Woo, I forgot to check for replies to my comment. I'm way late to the game, and you'll probably never read this.
That said, I don't know what basis you're using for that judgement. After reading your response to the sibling post, are you just assuming that's the case because your old Win95 programs still work? Have you ever considered that, by adding new features, Microsoft likely had to *add* code to preserve that backward compatibility?
Do you really think Microsoft pays thousands of programmers to not add new code the the codebase?
BTW, the medical term for lazy eye is actually occular nystagmus.
I don't think that's right. There are different, subjective ways to characterize a "lazy eye," but amblyopia is what "lazy eye" means to optometrists. At least, this is what my last optometrist told me.
I explained it in my last post. You either need to look a little bit closer, or you need to look up the definition of "analogy." I suspect it's the latter.
The fence analogy is like this: if your invention is the "land," then its patent is the "fence" protecting it from being "stolen" by others. The analogy ends there; be careful not to derive meaning from it that doesn't exist.
Are you willing to say that the ability to "protect" or "fence" a certain category of property is sufficient grounds to make that category of property patentable?
You seem to enjoy taking words and twisting them around to make the source look less credible. You're also really bad at it.
Mickey Mouse is real, too. Disney can't patent Mickey Mouse. They can copyright him, but they can't patent him. Regardless of the way you want to define how something is "real," that doesn't necessarily make them patentable.
The analogy about fences protecting pieces of real estate made no sense at all -- putting a fence around your land hasn't enabled anyone to patent their piece of property!
You're reading too deep into the analogy. As another commenter already pointed out, the idea is that if you can't build a fence around it, it's not patentable. Nobody is talking about patenting property.
Many other disciplines, including material science, chemical process design, and the article's own pet area of molecular design itself make use of elements that are compositional.
Sure, but guess what? Molecules exist. Chemical companies don't produce chemicals that no one can see or touch. Software is not "real" in the same sense.
Or an algorithm is just a Turing machine
No, an algorithm is what you do with a Turing machine.
Maybe. Icons in the dock are just shortcuts. If you try to drag a currently running application out of the dock, the icon will snap back to the dock.
But you're right, the user may not know the difference, in which case the poof could be confusing. UI design is a tricky subject, and what makes sense to one person won't necessarily make sense to another. However, I think that the poof is better than no feedback at all, and that's all I wanted to point out to the OP.
it doesn't look professional that when you delete an icon off the dock it poofs away like a cloud
The poof is not there to look cute. It's a visual cue to the user letting them know what just happened. If they accidentally dragged an icon off the dock, the poof tells them that they just made a mistake. If there was no feedback, they quite possibly wouldn't notice what they just did, and they would probably get frustrated when they couldn't find the icon anymore.
It's not about looking "professional," it's about a more intuitive UI experience.
You're talking about the concept behind DRM; namely, protecting your rights to your works. That's a noble effort, and you cover the arguments for that quite well.
What you seem to be missing is that any current implementation of DRM is flawed. It does not protect copyright holders because, by its very nature, it is inadequate. It works by obfuscation, and once a smart person figures out the trick, everyone can get past this "protection." Do you think we should say "oh well, their hearts are in the right place, so let's just honor it?" No, because we can't trust any DRM scheme in use today, including Fairplay. Let's not pretend works are protected with these schemes, when clearly, they're not.
Sheesh... chill out. It's natural for people to personify non-human things. In order to understand foreign concepts, we have to put it at a level we already understand.
While "backflips" might not have been the best analogy, I'm sure what he means is that Google is once again using Javascript in unusual and/or advanced ways to do what it's doing.
For me, it made it almost to the end (with about 30 left to go). The crowd is appluading at that point; the talk demo already finished. At that point, the video seems to be corrupted.
At the very bottom of the article, there's a link called "Link" that takes you to the full text. That is the general format of articles on boing boing.
In this case, it's also the same as the second link in the story submission.
He must be using an Apple laptop, which does map 'lower volume' to F4 by default. On regular Apple keyboards, the 'lower volume' button has its own key, right above the numeric keypad. The key combo he describes works on the regular Apple keyboards too, just not with F4.
This suggestion works. I just got a software development job through my school's career center, working for a company you've most likely heard of, that pays in the upper 50k's. Here's the best part: I have no related professional experience, no previous internships, and no contacts within this company prior to applying.
There are some employers still out there who value recent college grads with the skills they need. If you have experience doing customer service type jobs, or you've volunteered your time in some way, like with a student organization (preferably in a leadership role), then you still have some highly marketable skills going for you. Public speaking abilities, social skills, and leadership abilities are useful in any job... doubly so for many software development jobs. Some companies know this, and they actively seek new graduates with these skills. Your career center is the place to find these companies.
It pays to use every resource at your disposal. Your campus career center is just one resource, but it's one I suggest you don't dismiss. As the parent post said, most would be willing to lend their services to you even after you graduate.
PhDs are not given as freely as your high school diploma. Obviously, the university feels that this guy's actions reflect poorly on them. You can't really blame them for wanting to distance themselves from him.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.jython.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython
As for why you'd want to mix Python and Java... I'm really not sure. Perhaps someone else can describe a situation where it would be warranted.
That said, I don't know what basis you're using for that judgement. After reading your response to the sibling post, are you just assuming that's the case because your old Win95 programs still work? Have you ever considered that, by adding new features, Microsoft likely had to *add* code to preserve that backward compatibility?
Do you really think Microsoft pays thousands of programmers to not add new code the the codebase?
I don't think that's right. There are different, subjective ways to characterize a "lazy eye," but amblyopia is what "lazy eye" means to optometrists. At least, this is what my last optometrist told me.
Also, Wikipedia's entry for "lazy eye" goes to amblyopia.
OS X includes a tad more code than that, however, and rather large portions of it were done from scratch.
Whereas Windows is pretty much the same now as it was 13 years ago?
Even if that was true, would you want it to be?
I explained it in my last post. You either need to look a little bit closer, or you need to look up the definition of "analogy." I suspect it's the latter.
Are you willing to say that the ability to "protect" or "fence" a certain category of property is sufficient grounds to make that category of property patentable?
No. There are several requirements for a patent, but whether or not it's protectable is not one of them.
Mickey Mouse is real, too. Disney can't patent Mickey Mouse. They can copyright him, but they can't patent him. Regardless of the way you want to define how something is "real," that doesn't necessarily make them patentable.
You're reading too deep into the analogy. As another commenter already pointed out, the idea is that if you can't build a fence around it, it's not patentable. Nobody is talking about patenting property.
Many other disciplines, including material science, chemical process design, and the article's own pet area of molecular design itself make use of elements that are compositional.
Sure, but guess what? Molecules exist. Chemical companies don't produce chemicals that no one can see or touch. Software is not "real" in the same sense.
Or an algorithm is just a Turing machine
No, an algorithm is what you do with a Turing machine.
But you're right, the user may not know the difference, in which case the poof could be confusing. UI design is a tricky subject, and what makes sense to one person won't necessarily make sense to another. However, I think that the poof is better than no feedback at all, and that's all I wanted to point out to the OP.
The poof is not there to look cute. It's a visual cue to the user letting them know what just happened. If they accidentally dragged an icon off the dock, the poof tells them that they just made a mistake. If there was no feedback, they quite possibly wouldn't notice what they just did, and they would probably get frustrated when they couldn't find the icon anymore.
It's not about looking "professional," it's about a more intuitive UI experience.
Actually, it's realultimatepower.net, not .com
What you seem to be missing is that any current implementation of DRM is flawed. It does not protect copyright holders because, by its very nature, it is inadequate. It works by obfuscation, and once a smart person figures out the trick, everyone can get past this "protection." Do you think we should say "oh well, their hearts are in the right place, so let's just honor it?" No, because we can't trust any DRM scheme in use today, including Fairplay. Let's not pretend works are protected with these schemes, when clearly, they're not.
You think you're joking, but you're not.
A friend of mine made that. I don't know if it actually still works, but there you go.
Somebody's been reading Cringely's latest article...
Doesn't work properly, or doesn't work how you expect it to? Two different things...
Anyway, what you want is Command+LeftArrow and Command+RightArrow. That goes to beginning of line and end of line, respectively, on OS X.
Sheesh... chill out. It's natural for people to personify non-human things. In order to understand foreign concepts, we have to put it at a level we already understand.
While "backflips" might not have been the best analogy, I'm sure what he means is that Google is once again using Javascript in unusual and/or advanced ways to do what it's doing.
I'm pretty sure you mean The Wizard. The Wiz is something completely different.
WTF? If you saw that in 1984, you'd be cheering too.
For me, it made it almost to the end (with about 30 left to go). The crowd is appluading at that point; the talk demo already finished. At that point, the video seems to be corrupted.
At the very bottom of the article, there's a link called "Link" that takes you to the full text. That is the general format of articles on boing boing. In this case, it's also the same as the second link in the story submission.
I pity the fool.
He must be using an Apple laptop, which does map 'lower volume' to F4 by default. On regular Apple keyboards, the 'lower volume' button has its own key, right above the numeric keypad. The key combo he describes works on the regular Apple keyboards too, just not with F4.
There are some employers still out there who value recent college grads with the skills they need. If you have experience doing customer service type jobs, or you've volunteered your time in some way, like with a student organization (preferably in a leadership role), then you still have some highly marketable skills going for you. Public speaking abilities, social skills, and leadership abilities are useful in any job... doubly so for many software development jobs. Some companies know this, and they actively seek new graduates with these skills. Your career center is the place to find these companies.
It pays to use every resource at your disposal. Your campus career center is just one resource, but it's one I suggest you don't dismiss. As the parent post said, most would be willing to lend their services to you even after you graduate.
woohoo! mikemc@ecst.csuchico.edu
Thanks!
PhDs are not given as freely as your high school diploma. Obviously, the university feels that this guy's actions reflect poorly on them. You can't really blame them for wanting to distance themselves from him.