I think both Google and Oracle have transitioned beyond the threshold of evil beyond which there is no discerning the scale thereof, but in this specific case Oracle is clearly in the wrong.
It's like someone patented the Oxford Comma and by extension the works of anyone who has ever used one. A programming language is very similar to a written/spoken language, an API is very similar to a grammatical style or tone of voice - it contains no substance in itself, it does nothing in itself, it's just a thing which is required to exist - everything that interacts with anything has them and there is nothing novel in the API of anything - it is literally an interface by which the thing interacts. In a more fuzzy logic/business arena: if you can control any API you write then suddenly everyone who uses your platform is effectively working for you without being paid and is forbidden from reusing anything they themselves wrote elsewhere without effectively starting over from scratch to change the style in which it was written.
Found the Oracle PR shill. Not that I favor Google, both companies should be shut down for being too big to exist - but saying an API is copyrightable, trademarkable, or patentable is absolutely absurd - even more absurd than saying that of a programming language. A programming language is akin to a spoken/written language, an API is akin to the Oxford Comma - you can't patent grammatical style, even if that style is ebonics.
That depends who you ask. I know people who consider.NET legacy in favor of Java and actively work to switch - at the end of the day it really just comes down to whether a Microsoft or an Oracle rep manage to weasel their way into management's head.
Comedy is the union of some combination of wrong things which triggers a primitive reflex to laugh at the failure to logically reconcile those things - it's not a skill, it's a mental failing.
There was MySpace, which was amazing for meeting people with similar interests, then Facebook bought them and killed the search functionality exposed to end users so that made it completely worthless. There was Yahoo 360, but they took a way too isolated approach to things and never really had interconnected profiles unless you knew someone's name beforehand. Google+ is just garbage (even if they weren't every bit as evil as Facebook.) The big issue is there's no way to monetize it without selling the user data since noone wants to pay for it and it requires way more bandwidth between the media rich content and the ADHD attention whores constantly hitting refresh than advertising can hope to recover. If they brought the old MySpace (2005-ish era) back that would be about as close to perfect as it could get, but Facebook or Google would just buy out anyone that tried to make that level of data available to the average pleb.
You don't have to reach a stable orbit to lose gas, you just need to expand the atmosphere enough for the solar wind to knock it further out - that already happens and it's a balance between escaping and new particles - any change to the system changes where the balance point is.
Air sticks to solids, it also has a surface tension like effect that helps it drag along other air molecules. The effect of a space elevator would be similar to capillary action - it's not such a big deal with it escaping normally because between atomic decay in the Earth and solar winds the air gets replenished to a stable level, but when you increase the height it can obtain with the aforementioned boundary effect of the solid and gas you will effectively create a pipe pumping air up where it takes much less energy to escape. An electrodynamic tether produces the effect which would cause orbital changes in both the Earth and the moon, the Earth-ionosphere boundary has a significant (~300MV if memory serves, but it might be higher at times) voltage differential - that's plenty to make the orbit change from the tug on the tether from the sun's magnetic field alone. Think of it like an asymmetrically weighted top, it will spin and average out in the spin, but there is also a precession that will get more and more off-kilter as it spins until the thing goes flying off (since it will naturally be in resonance with the spin of the Earth simply by being geostationary, it will turn that relatively small off-center tug into an enormous effect.) That's not an effect which would be immediate, but over 50-100 years you would definitely see a change much more profound than anything observed by climate change - likely resulting in a highly elliptical orbit around the sun swinging between extreme heat and extreme cold. The moon itself would be impacted because the Earth-moon system rotate around a common center and that center would be constantly changing with an electrodynamic tether attached to the Earth - the result of which would be a loss of energy from the system (again, because of the resonant effect on the Earth - this would be similar to tidal locking but would impact the velocity instead of the period of rotation.) Honestly, if we get really serious about cheap spaceflight the best way to go would be a series of Wardenclyffe-like power transfer plants which use jet and then electrodynamic effects to launch spaceplanes into orbit without needing to carry fuel for the voyage up (just for the space-bound portion of the trip.) That alone would radically reduce the needed thrust-mass ratios to break orbit for a given payload.
Like Hell. Between the dark ages culling free thinkers, the AU colonization deporting independent individuals, and the US colonization deporting people who had different societal norms the British selectively bred themselves into a sub-Human abomination of Humanity comprised of a two-class system with an arrogant and incompetent ruling class mixed with a submissive and incompetent lower class. The British stopped being Human, that's why they lost their empire and continue to allow colonization of their homeland by foreigners who will never assimilate while trying to accommodate that lack of assimilation at the expense of their own people - ironically like some foolhardy attempt to regain some semblance of their long-gone Humanity by taking on an equally controllable but equally useless extreme. Their ruling class will fight to the end to retain control at any cost, and by the time they reach the end the population they rule over will be so different from them that they themselves will have no safe harbor or means of control.
You're conflating the media with US citizens - most of them are actually dual citizens distributing propaganda for foreign nations. We elected Trump in spite of their propaganda and election rigging because we like what he offered and continue to like what he's doing to MAGA. Don't trust anything the media says and you'll find it easier to understand.
It provides people with low pay for the same job a basis to ask for a raise and it eliminates the possibility of being the "expensive guy" who is easy to cut in turn while then giving the higher producing guy more leverage to negotiate for higher pay. It is considered to be against business etiquette because etiquette is dictated by the business managers and it is universally bad for them when the employees have leverage in negotiations.
Most likely. c# is still the best language for business development because it is so quick to reliably bang shit or enterprise scale applications out in, client or server - while the IDE is still the easiest to use. Microsoft has had two things going for them from the start: marketing and catering to developers (the source of all the shit users use,) the latter is the only thing which really matters because if it costs a business 1.2x as much to do something in Linux and the enterprise operating system and desktop software is less than 20% of the cost of all their custom shit (it is, by a lot,) they will stick with it.
TL;DR: catering to developers is their bread and butter, nothing else they do matters because users don't get a vote.
It was a couple decades ago, but I'm 99% sure this is the exact thing they lost an antitrust lawsuit over already (only instead of Edge+Mail it was IE+Explorer.)
-Create lightning connections favoring selling off coins.
-Once you've peaked at the limit of the pair transaction switch to favoring the buying of coins.
-DDoS the other party.
-Post old lightning state, showing the other party owes you.
-They can't refute it with the correct state.
-Get the free coins.
-Rinse and Repeat, or just do it in parallel.
The lightning protocol is so fundamentally flawed that anyone with enough BTC and access to a botnet (even for rent) can claim the coins of everyone else who participates in it.
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I think both Google and Oracle have transitioned beyond the threshold of evil beyond which there is no discerning the scale thereof, but in this specific case Oracle is clearly in the wrong.
That exact case was already decided in the c#/mono language debate, Microsoft lost and with good reason.
It's like someone patented the Oxford Comma and by extension the works of anyone who has ever used one. A programming language is very similar to a written/spoken language, an API is very similar to a grammatical style or tone of voice - it contains no substance in itself, it does nothing in itself, it's just a thing which is required to exist - everything that interacts with anything has them and there is nothing novel in the API of anything - it is literally an interface by which the thing interacts. In a more fuzzy logic/business arena: if you can control any API you write then suddenly everyone who uses your platform is effectively working for you without being paid and is forbidden from reusing anything they themselves wrote elsewhere without effectively starting over from scratch to change the style in which it was written.
Found the Oracle PR shill. Not that I favor Google, both companies should be shut down for being too big to exist - but saying an API is copyrightable, trademarkable, or patentable is absolutely absurd - even more absurd than saying that of a programming language. A programming language is akin to a spoken/written language, an API is akin to the Oxford Comma - you can't patent grammatical style, even if that style is ebonics.
That depends who you ask. I know people who consider .NET legacy in favor of Java and actively work to switch - at the end of the day it really just comes down to whether a Microsoft or an Oracle rep manage to weasel their way into management's head.
A corporation killed someone - at the absolute minimum their entire board should be charged with manslaughter and the company shut down.
Comedy is the union of some combination of wrong things which triggers a primitive reflex to laugh at the failure to logically reconcile those things - it's not a skill, it's a mental failing.
The trolls aren't the problem, the marketing and PR shills are. Trolls cause comedy, marketing and PR shills cause drama.
You get a few ass-hats who see themselves as too good for the rest of the forum.
Or, and just throwing this out there, you can go fuck yourself?
Nah, for OP the best way to fight climate change is for him to /wrists.
There was MySpace, which was amazing for meeting people with similar interests, then Facebook bought them and killed the search functionality exposed to end users so that made it completely worthless. There was Yahoo 360, but they took a way too isolated approach to things and never really had interconnected profiles unless you knew someone's name beforehand. Google+ is just garbage (even if they weren't every bit as evil as Facebook.) The big issue is there's no way to monetize it without selling the user data since noone wants to pay for it and it requires way more bandwidth between the media rich content and the ADHD attention whores constantly hitting refresh than advertising can hope to recover. If they brought the old MySpace (2005-ish era) back that would be about as close to perfect as it could get, but Facebook or Google would just buy out anyone that tried to make that level of data available to the average pleb.
You don't have to reach a stable orbit to lose gas, you just need to expand the atmosphere enough for the solar wind to knock it further out - that already happens and it's a balance between escaping and new particles - any change to the system changes where the balance point is.
It's Human to have free thinking individuals who disagree with the norm, every culture that has ever existed has killed and enslaved people.
Air sticks to solids, it also has a surface tension like effect that helps it drag along other air molecules. The effect of a space elevator would be similar to capillary action - it's not such a big deal with it escaping normally because between atomic decay in the Earth and solar winds the air gets replenished to a stable level, but when you increase the height it can obtain with the aforementioned boundary effect of the solid and gas you will effectively create a pipe pumping air up where it takes much less energy to escape. An electrodynamic tether produces the effect which would cause orbital changes in both the Earth and the moon, the Earth-ionosphere boundary has a significant (~300MV if memory serves, but it might be higher at times) voltage differential - that's plenty to make the orbit change from the tug on the tether from the sun's magnetic field alone. Think of it like an asymmetrically weighted top, it will spin and average out in the spin, but there is also a precession that will get more and more off-kilter as it spins until the thing goes flying off (since it will naturally be in resonance with the spin of the Earth simply by being geostationary, it will turn that relatively small off-center tug into an enormous effect.) That's not an effect which would be immediate, but over 50-100 years you would definitely see a change much more profound than anything observed by climate change - likely resulting in a highly elliptical orbit around the sun swinging between extreme heat and extreme cold. The moon itself would be impacted because the Earth-moon system rotate around a common center and that center would be constantly changing with an electrodynamic tether attached to the Earth - the result of which would be a loss of energy from the system (again, because of the resonant effect on the Earth - this would be similar to tidal locking but would impact the velocity instead of the period of rotation.) Honestly, if we get really serious about cheap spaceflight the best way to go would be a series of Wardenclyffe-like power transfer plants which use jet and then electrodynamic effects to launch spaceplanes into orbit without needing to carry fuel for the voyage up (just for the space-bound portion of the trip.) That alone would radically reduce the needed thrust-mass ratios to break orbit for a given payload.
Everything I wrote is derived from known science, Mr. Hyperbole.
People aren't divided, city dwellers and rural people are divided. City dwellers don't have Humanity in them so they don't matter.
Spoken like a worthless foreigner, opinion disregarded.
Like Hell. Between the dark ages culling free thinkers, the AU colonization deporting independent individuals, and the US colonization deporting people who had different societal norms the British selectively bred themselves into a sub-Human abomination of Humanity comprised of a two-class system with an arrogant and incompetent ruling class mixed with a submissive and incompetent lower class. The British stopped being Human, that's why they lost their empire and continue to allow colonization of their homeland by foreigners who will never assimilate while trying to accommodate that lack of assimilation at the expense of their own people - ironically like some foolhardy attempt to regain some semblance of their long-gone Humanity by taking on an equally controllable but equally useless extreme. Their ruling class will fight to the end to retain control at any cost, and by the time they reach the end the population they rule over will be so different from them that they themselves will have no safe harbor or means of control.
You're conflating the media with US citizens - most of them are actually dual citizens distributing propaganda for foreign nations. We elected Trump in spite of their propaganda and election rigging because we like what he offered and continue to like what he's doing to MAGA. Don't trust anything the media says and you'll find it easier to understand.
Idiocracy is not a how-to video.
The Brits don't need a how-to video, they're so incompetent they still don't understand why they lost their empire.
A space elevator is a universally terrible idea. It would not only leave a permanent hole in the ionosphere, it would also:
People who propose space elevators are morons. that's the real reason it hasn't been done. Space elevators are a seriously world-destroying idea.
It provides people with low pay for the same job a basis to ask for a raise and it eliminates the possibility of being the "expensive guy" who is easy to cut in turn while then giving the higher producing guy more leverage to negotiate for higher pay. It is considered to be against business etiquette because etiquette is dictated by the business managers and it is universally bad for them when the employees have leverage in negotiations.
Most likely. c# is still the best language for business development because it is so quick to reliably bang shit or enterprise scale applications out in, client or server - while the IDE is still the easiest to use. Microsoft has had two things going for them from the start: marketing and catering to developers (the source of all the shit users use,) the latter is the only thing which really matters because if it costs a business 1.2x as much to do something in Linux and the enterprise operating system and desktop software is less than 20% of the cost of all their custom shit (it is, by a lot,) they will stick with it.
TL;DR: catering to developers is their bread and butter, nothing else they do matters because users don't get a vote.
It was a couple decades ago, but I'm 99% sure this is the exact thing they lost an antitrust lawsuit over already (only instead of Edge+Mail it was IE+Explorer.)
This is more or less the end:
-Create lightning connections favoring selling off coins.
-Once you've peaked at the limit of the pair transaction switch to favoring the buying of coins.
-DDoS the other party.
-Post old lightning state, showing the other party owes you.
-They can't refute it with the correct state.
-Get the free coins.
-Rinse and Repeat, or just do it in parallel.
The lightning protocol is so fundamentally flawed that anyone with enough BTC and access to a botnet (even for rent) can claim the coins of everyone else who participates in it.