Here's a standard looking backpack that's designed to fit your laptop and accessories. Of course it still looks like a shiny new backpack so maybe you want to sandblast it to look a little more worn.
Here's a targus bag that looks (and is) like a trail bag. rip off the targus label and drag it through the airport (or a trail) a couple of times and it's just another beat up bag that happens to have a laptop pocket.
Yeah, did your "light laptop" come with a 4 hour battery [for an Athlon-XP-M 2400+], 15" screen, DVD/CDRW, floppy drive, 2 USB, parallel and serial ports, ieee1394, svideo, PS/2 and VGA ports?
No, my light laptop had a 4 hour battery, weighs 4-5lbs, has most of those ports (no svideo/ps2/parallel, 1394 is a card) and has a 20g disk. I got it used for $800 and $200 will get me a 60G drive if that ever becomes an issue. Right now, it's good enough for SW development, email, and web. It's also cool to the touch, verging on warm if you leave it running for a few hours.
Pizza (one of the new ones with the cheese layer in the middle) tasted like cardboard, was now cold, and cost about 50% more than the pizza hut a mile away...
And the topper: $1 probably went to harrasing women at the abortion clinic.
Refactoring is trendy, but of limited use in reality. The example you give of renaming classes, methods or fields willy-nilly, is pointless and bad for maintainability. Changing public fields to getters and setters is more useful, but what were you thinking when you used public fields in the first place?
Spoken like someone who's never had to maintain shit code. When you have stuff like naming a DB update thread httpThreadPool or littering classes with variables named c_if and THE_CONNECTION, refactoring is a godsend.
Actually, if you can make the fragments small enough, they'll burn upin the atmosphere which would greatly reduce it's effect on the Earth.
Of course, these chunks of rock still have the same energy as before, except that now they transfer all of it to the atmmosphere. It'd be better if we did nothing.
You have no rights codified in law at all, except those that the distributor chooses to allow to you.
Sure I do - I bought a copy and I didn't sign a contract, so I have those rights codified in the doctrine of first sale.
You may choose to violate the civil contract which you agree to by opening the package, (region encoding information readable on the outside of the package is sufficient notification of that portion of the "contract" you are agreeing to) however in the eyes of the court, importing a region encoded player, or a region free player, into a non-approved region is exactly as bad of a violation of civil law as your ripping and sharing that intellectual property on a P2P network.
That sounds rather bizarre. Got a cite? I have never heard of region declarations being upheld as a ratified contract, and its especially suspect, seeing as it's a contract of adhesion. Beyond that, all the contracts I am aware of are between the movie houses and manufacturers (and channel distributors). I don't accept that carrying a region 1 dvd into europe is equivalent to illegal copying.
It's only logical; the more people "pirate", the tighter the industries are going to try to clamp down. All at the expense of legitimate users who just want to watch/listen to what they paid for.
You've got the cart before the horse. The industry will clamp down harder if they think they can get more control (and money too). Piracy is just a convenient excuse. DRM does nothing to stop piracy - protected bits copy just as easily as any other. I hear that the tricky part is getting the packaging right.
Furthermore, it is also obvious that the intended use as defined by the distributor (who holds the only rights protected by any actual laws) is being circumvented by the author.
Are you suggesting that the distributor has any say in how I use a product that I buy? If I buy a DVD from Japan (which I have done) and play it in the US (which I do), that may piss off some distributor, but I don't really care.
Just force the game provider to hand over all logs ?:)
Force them how? Claim that the chat system could be used to communicate covertly? Don't you have to tie search warrants to actual investigations? Otherwise, it's just fishing.
Such a law is not meant to be enforced against random people like us. But it serves to punish people that are suspected of illegal activity, but can't be convicted because they encrypted their communications. Then, these suspects can be arrested on grounds of violation of such a law, and tried when further evidence has been gathered.
Yes it is. All laws apply to all people. Mere suspicion of illegal activity is not enough to warrant punishment in any free society. I can't tell for certain, but it sounds like you're actually in favor of this sort of law. I can only assume that you haven't though the matter through.
Splitting hairs, but technically the USPS is a private corporation--soley own by the US federal government.
So they're a government agency. Really, who gives a damn if they're set up as a private company? Their computers are still government property, and it's illegal to compete with them.
So lets say someone leaves there front door unlocked, should they go to jail if someone breaks in?
Contributory neligence - if they left a shop's door unlocked and someone walked off with some receipts, then bought a crapload of stuff off the internet, would that someone be liable?
This kind of stuff happens in 100 level courses, that are required, both as CORE classes and prereqs for other classes. "Drop the class" is not a serious option.
Oh, please. I went to RPI (a fairly tough tech school), and prereqs are just a sugfgestion. I've taken a number of clases out of order with no blowback.
Why are you assuming this is a joke? As the prof in my heuristics class said, "your boss isn't going to give a damn if the problem you need to solve is NP-Complete... you're still going to have to write the code.
Nope. I have the option of convincingf my boss that the problem, as stated, is absurd. I then have to find a business solution, but I don't have to write the code.
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Here's a standard looking backpack that's designed to fit your laptop and accessories. Of course it still looks like a shiny new backpack so maybe you want to sandblast it to look a little more worn.
Here's a targus bag that looks (and is) like a trail bag. rip off the targus label and drag it through the airport (or a trail) a couple of times and it's just another beat up bag that happens to have a laptop pocket.
Yeah, did your "light laptop" come with a 4 hour battery [for an Athlon-XP-M 2400+], 15" screen, DVD/CDRW, floppy drive, 2 USB, parallel and serial ports, ieee1394, svideo, PS/2 and VGA ports?
No, my light laptop had a 4 hour battery, weighs 4-5lbs, has most of those ports (no svideo/ps2/parallel, 1394 is a card) and has a 20g disk. I got it used for $800 and $200 will get me a 60G drive if that ever becomes an issue. Right now, it's good enough for SW development, email, and web. It's also cool to the touch, verging on warm if you leave it running for a few hours.
Pizza (one of the new ones with the cheese layer in the middle) tasted like cardboard, was now cold, and cost about 50% more than the pizza hut a mile away...
And the topper: $1 probably went to harrasing women at the abortion clinic.
Sure would be nice to live in a world where you don't have to lug things like that around but that's why you have to be smart.
Or do what I do - buy light laptops.
I know what you mean...I have 4 in here (I'd have more, but not enough room), and another 4 spread over my house.
First parsed as 8 grillfiends. Just, wow...
Refactoring is trendy, but of limited use in reality. The example you give of renaming classes, methods or fields willy-nilly, is pointless and bad for maintainability. Changing public fields to getters and setters is more useful, but what were you thinking when you used public fields in the first place?
Spoken like someone who's never had to maintain shit code. When you have stuff like naming a DB update thread httpThreadPool or littering classes with variables named c_if and THE_CONNECTION, refactoring is a godsend.
Seriously, a PDF viewer written in Java? Why not write a Fast-Fourier transform to run under GW basic.
Isn't that the point? If Java is only usable for some apps, then why bother using it for client side?
Actually, if you can make the fragments small enough, they'll burn upin the atmosphere which would greatly reduce it's effect on the Earth.
Of course, these chunks of rock still have the same energy as before, except that now they transfer all of it to the atmmosphere. It'd be better if we did nothing.
You have no rights codified in law at all, except those that the distributor chooses to allow to you.
Sure I do - I bought a copy and I didn't sign a contract, so I have those rights codified in the doctrine of first sale.
You may choose to violate the civil contract which you agree to by opening the package, (region encoding information readable on the outside of the package is sufficient notification of that portion of the "contract" you are agreeing to) however in the eyes of the court, importing a region encoded player, or a region free player, into a non-approved region is exactly as bad of a violation of civil law as your ripping and sharing that intellectual property on a P2P network.
That sounds rather bizarre. Got a cite? I have never heard of region declarations being upheld as a ratified contract, and its especially suspect, seeing as it's a contract of adhesion. Beyond that, all the contracts I am aware of are between the movie houses and manufacturers (and channel distributors). I don't accept that carrying a region 1 dvd into europe is equivalent to illegal copying.
It's only logical; the more people "pirate", the tighter the industries are going to try to clamp down. All at the expense of legitimate users who just want to watch/listen to what they paid for.
You've got the cart before the horse. The industry will clamp down harder if they think they can get more control (and money too). Piracy is just a convenient excuse. DRM does nothing to stop piracy - protected bits copy just as easily as any other. I hear that the tricky part is getting the packaging right.
Furthermore, it is also obvious that the intended use as defined by the distributor (who holds the only rights protected by any actual laws) is being circumvented by the author.
Are you suggesting that the distributor has any say in how I use a product that I buy? If I buy a DVD from Japan (which I have done) and play it in the US (which I do), that may piss off some distributor, but I don't really care.
Just force the game provider to hand over all logs ? :)
Force them how? Claim that the chat system could be used to communicate covertly? Don't you have to tie search warrants to actual investigations? Otherwise, it's just fishing.
Such a law is not meant to be enforced against random people like us. But it serves to punish people that are suspected of illegal activity, but can't be convicted because they encrypted their communications. Then, these suspects can be arrested on grounds of violation of such a law, and tried when further evidence has been gathered.
Yes it is. All laws apply to all people. Mere suspicion of illegal activity is not enough to warrant punishment in any free society. I can't tell for certain, but it sounds like you're actually in favor of this sort of law. I can only assume that you haven't though the matter through.
standing next to a male skull with RAM sticks lodged in the cranium serve as an effective deterrent to sexual advances.
Speak for yourself. I dig artzy geek girls.
The associations of primacy derive from the legacy of colonialism. Hence Japan is "Third World", even though it's now rich.
Um, Japan is in asia, and it's never been colonized. In fact, it rather brutally colonized China and Korea in WW2.
Yeah, and I hate getting those dinosaur droppings on my clean car!
The worst part is finding the door handle.
Well, a video game won't poisen your lung or liver, that however doesn't mean that it can't fill your brain with shit.
By that logic, FOX news should also be illegal.
It's illegal to compete with the Post Office?
Somebody better tell FedEx, UPS, DHL, Airborne Express...
Yeah. None of those guys deliver mail (except udner contract to the USPS.
Quite honestly this is probably the easiest way to get security clearance.
Don't most US clearances require that you be a citizen?
Splitting hairs, but technically the USPS is a private corporation--soley own by the US federal government.
So they're a government agency. Really, who gives a damn if they're set up as a private company? Their computers are still government property, and it's illegal to compete with them.
Most of them were built before there was a GPS much less built before the military switched off the intentional error.
How is this relevant? Most B52s are older than I am, but they have modern avionics.
So lets say someone leaves there front door unlocked, should they go to jail if someone breaks in?
Contributory neligence - if they left a shop's door unlocked and someone walked off with some receipts, then bought a crapload of stuff off the internet, would that someone be liable?
This kind of stuff happens in 100 level courses, that are required, both as CORE classes and prereqs for other classes. "Drop the class" is not a serious option.
Oh, please. I went to RPI (a fairly tough tech school), and prereqs are just a sugfgestion. I've taken a number of clases out of order with no blowback.
Why are you assuming this is a joke? As the prof in my heuristics class said, "your boss isn't going to give a damn if the problem you need to solve is NP-Complete... you're still going to have to write the code.
Nope. I have the option of convincingf my boss that the problem, as stated, is absurd. I then have to find a business solution, but I don't have to write the code.
I wouldn't say that to DJB. He'd probably pull out 20 or 30.
I doubt it - sendmail doesn't count.