This is a good idea, but it is hard to get people to cooperate. Like the famous Prisoner's Dilemma, while cooperation is the best bet from all parties, for an individual, plea bargaining is the logical choice. The system can easily handle one person deciding not to play the game. Okay, it's not quite the same as the prisoner's dilemma since if everyone else takes the plea bargain it makes sense for you to do so, but sadly people aren't perfect logicians.
Oh stop using the word terrorism unless you're talking about a non-government group using terror in order to achieve a political objective. If you can't explain why something is wrong without labelling it as something it's not then I'll assume you're just trying to imply guilt by association.
Maybe not, but as a less serious dev, I use it all the time for commercial applications. Not everything needs texturing any more complex than drawing a few points and applying a texture. Typically if you throw this into a display list, you'll get performance matching any other method.
My big beef with GLES2.0 is that there's no simple transform stack equivalent. In 1.3 you just need to call glRotate(), and glTranslate and this is enough for nearly all your models. To do the same operation in 2.0 you need to set up a shader, compile it, link it, and assign the attributes, which is in itself a lot more work, and has a lot more points of failure. But the real problem is that there's no utility functions in the spec that will create your matrix.
If you want to do cool effects then this is great! Most of the time you're drawing fixed objects with relatively simple texturing.
The search itself has been for a while. In fact the result sets were often pretty similar.
Google is better though. If, for example I type in "cinema times", google will tell me what movies are on and each is a link to a list of cinemas.
The other thing I find better is many of Google's tools. Bing's maps are actually pretty good, although I think Open Streetmap has advantages over both. Bing Translate is terrible, assuming the results are the same as those facebook gives me. I have Swedish friends. I don't speak Swedish. Translating in Google produces recognisably English sentences 9 times out of 10. Bing frequently fails on a lot of words.
This is one of the reasons why face and hand transplants are a little controversial. The drugs have side effects - mainly the hugely weakened immune system - so when it's about quality of life rather than the difference between life and death it's a lot harder to argue for the operation.
I think this is just a warning that the person they're dealing with is someone with an agenda.
The consequence is that they have to deal with an unbalanced idiot with an agenda. TSA sent the warning because if they can't dissuade the journalist from dealing with this guy then they have to deal indirectly with an unbalanced idiot with an agenda as well.
If I leave my MP3 collection on an unsecure FTP site - can I be sued for that?
Good question. Although it's not so much breaking the law as violating their exclusive legal rights. Only the copyright holder may distribute copies
It seems that merely making available isn't infringement (unless there have been other court decisions to contradict that). So the copyright holder would need to prove that something was downloaded. This is a civil suit, so the standards of proof are lower than a criminal prosecution, but I suspect this would still be hard for them.
They'd probably also need to prove that you did this deliberately. If they had repeatedly contacted you to inform you of the unsecured FTP server, they could argue this was deliberate.
Since it's not deliberate, the person they should sue is the person who did act deliberately. I don't think there's any precedent for negligently allowing copyright infringement.
What if I leave my car door unlocked so someone can steal my CDs?
This is one of those cases where it's important to distinguish between copyright and theft. The record company has no title to those CDs, so has no grounds to sue. No copy was made. Your rights (ownership) have been violated. While this is typically dealt with by the police and criminal law system, I believe you could sue the thief.
I prefer Real world names over numbers. Doesn't have to be anything too esoteric. City names will do. Or animal names.
It's just a lot easier to remember that Chicago or panther has a problem than S391 has a problem. Or was it S319? If sequence matters, then go in alphabetical order.
Of course, there's often a need to distinguish between different types of computers. Use another naming scheme. Countries, mountains, types of cheese. Doesn't really matter.
I'd encourage using facebook's terms and conditions as the reason not to give out your password.
"You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."
It's not ideal. The administration shouldn't ask in the first place, but it's a means you can employ to protect your privacy.
Well, okay, and I agree I'm glad it was a failure for this reason. From a business point of view though, allowing small shops to offer video rentals without having to deal with getting them back makes a certain amount of sense.
What part of you don't OWN anything just refuses to get through anyone's head around here?
You do. You own a copy. You don't licence it. It's yours.
You don't have the right to copy it but that has nothing to do with ownership of the copy. This is a legal restriction whereby copyright law gives exclusive rights to copy to the copyright holder.
You can do want you want within within the law. You can watch it, you can watch scenes out of order. You can watch it with friends and you can even sell it on. No licence agreement can prevent any of this because none of this involves making a copy.
The self destructing DVDs weren't a terrible idea. It allowed a rental model without having to return them. This would have made it a consumer convenience.
The problem is public acceptance. I think people have a natural belief that the cost of buying something is related to the cost to make it. If they can buy exactly the same thing for less, but they're paying extra to have it not be deliberately sabotaged. Even if they do understand the business model it's hard to shake this feeling of being fleeced.
What can Flickr do to investigate? They have no way of knowing who the copyright holder is. It may well be that someone else took that photo, and that he was reposting it without permission.
Yes, because if we see something on Slashdot - a website, allegedly run by technically minded people, we can't expect them to provide a link for us can we?
I think it means he's not going to change his mind, but doesn't feel he can change my mind. Which is reasonable. I doubt either of us feel that strongly about this point.
I don't think he's a troll. This strikes me as more of a "somebody is wrong on the internet" type reaction.
However you look at it, I don't consider it arrogance to suggest that his contributions are nothing major. Unless there's some particular ingenious aspect to these applications, he's not done anything that I wouldn't expect any engineer I've worked with to be capable of. And I and Hatta are far from alone in this opinion.
Calling him "one of the finest engineers" on the basis of these contributions seems to be overstating things a little. I certainly wouldn't put him at the same level as those working in fields such as compiler design, kernel development and cryptography, where we see some really fine engineering.
Have you bothered to have a look at the list of things he's written?
I'm sure those are all useful, but if they're considered fantastic feats of open source engineering then the open source community is really in trouble.
Now, please tell us all about the amazing stuff you've contributed to the community.
I don't think one needs to have any specific qualification to question the accuracy of "one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement", any more than someone needs to be tall to question a statement that a moderately tall man is one of the tallest in the world.
This is terrible. There are already laws in place to prevent the "anti-social" aspects of what these guys did. They were arrested and charged with these crimes (a caution does count as a conviction). Every urban explorer knows this is a risk.
ASBOs are meant to deal with anti social behaviour that isn't actually criminal. The only "anti-social" aspect of their behaviour was the illegal part.
Plenty of legacy C++ in the finance industry. Heaps of jobs advertised want Boost, and last time I was interviewed for a position (at Bloomberg) they were interested in my C++ skills.
Not all niche hardware is small scale ARM based. A lot of it is based on Windows or Unix powered by a pretty standard desktop PC. Digital billboards, large touch screens. Things like that.
Do I take it then, that you don't use stl that much?
Here's a construct that I used today:
map<string, vector<string> >
If I want to iterate through this, I need to create a variable of type
map<string, vector<string> >::const_iterator
. Since I'm not totally sure of the exact type of my map, I need to find out where it's declared and copy that. If I then change that vector to a list, I need to change every iterator that uses that. Okay, I should probably use a typedef, but since I'm going to be using it in a statement along the lines of
for(auto it = my_map.begin(); it != my_map.end(); ++it) { print(it->key()); }
It should be pretty obvious from context what the type is. We know begin() returns an iterator.
Can see this being useful inside templates as well, and for splitting up complex calculations.
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This is a good idea, but it is hard to get people to cooperate. Like the famous Prisoner's Dilemma, while cooperation is the best bet from all parties, for an individual, plea bargaining is the logical choice. The system can easily handle one person deciding not to play the game. Okay, it's not quite the same as the prisoner's dilemma since if everyone else takes the plea bargain it makes sense for you to do so, but sadly people aren't perfect logicians.
Oh stop using the word terrorism unless you're talking about a non-government group using terror in order to achieve a political objective. If you can't explain why something is wrong without labelling it as something it's not then I'll assume you're just trying to imply guilt by association.
Maybe not, but as a less serious dev, I use it all the time for commercial applications. Not everything needs texturing any more complex than drawing a few points and applying a texture. Typically if you throw this into a display list, you'll get performance matching any other method.
My big beef with GLES2.0 is that there's no simple transform stack equivalent. In 1.3 you just need to call glRotate(), and glTranslate and this is enough for nearly all your models. To do the same operation in 2.0 you need to set up a shader, compile it, link it, and assign the attributes, which is in itself a lot more work, and has a lot more points of failure. But the real problem is that there's no utility functions in the spec that will create your matrix.
If you want to do cool effects then this is great! Most of the time you're drawing fixed objects with relatively simple texturing.
The search itself has been for a while. In fact the result sets were often pretty similar.
Google is better though. If, for example I type in "cinema times", google will tell me what movies are on and each is a link to a list of cinemas.
The other thing I find better is many of Google's tools. Bing's maps are actually pretty good, although I think Open Streetmap has advantages over both. Bing Translate is terrible, assuming the results are the same as those facebook gives me. I have Swedish friends. I don't speak Swedish. Translating in Google produces recognisably English sentences 9 times out of 10. Bing frequently fails on a lot of words.
This is one of the reasons why face and hand transplants are a little controversial. The drugs have side effects - mainly the hugely weakened immune system - so when it's about quality of life rather than the difference between life and death it's a lot harder to argue for the operation.
I think this is just a warning that the person they're dealing with is someone with an agenda.
The consequence is that they have to deal with an unbalanced idiot with an agenda. TSA sent the warning because if they can't dissuade the journalist from dealing with this guy then they have to deal indirectly with an unbalanced idiot with an agenda as well.
If I leave my MP3 collection on an unsecure FTP site - can I be sued for that?
Good question. Although it's not so much breaking the law as violating their exclusive legal rights. Only the copyright holder may distribute copies
It seems that merely making available isn't infringement (unless there have been other court decisions to contradict that). So the copyright holder would need to prove that something was downloaded. This is a civil suit, so the standards of proof are lower than a criminal prosecution, but I suspect this would still be hard for them.
They'd probably also need to prove that you did this deliberately. If they had repeatedly contacted you to inform you of the unsecured FTP server, they could argue this was deliberate.
Since it's not deliberate, the person they should sue is the person who did act deliberately. I don't think there's any precedent for negligently allowing copyright infringement.
What if I leave my car door unlocked so someone can steal my CDs?
This is one of those cases where it's important to distinguish between copyright and theft. The record company has no title to those CDs, so has no grounds to sue. No copy was made. Your rights (ownership) have been violated. While this is typically dealt with by the police and criminal law system, I believe you could sue the thief.
I prefer Real world names over numbers. Doesn't have to be anything too esoteric. City names will do. Or animal names.
It's just a lot easier to remember that Chicago or panther has a problem than S391 has a problem. Or was it S319? If sequence matters, then go in alphabetical order.
Of course, there's often a need to distinguish between different types of computers. Use another naming scheme. Countries, mountains, types of cheese. Doesn't really matter.
Connection to 4.8.15.16:42 failed. Error 23. Host lost
It's not ideal. The administration shouldn't ask in the first place, but it's a means you can employ to protect your privacy.
Well, okay, and I agree I'm glad it was a failure for this reason. From a business point of view though, allowing small shops to offer video rentals without having to deal with getting them back makes a certain amount of sense.
What part of you don't OWN anything just refuses to get through anyone's head around here?
You do. You own a copy. You don't licence it. It's yours.
You don't have the right to copy it but that has nothing to do with ownership of the copy. This is a legal restriction whereby copyright law gives exclusive rights to copy to the copyright holder.
You can do want you want within within the law. You can watch it, you can watch scenes out of order. You can watch it with friends and you can even sell it on. No licence agreement can prevent any of this because none of this involves making a copy.
The self destructing DVDs weren't a terrible idea. It allowed a rental model without having to return them. This would have made it a consumer convenience.
The problem is public acceptance. I think people have a natural belief that the cost of buying something is related to the cost to make it. If they can buy exactly the same thing for less, but they're paying extra to have it not be deliberately sabotaged. Even if they do understand the business model it's hard to shake this feeling of being fleeced.
What can Flickr do to investigate? They have no way of knowing who the copyright holder is. It may well be that someone else took that photo, and that he was reposting it without permission.
Yes, because if we see something on Slashdot - a website, allegedly run by technically minded people, we can't expect them to provide a link for us can we?
I think it means he's not going to change his mind, but doesn't feel he can change my mind. Which is reasonable. I doubt either of us feel that strongly about this point.
I don't think he's a troll. This strikes me as more of a "somebody is wrong on the internet" type reaction.
However you look at it, I don't consider it arrogance to suggest that his contributions are nothing major. Unless there's some particular ingenious aspect to these applications, he's not done anything that I wouldn't expect any engineer I've worked with to be capable of. And I and Hatta are far from alone in this opinion.
Calling him "one of the finest engineers" on the basis of these contributions seems to be overstating things a little. I certainly wouldn't put him at the same level as those working in fields such as compiler design, kernel development and cryptography, where we see some really fine engineering.
Have you bothered to have a look at the list of things he's written?
I'm sure those are all useful, but if they're considered fantastic feats of open source engineering then the open source community is really in trouble.
Now, please tell us all about the amazing stuff you've contributed to the community.
I don't think one needs to have any specific qualification to question the accuracy of "one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement", any more than someone needs to be tall to question a statement that a moderately tall man is one of the tallest in the world.
Nobody claims that poster is "one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement" or anything else.
This is terrible. There are already laws in place to prevent the "anti-social" aspects of what these guys did. They were arrested and charged with these crimes (a caution does count as a conviction). Every urban explorer knows this is a risk.
ASBOs are meant to deal with anti social behaviour that isn't actually criminal. The only "anti-social" aspect of their behaviour was the illegal part.
Plenty of legacy C++ in the finance industry. Heaps of jobs advertised want Boost, and last time I was interviewed for a position (at Bloomberg) they were interested in my C++ skills.
Not all niche hardware is small scale ARM based. A lot of it is based on Windows or Unix powered by a pretty standard desktop PC. Digital billboards, large touch screens. Things like that.
Who cares about C++ these days?
The games industry, the financial software industry, and most companies developing niche hardware.
It pretty simple why you would use iterators.
Well, we're using iterators all over the place in the rest of the code. If you're in an iterator mindset, It's nice to keep using the same idiom.
Here's a construct that I used today:
If I want to iterate through this, I need to create a variable of type
. Since I'm not totally sure of the exact type of my map, I need to find out where it's declared and copy that. If I then change that vector to a list, I need to change every iterator that uses that. Okay, I should probably use a typedef, but since I'm going to be using it in a statement along the lines of
It should be pretty obvious from context what the type is. We know begin() returns an iterator.
Can see this being useful inside templates as well, and for splitting up complex calculations.
I did read the article. Since I'm speculating that the article may be wrong, relying it as a source for its own accuracy would be a little odd.
Maybe I'm wrong. What Australian website did they use? How did they persuade someone to pay for a car, sight unseen? How does the scam work?