I used a copy of Visual Studio 2010 that I got from my MSDN Academic Alliance account. It looks really nice, but it ran absolutely dog slow.
Great. And VS2005 slows my machine to a crawl if you use it wrong. Have a ~2000 line C# source file in your project, and intellisense can take about 5-10 seconds to open. Makes you regret asking for it... would've almost been faster to look the name up in the documentation and type it. Really looking forward to the day I'm forced to upgrade to an even slower version.
In any case, I believe that CB radios are legal everywhere, and I don't see much of a difference between operating one of those and operating a cell phone, I'm just saying....
CB radios are most often used by professional drivers who usually have had a better standard of training than the average motorist and are less likely to allow themselves to become dangerously distracted.
I.e. mobile phones are only an issue because every idiot uses them.
despite the fact you can get a bluetooth headset for £8 in the UK.
Have you ever tried an £8 bluetooth headset? They tend to work fine while you're sitting around at home or in the office, but take them out into a noisy environment (like, say, a car) and nobody'll be able to hear a word you say.
The authors also took the time to remind their readers that the supertasking population really is small, so you shouldn't assume you're one of them. Unfortunately, it looks like most people tend to believe they're the exception to this rule
Another result that they don't mention is that apparently you're more likely to be able to do it if you think you can't than if you think you can, at least according to a study looking at general multi-tasking capabilities, rather than specifically talking and driving.
The only question I have about this whole thing is whether they're going to ban drivers from talking to passengers in their car, which I believe is just as dangerous as talking to somebody on a hands-free phone.
Authors can chose to release works into the public domain ahead of time
Technically speaking, this isn't true. Under the Berne Convention, copyright exists even if it is not asserted. Courts interpret a "release into the public domain" as, essentially, issuing a perpetual license to perform any activity with a work. While the consequences are effectively the same, the legal situation is considered different.
and sometimes things fall through the cracks
Not in Berne Convention signatory countries, as the US has been since 1989.
see 'Night of the Living Dead'
One of relatively few professionally-produced works to have fallen into that particular trap. None have since 1989, meaning that it is highly unlikely any given video game (even one described as a "legacy" game) is in this situation.
It's cute that people think companies like EA are "mega-corporations."
I'd say a listed company with an annual revenue of around $4 billion and over 9,000 employees qualifies as a "mega-corporation", wouldn't you? This makes it, I believe, two to three orders of magnitude larger than the average company.
Post a project on a "find an outsourcing developer" web site. These places are filled to the brim with bad developers who think the best way to get ahead is to undercut every other bad developer on the site. And customers who think that cheapest is obviously the best. (E.g. this project with some really clearly clueless bidders trying to get a relatively complex job without any obvious experience by offering to do it for almost no money.)
Done professional dev work under DOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/X. That's only 5, but I've also been paid to do tech support on CP/M 86 (Amstrad PCW FTW!) if that helps?
Language and technology-wise, I've done pro worked in QuickBASIC, C, MS-DOS Batch (hey, if you can count JCL this counts too!), Perl, C++, Javascript, PHP, Java, ColdFusion, ActionScript (Flash 4 and onwards), Classic ASP's variant of Visual BASIC, VBA, C#, x86 assembly, CMU Common LISP, Scheme. There we go, 16.
One of the programmers on the Chrome team used to be a coder for a small-time MMORPG
There's a hell of a difference between an MMORPG and a MUD. Speaking personally, I'm pretty sure I could knock up the framework required to run a typical MUD in a weekend or three. I specced one out back in '95 or '96 when I was learning Java, but never got around to writing it because the content designer dropped out of the project, but it wouldn't have taken long to implement. An MMORPG? Give me a couple of years and I might have something passable. Sure, in many respects the back end is quite similar (although it needs to cope with a much higher transaction volume because you need to track player positions within each location rather than simply which players are present), but the difference in the front ends is very nearly the difference between writing 'hello world' and a real time operating system.
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What would Dweezil (Frank Zappa's son) be worth if you used all seven letters and managed to put it on a triple word score....
The scenario you propose is impossible. To use all seven letters you need an eight letter word (except in the first turn). If Dweezil were played in the first turn, starting with the 'D' in the middle square (which aligns the 'Z' on a double-letter square), the score is:
D:2 W:4 E:1 E:1 Z:10x2 = 20 I:1 L:1
Total: 30 x 2 (double word score from centre tile) = 60 points.
There are better starts, but that's not a bad one.
Except you don't count the tile that was already there, so it scores at most 14 x 3 = 42. But the bonus is 50 points, not 35, so you get 92 points, actually.
No, RTFA. Only a subset of proper nouns is allowed. One without a defined set of rules, i.e. you can't tell whether any specific noun is allowed without looking it up. It's just a ruse to sell more word lists.
It takes a babe in the woods to think he can just waltz in and take that away with a "But your robot.txt didn't say I *couldn't* do it" defense, without expecting a big legal fight.
Yes. Apart from anything else, he's just about entirely missing Facebook's point. Facebook don't give a shit how he accesses their site; this has nothing to do with the fact that he spidered it in a way that their robots.txt file allows, and everything to do with the fact that he was *redistributing their data* without consent.
Now, the question becomes whether what he was distributing falls under fair use. This is a very tricky question, and has nothing to do with how he acquired it.
It's only a derivative work if you distribute the proprietary software along with your enhancement. If the enhancement simply requires that the user already have a copy of the proprietary software in order to use it, then it's not a derivative work.
Depends. If the enhancement has significant chunks of the original app's UI included within it (e.g. for purposes of recognising specific dialogs, etc.), it could be considered derivative. This is the same theory as states that an app compiled against a library, even if it's dynamically linked to it, is also a derivative of that library, because it's designed specifically to fit around it.
Popularity over many years is a good criterion, but not, I think, the only one. For example, most of Agatha Christie's mysteries are more than 50 years old. While many of them are considered classics of their genre, few would consider them classic literature.
I'd say there's a difference between being simply a "classic" and being "classic literature", just as there's a difference today between something being simply a book and being literature. "Literature" (or, rather, "literary fiction") is possibly best thought of as its own genre, albeit one that lacks the easy-to-identify conventions that most other genres have.
How does this compare to jemalloc(), for example? This paper seems to be either very overhyped or plain outright silly. What does this do that other methods to improve allocations like the Windows Low Fragmentation Heap (LFH) and BSD's jemalloc() don't?
It solves an entirely different problem: those systems improve multithreaded allocation performance by (effectively) reducing the amount of locking and/or number of cache misses per operation. This system improves *single* threaded performance by offloading work to a new thread.
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I used a copy of Visual Studio 2010 that I got from my MSDN Academic Alliance account. It looks really nice, but it ran absolutely dog slow.
Great. And VS2005 slows my machine to a crawl if you use it wrong. Have a ~2000 line C# source file in your project, and intellisense can take about 5-10 seconds to open. Makes you regret asking for it... would've almost been faster to look the name up in the documentation and type it. Really looking forward to the day I'm forced to upgrade to an even slower version.
Moderating for the first time for a while. Disappointed to note that there's still no "-1 Stupid" option.
In any case, I believe that CB radios are legal everywhere, and I don't see much of a difference between operating one of those and operating a cell phone, I'm just saying....
CB radios are most often used by professional drivers who usually have had a better standard of training than the average motorist and are less likely to allow themselves to become dangerously distracted.
I.e. mobile phones are only an issue because every idiot uses them.
Nope. Some people sing to the radio. For that matter, some people talk to the radio.
That's the next thing they'll ban. Horribly distracting. Car radios & CD players cause serious accidents.
despite the fact you can get a bluetooth headset for £8 in the UK.
Have you ever tried an £8 bluetooth headset? They tend to work fine while you're sitting around at home or in the office, but take them out into a noisy environment (like, say, a car) and nobody'll be able to hear a word you say.
The authors also took the time to remind their readers that the supertasking population really is small, so you shouldn't assume you're one of them. Unfortunately, it looks like most people tend to believe they're the exception to this rule
Another result that they don't mention is that apparently you're more likely to be able to do it if you think you can't than if you think you can, at least according to a study looking at general multi-tasking capabilities, rather than specifically talking and driving.
The only question I have about this whole thing is whether they're going to ban drivers from talking to passengers in their car, which I believe is just as dangerous as talking to somebody on a hands-free phone.
It may not be to my personal taste, but if noone is getting hurt, then why the hell is it being intefered with?
Because paedophiles may be aroused by it and that's Wrong.
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I am still trying to picture a spiritual game.
Do you steer a character up into the mountains to assume the Lotus position and meditate on the oneness of the world?
You've played The Secret of Levitation then?
Authors can chose to release works into the public domain ahead of time
Technically speaking, this isn't true. Under the Berne Convention, copyright exists even if it is not asserted. Courts interpret a "release into the public domain" as, essentially, issuing a perpetual license to perform any activity with a work. While the consequences are effectively the same, the legal situation is considered different.
and sometimes things fall through the cracks
Not in Berne Convention signatory countries, as the US has been since 1989.
see 'Night of the Living Dead'
One of relatively few professionally-produced works to have fallen into that particular trap. None have since 1989, meaning that it is highly unlikely any given video game (even one described as a "legacy" game) is in this situation.
It's cute that people think companies like EA are "mega-corporations."
I'd say a listed company with an annual revenue of around $4 billion and over 9,000 employees qualifies as a "mega-corporation", wouldn't you? This makes it, I believe, two to three orders of magnitude larger than the average company.
Post a project on a "find an outsourcing developer" web site. These places are filled to the brim with bad developers who think the best way to get ahead is to undercut every other bad developer on the site. And customers who think that cheapest is obviously the best. (E.g. this project with some really clearly clueless bidders trying to get a relatively complex job without any obvious experience by offering to do it for almost no money.)
You've got to admit, it does throw an exception if myObject is null...
Let's see. Don't think I quite match up.
Done professional dev work under DOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/X. That's only 5, but I've also been paid to do tech support on CP/M 86 (Amstrad PCW FTW!) if that helps?
Language and technology-wise, I've done pro worked in QuickBASIC, C, MS-DOS Batch (hey, if you can count JCL this counts too!), Perl, C++, Javascript, PHP, Java, ColdFusion, ActionScript (Flash 4 and onwards), Classic ASP's variant of Visual BASIC, VBA, C#, x86 assembly, CMU Common LISP, Scheme. There we go, 16.
One of the programmers on the Chrome team used to be a coder for a small-time MMORPG
There's a hell of a difference between an MMORPG and a MUD. Speaking personally, I'm pretty sure I could knock up the framework required to run a typical MUD in a weekend or three. I specced one out back in '95 or '96 when I was learning Java, but never got around to writing it because the content designer dropped out of the project, but it wouldn't have taken long to implement. An MMORPG? Give me a couple of years and I might have something passable. Sure, in many respects the back end is quite similar (although it needs to cope with a much higher transaction volume because you need to track player positions within each location rather than simply which players are present), but the difference in the front ends is very nearly the difference between writing 'hello world' and a real time operating system.
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&winkingsmiley;
I can also sum up my post as follows
- (1) Make game
- (2) Dumb it down to oblivion
- (3) ?????
- (4) PROFIT!!!
Well, it worked for World of Warcraft...
Total: 30 x 2 (double word score from centre tile) = 60 points.
Ahem. 60 points + 50 bonus points = 110 points.
What would Dweezil (Frank Zappa's son) be worth if you used all seven letters and managed to put it on a triple word score....
The scenario you propose is impossible. To use all seven letters you need an eight letter word (except in the first turn). If Dweezil were played in the first turn, starting with the 'D' in the middle square (which aligns the 'Z' on a double-letter square), the score is:
D:2
W:4
E:1
E:1
Z:10x2 = 20
I:1
L:1
Total: 30 x 2 (double word score from centre tile) = 60 points.
There are better starts, but that's not a bad one.
Except you don't count the tile that was already there, so it scores at most 14 x 3 = 42. But the bonus is 50 points, not 35, so you get 92 points, actually.
No, RTFA. Only a subset of proper nouns is allowed. One without a defined set of rules, i.e. you can't tell whether any specific noun is allowed without looking it up. It's just a ruse to sell more word lists.
You'll have to wait for the SQL. /rimshot
Despite standard practice, I always read "SQL" as "squeal". In this case, it's just so appropriate...
It takes a babe in the woods to think he can just waltz in and take that away with a "But your robot.txt didn't say I *couldn't* do it" defense, without expecting a big legal fight.
Yes. Apart from anything else, he's just about entirely missing Facebook's point. Facebook don't give a shit how he accesses their site; this has nothing to do with the fact that he spidered it in a way that their robots.txt file allows, and everything to do with the fact that he was *redistributing their data* without consent.
Now, the question becomes whether what he was distributing falls under fair use. This is a very tricky question, and has nothing to do with how he acquired it.
It's only a derivative work if you distribute the proprietary software along with your enhancement. If the enhancement simply requires that the user already have a copy of the proprietary software in order to use it, then it's not a derivative work.
Depends. If the enhancement has significant chunks of the original app's UI included within it (e.g. for purposes of recognising specific dialogs, etc.), it could be considered derivative. This is the same theory as states that an app compiled against a library, even if it's dynamically linked to it, is also a derivative of that library, because it's designed specifically to fit around it.
Popularity over many years is a good criterion, but not, I think, the only one. For example, most of Agatha Christie's mysteries are more than 50 years old. While many of them are considered classics of their genre, few would consider them classic literature.
I'd say there's a difference between being simply a "classic" and being "classic literature", just as there's a difference today between something being simply a book and being literature. "Literature" (or, rather, "literary fiction") is possibly best thought of as its own genre, albeit one that lacks the easy-to-identify conventions that most other genres have.
How does this compare to jemalloc(), for example? This paper seems to be either very overhyped or plain outright silly. What does this do that other methods to improve allocations like the Windows Low Fragmentation Heap (LFH) and BSD's jemalloc() don't?
It solves an entirely different problem: those systems improve multithreaded allocation performance by (effectively) reducing the amount of locking and/or number of cache misses per operation. This system improves *single* threaded performance by offloading work to a new thread.