I wonder if the article would have been as carefully neutral if it had been a Republican group using this technique against a Democrat.
Actually, I don't wonder. I'm fairly sure people would be frothing at the mouth and labeling the Republican a fascist, demanding his immediate resignation and calling for a law making this sort of thing illegal.
" How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological."
Are you kidding? I'm all for getting rid of paper, but at the moment, it has better contrast and better resolution than even the most high-end LCD screens.
Just because they've replaced the production team doesn't mean it'll be any better. And if their best idea is to churn out a freaking prequel, I'm betting these people will be no better than who they're replacing.
High-res videos from iTunes run fine on my 28-month-old PowerBook. Maybe there's something wrong with yours?
And do you really think Apple is releasing episodes of the Daily Show late on purpose? What possible motivation would they have? Just to piss you off? It's certainly not because they're greedy and looking for profits - this obviously causes them to lose sales. More likely, Comedy Central is slow at actually sending the episodes to Apple.
I know on small, home networks, many routers now support the Internet Gateway Device (UGD) protocol of UPnP, which allows dynamic configuration of port-forwarding for applications running through NAT. I'm not sure how well-suited the protocol is for large networks, but perhaps that's something you could consider?
If you really have been programming for a long time, you must only be writing very simple programs if you've never had something like this happen, and you think that being "extra careful" is all you need to do to avoid it. What type of programmer does this? Every type of programmer - it's unavoidable.
The programmer is not to blame here. The real question you should be asking is "What type of QA department fails to catch a bug like this?"
And why should the government be spending our tax dollars on "the thrill of exploration, the daring of it" and all that? The government's job is not to entertain and amaze us, which seems to be the only purpose of the manned space program. And hell, recently they've failed even at that, instead causing us to gape in amazement at their lax engineering practices.
I'm all for private space exploration, and I can see the justification for government-funded unmanned space exploration, but the government has no business wasting our money on sending people into space just because it's cool and makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you watch a launch.
If he remakes that, I'll be the first one to buy it. That game was awesome!
I remember if you had the screen centered over the sexy torturer woman for too long without moving the mouse, the game's narrator/alert voice would say "You know, that'll make you go blind."
Does it have something to do with the design being finalized, or the manufacturing facility being prepared to start making them (like a game "going gold")?
Sure, there were libraries like ORO that would provide regex support, but it wasn't built in and not many companies allow the use of 3rd party libraries Who's boneheaded enough to do this? I want to know so I can avoid buying anything from them, because their products are going to be overpriced by at least 50% due to the wasted effort.
I can understand restricting third-party libraries to those of a certain license, like BSD or LGPL, but a blanket ban without any exceptions for something as essential as regular expressions? That's just stupid.
One of the biggest advantages of Java is the enormous number of high-quality third-party libraries available.
Is this just something the submitter dreamed up to fill space, or do companies actually do this?
Its vaunted security comes at the price of ease of use, and I think we'll be seeing a lot of people wondering why they can't do on their Mac what they could do on their Dell...
Could you provide an example of something, here? Because this really makes no sense. Give an example of something people can do on a Dell that they can't on a Mac, that is unavailable because of security restrictions in Mac OS (as opposed to the appropriate application simply not being ported yet).
What ease of use has OS X given up for security? I can't think of anything. Have you ever used Mac OS, or are you just saying that because you think it sounds plausible?
In the US, you can copyright the program that draws a font: i.e. the Truetype font definition file.
However, you cannot copyright the font design itself: meaning, if someone wants to design their own font that looks exactly like yours, they're free to do so.
I'm guessing what this company did falls into the former category, which would still be illegal in the US.
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I wonder if the article would have been as carefully neutral if it had been a Republican group using this technique against a Democrat.
Actually, I don't wonder. I'm fairly sure people would be frothing at the mouth and labeling the Republican a fascist, demanding his immediate resignation and calling for a law making this sort of thing illegal.
Yet another example of a horrendously-named open-source software package.
n tic-idiots.
Why IceChicken if they're going for opposites.
Or better yet, why not Ice-Bunch-of-increasingly-irrelevant-whining-peda
" How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological."
Are you kidding? I'm all for getting rid of paper, but at the moment, it has better contrast and better resolution than even the most high-end LCD screens.
Just because they've replaced the production team doesn't mean it'll be any better. And if their best idea is to churn out a freaking prequel, I'm betting these people will be no better than who they're replacing.
High-res videos from iTunes run fine on my 28-month-old PowerBook. Maybe there's something wrong with yours?
And do you really think Apple is releasing episodes of the Daily Show late on purpose? What possible motivation would they have? Just to piss you off? It's certainly not because they're greedy and looking for profits - this obviously causes them to lose sales. More likely, Comedy Central is slow at actually sending the episodes to Apple.
"I remember being a lad in school in 1973 and being told point blank that the world will run out of oil in 30 years. Yeah, public education."
Which is why I doubt the current crop of idiots saying the same thing. "This time it's true!" Right.
...you have completely missed the point.
I know on small, home networks, many routers now support the Internet Gateway Device (UGD) protocol of UPnP, which allows dynamic configuration of port-forwarding for applications running through NAT. I'm not sure how well-suited the protocol is for large networks, but perhaps that's something you could consider?
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If you really have been programming for a long time, you must only be writing very simple programs if you've never had something like this happen, and you think that being "extra careful" is all you need to do to avoid it. What type of programmer does this? Every type of programmer - it's unavoidable.
The programmer is not to blame here. The real question you should be asking is "What type of QA department fails to catch a bug like this?"
And why should the government be spending our tax dollars on "the thrill of exploration, the daring of it" and all that? The government's job is not to entertain and amaze us, which seems to be the only purpose of the manned space program. And hell, recently they've failed even at that, instead causing us to gape in amazement at their lax engineering practices.
I'm all for private space exploration, and I can see the justification for government-funded unmanned space exploration, but the government has no business wasting our money on sending people into space just because it's cool and makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you watch a launch.
You know, putting "in other words" in front of that doesn't change the fact that it has nothing to do with what he said.
What you need is a virtualization product, like Parallels Workstation or VMWare, that lets you run Windows in a window under OS X.
You can move and copy the virtual machines to however many machines you want.
Don't forget the ACLU.
Electronic freedom is nice, but freedom in the real world is all that matters in the end.
If he remakes that, I'll be the first one to buy it. That game was awesome!
I remember if you had the screen centered over the sexy torturer woman for too long without moving the mouse, the game's narrator/alert voice would say "You know, that'll make you go blind."
Someone care to explain what that means?
Does it have something to do with the design being finalized, or the manufacturing facility being prepared to start making them (like a game "going gold")?
This is only causing concern among members of the public who are idiots.
Sure, there were libraries like ORO that would provide regex support, but it wasn't built in and not many companies allow the use of 3rd party libraries
Who's boneheaded enough to do this? I want to know so I can avoid buying anything from them, because their products are going to be overpriced by at least 50% due to the wasted effort.
I can understand restricting third-party libraries to those of a certain license, like BSD or LGPL, but a blanket ban without any exceptions for something as essential as regular expressions? That's just stupid.
One of the biggest advantages of Java is the enormous number of high-quality third-party libraries available.
Is this just something the submitter dreamed up to fill space, or do companies actually do this?
Ha, are you seriously suggesting that people play video games because it makes them look cool? Like buying Abercrombie shit?
"people who game because of the image" - the image?! What image? That of a fat, nerdy, anti-social geek with Cheetos slime all over his fingers?
" 'contacting sources the way I understand drug dealers do to reach theirs -- by use of clandestine cell phones and meeting in darkened doorways.'"
Cool! Just like the movies. Leave it like this, the reporters will have fun.
Thinkpads are unbelievably gorgeous. I say that in all seriousness. They're beautiful.
I don't understand what you're complaining about.
Its vaunted security comes at the price of ease of use, and I think we'll be seeing a lot of people wondering why they can't do on their Mac what they could do on their Dell...
Could you provide an example of something, here? Because this really makes no sense. Give an example of something people can do on a Dell that they can't on a Mac, that is unavailable because of security restrictions in Mac OS (as opposed to the appropriate application simply not being ported yet).
What ease of use has OS X given up for security? I can't think of anything. Have you ever used Mac OS, or are you just saying that because you think it sounds plausible?
I'd rather use Subversion with IDEA - Eclipse is a lousy knockoff.
Are you really suggesting that only tangible things have value? Don't be stupid.
In the US, you can copyright the program that draws a font: i.e. the Truetype font definition file.
However, you cannot copyright the font design itself: meaning, if someone wants to design their own font that looks exactly like yours, they're free to do so.
I'm guessing what this company did falls into the former category, which would still be illegal in the US.