When you think about it, this kind of writing is really ridiculous. It hogs the communication (which language is for in the first place) to a non-intelligible level by garbling the message.
What is the point of saying anything, aside from getting a bigger ego, if you speak in a way that you intentionally do NOT make yourself understandable?
Ironic that Java, famous for its sandbox, seems to be the door through which this intruder enters.
Ah I was waiting for something like this!
The sandbox works just fine, thanks.
If you click "Yes" to the question: "This applet wants to access the network and your local disks. Are you sure you want to let it do this?" then, you are in trouble, because you just answered the question "Do you want to give up all security provided by the Java sandbox by running this applet that is not even signed correctly"
There is absolutely no difference with blindly clicking "Yes" on an ActiveX installation.
The whole story is a non-issue. The issue is the "Yes" button associated with end-users.
Jurisprudence is used in ruling in France just as much as in North America for the common rulings where there is no defined law. There really is no difference.
This particular judgement was made based on an existing law that says that, if a piece has been broadcasted to the public (like a movie at a theater), everyone is allowed to make a private copy. Private means you can view it at home, but cannot broadcast it during a public event, or even to a crowd at your workplace, or anything else. In that case, the "broacast to public" was not proven since the guy only invited a few friends to watch movies or gave it to one or two of them.
Now, whine against France again, slashdotters!;-) There are a lot of niceties like this in this country that makes life much more worth it!
Trouble with the IT industry is that even ignorance is allowed in coding and is allowed to voice out loud. Having said that, it rarely is a smart thing to write code in other language than english.
You don't agree? Try debugging code written in dutch with comments in dutch, then you will!
Woaa! I haven't seen such a troll in a long while!
I know the EU is a fucked up idea.
Ah yeah? And how did you discover that? through your own research maybe? Or by developing a patented software? Or maybe it's "fucked up" because economists predict it's going to be a more influent market than the US? Or maybe you are just plain ignorant.
By the way, software patents are GOOD.
For whom? Big corporations? Or innovation? So far it didn't work for both (remember SCO)
They DO protect the small developer.
Come on, you can't say this. Patenting is just too expensive for most of the "small developers". If you really had any patented product, you would know that already.
As a small developer who has a couple of software patents that I have successfully licensed, I can PERSONALLY vouch for them.
Do you have a web page we can visit? And a link to your patents? I'm curious...None?
Of course, the slashbots don't want to hear this.
"I am not a bot - I am an insensitive clod"
The current issue with patents isn't the fact that there are software patents,
You are right, they are none in Europe..yet..
but maybe the fact that there are cases where they have been granted without a good reason.
So opening up to MORE patent can only produce more BAD patents. You don't fix a non-working system by adding components to it.
Saying that "patents are bad" is just silly.
"Software" patents are bad. Would that be OK to you?
And what is your opinion when you still can patent the wheel in the 20th century?
This patent system has failed in many instances. There are no reasons to cripple an industry with its weight when it's already is not working in some places like the US. Moreover, patents are about innovation in technology and "technique", NOT in science, theories, applied science, etc.
Last but not least, it's the open door to lawyer's stupidity. Check SCO...
Actually, I'd like to know if you've sat down in front of VS.net recently... It's quite robust and very mature.
My manager put me on a project using VS.NET (mixture of ASP, C#, VB...you name it), trying to convert me from the J2EE world.
Believe me, he gave me the best opportunity to get my hands in.NET and find out that this..thing..is just but ugly and not suitable for serious development (you know, when you have bewolf clusters of insensitive clods).
The great thing is now I have a lots of arguments to sell more J2EE. Yet I hate my.NET job. It's frustrating, messed up all the time and goes nowhere close in quality.
Well, that first sentence of the article is very, very confusing regarding who is getting hired, who is calling names, and who should have listened to their own advice. It isn't clear at all, and needs to be edited to make any sense. As it stands, it was a complete waste of my time reading and trying to understand it.
Well...No skill isrequired to post on Slashdot (sometimes, it's even required to have no skills). I wonder about the "managers"...
I think I called the police once, on a guy who stole a $0.95 auto-trader magazine. It was pretty funny:)
For 0.95$? And you are proud of yourself? Did you ever wonder how much of your own tax money you wasted by calling the cops? Any idea of HOW MUCH this cost to ALL the others around you?
This may appear funny to you, but it appears rather pathetic to me. First because you actually did call the cops for such an insignificant event, AND wasted OUR money by doing so.
Too bad they are no doorman checking against stupidity
Obviously, IDownload is trying the legal thing as many others do. The funny thing is that they are trying to define a "spyware" in order to exclude ISearch, but there is no legal definition of a "spyware" yet, so their definition is pathetically useless and only tries to threaten with no real legal background.
In other words, this is once again the usual bullying-by-lawyer from a company that is finding that they are not going to do well with such a bad reputation.
You misread AND you don't understand what your read:
In February 2002 the Respondent stated to the Complainant that the Domain Name was worth in excess of £30,000 but by June 2003 this figure had risen to £1,000,000. Although the Complainant did not purchase the Domain Name in June 2003, by August 2004 the Respondent's intermediary was again quoting the price of £1,000,000 and by October 2004 the Respondent himself indicated that he was planning to change the nature of his business and that the Domain Name would be made available for sale.
The "Complainant" being Game PLC and the "Respondent" this "honest" guy who according to you does good business.
The above clearly state that the 1M pounds was priced by the RESPONDENT's side, wherever it's an intermediary or the owner that acts. And even more, contrary to what you seem to understand, and in accordance with what I say, it is clearly stated that his business was changed long time AFTER the Game PLC offer. He overpriced his DNS name's value in the hope to get the big bucks out of Game PLC after learning of their plans. And that's exactly WHERE he screwed up and got in troubles.
The funny thing is that he should have accepted the first or second offer. Seeing how bad his business was doing afterward, he probably lost a big chunk of money by just being poorly advised.
Also, I do not see where I have insulted anyone, unless reading a 10 pages long affidavit or making sense is insulting to you. I however and for once praise our overlords to fit you with glasses so you can read your screen correctly.
Open the damned browser yourself and go to your favorite pizza place's site.
Pizza Hut
Papa John's
Domino's
Which one of the links you sent actually links to someone making pizzas? I fail to find any that sell anything close to what is usually called a "Pizza"
One of my relatives works in a biochemical research lab. All of their computers are WinXP Sp1 because Sp2 basically broke every single program and driver they relied on for their daily calculations, data acquisition, and analysis (some of the software is commercial, and some was custom-written by people who are currently residing in Eastern Europe and Brazil). Naturally, every worm outbreak hits them hard
I hate to say this but if they have home-grown softwares that blow off with SP2 AND they get hit by every single worm each time there's one, you might want to start doubting about the competence of their IT department rather than SP2. Probably Microsoft know better about IT and programming with Windows than a biochem research lab.
Sp2 is great for the average Joe who uses his box for email and pr0n, but if you are using your computer as a scientific instrument, then installing Sp2 changes (and breaks) too many things.
Again this is true in your particular case, not with the vast majority. SP2 did not break Mathlab, Maple, etc. And they are scientific tools used every day because they are built correctly.
I remember in the early 80's, during the Apple II time, there was a radio that sent a software through FM, which you'd record to your tape recorder, and then load in your computer.
Floppys were much too expensive to afford a drive at that time...
Funnily enough the second doesn't match what the article says. Or maybe it's usual
The court judgement says that basically the guy had all the rights to register game.co.uk, the use he made of it consisted an abusive use of a domain name, since he started a game reselling business after being informed of GAME's plans to rebrand and go on the web.
And for the english-challenged: GAME did NOT offer 1 million pounds to buy the name. The guy did and they refused the offer
As much as I'd like it be the other way around, the guy did a bad attempt at taking advantage of an honest issue brought by GAME. They offered him a lot of cash and all he did he start a business to fool people in thinking it was related to GAME somehow. I hate big corporations against Davids, but this time, Goliath is probably right.
Ah, I see some of those Indian players have some downtime to troll the Slashdot boards and play damage control. Tell me, are all of your colleagues also this vacuous, or is it just you?
I'm pushing the logic a bit far, but worse comes to worse, I'd rather have indians play WoW and farm gold, than farm my own job.
All I'm saying that it's NOT illegal, and no amount of whining will change this, and some people WILL use it.
Thanks for your answer. That makes a lot of sense!
On an entirely different issue, saying "hey are not breaking any law, so what's all the fuss about that?" is just stupid.
What's stupid? It's legal - is all! I cannot change that! And I am not commenting on wherether it should be or not.
Even if you don't think selling items/gold from MMORPGs on eBay immoral,
Being "moral" has nothing to do with laws, and that is in many case unfortunate. I am not arguing about the morality of it.
saying that it's moral because it's *legal* is disgusting.
Re-read my post, I have never said this, and never will!
Merely pointing out that legality does not indicate morality, nor the other way around.
Same wavelength here. Again, I am not discussing the morality of it. Law is for everyone in a society, moral is for each separate individual. And one cannot impose to the other.
Totally flawed analogy. What IGE does is akin to paying off teachers so they give you good grades, not having the money to go university. Having the money to pay for university is like having the money to pay your subscription fee, you expect a level playing field from that point on
Obviously you never had to work full time to pay your studies. That is where the analogy is. Some are rich enough to provide few efforts to get the same thing that poorer people cannot afford without huge efforts.
It's also a fact that students who do not have to work while studying are much more successful than the others
I'm tired of the game worlds being full of a bunch of 3rd world slaves farming stuff to sell.
This is the effect of living in the leasure society we're in. I'd rather the 3rd world sitting in front of a computer and play online for farming virtual money than have them be paid 10 cent a day to make my next (left) shoe at the expense of the health of a 10-year old.
Slashdot Mirror
When you think about it, this kind of writing is really ridiculous. It hogs the communication (which language is for in the first place) to a non-intelligible level by garbling the message. What is the point of saying anything, aside from getting a bigger ego, if you speak in a way that you intentionally do NOT make yourself understandable?
You can tell from the stacktraces that Tomcat spit out almost any time I want to manage my account...
So as much as I like people reporting bad things about ASP.NET, this is not the reason.
Ironic that Java, famous for its sandbox, seems to be the door through which this intruder enters.
Ah I was waiting for something like this!
The sandbox works just fine, thanks.
If you click "Yes" to the question: "This applet wants to access the network and your local disks. Are you sure you want to let it do this?" then, you are in trouble, because you just answered the question "Do you want to give up all security provided by the Java sandbox by running this applet that is not even signed correctly"
There is absolutely no difference with blindly clicking "Yes" on an ActiveX installation.
The whole story is a non-issue. The issue is the "Yes" button associated with end-users.
Jurisprudence is used in ruling in France just as much as in North America for the common rulings where there is no defined law. There really is no difference.
This particular judgement was made based on an existing law that says that, if a piece has been broadcasted to the public (like a movie at a theater), everyone is allowed to make a private copy. Private means you can view it at home, but cannot broadcast it during a public event, or even to a crowd at your workplace, or anything else. In that case, the "broacast to public" was not proven since the guy only invited a few friends to watch movies or gave it to one or two of them.
Now, whine against France again, slashdotters! ;-) There are a lot of niceties like this in this country that makes life much more worth it!
Trouble with the IT industry is that even ignorance is allowed in coding and is allowed to voice out loud.
Having said that, it rarely is a smart thing to write code in other language than english.
You don't agree? Try debugging code written in dutch with comments in dutch, then you will!
You still do not agree? I don't care, I'm french!
Woaa! I haven't seen such a troll in a long while!
I know the EU is a fucked up idea.
Ah yeah? And how did you discover that? through your own research maybe? Or by developing a patented software? Or maybe it's "fucked up" because economists predict it's going to be a more influent market than the US? Or maybe you are just plain ignorant.
By the way, software patents are GOOD.
For whom? Big corporations? Or innovation? So far it didn't work for both (remember SCO)
They DO protect the small developer.
Come on, you can't say this. Patenting is just too expensive for most of the "small developers". If you really had any patented product, you would know that already.As a small developer who has a couple of software patents that I have successfully licensed, I can PERSONALLY vouch for them.
Do you have a web page we can visit? And a link to your patents? I'm curious...None?Of course, the slashbots don't want to hear this.
"I am not a bot - I am an insensitive clod"The current issue with patents isn't the fact that there are software patents,
You are right, they are none in Europe..yet..but maybe the fact that there are cases where they have been granted without a good reason.
So opening up to MORE patent can only produce more BAD patents. You don't fix a non-working system by adding components to it.Saying that "patents are bad" is just silly.
"Software" patents are bad. Would that be OK to you? And what is your opinion when you still can patent the wheel in the 20th century?This patent system has failed in many instances. There are no reasons to cripple an industry with its weight when it's already is not working in some places like the US. Moreover, patents are about innovation in technology and "technique", NOT in science, theories, applied science, etc.
Last but not least, it's the open door to lawyer's stupidity. Check SCO...
Actually, I'd like to know if you've sat down in front of VS.net recently... It's quite robust and very mature.
My manager put me on a project using VS.NET (mixture of ASP, C#, VB...you name it), trying to convert me from the J2EE world.
Believe me, he gave me the best opportunity to get my hands in .NET and find out that this ..thing..is just but ugly and not suitable for serious development (you know, when you have bewolf clusters of insensitive clods).
The great thing is now I have a lots of arguments to sell more J2EE. Yet I hate my .NET job. It's frustrating, messed up all the time and goes nowhere close in quality.
Well, that first sentence of the article is very, very confusing regarding who is getting hired, who is calling names, and who should have listened to their own advice. It isn't clear at all, and needs to be edited to make any sense. As it stands, it was a complete waste of my time reading and trying to understand it.
Well...No skill isrequired to post on Slashdot (sometimes, it's even required to have no skills). I wonder about the "managers"...I think I called the police once, on a guy who stole a $0.95 auto-trader magazine. It was pretty funny :)
For 0.95$? And you are proud of yourself? Did you ever wonder how much of your own tax money you wasted by calling the cops? Any idea of HOW MUCH this cost to ALL the others around you?
This may appear funny to you, but it appears rather pathetic to me. First because you actually did call the cops for such an insignificant event, AND wasted OUR money by doing so.
Too bad they are no doorman checking against stupidity
In other words, this is once again the usual bullying-by-lawyer from a company that is finding that they are not going to do well with such a bad reputation.
In February 2002 the Respondent stated to the Complainant that the Domain Name was worth in excess of £30,000 but by June 2003 this figure had risen to £1,000,000. Although the Complainant did not purchase the Domain Name in June 2003, by August 2004 the Respondent's intermediary was again quoting the price of £1,000,000 and by October 2004 the Respondent himself indicated that he was planning to change the nature of his business and that the Domain Name would be made available for sale.
The "Complainant" being Game PLC and the "Respondent" this "honest" guy who according to you does good business. The above clearly state that the 1M pounds was priced by the RESPONDENT's side, wherever it's an intermediary or the owner that acts. And even more, contrary to what you seem to understand, and in accordance with what I say, it is clearly stated that his business was changed long time AFTER the Game PLC offer. He overpriced his DNS name's value in the hope to get the big bucks out of Game PLC after learning of their plans. And that's exactly WHERE he screwed up and got in troubles.The funny thing is that he should have accepted the first or second offer. Seeing how bad his business was doing afterward, he probably lost a big chunk of money by just being poorly advised.
Also, I do not see where I have insulted anyone, unless reading a 10 pages long affidavit or making sense is insulting to you. I however and for once praise our overlords to fit you with glasses so you can read your screen correctly.
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/11/2 0/2321.aspx
Your link says:
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Should'nt that be:Details
String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
String IsNot recognized as a valid
?Open the damned browser yourself and go to your favorite pizza place's site.
Pizza Hut
Which one of the links you sent actually links to someone making pizzas? I fail to find any that sell anything close to what is usually called a "Pizza"Papa John's
Domino's
As obsessively posting to Slashdot!
I for once welcome our new renaming overlords and ask for this site to be renamed into SlashCrack
Or maybe I'm being an insensitive clod..Ah well..never mind..In Soviet Russia, THEY rename YOU
One of my relatives works in a biochemical research lab. All of their computers are WinXP Sp1 because Sp2 basically broke every single program and driver they relied on for their daily calculations, data acquisition, and analysis (some of the software is commercial, and some was custom-written by people who are currently residing in Eastern Europe and Brazil). Naturally, every worm outbreak hits them hard
I hate to say this but if they have home-grown softwares that blow off with SP2 AND they get hit by every single worm each time there's one, you might want to start doubting about the competence of their IT department rather than SP2. Probably Microsoft know better about IT and programming with Windows than a biochem research lab.Sp2 is great for the average Joe who uses his box for email and pr0n, but if you are using your computer as a scientific instrument, then installing Sp2 changes (and breaks) too many things.
Again this is true in your particular case, not with the vast majority. SP2 did not break Mathlab, Maple, etc. And they are scientific tools used every day because they are built correctly.I remember in the early 80's, during the Apple II time, there was a radio that sent a software through FM, which you'd record to your tape recorder, and then load in your computer. Floppys were much too expensive to afford a drive at that time...
I am so ....I can't describe the feeling...
It's the first time I click "YES" at the question "Was this information useful" on a Microsoft web page.
I have read the ENTIRE thing.
I started reading slashdot comments.
Funnily enough the second doesn't match what the article says. Or maybe it's usual
The court judgement says that basically the guy had all the rights to register game.co.uk, the use he made of it consisted an abusive use of a domain name, since he started a game reselling business after being informed of GAME's plans to rebrand and go on the web.
And for the english-challenged: GAME did NOT offer 1 million pounds to buy the name. The guy did and they refused the offer
As much as I'd like it be the other way around, the guy did a bad attempt at taking advantage of an honest issue brought by GAME. They offered him a lot of cash and all he did he start a business to fool people in thinking it was related to GAME somehow. I hate big corporations against Davids, but this time, Goliath is probably right.
So why not outsource?
Because of the last item:Poutine
You gotta admit it's a negative point in your listSounds disquietingly like the morality of a spammer.
Or other corporations. Whatever they are: PROFIT!
And I agree, it's disgusting logic, but it is the way it works in our world, isn't it? You cannot deny that fact, like it or not.
Ah, I see some of those Indian players have some downtime to troll the Slashdot boards and play damage control. Tell me, are all of your colleagues also this vacuous, or is it just you? I'm pushing the logic a bit far, but worse comes to worse, I'd rather have indians play WoW and farm gold, than farm my own job. All I'm saying that it's NOT illegal, and no amount of whining will change this, and some people WILL use it.
On an entirely different issue, saying "hey are not breaking any law, so what's all the fuss about that?" is just stupid.
What's stupid? It's legal - is all! I cannot change that! And I am not commenting on wherether it should be or not.Even if you don't think selling items/gold from MMORPGs on eBay immoral,
Being "moral" has nothing to do with laws, and that is in many case unfortunate. I am not arguing about the morality of it.
saying that it's moral because it's *legal* is disgusting.
Re-read my post, I have never said this, and never will!Merely pointing out that legality does not indicate morality, nor the other way around.
Same wavelength here. Again, I am not discussing the morality of it. Law is for everyone in a society, moral is for each separate individual. And one cannot impose to the other.Totally flawed analogy. What IGE does is akin to paying off teachers so they give you good grades, not having the money to go university. Having the money to pay for university is like having the money to pay your subscription fee, you expect a level playing field from that point on
Obviously you never had to work full time to pay your studies. That is where the analogy is. Some are rich enough to provide few efforts to get the same thing that poorer people cannot afford without huge efforts.
It's also a fact that students who do not have to work while studying are much more successful than the others
I hope you get the picture,
I'm tired of the game worlds being full of a bunch of 3rd world slaves farming stuff to sell.
This is the effect of living in the leasure society we're in. I'd rather the 3rd world sitting in front of a computer and play online for farming virtual money than have them be paid 10 cent a day to make my next (left) shoe at the expense of the health of a 10-year old.Farming for gold is the worse of two evils IMHO.
Among all the slashdotters having high opinions on that topic, WHO actually has the experience of using such a "service" to advance in a game?
As a hard-core player who just doesn't have time to play, I'm curious what exactly you really gain from it. Satisfaction? Time? What?