I'd say its pretty simple all in all, if you want to use it for yourself, then do what you like with it. A lot of people do this, however... the bit that matters if you want to distribute it (for example to sell it) then you need to give away your changes.
I think this latter bit is what annoys people, that they cannot sell your code for their profit. Sony executives might be screaming that those hippies are preventing them from selling 'their' code, conveniently ignoring that the majority of the baseline code is written, and given away for free, by someone else.
How does banning the burqa block the rise of the far right?
it's the same one that bans the use of the swastika, designed to stop the fanatical (not necessarily far-right politically, but far-to-the-right-of-intelligence for sure) groups from subverting the common law for their own nefarious purposes.
The burqa issue is less one of free right to dress like you want, and more to prevent forcing of that dress on people. The French state doesn't really care what you wear, but the groups that promote the burqa do, and have a less than free attitude about it. In the end, the state determined the disadvantage to those women who wanted to wear the burqa was outweighed by the advantage to those who had no choice in the matter.
so does Russia, Britain, France, Israel and North Korea. they don't go around insisting that their laws apply to foreign firms with foreign data in foreign sovereignties.
the US is just lost the plot on internationalisation - they might have realised there are places outside the US borders, now they need to understand that those places *aren't* America.
I swear most of America's politicians and lawyers are about as mature as a 6 year old - not yet understanding that the world consists of people other than themselves.
with the new system the large image file will be delivered after the javascript files, so your page is set up nicely for the image to load into. Currently you ask for the image and wait and wait for it to be delivered. Then you get to ask for the rest of the page's bits.
SPDY doesn't affect how you ask, but it allows the system to return the data in multiple streams, instead of blocking as it waits for each one in turn.
then why aren't they thinking that codifying their common code problems in the existing language won't help? A refactoring using C++ would fix all their problems as surely as a rewrite, only it'll be a lot quicker and wouldn't introduce so many new bugs. It might also give rise to some nice libraries that can be used too.
A rewrite in Rust helps no-one, just you see. They might as well rewrite in node.js
the big issue with rewrites is that people doing the rewrite often think they can do a better job that their predecessors,and invariably find that their predecessors weren't as crappy as they thought they were.
It also beats me why they thought a new language is the solution (looking for a problem perhaps) instead of a solid class library to do all the stuff they need help doing. The existing C++ community might get something out of it too then.
I was taking the piss out of how most.net code I've seen uses RAM like it was neverending, mostly due to people creating objects all over the place and not even trying to code in an efficient manner. (it is designed for 'programmer productivity' so I guess that's by design)
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it kind of is possible, many people have email accounts that direct to several mailboxes, like @familyname.com. If your app was sending to an unknown name at the front of that (instead of 'dave@family' it was 'whoever@family') then its possible it got delivered to all accounts using that shared mailbox system.
Not that I'm saying this is what happened, but something along those lines due to some wacky configuration.
Moral: never disbelieve the user, although what they say is impossible, when you look at it, you find that not only is it possible, it's also happening. If only we could get the users to describe it in terms a tech would understand.
for most applications you don't need a FPU, or floating point numbers at all.
After all, you just redefine where the decimal point is and you have perfect-accuracy floats, its how you create decimal type for currency arithmetic, no reason why you can't use it for 3d graphics too.
On a dual 4-core machine, I can saturate the memory bus without half trying with code
one thing that politicians hate is having their decisions and positions called up on the media. And if this petition garners enough support (ie loads and loads) then the media (well some of it) will sit up and take note and start to ask those awkward questions.
If that gets close to embarrassing someone in a position of power, then they will actually do something to shift the focus away from them, and possibly try to make themselves look good that they're doing it.
So don't think that your petition will change anything directly, think that it'll change things indirectly. Hopefully that'll be good enough.
and the average city dweller has basic medical access more readily available and affordable than his/her American counterpart. How can we explain that????
But obviously its Apple's job to promote China's ills instead.
From TFS:
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each slave was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift
I think KVMs are a problem here. While you can buy HDMI switches that send 2 devices to 1 monitor for £10, somehow adding a USB switch to the same box jumps the price to £60.
I never knew USB switches were so complicated to build...
(hmm, or I can buy a USB+free VGA switch for £10, but add HDMI to that and the price jumps to £100, I never knew... oh you've heard it already)
God no, we bought a load of Dells with displayports and Windows 7, and you get the same problem.
Hell, I even picked up the monitors physically and swapped them over once, only to reboot and have the buggers still show the main display on the right-hand monitor. They're evil I tell you.
absolutely, how else do yuo think the CEO gets to buy a fancy car if it isn't because the company has saved a fortune keeping the "little people" working with ancient kit?
Anyway, it does cost a lot to upgrade stuff, not just the cost of the kit but the cost of making sure everything still works and repairing/upgrading that too when (not if) if doesn't work perfectly.
For example, if you had a load of KVM switches and upgrade your old VGA-style monitors, you might think you'll just go and buy a load of DVI switches instead.
that's something I'm sure Facebook at working on as the Next Big Thing - linked or sub accounts where you can share some details with a guest while still allowing FB to datamine both accounts to serve even more ads.
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I'd say its pretty simple all in all, if you want to use it for yourself, then do what you like with it. A lot of people do this, however ... the bit that matters if you want to distribute it (for example to sell it) then you need to give away your changes.
I think this latter bit is what annoys people, that they cannot sell your code for their profit. Sony executives might be screaming that those hippies are preventing them from selling 'their' code, conveniently ignoring that the majority of the baseline code is written, and given away for free, by someone else.
Was talking with the g-friend last night,
you have a friend on Google+ ? wow.
Most men who seek out hookers are emotional children anyway;
oy! the rest of us are emotional children too. So there, naaaaa.
How does banning the burqa block the rise of the far right?
it's the same one that bans the use of the swastika, designed to stop the fanatical (not necessarily far-right politically, but far-to-the-right-of-intelligence for sure) groups from subverting the common law for their own nefarious purposes.
The burqa issue is less one of free right to dress like you want, and more to prevent forcing of that dress on people. The French state doesn't really care what you wear, but the groups that promote the burqa do, and have a less than free attitude about it. In the end, the state determined the disadvantage to those women who wanted to wear the burqa was outweighed by the advantage to those who had no choice in the matter.
so does Russia, Britain, France, Israel and North Korea. they don't go around insisting that their laws apply to foreign firms with foreign data in foreign sovereignties.
the US is just lost the plot on internationalisation - they might have realised there are places outside the US borders, now they need to understand that those places *aren't* America.
I swear most of America's politicians and lawyers are about as mature as a 6 year old - not yet understanding that the world consists of people other than themselves.
with the new system the large image file will be delivered after the javascript files, so your page is set up nicely for the image to load into. Currently you ask for the image and wait and wait for it to be delivered. Then you get to ask for the rest of the page's bits.
SPDY doesn't affect how you ask, but it allows the system to return the data in multiple streams, instead of blocking as it waits for each one in turn.
then why aren't they thinking that codifying their common code problems in the existing language won't help? A refactoring using C++ would fix all their problems as surely as a rewrite, only it'll be a lot quicker and wouldn't introduce so many new bugs. It might also give rise to some nice libraries that can be used too.
A rewrite in Rust helps no-one, just you see. They might as well rewrite in node.js
the big issue with rewrites is that people doing the rewrite often think they can do a better job that their predecessors,and invariably find that their predecessors weren't as crappy as they thought they were.
It also beats me why they thought a new language is the solution (looking for a problem perhaps) instead of a solid class library to do all the stuff they need help doing. The existing C++ community might get something out of it too then.
oh sigh.
I was taking the piss out of how most .net code I've seen uses RAM like it was neverending, mostly due to people creating objects all over the place and not even trying to code in an efficient manner. (it is designed for 'programmer productivity' so I guess that's by design)
it kind of is possible, many people have email accounts that direct to several mailboxes, like @familyname.com. If your app was sending to an unknown name at the front of that (instead of 'dave@family' it was 'whoever@family') then its possible it got delivered to all accounts using that shared mailbox system.
Not that I'm saying this is what happened, but something along those lines due to some wacky configuration.
Moral: never disbelieve the user, although what they say is impossible, when you look at it, you find that not only is it possible, it's also happening. If only we could get the users to describe it in terms a tech would understand.
for most applications you don't need a FPU, or floating point numbers at all.
After all, you just redefine where the decimal point is and you have perfect-accuracy floats, its how you create decimal type for currency arithmetic, no reason why you can't use it for 3d graphics too.
On a dual 4-core machine, I can saturate the memory bus without half trying with code
you code in .NET too huh? :)
one thing that politicians hate is having their decisions and positions called up on the media. And if this petition garners enough support (ie loads and loads) then the media (well some of it) will sit up and take note and start to ask those awkward questions.
If that gets close to embarrassing someone in a position of power, then they will actually do something to shift the focus away from them, and possibly try to make themselves look good that they're doing it.
So don't think that your petition will change anything directly, think that it'll change things indirectly. Hopefully that'll be good enough.
it might be our business to care about this stuff, but it isn't our business to try and tell your politicians what to do - that's your job Americans.
and the average city dweller has basic medical access more readily available and affordable than his/her American counterpart. How can we explain that????
Greed.
But obviously its Apple's job to promote China's ills instead.
From TFS:
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each slave was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift
fixed that for them.
I think KVMs are a problem here. While you can buy HDMI switches that send 2 devices to 1 monitor for £10, somehow adding a USB switch to the same box jumps the price to £60.
I never knew USB switches were so complicated to build...
(hmm, or I can buy a USB+free VGA switch for £10, but add HDMI to that and the price jumps to £100, I never knew... oh you've heard it already)
God no, we bought a load of Dells with displayports and Windows 7, and you get the same problem.
Hell, I even picked up the monitors physically and swapped them over once, only to reboot and have the buggers still show the main display on the right-hand monitor. They're evil I tell you.
that's true - we bought a hundred new PCs from Dell and they came with Displayport only.
That's *only* DP. Mind you, we bought monitors at the same time so we didn't much care, but that's the way it seems to be going at Dell.
DisplayPort (the current fancy cutting edge port) supports 1900x1200 4 times. ie, a DP 1.2 can daisy-chain 4 monitors.
Over fibre-optic so your monitors can be far, far away.
hmm, so can I put a HDMI signal into a HDMI->DisplayPort adapter, and then pipe that into a DP->VGA adapter???
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/displayport-to-vga-adapter.html
Supports resolutions greater than QXGA (2048 x 1536) at 24-bit colour depths.
It doesn't say what frequency, but it does say video bandwidth up to 10.8Gbps.
absolutely, how else do yuo think the CEO gets to buy a fancy car if it isn't because the company has saved a fortune keeping the "little people" working with ancient kit?
Anyway, it does cost a lot to upgrade stuff, not just the cost of the kit but the cost of making sure everything still works and repairing/upgrading that too when (not if) if doesn't work perfectly.
For example, if you had a load of KVM switches and upgrade your old VGA-style monitors, you might think you'll just go and buy a load of DVI switches instead.
I suppose its like a landlord who rents out rooms in his property by the hour, and then gets busted for supporting prostitution.
FYI, I forgot to put my reference
that's something I'm sure Facebook at working on as the Next Big Thing - linked or sub accounts where you can share some details with a guest while still allowing FB to datamine both accounts to serve even more ads.