Fact of the matter is they wouldn't have worked on these technologies if another company could legally come in, replicate their product exactly, and take a significant slice of potential market share.
Really???!! What were your parents, owners of the companies that used those patents? Or were they for some other reason paid a percentage of company's revenue or profits over some extended period of time?
Oh, I am not complaining. I am just surprised after years of Microsoft shills screaming "Linux has a security bug in libpng but Windows does not!" and similar nonsense.
Except, it's their money, and no one but those rich guys cares about their money staying in their pockets. If ten rich sociopaths will have to lose their health insurance and die from cancer for every honest cop to be hired, or for every decently run train line to remain in service, I would vote for it in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, THIS discussion is about writing and debugging software, not about using software (already written and known to be not buggy) to analyze the nature of some data and apply it to problem solving.
No-one except you seems to be talking about just writing random shit, though.
What people are describing IS "writing random shit" +/- negligible amount of understanding coming from a person unfamiliar with logic or engineering.
In any case, I don't think any developer on the planet, including you, actually lives up to the artificial standard you seem to consider minimal for acceptable work. It's just that everyone else here is acknowledging that reality and considering potential ways to do better, while you're burying your head in the sand and saying that anyone else who doesn't is a dumbass.
The reality is that shit happens. It is not a justification for swimming in shit. What those people are advocating, is swimming in shit.
Scientific method is for research, and it involves devising theories that make sense.
Alchemists used exactly the same method as those pseudo-programmers -- they didn't care about knowledge unless it promised to accomplish their goals, their reasoning was basically making up things randomly, and they spent centuries tinkering with chemicals trying to convince each other that they are getting closer to those goals.
Bugs have nothing to do with "human behavior". Humans are fine with software that does exactly what it's supposed to do -- a bad reaction to "human behavior" would be something like Windows 8 or GNOME 3 UI -- an irritating mess but not a bug.
The next time some stupid halfwits manage to kill a large number of people in the same place, stop thinking about revenge, and never again say "Something Must Be Done." Just prosecute as many of them as are still alive and then get on with life.
That really does not help if people are convinced that all people with brown skin are associated with terrorists.
There is a difference between being occasionally wrong by accident, and being occasionally right by accident. The idea you and this "TuringTest" guy are defending, is of the second kind.
Yessss! When my brain no longer works, I want to be asked if it is broken enough to consider me dead! Or, better, have my stupid relatives decide that!
Out of all the alternatives, I would rather rely on a doctor's decision.
"Tests", no matter how numerous, cover an infinitely small fraction of possible instances of your code being used (that would be an infinite number of, unless you take into account the maximum lifetime of the Universe). They are supposed to assist a developer finding some faults in his reasoning, nothing more than that.
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Because for US to start a nuclear war, it's sufficient that US military and government beieved that those things will work.
...and here they are, Microsoft shills.
Hey, hairyfeet, stop responding to your own posts, you are not fooling anyone, and you are not being paid for anonymous responses.
Fact of the matter is they wouldn't have worked on these technologies if another company could legally come in, replicate their product exactly, and take a significant slice of potential market share.
Really???!! What were your parents, owners of the companies that used those patents? Or were they for some other reason paid a percentage of company's revenue or profits over some extended period of time?
If not, it is no loss for them.
(and neither can Slashdot, thanks to its broken language support, but this time it's probably a good thing).
Oh, I am not complaining. I am just surprised after years of Microsoft shills screaming "Linux has a security bug in libpng but Windows does not!" and similar nonsense.
Since when Microsoft started counting those as bugs? Their usual policy is only to count remote exploits as "real" bugs worth being announced.
Except, it's their money, and no one but those rich guys cares about their money staying in their pockets. If ten rich sociopaths will have to lose their health insurance and die from cancer for every honest cop to be hired, or for every decently run train line to remain in service, I would vote for it in a heartbeat.
If you are capable of such research, you ARE a doctor.
The way I usually explain it to people:
"Debugger is not a debugging tool. It's a reverse-engineering and crash analysis tool".
Unfortunately, THIS discussion is about writing and debugging software, not about using software (already written and known to be not buggy) to analyze the nature of some data and apply it to problem solving.
Why Slashdot editors continue posting links to writing of a known anti-Linux, anti-Open Source shill?
Don't try to attach a stupid fraud if yourself to people who actually accomplished something. They all agree with me.
I don't agree with you. But then I suppose that means I'm no true Scotsman.
No, it means that you have not accomplished anything in software or any form of engineering.
No-one except you seems to be talking about just writing random shit, though.
What people are describing IS "writing random shit" +/- negligible amount of understanding coming from a person unfamiliar with logic or engineering.
In any case, I don't think any developer on the planet, including you, actually lives up to the artificial standard you seem to consider minimal for acceptable work. It's just that everyone else here is acknowledging that reality and considering potential ways to do better, while you're burying your head in the sand and saying that anyone else who doesn't is a dumbass.
The reality is that shit happens. It is not a justification for swimming in shit. What those people are advocating, is swimming in shit.
When "right tool for the job" is writing random shit and being a dumbass, job should not be done at all.
Scientific method is for research, and it involves devising theories that make sense.
Alchemists used exactly the same method as those pseudo-programmers -- they didn't care about knowledge unless it promised to accomplish their goals, their reasoning was basically making up things randomly, and they spent centuries tinkering with chemicals trying to convince each other that they are getting closer to those goals.
Being a dumbass is a good tool for a job if the job is to be a fraud. Otherwise it's a problem.
Bugs have nothing to do with "human behavior". Humans are fine with software that does exactly what it's supposed to do -- a bad reaction to "human behavior" would be something like Windows 8 or GNOME 3 UI -- an irritating mess but not a bug.
The next time some stupid halfwits manage to kill a large number of people in the same place, stop thinking about revenge, and never again say "Something Must Be Done." Just prosecute as many of them as are still alive and then get on with life.
That really does not help if people are convinced that all people with brown skin are associated with terrorists.
There is a difference between being occasionally wrong by accident, and being occasionally right by accident. The idea you and this "TuringTest" guy are defending, is of the second kind.
Yessss! When my brain no longer works, I want to be asked if it is broken enough to consider me dead! Or, better, have my stupid relatives decide that!
Out of all the alternatives, I would rather rely on a doctor's decision.
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Don't try to attach a stupid fraud if yourself to people who actually accomplished something. They all agree with me.
"My approach" is the most fundamental of all foundations of engineering. The only alternative is quackery.
Congratulations, you are an idiot.
"Tests", no matter how numerous, cover an infinitely small fraction of possible instances of your code being used (that would be an infinite number of, unless you take into account the maximum lifetime of the Universe). They are supposed to assist a developer finding some faults in his reasoning, nothing more than that.