever labor pool they think will work best for them. BUT - we should certainly not be rewarding companies with tax breaks for taking jobs away from citizens and shifting them to other countries. If anything, we should be rewarding companies that create jobs in this country.
The corporations have their own lobbyists, and spend millions of dollars each year to ensure that they can treat their employees like crap and hire cheap foreign labor. The employees need their own representation to balance the equation.
Reminds me of the Futurama episode where they're in an arcade and one person is playing Skee-Ball, beside them is someone playing Virtual Skee-Ball, and beside them is someone sitting down playing Virtual Virtual Skee-Ball...
That said, I think the potential for internet beer pong could make this worthwhile...:)
So... If someone is going to take the time to reverse-engineer a program to develop a key generator, why not just remove the code that checks for the registration key altogether?
I guess that the crack would have to be redone for every future release of the program, and maybe keys generated with the keygen might last for a few future versions of the program.
Still, it seems to me that it would be every bit as "challenging" to develop a crack for a program, rather than a keygen. And that's supposedly the rationale everyone cites for doing it, right? "The challenge"? It's not about stealing, it's about the challenge of hacking the code?
Seems to me there is little justification that someone could have for writing keygens. Even cracks are hardly justifiable... What's more challenging: cracking someone else's code or creating something useful for people?
Now, I like poker, and I have some respect for the people that are able to play at the championship level... But it sickens me that it is being broadcast on ESPN. Since when is poker a sport? Of course, I don't think billiards belongs on ESPN either, but that's another issue. Is there such a shortage of real sporting events that they have to put card games on? I'd rather see highlights from the previous day's sports if nothing else...
How do you think a diesel engine works? It mixes fuel and air, then compresses it to the point where it explodes... See for yourself here... Now, diesel fuel won't ignite with a match, etc, but that's a different issue.
This might be akin to making water boil at room temperature by lowering the pressure, or making CO2 exist as a liquid by adjusting the temperature/pressure of the environment it's in. Sure, the temperature may be insanely high, but if you have even more insanely high pressure (from its own gravitational field), perhaps it's sufficient to cause the phase change into bose-einstein condensate.
I wonder how they'd like to get 50 million emails & phone calls telling them to go fsck themselves...
Re:Barratry, anyone? Extortion?
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Well, IANAL, but it seems to me that if SCO sent out all those invoices on completely baseless claims, that's mail fraud... 1000s and 1000s of instances of mail fraud... Enough to land some people in federal prison...
I can hear the judge now...
"In light of the senselessness of these heinous crimes that you have committed, I hereby sentence you to a term of no less than 4 years in a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison. Darl McBride, you've lead a trite and meaningless life. You're a very bad person."
Actually -- it was someone in their suburban house, sweating because they don't have air conditioning, that decided that they could make things seem cool by plugging in a Dancing Santa.
I remember seeing something on tv once (so it must be true) that talked about how a doctor had been sentenced to death by guillotine. As his last 'experiment', he told a friend that he was going to blink as many times as he could after he was decapitated. I think he was able to blink something like a dozen times...
I guess we just need to bring back public hangings. Hell, they could broadcast them on tv and, with the money they'd make from selling ads, cover the cost of harvesting the organs afterward...
Because hospitals are too afraid of being sued by the families if they take the organs anyway. Personally, I think it's disgusting that a family would ignore a person's request like that, and that our legal system is screwed up enough that a lawsuit would probably prevail in such a case...
If I understand the article correctly, this would be possible using the new metadata features, so then a "tool" could generate the getters & setters.
That said, having it built into the language directly, so you didn't have to rely on a "tool" to generate them would be certainly be more convenient. Maybe they're holding back features so they have something for the 2.0 version of the language...;)
This is perhaps the most intelligent post in response to the article. No partisan propaganda, just a logical, well thought-out idea.
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... Or the episode where Springfield is overrun with lizards, and Principal Skinner suggests they unleash wave after wave of creatures to prey on the previous waves...
I had a soyo motherboard once, way back in the cyrix p200 days... It sucked sucked sucked... What a piece of junk!
That was the last motherboard I bought strictly on price. Now it's nothing but asus and abit boards for me. They're more expensive, but at least they work right!
Amen! If Netscape had made a better browser, people would have used it. Period. And Netscape 6 is carrying on the tradition of being a slow, bug-ridden piece of crap. If IE were ported to Linux, I doubt it would take very long before it became the dominant browser there, too. It's just a better product.
Ditto the comments about other people competing with Microsoft too! MS is not perfect by any means, and it is obviously possible to make a better product and compete with them.
I used Netscape for a LONG time before finally switching to IE. I decided that I had been using an inferior product for no other reason than it wasn't MS. So I switched and now use the superior product, and will continue to do so until a better one comes along.
it was worth a few bucks to read it, but...
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I liked the book overall, but I wouldn't say it "blew my mind" or anything. I had read some comments about it prior to shelling out the $4.95 and it sounded like I was in store for some kind of profound mind-blowing experience. I'll admit some of the concepts were a little novel, but not much beyond things that I hadn't already thought of at one time or another. It was neat seeing them all in one place, in a story setting.
If you like the book, I would also recommend getting The Celestine Prophecy (can't think of the author at the moment). It can be a little preachy at times, but overall has some very neat ideas in it.
Okay, we could spend a lot of time and resources figuring out exactly *who* is responisble for the attacks, and we should. But that should not delay our retaliation...
We should commit all necessary resources to tracking down and executing EVERY known terrorist and terrorist sympathizer (for lack of a better phrase) in the world.
This is something that will have to be done eventually anyway. It's just a matter of who has the resolve to do it. And we, as Americans, need to send a clear message to would-be terrorists that they can absolutely not get away with this.
That's my rational solution to the problem...
Now what I'd REALLY like to see happen is the terrorists caught, publicly tortured mercilessly, then gruesomely executed.
Then do the same to their families.
Then do the same to their friends.
Then do the same to everyone they've ever known.
And don't stop until the body count is 10x the number that were killed by these bastards.
But of course that's not the rational solution, although I doubt many Americans would be upset if such a thing were implemented.
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We don't need unions for programmers... We have it pretty good already. As many others have noted, a union will most likely encourage mediocrity and stop rewarding individuals that excel.
However, we do need more representation at the government level.. i.e., lobbyists. We need to prevent the rampant abuses of the H1-B visa system, and get rid of tax breaks for companies that ship more and more jobs out of the country. I believe wholeheartedly in capitalism, so companies should be free to go after whatever labor pool they think will work best for them. BUT - we should certainly not be rewarding companies with tax breaks for taking jobs away from citizens and shifting them to other countries. If anything, we should be rewarding companies that create jobs in this country.
The corporations have their own lobbyists, and spend millions of dollars each year to ensure that they can treat their employees like crap and hire cheap foreign labor. The employees need their own representation to balance the equation.
Reminds me of the Futurama episode where they're in an arcade and one person is playing Skee-Ball, beside them is someone playing Virtual Skee-Ball, and beside them is someone sitting down playing Virtual Virtual Skee-Ball...
:)
That said, I think the potential for internet beer pong could make this worthwhile...
So... If someone is going to take the time to reverse-engineer a program to develop a key generator, why not just remove the code that checks for the registration key altogether?
I guess that the crack would have to be redone for every future release of the program, and maybe keys generated with the keygen might last for a few future versions of the program.
Still, it seems to me that it would be every bit as "challenging" to develop a crack for a program, rather than a keygen. And that's supposedly the rationale everyone cites for doing it, right? "The challenge"? It's not about stealing, it's about the challenge of hacking the code?
Seems to me there is little justification that someone could have for writing keygens. Even cracks are hardly justifiable... What's more challenging: cracking someone else's code or creating something useful for people?
Now, I like poker, and I have some respect for the people that are able to play at the championship level... But it sickens me that it is being broadcast on ESPN. Since when is poker a sport? Of course, I don't think billiards belongs on ESPN either, but that's another issue. Is there such a shortage of real sporting events that they have to put card games on? I'd rather see highlights from the previous day's sports if nothing else...
Forget that! Get one of those old school 6-foot dishes... I wonder what the gain on that puppy would be! :)
How do you think a diesel engine works? It mixes fuel and air, then compresses it to the point where it explodes... See for yourself here... Now, diesel fuel won't ignite with a match, etc, but that's a different issue.
This might be akin to making water boil at room temperature by lowering the pressure, or making CO2 exist as a liquid by adjusting the temperature/pressure of the environment it's in. Sure, the temperature may be insanely high, but if you have even more insanely high pressure (from its own gravitational field), perhaps it's sufficient to cause the phase change into bose-einstein condensate.
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I wonder how they'd like to get 50 million emails & phone calls telling them to go fsck themselves...
Well, IANAL, but it seems to me that if SCO sent out all those invoices on completely baseless claims, that's mail fraud... 1000s and 1000s of instances of mail fraud... Enough to land some people in federal prison...
I can hear the judge now...
"In light of the senselessness of these heinous crimes that you have committed, I hereby sentence you to a term of no less than 4 years in a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison. Darl McBride, you've lead a trite and meaningless life. You're a very bad person."
:)
What is the threshold that is considered "high temperature" for HTS? Nitrogen cooled? Or are we still talking helium cooled?
In case anyone is wondering what I'm talking about... :)
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Actually -- it was someone in their suburban house, sweating because they don't have air conditioning, that decided that they could make things seem cool by plugging in a Dancing Santa.
I remember seeing something on tv once (so it must be true) that talked about how a doctor had been sentenced to death by guillotine. As his last 'experiment', he told a friend that he was going to blink as many times as he could after he was decapitated. I think he was able to blink something like a dozen times...
I guess we just need to bring back public hangings. Hell, they could broadcast them on tv and, with the money they'd make from selling ads, cover the cost of harvesting the organs afterward...
Because hospitals are too afraid of being sued by the families if they take the organs anyway. Personally, I think it's disgusting that a family would ignore a person's request like that, and that our legal system is screwed up enough that a lawsuit would probably prevail in such a case...
If I understand the article correctly, this would be possible using the new metadata features, so then a "tool" could generate the getters & setters.
;)
That said, having it built into the language directly, so you didn't have to rely on a "tool" to generate them would be certainly be more convenient. Maybe they're holding back features so they have something for the 2.0 version of the language...
This is perhaps the most intelligent post in response to the article. No partisan propaganda, just a logical, well thought-out idea.
... Or the episode where Springfield is overrun with lizards, and Principal Skinner suggests they unleash wave after wave of creatures to prey on the previous waves...
Another case of life imitating art...
"Sure, sure... I'll just type it up on my invisible typewriter..."
I had a soyo motherboard once, way back in the cyrix p200 days... It sucked sucked sucked... What a piece of junk!
That was the last motherboard I bought strictly on price. Now it's nothing but asus and abit boards for me. They're more expensive, but at least they work right!
Amen! If Netscape had made a better browser, people would have used it. Period. And Netscape 6 is carrying on the tradition of being a slow, bug-ridden piece of crap. If IE were ported to Linux, I doubt it would take very long before it became the dominant browser there, too. It's just a better product.
Ditto the comments about other people competing with Microsoft too! MS is not perfect by any means, and it is obviously possible to make a better product and compete with them.
I used Netscape for a LONG time before finally switching to IE. I decided that I had been using an inferior product for no other reason than it wasn't MS. So I switched and now use the superior product, and will continue to do so until a better one comes along.
I liked the book overall, but I wouldn't say it "blew my mind" or anything. I had read some comments about it prior to shelling out the $4.95 and it sounded like I was in store for some kind of profound mind-blowing experience. I'll admit some of the concepts were a little novel, but not much beyond things that I hadn't already thought of at one time or another. It was neat seeing them all in one place, in a story setting.
If you like the book, I would also recommend getting The Celestine Prophecy (can't think of the author at the moment). It can be a little preachy at times, but overall has some very neat ideas in it.
The game is called Prop Cycle... Very fun, and a decent workout too.
Okay, we could spend a lot of time and resources figuring out exactly *who* is responisble for the attacks, and we should. But that should not delay our retaliation...
We should commit all necessary resources to tracking down and executing EVERY known terrorist and terrorist sympathizer (for lack of a better phrase) in the world.
This is something that will have to be done eventually anyway. It's just a matter of who has the resolve to do it. And we, as Americans, need to send a clear message to would-be terrorists that they can absolutely not get away with this.
That's my rational solution to the problem...
Now what I'd REALLY like to see happen is the terrorists caught, publicly tortured mercilessly, then gruesomely executed.
Then do the same to their families.
Then do the same to their friends.
Then do the same to everyone they've ever known.
And don't stop until the body count is 10x the number that were killed by these bastards.
But of course that's not the rational solution, although I doubt many Americans would be upset if such a thing were implemented.
Actually, "Wherehouse" is correct. As in "Wherehouse Records". I always thought it was a stupid name...