Well, in this case they are using their teachers to bully each other. The question is why are the teachers entertaining them.
The teachers are convinced, for the most part, that this is all a good thing for capitalism, the economy, their chances of having a job next term. They can't be bothered with a snowballing IP crisis.
How can you stick with something you've never embraced in the first place?
Ellison goes through mood swings. He built a magnificent estate, modeled upon feudal Japanese architecture, now he's selling (or sold) it. Now he's into Yachting, we'll see how long that lasts.
for sail (ha!) one boat, used lightly, to compete in americas cup. includes dinghy, life vests and sails.
No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!
It came in through holes in Flash and Microsoft's crappy javascript interpreter. I yanked the network cable from the box, but it was too late. As I was researching what to do about the Virus Scan Pro 2000 it then tried repeatedly to launch IE to pr0n websites. Took a full weekend to repair the PC and it's never quite worked the same, since, thanks in part to Microsoft's All Your Eggs In One Basket system architecture.
Johnny probably needs motivation and opportunity to learn how to code before he worries about attaining production-quality habits. Trying to ingrain correctness from day one is why no one studies Latin and Ancient Greek any more. (And can we, as a society, really afford FORTRAN programs becoming mysterious cultural artefacts?)
My first motivation was in seeing what I could get this box to do. After that it was smartening up, learning how to be a tidy coder. Microsoft's legions of bugs and security holes tells you how emphasis is placed upon meeting delivery deadlines over quality.
The devices didn't blow up because the UL stamp was fake. They blew up because they were cheaply built pieces of crap.
The fake testing agency stamps were just the icing on the cake.
Quite an interesting bit on the BBC a few weeks back (I'm sure it's in their archives) on "innovation" in China - Once a company has made a product on contract they would retain some of that technology to make extra runs of the product - even going so far as to brazenly and proudly show their knock-offs at trade shows, completely overlooking the matters of copyrights and patents.
I recently acquired a set of Syma S107 helicopters (which are a ton of fun) and while reading a little bit more on them found there are loads of knock-offs - product, packaging, manual and accessories all copied. That's a heck of an effort just to make a duplicate. Faking CE, FCC or UL stamps isn't even icing on the cake, it's testament to their attention to detail when making a copy.
Perhaps another way of looking at it is it, some entrepeneurs are asocial - they don't mind enriching themselves at the expense of others - i.e. I'll sell "Hydrolizing Cream" to you to make money for myself, not minding that the stuff I bottle, label and sell is just a bulk cream containing lanolin and/or glycerin. If you're so stupid to buy it, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
I pretty sure PC sim rudder pedals and or steering wheel pedals can claim prior art on the "world's first foot controlled digital interface"
I'm pretty sure there are a number of effects pedals for guitars and keyboards, which incorporate processors and are highly programmable, which predate much of this by at least two decades.
"Sir, he inquires if things are quite as they seem. He wishes to seek tranquility, though is in good humour and will be pleased to visit again with you anon."
Truth in history (or at least, mythical history). Supposedly nobody made more money during the gold rush years than the shovel makers.
Looking over the settlement of California, the gold rush populated the state - failed or retired prospectors built ranches, planted orchards, built toll roads, drove stage coaches, built fishing fleets, etc. Without the Gold Rush California may not have developed anywhere near as much as it has.
>>Calling it a major release and incrementing the primary version number for what is essentially a security update is confusing to the point of making version numbers useless. This release doesn't even deserve a 4.1 IMO
Agreed.
I think the FF devs are just trying to be like Google, and use major version numbers for every minor update they conduct. Terrible, terrible.
There is such a thing as modifying the product in ways which improve efficient user interaction and use of system resources. Why shouldn't such an approach be considered a valid Full Release, rather than cramming in more "New" and unwanted/unnecessary "features"?
That's an admirable and sensible approach. What would be nice, too, is not to ship a product with all the new stuff defaulted to Enabled, a fault I continue to find with Microsoft and Google - "Hey, we like this new hack, let's foist it on our unsuspecting users and turn a deaf ear to them when they howl."
hey, that's dangerous talk there! We need thousands of new features, right now, and damn the bugs!
Don't forget that there are Pulitzer Prizes available in many categories. Should they win an award for reporting breaking news? Of course not. But they could be deserving of a prize in the Commentary, Criticism, or Editorial writing categories. And of course, there's always the fiction category.
Perhaps they can get one for being Most Onionesque
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Well, in this case they are using their teachers to bully each other. The question is why are the teachers entertaining them.
The teachers are convinced, for the most part, that this is all a good thing for capitalism, the economy, their chances of having a job next term. They can't be bothered with a snowballing IP crisis.
I'd like to see them just adopt Google's re-write of the javascript interpreter. That alone would be a vast improvement.
How can you stick with something you've never embraced in the first place?
Ellison goes through mood swings. He built a magnificent estate, modeled upon feudal Japanese architecture, now he's selling (or sold) it. Now he's into Yachting, we'll see how long that lasts.
for sail (ha!) one boat, used lightly, to compete in americas cup. includes dinghy, life vests and sails.
"It's better than a sharp stick in the eye, walking on hot coals and being eaten alive by a Burmese Python of unusual size ... just."
No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!
Nonsense, it's just a flesh wound.
I hope this isn't another service which may impair other devices working in the 2.4GHz range. That's got to be a strong signal.
We are not free but slaves of puritanism...
This is a major victory for News Delivered Through Video Games, no matter how bad the news is!
"He said Windows is the most abhorrent piece of junk he's ever had to deal with."
"Perhaps we'll have to insert some 'noise' into his conversations."
"He also said Microsoft are a load of idiots and couldn't get anything right if their lives depended upon it."
"maybe we'll have to drop his connections or introduce some 'net lag'"
"He said working with his lap top is about as excruciating as trying to hammer out a budget deal with the Republicans in the House."
"clearly he doesn't deserve a priority channel..."
It came in through holes in Flash and Microsoft's crappy javascript interpreter. I yanked the network cable from the box, but it was too late. As I was researching what to do about the Virus Scan Pro 2000 it then tried repeatedly to launch IE to pr0n websites. Took a full weekend to repair the PC and it's never quite worked the same, since, thanks in part to Microsoft's All Your Eggs In One Basket system architecture.
Nice people. I hope they are buried in cement.
Johnny probably needs motivation and opportunity to learn how to code before he worries about attaining production-quality habits. Trying to ingrain correctness from day one is why no one studies Latin and Ancient Greek any more. (And can we, as a society, really afford FORTRAN programs becoming mysterious cultural artefacts?)
My first motivation was in seeing what I could get this box to do. After that it was smartening up, learning how to be a tidy coder. Microsoft's legions of bugs and security holes tells you how emphasis is placed upon meeting delivery deadlines over quality.
Johnny needs a solid foundation in Programming Logic and avoiding pitfalls of "drop-through logic" before Johnny writes code for production.
The devices didn't blow up because the UL stamp was fake. They blew up because they were cheaply built pieces of crap.
The fake testing agency stamps were just the icing on the cake.
Quite an interesting bit on the BBC a few weeks back (I'm sure it's in their archives) on "innovation" in China - Once a company has made a product on contract they would retain some of that technology to make extra runs of the product - even going so far as to brazenly and proudly show their knock-offs at trade shows, completely overlooking the matters of copyrights and patents.
I recently acquired a set of Syma S107 helicopters (which are a ton of fun) and while reading a little bit more on them found there are loads of knock-offs - product, packaging, manual and accessories all copied. That's a heck of an effort just to make a duplicate. Faking CE, FCC or UL stamps isn't even icing on the cake, it's testament to their attention to detail when making a copy.
Perhaps another way of looking at it is it, some entrepeneurs are asocial - they don't mind enriching themselves at the expense of others - i.e. I'll sell "Hydrolizing Cream" to you to make money for myself, not minding that the stuff I bottle, label and sell is just a bulk cream containing lanolin and/or glycerin. If you're so stupid to buy it, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
I pretty sure PC sim rudder pedals and or steering wheel pedals can claim prior art on the "world's first foot controlled digital interface"
I'm pretty sure there are a number of effects pedals for guitars and keyboards, which incorporate processors and are highly programmable, which predate much of this by at least two decades.
No, not again!?! Leroy, you jerk!!!
"wtf?!? stuf! lol cul8r"
"What did my son say?"
"Sir, he inquires if things are quite as they seem. He wishes to seek tranquility, though is in good humour and will be pleased to visit again with you anon."
Imagine the size of those sharks required for such huge laser weapons.
And you thought Jurassic Park was only fiction and the DoD didn't have special secret black ops program for bringing these back.
gotcha!
Truth in history (or at least, mythical history). Supposedly nobody made more money during the gold rush years than the shovel makers.
Looking over the settlement of California, the gold rush populated the state - failed or retired prospectors built ranches, planted orchards, built toll roads, drove stage coaches, built fishing fleets, etc. Without the Gold Rush California may not have developed anywhere near as much as it has.
>>Calling it a major release and incrementing the primary version number for what is essentially a security update is confusing to the point of making version numbers useless. This release doesn't even deserve a 4.1 IMO
Agreed.
I think the FF devs are just trying to be like Google, and use major version numbers for every minor update they conduct. Terrible, terrible.
There is such a thing as modifying the product in ways which improve efficient user interaction and use of system resources. Why shouldn't such an approach be considered a valid Full Release, rather than cramming in more "New" and unwanted/unnecessary "features"?
Am I out of touch or am I, by default, wise? I look at these services and think "why would I want that? I have an ftp site of my own anyway."
Considering there must be a business model behind these services to make $$$ I wonder what I might have to put up with
Everyone else will start doing it too, and he'll have to go back to his day job.
You're missing the plan, man. He's going to sell people the tools to do street mining. After that, he sits back in fat city.
Then comes the book.
Then comes the TV show.
Yep, he's on Easy Street, in more ways than one.
just be careful of claim jumpers.
That's an admirable and sensible approach. What would be nice, too, is not to ship a product with all the new stuff defaulted to Enabled, a fault I continue to find with Microsoft and Google - "Hey, we like this new hack, let's foist it on our unsuspecting users and turn a deaf ear to them when they howl."
hey, that's dangerous talk there! We need thousands of new features, right now, and damn the bugs!
If it allows you to do something incorrectly then it isn't very easy to use.
Nonsense. Windows has been allowing people to get things wrong for decades and millions claim it's easy to use ... nevermind.
Don't forget that there are Pulitzer Prizes available in many categories. Should they win an award for reporting breaking news? Of course not. But they could be deserving of a prize in the Commentary, Criticism, or Editorial writing categories. And of course, there's always the fiction category.
Perhaps they can get one for being Most Onionesque
i'd vote for that
Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"
They refuted.
To rebut they must have initially been asserted to be the responsible party.
Claiming they are not the one and same who claimed responsibility is refuting.
and don't even get me started on prebutals.