Ok, so you did seem to realize that this is a beta release, your argument being that if this isn't fixed by the time it goes out of beta that will be a problem.
Well, fuck, I hope the next version of Windows has internet access, otherwise that will be a huge hurdle.
And it's not like the people who would be troubled by this upgrade with every release - they are still running 1.2.1, or whatever their more geeky friend installed for them. (nor should they, really)
There is a big difference between "not real" or "impossible" and "wrong" or "stupid."
Most of the films discussed aren't being discussed are not imaginative or creative, they are lazy - they take well understood concepts and mash them together into a pile of nonsense, as if that somehow makes them more "scifi."
Science fiction should be about things that regular science hasn't quite achieved yet, not about things that regular science shows are wrong.
Can't stand it, really. Smokey teas are what real tea is all about (Czar Nicholas Russian Caravan, Lapsang Souchong, that sort of thing...), though a nice Ceylon does the job quite well.
Not that this is in any way interesting, but then again, the original article was completely lame.
Fry: "She is more than just a piece of software!" Lucy Bot: "Would you like to take a moment to register me?" Fry: "Err, not right now." Lucy Bot: "I will remind you later you hot stud you." Fry: "So errr, what do you feel like doing?" Lucy Bot: "Would you like to take a moment to register me?"
Here's the thing,/. has what, 100s of thousands of readers? And replies to stories rarely go over a thousand, does this suggest to you that maybe you are not hearing from the same people every time?
All of these claims are completely unproven, and man has a track record of blowing stuff up when given the opportunity. Military people are already talking about bioweapons engineered to only kill one person or maybe a certain ethnic group. These monstrosities maybe don't look like Godzilla, but they are reality, unfortunately.
Oh, so it's only the scary, bad scifi movie stuff that's proven, not the benefits?
I only have two questions for you: one, what is your relationship to the pharmaceutical industry? You seem to know an awful lot about us. And two, what exactly is it that you are proposing? That we forget what genetics is?
I hadn't thought about that first point before since I always took it for granted that SCO obtained permission from IBM to use RCU, NUMA,... in their OS. (I am assuming that those are the patents that IBM is accusing SCO of violating.)
Why not try RTFAing instead of assuming? The patents are completely unrelated - this is a curious side effect of the current tech patent mess: at any given moment, any large company is probably infrinding on a number of patents from any other large company; I am actually surprised it's only four in this case.
Wow, yes, you are indeed the Master when it comes to making Perl jump and do tricks. And I loved web programming with Perl too, until I started using PHP. It simplified a lot of the "busy work" that goes into Perl CGI creation, and was generally easier to use to prototype a page and such.
Why do people keep bringing up CGI all the time? Hasn't it been decades since anyone (who knows something about development) actually used CGI? That's like going on and on about all the stuff that was broken in PHP 2.0 (ok, bad analogy maybe, some of it is still broken).
Ignorance of perl web development doesn't really entitle you to an opinion about it.
Ha ha you're so funny. No wait, you're still an idiot. Yay you read 1984. What do you want, a cookie?
My humblest apologies, I didn't fully appreciate just what level of sophistication I am dealing with here. The next time that I happen to think it unnerving that 50 year old satire (heavy-handed, over the top satire at that) is being recreated in real life with an uncalled for faithfulness, I will not try to exploit it for a mediocre bon mot and will instead just keep it to myself.
If you want to be taken seriously though by intelligent people and not Slash-idiots then you might want to try dropping the name calling so you appear older than 12.
I am not sure I follow your logic here; presumably my efforts to impress these "intelligent people" would, by definition, go to waste in this forum? Incidentally, why do you assume that I am older than 12 in the first place?
in practice it's extreamly difficult to write down complex SQL involving multiple tables in a way that's easy to read and comprehend
How so? Joins are obvious in what they do, but quite wordy - by separating them out you can quickly scan the joins block to see which tables you are working with and it leaves the filters a lot less cluttered.
How does piling everything into the same place make it clearer and more maintainable?
Well anyone, any time might be overdoing it a bit, but when it comes to corporations settling over matters that affect an entire industry, it might be a very good idea.
Though I doubt that's legally possible, even if corporate regulation was popular around here.
In such a case as this you may not have to pay in advance to your lawyer, because the lawyer knows you can't lose this ridiculous case and he can get his money from the plaintiff.
There are a lot of ifs and mays in that reasoning. As far as I know it is fairly unusual for the judge to order the defendant attorney fees to be paid by the losing party, especially when the dispute is between companies. Furthermore, it is not at all obvious that they would win this, more ridiculous suits have been won (probably even by Yahoo itself). Win or lose, court battles are still orders of magnitude more expensive then settling; especially in these cases where the suing company wants a settlement to establish precedent, and make sure that the settlement terms aren't too burdening. In such a scenario the only reason left to fight would be on principle, and you'll find that American companies (as in most of the world) aren't that great in that arena.
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Well, fuck, I hope the next version of Windows has internet access, otherwise that will be a huge hurdle.
And it's not like the people who would be troubled by this upgrade with every release - they are still running 1.2.1, or whatever their more geeky friend installed for them. (nor should they, really)
No, the reason that SCO is trying this shit is that Darl McBride is a greedy grass-fucker; the idiotic laws are the reason SCO is succeeding at it.
Most of the films discussed aren't being discussed are not imaginative or creative, they are lazy - they take well understood concepts and mash them together into a pile of nonsense, as if that somehow makes them more "scifi."
Science fiction should be about things that regular science hasn't quite achieved yet, not about things that regular science shows are wrong.
Not that this is in any way interesting, but then again, the original article was completely lame.
Ok, how many levels of irony is this now?
Fry: "She is more than just a piece of software!"
Lucy Bot: "Would you like to take a moment to register me?"
Fry: "Err, not right now."
Lucy Bot: "I will remind you later you hot stud you."
Fry: "So errr, what do you feel like doing?"
Lucy Bot: "Would you like to take a moment to register me?"
Well of course, if you call them ape-people some people might get upset... oh, sorry - read that wrong.
Linguo: "I like beer."
</obligatory>
Easy - when it starts complaining. That's the most reliable Turing test there is.
On a related note, I would suggest you watch a little less scifi, and maybe take a programming class or something.
Here's the thing, /. has what, 100s of thousands of readers? And replies to stories rarely go over a thousand, does this suggest to you that maybe you are not hearing from the same people every time?
Oh, so it's only the scary, bad scifi movie stuff that's proven, not the benefits?
I only have two questions for you: one, what is your relationship to the pharmaceutical industry? You seem to know an awful lot about us. And two, what exactly is it that you are proposing? That we forget what genetics is?
No thanks, this will last me a while.
Monkeys?
No wonder I freeze up all the time when trying to talk to people!
I'll give you the random file placement, but what's wrong with bash? I love bash! (and why should /root go under /home anyway?)
Why not try RTFAing instead of assuming? The patents are completely unrelated - this is a curious side effect of the current tech patent mess: at any given moment, any large company is probably infrinding on a number of patents from any other large company; I am actually surprised it's only four in this case.
Not true, I had no idea who RIM are, but the fact that they make blackberries makes it mildly relevant for me.
I was completely unfamiliar with the case... and I don't really want to know more about it than what was in the article.
Why do people keep bringing up CGI all the time? Hasn't it been decades since anyone (who knows something about development) actually used CGI? That's like going on and on about all the stuff that was broken in PHP 2.0 (ok, bad analogy maybe, some of it is still broken).
Ignorance of perl web development doesn't really entitle you to an opinion about it.
My humblest apologies, I didn't fully appreciate just what level of sophistication I am dealing with here. The next time that I happen to think it unnerving that 50 year old satire (heavy-handed, over the top satire at that) is being recreated in real life with an uncalled for faithfulness, I will not try to exploit it for a mediocre bon mot and will instead just keep it to myself.
If you want to be taken seriously though by intelligent people and not Slash-idiots then you might want to try dropping the name calling so you appear older than 12.
I am not sure I follow your logic here; presumably my efforts to impress these "intelligent people" would, by definition, go to waste in this forum? Incidentally, why do you assume that I am older than 12 in the first place?
I just tend to call it MiniPax - is that better?
How so? Joins are obvious in what they do, but quite wordy - by separating them out you can quickly scan the joins block to see which tables you are working with and it leaves the filters a lot less cluttered.
How does piling everything into the same place make it clearer and more maintainable?
Though I doubt that's legally possible, even if corporate regulation was popular around here.
There are a lot of ifs and mays in that reasoning. As far as I know it is fairly unusual for the judge to order the defendant attorney fees to be paid by the losing party, especially when the dispute is between companies. Furthermore, it is not at all obvious that they would win this, more ridiculous suits have been won (probably even by Yahoo itself). Win or lose, court battles are still orders of magnitude more expensive then settling; especially in these cases where the suing company wants a settlement to establish precedent, and make sure that the settlement terms aren't too burdening. In such a scenario the only reason left to fight would be on principle, and you'll find that American companies (as in most of the world) aren't that great in that arena.
Um, I'd call engineering jobs "high-tech." I don't see why you are saying that high-tech implies research, the two are completely separate things.