IANAL either but ignoring legal communications - even bs ones - isn't good practice. I would reply in an extremely minimalist way, don't make the mistake of getting into rant mode. Don't give any opinions or statements open to interpretation. I'd just reply and state that as you are not a user of their software you are not bound by its terms and conditions.
The analogy of building a house is a terrible one and Lamport is just plain wrong. You would quite rightly expect disaster if you suddenly decided to add an extra bedroom while in the middle of building a house, or suddenly switch the front and back, or decide to add an extra storey. However analogous changes while developing software are really not a big deal. House-building requires physical objects to be assembled in a very precise way, ordered in time and space. Software is supremely flexible. By all means let's improve software engineering but stop bringing in completely nonsensical analogies.
They detected an intruder illegally breaking into their network and worked with the authorities to catch the perpetrator in the act. What happened afterwards is not MIT's fault. If you decide to "stick it to the man" then be prepared for some blowback.
You're probably unaware that the backstory to this development is the academic boycott of publishers Elsevier over their price-gouging tactics. They're not casualties - they're legitimate targets.
Einstein had become irrelevant in physics at least 20 years before his death. Of course he retained great stature and influence in the world and tried to use it for good but he wasn't advancing physics. Newton was Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint in London for the last 30 years of his life. I don't know enough about the others but I doubt they were making real progress by the end of their lives.
Couldn't agree more and surprised I had to scroll down this far to find such a view. The code is OK but with a variety of annoying things wrong. I write more beautiful code than that at work every day. I had my doubts when the author wrote that "MainMenu.cc ballooned to 24,501 lines. The once-beautiful source code was a mess riddled with #ifdefs, gratuitous function pointers, ugly inline SIMD and asm code". To a guy living in a mental pigsty the id code would look pretty nice but it's far from beautiful.
You should try Houdini (1.5 is the free version). It's much, much better than Fritz. I've been testing it on human games where the GM played a move a computer might not find and it gets it almost every time (and when it doesn't its line is superior).
You seem be drowning in that "Intellectual Property" Kool-Aid. Businesses copy each other all the time. It's called progress. It's not immoral. Buying a company is just a quick way to get access to a new product or feature as opposed to building your own from scratch.
"But outside Kabul and other big cities the changes are more patchy. Most Afghans still live in rural areas, where poverty, conflict and conservative attitudes are more likely to keep girls and women at home. [...]
These are also the heartlands of the Pashtuns, the ethnic group from which the Taliban emerged and who have always had the most conservative views of a woman's role." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19911341
Well Saddam Hussein wasn't known for embracing constructive criticism either but you have a fair point. The West - which realistically means the US - should insist on democratic reforms and freedoms when using its power to save these dictatorships from each other.
There's currently a similar wilfull blindness in Afghanistan. The enemy (the Taliban) is demonised by various views on women's education/behaviour etc. However the Afghans themselves are just as extremist once you get outside Kabul. Their differences with the Taliban are more based on tribal and clan loyalties than fundamental differences in beliefs. The media likes to imply that once the evil Taliban is defeated Afghani women will be able to marry who they want, go to university, and parade round in bikinis. They won't.
If it's "stealing" why isn't anyone charged with theft? They're charged with copyright infringement. Doesn't that tell you that it's copying not stealing?
One theme I see throughout modern history is individuals or groups carrying on doing the same thing because it worked in the past. Despite the fact that it's obvious to any rational observer that the justification died a long time ago.
Your relationship, intellectual buy-in, mindshare, whatever you want to call it died when this company was taken over. Write them off as a source of future employment and just manage the revenue stream as a diminishing resource while it lasts. Stop wasting your time and energy on them.
In the UK we have had uncapped order-matching betting on virtually anything for over a decade. There has been a steady flow of attempts to profit from insider information (the identity of the new Archbishop of Canterbury is the most recent!) and manipulate events (darts and snooker seem to be frequent offenders). There were even attempts to cut power to the floodlights at Premiership evening games if they were heading for an unprofitable result. However the betting exchanges are perfectly willing to suspend markets and co-operate with the relevant sporting authorities when suspicious betting occurs.
The UK is unusual in that nowehere is far from the sea so its topography has little in the way of flood plains to begin with. Population pressure has led to a lot of developments on these flood plains - minimal as they are - as you correctly state. I have seen new developments literally up to the banks of rivers with no additional drainage channels dug which is verging on criminally negligent. The upshot is that rivers now have no spare capacity to dissipate sudden rainfall and we have far more frequent and extreme flooding.
Higher sea-levels will make things worse in the long run but it's a tiny effect compared to the reduction in capacity of the river system.
Just looking at GoGaRuCo's 2012 seventeen speakers there is only one who appears to be non-white. They also seem overwhelmingly liberal and - purely based on their names - I would estimate a third are jewish. Maybe he needs to put his own 'diversity' house in order? Where are the Republican-voting WASPs at GoGaRuCo? Shut this racist conference down!!!
It was an attempt at humour. Steve Wozniak seems strangely obsessed with the "last-mile" provision of internet access and has expressed an interest in becoming an Australian citizen specficially citing the US broadband network as a reason.
What should you do? Leave the country and become an Australian citizen in protest!
If you're planning on living there for a long time maybe become a micro-ISP as a fun project purely for yourself initially. Don't sell the service to your neighbours until everything is up and running.
It's not a perfect market though because one company (British Telecom) inherited all the copper wiring joining people's homes to the network even though it was originally publicly funded through the Post Office before BT existed as a commercial company. Now they charge you a line rental even if you use a different ISP (as if they could rent that specific piece of wire to anyone else). Some areas of the UK are cabled up and you can avoid this nonsense but I was recently informed that my flat (=apartment) could not access cable despite the fact it's on a main road in West London. The cost of physically drilling through concrete and laying cables is way way beyond the budget of small ISPs so you're stuck piggybacking on BT lines.
Not surprising as there were MMO games already up and running in the UK in the 80s as long as massive includes "a few dozen" and you don't mind the fact they were text only. It was an obvious step to include graphics but the bandwidth simply didn't exist
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IANAL either but ignoring legal communications - even bs ones - isn't good practice. I would reply in an extremely minimalist way, don't make the mistake of getting into rant mode. Don't give any opinions or statements open to interpretation. I'd just reply and state that as you are not a user of their software you are not bound by its terms and conditions.
The analogy of building a house is a terrible one and Lamport is just plain wrong. You would quite rightly expect disaster if you suddenly decided to add an extra bedroom while in the middle of building a house, or suddenly switch the front and back, or decide to add an extra storey. However analogous changes while developing software are really not a big deal. House-building requires physical objects to be assembled in a very precise way, ordered in time and space. Software is supremely flexible. By all means let's improve software engineering but stop bringing in completely nonsensical analogies.
They detected an intruder illegally breaking into their network and worked with the authorities to catch the perpetrator in the act. What happened afterwards is not MIT's fault. If you decide to "stick it to the man" then be prepared for some blowback.
Just think of the money he's saved on shaving products and haircuts.
True but there were a lot of similar projects regarding computers in the 70s and 80s. It's just a winnowing process that needs to happen.
You're probably unaware that the backstory to this development is the academic boycott of publishers Elsevier over their price-gouging tactics. They're not casualties - they're legitimate targets.
Einstein had become irrelevant in physics at least 20 years before his death. Of course he retained great stature and influence in the world and tried to use it for good but he wasn't advancing physics. Newton was Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint in London for the last 30 years of his life. I don't know enough about the others but I doubt they were making real progress by the end of their lives.
Couldn't agree more and surprised I had to scroll down this far to find such a view. The code is OK but with a variety of annoying things wrong. I write more beautiful code than that at work every day. I had my doubts when the author wrote that "MainMenu.cc ballooned to 24,501 lines. The once-beautiful source code was a mess riddled with #ifdefs, gratuitous function pointers, ugly inline SIMD and asm code". To a guy living in a mental pigsty the id code would look pretty nice but it's far from beautiful.
You should try Houdini (1.5 is the free version). It's much, much better than Fritz. I've been testing it on human games where the GM played a move a computer might not find and it gets it almost every time (and when it doesn't its line is superior).
You seem be drowning in that "Intellectual Property" Kool-Aid. Businesses copy each other all the time. It's called progress. It's not immoral. Buying a company is just a quick way to get access to a new product or feature as opposed to building your own from scratch.
"But outside Kabul and other big cities the changes are more patchy. Most Afghans still live in rural areas, where poverty, conflict and conservative attitudes are more likely to keep girls and women at home. [...] These are also the heartlands of the Pashtuns, the ethnic group from which the Taliban emerged and who have always had the most conservative views of a woman's role." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19911341
Well Saddam Hussein wasn't known for embracing constructive criticism either but you have a fair point. The West - which realistically means the US - should insist on democratic reforms and freedoms when using its power to save these dictatorships from each other. There's currently a similar wilfull blindness in Afghanistan. The enemy (the Taliban) is demonised by various views on women's education/behaviour etc. However the Afghans themselves are just as extremist once you get outside Kabul. Their differences with the Taliban are more based on tribal and clan loyalties than fundamental differences in beliefs. The media likes to imply that once the evil Taliban is defeated Afghani women will be able to marry who they want, go to university, and parade round in bikinis. They won't.
Does anyone know what the Flying Spaghetti Monster's take on flu shots is?
Games programming pays very poorly because it has an associated 'glamour' among young nerds willing to work insane hours.
As silly a troll as this is .... I just LOLed. I'm going to be using some of this.
If it's "stealing" why isn't anyone charged with theft? They're charged with copyright infringement. Doesn't that tell you that it's copying not stealing?
One theme I see throughout modern history is individuals or groups carrying on doing the same thing because it worked in the past. Despite the fact that it's obvious to any rational observer that the justification died a long time ago. Your relationship, intellectual buy-in, mindshare, whatever you want to call it died when this company was taken over. Write them off as a source of future employment and just manage the revenue stream as a diminishing resource while it lasts. Stop wasting your time and energy on them.
In the UK we have had uncapped order-matching betting on virtually anything for over a decade. There has been a steady flow of attempts to profit from insider information (the identity of the new Archbishop of Canterbury is the most recent!) and manipulate events (darts and snooker seem to be frequent offenders). There were even attempts to cut power to the floodlights at Premiership evening games if they were heading for an unprofitable result. However the betting exchanges are perfectly willing to suspend markets and co-operate with the relevant sporting authorities when suspicious betting occurs.
The UK is unusual in that nowehere is far from the sea so its topography has little in the way of flood plains to begin with. Population pressure has led to a lot of developments on these flood plains - minimal as they are - as you correctly state. I have seen new developments literally up to the banks of rivers with no additional drainage channels dug which is verging on criminally negligent. The upshot is that rivers now have no spare capacity to dissipate sudden rainfall and we have far more frequent and extreme flooding. Higher sea-levels will make things worse in the long run but it's a tiny effect compared to the reduction in capacity of the river system.
Just looking at GoGaRuCo's 2012 seventeen speakers there is only one who appears to be non-white. They also seem overwhelmingly liberal and - purely based on their names - I would estimate a third are jewish. Maybe he needs to put his own 'diversity' house in order? Where are the Republican-voting WASPs at GoGaRuCo? Shut this racist conference down!!!
I wouldn't advise trying to live in a compound in the Belize jungle without a large amount of firepower.
It was an attempt at humour. Steve Wozniak seems strangely obsessed with the "last-mile" provision of internet access and has expressed an interest in becoming an Australian citizen specficially citing the US broadband network as a reason.
What should you do? Leave the country and become an Australian citizen in protest! If you're planning on living there for a long time maybe become a micro-ISP as a fun project purely for yourself initially. Don't sell the service to your neighbours until everything is up and running.
It's not a perfect market though because one company (British Telecom) inherited all the copper wiring joining people's homes to the network even though it was originally publicly funded through the Post Office before BT existed as a commercial company. Now they charge you a line rental even if you use a different ISP (as if they could rent that specific piece of wire to anyone else). Some areas of the UK are cabled up and you can avoid this nonsense but I was recently informed that my flat (=apartment) could not access cable despite the fact it's on a main road in West London. The cost of physically drilling through concrete and laying cables is way way beyond the budget of small ISPs so you're stuck piggybacking on BT lines.
Not surprising as there were MMO games already up and running in the UK in the 80s as long as massive includes "a few dozen" and you don't mind the fact they were text only. It was an obvious step to include graphics but the bandwidth simply didn't exist