Are you suggesting that Microsoft will no longer change the entire API every time the major number of the OS increments, causing everyone to completely re-architect/re-write their apps from the ground up? I suggest you go back and look at the history of every technology Microsoft has ever released, from DirectX to Windows itself, to.NET, to even their languages and compilers.
A Steve Dahl so succinctly put it: "If fat, middle-aged white guys in Hawaiian shirts were blowing up airplanes, I'd expect to receive more scrutiny at airports".
You make it sound as though site operators have some kind of leeway regarding DMCA takedown notices - they don't - either they take it down, immediately, or they are in violation as well as the original poster.
The DMCA itself is what "allows for abuse". The law was written so that site operators are required to take down if they receive a DMCA notice. BTW, have you seen the new "tell your Congresscritter to vote for SOPA/Protect IP commercials? Pack of outrageous lies -- like "stolen TV shows are costing American jobs".
Awwwww. Poor baby. Did someone mildly disparage your imaginary friend with a humorous real-world observation? Maybe you should forgive him and pray for his immortal soul.
They did. They flourished for hundreds of millions of years, many times longer than the dinosaurs did. Unfortunately, they went extinct 200 million years ago.
I SWEAR I'm not making this up: a manager once criticized my code as being too terse: "people have to read and understand it before they can modify it". He saw no irony in that statement.
Indeed. The SIZE of the problem domains is apples and oranges, too. Then there's the notion that most Java programs are going to be event driven (at least to some extent), while the Cobol programs are mostly going to be batch oriented.
OK, I'll use a car analogy. All the cars on the commercials have a great wax job and no dirt or water spots, and they're always shot in great light. How come I can never get my car to look like that?
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This is not unlike when they canceled Firefly, a few geeks are devastated, hardly anyone else notices.
Actually, this is Slashdot (/.), not Backslashdot (\.). Perhaps if you communicated more precisely...
That would have been pretty funny if you hadn't got it backwards.
I'm pretty sure "permanent brain damage" was a prerequisite for that job.
It's a variation on "Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people." (SFW).
Are you suggesting that Microsoft will no longer change the entire API every time the major number of the OS increments, causing everyone to completely re-architect/re-write their apps from the ground up? I suggest you go back and look at the history of every technology Microsoft has ever released, from DirectX to Windows itself, to .NET, to even their languages and compilers.
Never mind "Welcome to hell, here's your accordion"; can you imagine the hell that is "developer relations for COM/OLE/Active-X"?
Fool me once, shame on you, lock me into an inferior OS twice, shame on the whole industry.
A Steve Dahl so succinctly put it: "If fat, middle-aged white guys in Hawaiian shirts were blowing up airplanes, I'd expect to receive more scrutiny at airports".
Sadly, her job was outsourced to Bangalore many years ago.
There was yet another "tantalizing hints but no actual evidence" press release a few days ago. We talked about it here.
You make it sound as though site operators have some kind of leeway regarding DMCA takedown notices - they don't - either they take it down, immediately, or they are in violation as well as the original poster.
Please. This was obviously just a case of Universal's lawyers acting in good faith, and perhaps getting a trifle overzealous. /sarcasm
The DMCA itself is what "allows for abuse". The law was written so that site operators are required to take down if they receive a DMCA notice. BTW, have you seen the new "tell your Congresscritter to vote for SOPA/Protect IP commercials? Pack of outrageous lies -- like "stolen TV shows are costing American jobs".
Humanity's boundless hubris.
Not to worry. I'm sure when the time comes, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will jump into an old Space Shuttle and save the whole planet.
Awwwww. Poor baby. Did someone mildly disparage your imaginary friend with a humorous real-world observation? Maybe you should forgive him and pray for his immortal soul.
They did. They flourished for hundreds of millions of years, many times longer than the dinosaurs did. Unfortunately, they went extinct 200 million years ago.
I guess my post was too terse.
I SWEAR I'm not making this up: a manager once criticized my code as being too terse: "people have to read and understand it before they can modify it". He saw no irony in that statement.
Indeed. The SIZE of the problem domains is apples and oranges, too. Then there's the notion that most Java programs are going to be event driven (at least to some extent), while the Cobol programs are mostly going to be batch oriented.
I got dibbs on "Finger lickin' good!".
Google. Period.
OK, I'll use a car analogy. All the cars on the commercials have a great wax job and no dirt or water spots, and they're always shot in great light. How come I can never get my car to look like that?
I have some ideas.
Sure; and I'm going to start by defaming Ashton Kutcher and Kim Kardashian. I'll expect to see them and their seconds on the field of honor at dawn.