Put everything in writing to cover your ass if you like, but you don't get to hold on to things until someone n levels above you gives you a personal audience.
The organization's policies are no longer any of your business once you leave their employ. They're not law. If they want to violate them, that's their concern, not yours.
At least, not anymore. And he refused to hand the passwords over to those who were. Consider what a finding in favour of Childs would mean; any admin upset about termination could hold on to their passwords out of spite.
The city does have some culpability. They should have ensured at least one other person had the passwords, in case Childs was hit by a bus.
You'll have to weigh the cost of replacing the old equipment against the cost of using an interface no one cares about anymore. If the latter is still preferable, fine, but don't expect anyone else to help.
It seems to me that Java's philosophy would encourage you to use a printing library rather than fiddle with the base hardware yourself, but I've not looked into it.
Parallel ports were on their last legs 15 years ago when Java was first released. That's sort of like complaining about things for Windows '95 no longer being maintained.
The enterprise sector is very reluctant to take responsibility for anything. They don't build intra-organizational structures to build and maintain the infrastructure they need, they turn to other enterprises like Sun, Oracle or Microsoft. This means that choices are made based on the best interests of Sun, Oracle, or Microsoft, not those who'll actually use the stuff.
So yeah, there aren't any good choices in enterprise, and there won't be until they learn to work together.
The enterprise sector is spectacular at painting itself into corners. Java isn't the first instance of that, and it certainly won't be the last. So yeah, Java isn't going anywhere as far as enterprise is concerned. But neither is Cobol or Fortran or many other moribund technologies.
The rest of us can sensibly let all of that die.
As for inconsistencies, how many mutually incompatible versions of Java are there? How many revamps compared to languages stewarded by standardization bodies or other neutral actors? (C has, what, 3 over it's 40 years of history?)
I'd say that the best thing Oracle could do for Java would be to give it to ISO, but I think it's 10 years too late. I'd love to be surprised, though.
Piracy is wrong Not paying for DLC is piracy Therefor, not paying for DLC is wrong
Compare it to the following argument (presuming you're not Catholic):
The Pope is infallible The Pope says it is wrong to eat meat on Friday Therefor, it is wrong to eat meat on Friday
We can shout at each other until we're blue in the face, but neither is going to convince the other on the morality of piracy. You can tilt at windmills if you want, or you can accept that others will differ with you and move on.
I haven't played it. All I know is that what's on the disc is not the full game. I don't want to read through a bunch of crap deciding whether I want or do not want to spend $5. I just don't want to deal with it.
So I'll go to my friendly neighbourhood torrent aggregator and find the "all DLC for X" torrent. Since the pirated DLC won't work with the retail game, I'm left with no choice but to pirate the game, too.
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Put everything in writing to cover your ass if you like, but you don't get to hold on to things until someone n levels above you gives you a personal audience.
Besides, if you wish, you can just have them indemnify you in writing.
The organization's policies are no longer any of your business once you leave their employ. They're not law. If they want to violate them, that's their concern, not yours.
Just for him, or for every disgruntled former employee who's petulantly holding on to city property?
At least, not anymore. And he refused to hand the passwords over to those who were. Consider what a finding in favour of Childs would mean; any admin upset about termination could hold on to their passwords out of spite.
The city does have some culpability. They should have ensured at least one other person had the passwords, in case Childs was hit by a bus.
Much like culture would without piracy? ;)
The Napster/Grokster lawsuits spawned BitTorrent. Killing suprnova caused a bloom of (better) torrent aggregator sites.
Excessive use of antibiotics just gets you antibiotic resistant strains.
They just sold off (and later reacquired) the rights to use the Palm name.
I hope you're paid by the hour.
But not the latter.
Of course you can solve any problem with any language, it's just not always a good idea.
Who ever said it was the solution to all problems? The JVM itself can't be written in Java...
Java is not a system programming language. It's not really surprising that it doesn't work well when you try to use it that way.
It should have a working printing library... but if you're not willing to spearhead that, how can you complain that no one else has?
You'll have to weigh the cost of replacing the old equipment against the cost of using an interface no one cares about anymore. If the latter is still preferable, fine, but don't expect anyone else to help.
It seems to me that Java's philosophy would encourage you to use a printing library rather than fiddle with the base hardware yourself, but I've not looked into it.
Parallel ports were on their last legs 15 years ago when Java was first released. That's sort of like complaining about things for Windows '95 no longer being maintained.
The enterprise sector is very reluctant to take responsibility for anything. They don't build intra-organizational structures to build and maintain the infrastructure they need, they turn to other enterprises like Sun, Oracle or Microsoft. This means that choices are made based on the best interests of Sun, Oracle, or Microsoft, not those who'll actually use the stuff.
So yeah, there aren't any good choices in enterprise, and there won't be until they learn to work together.
I'll not hold my breath.
32 bit code will run just fine on x64 CPUs.
The enterprise sector is spectacular at painting itself into corners. Java isn't the first instance of that, and it certainly won't be the last. So yeah, Java isn't going anywhere as far as enterprise is concerned. But neither is Cobol or Fortran or many other moribund technologies.
The rest of us can sensibly let all of that die.
As for inconsistencies, how many mutually incompatible versions of Java are there? How many revamps compared to languages stewarded by standardization bodies or other neutral actors? (C has, what, 3 over it's 40 years of history?)
I'd say that the best thing Oracle could do for Java would be to give it to ISO, but I think it's 10 years too late. I'd love to be surprised, though.
There are some good ideas in Java, but they're drowned by the inconsistent implementation, and Oracle will most certainly not make that better.
I had a closed beta invite early on, but the community is angry, rude and just spoil the game.
What'd he ever do to you?
Show some proof that things have changed.
So don't be facetious. The idea of applying copyright to private individuals is only a few decades old.
Lots evil pirates reading for free there.
Your argument is as follows:
Piracy is wrong
Not paying for DLC is piracy
Therefor, not paying for DLC is wrong
Compare it to the following argument (presuming you're not Catholic):
The Pope is infallible
The Pope says it is wrong to eat meat on Friday
Therefor, it is wrong to eat meat on Friday
We can shout at each other until we're blue in the face, but neither is going to convince the other on the morality of piracy. You can tilt at windmills if you want, or you can accept that others will differ with you and move on.
I haven't played it. All I know is that what's on the disc is not the full game. I don't want to read through a bunch of crap deciding whether I want or do not want to spend $5. I just don't want to deal with it.
So I'll go to my friendly neighbourhood torrent aggregator and find the "all DLC for X" torrent. Since the pirated DLC won't work with the retail game, I'm left with no choice but to pirate the game, too.