A useful currency can be converted to other currencies. US dollars are useful in trade precisely because they are readily convertible to other currencies.
There may be inventive public servants, but I highly doubt they are inventive enough to make a stupid obfuscated download system just so that some guy would bittorrrent it, and thereby save the government a small amount of money on bandwidth. I mean really.
XML is *** NOT *** very good at representing arbitrary data. It is very biased towards hierarchical data. It's not very good or very standardised at representing non-text data. It's VERY verbose, making it very bad at some kinds of data. That's just scratching the surface. No, XML is BAD at representing arbitrary data, but it is the most standard thing we have right now.
XML is a boon for the reasons you state. HOWEVER, that doesn't invalidate the massive problems of XML, which the previous poster alluded to. You're right, we don't really have anything better at this point, but hopefully one day we will. XML truly is a crappy design, but it's all we have right now.
I don't think so. If some trader endangered my entire firm's existence with a rogue trade, I would fire him regardless if it all worked out. He must have had some plan to steal all the proceeds without them knowing.
Having seen my wife turn into a paranoid schizophrenic by smoking joints, ultimately leading to our divorce and extreme trauma for our children - something that would be unlikely to happen with alcohol, I disagree with you most strenuously. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean going to jail is the answer, but pretending that smoking joints is harmless really doesn't help.
I'm wondering what happens if you say you don't have the password. "Sorry, but my wife/son/daughter/dog does updates for me, and I don't have the password".
No they can't afford it because if they set the retail price at 30% over their wholesale price they would be massively undercut by Apple's iBook store. It's a case of unfair competitive practice, that's all.
Yeah yeah, but its crap for consumers. The fact is Amazon can't afford to give Apple 30% because they'd be in the red. So consumers have a crap experience, and Apple's iBook store gets a rather unfair competitive advantage. I'm a big Apple fan, but I have to call them out in this instance of being annoying.
I don't like the word "forged" as the word automatically is associated with a defarious activity. I mean, typing a URL into the browser is not exactly "forging", assuming that is what he did.
Well, there is some grayness in the law as far as breaking and entering. I mean, squatting is a legal and recognised activity. While I agree it is unethical, the reason DOES matter. If he is careful not to do damage, and he is doing it for research, its a lot less unethical than a lot of other possible reasons and activities. More like being a squatter in your house than a burglar.
Yeah, and I trust Google's infrastructure more than Evernote's. It's hard to trust anyone's cloud staying around forever. Even Apple retired a lot of its old Mobile Me services. Who knows what parts of iCloud will be around in 5 years. Bottom line, cloud is great, but you have to keep your eye on it.
Don't call home. Seriously. A simple serial is plenty. If you want to hack around any scheme, you can do it. A serial is enough to stop 99.9% of people taking it without paying.
I think its usually a bad idea to try and hoard your job by keeping secrets. In this situation, I usually try and do a good job in handing the project over. Admittedly if they are stealing my job - a job that I want to keep, I might not go "all out" in telling every secret, but neither do I hold back important details either. Best to do your best, in all likelyhood this graduate won't work out for them anyway, then at least you'll still smell good.
You're right. MS won't abandon Windows Phone till they've blown at least another 5 billion on wasted advertising and deals. THEN they'll put it with Zune and Kin in the dustbin.
I'm one of the people who used Linux forever, but swapped to OS-X in the mid 2000s. In my opinion, OS-X UI has never been better. I like the new way multiple desktops work and the full screen apps. I realize it doesn't suit everyone, but it suits very well the way *I* use multiple desktops. Other things like the scroll bar issue are not very interesting either way. On a rare occasion it bothers me, but I probably don't think much about the other 99% of the time when it makes things look nicer, who knows.
Anyway, IMHO the future of Linux desktop ought to be to make a clone of OS-X, like Linux the kernel is a clone of UNIX. Is OS-X perfect? Perhaps not, but its a reference standard, and a heck of a lot nicer than most of the crud that has been passed off in Linux over the years.
When they say it is declining, I wonder if they mean the web site only, or if they include all the apps out there that use it as their storage mechanism. The major loss here is that google reader is the standard. I can use half a dozen different RSS readers and know they all synch with Google Reader, and I can swap between them. Oh, and I know if one day I only have web access, Google's own web interface is pretty nice too.
Don't do it Google! I realize that Reader probably doesn't benefit you much directly, but it's a super important part of "the Google experience".
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A useful currency can be converted to other currencies. US dollars are useful in trade precisely because they are readily convertible to other currencies.
Yeah, but the transactions are traced to unknown and unknowable "wallets", which nobody can know who or what they are.
There may be inventive public servants, but I highly doubt they are inventive enough to make a stupid obfuscated download system just so that some guy would bittorrrent it, and thereby save the government a small amount of money on bandwidth. I mean really.
XML is *** NOT *** very good at representing arbitrary data. It is very biased towards hierarchical data. It's not very good or very standardised at representing non-text data. It's VERY verbose, making it very bad at some kinds of data. That's just scratching the surface. No, XML is BAD at representing arbitrary data, but it is the most standard thing we have right now.
XML is a boon for the reasons you state. HOWEVER, that doesn't invalidate the massive problems of XML, which the previous poster alluded to. You're right, we don't really have anything better at this point, but hopefully one day we will. XML truly is a crappy design, but it's all we have right now.
I don't think so. If some trader endangered my entire firm's existence with a rogue trade, I would fire him regardless if it all worked out. He must have had some plan to steal all the proceeds without them knowing.
Having seen my wife turn into a paranoid schizophrenic by smoking joints, ultimately leading to our divorce and extreme trauma for our children - something that would be unlikely to happen with alcohol, I disagree with you most strenuously. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean going to jail is the answer, but pretending that smoking joints is harmless really doesn't help.
Yep. If the Feds ask for a backdoor into iMessage, the bad guys will just use something else.
I'm wondering what happens if you say you don't have the password. "Sorry, but my wife/son/daughter/dog does updates for me, and I don't have the password".
No they can't afford it because if they set the retail price at 30% over their wholesale price they would be massively undercut by Apple's iBook store. It's a case of unfair competitive practice, that's all.
Yeah yeah, but its crap for consumers. The fact is Amazon can't afford to give Apple 30% because they'd be in the red. So consumers have a crap experience, and Apple's iBook store gets a rather unfair competitive advantage. I'm a big Apple fan, but I have to call them out in this instance of being annoying.
I hope they really have claimed the entire genome, because patents don't last that long, so we'll all be free again in 20 years.
What good are dollars? They are just pieces of paper. Oh wait, you can exchange them for stuff, like you can with bitcoins.
But its not a private alley, its a public alley that the company thought was a private alley.
photographing things in public is not illegal. Doing what you want with the photos is not illegal (generally).
I don't like the word "forged" as the word automatically is associated with a defarious activity. I mean, typing a URL into the browser is not exactly "forging", assuming that is what he did.
Depending on the method he used to get the info, it may be more like leaving your door open with a sign saying "free food within".
Well, there is some grayness in the law as far as breaking and entering. I mean, squatting is a legal and recognised activity. While I agree it is unethical, the reason DOES matter. If he is careful not to do damage, and he is doing it for research, its a lot less unethical than a lot of other possible reasons and activities. More like being a squatter in your house than a burglar.
Yeah, and I trust Google's infrastructure more than Evernote's. It's hard to trust anyone's cloud staying around forever. Even Apple retired a lot of its old Mobile Me services. Who knows what parts of iCloud will be around in 5 years. Bottom line, cloud is great, but you have to keep your eye on it.
Don't call home. Seriously. A simple serial is plenty. If you want to hack around any scheme, you can do it. A serial is enough to stop 99.9% of people taking it without paying.
I think its usually a bad idea to try and hoard your job by keeping secrets. In this situation, I usually try and do a good job in handing the project over. Admittedly if they are stealing my job - a job that I want to keep, I might not go "all out" in telling every secret, but neither do I hold back important details either. Best to do your best, in all likelyhood this graduate won't work out for them anyway, then at least you'll still smell good.
What's to stop you squandering the money on wine, women and song, then declaring bankruptcy?
You're right. MS won't abandon Windows Phone till they've blown at least another 5 billion on wasted advertising and deals. THEN they'll put it with Zune and Kin in the dustbin.
I'm one of the people who used Linux forever, but swapped to OS-X in the mid 2000s. In my opinion, OS-X UI has never been better. I like the new way multiple desktops work and the full screen apps. I realize it doesn't suit everyone, but it suits very well the way *I* use multiple desktops. Other things like the scroll bar issue are not very interesting either way. On a rare occasion it bothers me, but I probably don't think much about the other 99% of the time when it makes things look nicer, who knows.
Anyway, IMHO the future of Linux desktop ought to be to make a clone of OS-X, like Linux the kernel is a clone of UNIX. Is OS-X perfect? Perhaps not, but its a reference standard, and a heck of a lot nicer than most of the crud that has been passed off in Linux over the years.
When they say it is declining, I wonder if they mean the web site only, or if they include all the apps out there that use it as their storage mechanism. The major loss here is that google reader is the standard. I can use half a dozen different RSS readers and know they all synch with Google Reader, and I can swap between them. Oh, and I know if one day I only have web access, Google's own web interface is pretty nice too.
Don't do it Google! I realize that Reader probably doesn't benefit you much directly, but it's a super important part of "the Google experience".