there's a big difference between respectable conservative/republican biased news reporting and commentary and the hate, bile and half-truths spewed by FoxNews. If it weren't for its rabid fans I would have assumed it was parody.
1) accept bribe^H^H^H^H^H donation from corporate backers
2) do their bidding
3) profit!
Until political funding can be prised from the grip of the oligarcy of the rich, that's how it will stay. What's sad is it has been that way so long, hardly anybody perceives it as immoral anymore.
You speak for the young parents who moved there, not for the kids who grow up there.
The kids think it's a hole with nothing to do but drugs and vandalism, and they can't wait to get the hell out. Eventually the place will look like a Florida retirement home, and slowly collapses in on itself.
to further expand on the explanation of the "Private Eye" - "Ed" reference, the satirical articles often go to parodic extremes, traditionally cut short by the intervention of the editor with:
"that's enough (insert meme here) - Ed"
if all the candidates are already bought and paid for by corporate interests, then the election is a sham, just like in single party states.
The single party in US elections is the Corporate Party, which seeks to hide its own existence.
the tool in my sig has a FileAid style data editor, using COBOL definitions. It's ok if you avoid the platform specific formats, although it handles the 'endians issue.
no, it is in their interest to drag the debacle through the courts for as long as possible, at least until SCOTUS tells the government "what the the were you thinking, haven't you read the constitution?".
Well it could be regarded as unfair competition, something that the open source folk are eager to accuse Microsoft of.
I'm not really that bothered, but the complete lack of originality in 99.9% of open-source software is a bit of a give-away regarding the motivation for writing it.
You are confusing the mis-use of software patents to restrict competition with an actual creative process using elements of other works to create something truly new. Tolkien never tried to stop anyone creating a new novel using elves and wizards - I suspect he welcomed them.
Now if you had copyright over a particilarly good garden design, and a competitor simply copied it, as opposed to borrowing elements of it, would you not be be incensed?
If copyright on a novel expired after a short time, publishers would simply retain any manuscripts they receive until the copyright expired, then publish and pay the author nothing. In the days before copyright, this kind of behaviour happened all the time.
The use of copyright and patents for software is a relatively new field - and the extreme extentions of copyright claimed by corporate entities is also new.
What you say may be true for software, where the ever changing landscape renders software obsolete is less than decade.
When it comes to the world of the arts, writing, painting etc. it is a different issue. Many books from 50 years ago still sell well - are you saying authors should not continue to profit from their work into their retirement? That the profits of such sales should only go to the publishers?
"When the journal published it, Sokal revealed that the paper was in fact a spoof. The incident triggered a storm of debate about the ethics of Sokal's prank."
The hell it did - it triggered a storm about the bullshit that passes for meaningful discourse under the banner of "post-modernism".
Why?
I've coded COBOL to output nicely formatted XML. Mind you, the code wasn't as pretty as the usual fixed length fields stuff COBOL deals with, but it was no uglier than the same type of thing in C++.
CICS also excels at running the DB server programs for your client side applications.
You may be horrified to learn we write our server programs in COBOL, with Delphi & Java on the client side. That CICS server happily routes output to email inboxes and mobile devices.
I even wrote a COBOL program to output nicely formatted XML. Nice the prettiest code, since COBOL prefers fixed length fields and records, but it can be done.
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They obviously ignored how long it takes Chrome to send all your personal information to their "Evil Overlords"(TM Google inc.)
it's true, if all the TV channels funded by advertising disappeared tomorrow, I would barely miss them.
there's a big difference between respectable conservative/republican biased news reporting and commentary and the hate, bile and half-truths spewed by FoxNews. If it weren't for its rabid fans I would have assumed it was parody.
1) accept bribe^H^H^H^H^H donation from corporate backers
2) do their bidding
3) profit!
Until political funding can be prised from the grip of the oligarcy of the rich, that's how it will stay. What's sad is it has been that way so long, hardly anybody perceives it as immoral anymore.
You speak for the young parents who moved there, not for the kids who grow up there.
The kids think it's a hole with nothing to do but drugs and vandalism, and they can't wait to get the hell out. Eventually the place will look like a Florida retirement home, and slowly collapses in on itself.
to further expand on the explanation of the "Private Eye" - "Ed" reference, the satirical articles often go to parodic extremes, traditionally cut short by the intervention of the editor with: "that's enough (insert meme here) - Ed"
if all the candidates are already bought and paid for by corporate interests, then the election is a sham, just like in single party states. The single party in US elections is the Corporate Party, which seeks to hide its own existence.
"There are still lots of users who unwittingly run Java applications"
If you ask these users what applications are slow, clunky and unresponsive, they will most likely identify the Java ones.
I agree - M$ tried to make IE7 look funky, but ended up with a user-unfriendly layout.
Opera may not have the best looks, but easily wins on the best usuability.
"since 2004 and was 98% complete" so only another 5 years development to go...
the tool in my sig has a FileAid style data editor, using COBOL definitions. It's ok if you avoid the platform specific formats, although it handles the 'endians issue.
no, it is in their interest to drag the debacle through the courts for as long as possible, at least until SCOTUS tells the government "what the the were you thinking, haven't you read the constitution?".
patent troll, meet DMCA bully.
DMCA bully, meet patent troll.
Well it could be regarded as unfair competition, something that the open source folk are eager to accuse Microsoft of.
I'm not really that bothered, but the complete lack of originality in 99.9% of open-source software is a bit of a give-away regarding the motivation for writing it.
how about one forbidding open-source software being clones of pre-existing commercial products.
That would wave bye-bye to 99.9% of open-source projects right there.
maybe it is time for a female Doctor? I like the potential...
You are confusing the mis-use of software patents to restrict competition with an actual creative process using elements of other works to create something truly new. Tolkien never tried to stop anyone creating a new novel using elves and wizards - I suspect he welcomed them.
Now if you had copyright over a particilarly good garden design, and a competitor simply copied it, as opposed to borrowing elements of it, would you not be be incensed?
If copyright on a novel expired after a short time, publishers would simply retain any manuscripts they receive until the copyright expired, then publish and pay the author nothing. In the days before copyright, this kind of behaviour happened all the time.
The use of copyright and patents for software is a relatively new field - and the extreme extentions of copyright claimed by corporate entities is also new.
What you say may be true for software, where the ever changing landscape renders software obsolete is less than decade.
When it comes to the world of the arts, writing, painting etc. it is a different issue. Many books from 50 years ago still sell well - are you saying authors should not continue to profit from their work into their retirement? That the profits of such sales should only go to the publishers?
By your attitude, I assume you are relatively young. Perhaps when you have another couple of decades under your belt, you may change your mind.
from your site:
why buy 3D Nature products?
beacause thats how you make your living. Would you rather I just cracked it and stuck it on a Torrent site?
from the article:
"When the journal published it, Sokal revealed that the paper was in fact a spoof. The incident triggered a storm of debate about the ethics of Sokal's prank."
The hell it did - it triggered a storm about the bullshit that passes for meaningful discourse under the banner of "post-modernism".
Why? I've coded COBOL to output nicely formatted XML. Mind you, the code wasn't as pretty as the usual fixed length fields stuff COBOL deals with, but it was no uglier than the same type of thing in C++.
machine generated source is always horrible. Don't go there.
CICS also excels at running the DB server programs for your client side applications.
You may be horrified to learn we write our server programs in COBOL, with Delphi & Java on the client side. That CICS server happily routes output to email inboxes and mobile devices.
I even wrote a COBOL program to output nicely formatted XML. Nice the prettiest code, since COBOL prefers fixed length fields and records, but it can be done.
that's funny, us mainframers think the same about that amateur botch-job called Java...