Yeah, these silly posts from random people's blogs really make me yearn for the Golden Age of Slashdot, when serious articles from respected authors like Roland Piquepaille were the norm.
If the current patent mess had been in place when cars were first industrialized, one automaker would have had the patent on the gas pedal, another on brake lights, another on the turn signal lever, and still another on windshield wipers. They could all either cross-license each other's "IP", or invent a totally different way to do trivially simple operations. The Apple (or Amazon) of the day would have been claiming rights to the concept of "internal combustion". Of course, cell-phones have to interoperate with towers and other infrastructure, so there's really only ONE way to do certain things...
LOL. This from a company that uses rounded corners as a patentable way to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market. By that light, being a different color sounds like "innovation" to me;)
I happen to have mod points today, and so could engage in a losing "Insightful/Funny" vs "Troll/Offtopic" mod war, but instead I'll comment that the people knee-jerk modding this down are *entirely* missing the point. Granted, "gelfing"'s 4-digit UID lends context that normally isn't available, but it's blazingly clear that "Nigger Hitler Fuck" is a bit of performance art which is both spot-on-topic and PERFECTLY cromulent to the discussion at hand.
I'm reminded of Tom Duff's quote about Duff's Device as regards the fall-through behavior of case statements in C:
"This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
They should have built simpler, more reliable suits.
Oh FFS. Let's see: the whole human race doesn't have 10,000 hours of EVA activity logged, but we've been sailing on the ocean since before recorded history. Yet somehow, somehow, there's still things to be learned about designing, building and sailing better sailboats. Ask any America's Cup team. NASA has eventualities even most good engineers would never dream of already planned for, printed up, and sitting in a binder, waiting for that 1 in 1,000,000,000 Bad Thing (tm) to happen. But/tards will always be there to say "derp, they should have done that, and done it cheaper, after all, my tax dollars <chest thump> droooolll...".
Well, the NASDAQ is at levels it hasn't been at since 2000, and gold is trading at a 3-year low, so if I thought that the bubble was about to pop, which I actually do, and the choice of which "currency" to trade dollars for, gold or bitcoins, I know which one I'd pick. #include <std-disclaimer.h>
Yikes. What this guy knows about monetary policy and central banking is - staggering. While national backing-free fiat currency may not be the most desirable way to do things, multiple entities issuing highly volatile (think internet speeds) banknotes of dubious value (CPU cycles? really?) is an insane step in the wrong direction.
Whatever it costs, it's worth it. Can you imagine the heartbreak at being told "we couldn't save your son, but the good news is that his heart is keeping Dick Cheney alive"?
I've been on several projects where I fervently wished "dust off and nuke it from orbit" was a project management option. It is, after all, the only way to be sure.
Because I always thought there was a special place for those who could cram 7 GoF patterns into a HelloWorld, whether they needed them, or were ever ever ever going to extend or reuse the HelloWorld or not.
Picture every nurse in a hospital with one in their pocket. Picture 3rd graders taking spelling tests with these. Picture every coffee-shop waitress with one. Picture these replacing smart thermostats and TV remotes, anything with a reasonably sophisticated (i.e. > on/off) UI.
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Yeah, these silly posts from random people's blogs really make me yearn for the Golden Age of Slashdot, when serious articles from respected authors like Roland Piquepaille were the norm.
The NSA has been "secretly back-dooring" the American people for years.
If the current patent mess had been in place when cars were first industrialized, one automaker would have had the patent on the gas pedal, another on brake lights, another on the turn signal lever, and still another on windshield wipers. They could all either cross-license each other's "IP", or invent a totally different way to do trivially simple operations. The Apple (or Amazon) of the day would have been claiming rights to the concept of "internal combustion". Of course, cell-phones have to interoperate with towers and other infrastructure, so there's really only ONE way to do certain things...
LOL. This from a company that uses rounded corners as a patentable way to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market. By that light, being a different color sounds like "innovation" to me ;)
I happen to have mod points today, and so could engage in a losing "Insightful/Funny" vs "Troll/Offtopic" mod war, but instead I'll comment that the people knee-jerk modding this down are *entirely* missing the point. Granted, "gelfing"'s 4-digit UID lends context that normally isn't available, but it's blazingly clear that "Nigger Hitler Fuck" is a bit of performance art which is both spot-on-topic and PERFECTLY cromulent to the discussion at hand.
I'm reminded of Tom Duff's quote about Duff's Device as regards the fall-through behavior of case statements in C: "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
Oh FFS. Let's see: the whole human race doesn't have 10,000 hours of EVA activity logged, but we've been sailing on the ocean since before recorded history. Yet somehow, somehow, there's still things to be learned about designing, building and sailing better sailboats. Ask any America's Cup team. NASA has eventualities even most good engineers would never dream of already planned for, printed up, and sitting in a binder, waiting for that 1 in 1,000,000,000 Bad Thing (tm) to happen. But /tards will always be there to say "derp, they should have done that, and done it cheaper, after all, my tax dollars <chest thump> droooolll...".
Well, the NASDAQ is at levels it hasn't been at since 2000, and gold is trading at a 3-year low, so if I thought that the bubble was about to pop, which I actually do, and the choice of which "currency" to trade dollars for, gold or bitcoins, I know which one I'd pick. #include <std-disclaimer.h>
Yikes. What this guy knows about monetary policy and central banking is - staggering. While national backing-free fiat currency may not be the most desirable way to do things, multiple entities issuing highly volatile (think internet speeds) banknotes of dubious value (CPU cycles? really?) is an insane step in the wrong direction.
Um, no, actually.
Whatever it costs, it's worth it. Can you imagine the heartbreak at being told "we couldn't save your son, but the good news is that his heart is keeping Dick Cheney alive"?
Microsoft Windows hosts 99.999% of malware.
Marxist.
I've been on several projects where I fervently wished "dust off and nuke it from orbit" was a project management option. It is, after all, the only way to be sure.
I was thinking more like Stargate SG-1.
<shrug> "Hey, it's what we do".
Aye. If it was good enough for K&R, it's good enough for me. Function prototypes and void are for sissies.
Fomalhaut C? I thought we left all that vendor-based extension stuff behind when we finally got ANSI C.
Because I always thought there was a special place for those who could cram 7 GoF patterns into a HelloWorld, whether they needed them, or were ever ever ever going to extend or reuse the HelloWorld or not.
The manufacturer/specs don't matter nearly as much as the $38 price point. THAT'S the big deal here.
Picture every nurse in a hospital with one in their pocket. Picture 3rd graders taking spelling tests with these. Picture every coffee-shop waitress with one. Picture these replacing smart thermostats and TV remotes, anything with a reasonably sophisticated (i.e. > on/off) UI.
They also used coconut shells as both bowls and for fuel. Polymorphism, if you will.
I'm still waiting for Listerine to cure my cold.
I forgot to mention: You're always the one catching, and there's never any lube.
Being that Amazon and Disney are involved, it's probably more like the anal version of a Reverse Cowgirl.
We're talking about Macs. It's a first-world problem by definition.
When Apple says "easier to use", they mean for EVERYBODY.