First off, anyone who wanted Halo 2 has it for Xbox.
Lots of geeks would rather use a keyboard, that x-box controllers, they will pay for that.
Secondly, Halo isn't that good a game- it got a big name as a great Xbox game because Xbox had jack shit else to play.
I've worked with lots of geeks who would disagree on that.
Thirdly, noone is going to upgrade their OS just to buy a praticular game.
They have and they will, I have changed OSes just for one piece of software, and I've done so more than once. Will people pay to play and upgrade to Vista, without a doubt.
They may even levy internet connections, because of broadband being used to propagate piracy.,/p>
These levies will be justified because sales couldn't possibly go down, it must be due to digital piracy. And Congress, being indebted to the entertainment industry will once again stick it to their constituants and side with business.
Mapping the Database hierarchy directly to the java class files is not necessarily a bad thing. It becomes a bad thing when you try to load and access it.:-P Meaning that you have to be careful and consciencious about how you manipulate things and where your transaction/session boundries. The use of entity beans is the greatest offender of this, followed by hibernate abuses. At long as you do not manipulate, or perform a minimun amount of manipulation, (like inserting primary and foreign keys), within the transaction boundries. It can become very efficient, depending on the design of the database. But if you are slopppy one mistake and your performance will crater.
My gripe is when people create 2 sets of nearly identicle class hierarchies, one to map to the database, one as data transfer objects, then proceed to copy one tree to the other everytime they hit the database. The more I see stuff like that the more I wonder why not just use JDBC, or Spring JdbcTemplate.
You're getting closer with te dry-cleaner/laundrymat.
Its like paying to have your laundry done. The laundry mat was a first come, first serve basis. Now the cleaner give first priority to dry cleaning customers, so for every load of laundry they do, they do 4 loads of dry cleaning. Sure some of the laundry customers aren't going to get their laundry done, but the cleaner still charges them because their laundry was still taking up space.
People are paying for 6 Mb of bandwith and Verizon is giving them the full 6 Mb of bandwidth to THEIR servers, but reducing the bandwidt to Google's servers by lowering he QOS.
They justify this because they do not guarentee 6 Mb of bandwidth, only upto 6 Mb. The 6 Mb is contengent on a lot of other conditions. Verizon is then using the loophole of other conditions to set the conditions so that their services has priority.
Having a company that's willing to pay for training is nice, it really is.
But the reality is its your career and your responsibility. My first job was with a company that gave a little training to programmers. Most of them griped and complained that they weren't getting enough training. Which was almost true, they had enough training to get started, but they weren't getting nearly enough experience. A few of us took some personal initative and developed useful skills. We actually studied things beyond basic CS. When everybody finally bailed or was laid off, those of us who studied got jobs as engineers and systems admins. The others ended up testers
You need to distinguish between war and colonization. It might help too if you learn what Trade, and Business mean. The British empire was not built on war. The British went to war only to defend it. If you know your history, as you claim, you will know that Napoleon contemptuously referred to the British as a "nation of shopkeepers". Well, they sure thrashed him!
They also went to war with China because they wanted the right to sell Opium which was certainly not defensive.
That is the EXACT SAME argument made by people who violate copyright laws. So the argument goes, if someone wasn't going to pay for the right to use it, you cannot suffer a loss if they use it without paying for the right. Therefore, according to your argument, there is no loss associated with such copyright violation.
But one boils down to using somebody else's labor without compensation the other one doesn't. I think its great to have people working for me I don't have to pay.
Access control was always used as a measure to disallow works from being copied without the consent of the author/owner. The Library of Alexandria (a.k.a. "The Kings Library") was not a place that an average person could walk into and borrow a book from. Ptolemy III paid the sum of fifteen talents of silver to be allowed to copy the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
I understand that the copyright sytem is out of balance, but the entire system doesn't need to be thrown out. Author's life +70 years is outrageous. That's not what I was arguing about.
My point was copyright grants the author controll over his or her works, and they, as opposed to some twit who happens to accquire it, has the freedom to choose whether or not its distributed.
With the system that is in place now, (In the US), everything you write it automatically copywrited by you. You do not have to take any direct action to create the copywrite.
Any books out there that are free of copywrite are free because they have either been around for a very long time, or because the author or copywrite holder has taken action to place the book or whatever in the "Public Domain". This is a choice that the creator is free to make, as opposed to a choice that is made by someone else.
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Laptop + Lan Party.
Both, they love Halo and they other stuff like SSX tricky, XBox edition. And some other platform games, DOA Beach Volley Ball?
Personally I would rather ditch the console entirely than buy an XBox or a Nintendo.
Lots of geeks would rather use a keyboard, that x-box controllers, they will pay for that.
I've worked with lots of geeks who would disagree on that.
They have and they will, I have changed OSes just for one piece of software, and I've done so more than once. Will people pay to play and upgrade to Vista, without a doubt.
And watch the govt levy more taxes against recording/digital media.
http://www.virtualrecordings.com/ahra.htm Section 1003 - Section 1008They may even levy internet connections, because of broadband being used to propagate piracy.,/p>
These levies will be justified because sales couldn't possibly go down, it must be due to digital piracy. And Congress, being indebted to the entertainment industry will once again stick it to their constituants and side with business.
VHS, the superior technology because I don't like getting up in the middle of a movie to change tapes. :-P
A problem Sony evetually fixed, but by that time it was to late.
Virgin, how much you wanna bet Richard Branson was backing this?
Talk's cheap show me the silicon, and show it to me at a price I can afford.
Maybe the new chip will be out in time for Amiga OS 4.
This isn't just a Java problem.
Mapping the Database hierarchy directly to the java class files is not necessarily a bad thing. It becomes a bad thing when you try to load and access it. :-P Meaning that you have to be careful and consciencious about how you manipulate things and where your transaction/session boundries. The use of entity beans is the greatest offender of this, followed by hibernate abuses. At long as you do not manipulate, or perform a minimun amount of manipulation, (like inserting primary and foreign keys), within the transaction boundries. It can become very efficient, depending on the design of the database. But if you are slopppy one mistake and your performance will crater.
My gripe is when people create 2 sets of nearly identicle class hierarchies, one to map to the database, one as data transfer objects, then proceed to copy one tree to the other everytime they hit the database. The more I see stuff like that the more I wonder why not just use JDBC, or Spring JdbcTemplate.
I never claimed that they were a public works.
You're getting closer with te dry-cleaner/laundrymat.
Its like paying to have your laundry done. The laundry mat was a first come, first serve basis. Now the cleaner give first priority to dry cleaning customers, so for every load of laundry they do, they do 4 loads of dry cleaning. Sure some of the laundry customers aren't going to get their laundry done, but the cleaner still charges them because their laundry was still taking up space.
BZZZT! these car/public works analogies suck.
People are paying for 6 Mb of bandwith and Verizon is giving them the full 6 Mb of bandwidth to THEIR servers, but reducing the bandwidt to Google's servers by lowering he QOS.
They justify this because they do not guarentee 6 Mb of bandwidth, only upto 6 Mb. The 6 Mb is contengent on a lot of other conditions. Verizon is then using the loophole of other conditions to set the conditions so that their services has priority.
And when she lists this job on her application to take the bar, she might just get rejected outright for advocating criminal behavior.
You may be the only person here who actually uses an XP Home.
I thought the mother of all security holes was the buffer overflow error in finger and sendmail daemons.
But will their toothpicks include a root kit?
Having a company that's willing to pay for training is nice, it really is.
But the reality is its your career and your responsibility. My first job was with a company that gave a little training to programmers. Most of them griped and complained that they weren't getting enough training. Which was almost true, they had enough training to get started, but they weren't getting nearly enough experience. A few of us took some personal initative and developed useful skills. We actually studied things beyond basic CS. When everybody finally bailed or was laid off, those of us who studied got jobs as engineers and systems admins. The others ended up testers
You mean Apple should be using an ancient, machine cripplling hack that was obsolete more than 20 years ago?
If you've dealt with any other hardware would know how really bad and crippled the PC is thanks to legacy compatibility of the bios.
NTP will probably try to have their patents amended to include the workarounds.
I've met some plenty of people with CS degrees who couldn't code.
The could talk OS theory, and tell me about OO compiler design, but they still couldn't code.
And thanks to Microsoft we have email viruses.
As has been restated many times, the rootkit installs even if you do NOT agree to the EULA so the limit on damages and location are not applicable.
That was kind of the point. Except I would say it would be more like the US declaring war on Columbia so we could protect our Meth exports. :-D
There was nothing defensive about the East India Company or the Opium War.
They also went to war with China because they wanted the right to sell Opium which was certainly not defensive.
N00B,
i have a copy of Conan that has been around for more than 20 years. :-P
But one boils down to using somebody else's labor without compensation the other one doesn't. I think its great to have people working for me I don't have to pay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#History_of_ copyright/
I understand that the copyright sytem is out of balance, but the entire system doesn't need to be thrown out. Author's life +70 years is outrageous. That's not what I was arguing about.
My point was copyright grants the author controll over his or her works, and they, as opposed to some twit who happens to accquire it, has the freedom to choose whether or not its distributed.
With the system that is in place now, (In the US), everything you write it automatically copywrited by you. You do not have to take any direct action to create the copywrite.
Any books out there that are free of copywrite are free because they have either been around for a very long time, or because the author or copywrite holder has taken action to place the book or whatever in the "Public Domain". This is a choice that the creator is free to make, as opposed to a choice that is made by someone else.