are ytou sure? Think about what $500 is worth today. Now think about what it was worth 50 years ago. Think about what it will be worth in 50 or 100 years. Eventually, that $500 will be worth about a stick of gum.
> Dear Mr. Moderator, please mod this up. I realize that it is posted every single time that slashdot posts an article on java, but this time it's serious. thanks.
Is it just me, or did Netflix just patent the private online library.
You pay a membership fee. You can only check out only a few 'books' at a time month. To get 'books' that are in high demand, you may have to wait on a waiting list.
That wasn't a typo post. A typo post would rag you for poor typing skills or incorrect spelling. That post is ragging your poor grammar skills....in any case you should feel honored. That wasn't just a grammar post. That was the BEST grammar post EVAR!
Even though IBM may have the patent on RCU tech, SCO could still have a copyright on an implementation of RCU. SCO would have to pay whatever license IBM specified on the RCU implementation, but that alone would not give IBM the right to use SCOs copyrighted source code without their permission.
They can't replace the umpire with this machine. It only determines if the ball was in the strike zone or not. It doesn't call checked swings. It doesn't call hit by pitch. It doesn't call runners safe or out. It doesn't throw managers out of the game.
The Umpires still have plenty to do on the field, so there is no need to cut anyone's pay.
A economist goes into a public restroom and sees a quarter in the bottom of the toilet. He weighs his options and decides that the labor, sanitary, and emotional costs of sticking his had into the toilet outweigh the value of the quarter. So he throws another quarter into the toilet and then reaches in to pick them both out.
This reminds me of the economist joke I heard a few weeks ago.
Two economists are walking down the street and see a $50 bill on the sidewalk.
The first economist leans over to pick up the bill, but the other second economist stops him. The Second Economist explains, "If it were worth picking up, someone would have done it already."
The post was the result of me getting far to little sleep this weekend. I had been in a similar situiation once and took the hear to heart conversation route (and it worked). The post got silly when I lost my inner struggle against slap-happiness.
I want to start by saying that this project is on a deathmarch and it hasn't even started yet. I doubt there is anything you can do to save it. When the project fails, there will be a lot of pissed off people and a big pile of shit will be heading for that fan at the end of the hall. Your number one priority should be to cover your own ass. Document everything. Keep copious notes. Print everything out and take it home.
That said the FIRST thing you should do Monday morning is to call your State Department of Labor. What you are being asked to do may be illegal.
NEXT, if you work at a big enough company, mention the situiation to your boss's boss or boss's boss's boss (aka Senior of Corporate Management ). They might not be in the loop about what is going on. This may be in violation of company policy. Or they may be smart enough to know the signs of a death march and take steps to stop it before it gets started.
But, if they can't help you you have a couple of options...
- Work the hours and don't complain.
- Explain to your management that it is not possible for you to put in those hours on such short notice. Explain the outside of work commitments that you have in your life. Apologise for not being able to work the extra hours, and then don't work them.
- Say nothing to them, just don't work the hours.
- Keep a log of when you and everyone else on the team comes in and goes home. Next time your review comes up show them what a good resource you are.
- Do the same as above, but put a packet sniffer on your managers PC. Next time you have a review, show them what a hard worker you are and what porn sites they have been surfing during business hours.
- Start coming to work in a Star Trek uniform. demand that everyone refer to you as 'Commander'.
- Every day at 5pm hit the emergency power off in the server room and pull the fire alarm.
Actually all the GPL does is is to forbid you from distributing closed source software. All it says is that if you give someone a binary that uses GPL'd code, you have to give them the source too.
So long as you only use the application internally, you don't have to give up your source.
I wrote a really smarmy reply to this post, but have decided just to sum it up instead.
Verizon lays it's fibre in the public trust. They run it across the yards of countless homeowners and through countless miles of public land. That gives the public some say in what Verizon does with that fibre. So when you say, "So what if Verizon doesn't have to share..." I say, "Then get that fibre off that fibre off my land."
Has anyone heard what any of the SCO techies are saying about this suit? We've all heard what the lawyers and the suits have to say.
How about we have a Slashdot Interview with an anonymous SCO techie? Most techies I know would jump at the opportunity to set the record straight if they were in a similar circumstance (espescially if their anonimity could be guarranteed.)
So what do you say Comandante Taco? Can we get and interview?
If you've broken code it really doesn't matter which programming language was used to write that code.
I think you misunderstood what the original poster was pointing out. I believe he was complaining about the trouble that is caused by the manual memory management in C++. He was pointing out that had the program been written in Java, he wouldn't have to waste his time dicking around with memory management. (This really more than a C++ vs Java issue. This is a general memory management issue. Java doesn't have the monopoly on memory management. See products like Great Circle for C++ alternatives.)
In C++ you have to take care of freeing memory, That is by design and if you can't handle it...
Well where I come we don't need any of your fancy 'new's and 'deletes'. Hell! we don't need luxeries like mice or keyboards and GUIs either. Those are for the WEAK. We just set the memory manually using toggle switches. An not those new fangled debounced toggles either, I'm talking about good ole fashioned toggle switches - the kind that click when ya' flip 'em! Sure it takes a little bit longer to code and debug, but that is by design and if you can't handle it you should use another language.
There is a document that you need to read called the Constitution of the United States. Specifically, direct your attention to article one. That's the part establishing the legislature and empowering it to make laws.
Through the use of these laws, a person's (or corporation's) livelyhood may be destroyed.
Since the use of the radio spectrum is governed by laws it would be a simple and legal matter to change the laws to make entities such as Clear Channel illegal.
If you consider the goal of the project was to incourage community activism, then the project was an outstandinhg success. The fact that there were vast gaps in rural areas is really not germain to that goal.
Fact is, most crimes are commited by repeat offenders. Most people DON'T change...
I'm not sure you can draw that that conclusion from the fact you presented. I'm not saying it isn't true, but I would find it interesting to see how many people commit a crime only once and compare it to the number of repeat offenders.
My guy feeling is that the number of single time offenders will exceed the number of repeat ofenders (but that feeling isn't very strong).
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Actually it's only $90 a month for the Full Direct TV package. That includes $5 a month for the Direct TV TIVO menu.
are ytou sure? Think about what $500 is worth today. Now think about what it was worth 50 years ago. Think about what it will be worth in 50 or 100 years. Eventually, that $500 will be worth about a stick of gum.
Public Domain Enhancement Act
PDEA.
Does that make people who like this bill pdeaophiles?
>this is not a troll......
Please allow me to translate
> Dear Mr. Moderator, please mod this up. I realize that it is posted every single time that slashdot posts an article on java, but this time it's serious. thanks.
Is it just me, or did Netflix just patent the private online library.
You pay a membership fee. You can only check out only a few 'books' at a time month. To get 'books' that are in high demand, you may have to wait on a waiting list.
Doesn't sound terribly innovative to me.
That wasn't a typo post. A typo post would rag you for poor typing skills or incorrect spelling. That post is ragging your poor grammar skills. ...in any case you should feel honored. That wasn't just a grammar post. That was the BEST grammar post EVAR!
Even though IBM may have the patent on RCU tech, SCO could still have a copyright on an implementation of RCU. SCO would have to pay whatever license IBM specified on the RCU implementation, but that alone would not give IBM the right to use SCOs copyrighted source code without their permission.
They can't replace the umpire with this machine. It only determines if the ball was in the strike zone or not. It doesn't call checked swings. It doesn't call hit by pitch. It doesn't call runners safe or out. It doesn't throw managers out of the game.
The Umpires still have plenty to do on the field, so there is no need to cut anyone's pay.
Which reminds me of another one...
A economist goes into a public restroom and sees a quarter in the bottom of the toilet. He weighs his options and decides that the labor, sanitary, and emotional costs of sticking his had into the toilet outweigh the value of the quarter. So he throws another quarter into the toilet and then reaches in to pick them both out.
This reminds me of the economist joke I heard a few weeks ago.
Two economists are walking down the street and see a $50 bill on the sidewalk.
The first economist leans over to pick up the bill, but the other second economist stops him. The Second Economist explains, "If it were worth picking up, someone would have done it already."
One simple solution to your problem would be to only buy DVDs from stores that accept returns.
That's why I don't buy software at Best Buy.
Aren't stories like this supposed to start: "Dear Penthouse Forum. I never thought this would happent to me but..." ...and end up a little spicier?
The post was the result of me getting far to little sleep this weekend. I had been in a similar situiation once and took the hear to heart conversation route (and it worked). The post got silly when I lost my inner struggle against slap-happiness.
I want to start by saying that this project is on a deathmarch and it hasn't even started yet. I doubt there is anything you can do to save it. When the project fails, there will be a lot of pissed off people and a big pile of shit will be heading for that fan at the end of the hall. Your number one priority should be to cover your own ass. Document everything. Keep copious notes. Print everything out and take it home.
That said the FIRST thing you should do Monday morning is to call your State Department of Labor. What you are being asked to do may be illegal.
NEXT, if you work at a big enough company, mention the situiation to your boss's boss or boss's boss's boss (aka Senior of Corporate Management ). They might not be in the loop about what is going on. This may be in violation of company policy. Or they may be smart enough to know the signs of a death march and take steps to stop it before it gets started.
But, if they can't help you you have a couple of options...
- Work the hours and don't complain.
- Explain to your management that it is not possible for you to put in those hours on such short notice. Explain the outside of work commitments that you have in your life. Apologise for not being able to work the extra hours, and then don't work them.
- Say nothing to them, just don't work the hours.
- Keep a log of when you and everyone else on the team comes in and goes home. Next time your review comes up show them what a good resource you are.
- Do the same as above, but put a packet sniffer on your managers PC. Next time you have a review, show them what a hard worker you are and what porn sites they have been surfing during business
hours.
- Start coming to work in a Star Trek uniform. demand that everyone refer to you as 'Commander'.
- Every day at 5pm hit the emergency power off in the server room and pull the fire alarm.
- Make generous use of the rm -rf * command.
Actually all the GPL does is is to forbid you from distributing closed source software. All it says is that if you give someone a binary that uses GPL'd code, you have to give them the source too.
So long as you only use the application internally, you don't have to give up your source.
Never smelled solder?!?! How will they sweat pipes?
Are we doomed to a future where all plumbing is PVC?
I wrote a really smarmy reply to this post, but have decided just to sum it up instead.
Verizon lays it's fibre in the public trust. They run it across the yards of countless homeowners and through countless miles of public land. That gives the public some say in what Verizon does with that fibre. So when you say, "So what if Verizon doesn't have to share..." I say, "Then get that fibre off that fibre off my land."
It's a shame that yesteday was such a heavy news day. This deserved to be on the front page longer.
With the rapidity that W A S T E disappeared from the nullsoft site I'm surprised that there hasn't been another slashdot story on the subject.
Maggard, you are my hero. I havn't laughed so hard in ages.
Has anyone heard what any of the SCO techies are saying about this suit? We've all heard what the lawyers and the suits have to say.
How about we have a Slashdot Interview with an anonymous SCO techie? Most techies I know would jump at the opportunity to set the record straight if they were in a similar circumstance (espescially if their anonimity could be guarranteed.)
So what do you say Comandante Taco? Can we get and interview?
I think you misunderstood what the original poster was pointing out. I believe he was complaining about the trouble that is caused by the manual memory management in C++. He was pointing out that had the program been written in Java, he wouldn't have to waste his time dicking around with memory management. (This really more than a C++ vs Java issue. This is a general memory management issue. Java doesn't have the monopoly on memory management. See products like Great Circle for C++ alternatives.)
Well where I come we don't need any of your fancy 'new's and 'deletes'. Hell! we don't need luxeries like mice or keyboards and GUIs either. Those are for the WEAK. We just set the memory manually using toggle switches. An not those new fangled debounced toggles either, I'm talking about good ole fashioned toggle switches - the kind that click when ya' flip 'em! Sure it takes a little bit longer to code and debug, but that is by design and if you can't handle it you should use another language.
There is a document that you need to read called the Constitution of the United States. Specifically, direct your attention to article one. That's the part establishing the legislature and empowering it to make laws.
Through the use of these laws, a person's (or corporation's) livelyhood may be destroyed.
Since the use of the radio spectrum is governed by laws it would be a simple and legal matter to change the laws to make entities such as Clear Channel illegal.
If you consider the goal of the project was to incourage community activism, then the project was an outstandinhg success. The fact that there were vast gaps in rural areas is really not germain to that goal.
Java is mature enough now that if you were to add a new keyword (espescially one as common as 'property') there would be significant heartache.
I figure thats why they went with the ':' operator in the new for loop.