Any disease that wipes out its host will have to evolve to be less deadly, or it will run out of hosts. So it's not really right to say that it's our immune systems that allowed animals to survive - the evolution of an immune system and the diseases that it fights go hand-in-hand. There is some competition, with diseases finding new ways to get around immune responses, but also some co-operation, as an overly-effective disease will destroy its own ecosystem and thus die out.
Why is this in "The Almighty Buck" category, and tagged as "money"? This is about workers' rights, not just money. If I joined a union it would have nothing to do with my pay, and be everything to do with my pension, insurance, work-life-balance, redundancy, performance review, etc.
You only need to make it available to the people that you gave or sold the software to. It doesn't have to be on a public web site, you could password protect it for instance. My main point stands, you don't have to provide it to every Tom Dick and Neal on Slashdot.
A program that downloads source isn't a quine, but otherwise yes that's a licence that seems to require that bandwidth be provided at the expense of the distributor. So if I download a copy, and give a copy to my brother, I then have to run a web site for the rest of my life. That's nice.
...here in England copyright is 50 years from creation, whether the author is still alive or not.
I don't think that's correct. I'm pretty sure our copyright is harmonised with the rest of the EU. This says "70 years from the end of the year of the authors death". 50 years from creation is only for sound recordings.
The only fair comparison would be to implement that same functionality in, say, Python and compare the complexity of the two solutions.
As a simple test, download 50 perl programs at random, download 50 python programs at random, compare the quality. Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
The fact that there is a highly active Perl subculture devoted to creating obscure code kind of goes unfairly against Perl in this test. Also, when I have something difficult to do, I do it in Perl. If it's easy, I might use VBA and wrap it in an Excel spreadsheet.
The article talks about PHP and Java as the alternatives that these companies are talking about, not python. Why is this tagged as "python" when it has nothing to do with the article? Why not tag it "c" or "ruby" "cobol"? Smells of fanboy to me, and that isn't a good smell.
I can confirm that the demo updates the clipboard constantly, approximately 120 times a second on my machine. Here's my perl code (Windows only, sorry):
use Win32::Clipboard; my $CLIP = Win32::Clipboard(); $CLIP->WaitForChange();
while ( 0 ) {
$CLIP->WaitForChange();
print localtime()."\n"; }
They should elect a politician who will consult with the best scientists in the world and act on sound scientific advice on topics that both they and the electorate don't know enough to make a call about. Is man-made global warming real? I don't know, I think it probably is, but that's the kind of question that climatologists should be telling us the answer to. Should we put a man on Mars? I don't know, that's up to NASA to convince congress that there is enough benefit either technologically or in terms of international prestige and national pride. Elect someone who will take advice and act on it in a way that is not guided solely by prejudice.
Not sure what the Quad-core Extreme Edition is, maybe it's the latest and greatest, but the X3350 processor in my laptop is good enough for me. It only has 960GB of hard disk, which is a bit gutting, I was hoping for >1TB but they couldn't get the 500GB hard disks.
That's a quote from "The State of the Art", a short story by Iain M. Banks where a Culture contact ship visits Earth. One of them is visiting a colleague in an apartment in Paris, and sees a sign saying "No photographs allowed". The idea of owning the light and imposing restrictions on its use is just preposterous to her.
I'm disappointed at how much the trailer gave away Dr. Manhattan should be a big surprise. There was an impressive Dr. Manhattan "Splat!" moment, which I think is near the ending, so I think at least that bit is faithful.
That assumes that when civilization ends, we have plenty of time to tidy away all the nuclear waste into bunkers. If it all goes down the $hitter really quickly, we need to plan ahead and build our nuclear power plants in such a fashion that they don't present a hazard to future generations.
Try actually reading the grandparent message by the AC you so admire.
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I don't kidnap, rape, or molest children, nor do I ever plan to,
OK, now what? I think by "uncontrollable" he means he can't just stop these thoughts and feelings. Fair enough, just as long as he doesn't act on them.
I work for a company which, among other things, does outsourcing of IT projects. I didn't come in on an outsourcing deal myself, and I joined the project side of the company rather than the outsourcing side, but the people that I've worked with who were "outsourced in" from clients have been more than happy with their decisions. Essentially, it's cheaper for an IT company to run a dozen IT departments than it is for a dozen separate widgets companies to run their own IT department. Sure, someone might get cut out of the chain, but that's what redundancy packages are for. I can't speak for DHL/DPWN/HP, but ours are pretty generous.
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Any disease that wipes out its host will have to evolve to be less deadly, or it will run out of hosts. So it's not really right to say that it's our immune systems that allowed animals to survive - the evolution of an immune system and the diseases that it fights go hand-in-hand. There is some competition, with diseases finding new ways to get around immune responses, but also some co-operation, as an overly-effective disease will destroy its own ecosystem and thus die out.
Why is this in "The Almighty Buck" category, and tagged as "money"? This is about workers' rights, not just money. If I joined a union it would have nothing to do with my pay, and be everything to do with my pension, insurance, work-life-balance, redundancy, performance review, etc.
You only need to make it available to the people that you gave or sold the software to. It doesn't have to be on a public web site, you could password protect it for instance. My main point stands, you don't have to provide it to every Tom Dick and Neal on Slashdot.
A program that downloads source isn't a quine, but otherwise yes that's a licence that seems to require that bandwidth be provided at the expense of the distributor. So if I download a copy, and give a copy to my brother, I then have to run a web site for the rest of my life. That's nice.
Are there any licences that require you to give away the source at your own expense (bandwidth) to anyone who wants to download it?
If you haven't got one yet, then they have no obligation to give you the source.
I thought it was "I Filmed Your Porn For You".
...here in England copyright is 50 years from creation, whether the author is still alive or not.
I don't think that's correct. I'm pretty sure our copyright is harmonised with the rest of the EU.
This says "70 years from the end of the year of the authors death". 50 years from creation is only for sound recordings.
I guess the difference is that a photographer creates the photograph, but how is this different to paying for, say, the Hitler Diaries?
The only fair comparison would be to implement that same functionality in, say, Python and compare the complexity of the two solutions.
As a simple test, download 50 perl programs at random, download 50 python programs at random, compare the quality. Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
The fact that there is a highly active Perl subculture devoted to creating obscure code kind of goes unfairly against Perl in this test. Also, when I have something difficult to do, I do it in Perl. If it's easy, I might use VBA and wrap it in an Excel spreadsheet.
The article talks about PHP and Java as the alternatives that these companies are talking about, not python. Why is this tagged as "python" when it has nothing to do with the article? Why not tag it "c" or "ruby" "cobol"? Smells of fanboy to me, and that isn't a good smell.
I can confirm that the demo updates the clipboard constantly, approximately 120 times a second on my machine. Here's my perl code (Windows only, sorry):
use Win32::Clipboard;
my $CLIP = Win32::Clipboard();
$CLIP->WaitForChange();
while ( 0 ) {
$CLIP->WaitForChange();
print localtime()."\n";
}
They should elect a politician who will consult with the best scientists in the world and act on sound scientific advice on topics that both they and the electorate don't know enough to make a call about. Is man-made global warming real? I don't know, I think it probably is, but that's the kind of question that climatologists should be telling us the answer to. Should we put a man on Mars? I don't know, that's up to NASA to convince congress that there is enough benefit either technologically or in terms of international prestige and national pride. Elect someone who will take advice and act on it in a way that is not guided solely by prejudice.
Not sure what the Quad-core Extreme Edition is, maybe it's the latest and greatest, but the X3350 processor in my laptop is good enough for me. It only has 960GB of hard disk, which is a bit gutting, I was hoping for >1TB but they couldn't get the 500GB hard disks.
OK, "If you aren't prepared to be more extreme than you are...", but I was, er, taking the point to an extreme in order to... er.. never mind.
if these people *really* cared about privacy, they could have put up a gate across the road to ensure no-one just wandered in.
Standard internet debate tactic, "if you don't take your point to a ridiculous extreme then it isn't valid".
That's a quote from "The State of the Art", a short story by Iain M. Banks where a Culture contact ship visits Earth. One of them is visiting a colleague in an apartment in Paris, and sees a sign saying "No photographs allowed". The idea of owning the light and imposing restrictions on its use is just preposterous to her.
Woah, a DK with a nerf gun! That would be awesome, it would... hey, hang on, that's silly.
Well, I did think the big evil plot was a bit silly. Also it's been thematically copied by Heroes already.
I'm disappointed at how much the trailer gave away Dr. Manhattan should be a big surprise. There was an impressive Dr. Manhattan "Splat!" moment, which I think is near the ending, so I think at least that bit is faithful.
What would they think?
That assumes that when civilization ends, we have plenty of time to tidy away all the nuclear waste into bunkers. If it all goes down the $hitter really quickly, we need to plan ahead and build our nuclear power plants in such a fashion that they don't present a hazard to future generations.
er...
OK, now what? I think by "uncontrollable" he means he can't just stop these thoughts and feelings. Fair enough, just as long as he doesn't act on them.
Yeah, and it should be "Internets Service Provider" as well, or "IsSP".
I work for a company which, among other things, does outsourcing of IT projects. I didn't come in on an outsourcing deal myself, and I joined the project side of the company rather than the outsourcing side, but the people that I've worked with who were "outsourced in" from clients have been more than happy with their decisions. Essentially, it's cheaper for an IT company to run a dozen IT departments than it is for a dozen separate widgets companies to run their own IT department. Sure, someone might get cut out of the chain, but that's what redundancy packages are for. I can't speak for DHL/DPWN/HP, but ours are pretty generous.