That white collar criminal is stealing something real. That is, a person's wealth. Making a copy of something doesn't deprive the original owner of it. It just gives the owner the perception of the potential of a lost sale. And since there is no way to prove that a sale was actually lost, and since we're suppose to be innocent until proven guilty, then I don't understand how one could prosecute somebody on this.
That makes it especially not worthy of punishment. Who is going to go through the effort of downloading some crappy early release if they're not a fan. And what Star Wars fan doesn't watch Star Wars in the theater?
Yeah, but you'll drive up the quality of that 1/20th of the content, making it worth it. Do you really have time to watch the other 19/20th of content anyway?
paying an arm and a leg for a whole slew of channels I really don't care about
The reality is that those sports channels you like are what you're paying an arm and a leg for. The rest is all but thrown in for free and is used to draw in viewers to subsidize the cost of those sports channels.
This is true, Dish said something to this effect once during the Comedy Central scare. And it pisses me off, because the sports stations cost so much more than everything I watch, and I'm forced into subsidizing the jocks I resented in high school. The typical sports station costs more than twice as much as non-sport stations, so I'd save a lot going ala carte.
I think it would increase variety as the channels would have to do more to distinguish themselves. So many channels now make their money just showing movies in the middle of the day for whoever will tune in. I'm sure that audience will go to specialized movie channels if they have to do ala carte. The ubiquitous infomercials will likely go away as well since they do nothing to draw in new viewers. No the stations will actually have to sell us something rather than just rely on the hidden taxes of commercials and package bundling to keep them afloat. And they aren't going to be able to do that by selling the same old boring shit.
if every application written in that language was removed
If this did happen, the world economy would completely collapse overnight. Unless you're in the industry, you really haven't a clue how ubiquitous this language is. The entire business world depends on it. As does the government. It's used everywhere in transactions that you've never seen, but depend on every day. Every phone call you make, almost every payment you make. I know this from first hand experience to be true.
The only real mistake Sun made with Java is applet technology. Since that's all half the people on this site think it's used for. You use Java indirectly a hundred times a day and don't even realize it.
Show me a user who knows what java actually is, and you'll see them avoid it if possible.
Then why are you still using the internet? Surely you know what Java is and that it's behind a hefty percentage of your favorite websites. You ever order anything online? Oh I guess you're going to have to avoid that too from now on. Might want to toss that cell phone too while you're at it. Oh wait you don't actually know what Java is? Then perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on it.
Translation: "I wrote a 'hello world' program. It worked. It worked on anything I tried it on, yay java!
If you know what you're doing, even the most complex applications will work cross-platform. If fact you don't even have to know what you're doing for this. The only cross-platform issue I've ever seen is related to slashes and backslashes and only in odd situations. Almost every Java app I use or have downloaded, works on Linux (32 and 64 bit), Solaris and Windows for me and all I need to do is copy the directory from one box to another. And I'm talking your small utility gui apps and large J2EE based software. I'm sick of this FUD on Java from people who don't even use it.
Oh what bullshit. I've been doing enterprise software for decades, working across many projects. Without a single exception, every C/C++ project I've ever observed or worked on is plagued by memory leaks, crashes and delays. Every single one in every single company I've worked at. The Java stuff simple runs and at worst, you get a few stack traces that need to be dealt with. Crashes are almost non-existent. Very few major corporations are using C/C++ for new projects precisely because of this. No management with any business sense cares for fanboy obsessions with quaint old languages. They choose what's going to avoid them getting paged in the middle of the night. Every language and project has it's good programmers and bad ones, but you suffer far more when you have bad programmers on a C/C++ project then you ever have to worry about with Java. And before someone mentions their favorite device driver, I'm only talking enterprise software here.
Your kernel does all you need until you get a new motherboard. I had to use an unstable kernel the last time I upgraded, just to get IDE functionality. I sometimes wish the motherboard companies would do their best to stick to a 2.x line.
That sucks. Gentoo was a nightmare last year and I was on the verge of canning it. This year, it's been great until this expat crap. I was hoping that was an anomaly but your comment doesn't inspire me. This was the biggest portage fuckup I've ever seen. Although that could be my fault since I didn't bother with forum advice this time.
I've reached a saturation point regarding advertising. It now makes me react strongly negatively.
I use to be like this to the point of boycotting companies who's commercials I've seen too much. I still haven't gone to a Taco Bell since their "drop the chulupa" campaign. And I stayed away from Kraft products for a number of years. I would literally scream and dive for the remote when overplayed commercials came on.
But with the advent of DVR, adblock and do not call lists, I'm finally to the point where is no longer bothers me so much. It's not that I never see the advertising, it's just down to a more manageable level. I even stop fast forwarding during commercials if an ad catches my eye because they're mostly new to me and they have the feel of superbowl commercials, given their novelty. I even click on the occasional google ad now, because those aren't so obnoxious and they're tailored more to me.
Advertisers need to be smarter and adapt to the changing times, rather than simply try to force old models down our throats. Or do they really want to end up like the recording and movie industries?
Because high school doesn't give you enough preparation to do a "real world" job.
This might be true for doctoring or lawyering, but college doesn't prepare you for a "real world" job any more than high school. Employers just want to see that you're able to stick with it long enough to get the degree and that you have the ability to learn. Most people learn their job on the job.
kids from when I was in high school who were only interested in theater, or band
I was one of those kids. But that's the problem with letting them go down that path. Theater and band were fun and I'm sure many of my friends would have chosen that as their career if they were forced to choose that early. That would have been a mistake in almost all cases. My yearbook labeled me as "Broadway Bound" in the class clown/class flirt section of the book, so everyone else thought I'd naturally go down that path. But of course, I was sensible and chose software development as a career. Most people follow their heart at that age, teen angst blinds sensibilities. I'm glad that I had those experiences back then and I'd be sad if computers were all I ever experienced. The thought of it is downright depressing. The only thing good about stories like this are that they make me feel better that I've never had children.
Then why are you here at all, if you don't mind my asking? The US is a dying pessimistic empire and China seems to be a rising optimistic one. If I had the option, I think I might be more willing to put my eggs in their basket. The only reason I can think for you to stay here might be salary, but with the high cost of living, taxes and the dollar crashing, I would guess that you'd be able to do as well over there, given the right career.
Is there even a category for today's music? When I grew up there was New Wave, Heavy Metal, Rap (still around) and Alternative. I haven't heard a label for any of today's music and most teens I've talked to listen to stuff like Tool (back from when I was in college). Sure, every generation has Britany Spears type music, but then I didn't know anyone who bought Tiffany albums so I doubt that todays' kids are actually into that crap. What do kids today actually listen to? The cool kids, not the top 40 fans. There have to be some high school/college students here who can answer this. I've been very curious about this.
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I suppose I would fail, if I had made even a passing reference to Javascript.
Security is very important to me, I can't be screwing around with something that can be so easily cracked.
Oh come on, I've been using flexible organic paper LCDs in my flying car ever since the 50s. This is old news.
That white collar criminal is stealing something real. That is, a person's wealth. Making a copy of something doesn't deprive the original owner of it. It just gives the owner the perception of the potential of a lost sale. And since there is no way to prove that a sale was actually lost, and since we're suppose to be innocent until proven guilty, then I don't understand how one could prosecute somebody on this.
That makes it especially not worthy of punishment. Who is going to go through the effort of downloading some crappy early release if they're not a fan. And what Star Wars fan doesn't watch Star Wars in the theater?
His best bet is to borrow an old laptop from a friend and install Linux on it. Who's gonna know?
Yeah, but you'll drive up the quality of that 1/20th of the content, making it worth it. Do you really have time to watch the other 19/20th of content anyway?
So far I feel good about saving $100 a month - that is until someone tells me a plot spoiler...
The butler did it. Whoops!
The counter to your counter move is of course bittorrent. People will skirt the law en masse if they feel like they're getting fucked.
paying an arm and a leg for a whole slew of channels I really don't care about
The reality is that those sports channels you like are what you're paying an arm and a leg for. The rest is all but thrown in for free and is used to draw in viewers to subsidize the cost of those sports channels.
This is true, Dish said something to this effect once during the Comedy Central scare. And it pisses me off, because the sports stations cost so much more than everything I watch, and I'm forced into subsidizing the jocks I resented in high school. The typical sports station costs more than twice as much as non-sport stations, so I'd save a lot going ala carte.
except probably with less variety
I think it would increase variety as the channels would have to do more to distinguish themselves. So many channels now make their money just showing movies in the middle of the day for whoever will tune in. I'm sure that audience will go to specialized movie channels if they have to do ala carte. The ubiquitous infomercials will likely go away as well since they do nothing to draw in new viewers. No the stations will actually have to sell us something rather than just rely on the hidden taxes of commercials and package bundling to keep them afloat. And they aren't going to be able to do that by selling the same old boring shit.
if every application written in that language was removed
If this did happen, the world economy would completely collapse overnight. Unless you're in the industry, you really haven't a clue how ubiquitous this language is. The entire business world depends on it. As does the government. It's used everywhere in transactions that you've never seen, but depend on every day. Every phone call you make, almost every payment you make. I know this from first hand experience to be true.
The only real mistake Sun made with Java is applet technology. Since that's all half the people on this site think it's used for. You use Java indirectly a hundred times a day and don't even realize it.
Show me a user who knows what java actually is, and you'll see them avoid it if possible.
Then why are you still using the internet? Surely you know what Java is and that it's behind a hefty percentage of your favorite websites. You ever order anything online? Oh I guess you're going to have to avoid that too from now on. Might want to toss that cell phone too while you're at it. Oh wait you don't actually know what Java is? Then perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on it.
Funny how if you replace the original poster's user id from Teckla to mattgreen, you'd be arguing against yourself right now.
What's your point?
Translation: "I wrote a 'hello world' program. It worked. It worked on anything I tried it on, yay java!
If you know what you're doing, even the most complex applications will work cross-platform. If fact you don't even have to know what you're doing for this. The only cross-platform issue I've ever seen is related to slashes and backslashes and only in odd situations. Almost every Java app I use or have downloaded, works on Linux (32 and 64 bit), Solaris and Windows for me and all I need to do is copy the directory from one box to another. And I'm talking your small utility gui apps and large J2EE based software. I'm sick of this FUD on Java from people who don't even use it.
Oh what bullshit. I've been doing enterprise software for decades, working across many projects. Without a single exception, every C/C++ project I've ever observed or worked on is plagued by memory leaks, crashes and delays. Every single one in every single company I've worked at. The Java stuff simple runs and at worst, you get a few stack traces that need to be dealt with. Crashes are almost non-existent. Very few major corporations are using C/C++ for new projects precisely because of this. No management with any business sense cares for fanboy obsessions with quaint old languages. They choose what's going to avoid them getting paged in the middle of the night. Every language and project has it's good programmers and bad ones, but you suffer far more when you have bad programmers on a C/C++ project then you ever have to worry about with Java. And before someone mentions their favorite device driver, I'm only talking enterprise software here.
Your kernel does all you need until you get a new motherboard. I had to use an unstable kernel the last time I upgraded, just to get IDE functionality. I sometimes wish the motherboard companies would do their best to stick to a 2.x line.
That sucks. Gentoo was a nightmare last year and I was on the verge of canning it. This year, it's been great until this expat crap. I was hoping that was an anomaly but your comment doesn't inspire me. This was the biggest portage fuckup I've ever seen. Although that could be my fault since I didn't bother with forum advice this time.
I've reached a saturation point regarding advertising. It now makes me react strongly negatively.
I use to be like this to the point of boycotting companies who's commercials I've seen too much. I still haven't gone to a Taco Bell since their "drop the chulupa" campaign. And I stayed away from Kraft products for a number of years. I would literally scream and dive for the remote when overplayed commercials came on.
But with the advent of DVR, adblock and do not call lists, I'm finally to the point where is no longer bothers me so much. It's not that I never see the advertising, it's just down to a more manageable level. I even stop fast forwarding during commercials if an ad catches my eye because they're mostly new to me and they have the feel of superbowl commercials, given their novelty. I even click on the occasional google ad now, because those aren't so obnoxious and they're tailored more to me.
Advertisers need to be smarter and adapt to the changing times, rather than simply try to force old models down our throats. Or do they really want to end up like the recording and movie industries?
Because high school doesn't give you enough preparation to do a "real world" job.
This might be true for doctoring or lawyering, but college doesn't prepare you for a "real world" job any more than high school. Employers just want to see that you're able to stick with it long enough to get the degree and that you have the ability to learn. Most people learn their job on the job.
kids from when I was in high school who were only interested in theater, or band
I was one of those kids. But that's the problem with letting them go down that path. Theater and band were fun and I'm sure many of my friends would have chosen that as their career if they were forced to choose that early. That would have been a mistake in almost all cases. My yearbook labeled me as "Broadway Bound" in the class clown/class flirt section of the book, so everyone else thought I'd naturally go down that path. But of course, I was sensible and chose software development as a career. Most people follow their heart at that age, teen angst blinds sensibilities. I'm glad that I had those experiences back then and I'd be sad if computers were all I ever experienced. The thought of it is downright depressing. The only thing good about stories like this are that they make me feel better that I've never had children.
Then why are you here at all, if you don't mind my asking? The US is a dying pessimistic empire and China seems to be a rising optimistic one. If I had the option, I think I might be more willing to put my eggs in their basket. The only reason I can think for you to stay here might be salary, but with the high cost of living, taxes and the dollar crashing, I would guess that you'd be able to do as well over there, given the right career.
Is there even a category for today's music? When I grew up there was New Wave, Heavy Metal, Rap (still around) and Alternative. I haven't heard a label for any of today's music and most teens I've talked to listen to stuff like Tool (back from when I was in college). Sure, every generation has Britany Spears type music, but then I didn't know anyone who bought Tiffany albums so I doubt that todays' kids are actually into that crap. What do kids today actually listen to? The cool kids, not the top 40 fans. There have to be some high school/college students here who can answer this. I've been very curious about this.