What speech? Did he add a witty title or something. The video isn't his speech any more than me posting a torrent is my free speech. It is just copying some bits.
It's not that bizarre to consider this a free speech issue. It does sound like this person was just posting these videos for certain sick people's amusement, and I would agree that society wouldn't be losing anything valuable by shutting this guy's website down. However, imagine if a site was posting videos of police brutality, in order to make people aware of what the police were doing. Even though the site operator didn't take the videos personally, I would still say this would definitely fall right into the primary type of speech that free speech laws are meant to protect -- allowing citizens to criticize their government and mobilize support against government policies. It's easy to imagine that if this "gore site" mentioned in the article gets taken down, then a government could use whatever precedent was set in that case to shut down a site that was posting videos of police brutality, by just claiming that the videos are in bad taste or whatever. So maybe we don't want to give a government the authority to decide what is and isn't in good taste, even if that means allowing some abhorrent sites to exist.
Or a DRM that was constructed in such a way that if you lent your copy to a friend you coudln't read your copy until you got it back.
Err, this is one of the main disadvantages I've found with DRMed e-books: you can't lend them to your friend at all! I'm one of the people who actually prefers ebooks much of the time for the advantages like portability, searching, and bookmarking. The main thing that keeps me from embracing them completely is that even though they cost about the same as paper books, I can't lend them or give them to friends when I'm done with them, as I can with paper books.
I understand why publishing companies don't want copies to be made any more than with paper books, but they need to find a way to at least allow transferring ownership of an ebook from one device to another, or make them so cheap compared to paper books that it doesn't matter, if they expect ebooks to come close to replacing paper.
Ruby has things like modules, mixins, blocks, procs (closures), builtin syntax for maps and regular expressions, the ability to re-open classes and add or change them, metaobjects, singleton classes which allow an individual object to be extended as opposed to all instances of the class. So yes, I'd say the Ruby language itself is quite a bit more complicated than the Java language itself, though with Java 1.5 it's catching up in its own ways. Granted, you don't need to understand all of the above things to start using Ruby, but neither do you need to know all about Java to start using it.
I think what's become bloated about Java is some of the APIs, like J2EE. It's definitely true at least for small apps that you'll write a lot less code to write a Ruby on Rails app than a J2EE app. Also, due to static typing and a less expressive language, Java source code size tends to be a lot larger than an equivalent Ruby program.
Read the interview. Mandelbrot says that Julia's work was one his main inspirations.
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Err, Winamp is only one of the most popular multimedia players on the PC and has been for years. And Lycos has been around and well know for years too. Where have you been?
Have you actually used CVS? It supports binary files just fine; we use them all the time:
cvs add -kb servlet.jar
cvs ci -m "checkin jar file" servlet.jar
Maybe BK does something better, but CVS certainly supports it. Same thing with renaming:
mv oldname.c newname.c
cvs rm oldname.c
cvs add newname.c
cvs ci -m "renamed oldname.c to newname.c" \
oldname.c newname.c
Any CVS frontend, of which there are several, can reduce this to 1 command instead of 4.
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What speech? Did he add a witty title or something. The video isn't his speech any more than me posting a torrent is my free speech. It is just copying some bits.
It's not that bizarre to consider this a free speech issue. It does sound like this person was just posting these videos for certain sick people's amusement, and I would agree that society wouldn't be losing anything valuable by shutting this guy's website down. However, imagine if a site was posting videos of police brutality, in order to make people aware of what the police were doing. Even though the site operator didn't take the videos personally, I would still say this would definitely fall right into the primary type of speech that free speech laws are meant to protect -- allowing citizens to criticize their government and mobilize support against government policies. It's easy to imagine that if this "gore site" mentioned in the article gets taken down, then a government could use whatever precedent was set in that case to shut down a site that was posting videos of police brutality, by just claiming that the videos are in bad taste or whatever. So maybe we don't want to give a government the authority to decide what is and isn't in good taste, even if that means allowing some abhorrent sites to exist.
Without all the geek put-downs this would have been an insightful post.
Can you list some of the practical uses you have in mind, which wouldn't be served just as well by an ordinary smart phone?
I understand why publishing companies don't want copies to be made any more than with paper books, but they need to find a way to at least allow transferring ownership of an ebook from one device to another, or make them so cheap compared to paper books that it doesn't matter, if they expect ebooks to come close to replacing paper.
Ruby has things like modules, mixins, blocks, procs (closures), builtin syntax for maps and regular expressions, the ability to re-open classes and add or change them, metaobjects, singleton classes which allow an individual object to be extended as opposed to all instances of the class. So yes, I'd say the Ruby language itself is quite a bit more complicated than the Java language itself, though with Java 1.5 it's catching up in its own ways. Granted, you don't need to understand all of the above things to start using Ruby, but neither do you need to know all about Java to start using it. I think what's become bloated about Java is some of the APIs, like J2EE. It's definitely true at least for small apps that you'll write a lot less code to write a Ruby on Rails app than a J2EE app. Also, due to static typing and a less expressive language, Java source code size tends to be a lot larger than an equivalent Ruby program.
Read the interview. Mandelbrot says that Julia's work was one his main inspirations.
Err, Winamp is only one of the most popular multimedia players on the PC and has been for years. And Lycos has been around and well know for years too. Where have you been?
Have you actually used CVS? It supports binary files just fine; we use them all the time: cvs add -kb servlet.jar cvs ci -m "checkin jar file" servlet.jar Maybe BK does something better, but CVS certainly supports it. Same thing with renaming: mv oldname.c newname.c cvs rm oldname.c cvs add newname.c cvs ci -m "renamed oldname.c to newname.c" \ oldname.c newname.c Any CVS frontend, of which there are several, can reduce this to 1 command instead of 4.
"My Linux desktop contains less than 3% GNU software." But 95% of that software was compiled with GNU software.