So, like 27 people link to the playpen balls comic, but no one mentions that someone actually baked him a cake shaped like the internet - a deliciously(!) multi-layered reference to XKCD?
If there are circumstances where you don't need to show any level of mens rea and an actus reus is sufficient for criminal liability, then surely the converse should exist as well?
Now if only they could find a way to get rid of both of those requirements...
Yeah, fuck that - next thing I know Homeland Security will be rounding up all the EFF members for "potential attempts at IP terrorism", or whatever they want to call it.
By the end of the day, I was about halfway through configuring Eclipse before I gave up.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to learn about Eclipse than about JSP (which, of course, sucks donkey wang). Personally, I like to start with the basics when learning something new (ie plain text editor, build and package by hand, etc), before getting into the fancy IDEs that do everything for you. It's hard to keep track of what the IDE is doing if you don't know why it's doing it.
I saw the screen cast on Ruby on Rails and decided I wanted to learn it, so I sat down and followed a quick set of instructions and had my own application done in a couple hours.
Which makes sense, because RoR's raison d'etre is to make it trivially easy to throw together a trivial application. Other frameworks may "front-load" a lot more complexity in the expectation that your application will need to scale. At least that's the theory.
I've yet to find a screencast of someone going from nothing to a working blog engine in JSP or Spring/Hibernate.
I thought their little tutorial (http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-s tep/Spring-MVC-step-by-step.html) covered the basics pretty well. Though I think the only way to learn this sort of thing is in the context of a real (and non-trivial) project - if you reimplement a ~10 KLOC Perl/DBI CGI app in Spring/Hibernate, you might start seeing the advantages:)
"Jeez, does it really need to be this freaking complicated?"
That's a perfectly valid question that you should ask when picking a language/framework to use. If your webapp is simple enough to significantly benefit from what RoR provides, then anything from the Java stack is likely to be overkill. In other words, yeah, if the time to install your environment is noticeable compared to the total time you will spend on the project, then by all means go with the simplest thing possible.
When it's appropriate, J2EE can provide some damn nice tools, though.
Pharma necessarily places a lot of losing bets, but the payoff on the few winners result in a higher payout than with almost any other sector of investment.
That's what I said. When the risk is higher, the payoff has to be higher.
I haven't bought a CD in four years, and I'm older than God. If I'm not buying them, I can't imagine who is.
When I pay for music, I buy the CD. I just can't envisage paying money for an ephemeral lossy digital file (hard drives crash more often than houses burn down). Now, I haven't actually listened to a CD in a couple of years, but at least for now, that's the way to buy.
And when I like something that's released by a RIAA member (plug: RIAA Radar), I buy the CD used; so this sucks.
I was not a detailed analysis of Big Pharma, but merely replying briefly, so it is entirely irrelevant that the reply wasn't detailed enough to suit you.
Eh? You were saying that big pharma does not fund most new drug research; I was saying that research is a small part of the overall drug price tag. I think that's a valid counterpoint.
plenty of risky human endeavors have been conducted without the promise of phenomenal cash payouts, simply because it is in the nature of humankind to conduct adventure (both physical and intellectual).
And that would be true if it was just risky, but it's both risky and ridiculously expensive - that's the problem. Those with that kind of cash are usually not prone to just throwing it at intellectual adventures. (Actually, "risky" is probably the wrong word here - "almost certainly doomed to failure" might be more correct).
And hey, I hate this state of affairs as much as anyone; and it's not like it's working all that well given the total output of new successful drugs the last couple of years, but that's where we are at.
If you can't understand that was a stupid or at least marginally unwise thing for him to do, then I don't know what to say.
Likewise, if you can't understand the problem with the "He's a witch!" - "You're fired!" (or whatever the hell you want to call it) scenario, then I'm similarly at a loss.
we can't have this "have it both ways" collective mentality we do where we think "gee, maybe we could have stopped the Virginia Tech shootings" but then allow people to make what can be interpreted by some to be verbal or written threats.
a) I've never claimed that VT type shootings can be stopped in that manner, you are confusing me with someone else.
b) You are proposing an unrealistic standard for determining what people can, and cannot, say. The "a single person got their panties in a bunch" metric has never worked and never will.
And frankly, they can release a contractor at any time regardless, so that point is moot.
You keep harping on that - nobody is disputing their legal rights here, it's the amount of overreaction and douchebaggery that we are having a problem with.
This is a non-story, and yes I'm serious.
Clearly we care about different things. Respectfully, I will continue to dislike this, though you don't need to waste any more time talking about it.
Also, he is a contract employee who can be released at any time for any reason, even moreso than a normal at-will employee who also can be released at any time for any reason.
Ah yes, he was a contract employee, well it's all good then.
Only he, or people who know him well, knows he's not serious, frankly.
Well, I must be some kind of psychic then, because I've never met him and yet I was somehow convinced that he wasn't planning to murder people when I saw that comic.
Can we find something else to get all in a huff about?
Are you serious? The "presumed an insane killer until proven otherwise" attitude from his employers and the local police isn't enough to get in a huff about?
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Firstly, let's not pretend that these are some sort of freedom fighters striking at an evil empire. They're crooks
I'd say it's a little from column A and a little from column B.
they wouldn't crack down on Pirate Bay like a swat team
They have; with an actual SWAT team - doesn't seem to have accomplished much.
you free people up to focus on things that are more directly relevant to their survival
Like picketing funeral services for gay people.
I'm gonna go with "What is FUD?"
I'm pretty sure the A3 supports Matroska (still a horrible name).
As an even straighter man, I'd be even more comfortable living with 2 or 3 lesbians!
(I think that might be the reason they started requiring gender in ads for roommates...)
So, like 27 people link to the playpen balls comic, but no one mentions that someone actually baked him a cake shaped like the internet - a deliciously(!) multi-layered reference to XKCD?
Yeah, I'm sure that will put MS in their place.
It's a shame you had to be so harsh, but it had to be done.
If there are circumstances where you don't need to show any level of mens rea and an actus reus is sufficient for criminal liability, then surely the converse should exist as well?
Now if only they could find a way to get rid of both of those requirements...
Yeah, fuck that - next thing I know Homeland Security will be rounding up all the EFF members for "potential attempts at IP terrorism", or whatever they want to call it.
Now all they need to do is ship this on the OLPC, to make sure all US programming jobs are obliterated 10 years from now.
I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what the 'H' stood for, before reading the rest of the summary.
How much screen time will be devoted to Kristanna Loken's ass in these new films? I don't care how much the rest of it sucks.
By the end of the day, I was about halfway through configuring Eclipse before I gave up.
s tep/Spring-MVC-step-by-step.html) covered the basics pretty well. Though I think the only way to learn this sort of thing is in the context of a real (and non-trivial) project - if you reimplement a ~10 KLOC Perl/DBI CGI app in Spring/Hibernate, you might start seeing the advantages :)
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to learn about Eclipse than about JSP (which, of course, sucks donkey wang). Personally, I like to start with the basics when learning something new (ie plain text editor, build and package by hand, etc), before getting into the fancy IDEs that do everything for you. It's hard to keep track of what the IDE is doing if you don't know why it's doing it.
I saw the screen cast on Ruby on Rails and decided I wanted to learn it, so I sat down and followed a quick set of instructions and had my own application done in a couple hours.
Which makes sense, because RoR's raison d'etre is to make it trivially easy to throw together a trivial application. Other frameworks may "front-load" a lot more complexity in the expectation that your application will need to scale. At least that's the theory.
I've yet to find a screencast of someone going from nothing to a working blog engine in JSP or Spring/Hibernate.
I thought their little tutorial (http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-
I don't know what MySQL calls it.
(though if you frequently need a reference for freaking SQL statements, I think there might be something wrong with you)
I think he must've meant natively compiled (ie JIT), though I don't see why Sun would disable that functionality in the phone VM either.
"Jeez, does it really need to be this freaking complicated?"
That's a perfectly valid question that you should ask when picking a language/framework to use. If your webapp is simple enough to significantly benefit from what RoR provides, then anything from the Java stack is likely to be overkill. In other words, yeah, if the time to install your environment is noticeable compared to the total time you will spend on the project, then by all means go with the simplest thing possible.
When it's appropriate, J2EE can provide some damn nice tools, though.
There is little if anything that a firewall can do that an operating system can't.
Except maybe be one box, instead of 200?
Pharma necessarily places a lot of losing bets, but the payoff on the few winners result in a higher payout than with almost any other sector of investment.
That's what I said. When the risk is higher, the payoff has to be higher.
(a) The 1 million hours MTBF is inflated by an order of magnitude (by the manufacturers)
(b) I don't think MTBF means what you think it means.
Just in case, I'll limit my claim: I've lost more hard drives than I've had houses burn down on me.
I haven't bought a CD in four years, and I'm older than God. If I'm not buying them, I can't imagine who is.
When I pay for music, I buy the CD. I just can't envisage paying money for an ephemeral lossy digital file (hard drives crash more often than houses burn down). Now, I haven't actually listened to a CD in a couple of years, but at least for now, that's the way to buy.
And when I like something that's released by a RIAA member (plug: RIAA Radar), I buy the CD used; so this sucks.
I was not a detailed analysis of Big Pharma, but merely replying briefly, so it is entirely irrelevant that the reply wasn't detailed enough to suit you.
Eh? You were saying that big pharma does not fund most new drug research; I was saying that research is a small part of the overall drug price tag. I think that's a valid counterpoint.
plenty of risky human endeavors have been conducted without the promise of phenomenal cash payouts, simply because it is in the nature of humankind to conduct adventure (both physical and intellectual).
And that would be true if it was just risky, but it's both risky and ridiculously expensive - that's the problem. Those with that kind of cash are usually not prone to just throwing it at intellectual adventures. (Actually, "risky" is probably the wrong word here - "almost certainly doomed to failure" might be more correct).
And hey, I hate this state of affairs as much as anyone; and it's not like it's working all that well given the total output of new successful drugs the last couple of years, but that's where we are at.
If you can't understand that was a stupid or at least marginally unwise thing for him to do, then I don't know what to say.
Likewise, if you can't understand the problem with the "He's a witch!" - "You're fired!" (or whatever the hell you want to call it) scenario, then I'm similarly at a loss.
we can't have this "have it both ways" collective mentality we do where we think "gee, maybe we could have stopped the Virginia Tech shootings" but then allow people to make what can be interpreted by some to be verbal or written threats.
a) I've never claimed that VT type shootings can be stopped in that manner, you are confusing me with someone else.
b) You are proposing an unrealistic standard for determining what people can, and cannot, say. The "a single person got their panties in a bunch" metric has never worked and never will.
And frankly, they can release a contractor at any time regardless, so that point is moot.
You keep harping on that - nobody is disputing their legal rights here, it's the amount of overreaction and douchebaggery that we are having a problem with.
This is a non-story, and yes I'm serious.
Clearly we care about different things. Respectfully, I will continue to dislike this, though you don't need to waste any more time talking about it.
Also, he is a contract employee who can be released at any time for any reason, even moreso than a normal at-will employee who also can be released at any time for any reason.
Ah yes, he was a contract employee, well it's all good then.
Only he, or people who know him well, knows he's not serious, frankly.
Well, I must be some kind of psychic then, because I've never met him and yet I was somehow convinced that he wasn't planning to murder people when I saw that comic.
Can we find something else to get all in a huff about?
Are you serious? The "presumed an insane killer until proven otherwise" attitude from his employers and the local police isn't enough to get in a huff about?
If nobody read his comics, this whole episode wouldn't have happened.
He would've still gotten the sack for no reason.