Are the RIAA going to be procuring crack for the cops to take while watching the videos - you know, like they do for their "clients"? And (bviously) themselves?
... because really, this sounds like someone's crack fantasy.
... so we end up with the 4-column "tab" to help make up for too many levels of nesting by artificially forcing everything into "it has to be a class"...
Then there was xml... sort of like giving cans of spray paint to kids - they go around tagging EVERYTHING... the more tags the better... no wonder xml is really ghetto...
It seems the less rigour required to use a language, the more likely the end result is going to look and act fugly...
"So you're the guy who shits tabs in random places in source files, because you haven't figured out how to set up your editor to show you the difference."
OMG there's more than ONE of them??? I've got the same problem at work - a guy who uses windows and the MOUSE to cut-n-paste c code. NOTHING lines up.
... and then there's his php and javascript code... a list of parameters a mile long, each on its own line, in the 140th column...
If this keeps on, I'm going back to assembler. At least its clean-looking, and I have yet to see anyone who writes assembler f$ck up the formatting TOO badly! (And no holy brace wars...)
And yes, I'm serious about assembler - I've been playing around with it for the first time in 15 years this weekend. For some things, its just so much easier than c.
Its been posited that life (including intelligent life) could be possible on the surface of a brown dwarf, using exotic chemistries, "helped along" by the much higher gravity. We just don't know, and we may never know.
"Exactly, as well as the simple fact that if conditions weren't suitable for life here, there would be none of us here to remark on how suitable conditions are for life."
Let me fix that for you:
"Exactly, as well as the simple fact that if conditions weren't suitable for life here, there would be none of us here in our current form to remark on how suitable conditions are for life.
If conditions were different, it doesn't mean that life (even intelligent life) wouldn't exist. Now let's all welcome our hard-shell antenna-waving alien overlords...
That's just it - the product is crap. Even wxWidgets is better - linux, mac, windows all supported. LGPL'd, with an exception allowing you to distribute your own closed-source binaries if you want. A bit of history.
The Queen of Canada? hahaha. Sure, we keep her picture on the $20 bill, and some of the coins, but that's about it.
The office of Governor-General is "where the buck stops" nowadays in terms of the monarchy, and while its' a position appointed by the queen, its only after the "advice" of the Canadian government - in reality, its a political sinecure made by whoever's in power at the time. The "queen" would be ill-advised to ignore the "advice."
Its the same with the "oath of allegience to the queen" that MPs swear to when taking their seat after winning an election - its now recognized as being solely ceremonial, and non-binding.
School kids don't pledge allegience to the flag, the queen, the country, or anyone or anything.
Yes, this is quite a change from, say, 50 years ago, but the behaviour of the Queenie's kids (Dumbo the Clown Prince - a.k.a. Chuckles the Clown - in particular) had a lot to do with the decline in the monarchy's perceived suitability as a figurehead.
I know you've been lobbying for years to get me to move up north. The nice people, clean air, beautiful outdoors, universal healthcare, and now apparently a somewhat more laissez-faire approach to copyright law. Look, maybe if you rig the election to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, I might consider moving.
We're a mite peeved at the US right now - you were supposed to KEEP Celine Dion! It was a win-win... we got rid of her, and she kept your old people indoors at the casinos, feeding their Social Security checks to the one-armed bandits.
And you've gone and devalued your dollar to the point where Canadians earning the Canadian minimum wage can afford to vacation in the US... or buy a foreclosed house as a vacation home...
What next - reimpose the draft so we'll be flooded with asylum-seeking draft-dodgers? What's up with that, eh? Are we going to have to burn down the White House again?
It must be a huge psychological stress waiting for your probable-dead husband,
Not half as much psychological stress as if the dead guy actually shows up...
Wife: Gee Steve, you're dead!
Steve: Yep. Been that way for a while. Nice to know you were waiting for me.
Wife: Well of course I waited for you, darling... I knew you'd come home.
Steve: Yeah... well, sorry about the worms, and the smell - being dead is a bit of a drag.
Wife: Cheer up. Now that you're back, we can have your funeral.
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Back in the box!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: We have to, Steve. What would the neighbours say?
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve, try to understand. The dog just tried to bury you in the back yard...
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: You've just being selfish!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Well, you're getting one. So pull youself together - your arm just fell off!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Its either that or we nail you to that Lazy-Boy and you do an imitation of a Norweigan Blue pining for the forests!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: You're DEAD, Steve! Put your eyeballs back in their sockets and try to see things my way.
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve - you have a squirrel living in your ribcage! You have mold for a brain!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Look, how about if instead of a burial, we get you a nice sterile cremation? We can then put your ashes in a cannon and you can go out with a bang...
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve - you're not hearing me... damn - your OTHER ear just dropped onto the carpet - and I just had all the carpets cleaned!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Can you say anything else except "I don't want a funeral?"
Steve: C'est Bon des Pop-Tarts!
Yep, its sad to remember how much FUN using Borland's stuff was. I was given turbo C (complete with install disks and manuals) to write an app, and the rest was history. Years later, I bought BCC 3.1, which was just an amazing product, picked up TurboVision with Turbo Pascal 7 when I had to modify some pascal code on another project, etc.
Instead of using OWL, I wrote a few classes that encapsulated windows, menus, etc. - it wasn't that hard. And when Delphi came out, it was a total winner product.
I still think they mishandled the marketing of dBase. Sure, they managed to get the mouse working, and combined it with the TurboVision libraries, but then they let it wilt after version 5. And they didn't bundle the runtime "compiler" - another mistake. So people stuck with Clipper, and when CA came out with DB-Fast, people bought it instead of Borlands' dBase for Windows.
And then there was the cluster**** known as Kylix. I would have happily paid a grand or two for a decent *real* "Delphi / C++ Builder" for linux, instead of that unusable POS. I'm sure I wasn't alone.
I did not tag the article. That said, without wishing Fosset either well, or ill, but just on general principals that this is someone who I did not know, reports of the judicial declaration of death of whom are cluttering up Slashdot, I echo the tag: "Whogivesafuck?"
You said it better than I did. Pretending to be emotionally involved with the death of someone you've never known personally is slightly disturbing.
Great! Now I know what to say when people say "But Jesus died...!" "Who gives a f*ck?"
Now, if each of us could click a "jackass" button, and when a certain number of them get pressed the individual responsible receives a brief 30 kV electric shock... now that might do it.
Get over it already. If you're really that ticked off by some random tag on slashdot, I suggest barricading yourself in a room and never coming out again.
Since they're so easily offended by the "real world", where do you think they've been living for the last decade? Their skin is probably so pasty white from living in mom's basement that they make an albino look like Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide's former head, aka The Orange Guy because he has one of those chemical tans, really over-done).
Remember that Yahoo is staggering here while Intuit was at the top of its market and its game.'
Being at the "top of its market" is a liability - it forces you to look beyond your core business in hopes of continuing to expand. This is what happened to Borland - at one point, Borland owned the programming languagess market, with a 66% market share - more than Microsoft and everyone else combined. Then they went nuts. "Desktop / Professional / Enterprise" versions of compilers were one fo the first signs that rot was setting in. So was the buying and selling of WordPerfect and dBase. The dBase acquisition made sense - it let them compete directly with CA-Clipper. Dumping it later on didn't.
Apple didn't get smart until it had it' near-death experience.
So if Yahoo! isn't at the "top of their game" they can afford to concentrate on what they're doing. Microsoft, on the other hand, has nowhere to go bud down - their #1 competitor is themselves (see Vista vs. XP as a good example).
I provided the necessary links to torts from negligence. She is legally entitled to more than just the bare laptop. Why do you think they upped the offer to $2,500?
She is not making a claim under the warranty. She is claiming damages for Best Buy's negligence (at best) causing her loss. Lets take a similar situation - your car is under warranty, and you bring it to the shop for repairs. You've locked your laptop in the trunk, hidden in the spare tire wheel well. You also have a bike rack on it, with 2 bicycles. And a set of mags and lo-profile tires, and a NOX kit, a pimp-ass sound system, headers, etc. They see all this when they accept the car for repair work - then when you come to pick it up, they won't tell you where the car is. "We can't find it." Then after months of back-and-forth, they make a fake computer entry to show that the car is apparently still there, and its now fixed.
But of course, the car is gone. They "can't find it." So, even though it's only a year old, you've done $30,000 in mods, and you've got another $10k of stuff that was with it, they offer you 2/3 of what you paid for it - as for the rest? "Toush sh*t".
I don't think you'd accept their offer.
Not all software is free. Since she's claiming for the software, its obvious she didn't pirate it. As for music, DRM'd music is going to have to be rebought. Why should she have to eat the loss, when its Best Buy's fault?
Again, this has nothing to do with a warranty, and everything to do with negligence and/or fraud.
Christ, man. You've got the little Slashdot lawyer hat on, and have spent way too much time quoting and reciting the law of...no district at all. I applaud the effort.
No need to quote chapter and verse of any particular district - but since you brought it up,the law in Washington (where this happened) is that when you lose someone's property, you're responsible to make them whole again. Since you want a citation, read about torts arising from negligence, which is what this case is about.
However, the fact is, this duplicitous woman won't make it past summary judgment and should also be sanctioned. That's absolutely factual. What's that, you say? How dare I not side with the poor little downtrodden woman? Well, I laid out in another post how her case will meet the same fate as the judge with the multi-mullion dollar dry cleaning mentioned in the article. For those who don't keep up with these things, we're looking at a judgment of ZERO dollars and she will get to pay Best Buy's legal fees. In fact, I explained, if I were counsel for Best Buy, I would push to sanction her, her lawyer, and her lawyer's firm as well.
It shows you never read the article. Otherwise, you'd know she isn't using a lawyer. Again, get your facts straight.
I won't go into the specifics and rationale again, though, because we're fast-approaching the point at which somebody should just pay me for my time.
"Pay you for your time?" When you haven't even read the article? You really are a presumptuous little twerp, aren't you?
Furthermore, that earlier post got modded "Flamebait" because 14 year-olds who hate their parents and win the Slashdot mod point lottery don't really cotton to actual lawyers, with all their "statutes" and buzzkilling "rules"
And yet, you not only didn't read the article, you didn't even know that her claim is for negligence, and is entirely within the law.
--just the less prickly and more fakey variants who put on the big boy pants and Google a few statutes. So instead of laying out that prior post verbatim, let me suck up to Slashdot readers at this late hour, sip some Kool-Aid*, and pretend, pretend, pretend along with you. Let us forgo all knowledge of civil procedure and join you on your journey. I will try, at least:
Yeah, whatever... like you've ever argued a case, civil OR criminal...
RTFA - the laptop was stolen from Worst Buy, most probably by an employee, as it was in a "secure area". As such, they are liable for the contents - it has nothing to do with any warranty or protection plan.
Yes, there is an incredibly boring rule we inherited from the English in the year of god-knows-when that relates to a duty of care when you entrust your property to another in this fashion. There was clearly a breach of that duty. But as a nod to the elaborate game of connect-the-dots plaintiff's counsel has tried to play to create a juicer damages claim for what was on the laptop: Those laws don't apply to bits and bytes. At all. Next please.
Again, you obviously haven't read the article - you keep on going on about "plaintiff's counsel", when there is none. READ the F.A., buy a clue or two.
Worst Buys' sloppy procedures and/or dishonest employee(s) are the proximate cause. They're liable.
Uh oh! Somebody's seen at least one courtroom drama on television and possibly even two. The "proximate cause" of what exactly? The loss? Yes, and? She's already been compensated for the laptop, thinking it clever to give away the gift certificate as well. That's not how that works at all, and she's in for quite a surprise at trial. I feel like this is leading up to something. Extra points for c
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She provided her laptop to Best Buy. The agreement is that Best Buy would return to her a fixed, or similar, laptop. They agreed to provide a similar laptop. Obligation of best buy satisfie
Stop lying. There was no"agreement" to give her either her fixed laptop or a similar one. The agreement was that they would repair her laptop. What are you - a geek squad employee?
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Are the RIAA going to be procuring crack for the cops to take while watching the videos - you know, like they do for their "clients"? And (bviously) themselves?
No. If you look, you'll see that H.264 video decoding is one of the included features of the libraries. I expect to see encoding added in the future.
". In general this means that it becomes important to justify the value that XML brings to things."
That 10 years later this is still such a flame issue shows that xml is simply the wrong tool for SO many things ...
In the beginning, there was toggling hex codes on the front panel ... punch tap ... card stacks.
Nobody complained about formatting, etc.
Then we had assembler ... again, not too much complaining about the actual format.
Then there was c ... and holy brace wars
Then there was java ...
andWeGetAllTheseLongFactoryMethodsAndOtherRidiculousShit()
ToThePointThatWeCantUseAn8ColumnTab()
everythingIsAClassEvenIfItShouldntBe()
soWeHavetoAutoBoxUnboxPriimitiveTypes()
Then there was xml ... sort of like giving cans of spray paint to kids - they go around tagging EVERYTHING ... the more tags the better ... no wonder xml is really ghetto ...
It seems the less rigour required to use a language, the more likely the end result is going to look and act fugly ...
"So you're the guy who shits tabs in random places in source files, because you haven't figured out how to set up your editor to show you the difference."
OMG there's more than ONE of them??? I've got the same problem at work - a guy who uses windows and the MOUSE to cut-n-paste c code. NOTHING lines up.
If this keeps on, I'm going back to assembler. At least its clean-looking, and I have yet to see anyone who writes assembler f$ck up the formatting TOO badly! (And no holy brace wars ...)
And yes, I'm serious about assembler - I've been playing around with it for the first time in 15 years this weekend. For some things, its just so much easier than c.
Yep - Hawaii - UTC - 10, so 03:30 UTC is definitely during the afternoon.
Its been posited that life (including intelligent life) could be possible on the surface of a brown dwarf, using exotic chemistries, "helped along" by the much higher gravity. We just don't know, and we may never know.
"Exactly, as well as the simple fact that if conditions weren't suitable for life here, there would be none of us here to remark on how suitable conditions are for life."
Let me fix that for you: "Exactly, as well as the simple fact that if conditions weren't suitable for life here, there would be none of us here in our current form to remark on how suitable conditions are for life.
If conditions were different, it doesn't mean that life (even intelligent life) wouldn't exist. Now let's all welcome our hard-shell antenna-waving alien overlords ...
That's just it - the product is crap. Even wxWidgets is better - linux, mac, windows all supported. LGPL'd, with an exception allowing you to distribute your own closed-source binaries if you want. A bit of history.
You know how it goes ... they make an appeal based on guilt - "but Jesus died for you!" - as if you should be grateful.
My response - "Did Jesus die for you?"
Their reply "for sure!"
Me: "So basically you're saying Jesus is a double-dipper."
The Queen of Canada? hahaha. Sure, we keep her picture on the $20 bill, and some of the coins, but that's about it.
The office of Governor-General is "where the buck stops" nowadays in terms of the monarchy, and while its' a position appointed by the queen, its only after the "advice" of the Canadian government - in reality, its a political sinecure made by whoever's in power at the time. The "queen" would be ill-advised to ignore the "advice."
Its the same with the "oath of allegience to the queen" that MPs swear to when taking their seat after winning an election - its now recognized as being solely ceremonial, and non-binding.
School kids don't pledge allegience to the flag, the queen, the country, or anyone or anything.
Yes, this is quite a change from, say, 50 years ago, but the behaviour of the Queenie's kids (Dumbo the Clown Prince - a.k.a. Chuckles the Clown - in particular) had a lot to do with the decline in the monarchy's perceived suitability as a figurehead.
We're a mite peeved at the US right now - you were supposed to KEEP Celine Dion! It was a win-win ... we got rid of her, and she kept your old people indoors at the casinos, feeding their Social Security checks to the one-armed bandits.
And you've gone and devalued your dollar to the point where Canadians earning the Canadian minimum wage can afford to vacation in the US ... or buy a foreclosed house as a vacation home ...
What next - reimpose the draft so we'll be flooded with asylum-seeking draft-dodgers? What's up with that, eh? Are we going to have to burn down the White House again?
Imagine, proposing laws that might actually be fair and balanced? What will those crazy Canucks do next?!?
Not half as much psychological stress as if the dead guy actually shows up...
Wife: Gee Steve, you're dead! ... I knew you'd come home.
... well, sorry about the worms, and the smell - being dead is a bit of a drag.
...
...
... damn - your OTHER ear just dropped onto the carpet - and I just had all the carpets cleaned!
Steve: Yep. Been that way for a while. Nice to know you were waiting for me.
Wife: Well of course I waited for you, darling
Steve: Yeah
Wife: Cheer up. Now that you're back, we can have your funeral.
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Back in the box!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: We have to, Steve. What would the neighbours say?
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve, try to understand. The dog just tried to bury you in the back yard
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: You've just being selfish!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Well, you're getting one. So pull youself together - your arm just fell off!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Its either that or we nail you to that Lazy-Boy and you do an imitation of a Norweigan Blue pining for the forests!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: You're DEAD, Steve! Put your eyeballs back in their sockets and try to see things my way.
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve - you have a squirrel living in your ribcage! You have mold for a brain!
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Look, how about if instead of a burial, we get you a nice sterile cremation? We can then put your ashes in a cannon and you can go out with a bang
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Steve - you're not hearing me
Steve: I don't *want* a funeral!
Wife: Can you say anything else except "I don't want a funeral?"
Steve: C'est Bon des Pop-Tarts!
Yep, its sad to remember how much FUN using Borland's stuff was. I was given turbo C (complete with install disks and manuals) to write an app, and the rest was history. Years later, I bought BCC 3.1, which was just an amazing product, picked up TurboVision with Turbo Pascal 7 when I had to modify some pascal code on another project, etc.
Instead of using OWL, I wrote a few classes that encapsulated windows, menus, etc. - it wasn't that hard. And when Delphi came out, it was a total winner product.
I still think they mishandled the marketing of dBase. Sure, they managed to get the mouse working, and combined it with the TurboVision libraries, but then they let it wilt after version 5. And they didn't bundle the runtime "compiler" - another mistake. So people stuck with Clipper, and when CA came out with DB-Fast, people bought it instead of Borlands' dBase for Windows.
And then there was the cluster**** known as Kylix. I would have happily paid a grand or two for a decent *real* "Delphi / C++ Builder" for linux, instead of that unusable POS. I'm sure I wasn't alone.
Great! Now I know what to say when people say "But Jesus died ...!" "Who gives a f*ck?"
In Soviet Russia, the party declares YOU dead!
Since they're so easily offended by the "real world", where do you think they've been living for the last decade? Their skin is probably so pasty white from living in mom's basement that they make an albino look like Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide's former head, aka The Orange Guy because he has one of those chemical tans, really over-done).
Won't happen ... From the summary:
The RIAA / MPAA / Congresscritters / Lobbyists / Subprime Lenders ? BushCheneyHalliburtonCo all claim prior art ...
Gates is now #3 http://www.stockmarketsview.com/mukesh-ambani-becomes-worlds-richest-man/22/
You mean Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt aren't Microsofts' 3 main products?
With SCO possibly going private, welcome to FUD 3.11.
Being at the "top of its market" is a liability - it forces you to look beyond your core business in hopes of continuing to expand. This is what happened to Borland - at one point, Borland owned the programming languagess market, with a 66% market share - more than Microsoft and everyone else combined. Then they went nuts. "Desktop / Professional / Enterprise" versions of compilers were one fo the first signs that rot was setting in. So was the buying and selling of WordPerfect and dBase. The dBase acquisition made sense - it let them compete directly with CA-Clipper. Dumping it later on didn't.
Apple didn't get smart until it had it' near-death experience.
So if Yahoo! isn't at the "top of their game" they can afford to concentrate on what they're doing. Microsoft, on the other hand, has nowhere to go bud down - their #1 competitor is themselves (see Vista vs. XP as a good example).
This has nothing to do with the warranty - the warranty doesn't cover theft.
I provided the necessary links to torts from negligence. She is legally entitled to more than just the bare laptop. Why do you think they upped the offer to $2,500?
She is not making a claim under the warranty. She is claiming damages for Best Buy's negligence (at best) causing her loss. Lets take a similar situation - your car is under warranty, and you bring it to the shop for repairs. You've locked your laptop in the trunk, hidden in the spare tire wheel well. You also have a bike rack on it, with 2 bicycles. And a set of mags and lo-profile tires, and a NOX kit, a pimp-ass sound system, headers, etc. They see all this when they accept the car for repair work - then when you come to pick it up, they won't tell you where the car is. "We can't find it." Then after months of back-and-forth, they make a fake computer entry to show that the car is apparently still there, and its now fixed.
But of course, the car is gone. They "can't find it." So, even though it's only a year old, you've done $30,000 in mods, and you've got another $10k of stuff that was with it, they offer you 2/3 of what you paid for it - as for the rest? "Toush sh*t".
I don't think you'd accept their offer.
Not all software is free. Since she's claiming for the software, its obvious she didn't pirate it. As for music, DRM'd music is going to have to be rebought. Why should she have to eat the loss, when its Best Buy's fault?
Again, this has nothing to do with a warranty, and everything to do with negligence and/or fraud.
Get your facts straight.
No need to quote chapter and verse of any particular district - but since you brought it up,the law in Washington (where this happened) is that when you lose someone's property, you're responsible to make them whole again. Since you want a citation, read about torts arising from negligence, which is what this case is about.
It shows you never read the article. Otherwise, you'd know she isn't using a lawyer. Again, get your facts straight.
"Pay you for your time?" When you haven't even read the article? You really are a presumptuous little twerp, aren't you?
And yet, you not only didn't read the article, you didn't even know that her claim is for negligence, and is entirely within the law.
Yeah, whatever ... like you've ever argued a case, civil OR criminal ...
Again, you obviously haven't read the article - you keep on going on about "plaintiff's counsel", when there is none. READ the F.A., buy a clue or two.
Thanks. We have a whole slew of names for large companies, which we use when they're "behaving badly". Some of the entries:
- WallyWorld or WalMutt (WalMart)
- Worst Buy (Best Buy)
- Crappy Tire (Canadian Tire)
- Future Shit (Future Shop)
- The Crap (The Gap)
- Litigious Bastards (SCO)
- K-Fart (K-Mart)
- Microshaft, Micro$oft, Mister Softie, etc (Microsoft - though why Bill Gates named his business after his penis is a mystery)
- Chipzilla (Intel)
- Miserable Failure, President Shrub (George Dubya Bush)
Feel free to add to the list.Mblockquote> She provided her laptop to Best Buy. The agreement is that Best Buy would return to her a fixed, or similar, laptop. They agreed to provide a similar laptop. Obligation of best buy satisfie Stop lying. There was no"agreement" to give her either her fixed laptop or a similar one. The agreement was that they would repair her laptop. What are you - a geek squad employee?