The people in Virginia have already voted - how do you think those asshats got into office to begin with? The citizenry cannot vote on every single bill that comes up; that's the whole reason we elect officials to begin with. You want to stop passage of more stupid laws? Vote the idiots out of office!
"Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?"
Because XML is not the silver bullet for all the worlds interoperability problems? Using DOM you get memory bloat as the document size increases, using SAX you're forced to re-create the document yourself. It's a lose-lose proposition.
People think of XML as the rosetta stone just because it's written in plain text. If it doesn't solve the business problem at hand, who cares if it's human readable?
First of all, even using the term "Piracy" is buying into the corporation's propaganda campaign and spreading unconscious assumptions. The proper term is "Sharing."
No, the proper term is "cheap ass". There are plenty of open source alternatives to the majority of software out there. The only reason people "share" software is because they're too fucking cheap to pay for it. Any other argument is a red herring by those that apparently never learned to play nice. It's easy to label it "sharing" when thinking about it in the abstract. When it comes down to people paying for your software so you can pay your bills, tell me how copyright infringement is not immoral.
There are really only two options here. Pay the man what he wants for his creation or find an alternative to his work. Anything else is wrongful "entitlement" by people who don't want to pay for something they can just take and those who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
" With version 1.0, entering a hacked serial number causes the software deleted the user's Home directory"
That is simply awesome! Better yet, he should have fdisk'ed/equivalent the entire partition. Being a developer myself, there's nothing more insulting than people taking your hard work for granted. Unfortunately the consequences for doing so are, more often than not, negligible.
"Yes, but isn't it symptomatic of defects in the language if many programs written in it leak memory? "
No, it's not symtomatic of a bad language, but that a lot of programmers don't know how to properly manage their objects. Whenever I'm called over to look at a java memory leak it's one of two things - people put hard references in static containers that never get cleared, or they initialize objects with circular reference that don't unwind properly. Blaming Java for bad programming is just wrong.
People often use garbage collection as an excuse to be lazy. "I don't have to worry about it, the garbage collector will take care of it". I'm sorry to say, garbage collectors are not not the silver bullet to bad programming.
You're a cheap bastard, aren't you? There once was a time justifying not paying an author for his work was abhorent. Apparently it's totally acceptable at this point just as long as one can justify it by saying "it's too expensive". All those that complain about existing and upcoming IP laws know this - you brought it on yourselves.
Yeah, just like how Internet Explorer could never hold a candle to Netscape. Just like Word could never compete with WordPerfect. Yeah, just like that.
How this ever got modded "Insightful" is beyond me.
Since the guy was using the name 2 years before google, I don't see how "the Froogles guy was probably copying Google's name". Google probably thought since the guy wasn't big time, it'd be pretty easy to roll over him.
I told them producing nuclear weapons was a bad idea but no one listened. There are better, cleaner ways to blow stuff up. But nooooo, they insisted the production was clean. All I can say now is "I told you so!"
This happens all the time. Some lawyer gets it in his head that they can make a killing by filing a lame class action claim, brings in a bunch of suckers who "lost money", and then tries to go after the company in question. In some situations they prevail but only if there's enough evidence lying about to make the claim. The majority of this crap is dropped eventually.
If Red Hat executives have don't nothing wrong, the suit will go away and just look at how cheap RH shares are going for these days.
The Canon Pro-1 accepts all Canon EX-series Speedlites (220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX). From what I've read, the 550EX supports master/slave flashes and wireless triggering - allowing you to do exactly what you've described.
"Ultimately, what's interesting about the above is that a spatial metaphor encourages the user to interact with their data, where the portal viewing method that Windows and OSX uses is meant more for viewing, like on the web."
I don't want to "interact" with my data, I just want to find my bloody file. Is that too much to ask? popping up a gazillion windows so I can browse my file system is idiotic. Give me back my tree view!
Read the link bub. The car companies are Federally Mandated to use the EPA numbers, no matter how wrong those numbers happen to be. So blame the government for stupid advertising rules, not the car companies.
Cross compilation works if your careful about avoiding proprietary APIs. The problem being that it's very difficult to write complex software without relying on underlying APIs to help you out. Imagine having to write your own window management subsystem when all you really want to do is show a color picker. It's been my experience that it's the GUI API side of the equation that makes cross compilation unsuitable for what you describe. Embedded developers have been using cross compilation for years for RAD and updates to existing products.
Writing code that is cross-compile friendly takes dicipline, forethought and a lot of hard work. I don't see the effort required paying off in huge Linux licenses of MS Money.
Oh sure, like that's hard? Look at radar map, see big green blob heading your way, predict 'we have a xx% chance of rain tomorrow'. Do that enough times with enough large storms and blamo - you're at an 80% success rate.
If you're living on the coast and a hurricane is headed your way, you have a 100% chance of rain. I'm 80% sure of it!
The whole uproar over GMail's focused advertisements is a tad silly, especially when you have voice box politicians calling for an outright ban. Does California ban supermarket "VIP" cards that track consumer purchases? If not, what's the difference here? In my neck of the woods (North Carolina) the supermarkets provide "discounts" in exchange for tracking your spending habits. Given enough information, they'll even provide you focused print ads.
My girlfriend borrowed my supermarket card the other day and ribbed me because the printed coupons had things like "tums", "pepto", "Gino's pizza rolls", and the like in sharp contrast to her's which generally had things like "mix green salads", "orange juice", etc. We're living with this type of advertising day to day already. Government shrills need to find something useful to rant about like, say, continued increses in property and sales taxes, polution, government waste, etc.
I don't see anyone up in arms over these pratices - why is it when we attach the word "internet" to every day things people get their panties in a bunch?
What is your point? Overtime rules stipulate that employers must pay you extra if you work over the standard 40 hour work week. By eliminating this barrier, employers are now free to extend the work week to extreme levels without fairly compensating workers for the added "productivity". Instead of discouraging extra hours, the elimination of overtime rules seems destined to drive the average work week into the stratosphere. After you've a few 70-90 hour weeks and your error rate goes up, what happens next? You get the boot because your productivity isn't what it used to be at 40 hours.
Just another dig at the working person to squeeze that many more work hours out of them without having to pay for it.
The speed differential between incandescents and LEDs has been measured to between 0.2 and 0.5 a second. Doesn't sound like much until you consider that 1/2 a second at 75MPH is around 100 feet. That's a considerable distance, enough to, say, avoid an accident? They cost more but are proven to be faster. They also have a significantly longer half life so you're replacing them less often.
I think the added safty and longer shelf life more than make up for the initial higher cost.
Recent FCC changes will force telemarketing companies to identify themselves and a return phone number via Caller ID. The telcos should have done this years ago but waffled. I believe the changes are slated to take effect later this year.
"If students regularly cheat in written exams, it's a good sign that the exams are pointless. "
If students are regularly cheating on exams, it's a good sign that these students are a. not concerned about actually getting value for their dollar, b. too lazy to learn the material, c. morally corrupt and lacking integrity, d. shouldn't be in college to begin with.
If you can't do your own work, why are you in college to begin with? The who point is to get a 'higher education', not copy off your neighbor and wallow in dishonest behavior.
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The people in Virginia have already voted - how do you think those asshats got into office to begin with? The citizenry cannot vote on every single bill that comes up; that's the whole reason we elect officials to begin with. You want to stop passage of more stupid laws? Vote the idiots out of office!
"Why hasn't XML lead to a new generation of innovative products?"
Because XML is not the silver bullet for all the worlds interoperability problems? Using DOM you get memory bloat as the document size increases, using SAX you're forced to re-create the document yourself. It's a lose-lose proposition.
People think of XML as the rosetta stone just because it's written in plain text. If it doesn't solve the business problem at hand, who cares if it's human readable?
First of all, even using the term "Piracy" is buying into the corporation's propaganda campaign and spreading unconscious assumptions. The proper term is "Sharing."
No, the proper term is "cheap ass". There are plenty of open source alternatives to the majority of software out there. The only reason people "share" software is because they're too fucking cheap to pay for it. Any other argument is a red herring by those that apparently never learned to play nice. It's easy to label it "sharing" when thinking about it in the abstract. When it comes down to people paying for your software so you can pay your bills, tell me how copyright infringement is not immoral.
There are really only two options here. Pay the man what he wants for his creation or find an alternative to his work. Anything else is wrongful "entitlement" by people who don't want to pay for something they can just take and those who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
" With version 1.0, entering a hacked serial number causes the software deleted the user's Home directory"
That is simply awesome! Better yet, he should have fdisk'ed/equivalent the entire partition. Being a developer myself, there's nothing more insulting than people taking your hard work for granted. Unfortunately the consequences for doing so are, more often than not, negligible.
"Yes, but isn't it symptomatic of defects in the language if many programs written in it leak memory? "
No, it's not symtomatic of a bad language, but that a lot of programmers don't know how to properly manage their objects. Whenever I'm called over to look at a java memory leak it's one of two things - people put hard references in static containers that never get cleared, or they initialize objects with circular reference that don't unwind properly. Blaming Java for bad programming is just wrong.
People often use garbage collection as an excuse to be lazy. "I don't have to worry about it, the garbage collector will take care of it". I'm sorry to say, garbage collectors are not not the silver bullet to bad programming.
You're a cheap bastard, aren't you? There once was a time justifying not paying an author for his work was abhorent. Apparently it's totally acceptable at this point just as long as one can justify it by saying "it's too expensive". All those that complain about existing and upcoming IP laws know this - you brought it on yourselves.
Yeah, just like how Internet Explorer could never hold a candle to Netscape. Just like Word could never compete with WordPerfect. Yeah, just like that.
How this ever got modded "Insightful" is beyond me.
Since the guy was using the name 2 years before google, I don't see how "the Froogles guy was probably copying Google's name". Google probably thought since the guy wasn't big time, it'd be pretty easy to roll over him.
I told them producing nuclear weapons was a bad idea but no one listened. There are better, cleaner ways to blow stuff up. But nooooo, they insisted the production was clean. All I can say now is "I told you so!"
Nuclear-waste dirty bastards!
This happens all the time. Some lawyer gets it in his head that they can make a killing by filing a lame class action claim, brings in a bunch of suckers who "lost money", and then tries to go after the company in question. In some situations they prevail but only if there's enough evidence lying about to make the claim. The majority of this crap is dropped eventually.
If Red Hat executives have don't nothing wrong, the suit will go away and just look at how cheap RH shares are going for these days.
The Canon Pro-1 accepts all Canon EX-series Speedlites (220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX). From what I've read, the 550EX supports master/slave flashes and wireless triggering - allowing you to do exactly what you've described.
Maybe the first post was actually a stealth post and went right under the moderator's radar? That would explain a lot....
"Ultimately, what's interesting about the above is that a spatial metaphor encourages the user to interact with their data, where the portal viewing method that Windows and OSX uses is meant more for viewing, like on the web." I don't want to "interact" with my data, I just want to find my bloody file. Is that too much to ask? popping up a gazillion windows so I can browse my file system is idiotic. Give me back my tree view!
Read the link bub. The car companies are Federally Mandated to use the EPA numbers, no matter how wrong those numbers happen to be. So blame the government for stupid advertising rules, not the car companies.
Cross compilation works if your careful about avoiding proprietary APIs. The problem being that it's very difficult to write complex software without relying on underlying APIs to help you out. Imagine having to write your own window management subsystem when all you really want to do is show a color picker. It's been my experience that it's the GUI API side of the equation that makes cross compilation unsuitable for what you describe. Embedded developers have been using cross compilation for years for RAD and updates to existing products.
Writing code that is cross-compile friendly takes dicipline, forethought and a lot of hard work. I don't see the effort required paying off in huge Linux licenses of MS Money.
Oh sure, like that's hard? Look at radar map, see big green blob heading your way, predict 'we have a xx% chance of rain tomorrow'. Do that enough times with enough large storms and blamo - you're at an 80% success rate.
If you're living on the coast and a hurricane is headed your way, you have a 100% chance of rain. I'm 80% sure of it!
The whole uproar over GMail's focused advertisements is a tad silly, especially when you have voice box politicians calling for an outright ban. Does California ban supermarket "VIP" cards that track consumer purchases? If not, what's the difference here? In my neck of the woods (North Carolina) the supermarkets provide "discounts" in exchange for tracking your spending habits. Given enough information, they'll even provide you focused print ads.
My girlfriend borrowed my supermarket card the other day and ribbed me because the printed coupons had things like "tums", "pepto", "Gino's pizza rolls", and the like in sharp contrast to her's which generally had things like "mix green salads", "orange juice", etc. We're living with this type of advertising day to day already. Government shrills need to find something useful to rant about like, say, continued increses in property and sales taxes, polution, government waste, etc.
I don't see anyone up in arms over these pratices - why is it when we attach the word "internet" to every day things people get their panties in a bunch?
What is your point? Overtime rules stipulate that employers must pay you extra if you work over the standard 40 hour work week. By eliminating this barrier, employers are now free to extend the work week to extreme levels without fairly compensating workers for the added "productivity". Instead of discouraging extra hours, the elimination of overtime rules seems destined to drive the average work week into the stratosphere. After you've a few 70-90 hour weeks and your error rate goes up, what happens next? You get the boot because your productivity isn't what it used to be at 40 hours.
Just another dig at the working person to squeeze that many more work hours out of them without having to pay for it.
The speed differential between incandescents and LEDs has been measured to between 0.2 and 0.5 a second. Doesn't sound like much until you consider that 1/2 a second at 75MPH is around 100 feet. That's a considerable distance, enough to, say, avoid an accident? They cost more but are proven to be faster. They also have a significantly longer half life so you're replacing them less often.
I think the added safty and longer shelf life more than make up for the initial higher cost.
Mugger: "Your I-Pod or your life..."
Mr Benny: ...
Mugger: I SAID, your I-POD or your LIFE!
Mr Benny: Hold on! I'm thinking!
buhbumpbump...
I'm just saying...
"Yes"
"No"
"Maybe"
Or better yet
"On"
"Off"
"Depends"
If students are regularly cheating on exams, it's a good sign that these students are a. not concerned about actually getting value for their dollar, b. too lazy to learn the material, c. morally corrupt and lacking integrity, d. shouldn't be in college to begin with.
If you can't do your own work, why are you in college to begin with? The who point is to get a 'higher education', not copy off your neighbor and wallow in dishonest behavior.
millitorrs / meter * inch
Now that's a unit!