If it's a student project then you probably put, what, 2 days of effort into it? You're a geek with youth on your side, and you've probably written 100x as much code for your own amusement than you've written for a stupid assignment/competition.
Just recode it. You'll do it better the second time, anyway, and copyright doesn't cover ideas, just implementations.
All of these things have advantages over other things.
Your mistake is in thinking that Sun won't sell you a solution that isn't based on their technology. They will. They'll sell you whatever will do the job and they can get a decent price on the license so they can make some profit.
MySQL's business model was to sell commercial licenses to people who were too legal risk adverse to use it without one.
Sun, thankfully, has a completely different business model.
They sell solutions. If they don't have to pay for licenses for MySQL they can offer solutions that include MySQL for cheaper than if they have to. Does that add up to a billion dollars? No idea.
Any engineer who says that "40% is pretty good predicting" is incapable of writing good software, or managing a project, or, even, applying the scientific method.
Actually, the act which that is pasted from describes how to figure out what is "generally accepted by reasonable adults".. there's a classification board which is made up of people selected from the community. What I find my disturbing is that, by definition, any adult who disagrees with the board is unreasonable.
Umm.. brainiac, it's illegal for them to send it outside the ACT. The fact that there is no "filter" on the mail system does not magically mean it is legal. Practically the material isn't banned but legally it is.
I, for one, am against all forms of censorship and think these stupid restrictions should be scrapped.. but deliberately making yourself ignorant of the law of the land is not going to help us achieve that.
Publications that: (a) describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified; or (b) describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not); or (c) promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence
This is how the Australian public feels about censorship. They feel that hard core porn is "dangerous" and that adults shouldn't be looking at it. They want it blocked at the border. This is the way it has been for decades.
If you disagree with that, like I do, then you should be protesting that - not protesting that the net filter will be ineffective or slow down the Internet or unintentionally block acceptable sites or be used by the government for mind control.
Rambling on about anonymous proxies and how easy the filter is to get around will just make people who oppose censorship stop protesting, as they know they can easily ignore the filter.
It's my understanding that it's not all of the ACT.. and there's still plenty of hard core that is refused classification: "violent or degrading" describes a lot of porn that is considered perfectly acceptable in the rest of the world.. not to mention "disgusting".
Many Australian beaches have shark nets. They exist to stop swimmers from being exposed to sharks. Sure, swimmers can just climb over the shark net, and sure, the net isn't 100% effective at shielding swimmers from sharks, but does that really mean we shouldn't build them?
The fact that some of us might like to swim with sharks is completely lost on the majority of the population who don't want sharks near their kids.. and, frankly, think we're being unreasonable by insisting that the shark net be optional.
Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).
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The Americans call it "auditing" and you'll discover that a PhD student will do anything to slack off from writing their thesis.
Get back to writing your thesis.
Slacker.
And either you did 3 days of effort and got an A or you're not cut out for the games industry anyway.
If it's a student project then you probably put, what, 2 days of effort into it? You're a geek with youth on your side, and you've probably written 100x as much code for your own amusement than you've written for a stupid assignment/competition.
Just recode it. You'll do it better the second time, anyway, and copyright doesn't cover ideas, just implementations.
All of these things have advantages over other things.
Your mistake is in thinking that Sun won't sell you a solution that isn't based on their technology. They will. They'll sell you whatever will do the job and they can get a decent price on the license so they can make some profit.
MySQL's business model was to sell commercial licenses to people who were too legal risk adverse to use it without one.
Sun, thankfully, has a completely different business model.
They sell solutions. If they don't have to pay for licenses for MySQL they can offer solutions that include MySQL for cheaper than if they have to. Does that add up to a billion dollars? No idea.
They're a systems integration company. They don't need to sell "invented here" to be profitable.
Sun will sell you whatever you want. Invented by Sun, or not.
They sell solutions, not widgets.
intellectual laziness
Like, say, not using punctuation?
For some reason I don't think they're sweating over the loss of a customer who can't even start sentences properly.
Any engineer who says that "40% is pretty good predicting" is incapable of writing good software, or managing a project, or, even, applying the scientific method.
Hint: 40% is worse than guessing.
"Maxtor desktop drive with stuck spindle playing futuristic cell phone melody."
Uhh.. actually you should have booted up off the CD, selected "recovery console" and then run chkdsk /f c:
Man, how creepy would that be?
I bet it got reported as a "virus".
Actually, the act which that is pasted from describes how to figure out what is "generally accepted by reasonable adults".. there's a classification board which is made up of people selected from the community. What I find my disturbing is that, by definition, any adult who disagrees with the board is unreasonable.
Umm.. brainiac, it's illegal for them to send it outside the ACT. The fact that there is no "filter" on the mail system does not magically mean it is legal. Practically the material isn't banned but legally it is.
I, for one, am against all forms of censorship and think these stupid restrictions should be scrapped.. but deliberately making yourself ignorant of the law of the land is not going to help us achieve that.
What is refused classification is:
Publications that:
(a) describe, depict, express or otherwise deal
with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction,
crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or
abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they
offend against the standards of morality,
decency and propriety generally accepted by
reasonable adults to the extent that they
should not be classified; or
(b) describe or depict in a way that is likely to
cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person
who is, or appears to be, a child under 18
(whether the person is engaged in sexual
activity or not); or
(c) promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime
or violence
and are effectively banned.
Fucking asshole moderators.
This is how the Australian public feels about censorship. They feel that hard core porn is "dangerous" and that adults shouldn't be looking at it. They want it blocked at the border. This is the way it has been for decades.
If you disagree with that, like I do, then you should be protesting that - not protesting that the net filter will be ineffective or slow down the Internet or unintentionally block acceptable sites or be used by the government for mind control.
Rambling on about anonymous proxies and how easy the filter is to get around will just make people who oppose censorship stop protesting, as they know they can easily ignore the filter.
It's my understanding that it's not all of the ACT.. and there's still plenty of hard core that is refused classification: "violent or degrading" describes a lot of porn that is considered perfectly acceptable in the rest of the world.. not to mention "disgusting".
So you're saying that the only objection you have with my stupid analogy is that shark nets are not mandatory?
Let me ask you, don't you think shark nets *should* be mandatory?
I would have thought a better objection to my stupid analogy was that:
porn != sharks.
No matter how many lasers you put on 'em.
You seem to be completely unaware that hard core porn is considered as "illegal" as kiddie porn in Australia.
Many Australian beaches have shark nets. They exist to stop swimmers from being exposed to sharks. Sure, swimmers can just climb over the shark net, and sure, the net isn't 100% effective at shielding swimmers from sharks, but does that really mean we shouldn't build them?
The fact that some of us might like to swim with sharks is completely lost on the majority of the population who don't want sharks near their kids.. and, frankly, think we're being unreasonable by insisting that the shark net be optional.
And the counter argument to that is that most gamers don't want a 20 hour title for $50, they want a 2 hour title for $5.
The focus of the gaming industry on the "hard core" is a relic from the days when only geeks had computers.
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Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).
Because you have a lot more computational power available to you (note: it's between your ears) than the computer player.
If your abusive spouse buys you flowers, you don't stop planning the escape.