I don't disagree with you, but I think there is something wrong in the govt culture that puts so much emphasis on pretty formatting of documents. (Documents which often, in reality, are never read!)
LOL, you are right, but its still an interesting exercise, if for nothing else than educating people about what you can do with the netbeans platform. I had cause on a project to integrate some netbeans libraries into it, and it gave me some incredibly powerful features. If he makes an office suite by "cheating" more power to him, and if open source, it should provide interesting fodder for others into further integrate into their projects.
that we can send information back in time, like tomorrow's lottery numbers? The outcome of a race? That we were involved in an accident tommorow, and now we can avoid it? Once that is possible, doesn't life as we know it collapse?
I like what I read. I'm always conflicted by my good experiences with untyped languages, compared to my good experiences with typed languages finding hard to find bugs. It's nice to see people looking at how they can be mixed. And I like they've added some stuff that Java lacks which is useful. (no such method) etc.
The trouble is: it looks too much like Java for it to be likely that anybody will bother. With all languages I usually end up thinking... is this as elegant as Scheme? No? So why bother. I think even CLOS type schemes can have the compiler do type checking, so what do we gain? Has anything ever surpassed Scheme plus whatever favorite libraries, or macro/ object collections you like? I don't think so. Scheme allows you to overlay pretty much anything onto its syntax. It always seemed like the final word to me.
Bull. You can't be sure your code will work next week, IBM or not. You think the IBM websphere code I'm working on now is guaranteed in 30 years time to work? Never.
Err.. what are you waffling on about? If every web site had its own IP address, we'd run out of IP addresses by dinner time. There is nothing wrong with sharing IP addresses, and you shouldn't be penalised for doing so. In fact, its darnright community minded to not take one for yourself.
No, we need a project to set up a dam in Greenland that can hold 40 km^3 water to counterbalance it, as a military response to this outrageous terrorist act.
Yeah, but nobody knows until its too late if a particular organisation is enlightened or not. Now that I think about it, responsible organisations should have a disclosure policy on their web sites. Something like "if you find a vulnerability in our systems, please report it, and there is a small reward" or something, so that people feel safe to report this stuff.
Yeah, why have "zero tolerance", but then no gun control laws whatsoever? Wouldn't it be a bit more rational to actually have a gun registry, and then rap this girl over the knuckles for making some smoke?
Actually, it's very decentralised. Anyone, including me could give them a domain. The trouble is, it wouldn't be quite as convenient as if they can get a top level domain. Hey, maybe slashdot could give them one, then they would be piratebay.slashdot.org. It's kind of hard for the studios to get blocks on every single domain owner from giving them a sub domain.
Good observation. I prefer Skype because its range of emoticons is better, and it works well while moving between devices. But you're right, Facebook is damned good, and has the web interface. Viber and WhatsApp drive me crazy because you MUST use them on your mobile, and can't just swap to your computer.
I highly doubt the entire rules of the machine are printed on the front. The behavior of these machines is just far too complicated to turn into prose and print on the front.
OK, but who is to say what the right behavior is in this case? It's not like people are provided with a software specification before they put their money in the slot. There are lots of scenarios where the right set of fruit or cards in the fruit machine results in some bonus or doubling or whatever complicated rules, that the typical slot player doesn't understand.
Reasonable question. But should all digital artefacts be the same? What if I have some really cool computer code that might be worth a lot of money to someone. Should I try and value it?
What you do need is a much more idiot-proof experience to compensate for the unfamiliarity of being without Windows. This is what Linux didn't provide.
If you can't afford $10,000 I'm guessing you might have problems paying for VMWare, then paying for quite a few hours for an IT professional to migrate you and support the new setup. Then probably new hardware to support the setup, and some training to know how to use it. I'm guessing you'd rack up quite a few thousand dollars on such a project. Might as well just pay the damned $10,000.
Lots of currencies backed by governments have quickly become worthless, for various reasons. Like Germany in the 30s printing too much of it. Bitcoin is not managed by any government. That has benefits. Nobody can just print too much of it and devalue it. You might have better confidence in the USA not being as stupid as German in the 30s. That's great, but its still a confidence based on your hopes and beliefs rather than objective reality.
What is the value of Coca-cola stock, when anybody with basic knowledge can make a cola drink and undercut them? The value is a collective belief that people will keep buying coca-cola in the face of reality that it is overpriced and easily reproducible. Just like bitcoin. When you get right down to it, almost everything of value derives its value from shared belief that it has value, rather than a fundamental objective value. Admittedly bitcoin is more ephemeral than most things, but it is a matter of degree rather than an absolute.
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I don't disagree with you, but I think there is something wrong in the govt culture that puts so much emphasis on pretty formatting of documents. (Documents which often, in reality, are never read!)
Don't think you can compare ASIO to the FBI since ASIO never seem to investigate crimes. At least not publically.
"They literally don't care if an important part of the license is problematic for large corporations. "
Actually they do care, they like it to be problematic for corporations if they think it could force their hand to play nice in the open source arena.
LOL, you are right, but its still an interesting exercise, if for nothing else than educating people about what you can do with the netbeans platform. I had cause on a project to integrate some netbeans libraries into it, and it gave me some incredibly powerful features. If he makes an office suite by "cheating" more power to him, and if open source, it should provide interesting fodder for others into further integrate into their projects.
Australia's problem with guns is "massive" by Australian standards. But it is no problem at all when measured against the USA's problem with guns.
that we can send information back in time, like tomorrow's lottery numbers? The outcome of a race? That we were involved in an accident tommorow, and now we can avoid it? Once that is possible, doesn't life as we know it collapse?
Maybe she'd print bracelets with "WWJP" on the side.
Nah, she'd print statues of the Virgin.
I like what I read. I'm always conflicted by my good experiences with untyped languages, compared to my good experiences with typed languages finding hard to find bugs. It's nice to see people looking at how they can be mixed. And I like they've added some stuff that Java lacks which is useful. (no such method) etc.
The trouble is: it looks too much like Java for it to be likely that anybody will bother. With all languages I usually end up thinking... is this as elegant as Scheme? No? So why bother. I think even CLOS type schemes can have the compiler do type checking, so what do we gain? Has anything ever surpassed Scheme plus whatever favorite libraries, or macro/ object collections you like? I don't think so. Scheme allows you to overlay pretty much anything onto its syntax. It always seemed like the final word to me.
Bull. You can't be sure your code will work next week, IBM or not. You think the IBM websphere code I'm working on now is guaranteed in 30 years time to work? Never.
OK, but... who the heck wants 20 boxes of paper reports?
Err.. what are you waffling on about? If every web site had its own IP address, we'd run out of IP addresses by dinner time. There is nothing wrong with sharing IP addresses, and you shouldn't be penalised for doing so. In fact, its darnright community minded to not take one for yourself.
No, we need a project to set up a dam in Greenland that can hold 40 km^3 water to counterbalance it, as a military response to this outrageous terrorist act.
Yeah, but nobody knows until its too late if a particular organisation is enlightened or not. Now that I think about it, responsible organisations should have a disclosure policy on their web sites. Something like "if you find a vulnerability in our systems, please report it, and there is a small reward" or something, so that people feel safe to report this stuff.
Yeah, why have "zero tolerance", but then no gun control laws whatsoever? Wouldn't it be a bit more rational to actually have a gun registry, and then rap this girl over the knuckles for making some smoke?
Actually, it's very decentralised. Anyone, including me could give them a domain. The trouble is, it wouldn't be quite as convenient as if they can get a top level domain. Hey, maybe slashdot could give them one, then they would be piratebay.slashdot.org. It's kind of hard for the studios to get blocks on every single domain owner from giving them a sub domain.
Good observation. I prefer Skype because its range of emoticons is better, and it works well while moving between devices. But you're right, Facebook is damned good, and has the web interface. Viber and WhatsApp drive me crazy because you MUST use them on your mobile, and can't just swap to your computer.
I highly doubt the entire rules of the machine are printed on the front. The behavior of these machines is just far too complicated to turn into prose and print on the front.
OK, but who is to say what the right behavior is in this case? It's not like people are provided with a software specification before they put their money in the slot. There are lots of scenarios where the right set of fruit or cards in the fruit machine results in some bonus or doubling or whatever complicated rules, that the typical slot player doesn't understand.
Reasonable question. But should all digital artefacts be the same? What if I have some really cool computer code that might be worth a lot of money to someone. Should I try and value it?
People haven't warmed to Chrome yet, but they have warmed to Android. Android is an easier mass-market sell.
What you do need is a much more idiot-proof experience to compensate for the unfamiliarity of being without Windows. This is what Linux didn't provide.
If you can't afford $10,000 I'm guessing you might have problems paying for VMWare, then paying for quite a few hours for an IT professional to migrate you and support the new setup. Then probably new hardware to support the setup, and some training to know how to use it. I'm guessing you'd rack up quite a few thousand dollars on such a project. Might as well just pay the damned $10,000.
Lots of currencies backed by governments have quickly become worthless, for various reasons. Like Germany in the 30s printing too much of it. Bitcoin is not managed by any government. That has benefits. Nobody can just print too much of it and devalue it. You might have better confidence in the USA not being as stupid as German in the 30s. That's great, but its still a confidence based on your hopes and beliefs rather than objective reality.
What is the value of Coca-cola stock, when anybody with basic knowledge can make a cola drink and undercut them? The value is a collective belief that people will keep buying coca-cola in the face of reality that it is overpriced and easily reproducible. Just like bitcoin. When you get right down to it, almost everything of value derives its value from shared belief that it has value, rather than a fundamental objective value. Admittedly bitcoin is more ephemeral than most things, but it is a matter of degree rather than an absolute.